Lucas opened his eyes and immediately felt that something was different. There was no darkness where everything usually ended — now it was bright, warm, and peaceful. But this wasn't an ordinary bedroom. He was no longer an adult, like before. His body was light, small… he was only five years old.
He tried to move, but his muscles didn't fully obey him. He looked at his hands — small, brown, and childlike. "Where am I? What happened to me?" he thought, trying to grasp the reality that had changed in the blink of an eye.
Images swirled in his mind — he saw a stadium full of fans, heard cheers, smelled the grass and the ball, but above all — he felt something that didn't belong to him. Talent. Skills. Everything Neymar had trained and developed over the years was now his.
"That's impossible," he said aloud, though it was just a whisper from a five-year-old's lips.
But life had one more surprise for him.
On an invisible, mystical wheel of fortune spinning somewhere in the space between worlds, Lucas had to "draw" his new fate. The wheel shimmered with colors and different names — football legends, from Pelé and Maradona to Messi and Ronaldo.
The wheel spun fast, and Lucas, although not fully understanding what was happening, felt excitement and uncertainty. As the wheel began to slow, it stopped exactly on one name — Neymar.
But… with a little twist of luck and a flaw in fate.
Because although Neymar's talent was meant to give him an advantage, fate decided the path would be full of challenges. The talent was powerful, but using it would require not only skill but hard work, patience, and… luck, which young Lucas had very little of so far.
"You have the talent, but you won't get everything handed to you on a silver platter," he heard a voice in his head, sounding like an echo from the past — "You must learn how to use it."
Lucas felt his heart beat faster. He had a power no one expected. But would he be able to use it? Would he have enough courage to face what awaited him on the field of life?
With these thoughts, he sat on the bed, ready to start his new life — a life full of challenges, passion, and football.