Chapter 5

A Warrior's Past

A man with nothing to his name. My only thing that I have is my sword and my mercenary skills. My home was invaded by monsters. Earth is just a barren land that monster can roam freely now. My own family force me to leave due to lack of supplies. My friend Zack took me in for a while until I came here. My father told me he met my mother in a another world. He told there is a way to go from one dimension to the next. I didn't believe him until I came to Gameindustri. At that point my past has been confirmed. This is not my first time here. I was here at one point when I was young and somehow came back with the help of my father before he died.

I now serve a goddess and fight for Lastation. I'm a blank slate that can become anything. My only wish to find a purpose in life. I hope my father will forgive me for letting him die 9 years ago. I took his job to hunt monsters at night. People are not up usually at night, so it was a great time to kill the hordes of monster roaming around. I had to close myself from everything to protect the few hundred thousands people that are alive. I have to forget about all that. I need to make a new man out of myself. I believe in my heart that being Noire's bodyguard will give a purpose.

It's now been a month since I have been here and I have become rather known through the other nations. I'm told at some point I will be meeting the other goddesses. Noire will let me know when that day is. Noire said I'm meeting her sister today that just came back from her gun training. This will be interesting to say the least. I wonder how her sister is. I guess I will found out today. I better prepare for this. Today would be February third if I knew how this world tells time. I get up and put my uniform on.

"Damn today is the day. I better get my ass downstairs before Noire rips me a new asshole." I walk downstairs and I see a young lady in a black school uniform. She has pigtails with black and blue ribbons holding them up and she has red eyes just like Noire. She has a silmiler aura to Noire as well. The young lady looks at me as Noire comes downstairs.

'You're up. That's good. This is my little sister, Uni." Noire stated in a prideful tone.

"I'm Uni, the CPU Candidate of Lastation. Don't forget it." Uni stated in the same tone. So I have to deal with two girls that will bitch slap me for looking at them the wrong way. Great just what I always wanted.

"I'm Anthony. It's a pleasure to meet you Uni." I offer my hand to give her a handshake. She takes my hand and we shake hands.

"Good thing you know manners." Uni smiles slightly.

"I try." I laughed a bit. " So Noire told me you use guns. What kinds of guns do you use?" I asked her.

"Let me show you!" She pulls her rifle. The gun is as big as her! I should never piss her off. I might have a few bullets where the sun don't shine.

"That's really impressive." I'm shock and in awe as I saw her with her rifle.

" I know right! I love this gun so much." She is a gun freak. I should get used to this. Uni looked at me as if you wants to ask me a question.

"You want something?" I asked her.

"How did you get here? How did you meet my sister so easily?" Uni kept asking me random questions.

"I honestly could not tell you how I got here. I was just laying down and next thing I'm laying on a pile of metal scraps. As for meeting Noire, I guess I got really lucky on that one." I stated.

"I see."

" I know that my father was able to get to this world somehow on his own will."

"Really?!" Noire and Uni were really surprised.

"Yea. He was able to create a teleporter that can take him here and back. It was rather useful for getting material that didn't reside in my world. The teleporter itself however broke down and is unusable. I was hoping to get it fix to my help my people, but as you can see I'm here now and no way home." I rambled on about my endangered human race and how my father was our hope before he died.

"That's amazing and really sad." Uni stated as she is amazed of what I said.

"I suppose so."

"Do you want to return at some point?" Uni asked me.

"No. I wish to never return to that hell hole. I wish to start a new life here instead. There must be a reason I came here." I stated with a slight hint of anger in my voice.

"I see. That's why you were so stubborn to win the tournament." Noire stated.

"That's correct. I wish to find my reason for being here, plus I think that maybe my mother would be here. That's just me hoping at this point though."

"Your mother?" Noire became curious, Uni listened as well.

"My father told me he met my mom in another world. I think she might be here. I have never met her and if she was back in my world then she would have either sealed away or murdered by the monsters." I stated seriously.

"You seem to have a lot on your shoulders Anthony." Noire stated,

"I suppose, but right now I'm your bodyguard and that is that." I stated with a slight smile on my face.

"T-that's right! You're my bodyguard. You need to do your job first." Noire seems really nervous when she said that.

"Of course Noire." I let out a full smile. Noire froze up. I looked at her puzzled.

"The hell is that reaction for?" I asked Noire.

"Nothing! I just really not used to you smiling at all."

"Neither am I, so don't worry that is something we both might have to get used to." I laughed a little.

"Anthony!" Noire gave me a pouty face. I heard Uni chuckled a little.

"It's true Noire."

"I-I guess." Noire seems more nervous today then usual.

"Something on your mind Noire?" I asked her as I became slightly concern. She isn't usually like this.

"OH! It's nothing. Let's play a game!" Noire tells Uni and I to follow her to the game console. The hell is with Noire today. Is this her way of being nice? Maybe it's deeper than that. I will have to wait for answers as usual. We started to play a first person shooter game. I'm not a fan of these kind of games at all. Noire looks at me for a second.

"You're not enjoying it?" Noire asked me. This is starting to weird me out. She is way to nice.

"I'm just not into these kind of games. I'm more into Role-playing games." I stated.

"No problem. I got just the game!" Noire takes the current game out and puts a another game in. This game you can create your own hero. This is my kind of game.

"I see. It's one of those games where you go on quest and fight monsters together." It's kinda like what I do right now. The different is that this is a game and what I do is real life.

"Yep. This is one of Lastation's newest games that is coming out. It's a prototype right now. So let me know of any bugs." Noire stated.

"Got it Noire." We create our characters. Uni is a gunner. That was really easy to figure out. Noire is a fencer. Her hero is faster and uses rapiers. My Hero is a Warrior. I'm the brute force of the group. We played for hours on end. It's was just a chill day for us. I sat in the middle between the two girls. I notice Noire's shoulder against mine. I didn't bother to say another. I instead enjoy the company. I never seen Noire have fun before. I didn't expect her to be a gamer girl. That's add to her beauty.

"I'm going to make some food. You ladies want anything?" I asked the girls if they wanted to eat.

"A steak dinner seems rather nice right now." Uni stated.

"Can you make sweet curry?"Noire asked me. The heck is with the requests? I'm not making steak and curry. I guess I could try it.

"Sweet curry? I guess I can try that. Steak sounds great to me." I go to the kitchen and started to make the food leaving Uni and Noire by themselves.

" I wonder what got him to cook all the sudden?" Uni asked Noire.

"Like I know, but I'm curious how good it is." Noire walks slowly to the kitchen. She sees Kei and I talking.

"So you can cook?" Kei asked me.

"Yea. I had to learn to feed myself, so it came natural to me." I stated.

"Alright. The curry smells really good. Mind if I have a nibble?" Kei asked me.

"That's fine. You can tell me if it's up to Noire's liking." Kei taste the curry.

"This is really good Anthony. I'm surprised how well it's coming out." Kei really liked the curry.

"I'm glad you love it. I should make more." I laughed a little as I gather the items to make more curry.

"Thank you Anthony for the food."

"Nah it's not a problem at all Kei." Kei looked at me as if she knows something is on my mind.

"You're hoping Noire would like it."

"What?! No! I mean I do. It's just a way of saying thanks for helping me." Noire over heard Kei and I talking.

'A way of thanking me? If anything I should be thanking him.' Noire whispered to herself.

"You need not to hide anything from me. I will find out what I need to know anyways." Kei stated. That's a scary thought. I finally finished the food. I called out to Noire and Uni. Uni grabbed her steak dinner and left me and Noire alone.

"I tried my best to make you some sweet curry. I never tried this before so don't get to angry." I told Noire.

"I will be the judge of that." Noire takes a bite of the sweet curry. That one bite becomes more of more bites as the curry disappeared before my eyes. Noire has one hell of a appetite.

"That was really good. Thank you Anthony." Noire wipes her mouth off as she finished all the curry I made. I'm glad Kei got her fill before Noire attacked it. For now one I need to make a shit ton of food.

"I'm happy that you like it Noire." I let another smile slip. I'm really happy that Noire loved what I cooked. At least that went well.

"You know Anthony, if this is your way of trying to impress me, then I can say you did well." Noire said in a sassy tone.

"I wasn't trying to impress you at all, but I suppose I'm glad you like it. I should cook more often." I laughed a little.

"Yea you should. It was really good." Noire looked at me without any words coming. She blushed intensely.

"You alright there Noire?"

"Y-yea I'm fine." Noire got depressed rather quickly for some reason. I couldn't think of anything other then just to give her a hug. She wanted to scream at me, but she was to shocked to say a word.

"Don't be sad Noire. I know you ain't going to tell me anything at all, but if you need anything just ask me alright?" I let her go. She nodded her slowly. I went on to clean to dishes.

"You should rest up Noire."

"I can rest whenever I need to." She stands next to me and washes to dishes with me.

"Fine. There is no point of saying anything else." We finished the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen.

"Thanks for the help Noire. I'm going to rest up a bit."

"Alright Anthony. You go and rest up." I went upstairs to bed.

'What is this feeling I'm having? I'm so confused. Everything is so confusing. Ever since he came around everything has been all messed up in my head. Maybe I should just speak to him.' Noire shakes her head in frustration and goes upstairs.

'I hate feeling all damn wishy washy. Noire was completely off today. Why was doing all that stuff. Why she wanted to play games with me or enjoy dinner with me. The hell is going on here. I should go with the flow for now. I will never get answers pondering on about her. I have no clue what the next will bring. That's honestly the most exciting part of being here. I wonder if I'm going to find my mother at all or maybe she is already gone.

Authors' Note: I had to write another chapter! Hopefully you guys are liking this. To answer a reviewer's question, yes the OC is going to become Crimson Heart within time. Remember to review guys and thank you for your support. This story wouldn't go one without you guys :D until the next chapter. The summer special should be out shortly and after that Reborn will be out.