An Apocalyptic Ending by Marethyu_the_maker_of

Summary

On a perfectly normal day, Astoria's world comes crashing down around her and when the smoke clears, it become clear to Astoria that her favorite novel has come to life. She is faced with the choice of revealing this fact and sharing her information to save others or to keep it to herself and ensure her survival. But when 10 others who have also realized this try to change the course of the novel, her emotions and survival instincts battle each other. To save or not to save? To kill or be killed? And most importantly, to love or not to love? Join Astoria on this life-changing story of love, sacrifice, pain, family, and hope

The World Begins to End I

A blinding light...... Then utter darkness. With a flash of light and a slight POP my world ended. Let me first introduce myself. My name is Astoria. I am currently sitting in an empty space with one other person, waiting, until day light. I don't know how much time I have or battery life my voice recorder has, so let me start my story.

I was a normal 22-year-old woman living her life in South Korea. I worked at a company called Book Buzz that publishes books for children. I am the only woman at my office, where I do the very first read of the new book. I live with my younger brother 40 minutes away from Book Buzz Building by subway. And that was where I was when the world ended.

I was on the subway home after work. I was working overtime, and so it was the 9:30 pm train. It was relatively empty other than a few other workers. I was on my phone scrolling through my favorite novel, An Apocalyptic Ending. This was the last chapter of a novel series with 7 books. I was itching to know how the story ended. As I just read the last sentence of the novel I received an email. I quickly opened it up, curious to know who would email me at such an hour. It was from an email address I couldn't recognize. AAE123@gm*il.com. The email read:

Thank you "Marethyu-47310173" for reading my novel to the end!

You are one of the 11 people who have read my novel from start to finish.

As a thank you to my loyal readers, I have attached a file to An Apocalyptic Ending so you can read it whenever you want.

This file may help you in the future to come.

To be exact, 4 minutes later.

The novel series will no longer be available anywhere other than the attached file here for personal reasons.

I hope you understand.

Once again, thank you!

Attached down below was a PDF file of all 7 books in An Apocalyptic Ending. The unknown email address must have been the author of An Apocalyptic Ending. I was sad that the story is no longer online, and glad that I am one of the only 11 people who can read it again, and a bit confused. Okay, I was VERY confused. Why would I need this file in 4 minutes? I checked the time. It was currently 9:57 pm but the email arrived at 9:56 pm. This meant that something would happen at 10:00 pm.

But what?