Outside of Earth's orbit, a cloaked spaceship is waiting for its orders from the Overseers to begin extraction of the 10 candidates. The Overseers are people from all alien races who help keep the game running and also stop other galactic empires from trying to interfere. Every game the leader of the Overseers called the Organiser will be changed.
This year is Cagra Venux's turn, and he is an 8-foot-tall humanoid lizard with hulking metal armour. Painted dark green, he has 2 lizard-like eyes, a long tongue that's split down the middle with blue scales on his skin and 2 arms and legs both holding long claws. Resting on his head are 2 short curved horns.
"Status update"-Cagra
He was sitting in a chair while gazing at the earth, wondering what his round of the game would be like, and hoping it would go smoothly. Getting this position was a great honour to both himself and his race and showed their capabilities and strength. Not just anyone got to where he was bypassing some tests, but also not just through swinging a sword, an organiser had to be both wise and strong, and Cagra was both.
"Sir, the candidates are ready to be transported, and planetary intergalactic integration will commence when we are ready"-Game staff
"Begin"-Cagra
"At once sir"-Game staff
As for the people about to get forced into a fight to the death for unknown reasons and the enjoyment of others, they were all living their normal insignificant human lives.
The first candidate, Hector Venules, is 33 years old and is currently in a prison cell in Mexico with 3 other guys who he tried robbing a gold convoy with. He is 5,9 feet, with black hair with caramel skin covered in tattoos of his deeds and beliefs. He glares at a guard with his green eyes that seem to want to strike like cobras as this guard was on the payroll of his rivals and wouldn't budge.
"Guys this son of a bitch needs to be dealt with he's not flipping like the fish he is so he needs to be gutted"-Hector
"Is that a fishing metaphor?"-Celly
"He's a new guy and stupidly loyal but if we do that it could start a war"-Celly
"I don't give a shit I want him dead"-Hector
"Hm?.. The hell is this"-Hector
As you can see he is living an exemplary life a true gift to his community sadly this gift is then covered in a bright light. After a few seconds, he disappeared from his cell, his gang having to deal with the guards and his alleged escape.
The second candidate goes by the name Nancy Little, who is a 41-year-old mother of 4 in New York City and is a lawyer.
She's a single mother as her husband Desmond Little died tragically to a junkie on drugs in the hospital where he worked as a doctor. Now Nancy's children were cared for by her and her sister on occasion, but otherwise, it was just her holding down the fort.
She has ebony skin with black hair that is starting to grey early from stress and is 5,5 feet. Her brown eyes are currently looking at her children eating breakfast while she's on the phone.
"Well guess what you dumb bitch you can suck my dick from over my shoulders if you think I'm doing a deal I've got a solid defence, unlike your piss poor client!"-Nancy
She's currently dealing with a case and with the stress and added factors of living in New York she's got a colourful vocabulary.
Her kids have gotten used to their mom, though if she finds out they repeat what she says at home, they get their phones taken off them, a true injustice.
"Well, I hope you got some paper because you'll be sweating with the amount I'm gonna ask for!"-Nancy
"I ain't trippin and why are you bringing up pizza? Everybody knows Chicago pizza is dog water. You know what? I'm taking the kids to school bye dad"-Nancy
Yep, her dad's a lawyer he's in his late 60s and likes his job and more often than not tries to get in the same cases as his daughter. It's to make her mad but also to push her to be better but mostly for the first part.
"Okay, sorry for the cussing kids. Your grandaddy likes to raise momma's blood pressure. Now you all ready for school?"-Nancy
They are all ready, so Nancy starts walking her kids to school when a light descends upon her. The children only see the empty spot where she once was and begin to panic.
The 3rd candidate is Ida Kerry, who is from Denmark she is 29 years old and is a high school history teacher. She was 6 feet tall, with blond hair, black eyes, and pale skin. She has no family and was teaching a class about Niel's Ebbesen while some listened others were messing around.
That was until their teacher, who was hoping to have a smoke after this to get rid of her stress, had disappeared under a bright light.
"Did our teacher get sent to heaven?"-Student
The 4th candidate is Gabriela Campos, who's from Brazil and is 22 and is currently studying at university in biology. She has brown hair with pink highlights and tanned skin is 5,6 feet, and is a big activist for environmental efforts such as protecting the rain forests.
She was in a forest watching birds with other enthusiasts admiring the different feather patterns and melodic noises. Her fun ended when the light came scaring the birds away, and ruining everyone's day too.
The 5th candidate is Chase Stone, a 30-year-old hippy from Canada who has pale skin, red hair and brown eyes and is 5 8 feet. He's been drifting from anarchist compounds to a water bed wherever he can. He's currently partaking in the smoking of the devil's lettuce in an abandoned carriage when he's taken. No one seems to notice except the guy on ecstasy.
"I think I took too much. I think it's time to get a job"-Enlightened smelly dude
The 6th candidate is Naya Kabir from India she is 47 and has brown skin and brown hair and is 5,4 feet, she is currently in the kitchen with a black eye cutting fruit for her husband and extended family to eat. She was in hell forced to be with a man she loathed and shamed for her love of the same gender.
She doesn't like looking in the mirror because of the red menace on her forehead that she wishes she could wipe off. But that would just make things worse, and all her suffering seems to come from the men in her life. Ironically enough, the light taking her is the greatest thing that could happen to her at that moment.
"Nadiya, hurry up with those fruits. The match is nearly over! I swear this stupid dog is so slow!"- Naydias Husband
The 7th candidate is Wanger Hoffman, a 60-year-old from Germany who has pale skin, silver hair, blue eyes, and a face full of many laughing lines. He loved fantasy, and his favourite creature was the mythical dragon his dream was to try to create something as close to a working one as possible, but he knew it was impossible.
"My dreams will forever be the vault of my wishes and wants unable to be made manifest"-Wagner
He was sitting alone in his home with the fire on while pondering his life and hobbies when the light took him, and his dreams were now very possible.
The 8th candidate is Hyun Jee Park, a 31-year-old man from South Korea who is 5,8 feet, with black hair and eyes with glasses. He was an avid gamer, top of his class in university and a rising star in the company he worked for.
He was feeding his massive ant farm a rat when he disappeared. Luckily, the ants still got the food that would last them a few days.
The 9th candidate was Evaline Sato who is from Japan, half white, half Asian and was 23 and 5,5 feet, with dyed purple hair and grey eyes, she was a very confident woman who streamed online and had many adoring male and female fans who threw money at her.
She didn't want anything other than admiration from others, so she was living her best life at the moment. Her fans were in panic mode when she disappeared from the screen.
The last candidate, the 10th, was Jack Darwin from England, who was 19 and had blonde hair and blue eyes and was 5,6 feet, with white skin and was currently lying on his bed.
"I'm bored, and my phone needs charging, but it's all the way down on the floor. Oh, the agony"-Jack
"I'm still wondering if dinosaurs would taste nice. Oh wait, what's that a bright light let's look right at it"-Jack
The last candidate was taken without any mishaps, and the ship soon left Earth as Cagra knew the live feed would begin soon.
"Process complete, sir"-Game staff
"Let's get back to Lundum Mundi so the game can begin"-Cagra