Hello readers, this is my first FF, so if there are any problems, just tell me and I'll try to fix them. English is my second language so there may be some weird things as well. Also, if any one of you guys know, can you tell me how to put one of those dividers that you can use to split the chapter into several parts? I want to use one, but I'm still a noob in all the coding and tables and have no idea how to make it... I'm just using the code guide and I barely understand it...
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"Aaaahhhhh!!!! No! Alice! Watch out!!!"
A young girl of only 6 years of age froze in horror and fear as she saw 2 blinding lights bearing down on her through the darkness. A large vehicle many times larger than her charged at an unbelievable speed towards her direction and she could see a wide eyed driver frantically spinning the driving wheel to change the direction of the truck. The disgusting scent of gas hit her nose as the front of the truck barreled down the lane, ignoring the desperate cries of her mother and the horrified looks of the surrounding pedestrians. The world seemed to spin as she stared straight into the lights of the rushing machine that would spell her death. Darkness encroached into the edges of her vision, causing time to slow down and everything to freeze.
*Swoooooooosh! Bam!*
The next thing she knew, she was being embraced by her sobbing mother and surrounded by people who were worriedly checking over her health. How was she alive? How was she uninjured? What was that? Even after 9 years, Alice would never know what happened from the moment her consciousness vanished and to when she woke up being hugged by her mother.
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9 years later:
'I got another perfect...'
Alice Khan- A 15 year old university graduate stared dispassionately at her final exam's result. Her grey eyes gazed dully at the large PERFECT printed on the professor's comments section. Although most people would be crying in joy at the perfect results of every test she took at the end of her courses, she herself was completely uncaring and impartial about the result. Why? It was because half of it was completely guessed.
Ever since she could remember, Alice always experienced something one could only call SUPER LUCK. It wasn't just an occasional luck. For everything she ever did that relied on chance, she would always grab the winning hand. When she was in 4th grade, she participated in a country wide raffle for a chance to win a full college scholarship- and won. When she was in 5th grade, she entered a Bingo game for a week long vacation to the most expensive resort in the world. That was a win as well. As an 8th grader, Alice went with her mom for a lottery to win 500 million dollars, and that resulted in her family getting all 4 winning numbers and becoming multimillionaires within a week. Anything she ever participated in turned into a nightmare for her competitors and a dreamland for her teammates. People soon made a connection to the crazy fortune of her surroundings and herself. Before long, everyone wanted to be on her team, or a "friend". With this luck, Alice breezed past every type of sport, education, and crisis that ever struck. It also made life dull.
'At least I can finally just stay home and be lazy for the rest of my life'
Alice was also a semi-NEET. Whenever she had the chance to, she would hole herself up into her room and watch anime and manga while sucking on an ice-cold cola. It was always a great life to her when her curtains were drawn, lights dimmed, and her 8 screen computer monitor setup faintly shining while playing 4 different shows and 4 different games at the same time. Normally, she wouldn't have any care for games considering the fact that she had that absurd fortune that made everything go just right. But that luck didn't apply for electronics. In fact, it was just the opposite.
Alice enjoyed playing games because she was not only not horribly lucky, but in fact extremely unfortunate. When her character walks down a path for newbies, a lvl 200 monster would pop out of nowhere and kill her. When she walks through a crowded street, some NPC thief kids would run up and steal her items. Once, in the game of AlterWorld, one of the Chaos Dragons decided to take her character prisoner and force her to be its servant for such a long time she deleted the game. She was also accused of trying to assassinate a king in Road to Emperor once and killed 100 times as punishment. Anyone would fall from despair with that terrible luck, but as Alice was sick of how everything went perfect for her, she absolutely loved the fact that games were so hard and difficult especially for her. The game world was her dream.
After packing up her college supplies and leaving the classroom, Alice didn't even look back as she left the building the campus for the last time. She lived some distance away from the college, but since she had plenty of time, she cheerfully leaped into her Ferrari and started driving leisurely towards her huge mansion that was nestled deeply inside the wooded mountains. The area the university was in was virtually in the middle of nowhere and her house was even more in the middle of nowhere. The closest neighbor was at least 2 hours of long, tiring mountain driving that was several mountains away. Alice didn't have any problems though; When she wanted to go home, a helicopter would pick her up at a place 20 minutes away from the campus and take her over the mountains back to her house.
As she took a turn into a small road that separated itself from the main mountain road, the solid metal gates blocking the way further in slowly withdrew themselves out of view while making rattling noises. It revealed a long passage that led into a clearing with a waiting helicopter and empty garage. Alice parked the Ferrari in the garage, and climbed out holding her bag with the supplies. The waiting chauffeur started up the engine as she climbed into the open door and sat down with her stuff. The helicopter slowly rose into the air, and flew away towards the place Alice called home.
She never noticed the fact that the cloudy skies had suddenly taken on an dark hue and started spiraling.
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When Alice entered her large mansion, the first thing she did was toss her supplies onto the ground and dash up to her room on the 2nd floor to check if her special package had been delivered. Several weeks ago, Alice had found out about the brand new Virtual Reality game Reversed had just been released in Asia. Not many people outside of Asia knew of it yet. However, since she was also an otaku, she had found out about it early and ordered a capsule to be sent to her home and installed, and also paid an extra 2,000 for it to be delivered the moment it was possible. She wanted to experience real adventure, not the adventure you would find behind a screen.
Reversed was a virtual reality with a 99.9% reality. Players always said that they never actually noticed a difference from the real world, except for the fact that they kind of felt weird during the first few minutes of the game. Reversed was set in a world called Alayzes, which was a single huge continent that was full of all kinds of different races, ranging from Dragons to Humans. There were countless smaller islands separated from the main continent, and it was also confirmed that there was a Demon Continent that was smaller than than the main continent yet was actually a separate world from the main one. No one ever went there yet though. It was basically a huge fantasy world almost as big as Earth. It was also so protected that even the managing AI and the creators of the game couldn't access the internal system or even monitor it. Reversed was a self-developing virtual reality game that no one could hack into or manipulate.
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Alice expertly ran around several hallways and towards the hallway where her room was in. Her mom was reading a newspaper while sitting on one of the hallway couches and drinking coffee.
"Welcome home, honey."
"Oh hi mom, did the capsule come yet?"
"It just got here a couple hours ago, it's in your room as you asked. Do you want a cookie?"
"I'm not a kid anymore! I've gotta go play the game, I'll get some myself later!"
"You're still the age of a high school sophomore."
"But I've already graduated from college."
"Yeah sure. You still have to attend the ceremony later."
"Nope! I've asked to skip it and they said sure."
"What?!"
"Haha, I know right! Anyway, I'll be in my room!"
"You aren't really treating me like your mom..."
Alice excitedly ignored her mom who was sitting on the 2nd floor hallway couch and leaped into her room, just to fall in a tangle of wires. She thrashed around in confusion and shock at what suddenly happened when she recognized the brightly colored rubber ropes that were all over her. They were all the old wires from her old consoles and computers that she never bothered to throw away and crammed into a corner of her room.
'Ah crap... I forgot about the mess...'
She spent 10 minutes angrily struggling against the wires that had wrapped themselves around her, and finally freed herself from the messy prison. Alice searched around the room and saw a pod-like metal bed that had a glass cover and several wires protruding from the exterior. She instantly recognized it; it was the pod that she saw so many times on the main website of Primus Corporation, the creator of Reversed. It wasn't set up. There were several smaller packages with the necessary wires needed to activate the capsule as well as an instruction booklet that was specially translated into English.
Alice read through the booklet as fast as her mind could allow her to while memorizing the steps at the same time. It was a really fat instruction book; It took her nearly 30 minutes to actually finish reading it and another 20 to set the capsule up and cleaning the rest of the wires scattered around the ground. After 50 minutes of reading and connecting wires to each other, the power light finally flickered to life and indicated that it was ready to activate. Alice instantly opened up the pod, leaped into it, and started the system with a cry. Her heart was beating crazily with excitement.
"Start Reversed!"
System starting... You will be unconscious for 10 minutes during calibration, calibration will stop if there is an outside disturbance, it that okay?
"Yes!"
Calibration starting...
The world suddenly went black as Alice finished reading the window.
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Right above the mansion, the swirling clouds suddenly stretched downwards towards the Khan mansion. They stabbed straight into the house, catching all the inhabitants unawares and instantly destroying in the 4th floor. Alice's mother cried out in shock as the house shook, and she rapidly started looking around for the reason of the destruction. It was too late though, the tornado completely tore through the building's 3rd floor and rained debris where Alice and her capsule was. A huge slab of stone crushed the room and killed her, just as the calibration finished and connected to the network. (what a great way to die)
After the tornado hit the ground and left the area, only rubble of the mansion was left. The weather forecast had never even detected a slight smidgen of a possible tornado, so no one even knew that this would happen. It would be later announced that there were only 2 casualties due to the fact that the landing zone of the tornado was in a mostely uninhabited area.
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A terrible pain ripped through Alice's skull. Everything had been a hazy blackness when this dagger-like feeling of getting stabbed straight in the brain ripped through her consciousness. Her closed eyes felt like they were in danger of exploding, and she could feel a strange heartbeat that didn't feel like her own, which was accompanied by torturous headaches that increasingly worsened with each pulse. The assaulting pain took her by surprise, which caused all of her muscles to spasm crazily and thrash around. She didn't know how long it lasted. Her entire awareness was completely enveloped by pure, unending pain, and she had no idea when it would end. After 10 seconds that seemed like 15 years, the throbbing gradually faded away into a faint ache.
Alice opened her eyes to see a window pop up in front of her.
File detected... File saved... Customizing file...
'...Huh? What's this?'
File created... ID created... ID 66666666ZENIX... Activating NPC Creation tool...
'What?'
NPC generated... Accelerating growth process...
The windows faded from existence like mist being blown away by wind. The endless blackness surrounding Alice exploded into a bright light, blinding her and forcing her to close her eyes. When she opened them again, she saw herself staring at a woman. Well, something similar to a woman. That woman had pure black hair, bloodred eyes with pupils like a snake, and strange, black horn-like spikes sticking out of the sides of her head and shoulders. Next to her, was a man with night-colored wolf claws and had horns sticking out from behind his pointed ears. They were both staring at her with cruel eyes. The wolf-man spoke first.
"So this is the one..."
"Indeed. Too bad it's still a child."
"No matter. He shall be our new lord, and it is our duty to raise him."
"... Are you sure about him?"
"Do not be a fool, you know my senses have never failed before."
"..."
'Huh? Are they talking about me? I think they are, but why are they hanging above me like that? What the heck was that pain earlier? And why can't I move? And what's with calling me a him?! I'm clearly a girl, you little- HOLY *#%$@'
Alice looked down at her body and instantly regretted it. True, there were strange black flame-like marks running down her body, but what was more terrible was something else. Her body was pudgy. As in pudgy like a baby. And small. Not only that, but there was a certain *thing* in between her, no, his legs...
It seemed like Alice was going to start her adventure in Alayzes as a flame-tattooed NPC boy...
Author's Rants:
Note the name of this FF and Alice's circumstances. Reversed = Girl to Boy? Demon slaying adventurer to demon lord? Player to NPC? lol.
I wanted to try this for a while, so I did. Also, I learned English for many years, so it's not that bad.