Where the fuck am I?" Timothy yelled out

  His voice echoed out into the distance.

  He continued to walk forwards in one direction until he saw a place with many trees. The trees looked completely normal except that there was a basketball on top of each tree. Timothy noticed this and started to chuckle, choosing to find the humour in this unfamiliar experience.

  He walked more and more until he felt his body getting heavier and heavier. He realised too late that he was sinking.

  "Help! Help me! Make it stop!" He cried out

  He felt something bite him on the thigh but he couldn't see what bit him. However, the pain didn't feel as intense as he expected it to feel. His thighs felt incredibly sore as if he'd done an intense workout. His chest heaved again and the ground stopped making him sink. He sighed out a moan after he sat down somewhere and caressed his own thigh to attempt to soothe his pain.

  It was an incredible sensation!

  He had never felt so connected to his own body before. And so he began to experiment. His exploration was focused on his own sensual gratification.

  What a waste.

  And to what end?

  To what end exactly?

  Timothy was floating in the air and was completely blissed out under the drug's influence as soon as he gave into the discomfort.

  Fellow readers! You would think surely now he was satisfied and that his journey of exploration would NOT be focused on reaching greater heights of physical pleasure?

  Timothy had another idea to make him satisfied. He made a shocking discovery about the virtual world that he was put inside. There were other people there too! People that he felt that he recognised yet were like strangers to him. There were no laws in this place and therefore, his chains were unleashed and he had the freedom of action without societal consequences or so it seemed. Perhaps he could meet other eager participants, willing to have fun with him.

  So he lurked somewhere in intense focus on the right people to interact with. If the drug heightened sensations to an unbelievably large amount then he could only imagine and dream of what it would feel like to have erotic experiences here. He thought about these things but still, he found himself hesitating.

  'What if there's a leader here? What if there's a justice system in place that I'm unaware about? What if this is forbidden?' He thought

  He noticed a person who looked like a woman but upon looking closely at her face, it was blurred beyond recognition. She was walking peacefully and was barefoot against the rocky ground. Meanwhile Timothy was still hiding behind a bush. He was also wondering why the woman’s face was blurred. Little did he know that he was staring at what he would become if he continued down this path.

  When X was available to the public, a lot of people purchased it, wanting some kind of escape that would bring them pleasure. They would seek for more pleasure. They thought that it was just fun and games until their bodies demanded more and more sensation until this happened to them. Their minds rewired to derive pleasure at all costs, their faces blurred in X although their faces were not blurred in reality. I still don’t know how the drug marks people in such a manner. Almost as if the drug itself has a conscience. Like it’s warning other users what they are doomed to become if they don’t change their mindset.

  There was a group of 8 people with blurred faces who surrounded the blurred faced woman and grabbed hold of her whilst Timothy was still hiding behind the bush now even more certain not to move a muscle! Before she could yell out in fear, one of the men closed her mouth with his hand. Timothy found it very odd that the woman had stopped struggling within a short time. Perhaps this was consensual, he thought. However, her compliance was more out of a fear response than wanting pleasure.

  To Timothy, this felt distasteful and wrong but it had happened so fast and his body felt extremely heavy and weak again like it had felt earlier. He trembled as she was left on the floor near him. She was quiet as if she’d accepted her fate.

  Timothy was still hiding, watching and afraid to move, not wanting to get himself involved in the danger. Suddenly, he heard the sound of bells near him.

  As worried as he felt, he didn’t want to wake himself up yet since the maximum time that he could go to X in a day was 3 times. According to him, that was hardly enough time for him to explore the highest possible peak of his pleasure followed by its limit. An impossible yet pointless ideal in my opinion.

  Despite Timothy gathering all the power he could to move away, he couldn’t so he found himself crawling slowly as if an unknown source had weighed him down.

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  The eight men with the blurred faces shivered at the sight of a trio who just arrived at the scene. The trio's faces weren't blurred out at all so Timothy could tell that they were different.

  "Oh no! It's X Y Z!" The man with the blurred face spoke

  As soon as Timothy managed to stand up and come out of hiding, he yelled out in fright after feeling blood land on him. It had occurred in just a few seconds! He caught sight of the bloodied axe that one of the trio held.

  “Please don’t kill me. Please don’t kill me.” He said

  “You watched, didn't you?” X spoke

  “I was stuck. I could barely move, I swear!” Timothy pleaded

  X’s brown eyes narrowed as if he were examining him.

  X was a small youthful looking man with spiky red hair. He liked to wear round glasses on his forehead.

  Y and Z kept silent and were already putting their plan into action.

  Y was an average height man with curly blonde hair, freckles and green eyes.

  Z was a handsome man in his late fifties with grey hair and brown eyes who had a charming smile.

  The trio looked completely harmless but appearances are just that, appearances.

  X had an axe, Y had a sword and Z used his own limbs as weapons.

  The 8 men were chased down and punished by the trio. This trio was called 'X Y Z'.

  "Y-You. Don't touch me!" Timothy yelled out in a trembling voice to the trio

  “Relax!” X spoke

  Timothy was even more spooked after hearing X and Y laugh out maniacally.

  “Z. Just look at him, shaking like a little lamb. He must be new.” Y spoke

  “Yeah that’s right Y. He’s definitely new.” Z replied, turning to Timothy to give him a wide smile which caused the young man to feel even more uncomfortable.

  Z approached him then sat down next to him, placing his hand on the side of his face.

  Timothy immediately attempted to slap his hand away but to no avail.

  “What is someone like you doing here? What. You wanted to go exploring did you?” Z spoke to him in a mocking tone

  Soon, X and Y restrained him and Timothy started to panic.

  Z ran off in a flash leaving Timothy amazed at the older man’s speed. In just a few seconds, he returned slightly out of breath.

  “Tell me the truth. You wanted to experience more pleasure didn’t you?” Z asked him

  “Y-Yes I did. Now let me go.” Timothy’s voice barely whispered out

  The older man forced Timothy’s jaw open and stuffed his mouth with a handful of purple plants. Timothy knew that he was overpowered and didn’t stand a chance so he complied and ate the exotic plants.

  Immediately, Timothy’s body was starting to heat up. He was feeling extremely good and felt more alive and primal than ever.

  They laughed at how eager he looked for pleasure but before he could go on a rampage, Z held him back. Timothy’s breath hitched, now completely aware of the sensation of another body so close to his.

  “Be careful out there. The blurred ones will have their eyes on you now. It’s kill or be killed out there. Close your eyes. Don’t open them until I tell you to.” Z whispered

  “Tell us. What do you see? What can you imagine?” X asked enthusiastically

  “I-I dunno.”

  “Come on! You’re so unimaginative. What’s wrong with you?” X said

  “Shut the fuck up! I can’t concentrate.” Timothy hissed back with his eyes closed

  “Of course you can’t in that state. Accept it all. Accept what you feel.” Y tried to help

  ”What do you see?” Z asked him, gently stroking his hair

  ”It’s a tunnel! No wait. A gate.” Timothy spoke

  “Interesting.” Z replied

  “Anything else?” Z asked him

  ”There’s nothing but darkness. Why?” Timothy asked

  ”Good boy. Now open your eyes.” Z replied, patting him on the head.

  He opened his eyes.

  Timothy was in a large room filled with women who all appeared to be extremely attractive. Initially he felt overwhelmed yet relieved that he wasn’t in any danger.

  Or so he thought.

  Soon, plans quickly ran through his head about using the women as test subjects for his exploration in order to reach his optimal pleasure. He hoped that they would be as eager as he was.

  The gullible man didn’t even think to himself whether it was all too good to be true. But still, what blinded him from the truth was his drive to reach what he thought would be his optimal pleasure.

  At first, the women seemed to be just as drawn to him and he was to them.

  As soon as he reached out to touch them intimately, they turned into smoke. Again, he heard the sound of bells.

  His heart hammered in his chest.

  “Oh no!” He whispered

  “You’ve failed!” Z spoke sternly

  “Another X user who can’t control themselves. How pitiful.” Y added

  When the smoke finally cleared, he noticed that the beautiful women in the room were the blurred ones and that there were more men than there were women. Finally seeing their true forms, Timothy felt deceived.

  “What kind of sick joke is this?” Timothy was mortified

  “No. The only sick joke around here is you, boy. You’re going to regret it.”

  Timothy was too shocked to speak.

  “Blurred ones. Awaken and teach this boy a lesson!” Y announced

  The bells rang again.

  Soon, they swarmed towards Timothy.

  He yelled and started to run but eventually he was cornered like a rat trapped by two hungry cats.

  “Bye.” X spoke and then the trio vanished

  ”What the fuck? What the fuck?” Timothy panicked, struggling to fight off all of the blurred ones.

  “Deal with it.” A familiar voice spoke

  ”Who’s there?” Timothy asked

  ”You wanted optimal pleasure in X? Now you’ll face the consequences of your actions.” The voice continued

  He finally recognised the voice and felt regret.

  ”Oh Fallon! Fallon I’m so sorry! Forgive me!” He cried

  Sadly, Fallon wasn’t there. It was just a mere illusion.

  He gave up the fight, now that he was defeated and bruised all over. He vowed to himself to never let himself get carried away like that. Even without the plant’s influence, he would’ve fallen into the same trap! The plant only amplified his deepest desires and he knew how desperation could override his common sense and morals. He couldn’t get over the fact that he had fallen for a cruel sadistic trick.

  He would never forget the trio and their punishment for him.

  Soon he noticed X Y and Z running after him with their weapons. He heard the bells and tried to run despite the state of his body. They caught him. Thinking that he was to face an even harsher fate from the unhinged trio, he begged them to forgive his attempted wrongdoings.

  ”Please stop this! Please stop! I am sorry! I won’t do it again. I was wrong for seeking pleasure here in that manner. I was wrong! I didn’t know!” Timothy sobbed, kneeling down and clutching onto Z’s legs.

  Sadly, Timothy’s time was almost over and there seemed to be no one out there to save him. Nobody who loved or cared about him.

  TO BE CONTINUED…