Y'all, the stuff that goes through my head even surprises me sometimes.
"Why the hell does she even want me!? I literally just met her?" Najmi sat on the edge of the bed stressing out.
"No telling what goes through her head." Silk smirked, "I mean it won't be too bad having the strongest princess gunning for you."
Najmi looked at her dryly, "Have you not heard the phrase 'never stick your dick in crazy'?" That got a laugh out of Silk.
"Najmi and Andr sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G." Shade's teasing wasn't helping along with his laughing.
"Immature assholes," Najmi grumbled annoyed.
"Well, it could be worse." Silk stated, "You could've drank her blood."
Shade stopped laughing and froze while Najmi gagged, "Why the hell would she make me drink her blood?"
"Well, from what I heard Andr's blood makes whoever ingests it become connected to her even to the point where she can locate you anywhere."
"Bleh." The teen scrunched his face up in disgust, "Good thing I didn't have to drink..." His eyes slowly went over to the empty glass bottle on the ground before moving to Shade, "...no."
Shade nodded, "Yup."
"No!"
"Yup!"
"NO!"
"YUP!"
"What the fuck are you two on about!?" Silk shouted. They both pointed at the empty bottle with Silk putting two and two together, "...Oh yeah you're completely screwed sorry pal." Silk said sadly, looking at Najmi with so much pity.
"What do I do? I got a full-on monster yandere gunning for me that could rip me limb from limb!" Najmi went into full panic mode. He didn't know what to do with the fact that he was in a world where there were monsters who could kill him without a second thought-
Bonk!
"Gah!" A fist came into contact with his head bringing him out of his thoughts. He looked back at the other two in the room.
Silk pointed at the obvious culprit.
Najmi growled at Shade and grabbed his collar, "What the hell? Why'd ya hit me you asshole?"
"Cause I felt like it." Shade rolled his eyes, "Get real Najmi, you're already in the shitter but if all you're gonna do is complain you're already dead." He grabbed Najmi's hand and took it off of his collar, "So what are you gonna do about it?"
Najmi yanked his hand out of Shade's grasp and scowled, "The hell am I supposed to do? You got powers so this is easier for you."
Silk cut in, "He does have a point, but-" She looked at Najmi, "-that's no excuse, humans here are able to fight back against Mobs." She looked down with a quite annoyed look, "Especially that asshole Steve."
Najmi shook his head, "Again you guys are making it sound easier than it actually is." He rubbed his temples before sighing tiredly, "I never had any experience with survival or fighting for my life besides games and tv. How the hell are you supposed to turn this-" He motioned to his entire body, "-into a hardcore survivor."
"How about I make it easy for you?" Shade smirked.
Both Silk and Najmi looked at him confused. Najmi was quickly brought out of his confusion when a screen appeared in front of his face.
Shade Griffin has invited you to join his party!
Join?
(Y/N)
"...What is that?" Najmi pointed to the screen in front of him.
Silk looked confused, "What's what?"
Shade smiled, "I don't know I just thought since you could make parties in games why not here."
"Parties? What the hell are you guys going on about?"
"Okay, so this is what you see all the time?" Najmi asked.
"See what? What are you guys talking about?"
Shade nodded, "Yeah you get used to it-"
"STOP IGNORING ME DAMMIT!" The two looked at Silk who looked fed up, "What the hell are you talking about?"
The two males looked at each other before back at Silk chuckling nervously.
Shade spoke first, "Well ya see-"
"Wait!" Najmi stopped him, "Are you sure you wanna tell her? She is... one of them." He looked at Silk, "No offense."
Silk shrugged, "Non-taken."
Shade shrugged, "Don't worry, she's cool no biggy."
Najmi looked at him dryly, "So you happen to trust her more than Cupa?"
Shade blankly looked at him, "Trust her more than Andr."
"Point taken." Najmi nodded, "But still..." He trailed off.
Shade nodded understanding his concern. He looked at Silk with a serious expression, "Hey, you won't turn on us, tell anyone about this, or use this against us will you?"
Najmi looked at Shade with a blank expression, 'There's no way-'
"You can count on me!" Silk smiled and gave them a thumbs-up.
Shade looked at Najmi and gave him a goofy smile, "See, no biggy."
'Of course. Believe her like that.'
He wasn't sure what to do about this anomaly.
It was right there, within the World Code yet when he wished to see what it truly was.
!BLOCKED!
Unauthorized Personnel trying to access Gamer Files.
Access Denied
It did that.
How annoying it was to be denied something within your rights.
It bugged him to no end.
It was fine, once he found out where this anomaly was, he would stop at nothing to truly understand what it was.
He would have all the more fun doing so-
Hahahahaha~
"What!?" Looking around he heard something ethereal ring around his corridor.
He waited for anything to indicate if someone was in his domain.
.
.
.
Nothing.
He scoffed and simply went back to looking into the World Code.
He tried to not think about it but the laughter was somewhat... nostalgic.
"So from what you told me you have an upgraded version of what the humans here can do."
Shade looked at Silk with slight surprise, "What do ya mean?"
"Well it's more so a dumb-down lesser version of your ability, but it's kinda the same."
"Huh, small world." Shade grinned, "Pretty weird though."
Silk chuckled and nodded in agreement, "Yeah, though speaking of weird..." She trailed off looking at the corner of the room.
"Level three... I'm only level three." Najmi stared into the corner depressed, "I can't believe I'm this weak."
"Quit being a big baby Najmi." Shade laughed at his new party member.
"Shut up, you're level 34-" He pointed at Shade angrily, "-and I can't even see your level!" He pointed at Silk.
Shade rolled his eyes at the outburst, "Everyone starts from somewhere dude be lucky you aren't level one."
"Yeah, quit ya bitching." Silk smirked at the teen.
"Up yours spider midget." Najmi snapped at Silk.
"Careful your fangs are showing." Silk laughed. She stopped as she took a good look outside, "Wow the sun is already almost down."
Both males looked outside to see the sun lowering under the horizon.
"Huh, time flies when you're having fun." Shade scratched his chin.
"What type of fun were you having?" Najmi asked sarcastically.
"Yoohoo~"
Everyone in the house froze at the sound of the voice. They all knew who it was ducking for cover away from the windows.
"Shit, it's Andr!" All three whispered/yelled.
"Shit shit shit!" Najmi started to panic, "I forgot about her!"
"Oh man, Najmi you're totally screwed she's gonna beat the shit outta you." Shade whispered at the teen.
"THAT'S WHAT SHE MEANT LAST NIGHT!?"
"Ssshhhut the fuck up ya dumbasses." Silk snapped at the two, "You'll give away our position, plus what do you think she'll do when she finds out I'm hanging with her boy toy." She pointed to herself, "She already hates me she won't hesitate to snap my neck."
"Well, what do you suggest we do?" Najmi asked the princess, "I'm pretty sure she remembers the house we were in."
"Don't look at me I don't know." Silk looked at the other two.
Najmi looked at Shade who was in his own thoughts on how to escape from the princess. A few seconds passed and-
"Oh, I got an idea." Shade smiled at the two unnerving them slightly.
Najmi had an idea of what the idea may be, and he knew he wouldn't like it.
Andr walked through the village humming a tune. She was glad to finally get out of the End feeling good, better than usual matter of fact.
Maybe it was the irritation she felt toward her father or maybe it was the fact that she would see Najmi again.
"Ah~ I can't wait to see his scared face again." She smiled as pink dusted her cheeks, "So cute."
It was a shame she would have to toughen him up since no weakling could be with her, but it would all be worth it in the end.
She was halfway to the village almost to the house, "I wonder if I should knock Stretch around a bit." She laughed at the thought of knocking Shade around, "It's good to have a punching bag that bounces back."
Tonight would be a good one-
ZOOOOOOOOOoooooom~
"Huh?" Andr looked up as she heard something cutting through the air. She saw a blur move through the night sky away from the village's borders. She didn't think much of it though, "Must be a Phantom." She continued to walk through the village before stopping and looking back.
"...Phantoms don't only come out from lack of sleep." Andr glared at the blur as it went into the forest, "I slept already."
Now to the blur.
Shade was holding Najmi and Silk as they were soaring through the air and the experience was-
"BRAKE BRAKE!"
"WHAT THE HELL MAN WE'RE ABOUT TO CRASH!"
-not the best.
"Shut up I got this!" Shade barked at the two before inhaling an impressive amount of air expanding his body, "GOMU GOMU NO-" His body became a balloon, "FUSEN!"
As the three landed Shade's inflated body cushioned the fall for everyone. Two bounced off of Shade's body and landed on the ground with Shade expelling all of the air from his body and returning to his original form.
Silk sat up and looked at Shade, "Holy shit that was weird."
"Thank Christ, I thought you were just gonna just let us slam head first into the ground." Najmi sighed in relief.
Shade smiled, "Nah that would've been messed up." He looked around seeing that they were now in a clearing surrounded by trees, "Where the heck are we?"
Silk stood up and dusted herself off, "We're a good distance away from the village. Should give us enough time to get away from Andr."
Shade nodded, jumping up and doing a quick stretch.
"Um, guys?" Najmi got the two's attention, "Should we be worried about those guys?" He pointed to the woods.
Shade squinted his eyes as they adjusted to the darkness. There he saw several different mobs roaming about with varying levels going from five to thirty-, "Holy crap that one is level thirty-seven." He pointed to an Enderman walking through the foliage.
"Don't worry, as long as you're with me you won't have to worry about them attacking." Silk eased their worries.
Najmi sighed in relief, "Well that's good-"
"BOOM!"
"IYAAAA!" Najmi screamed jumping up in the process.
"Man, you're easy to scare." Laughing at the teen was Cupa holding her stomach. However, she wasn't alone as there was a grown woman beside her standing at 5'11" with extremely pale skin, long grey silky hair in a ponytail, grey eyes, and a lot of... er plot. She wore a light grey vest that stopped right below her chest, dark grey shorts, brown boots, and a grey bandana with a skeleton face wrapped around her head. She also had a bow strapped on her back and a quiver on her waist.
The woman giggled alongside Cupa getting everyone's attention and acknowledged the newcomer.
Silk tackled the woman with a hug, "Skelly!" She exclaimed happily.
The now-named Skelly hugged her back, "It's nice to see you Silky."
Cupa leaned over to the two, "Heyyy Silk." She smiled nervously, "You're still not upset about the cave are you?"
Silk looked at her with a dry expression, "...What do you think?" That made Cupa let out a nervous chuckle. Silk looked back at Skelly with a wide smile, "So what are you doing here Skelly?"
Skelly looked down at the spider girl, "Well I was in the area since one of my Skeletons told me a person I would like to meet was in the area and I saw Cupa on the way here so here we are."
"Hm neat."
Meanwhile, Shade and Najmi were having their own conversation.
Najmi was ogling the new woman, "Holy shit, she's so beautiful." He was completely mesmerized by Skelly.
"Hehehe. You went 'iya~' in front of a bunch of girls." Shade smirked at the teen.
Najmi growled at Shade, "Shut up." Shade only laughed again, "Anyway I can't see her level, how much of a gap is there not to be able to see levels?
Shade stopped to think, "If I remember... it would be fifty levels and up."
Najmi nearly faulted at the revelation, "F-fifty levels?" He stared at the girls as they conversated, "And you can't even see it..."
"Yeah, no biggy." Shade shrugged.
"Your lack of concern worries me," Najmi grumbled annoyingly.
"You two come here!"
"Eh?" The two males were grabbed and pulled to the side by Cupa.
"So does Silk know that you two are... ya know?" She trailed off implying the obvious.
Najmi nodded, "Yeah thanks to him." He nodded his head to his fellow human.
Cupa looked at Shade with an expression that said 'really?' only to get a smile. She sighed and pulled the two closer, "Well no more of that! Listen Skelly doesn't know you two are humans, and even though she's one of the nicer princesses she's undead and eats human flesh."
"HUH!?" Najmi gawked at new information.
Cupa nodded, "Yeah, so just say you guys are princes of new mobs or something."
Najmi nodded but slowly looked at Shade with a stoic expression.
Shade looked back at Najmi confused, "What?" Najmi just continued to stare, "What!?"
"What are you guys whispering about?" Silk walked over to the three with Skelly in tow.
Cupa let go of the two and turned around, "Nothing~"
Silk rolled her eyes, "Whatever, anyway Skelly these two guys are-"
"Oh yes, they're the two new princes Cupa told me about." She smiled at her longtime friend. Silk looked at her confused then at the two males who just motioned for her to roll with it. Skelly walked up the Najmi first, "I'm Skelly princess of the Skeletons, it's nice to meet you." She held her hand out for a shake.
Najmi was running through some scenarios in his head, 'What should I say... maybe I should give her a fake name and maybe I could use one of the monsters from my games. Yeah, I know exactly what to say.' He grabbed her hand and shook it putting on a charming smile, "Nice to meet you, my name is Prince Nick-grk!" A smack on his back cut him off.
Shade walked up and wrapped his arm around Najmi's shoulder, "His name is Najmi and I'm Shade, we're the Princes of Ocean-men. We come from some islands far away from this continent." He quickly lied.
Skelly looked at him with a warm smile, "It is nice to meet you Shade, but I could've sworn he said his name was Nick."
Shade gave Najmi a noogy as he answered her, "Yeah he kinda gets nervous and says stuff when he meets pretty girls."
Skelly giggled as a light blush appeared on her cheek, "Oh my how cute."
Najmi growled and pushed out of Shade's grasp, "Yeah...that's definitely it." He looked down in embarrassment.
Skelly grabbed Najmi's hands catching his attention and gave him a warm smile, "Don't worry Najmi. If it makes you feel any better I think you're quite handsome yourself."
Najmi had to squint his eyes as the (metaphorical) wondrous glow coming from the princess blinded him, 'She saw that I felt embarrassed and quickly comforted me. She's so warm too, despite the fact that she eats humans it's like I'm looking at an angel.' He felt himself tearing up, 'It's like she's the opposite of Andr.'
Skelly let go of Najmi's hand and looked at Shade, "So what are Ocean-men?"
"Basically human-like monsters that powers come from the ocean." He quickly explained surprising the three that knew he was human.
'He really must've thought that up fast' All three of them simultaneously thought.
Skelly grabbed her chin in thought, "Hmm interesting, Ink would love to meet you both."
"No idea who that is but okay." Shade turned around to the other three and gave them a thumbs up.
They only sweat dropped at him.
Skelly sniffed the air around them specifically around Najmi, "Wow, you guys must have great human forms or something cause you both smell like them."
Najmi blushed at the close proximity before coming up with an excuse, "O-oh yeah we just happened to hit the jackpot in human forms, so good that we even smell like them."
Skelly's eyes widened in wonder, "Wow that's really fascinating."
Najmi laughed nervously, "Yep we're that lucky."
"And it's safe to assume you both are..." Skelly looked at the two humans trailing off.
Catching on they both answered at the same time, "Cousins." They looked at each other and then nodded, "Yup cousins."
"Interesting. Most of the royalty here don't really have extended families."
As the three interacted Silk and Cupa were on the sidelines watching.
"Glad they found a story to go with." Silk sighed silently.
Cupa nodded before looking at her fellow princess, "So what are you all doing out here?"
"Hiding from your friend," Silk answered with an eye roll.
Cupa pouted, "Come on now she's not that bad."
Silk dryly looked at the Creeper girl, "She tried to punch a hole through me 'cause I accidentally bumped into her."
"W-well you don't know her like I do." Cupa continued to defend Andr.
"She doesn't make it easy for us to do so." Silk crossed her arms scoffing.
Cupa frowned, "Well... you know it's not easy to cause you know."
"Yeah, spider brat you know."
Silk jumped away and saw Andr behind them with a small smile.
"A-Andr!?" Skelly immediately pulled her bow out and loaded it with an arrow.
Shade immediately got into a fighting stance while Najmi stayed behind him.
Cupa looked at Andr with surprise, "Andr, what are you doing here?"
She gave Cupa a warm smile, "Oh I was just in the village looking for stretch and cute stuff only to find them away from the village..." She trailed off as she looked at the other four with a cold smile, "... and hanging out with these two." She placed and hand on her hip, "Oh, and Najmi?"
Said boy replied with a nervous, "Yes?"
Andr's eyes went blank as her smile faded away, "Why didn't you drink it?"
Shade and Najmi stared nervously as a screen popped in front of both of them.
!IMMINENT DANGER!
Flee the area!
Yeah, this will be the last update for a good minute.
Hope you all enjoyed if you couldn't tell by the way I'm planning on poking a bit of fun at some of the plot points and writing decisions of the original story such as the use of badazz instead of badass. There was also the decision of the main character Najmi calling himself Nick as a disguise which didn't make sense since nobody besides the people who knew him knew his name.
I'm not gonna get too much into it just know that to get some of the jokes you might wanna read the og story by Najee. Once again this is no hate to the man, just his decisions when writing back then weren't the best.
Anyway, yall be safe love you guys.
PEACE!