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Disclaimer: I do not own Highschool DxD nor it's characters, well except my OC Alaster. Everyone else belongs to their rightful owner; Ichiei Ishibumi.
Chapter 5 - New Companion
"Ughhh...shit, alright who's the idiot that bought Thang that plastic katana from Eirtakon and had him whack me on the head? Ugh, shit my head!"
As you could tell, it's already early in the morning and Alaster just recently woke up from being knockout out by his Gear. Unfortunately for him he first needs to deal with a headache that is ringing in his head right now, and it's starting to annoy him very much. He reached over to his drawer that stood next to his bed and pulling the top drawer he took out a small bright blue box that read Panadol Advance in white. Taking out a tablet from the box he put the tablet into his mouth before reaching over for his bottle of water and drank the medication down.
*Medication - Panadol Advance*
*Duration - 6 hours*
There's a small little bar at the corner that expands the information given to him but Alaster didn't really need to see the full information. He knows the effects of Panadol to begin with, parents specialty.
"Oi! What's this blue thing popping up in front of me!?"
…...Huh?
...Did he hear right, or is he going insane or something like that? Must be that, or just the wind playing with him or something.
A Blue box suddenly appeared in front of him
[Installation complete]
[Add-on: Boosted Gear successfully Installed]
Say whaaaaat?
"Seriously! What is that? That annoying box keeps appearing every time even for me!"
"Ok, what?" Alaster found the voice to speak at the unknown voice in his head "ok firstly, who the heck are you? Can we please start there thank you, think I'm having another headache here?" Alaster also added, rubbing his head a bit
"My name's Ddraig; the Add-on that your little floating blue box is saying right here"
"That little blue box is an information screen that provides information to the user" Alaster explained to the voice "And also I'm guessing that you were installed into my head to act as an A.I guide of some sorts, like a Cortana really"
"I'm a what!?"the voice spoke loudly "Firstly, what is a Cortana!? Secondly, I'm no A.I! I'm a Dragon! What is even an A.I? Is that what you humans now call Dragons nowadays? Thought the word Dragon would stick for millions of years"
"A Dragon!? Oh great, I have a Dragon from a video game in my head as my own version of Cortana, even though he denies it! What a nice chapter of my life we have here folks!" Alaster couldn't help but clap sarcastically as he said this. But now that he is thinking about his new companion…
Ddraig...the Dragon…hmmm…..
Now that he is thinking hard about it that name doesn't even ring a single bell in his head. He doesn't think he even knows a Character by the name Ddraig.
"You know what, just to save time I'm just going to have a look at this myself" Alaster muttered, already feeling another headache surfing up. Mentally doing a few commands he brought up the [Main Menu] Screen in front of him. Going to [Storage] first of all, he was expecting Ddraig to be found in the storage area but found nothing much to his confusion.
"Huh?" Alaster muttered confused. If he's not in the storage area, then…? Alaster then exited from Storage and clicked on [Profile] next and true to his suspicions Ddraig was located in here as a Profile.
[Ddraig]
Lvl 1 - 0/2,000
But Ddraig is an A.I is he not? Why is he considered as an Ability when all he is, is a voice in his own head meant to help him out? Hovering his finger over Ddraig's Profile he clicked on the profile which brought him to Ddraig's Information Screen; detailing his Abilities, Stats, and even History? Since when did Profiles had a history to them? He clicked on the History option and was met with another blue box.
"Ddraig, also known as the Red Dragon Emperor, The Welsh Dragon, Dragon Goch, Red Dragon Emperor of Domination or the Red Dragon is one of the two Heavenly Dragons who resides within the Longinus Sacred Gear; Boosted Gear" He read out loud the first few lines of Ddraig's history.
"Now that's impressive I have to say"Ddraig commented, looking at the same box that Alaster was currently reading. He fell silent a while ago as his somehow "new host" went ahead and began looking through more and more of those annoying boxes that kept popping up in his own view. He didn't even pay mind to what each box said, that is until Alaster brought up a screen that had not only Abilities of his but also a detailed history of himself, and now after reading it he couldn't help but be impressed at the amount of detail contained in the description about him.
After reading the information presented on the card, Alaster silently walked up to his computer, switched it on and after waiting for a few minutes, logged in and began searching up information about Ddraig. The information he received from the web was the same as he had read from the Information card, but a bit more detailed. Silently he closed his browser and his computer and sat there in silence for a few minutes…
Before literally screaming
"AHHH! I HAVE A REAL LIFE DRAGON IN MY HEAD!" Alaster literally freaked the fuck out. He was seriously panicking right now. Why you ask? Cause there is a fucking Dragon! A Dragon! In his head just...He doesn't know chilling maybe? But not for any longer cause he's about to lose his head or something! Or his soul! His life!? Maybe the fucking Moon in the process!he didn't know where that came from but who the fuck cares at this point when your life is threatened! (1)
"Hey! You alright? Your basically screaming your head off"Ddraig asked in concern
"Am I alright!? Hell no! I have a Dragon in my head-!"
"Yeah but ain't that a good thing-?"
"Who could literally at any moment eat my soul"
Ddraig's eye twitched "Ok, maybe you-"
"Or my mind! Take over my mind, out of my will or enslave it-!"
A tick mark formed above Ddraig's head "Wait a second that's-"
"Swallow me whole from the inside-"
Said tick mark started to grow in size"Ok, what? Where did you even-?"
"Or even-!"
Alright he had enough. "Alright that's enough dammit!"Ddraig shouted "Good lord, you sound like a whining banshee!"
"Hey! Listen here you red-scaled lizard bitch!" alaster shouted back. He was literally offended by that "I'm no whining banshee alright! That title belongs to my mother, who always whines about my grades, my choices, my life basically, but I am not like her damnit! Compare or relate me to her again and I'll personally come in there and shutch you up myself!"
"Schutch up!? Hahahaha!" Ddraig started laughing after hearing alaster's mispronunciation of Shut up "Now that's a good one boy! I like you!"
"No you don't, you're just saying that because I messed up on a word" Alaster retorted
"Nonsense! As if I would do that, like what are you talking about"
"Don't' play "Dumb-Dumb" you dumbass" Alaster growled "Admit it!"
"Admit what?"
"AGHHH!" Alaster shouted in frustration. He suddenly gripped his head in pain "And fuck, my head! My headache is back!"
Alaster and Ddraig spent the next few minutes bickering, arguing and insulting each other like a old married couple unfortunately enough. Thankfully Alaster's home is detached and isolated at the edge of a road, otherwise he'll have angry neighbors to deal with. After a few minutes of bickering they both finally stopped.
"That was...something"Ddraig said after a few minutes of quiet between themselves.
"Yeah, no shot sherlock" Alaster grumbled, lying down on his bed "Thanks to you my headache came back"
"Not my fault you brought that upon yourself"
"Yeah well you were the cause for it"
They both fell into silence once more
"So...your my new Host"Ddraig attempted to start a conversation with his new host
"And your an actual Dragon" Alaster also tried starting a conversation "And before answering that what did you mean by "new Host? Did you had a previous host before?"
"Yeah I did"Ddraig nodded "My previous Host; some kid I think was meant to be my actual Host instead of you"
"Was this Kid that you mentioned happen to be someone name by the Issei by any chance?" Alaster asked him
"I'm not sure myself"Ddraig answered not entirely sure. He was still fast asleep till he was dragged out and placed in Alaster "I happen to have been forcefully awakened when your Gear suddenly ripped me from him"
"In other words my Gear stole you from...Issei, let's call the kid Issei" Alaster said in response "Although I am a 100% sure that it is Issei that you are mentioning"
"I suppose you could put it that way"
"Say Ddraig, what is a Sacred Gear to be exact? Alaster asked him "I've recently heard about them but I don't know what it is, but I know they are special, otherwise a Fallen Angel wouldn't have tried and kill me"
"Well to answer your question, Sacred Gears are essentially what you call God's artifacts or Miracles" Ddraig explained to him "Items with powerful abilities bestowed upon mortals by God himself. They were originally created as God's enactment of Miracles on earth, and they were so powerful that they those who had their name etched in history were most likely Sacred Gear Users"
"Damn now that's cool" Alaster couldn't help but be awed at the level of powerful that these Sacred Gears have, it's almost like comparing them to the strongest weapons and items from different games; from Yamato from DMC to the Blade of Olympus from God of War, and now that he was thinking about it having two with him right now, now that's just overkill in his opinion.
"Sacred Gears are divided into two categories"Ddraig continued on "Regular Sacred Gears; your typical Sacred Gears with typical abilities and their strengths, and then there are the Longinus"
"Longinus? As in the Spear?" Alaster asked him
"Yes, but not really. That's the spear's other name, and also the name of the user of the original one, but essentially they are the top, most powerful Sacred Gears that you can find. There are a total of eighteen of them; they, including myself are the first original gears to be created by God himself"
"Well aren't you the special baby dragon of the pack" Alaster sarcastically joked, a grin on his face and a hand on his hip.
"Shut up"Ddraig retorted "Anyways since we are on the topic of Sacred Gears, we should talk about your own one; this Gamer's Perception, otherwise known as Venatus Est Machina or simply the name without the Est in the middle"
"Wait hold on, Venatus Machina?" Alaster asked curiously
"Basically Gamer's Gear when translated but is called Gamer's Perception. I found out whilst looking through your stuff here"
"Where did you find it?" Alaster asked him, surfing through the menu of his Gear "Cause I'm currently looking for it right now"
"You go to Status, then you click on the Gear's name at the bottom and It'll show you its other name" Ddraig instructed "Or maybe True Name? I don't know about that fact, I can't tell"
"Damn your right, it does have another other name to it" Alaster said as soon as he found it "So any other secrets you might have found?"
"Not that I would know of" Ddraig answered shrugging "And besides I don't even know any of these functions, as you can call it at all. I just found it by complete accident"
"Oh yeah, sorry about that" Alaster chuckled rubbing the back of his head
"Anyways, from what I can see here, after scanning around the inside of your Gear, it shouldn't even be possible for a Gear such as yours to be even active"
"What do you mean?" Alaster asked
"I'm no expert of Sacred Gears, but I know my basics, and from what I'm seeing with the inside of your Gear is stuff that should be here, isn't even here, like a Balance Breaker for example, but your Gear is missing one"
"Is a Balance Breaker important or something?"
"Heck yeah it is, it's a Gear's ultimate state of activation" Ddraig explained "And it's not just a Balance Breaker that your Gear is missing, it's some other systems that should be presence here, is just isn't even here to begin with. Heck I'm surprised and shocked that this Gear is still functioning at 100% without any malfunctions. It's like this Gear wasn't even finished, like whoever made this Gear just gave up halfway through its production"
"Is that something I should be worried about?" Alaster enquired
"Can't say, like I said I'm no expert myself" Ddraig told him "Like I'm pretty much intrigued as to what makes your Gear unique in such a way, at the same time I am also worried is the existence of such a Gear like this"
"Wait, are you suggesting that there are other Gears like this?"
"It's just a hypothesis really" Ddraig assured him "But from just thinking about it; a Gear that can assimilate other Gears into itself without any repercussions, is frightening even to me and to the rest of the Supernatural"
"Well this is something that an expert can only explain as to why this Gear acts in such a way" Alaster concluded
"Or the Creator of this Gear can only explain, besides I doubt that someone who is an expert can even explain what is going on with your Gear"
"I don't know what it's like in there, but I'll take your word for it Partner" Alaster nodded.
"Partner?"
"Yeah, since you and I are stuck together we might as well call each other Partners, what'cha say, Partner?"
From within his mind Ddraig nodded "Partner"
Alaster with a smile glanced over at his alarm clock and couldn't help but blink in surprise at the time. It was already 7.45am, and he hasn't even cooked breakfast or took a shower yet!
"Good god that's so late! We've been bickering and talking with each other for that long!?"
"Well time flies as they say"
"True" Alaster agreed, getting up from his bed "Well screw making breakfast at this time, as much as I want to make French Toast for breakfast I'd might as well just pick up a Chicken Roll from Spar along the way"
With that planned, he got out of his bed and made his way towards the door in order to get ready for school
But before that, a nice warm shower should suffice his early morning.
30 mins later…
Approximately about 30 minutes later, Alaster after having a nice shower, changed clothes and ran out to buy a chicken roll; which has cheese, lettuce, mayo and chicken in it, he had finally reached Kuoh Academy, almost. Right now he just needs to cross this road and then he'll be at Kuoh Academy Gates in less than a minute. But despite not being anywhere near the School gates just yet, he doesn't need to be that close in order to see them and right now waiting for him at the gate was known other than Issei himself
"That's new" Alaster thought in his head. Issei has never waited for him at the gate before, not ever, which is why he was rather surprised to begin with. It was either in class or at lunchtime, when he is not chilling with his pervert brethren. Reason why he would never wait for him at the gate was that he would rather go and just do perverted shit like the perverted Japanese boy that he is.
….
...Ok, that is very, very stereotypical of him and dumb for him to say. He should known better than to say stuff like that.
"Hey Issei!" Alaster called out to him waving at him getting his attention
"Alaster!" Issei greeted him, with panic in his tone? That's new. Alaster making sure that no cars were coming by crossed the road and quickly walked up to Issei. "Why you sound-?" Before Alaster could finish talking, Issei suddenly grabbed him by the shoulders and began shaking him
"Do you remember!?" Issei cried shaking him frantically "Do you remember anything!?"
Despite being violently shaken like a rag doll Alaster managed to grab Issei's arms and pulled them off of his shoulder. "Calm yourself Issei! Why the hell are you shaking me for"
"Do you remember anything at all of yesterday!?"
Alaster rolled his eyes "Of course I remember yesterday" He answered "I remembered a nice, eventful day at school, blah blah blah, the crazy-"
"Everyone doesn't remember Alaster!" Issei butted in, shaking him once more, but not that frantically this time. Was he not paying attention at all or something? "I asked everyone this morning if they remembered Yuuma but they just gave me clueless looks! Even Matsuda and Motohama don't remember her!"
"So your saying that the other members of your kind don't remember the crazed yandere chick that tried to rape ya dead corpse?" Alaster raised an eyebrow smirking "Cause I remember that part all too well~"
"Yeah! And then-!" Issei would have said more if it wasn't for Alaster's remark registering in his mind. "Hey!"
"What you mean hey~? You were discussing about the events of your deflowering were you not?"
"No we weren't!" Issei shouted at him "You tricked me and are making fun of me you troll!"
"Did not" Alaster denied shaking his head "but the trolling thing, as you might call it, is something that I ain't gonna deny"
Issei grumbled in response. "Anyways so you do remember yesterday?"
"Of course I remember yesterday" Alaster nodded "Otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation at all, but besides that what do you mean that they don't remember? Are you saying that they actually legitly don't remember her?"
"Yes! No matter how many times I asked them about her they don't even remember!"
"This is weird indeed" Alaster mused, hand on his chin "But anyways, it's like 5 minutes left and we should get inside or else be scowled by Sona. I don't want to hear her words of "Wisdom" early in the morning thank you very much"
With that said they both entered the school grounds.
"Say Alaster, why aren't you not wearing the school uniform?" Issei asked looking at his clothes, prompting Alaster to look down at his own choice of clothing. Instead of his regular school uniform he had opted for a black hoodie with white spots decorating his hoodie in a splatter style over a blue and white hollister shirt, light blue denim pants and black and blue nike shoes.
Alaster shrugged, not seem to care at all "eh, I couldn't be bothered to change into my uniform, I woke up late after all"
"But what if Sona sees you?"
"Then we'll avoid her" Alaster told him
"Wait, why am I apart of this-?"
"Besides, she's just busy doing school council stuff to even be seeking for me"
"Oh really?"
"AH!" Alaster screamed in a pitch that Issei had never heard him say before, and faster than he could even see he turned around to come face to face with, and Alaster quotes "Enemy" and "Tortuous guardian of Order"; Sona Sitri, and by the look that she was giving to Alaster she doesn't look happy to begin with.
"Mind rephrasing what you just said?" Ddraig musingly asked "Cause I swore you said that she was busy with work?"
"Shut your trap Ddraig!" Alaster responded back to the red dragon. "Oh hey Sona!" Alaster greeted his "enemy" "how's your morning been?"
"Why are you not in your uniform Alaster Haradra?" Sona sternly asked him "care to explain?"
"Uhhh, my uniform's dirty?" Alaster tried lying to her "I tripped and fell into a pool of mud on the way home so it's in the wash right now, and I don't have anything else to wear besides that pair of clothes"
"Oh really now? Sona raised an eyebrow "but shouldn't you have another pair though?"
"No I don't"
"Did you not bought your uniform here last summer?"
"Yes I did but what-"
"There was a bargain deal here in which if your total cost exceeds over 10,000 Yen then you'll receive a 50% reduction in your total cost followed by the edition of either some books or another set of uniform for free"
"...Don't know what you mean"
"You do! Don't play dumb with me Alaster Haradra! You bought everything that you needed for next year there! Specifically from me!"
"Really? I did?"
"Yes! You were there! In front of me, with your mother right beside you! I'm not forgetful!"
"Yeah well your memory must be a bust, cause I clearly don't remember that"
"Why are you lying to me?"
"No I'm not"
"Are too"
"Am not"
"Are too"
"Am not"
"Are too"
"Am the fuck not"
"Are too"
Issei couldn't help but give a deadpan look as he watched from the sideline as he watch his best friend have a childish argue with Sona of all people. He's just going to get detention or punishment work again anyways after this, what's the point of him trying to defend himself? He couldn't help but sweatdrop when Alaster began adding "Colourful" additions into his dialogue.
"Your a degenerate!"
"What!? Why are suddenly calling me that-?!"
"Your the human equivalent of a Dad joke!"
"Just tell me, why are you-"
"I spit in your general direction!" (2)
Issei couldn't help but sigh loudly. Did he really just had to say that? And also did he really had to include a reference from one of Pyrocynical's videos in his argument?
Well either it was intentional or not this is the Alaster that he knew and grew up with.
Guess some things never change, not that he had a problem with it.
As Alaster and Sona continue to argue against one another unknowingly to Alaster, Issei was approached by Rias Gremory who began talking to Issei about something to him. If Alaster wasn't arguing with Sona he would have paid attention to Issei and Rias conversation instead of arguing about the Moon? Ok seriously, how does an argument like theirs progress to argue about other stuff? It doesn't make any sense at all.
"Just go home and wear your uniform"
"Isn't it too late for that? It's five minutes till class starts"
"But don't you have a free class right now?" Sona questioned
"Yeah but-"
"Then go home and put on your uniform" Sona sternly told him
Alaster growled as he turned around and start walking. "Bitch" he muttered under his breath
"And your getting detention for that" Sona included
"Fuck!"
Detention, Free Class
"Detention in my free double class? Really, that's such a Bummer" Alaster muttered to himself, depressingly laid his head down on his arms. He was the only one in detention as of now, and watching him was none other than his Music Teacher, who was busy correcting his Grade 9 Classes' Test instead of paying attention to him, not that Alaster minded at all. He'd rather have him do his own work than have him stare at him for the duration of 80 minutes.
And also this gives him a perfect opportunity for him to play FGO whilst his teacher is distracted
"Hey partner"
"Oh hey Ddraig?" Alaster asked the Dragon "What's up?"
"I forgot to ask ya this morning while you were talking to that Issei kid but what was he talking about everyone not remembering the chick that he dated? Sounds really important for him for some reason"
Alaster raised an eyebrow at this. "You weren't paying attention?"
"No I was asleep"
"Then why were you awake when we were talking with Sona?"
"Cause your scream woke me up"
"Hmmm, makes sense" mumbled Alaster, and he proceeded in telling Ddraig about Raynare and what had happened yesterday
"The reason why no one remembers is the fact that Devils and Angels have the ability to erase their presence from humans"
"Well that makes a lot of sense," Alaster thought
"But, what doesn't make sense is that Issei remembers her which she shouldn't. How come?"
"Hmmm, maybe it's cause of my gear preventing him from forgetting?" Alaster suggested "Or maybe, and this is reinforcing my theory but it's cause you were originally in Issei before my Gear tore you out"
"I suppose that I was"
"Hmmm, anyways I'm just gonna roll the Gacha and see what I get"
Lunch
"And I didn't get Lanceria Pendragon, that's nice" Alaster grumbled, placing another piece of lasagna into his mouth "Just shitty 5-star Essences and that Stheno trap"
"Jesus, you're still really mad about that game?"
"Yeah, and I don't know if it's cause my luck is bad or just this game loves trolling me that much, I just don't know anymore" Alaster sulked, placing another lasagna piece into his mouth. "And I don't even have a 5 star Servant! The only one I have is Jalter! Is there something wrong with me or something? Am I cursed?"
"Don't ask me. I don't know these things alright"
"I know, which is why I ain't asking ya" Alaster responded. He looked up from his lunch and saw that Issei was heading towards his table at the edge of the canteen room "And just in time too"
"Hey Alaster" Issei greeted him, setting down his tray on the table, as he sat down on the opposite side of Alaster
"Hey Issei" Alaster greeted back, taking a sip from his cup of water "You must be wondering why I called ya here"
"Pretty much yeah" Issei nodded "Me, Matsuda and Motohama had plans to spy on the swimming club this lunch"
"Jesus Issei you haven't changed" Alaster sighed in despair, rubbing his forehead. "And before you start talking about the glory of breasts" He cut his friend off "This is why I called you here"
He then began explaining to Issei as to why everyone couldn't remember Yuuma apart from themselves. He made sure not to include or mention Ddraig or it's just going to be another answering session.
"Well that really explains things" Issei muttered agreeing with what Alaster had said. But then he realised something. "But wait a minute! If everyone can't remember cause of what Yuuma did, then how come Rias knows?"
"Eh!?" Alaster looked at him in surprise and shock "She knows?!"
"Yeah! She asked me about Yuuma this morning"
This raised a red flag with Alaster, cause if he remembered clearly what Ddraig told him only humans can be affected by their spell, if so then why does she even know to start with?
Funny enough it was now Alaster's turn to grab Issei by the shoulders and start shaking the crap out of him "What did she say!? Was there anything in your conversation that stood out!? How does she know, answer me Issei!"
"...I don't remember"
"You don't!? Why!?" He shook Issei even more "Answer me dammit!"
"It's because of Buchou's Oppai!" Issei confessed
"It's because of WHAT!?" Alaster nearly screamed
"It's because of Buchou's glorious Oppai! They looked so glorious and astonishing that I wanted to touch them myself!"
"Are you shitting me!? Your telling me that you were hypnotised in answering her questions by her fucking tits swinging in your face!?". Oh how much he wanted to beat the crap out of him and call him a perverted idiot but then something clicked in his mind
"Wait a minute, if Rias remembers Yuuma then that means that she's either unaffected or she isn't human as she seems, but then hold on, if so then she has some connection in all of this; questioning Issei about what happened by playing on his weakness" He rolled his eyes at that known fact "But then again, if she is connected to this then that wouldn't explain as to why she would do something as shameless as that just for answers"
He then let go of Issei
"Issei, you are one big perverted idiot" Alaster lamented "Why did you have to turn out like this?"
"Uhhh….I'm sorry?"
"Just don't please"
Later…
"Now that was an eventful day" Ddraig commented in amusement
"Shut it Ddraig!" Alaster cried "For my punishment, not only was I forced to wash everything in the canteen kitchen again but I had to do it with that bastard who still owes me 1,000 Yen"
"10,000 Yen? How did that happen?"
"Well essentially I was nice back then, a bit too nice to my liking. One day he asked me some money in which I kindly gave him and expected to be paid back. Came by the following day and asked me again. This unfortunately repeated time and time again with him being even more annoying and demanding than before and it was by that I decided to isolate myself from him, which worked at times but not all the time, and because of that he owes me that amount of money"
"I think you should sue him or something, get your money back"
"Yeah, I think I should" Alaster made a mental note to try and do that in the future if he had the chance, but then again next thing he knows the chap would obviously try and bring his friends along to just intimidate him or something, just so that he can get what he wants which is his money, like seriously just get a job if your so desperate for money like it's that simple he's eighteen for heaven's sake!
Sighing at the walking stupidity that is one Asahi Muramasa he crossed yet another traffic light before arriving at the large open Plaza that is Kuoh Shopping district. It may not be that large of a shopping district but it is decently large enough to contain some very good and high quality stores and restaurants such as Superdry and Fujiyama. Also noticeable important to add is that the district isn't exactly one large shopping plaza but a collection of said stores and restaurants in said decently large area of Kuoh. All well built, all well planned, all serving excellent services and products, well except maybe that one restaurant in the corner of the district. Place seems fishy ever since it opened to the public but that's a different story for another time
As to why Alaster is here in the first place he needed to buy ingredients for his dinner tonight before he goes back home. Making his way in the direction that the grocery store is Alaster happened to past by a Electronics store that had TVs up on display and were currently playing the news, with some people paying attention to the news.
"In other news today a shocking yet gruesome discovery was made in Ashikaga Park, Tokyo as this morning, 12 children that were reported missing yesterday night have been found dead. Investigators have yet to identify any clues or evidence as to who killed these children or better yet were able to abduct them from their individual homes. The families of these children-" (3)
"Lord almighty!"
"Shit..."
"How could such a thing even happen!?"
"I thought crime around here had fallen recently"
"Doesn't seem so now"
These were the many questions and things that were spoken amongst the watchers and that included Alaster, well he wasn't amongst those that said those questions but he was paying extra attention to it.
"Jesus, I feel really sorry for these children's parents lost" Alaster muttered to himself, feeling really apologetic for the parents of these 12 children. "May they live the life that they never have"
"Amen to that"
"Dude, I ain't religious"
"Oh, sorry to hear" Ddraig said "By the way this report is just too brief in my opinion"
"What makes you say that?" Alaster asked the Dragon
"Cause this report that I came across is more descriptive than what that lady is saying right now"
"...I have internet access?" Alaster muttered in surprise and in realisation
"Internet?"
"It's essentially a clusterfuck of different information combined, a huge library of useful and useless information collected and stored" Alaster explained to him "how did you even come across this feature?"
"I just came across it whilst I was bored" Ddraig explained merely shrugging "It's just located in….how do you call this?" Ddraig tried describing the Main Menu to Alaster
"Hold on, allow me to assist ya" Alaster opened up the Main Menu in front of him "Guide me in where you found that Internet Browser"
"Alright, it's just there at the bottom of that" Ddraig pointed out "At the very bottom of whatever you call this"
"It's called a Main Menu" Alaster told him as he looked down to the very bottom of the Main Menu and couldn't help but be dismayed at the fact that there is another option in his Main Menu; [Others]
"Well that's new" Alaster muttered in surprised. He clicked on it and was greeted with a blue box that had only one thing contained inside it; represented by an Icon
[Internet]
"I found it" Alaster pressed the icon and a window popped up in front of him, with the report that Ddraig found already loaded
"Say how did you find this?" Alaster asked the Dragon "Your still new at this aren't you?"
"Yeah I am" Ddraig nodded "And as to how I found it, there were other reports on the Main menu of the Internet which you call it"
Alaster put two and two together. "Oh, you mean those tabs at the bottom of the Search Engine?"
"Boy, I have no idea what you just said"
"Oh sorry" Alaster chuckled scratching his back. "Alright, now let's see here" Alaster began reading the news report and after a good 5 minutes of reading he was finished reading the news report, and was the bigger picture of this incident.
"Alright according to the news report as the lady had said 12 children were found dead after being abducted from their homes. Now people would be wondering after hearing or listening to this would be how these twelve children were abducted in the first place"
"That's a difficult question on everyone's minds at this point" Ddraig said "A question that no one like us would be able to answer at this time"
"No one like us? What do you-oh, I see what you mean now, so you believe that this incident is the work of a supernatural?"
"It's highly possible, but the problem is that it could be anyone; Stray Devil, Rogue Exorcist or Angel, Youkai, Vampire-"
"Wait! There are vampires and Youkai too!?" Alaster whispered in shock "Oh god so there isn't just Angels and Demons living in our world. Oh christ almighty as if they weren't enough!"
"Well welcome to the supernatural world, in which all things from mythology exist but you have yet to see them with your own eyes"
"You know what?" Alaster began, as he massaged his forehead "Let's not think about this now, and let's just go and get my ingredients before it gets too late"
"Alright then" Ddraig nodded "And speaking about supernatural we'll need to talk about the Supernatural at another time. It's Important that you know the ins and out of the Supernatural World"
Alaster nodded and turned around from the TV screens as he made his way to the grocery store.
Later...
It didn't take long for Alaster to get what he needed from the grocery store and once acquired what he needed he made his way home. The journey home took longer since the Shopping district is a 45 min walk from where he lives, but the journey back home was manageable, and was a bit less than 45 mins due to the number of cars at night, but in the end he manage to get back home in less than 45 minutes, but not before stopping by Fujiyama and picking up something to eat. He missed eating at that place, perhaps he should visit that place again the next time he has free time, the food there is just so damn delicious.
"We've arrived back at your house already, say you want me to open up the Base management menu for you?"
"I have Base management too?" Alaster said in surprise. Jesus this day is just full of surprises ain't it? "Like State of Decay but different?"
"I don't know what State of Decay is, but yeah" Ddraig confirmed "I also found it whilst browsing through stuff that I don't even know. What's the point really of me looking through things that I don't even know of"
"Curiosity intrigued the Dragon perhaps?" Alaster suggested
A second later a blue box appeared in front of Alaster and he couldn't help but whistle at the amount of information that is presented in the information box
"Damn, that's a lot of information about my home" Alaster commented scanning through it "Alright let's see what we have here…we have House Price, Costs, Condition, Occupants...hold on a second"
"What is it?"
"It says here for Occupants that there are exactly two people here, but the only people that are currently here right now is me, and I don't believe it isn't even counting you since you're living inside my head, just who the bloody hell is this thing even counting as occupant…?" Alaster expanded the occupant button and once he did so he couldn't help but sigh loudly in annoyance at seeing the third name on the list directly below his name. His face turned sour at the occupant's name.
"Oh…"
"Who is it?" Ddraig asked him curiously
"...It's my mom" Alaster growled, disdain present in his voice "She's here"
"Aren't you happy about it?"
"Not quite" Alaster answered "Just not at all". He opened the front door and entered back home
"Mom! I'm home!" Alaster declared out loud, settling his grocery bag and school bag down. A few seconds after he had said this his mother; Touka Haradra emerged from the kitchen, and to say she didn't look happy at all, earning a scowl from Alaster although he did not show and if he did he'd receive even more backlash from her
"Jeez, I wonder what I did "wrong" this time around" Though Alaster with a roll of his eyes.
"Alaster! Where were you!? Why aren't at home? It's already eight o'clock in the evening!" His mother shouted at him. "Do you not know the dangers of being out late at night!? We tell you this every time and yet you still don't listen"
Alaster's kept a calm face on, although his right hand twitching at an abnormally fast rate with every word she spoke says otherwise. He was trying to stay calm and yet his mother's temper wasn't helping in the slightest. Nonetheless, he managed to calm down, unintentionally gripped his right hand with his left hand as his left arm went around his back and gripped it hard.
"Mom the reason why I'm late is cause I have to go do the groceries" Alaster calmly answered showing her the grocery bag "Plus why are you getting worked up all of a sudden? It's only eight in the evening and the sun has just set, and besides" Alaster also added "I'm already seventeen, and I can look after myself out there at night" He tried telling his mom, like the many times that he tried telling similar things to his mother and his parents.
But they just had to be dense as a brick didn't they? Especially his mother, his dad is far off worst…
Nah, both were and let's keep it at that
"Only eight!?" His mother seem to screech at him, and he was so tempted himself to either rub his ear with one of his hands or just shout at his mother, cause he's someone that doesn't like being shouted at and would just shout back in response. If only his parents ever knew such a fact, which they would never will.
"Do you have any idea what you are even saying Alaster!? It's for you safety that you come home early! You wouldn't know if there would be any Loco-loco out there just waiting for you! And you can look after yourself? No you won't. What if they have a gun or knife? What then?"
"Obviously I would pull out a Halo gun or something and beat the crap out them" Alaster thought in his head "but then you wouldn't believe it anyways, even if I told you"
"Obviously I'd run" Alaster answered "But-"
"But what if they have a gun?"
Alaster's right eye twitched "I'd fight them of course" He told his mother "It's called Self-Defence, and I've been taking classes for a while now"
He was expecting his mother to just take what he told her and be happy with it, but alas she just couldn't even take it
"But even though, you know that it's dangerous to be out at night, especially this late" His mother tried to tell him so, to which Alaster rolled his eyes. "Have you not even heard the news recently about the recent killings?"
"So your saying that I can't hang out with friends at night cause of the fact that it's not safe at night" Alaster pointed this fact out to his mother "And yes I know of the recent murders that's going on around here, but if you think logically about these murders-"
"What's there to think logically about?" Touka questioned her son's words "These are people being murdered without a care in the world!"
"Children, mother, Children" Alaster reminded her "The murders are related to children-"
"Are you even listening to me?"
Alaster's right eye twitched again in annoyance "But are you even listening to me, mother!? You didn't even let me finish my explanation!"
"What's there to explain? That this killer would avoid you just because he's going around targeting children and not you!? That's not logic, it's complete stupidity!"
"It wouldn't be stupidity in your mind if you just let me finish explaining as to why!" Now Alaster is beginning to have enough "but no! You just didn't let me explain! You never do! Everytime I try explaining something to you, you just have to speak over me!"
"Cause your not thinking about-!"
"Your the one that's not thinking straight! And your the one that refuses to hear what your son has to say about it!"
"What's even there to talk about?! Tell me Alaster!"
"It doesn't even matter anymore!" Alaster retorted "Cause you'd just open that gob of yours anyways without me even finishing"
"What did you say!?" Touka screeched, prompting him in actually letting go of his right hand and scratch the inside of his left ear "Your really disrespectful to your parents now, you know that!?"
"And you are so ignorant if you wouldn't even listen to your son's own words, dense cause you couldn't even use your head to think about any situation and a baboon cause you act like one!"
"That's it! Alaster Haradra! Go to your room! Your not having any dinner tonight! You'll stay in your room until you learn your lesson!"
"Fine if your going to be like that!" Alaster yelled, making his way up the stairs but not before dumping the grocery bag down the stairs "And here's your groceries! Go cook your own food! I already eaten my dinner before I came home for starters!" with that he stormed up to his room, ignoring the screaming that is from his mother
"...What was that back there?" Ddraig finally spoke
"That...was my mother" Alaster simply answered. He threw his bag into the corner of his room "And because of her and Dad, this is why I would always hate going home even if any of them were here to begin with, like I just despise them, and just can't help but keep hating them each day for their actions" He reached his bed and fell face flat onto his mattress
"...You want to talk about it?"
His only response was a loud sigh from the teen as he laid on his bed.
"What's the point in doing that!? It's not going to go away no matter how many times I dream or talk about it"
"Well it's better than sulking about it" Ddraig answered "Besides, It's a good way of releasing tension and stress. From what I've gathered from you already you despise your parents"
"Yeah, I despise them" Alaster began talking "Like I told you, it's the way that they treat me and act as parents is what I hate them for"
"So you still love them, despite hating them that much?"
"...Maybe, I don't know, my feelings for them are just a cluster fobic mess of emotions and thoughts" Alaster confessed "I used to love them, as any child should, but that changed after I turned 10, it was then that I got a glimpse of who my parents are as people. I don't want to describe them too much cause my description of them is so damn long but let's just say that they expect way too much out of me"
"Expect too much? Jesus do they not know of limitations at all or something?"
"That's what I keep trying to tell them, but unfortunately they don't listen at all" Alaster sighed loudly to calm himself down
"Hmmm, have you ever tried talking to them about their ways?"
"Useless" Alaster simply answered "Simply useless, and if this continues" Alaster also added "I might just do the only logical thing and just run away from home, but the problem is how I am going to support myself. Like I can't just go to Issei's or Paul's house, their parents know my parents for christ sakes!"
"No doubt they would sell you out back to your parents" Ddraig concluded.
"No they wouldn't" Alaster shook his head "I know them well enough too to know that they would not"
"Then why not stay with any of them?"
"Proximity. My proximity between me and my parents should be a fucking city, hell a nation if it has to be"
"Dan, you must really not like your parents to want to be as far away from them as possible"
"Not really not like, despise is the correct word" Alaster reminded him "and enough talk about my parents, this'll but give me more white hairs for me. I can already feel more of my black hair turning white, just from the mentioning of my parents"
"Alright then"
"Also, there's another reason as to why I don't like them"
"And what's that?" Ddraig asked him
"It's because of them not allowing me to be who I want to be in life" He told him. "I've always wanted to be a Game Designer you see; someone who creates games for a living. My love for games started when I first played Final Fantasy X. it was my first childhood game at the time. At first I just merely played it cause there was nothing else to do on those after school hours; an escape from the boring life that is my parent's work as you can say, but then I started playing other games; Dawn of War Soulstorm, Medal of Honour, Battlefront III, the old one before the screwed up version that is EA's Battlefront, it was by these games and many more in the future that sparked my interest and love or video games; the sense of accomplishment, the Characters, the Lore, the action, the mechanics! All of these which only fueled my love for games in general, and that is when I swore that I would become the greatest Game Designer that there is! Or a fairly good one if I can't reach that part, but still I wanted to be the best of Game Designers"
"That's a very ambitious Dream of yours" Ddraig couldn't help to comment. Alaster cracked a grin
"Yeah I was ambitious with m dream back then, but I am still ambitious about it today, although I toned it down a bit. Anyways, as the years went by I would play more and more games, whilst at the same time would become more knowledgeable in the ins and out of games; what makes a game tick, what mechanics are there, how did it work, why was it successful in the first place? I ask myself these questions as I previewed and played each game; Final Fantasy 7 was so successful because of its Characters, Devil May Cry as a whole, except that retarded remake, was successful in its creation also because of its Characters. Black ops I was considered the best because of it's storyline, and so was Modern Warfare 2, and many more with many other games. However over the years I'm beginning to notice that there are now less and less of good games out there. Destiny 2 and Battlefront would have been good, if not for EA, No Man's Sky had a lying son of a bitch as its creator and Assassin's Creed, oh my god what has the series become after AC3. And the I swore to myself that when i do become a game Designer that I would somehow fix these games and make them great again!"
It was then that the lights in his room began to turn themselves on and off on their own
"...so that's what this button does"
"...WHERE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME!?" Alaster screamed in his mind at the Dragon "Da fuck were you even doing all this time!?"
"I was just testing these buttons here that are apart of that base management thing that you have. I was curious"
"I have functions for house management?" Alaster questioned before he realised what he said "Wait, why am I occupied with that question!? Me real question is were you even paying attention at all to me!?"
"I was" Ddraig nodded "You said that you wanted to be the best Game Designer that there is"
"Yeah!?"
"Even though I don't know what a Game Designer is"
"...I explained to you what a Game Designer is..."
"Uhhhh, sorry?"
Alaster heavily sighed "Just...nevermind"
"Alright" Ddraig nodded "So what you want to do then? You can't go downstairs unless you'd get shouted at by your mother again"
"True" Alaster nodded "which is why I'm going to ESO and level up my NightBlade Profile" Alaster told him "As well as eat my Chicken Curry Katsu that I got from Fujiyama. Say if you want I can also teach you the ins and out of my Gear"
"Sure. I wouldn't mind at all"
Next day
The next day was a day Alaster was thankful to be. Why you ask? Cause it is a Saturday of course! And this gives Alaster a great opportunity to play more of his favourite games at home…
If, his mother wasn't at home to begin with, that woman is so damn strict with his time on the Pc or Ps4, and so alaster decided to go out on a walk under the calm serene sky.
"Lovely day isn't it?" Alaster asked ddraig looking up to the blue sky
"Sure is" Ddraig agreed with him "Haven't seen skies that calm in a long time"
"Really?" Alaster asked curiously "How long we talking here?"
"Close to 200 Years, since the last time I saw skies such as this"
"Damn now that's long" Alaster commented "Well not to worry! Kuoh has some of the best weather around, you'll see plenty of blue skies here alright"
Alaster took a left turn onto the next street…
Only to accidentally walk into someone, causing him to fall backwards onto the ground hard.
"...Ow…" Alaster groaned, clutching his head in pain.
"Oh I'm sorry mister!" The person whom he impacted with apologised. She attempted to help Alaster up, but unfortunately she stepped on one of her shoelaces by accident, causing her to fall on top of him…
With her breasts pressed against his face
Alaster face lit up red, and in a panicked state he quickly tried to get her off him, but only adding more fuel to the fire and how you ask? Why by pressing both of his hands against her breasts as he pushed her up. His actions only caused himself to panic even more.
"Oh shit I'm so sorry!" Alaster panicked, quickly apologising "Please don't hit me for touching your breasts by accident! Please don't! It would only give Paul more shit to torment me with if he ever finds out! Please I beg of you don't!"
Alaster shielded himself with both of his arms, whilst also closing his eyes too. He was expecting a flurry of punches to his arms as of now, but those punches never came. Confused, Alaster slowly lowered his arms and opening an eye he was surprised that the woman that he saved didn't do anything to hurt him in anyway for what he did.
"Well...perhaps I'm not gonna get hurt by a woman after all" Alaster thought.
"Sissy"
"Shut it you overgrown lizard!" Alaster retorted before quickly returning his attention to the woman in front of him. He couldn't help but admire the beauty that stood in front of him. With pink eyes and black hair, she stood at a height nearly up to his forehead, but he beats the woman by a few inches, although this little bit made him question himself about his height in general.
"Am I really that short?" Alaster wondered comparing his height and the girl's height "i don't even know if I'm shrinking or something"
"Don't ask me, I'm no expert"
"I wasn't asking you Ddraig"
"I know, which is why I wanted to get that out of the way"
Alaster sighe before returning his attention to the woman in front of him.
"Y-yes?" Alaster responded "C-can I help you, no wait! Aren't you going to hit me for molesting you?" He asked the woman to which she shook her head and flashed him a smile
"It's no biggie!" beamed the woman, shrugging, still flashing tha smile at him "I wasn't even paying attention as well"
"Oh! Thank god I ain't getting slapped today" Alaster breathed a sigh of relief
"Also to be honest that felt kinda nice to be honest" she also added
"Yeah...wait what..."
"What did she just say!?"
"Oh by the way nice weather today isn't it?"
Alaster just stood there dumbfounded unsure of how to even comprehend the woman's previous statement, looking at the woman, heck even Ddraig having a hard time comprehending what she just said.
"Uhh...yeah, nice weather today" Alaster responded, making the woman smile even more
"It's nice talking to you but I have somewhere to be! Nice talking to you mister!" before Alaster could even say anything the woman ran passed him and turned right into the street that he was previously in, leaving him to stand in the street alone, still dumbfounded at the events that had transpired
"...I don't know what the bloody hell happened"
"Me too, let's not talk about this"
"Agreed" Alaster affirmed "Anyways might as well keep going to Gamer's World. Don't want to miss the Yugioh tournament"
END
1) A Reference to Bakunawa; a Dragon from Filipino Mythology who is mainly thought to be the one behind the causes of eclipses.
2) Simple explanation. I watch too much Pyrocynical.
3) My life in a nutshell
Author's Note:
Sorry it took so long to bring this Chapter out, as you can see it's nearly 10k Words, taking that long to write it and the fact that I was really busy looking for a place to work and it was a struggle to find a place to work, especially when the shops that you would love to work in e.g Games Workshop and Game stop are all overstaffed. You know whats more of a struggle? Making a CV, and it was a pain in the ass like I don't know where to start with making one.
Welp, guess I'll just go and make Anime Art Calendars or something. Charge you folks 10 Euro just for one, although I have no idea where to sell any of them to start with. Or maybe make Props with the 3D Printer of a Clubhouse that I'm apart of. Very nice and social people there. But like I said, I have no idea where to sell them online.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed reading this Chapter, and happy Summer Holidays, everyone!