[C] CHAPTER ONE; Our Home, S-38 - July 30, 2024

Instructions

CHAPTER ONE; Our Home, S-38 - July 30, 2024 TIMESTAMP: Before the 'It Has Begun' project, 'Never Be Alone Again' Hiya, I’m CB!!!! Now starting off with my day. I woke up. I strolled outside. It was still the same, calm and peaceful. It was a normal day for us, and by us I mean the other members of the group (and me)! For some reason, we came up with the name ‘S-38’, since apparently our dimension was made on Scratch. (I personally think it should be ‘By Scratch’, not on, it just confuses me sometimes.) One of our members is Quan, or Pon, us younger members call him Quan though (I’m 9 by the way!) He explained to us why our universe is called that, saying that every digit and part of the name represents something. He mentioned something about acronyms, letter order, numbers… All the boring stuff. I just hope we get to do something actually exciting in the afternoon, it’s my favorite time of day. Cool, but warm. We can’t really tell time at home, because everything around us is just some white void. We’ve gotten used to it though! We’ve developed a way of telling time based on temperature! And by ‘we’, I mean the CLP Trio and Quan. Me and my siblings (Kaletx, Cyan-Pal, and Hayali) had just started a card game. I’m still wondering why it’s called Uno, but all I knew is that I had to win this time. (I have a winning streak of 3 right now!) We had just gotten near the end of the game (I had a wild card as my only card at the time, so I was bound to win.) when they made an announcement for every member to come to the house for a discussion. Of course, it just had to be when I was going to get victory. However, we don’t usually get called for meetings, so we knew it was something important. I didn’t ever find it amusing, since last time we were called, Cyan-Pal did it as a prank. And last… last time, Aurlo just pressed it because it was a red button. I was the last to arrive, besides Hayali, who I was guiding her to. She’s pretty new to this system, and she’s a shy introverted one. That doesn’t stop us though! When we sat down, we noticed Quan was the one that called it. That was something new. Creatospasm was beside him as well, and when the two are together, you know it’s gonna be serious. I forgot to mention earlier that we kinda had a sorta order during meetings; Confronting the Issue, Discussing about it, Coming up with a solution. Lethy was the first to speak up. “What’s the commotion about? Any stolen things, probably Cyan’ (A nickname for Cyan-Pal!). What’s up, Pon. (Quan’s other name)?” Lethy questioned. Quan hesitantly responded, which was concerning because he was always serious and confident in meetings, “We have an intruder. It’s not someone, but something.” He pulled out a paper from his pocket and continued, “It’s some cyan substance-” Cyan-Pal quickly interrupted all excited, “Like me?!” “... Yes,” Quan sighed, “Like you. Anyways, I’ve been researching and observing it for the past few days, ever since it arrived. We have no idea about its origins, nor its motives. All we know is to be cautious about it.” “Is there any way to fight back?.. Or to counter it..?” My sister, Kaletx, asked. No one responded. Everyone was either too nervous to cause unnecessary overreactions or too clueless to continue the conversation. I decided to start talking, “What if–,” until I was cut off. “As said before, we don’t have enough information to know what to do if we ever encounter it up close, so all we can do right now is be careful and hope it passes.. Also my apologies, CB, you may speak now.” Quan suggested. I nodded, “Alright! So… what if it’s… friendly?... Maybe, per chance?? Besides, we've been worrying about a ton of stuff, and we’ve handled a bunch of stuff already! If we could handle all that, what’s stopping us from getting through this weird cyan thing?!” I said with pride and cheer, hoping to lift everyone’s spirits. I looked around the room, some were hopeful, some were skeptical, and some were nervous. “Dibs on lookout! I volunteer to check on it if it gets closer!!” Cyan-Pal chimed in. “It seems that we are already at the planning phase. Would anyone else like to join Cyan-Pal on lookout duty?” Quan added. I jumped and raised my hand. Creatospasm also volunteered. He said that he didn’t trust us alone as much on such an important duty. Especially since we like to goof off and play around. I didn’t take any offense, nor as much attention to it. Everyone else got their roles, then we were dismissed.