POV: Kugi Nakamura
LOCATION: Fort Neisser
After a rather uneventful day at the campus (minus the whole part with the strange man), you returned back to your dorm to find your roommate and best friend pacing outside the door with anxiety written all over his face. The minute he looked up and saw you, he forcefully dragged you into the room and shut the door.
----- Nakamura: What on earth was that for Kenji?
----- Kenji: (Anxiously) You can't let anyone else see you here Kugi. You have to leave now before they return.
---- Nakamura: (Confused) They? Who is they?
----- Kenji: I don't have time to explain Kugi.
(He then slapped a piece of paper to your palm while at anxiously arranging your bags which he had already packed.)
---- Kenji: "I have already called my aunt in the city and she has agreed to let you hide out in her place until the heat calms down here but if anyone sees you here and report then it is already too late so what in the world are you doing just standing there and stareing at me? Do you not value your own life? Get out of here now!"
He then tried to push you out of the room but since you both were in the same weight category, you simply grabbed his shoulders and held him tight.
Nakamura: "Would you calm down man? How am I supposed to understand a single thing you are saying when you are panicking like this?"
Kenji stopped trying to push you out and started taking deep breath to calm his nerves.
Kenji: "You are right"
(He said as he started taking deep breaths)
"I am sorry"
Nakamura: (Softly) What happened here my friend? What made you so anxious?
Kenji: Yuki Sakaro came looking for you Kugi. She stayed here for over an hour waiting for you.
As soon as Kenji said this, you finally understood why he had been so nervous and scared when you first came in. This was because if there was one thing the entire campus knew was that it was one thing getting bullied by low level mobs like Nagamo and his gang but it was quite a different story if people like president Yuki Sakaro was involved. The reason for this knowledge was that unlike Nagamo and his like who could only hurt you physically, Sakaro possessed both the means and the desire to break you mentally and emotionally as well. As a matter of fact half of her victims had already committed suicide while the other half dropped out of the campus due to mental instability.
Nakamura: So this is my end? Just wake me up tomorrow when they come.
You said casually as you began emptying your back pack on your desk.
Kenji: Are you crazy Kugi? You should..
Nakamura: "Kenji stop."
(You said sternly)
"Look man I appreciate what you're trying to do for me but we both know that if those goons come back tomorrow and they don't see me they're going to know for sure that you tipped me off. Do you think I'm going to be safe and happy at your aunt's place while you're here getting beaten or worse?"
Kenji could not say anything in reply
Nakamura: Get some sleep my friend.
(You said as you crawled into your bed)
It might be the only way both of us will ever get some peace for a long time.
You then placed your head on the pillow, expecting a peaceful sleep but the moment you closed your eyes you felt a suffocating feeling as though you were in a room filled with smoke. When you finally managed to open your eyes the first thing you noticed was that the sun shining brightly in your face.
Nakamura: Wait a minute, wasn't it 8pm already? Why is the sun still shining?
You then raised your head towards the shining sun and you saw that its rays were shining through a dome shaped window made of thick glass at the side of the very tall room you were standing in. Your eyes began to look around and you quickly noted that the impossibly wide room was filled with nothing except numerous medium sized pools which were green in color that was emitting a spicy smell. You tried to step closer to one of the pools but your feet slipped on something and you crashed down on the sandy floor. That was when you realized that you were naked and completely covered in green colored goo that was in the pools.
Voice: "Where the hell is this?"
(A voice asked from behind you)
You turned towards the voice and saw a red skinned human looking monster with black hair and yellow eyes stareing at you with obvious confusion written all over its face.
Voice: "What the hell are you?"
Nakamura: (sarcastically) What the hell am I? Are sure you should be the one asking me that, you freak?
Another voice: "Knock it off both of you."
(You both turned to see another muscular looking monster in some kind of woolen cloth staring casually at you)
"Have you either of you kids looked into the water?"
You rushed to the nearest pool and what you saw was something that could give you nightmares for your entire life. Much like the monsters you had been talking to, you had red skin and dark hair but you also noticed two small horn coming out from your head and sharp fangs at the roof of your mouth. In addition your eyes were made of yellow Iris but it also had a dark slits pupil like that of cobra.
First monster: What the fuck!! How did we end up this way?
Second monster: You think I will still be here if I knew that? Grab some clothes from the side of the pool and follow me.
Nakamura: You seriously think I'll just follow someone I just met?
(You countered while putting on the clothes)
Second monster: (casually) You can either follow me to meet the others and may be get some answers to your questions or you can stay here and wallow in confusion. Up to you.
He then turned around to leave and you both followed him without another word.
Eventually he led you both out of the wide room and into a large field where seven others monsters (orpeopleyou are stillnotsurewhich) were standing.
Female Monster: "Did you guys wake up here too?"
You nodded
Nakamura: "do you guys have any idea what's going on?"
She shook her head
Female Monster: All I knew was that I opened a weird locked book my butler gave me and the next thing I knew was that when I closed my eyes I woke up here.
First monster: "Was it an ash colored book that turns red once you open it?"
Nakamura: (suspiciously) "You received one as well?"
Muscular monster: "I think we all recieved one kid." (Suspiciously)" Do you think it has anything to do with all this?"
By now the rest of the monsters who were once confused had started murmuring all sorts of conspiracy theories.
Voice: "Working with lunatics and fools. Is this what I have been reduced to?
(A deep raspy voice cried)
You all turned to see yet another musclar monster except this one had silver hair and was dressed in a form fitting black armor with a large two handed sword.
Voice: (Casually) "First of all congratulations on being one of the five thousand sounds chosen ones who were choosing to participate in this top secret program that was designed to take the worsts of humanity and turn them into warriors in their own right. My name is Jayden stormfort and I am to be your trainer for the duration of this program. To be honest when the higher ups informed me that I was to receive ten new recruits I had originally expected warriors with potential but looking at all of you now the only word that can convey the feeling in my heart is acute disappointment. (Hotly) Drug users, alcohol addicts school jesters and videogame junkies? What sort of losers am I receiving? Why should I waste my time, my resources and my training on a bunch of hopeless midgets?"
Monster: (Hotly) "Now look here superstar, stop talking to us like any of us wanted to be in this place with you in the first place. In case you forgot it was your organization who were the ones to approached us. They gave us those books, they gave us those keys they brought us here so show us some respect."
Jayden: Your name is Shen Yuan is it not?
The monster refused to answer
Jayden: "You are a 25 years old out of work lawyer who lives in the upper districts of Beijing China. You are married to the daughter of billionaire Chin yuan as part of a debt release agreement your parents signed when you were merely 16 years old you. In the 8 years you have dwelled in the Yuan family house you have been abused, disregarded and disrespected by all the members of the family and even the servants and maids. To make matters worse your wife blames you for her low standing in the family and your mother-in-law simply wishes for your 10 years marriage contract to expire so that you can be thrown out into the streets where you belong. This has made you taken to drugs as a way to damping the sadness and video games as a way to administer some sort of adrenaline into your life. Now tell me did you unlock the gate of hell because you were invited or did you unlock it because you were tired of being the hopeless pathetic loser you are and wanted to do something about it?"
Shen did not answer but you all knew that everything Jayden said was true because of how tightly Shen was clenching his fist tightly and how he glared at Jaden as though he wanted to kill him.
To make matters worse Jaden stepped close to Shen and whispered just loud enough for the rest of you to hear.
Jayden: "Are you angry boy? Are you so frustrated that you wish strike me down? Then why can't you do anything about it?"
Shen rushed towards Jayden with all the speed he could muster but one snap of Jaden's fingers and both his legs exploded into a gory display of blood flesh and bone and left him screaming on the floor.
Jayden: This is what you are lacking weaklings. The strength to compel everyone else to move in the order you want them to. And why are you powerless? You are powerless because you have let your society to detect roles to you to the point where you stop trying to be anything other than what you already are. Well the good news is that this program was created to change all that and starting today I will cut that mediocrity out of you slowly and painfully like a cancerous lung. Some of you will die in my treatment, some of you will be permanently crippled but those of you who rise to the occasion, those of you who step up to the task at hand will find themselves to become men of such power that they will be rulers of both this world and your world as well. Now my question is will you slink back into the world you came from? Will you hide yourself in the shadows you are comfortable with? Or will you step into your inner demon and let it mould you into men who are unafraid of death? What is your choice?
Truth was while all of you could see the insanity hidden in this man's eyes, none of you could deny the truth of all he had said. Whether you agreed with his views or not, it did not change the fact that you were a loser in your society and since there was no sane way to break it, well what's the harm in indulging yourself in a bit of insanity?
Nakamura: Are you going to make me strong?
Jayden: I will make you powerful
Nakamura: Are you going to make others respect me?
Jayden: "I will make them fear and worship you?"
Nakamura: Then what the hell are we waiting for?
The operation to tear out mediocrity have officially began, are you ready for the first step?