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Chapter 1 - The First CPU

The world of Gamindustri…

A place where humans and other living beings thrive. A world created by the goddess named Celestia, divided in to four separate continents each. One is the snowy northern continent, where most magic users thrive. It is the biggest landmass of all continents. Then we have the eastern and western continent, both thrived with poor population, although the east is the one filled with natural resources becoming its source of income but due to internal strifes and civil uprisings, its economy did not prosper. The western continent, however is the poorest place. Populated by fishermen and merchants, all making an honest living delivering their goods to other places. And last is the southern continent, separated from the three landmasses by a large sea. It is rich in natural resources as well but unlike the east, its economy thrived better and faster. A land with divided regions but all ruled by a tyrant monarch. Its people, however called for liberation from the tyrant and its people wants the unification of all regions turning the south into a single, unified nation. And thus a civil war occurred, led and won by a man named Ben Gheytz who then became the new ruler of the now unified land that he named Leanbox, a name built from the support of its people for fighting for their land's freedom from tyranny and attainment of unification. And thus Leanbox thrived into modernization, becoming gamindustri's first military and economic power.

However, in the heavens above, Arfoire, Celestia's twin sister, has become too envious of her sibling that she has challenged Celestia to a battle. A battle that will decide who is truly the strongest goddess. But battling Celestia did Arfoire no good. Arfoire's deep obsession to defeat her sister has made her corrupted. With this Celestia, reluctantly, banished Arfoire from the heavens and was sent to the underworld to deprive her of heavenly powers.

But Arfoire's corruption became so immense that it turned itself into dark energy, engulfing Arfoire and turning her into a vile goddess. With this dark power, Arfoire went up to the human world and started inticing people to believe in her, to fight against those who believe in celestia's ways. And before Celestia could even notice, it was too late. Arfoire has gained enough followers to make her as strong as before. Arfoire's followers, known as the Legion, wreaked havoc on parts of gamindustri. But the most heavily affected was the southern continent, Leanbox. And to ensure Arfoire's followers to achieve victory on the lands, she has bestowed one of her followers a part of her powers, turning that person into her APU or Arfoire's Patron Unit. This move angered Celestia because for her, imbuing a human with godly energy is heresy. And with this she decided to confront Arfoire to end this dispute once and for all. And so as the battle rages on the lands, the two goddess battled on the heavens. However, as the battle lengthens, the two found out that they were equally matched so they both created a vast number of special weapons imbued with their godly energy to finally seal each other. Armed with these weapons, the two deities' battle went on, inflicting even more damage to each other. And at the end it was Celestia who remained standing, with Arfoire defeated and is nearing concealment. But before Arfoire could be completely sealed, she summoned one last sword imbued with what remains of her dark energy and hurled it towards the goddess at immeasurable speeds. Celestia tried to deflect it using one of her weapons but to no avail. The dark sword only got slightly chipped while Celestia's weapon shattered. Thus Celestia got struck down by the dark sword. However, this move has taken its toll on Arfoire and she got sealed completely. As for Celestia, even if she managed to pull off the sword from her body, it rendered her immobile. She is certain that her concealment was inevitable. And even if their dark goddess got sealed, Arfoire's Legion remained formidable on Leanbox. So in a final effort, she allowed a drop of her blood to drop into the earth. Although she was against it, she had no choice. Her children must be saved from the wave of evil and terror. "My thoughts be with the chosen…." She said. And with her final words, Celestia too got sealed.

While Celestia's blood drops to the earth, it somehow hardened, turning into a crystal-like stone. A stone in which contains not only a part of Celestia's body but of her thoughts as well. And the one fortunate enough to find it was a certain girl who is struggling to survive in the war-torn Leanbox. This girl is also the daughter of Leanbox's hero. And when the stone possessed the girl, it immediately transformed her into a being unlike any human. This being was then called Celestia's Patron Unit or CPU. And this CPU-

"Oooh! We finally reached the part about my beloved Vert!"

"Uhh…yeah. But seriously, it wasn't nice to cut me off like that."

Two young women were talking inside an Archive Room of a place called a Basilicom, the capital building of a nation ruled by a CPU.

"Now you've done it. Because of your interruption, I'm lost in recollecting what I've read here in the archives." Said one of the girls. This girl has green, shoulder length hair and red eyes. Her outfit is black with gold colors and consists of a turtleneck top that is a bit torn up, white fingerless gloves, pants with detatched zip-up legs, white boots, and a dual-strap holster on her right thigh. And on her shoulder was a monster-like plushy with a red and white umbrella over it.

"Oh come on, sis! You had to stop when things were finally getting interesting." Said the other girl who looks younger than the other girl. This girl also has green hair and red eyes, but she dresses in a sleek black dress with black bows on the sides and long frills draping off the sides with a bright green coloring under them. She wears thigh high socks that are black and on her feet are matching black heels with purple bows in the center. "Come on, Vio! Tell me more about lady Vert's heroic battle against Arfoire's Legion! She persisted.

"How persistent. And come on. I also fought alongside Vert too, you know." sighed Vio.

"I know you did sis and I, Chika your little sibling, admire you for that. I mean, lady Vert did gave you the title of General, right? She said in a very proud voice. "But still, lady Vert's transition from human to CPU and on how she saved this land of ours fascinates me so!"

"Yeah. But sadly it was too late for Vert. She may have saved Leanbox, but she wasn't able to save her father in time." Vio said bitterly.

"Oh yes…. Mr. Gheytz was killed by the Legion's leader, right?" said Chika sadly.

"When Vert discovered that 'thing', she told me that someone whispered in her mind. Telling her on how to harness its powers." Vio continued on. "And by the time we got to the capital, we were too late. It got overrun by the Legion, with Sir Gheytz among the casualties."

"But he's quite a skilled archer, am I right?" said Chika.

"True. His archery skills and his weapon, the Wisdom Bow, then were yet to be beaten by anyone." Said Vio. "But it seems everything turned upside down on him when he met the Legion's leader. Arfoire's Patron Unit was too much even for a skilled warrior like Sir Ben Gheytz. Vert wasn't able to save her father then. But," Vio then looked at her younger sister with a smile of satisfaction. "I am glad that she was able to save you."

"And I am forever grateful for that." Said Chika proudly.

"No wonder you idolize her so much."

"Oh don't be jealous, Vio. Like I said I admire you too. Not as much as I admire lady Vert, though."

"Y-yeah…. thanks."

"What I don't like about the both of you are your passion for things that are…weird. Yes, you two are certified weirdos. I mean…there are so many good genres and yet- "

"Anyway…." Vio interrupted her sister's rants. "After saving you, Vert confronted the Leader. It became a battle between different Patron Units. While the two battled, I joined with Leanbox's remaining forces in fighting off the Legion's forces. So with me and my trusty .50cal Desert Eagles and rocket launchers, we pushed through the enemy forces like they were hordes of the und- "

"You've already told me that before, Vio. Can we just…. skip to lady Vert's part of the history?"

"Fine…." Said a disheartened and annoyed Vio. "Vert then faced off with the Leader of- "

"Does their leader really not have a name?" Chika said, interrupting Vio once more.

"No!" shouted an irritated Vio. "And even the whole archive didn't mention any name about the Legion's leader. She's just only known as Arfoire's Patron Unit or the Legion's Leader."

"Pretty anonymous of her, huh." Said Chika.

"Regardless of that, what is important is that Vert was able to defeat her. Killed the APU even. And, that was it." Vio continued. "The APU's defeat has put the Legion in disarray. However, as you can see today, we were only able to push them out of the nation. We weren't able to fully eliminate them."

"Well at least they are off our shoes now." Said Chika confidently.

"Good thing." Said Vio in agreement. "However…Vert did said something odd when she killed the leader."

"Like what?"

"As I can recall her saying, she told me that dark energy came spewing out of the dead APU's body. And then it just… flew away."

"It just…flew away?" repeated Chika.

"She said that there were four masses of those dark energies that came out of the dead APU. Like they were…dark spirits."

"So that means…the battle is not yet over, yes?"

"We may have won the battle here at Leanbox, but Arfoire's forces still remain standing out there on the other lands." Concluded Vio.

"That sucks."

"Where is Vert anyway?"

"Ooh! She's in her adorable room right now. Are you gonna go there? Can I come with you?! Said Chika very excitedly.

"No. Go back to your room. I'm just gonna discuss something with Vert."

"By the way…"

"What is it?"

"Vio, did you went here in the archives room just to know all of this info?"

"Yeah." Vio confirmed. "Funny, I should ask you that as well. Since you've been pretty nosy on what I have learned."

"Well, let's say I got just as curious as you are, my dear sister." Chika said to Vio.

"Knowing you, I think you only wanted to know Vert's part in history."

And so the siblings left the archive room and went to the room of Leanbox's new leader and sole cpu of gamindustri, where it is located at the topmost floor of a box-like (or cross-like) building. Standing at the heart of Leanbox's capital, this white, high tech building with green highlights was conceptualized by Gheytz and built by Leanbox's brightest engineers as a sign of the nation's move into full modernization.

"We are here. ~" Chika said when the two of them reached Vert's quarters via an elevator. "Her room is as majestic as ever! Kyaaa~!" she squealed afterwards.

"Hmph." Breathed out Vio, finding Chika's remarks as amusing. "Majestic maybe to the eyes of fellow enthusiasts. But for me, it's a tad too much…otaku-ness in it."

"Th-that's a pretty rude thing to say to lady Vert!"

"Okay…sorry, sorry." Vio replied without being sorry at all.

Chika was not kidding, though. Vert's room really does fit to be called majestic. Fit for a princess to live in. However, like what Vio mentioned, what are more noticeable to her room are the vast amounts of animè figurines (mostly male characters), video disks, posters and other paraphernalia like video game console boxes and game disk cases.

"I am guessing she's in her game room. I can tell before that she is eager to get back on playing her games after more than 2 years of fighting off the Legion without a single break." Vio said with annoyance in her voice.

"Oh please don't talk like you are no different, Vio." Said Chika, annoyed at her sister lashing out on Vert. "I do remember you rummaging on your stuff to find and read your…whatever it is that you like reading. You were so eager to relax that time too, right?! So don't talk like you are innocent from slacking off, sis!"

"Still its no reason for her to slack off until those Arfoire fanatics are completely dealt with." And as she said that, she proceeded to open the door to vert's game room.

And inside they found the person they are looking for, huddled down on the floor, in front of widescreen monitors which are connected on both a gaming console and a Personal Computer. Vert, a woman with long curled blond hair with long bangs neatly framing her face. She has deep blue eyes that are not full open. She wears a dark, sea foam colored dress with sleeves and black spiked cuffs at the end. And not to mention that she is quite curvy and busty. On her head was a headset connected to the console, the reason she didn't noticed Vio and Chika come in. As Vert was busy pushing buttons on her controller, Vio just ogled at her in disappointment while Chika looks at Vert with admiration.

"Oh…to be in lady vert's private room…"

"You admire just about everything about her, huh." Said Vio in annoyance. "Hey." She tapped Vert on the shoulder. "Sorry to bother you on your 'little break', but do you plan on completely eliminating the remainder of the Legion or not?"

"Hmm? Oh, it's you Vio." Vert then paused her game, which was a popular first-person shooter in Leanbox before the war with the Legion started, and removed her headset. "What is it that you want?"

"Hello, lady Vert!" Chika couldn't resist saying.

"As I was saying," Vio started. "The remainder of the Legion is still out there. And I was hoping you are planning on eliminating them for good."

"I am fully aware of that." Vert told Vio. "But for now, please let me relax for a bit. It has been a very long time since I have done this, you know." After giving Vio a smile, Vert then proceeded to wear her headset again and resumed her game.

"See, Vio? Lady Vert is busy. You can just ask her la-" But Chika cut her sentence short after seeing Vio pick up a thin gaming magazine and started rolling it as thick as possible.

"Uhm…what are you going to do with that?" Chika asked her sister with concern.

*WHACK!*

"OUCH!"

Vio whacked Vert on the head using the rolled over magazine. However, her hit was so strong that it knocked away Vert's headset off her head.

"Why did you do that?!"

The one that screamed those words were Chika, however.

"Oh my goodness, Vio…. I think I'm seeing stars from that hit…" whined Vert.

"Vert, I know you're just enjoying this moment of peace after experiencing a very long ordeal, but 'playing video games for almost three days' is too much! You are now the leader of this nation for Celestia's sake!"

"I am aware of that, Vio." Said a teary-eyed Vert as she stood up while still rubbing the sore part of her head where the magazine made its mark. "Have the drones that I've sent returned now?"

"What drones?"

"See, Vio?! Lady Vert has planned on ahead before playing her games." Chika scolded.

"I've ordered our military to send out scouting drones to search for whereabouts of the Legion forces. And come to think of it," she then looked at the screen of her gaming monitor to see the time. "its about time the reports are coming in. Follow me if you will." She gestured to the other two girls to follow her.

"This I got to see."

"I'll follow you anywhere you go, lady vert."

And so the three of them went down and proceeded to the Basilicom's command center, the busiest place of the entire facility, where it runs 24/7 nonstop with each staff trying their best to survey the surroundings of Leanbox. Making sure to monitor its sovereignty.

"Vert, I gotta say that Mr. Gheytz really did a lot of upgrading on this place. It never fails to impress me, you know." Said Vio while admiring the center's high tech equipment.

"Well my father did have the knack on inventing a lot of stuff." Vert said proudly. "So, have the drones sent any information from their surveillance?" she addressed her staff.

"Yes, my lady." Said a female staff. "We were able to capture some live feeds from the drones."

"Very good. So, what did the drones saw?" Vert asked to the staff.

"Drone alpha, who surveyed only Leanbox's perimeter, managed to locate a few Legion grunts on the outskirts of our nation."

"Very well. Send some troops after them." Vert ordered. "This will finally wipe out the Legion's foothold on Leanbox."

"Drone beta, who surveyed the eastern continent, showed no signs of Legion activity on the area."

"The east is just as isolated as the north, right?" Vio tried to recall. "Not to mention a lot of civil unrest on the east."

"As for Drone gamma, who surveyed the western continent, we managed to capture a lot of video feeds from it before it got taken down by unknown forces."

"Bingo." Said Vio.

"Indeed. So they have taken refuge on the poorest place in the world." Said Vert. "Show me the video feed of drone gamma."

"Yes, my lady."

At a push of a button by the staff, one of the monitors showed the feed from drone gamma. First it showed a few Legion soldiers pointing their guns on citizens. Then after that, it showed Legion troops camped on a lone location far east of the western continent. And while this video was being viewed, a flash of light was seen on the video…before the video ended abruptly.

"So it got cut off there, huh." Vio said.

"Hmm… can you show me the part before that mysterious light showed up." Vert ordered to her staff.

"Yes, my lady."

"Hmm… there. Please pause on that part." She asked to her staff. "Magnify it for me."

The magnified video showed some Legion soldiers around the area. However, what caught Vert's attention was a woman among the Legion soldiers, despite that the magnified video is slightly pixelated. This woman had black wing-like structure on her back.

"Okay then. Play the video up until to the part where the light came out." Vert ordered.

And as the video played on up until the part that Vert mentioned, "Stop right there." it confirmed Vert's suspicions. The paused video showed that the flash of light came from that woman.

"So, she's the one who fired at the drone." Said Chika.

"But, she looks… odd for a soldier." Said Vio in confusion. "I mean, she looks somewhat like you Vert. With the wings and all…"

"Does that mean the Legion's leader is still… alive?!" Chika said with caution.

"No. I swear I killed her." Assured Vert to Chika. "The last strike I gave her was enough to extinguish her life away. But, could it be…"

"The dark energy that came out of the dead leader's corpse that you mentioned." Said Vio, completing Vert's sentence.

"Yes, Vio. And they were four of those that came out. Hmm… I wonder if its possible."

"Well, we can head there to go and find out." Suggested Vio.

"Yes, we will head out there. The people of the western continent seems in need of help so we will go there along with a couple of our forces. I believe that that woman we saw is the new leader of the Legion. And if so, I'll be the one to stop her."

"You might wanna hear this, lady Vert." said one of the staffs. "Before ending its transmission, Drone gamma managed to record an audio from where it crashed. It seems to be coming from enemy troops."

"Play it for me, please." Requested Vert.

When the staff played the audio clip it sounded static at first. Then came a woman's voice…

"…. our leader may have perished from the hands of Celestia's patron, but her will still lingers among us. Together with my three brethren, we shall all create a new world order… one where everyone shall worship none but our holy Lady Arfoire. Our brave leader fought to spread Lady Arfoire's will, and we shall continue that mission."

"It sounds like their rebuilding their forces there." Said Vio.

"Indeed. We better hurry before they start influencing the entire western continent." Vert replied.

"However, the death of our leader means the death of the Legion as well. But worry not my brothers and sisters, for with us we shall start anew. A new force that will ensure that our Lady Arfoire's will be spread further. And those who will oppose us, shall face our wrath. Now, onward everyone. Spread the word of our lady! And carry with you all the name of our new order. The order… of ASIC! Long live Lady Arfoire! LONG LIVE ASIC!"

And as the audio clip ended, Vert and Vio looked at each other with concern in their faces. It seems that their moments of peace were short lived.

"Vio, I think we need to hurry."

To be continued…