Chapter 1: A Heroās Awakening
Aughā¦Where am I? What..Happened? I blink my eyes open. Itās a cold empty cave, with a puddle of water underneath the platform I'm on. Water drips from the ceiling on my right, making a blip sound when it lands in the puddle.Ā
I prop myself up. It feels like Iāve been asleep forever⦠But now itās time to get outta here. I make a jump to the platform on my left, and look up. For a cave this sure is small⦠I Take a leap of faith upward, and see a door. Why would a cave have a door in it? I shrug it off.Ā
I go through the door which leads to a larger part of the cave. Spikes line the ceiling and floor to my left, while the right is just a dead end. Well, now what?
I go to the left to see just how deadly these spikes are, when I get an image of me trying to test them and I fall over and get impaled, killing me. The image frightens me. It was a sudden image in my mind, like I knew it was gonna happen, but it didnāt. So Iām fine.
I shake my head. The hell was that? I think as I avoid the spikes, and bats flying up and down. Those bats are cute⦠The floor changes from a rough rock to some more polished rock, like the one I woke up on. On the top, is a little capsule with a heart shaped device in it.Ā
I pick it up, and unscrew the side. I pull out the heart shaped device and notice that thereās a keypad on it, though thereās no numbers, and the buttons are painted the same color as the heart. I start putting random codes in, but none of them seem to work.Ā
Thatās when I notice a small sliver of paper in the capsule, with the numbers, ā269367ā on it. On the other side of the paper, a little message is printed, āYou can do it, Hero!ā I blink a little. Hero? I didnāt do anything but..Ok. I put the code into the device, and to my surprise, the top part opens, revealing a small cylinder with the word āNanoā printed on it in a small font thatās very difficult to read.
Ā I take it out with my right hand, and thatās when a small circular plug shows itself on my left hand. Do humans normally do this? I shrug. I plug in the cylinder, and when the process is done, I feel more energized. The capsule and everything that was inside it except the paper materializes into nothing as soon as the process is completed. Weirdā¦
I pick up the slip of paper for the motivational message and move on. Two puddles of water, bats and critters stand in my way, but after a few maneuvers, I now stand in front of another cave entrance. I enter the room, which turns out to be a small room, with a few things and furniture around. Thereās no bed to my surprise, all I really see is a bunch of gun parts laying around, which is definitely odd. I keep my guard up.Ā
I make my way over to a table and chair, the table holding what seems to be some recently used tools for gun making, But no oneās here.Ā
Suddenly, I hear a low grumbling that shocks me so bad I jump, and hide behind a bookcase. I hyperventilate and try to calm myself down, and I look back to see what that grumbling was, and I feel like kicking myself in the head. Itās just a hermit sleepingā¦Ā
I take in a sigh of relief and walk out of my hiding spot. Oddly enough, the hermit is standing up, even while asleep. Huh. Weird. I slowly start to realize that this cave is quite dangerous, with the death spikes and the critters and bats floating around. I need something to protect myselfā¦I hope the hermit wonāt mind⦠I start searching the place for anything useful. Oh! Itās a blue gun that looks newly made, with the mark of the northern star on it. When I think of a name, the Polar Star, I get another message from Kazumaā¦
[ACCEPTING INCOMING TRANSMISSIONā¦]
Kazuma: Sueeeeeee
Kazuma: where are you????
Kazuma: you didnāt fall asleep did you?
Kazuma: your brother is lonely
Kazuma: and hungryā¦
Kazuma: So hungry I ate a cockroach
Kazuma: ā¦
Kazuma: yeah Iām lying, but honestly if you leave me hanging this long I might just do thatĀ
Kazuma: so hurry up will you?
Whoās this āKazumaā Guy, and whoās Sue? I shake my head. Now is not the time for questions. I pick up the gun. It fits perfectly in my hands, almost as if it was made for someone my size. I leave, quietly because I donāt want to wake up the hermit thatās sound asleep.Ā
I hold the gun in both my hands, and just stare at it. It looksā¦A bit undone. Letās see if it works though.. I take aim at one of the bats, and shoot it with a beam of electricity. Though the gun didnāt seem as promising as before, it definitely feels promising now. As I make my way back up to the room where I woke up, I notice that I donāt get a weird image in my head from the spikes. Huh. Maybe itās cause I got that capsule thing? I shrug it off. When I make it to the wall that seems to be a dead end, I go out on a limb and just shoot it. To my surprise though, it actually works! Alright! After defeating the critters that were waiting for me, I try to open the doorā¦But itās not a door.
ā?!ā
An eye opens where the tiny window should be, and stares directly at me. I shriek, and shoot the hell out of it. It soon disappears though. ā¦Iām not even sure I want to know what that thing was. I exit the cave, and the light outside is too bright for me.
All of the sudden the next I know is Iām falling. Fast.
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