A Really Big Family
Disclaimer: Most of the character in this fan fiction are owned by Compile Heart and Idea Factory
Chapter 1:A Girl With A Mission
I found myself lying in a pitch black limbo, where there isn't light, and the worst part is, I don't know where I am.
"Am I dead?" I asked no one in particular "Is this hell?".
I got up and started walking around, trying to find a way out, seeking for a light that indicates the surface.
But despite the best efforts, I don't see any source of light, but just the same dark limbo over and over again.
I finally give up after a time that felt like a geological era, I sit down trying to find a way out this madness...
"Hi Terra"
"HAA!" suddenly, a voice calls my name out of the blue, causing me to scream.
"I'm terribly sorry to have startled you, Terra" the voice apologized "Let me introduce myself, my name is Histoire, a tome, and I'm here to ask you a favor".
I sighed trying to calm myself down "Hi Histoire, nice to meet you" I greeted Histoire.
"But how do you know my name?" I asked confused to the tome "And where am I?"
"I'm the recorder of history, therefor I know everything and everyone since the day I was created, and that includes you" the tome says, while I look around to find the source of her voice.
"And where are we?" I ask again.
"You're currently in the nation of Planeptune, unconscious from the fall you suffered" So that means...
"But that means..." I started my sentence, completed right after by the tome "You're dreaming, yes."
"So, you're not real?" I'm really starting to get confused now.
"Actually I'm real, but right now, we're having a telepathic conversation, so you can't see me" The tome explains, leaving me wondering where she is.
"So where are you right now?"
"I'm currently locked somewhere I don't know" wait, she's held prisoner?!
"That's why I'm here"
"So you want me to free you?" I asked
"More precisely, I need you to save this world, Gameindustry, from being totally consumed" Histoire explains again, and I start to grow nervous.
"B-but I'm not a warrior! I can't save a world from it's doom!"I say to Histoire, I'm probably not what she thinks I am.
"Your blood is blessed, Terra, you can save this world!" Histoire exclaims.
It's seems I have no other choices.
"Alright I will help you..., but I would be glad if you could explain me how."
"You ... to stop … con..le war … find … key fra..ents .. free me ….." my usual luck.
As soon as Histoire starts having connect problems, the entire black limbo started to shake, like it was about to shatter.
"W-What's going on? Histoire?" I ask the tome, clearly scared.
"Goo. lu.k Te..a …..."
As soon as Histoire "logged out", if we can say so, the floor breaks, leaving me falling into a black void.
I open my eyes right after, finding myself lying onto a bed, staring at the ceiling; I notice that I'm in some small hotel room.
Right next to the bed I see a brown-haired girl with a green leaf-like ribbon, green eyes, a blue coat that is really to big for her, and black shirt and shorts.
"Are you okay?" she asks me.
I sit up on the bed and answer her "Yes, I'm fine" I start looking around the room, which is a small with only one bed, and the walls painted white.
"How long was I gone?" I ask the brunette, while I was looking around.
"Just one day, I found you yesterday stuck in the ground nearby the capital outskirt" The brunette answers.
So, I'm in a world called Gameindustry, that is on the brink of destruction by some evil force.
What Histoire said I had to do? Stop this "console war" and find those "key fragments"? who's the smart guy that broke a key in several pieces?! And there's a war going on?! This place is no different from Earth!
"who are you anyway?" she asks me interrupting my train of thoughts.
"My name is Terra, what's yours?" I try to get the girl's name.
"My name is IF, I'm the gust of wind that blows trough Gameindustry!" She says in a proud way.
"Hey, are you a traveler, by any chance, IF?"
"Yes, I travel around the world and make a living out of the Guild's quests"She answers.
"What were you doing out there at that hour? Don't you know that there are monsters out there?"she asks me out of the blue, leaving me no choice but to tell the truth.
"Well you see, I fell from the sky" I say to the girl next to me while laughing nervously.
"You fell from the sky? You think I'm gonna believe that?"she asks me, probably thinking that I was joking.
"But it's the truth! Why should I lie about it?"
The brunette starts thinking I little about my logic and the says "You got a point"
"So, you're from another world, huh?" she asks, and I widen my eyes.
How did she figure that out? Is she a mind reader or something?
"Y-yes why?" I ask kind of scared of what is going to happen next, is she gonna take me to some sort of area 51 where there going to dissect me like some sort of alien? I Hope not!
"That is really cool, I wish I could get to visit another world!" She looks really exited about it "What's your world's name?"
"Earth" I reply briefly; I never expected that she would react like this.
"Nice, this world is called Gameindustry" I already know that but whatever.
"Anyway, if you're gonna stay here you need a weapon to protect yourself" she says while I get out of the bed "Do have one?"
"No, I don't" I reply "it's for defending against the monsters right?"
She nods at me and walks out the room "I know a place here where they sell high quality weapons at a good price, we can go and take a look"
I nod in agreement and follow her out of the room, going downstairs towards the exit of the inn.
As I exit the inn and walk outside, I find myself in front of a view that literally comes out from a sci-fi movie, with futuristic-looking buildings colored in blue and white, with a gigantic tower that rises right in the center of the city.
I stand there, hypnotized by the beauty of Planeptune, or at least I do so until IF wakes me up.
"Is this your first time in Planeptune?".
"Well, yes" I answer the brunette's question "Anyway, where's the shop?"
"Follow me" she says and I follow her order, walking down roads and taking various turns, until we reach our destination; a large shop with tons of expansive-looking weapons behind the windows.
As soon as we enter the shop IF starts talking with the girl at the cash desk, while I start looking around into the armory, wondering what weapon to buy.
Knowing that I'm not coordinated to rotate and swing a spear or similar, and I'm not strong enough to lift a hammer, I would rather use a sword or a gun.
But here they do not sell guns, so I start looking around for a sword, until I found a particular sword with a triangle-shaped end and a double sharp edge, similar to a gladius.
I pick it up, and brought it to the cash desk of the shop "How much is the sword?" I ask the girl "the sword is 54500 credits" she answers.
IF then pulls out a credit car from pocket and hands it over the girl, which slides it onto a scanner, then gives it back to IF saying "The credit transition was successful, thank you for your purchase" she then smiles and bows, giving me the sheath.
We get out of the store is I look at the sword, wondering how to carry it around.
"Just think to put it away, it'll active the inventory" IF says to me, probably using one of her mind reading techniques.
I do as IF said, I sheath the sword and focus on it, and it disappears.
Then I try the inverse process, focusing on it again, and it reappears, to my surprise.
This inventory thingy will come very handy in the future.
"So, what do we do now?" I ask the brunette.
"We train, of course." she answers me "We'll take one of the quest the Guild as to offer"
"And where's the Guild?"
"In the center of the capital, near the Basilicom"
"And we get there with what? A train?" I notice that I'm asking to many question for my taste.
"More precisely a HV-UT" say what? That sound like a name of a tank to me!
I look confused to the brunette.
"It means High Velocity Urban Transport, is a new type of public transport that connects the capital to the outskirt" She explains "every nation has it".
We then head to this "HV-UT" station and manage to catch one directed to the capital before it's doors closed.
"Well, that was close" I almost got stuck into the door.
"You can say that" she says, checking if she lost something.
"So we go to the Guild, sign for a quest and then we beat the living sunlight out of some monsters, right?" I ask IF
"That's the plan, and also we can get some money while I train you"
Then suddenly the train starts slowing down, near the station of the center city, with the loudspeaker of the train saying "Current stop: central capital, please mind the gap between the train and the platform" as it stops.
We get of the train and walk out of the station "That was fast!"I say surprised " we got here in no time!"
"It's called High Velocity for a reason" she states.
She then points at a brick red building, different from the others, "That's the Guild, if you're searching for money, I suggest you take a quest instead of apply for a job"
"I'll keep that in mind" We enter the Guild, searching for a quest easy enough for me, and I notice that every print as a letter behind it, that indicates the difficulty.
We are searching for a E class quest, very easy quests, and we find about a quest about eliminating various species of shampurus in a dungeon called "Zeca Ruins No.1", Why the number 1?
We sign the quest and exit the Guild, the girl at the counter didn't had much to say, she only talked when necessary, she only gave us a tablet, or something.
We jumped on another HV-UT and reached the end of the outskirt, where what is left are only small villages and lots of forest and plains.
After a walk of a good thirty minutes, we reach the dungeon, an abandoned structure covered in musk, walls with lost bricks and broken ceilings, I seriously don't know if it's safe to walk in.
But we walk in anyway, and a good amount of shampurus greets us as soon as we do so.
We get ready for the battle, materializing our weapons, I unsheathe my gladius and IF … grabs a pair of strange looking swords that could easily fit in her sleeves, I think those are called quatars anyway.
I quickly dash towards the first one and execute a downward slash, killing it.
I replace myself into a basic position, holding the sword with both hands, while IF kept slashing the pack, sometimes spinning like a top, she sure knows how to rush.
I turn around and see that the shampurus have formed a compact group; running towards all of that monsters would be a suicide, so I start to back up and looking for options.
Then I hear IF scream "Chaos Edge!" she then uppercuts one of the shampurus and she slams it onto the ground, and then she keeps attacking the others.
Inspired, I dash into the group of shampurus, jump right on top of them, seize the sword backwards and stab it into the ground right in the middle of the pack, generating a powerful wave that send all the shampurus flying.
I stand up and look around to see if there are more creatures around me, then I spot another group of shampurus and charge them.
I slash the first one, then I seize again the sword backwards and keep stabbing the shampurus one after another, decimating quickly the group.
I put away my sword ans sit down on the ground, pulling out the tablet for checking the progress of the quest.
"Hey IF" I shout to the brunette in the distance "We're done, finish it so we can go home".
She then executes the shampurus and comes over me "Nice job, you're quite the natural talent" she praises me, I think.
"You think so?" I ask her.
"m-hm" she nods "So, how are you going to call that move?"
"The one where I stab the ground? I think I'm gonna call it Gravitational Strike" I answer the question "What do you think?"
"I think is not a bad name" she express her impression to me as we walk out of the dungeon.
But we soon stop as the ground starts shaking under our feet and from the woods nearby a loud roar could be herd.
Then a black shadow dashes out of the woods and rises his claw with murderous intent...
Dictionary
Gladius: The gladius is a ancient type of sword, used by the roman empire's army.
It has two sharp edge and a triangle-shaped end, It's main purpose is to cut, but was used mostly to pierce.
Hi everyone, my name is HyperAle and the journey of Terra has began (with a boring tutorial)!
And IF already knows where she's from.
Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed it, and if there are any advises you would like to give me, feel free to leave a comment on this story (sorry if Histoire does not have any emoticons on her lines).
I also wanted to thank AIYF Productions for the advise he/she gave me.
And said so farewell! Until next chapter of course!