Chapter 1: The beggining of a new journey
I start to patch my bags. Man, I really have been through alot, no wonder that I'm always depressed. Being rejected by my entire family is not a good thing to happen, not only me, but my brother has been rejected by them too. We have only 1 difference: our family rejected us, but not our friends. My brother is called Edson d' Arc, and my name is Richard d' Arc. Since 5 years, the only thing we've been doing is studying, working and training. Edson comes to me.
"Richard, what about your training? Do you still remember them? Can you still use those abilities?" It seems that he's worried about it.
"Don't worry Edson. You may be my brother, my younger brother, but there is no need for you to worry about me that much." Ever since we have been rejected by our family, he's been checking on me because I have been very depressed.
"I may be your younger brother, but I still worry like you worry about me. Now, give me the answer of my question." Oh, how I wish that every people was like him.
"Yes. I'm used to them. I feel like I could learn even more. Still, projection is the best ability we could ever use in battle. Everytime that I use it, I'm happy." I pet his head as I give him my answer.
"I couldn't agree even more. Our training has been rough, and yet you're stronger than me." Wow, now I feel like I have a new rival in front of me.
"Oh, wanting to surpass me? It'll be very hard for you." Confidently, I make a challenge for him.
"You say that like you're making a challenge for me." He understood what I said.
"Well, it's because, ever since the time we have been training, you have been making a determined face, like waiting for a challenge to begin, so that's why I said that." Not to mention it, but my brother always acted like a rival in front of me, always saying that he'll surpass me one day.
"I understand. After all, it's not good for always staying behind. How can you ever protect those who are dear to you if you are so weak?" I'm impressed by that question.
"Good point. Well, there is one thing I'd like to confirm." It's one of my abilities too, but I wonder if he can use it too.
"Hm. What is it?" His expression is like of someone who is confused.
"Well, it's about one of the abilities that I can use, and it is to make a portal. Do you have it too?" I always thought that such a skill didn't ever exist, but I kept searching for it and found a way to make one. Well, I don't regret searching for it because I knew it would be useful someday.
"Man, you're a lucky one for searching for that. Yes, it was extremely hard, but I can use that skill too." That's a relief."
"Glad to hear that from my dear brother. I'm happy that you didn't reject me like our family did." Yes, it would be too sad for me to leave alone, far away from someone who never rejected me.
"I'm not crazy after all. I'll always be there to support you." Whenever I hear him saying that, I begin to feel so emotional.
"Wait, I forgot something." And that is very important, because everything that happened to me has been written there.
"Yes?" He asks, ready to answer anything that I ask.
"Edward, do you know where is my diary? It is the last thing that I need." After that, I'm going to live far away from here.
"Richard, you left it on your room. It's located behind your television." He answers.
"Thank you." That's the only thing I could say.
And with that. I left the room and headed towards my bedroom. As I enter my bedroom and look for my television, I look behind it. Yes, Edward was right, but I never thought it would be very well hidden. Now I run towards the room and start picking my bags, with the diary in my hands.
"Mind if I ask you something?" Edward asks, looking curious.
"Yes, what is it?" Now I'm feeling anxious.
"Where exactly are you going to live?" Oh, so that's the question he wanted to ask me.
"It'll be a secret, but since you're here, I'll answer it and I'll ask you at the same time." He's very curious in my opinion.
"Have you ever thought about living in another dimension?" He's shocked, very shocked.
"No. Why are you going to live in another dimension? Is this the reason that you wanted to learn about how to make a portal?" More or less brother, more or less.
"I just figured it would be useful someday." I don't have more to say.
"In my opinion, it would be good, and well, if you're going to another dimension, I'll stay here. I have another mission to accomplish." Now I'm the who's curious.
"Which mission is it?" I ask.
"To make our family accept us. I don't want to be treated like this ever again, so I'll try to find a solution to this. If everything goes wrong, I'll go to the same dimension that you're going to live." That's going to be hard.
"I wish you good luck. There is something that isn't always easy after all. I'm couting on you." I give him a confident smile.
"Thanks." He looks confident, but I have a bad feeling about this. I don't know why, but it's been 13 years that we have been treated like this, so everyone could say that we had a life full of sadness. Neither of us know what had changed in the life of our family for them to treat us like that.
"Let's go outside. I need you to help me carry my bags and my diary for me to prepare myself to activate the portal." I know that it'll be sad for him to live alone without me, but I don't want to have negative emotions again.
"No problem. You're my brother after all." He says it with a smile. I feel like I have been blessed to have a wonderful little brother like him.
"Now, let me concentrate for a while." I say as I begin to prepare myself.
"Okay, no need to worry." He takes a few steps back.
I start remembering all of those studies about how to make a portal. It said: "First, you need to think of a certain dimension you wish to visit or live. Second, you need to eliminate all those feelings that you have and think of nothing. Third, you need to imagine the first portal that comes in your mind. Lastly, you need to concentrate and use all of your power in that portal for it to appear." I'll just say that I have to use all of my force for the portal to appear, since I don't have any powers.
"Haaaaaaa!" I shout as I use all of my force in one GO. And suddenly, a portal appear right in front of me. That portal has the color of purple and black.
"Thanks for helping me, Edward. If you wanna visit, feel free to go." I say as I pick my bags and my diary.
"You're welcome. And good luck on your new journey. Hope that everything goes well there." He's right. This is a new journey, and I need to be very careful.
"Thanks." I respond it with a smile as I head towars the portal.
After I enter the portal, I start to feel dizzy. My head is spinning, my vision turns white and all I can see inside is black. I close my eyes for some moments, and something is wrong. It feels like I'm falling from above. I open my eyes and I look below me. Oh God, I'm very high and all I can see is trees.
"No way. I thought that I was going to land on the ground safely, and this is what I receive?" No question about it, this is very scary.
"I'm faaaaaliiiiiing!" I can't do anything, I don't know if there is something that I can land on safely. As I fall, I land on the bushes, somehow.
"Owwwww. My back hurts." It hurts, it hurts very much.
"Now, where am I?" I stand up and look around. Oh great, I'm lost in the forest.
"Well, since I'm in the forest, I'll just walk." There is nothing I can do. First, I put my diary in the bag and start walking. As I continue walking, one thing that I'm amazed is, the sight of everything around here.
"I cannot lie. This forest is really beautiful, and the wind is refreshing." It's amazing how this forest looks, but I need to think in a way of getting myself out of here.
"I'm tired, but finally I'm out of the forest." It's been 10 minutes since I was walking there.
Wait, I see something, something that looks like a tower. And it's enormous. I start walking towards that direction. And I have to admit, I never walked so much before. After some time, I see a park and I sit on a bench nearby. I look around, there is only kids having fun. Then I see other benches, but something caught my attention. On the bench behind me, I see two girls talking to each other. One is a fair skinned girl with light purple eyes and a matching shade of hair. It's shoulder length with somewhat messy bangs with many strands sticking up and few framing her face. She wears two gamepad-shaped hairclips. And the other one has long light purple hair with a single D-pad hair clip and violet eyes and wears a white, button up sailor uniform with purple designs and a yellow ribbon being held together by the N-emblem. She wears thigh high socks with pink and white stripes and medium sized boots that match her uniform in color scheme.
"Those girls, I think I saw them in my dreams." No doubt about it. There were times that I was having a dream about two girls like them, but I never imagined that they existed in this dimension.
"Come on Nep Jr., you need to play more with me."
"No way sis. If we continue playing, Histoire will be angry at us again."
"Don't worry about Histy. We'll just say that we were out doing some quests together."
"Come on Neptune, stop being lazy all the time. All you do is play games and eat pudding. It's time for you to change that attitude of yours. How about I talk to Histoire about a quest for you to do?"
"Nepu. Don't do that to me."
It seems that one is lazy and the other is organized. I stand up and walks to them.
"Hello. My name is Richard, I'm new here and I don't know where I am." Sincerely, I don't know anything about this dimension, nor where I am. The only thing I know is that I'm in a park.
"Oh, hello. My name is Nepgear. I'm the CPU Candidate of Planetune and Neptune's younger sister." She responds. Wait, CPU Candidate?
"And I'm Neptune, CPU of Planeptune and Nep Jr.'s big sister. Since we're CPUs, you can refer to us goddessess." Now I'm even more confused. CPUs, goddessess?
"Sorry, but how can I refer to the both of you as goddessess?" That's the only question I can ask.
"Oh, sorry sir. This nation is called Planeptune, and we are the goddessess that protect this nation from monsters. Basically, this world is called Gamindustri and it has 4 nations: Leanbox, protected the goddess called Green Heart, Lastation, protected by 2 goddessess, the CPU named Black Heart and the CPU Candidate named Black Sister, Lowee, protected by 3 goddessess, the CPU named White Heart and 2 CPUs Candidates named White Sister and Planeptune, protected by 2 goddessess, the CPU named Purple Heart and the CPU Candidate named Purple Sister." Nepgear explains. Really, there is one last thing that I don't believe.
"And how can you prove to me that the two of you are goddessess?" I ask, with doubt.
"Simple. Just watch us." Neptune and Nepgear stands up, then a bright light covers their body. It's just like they were transforming.
"This is why we are CPUs, the goddesses of this nation." Neptune says. My eyes cannot believe what I'm seeing.
"What just happened?"
"This is our transformation called Hard Drive Divinity, HDD for short. In this form, I am called Purple Heart, and she is called Purple Sister." Now I understand.
"Wow. So each nation has one goddess that is devoted to protect it. Interesting." I'm really surprised. Both of them untransforms and return to their human form.
"I'm Richard. Nice to meet you." I bow my head.
"My name is Nepgear. It's nice to meet you too.." She bows her head too.
"And I'm Neptune, the Protagonist of Protagonists. It's nice to meet you as well." She just shake my hand. Well, that's enough too.
"Sorry sir, but where are you from? I never saw you around here." Nepgear says the most obvious thing.
"I know that it will be hard for you to believe, but I'm from another dimension." I respomd with no mistake.
"Huh? From another dimension? How?" Nepgear asks.
"Well, I'm the one who created the portal. I have been training, studying with my brother and both of us have some skills. Creating a portal is one of them." Nepgear seems shocked by my answer.
"It seems that you are very strong since you have been training with your brother. Well, welcome to Gamindustri, you are in Planeptune and your new journey begins here." Neptune says, excitedly.
"Thank you. I'll do my best from now. Hope I can be of help anytime." Well, since this is the beggining of a new journey, the only thing I can do is help them and continue my training.