CHAPTER 3: QUE?
With trembling hands and a shaky breath he grabbed the final two items from the box. A note and Ma wristband. The wristband seemed to be made of iron and silver. It had swirling patterns that seemed to be etched in iron, then he saw that it had a blue evenly cut gemstone in the shape of two pyramids with the bottom stuck to each other. This gemstone had two wings on either side that covered a decent part of the wristband. The metal had a cold icy feeling but the crystal had a warm glow. Then he heard a wise motherly voice say, "Don't worry child for I believe in you." He held the wristband to his chest. He suddenly realized he was silently crying. "Why am I crying?" He gently put the wristband on the bed and looked at the note. "I trust that you have already seen the three items in the box and experienced each one of them. These items are each a manifestation of the one who has opened the box. They will help you in the chain of events. The path beyond you must find by yourself. But don't worry you'll have friends right next to you. Keep in mind that if you take this key you will change your life forever. I can't say if it's for better or for worse but either way you'll make friends and you'll have them fighting by your side the whole time." "Oh thank god this shit is normal ink." He also couldn't help but notice how the writing style seemed different and how calm he felt now. "Alright now I gotta tell Havoc." He picked up his headset and slipped it on. He activated it and turned on his computer. As Steam was loading he heard his mom enter the room. "Jason im going to go get some groceries you wanna go with me?" "No im okay I actually have some schoolwork to do." He lied, he decided he would tell his friend Johnoimous about what was happening.
Havoc98 is now online
Classy Cthulhu is now online
Johnimous is now online
Classy Cthulhu: Hey guys.
Johnimous: Hey
Havoc98: Sup' ginaqueef.
Classy Cthulhu: Quit that shit faggle this is serious.
Johnimous: What happened?
Havoc98: Jason got these weird packages.
Johnimous: Like what?
Classy Cthulhu: Cryptic messages with possibly cursed items and no return address.
Johnimous: Weird, I got a letter yesterday it was a yellow paper with old ink that said "Prepare for unforeseen consequences.
Havoc98: I got something similar about an hour ago. Except mine had two back handprints on each side with the fingers extended as if they were dragged…
Classy Cthulhu: I dunno this is suspicious.
Johnimous: So what were the packages specifically?
Classy Cthulhu: A ring, a wristband, and a necklace; these were all in a locked box, then there was a journal and a locked book.
Havoc98: You never told me what was in the journal.
Classy Cthulhu: Its blank, apparently it's for me to document my travels.
Johnimous: Did you unlock the book?
Classy Cthulhu: It says if I open it I can't go back.
Havoc98: Well you might aswell open it already, aren't you curious?
Jason stared at the book, he has always been curious as to what was inside. He also remembered that he's never actually looked at it. But he's always kept it in the back of his mind. He's had this strange…. Drive to see what it is. He grabbed the bag with the keys and took the one that was colored silver, It looked like one of those in the 1800's except that it had an alchemy circle on the part that would stick out. It also had a hole on one end. "Probably so that they wouldn't lose it." Thought Jason. He put the key down and looked at the book. It had what looked to be, a bunch of Celtic style weaving that was etched in gold. Then it all connected to a pair of wings. The lock was in the middle. He felt a drive to open it as if a little voice in his head was urging him on. Not taking his eyes off the book he reached for the key. He fumbled around for a few seconds until he grabbed it. Hands shaking from how nervous he was he also had to admit that he was excited. He put the key and it clicked in place he twisted it and he saw the lock loosen. Jason grabbed the belt of leather that was connected to the lock and pulled it away. He opened the book and saw that the inside of the cover was filled with symbols ranging from alchemy, and cryptid/creepy pasta symbols like operator logo to emblems from videogames, comics and anime. The first page on th right also had a jumble of names. So many in fact that it was un-intelligible there were names written within names and writing that wasn't even in English. When he turned the page he saw that it was blank. Except for four words and a circle with lots of words around the rim. Please PLACE THUMB HERE. "Not this shit again." He put his thumb on the page and felt a sharp pain. "Ah! Fuck that hurt!" He looked down at his thumb and saw it was bleeding. As he cradled it in his hand he saw that the page had a small blade was stained with his blood and the words were rearranging themselves into a paragraph. "A HERO FOR ALL OR A VILLAIN OF MIGHT THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD OR THE APOCALYPSES DELIGHT AN ENDER OF FIENDS OR A FIEND OF ENDERS THE HOPE FOR GOOD OR THE GREATEST OFFENDER. OUR CHOSEN ONES PATH MUST BE FORGED ALONE FOR THEM TO AID THE ONE ON THE QUEST OF THE WORLD. LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN." Then the letters began to glow and the eye of truth opened as the shadowy hands appeared with lightning and everything. "OH GOD NO! NO! NOT THAT!" Was the last thing he said before he got transported. In a primal state of fear he began to search for the portal. But all he saw was a white room with fluorescent lights and a single set of heavy double doors. Then he noticed that his clothing was different. Now he had a black button shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a Cthulhu t-shirt, a deadman wonderland beanie, black jeans and dark green converse. He also had a small backpack that was somehow big enough to fit all the things in the package. He quickly put on all three of the items and noticed that he felt more; complete…. somehow. Then he saw two people getting up near him one of them had a white ezio hoodie with a red t-shirt that had the hitman logo on it, weathered jeans and brown boots. When the hood fell off he saw that the first one had black pulled back hair, and lightly tanned skin with light brown eyes. Then the last one was wearing a black t-shirt with the NERV logo, a red camo patterned hoodie with faded blue jeans with black and white running shoes. He had pail skin black short hair with green eyes. All of them looked at each other in a confused state… Jason looked at the one in the ezio hoodie. "H- Havoc?" Havoc looked at him… "Classy?" Jason nodded. He looked at the one in the camo hoodie. "Johnoimus?" Johnoimus looks at him. "Uh yeah." Havoc looks around the room. "What are we doing here?" asked Jason. Havoc looks at him "I figured you'd know." Johnoimus kept looking around the room confused. Jason looks at the two and states "Alright we gotta know each other's real names my name is Jason." Johnoimus looks at them. "Mine's Johnn." Havoc looks at both of them." My name is Vergil." Jason looks at the door. "Alrighty then let's see what lies beyond the door shall we?" The three look at the door. "Alright." "Sounds like a plan." As they open the double doors they walk outside into the street. "An alleyway huh?" Thought Jason as he walked onward. The trio walked onward upon exiting the alleyway what they saw made them stop in their tracks. "Holy shit." Said Jason under his breath. The place looked like a mix of Akihabara with Earth from Mass Effect. But that wasn't the weird part. The weird part was the people walking on the street. Ranging from people in clothing out of Final Fantasy, to creatures out of an anime. "Wow." It truly was the only thing they could say. Then they heard what sounded like a Combine soldier's radio. And that's when the guys in gasmasks showed up. About seven guys with smg's and shotguns in bulletproof armor and Combine soldier masks showed up out of the alleyway. One of them had an assault rifle and his armor had golden yellow trims along with a golden yellow mask. He raised up his hand to his ear. "This is squad one we found our target." He pauses nods and says to the rest of the team. "We got permission to shoot to kill take em out headshots on the kid with the backpack the items inside are not to be damaged." "FUCKING RUN GUYS." Screams Jason as they take off into the street. "What are we supposed to do?" asks Vergil catching up to him. "Try to find a store or a mall somewhere where we can lose them!" says Jason back. Johnn pats Jason on the shoulder and says "There!". Jason smiles "Johnn you lifesaver!". As they run in the mall Jason says "Split up! Try to be inconspicuous." And with that he runs into the first clothing store he finds. He hid in the bathroom in a hurried frenzy. "Aw fuck why would I put these on? I hope the other two are okay." As he hid in the stall he heard the clunk of heavy boots and an all too familiar radio. "He's in here." They started kicking down stall doors and where nearing his fast. "Shit what do I do?" SLAM "I found one of our targets."