Before I woke up with a splitting headache, the last thing I remembered was a cute girl stepping on me. ‘I did enjoy it; sadly, it was the most action I had gotten In some time.’
Laying in a warm bed, I felt awful. Running my hand over my face, I thought to myself, “Now where am I?”
I began to open my eyes and saw I was inside a building. I was not in a field, but I was in a bed with sheets and a pillow. That's when I continued to think to myself feeling exhausted physically and mentally, “Was that an awful dream? If so, what a weird dream. I could have sworn I almost died in it.”
Closing my eyes briefly again, smelling the sheets, I could smell they had a hint of berries to them before swinging my legs to the side of the bed's frame and getting up out of bed; I felt woozy. Opening my eyes, I started looking around the room I found myself in. Unfortunately, I was not in my apartment as I noticed these weird devices and machines beside me pumping liquids into me. I quickly began to realize that it was not a dream. In fact, everything that happened to me earlier was real.
All I knew now was, I was in a weird room with medical equipment, and I was wrapped head to toe in bandages. I could have sworn I got my ass kicked, and I almost died. I quickly noticed I was in my boxers and that the equipment I had on was lying off to the side in the corner of the room with strange weapons beside them. I slowly walked over, stumbling with each step like I was a newborn. Now over by the stuff, I remembered I was wearing. I started noticing beside my stuff. There were two short-swords with these armoured-like clothes that looked really damn familiar; I just could not put a name to it. ‘I swore I’d seen this stuff before somewhere, and when did I have weapons?’
Walking over towards it, I could not resist but pull one of the two swords out of their holsters. It clearly looked like the Devils-short-sword I remember from The World Of Gepot. My life from that moment changed once I picked it up and saw a window appear in my vision. 'Devils-short-sword.' Stunned and shocked while in disbelief, I dropped the sword, completely caught off guard. As it fell, it nearly landed on my foot; ‘what just happened and what I had just seen? What the fuck was that? Was that an information window...It cant be.’
Now reaching over and picking up the weapon off the floor again, the same information window appeared in my vision; this time, I held onto the sword, and the information window read.
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I could not help but remain speechless as I started putting my hand over my mouth; at that moment, unable to think properly, I could do not believe what I was reading. This was like the same text from the game of The World Of Gepot.
I was looking at the same description of the in-game sword we had all acquired for Azurith. The information I was able to read with his enchanter ability before the servers closed, and I determined its abilities were as the followed read. Though I had not tested the weapon before I logged off, I did, however, manage to equip it. Standing in my boxers with my hand over my mouth still, It was at this time the two ladies from earlier entered through the door.
I did not realize what they looked like while almost dead, and I could only recognize them from their voices after they said, “Well, hello there.” Then, they walked into the room with the Doctor beside them to see how their patient was doing. The Doctor walked over towards me, and then he said once he saw me up and about. “Unbelievable, this truly is remarkable!”
Confused, I looked around for a few moments and said, “Hey, I am a little confused. What is remarkable?” The Doctor staring at me while standing beside the two girls did not speak. Then, unable to keep in his excitement, he replied to me and said,
“My new drug worked better than I could have ever expected on you. When you arrived, you were about 100 health points from death. So it was when these two young girls brought you into my office I performed a miracle. I am surprised the medicine worked this fast, but it worked brilliantly!” Looking at him, I thought, ‘A miracle? health points?’
Looking over now at the two girls who apparently brought me in, I was surprised that someone helped me. After all, I did not remember meeting anyone other than those men, though I was sort of out of it, to be honest, towards the end. The last thing I could remember was being beaten to a pulp. Though after some hard thought, I did remember pleading for my life... ‘Were these the two I pleaded to? I thought.’
But before I could ask the Doctor any more questions, he turned to face the ladies and said to the three of us, “Well, I will leave now so you guys can talk to your friend. I am sure you were very worried about him.”
As I stood there unable to answer for us, the two ladies both looked at the Doctor and told him in a blunt tone of voice, “We are not his friends, we just saw him on the side of the road dying, and we could not just leave him there in good conscience.”
I could hear the Doctor only laugh for a few moments while he proceeded to walk towards the exit and leave the room. Now it was just the three of us alone, and I did not even know their names. Confused why they were still with me, I began to take off the bandages covering my body. First, I started with my head and arms. I noticed while I was undressing the two girls' faces went red as I began taking off the bandages in front of them. Once they stopped blushing, I took off the torso bandages, and that was when they both noticed the drawings that covered my body. ‘I mean, I just noticed as well for the first time...’
I had written many Demonic scripts and symbols all over my body; I knew exactly what they were as Azurith had these same tattoos; it was all starting to become clear now I was transported somewhere. Turning around now to face them all, we all noticed I also had a giant phoenix on my chest as well. I tried to play it off like I always had these tattoos, but this was too much. I even looked a little surprised, I imagined. I never had any more than one tattoo on my body before, and it was simple compared to a giant Phoenix and the flowers.
I could guess that both of the ladies standing here were curious about who I was. After all, now I was standing before them, almost completely naked. This was probably not common. Or was it? I was starting to ask the same questions to myself. Finally, the younger one of the two ladies began to speak towards me, “So who are you, hmm? Do you have a name, Demon?”
‘Was she talking to me?’ Looking at her, I said, “Hmm,”
Then I could not help but continue to think. ‘Why is she calling me a Demon and asking for my name? what an awful introduction.’ I looked over at the young lady addressing me and decided to tell her this upon hearing the Demon part, “You can call me Azurith, I guess, and yourselves? What do I call you two?”
The young lady with white hair smiled at me, and with a nicer tone in her voice, she replied without hesitation, “Azurith, huh, that's a unique name. My name is Jacosta, and my older sister is Reena.”
Then I could hear the soft voice of the other women speaking, and as she walked over, she paused when she was in front of me. Her eyes scanning my body before she said with a confused look on her face,
“Where did you get those drawings on your body? They look stunning. What are they called?.”
Confused, I looked at her myself, now puzzled and then responded to her question and said,” Tattoos?”
Reena looked at the drawings and then back at me with the same puzzled look on her face and repeated the word,” Tattoos?”
As the time passed and I got dressed, we continued to talk about the art, and I started to think. ‘They must have never seen tattoos before in their life...:' The two pestered me and continued to annoy me until finally I turned to them and said, “Yeah, the drawings on my body are called tattoos.”
The tattoos that climbed my ribs onto my arms were vines with flowers native to the world of Gepot when they were blooming and budding in season. I was right...:' Knowing those two would have no clue what those flowers were, I continued to speak to them about other things casually. “So you two are Jacosta and Reena? You said you found me dying on the side of the road. I am a little confused about how I ended up like that. Can you explain to me what happened?”
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Jacosta leaning up against the wall, began to speak towards me. I could hear from the tone of her voice she was talking down to me, but I largely ignored what she said as she said it in a condescending tone,” You got jumped by a bunch of bandits. Are you stupid or dumb? Why did you not run?”
When she finished speaking, I could not help but notice they were not in any fancy armour or even clothes. In fact, they looked rather humble, like farmers or something in ripped and tattered clothing. Further inspecting them, I saw the smaller girl carrying a broken long sword, and the bigger one carried a dagger and a wooden wand. That was when I heard her clearly say as she went on continuing to tell me walking directly in front of my view now,
“I mean, you must not be too smart or had no clue you really are strange.” Standing in front of me, the girl named Jacosta began to scan me up and down and check me out, patting me on the head a little. I saw her quickly look away when I looked up at her and smile. When she started realizing I was still half-naked in front of them all, talking so casually. Still standing while casually chatting. They then began telling me, “Put your damn armour on already.”
I could only begin to laugh as I agreed with her. I mean, it was about time I got fully dressed. Reaching over, grabbing my stuff, I started to redress myself, putting on my pants sash on and then next my shirts armour cloth, after my boots. Then, looking over at the armour, I began to put it on my crown, the peace that hid in my hair.
I was surprised at how extremely light the armour pieces were. It was a lot lighter than I would have generally guessed it to be; either that or I was a lot stronger than I thought as I muttered under my breath. “I need to test my strength somewhere.” Finally, I picked up my gloves. Then, looking over to the swords, I grabbed one of them before placing it around my hip and attaching the larger sword to a belt behind my back.
Looking at the two girls, now not half-dead, I was able to see them more vividly. As the time passed, my headache sighed, and my vision fully returned. The older girl who called herself Reena, I saw, had long orange hair with thin eyelashes and pink eyes. She had a very cat-like appearance to her, and her hair was very long as it went all the way down to her waist.
I could tell Reena knew what I was doing as I glanced up and down. She looked at me with a soft, cute expression on her face as her canines poked through her bottom lip. Thinking to myself,” They remind me of cat’ girls from shows.” ‘They looked absolutely adorable.’
I started scanning her body, trying to confirm my suspicion looking at every inch of her when she wasn’t paying attention and was distracted by her sister, looking at her closely. Reena had a very nice shape, a very nice figure; her legs were long, her waist was small, and her boobs were huge, and when I checked out her ass, I saw her tail. ‘What the hell?!’
When I looked closely at her features again, I noticed something about her mouth was off, and not soon after, I saw she had cat ears sticking through her hair. At first, I thought it was a part of her hair, but then I saw them individually move. When she smiled, I now saw her teeth were long and sharp, and it was not her teeth poking out the bottom of her lips but rather her long canines that would poke through her lip. I watched from afar as she continued talking to her sister; I noticed that she and her sister shared many similar features. Even like the way they would talk to each other.
The younger girl Jacosta’ had short white hair, frizzy and a little dirty, with light teal eyes, which I thought was odd as they both seemed like characters out of a video game. She also had similar facial features to her sister with the ears and the tail, but hers was fuzzy; ‘Is it fur? Or hair?’
Reena began to notice how I slid the two-short-swords on my hips instead of my back as when she first encountered me earlier, and I had them behind my back. Then, with confusion clearly shown on her face, she asked, “Hey Azurith, why the switch...?" I noticed. Next, she pointed to my weapon behind my back and on my hip.
I decidedly thought, ‘What a weirdo.’ But since there was no reason not to give her my honest opinion, I replied, “Well, it was easier to grab them this way," and next, I made a small demonstration of reaching for the hilt of one of the blades before I said. "See? You seem to look into these things too much.”
Finally, after I was done getting my armour on, I turned to them and asked the two of them, “Where are we even? I found myself a little lost.”
I watched as Jacosta hesitantly looked up at me. Then, looking me directly in the eyes, she tilted her head a little and went on to say, “We are in the city of Geroleo. Its main occupants are Humans, Elves, and Beast-people though they would allow other races like yourself into their city if accompanied by a resident.” ‘So they must be beast people, I thought.
Then turning to Jacosta, I paused to think before I asked, “Beast-people? Are you two Beast-people?”
When I finished asking the two sisters my question, I was unexpectedly greeted by a look from the two girls. They suddenly looked at each other, not saying a word back. I stood in disbelief, with their heads hung low; I saw the pain in their eyes when they finally answered me and said, “Yes, we are.”
I was not entirely sure why they looked so upset. To me, they looked adorable, which I went on to tell them, “You know I have never heard of beast people up until now. But you girls are adorable, so don’t look so upset. You look nice. Plus, you saved my life, and I owe you a life’s debt. So what did you girls want from me? I would do my best now to give it to you.”
When the two of them stood there and did not reply, I started saying to them both now to "speak up." The two sisters began to talk then briefly. Finally, they formed a circle and began to talk it over before Jacosta turned and faced me with a devilish look on her face; looking back at the sword again from earlier, she then answered me and asked, “Can we have that sword there?” Pointing now at the ‘Devils-Short-Sword’ on my shoulder.
Before I could reply to her, I heard her older sister Reena interrupt her younger sister Jacosta and respond to her, “We can’t ask for his sword. Besides, that’s how we ended up in this mess that looks really expensive. I know we need money, but we can't ask him for his weapon.”
Hearing that struck a note with my heartstrings; I could clearly relate to never having any money to spend on anything nice and always having to look for cash for food. It was not even a day since I spent the last 10 dollars I had till payday. ‘They really look like they could use some cash. I wish I could help.’
Putting my hands in his pocket, the same vision when I first arrived met me with. This time another menu in my vision popped up as I was focusing on the thought of cash. However, this time it was off the world of Gepot’s game bags inventory. Speechless, I could not think straight for a second as what I saw made my heart skip a beat as I said to myself,” No, no way.” I could see Jacosta looked sad with what her sister said. However, she then spun around and started to talk to her sister again, but I was too busy to listen.
I began to look over this bag's inventory, and was in my sight once again. I suddenly noticed all of my old friends' weapons in the view from years ago when I was supposed to have deposited them after our final dungeon run. When I highlighted them, I noticed my old second Betless Cutlass sword sitting beside them and on the bottom of the menu was my gold showing 99999999.99. Pen.
Seeing all that money is what nearly caused me to faint on the spot. I swore the foam, and other weird drool one makes when they get overly excited could be seen on my face as I started shaking. Once I saw that, I had to keep myself physically standing up.
I began to reach further into my pockets using my index finger like a mouse. I went over the bag's inventory and started pulling out some of the gold from the bag. With my hand shaking as it came out of my pants pocket, I pulled out Gold, precious shiny gold. Out of this small pants pocket came a large bag. I could see the girls did not notice my magic trick and now in my hands was a bag filled with gold, also known as a large gold purse in most games. Now looking at the two girls, I began reaching over, handing a total of 5000 gold coins over to them, and said, “I don’t know if this is valuable or not, but here this is a thank you for saving my life.”
Both their eyes lit up with the sight of the yellow gold coins, as that was the confirmation I needed. Gold is money here; that is good to know.
After they opened the bag, they both started looking confused at me, giving me each an unsure look. Then, while they continued looking at me, I noticed Jacosta went on and started saying towards me in a cautious weary tone, ”We assumed you were broke, Azurith, and that's why you were beaten and robbed. If you had this much money in your pockets, why did you not buy food for your journey? Also, how did we not feel it when we picked you up... Are you a battle mage like Reena with spells?” Confused at the words “Battle-mage?” I answered her and said, “Um, I don’t think so, sorry?”
The lady named Jacosta looked at me rather angrily before she glanced over towards her sister, looking agitated in the process repeating herself to me, she said,
“Yes, a battle mage who uses swords. Do you have a magical inventory or something to protect against thieves? Where did this money come from? It was almost like you pulled it out of thin air.”
All I could do was take in the information that these sisters said to me for the time being and try to begin to formulate a plan. I was clearly not in my world any longer; perhaps I got stuck in my favourite RPG? I began to think of a reply, something that a real person would say in Gepot. I mean, that class sounded a lot like a Combat Mage from the game ‘The World Of Gepot.’ ‘Also, how did she know of the magical inventory?’
The game's magic inventory was a real thing. This was getting weird very quickly, and it was at that moment I offered to invite them into my party, hoping that was a thing as I started, saying to them both, “No, I am not a battle mage. But you're welcome to join my party if you don't believe me, I will show you, my class. I could also use help navigating the city. If you two are up for it and are not too busy, I will compensate you. I would like to see all the sites here in town. I need to check some things out... How about it, you two? Would you be down to make this happen for me?” The two Beast-girls stood in front of me and contemplated for a few moments before agreeing to show me around the city for a price.
As I followed them down the hall of the doctor's office once at the end, they opened the door and left the hospital. But before they did, a message showed up in my vision asking me.
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