Have you ever wondered why life is unfair?
Well my parents always told me when I was a kid "Son, in this world you're either born with a silver spoon in your mouth or a rusty fork up your ass so you have to keep living and shove the fork into life on ass" well I wouldn’t say it was rusty rather a tin foiled fork. Well we weren't at the most bottom part of the unfair hierarchy known as life but still at the lower bracket. I know, nice advice to give to a 7 year old kid but then again it was the greatest advice I ever learned from them and last.
Oh who am I? Well you can’t have an epic story without an amazing and handsome lead! Well too bad… the name’s Edward Dreyer and I’m definitely handsome but not that amazing but just plain and slightly above average but with an extraordinary talent and that is cheating. And no, not the one where you have a lover and decide to have another girl and cheat on her that’s one of the miniscule things that I decided not to do in my life. When I said cheating I meant for example in a test you take you use a cheat sheet to pass and hide from your teacher so you won’t be found out like that but make the test to be a poker game make the teachers into drug lords, kingpins and the police and the cheat sheet into a hidden card to win and walk off with thousands of cash that’s what I call true cheating.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, as I grew older I did some pretty and not so pretty things and one of my achievements were betting on the worst team in the entire history of the game of football and won millions due to some idiot taking drugs on their opposing teams who would think that all of the enemies where using drugs and the ref found out disqualifying all of them bad luck for them that the drugs used where found on each and everyone of their managers. Some involved the underdog winning while the champ losses suddenly, the all time favorite suddenly surrenders and let’s the newcomer beat the crap out of him but my greatest and last cheat session was when I decided to end the biggest drug chain I knew, I still remember it because it was an important date in more ways than one.
The city was bustling even at night, as lights illuminated the dark scenery and leaving the streets with a cozy athmosphere and in that city was a lone building that was filled with noise and shouts inside as it was the home base of the Russian Druglordand he had an unexpected visitor.
"huff huff huff.....just how?! how the hell did he get here?! you can't expect me to believe a single bastard killed all my generals and lieutenants! Shit!" he swore and wheezed as he ran.
Giovanni Tortallini was having an emergency meeting due to several of his operations suddenly getting destroyed or raided by the police everytime with incriminating evidence.
He was walking towards the meeting room inside the high class suite owned by him beside him was two bodyguards but as he opened the double door leading to the meeting room he was met with a gruesome sight.
Bodies were seated on their chairs but each with a different look. One of the bodies had it's eyes gouge out and his tongue cut, another had skin removed from his face, one had his eyes across from it a mans body or what's left of it after being mangled to death by some beast another had it's mouth stitched shut and another decapitated and it's face showing a bloody smile. Everybody in the room had a death that would think that no sane man would be able to do.
"urk how in the hell!?" he yelled out as he gritted his teeth. The people inside the room we're his generals and lieutenants that went missing, he saw the scene as he greeted his teeth while the two beside him puked.
He was about to enter the room when he heard faint beeping without a a second to lose he sprinted towards the elevator and went in leaving his men behind and after a few second an explosion echoed from the floor and shook the elevator he was in. He felt a cold sweat running down his back as he cursed himself almost dying.
He arrived at the 50th floor and ran towards the hall.
“Fuck fuck fuck! Vladimir get out here and protect me!” the fat balled man shouted as he yelled and pressed the button of the door to his room where his body guard would be waiting.
“Vlad-!” he yelled as he entered but he saw his body guard on the floor with his head blasted open and several of his lackeys on the floor bleeding and some with slashes on their necks.
He backed away and tried to leave the room but as he turned he saw...him.
A man standing outside his door aiming a gun at Giovanni he had dirty white hair that reached down his eyes and wore a light black vest that covered his whole upper body and black slacks with red necktie undone making that gave him a look that was a high class salary worker. But the one that caught his eye was blood that was scattered from his hair onto his clothes and the bleeding wound coming from his neck.
"You! wait we can talk about this, I can give you anything that you wa- urk!" the fat man spoke but all he got was a cold stare and a bullet to the chest he fell to the floor and gripped his wound.
The white haired assailant casually walked towards him and placed the nozzle of the gun onto the shiny head of the pleading man.
"First if you want to negotiate you need a pleasant mood second you need to be either at the same position or higher than the person you try to negotiate with and third, know if the other party will listen which sadly at this time he wont" the guy said with a grin as he stared into Giovanni's eyes.
The white ghost said as he smirked and moved the gun between the guys eye.
Giovanni couldn't utter a single word as he stared at the one before him. Despite having a wound from the hole on his neck he can casually talk to him and worse the smile he saw as if a predator playing with his prey.
“Goodbye Giovanni all your assets will be placed in good hands and help those in need atleast you'll die knowing that all the people that you cheated and tricked will be given back what was taken from them and compensated but atleast you wont be lonely as you'll have everyone you know waiting for you in hell and maybe I'll meet with you soon enough~”
He said with a smile that made the man shiver as he tried to plead for his life but to no avail. He then placed the nozzle of the gun on the fat guys forehead and pulled the trigger.
The gunshot echoed from inside the room throughout the hall and died out as sirens were heard from the outside.
After dealing the blow he stared at the now dead body of the druglord and left the room he then moved towards the elevator.
”Damn…that Vlad sure was a pain..even ended up putting one to my throat…”
He said as he stared at his reflection in the mirror inside the elevator and then recalled the moment he infiltrated the room where Giovanni was staying to rig it with some traps but was met with a familiar face.
"Vladimir...."
he sighed as he stared at the man armed with a .45 colt anaconda and was aimed at him.
"Dreyer..."
the man spoke as he stared at Edward holding two desert eagles on his left hand a .50 desert eagle that had a deep black pain job and on his right and one in white was held.
"You always like the classics"
"You always like it flashy"
This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.
Edward spoke as Vladimir replied.
after a few seconds silence the two danced.
A series of shots were fired inside the room as the two fired at eachother without hesitation and decorated the room with bullets each of their shots missing their target as they kept dodging and firing.
-Tsk...this bastard really knows how to piss me off....-
Edward thought as he reloaded and quickly rolled from his hiding spot that was soon filled with holes.
He fired at the bodyguard but he used an incoming lackey as a meat shield and fired back.
More henchmen kept coming but was quickly disposed off by some stray bullets and quick aiming by Edward but Vladimir didn't care if one of his shots was caught by his men.
The two kept firing at eachother for about 20 minutes and dodged the lethal shots but Edward was scoring some hits at Vlad as he got wound in the leg and arms and was pinned against the a divider.
-I need to end this...he already fired 4 shots...now!-
Edward closed his eyes as he shot at the light bulb at the ceiling masking the room in darkness and within the minutes 3 shots were fired simultaneously and a thud was heard as a body fell to the floor.
The survivor opened a lamp and saw the man before him dead with his head shot open.
"heh....I knew wouldn't be easy fighting against him head to head....still I won...urk"
he smiled as he coughed blood onto the mirror as the door opened he then slowly made his way out.
Still the place was filled with minions and he decided if he was gonna die he wanted to take them with him and started to clean up the place and ended up at the top floor’s helipad overlooking the whole city.
He looked at the view of the entire city.
”Guess it wont be bad to see this t my death.....Heh….21 years of living like this *cough* finally…..after all the shit I did….I can’t believe I’ll finally die…haha…it’s been so long since I felt like this urk….”
-Can’t even say my monologue straight without spitting blood eh well I’m not that suicidal and I’m not a bloody nut job that embraces death for no reason it’s just….I may have done a lot of fucked up shit on those that cheated others just because of their position was low in life…still what I did can’t be called right and if I had a chance to change my life…I would do it oh who am I kidding I won’t but maybe live a little honestly just a tiny bit-
Edward smirked “like that it’ll happen….” he then stopped breathing and limped towards the edge of the helipad.
-I always hated how life is unfair and in the end I think I made life eat shit if only a little and in the end I wont let myself simply die like this I want to go out like a true badass.-
Peeking down on the building the busy streets stopped and the police are finally coming up.
“Heh….atleast the stuff I left will help them getting the other small fries…agh well guess my time is up”
Closing his eyes I let the wind carry my body to the ground and let my life and welcomed the cold crash that was going to happen to his body.
That was the plan but…. Thud! The sound of a body hitting the floor was not that loud but audible enough to be heard in the room.
“The hell?….it felt like I just tripped and faceplanted on the floor but it fucking hurts…..still….shouldn’t I be stuck on the cross walk right about now?”
He grumbled to himself as remembered the leap of faith that he did as he tried to push himself up but he still didn’t have enough strength and only manage to roll and face the roof.
”Okay so I’m definitely not outside did I just dream it? impossible…then where?”
As he was talking to himself he then noticed a 8 foot being standing near him wearing a suit with a really ridiculous design. His hair was a combination of colors he knew and some he didn’t and his hair was messy but in a good way and he smirked towards Edward.
“Whatcha doing?”
was what the guy in the suit asked.
“Trying to bleed to death can’t you see? Also the ground is rather pleasant to my cold skin so I wanted to rest here”
Edward aswered with a straight face.
”Well we can’t have that after all the trouble I did to bring you here”
And with a snap of his fingers Edward suddenly found himself sitting on a comfy chair and infront of him was the man and he sipped on the tea as he looked toward him and suddenly.
“ahhh h- hot!!!”
he yelled as his body suddenly was covered in flames but only on his wounds and within a few seconds they disappeared and his wound were healed.
Seeing this he quickly tapped his body to check if he got burned and to his surprise he didn’t find even a single scar
–nothing…I’m healed no bruises or even burns…how-
“Well I just cauterized your wounds apply some healing ointment infused some blood but to simply put it..it’s magic I ain’t gonna explain shit”
As if reading his mind the suit spoke he explained as he looked into Edwards eye.
“Your tea is getting cold and that shit is expensive even for me so drink it up”
He eyed the tea in front of him and then picked it up and enjoyed the aroma as he drank it to his surprise it’s like drinking pure flavor and quickly gulped it down.
”This…is the best tea I ever tasted and I’ve been around the world and tasted many things but this….just won by a landslide”
And with the comment the one across him laughed
“Haha don’t be greedy there’s a lot more"
and as he was going to ask for some more his cup suddenly got filled with the liquid again but without questioning it he drank it slowly this time savoring the flavor.
Few minutes passed as they enjoyed the brew and Edward broke the silence.
"Okay…so from what I figured out I’m not dead as I got burned and magically healed as you said and even if I wanted more explanation you won’t give it unless I hear you out, we’re currently somewhere else and from what I gathered also you don’t seem to be the devil” he said as the man set the tea cup on the table between them and smiled.
”Pretty observant as expected and also no I’m not although some call me that I’m much much worse than him”
“so God?”
and with that answer the guy bursted out laughing.
“hahahahah I can’t believe you just said that! God he says!? Ahh my sides hurt ahhh oh god….hahahah can't believe this hahahah”
The man laughed like a hyena as tears started to pour from his eyes and rolled on the floor but after a couple of minutes he picked himself up and sat on the chair like nothing happened.
”But seriously I am a god just not the god you know from your world The name’s Merrick, God of Chaos and all that it accompanies”
the man said as he crossed his legs and smiled at him.
Edward sipped his tea calmly not even fazed but what he heard
“And next you’re going to tell me that I’m going to be your servant or champion and serve you or help you in a grand quest to save the world which I might end up fighting monsters, killing people and saving lots of women and many more things like in a game?”
Edward spoke as he placed his cup on the table and copied the mans movements and stared into his eyes trying to read but after a couple of seconds he stopped as he felt like staring into a void and sucking him inside of it, he failed as he couldn’t grasp what the guy in front of him is thinking even his body movements are calm and he can’t find anything about him.
“More or less what you said but with a little more danger than what you thought of and definitely loads of fun!” Merrick exclaimed as he shot his hands up in exaggeration.
Edward always had a calm mind able to judge things and act accordingly he gathered facts and time seemed to slow down for him as he processed his plan.
-I should be dead....but this guy walks up to me heals me saying it was magic and tells me that he's a god and I have to be his champion after taking me from my world.....I should be trying to find a way out of this mess but....I can't think of anything this never happened before"
Edward quietly eyed him.
–Okay so everything is real…- he sighed
“And if I refuse I die right?”
He asked curious as he couldn’t possibly decline knowing what the man infront of him was capable of.
“Well simply let you fall so many times until you say yes I can be very persuasive” Merrick said casually.
-Well there goes that....guess I have only one choice...and if this is legit...maybe I can actually live again..."
After about 5 minutes of silence Edward sighed and said “I understand fine I accept….but just a question…why me?”
With a devilish grin the god said
“Why not? You already know the answer to that you even thought about it carefully so enough chit chat welcome to Eos my champion”. With that a book appeared in front of Edward he gently held it as it glowed as he held it.
”A cheater needs to learn the basic rules and also you are gonna be transported a place that you need to go to but I’ll give you five minutes of time to read that cause that’s the only gift I’ll be able to give you for a while and I need to hide from the others or they’ll find me and it would be disastrous.”
And with that Merrick disappeared and left him alone to read. Without hesitation he quickly opened the book and read the contents.
“Leave some tea for me even if it’s expensive I might not get to drink something like this when I leave this place”
And with that the cup was filled again and with a grin he opened the book and read it's opening remarks.
-Being the champion of darkness for dummies........by Merrick.....-
he disregarded what he saw and continued.
“Eos huh….guess I’ll be the underdog this time..heh…wasn’t I always?”
He said unbeknownst to him that he was grinning as he read the book.
With that a new champion of chaos was picked and the world of Eos will then be greeted by a single entity that will certainly change it for good or bad.
After reading the book and five minutes passed he stood up and the whole room was with light and the only thing that remained was the chairs and table and he was nowhere to be seen.
Edward opened his eyes and met with a new scenery a large cavern was before him and in front of him and was greeted by a statue three times his height with four arms equipped with 4 giant blades.
The giant moved towards him and spoke
"Intruder.....you must die" with that the giant swung his massive sword onto Edward.
As the blades were coming towards him he had only one thing to say.
"Well....shit"