-GASP-
My eyes open wide as it feels like I've taken my first breath in ages. What happened, where am I, what am I?
I was but a dimly lit white flame, it felt like at any moment I could be blown out of existence. I could feel my body but at the same time, I could not.
Across from me a blue flame lit, it was strong and bright. I felt like it could consume me…
"hmmm, while not as strong as I first expected it's a good start, a blank canvas can still hold beautiful art. I will use you to remake his world in my image. Once you've grown I will use you, my vessel, and make it all mine."
So if that isn't a red flag I don't know what it is, I'm not sure what bro's rambling about but he sounds insane.
"I believe you need a start, I will give you a piece of me be wise with the power." A part of the blue flame flew off of it and flew towards me and fused with me. My white flame burned slightly larger and was now orange.
In addition, I could feel another being in my head, it felt invasive.
"It shall be you and you shall be it. Now go, fulfill your purpose." Its blue flames consumed everything before everything was replaced with darkness.
The sound of birds tweeting filled the air as the sun peaked over the horizon, and the morning dew dripped from the plants onto the grass. The sun peaked through the crakes off the blinds into a slightly messy room.
BEEP BEEP- BEEP BEEP-BEEP BEEP
A hand reached out and hit the top of the alarm shutting it off.
My eyes opened, what a strange dream. I threw the blanket off myself and kind of just stared at my wall for a while before rubbing my eyes and grabbing my phone.
6:00 AM
Exhaling through my nose as I sit up from my bed. I give a really good stretch, the kind that got you shaking your leg type stretch and scratch my ass. I walk to my bathroom and look myself in the mirror.
"It's me." I do my usual morning route before getting in the shower.
…
Later I came down the stairs dressed in my school uniform. I walked to my kitchen past the family portrait, I placed two pieces of toast in my toaster, and waited as I scrolled through my phone.
POP POP
Grabbing both pieces of toast I butter them and make my to my front door. chewing on my breakfast I get on my bike and make my way to school.
This is my morning routine and has been my morning routine for the past year. This is how it's been and this is what it will be.
Cruising down the road more and more students pop up as they begin their walk to school. Kuoh Academy is a top-of-the-line school that was an all-girl school until a few years ago. My parents enrolled me here because they knew the principal personally and got a good deal when transferring me, you know they never asked if I wanted to transfer but I guess my opinion doesn't matter.
I place my bike on the bike rack and put on my headphones. I enjoy getting to school early there are not a lot of people here yet but just enough for it not to feel empty.
Now Playing…
Now Playing…
Now Playing- My Way by Frank Sinatra
I Begin my morning stroll around the school I start from the entrance and make my way through the main school building after strolling through there I make my way to the gym. From the gym depending on how much time I have I will either head to the swimming pool or walk out to the occult research building. After that, I make my way back to the entrance, just in time for…
"Yo, Shinji good morning!"
Ah yes, my good friend and self-proclaimed future Harem King Issei Hyoudou " A good morning to you as well Issei."
I take my headphones out and give Issei a fist bump.
"Here early as ever I see."
"What can I say I've always been an early riser."
"Hey man we're friends, you don't need to lie to me, I know you're really here too so all the smoking hot babes walk in."
"I going to choose to ignore the fact you said smoking hot babes in this day in age…"
"Ah, but I didn't hear you deny it!"
"This is me denying it. Now come on class is about to start and I'm trying to get there before Matsuda and Motohama get there, the longer I can go without them yelling this early in the morning the better"
After Class
The four boys were lying on the grass patch next to the staircase.
"God, I love boobs," Issei said as he reached out to the bright blue sky above him.
"who starts a conversation like that!"
"Me, I do, man we are deep into the spring semester, and between the four of us not a single one of us has a girlfriend!"
"You're acting like that's surprising, your whole reason for being here is for tits alone!" Motohama sat up and pointed an accusing finger.
"You would say that! You don't understand our pain, you have their trust, their respect!"
"If by them you mean the girls here then yes, they don't see me as dog shit they stepped on by accident while walking to school."
"You're just like HIM!"
"By him do you mean Kiba because I already told you the hate boner you three have for him is unhealthy…" Issei stood up, fake tears streaming down his face.
"It's not a hate boner! He's everything I dream of being! Funny, smart, handsome, good with the ladies! God just thinking about it has me so pissed!"
"…. Remind me to find you a hobby." Motohama checked his watch
"Oh shoot I got to go." I raised an eyebrow at him.
"Were to exactly?" Motohama turned to all three of them and gave a perverted smile.
"Are y'all for real, a peephole," I said in a hushed whisper as Motothama and Matsuda looked through a peephole on the side of the girls changing room at the Kendo building.
Is was about to say something but I grabbed his shoulder and pulled him behind the bushes. "Hey, what the hell, I'm trying to see some bouncy pillows of greatness."
"Just shut up and watch."
AHEM
Matsuda and Motohama froze.
"Tell me, are you aware of the sins you have committed." The two boys look back at the clearly pissed kendo girls.
THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK
Issei, Motohama, and Matsuda were sitting in front of the stone wall that led to the occult research club. I choose to sit on top of the wall.
"I can't believe you two dicks ditched us!" Motohama yelled.
"I can't believe they beat you for almost an hour straight, I'm so posting this."
"Do it and I'm removing your balls!"
"Try to stop me you bald-headed perv!" Motohama stood up but Issei stopped him before he could do anything
"Ok ok, let's be chill no need to get violent," Motohama grumbled and sat back down. Something seemed to catch Issei's eye, he looked up and was put in some kind of trance. I followed his eyes as he was looking up at the occult research building. In the window was a girl with beautiful red hair. She was looking down at us but more specifically Issei.
"Whoa, who's that."
"Rias Gremory, 36,24,36. She's the president of the occult research club, word around the school is she's from Northern Europe." Matsuda said as he pushed his glasses up.
Rias sat down in front of a chess board looking it over as Akeno stood next to her.
"Who was that boy?"
"What boy?"
"The boy in the center."
"Well, I believe he's in class 2-B, Issei Hyoudou if I remember correctly. Why?"
"No reason just wanted to see if you knew who he was, checkmate." Akeno looked over the chessboard before pouting.
"your trap was really easy to see through," Rias said as she began to get undressed
"Awe, I really did try to make it challenging for you."
"Thanks." Rias finished getting undressed and stepped into the shower.
Evening
I was riding back home from school listening to music. "Don't you know I'm still standing~"
I blinked and everything was consumed in flames. In my shock, I come to a halt, almost falling off of my bike. When I looked back up everything was back to normal.
Sniff Sniff
The smell of burnt leather filled my nose as I looked down at my bike. The leather grips had slightly melted.
"How the?"
I looked around to see if anyone else saw the fiery hellscape but everyone just kept going about their business. I took a deep breath and just went back to riding home, I must be feeling a little bit under the weather.
"I'm home…" I was met with silence this is no surprise, my parents have been working aboard since I started going to Kuoh.
I made dinner with instant ramen and a soft-boiled egg. After that, I showered, did my homework, and scrolled through my phone in my bed, another night alone….
"No…"
"Fucking…"
"Way…"
"Yes. Fucking. Way. Boys, meet Yuma Amano, my girlfriend." I took out a 20 and put it in Matsuda's hand.
"Yuma this is Shinji, Matsuda, and Motohama my friends."
"It's a pleasure to meet you three."
"I must have inhaled crack because I still can't believe it." Issei walked up to Motohama with a smug smile.
"And the best part is she asked me out, come on Yuma." Issei walked past us and Yuma bowed and walked after him.
"I must be going crazy…"
Next week-Sunday night
I was cooking myself dinner while my TV played some shows, I wasn't really paying attention but it made good background noise I got done, ate, and went to bed.
…
Fire…
I found myself in a field of fire again. I walk through the ruble smoke and ash slowly covering my skin, I could feel the heat but it didn't hurt it felt slightly nice.
I've been reliving this dream quite a few times now. It starts the same and always ends the same. this time however toward the end something different happened a red aura formed in the shape of a woman. She reached out towards me but the flames consumed everything around us. The roar of a beat rings throughout the fiery hellscape which means
BEEP BEEP- BEEP BEEP- BEEP BEEP.
I reached out and clicked the top of my alarm. I went through my daily routine but today I left the house a bit late, I was feeling sluggish. Peddling down the street I get to the school and find the boys chilling on the stairs
"Hey, fellas, good morning," I said as I leaned against the guard rail
"Ah Shinji perfect timing, Issei here claims that he had a girlfriend named Yuma. He even went as far as to say he introduced her to us." Said Matsuda.
"Yeah, you don't remember I even gave you that 20 because you won the bet we had on who would get a girlfriend first."
"See, Shinji remembers her!"
"I don't know Issei maybe you're both tripping." Said Motohama as he waved us both off.
"No way I even have her… email. Wait it gone." I looked over at his phone and he turned it towards himself. He looked up and at the top of the stairs was Rias.
"Boobs 12 o'clock."
"Shut up Motohama." Rias came down the stairs the other students around her committing on how amazing she was. She came down the stairs passing by us she looked over at Issei and I could have sworn she glanced at me.
Following Rias, she turned the corner up ahead was Akeno. "Well did you find him?"
"Yes, I did." Rias kept walking and Akeno started to follow behind her.
"So what's your opinion?"
"Honestly I'm still trying to figure that out."
"You never did tell us what you saw in his head last night that made you suddenly gain an interest in this Shinji Moeru.
"His last name is Moeru, how fitting, just trust in me Akeno we might be getting two new servants."
Me and the boys were walking out of the school "So my house for some soft-core porn?"
"Pass, I have self-respect."
"Liar!"
"True, counterargument, fuck you."
"I'm down!" Issei said.
"No, you are not, I need to talk to you," I said grabbing him and dragging him off.
"BUT TITTIES!"
We walked until we reached the bridge. "So neither Matsuda nor Motohama remembers Yuma?"
"On top of that, any photo we took together was erased. And all the money I spent on our date was returned to my account. It's as if she never existed, but I know that's a lie! I know she was real, I know what I felt for her was real!"
"Dude you knew her for a week." We walked until we reached his house.
"Well, at least you believe me, so thanks for that."
"No problem dude."
"Oh, there was something else that happened."
"Hm?" Issei opened his mouth but then closed it.
"Never mind it's not important." He went into his house and I just raised an
eyebrow. I got on my bike and started peddling to my neighborhood.
As I was peddling black feathers started to fall over my head. "what in the world?"
Looking up there was a man in a fedora with bird-like wings. I came to a halt and the man landed in front of me. "Tsk, I hate having to clean up her messes."
He made some kind of weapon, I could feel the knot in my stomach starting to grow as he pulled his arm back. He threw the weapon and I fell off my bike out of panic, Scrambling to my feet I started running away.
"And now he's running, I'm too tired for this."
He started walking after me before spreading his wings and taking flight. I hopped a fence and ran into an alleyway. Let's think, he has an overhead view, my best course of action is to either run toward the park and try to lose him in the trees or run toward the city and try to lose him in the crowd of people.
While running I turned my head up as I was doing that a light spear grazed my cheek. Several more spears came flying down I tried my best to bob in and out of the way getting shallow cuts everywhere.
"The entrance to the park!" Giving it one last push I picked up the pace.
SHLICK!
A sharp pain filled my body I reached my hand to my lower abdomen, red stained my hand as my vision started to blur. I started to lose my balance as I crashed into a pile of trash. My body felt hot, really hot, is this what it feels like to die?
"Well kid, can't say I'm too fond of killing someone who has nothing to do with the supernatural. But she wanted you to die as well."
He made another one of those weapons and started approaching me. My body was burning, I'd never felt this hot in my life. The man raised his weapon and I raised my hand in defense.
A spark ignited from my hand as a huge explosion fired out sending him flying into a stone wall by dumb luck it seemed like he was knocked out.
"Huff.. Huff… Huff Sigh~" I couldn't stand in fact I could feel the energy in my body leaving.
Click Click Click
?
"To die like this a fate I wish upon no one."
Red?
"A second chance at life, it's only fair."
My eyes finally shut, the last thing I saw was her smile.
…
GASP
Once again I was but a small flame In the empty void. The larger blue flame was in front of me
"To think that dweller of the underworld would taint my vessel, of course, I placed blockades to undo such a thing. Now that you have experienced the supernatural it is time to fulfill your role."
"Phoenix, Garuda, Ramuh, Titan, Bahamut, Shiva, Odin, Leviathan, and lastly…" The void erupted into flames a beast roared into the ash-filled sky.
"You, Ifrit."
The fire was extinguished, leaving me and the blue flame. "Go, do what you must and seek out your brethren, fulfill your purpose.
…
Mythos."
BEEP BEEP- BEEP BEEP- BEEP BEEP – Click
"Ugh, my everything hurts." Throwing the blanket off myself and… wait
"Why am I naked?"
"Mmmmhm~" That voice it, sounded feminine. I completely throw the blanket off the bed.
"Mmmhm, cold~"
…
"Rias Germory… is naked in my bed." A small trickle of blood started to fall out of my nose. She slowly opened her eyes before letting out a stretch, her boobs jiggled slightly with them.
"Good morning."
"Uh, I- What are you doing in my bed, scratch that how did you get Into my house? No wait, Clothes, you need clothes, I can see your boobs! Is this real, am I real!" She giggled before smiling at me.
"Yes, this is real, in fact, everything you've experienced is real. My name is Rias Gremory and I am a devil and from here on out you are my servant. It's nice to meet you Shinji Moeru.
Author: New story time! As you can read this is FF16 inspired.