Hello everyone, it's me and I'm back with a story about my favorite vidéo game franchise being Dragon Quest, the grandfather of all JRPGS, it has been fifteen years since I know it and became a fan of it, love the stories, worlds, almost every characters, the combat mechanic, the game play, the fact that it stays on its roots, however it doesn't mean I don't have rantics about it, after all nothing is perfect and they are not an exception to this rule, this story at the start was supposed to be only being about my favorite game of the main series but now it is every game, I have played them all and finished almost all of them except DQIII/V and X, X for obvious reason if you know, if you don't it's because it's a MMORPG that unlike its more succesful cousin here Final Fantasy never left the shore of Japon and translated to us while FFXI and FFXIV did, one of them having a really bad start in the west, this story is also my way to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Dragon Quest, the story will be played in numeral order, also I post chapter of this story as much and as fast as I can before I leave for summer vacation, and maybe I'll post during it though very unlikely.

With the Hero in Super Smash Bros Ultimate, the ten hours playable demo of DQXI, DQI/II/III bundle on Switch, Dragon Quest Builders I and II on Switch, Dragon Quest Heroes I and II on Switch, Dragon Quest XIS on Switch, Dragon Quest I/II/III/IV/V/VI and VIII on Mobile a while ago, Dragon Quest IV/V/VI and IX on DS and Dragon Quest VII and VIII on 3DS also a while ago, the presence of Dragon Quest is stronger than it never had been before in the west, the sales are rising and the future of the series in our countries is looking brighter that it never had before, more and more games we never got are translated and us fans can only towards the future that's waiting for us after the announcement at the 35th anniversary of Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest XII, a remake of the famous Dragon Quest III coming maybe on Switch on our countries, famous for the urban legend it created, Dragon Quest X Offline... also maybe in our countries though it is extremely unlikely, like Dragon Quest XII is titled let's hope that the flames of fate bring it to us, a lot of Americans plays it already.

Embark with me as I bring realism to it, come, don't be afraid, this franchise will show to us all like it showed me and still shows me that in each of us a Hero is laying dormant, even if you don't think you have the strength, that you aren't brave, slightly or more slightly different than others, that you and I have accepted that difference or not, if you were loved and still loved or not, at least not for everything you are, if you were liked and still liked or not, again at least not for everything you are, if you had friends and still have them or not if you don't have any anymore, it's okay, others will accept you for who you are truly by showing their kindness to you, even if you think you reach the bottom, think of this, now you can only climb up afterward, it might not be easy, for some it's easier than others, others are stronger than you, smarter than you, they can judge you, they might ask from you that you change, but don't listen to them, stay you, that it what matters the most, it's you that choose to change or not, if you need to that it, and want to, it's your choice in the end, do not say things that could harm others than you regardless of what it is, even if you can't see it the pain you deliver can be much more than you think, do that for one simple reason, it could have been you, no one has the same amount of chance or opportunity in life, even so we're equals in the end, because compared to the immensity of our universe we're nothing, we're all small than eyes can't see compared to it, live, accept all the choice you did in your lfe, good or bad, no matter how good or bad they were, accept them because you can't change them and move forward, rise us for everyone or just anyone that care about you or the other way around, that it's you that care for anyone or everyone you care about, follow to see that this franchise can be funny when it needs too along with how sad, dark and serious as well, I don't own Dragon Quest and neither Square Enix, this is Fair Use, with the mandatory thing done let begin.

Wish made at the right time

Chapter 1: A normal young adult male Human introduce himself and explains what happened to him:

Have you ever heard your parents, some of your family, someone close to you or others that you should never play or being near something electric when a thunderstorm is happening? If yes is your answer well me too, though if you're a gamer like me it's not like this never stop us to continue.

A little about me, my name while I can't say it to you completely to stay anonymous it begins with a j and ends with a y, how long it is? I will not say it, I'll be Jy for now on in this story and the default name of each Hero, my age? I'll give you an estimation, I'm between twenty and thirty years old, my gender? I can say that much, I'm male, I'm 1,56 meters in height, don't want to tell you my weight, my hair color is brown, dark chatain to be exact, I have brown eyes, I am myopic so I wear glasses, I am a non-practicing Catholic, where I live? I can't tell you exactly where I live but I can tell you my country, I live in France, this means I'm French, this meas my first language is French, not English so if you see grammar erros and misstypo now you know, I grew up like most kids, living in a home in a small village that is not commonly known, and those that knows iit know it at the village you're passing through to go to either the three more known town around where I live, you want to know them? Sorry I can't tell you, this home I always lived is the only home I knew though when I was born the family I still live with lived in one of the towns before I could remember anything from it since I was still very young, I grew up with a father, a mother and a older sister, my sister had been jealous of me for a long time, because she thought my mother cared more for me than her since she protected me more, I was not blind compared to her though, in truth it was me that was jealous of her to spend so much time with my mother compared to me, doing mother sister thing with each other, my mother loves me like a mother love her son though she never completely understood me and thinks that everything I do is useless, she's not completely wrong, I can see it for myself too and while it is useless physically, for me it is not mentally, those things she said are useless brought me so much, much more than I thought, she doesn't understand and don't want to understand what I see, what I feel, despite none of those things being real the feelings they brought to me are, each of their stories entered inside of me and leaving a piece inside of me, my dad, I have a normal dad, enjoying sports and race cars, two things I don't like myself, my bond with him is the same as with my mother, he never said that what I do is useless, he can't when he doesn't live us with us for almost a decade now, him and my mother are divorced, the reason you asked? Did he cheated on my mother? No, no it isn't, it's worse, my father caught a mental disease, this made become violent and before it was too late my mother divorced as I was eight, the last time I saw my father was when I was a teenager, the last time I speak with him with a phone was long ago.

I am a burden for my mother, and sometimes she even says to me that if I keep on going I'll end up just like my dad, talk about a way to encourage your son, I didn't had a lot of friends upon growing, the most I had was before college, even before I was bullied do to my size and how weak I was, and still his to this day, high school was better but it continued, as for how smart I am well I'm bellow average, I didn't get a diploma, I don't have my driver licence yet, and right now to do a certain something everything is put on pause, like I said before my mother isn't wrong about me, she even sometimes ask me if I like living like that, of course I don't, it's obvious i'm not and that I not happy, I don't want to be a burden but with no diploma, no car and the slim amount of skills I have I can't go far, romantic life? Well I'm weak, small and have bellow average intelligence, girls that are interested by that are not walking on the streets very often, do to this I never had a girlfriend and never kiss a girl yet for my age, my type of girls you're asking? Well if you want an exemple from a vidéo game I like the types of girls like Jade, get rid of all of her sexy outfit along with Puff-Puff she has only for fanservice and you have her, someone that doesn't need a strong male to protect herself, do to who I am along with living with two girls let me know they're equal to me, I've always treated girls as my equals and even sometimes better than me, however the only girls that spoke with me were for bullying me, it was the type of girls that mostly think about apparence, speaking clothes, make-up, crying for nothing over breaking a nail, you know the type and it isn't my type, I'm not saying there's something wrong acting like that by the way, just that it isn't my type, kind girls are my second type, though it isn't over, I didn't told you before but I'm bi-curious, yep, that's a reason why I like tomboy girls, even if boys also bullied me it was easier for me to speak with me, especially if they like what I like, the only friend I have left that I still can call like this is actually my best friend, he's a male like me and likes most of the same thing as me, the different between me and him is I'm slight while he has weight, he's not fat though, also he has curly long hair while I have short hair, the big problem is that I only saw me once a year at summer vacation so my best friend is actually a summer friend, two weeks each year, me and him likes Yu-Gi-Oh! and vidéo games, the thing that brought the two of us to meet each other actually, he was playing with his DS, I think it was Pokémon, he was playing outdoor while I was on one of the swing not very far from the bench he was siting on, curious as I am and since I like vidéo games I sat next to him to watch to what he was playing and the beginning of our friendship began that day, I think about it now but it was surprising for me to do that, siting next to a stranger, with the style of life I have you can bet I'm timid, even maybe introvert, I take some time to speak normally with someone I don't know first, but you can be sure that after it and especially if we have something in common I'm like any other guy.

Because I'm bi-curious which no one beside me and all of you reading thing now I only had three intimate relationship, and each time it was with the same gender as mine, the two I would not speak, but the first I can, it is none other than with my best friend, and only preliminaries, both of us hadn't what it takes to go further, especially me, and it was before I fully accepted myself as bi-curious mind you, how I found out I was bi-curious and accept it you ask? Pretty normal way actually in our time period, Internet, me and my best had several intimate relationship and while I can't say I didn't felt anything for him, it would be a lie if I do, I can definitely say it wasn't love, also he told me he was gay and even ask me if we could be together, it was very flatering since it was the first time it happened to me but I said no for reasons, one of them being that I want kids, I know, adoption exist, thank you very much to let me know it even if I knew it already, while I know it doesn't matter I want them to be related to me by blood, yes I know again, we could ask for a girl and once of giving what is needed but for me it will be differnet again, if you wondering which gender I want to have first I don't care, if I have a daughter I knew I would be a protective dad, as if I have a son I will show him and made him experience some of the stories I play in the past, even playing with him at games I don't like, even if doesn't like vidéo games and like sports, cars or any normal boy activities I wouldn't care and I would kind of force myself to enjoy them, but mostly to enjoy the time spent with him, also no matter what they want to do later I will support them, even if I don't like what they do personally it isn't my life, I can't choose for them, it's their choice not mine, I just hope that when the time come and if the time come, the second being the biggest one obviously, I just hope I can help them if they need it, but for that I have to find the one for me, of course I already had crush however before thinking about love I have other more urgent matters, it doesn't help that I'm easily going towards laziness.

There's one point about me that I found funny despite my laziness, if something interest me you can bet I'm doing my hardest to learn everything about it, I don't know why that's the case but that's how it is, it only ever thrice so far, two times about vidéo games and one time about a movie franchise I recently became a fan of it, if you want to know them well you know one of them being Dragon Quest which is the second, the first is Pokémon and as for the third it is Land Before Time, if you want specifics I know the enterity of the chart of effectiveness and non-effectiveness and how to breed competive Pokémon with IV and EV, I'm an amateur in it, for Dragon Quest I know some of the recipes for alchemy in it, as for Land Before Time it's more complicated to explain than vidéo games, if you know it and saw it or only saw it I know they actually calculated the exact amount of time needed for a dinosaur with a long neck to move it around and look behind it without turning around himself instead.

Playing vidéo games is what I like the most to do, and I still remember clear as day the first time I played one before I became addicted to it, it was on the Atari 2600 that my mother still owns and the game was Jungle Hunt when I was three years old, my mother also has others game, we also had a NES with the games you expect, Super Mario 1, 2, 3 and Duck Hunt, we also had Batman and Ice Hocket and that's pretty much all the games I can remember, though those consoles weren't mine, the first wasn't even one, it was a Gameboy Color with two games for my fifth birthday, Pokémon Red and Gold, I might be bellow average intelligence but I could read and I never got stuck in then, I could and still can do Rock Tunnel without Flash since you can somewhat see the walls in this version only and even without it the tunnel isn't that complicated, it's mostly a one way cave, I had to deal with much worse cave than this one in my gamer life, I'm looking at you the cave leading to Rendarak in DQII which is recent, the one that build you was a sadist, unknowingly to me it was not only the first time that I play with the genre of vidéo games that will become my favorite being RPGs but it was also my first J-RPG and unknowingly to me again it was thanks to what will later on become my favorite vidéo game franchise that the concept of monster collecting game was created, my first console was a Nintendo 64 just at the end of his life with three games when I was six years old, Super Mario 64, Banjo-Tooie and my third J-RPG that will became my favorite game for a long time being Paper Mario, the number of times I play that game and enjoyed it and still do is numerous, though I miss its great sequel and only play it once for a hour in one of my cousin's family home, a shame, I skip the next one I have for now being the most important one for me, I then had a Nintendo DS with Mario Kart DS, a Nitendo DSi, a Nintendo 3DS, a Playstation 3 with GTA IV, it was also at that time that the home I live got Internet, a Playstation 4 with Dragon Quest XI and a Nintendo Switch with The Legend of Zelda Breat of the Wild, a third of my vidéo game collection is constitued of RPGs or games with RPG elements in them, I will not enumerate them all for your sake, I also played or watched some I missed, emulators and Youtube are my friend, I know emulators is bad and all but sometimes it's the only way us gamers has to plays some classic gems of the past, like an exemple for me being Chrono Trigger, one of the greatest J-RPG ever made, even now I had a great time with it and I can said it has aged very well.

My gamer life however changed forever one fateful day, I remember it clear as day, I was eating noodles with my mother and sister, I know, French people eating noodles, it's a cliché but a true one, we were watching TV and it was publicity time, then the trailer of the vidéo game that will forever change my life passed, after the end of it I literally dropped my fork in my plate, I wanted that game, no I needed that game in my life, he had everything I like in it, what was that game you're asking? It should be obvious by now, it was Dragon Quest: Journey of the Cursed King, now before you said anything yes I know it's the eighth one, what type of fan I would be if I didn't? However this is how it was written for a simple reason, it was the first Dragon Quest released in France, you heard me, unlike Americans we French never had to experience any of them until this one while they had the first, second, third, fourth and seventh one along with the eighth one of course, if they had written eighth on it I would I asked myself earlier than what I asked myself normally wait eight? I never heard of this game, then I would I found the sad fact we never got the seventh first one before the eighth one and it took a long time to get the one we have, if you never had seen the trailer I strongly advise to at least seen it one, and maybe through it you'll understand why I needed it, and maybe it would even made you a fan as well if you're not one yet, you can find it easily on Youtube by typing Dragon Quest 8 PS2 Trailer #2, yes the second one, the first is Japanese, like I said before I am a non-practicing Catholic so at my second communion I asked my father to buy me a PS2 with DQ8 when I was twelve years old, the exact age required to play it, everything aligned, nothing could stop me to have this game and I did... though like my father and I didn't knew a memory card was needed to save which for me was the first time such a thing happened, I was used of the game keeping the save and not the console itself with a must add-on, this game is near perfect to me, my favorite one in the franchise, nostalgia clearly having a factor along that it was my first Dragon Quest game, and none only it that this game is seen by many fans of the franchise like as one of the best game of the franchise, the first time I heard Overture I could feel the adventure I was about to embark, the music of the world map, mysterious yet invinting you to explore it, the cell shading, the desing of the characters, their personalities, the symphonic original soundtrack and voice acting, two things we got as exclusive, each characters felt legitimately human and alive despite not and them being lines of zeros and ones, I even had a crush on Medea and didn't simp for Jessica one bit even though she's more my type than Medea, the story she has with the Hero is just so good, even adding Jessica as a marriage option to satisfy fans in the 3DS version didn't do anything to me.

The game does at it flaws though, I can think of the grind you had to do against the boss at the middle of the game to have a better chance to win against him because he has two attack per turn int his second phase and he has group attacking spells, and when you don't have any group healing spell it only needs a turn where you low and that the game decide after calculation of everyone speed that the boss attack first only for him to use two group attacking spells while you have only two playable character with a single target healing spells that heals you completely, this is a spike in dificulty if I've ever saw one, the fight is not unwinnable without it though keep in mind that you fight his second form right after the over withou a chance to heal so you have already less MP than what you had along with any damage left from the previous fight, the second being that at one point in the game for a moment the evil threat become less threatening by doing a mistake which unlike before he never did, it's not big but still, and finally is the third is when you see the evil threat for the first time, I remember how hard I laughed do to how threatening he looks which is not much if you want to know, the grind isn't that long if you know what you're doing and the 3DS fix it because you can speed it up and with an item you double EXP, usually when I arrived to him I need four levels to have the group healing spell, nothing Liquid Metal Slimes can't fix, even if I saw the twist happening in the middle of the game coming from miles in that game do to my experience of RPGs the game still suprised me.

Anyway, now you know me and you know me more that I think you wanted to know by reading this, but now it's time to tell you how my life was turned upside day during the night while a thunderstorm was currently happening, I was nicely placed with my pajamas inside the sheets of my two person bed while I was playing Dragon Quest 8: Journey of the Cursed King on my Nintendo 3DS which was currently charging which meant she was plug on an outlet, I was currently playing on my near 100 percent complete save file, my Hero I have named it by his default name, Eight, all my characters were level 99 and had almost the best gear they can have, each of their respective skill trees were maxed out, what I was doing was farming stat boosting seeds on the second added bonus dungeon and my Hero was the nearest to have all his stats at max 999, the two left were Resillience and Agility, Resillience being the closest to max out, I had just Estark and I had beaten him in four turns, my record which I was proud of, everything was as usual, he made me gainex his amount of EXP which I don't need, after his text box which I mash the A button to go as fast as possible to see what type of seeds he will give me which were were Agility which I was glad since at this point I don't need either Seed of Life and Seed of Skill I sigh I before I said this to myself.

Jy: "'Sigh' Why real life isn't like this vidéo game? It would be much more easier if it was, how I wish to live in fake world"

This was a sincere wish of my part, with a life such as mine now who wouldn't wish that, especially a gamer, also how many gamers has said the same thing as me? I'm sure it's more than numerous, as I was growing up I never thought being an adult was this, now how I wish it was possible to go back to this much more easier time that is being a children? A lot, it can't happen though, like my wish can't in reality, however this isn't reality isn't it? For a little while I begin to write stories, stories like this one than my mother thinks as useless, well this time a wish like this one was about to be granted, all because it was wish upon at the right, suddenly a lightning bolt felled directly on the TV antenna of the home where I live, the shock of sudden and loud sound made me jumped in suprise, if it was possible I'm sure my head would be stuck in the ceiling like in kid cartoons back in the day, I only had a second to recover as my hear was beating rapidly while I thought to myself that maybe I should stop playing for the night to sleep, that's all the time I had at my disposal as I suddenly see the electrical surge traveling in the cable since I could see some sparks leaking out coming towards my 3DS which also meant me since I had my two hands on it, I said said in my mind and little afraid of seeing this what the fuck is this along with meaning to let out of my 3DS so I would not be electrocuted and die however I never had time to finish this phrase as the electrical suddenly traveling faster, faster than the speed of sound and maybe even the speed of time since I only had time to blink once before I didn't saw the electrical surge though I did heard the loud noise along with seeing the sparks escaping the part my 3DS was pluged on by the cable that connected it to the outled, the noise and the sudden light this produce made me close my eyes, when I opened them again my 3DS seemed to be fine as I was also hearing the thunderstorm calming down, I examine my 3DS to see if it was fine and it seems to be, only the smell of burnt was left for me to smell, I then used the button of the camera to see of the game was still going and hadn't crash, to my surprise the button worked and the camera moved, I then tried the circle pad to move the protagonist and see him moving as if nothing happened, I pushed X to open the menu, look at some menus, everything worked just fine as if nothing, I let a sight of relief upon seeing that, I said to myself to use the seeds I just got then do a quick save but as soon as I used the first one the game began to suddenly glitch for three seconds before the game crashed and the console power herself off, upon seeing this I said this.

Jy: "'Frustrated groan' Just great, here goes three hours of seed farming wasted"

I reacted like that because my 3DS was old and had a bad habit to do that, worried that a problem might had happened to my favorite game then slightly more important my savefile I pushed on the power on button unti the portable console power herself on and showed me her menu which was fine and normal, I pushed on the game app, option, tab, whatever you want to call it and I wait for the game, the introduction then began but a second later the game begins to glitch along with Overture playing being barched out, it was already bad that the soundtrack was MIDI but this was worse, I obviously began to panic as I was thinking my favorite game was broken

Jy: "Oh no! This is the wors-'touch the touchscreen'"

I suddenly interrupt myself because I felt different, though since my gaze was focused on the touch screen I didn't saw immediately what was happening to me and why I suddenly felt different, my entire body was now zeros and ones and my character model figure if you want to call it thay, as I finally saw this and began to panic even more as my heart beat really fast and adrenaline begin to course in my veins I feel myself begin to float along with several other items in my bedroom before my lines of zeros and ones and my character model figure joined closer together a ball of datas, my datas I react like this before I'm suck inside my 3DS even though I don't know how I manage to react and said what I said in my current form, it was like what happened to the protagonist in Digimon World 1 on Playstation 1.

Jy: "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"

Unknow to me I was about to live my childhood of saving life, when I was young I wanted to be a firefighter, all those RPGs I played had showed me the Hero that is laying dormant inside pf me, playing them obviously made me develop a hero syndrome, the andventures and journeys I was about to embark to become a true Hero myself, not one born to be one or choosen to be one but one through my actions that's what makes a true Hero, and I'm going to become the first realistic Hero.