Yesterday he asked me out. It was Friday after school and I was on my way home from school. A boy from my class stopped me and asked if he could talk to me for a minute. It was Nick, one of the more popular boys at school. I hadn’t ever talked to him before but he had spikey, pitch-black hair that seemed to gleam in the sunlight and was very tall, probably at least 6 feet as he towered over me. He asked me my name which I told him was Lop. It's not surprising he didn't know my name as I never talked to him or really anyone at my high school. He told me about a park near our school with beautiful trees and was wondering if I wanted to meet him there tomorrow morning.
It’s currently 9 am and I just finished getting ready. Standing in front of the mirror to double-check my appearance I can see myself. A slightly shorter than average girl with long straight black hair and red eyes. I am wearing a large black sweatshirt with a skirt, thigh highs, and black boots. It's a little bit different from what I normally wear but I think he might like it… I hope. I want this to go well nobody has ever asked me out before. This is the kind of clothes I see the people he hangs out with wear sometimes so I think he will like it. Ready for my date I head out for the park.
When I find my way to the park I see him standing under a tree waiting for me. I quickly head over to him to say hi. He greets me with a smile as I approach him.
“You're here Lopi I was worried you wouldn’t show up. I wanted to take you to some places today if that’s alright.” He says.
“Of course I’d love to!” He wants to take me out. It really is a date I wasn’t wrong! Calm down Lopi don’t mess this up.
As he leads me down the streets he brings me around a corner near the edge of town. There are a lot more run down and abandoned buildings and a lot fewer people in this area and fewer people I wonder where he is taking me.
Finally, he turns around and says, “Let’s see how you do.” As he says this he leans in and hugs me! My consciousness slowly starts to fade as my body falls into him.
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Waking up I find myself in a white room with a grid pattern of light blue lines making a massive box around me. As I pick myself up off the ground I look around. Did Nick bring me here after I fainted? This is a pretty weird place to leave me, I can’t see the door anywhere. Once I finished picking myself off the floor a white panel appeared in front of me with a light blue outline similar to this room. It almost looks like a hologram from one of the sci-fi shows I had watched. Reading the panel it said,
Welcome Lopi, I see you have finally woken up. The fighting will start soon so pick one of the weapons you see on the screen.
Just as I finished reading the words on the screen they were replaced with 4 images of different weapons. On the left of the screen was an image of twin daggers and then moving to the right there was a bow, a staff, and a greatsword.
This is one of the weirder dreams I have had. I hope I didn’t bother Nick by fainting during our date. I suppose I’ll pick the greatsword since it's a cool weapon. I had better pinch myself to wake up.
“Ouch!”
It’s not working but it hurts… Is this one of those lucid dreams? I’ve never had one before so why do I have to have one now. I don’t know how to leave so, for now, I will just keep messing around.
The screen in front of me changed back to text but this time much larger saying Wave 1/3. The screen began to disappear and a small flash of blue happened on the floor a bit away. As the blue flash faded a small rabbit was left in its place. The rabbit had a long horn coming out of its head like a unicorn but it was almost as long as its body.
The rabbit turns its head towards me and its red eyes seem to shine as it starts to move towards me. Remembering the pain I felt earlier when I pinched myself I figured it would be best to not let this rabbit hit me. As it got right in front of me it leaped at me which made me fall backward in shock. The horned rabbit sored over me and landed behind me and began to turn to face me again. Panicking I found the greatsword that I had selected on the ground next to me. It was absolutely massive and was wider than me and longer. Why did I pick this?! There is no way I can swing this weapon. I’m just a normal high school girl. The rabbit began to run at me again so I tried to pick up the weapon as best as I could. As the rabbit was about to reach me I barely got the sword handle off the ground while the sword tip was still on the ground. The side of the greatsword was so big that it acted as a shield. Ramming its horn into the side of the greatsword its horn shattered causing it to yelp in pain. Using this chance I dropped the insanely heavy greatsword and kicked the rabbit in the side causing it to fly and roll away a few feet. At this point, the screen reappeared saying,
You gained 30 exp.
You have leveled up.
You have leveled up.
And then shortly after,
Congratulations, you have passed stage 1/3.
After that screen went away it was replaced with a window showing what resembled my stats in an rpg format.
Lopi
lvl 2
SP: 15
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HP:30/30
MP:30/30
STA: 23/30
STR: 3
DEF: 1
DEX: 3
SPD: 3
WIS: 0
INT: 0
I’m level 2 now... Did that mean I was level 0 before? A new screen popped up next to my stats saying,
Please invest your SP before the next wave.
Does SP stand for skill points then? I suppose I need to have a higher strength so I can actually use my greatsword. Right now I can’t even pick it up off the floor. I decided to invest all my SP into STR. After finishing this my stats looked like this.
Lopi
lvl 2
SP: 0
HP:30/30
MP:30/30
STA: 23/30
STR: 18
DEF: 1
DEX: 3
SPD: 3
WIS: 0
INT: 0
After doing this I tried to pick up the greatsword again. Although it still felt heavy, I was able to pick it up and swing it with both hands. As I was getting comfortable with my new strength the screen appeared again.
Wave 2/3.
More blue particles appeared again and left a wolf behind this time. I put my sword tip on the ground to use as a shield like I did with the horned rabbit because I don’t trust my combat skills to fight the wolf head to head. I put one hand on the handle and one on the back of the sword to brace it. The wolf seemed smarter and didn’t just charge in at me and began to circle around me to get around my sword. I spun with it keeping my sword between me and the wolf. Eventually, the wolf grew impatient and lunged in while I was still moving my sword but it wasn’t fast enough. My sword was able to get between us in time causing him to hit my sword. While he was still recovering from hitting my sword I picked it up with both hands and brought the edge of the sword down on the wolf leaving a massive wound down its back causing blood to splatter around on the white floor and a bit on my clothes. It was a much more gruesome death than the rabbit had.
You gained 40 exp.
You have leveled up.
Congratulations, you have passed stage 2/3.
Please say status to open your stats again in the future.
“Status”
Lopi
lvl 3
SP: 15
HP:40/40
MP:40/40
STA: 32/40
STR: 18
DEF: 1
DEX: 3
SPD: 3
WIS: 0
INT: 0
The amount of SP I gained this level was the same as the past two which means the amount I get will go up as I level up. In the video games I had played it was normal to min max a stat but I’m not really confident enough in my combat skills to ignore other important stats right now. I’d like to upgrade WIS and INT because I feel like they might have something to do with magic but if it doesn’t make me learn magic automatically it would just be a waste on SP. For now, I think it would be best to invest in my DEF in case I make a mistake. After my new stats are as follows.
Lopi
lvl 3
SP: 0
HP:40/40
MP:40/40
STA: 32/40
STR: 18
DEF: 16
DEX: 3
SPD: 3
WIS: 0
INT: 0
Although I can’t feel any results from putting points into defense like with strength I can only assume that it worked.
Wave 3/3.
It’s really not giving me any breaks here. With another blue flash, it leaves behind 3 enemies this time that looks like goblins. One is holding a dagger, another a bow, and the other one is holding a staff. It looks like they have a party composition similar to what you would see in a video game. The goblin with the dagger began to charge at me while the one with the bow pulled back an arrow and prepared to fire. The goblin with the staff didn’t seem to be attacking or casting magic so I decided to focus mainly on the other 2. I brought my sword up as a shield to protect against the first goblins dagger which caused him to jump back instead of attacking while the archer shot at me from the side. Unable to block the arrow it hit me in the arm. Although I put so many points into defense it still hurt quite a bit. The arrow was now in my arm which made it painful to move my arm but using this chance I moved in towards the goblin with the dagger and swung my greatsword at it. As the goblin was getting hit by my greatsword the goblin with the staff began to wave it but stopped upon seeing my sword rip straight through its companion. It must be some sort of healer. Knowing that the healer goblin won’t attack me I charge at the archer as fast as I can and recklessly swing my sword at it. With only a bow to defend itself, it falls to the ground like its companion. Being the last one of its companions the priest could put up no fight and fell in a similar manner.
You gained 80 exp.
You have leveled up.
Congratulations, you have passed stage 3/3.
I can finally sigh in relief from the hard fight.
The arrow in my arm suddenly disappears and Nick suddenly appears in front of me!
“You did well Lopi, once you become strong enough we can go on that date for real.” He said with a smirk.
I began to think that he still thinks I want to go on a date with him and my consciousness begins to fade again like when he hugged me earlier.