i really haven't been motivation for a while now so that is why this chapter took so long sorry
Raymond's pov
it's been two weeks since my training began and anytime I trained with Neptune, Nepgear and IF I got my ass kicked every time I have however been improving like being able to block more hits and being able to dodge some but I haven't been able to get a hit in on any of them
Neptune said that I probably wouldn't be able to train today so I asked why
"Because Ray we're going to lowee"
"Lowee, that's one of the for nations right?"
"Yep it is"
"Okay but why are we going there?"
"Well Ray. Blanc has picked lowee's champion and since I showed you to her, she said that it would be ok to see her champion"
"Alright sounds fun as long as he\her isn't like Gray
"Who's Gray?"
"he might be lastation's champion let's just say he isn't very nice anyways. is Nepgear coming with us"
"She should be here"
"Well In any case let's wait for her"
45 minutes later
"Neptune, should we just leave. Because it's almost been a hour now
"She will be here. Ray"
another 45 minutes go by
"Neptune i don't think she is coming"
"Maybe you're right but just to be sure I'll call her"
"Wait why didn't you call her sooner, instead of just waiting around for over an hour"
"I was sure that she world be here by now, also if you didn't want to wait why didn't you call her"
"Neptune you know that I don't have a phone"
"Oops sorry I kinda forgot about that Ray"
Neptune tunes on her phone and calls Nepgear
"Hay Nepgear where are you. Me and Ray, have been waiting for you"
"what do you mean waiting for me. I told you that I would meet you at lowee later. Because I would be helping histoire"
"Oh yeah now that I think about it you did say something like that"
"Well I'm almost done helping histoire so I'll see you later Neptune bye"
"Bye nep'jr"
"What did Nepgear say?"
"she said that she was helping Histy and that she would be a little later"
"Well okay let's go"
After flying for about 1 hour we made it to lowee and it looked amazing, we leaded next to a big building which I can only assume is Lowee's basilicom, i looking back at Neptune and she already transformed back to normal we walk in the basilicom but right when we get in Neptune shouted
"Hey Blanc we're here"
"Neptune Why Are you shouting" I say
"Because Ray I don't know where she is. And if I shout there a good chance that she will come to us"
"...I honestly don't know what to except form you sometimes you could be so random but you being random is fun to be around sometimes"
"you know saying nice things to me isn't going to get you anywhere"
"t-thats not what I was trying to do. besides even if it was like that i wouldn't want to do something stupid and ruin our friendship
"Ray you're one of the nice ones, huh?"
"I really haven't been for the last 3 years well until I ended up here"
"came on Ray You can't blame yourself for that. from what you told me you had it pretty bad at that time"
"A lot of people had it bad"
"Ray don't be like that you have friends now"
"I guess you're right. I'm better then I was before"
"Neptune i see that you're late like always" Blanc says
"Hello Blanc how you been"
"I'm fine but what about your champion is he okay for a fight soon"
"He's fine But, he may not look it but he can take a beating"
"Do I have a say in this"
Both Neptune and Blanc "no"
"...Uhh how about I need an adult will that work?"
"Sorry to say Ray, but me and Blanc are adults"
"I can never get out of anything. Anyways lady Blanc if I may ask who am I going to fight?
"who do you think you'll be fighting"
"If I have to guess I would say your champion"
"If you already knew that why did you ask "
"I was trying to get my hopes up that I didn't have to fight your champion"
"...Neptune is this guy really your champion, you said that he is one of the best fighter in planeptune"
I look at Neptune and say "Neptune I think we should just tell her"
"What exactly do you want to tell me?" Blanc says
"Are you sure, Ray"
"Yes I'm sure, Neptune anyway lady Blanc there is something you should know about me" one explanation later
"So Raymond is from another dimension and he has little combat experience, yet you made him your champion is that all of it"
"Well I also saved Ray's life but if you want Ray's backstory you're gonna have to ask him for that"
"I rather not talk about that at the moment, anyway where is your champion lady Blanc"
"he's not to far from here follow me"
We follow Blanc until we arrived at a room Blanc opened the door and we go inside the room only to see there was a boy around my age reading what looked like a kids book he looked up form the book and saw me he put the book down
Hello everyone my name is Icarus Snow
name: Icarus Snow
Age: 14
Gender: male
Appearance: short messy brown hair green eyes pale white skin white shirt light blue zip up hoodie white pants blue tennis shoes little bit skinny 5 feet 3 inches tall
I look at Blanc and say to her "why is he reading a kids book"
"it's a long story but Icarus might tell you later"
"Are you planeptune's champion" Icarus says to me
"yes I'm planeptune's champion Raymond it's nice to meet you Icarus"
"Well Raymond I didn't except you to be around my age"
"How old are you" I ask Icarus
I'm almost 15, my birthday is a month form now how about you?"
"I turned 15 about almost a month ago and I honestly didn't except for one of the other champions to be younger than me"
"seems like they became fast friends don't you think Blanc" Neptune says
"they do and it's an good thing too, I wouldn't want them hating each other it would be bad for everyone if they did"
"Yeah I guess so"
As I was talking to Icarus something hit me in the face really hard, I almost fell down but Icarus catch me I look at what hit me and to my surprise it was a book, I pick up the book and was going to throw it back at whoever hit me with it but right when I was going to throw the book back I noticed that the person who throw the book was just an kid
I put down the book and asked Blanc "why did this kid throw a book at me" she didn't reply to me instead she went to the kid and started to yelling at her. I also noticed that there was another kid right next to the kid Blanc is yelling at.
"Ray are you okay" Neptune says
"Yeah I'm fine Neptune I've been through worse
"Ram how many times do i have to tell you not to throw stuff at people"
"It's not my fault he's a dummy for not moving out of the way"
"Ram that's not the point don't throw stuff got it"
"Yes sis"
"Good now apologize to Raymond"
"fine" Ram said not to happy about it. "I'm sorry dummy"
"I see You're that kind of kid"
"Hay I'm not you big dummy"
"sure your not. Anyways lady Blanc if me and Icarus are going to fight can you show me to the training room"
"Sure I can follow me"
"Please wait" we turn around only to see Nepgear
"Nep'jr it's nice to see you finally make it"
"Thanks Neptune, oh. I almost forgot Raymond this is for you here"
"A watch thanks Nepgear but I gotta ask why did you get me a watch for I haven't really done anything?"
"Raymond that's not what the watch is for remember the first time you did a quest you couldn't see your. hp or stats"
"What you mean that Raymond can't see his own stats?" Icarus says
"yep he can't so Nep'jr made him the watch so that he can" Neptune says
"Yeah I remember so I'm guessing the watch is for that"
"You can also see your level and equipment with it"
"Wow thanks Nepgear also if I ever broke it you could fix it or make me me a new one"
"I can but please don't try to broke it"
"I'll try Nepgear, anyway let's go
We all made to the training room and I put on the watch Nepgear made for me the first thing I do check my level, Raymond lv5. I then look at my stats "Uh Nepgear is my stats good for lv5?"
"Well Raymond you're well-rounded in every stat but it looks like you have an pretty good speed stat" says Nepgear
"Is that good or bad?"
"It's pretty good Raymond"
"That's a relief. anyhow Icarus are you ready"
"I actually wanted to talk to you a little more before we fight. Would that be okay Blanc?"
"It's fine Icarus but don't take to long"
Icarus take me to the other side of the training room and started talking to me kinda of quality "So Raymond which one of them are you dating"
"Uh what exactly to you mean?"
"I'm asking you if you're dating Neptune or Nepgear"
"wait what why are you asking me That"
Icarus looked like he was trying to come up with something to say then he finally says "I Uh well it's just that when you got hit with the book I could tell Neptune was worried about you and Nepgear looked so happy when you realize what the watch was"
"Something tells me there is something else and I think I know what it is, if I had to guess you either like Neptune or Nepgear"
I don't like Neptune or Nepgear I like" Icarus realize what he was about to say so he stopped talking but it was already to late I knew what name he was going to say
"I get it now you like Blanc don't" Icarus face turned red and at that moment I knew that I was right "Okay so you like Blanc so why ask if I was dating Neptune or Nepgear?"
"W-Well I was hoping that if you're dating one of them that you might be able to give me some advice"
"I'm Sorry to tell you this but I have never dated anyone ever so i don't got any advice to give you"
"Okay but since you know who I like, you have to tell me who you like"
I don't have to tell you anything but I will tell you what I think, both of them are really cute but I can't really say who i like, I haven't really through about it"
"Oh, I see well okay then, we should get ready before Blanc gets mad"
Me and Icarus summons our weapons Icarus has an Sledge Axe. I don't how good Icarus is but if I want to win I'm probably gotta have to out think him
"Okay the rules are simple no items no hits below the belt and if your Up goes below 15% you lose now fight" says Blanc
Icarus came at me with full force but I noticed that his attacks didn't have any style it was like he was just trying to hit me and I was going to use that to my advantage, he wasn't able to hit me because I was dodging all of his attacks
I waited until I was about to find a opening and attacked. After a while of waiting and attacking, Icarus got an little upset "that's it if you won't stop dodging than I'll make you stop, frozen hammer"
The floor around me became to freeze, I tried I get out of it but one of my legs get frozen I tried to get it out, I look at Icarus only to see him coming at me as fast as he can at me with a frozen hammer "this is going to hurt" I said to myself
He was able to hit me with his attack, I want flying to the other side of the training room and I was in a lot of pain I look at my watch and see that I have 61% of my hp, I got up off the ground
"You know Icarus that really hurt I'm not going to let you do that again"
"well I had to hit you one why or another and I will get you again with it
"Okay I'm done with with dodging until I fine an opening it's time I go on the attack" I ran at Icarus fast as I can, I strike him with my sword 4 times with the last strike being an powerful hit but I made a mistake with the last strike
Because of how much force I put in the attack I was left open for Icarus to attack me he hit me 6 times with the axe part of his weapon then once with the hammer part of his weapon
I back away to look at my hp it was 40% "I'm finishing this now frozen hammer" the floor began to freeze again but this time I had a plan I tried get away from the ice but I my leg got frozen again I see Icarus's Sledge Axe began to freeze but This is right where I want him
"blazing flame" the flames got rid of the ice and freed my leg I made a dash at Icarus and my sword began to catch fire, I strike him 10 times with my flaming sword, I thought that was it but Icarus catch me off guard and hit me with his frozen hammer
I went flying and hit the wall of the training room then fell to the ground I look at my hp and it was only at 1% "this fight is over" Blanc said, Neptune and Nepgear came to my side
"Raymond are you okay" Nepgear says
"well besides all the pain I feel fine
"Ray now is not the time to be making jokes" says Neptune
"Yeah I know, now can you girls help me up please" Neptune and Nepgear help me up to my feet "Nepgear didn't you say that My Hp was going to protect me?"
"Raymond I said that it protects you from dying and anything that can kill you but you can still get little cuts and feel pain"
"Nepgear that would have been nice to know where you first told me about my hp"
"Raymond I thought you knew because you got hurt from training with me, Neptune and IF"
"great not only did I lose but now I feel dumb for not realize that I still feel pain with hp"
"Rom, Ram heal Icarus and Raymond " Blanc says
"Okay Blanc" both Ron and Ram said, Ram went to Icarus and Rom went to me started to heal me
"I didn't know healing magic was a thing that world have been nice to know when I first got here and was in a bed for 4 days
"Oh don't you start Ray I had Compa use healing magic on You when before you woke up now stop being mean to us" Neptune says
"Sorry this is just all so new to me and I don't know anything about this place or what's in it and I just don't know how to take it all in"
"Miss Nepgear what is he talking about" Rom says
"Well you see Rom"
"Ray is form a different dimension"
"really"
"Neptune i was going to tell Rom" Nepgear says
"Sorry Nepgear but I thought it would be faster if I just said it nice and simple"
"Alright but next time please let me say it"
Alright all done" Rom says she then went to where Ram was and says "Ram I found out Mister Raymond is form a different dimension"
"You mean that dummy is form another dimension"
"sorry Nepgear but it looks like someone best you to it" I said
"It's already I kinda figured that she world tell Ram"
I see Icarus walk up to me say "are you really form another dimension Raymond"
"Yeah something like that
"What do you mean something like that?"
"Well Icarus I honestly don't know if I'm in an different dimension, world, galaxy or universe all I know is that I'm not form here"
"That's so cool i never would have thought I would meet someone form a different dimension"
"Well I don't know if it is dimension but anyway how much go did you have left?"
"Can't you see my hp bar?"
"I can't even see my own hp that is why I have this watch also Nepgear can you please upgrade it so I can see the hp of the person that I'm fighting
"Sure thing Raymond"
"Thanks Nepgear, and Icarus you still haven't told me how much HP you had left
"I was at 17%"
"of course you were but enough of that for now Neptune, Nepgear, did I do Okay
"You did great Raymond you have improved a lot within a few weeks" Nepgear says
You did pretty good Ray but I would have liked it more if you won"
"Well I tried but if I was able to his Hp I could have won"
"I would like to believe that I would have won anyways" Icarus says
"you wouldn't have won if he could see your Hp Icarus"
"I thought you were on my side so what makes you say that Blanc?" Icarus says
"Because this was your first time ever fighting someone and Raymond was fighting smart, but Icarus you were fighting like if you were facing a monster that is why I think if Raymond knew how much HP you had left he would have dodge your attack and finish you"
"wait so Icarus has only faced monsters up until this point?" I said
"Yes he has but if he had any experience fighting people Icarus would have easily won"
"that's good to know. I will have to be more careful next time I fight him"
"It didn't matter if you're careful I'm just going to win you again"
I didn't really think I was going to win anyway or next time either but enough of me thinking about me probably losing next time. What I want to know is why you were reading a kids book"
"I-I don't really know how to read"
"would you care to take about it or should I just drop it"
I don't really want to talk about it right now so"
"Got it sorry for asking anyways lady Blanc is there anything else that you wanted from me for besides me fighting Icarus"
"Not really but maybe Icarus does"
"Sorry Raymond I can't really think of anything. I just kinda want to go back to trying to read again but you're invited to my birthday party"
"Thanks I'll come if I'm not dead by then anyhow it was nice meeting you both. I guess we should be going now Neptune, Nepgear, let's go"
Icarus left the training room
"Ray you do realize that Nepgear took off awhile ago with Rom and Ram right"
"No I didn't Neptune. Should we go fine her"
"it's fine Rom and Ram are probably going to ask Blanc if she can stay for the night anyways Blanc are you okay if Nepgear stays for the night"
It's fine besides Rom and Ram already asked if Nepgear can stay"
"Well all right then I guess we will be going now. oh and lady Blanc can you tell you Rom I said thanks for healing me
"Sure thing"
"Wait before we go Raymond I gonna ask Blanc where did she fine Icarus because the doesn't seems like one of the people that Blanc had a meeting with"
"That's because he wasn't most of the people that I was going to meet were no shows and the people who did show up were to old. I needed a champion that would be around for a good while not someone who would be around for few years"
"that doesn't explain how you meet Icarus" Neptune says
"I'm getting to that Neptune anyways I ended up picking nobody a few days later I found out that one of my town's was being attacked by monsters so. I went to the town to kill the monsters but by the time I showed up Icarus had killed most of them"
"...is there any more to the story?" I said
"There is but I feel like Icarus should be the one to tell you"
"Okay I'll try asking him next time I see him"
"oh Ray I forgot to ask but when did you learn how to use fire magic"
'From IF but all I can do at the moment is what you saw me do today which isn't much "
"You should probably learn more than if you want to win next time"
"yeah I know anyways let's go somewhere to eat than we go home"
"Sure but only if you're paying"
"Sure but only if I get paid for my job as champion"
"hey now shouldn't you have an enough money with all the quests you been doing?
"Not really because I needed clothes and better equipment"
"Well you kinda have to paid for it. I don't have any money on me"
I sigh "fine but not some high end restaurant. Because I don't have a enough money for that"
"fine by me now come on"
After dinner Me and Neptune went back to planeptune played some games and then she helped me with some training and then right back to games until she fell asleep with her head on my shoulder. I also ended up falling asleep not to long after
bonus part
histoire just woke up and went to the living room saw Raymond and Neptune
"that poor boy Neptune must have made him play with her for almost the whole night I should wake them up tell them not to start up so late"
histoire get closer Neptune and Raymond she then saw how they were sleepy Neptune had her head on Raymond's shoulder Raymond had his head on Neptune's head
"Oh my perhaps I should let them sleep longer they do need to be awake enough for me tell them off"
well I hope you like the chapter and hopefully I'll be able to make the chapters come out faster, p.s i shouldn't be finishing this at 3 am but I wanted to finish the chapter and see you all next time