Author's note – So let me just start by saying this will be my first fanfiction so please let me know your thoughts on it. And I own nothing, bleach belongs to its creator Tite Kubo and my OC belongs to me.
Chapter 1
Honestly, when I look back on the moment that forever would change my life either for better or worse the beginning of it was one hell of a start to a new life. All I remember was just playing Kingdom Hearts III and trying to finally beat it nearly a year after its release.
I unfortunately had no time when it came out to fully beat it due to both college and work. I still don't know why the entities that chose me of all people for a "new" start at life would pick me in the first place. One thing I did know was that they were sadistic monsters.
My life by no means was the greatest, I work at a grocery store in a bad area. As in you have drug deals in broad daylight in parking lots in a crappy shopping area and cops that constantly patrol the area. The community college I was going to was a huge piece of shit if I ever saw one. It was also dirt cheap otherwise I would never give them the time of day.
What little "family" I had left were no family to me. My mom and dad long since passed on, but I made do with what I had and enjoyed my life to the fullest of what I could, after all life is like a tunnel. There will always be a light at the end of it. Despite it seeming so crappy, there were other people that had it way worse than I did.
Well as I remember it happening at the time, I finally got to the last few boss fights of the game after playing for a couple of hours after getting up in the afternoon. the one that was really giving me a run for my money would happen to be the Xemnas and Ansem boss fight. The main reason being for that incredibly annoying combo attack that gets me every time. I can't for some reason properly block all of it like an idiot.
After about the third attempt and another failure on my part, I get a random message from some guy calling himself 'Beyonders' on the PlayStation doing so through a random friend request. I obviously thought it was just another scammer or some random person I have no clue about and want nothing to do with them. I look at the message on their friend request and immediately think to myself 'it's another scammer. Of course I have to deal with this on my only day off this week…'.
This is due to them saying to a random stranger "hello, this is not a scam! We the Beyonders are giving you the reward of a lifetime! You are being given a new clean slate at life! We will be sending you to a new world to enjoy said new life. Along with a new makeover of your choice and a random aspect of an object, person, or ability bonded to your soul."
Who the fuck does this? Someone has way too much on their hands… Well I do what I do with all the other random friend requests I get. And… delete! Now back to the pain in the ass boss fight! But now the game won't pop back on screen at all when I click on it?
'The fuck?'
For a few seconds I just keep clicking on it and nothing happens. Then I get yet another friend request. The same guy…
'You have got to be kidding me. I swear Sony can you get your shit together and actually make some not so laggy and glitchy system?' I think to myself and check the new friend request just to get it off my notifications. And low and behold it's the same asshole as before. Same damn message.
And deleted again. 'Now to see if I can get on the ga- 'and a new popup of a friend request… "Okay asshole, this is getting old really fast. I don't got all day for this shit." As soon as I finished speaking those last words is when it got freaky.
Suddenly, my screen starts doing stuff all on its own. I am now legit freaking out in stunned silence as I try to use the controller only for it to not respond to it. Now I am seeing it showcasing what looks like a 3D model of a blank male design thing? The hell is going on? Then words pop up on the top of the screen says, 'pick your look!'.
I get up off my reclining chair and take a quick look around my living room in my apartment, making sure this isn't some elaborate prank just in case I am getting punked. I am not seeing any cameras at all.
I finally decide to just get the heck out of the apartment when I realize this might not be a prank. But as I get ready to walk to the door outside of the apartment a loud electronic screeching noise stops me dead in my tracks as I cover my ears from how loud and painful it is and curl up into a ball on the floor.
I don't know how long it lasted like that. Could have been seconds to minutes with how much it hurt. It was bad enough I had tears in my eyes and felt like someone was taking a pair of super-heated ice picks and shoved them into my ears going to my brain. I slowly and shakily get up off the ground feeling slightly dizzy from whatever the hell that was.
When I finally get a clear enough head and wipe the tears from my eyes, I hear the user interface noises the PlayStation makes on the screen. I look over and see a model of Ansem the seeker of darkness. With it says 'random appearance has been selected! Now for you to get the intro and aspect!' as the words are appearing, I run for the front door of my apartment trying to get the hell away from whatever freaky supernatural crap that is happening in my home.
Except the door won't open after I quickly unlock the main lock and chain lock. I am full on turning the knob and pulling it with everything I got, and it isn't budging. As I keep pulling, I am then falling onto my back after several pulls with all my strength backed up by adrenaline and fear. Thinking it was whatever had a hand with my TV somehow putting me on the floor, I look around cautiously and see and hear nothing.
Then I realize I have something in my hand and look at it and see the fucking doorknob is in my hand!? I look at the door and see no sunlight coming out of the hole where it was, just nothing but dark on the other side. As I am trying to process what is up with that, I hear a small chime from the TV.
I immediately get up and try to go to the kitchen window but as I turn around, there is no way to the kitchen. All walled off. As in there is no kitchen no more, just a wall as if it had always been like that. I hear another chime again, and slowly turn my head to the TV. I see the same screen, but then it turns off.
I am about to have another go with the door only to have the TV start sparking and immediately a bright flash and a burning pain is all I remember before darkness overcame me.
After what may have been an eternity of being what was a dreamless sleep, with no thoughts, no worries, was ended all of a sudden by my return to consciousness. As I am waking up, I immediately remember all of what happened to me and open my eyes. I get up and I am ready to start running. But what I see around me pauses me in my panic and fear.
"What is going on?" I immediately checked my surrounding if you can call it that for whoever's voice that was for it was not my own. Seeing nothing but what looked like dark clouds with a greater darkness behind those as if it would pull any and all light from the area only being kept at bay by the dark misty clouds.
The only source of light coming from an orange crescent moon which somehow didn't have the darkness completely eclipsing it. Which added a layer of eeriness to it all. With me standing on top of these dark clouds pondering what I have been forced into against my will and wondering what or who have I become since I can't see anyone else but myself in this abyss.
"This can't be real!" I said to myself only to stop all thoughts going across my mind at that moment. If I could see my face, I would see a man with eyes looking like a deer in the headlights. I just stood there like that in the cloudy abyss with the light of the moon over me, not knowing if I had died to some monster, or was just a stress induced dream that I will wake up from for how surreal everything was that happened.
I am so afraid. So terrified of what I don't understand of what's happening I can't even process what to do or even be capable of thinking. Then it happened. Part of the clouds started to split off from the rest and was taking shape, becoming solid. As soon as I saw this happening I immediately started running for my life. Only for me to be stopped a couple of meters into my panic induced sprint.
Some unseen force that was keeping me in place, no matter how much effort or strength I put into my body it wouldn't budge. It was so bad I had veins popping out of my neck and head from the strain. Then I see something floating its way in front of my line of sight as I struggled. It was a floating dry erase board? The kind you would see not out of place of a school classroom, the ones on the walls for the teacher to write on.
As I am struggling to get free and run, writing began to form on the surface of the dry erase board. I don't even read it, only to have the mother of all gut punches to send me to my hands and knees. I am coughing and trying to get air back in me.
I have been punched before, but never like this. The pain so much worse. After who knows how long of me getting my breathing back under control I finally look up. Only to see the board just floating midair with no movement at all. I don't attempt to run any further, or even fight it thinking it was what stopped me and the gut punch with nothing to hit me with was it's doing. I then finally see the writing on the board and read it.
"Now that this servant of the beyonders has calmed you down, it's time for your random lottery to be done for your power since you didn't pick any options at all for both your appearance and power. Now hold still while we find out what the wheel will select for you."
It takes me a couple of seconds to process what it said. As I am thinking about why this all happened to me, and why they were so messed up getting me here when I freaked out the dark clouds start rising and a portion of them turn into a giant wheel, like out of the wheel of fortune except massive, to the point I think it's about as big as the pyramids in Egypt.
Then I see all the possibilities on it, ranging from what looks like a guy with a golden aura and hair with a monkey tale to the omega symbol in crimson red. I could have sworn I saw a looming ominous shadow behind it too with glowing eyes. I even seen a lantern shape colored in green and numerous other colors. There is a plain figure in a meditative state with trees animatedly popping up out of the ground around it.
It then starts to spin with no warning, faster and faster. It's like a wind tunnel got a crazy factor of a thousand times its normal output to this insane amount, except it's not affecting me besides blowing my long white hair all over the place.
'Wait! Long white hair? Wait, more importantly why can I breathe?!' I think this to myself as the giant wheel continues to spin.
As big as this thing is and with the symbols being nothing but a giant blur with how fast its spinning you would think I would be suffocating. I don't even feel the wind, or anything. Hell, it should be like the trips I took in my car on the back-country roads down hills with the wind coming in through my window that took my breath away and I couldn't breathe at all.
As I think these thoughts to myself, eventually the wheel is on the last couple of rotations, and then finally stops on something with the arrow pointing at it, however I can't see it due to it being too high up for me to currently see. The board just fades out of existence only to fade back in at the point the arrow stopped at, then fades away to appear right in front of me.
"Well it looks like your new aspect has been chosen. You have gotten the aspect of I believe its name is Samehada? Yes, its Samehada or in English Shark skin. I believe it's a sentient sword from a series called Naruto. Well now it's time to have this fused onto your soul!"
The fucking sign even has a stupid smiley face at the end of the sentence as if it's not that big of a deal!