Phantasy Star
Where my life becomes humankind's only hope
Author: Enjoy my first Phantasy Star fanfic! It took like three months (I think) to finish this so I hope you really like it.
Chapter 1: Starting off with the wrong kind of play
This life was becoming old, repetitive, and uninspiring. I thought life was supposed to be a party, a thriller movie. I guess it wasn't until now, and I mean now. This is where a new age of the world was beginning, or maybe it is the beginning. Sigh, that's what I thought was happening.
These days, Hunters tend to be more active now because money was very hard to come by with housing and damages (weapons, body injuries, etc.) being so expensive. As for me, money is a commodity when I need it. Where does the money come from? From clients who instigate missions, pleading for Hunters to find their missing Mag or what not. I really don't like it when they do it.
Slowly the world around me was changing. I had a bad feeling about that today. It was a problem big enough to attract the attention of all Hunters and it was about to explode. I was feeling dreadful by the second. I was lost inside my own abyss of dreams that morning until a sudden beep scared me.
"Beep-beep, beep-beep," I clicked the button to stop the noise from getting any worse. I was wide awake. Well, barely. Anyways something blinked at the counter, where the computer and the tuning desk stood. Suddenly a screen appeared on the wall.
"Hello Aeru (ah-ru), I see you're not awake again as usual, by the way there is a fancy and highly recommended offer that all Hunters should agree to. The mission is to record, protect, and retrieve a data disk currently in the possession of the government's most renowned scientists. The clients are the President, the Governor, and the Governor's Daughter.
I stared back tiredly. "What's the pay?"
"They will pay each Hunter 5K, not a bad deal," the man on the screen said steadily.
"But it's a risky mission."
He thought over it carefully. "Hmmm, you're right."
Sigh. "Anyways, when does it start?" I asked. I got up and walked over to the bathroom. The automatic door slid shut and I turned on the shower.
"Hmmm, in 3 hours," the man on the screen answered.
After a few minutes I got out of the shower with a towel wrap around my waist. I was drying myself off with another towel.
"Sign me up." For a few seconds something started to rattle out loud. "…Oh crap!" I ran for the refrigerator.
"Bhirava…you..." An object stepped out. It looked different from the way it was before, something was shining.
"…Your…you, why are you here eating?" I asked.
It started to make a whining sound.
"…Hungry? You should've woken me up then." I said.
Bhirava started to sound mad.
"I didn't wake up?" I asked. "Alright, you got me there, but look at you…you've evolved."
A happy squeal came from the little object when I picked it up.
"Now the only thing is what are you?" I mused.
"Ahem, hello?" the man on the screen inquired.
"Hmmm. Oh yeah, three hours, check," I replied
"Alright then, good luck you two."
As the person logged out I gently put down my mag and walked over to my desk to check on other things.
"This is gonna be a tight situation when we get there, but first," I clicked on my computer showing my desktop.
"I have to decide what your name will be." Lost in thought, I felt a soft touch by my arm.
"What?" the little mag started to float at eye level, glowing brightly blue.
"Hmm…you split into two…I think…Rati…Rati I guess, how 'bout it?" I suggested. The little mag sounded happy.
"Rati…you look just like angel wings but better. Now then, back to business." I picked up my Hunter suit, item pack, and my armory. My mag started to float right behind me as I turned off my room light and left the dark silent room.
I walked for awhile around Pioneer 2. It was a pain in the neck I'd say. There was so much commotion around. There were still so many places to explore before my mission began. I had an hour left to roam around. It wouldn't hurt to go out to warm up by exercising. While I was walking towards the telepod I saw group of girls walking by looking at a clothes shop.
"Look at those. They have some that's fifty-percent off!" squealed the girls. "Come on. Let's go in before they're sold out."
It's always clothes for those girls I thought.
Sometimes I wish I didn't have to work but that's life. Unfortunately, no work means no money. No money means no food and shelter. As I reached the telepod for Ragol, I had a strong urge to stop and turn around. I looked out from the corner of my eye and saw some Hunters coming my way. They looked serious, calm, and some even looked cheerful. As they marched towards me, they suddenly stopped a few feet in front of me. I was totally puzzled. My mind was spacing out, not knowing why they were standing there. One of the hunters spoke then. He was in front of all the Hunters and was walking towards me without blinking an eye.
"You sure have some guts blocking us, especially me, from our path," he said in his cold, harsh voice.
I jumped a little when he spoke to me but I found the courage to talk back. "Well, we're in a wide open space. You and your Hunter friends can walk around me. Is that too hard for you and your friends to do?"
The Hunter who was talking to me stared at me with his glaring red eyes, then replied fiercely, "Smart guy, huh? Well, you got tough words for a guy like you." As he walked past me, he ordered, "Let's go everyone. We don't wanna be late for the mission."
I glared back at him.
He whispered coldly, "The name's Gen, we'll meet again."
"Aeru, I'll see you at the mission." I murmured coldly.
As I was transported to Ragol from Pioneer 2, I saw a few Hunters presently battling strange trans-mutated monsters. Of course I knew what they were doing, scouting the mission as always. I walked away from the battlefield and started to head deep into the forests. While walking, I thought back to the old days and how I'd received my first Hunter's License. It was pretty rough, too. It was something you had to do on your own. Retrieve the three biodata capsules in the forest, I thought. And there you'll be alone without any help. After retrieving the capsules return back to Pioneer 2 with the three capsules in hand. It wasn't a pretty sight fighting a monster, especially one with a big arm, a head-you-could-barely-see, and a mouth that spit fire. It was really huge and horrifying creature I've ever seen.
Suddenly a snap of a twig snapped me out of my daydreams. I was alert. I searched my surroundings and saw nothing, but I knew something was watching me from afar. I put my hands on the handles of the swords that were sheathed in the scabbards which were on the hips of my suit. Everything was eerily quiet and frozen around me. Silently, I unsheathed my swords and had to think of a way to locate the monster. A foul, nasty scent was spreading around the area and it suddenly hit me. The monster's scent!! Quickly something jumped out from the bush behind and dived towards me with its foul scented breath and sharp fangs. Slobber dripped from the sides of its mouth. I smirked. A mutated wolf -like monster, huh.
The monster was about to bite me hard on my right shoulder; I turned my body to a 360 degrees angle to the left. With the sword in my left hand, I slashed the wild beast relentlessly at its mouth, body, and front legs which killed the beast. When it landed on the lightly dirt surface of the ground it made a weak THUD. I walked away from the bloody corpse and headed towards the forest. When I finally realized that I had fifteen minutes left I jogged to the place where the mission will be held.
Author: Well, I really hope you enjoyed it. R&R!!
