Ch.12 The meeting to discuss floor 32

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(Rui's Hospital Room)

{Third Person Point of View}

Rui's body laid on the soft white bed, the moonlight shone brightly on the right half of his body. A flower left in a small blue vase glistened innthe moonlight. Then, a dark shadow appeared over him, looking down at him. A head formed, revealing two sharp teeth as it inched towards his neck. Without any interuptions, the demon bit into Rui's neck, drinking his blood in the real world. As soon as he was bit, the demon pulled back. A bit of blood trickled from the two holes, but they quickly closed. Without uttering a single word, the dark shadow disappeared, allowing the paler Rui to heal.

{Rui's Point of View}

-October 13th, 2041-

[Status of the Game so far]

Top Player of the Chapter: UncleInTheAttic

Gender: Male

Age: 22 Years old

Level: 77

Class: Bow Specialist

Weapon: (Super Rare) Tri-Tipped Dragonite Bow

Skills: 39

Guild: Sharpshooters

Guild Leader: KeenEye107(Level 74)

Quests Completed: 1291

Players left in the Game: 1.71

Players that have died: 864,130

Floor Bosses Defeated: 40

Highest Floor Achieved: 32

I started today by telling everyone that I'm alive... that I'm ready to fight on the front lines again. TheImmortalEevee was ecstatic to hear that I was back. He demanded to know why I haven't been helping. I couldn't tell him the truth, so I half lied, saying I was a prisoner.

Currently, we were talking in a voice chat, I asked, "How is Gojiro?"

TheImmortalEevee sighed, "He's been missing."

I tilted my head, "Missing?"

TheImmortalEevee sighed, "He was last seen on the 25th floor three weeks ago. Since then, no one's heard anything from him. I know he's alive since the list says he is, but we have no idea where he is."

I asked, "Should I go look for him?"

TheImmortalEevee said, "No, he's not what's important for now. We have a boss raid today, remember?"

I shrugged, "Yeah... I guess... Scott... are you sure?"

TheImmortalEevee hesitated for a moment before saying, "Yes. You can look for him afterwards, we need you now."

I agreed, "Alright. How's everything been for you?"

TheImmortalEevee snickered, "I'm level 71 now with access to Flareon, Umbreon, and Leafeon."

I smiled, "That's cool. Think you'll get access to all of them eventually?"

TheImmortalEevee snickered, "Of course! I'm a pokemon spiritualist linked to eevee and its evolutions. Why couldn't I have access to all of them?"

I laughed, "Okay eevee lover, no need to get full of yourself."

TheImmortalEevee yelled, "Eevees are love! Eevees are Life!"

I raised a brow, "You take eevees way too seriously. It's time to stop Scott."

TheImmortalEevee laughed, "Yeah, they kind of run my life now. I'll see you at the raid, bye!"

I closed the chat, getting up only to feel Silvia poke my back, "Are you going to use me?"

I looked to see her sitting on my bed, "Of course."

Silvia grinned, "Good, I was getting bored of doing nothing."

I shook my head, "You do nothing all the time, so it's normal."

Silvia snickered, "You would say something as mean as that Rui."

I waved her off, not looking at her, "Yeah, yeah, I'm selfish, blah blah blah."

Silvia disappeared from my bed, leaving me alone. For a moment, I felt a strange type of loneliness, but ignored it. I have things to do in order to prepare for today's raid. Zach isn't going to be here since he's decided to look for the other cursed gear. Jay and the other two have decided to go train a bit more on floor 29. I checked my cursed sword for a moment before putting it inside its sheathe. With all my equipment in check, I head out of my inn room to meet at the rendezvous point.

-Floor 32(Cave of Origin)-

The Rendezvous point is outside the cave our target is in. Only the leaders, and lieutenants, were allowed to be here. I saw EeveeTheImmortal immediately since he ran over to me.

He grabbed my hand, pulling me to the others, "See!? I told you he was alive!"

Vulthurin sneered, "Well I'll be damned. He is alive."

I scratched the back of my neck nervously, "I thought you guys didn't want me to help you anymore since..."

JustinThePokemonMaster pat my back, "We forgive you Rui."

I pulled away, "I'm not the one that needs forgiveness, seeing as you guys murdered an entire NPC village."

Justin flinched before yelling, "It was for the greater good!"

I shook my head, "You murdered everyone."

Justin pushed me, "I know what I've done! We've all made sacrifices!"

I looked away, "I... Sigh... You're right... I'm sorry."

Justin pat my back, "Murloc, a third of the players have died already, if this keeps up, we'll all die by the time we reach floor 70. We need to work together, and sacrifice anything we have to, in order to get out of this game."

I bit my lip, looking aside, "I understand."

I heard Silvia whisper, "This is what I mean by selfish. So quick to sacrifice the lives of others to save yourself."

I shook my head, 'Just shut up Silvia. I don't need your stupid babbling.'

Silvia pouted, "Hmph! Fine!"

That strange sense of loneliness came back, making the room sway for a moment. Everyone seemed to notice, TheImmortalEevee catching me when I fell back.

TheImmortalEevee asked, "Are you okay?"

Everything went back to normal as I said, "Yeah, I'll be fine."

Justin looked me over, "Hm... Say... What do you think we'll face this time?"

Vulthurin said, "It doesn't matter. We'll kill it in the name of Giratina."

I looked at Vulthurin, "Still a bit of a savage, eh, Vulthurin?"

Vulthurin shrugged, "I merely follow the character I present myself in."

I rolled my eyes, "Uh huh, that totally doesn't mean you present yourself as a religious ass wipe."

Vulthurin sneered, "I'm ready to spray holy blood all around when you want to fight Murloc. Any time, any place."

I looked away, "I'm not fighting you when we have more to worry about."

Vulthurin raised his brows, "That's interesting, usually you're overly confident and meet my challenge."

I shrugged, "I'm trying not to be a jerk..."

Vulthurin snickered, "It's pretty sad when you have to 'try' not being a jerk."

Everyone laughed, causing me to flare up, "Oh shut up! You're all a bunch of jerks!"

Justin clapped his hands, "Now, unto business. We must talk of our strategy. We can't send in the weaker players first anymore. Not enough players have the experience required to fight in the front lines. Therefore, we must go in first. Our remaining forces will wait outside the room for our signal. Since floor 24, the final boss refuses to show up until half of its minions are defeated. With our skill, we'll easily be able to defeat the minions. Especially since we now have the support of MiphaGrace from the Healer Guild. Her channelers will be able to heal our weaker players when the full battle starts."

I tilted my head, "Who's Mipha?"

Justin looked around, "She's a good healer, was top player for a while months ago. I can't seem to..."

I heard a hesitant voice behind me, "I'm Mipha."

I looked behind me to see a 11 year old girl standing with a pure black Trident. She has long light pink hair that extends past her hips. She's only 4 foot 3 with light green eyes and paler skin than mine. Little red hearts were on her cheeks with a gold necklace around her neck. A heart pendant hung off the golden necklace. She wore a pink blouse with baby blue shorts. For armor, she wore a white channeler dress, it's like a priest's gown, with hearts on the back of her wrists. If anything, she looked like a princess... with a trident... hahahahahahaha!

I snickered, but regained my composure, "Hello, I'm Murloc_Rampage."

Without hesitation, she stabbed me through my chest with the trident, saying, "Do not take me lightly."

I stood there frozen, "Uh... Ouch?"

She pulled the trident out before laughing, "Hahahaha! Just kidding!"

I flinched, "You stabbed me through my chest!"

She grinned, "Yeah, didn't you notice your health was unaffected?"

I blinked, "Huh?" I looked at my hp to see she was right, "How's that possible?"

She rubbed her trident, "My trident can heal and inflict damage, while I stabbed you, my healing ability was able to stop you from taking damage in general."

I looked into her eyes, seeing sparkles of hope, "Hm... I see..."

She tilted her head cutely, "What is it?"

I gently pat her head, "You haven't seen a friend die yet."

She flinched, freezing with a gasp, "Ah..."

I smiled, "I'm very happy... that there's at least one person in this game that hasn't seen that..."

She looked down, "I was alone when I first played this game... then I made some very close friends. Together we made my covenant, and stayed away from the front lines."

I stood straight, "Don't worry, if your healing is as good as I think it is, we won't lose nearly as many players. I believe in you."

She looked up at me in surprise, "You do?"

I smiled kindly, petting her head, "Of course, how can we ever make it out of this game if we don't believe in each other?"

Mipha blushed, letting me pet her until Vulthurin laughed, "Who knew Murloc can be inspirational when he wants to be?"

TheImmortalEevee smiled at me, "Rui's really strong willed when it counts, it's why his friends have such high hopes for him."

I looked aside, blushing, "You guys make it sound like I'm a self centered freak."

TheImmortalEevee laughed, "How's that?"

Vulthurin added in his two cents, "It's because you're a moron."

TheImmortalEevee flinched, hanging his head, "What did you say?"

Vulthurin looked at him, confused, "Hm?"

TheImmortalEevee polished his sword, looking as intimidating as possible, "Would you like to tell my weapon what you said Vulthurin?"

Vulthurin began to sweat a bit, "Uh... Nevermind. I'll take back what I said."

TheImmortalEevee had a dark look with a grin stretching across his face, he pets an eevee, "What exactly did you say Vulthurin?"

Vulthurin looked aside, "No need to be so angry. I took back what I said..."

I pat TheImmortalEevee's back, "Scott, there's no need to go all anime on him."

Justin clapped to get our attention again, "Alright, back to the strategy, as I was explaining before, Mipha's healers will keep our allies from dying. Once the boss is out, We'll attack it together and keep it from fighting the low leveled players. If it's too strong... then... we'll have to accept casualties."

I said, "Only if it's too strong right?"

Justin nodded, "Yeah, I'm not sacrificing anyone."

I gripped my sword, "Then I'll do everything I can to ensure that." I looked at my sword, 'Especially since I have your power Silvia.'

Justin smiled, "You're a great swordsman, you can fight anything. Remember floor 7 when everyone was unable to fight, except for you."

I looked down, "That was different... I didn't take as much damage because I... Um..."

Justin smiled, "It's because you were too good to lose."

I looked down, "I don't think I'm that good anymore..."

Justin smacked the back of my head, "Dummy! What makes you think that!? Sure the enemies are stronger, but so are you!"

I rubbed the back of my head, "Ow, you didn't have to hit me."

Justin sighed, "We'll do the raid in an hour, please be here at that time with your players."

Everyone nodded, pulling out teleportation crystals to return to their guild buildings. I pulled out my own crystal, but Justin grabbed my shoulder.

He gave me a determined look, "Wait, I need to ask you a favor."

This was quite sudden, "What is it?"

Justin looked at the cave, "Do you think you can solo it?"

I laughed, thinking this was a joke, "Are you serious, what kind of player do you think I am?"

Justin was very serious, "Murloc, I need your honest answer."

I looked down, "Oh... well... I don't know honestly."

Justin sat down, "I'll be honest with you... we're losing a lot more players."

I looked aside, "A third have died... right?"

Justin nodded, "Yes... and the ones that remain don't have faith in us."

I looked at him, "Are... you asking me to inspire them by beating the boss alone?"

Justin nodded, "I know it's alot to ask for but-"

I cut him off, "I'll do it."

Justin flinched, "You will?"

I turned towards the cave, "I'm... responsible for everyone losing hope. If I never disappeared... so many people would still be alive. If this is the only way I can repent, then I'll do it."

Justin looked sad, "What if you die?"

I smiled at him, "I won't die. I'm the undying Swordsman afterall."

Justin shook his head, smirking, "You were called the black swordsman you dumbass. You wanted that name to piss everyone off since you were white."

I laughed nervously, "Heeyyyyy, I was not trying to make a racist joke, that's all you man."

Justin laughed, "You're such a liar."

I took a deep breath, "So I have an hour to kill everything in there... Well... I might as well test out my new abilities."

Justin got up, "I'll stand outside the boss room and watch. If anything happens, I'll save you."

I gave him a thumbs up, "Thanks, I'm ready to do this."

(This is for all the old readers that loved the original my unwanted life. It makes me happy knowing that some of you guys have still stuck around since the beginning.)

-Floor 0-

{Third Person Point of View}

Dark is sitting in his own personal floor, wearing his sweater and bandana. He wondered where the rest of his items laid, unable to sense them. Without them, he's trapped inside the game... then again... he's always been trapped...

Dark hugs his legs, thinking about what he really wants, 'I want to get out of here... I want to be free... but why do I crave such freedom?'

Unlike the other versions of him, he feels no real urge to kill. Yes, he needs to feed off hatred... but he often wonders why? Is he truly different here? Is his life purpose truly more than it appeared to be in the past?

Dark remembers the old Rui, "He was so... hard to describe. On the outside, he acted... hell... I don't even know how to say it."

(Memory)

Dark and Rui were inside his stone sanctuary, arguing over what they should do, "Don't you understand! Mary is going to kill all of us if we don't run away!"

Rui turned his back to me, "I'm not leaving my family behind."

Dark yelled, "They're just going to drag you down! They're just pokemon, it's not like they matter."

Rui never looked back, "It's not just Silvia and Alivia that matters to me, it's everyone. Jay, Derek, Anthony, even you. You're all important to me. I can't abandon any of you."

Dark gasped, "What does it matter if you all die?"

Rui looked down, hiding his smile, "This world isn't perfect, in fact, I hate it... but... if we do everything we need to, I know we can change it for the better. Look at me and Silvia... I love her... even though she nearly destroyed my life. If we win, I can usher in a new age of peace and prosperity. A world where humans and pokemon can truly live together in harmony."

Dark looked aside, "Do you... really think you can do something like that? You're not exactly a role model."

Rui snickered, "True, I'm young, inexperienced, impatient, and I have a knack for getting on people's nervous, but, I still made friends, I still got a family, I still have dreams, plus I have you. I'm counting on you good bud. Peace."

Dark watched Rui go, wondering, 'What makes him have such a strong personality?'

Then the final battle came and everyone died. Rui's hopes were almost brought into fruition until he was reincarnated to stop Arceus's return. Rui learned about his origins, about Artorias... but never learned about Dark's origins.

Dark was born as Rui's half brother to a poor family. Artorias had decided to bed one of his servants behind his wife's back. Artorias had three sons, Cray, Rui, and dark. However, Dark was originally known as Arthur. His mother raused him, telling him stories about the palace, never letting it slip that Artorias is his father. Until one day...

Arthur had been his mother set the table for a special guest, the king was going to meet them, "Is this good mother?"

Arthur's mother smiled excitedly, "That's perfect! Good job my little Arthy."

Arthur blushed, smiling, "Yay!"

Just then, the door was knocked upon. Arthur's mother quickly went to open it, revealing their king. Artorias wad a lot large than Arthur imagined. The gaze that befell him was not what Arthur had expected from the king.

Artorias said, "As I thought, he does look exactly like my son Rui."

I backed up, feeling a bit intimidated from our king, but I still bowed, "Hello your majesty."

My mother replied nervously, "Isn't that a good thing?"

Artorias looked at her, "Not if it will be suspicious."

My mother froze, "W-what?"

Artorias pulled out his sword, "You and I both know why he must die. I cannot allow anyone to know I had a son outside my wife."

My mother got in front of me, "No! I won't let you kill my son!"

Artorias smiled at that, "How touching. A mother's love should be eternal, luckily you both will be cast into the afterlife."

My mother got on her knees, "Please master... please... I'll do anything! Anything at all! If you'd please spare my son. He's not a threat to you! He's just a boy!"

Artorias eyed me, "Just a boy huh... Fine."

My mother looked at him, crying, "You'll spare him!?"

Artorias nodded, "Yes, I will spare him."

An arrow flew past Artorias and went through my mother's throat. The next few minutes, I could only cry and stare as my mother fell over and pitifully touched the arrow. Her blood pouring out from the front and back of her throat profusely. I felt my blood running cold as I watched, too shocked and frighten to do anything. When she finally died and laid still, I finally yelled.

I fell to my knees beside her, "Mother!"

Just then, an arrow pierced my left arrow, making me fall onto my back. I cried out in pain, looking at the arrow. Artorias left my home, leaving his soldiers to take care of me. To their surprise, I quickly got up and ran to my room. I closed the door and blocked it with my chair to give me time. My arm bled pretty badly, but I had to ignore it for now. I desperately looked for a means to escape, looking out my windows only to find the kings men there. I noticed they began lighting torches, my fear doubling as I realized what theur plan was. The banging on the door ended, making me resort to trying to escape from the front. Instead, I found the front end of my house completely ablaze. Half of my mother's body is slowly burning away, scarring the image upon my soul. The torches were thrown in behind me, the house quickly becoming engulfed with flames and black smoke. I couldn't breath, falling to my knees as I began to desperate crawl to the door. My oxygen deprived body barely made it past my mother before collapsing. I stared at the fire, crying as I realized this is going to be my final moment... I was going to die inside my house, next to my mother, in a fire...

(...You know... that actually was a bit darker than I originally intended. I think I normally just have characters dying quickly, but this one just seemed longer to me. I hope you all enjoyed it.)