Author's Note:
Hello dear Reader, it is I, Natalie, the author of this story you are about to read. This is my second story ever posted, the first so bad I have since deleted it, and the old account. I run this account with my friend, Shea, who also beta reads and helps develop stories.
Disclaimer: I do not own any story line, characters, or scenery from the game OFF by Mortis Ghost. I only own Amber Lynn and her life.
I let out a breath after sitting on my bean bag with a hard impact. I shuffled around until I found a comfortable positioned and grabbed my laptop from a table that was nearby and placed it onto my lap. Growing irritated with the hair tickling the back of my neck I put on a black beanie, even though it was over a hundred degrees outside. My room was cool though. Of course it was, I had every fan in the house pointed at me because I was too lazy to figure out how the ac worked.
Now comfortable I put my focus on a bag near my feet, a black backpack filled with all the basic summer vacation necessities, I was definitely prepared for a sudden walk to a friend's house. I had tons of candy, from chocolate to caramel, hard candies to salt water taffy, I had a large bottle of my favorite drink, Ruby Red Squirt, an excessive amount of extra clothes, a pale pink swimsuit decorated with a flurry of crosses on it, electronic accessories, and a small area in the back perfect for my laptop. You could say I was the most prepared person ever and my friends love me for it. I grabbed a candy bar and turned my divided attention to the screen in front of me.
The screen was dark with an X colored in orange with the word "OFF" across it. There were three choices, new game, exit, and load, which was darkened. I chose the new game option and prepared myself for a new game I had put off playing. I caught a slight scent of smoke in the air, and I looked up to see my window open, deciding that was the source of the scent. Too lazy to care I continued on with the game.
"Caution: It is possible that certain scenes in this game are shocking to an unwarned public… Or maybe not," I said aloud to no one in particular, perhaps a bug or wild animal would like to hear what I was reading. "I think not," I said with a slight hint of laughter.
After reading the next part describing why the music and sounds were so important I decided to turn up my laptop's volume. After pressing the space bar again I was brought to a screen saying "Please Enter Your Name" along with a box that had letters and other icons to put in your name. As I entered each letter of my name the atmosphere of the room changed. Feeling uncomfortable with the brightness of the outside world I got up from my seat and closed the window and curtains. When I sat down I thought I heard rain hitting a window, but when I stopped to listen all I heard was the hum of the fans. I shook it off and moved my selection to the check mark at the bottom of the screen.
"Your name is Amber Lynn, correct?
Yes No
When I pressed the space bar to confirm my highlighted choice, something in me shifted. Or maybe that was my chair? Or the room? I lifted my laptop from its place on my lap and placed it on the desk next to me. I approached the window closest to me and lifted the curtain to look outside. I still saw the same neighborhood that I always see outside that window and I released the curtain and it fluttered back to the wall. When I turned to sit back down I heard faint footsteps outside my door.
"But I am the only one home," I muttered to myself. "Maybe Callie wants to come in," I said to myself again, but of course these footsteps were of no animal, the clicking of the animals nails would be heard against the wooden floor. No these were the soft thudding of shoed feet hitting soft ground. Wait, soft ground? Not wood? I cautiously moved from my spot near the window and approached the dark bedroom door. I stopped near my seat, and leaned down to grab my bag just in case something were to happen. I also stopped when I reached my door, looking at the sheathed sword, well, katana, hanging on the wall. I grabbed that as well, a girl needs to defend herself.
I breathed shakily when I placed my hand on the doorknob and turned it, allowing the door to open slowly with a soft creak. The first sight of the outside world surprised me to the point of stepping backwards and falling onto my butt. I quickly shut the door with my foot and scurried on hands and knees back to my seat and my laptop. With a flurry of reading and pressing the space bar I continued playing the game I had started mostly to distract myself from what I had just saw.
"Okie doki, so I am assigned to a being called the Batter to help him on his quest to purify the world. These puzzles aren't so bad, though they are only beginner puzzles. I can't tell whether to be terrified or thankful of that creepy, or maybe cute, I don't know how he looks non-pixelated, cat called the Judge. Interesting concept so far," I said to the walls continuing my habit to talk to myself while playing a video game. I decided to advance within the game to calm myself more, and entered the nothingness, and then enter Zone 1. I would have fallen out of my chair, if it weren't impossible to fall out of a bean bag chair without flinging yourself forward or backwards.
"What the brown," I moaned as I saw the scenery was exactly the same as what I had seen outside my bedroom door. I shrieked when my laptop somewhat bounced into the air, you could say, and it folded itself over and over and it became a pocket sized laptop. "What the brown!" I shouted this time as I stared at the phenomenon and shoved the now phone sized laptop into the now too big space of my backpack. Feeling as if I had nothing more to do, and rather no other choice, I returned to my feet, shrugging my backpack onto my shoulders and sliding my sheathed katana into the now partially opened backpack. I then moved to the door and stepped outside after opening it.
My teeth clattered at the sudden coldness of the rain that hit my mostly bare legs and my arms and bare shoulders. A sudden gust of wind caused my skirt to float upwards and I quickly held it down and released it whence the wind decided to stop blowing. After a few moments my white tank top was completely soaked, the black upside down cross the only thing remaining its same color as the rest of it darkened. The only warmth on my body was from the white and black bandana with a series of upside down and right side up crosses wrapped around my wrist and the black beanie on my head. I briefly looked at my reflection in the window and did a double take when I realized my hair was nearly white, more of a very bleached blonde, and then saw that any article of clothing that was of color was now black or white, or a shade in-between.
"It was then that I noticed someone's reflection pass by behind in the window that I was looking at. They wore a plain black and white baseball uniform with a black baseball cap that hid part of his face, and I instantly knew it was the Batter. I quickly forced my shivering form to follow him, and decided it best to not meet him face to face just yet. I moved a tad bit closer when he spoke with a local, something about not being able to go into the mines and that people breathed smoke. Something about specters was said and the Batter moved to an unblocked set of stairs, and I moved after him, hoping that I hadn't made a wrong choice.
Author's Note:
Whale, that is the first chapter of the story, I feel like I could have ended it less abruptly but y'know. I hope you enjoyed it, and a new chapter should be up next week if I am true to my word. Look forward to it and my other stories, please.