Title: Kyouya, The Gamer (we're all fu*ked now)
Summary: Kyouya finds a cheat code and the future abruptly takes two steps to left and trips over. Gamer AU.
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Kyouya stares up at the dark mansion he knows for a fact wasn't in Namimori before he was poisoned. There is a large number seven on the letter box, presumably the difficulty level. A shriek of horror comes from within and the shadows around it grow deeper.
Kyouya glances over his shoulder at the bright blue sky and well-lit streets.
He faces the mansion again, taking in the dark storm swirling threatening overhead and the scattering of gravestones.
He looks back to a mother and child laughing happily as they eat ice cream.
Then to the fog starting up.
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Kyouya will bite this illogical illusion to death.
He strides for the door and stomps particularly hard on a skeletal hand that shoots out of the ground. Bones crunch and Kyouya smiles.
He takes the front steps two at a time, becoming excited, and rolls his eyes at how the front door opens with a creak before he can reach for the handle.
He slips inside and tonfa drop to his hands. He looks left down a corridor filled with miasma so thick only shadowy figures could be seen darting around. He looks right into a broken and smashed corridor that twists and turns, the entire structure flipping upside down at one point as it moves further away. He looks up, the stairs to the next level looking safe.
He's about to turn left but a figure steps out of an upstairs corridor. Its spindly and tall, limbs having an extra joint while fingers and toes are elongated and sharp like knives. It lifts a hand and beckons Kyouya with a finger.
Well, it would be rude reject such an invitation.
The grin on Kyouya's face is wild as he leaps up the stairs.
"Activate Armoury, dagger," Kyouya orders, already pulling an arm back to throw.
The dagger spins and lodges itself in the spindly opponent's skull. It simply continues lumbering forwards, moving jerkily like the joints are stiff. Kyouya knows it's a trap, the Patrol monsters moving insanely fast when he gets within a certain distance.
"Tonfa," Kyouya barks out as he darts forward, ducking the fast swipe at his head and leaping up to hammer in the knife with a swing.
The head forms glowing cracks and shatters into tiny pieces, the rest of the body following. Kyouya rips out the knife and lands on the other side of the defeated opponent, continuing down the last corridor, the one to the right on the first level.
Three steps in and he scowls in annoyance at having to jump over the broken furniture and dodge crumbling walls and the roof. A hip high rat-thing falls through the ceiling and Kyouya sighs in annoyance. He hates these things.
The knife is thrown again and Kyouya takes shelter behind part of a table that had been flipped over. The knife connects, sinking into the creatures eye and the head shatters just like the spindly ones, but this time shrapnel flies out, slicing up anything it hits.
Kyouya stands from behind the table and surveys the damage. It's much worse when there are more than one, because one dying had a cascade effect and if you weren't already behind shelter, you weren't going to get away unscathed.
The timer runs out then and Procrastinator abruptly stops working. Kyouya gasps in shock at the sudden pain and locks his knees. It wan't surprising with his side bleeding freely from underestimating the speed of the first spindly monster and the multiple deep cuts from the exploding vermin when he didn't duck behind shelter fast enough.
Procrastinator was useless because even though it did take away pain, the shock of it coming back made Kyouya pause, and that distracted him from the fight, even for a split second. Not to mention it wasn't a steady build of injuries, it was everything at once, every time Procrastinator cut out.
Kyouya growls. Without bothering to lift a finger he mentally calls up the menu screen and quickly flicks through to find the skill. He glares at the information and the words warp like heat waves off a road, distorting the electric blue characters. It almost seems to struggle against Kyouya's silent demand but dissipates all the same.
He rocks back on his heels, amused now. The screen blinks out quickly despite Kyouya not ordering it to. It almost seems frustrated.
The screen seems to be developing a personality, if you could call it that. It made no difference to Kyouya, but it was fascinating in a 'can I bite it to death?' kind of way. He reminds himself to try later.
For now, he has a Patrol to finish.
He continues down the corridor, the twisting quality effecting his gravity so he was at one point walking along the wall and then the ceiling before back down to the floor. A minute in and it's already too much for the impatient teen. The other corridors held fast paced action with multiple enemies at any one time.
He's about to simply sprint through but a haunting melody filled the air. It sounded like an old nursery rhyme sung by a little girl. He concentrates but he can't pin point the sound that seems to be coming from everywhere at once. He briefly wonders if the other Patrols are any more original than this haunted house cut out.
He swerves around a bundle of torn and stained fabric and turns a corner, only to stop at the dead end. He hears quiet sniffles start up behind him like someone was trying to hold back tears. If the pile of fabric has a little possessed girl hiding under it, Kyouya is going to be very disappointed.
"A-are you here to save me from the monsters?" comes a soft, hesitant voice.
Kyouya turns to see the girl had indeed emerged from the cloth and was staring up at him with wide eyes. He could play along and see if the creature would sneak attack him, or if the girl had been poisoned the same as Kyouya and was now stuck in this place. He takes a short cut though, and brings up a map, zooming in on the purple dot. It was right next to a white square - an enemy.
Then again, if Kyouya is delusional, the poison can be messing with him and he'll hurt a child, if he hasn't already murdered the family previously occupying this house.
The girl suddenly opens her mouth, the jaw becoming unhinged as her head falls back and large spider legs start emerging from her throat, smaller spiders scuttling out from under the stained blankets by her feet.
Fuck no.
Well, insanity is a solid defence in a court of law.
[Miasma bomb x 2: This item is akin to a smoke bomb and does damage when opponents breathe it in.
Book: Secrets of the Mist.
Sickle Skin: The monster's skin is incredibly tough and can form armour if your Weapon Smith skill is levelled up enough. It gives you higher defence when worn.
Sickle Bone x 7: It's very sharp and hard to break, not to mention surprisingly aerodynamic.
Amrack Skull x 8: This item can turn into a shrapnel bomb with a little tinkering from your Weapon Smith skill.
Spider Silk Whip: When used, the tough silk lends you a higher attacking speed.]
"Activate Armoury, Sickle Bone," Kyouya says, and examines the weapon when it forms in his hand. The bone was as long as his hand from wrist to the top of his middle finger and weighed practically nothing.
He pegs it at the front door, and from where he was sitting half way up the steps, it hits the wood and sinks in until Kyouya couldn't see it any more. Yeah, that was going in his tonfa.
Kyouya was too busy working out the mechanisms for turning his tonfa into a dart gun to pay attention to the screen that pops up.
[You have completed Patrol-7
Reward: You have unlocked 'Nap'
Nap will allow certain areas to be safe grounds where nothing can attack you. Take a nap in a Nap and recharge your health.]
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A/N: Thanks for all the suggestions for skills and things that Kyouya could achieve. It seems we think alike, I'd planned most of it out already.
Okay, be patient with me, I haven't even started cannon so Kyouya has a lot of time to figure things out.
Next is the result of his tinkering (you'll all recognise it as an earlier Roll).
