Arc 1: A first day filled with anarchy -
Gray: "Wa? How is this - "
But he was cut off, his mother stomping over his thoughts and getting him caught up in everything.
"What's the matter!? Come downstairs and eat lunch you can't sleep in all day."
Gray: "Okay I'm comin!"
Gray gets his glasses, and some clothes and heads down the hall to go eat food with his Parents.
Gray {What the hell? Did I just wake up from a bad dream? It felt so real though, guess it was one of those types of dreams then, I have a better imagination than I thought}
His mother looked extremely close to him, with slightly longer hair and larger circular classes. His father was a lot bulkier, shorter, and had shorter light brown hair just like Grays mother. For the most part, you wouldn't even be able to tell they were even related.
Mom: "You look upset, are you alright? Did I wake you up from a good dream or are you just sad that you have to go back to school tomorrow? "
Gray: "Oh, yeah I forgot I have school tomorrow, and I guess it was a cool dream. Pretty memorable I guess. "
Mom: "That's nice."
Gray pulls out a chair, looking down at a plate of pancakes.
Dad: " I haven't seen you outta your room much. You haven't eaten with us in weeks, I wanna catch up! Did you do anything at school, Girls you like, or plans with friends!?"
Gray: "No, I haven't really been doing anything."
Dad: "You gotta be more confident in yourself man! You gotta be a loser not a quitter at least, shoot your shot! It's how I got your mom."
Mom: "You "got" me because I asked you out, I thought you'd never ask me but you can tell the story how you like it I guess."
Gray tried his hardest to focus away from the conversation, with the thought of Rosemary, Soku, Ophelia, and the other world still in his mind. He still felt sore, he felt like he had done eveything. That it felt more than this ever did. Like his hope was stripped away.
Dad: "Oh yeah my bad, but still, you can't keep walking around all lonely and depressed get something more productive to do."
Gray: "All I do is play games, and watch TV basically what you do all day/"
Dad: "Well, uh, fine just stop looking all sad and stuff, look you're smiling right now"
Mom: "Leave him alone, he's fine, he's not overconfident and he's funny."
As they continued to talk to weight of his apparent dream still weighed heavy on him, heavier than the loss of this world. The thought of Rosemary, Ophelia, and even Soku being fake just felt like a slap in the face, the thought that he could have been anything special gone. But still, he spoke loudly, with his chest puffed out, and a massive smile on his face.
Gray: "Got my number one supporter and my number one hater in one room!"
Mom: "You do seem to be in a happier state than yesterday when you went on that walk."
Gray: "Walk..?"
Gray goes into a bit of a panic, getting flashes of the truck hitting him. The fear that hit him in the final moment returning, and the weight that he felt in that moment coming back along with it.
Dad: "Yeah when you killed yourself for no reason leaving us to deal with it, you couldn't even bother to leave a note or anything."
Gray: " What are you talking about!?"
Gray stood up, instantly defensive and filled with confusion.
Mom: "Don't play dumb you little selfish bastard!"
The parent's voices and tone started to go deeper and darker as their appearance started to get foggier like a cloud, and before Gray could notice the whole room was a misty black except for a woman-looking figure standing in front of him.
Gray: "What the hell!
He was shuttering with an absolute terror, an all encomposing fear. The ground he stood on, the OD he was within, was taken by the dark slick cloak stretching all around and into the woman in black.
"You got a visitor, so you should probably wake up now."
Gray jolts awake, leaping onto his feet sweating and panting. He then noted Rosemary shaking with fear and looking forward. She then quickly stands beside him, whispering into his ear.
Rosemary: "Be quiet."
Gray, confused to why Rosemary is talking with a voice filled with fear, only fear, tries to get answers as quick as he can.
Rosemary: "I don't know how but it's the Sect of Anarchy, they are here outside. This is bad, real bad. I don't know how they they found me and now you're in danger. Soku is getting a weapon upstairs you need to run outside through the back door quickly with Ophelia. Go now, I'll fight them off!"
Gray: "The sect? THE SECT OF ANARCHY? THOSE CULTISTS DUDES! Hell no I'm not leaving you guys to battle them! I can fight too!"
Rosemary: "I don't care if you…"
She gets interrupted by the front door opening to show a figure coated in the shadows. The figure walks in as Rosemary and Gray are frozen in fear, though he looks small like a child or a pre-teen wearing a black cloak bigger than his body being dragged behind him, the only thing on his face is a plain white mask with large dark eyes.
Gray: "…. Um hey can you leave please..."
"Leave? No, no, no, no not without you, my superior has informed me to pick you up and take you home!"
Gray, listening to the voice of a young boy coming towards him, instantly takes the tension from his heart away. However Rosemary was still as tense as ever, but with a sense of duty in her heart.
"MY NAME'S JEREMIAH, NICE TO MEET YOU SIR... I apologize if I'm wrong but that golden hair… are you a Golden Knight?"
Rosemary: "And what if I…"
Gray quickly cuts her off, standing in front of her with a wide shaking smile.
Gray: "NO! She's not with them, she's with me! I knew you guys were coming so I was just chilling here!"
"OH REALLY… THAT'S Wonderful! Now come on, let us leave them."
Gray walks up to the boy sweating and panicking due to fear. He bows to the boy and bends his leg back into the air.
"Um what are you…"
While the boy is speaking, Gray swings his leg forward putting all his strength into a kick.
The boy in the cloak is surprised, but from under his cloak, a black claw-looking appendage grabs Gray and swings up into the wall!
Gray: "BEHIND YOU! ROSEMARY MOVE!"
Rosemary sees a taller member of the Sect trying to stab her with a dagger! Rosemary dodges, then from the upstairs balcony a blast of wind strikes down hitting the cultist. And seeing another fantastical thing one after another still left him shocked; Rosemary's true power was unleashed right in front of him; Rosemary pulls mana from her chest, her OD sends a bright gold aura around her body like a flame. There is a noise that is heard after the flame has fully coated her body sounding like a " click" and she hits the cultist sending him flying backward and knocking him out. Soku drops down to the first floor beside Rosemary with a small thick sword ready to attack Jeremiah. Then with everybody ready to fight other than Gray who is still being held against the wall unable to get the arm off of him.
Rosemary flows more mana around her making a second click noise and Soku flows mana around her pulling in the wind. Jeremiah lets nine more arms flow out of his cloak, though they aren't very long. They start to combine, eight short, thin arms become four big and strong ones. He has one of them go under him lifting him into the air only slightly. With everybody ready, Gray is being his second fight in another world.