Author's Notes: Before this story begins, I do have to address a couple of things. For one, this story will not be for everyone. Themes that are in and/or suggested throughout this narrative will be dark and mature. These can include the following: Heavy violence, strong language, sexual activities, and complex feelings and/or development of specific characters. Secondly, I want the readers of this story to recognize that I am portrayed in this as a fictional persona of myself. This is done for a good reason, to avoid any sort of unnecessary confusion and bewilderment amongst said readers. With this out of the way, I present The Misadventures of Dave: Into the World of Puyo Puyo.

Chapter 1:

A New Life?

Hello, this is me, Dave. I am what you would call a "shut-in", I hardly interact with anyone face-to-face ever since becoming a young adult. Most of my current social stuff had to do with online platforms. I no longer had school to groan about, nor did I had a job to go to, life was easy for the most part. It was just staying in my room most hours of each and every day. However, I felt as though my existence didn't really serve much of a purpose in this manner, what am I doing with my life? Nothing productive, that's for sure… all that I was ever able to be good at was playing video games.

"Damnit, I feel useless to everyone else in this world…" I muttered to myself.

I wanted to get away from this boring and unfulfilling life, and all of the hell that surrounded it. Just while I was clenching my fists in sully and thinking to myself how pathetic I was as a disgrace to humanity… *wrrr* I heard a sound and then, manifesting from seemingly out of nowhere, a wormhole appeared in front of me. "A wormhole? This is rather strange… what is something like this doing here? Shouldn't this kind of stuff be in space?" I questioned to myself. As my curiosity piqued higher, the wormhole grew bigger, to about my height. It then progressed drag only me into it. "W-w-woooooah!" I exclaimed. The next thing that I knew, I was being carried through dimensions as it seemed. Along the way to my unknown destination, I saw weird blob-like entities floating around with… eyes? I said to myself "What the hell?" That wasn't the only phenomenon going on though. I felt my body changing in size, like as though I was losing a good several inches from my body height. The only things that I remember just before passing out were these two: I was having excruciating pain internally, and me uttering a scream. "Hrrrgh, AAAAAAAAAH!"

I regained consciousness somewhere in a grove of grass, although not fully. I groaned with groggy eyes and blurred vision for a good thirty seconds, which someone close to me heard. In response to hearing me, they said "Oh good, you're awake!". From the sound of that voice, it was a girl's tone. As my vision cleared and I sat up on the grass, I saw the girl who responded to me. She seemed to be in high school, given her looks. She smiled at me as I sat there, confused as to where I was. This girl had a school uniform, consisting of a gray sweater with a yellow trim. She wore loose socks and red shoes in addition to that. Her hair was colored crimson red with twin ponytail curls, and it was decorated with a hair clip that looked rather familiar. The clip looked like one of those blobs that I saw earlier. I won't lie, she looked cute in my eyes. But, I noticed something soon after, actually a few things. My hands were slightly smaller, my body was shorter, and my looks appeared different as though I had belonged to this world. I murmured out the phrase "Who are you?". I realized then that my voice was also not as deep as before. It looked and sounded like I was seventeen in physical age again, what the hell is going on with me? I facially hid my surprised feelings from the girl by keeping a calm look. "Uuuh, my name is Dave…" I said soon after bringing out my question. "What's your name?". She responded happily with "The name's Ringo! Nice to meet you!"

Ringo helped me stand up as my legs didn't adjust to the new body size and she asked me "Where are you from exactly, did you get lost somewhere?". The only thing that I could tell her was that I was from another world. Then she proceeded to ask me whether or not that I suddenly came from a portal of sorts accidentally to get here. I answered her with a "Yes". Ringo told me that through the power of Puyos, these portals would appear. Their purpose, to forcibly transport people from world to world, that's how she summed it up. "What are Puyos?" I asked her. She showed me her hair clip, "That's what they're supposed to look like…" she answered. "Ah… I saw a few when I was traveling through a portal before I passed out." I explained. Ringo ran up to the top of a nearby hill and gestured me to come and take a look with her. As to what though, I was quite curious. What I had saw next was a sight to behold, a huge place with buildings of bright colors and bustling streets lived below this place. Not only that, there was a distinct looking shopping district. "I welcome you to Suzuran, Dave." "Woah…" She sure did live in a nice area…

We walked around town and Ringo showed me some of its districts that were worth noting. The most notable area of Suzuran that I noticed in particular, was the home of hers that she flashed at me... it was Ando Family Fresh Produce. "THIS is your home?" "Yep, it sure is..." She had this proud grin on her face after she confirmed it. I saw all the different types of fruit and other produce. Some I recognized like apples, but others not so much. There were simply too many to ask her about, so I opted not to for the sake of time and whatnot. "I guess your family is really passionate about this stuff..." "Oh, you have no idea, we are fanatics through presenting fresh foods to the public. And thus, we receive praise from many who are fortunate to stay in Suzuran!" She finishes going over the town with me at her side by presenting me to the school that she goes to. "This is Suzuran High School. I enjoy coming here to learn all that I can, as well as being with my friends. I finished up school about an hour before I found you lying on the grass, and it has been a little more than two hours since then… so I'm certain that all of the students are either back home or almost so since some can only walk to and from it." I replied to Ringo with "I see…" and then saw a worried look on her face. "What's wrong?" I asked. "Well, you look like a high school student yourself and other people saw you when I gave you a tour of Suzuran. You see, this community of citizens generally know each other very well. When they see an outsider like you, they question to themselves in their minds, "Has that person(s) applied for school or a job around here recently?".We can't have people think that you, as a teen, skip out on school. It would create scandal in that case…"

I can tell the concern that rests in her voice, it's clear enough that she cares about me. Be as it may... even though I'm actually a young adult, thanks to that damn portal making me younger, I can't say that to anyone. All of this is out of my control at this point, the best that I can do is to just roll with it and see where it goes. "Alright then, I'll be a new transfer student as a junior since my age is seventeen. Whatever it takes to try and fit in with everyone else… Of course, we'll have to be able to get myself a background in terms of education. However, all of that was back in my world, completely different from this one. It'll be suspicious should I go and use the educational background from my world. What are we going to do?" I finished elaborating that situation to Ringo, and an idea seemed to spark from her. "I got it, there's a town in another world that Suzuran has great relations with, let's go!" I raised an eyebrow for a split second before getting dragged along by Ringo's surprisingly tight and strong grip. "W-w-woooooah! Slow down damnit!" I exclaimed as she dashed back over towards the area that I was found in.

Ringo slows down near the location and I felt a bit queasy from that high speed action. "Uuuuugh... " "You okay?" It took me some time to recover and stand up straight. "Yeah I'm fine, I've been through worse. What are you planning to do anyway?" "Oh you'll see…" Gee, thanks for being vague about that. I was clearly confused at this point until… *wrrr* I knew that sound from before... a portal? "We'll use this to get where we need to go" "You just summoned a portal at will? But… h-how?" She quickly said in response, "I'll explain it later Dave, just get in there already!" "Okay, Okay, I'm coming." We both jumped into the portal and traveled at an incredible speed. To not lose each other, we grabbed each others' hands and held on tight. The next bit of what happened, came in the form of seeing this other foreign land to me.