All right, well I searched through a bunch of my folders and simply couldn't find where I stashed my Honkai fics. This is the only one that I had on G.Docs, so this'll probably be the last one. Very rough first draft, I recall writing this entire thing in a single sitting.
Has you ever woken up one day and had feeling that something was going to happen?
They coined an apt term for it long ago, 'premonition'. Latin root based meaning roughly means 'to warn before'.
I had just woken up and was doing what I always did, brushing my teeth after breakfast.
A sudden bone chilling sensation of despair ran through me. I had never felt anything like it before.
The closest I can equate it to is the feeling of almost falling but being caught at the last second... but it was like the drop was over a 100 meters and no one was there to catch you except someone who would laugh as you fell.
Then I died. I'm still not sure how it happened, all I remember is my scared stiff appearance in the mirror and then everything going black.
Thankfully(?), that wasn't the end of the line for me. I had woken up in the body of some 12 year old kid in the middle of a city that looked like it was a war zone.
There was some 'clinic doctor' taking care of me. I'm pretty sure it was just some random lady trying to do some good and that she didn't have the qualifications to even be a nurse let alone a pediatrician.
I digress, shortly after waking up the fake doctor told me of my 'condition'.
I apparently have some sort of virus or disease, it's not very clear which it is, that would kill me in a few months at best.
Fantastic. I died, got isekai'd, didn't get OP powers or a harem, then I get told I have a terminal illness that has no known cure or treatment. Could this get any worse?
Yes, apparently. For instance, that illness I have? Turns you into a weird, and more literal, version of a zombie. More like mindless thrall from what I can gather.
Secondly, there are also genuine monsters lurking around. That's where the zombie causing illness originates from too. Exposure to them somehow? I dunno, the Doc wasn't too knowledgeable on the subject.
Speaking of the fake Doctor, since I know she's a complete fraud I'm gonna have to find someone who knows something about this 'Honkai Sickness'.
Shortly after the monsters overran the city some organization quarantined the city during the mass evacuation and left everyone still inside to die.
That's some Umbrella corporation level stuff. If they are anything like Umbrella then I bet they've done a whole bunch lf research on these monsters and the disease they cause.
All I have to do is find out what organisation sealed up the city, find where their headquarters are and simply make my way there within a few months before I turn into some butchered version of a Zombie.
What could possibly go wrong?
Everything.
It hasn't been even half an hour since I concocted this plan and went scavenging for water and food before I ran into one those 'monsters'.
The Doc called them 'Honkai Beasts', calling the sickness that originates from them 'Honkai Sickness' is unheard of in the scientific community. It's too on the nose and makes practical sense.
Clearly the people in charge are covering up what it really is... I need stop with the copium, it's not working.
Time to face reality, Which is currently death breathing down neck. Close enough anyways. The 'Honkai Beast' doesn't have a mouth but it's definitely going to kill me.
This sucks, I died and got isekai'd only to die again within an couple hours.
Oh look, it's jumping towards me-
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I definitely died. I'm positive of it.
All around me is a white space. Is there where I get my cheat? It's a bit late, I'm pretty sure my upper half is splattered across that monsters arm-looking things.
[Hm? That's odd. You didn't intentionally come here? No, you don't even have an idea about what I am do you? Interesting.]
Woah! This God has a weird form I'll give... uh, her I suppose, that. She looks like she's made of clay, but she's undeniably Beautiful with a capital B.
[I can take any form actually, this is just the form I usually take talking to a certain bug-like existence. You are a soul from another universe that somehow came to possess a small child inflicted with a certain energy, yes?]
Screw finding a Doctor, I have a feeling this Goddess is gonna help me out.
"I think so? Is this where you say 'If you do so and so for me, I'll fix that little problem you got'? It kinda seems like a Chinese novel trope though, makes me weary of what's the deal. Do I have to kill some sect leader that betrayed you or something?"
The Goddess smirked at me, makes me feel kinda giddy, and reached out her hand towards my direction somehow pulling my body, or is it soul since I'm dead, into her grasp.
[Not quite. I am simply bored of the same exact situations happening in the same way. You see, I am the 'God of Honkai' in a way. The Honkai are nature's way of weeding out the weak and cultivating the strong.
They are born alongside each world in this universe and will only cease to exist when one of two conditions are met. The first is the complete annihilation of civilization and forcing life to go back before the stone age.]
Oh shit, this may have been a mistake. Please don't kill me? Also, please do not tell me you want me to commit genocide.
[The second is where a civilation reaches a point where they can freely travel the stars while fending off the Honkai. Look over here, you see this 'branch'?]
Branch? Branch my ass! What the actual fuck am I looking at? My non-existent brain is hurting just looking in that general direction. How does it hurt!? Why does it hurt!?
Even after shutting my eyes I can still feel something like a hot iron going through my skull.
[Ah, right. I'm used to existences that can force their way into my domain and forgot you can't comprehend what this is. This is a branch of the Imaginary Tree, think of it like that tree you call 'Yggdrasil'. It's similar enough in nature to where you could understand.
This branch went in a completely different direction and cut itself off from the influence of Honkai. In less than a few decades they would be traveling amongst the stars. It's unacceptable, they didn't struggle against adversity as a collective species. Instead a single girl sacrificed herself to save a society that mostly rejected and hated her existence.]
Seriously? That's messed up. I always jokingly said that if you had to sacrifice a single innocent person to save the world that maybe such a world isn't worth saving, but this it giving me a bit more perspective than I would want. I feel like I'm gonna throw up.
[Yes, it is disgusting isn't it? I may have indirectly caused this so I have been trying to fix it. However, the moment my influence was cut off from one of the timelines it caused the entire branch to out of my reach.
Not entirely of course, but I can no longer directly interfere and the timelines always goes in the same direction. This where you 'deal' comes in. I will put you into an appropriate part of the timeline and give you knowledge of the future as well as the power to change it. Do we have an accord?]
"I don't really see a reason to refuse, but I have to ask a question of utmost importance. Will there be hot girls?"
Oh look at that, I finally got her to show a different expression. Confusion wasn't what I was expecting or hoping for. Must be a sheltered Goddess. Let's try to think of some examples and see if I can get her to blush.
[I grow weary of your infantilism. The next time we meet, I will be expecting your end of the deal to be complete. If not, expect a punishment depending on my mood. Begone.]
I swear, if I pass out again I am go-
-This is where the first chapter would've ended-
You know, I was joking about the 'hot girls' and was just using it as some sort of coping mechanism. At least mostly.
Landing in a world where basically every slightly good looking female is a super-powered war machine is the wrong kind of hot.
Based on information that seems to have been implanted in my new body, I can accurately say that I am so fucked.
Unless God granted me the power of multiple Herrschers stacked on top of each other including immunity to the Herrscher of Binding, which is doubtful because simply thinking of the Final Herrscher gives me the shivers.
No way can I fight something like that. I dunno who this 'Kevin' dude is, but he's retarded trying to fight that monster. Oddly enough, the only people in this 'Era' I can recognize are who I assume the main characters of this world are.
An essentially lobotomized girl that is also crippled, Bronya Zaychik. A girl so traumatized that she clings onto the first person she meets and would do seemingly anything to return to 'the good ole days', Raiden Mei.
Then the grand clusterfuck herself, Kiana Kaslana. She is actually not the 'original' Kiana Kaslana and in fact a sort of clone implanted with a Herrscher's Core that was infused with her own DNA to counter the rejection during her growth.
I've got mad respect for this hellion. Bred in a lab, adopted by the father of her literal progenitor after she saves his useless ass from a monster, travels the world in search of that deadbeat, etc etc.
This girl was beaten down collectively by everything and stood back up with fire in her eyes. Granted, she might've messed up a few times but she did her best and in the end... Nope, not even gonna acknowledge that.
I'll change it, God said she/he/they/it would give me enough power to do so. I'm going with she because 'she' was Beautiful.
Just have to figure out how to use said 'power' so I don't end up as cannon fodder. Later though, right now I have to figure out where and when the hell am I.
I just woke up on what looks like a completely abandoned highway. The asphalt is thoroughly cracked and seems to be sunbleached to an off white.
I'm at a rather high altitude, there is some light snow around and there is a huge mountain in the distance. I hope that mountian is Fuji and this is Japan.
It would be a much simpler task going to Nagazora and checking if the city has turned into a hellscape or not than having to travel through Europe looking for Schicksal bases and St. Freya Academy.
Let's just cross my fingers, it's time to start walking.
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After a few hours the sun had started to set, I was walking the entire time and didn't even sweat. Now that I am thinking about it, I don't even feel cold now with the sun out of sight.
I can feel that it's 'cold' but I don't feel 'cold', like it's a tolerable amount. There's ice on the ground and I feel like it's early spring.
Does that mean I have the abilities of the Herrscher of Ice? Maybe. I could also just have an enhanced body that has a higher tolerancr to extreme temperatures.
I'm just gonna stop thinking about it, there's far too many possibilities and not enough information to make conjectures.
Good thing my parents shoved me into a survival training course a few years back, I can finally make use of those otherwise useless skills.
Food? Nuts, berries, mushrooms, fish. Water? I know how to filter water into relatively clean state, just gotta hope there aren't any parasites in it.
With some dry scrub-like plants, a hole dug with my bare hands and a couple rocks, I now have the greatest weapon of man... FIRE.
Speaking of fire, I can now test if the opposite temperature extreme will effect me. Obviously I'm not gonna just stick my hand into the flame directly but will inch my way closer until I feel that it's painful.
Heat accumalates rather fast when it's an open flame like this, so my brain should start sending warning signals once it heats up past a certain thresh-My hand is already in the flame. Guess I'm fire proof. Neat.
Again, I can tell that it's 'hot' and know that it will burn my clothes but it doesn't quite reach the point to where my body considers it a danger. Very cool.
On that subject, I don't think I'm in my original body? It's kinda blurry in memory, guess God decided that she needed more room in this noggin and scrapped a bunch of stuff. To say I am concerned wouldn't be wrong.
Based of my memory I shouldn't be this tall though, so maybe it's she rewrote those bit of memories to an extant so I wouldn't be tumbling over myself?
If a shorter person suddenly woke up a whole 20 CM taller they would probably trip over their own feet because they tried walking based off old muscle memory.
Point is, maybe it's good that she rewrote my appearance in my memory? I can't exactly tell if she erased something because I wouldn't remember it.
Gaps would be an indicator but the only thing I found so far is the incongruous feeling of my height and weight.
It'd be kinda pointless for a God to screw with a person like me in that way, in fact I'd only feel pity for that 'divine being'. Being that bored and pathetic must be nightmarish.
Did I just ramble the night away? Why is everything so bright all of a sud- Oh.
The forest is on fire. Whoops. Good news, I think I hear sirens in the distance?
That gives me an idea. I'm gonna have to ruin my clothes for this though.
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[Breaking news, this just in. One of the forested regions outside Mount Hotaka was set ablaze. It isn't known yet was exactly the cause was, but so far the fire has damaged a significant portion of the nearby ecosystem. So far rescuers have only found one person among the flames, a young teen with no nearby luggage or camping equipment. More will be covered as the information comes in.]
Scary how fast the press caught wind of me being 'rescued', but it helps my case.
"Kid, you gotta give me something. You don't remember your name, your address, your parents. There's gotta be something."
Got'em. Honestly you're far too trusting Detective.
"...Nagazora. I remember living there."
Now I hope to that there is someone that I could smoothly replace based off recent missing persons, runaways, or even recently deceased.
I look rather unique though, so I doubt that'll work unless this body was enrolled in a school or something before I 'procured' it for my own use.
I'll cut it off here. There was another maybe eight hundred words but it cuts off mid-sentence and I never got around to continuing it.
Anyways, supposing anyone actually enjoyed any of these if there is enough reviews asking me to write or continue one of them I'd gladly do so. I'll be around writing other fics in the meantime. This was a fun experience for me. -Prim
