A/N Hi guys been a long time sorry I haven't uploaded anything in a while, I've been busy working on another project that's taken me a while to do the firs chapter of. If your'e interested in reading it it's up on wattpad just go search my name on wattpad and you'll find it. Also this chapter was just an idea I had a while ago. this chapter has nothing to do with the overall plot of reaper's summit, so anything that happens in this will not happen in the actual story, hence it is called an extra chapter. now you do have to know that some of what was said in this will happen eventually in the actual plot. one thing that i can say for fact is that Atticus and Charlie will never break up. i strongly believe that in order to have great strength you need someone you love more then your family and for Atticus that person is charlie. I would also like to thank the person who said i should enter Reaper's summit in a competition thank you but i've decided not to. im writing this for fun i dont care if i win anything, i only care that people are enjoying. so thank you for liking it enough to say that but im not entering it. so with that please enjoy the first extra chapter of Reaper's summit.
Extra chapter: Nothingness
"I HATE YOU!" She yelled as I walked in. Among the many things I thought I would hear when I got back that was not one of them. No sooner had I closed the door and turned around had Charlie started yelling at me. At first I thought it was some kinda joke, but when I saw the look on her face, tears streaming down her face as well as a mixture of emotions I couldn't make out other then one… hopelessness. Before I had time to register that this was happening she started yelling again.
"I HATE YOU! EVER SINCE THIS STUPID FUCKING GAME YOU'VE BEEN NOTHING LESS THAN ECSTATIC! ALL WHILE I'VE BEEN TERRIFIED! I FULLY BELIEVE EACH DAY WILL BE MY LAST, ALL BECAUSE OF THIS GAME! I NEVER ASKED TO BE HERE, YOU FUCKING TALKED ME INTO IT THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Each word hit me like a bullet.
"Why are you only bringing this up now?"
"I'VE BEEN THINKING LIKE THIS FOR A WHILE NOW, BUT I'VE FINALLY HAD ENOUGH OF YOU, THIS WORLD, AND my weak self." The last words barely even a whisper. She had been yelling at me with her head done and her fists clenched at her sides. But now she looked up and looked me in the eye's. The next thing she said left me stunned and unable to move for hours.
"IF YOU CAN'T EVEN PROTECT YOUR FRIENDS THEN HOW CAN YOU PROTECT ME, YOU'RE WORTHLESS...That's why I never want to see you or any of the others ever again." She said in a hushed voice. And with that she left giving me no time to respond. By the time i came back to my senses she was gone and had removed me from her friends list. I searched all over town but she was nowhere to be my head hanging low I returned to the inn and climbed the stairs to ou-... my room, shut the door, and sat down. The pain I felt wasn't one that lead to crying, like that of watching your friend's die, it was one of nothingness. It's like when a family member who has been in the hospital for a long time passes away. Sure it hurts but you already knew it would happen, you're more surprised they even lasted that long. And deep down no matter how much I had hoped I knew that this was coming.
-4 weeks later-
It's been a month since I last saw he. The clearing group has beat two more floors. Everything has gone on like before… well not everything. I'm still in the same room, no new equipment, levels, or skills. I've only left it to eat, and occasionally to search for Kallen or Ironwolf telling me to get the hell up and move on. I know I need catch up with the others, but every time I try Charlie's words played over in my head "YOU'RE WORTHLESS." I'll probably stay here until the game ends. Hell I might even just go kill myself there's no point in fighting now. I had no reason to live in this world, or the other. Charlie was everything to me.
"Fuck it." And with that I got up and left the inn. I walked through town in a daze heading for the monster fields. Before I had realised it I had equipped my armour and weapon out of habit. To lazy to remove my gear I headed out to fields prepared to die. The more I walked the more past memories came to me.
"I HATE YOU!" Charlie's face flashed before me. After that more memories from our time together. The first time she used a sword skill, when the game first started, when she bought her first katana, lastly her comforting me after Ryuk's death. The next memories were of Ace's death. It played over and over again in my head. I reached a group of wyvern who immediately agro'd me. I stood there head hanging low ready to die.
"Atticus what the hell are you are doing!" Someone yelled at me. I turned and saw Azazel, In his hand was a sword, three more were floating around him.
"What's it look like?"
"It looks like a man wallowing in self-pity, about to make a choice he can never unmake." He finished and launched a sword at the wyvern skewering one of them.
"What's it to you anyways? You're just a program." I looked at my health, at this rate the wyvern would take a few minutes to kill me.
"First of all i'm not whatever a program is, i'm a demon. Second i'm your friend of course I care." Another sentence another sword through a wyvern.
"I don't care anymore. I have nothing left to live for."
"That's not true and you know it! Think of what your friends and family will do if you die."
"WHAT ABOUT THE ONES I'VE ALREADY FAILED! WHAT ABOUT RYUK, WHAT ABOUT NYSSA, AND ACE! AND WHAT ABOUT CHARLIE!" With each name their face into my mind, and with their faces came a fresh wave of guilt. The wyvern to my left started charging a breath attack but before it could finish Azazel killed it with another a sword.
"YOU'RE STRONGER THEN THEM! THEIR SACRIFICES HAVE MADE YOU STRONGER!"
"EVEN IF THAT'S TRUE WHAT'S THE POINT IN BEING STRONGER IF I CAN'T PROTECT THE PEOPLE I CARE ABOUT THE MOST!"
"I can't answer that only you can." The wyvern to my right charged earning it Azazel's last sword. Now my health was in the red.
"You can't stop me, If I wanted I could just jump off the side of Aincrad."
"You're right I can't stop you, but before it's too late remember your promise to Ryuk and Ace."With that he turned and walked into the shadows and disappeared. I hate it when people do that, when they wait till the last possible second to to give you the reason to not do something you'll regret, but thank god or satan in this case that Azazel did. Ryuk's dying wish how could i have forgotten. Even if Ace and Nyssa had died I still had five people counting on me, and many to hunt down and kill. I grabbed my scythe and in one motion took it off my back and activated a skill to distance myself from the last wyvern. I grabbed a used a healing crystal. I dodged the wyverns charge and cut it in half.
-Two hours later-
I waited in the lobby of the inn while everyone gathered. It didn't take long for everyone to show up. Kallen was the first to show up, followed by Iron, Seamuz, Animal and cooker.
"Thank god you finally left that room." Kallen said giving me a hug when she reached me.
"Yeah took a long enough." Ironwolf said giving me fist bump when he reached me.
"Can you tell us why you messaged for a meeting in the middle night?" Animal asked tiredly.
"Yeah and why is there a guild symbol next to your name." Seamuz asked curiously. I smiled, opened my menu and sent everyone a message.
"The hell is this?" Seamuz asked now annoyed.
"Open it and find out." one by one they opened it all greeted by the same thing
-You have been invited to join the following guild-
Reaper's Summit
