Hello everyone, Is me, Hollowsoul75 (Who else?).
Just so you know, I changed the first two chapters (The character sheets and the first chapter) into one chapter, because I know how most people prefer reading stories with at least 2k words a chapter and are put off by ones that are 500-1k word ones unless it is a reasonable sized one-shot (I'm one of those people in fact).
Alright, let's get some shit out of the way, eh?
First, I shall reply to the reviews;
ParradoxUniverse: No, it's not bad…do you think someone will realise who you got your 'throwing cards' from…I mean, this is going to include shit from other franchises…which I do not own.
NekoLazy: Daww, thank you my loyal reader. Here's another chapter for you.
Kweh Viola:…I was going to go with a male DJ Sona (League of Legends) but then I thought 'Well, why not make it so he can do that shit anyway?' and badda-bing badda-boom! MALE ENE! CAUSE REASONS, KHAHAHAHAHAHA*Cough cough* Sorry.
DJ Bodewig: *Deep, deep funny voice with a hint of 'classy'* Awhh, yes, very classy indeed old chum, yes yes…*Regular voice* WTF am I doin? LOL idk.
Oberon the fox:…I can think of no response that will not sound like I'm a little crazy, which I may already be anyway, so go look at my 'birth of corruption' fic if you want 'insane and sadistic' stuff like how 'Ag Lok' or whoever that is called you. But thank you for your review and I hope you and many others will enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 2: BITE MY SHINY DIGITAL ASS!
Issei openly gawked at his two schoolmates as they taunted and attacked the 'feathered faggot' that was going to finish what 'Yuuma' started, he was still a little torn up about that as no one could remember her, but this guy with wings like hers did, and that fact brought a frown to his face. Meanwhile, Nathaniel crouched underneath a stab of that light spear that went for his head before leaping up while shouting "SHORUKEN!" and upper-cutted the winged man right in the chin, sending him a good few feet off the ground somehow. Ryan stared at the falling form of the winged man before he facepalmed with an audible smack "Goddammit Nathaniel." Issei held his head feeling a stabbing pain attack his brain suddenly after Ryan cursed.
Nathaniel cackled as he watched the stunned 'feathered faggot' fall into the fountain making a sizable splash of water "Don't mess wit me; the legendary digital meister!" Ryan spoke up from his position near Issei "You mean, legendary copycat?" "YOU, SHUT IT!" Issei blinked feeling forgotten as his two 'saviors' started to bicker like children, before it suddenly turned into a dust cloud of a brawl with fists and feet flying everywhere. The cloud disappeared when a 'lightspear' flew between the two young adults, narrowly missing the boys' faces. Nathaniel was the first to recover and leapt away from Ryan shouting "YOU PLEB!" He held his arm in an upwards 'L' shape like he was about to throw an invisible spear "THIS is how you do it!" A bright cyan flickering glow formed above Nathaniel's palm before elongating into a six foot spear, looking like it came right out of some digital world.
"What is this, Tron?"
"Shut it."
The 'feathered faggot' ignored the two as he looked shocked at the imitation of his 'lightspear' before growing angry "HOW DARE YOU! A human making a…fowl imitation of one of the techniques of Heaven!" "Aren't you a fallen angel dou, why should you care about heaven?" The 'fallen angel' continued ignoring Ryan's question "I will kill you and your human friend, devil lover!" Nathaniel scratched his head with his free hand, the one with the digital spear not moving from its 'throw ready' pose "'Devil lover'?" He glanced at Ryan who shrugged his shoulders before nudging his head over at Issei, who for some reason still hadn't gotten himself up off the ground. "I, DOHNASEEK, WILL PERSONALLY WIPE YOU THREE OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH!" Nathaniel rose an eyebrow during 'Dohnaseek's rage and glanced at Ryan again, this time getting a nod that said 'I ain't gonna stop ya, so kick his ass for me' making Nathaniel grin.
The fallen angel was about to form another spear when Nathaniel's digital one flew by his face, cutting his cheek and drawing blood while the force behind it sent his fedora flying off his head "You gonna just stand there and rage at us, or are ye going to do something about it?" Nathaniel's raised eyebrow and confident smirk that could be mistaken for cocky set Dohnaseek off "WHY YOU FILTHY-" He was cut off as he had to jump to the side out of the fountain as a lightning bolt stuck down at him, causing Nathaniel's other eyebrow to rise and for Ryan to blink twice and look upwards confused with several question marks floating around his head "Eh?"
Issei turned to see the 'two great Onee-samas' of Kuoh academy while Nathaniel winced along with Ryan, both sensing the same 'dark' feeling coming from Issei absolutely pouring from the two girls. Nathaniel was the first to recover "Ah, shit…witnesses…oh well, COME GET SOME, FUCKERS" "Nathaniel, this isn't the time for that" "BITE MY SHINY DIGITAL ASS!" The two started bickering again which led to another dust cloud fight. Their audience sweatdropped at the two before the dust settled, showing two blinking outlines of the two boys, but no boys. Rias looked around before seeing the two running off in the distance "FLEE LIKE A BITCH!" "WHAT DA FUCK DO YU THINK I'M DOING!"
She fumed; it would seem she would have to address them later, for now though, she had to protect her new pawn.
(Don't mind me; I'm a regular line break)
Nathaniel slammed open the door of his shared apartment before closing it right as Ryan was about to go through it, making him slam into the wooden door before sticking and sliding down it slowly. A muffled "You cunt" rang out from Ryan as Nathaniel opened the door before pulling Ryan inside "Well…that happened…" Ryan nodded his agreement "I suppose it did…what now?" When Ryan didn't get a reply, he looked over to see Nathaniel slowly growing a diabolical shark-tooth grin "Did you know the Occult Research club has a webpage, even though most of the academy doesn't know about it?" Ryan knew where this was going "No I didn't…but-" Ryan wore a matching grin "-Go fuck their shit up!"
Nathaniel bolted upstairs towards his room before rushing through the open door, closing the window and curtains, and then brought his laptop bag out from under his bed. He unzipped the bag before taking out his laptop and turning it on. As it was booting up, Ryan calmly walked into the room fiddling with his cards before watching as Nathaniel let out a triumphant "AHA!" and was then surrounded by a bright cyan glow, the intensity of it causing Ryan to shield his eyes. When the glow subsided, sitting in Nathaniel's place was a young male with bright cyan coloured hair going down to his jawline and bright eyes the same shade. He wore a baggy zip up hoodie the same colour of his hair with a white line down either sleeve. He also wore black pants with cyan blue circuits running down them followed by black sneakers with cyan circuits. Nathaniel's headphones became white with a cyan rim in contrast to their original appearance.
"Gentlemen…" Nathaniel's voice had changed so that it had an almost velvety feeling to it "Cut that out." Nathaniel rolled his eyes and made his voice sound normal, albeit his voice sounded slightly synthesized "Fine. Wish me luck!" Ryan waved him off as Nathaniel started to turn into little digital particles starting at his feet that flew into the screen of his laptop. When the particles finished going into the laptop, the screen went black as the device turned off.
(Don't mind me; I'm a regular line break)
When Nathaniel opened his eyes he found himself staring at a long dark blue tunnel, the only light coming from uncountable streams of data moving back and forth around him. He grinned as he looked up to see a bright red one, instantly knowing it was the one leading to where he wanted to go. He took off in a slow run before speeding up and jumping on top of the red data stream and started grinding down it like a skateboarder, but without the skateboard. He saw a bright light up ahead and had to squint from how glaring the light was. When his vision returned to him, he saw a large column of data bearing screens here and there moving up and down, each realising bursts of data that flew towards multiple tunnels much like the one Nathaniel exited. He looked around with a small nostalgic small on his face at the familiar sight; it had been too long since he'd been here. The nostalgia of this place brought up a memory for him
(Flashback)
An eight year old Nathaniel sniffed as he sat in the corner of his room, some clothes here and there and a single bed in the opposite corner. He was glaring at a cellphone in his hands with a text message open and he re-read it several times, each time he felt like he died a little more inside. Why…why would his mother break her promise…?
'Sorry honey, mommy's not going to be able to come home for a while okay? She has to sort some stuff out with the nice officers, sorry I couldn't be there for you. Happy Birthday, my little man.'
"You promised…You prom*hick*ised…"
Nathaniel dropped the phone and it landed in front of his feet as he curled up further into a ball, he didn't notice that the screen started to glow a bright cyan or how the tips of his toes started glowing the same colour. Nathaniel sniffed again into his knees while sobbing about how his mother broke yet another promise to him, it hurt, it hurt so much to the young child…he…he just…
…Wanted to get away from it all…
His knees broke away into particles of cyan light making Nathaniel let out a cry of alarm before screaming. He screamed for his dad, for his mom, for anyone to help him…but no one heard him. His arms started fading now, his hands gone and flowing into the phone at where his feet once were. Hot tears streamed down his cheeks as he stopped struggling and gave in to his fate. He wouldn't be able to see his friends, no matter how few there were, he wouldn't be able to see his dad, as he was down south in a military operation…he wouldn't be able to see his mother, she who broke her promises time and time again…
A final tear fell from his eye and hit the carpet…there was no longer a face for it to roll down…
…
…
…what?
Nathaniel blinked his eyes open seeing he wasn't dead or otherwise, there were many things a child could think at that age. He saw a long dark blue tunnel with streams of pretty light shooting up and down the tunnel.
When he reached the end of the tunnel, all he could utter "Woooooooow~"
(End Flashback)
Nathaniel shook himself out of memory lane as he noticed the data rail he was on enter one of the screens on the digital column, he frowned as something inside him screamed at him that paying a 'visit' would be a bad idea. He jumped off the data rail before he went through the screen and jumped onto one that led back the way he came. He sighed in relief feeling the…feeling vanish as he went further and further away from that screen.
If he had of looked back, he would've seen a crest flying around the data column in the shape of a shield with black wings that eventually flew into a screen near the top of the column when it found nothing.
(Don't mind me; I'm a regular line break)
Ryan was downstairs busy making tea (Read, buying pizza over the phone) when he heard the familiar noise of Nathaniel digitizing back into the outside world. He finished ordering the pizza when Nathaniel came downstairs holding his head "What happened to you?" Nathaniel shrugged at Ryan's question "Dunno, but something stopped me from 'visiting'…" Ryan scoffed disbelievingly "Something 'stopped' you? I find that highly unlikely."
"Ever heard of a gut feeling?"
"Don't remind me of Taco Bell."
The two shared a laugh before turning serious "So, what really happened?" Nathaniel crossed his arms over his chest uncaringly as he looked off to the side "Something was tracing me, trying to locate our home…It felt like it could have been the fallen angels, most likely because they didn't take too kindly to being hacked by yours truly." Ryan nodded before looking out the window, his vision zooming in on a small bat hanging from a tree in front of the house "We're being watched…"
"I know, I have placed in security measures that alert me after all. You remember how much you had to beg me to do it because of your paranoia."
"I was being extra-careful…"
"Paranoid."
"EXTRA-careful."
Nathaniel nodded in agreement before "Paranoid."
"Why you little-" Ryan's sentence was cut off when the doorbell rang signalling the pizza's arrival. Nathaniel sighed as he walked past Ryan while handing him a two thousand yen bill while mumbling "I want the change." Ryan nodded while heading to the door while Nathaniel took a seat on the couch, turning on the tv and sifting through the recordings to find the recent ones. When Ryan opened the door he was shocked as he saw Yuuto Kiba, the 'prince of Kuoh Academy', wearing a pizza delivery guy outfit holding his order.
"Kiba…You're a delivery guy?"
Kiba shrugged with a sheepish grin "I do all sorts of odd jobs here and there..." Ryan nodded before handing over the note while speaking "Keep the change" and he let go of the note after getting the two pizzas "Thank you." Kiba left with the bill in hand as Ryan closed the door. Nathaniel was busy watching his anime when his pizza was placed next to him and Ryan sat down while speaking "Did you know that Kiba is a delivery guy?"
"No…but you read the files I got from you know who about him and the others in this town…" Nathaniel was careful to not mention where he got his information as he wasn't sure if that bat was their listening in or was just watching them at the orders of its master. "Well, yeah…but, I didn't expect a delivery guy…" Ryan mumbled before he got off the cough and went to the kitchen, coming back with a knife and fork in hand. Nathaniel took one look at the utensils and gave Ryan a flat look "Really, pleb?"
"You eat your pizza your way; I'll eat mine my way."
"Fair enough."
END.
*EDIT* My price knowledge sucks so I chucked out the prices...So, from now on it'll be in dollars (Cause I'm to lazy to calculate price exchange).
Well, that took longer than expected…probably because I had to do this chapter ON MY OWN (Deadpans at Parradox…jk, I don't mind doing it alone as he's got important shit he has to do, and well, so do I so I know the feels). Anyway, I am doing great, if a little slow with my writings. So as of now there WILL BE NO DEADLINES WITH MY FICS! That way I can't work on them when I feel like it and won't feel pressured to update (Main source of my stress).
*Breathes in, sighs out deeply*
Thank you all for reading this and I would love it if you all reviewed my work.
Hollowsoul75, out.