Chapter 4: WHB
I love all my reviews! *hugs all reviews to chest and spins happily* They so make me want to write more! Harry's egg is going to hatch later in the story and I need some ideas for what's going to be inside. Oh! I love Zerri's idea for a flying pink bunny. *snicker*But I want something more connected to his past, like a dragon, a snidget (creatures they based snitches off of), a bird of some kind, a pygmy puff, or even a thestral…
And to answer why he thought it was weird is because 1. He never really played video games, 2. He really has no idea how a game works because of reason one, and 3. Usually the boss gave you an item but not one as rare as a growing type sword.
Oh, and I need to know if Harry should join Prince's team or just hang out with them…
Game Start:
Harry chocked on air. Really? Really! First the eyes and now this. The game had to be stalking him or using legilimancy on him or something! There's no way this could be a coincidence.
For the elderly man's sake he forced a small smile onto his face and stiffly nodded. He needed to kill something. Now. Specifically something that looked like a wolf…
Harry spent three days in the forest grinding on any monster that dared approach him. He even went off after higher level monsters than him just to waste some energy. This resulted in his levels rocketing up quickly. Right now the winged elf was at level twenty-two, which he thought was pretty good for someone who hadn't been playing for more than a week.
Before he had gone to sleep that night though, he had read through the manual again and saw that he had forgotten to get a job, which he should have done at level ten. Oops. Well now he could do that but first he needed to assign unused skill points first…
"System," Harry stated clearly. Or at least he had thought so; apparently the game didn't think so and was flashing error signs in his face.
Great, stupid British accent was always messing things up. It had led the Death Eaters to his door so many times. Sure he could learn the language with a pill, but that didn't change the fact that he talked a certain way. So any new foreigners that had learned the language but still talked with a British accent were immediate suspects on the Death Eaters list.
"Sy-ste-m," he tried. Almost immediately his stats popped up on the screen in front of him.
Name: Savior
Gender: Male
Type: Elf
Level: 22
Strength: 58 Endurance: 62 Agility: 92 Charisma: 80 Intelligence: 28 Wisdom: 30 Luck: -500/500 Health: 11,896 Mana: 200 Reputation: 1,120 Unused Skill Points: 150
Abilities lvl: Basilisk Eyes- 17 Invisibility- 12 Hover- 21 Flight- 19
"What unusual stats. I'm not much of a gamer but aren't they a bit high…. And seriously what is up with my luck!" Harry exclaimed irritated. Sighing, Harry distributed 52 points to strength, 2 to intelligence, 48 to defense (or endurance, whatever they wanted to call it), and the last 48 to agility. Now Harry didn't remember much about Dudley's video games but he was sure they weren't this high at this level. He also remembered reading in the guide that the statistics were randomly assigned, so why did he have to get the really high and weird ones?
"Whatever," Harry muttered and deactivated the screen.
Packing up his few belongings that he had scattered about, Harry set off toward Star city. Upon reaching the now bustling town, he activated his invisibility to keep out of the way of fangirls. Nervously, he crept by a group of giggling girls and sprinted away once he had safely passed them. Harry had never really noticed it before now, but there were a loooooot of fangirls roaming the city. Like millions… either that or he kept seeing the same ones, which meant they were somehow stalking him.
'CONSTANT VIGILANCE!' his thoughts screamed, but another voice in the back of his head stated that there was no one out to get him, he was only paranoid. The elf scoffed at that voice and decided he was definitely buying a mask. It wasn't paranoia if they were really out to get you. Weaving in and out of the crowd, Harry grinned in delight once he found the store he was looking for. The invisible elf slipped inside and deactivated his ability as he walked up to the NPC at the desk.
"I would like to become a warrior, please," Harry spoke softly. He had thought extensively on the subject. Harry was more suited to agility, so the ideal job would be thief right? Well he also liked to kill the monster and for that he needed strength, which the warriors had. Harry could also put his war training to better use as a warrior. He had thought briefly about being a mage or priest, but quickly tossed those ideas out because he had no patience to sit there and chant long incantations when he could just go up and slice the monster in half and he was never much of a healer, more of a fighter. An archer had also played on his thoughts, but Harry didn't really have good accuracy even after he had his eyes fixed with a muggle surgery. Any other job held no interest for him.
So the warrior job it was.
"For a warrior you need ten wolf fangs," the NPC said.
"Ah! Right, here I have around fifty of them," Harry said as he pulled out the smaller pouch he had stored the wolf fangs in. "I'll just exchange the rest for money."
The NPC nodded and gave Harry a pouch and the money to pay for the other fangs. With a thankful nod, Harry slipped into the corner of the shop and went to open his pouch. He reached in and slowly pulled out what he thought was going to be a weapon. Instead, it was smaller than the palm of his hand.
Harry's face scrunched up in confusion and he opened his hand, and then almost dropped the object to the floor in shock. It was a plain ring with a black stone sitting in the middle. A very familiar black stone, with a symbol carved inside of it.
"Holy Merlin's left testicle!" This couldn't be happening! The game creators had to have seen these things that they didn't create and tried to delete them or something. He knew for a fact that muggles didn't have any stories about the three brothers so there was no way they could have created these exact items. They had to have slipped into the game somehow. The only question was how. Didn't magic destroy anything technological? So, how could two magical items end up inside of a virtual reality game?
What about the wand? He knew he wasn't going to be a mage so he had no need of it. Harry swore to be careful to avoid anything that looked like the unbeatable wand. He missed the gleam his sword had taken at the thoughts its master was thinking. If it was more sentient, it might have cackled at how his poor master had been deceived.
Harry sighed but knowing he couldn't get rid of the ring (especially since it seemed to have followed him into the game along with the cloak) he slipped it onto his finger. It glowed for a moment before a system notice split the silence.
Savior Learned New Ability: Immortality (lvl 1)
Exasperated, the green eyed player slowly ambled back to the NPC.
"I would like to buy a mask. Preferably, one that covers the whole face if you have one," Harry said. The NPC nodded, told him to wait for a moment, and started digging through the less visible shelves. He came back and laid two masks down on the counter and looked at Harry expectantly.
The elf studied the masks critically. One was a bright blue with yellow rings surrounding the eyes and mouth area. It looked really weird because it had two black horns sprouting from the side. Those wouldn't work with his hood Harry thought and turned to inspect the other one.
This mask was much better. It was plain white with only red markings above and below the eyes. There were no protrusions except for the nose. It was actually quite simplistic and would work well with his cloak and his idea to stay hidden while in a crowd. So, he bought it.
Slipping on his mask, Harry walked out of the store to come face to face with a bunch of beast types that looked ready to mob someone.
"Hey, Boss this ain't who we was waitin' for! Hay little dude, you seen some pretty boy in that store? We really need to have a chat with 'im and we knews that he was gunna be comin' round these parts fer a while now," asked the one that looked like a bear.
"You idiot!" The tiger rounded on the other and whacked him across the muzzle
"Ow! Boss what waz that fer?"
"This is probably him! Just because he comes out in a mask doesn't mean it isn't," the tiger turned back towards Harry, who was now trapped in a ring of the beasts, "We been looking for you, little Bishie. You see we don't like your kind much. Even formed a club, we did. WHB stands for we hate Bishies. Did you know that? Of course you didn't, that's why I had to tell you."
During the speech, Harry had to wonder why the bad guys always had to make a long spiel about their plans and why they did what they did. It was honestly annoying. Harry just wanted to get to the fight, but for some reason his gut was churning. That was definitely not a good sign. The only times it had ever felt like it did now, was when he was getting into a situation that he might not get out alive.
Admittedly, he would only lose a level if he died, but he had a feeling these guys would track him down and beat him even after they had already killed him. They would probably try to kill him until he was a level one again.
"So, you know what we're gunna do with you? We're gunna throw you to the lovely nymphs and watch as they tear you apart out of anger and hate, not joy," the tiger boss snarled.
Well… that didn't sound too pleasant. Especially, since he knew that nymphs were only level sixty and up. He wouldn't have a chance. Harry sent a sharp kick at the unsuspecting rhino beast and hit him in the family jewels. The rhino went down and Harry jumped over his body, dodging grabbing arms as he went, and ran straight to the forest. Once there he could use his wings to fly away, but he would rather not show his ace here in front of everyone.
The beasts raged as they chased after the little bishie. They were all stronger than him by at least ten levels they knew. Hawk had seen his stats in the forest right before he had pulled his disappearing act in the town. They hadn't expected him to go for the balls of poor Horn. Hawk had stayed back to help their teammate recover before they joined the chase.
Right before Harry could reach the forest his path was cut off by a pissed rhino beast. The smaller body turned to run another direction, but found his path blocked again. A panic started to set in before he felt a sharp pain in his neck and fell like a rock.
OMAKE:
Wen Di loved her job as a Second Life creator. It was fun to create little impossible tasks just because she could. The other day though, she had noticed something new in the program. It looked like three viruses but when she looked more closely she could tell they were benign. Well there wasn't any reason to delete them if they weren't going to harm the program… So, she had ignored them and went about her day around the office with her sweet, precious coffee as her only friend.
Today she was lounging around her desk, idly checking for glitches in the program when the sudden urge to sneeze hit her. She tried holding it back, but the compulsion was too strong and a loud, "ACHOOO!" echoed throughout the room. An awkward silence descended on the room as all the other workers stared at her. She fidgeted for a moment before excusing her rudeness and turned back toward her computer. With a beet red face, Wen Di, vowed revenge on whoever had been talking about her behind her back.
AN: I'm the main role in the school play right now, so I'm really busy…
Abilities:
Basilisk Eyes: The higher the level the more energy is drained from looking into the user's eyes. It also casts a sort of compulsion that makes the enemy want to keep looking into the user's eyes. The higher level the monster the more resistant to the stare they become.
Hover: Allows the user to lighten the weight of anything he touches to take it with them on flights. The higher the level the easier it is to lift heavier objects.
Flight: Allows user to fly.
Invisibility: Allows user to become invisible to all players and NPC's for a period of time. The higher the level the longer the time the ability can be used.
Immortality: Allows user to become immortal for a small amount of time once HP hits zero. Once time is up, user is given 1 HP to get away from whatever is attacking them. The higher the level, the longer the immortality lasts.
