Location: Course of the Ramsay Trinity/ Culinary Hellscape, GQ Nexus Light School
Fixation: Omniversal Nexus Point
Time: N/A
A top of one of the red planets rust red land Islands stood Marco who looked up behind himself with shock confusion. He saw a beautiful young looking Asian woman floating right above him with a very tempered expression on her face which was a cross between impatience rage, and he unknowingly felt sensation of instinctual fear coursing through his veins. She dressed in brown w what can only be the described as mom jeans, with just an apron on a makeshift hair net bandana. She had a wooden rolling pin on one hand a large steel spoon on the right holding them both with malicious intent.
"So after all this time, you finally decide to grace us with your presence now at this hour!!!!" The woman spoke with great intensity as she pointed out Marco's untimely arrival.
"Ii–" Marco tried to utter out something to soothe the intensity of the situation he was in but he was interrupted by a sudden spike in both the air pressure and the temperature. Marco than thought It's really getting annoying that I've been interrupted so many times, I don't know I can take before I snap.
"You're late!!!!" she remarked with even greater intensity as she stared down at him with malicious intent, she then continued "You've really gotten on my nerves making me wait this long for your arrival!!!"
I can barely handle my frustration right now. The oldman left me here to deal with this, even after that vow we made. Marco thought to himself as he stared blankly at the headstrong
{He…. } a distorted voice echoed out at the back of Marco's mind.
"What is that?" asked in confusion.
"What was what?" the woman
{Hey…} the voice rang out again even louder yet less distorted.
"Did you hear that?"
"Hear what exactly, boy?"
"That oddly soothing voice that just echoed out now?"
"Man you're a weird one, there's no voice." she
{Hey….}
"I'm not joking, someone just spoke right now." Marco said as he made odd gestures trying to express his point.
{Finally you're able to hear now.}
"Don't try to change the subject with your incoherent ramblings, your acting very weird boy." she looked at him with pity , disgust.
{I know this doesn't make any sense but you're going to have to listen to me. It would be best for you to charge up your GQ do exactly what I say if you wish to survive her misplaced wrath.} a soothing gentle voice echoed at the back of Marco.
Huh, either just now lost my all my sanity devolving or youre some psychic linking with my mind. he thought with an unsurprised expression.
{It matters not what I am now for now, I'm giving you the aid you need for this dilemma, slowly bend down on your knees while charging you're GQ.}
Okay mysterious voice in my head. How is prostrating going to help me out of this? he unironically did what he said as if he were compelled to do it by a otherworldly force.
"Wait what are you doing now?" the woman said as she looked on in shock at the spectacle she saw before her eyes.
{It's going to sound a little bit weird with the next part, but worry not don't ask any questions about what you're going to do next}
et I'm sounding like broken record at this point m, but seriously I'm really confused
{focus all of your built up GQ in to your right reach the inner left pocket of that horrendous gi you're wearing, find a black crystal in. Hold it out present it to her.}
I don't get what you're saying but, at this point I shouldn't questioning the thing I signed up for. I really regret taking that deal now. Marco thought to himself as he took a deep breath further pondered over the situation. From his pockets he pulled out a strange charred black crystal held in his right hand. He felt a strange sensation when he touched it, he then thought Either this is one the things that maniac left on me or this is your doing… man I'm getting a huge headache from this.
{This is the last part all you have to do is crush the crystal with your charged up hands I'll do the rest.}
I seriously hope this work, I don't why I'm doing this but I feel compelled to do so, here goes nothing. even though it felt odd to do so, Marco did bowed his head offered up the crystal in both hands.
"Hey don't ignore me when I'm questioning you… wait that's!!?!??" The woman tried to get an answer from Marco but she suddenly realised what he held in his hand. She then uttered "Oh crap…"
Marco then unknowingly uttered spoke in an "By Saints of Tomorrow." As he crushed the crystal with his charged up right hand began the space around the crystal somehow began to vibrate on it's own until it exploded into a cloud of crystal dust enveloping the two of them. The itself then began to emit hypersonic frequencies cracked all over it.
From the cracks rays of light shimmered out and. The intensity of both the sonic vibrations light rays kept growing higher until a secondary explosion to place with a flash of blinding light deafening shockwaves of sound blanketing the entire 'planet' in an instant. Even though no one was actually physically harmed from it, a wave of silence filled the air after that performance, as everyone in close proximity looked on in confusion as something otherworldly just happened as the woman opened with strange indescribable look on her face.
"Hahaha!!!!" a burst of uncontrollable laughter coming from the women echoed in the air broke the silence within the air, before continuing further she then tried to regain what little composure she had and spoke.
I can't believe that actually worked, guess I can thank mysterious voice. under normal circumstances performing that act wouldn't have worked it would've resulted in him being literally beaten to a bloody pulp for simply trying it, but oddly enough the actually managed ease the tension of the atmosphere around them lightened up the overall mood a bit.
{Think nothing of it, as hard as it is just make sure there' isn't a next time.},Time stop for a moment as the voice in his head then spoke again
I'll try to but seriously man, what was that black crystal just now how did it end up in my pockets?
{Did I not tell not to ask any questions… I'll reveal everything to you soon, after you've finished your training complete your first task.}
I seriously can't keep track on what's going on here, but I hope you can help me out like this next time if something as weird as this happens again.
{Sorry to break it to you boy, there won't be a next time until you finish your first task.}
Wait what do you mean by that? Marco questioned.
{I'm not supposed to help you this early in the stage, this was a one time deal I only intervene because you were in grave unnecessary danger, even with that partial immortality of yours the "protection" you gained from the Faceless King; if you made the wrong move with that women, you wouldn't have been able to outlast her raging might…}
So you're saying I could've literally died right there, why can't I just catch a break for a few seconds… wait how did you know about all of that.
{I told you not to not ask any questions don't have enough time to explain boy, take note that this one time is just a once of offer} the voice began to fizzle out momentarily and lowers for a bit while it continued, {after this, depending on the scales of the situation, you're going to pay a huge toll next time, the likes of which you'll never recover from if you're half heart remains as weak as it is.} the voice fizzled out of the back of his mind.{Farewell Diaz, heed my words survive until the end...}
Farewell to you to I guess, if it's really like that let's hope I don't reach that point… Marco gained a sense of unease from that as sweat drops formed from the top of his brow.
"I can't believe you're the promised one, hahahaha!" she continued laughing hysterically for few more minutes. She managed to calm down for bid directly stood in front of the young warrior who just stood up, and she continued to speak, "The names Rea, welcome to my humble training ground/planet sized Kitchen, the Culinary Hellscape, I hope for your continued"
"Marco Diaz pleasure to meet you." He bowed his head thought to himself What happened in their, she went from being negatively ballistic to positively timid during that.
"I really can't take you seriously right now with that weak execution of yours, though you seem to have a slight grasp of GQ Mr Diaz, even though your circulation of GQ is horrendous …" she paused for a moment realising what she's looking at "Wait a minute… I've never seen anyone have an so many GQ cores stored inside their body not breakdown from the pressure…"
"Come again???" Marco looked on with a confused
"It's practically an enumerable amount of blank cores littered all over your body you've already have two imprint you've got a lot of potential boy."
Marco raised his then asked in a composed manner "Before we continue can I ask who you are please for the love of Kami translate the entirety of what you've said just now."
"Even though you've already gained two imprinted core, the one's who brought you here never explained anything to you?!?!?" she looked up with a drained expression
Marco looked at his arm to check how much time he had left, the bio clock then appeared to reveal only 39 hours had past since he seen it. He the relayed to Rea, "I just gained this GQ power approximately 2 days ago"
Even though it's hard for me to believe that load of crap, that explains the shitty circulation… though his ability to learn two base techniques that quickly is as frightening him, just like him she pondered long hard in her thoughts. She then continued thinking This is a drag, I don't want another case like "him" but I'm bound by my promise to that space skinned psycho the old fool. Mia damnit the boy will have to be my personal student to make sure this he doesn't end up like "him"….
Marco waved his hands infront of Rea's face trying to snap her out of her deep trance "H-hello… is anyone there…"
That explain why he was brought here to me specificall, this is a huge headache. She then snapped out of her trance decide to call Marco closer. She then spoke, "This is going to take while to explain... I'm to tired for this, get over here kid"
"I'm taking you to." she snapped her fingers and in a flash they both disappeared from the site into thin air.
Location: Domain of Knowledge, GQ Nexus Light School
Fixation: Omniversal Nexus Point
Time: N/A
An explosive ball bright light instantly flashes out of nowhere and leaves behind Rea, Marco other 8 figure in an endless void filled from top to bottom with nothing to the brim with a series if systematically interconnected ever expanding Labrinth forming bookshelves floating books going a from all directions. Each shelf painted in different colours, some never before seen. Each book written in different, some never before known. All gethered under one 'place'. All The figures somehow had their faces hidden their bodies shrouded in shades of darkness, he couldn't tell which from what.
All but one of the figures dropped down covered their eye's cried out in unison "MY EEEEEEYYYYYEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". The flash it's residual shock blast from Rea's was teleportation technique was so great it caused all them to writh in pain trying their best to remain conscious.
Among them only one was flailing from the seething eye pains, it was an oddly weak looking red nosed guy wearing a trucker hat who was rolling around on the 'floor' screeching in agony like madman. Oddly enough though dazed nearly blinded Marco was the only one relatively unaffected from the shockwave itself.
"Don't be a such babies you miserable insects, my Teleportation Flash isn't even that bright, though your screams of pain are amusing." Rea looked very pleased from their
"Speak for yourself, you crazy sadistic witch, you could've blinded deafened us in one fell swoop." a familiar voice rang out from back of the group, the one figure who remain standing. He wore a tattered black click which hid his. He spoke as he rubbed his temple of his forehead with both of his black gloved hands, "From the looks of it, you're lucky none of us have have epilepsy."
Rea clapped her hands they all momentarily calmed down. She commented, "There better, Mai you're annoying."
"What is wrong with you…" the cloaked individual remaked to snide comment. He removed the hood of his cloak to reveal his long red hair pale violet skin.
Wait could it be, no way… Marco thought to himself as he regained his vision a sense of relief from the torment of his nearly scorched retina.
"Tom is that you, It's good to see you bro, how are you even here…" Marco paused for a moment realising something was off "Wait you look very different, why is hair like that where are your horns?!??!?", before he could get an answer out of him, Tom Lucitor ran towards Marco gave him a monstrous bear hug.
"Can't... breathe…" Marco tried to gasp out out as he tapped on Tom's shoulder in order to tell him to let go.
"Sorry about that dude" Tom let him down gently began to ask with both an odd sense momentary relief sudden confusion, "M-Marco I haven't seen you in long time, h-how are even here and still alive??!??!??"
"Hold it... what do you mean by that...???" Marco had a very concerning look from realising the set of words Tom said.
"How are you alive, I've haven't seen you in years!!!!!!" he spoke as he held Marco tightly.
"Wait I've only been gone for days at bes" Marco tried to finish his sentence but he soon gut crushed by Tom's tight grip.
"You've haven't been 'around' since the Meteora incident… since you…" he said while with his hands."I thought you were gone for good man!!!"
"Hold up… but that means… –" Marco scratched his head trying to process what he just heard. But before he could even ask what Tom meant by that, Marco felt a crush aura swell up behind him.
The air pressure suddenly became heavier that before all the space around them began to bend distort. "Looks like that caught all your attention." Rea said to grab everyone's attention, she then spoke "GQ Perception, How odd you to say that, your frequencies are simultaneously very different yet the same, interesting..." Rea looked on with great intrigued as she examined both of them with her red glowing eyes.
"What do you mean by that?" the both of them chimed in at the same time.
"You two don't seem to be from the same timeline even though you're from the same reality, a rare case of converging timelines." She gazed a them intently, which weirded the both of the boys out.
"So we're from the same place but different possible points of time." both Marco Tom without thinking harmoniously chimed in unison with the remake.
"And there's also another weird thing about you." She pointed towards Marco with a look of unease. "I–" she gets interrupted again.
"I don't want to ruin this touching reunion of sorts but can you please tell me what we're doing here." one of the other shadowy figure spoke, he wore a hood that covered his face had a weird glowing advanced futuristic device that looked like a watch on his left wrist, which for some reason wasn't covered by the long sleeves of his hoodie.
She thought to herself, It ain't worth it, not in the Domain of Knowledge, this isn't my realm if I break anything her I'll be in big trouble, I just need to calm down. Instead of going into a fit of rage from that disrespectful interruption she took a deep breath and tried to calm herself before going berserk. "Oh right that… let's get this over with, ugh what a drag…"
Rea then snapped her fingers again, and they all began to float in mid air as multiple chairs, bookshelves, tables random wooden planks began surrounding them until makeshift a dimly lit classroom with no exits was formed. Everyone including Marco without realising somehow got seated she stood infront of them.
Rea then spoke in oddly monotonous disinterested tone, "Welcome to the school of light were you'll be learning how to control the Gouzau (构造) Qi (氣) following through your bodies master various martial arts to further excel your growth as GQ users. My name is Rea Ramsay, I am one the 7 Head GQ master I'll be your instructor in controlling GQ."
"We already know that part, cam you please explain to us what exactly we're doing here?" another of the figures spoke, it was a girl with long flowing silky pink highlighted black hair which covered her face, she wore a purple cheongsam dress had a strange leather bracelet on her left wrist with purple stones attached to it. She had an impatient tone in her voice.
Wait this guy's already knew that info, that's news to me. Marco thought to himself with demotivated expression on his face, I regret not asking that faceless jackass for more details…
Rea ignored her continued, "Normally you'd go through the proper channels of training to unlock your GQ before ever taking any course here or go through the training to properly control your GQ under the notion of being born into it, all the while simultaneously soaking the knowledge of our Millenia long history, that's the normal procedure."
Rea then clasped her hands then stretched it out slowly as if she's pulling something open. In between her the space her hands were a small blue ball of crackling energy expanded out with an intense nose bleed inducing humming noise to go with it. Everyone in the became nauseated from high pitched noise could barely stay conscious from it. She clapped her hands together then energy from the ball enveloped the entire room. The room was painted everyone in it started glowing green with the exception of Marco who just turned red.
"But in all honesty, you nine are special cases since you alll for the sole fact of you being that psychopath's 'recruits'." She says using air quotes in her more natural tone of voice. Everyone in the room knew who she was taking about they all remained silent. "The glows you all have are a sign of thats since normal GQ users only turn black when exposed to this light normal humans turn white."
Marco unsurprisingly thought to himself, Guess I really wasn't the first one he brought here, that would explain why she said she waited for me, I just wonder how many more did he bring here why is my colour different from everyone else.
"You've all been awaken by an outside source have yet to receive any proper training, You've all been dumped here to me for one reason one reason only, my family's course though it's branded as 'Kung Fu culinary martial arts class' of sorts, that's not the case really." she pointed out her index finger to figuratively point out the discrepancy, "This course's main purpose for existing to put it mildly was to adopted, accept, unify adapt any fighting style and martial arts, combine it with GQ manipulation aid in the formation mastery of a new. And before you think of throwing that neatly forge fireball at me just note that I can sense your malicious intent, Blondie."
"Dang it!!!" a different sounding frustrated female voice utters behind Marco.
"Before we continue further with this let's just get this out of the way." Rea with a swift motion then swiped her left hand and to surprise of Marco black balls began to appeared infront everyone, Rea then commay "Those black orbs you see before you, touch them."
"Why should we ...?" Tom ask with both worry extreme caution as he felt a strange yet familiar presence coming from the orbs.
Rea put up her right hand a second and another black orbs appeared one top of it, Rea then explained, "These things will determine the destined you'll take. They are mystical devices designed to both analysis your body your Central Core, the ethereal organ that hosts the source of your power GQ help determine best fighting style suited to you. From this day forth for the 50 years your fates as warriors will be sealed."
Chapter 7 - End