AN: So, remember how I've been talking about a miscellaneous box where I'd put the first chapters of any story ideas that stuck around my head long enough? Well, here's the first addition to that misc-box.
The name of this fic idea is "A Game of Seekers and Wizards", a Huntik/Harry Potter SI fanfic. Now, you might not find any HP stuff in this chapter, but eh, it's in London, Huntik is magic-oriented, but doesn't have all that much detail in it.
"Regular Speech"
"Face the wrath of my 'Skill', you fool!"
'Thinking'
*Titan speaking through the bond*
#Phones and other equivalents.#
[Game Data and Gamer Skills]
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
[London-?-?-?]
"Ugh, what the hell hit me..." A young man grunted as he awoke from his slumber. Looking around, he could see that he was in an alleyway, and if the sound of cars was any indication, it was near the road.
'Okay, how did I get here?' The young man wondered as he picked himself up from the pavement, wiping away any dust from his forest green hoodie and black jeans. Hoping that he didn't get mugged, he patted his pockets, sighing in relief as he felt his wallet and his Swiss army knife where they should be.
But just to be sure, he whipped out his wallet.
[Observation]
-Accessory: Wallet
A leather wallet that is meant to hold money, credit cards, coupons and other methods of payment.
Durability: 49/50
'Wut?' Brian froze as he looked at the window hanging in front of his wallet. But the confusion lasted only for a short while as his brain rebooted. Okay then, so he apparently had The Gamer.
"[Status]" he said, causing another window to appear in front of him.
[Status]
/The Gamer\
Brian McRemitz LV: 9
EXP: 875/900
\Human/
HP: 120
MP: 100
STR: 21{+15]
INT: 25
VIT: 18
WIS: 28
DEX: 24
AGI: 15
Points: 0
Money: 0
Perks/Buffs/Debuffs:
Perk: Bookworm: NEEERRRRD! {+1 to INT and WIS for each Lore Text read. +2 to INT and WIS for each Skill book learned}
Blinking owlishly, Brian took out the money from his wallet and shoved into the Money portion of the Status screen, and as he expected, the surface of the window rippled like water as the money touched it, sinking into it completely. [+430$]
"...Holy fucking shit, I HAVE THE GAMER!" Brian shouted, before suddenly calming down.
"Huh, so that's what the Gamer's Mind feels like… I wonder what [Skills] I have?" He wondered, a new screen appearing in front of him.
[Skills:]
Gamer's Mind |?|
Passive LV: MAX
Gamer's Body |?|
Passive LV: MAX
Knife proficiency |?|
Passive LV: 6
EXP: 15/600
Observation |?|
Active/Passive LV: 1
EXP: 10/100
Theft |?|
Active/Passive LV: 2
EXP: 22/200
Crafting |?|
Active/Passive LV: 12
EXP: 15/1200
Driving |?|
Active/Passive LV: 14
EXP: 35/1400
Celtic Runes |?|
Active/Passive LV: 8
EXP: 34/800
ID Create |?|
Active LV: 1
EXP: 0/100
ID Escape |?|
Active LV: 1
EXP: 0/100
"Okay then." Brian raised an eyebrow at the rather list of skills he had. He was rather surprised that the ability to drive a car was listed as a Skill, but then again, Dishwashing was also a Skill. And what was most surprising to him, his experience in carving some small wooden talismans, and Celtic runes actually translated to actual skills.
"Hmm, let's see how well this works, [ID: Create]." He said, as a grey sphere formed around his hand before expanding rapidly, coloring the whole world in a grey-ish tint, and the sounds he heard before disappeared.
"Wow, this is pretty damn cool." Brian grinned as walked out of the alleyway, looking at the world around him. Now, if him having The Gamer was any indication, then he was probably going to have to fight against something. Or the world decided to just see what would happen if you gave some normie an OP power, and then let that guy loose on the world.
The way he was right now, he would not be winning any fights with brute strength, so the first course of action should be making Skills.
"Hmm, but how do I go about doing this?" He wondered. It wasn't like he had any supernatural ability, aside from the runes. Hell, he didn't even know what world he was in, if he had even been thrown into a new world, but for now, he'd assume that he wasn't back in his own world.
The only thing he knew about his current world was that London existed, since not only did he recognize the streets from the few times he had been in London, but he could also see the Big Ben quite clearly, so that kind of limited the choices a bit.
"God, I hope I'm not in Hellsing." Brian recoiled at the thought. No matter how hard he trained, there was no way he was going to survive THAT kind of a shitstorm.
Deciding to put the identity of his current world off for the moment, Brian started pacing, wondering how the hell he would make Energy Bolt. Han Jee-Han had somebody show him how to use Mana, but he didn't have that kind of luxury.
"Okay, think Brian, think... maybe it's a mental thing?" He clenched his hand tightly, and then imagined Mana forming around it. And after a while, a flicker of blue energy sparked from his clenched fist. Grinning, he squeezed harder, more of the same blue energy sparking from his hand before coalescing into a blue shroud surrounding it.
[Passive Skill: «Mana manipulation» has been created!]
'Okay, that's step one, now for stage two…' he unclenched his hand, imagining the energy forming into a ball, and to his joy, the energy responded to his will, forming into a sphere slightly bigger than a tennis ball. With a flick of his finger, the ball shot at the wall, completely destroying the brick it hit dead-on, knocking off the bricks that were 50 centimeters away from it.
[Active Skill: «Energy Bolt»has been created!]
"Well, damn, that sure packed a punch." Brian muttered, slightly in awe, slightly in fear as he imagined what would happen if that hit a normal person. Shaking his head, he picked up one of the bricks that his attack had knocked off from the wall.
He might as well test out how his other skills worked. Calling up the Mana, he directed it to his index finger, and proceeded to draw one of the safer runes, Isa. Oh sure, he could've drawn a Sowlio, but he'd rather not deal have the brick in his hand suddenly igniting.
And it wasn't long after his finger left the brick that frost started forming over the brick, originating from the spot where he applied rune, and the frost kept on coming, so Brian set the brick down, as to avoid the possibility of getting caught in the freezing effect. And in about a minute and a half, the brick had grown a 5-centimeter-thick shell of ice around itself, and the surrounding 20-30 centimeters were also covered in ice.
[Active Skill: «Runecast: Isa» has been created!]
'So that's the effect of Isa, let's see what Sowlio does.' Brian thought, picking up another brick, inscribed the Sowlio rune on it, and dropped it onto the frozen part of the pavement before the rune could take effect, and possibly burn his hand.
The brick didn't catch fire, which was quite within Brian's expectations, but it did start glowing red, the ice around it steaming profusely, the amount of steam increasing as the glow grew brighter, and the brick started to slowly lose its shape.
[Active Skill: «Runecast: Sowlio» has been created!]
"Well, that's interesting." Brian noted, crouching down to look at the deformation the Sowlio-brick was going through. It had taken the Isa-brick about half a minute to completely freeze over, but the Sowlio-brick had been glowing for a good minute now, but it was only now losing its shape, not to mention that it was already cooling down. Perhaps it was due to being in contact with the opposing element? Or perhaps it had something to do with the material the rune had been inscribed onto? He'd have to test the runes again on organic material to confirm the hypothesis.
Rising up, Brian walked away from the spot, just in case his experimentation followed him out of the Illusion Barrier.
After he was a couple of blocks away, he spotted another alleyway, with a pile of boxes blocking part of the view. Shrugging at the unexpected luck, Brian walked into the alleyway, and then behind the boxes.
"Alrighty then, [ID Escape]." The grey tint shattered apart like a panel of glass, the sound of the city returning as if a switch had been flipped.
However, Brian didn't have the time to take in the sounds, since he'd rather make sure that he was prepared for the possible shit-storm heading his way. And so, he exited the alleyway, and kept his ears open, trying to hear anything that could give him a solid lead on what world he was in.
"I can't believe you were so late. C'mon, let's hurry before the Huntik Foundation patsies find the Titan first." Brian's eyes snap forward, spotting a middle-aged woman with fair skin and red hair dressed in a sharp suit, the kind you see FBI and other government agents wear in movies, berating a man wearing the same get-up, who was carrying a suitcase, and although her eyes were covered by sunglasses, the same with her man, the furrowing of her brows was more than telling of her feelings towards the man.
[Observation]
/Organization Grunt\
UK Suit #4242 LV: 12
\Human/
HP: 120{+15]
MP: 60
Real name: Janet Reeds. Other information locked by «Mind Control: Araknos»
EXP Yield: 1200
Item Drop: 12950 pounds 1 Organization Suit{Equipment Set], 1 Redcap, 1 Mindrone, 1 Chaingolem
[Observation]
/Organization Grunt\
UK Suit #6542 LV: 5
\Human/
HP: 50{+15]
MP: 40
Real name: Rick Smith. Other information locked by «Mind Control: Araknos»
EXP Yield: 500
Item Drop: 4300 pounds, 1 Organization Suit{Equipment Set], 1 Redcap, 1 Mindrone, 1 suitcase{Contains: ?, ?, ?]
Brian made a snap decision to look down, as to avoid making it seem like he had heard what they were saying. 'Alright, alright, so it seems like in Huntik. FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC!' Brian had only seen glimpses of the second season, but what little he had seen had something about the Huntik world being in danger of being attacked by Cthulu-esque monsters, which were summoned by some kind of ancient wraith, who apparently had Rasimov, the dark hole guy working for him.
Oh sure, he had watched the first season, and surfed the wiki on a few occasions, mostly looking at the Titan designs, but even he knew that despite the semi-cheery expression of the Huntik cartoon, the world was a crap-sack one.
While sure, he could try finding some civil job, and keep his nose out of the Seeker business, but that was rather unlikely, considering that Titans could act on their accord, even without a Seeker to command them, so, the best option right now was to get Titans of his own, and then keep his nose out of the Organization's, the Foundation's and Blood Spiral's little three-way war.
Besides, these Suits were practically nothing more than flesh-puppets for the Professor's Araknos.
With those thoughts in mind, Brian just kept on walking, forming an Isa on the pavement by skidding his foot against the pavement a bit, keeping the Mana in the rune in check by tethering a strand of mana to himself, and after walking past the suits, let go of the strand, with one final pulse along it to trigger the trap.
The Suit didn't even notice it until it was too late, the icy shell encasing him completely. The normal people walking around screamed, understandably, as seeing a man suddenly turning into an ice sculpture wasn't a common thing.
The female suit reached out towards the frozen grunt's suitcase, only for the man to shatter, along with his suitcase. The panicking increased, as people started pushing each other away from the scene, somebody yelling about calling the cops.
[Enemy defeated! Item Drops stored to «Inventory»]
[Player «Brian McRemitz» has gained 500 EXP. Level 10 reached!]
[Active Skill: «Isa landmine» has been created!]
Brian smiled a little, going along with the flow of the panicking people, flying under the radar of the female suit, who was looking around, trying to spot the person who attacked her subordinate. Eventually, she ran off, her hand going for her earpiece, no doubt to contact and warn the other goons.
Brian momentarily entertained the thought of following after her, but then his rationality and self-preservation kicked in. It didn't matter whether or not she called for back-up, as long as the puppet's death couldn't be traced back to him.
He had more important business to deal with, like bonding with a few recently emancipated Titans, and of course setting up a few things in case they proved to be rowdy.
AN: Abadiabadiaba that's all folks! So yeah, Brian's a bit more stealthy than the Edwards are, and brawnier, as evident by his physical stats.
Also yeah, I'm kinda experimenting with the Gamer System, and I'm planning to do the same kind of experimentation with the SI mechanic.
Oh, and if any of my DxD fans are reading this, consider this a tech demo of what's possible with Celtic Magic. #CelticMagic
And as for what'll be next... I dunno, depends on what I get into the mood for writing. Might be a Pokemon SI, might be a Gurren Lagann SI, it all really depends.
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You know what? Why don't you guys throw in a few ideas, and who knows, I might decide to write it, if the idea is interesting enough. All I ask is that it's in comprehensible grammar.