Chapter 1
NOTE: “” is for verbal dialogue; ‘’ is for thoughts and stuff
"Of course I'll be fine mom. You two just enjoy your time together." Nathan smiled as he hung up the phone.
"Is that something someone in your position should be saying?" (???) Nathan merely smiled in response to the masked owner of the feminine voice. Nathan was a young man who looked to be of an average build at first glance . His black hair and eyes combined with his lightly tanned skin show his oriental ancestry. His face seems to be a combination of an ikemen and bishounen . This amazingly good looking young man is currently staring down the barrel of a pistol with his pants around his ankles.
"If you'll excuse me I must finish wiping. " (Nathan) Nathan proceeds to wipe his ass before promptly flushing it away. The stranger seems to be at a loss as Nathan pulls up his pants and walks toward the sink. As he dries his hand she raises the gun once more and points it at his head.
" Why are you so calm in such a situation? "(stranger ) Nathan smiles at her once more before replying " Because of this " and all the masked stranger with the gun could see was a glint of metal before she realized her weapon had just got disassembled in her hands leaving only the handle of her pistol in her hands with the others lying on the ground. She blinked and look at Nathan confused before realising that she was looking at the ceiling with a fist coming down towards her face. With his opponent incapacitated Nathan took out his phone and made a call while sighing. "Right when I was about to go buy the new novel by John Doe too. "
"Hello? " (male voice)
" Come pick me up, I'm at XXXX-XXXX"
"Understood bocchama" (NOTE: bocchama means young master and I will be using them interchangeably because I’m an indecisive person)
Shortly afterwards a black car arrives and out steps a tall gray haired man. He was a tall man at about 6ft 7 in (1.98m) and seemed to be of an athletic build. His slicked back, dull gray hair is a stark contrast to his piercing blue eyes. He looked at his bocchama and at his “companion” and smiled wryly before picking her up at placing her carefully inside the car. Nathan placed himself in the backseat next to the unconscious passenger as the gray haired man started driving them back to their home.
“James?” (Nathan)
“Yes young master?” (James)
“Call Mary and tell her to prepare a meal for two seeing as how I have a guest.”(Nathan) James, the gray haired robot proceeded to do so as he drove them back to the Silvahawk mansion. Nathan threw his captive over his shoulder and tossed her into the kitchen where a beauty was cooking for him. The beauty was Mary, the robot maid, and she stopped cooking what seemed to be a stew and retrieved some zip ties and tied the unconscious masked lady before returning to the stew. The doorbell rang and as Nathan was placing his masked assailant on a chair, he could hear James answering the door as well as several men talking about how they were there to deliver the VR capsule for Paths of Destiny commonly referred to as PoD. Hearing that, Nathan remembered how today was the day it was publicly released and how it is as close to reality as something can be without it being reality itself.
“Thank you very much gentlemen, James will take it from here. Mary give these gentlemen a packaged meal as a thanks for their hard work.” Nathan says walking into the entrance.
“You sure kid? We can just set it up right now and then be on our way.” One of the men says in response.
“James should be able to do it seeing as how he’s my butler.”
“Well, just call the number in the manual if something happens alright?”(man)
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POV: Nathan
I take a seat on the couch in the living room and start to skim the manual describing the various ins and outs of PoD. And by skim, I mean rapidly skip and scan through it because it's size was similar to that of a dictionary or encyclopedia. As I do so, Mary walks in with a tray of food and places it on the coffee table before bringing in the masked prisoner of war. As I read, a voice not entirely my own commands Mary to feed me as I read. Reading through I found that it was similar to other VRRPGs except with a lot more realism. Ten minutes later James walks in and informs me that the capsule is set up and seems to be functioning properly. I tell Mary and James to decide who will go in with me and so they leave to “discuss” in the dojo. I leave my finished plates on the tray and go on to unmask the now squirming girl sitting next to me. The results of the unmasking were remarkable. She was a beauty, her face fine and fair as porcelain with bright blue eyes. She had moderately short blonde hair tied into a ponytail that was now sticking to her face in some places from sweat. I looked at her thick luscious lips and couldn’t help but lean in kissing my victim. Seeing her confused eyes and frantic movements I pull away smirking as she looks at me with eyes of anger. Reaching to the side and grabbing a fork, I place the four prongs on the side of her neck and decide to start my questioning.
“So, why did you attack me inside a restroom?”(Nathan) She refused to answer me and kept her mouth shut while glaring at me. I smiled at this and pulled away my deadly fork. I removed her left glove and used my fork on her index finger drawing blood with one of the prongs. I stand and leave the room to get a certain device that would allow me to identify her. Bringing it back, I see her collapsed on the floor trying to worm herself out the door. Clicking my tongue, I close the door and place her finger over the device’s hole and smile with satisfaction as I squeeze enough blood out into the hole. The device beeps and I look at the screen.
NAMESamantha V. EdwardsAGE17
The first and only match was Samantha V. Edwards. Tapping on it, I find more of her information and doing so finally understand why she came to capture me. Her guardian who is also her uncle had sent her over as a means of earning one of my favors. Samantha didn’t know that and thought that she was just going to kidnap some guy and get a ton of money because that was the job description I put as the means of contacting me with the “sacrifice”. I grab some tape I brought in with the identifier and tape her mouth shut. As soon as I finish. Mary walks in with James close behind. Knowing from the way the walked, that James lost, I tell him to contact Samantha’s uncle for the compensation that he wants.
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As James was walking away with Samantha, I went into my room where I had the capsule set up and started up the game. A couple minutes passed and I was still staring at the cover of the capsule. Mary who was waiting for me to start the whole time, knocked on the capsule.
“Bocchama, you did read the manual didn’t you?” (Mary)
“‘Course I did, who do you think I am?”
“A lazy impatient child of 8 years but developed remarkably fast and has the appearance of someone twice his age.”(Mary)
“Err... Why you gotta be soo ruuuude?”
“Anyways bocchama, the manual states that you must close your eyes and verbally activate the game and not just close the lid and jump in.”(Mary)
“WHAT!? We live in the 28th century and we still have to manually guide the machines on how to do their jobs?”
“That is correct bocchama, congratulations on your great detective skills.”(Mary)
“Thank you Mary, anyways “Game turn on!”... “VR activate”... WHAT THE HELL MARY!!”
“The manual states that you must state something along those lines but with PoD or Paths or Destiny or Paths of Destiny.”(Mary)
“*sigh* I see... PoD activate.”
The moment activate left my mouth, all I could see was black. The black was quickly rushing past me and becoming lighter until eventually I was surrounded by white.
Brain scan and DNA sample has determined you to be an unregistered user. Would you like to register?
‘DNA sample? What DNA sample? Ah well the manual said you need to register to actually play so...’
“Yes!”
The white around me slowly changed to a grassy plain and floating in front of me was what seemed to be a humanoid doll with no features other than the general shape of the human body.
Abnormal brain waves discovered, now directing to overseer.
“Hello and thankyou for pre-ordering Paths of Destiny. I am Jennifer, your overseer for your character generation at this time, do you have any questions?”(???) A voice said from behind me. As I turned the doll remained in a constant position in front of me and was floating between me and a giant canyon. Raising my eyes upwards I saw that the canyon was connected to a lady, an attractive lady, an attractive young lady who was within my hit-zone.
“Yes I do actually, are you an angel who’s come from the heavens to show me the gates to paradise?”(me)
“*sigh* Look I’m just here to make sure you’re not hacking into the system or something while creating your character alright? Anyways, do you have any prior medical or mental conditions that can attribute to your abnormal brain waves?”(overseer)
“Yeah I do actually, I have been proven to harbor more than one personality within my psyche however have demonstrated time and time again that I am able to be a functioning person in society. But anyways can I have a hybrid character?”(me)
“Hmmm, I’m afraid I’ll have to redirect you to a supervisor as he’ll have to determine whether it is actually safe for you to play.”
With that she disappeared and in her place popped some dude in his early to mid thirties. Seeing that he wasn’t an attractive female person, I did what all heterosexual men would have done: I went straight to business.
“A more in-depth scan has determined the safety of your use of this device and so your character creation may now start. What would you like to be kid?”(Middle-aged guy)
“Again, can I be a hybrid race thingy?”(me)
“Kinda, you can mix two races together to get a mix of each but that’s it. Just say something whenever you’re done and I’ll be back.”(guy) As he said that the doll disappeared and in front of me were about 20 people that looked like me except that they were all the various different attributes. Frowning and walking around looking at each of them I quickly started picking out my favorites. I finally picked something called a Draconian which is a humanoid with a dragon tail, more pronounced canines, and scale designs around the eyes (think of Natsu Dragneel’s dragonforce) and also chose something called an Arcanian which looks like a human but with pointed ears, two small horns protruding from his forehead, and wings that seemed to be made of energy. I combined them to make a draconian me with pointy ears, horns, and wings.
“Ok, done.” (me)
“So a Draconian and an Arcanian huh, that’s an interesting combo. Well, where do you want to start?”(guy)
“The Forest of Eternity”(me)
“Ok, well my name is Jed and I hope you have found this introduction to PoD satisfactory.”(Guy) The guy, or Jed, said this in a nonchalant and rather monotone voice. “Well, young man what will be your name?”
“Katsu”(me)
“Well Katsu, you are starting off in the Forest of Eternity. Ah crap, forgot to balance out the races they’re...”
His voice faded away and then was replaced by countless others bargaining for cheaper prices. Looking around I saw many people walking around and many different wares being sold.
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4th wall breaking tidbit:
Nathan’s parents are criminals. He was trained in their criminal ways. Nathan isn’t your average human. Nathan’s family on both sides were genetically modified centuries ago. There are a few other things but these you should know so that you don’t get too confused as he starts doing crazy stuff that the average person probably wouldn’t do Also while you were reading this some time has passed and Nathan has managed to obtain some money as well as move away from where he was earlier
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‘Well time to check my character status window or something’
“Status... WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?”
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