Chapter 1 - A Boring Life

The Center is the most technologically advanced part, providing energy for all the other space islands. Responsible for all this is the famous TekCorp, known for generating food, energy and organic life. Tereza wakes up another day and leaves her Tek lodge slightly late.

Arriving there she has strong memories of her past and her childhood friends, Monica, Caitlyn and Lucas. Lucas was the great love of Tereza's life, even though they were two children Tereza really liked him, but all good things are short-lived. Azrael, Lucas' father and owner of TekCorp, decided to take Lucas on an exchange program to Dawnmoon Island, where mystical animals lived.

Lucas and Tereza have not seen each other since. Feeling sorry for Lucas' misguided friends, he decides to give the three of them jobs, but in different fields, so that they can forget each other. Caitlyn went into the military, thus becoming a great soldier, Monica went into genetic manipulation, thus becoming a doctor, and Tereza became Azrael's personal secretary.

Motivated by frustration and hope, Tereza decided to be the best version of herself by doing anything for Azrael, from a simple report to more extreme tasks such as espionage. Until one day, leaving work, Tereza noticed Azrael with a very strange attitude, it seemed as if he was planning something, kidnapping someone or something. She thought it was something in her head.

The next day Monica knocked on the door of Tereza's room in the dorm.

- Tereza! Tereza, open up! It's important!

Tereza opens the door.

- It's about Azrael, remember you told me he was acting strange? It's not only him!

- What do you mean?

- Well, I've seen three extremely exhausted people today with their Hyperlink altered. Our Hyperlinks cannot be easily changed, precisely because they are implants placed directly on the skin, we have had ours since we were babies. Those of these two people were removed and changed, they even had abrasions on their skin.

Tereza sits for a second and remains silent

- It was him, it was Azrael, he is the only one with the power to remove the Hyperlinks after they are applied. Unless he is not working alone. - Tereza says.

At this moment, Monica and Tereza are called to TekCorp

- Damn we are late!

Monica and Tereza go to TekCorp, when Tereza arrives she receives a call for a meeting, Azrael says he has a very important matter to discuss.

Tereza seems tense but goes anyway

- You wanted to see me?

- Yes Tereza, we have something very important to talk about.

- Hm?

- Well, as you already know we are living a crisis, people are rebelling against TekCorp, and we are losing money and investments. And I have a proposal, what if we use the four sacred stones to redefine our reality?

Tereza looks tense and indignant at the same time

- What? That is the most absurd idea I have ever heard in my life! Don't you think about how many lives will be lost? Progress? History? Erase everything because of MONEY? I'm sorry but this is the dumbest idea I've ever heard, I don't agree.

- Are you sure Tereza?

Azrael pulls out a surgical removal equipment

- Will it be for good or for bad? - he adds.

Even scared, Tereza says on an impulse:

- What are you going to do with it? Kill me? Go ahead.

Azrael laughs sarcastically and looks at the ground

- I don't even know why I waste my time with you girl, I don't need your approval.

Azrael presses a button that begins to suck the stones from his obelisks, thus bringing them to the island.

Tereza runs at Azrael trying to stop him from doing this.

Tereza manages to disarm the businessman, but is surprised by a punch to the face that leaves her bewildered. Without strength to fight, she leans against a panel while he grabs a bigger machete.

- Your time has come, little girl.

As Tereza ducks and Azrael misses, hitting the panel instead of her, giving the man a very large electrical discharge and he gasps in pain while Tereza tries to crawl as far away as possible.

The panel explodes, TekCorp runs out of power, and Azrael is dead. Tereza looking at that scene gets up with difficulty to get out before someone arrives. She hides in a place and begins to cry.

Until she feels a very strong light coming towards her, a mysterious woman appeared in front of her. With blond hair, wearing only rags, and with a watch shining in her hands, the woman said

- I know what you did, but I know it was not your fault. But Azrael has already begun the process.

Startled Tereza asks:
- Who are you? What do you want from me?

The woman says:
- Save everything.

The mysterious lady then invokes a portal to Kyoryu Island, a space island created by TekCorp when trying to revive creatures from the past like dinosaurs. One of the stones was there.

- Go, and retrieve the stone.

Tereza then feels determined to do what the mysterious woman said.

Upon entering the portal Tereza felt strange, her clothes were gone except for her underwear, as she looked around she marveled at the primal nature.

From a safe distance a girl looks hopefully through the portal, it was Vampiresca, a young girl who had been forcibly taken to Kyoryu Island

- This is my chance to escape!

She looked a little further to the side and saw three hungry dilofossurs running towards Tereza, who was still enjoying the local fauna.

Vampiresca on an impulse, afraid of having her chance of escape ruined, runs to where Tereza is standing, and begins to punch one of the dilofossurs. The young woman manages to hit one of them with a rock, killing it, but there are still two left. Both bit both of Vampiresca's arms, leaving her vulnerable. Still frightened, Tereza took a few steps back, thinking of running away and leaving the girl to die on the spot, but she didn't have the courage. Tereza jumped on top of a dilofosssur and punched him so hard that he ended up bleeding to death, still bruised, Vampiresca knocked out the last of them. The two sat on the bloody ground and stared at each other for a few seconds.

Tereza gets up and goes to the other side without saying anything, Vampiresca then follows Tereza and tries to start a conversation:

- It was intense wasn't it? - she asks, hoping for an answer.

Tereza keeps quiet.

- Uh, so... My name is Vampiresca, what's yours?

- Vampiresca? What kind of name is that? - Tereza asks

- Long, long story...

- I am Tereza.

- I saw on your top a symbol, it's from TekCorp right? And I also saw the moment you left the portal! Can you do that again?

Tereza looks at Vampiresca with a suspicious face

- Were you spying on me?

- No! I ended up on this island by chance, and I'm trying to find a way to get back home! I haven't eaten anything for two days!

Tereza feels guilty

- Well, once you enter the island you can't leave. It's a protocol created by TekCorp...

- WHAT?! - shouts a slightly altered Vampiresca who then sits down on the ground

Tereza sits down next to Vampiresca for a moment

- You know, maybe this place isn't so bad. - Tereza says, trying to calm the girl she has just met.

Tears begin to stream down Vampiresca's face.

Night is approaching and it's getting colder. Tereza gets up and collects some stones and pieces of wood to make a fire.

- Thank you, she says.

- I made it for us.

Not far away they see a dodo, determined by hunger, the two go after the poor bird that didn't stand a chance.

After eating the remains of the bird they feel satisfied and energetic, they both lie down on the ground under the starlight and end up falling asleep.

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