Teaser: The Void of Gathering.
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'Wah? Why is the goddamn A.C (air conditioner) blowing so strong? And why do I feel like I'm no longer in bed with my wife?'
The man slowly opens his sleepy eyes. As he does, he sees nothing...not particularly nothing, but nothingness, emptiness, nothing but pure blackness right in front of his sight.
'What?' the man thoughted as he looks around him.
He slowly scratches his eyes to adjust to the environment around him.
'Eh? EH?! WHAT?!' the man's eyes widened as he began to try to yell out, although he couldn't speak, somehow.
He looked around, trying to move, but it was pointless. His actions only resulted in him still levitating in the middle of the void.
'What the fuck is happening?! Is this what they called...a lucid dream? Or is it a lucid nightmare? Wait, is this even a dream?' the man thought as he tried to test it out by pinching himself, which he eventually ended up screaming 'OUCH!' deep inside his head.
Yep, this is reality, but if this isn't a dream, where is he now?
Suddenly out of nowhere, within the void, he heard footsteps.
Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap...
'IS ANYONE THERE?!' he thoughted.
Snap!
'HUH? Was that a finger snap just now?' he thoughted to himself, though this thought soon disappeared as the man began to feel something.
He turns his eyes to look at his hands and now sees that his human skin is beginning to convert into some weird white liquid.
It's slowly disperse out from the man's body and cover him.
The man's expression changes from confusion to shock and horror as he tried to get all of the white liquid off of his body, though it only ended in futility as the liquid grew bigger and bigger the more parts that are fully covered with it are coming into contact with him, and soon, it covered his entire body. Although he thought to himself that the liquid would devour and suffocate him to death, but, he was wrong.
'What?' the man slowly opens his eyes as he now finds out the liquid had hardened
The man noticed a mirror right next to him, which wasn't there before. He grabs and stares at it, only to be shocked even more.
He was now in the form of his YGGDRASIL game character...TouchMe.
But, before he could comprehend what was happening, a large flash of light shone through his eyes.
The next thing he knew.
TouchMe is in a cinema, and a few familiar faces are with him.
The End of Teaser
(This work can also be found on Archive of Our Owns, though the story's synopsis is much longer than the one posted on, if you want to read the full summary, go to Archive of Our Own and read.)