The Strongest Wizard

*Beep Beep* *Beep Beep* The alarm went off in my gaming capsule as I logged off from my gaming environment and slowly gained my senses as it kicked in. I would spend at least 8 hours inside the gaming capsule that was installed inside my room. However, for today, I made an exception as I had made a new friend on the gaming platform and wanted to get to know more about him and his characters, his likes and dislikes. The most crucial part for every girl to find out was - would he be available or just flirting around. I do not wish to have my feelings being played by other online players who claimed to be either a male but then it turned out to be a female player. I had experienced too many incidents in the MMORPG platform that I would just prefer to keep friends in the real world rather than in the virtual one. Furthermore, who would know the person that was hiding behind a character and a fictitious ID...! The bright light that came from the drawn window next to the gaming capsule was a bit too bright to be 6 am. I knew I had set the timer inside the gaming capsule about 6 am so that I would be able to wake up my baby brother, who was sleeping in the room next door to be ready for school. However, as the gaming capsule door opened, the sun rays that peeked through the windows was way too high, and it seemed that I had somehow stayed longer than I should inside the gaming capsule. "Z A I R O N...! Oh, My Gosh...! What time is it already...?!? You are going to be late for school...!!! Wake up Ron, you sleepyhead...!!!" I hollered out as I slowly climbed out from the gaming capsule, and I felt that there was something wrong when my feet touched the floor. The colour of my room was different from what I knew since it was not rose white which I am familiar with my daily regime...! Yet, I knew that this was my room and I had been playing this online game since it's launch date on Tuesday, 25th December 2018. It's already Wednesday, 28th October 2020 for all I knew the moment I closed the gaming capsule's door. Talking about my baby brother, why doesn't he responded to me when I called him earlier...?!? While I was walking around barefooted in my ever-familiar bedroom with an unfamiliar coat of paint, I was about to reach for the door handle of my bedroom door when I noticed something that almost made me jump out of my skin. A poster of the MMORPG that I had been playing was pristine and pasted just before my study table. A small calendar was on it, and it showed one week before the launch of the game. "What the fu..." I nearly completed my flurry of expletives when the knob turned, and a blurry-eyed baby brother of mine poked his head through the door frame. "Sis, what are you screaming about early in the morning? Are we going to have Jollibee for breakfast today there or you would be ordering takeout for us instead?" Zairon was rubbing his tired out eyes, and I am sure he was playing on his mobile phone the whole night before. But my baby brother was kind of shorter now than before, and I can't help but turn around and stared at my study table, calendar and the pristine poster of the gaming world that I had yet to sign up. Zairon was mentioning to me why I was hollering like a mad witch in the morning, and he was wondering if we are going to dine out or order some online food delivery service from Jollibee. "Hoy boy...!!! What year is this? You are supposed to be in school for another few more weeks before it closes for the holidays, am I right? Why did you not wake me up since you had woken up earlier, huh?" I chided my baby brother as he stood there leaning against the door frame and was rubbing his eyes and staring at me like as if he had seen a ghost or something. "Sis... you are the one who is dreaming na. The year is already 2018 lah Sis, and the year is going to end very soon in less than two weeks. You had been spending too much time sleeping inside the gaming capsule you had bought a few days ago. You are treating it as a bed and had even moved your bed to nanay's and tatay's room. Wait till they come back from their trip to the province and they would scream at you." "Sis... You are a girl, you know, and yet your gaming addiction is on another level already. You can tell me to stop playing games and go to sleep early, but you, yourself had gone back on your words. You even sleep inside the gaming capsule...! H A Y N A K U...!!!" Zairon was halfway mumbling and saying those words to me, and I was trying to decipher if what he had just muttered was all true...! THE YEAR IS ONLY 2018? I HAD JUST BOUGHT THE GAMING CAPSULE? AND THE YEAR IS 2018? HOW DID I END UP IN THE PAST AGAIN...?!?! Wild thoughts raced through my mind as I knew that I just logged off from the gaming capsule and entered the real world...! How can this be?! I knew that I had logged on to this game and would take an hour break every 8 hours of gaming to stretch myself as the MMORPG, "Lord Of The Red Dragon" was based on the actual real-world timing. No...! I don't think any of my friends would enter the house and alter the bedroom like it was in 2018 before. I do not think anyone would have look for a calender to match the year and the poster, yes, the MMORPG poster was all too pristine. It even had my sharpie circled on the launch date as well as my handwriting as to remind me to register early for an early bird bonus of 500 credits free...! My head was spinning, and I need to sit down and recollect myself. This incident was happening weirdly, and I have no way to decipher it...!