One day Vert was in Leanbox's basilicom 4 Goddesses Online was offline for server maintenance. She was considering going to visit Nepgear, but when she was about to head out to visit Planeptune Chika knocked on her door.
Chika said, "Lady Vert may I come in?"
Vert said, "Yes you may Chika can I help you with something?"
She entered the room and said, "Yes the guild would like for you to take a quest that was reported a few days ago."
Vert said, "Oh my the guild is asking for me directly it must be a high level quest. What exactly is this quest? Is it not something our higher level adventurers can handle?"
She answered, "Some of our adventurers have attempted it, but they all have come back badly injured."
Vert said, "Oh my! Very well what kind of quests is it?"
Chika read from her tablet, "Oddly enough it is a rescue quest. This is the first rescue quests I have seen. It would seem some citizens have heard a child crying for help from Halo Mountain. There have been reports of Ancient Dragons in the area as of late which is strange considering Ancient Dragon don't live on Halo Moutain. Some of the adventurers have reported them going viral far more than usual. It is quite strange."
Vert eyes widened in surprise a child needs rescuing? Could her wish to finally have little sister be coming true? She shook her head she shouldn't be getting ahead of herself. For all she knows it could be one of her citizens child.
She said, "Thank you Chika. I shall head to the guild and pick up the quest." She headed out of her room and headed towards the guild.
Chika said, "I wish you luck my darling Vert."
Shortly after Vert left she arrived at the guild. She went up to the reception desk. The receptionist looked and saw Vert and smiled.
The receptionist said, "Lady Vert thank you so much for coming on such short notice. I am sure you had much better things to do."
Vert smiled, "Not a problem dear. I am always happy to help. So what can you tell me about the quest? Chika gave me the general run down. Was this request given by a parent looking for their child?"
The receptionist shook her head, "No it was just requested by one of the citizens. They didn't seem to have an attachment to the child."
Vert said, "Thank you very much. I'll accept the quest and go save this child." She accepted the quest and made her way to Halo Forest. When she arrived she couldn't hear the child crying for help. She surmised it was likely the child was at the peak. She started making her way towards the peak. She made her way to the peak and heard a young voice.
The voice was crying out, "P...please! Someone help me!"
Vert hurried towards the voice and saw a small child on top of cliff that was surrounded by 3 ancient dragons.
Vert growled no one was going to hurt a child on her watch. She summoned her weapon Gungir and attacked the dragons from behind. She had drawn the three dragons attention. The dragons growled and began attacking Vert. Vert was trying to guide the dragons away from the child. One of the dragons was sent off course and hit the cliff the child had been on causing the child to fall and they cried out for help. Vert realizing this quickly transformed into her HDD form and flew towards the child catching them.
She couldn't get a good look at the child, but that was the last thing on her mind right now.
She said, "You made a very big mistake." A dangerous look appeared in her eyes, "I will not allow a child to be hurt on my watch." The dragons clearly didn't seem to care and merely saw the child as another target. A purple aura seemed to leak from a cave nearby that surrounded the dragons.
Vert said, "This is bad. They've gone viral. I need to finish them now." She focused and realized her EXE gauge was filled and smiled, "Time to end this." She cried out, "Spiral break!" She threw hear spear with blinding speed and immediately killed the dragons. She reverted back to her human form and hurriedly went to check on the child.
When she checked on them she saw a large number injuries on them.
She said, "I need to take her back to the basilicom for treatment immediately." She changed back into her HDD form and picked up the child and flew back to the basilicom and put the child down on her bed.
She called out for Chika, "Chika! Bring the first aid immediately!" Chika having heard the desperation hurried with the first aid kit. They could see blood staining the child's clothes. The two undressed the child and wrapped up the wounds. Once the wounds were covered Vert sighed in relief.
She turned to Chika, "Chika will you please go into the city and pick up some clothes for our guest?" Chika nodded in understanding, but was kind of jealous of the child getting HER Vert's attention. She headed into the city.
Once she was gone Vert sat down in her gaming chair. While they were undressing the child they came to a shocking realization that it was a boy. Which was unusual most important characters in Gameindustri were girls. This led her to two possible reasons. One was that the boy was from another dimension and the other was that it was just an unusual NPC. The boy couldn't be any older than 9 years old which was younger then both Rom and Ram whose human forms were about 12 years old. He had long rose gold hair with bangs on the left side of his face his hair went down to neck length. He couldn't be any taller than 3' 6' making him shorter than both Rom and Ram which wasn't to surprising considering he was younger than them in appearance. He had green eyes and a cute petite nose and a pale skin tone. Was he sickly? She wasn't too sure, but right now he needed rest. She decided to log in and see 4GO was up again to her delight it was. She played for about an hour when Chika returned. She had returned with a tan short sleeve shirt, light green hoodie, and khaki two got the boy dressed while being careful to not wake him.
Chika asked, "So Lady Vert what do you plan to do with him now?"
Vert said, "I'm not sure at the moment. For right now I think I'll wait for him to wake up. I'd like to see what he was doing in Halo Mountain. He doesn't seem to be related to any of the citizens."
Chika said, "Very well should I inform the other Oracle of this?"
Vert shook her head, "No not until we have a full understanding of his situation." Chika nodded in understanding.
A few days had passed since Vert had found the poor boy injured. She had turned in the quest and was currently keeping the boy safe in the basilicom.
One morning Vert had been up all night playing 4GO and had dozed off.
She heard a high pitched timid voice speak, "W..where am I? What am I wearing?"
Vert having been woken up turned to see the boy had finally woken up.
She turned toward him and gave a comforting smile, "Please little one you don't need to be worried. You are in Leanbox's basilicom in my room. You were attacked by some ancient dragons in Halo Mountain. After I dealt with them I brought you here to recover."
The boy seemed to have calmed down a bit. "Thank you so much for saving me miss….uh…"
Vert giggled at the boy's pause, "Vert my name is Vert little one."
The boy paused once again before the realization hit, "Wait! Vert as in Lady Green Heart? Oh my goddess! I am so sorry for my disrespect." He quickly bowed.
Vert couldn't help but laugh at the boy's action. "Please you don't need to bow little one. I was happy to help you. Could you tell me your name?"
He got up from his bow and said, "Oh uh right. My name is…" He hesitated at telling her his name. "My name is Jade."
Vert smiled, "My what a lovely name you have Jade. Is it short for Jaden?"
He shook his head, "N..no my name is Jade.I know its a girls name so you can laugh if you want."
Vert pat his head, "Now why would I do? I think it's a great name for you. Would you mind telling me what you were doing in a dangerous dungeon by yourself without a weapon?"
Jade frowned, "I...I can't remember. The only thing I can remember is my name and that I was somewhere else then a bright flash of light. It's all a big blank after that."
Vert said, "That's quite alright Jade. I think you remember more than you are saying. You remembered who I was and that I was a goddess. Do you remember all the nations of Gameindustri?"
He nodded, "Yeah I do. There is Planeptune, Lastaion, Lowee, and Lean box. I can also remember the goddesses of each nation and their human forms. Does that mean I'm from somewhere in Gameindustri?"
Vert shook her head, "No judging by your appearance it is likely you are from another dimension. Our world has very few important looking male characters."
He asked, "Then where am I from?"
Vert said, "If I had to take a guess. It's likely you are one of our players. Our world was created in another as video game series. Though this is the first time I've seen a player be brought into our world."
He said, "Um… is that a good thing?"
Vert smiled, "Yes it is. So for now why don't you stay here in the basilicom. We'll meet with the other CPUs and discuss what to do from there. How does that sound?"
He said, "I think that sounds like a good idea. Thank you so much for helping me Lady Vert."
Vert said, "You can call me Vert or even big sister if you want to." She smiled at the boy which caused a light blush to appear."
He said, "Er..um thank you Vert." And with that Vert led him to a spare room and let him rest up for now.