Chapter 1: Meeting Planeptune's CPU (Part 1)
EX: Greetings, fellow readers, and welcome to the first chapter of HDN: Ethereal Blood! Now let's go on down to the review corner!
TheReginS1: Interesting, can't wait for more!
Response: Thank you, and thanks for your support! This will be another chapter heading your way!
Zergface: A story with an invincible character is going to be hard to pull off. Aside from the nitty gritty, the story flows exceptionally well and I don't think I noticed any grammatical errors. Nice!
Response: I know, that's why I thought that he will lose his immortality at some point in the story somehow. Don't worry, and thanks for your kind words, I appreciate someone noticing that I haven't made any grammatical errors.
Again, thanks, everyone's reviews are welcome and they motivate me to make more for you guys!
EX: Now onto the chapter! Hope you will all enjoy it, and I will try to make it long, but no promises!
Dante, now walked away from the dragon's dead corpse, as blood spewed from the gaping hole in it's neck. Several people watched him walk, and spread rumors around that he ignored. Dante was given many names, but one stuck out like a sore thumb…
The God of Ethereal Blood…
It seems like a weird title, that people keep calling him that, but the truth is that he is immortal. The others from his bloodline, did not have immortality, but did have the blood of the Ethereal Sharicite Crystal. That's how this whole thing started, with that crystal. Dante before, used to hate having his powers, when he was younger, cause most of the people who have seen his powers, called him a freak, a monster, and many other hurtful names. That was also when he barely had any control of the Ethereal blood.
Now Dante has complete control, and he has come to embrace his powers. Although, people still did not like him, but when push came to shove, he helped citizens in Planeptune, when they needed it most, even though they didn't want his help. The Guild respected what he was doing, and so that is where most of his credits comes from. Doing quests, but he was okay for now, considering he didn't have to pay the rent yet. Life was okay for him.
His stomach rumbled, signaling the time for his lunch. He looked around to find a food cart nearby, or something. He found one sitting on the other side of the street, in the middle. Dante found it was a pudding food kart, and he groaned.
'Why does it always have to be pudding? Not that I hate it, but it isn't as filling as other foods that I eat. I probably would need 3-5 cups to be satisfied. Plus it's a dessert, not a lunch.'
Dante reluctantly went there, even though he knew this wasn't going to be a healthy lunch at all.
"Yummm~ This pudding looks so good!" A feminine voice said nearby. Dante went up to the cart ignoring the voice, and gave the man 8 credits, 2 credits for each pudding cup. He bought 4 altogether, and sat down on a bench nearby.
Dante sighed, before opening the cup, and putting a spoonful in this mouth. He looked down into the cup, seeing the gelatin like substance, shine, as he saw himself in the reflection.
"Hmm? Hey mister!" The feminine voice from before called from on the other end of the bench. Dante looked over to see a girl with short lavender colored hair, with what looked like two gamepad-shaped clips in her hair. She wore a white hoodie, with purple lining. There was a zipper with a large N on it, and the strings resembled plugs.
"Yeah?"
"Is everything okay?" She asked, and Dante raised an eyebrow at her.
"Isn't it a bit weird to ask a complete stranger, if he is okay?"
"Hey I asked the question, are you okay?" The girl asked again.
"Yes I'm fine, just got a lot on my mind." Dante answered, putting the last pudding cup down onto the bench, next to the other ones he ate.
"Okie dokey! By the way my name is Neptune, what's yours?"
"Mine's Dante, pleased to meet you." He said with a sincere smile, before he had a feeling... a feeling that somehow he knew deep down who this girl was.
'Strange... why do I get this feeling that I know this girl? Neptune, hmm...' He stared at her, deep in thought.
"Well it was nice meeting you Dante, hope we will see each other again!"
"Yeah it was nice meeting you too..." He said, still thinking, whilst sitting on the bench, as Neptune walked off out of his sight.
'Well, I can't dwell on this feeling, for much longer, otherwise I will forget what I came into town to do. That dragon did stop my train of thought, when before I was going to go to the guild. That's where I will go now.' Dante said telepathically, before getting off of the bench, and walking towards the Guild once again, but this time without anything distracting him.
He walked into the guild, and went straight to the quest board, to see if any of them fitted his fancy as he said before. He looked around for a hard one, to test his Ethereal blood. Of course, Dante knew that he was immortal, now but what if, his immortality was taken away? He would be the same as his predecessors before him, that did not have immortality.
During his training, in the ethereal realm, when he was about 10 years old, he had two choices, he would be able to be a mortal, living out his life, until he dies of old age, or choose to be immortal, where he would never die, even to the most fatal wounds, and he would also not die of old age, and stay looking like his younger self. Dante chose to be immortal, but after a couple of years, he realized that if he was immortal, wouldn't his life become boring after a while?
Dante ignored what he said before, and looked at a quest that peaked his interest. But before he could rip the quest off of the board, he heard someone behind him... She has been called the 'Wind Walker of Gamindustri'. Although her name is IF.
"Oh hey IF!" Dante greeted her, with a smile.
"Hey Dante, I need to take you to the Planeptune Basilicom, right now. Someone important has requested you there." She said, shocking Dante.
"W-wait me out of all the people in Planeptune? Me? Are you sure there wasn't a typo or something?"
"Nope, I am serious. She asked for you by name."
Dante was in utter shock. Someone extremely important wanted to meet him in the Planeptune Basilicom, and most of all whoever it was asked for him by his name.
"Alright IF, but you know you don't need to escort me, I can take care of myself."
"Oh believe me, I know. But in order for you to get in, I need to come along, since they know me." IF told Dante, and he sighed.
"Fine…" Dante said, before walking out of the guild, and he saw a motorcycle, that IF uses to get around on.
"Hop on! And my advice is to hold on tight!" She revved the engine up, as Dante got on.
"What do you mean to hol-OH GOD!" Dante screamed, immediately when she pressed her foot on the accelerator all the way, and they were off to the Planeptune Basilicom.
Later…
IF stopped at the entrance, while Dante fell on the cement of the sidewalk, with Doggoos swirling around his head.
"Fun ride, huh?" IF asked, and Dante responded "Never do that again…"
"Okay, next time when I give you a ride, I will go slower. Then again I might not, just for the hell of it!" She said.
Dante sat up, now as his dizziness went away. He saw the tower was bigger close up.
"Yeah, whatever IF. Anyways let's go." He said getting up, and they walked into the tower, which had a desk, where a receptionist was waiting for us.
"Ah! Miss IF, good to see you. Is he the one, you know with Ethereal blood?" The man asked.
"Yes he is the one. Dante, that's his name." IF answered, and he was greeted by the receptionist whose name was Jack. It seemed a little strange to see someone respect Dante. I mean sure people started to respect him, and stuff as soon as he gained control of his powers, but this was different.
Like this 'Jack' guy, knew who his predecessors were. It felt nice to him, that someone actually showed how much he respected those with Ethereal blood. IF and Dante went into the elevator, and waited.
"So who is this important person I am going to meet?" He asked.
"Let's just say, she is an oracle of sorts…" IF said to him, and he raised an eyebrow at her, confused.
The elevator doors opened, and we were standing in front of another futuristic door. Dante has gotta say, he does like futuristic things, even doors. He guesses you could say that he has a 'futuristic fetish', and yeah he does, but not to the extent where he would stare at the technology like a weird person.
"Well we're here." IF said, before she rings the doorbell.
"Coming!" A unfamiliar voice said, opening the door, and she saw IF.
"IF! So this is Dante, I am guessing?" The girl asked. She had similar colored hair to the girl he met before at the pudding cart, for some reason, but it was much longer. Her outfit was also similar to Neptune's, but styled in a different way. She wears one D-pad clip in her hair. Her outfit consists like a school uniform, and also looks like a uniform a sailor would wear.
"Yep, the one with Ethereal blood." IF answered, with a smile on her face.
"Heh heh, hello…" Dante said, a little bit shy now. He didn't know that his power would get this much attention.
"Nep Jr, who's at the door?"
'Wait that voice? COULD IT BE?' Dante asked in his head.
"Can we come in?" IF asked, and Nepgear nodded, as we both went into the room. The first thing that caught Dante's eye, is the window. It had a view over all of Planeptune. He went into the living room, where there were consoles, that were on the TV stand, on each side. All of a sudden, he saw the same person, that he met a couple hours ago.
"No way! N-n-Neptune! Is that you!?" Dante asked, with his eyes as big as saucers.
"Wait! D-dante! You are the one with that Ethereal stuff!?" Neptune also, asked looking the same way as Dante.
"Neptune, please tell me who you really are? Cause this doesn't make sense." Dante, said with his hand on his chin.
"I'm Neptune, and I am Planeptune's CPU! Purple Heart!" She said, making Dante scream
"EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?"
EX: Now I know this was short again, but I think the ending of this Chapter sums up Part 1 of the two parter, I am planning.
A/N 1: So Dante is well known? Well yeah, somewhat not in a good way and somewhat in a good way.
A/N 2: Neptune out in the open in her human form? Well, I don't think people would notice her being the CPU Purple Heart, in human form right? So I did this.
A/N 3: IF knows Dante? Yep, has ever since he set foot in the Planeptune's guild, a couple years ago.
EX: I think those are all the questions you might be having, anyways, the chapter preview as always!
Dante: Wait, hold on, let me get this straight. So you are Purple Heart and she is Purple Sister?
Neptune: Yep!
Next time on Hyperdimension Neptunia: Ethereal Blood
Meeting Planeptune's CPU (Part 2)
Dante: What did I get myself into?