Arc 2: A vigorous first month
Road to a Hero
Three chances in another world
Chapter 1: Second day in another world
Gray feels himself waking up with a soft sensation under his body as well as one behind his head. Groaning and opening his eyes he feels sore as a dim white light hurts his eyes, waiting for them to adjust.
Gray: “I don’t know this ceiling, where am I?”
He sees that he’s in a queen-sized bed, wearing a soft robe over a cloth shirt and the pants he was transported in with bandages on his arms and legs. He looks around the room he’s in and all that’s in it is some paintings, a couple of wardrobes, and a balcony. Gray slowly walks over to the balcony doors opens them and feels the cold wind blowing on his body, he looks around the outside and sees where he is. He is in a large house too small to be a mansion, with a somewhat large yard with a fence going around the estate.
Gray: “Woah this place is nice! \The city outside is HUGE! Those large white houses go on for miles!"
Outside the gate, he sees a road with a big area of people, houses, and shops just outside the gate
Gray {I guess I got patched up, then got brought here by that… WAIT! Who the hell brought me here, where’s Rosemary and the others?}
Gray runs out of the doors of his room running down the hallway and he turns to see a staircase which he promptly runs down.
Gray: “ROSEMARY, SOKU!, OPHELIA! ARE YOU HERE, ANYBODY!”
He runs around the house when he hears people speaking behind some big doors. He opens them to see a large table with everybody sitting down, eating breakfast. At the table, there are ten seats with Rosemary, Soku, and Ophelia sitting with each other. A man with black combed-back hair and a muscular build sitting across from them. At the end of the table, there is an elderly man with long white hair as well as a feeling of power coming off of him.
The Old man: “ You run around screaming and burst into my dining room! Quite the balls you have been rude to me of all people, I like that!”
His attitude changed from angry to calm very quickly, shocking Gray
Ophelia: “GRAY! You’re ok! Come on, sit down and eat!
Gray sits down beside Rosemary. And across from the younger-looking man with black hair.
Gray: “So I'm just saying this now um. I know nothing about history, class systems, or customs, so I’m in the dark about all this.
The Old man: “Yeah your friends told me this when they woke up, my name is Musashi! Musashi Van Helsing and this is my nephew Edward Van Helsing
Edward: “Hello everyone it’s nice to meet such interesting people!”
Musashi: “Look I’m going to get straight to the point, You all can do three things for me. I healed and saved you from those sect members so you can either work here around the house, leave and go on your way or I can allow you to join the Walgonian knights!”
Rosemary: “Wait seriously! Just the normal knights, or the Leviathan army?”
Musashi: “Normally I would have just said the standard knights but all of you except Ophelia, have great potential! Soku, with her absolute wind affinity, Rosemary with her connections with the long-dead Golden Knights faction, then there’s your Intense amount of mana Gray.”
Soku: “This seems a little too good to be true, what’s the catch?”
Musashi: “No catch, though if you want to join the Leviathan army you must put in a lot of work!
Gray: “Sorry to interrupt but what the hell is the “ Leviathan army” Also did you say the Golden Knight dudes are all dead?”
Edward: “The Leviathan army is just a more powerful league of warriors who are usually people that were born into a family who are in the army! We, the Van Helsings, are the main leaders as well as the founders of the Army.”
Musashi: “Yes the Golden Knight faction members were long thought to have been slaughtered by some higher-up members of the Sect of Anarchy for about a year until I saw you guys last night."
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Edward: “Yeah uncle you were telling me about how Gray beat one of the lower Sect leaders! Gray, even though they are on the weaker side they still have powers, I'm surprised that you were able to win against him while being a commoner!”
Gray: “Well uh. I guess, but to be honest I just finished the fight, Soku and especially Rosemary did most of the fighting. I just punched him.”
Soku: “Ohh so humble”
Ophelia: “Hey don’t downplay yourself! I saw you beat that guy good! You bobbed him in the face! And you had so much mana and power coming off of you It was AWESOME!”
Musashi: “She’s right I did see your battle, even though you aren't very skilled, with your mana overpowering your body you must have been in a lot of pain and yet you still kept moving and were able to outthink your opponent while being frightened. In my opinion, you have a big chance at being a strong warrior if you join the Leviathan Army.”
Musashi: “OK now to get to the point, I’ll go in a line and you will pick what you want to do. So pick!”
Ophelia: “Well I don’t like fighting and I can’t use a demi- transformation so I wanna work here until they leave!”
Soku: “Well I hate the justice system and all the knight shit, but it pays good money so Ima try the Knight stuff until I quit it.”
Rosemary: “I left the Golden Knight faction and .. and now they’re gone … and I want to join something that I agree with, something I can get behind! I wanna join the Leviathan Army!
Gray: “Well I don’t like doin' chores and I have always loved the idea of being a cool-ass knight, so yeah of course imma join the Leviathan army!”
Musashi: “Ok then that settles it, Al! Come in here and help Ophelia, He will help you learn the area, so I hope you’re a good maid. Soku you, Rosemary, Gray, and Edward come with and I’ll show you to the Training area.”
An elderly man comes into the dining room and leaves with Ophelia while Soku, Rosemary, and Gray go with Musashi with Edward following close behind. They leave the room and start walking through the house toward where they keep the swords and Armor. Edward starts talking to Rosemary to Gray's Annoyance which leaves Gray and Soku to talk to each other while they walk.
Soku: “You want to join the Leviathan Army because Rosemary wants to.”
Soku looks at Gray with a smug face while saying this trying to egg him on for some reason
Gray: “Possibly, But I do want to join the cooler group of Knights. I don't have anything better to do anyway.”
Soku: “Well we did get dealt a, really, REALLY good hand with this bunch of luck. If any other knights caught us we would probably be dead, me and Ophelia are thieves Rosemary is a deserter, and you have a similar mana to A sect member.”
Gray: “Yeah you make a good point, hopefully, knock on wood, but I hope we keep this good luck train coming.”
While Gray and Soku talk, Rosemary and Edward talk to each other.
Rosemary: “So who are you? Musashi said you were his nephew?”
Edward: “Yeah that’s right, he’s my uncle, I used to live with my mother but she passed away a couple of years ago so I started living with Musashi.”
Rosemary: “Oh I’m sorry for your loss.”
Edward: “Oh thank you, no you’re fine I have been able to come to an understanding with her passing, I started learning the way of the sword and joining the Van Hellsing way of doing things, I hope joining the Army will give you the same ability to cope with what happened to the Golden Knights faction as it did with my mother.”
Rosemary: “Why thank you! I hope it does as well, I’m glad you’re nice and not one of those jerky knights I’m used to.”
Edward: “I’m glad to hear that.”
Gray and Soku are both listening to their conversation, Gray is not having it, looking very jealous with them conversing so nicely.
Soku: “Jealous?”
Gray: “Possibly.”
Musashi: “Ok everyone we are at the training area!”
They all enter the room and see punching bags, weights, and a variety of weapons and armor, with the Walgonian flag hanging up on the walls, the symbol looking like a very sharp W.
Musashi: “Okay pick out some weapons and armor that fit walk through that door and come outside and I’ll be waiting there for you.
Gray looks at some light armor that he can wear, with some boots and arm guards, dawning a slightly long-looking cloak, Grabs one of the various medium-sized swords lying on stands, and walks outside. Soku struggles to find armor that fits her but finds a blocky short sword which is all she seems to want and goes outside, Rosemary takes some slightly heavy armor, and arm and leg guards then leaves to go outside. Leaving Edward to walk and get his things, he grabs his custom-made armor and weapon. With everybody outside except Edward, Musashi starts to talk,
Musashi: "Okay! I saw Rosemary and Soku fight, and I can see that they have some skill, but you Gray, you are the outlier. I want you to try and get a good hit on me and I won’t let you stop until you give up or I feel as if you are ready to be taught by me. Now I ask you if you want to be taught the Water Sword style.
Gray: “The water sword style?”
Musashi: “There are four sword styles in the world, Fire is basic and easy but is the best overall not being good at one thing and being kinda good at everything, Wind style is normally used with a spear or staff using blunt and hard-hitting attacks that knockback, The earth sword style is normally used by demi- humans because it uses clubs and greatswords and you need a large amount of physical strength to use it. And then lastly the sword style I have personally mastered, the water sword style. It is the hardest to learn and uses techniques from all the other 3 sword styles but mainly focuses on counterattacks and flowing combat being able to counter and flow attacks together and keep up your momentum and stop your opponents. Now pick.”
Gray: “Well since you said you have mastered the water sword style, I guess I want you to teach me that one.”
Musashi: “Okay then, that sword you’re holding, what looks different about it?
Gray: "It's thin, long, kinda looks like a katana and a broad sword had a baby."
Musashi: “Good eye, it’s so you can move your sword between enemies and slide it off of weapons and spells, you need a fine mana control to perfectly do it though, and with all your mana you could become a very serious threat if you get good at it.”
Before anything major happens Edward walks outside and is wearing some heavy armor but the most notable thing is the sword on his back, It’s what only can be described as a great sword, bigger than a normal person and thicker than ten swords; it looked like a large rectangle of iron with a hilt on it.
Gray: “You use a greatsword? You don’t have any issues swinging it around?”
Edward: “Well my father used a sword like this and he was a normal person so I figured I would learn to use something similar in length. It was hard to use at first but it has strengthened my body to a level I could not have achieved without it, so it all worked out in the end.”
Gray: “Okay then”
Gray {with his muscles the black hair and the greatsword he has the build of a rival character or the main character, weird}
Musashi: “Okay enough with the talking you guys sit down over there and Gray when I say go you come at me and I’ll see if you’re worth it. I’ll be using this wooden practice sword.”
Gray: “Okay I’m ready”
Gray plants his feet on the ground confident and ready, with his short dark cloak flowing in the wind, his sword out and he starts to think of a plan of attack.
Musashi: “Three”
Musashi: “Two”
Musashi: “One”
Musashi: “ GO!”
END OF CHAPTER
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