Shrunken Chronicle: Life is Strange

“The butterfly making its way gracefully, across the sky without a care in the world. Its wings reflecting the sunlight and briefly blinding me.... was the last thing I remembered…”? After a few moments of thinking Bari’s head started to hurt. He shook his head snapping out of his confusion. “That’s ALL I remember, HONESTLY!” he said. His voice trembled slightly but he couldn’t help it, especially with his current situation. With his right arm covered in bandages from recent injections and his body overall just aching from exhaustion, he felt nothing short of helpless. “That look right there! HOLD IT!” a voice yelled at him. Before he could move a muscle, a giant hand engulfed him and dropped him into a small grey colored box meant to look like a stage. However, upon landing he hit his arm and winced in pain. As he closed his eyes the voice suddenly snapped. “WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST- UGHH! That’s IT! I’m giving you another dose.” While Bari sat up gripping his arm he looked in horror as the figure walked off momentarily. He shook his head and backed up against the wall. “WAIT! WAIT! Just give me another chance. PLEASE!” he begged as a few fingers wrapped around his leg and yanked him away from the wall. Soon after, he felt something pinch his wounded arm which made him scream in pain and squirm around. “SIT STILL” the voice yelled at him again, as a needle forced its way into his body. Though his body stopped squirmed, it gave one final jerk from pain.

After a few moments, the syringe was empty and yanked out. As the hand moved away allowing him to move freely, he struggled to get up on his feet and his vision grew blurry. He stumbled forward on his stomach and looked up in anger. Only to see a blinding flash. “A perfect shot” a more unfamiliar voice chimed in. That was one of the few things he could comprehend as his hearing started to get muffled. The two started to talk and just before he blacked out he heard a female’s voice and one name that he could make out. “Rachel.”
Hours had gone past by the time he woke up again. When he woke up again he noticed he was placed back into a cage fit for a hamster again. He looked around the room and only noticed the camera equipment scattered everywhere, with no sign of anyone at first. Just when he thought he was alone, he crawled to the cage door then started running his hand along the outside, searching for a handle. “Come on it’s gotta be around here somewhere” he mumbled then suddenly went stiff after hearing movement behind him. He spun around and saw a girl tied up in a chair. She had started to wake up then quickly started to scream and call for help. Bari just held his ears and ran to the bars. “NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU!” he shouted at her. Her gaze shifted towards him and she just let out a gasp at his appearance. “What...are you and WHERE AM I!?” she screamed at him. He coughed a few times and stumbled over. “I couldn’t tell you if I wanted to. I can’t even remember how long I’ve been here either” he added, clutching his head. When he heard the door open he moved to a corner of the cage again and sat shivering. A man with glasses walked in with a slight smirk across his face. “Oh Rachel. You’re awake.” He said to her as he grabbed his camera starting to walk toward her. “Mr. J-” “Quiet” he cut her off. “Not in front of our guest” he mocked. “Who shouldn’t be awake right now.” The man quickly grabbed a coffee container and opened the cage, immediately grabbing his injured arm. “AHH STOP! STOP! STOP!” he cried as he was dragged out and tossed inside the container.

As soon as the lid came on, things felt more cramped then the cage. The air felt strangling and every inch of him was still shivering in pain from his arm being mishandled. He heard a few cries and shouts but he couldn’t tell what exactly was going on. Before he knew it everything started shifting around him, making him bounce around the container. Eventually things calmed down but he was trapped inside for hours. He managed to fall asleep at some point but woke up with the lid half off and several unrecognizable voices. Summoning as much strength as he could, he crashed into the side eventually knocking over the container then crawled out. After wobbling up on his feet, he looked around and spotted school lockers and students walking around. “This must be a school” he mumbled to himself as he looked around. Just then, a brown haired girl walked over head and walked into the bathroom. “Where’s that dam container” a familiar voice yelled out from afar.

Bari recognized it as one of the captors’ voices and quickly looked for a place to hide. He noticed the bathroom door closing and ran inside hiding under the sink. He limped his way under the sink only for the bathroom door to open again as a brown-haired boy stormed into the room. “Where the hell are you” he yelled and started looking around the room. As he started checking the floor the door opened again and a blue haired girl came inside. The two began arguing and Bari decided this was probably the best time to slip out of the open. The moment he moved an inch he unfortunately caught the blue haired girls’ attention. “What… is THAT” she yelled out and both of their gazes locked on him. “There you are” he said deviously starting to reach for him. Bari stumbled back as much as he could and started to shout but suddenly his hand stopped. Bari stopped screaming but found himself unable to move. “What’s going on” he thought to himself and in the blink of an eye the two were gone as well as him being away from the wall he thought he stumbled back into. However, he had another thing to be concerned about and that was the giant brown haired girl now staring at him curiously.

She leaned in close enough that her face took up his entire view. Despite her rather calm expression his heart was racing because he had no idea what she was going to do nor did he have a clue on what just happened. “Who....or…. what are you?” she asked. Rather than respond, he tried running off. She didn’t bother stopping him but he found himself unable move after a few steps and in the blink of an eye he somehow ended up right back where he started, in front of her. With her blue eyes fixated on him once again he found himself confused. He was sure he just tried to run, how did he end up back here. “How did I end up back here” he mumbled. Just then the girl let out a gasp. “You remember that?” she asked completely surprised. Bari didn’t know what else to do and just ended up hesitantly nodding. The girl simply smiled and gently scooped him. “Why don’t you come with me I can fix you up!” she said cheerfully. As she started to walk out, she quickly ran back and hit the fire alarm. “It was about to get “messy” in here” she said cryptically and shoved him in her pocket.