It was just another day with mommy and daddy. We went to the store to pick up something for me! Well, they got something for me! Mom and dad picked out a few clothes and some yummy foods, a lot of them were some of my favorites! It was a calm day, nothing was going wrong. I hoped so but... I just felt off for some reason that day. It was as if something was trying to pull me over towards somewhere but maybe it was just my imagination.
My birthday was only a few months ago and I had turned 7 years old. I was learning a bit about harder words in school! They were teaching all sorts of things but I didn't understand much of it. Still, I had time to learn it all!
The thing we got from the store was a game called Dungeon Quest! A lot of my friends had the game and some showed me what they did in it! I was really excited to try it out myself! I wanted to see the cute little slime in it again! It wasn't a bad slime!
I made a little slurp sound which caused mom and dad to look down towards me.
They seemed confused.
"You look so happy."
"Yeah! I am!"
I was holding the cartridge high in the sky and kept looking at it. I was ready to play it as soon as I got home!
Out of the blue, I suddenly heard a lot of people screaming. I watched a lot of people moving out of the way behind us.
Me, mommy, and daddy turned around to look over at what was going on.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY YOU BASTARDS!"
A crazy man was running down the street with a knife in his hands. He was a bad man... he had a look in his eyes like he was possessed...
Before I knew it, mommy tried to pull me out of the way but the crazy man came running in. She tried to protect me... but it only ended up killing me...
I felt something enter me before being yanked out as the man stumbled over me and fell to the ground.
I felt... a strange feeling... I was only just starting out but... in a moment... I lost everything...
What is this feeling... it... it pierced me... I don't know what's happening mommy...
</Confirmed. [Pierce Resistance]... successfully acquired. Following up with [Melee Resistance]... successfully acquired../>
it was feeling hot but... the concrete was cold... why did I feel hot?
</Confirmed. [Heat Resistance] and [Cold Resistance]... successfully required. Combined together, the Skill has progressed to [Thermal Fluctuation Resistance]./>
Daddy had tackled the man to the ground and kept him pinned while mommy rushed over top of me.
I didn't know what was happening but I heard whacking and smacking...
"M-m-ommy?"
I looked around to see something spilling from my body, I was scared. That was...
"MOMMY'S HERE, SWEETIE! PLEASE STAY WITH ME!"
Mommy had a crazy look in her eyes... she seemed... scared...
"S-SON!"
Dad is here now too...
"MY SON IS BLEEDING, SOMEONE PLEASE CALL AN AMBULANCE!" Daddy looked worried too...
I wonder why...
I looked down and looked at my own body...
It was covered by something red...
Is that what blood looks like? I read about that stuff before...
I don't like it... it feels weird...
</Confirmed. Constructing a blood-free body... Successful./>
What is this voice? Are you a sage of sorts?
</Confirmed. Extra Skill [Sage]... successfully acquired./>
I wanted to talk to the pretty voice but...
Something... was hurting...
"I-i'm s-cared m-ommy, daddy... it... i-t hurts so m-uch..."
"I-it'll be fine, Sweetie. Stay with mommy! Please! I-i..."
I want it... I want the pain to stop...
</Confirmed. [Pain Nullification]... successfully acquired./>
I was trying to call out to mommy but by then my eyes were already starting to fade. I didn't know what was happening... I wanted to play my game, I wanted to play Dungeon Quest on my console...
I didn't get to finish it at all... I wasn't great at it but I still wanted to finish until the very end...
</Confirmed. Unique Skill [Path of Destiny]... successfully acquired./>
Mommy? Could... please mommy, could you talk to me for a bit longer...
I'm scared... was... was that what they call at school a Predator, that was the bad man right?.. They told me to be careful around people like him...
</Confirmed. Unique Skill [Predator]... successfully acquired./>
...Please talk with me... I don't know what to do... please... I beg of you... mommy... please talk to me...
</Confirmed. Evolving Extra Skill [Sage] into Unique Skill [Great Sage]... successful./>
I don't wanna go... I can't go... I still have so much to do... I...
<Notice. Everything will be fine.>
I'm scared... I don't know what to do...
I tried to talk to mommy and daddy but I could only see their faces...
They're scared like me...
Please hug me mommy, daddy...
I want to hug you...
</Confirmed. Unique Skill [Yearning]... successfully acquired./>
Mommy was holding me in her arms and she was muttering something over and over. Dad was watching over us both...
I tried to listen to what she was saying but I couldn't make it out...
I tried to stay awake but I couldn't anymore...
I soon found myself slipping and falling somewhere...
I don't know where...
I don't know why...
Though soon enough...
I was finding myself in some sort of new world of sorts.
It felt...
Majestic...
</Confirmed. Extra Skill [Majesty]... successfully acquired./>
I drifted off through a place I didn't know.
I didn't know where I was heading to...
I didn't know what I was doing but I felt that my body was breaking apart.
I tried to keep myself together but it only continued to force me apart.
But then I was put back together...
I was scared... where was I going... What was I doing?
It's... so dark but yet so... wet?
Was it raining?
No, I would be cold if it were raining... right?
I tried to move around but I couldn't feel my hands... I didn't even feel my toes!
Where am I? Who am I? Why can't I remember anything, I can't remember the names of my family...
Did I even have a family?
What was I doing? Where was my body? I could move myself but it moved so weirdly...
Was I a snail? I can't see at all, it's dark but I could only feel around me.
Snails have eyes right?
Maybe I'm a snail. The way I move feels slimy... maybe I am a snail.
Wasn't I...
What was I again?
I tried to think back on it but I couldn't.
What was I?
I tried to move but I touched something weird...
It waved around weirdly...
Was this some sort of grass?
I kept moving towards it but before I knew it, it went inside of me and it disappeared as soon as it went into me.
Suddenly my head began to hurt like crazy, it was painful and the more the plant vanished, the more the pain continued.
It wasn't physical pain but it was like my head couldn't take it... head? Do I even have a head to begin with...
What was going on?
What am I?