Chapter 1

I woke up with a suddeness that surprised me. When waking up people usually wake up slowly (or at least I do) and remain drowsy a while afterwards. However I ignored this and started to get up, it was a Saturday so luckily for me there was no school on today!

As I got up I realised that something was wrong, It was a little too dark and the air was a little too humid. Confused I looked around and there she was: Tall, dark, faceless and had wings that covered the entire length of my room.

Naturally I decided to open my mouth and say the most eloquent thing possible in this situation.

"What the fuck" I muttered, and then again because saying it once did not do this situation justice!

I began to hyperventilate, I mean who wouldn't with what appeared to be slenderman's sister in my room. The woman raised her hand, and I watched transfixed on the sight. Abruptly I noticed I was much calmer than before, the change was so sudden it couldn't be natural. That shows that she can mess with my brain in a way that did not bear thinking about

"much better" said a voice unlike any I have ever heard, if the being who spoke wasn't in front of me I might have mistaken it for the wind.

"what are you and what do you want" I asked with surprising confidence, was she still affecting me?

"To give you a gift, small one" she said " I am gifting you with a portion of my power however this is not without cost for, you see I owe another God a small favour".

Wait did she just call herself a God, there were Gods!

I had been an atheist all my life so the fact that there was a God was shocking for me, even more so that there were multiple, right then and there I swore to never tell anyone about this, my pride would not be able to take it.

Despite this I moved on to questioning the divine being " what cost do I have to pay exactly and what gift?" I asked.

"You'll soon understand the cost, but as for the gift..." She unfurled a sheet of paper and handed it to me "You have one hundred points to spend on these abilities" she said before backing off, presumably to give me time to choose.

I glanced down at the sheet of paper and read through it. After two minutes I wanted to laugh dementedly but I held it down and gave the situation more thought. While it would be nice to grab the strongest powers with no thought, I was determined to play this smart even if that meant playing the long game.

I immediately bought Immortality for 50 points because... Well immortality y'know?

After that I bought Demonic Pact for 20 points which would let me gain additional points throughout my life by stealing souls. Sure I had to: get ten souls for a single point, complete a contract for said soul and wait ten years to get the soul but this would still be incredibly useful. Besides, what was was time when you're immortal.

This left me with 30 points to spend, the other two were necessities. After some thought I chose Master Orator for 10 points, this essentially would make me really charismatic so I could trick people out of their souls easier.

Finally I bought Healing Hands so I could get some leverage out of people with sick and/or dying family members. It was amazing what people would do to help their loved ones, they would even sell their soul (which was good for me).

I then handed the paper back to the Deity. She looked at my choices and I could have sworn a shadow danced across her face creating an imitation of a human expression. At first I could not decipher what it was but after a while it became awfully obvious that it was disgust, she likely knew of my plan.

Eventually she nodded and the snapped her fingers. At once I felt something a kin to a hook attached to my navel, though there was nothing there. Everything was starting to go blurry and at that point I had the awful thought that she had just killed me, but as everything started to go black I heard her whisper something vindictively.

"Welcome to Earth Bet"

Wait, wha-

/line break/

I woke up.

This time however it was more gradual, though still quite fast. The reason for the speed of my recovery was likely due to the fact that I was previously sleeping on solid concrete, that wasn't a fun experience by the way.

I looked around and scrunched up my nose. I was in an alley and not a very well kept one by the looks of things. It was dank and had several foul smelling objects in the corners of it.

What was it the Goddess said before I was transported here? I pondered this question for a solid minute before the blurry memory became clear enough to me.

Oh yeah, she welcomed me to Earth Bet...

Well fuck, she welcomed me to Earth Bet.

The full gravity of the situation dawned on me, I was in Worm! Needless to say this was not good, I mean for God's sake this world had a being who could casually bitch slap the planet and three monsters who were all city killers and I had arrived here with no combat powers.

Shit.

I slowly walked out of the alley I was in. I walked across the city with no clear destination in mind. I eventually sat down in a park. It was a nice park, With plenty of trees, grass that appeared well looked after and had a pleasant smell which tickled at my nose. It was a good contrast to the alley I woke up in.

Then I noticed the newspaper next to me and I stared. I kept on staring for a good minute because on the paper it held a number that sent me into hysterics.

I laughed he'd and kept laughing, it was so funny that tears streamed down my face, and then I realised it was not funny. Not funny at all.

Because the the number I was looking at was the date and it read: 1962