Hyperdimension Neptunia belongs to Compile Heart, Idea Factory, Sega and whomever else worked on it.
So this was inspired by a fanfic that I read on another site where the Gamindustri Graveyard is its own dimension and people fall into it and get drained to death. I found it to be interesting, though the story becomes rather... Weird in the 2nd half. But I liked the concept, so I went with my own take on it.
How long had she been here? She had long since forgotten. Cracking an eye open, she groaned in pain as she felt her energy drained by the tentacles that surrounded her. 'Again?' The only thing that she could say for certain was that she was somewhat thankful that the tentacles were cables and wires and not living.
Or shoved into her through her various holes. 'At least this isn't a porn parody.' She wondered why she thought that. Groaning as she cracked an eye open, she saw others who were bound by the same cables. Some were still alive, others had obviously passed on. 'I'll join them soon, huh?' She shuddered in disgust. Ever since falling into the Gamindustri Graveyard, she had spent every day in constant agony with her power being drained out until it was almost gone. Then the drain would stop just before she would perish and her power and energy would be allowed to recover for a time. But before she could get enough energy to break free and flee the Graveyard, the drain would turn on again and she would be drained again.
'That... That tower...' She groaned, feeling the way her energy was flowing towards it. 'That has to be it.'
Still, even if she could escape the tentacles, she knew that she would never escape the Graveyard itself. The place almost seemed alive and she had seen the guardian of the place, a large black robot with a giant ax and a tendancy to do as much damage as possible, and knew that fleeing wouldn't be possible with her low power. 'But if I had all my power?'
It was a gamble, but she knew she'd have to take the risk. Grimacing as her power was being drained still, she focused all her remaining power into an attack.
"Huh? What's going on?!" The guardian of the graveyard growled as he turned her way. "What are you..?" She ignored him and focused on her attack, which bombarded the tentacles that were holding her up and blasted them apart. "Oh ho?!" The guardian seemed elated. "What are you going to do now? Escape? I don't... HEY! Don't ignore me!" He yelled as she quickly got up and rushed away from him.
But she wasn't heading out of the graveyard, she knew that there was no way that she could get out of the place and survive.
No, she was heading for the tower itself.
She ignored the looks of horror and pain in the faces of the inhabitants of the graveyard that had either passed away or were very close to passing away, there was nothing she could do for them right now. 'Please wait, if I get my powers back...' She knew that if she did that she could save the ones still alive and then they could all go home.
Had she looked back, she would have seen the guardian had stopped chasing her and was shaking his head. "Foolish CPU. You think you're the first to go for the tower? Oh well, it'll be amusing to watch you get destroyed when you get there."
Ignoring him, she rushed in and reached for the tower. As her fingers touched the tower, her body was consumed by dark and stolen energy. Throwing her head back, she screamed in pain as the power that she was feeling was so twisted, corrupted and dark compared to the share energy that she had been used to for so long. As black tendrils covered her body, she looked to the sky, her eyes open wide and agony written over her face as she felt her inner essence twisting and changing. The tendrils continued to crawl over her body until they got to her eyes. She could only let out a soundless scream as what she used to be was forever changed.
"Yes... You shall be my vessel." A deep voice resonated deep within her. "Your old life is gone, you will become my vessel to bring despair and destruction to Gamindustri."
She couldn't even fight against the voice as her body sank to the ground.
"Now stand... Arfoire, the new Deity of Sin."
She stood up and opened her eyes, a cruel smirk on her face as she held out her hand and a staff appeared in it. "Yes... I am the Deity of Sin." She chuckled and turned around. "I will bring despair and destruction to all of Gamindustri. Every Gamindustri will fall to me."
As she floated away, she noticed the guardian staring at her. "I... HOW?! WHO ARE YOU!?" He screamed at her.
"I am Arfoire, the Deity of Sin and the master of the Gamindustri Graveyard." She smirked at him and pointed her staff at him. "Now... You are my servant." A rush of power erupted from her staff and consumed the robot. "You are the one who judges who can enter and leave, are you not?"
"I am CFW JUDGE!" The robot screamed before staggering back for a moment. "And I serve you, Master!"
Smirking, she floated towards where she was before and sneered at all of those that were still alive but did nothing while she had suffered. 'None of them deserve to...' She trailed off as she saw a young-looking girl in a military outfit looking at her with fear. "I remember you..." The girl had long red hair in twin tails and eyes that were red on top with the bottom half being yellow.
"C...Chromey?" She asked, trembling. "I...Is that you?" The person in front of her had pale skin, red eyes and her hair was now ashen gray and she was in a witch's outfit, instead of the cool explorer outfit that she was in before. Plus her eyes were cruel, cold and calculating, not the kind and warm eyes from before.
"Ah," she smiled softly and floated over to the girl. "Filyn, I remember now. Do you want to stay by my side?"
"Yes!" Filyn nodded and groaned. "But, it... It hurts."
She smiled softly at the young girl and cupped her cheek. "What I'm going to do to you will hurt you a lot, but it will let you stay with me. Are you okay with this?"
Filyn gave her a determined look. "If I can be with Chromey forever, then yes."
"Good girl." She leaned in and kissed Filyn on the forehead. "But my name is no longer Chrome. I am Arfoire, the Deity of Sin." Stepping back, she watched as Filyn was consumed by dark, negative energy while the tentacles holding her up were destroyed. Listening to her scream was almost a delight, but since it was coming from someone she actually cared about, she wouldn't take any delight in her suffering. "Just hold it together for a little longer."
"You think a little CPU like that will be able to handle what you're doing to her?" Judge asked, not concerned in the slightest with what was happening to the girl.
Arfoire smirked at him. "She's stronger than you think. She'll come out of this with the power of multiple CPUs."
A few moments later, the energy was no longer surrounding Filyn, and she was no longer there. Instead of a little girl was a very busty woman with red hair in twin pigtails, yellow eyes, light purple skin wearing a black bikini. On her back were eight sharp black wings that looked like blades, a black scythe with a red blade was in her hands and above her head, which used to be a hat, was a black ring that slowly rotated around her.
Arfoire smirked at her. "So, how are you feeling now?"
The woman smirked back. "So much better, Master Arfoire. I am CFW Magic, your personal CPU and I shall serve you without fail. Even if it costs me my life, I shall see to it that you bring forth destruction to all of Gamindustri."
Arfoire grinned at her. "Excellent. There are multiple dimensions with Gamindustri in them. Let us bring ruin to all of them from this dimension."
And thus, that's how Chrome became Arfoire and Filyn became CFW Magic. Seriously, go look at pictures of Filyn from Super Neptunia RPG and compare her to CFW Magic. Plus with how Filyn acted towards Chrome in Super Neptunia RPG and how CFW Magic is a big fangirl of Arfoire and how the bad ending in Super Neptunia RPG has Filyn basically killing all the CPUs off and how CFW Magic beat all the CPUs and Nepgear at the start of Re;birth 2 and you have to wonder if Filyn is actually CFW Magic. Heck, the ribbons they have to hold their hair up are near identical, as is their hair color.