Reality…
Is boring…
That is why…
Sometimes…
You have to create your own entertainment…
Deep in thought, he casually rapped his pacer against the desk. His life consisted of one thing.
Writing.
Not just a pastime, not just a hobby. This is his job. To write about things out of his control and out of the imaginations of his readers. To let his mind go places that he could never go, and to allow others to experience that through literature.
Yet there was something missing from his pieces. Something…Real.
Real… If only everything he could write about… could become reality.
If only he had something that could make this alternate reality… an actuality.
That's when it hit him. He could create something to make his vision come true. Flipping open his notebook, he wrote something down. something that could end up effecting the whole of reality.
Lucian sat atop the roof to his orphanage. Out in the middle of no-where, the stars were so much clearer than in the city, what with all the pollution. For a 15 year old boy, he was smart. He continuously graded the highest in his classes at the orphanage, which essentially doubled as a school. As the wind blew his jet black locks around his head, he sighed. The only class he could never do well in was physical education. He left that part up to his friend, the only person who he could consider his equal.
Lucy. She was easily the fittest in all of the school, and was born on the same day as Lucian. However, she was nearly all brawn, and not the smartest in the class. Confident in her abilities as a physical rep for the school, she needed to make sure her grades came at the highest she could achieve. That is where Lucian came in. He, being the smartest, automatically drew her attention to him. From then on, he would teach her about things that she needed to know about, while she helped him with physical aspects, such as cardio. When the two of them teamed up, there was nothing that could counter them. His brain and her brawn.
One time, when a group of orphan 8 year olds attacked a 5 year old Lucian, she came in and decked the lot of them. Another time, Lucy had a test to do, but using his brain, placed a system of small mirrors around the test room, allowing her glances at his answers.
However, now that they were older, and it was their birthday, they had to leave the orphanage. He just hoped that if someone came to take a child from here, that they would not leave one of them behind. Even with his intellect, he doubted he could survive out in the real world by himself.
Sighing again to himself, he grabbed the small box beside him. He had a gift to give to someone.
Lucy ran across the corridor, accidently brushing past one of the orphans, nearly sending them careening into the wall. Apologising quickly, she picked up her pace. It was only ten minutes until Lucian and herself had to be in the elder room chambers, and if these were her last moments with him, then she would make it worth it.
She remembered the one time where they were both up in his favourite place.
Flashback-
"We were born on the same day, right?" Lucy asked, her ruby hair flowing out behind her.
"Yes. The fact that we are both in the same orphanage means something. I can't help but think we are twins."
"I thought as well, but that can't be right. I have red hair, and yours is like darker than black."
"Yeah, and I tested a urine sample and we do not have the same DNA."
"Well, th… Wait… Urine sample?! Where the hell did you get that?"
"…"
"Seriously!... Ugh… I don't want to know… Pervert."
"It's not that. I was just curious. And Mister Colbert quite liked pink panties."
Several punches to the top of his head later, Lucian softly shook his head.
"I can't help feeling, come our birthday in six weeks, that something serious, life changing even, will happen."
Lucy looked at the boy. He had grown into something… amazing. He was smart, quick, not to mention good looking, and also had an aura of mystery around him. She was the only one who he kept close, and yet she still knew nothing about him. He knew everything about her though. Her hair is red because she likes being different, she hates smokers, loves sushi and pringles, cannot get enough of the hunger games and has a fetish for ears. How he found that out was a mystery.
On the flip side, all she knew about him was he had black hair because he had black hair, he was smart due to some god complex, always found the hard way out to learn something better, and hated, absolutely hated abortions. He looked her way and saw her staring at him. He flew a small grin at her and she blushed and looked away. Maybe, in six weeks, she would tell him her feelings…
Flashback end-
Running out to the roof, she yelled his name in a singsong voice. Hearing no reply, she looked around. She checked where he usually lay here, if he was napping. No. She checked the ladder, in case he was looking after the little mice colony under the gutter. No. Sighing, she ran downstairs and heard a scuffle. Turning around the corner, she couldn't believe it.
Lucian was being attacked.
These guys were at least twenty, or probably older, and there were six of them. She ran up to the one holding his right arm and yelled "FALCON PUNCH!"
Her fist made a satisfying crunch noise of the side of his head, sending him flying down the corridor. Lucian made perfect use of his free hand, grabbed a vein in his other captors wrist, and burst it open with just his fingertip. All the attackers let go of the boy and moved back. Lucian got up from the ground, dusted himself off, and moved into a back to back position against Lucy.
"Falcon punch, really?"
"It was spur of the moment, ok?" She replied. "I kinda expected a… you know… Thanks."
"Like I usually say, don't thank me yet."
"I WASN'T SAYING THANKS TO YOU!"
"Forget it; we have business to attend to."
Three attackers rushed Lucy while the fourth bum rushed Lucian. He dodged the attack, and pushed another pressure point on his neck, effectively disabling him. He turned around and saw Lucy in trouble. She had one in a headlock, one under her foot, but the other one was punching her stomach and chest. He jumped on top of the man he dropped, flipped into the air, landed on the guy in the headlock and football kicked the guy punching her, in the face. He went flying into the wall, knocked unconscious. Lucy finished her headlock in a sleeper hold, and pushed the other guy into the ground.
With all but the one guy injured or unconscious, Lucian grabbed the guys collar underneath Lucy.
"What the hell did you do that for? Are you insane! All you had to do was knock me in the head once and I would be as useless and ralph from the Simpsons!" He screamed in his face.
"I…I…I Di….di….didn't….ha…have…a choice!" The guy responded.
Lucy sighed. She turned around and gasped. There stood a tall male, hooded and none of his face were showing. Standing, as he was, Lucy could tell he was confident. Confident in his safety, or… something else.
"Uhh… Lucian…" She said.
"I know." He replied.
They looked at the guy who was bearing down on them. Then he removed his hood. Lucian gasped. He had seen star wars. He looked like the splitting image of Ben Kenobi. Lucian almost ran to him, to his idol, until he stopped.
"I know you…" He said.
"Do you now? Hehee… Well… That is an added bonus then, isn't it?" The man said.
"You…Know this guy, Lucian?" asked a confused Lucy.
"Yes. He is a…" He tried before he was cut off.
"Uh uh uh… You can't tell the readers my identity. That would ruin the whole story."
"What story. What are you talking about?" Lucy asked again, even more at loss.
"So that's it?" Lucian said, straightening and standing fully.
"This is all a game to you. What do you want me to do?"
"You? Oh no, not just you. I plan on involving your little flame there as well."
"Leave Lucy out of it!" Lucian yelled. "I won't participate with her involved."
"Such strong conviction. However, it is already out of your hands." The man said, crossing his arms.
"Sense Replicate."
Suddenly, both Lucian and Lucy stood, without their own will, and walked towards him. Kneeling in front of him, he placed both his hands on their heads. Whispering the words again, they both felt a sudden, insane sharp pain in their heads, which disappeared in an instant. They rose, and looked at the man again.
"You want an explanation?" He said with a smile evident beneath his underlying tone.
"HELL YES I DO!" Yelled Lucy.
"Well, to put a long story short, I gave you an amazing ability, both of you. As the name 'Sense Replicate' suggests, using your senses, which are sight, smell, taste, touch and sound, you can copy the ability of… well anything. For example, Lucian, you mistook me for Ben Kenobi before. With this ability, you could see anything that he did, and copy it with extreme accuracy. However, there is a catch. Both of you cannot replicate the same persons abilities. Both of you cannot learn from ben, so one of you would have to go to Darth Vader, for example. The aim of giving you this ability, is so you two will fight each other, creating an amazing battle with abilities from all across the universes, galaxies, dimensions. And you only have ten years to learn what you can. This ability comes with an extra feature. In a year's time, you will be able to, at will, move from dimension to dimension, through time and space, at free will. If you are clever, use this time period to catch up on your anime, television shows, comic books, everything."
"Because you will be visiting a lot of places from now on."
Lucian was wide eyed. This was an amazing ability, but he didn't want to fight Lucy. That was the only thing stopping him from diving headfirst.
Lucy was wide eyed. She knew what this thing could do, and she planned to use it to get stronger, but there was no way in hell she was fighting Lucian.
"And oh, did I mention. If you both do not participate, I will kill Lucian and leave Lucy here in life, to do nothing but grieve.
And with a despairing laugh later, the man disappeared. Lucy fell to her knees, and broke into tears. Lucian stayed standing. He looked at her, and slowly smiled. Kneeling down, he stroked her auburn hair behind her left ear.
"Hey, don't worry. You always wondered which one of us was stronger, right." He said. She turned and looked at him, surprised.
"Let's just consider this a contest. After all, he never said that we had to kill each other at the end. Let's make the most of our time now. We are going to have to split up, which breaks my heart, but it is necessary." He said, standing. He turned and started to walk away, stepping on the head of one of the guys that attacked him, completely squashing it, blood spurting everywhere.
"Lucian! I have to tell you something!" Lucy said, standing and running at the boy. He turned only to find her lips on his. Splitting apart, and a huge blush on her face, she spoke.
"I love you."
He turned back around, hiding his own small blush, but didn't let her see it.
"I know."
Then he moved away, leaving Lucy there, in a puddle of his attacker's blood, and a box in her hands…
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