Alone in the Light
Chapter 1
Author note : spoilers beforehand, no h-scenes written here only pervy ghey teasing, just so you won't be disappointed. There's a good chance you might still be, though.
As I opened my eyes, there was a starfield. Below it stood ruins of all the nations lived past.
Alone I stood, scanning my surroundings. A desolate world unfold ahead, devoid of any vital signs.
Who was I? I knew only the basic knowledge that I'm a girl and I wasn't...really that cute, just presentable enough. When I came to, I always wore this school uniform with oversized tie and funky-styled shoes. My hair were of crimson color in twin pigtails. The eyes reflected in the mirror glistened red-orange reminiscent of glowing flame. Gloves wrapped both my hands with a 'radio' object on my left.
My body was pretty athletic; I could easily move around and perform feats that those 'ordinary human' couldn't. High jumping; various gymnastic moves; running in speed so fast swooshing noises rang across with the wind blowing through my face. Moving around brought a joyful time but the absence of others; no clues to where I should search left me completely in the dark.
I tried walking away from the ruined building with lots of things conveniently stacked around. A nice place with minimum necessities for living—it was the best building out of these ruined places. It even had a mirror for me to check myself out...but...it's not like I'm cute or anything...wasn't it normal for a girl to be conscious about her appearance?
..but as that cold, dark, unpleasant surroundings filled my vision, my whole body shivered and I lost consciousness for a moment.
When I came to, the scenery turned into a field of flowers with lots of beautifully shaped trees around the perimeter. No such stale air were present, but instead a fresh morning breeze wafted out.
The feel of breeze and sunlight against my skin; the view of lush vegetation among towering city buildings as far eyes could see. It seem to awaken something within as sound escaped my lips.
"Uzume want friends for girl talks! How we can share lots of sweets and share our love experience..."
W-what's wrong? W...why did I talk like this...so embarrassing...
...but I felt so lonely I couldn't stop releasing all my feelings as resignation filled.
Uzume? Who's that...was it...my name?
As my consciousness came back, the happy scenery from earlier reverted back to this miserable place.
Tennouboshi Uzume.
The name rang on the back of my mind.
It was an unknown world, but I slowly learned a thing or two about it, along with my own self.
'Plop...plop'
I swear I heard a sound similar to a jumping slime from behind but when I tried turning back, there was no one present...
Was it just my imagination?
...
Turns out, I wasn't alone in this world.
...but knowing the truth for the first time, I thought-it might be better if it's just me alone existing.
Now that I notice it, if there was no one here at all, it might be even more creepy and maddening. Like, you would be anticipating something fearsome jumping out of blue at any moment and that might be the end of your life.
I let out a long sigh as I observed the ruins of a city. The pedestrian bridge collapsed; broken vehicles and debrises from crumbling buildings littered the road. It was quite fortunate it wasn't that dark—the streetlights were all lit and mostly intact, strangely enough. The place I first arrived in also had electrical lights and the surroundings were pretty bright.
There were a lot of monsters and not a single human being present. As a saving grace, not every place were plagued. My own base, the first place I ended up in, was quite peaceful. I didn't know how some places had monsters present where some others not, but it was fortunate my starting place was a safe area.
In any case, even with my superior physical abilities, I wasn't confident on defeating those tough-looking mobs with my bare hands. I felt like a frail creature in front of their overwhelming presence. All this was just a mere intuition but it's better safe than sorry.
Luckily, I was much faster than them so I could avoid every single fight. There might be encounters where running away all the time wasn't an option, so I'd best prepare.
I need a weapon to fight. I want to become strong enough and eradicate every monsters that plagued this world. When I looked at them, they radiated negative energy which seem to bring this world more and more towards destruction, I couldn't just let them be.
With my resolution to become stronger, I returned to my base. It was nerve-wracking to narrowly escape the chase of monsters on the way return.
As I came back to my 'home' for the first time, I felt the sensation of relief as the desolate scenery changed into a hospitable environment. Although it wasn't by much, at least it helped keeping myself sane.
Dust and dirt covered my entire body. My clothes and shoes also look pretty miserable. There were also various rips on the fabric when I tried to escape which revealed my embarrassing figure.
I knew they're just monsters but I didn't want to fight them naked or in my undies either!
Ah...was it due to me being a girl, I really want to take a bath right now? This unclean feel made my body so uncomfortable, it's disgusting.
I had to dirty myself again while searching for usable weapons, but this sensation was so unbearable. Nevertheless, how could I take a bath in the first place? I pranced to and fro around this building but the 'bathroom' was broken and there's no water coming out of the faucet.
'Dammit!'
My mind went full throttle as I braved through all the accumulated dust in the storeroom and before I realize it, I already secured the necessities along the way.
I became all motivated in desperation to take a bath, rather than becoming stronger to purge the monsters.
...how shameful...and most of all, it's so uncool.
Wait...why was I so fixated on being cool? I didn't know but I just thought, if I tried doing kickass things like beating up monsters and saving this world, I would feel great-like what I was born for.
That didn't matter right now. I eyed the only thing resembling a liquid container—a steel drum and ran wildly around the area in search of water source holding it with both hands.
Sweat accumulated and on top of the dust and dirt throughout my body, there was an unpleasant smell coming from it; all the unease I previously felt now reached such irritating level.
In addition, I didn't realize that I was pushing my body too far, just because I had superhuman capabilities. All the exhaustion from the moment I was scouting the area and met monsters took the toll on my stamina...my thoughts blurred once more.
...and this time, the desolate scenery in front of me turned into an open air hot spring. It was such a torture to me who craved for bath...
"Uzume wants to take a bath so bad...isn't it nice if someday, Uzume can squeeze bodies with friends?"
This embarrassing speech again...I felt like crawling in a hole so much right now but...I need to soak myself in this hot spring.
Though, as my feet moved forward, the scenery changed as I tripped on a branch leading to an area filled with bushes.
"Aww..."
I fell on the grassy plains, not on the rocky path so my body weren't bleeding at all.
It was strange, pretty sure I checked in all the places. How could I miss such location?
Ah right, I passed this place before, but as far as eyes could see, there were thick bushes as eyes could see, enough to obscure what lies ahead. Picking up the lawnmower from the base, I paved the path starting from the branch all the way until I saw a watering hole at the other end.
...a water source!
There were a bunch of small lakes nearby and the water looked so fresh and invigorating. I quickly dunked the steel drum until the water height contained were enough. My strength were more than enough to lift the whole-filled bucket with one hand and gently put it on the ground.
Stripping off my clothes frantically I jumped straight into the bucket; the feel of cold water washing all impurities to my skin were incredible.
"Ahhhhhnnnnn...this hits the spot..."
I couldn't help but moan like an elderly person. Now that I had calmed down and felt rather great, I felt like scrutinizing my own body. My skin were white and smooth and I had a bit of chest which was pleasant to touch—though I felt rather strange—why did I kept fondling it?
Surely...there'd be no one watching...right? That I was out there touching myself in weird ways...no...what's this, I felt pleasure running throughout when I massaged various sensitive spots which were sore all over.
Yet, I did that since touching it also felt really good.
"Ahh...yes...mhh..."
As I kept fondling my sensitive spots and making lewd moans, my eyes met with a girl with semi-transparent blue skin. Her breathing seems rough and her face was really red...
"Kyaaaah! I wasn't peeking...I wasn't peeking...I'm not a pervert..."
She had a crystal-clear voice and listening to her seem to awash the emptiness inside.
As soon as she noticed me she began covering her eyes. It was a blue-skinned girl with gelatinous body and black eyes which shone like pearl . Her hair were the same color of her skin, reaching out straight to her shoulders.
She also had a pair of dog ears and tail which cutely wriggled around. Her body were quite voluptuous and she had an adorable face to boot. It's a face belonging to a little-girl which was contrast to her alluring figure.
Her feet was quite thick and plump, it made me want to sit on her lap; her hands were home to delicately shaped fingers which one couldn't help but touch with care.
...then my gaze went to her crotch area and I quickly moved my head back.
Now that I thought about it, ain't she practically naked? Realizing it, heat started to accumulate on my face.
"P-put some clothes on you pervert! A cute girl like you shouldn't show yourself naked in front of others so openly...they might...lose control...you know?"
She didn't even try to put her hands over that huge chest. Sure there's no nipples or so, but it looked really lewd.
"Cute...me? But I'm just a dogoo."
"...have you ever tried looking directly at your body, or use a mirror somewhere?"
"Ehh...ehhh? I have breasts? Now I also have a pair of hands, just like a human...what's going on?"
"Why didn't you realize it sooner?"
"I didn't realize it before you told me." the dogoo girl look straight towards the reflection at a lake and immediately blushed, "Wow, such a pretty big sister..."
"I know you're super cute, but if you act narcissistic like this I felt like hitting you."
"P-please don't hit me, sister...I don't wanna die...I don't even know that the lake actually shows my own self..."
"Sigh..now do as I told you, put your hands on your head and tilt it, then watch the reflection on the lake."
"Uuuu...?"
...both of us ended up gushing fountain of nosebleed.
I regretted asking her to act adorably. No, on the second thought—it was worth the pain.
...
It took really a handful just to teach this girl some common sense. She didn't have a name and such a pretty girl didn't deserve dogoo-like name. Since her color was blue overall, I called her Sapphire.
I forgot that I was submerging myself in the water for the duration. So I excused myself to her when she finally understood while I changed my clothes.
"Don't peep, you hear! I will smack you if you peep."
"..but miss Uzume already saw my naked body so much...couldn't I also do the same? No, I really want to see! It's such a waste, miss Uzume had such-"
"You..." I really couldn't get mad at those puppy dog eyes, but like...why did I start being happy upon being peeped on this time? This girl sure made me feel weird.
Before that, she magically washed and dried it while I wasn't paying attention and it was good as new. The damage from before were all mended.
I tried, at all cost to avoid eye contact with her as I came outta the bath. Her eyes were shining for a moment before I turned away and felt her gazes all over. I really didn't feel all that uncomfortable, where in truth, I should actually be creeped out.
"So...how did you found me anyway? More...like, it's really surprising for a dogoo to turn into a human, a looker like you to boot."
"Ehh...no, miss Uzume is the one who's a looker. I couldn't stop staring at miss Uzume...my heart just starts beating fast."
Sapphire's expression turned really seductive and when she let out such apparent blush and unable to meet eyes with me, I couldn't help but become overly self-conscious.
W-what was happening here? Didn't she and I just meet, how did I turn out this way?
"H-hold it right there. Why are you like this...aren't we both girls?"
"Why does it matter? I was created by miss Uzume's longing for love and I, who was just a dogoo with no sentience, suddenly became like this. Since I became a girl, didn't it mean miss Uzume love girls like this? I...couldn't hold it any longer...please..."
At her last sentence, she lunged towards me and pushed me down. She was breathing hard and seem on the verge of losing control, our hands joined together, and it didn't have a slimy feel in the slightest. It's like I was holding an actual human hand that's incredibly soft.
"What do you want...Sapphire? I don't want to misunderstand what you truly yearned and hurt you in the end."
"Miss Uzume, do you love me?"
Her face, filled with longing, now were right in front of me.
"..I think I was created by your loneliness, as such, I felt really empty...miss Uzume...please pour me with your love."
For a moment there, I thought my heart was going to stop. It was just too much.
"For being so cute, don't blame me if I couldn't control myself, Sapphire."
"Un..."
To her consent, I sealed her lips with mine. Her breath against my face, her soft chest pressing mine and the warmth of her delicate hand wrapped around me without any slimy feel. All of those were just like a human being. The more I spent with her, I could only think of her as a human, regardless of her bizarre appearance.
...to think I would cross the line with her like this.