Prologue: The Usual
Saturday September 27th, 2008, 6:22 PM
US, California, Somewhere in the Bay Area…
A 19 year old teenage boy was lying on the family sofa, not sleeping, thinking. "A boring day", he thought. "Another good old weekend to waste sitting here, watching TV, as usual…" Although the TV wasn't on he had half a mind to pick up the remote and turn it on for boredom sake. "You know what!?' He said to himself. "Enough of this garbage, I need to do something before I die of boredom." He sat upright and got off the sofa. He was almost six feet tall with tanned peach skin. He was brown eyed and had black hair. He also somewhat foul-mouthed. Shane was his name, gamer, swimmer, high school senior and lazy bum.
"Well…" he said "I might as well pull out a system."
His parents weren't home, they were at work. His little sister wasn't here either she had went on a shopping spree. Shane smiled to himself. "Time to play…" he said smirking. He walked over to the TV and opened a small cabinet underneath it. Inside was his Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360, along with a DVD player and a Surround sound system in the next cabinet. His dad had wanted to connect the surround sound so he could get a better "movie experience" but Shane didn't need those things, needless to say using surround sound would be awesome.
After setting up the system and putting on the correct TV input, he opened a drawer to the side of the cabinets revealing a small stockpile of video games.
"Let see… what should I do?" He thought. First he saw Super Smash Bros Brawl & Melee. "Tempting, VERY tempting…" Then his eyes saw Soul Calibur 2, and 4, 3 was with the PS2 although that was in the closet. "Ehh, I'm not in the mood for sword fighting." Shane said. His eyes then hit the back of the drawer which a few other games like Mario Kart and Facebreaker laid. "What's this on?" Shane asked as he picked up and flipped over a Gamecube disc box: Tales of Symphonia. "Huh? I haven't played this in while, I know I have the other one somewhere." He moved around several games before he found Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. "Might as well see how far I've gotten." He said putting the first CD of Tales in and sitting back down on the couch.
There was no picture. "What the heck?" Shane said surprised. Maybe he put it on the wrong input, or maybe the Wii went bad. Either way he was going to check the input before checking the system. He reached for the remote but he clumsily knocked it off the side counter and it landed right underneath the couch. "My luck…" Shane sighed getting off the couch and reaching for the remote. Although he saw it didn't fall very far he couldn't feel it when he reached. "Where is the stupid little- Ahh!" He yelped pulling out his finger. It was a small cut but Shane angrily reached back and this time carefully pulled out the object that just nicked his finger. It was a piece of metal, old rusty, but sharp metal. "What the crap is this!?" Shane said looking at it more closely. But as he focused his eye sight started to blur.
"Uhh… ok what's going on" He mumbled trying to keep his sight. His head started getting dizzy and he started seeing illusions of holding 3 metal pieces and having six arms. "Oh… great...I don't feel right…" he mumbled some more but the nausea was getting worse, and before a minute had passed he was on the floor and knew nothing but darkness.