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In the faint hours of the morning, an alarm clock noise rang in the small bedroom. Yui Miyamoto slowly sat up in her bed, turned off her phone and held her knees close to her chest as she was waking up mentally.
"Here's to another day of hard work."
She did her routine of getting ready such as taking a shower, brushing her teeth, making sure her school uniform and hair were in order and having all of her school work packed.
"Good morning, Yui." Her older brother, Hideki, says as she enters the living room of their apartment. He was cooking up a small simple breakfast.
"Good morning too, Nii-san." Yui says to him. She took her seat at the table as he dished up the food.
"Today is a long day so I won't be back till around ten tonight."
"Okay, got it. Make sure not to overwork yourself."
"I won't. Don't worry." After breakfast, Hideki said goodbye and went off to work.
"You hopefully won't have to strain yourself too much soon." Yui left the house shortly afterwards and locked the door. She made her way to the subway, found the nearest seat, put in her ear buds and waited to arrive at school.
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King among Xanas
Adrian
It had been a long day, and the heat of the jungle wasn't doing him much favors as he got the tools together to break ground for the villages new well. Thankfully he had a number of the stronger men in the village working with him, or else he would have passed out long before now. "We should be getting some more supplies and medicine in the next few weeks, but..."
One of the men offered him a knowing smile, seeing as he was one of the few people other than the elder who spoke English in the village he was the only one to respond. "But the usual troubles are making it difficult?"
Adrian found that he couldn't deny it, simply returning to his work. If they could get a decent well people wouldn't have to travel so far to fetch water from the river, which meant the local gangs wouldn't have the chance to harass them. They stayed away from the village itself with its guards and larger count of people, it was without a doubt something that would make life that much easier for everyone.
Thus even through it was backbreaking, even if his tan was starting to become a bit more of a burn, he was willing to continue. And if he had to redirect a bit of this and that from the larger cities to ensure they were taken care of, well no one really missed it when the bad guys pulled it off, so he would just keep a little secret.
Monkey see, Monkey do as they say.
Be better, because what is the harm in trying?
Kuji
Since he had some time to kill Kuji was on his laptop. Apparently there were several stories about an unpredicted meteor shower but it didn't sound too spectacular and so he ignored them. After fifteen minutes of random websurfing he shut his laptop down and headed to the kitchen to make breakfast. Unsurprisingly he didn't see either of his parents which meant his mother had already for her school and his father was either asleep or still working a nightshift. He made himself a bowl of cornflakes and after finishing them grabbed his bag and left through the back door.
He unlocked the fence door and got on his bike. A few seconds later he rode out of the alley created by the rowhouses
he lived in and the ones behind them. At least he wouldn't have to ride the entire way to school on his own as one of his classmates and friends lived a block away.
"Hey Kuji." "Oh hey Anne. How are you?"
Edited by dutchguy1986 on Mar 9th 2019 at 3:36:54 PM
Surrounded by weirdoes
Alejandro
The clock was running, the match was coming to the end. Only five minutes were left and the team was losing 2-1. Several young men were losing hope. Until...
A desperate shot took everyone by surprise, and a tan, rather muscular young with amber eyes and messy black hair. On the school's black uniform, was holding his breath as his shot hit the net. When he realized he scored. A strong roaring scream came out of his throat.
"GOOOLLLL!" His teammates went to him, as the score was tied 2-2. Give or take two minutes. The victory or defeat depended of one last move.
"We worked for this, todo se define ahora" He called "Ikuze" The team looked more motivated, managing to intercept a pass. The number 11 in his back ran forward as fast as he could, trying to reach a long pass flying over the field. Jumping up, he could barely catch it. It was all on him.
Opening his eyes, he put on his earphones and started walking.
A bark distracted him, as a big black dog walked to him, panting.
"Heya, Augusto" He said, with a smile, petting it. "Are you ready for a walk, bud?"
Putting on the leash, he considered on what his plan for the future is.
Of course, going pro was the biggest idea on his mind, but beyond that? Maybe taking citizenship? Playing in a national team would be nice. Too bad he has to wait until twenty.
"What do you think I should do from now on, big guy?" Augusto gave him a look, and tilted his head. Alejandro just chuckled, as they started running.
"You are right" He said "For now, let's focus on the present"
Who knows how long will that last, after all.
Edited by Blueace on Mar 9th 2019 at 6:50:10 AM
Wake me up at your own risk.
Emiko
"Emiko, wake up!"
Go away. The sullen teenager rolled over and pulled her blankets up over her head.
"Emiko! Don't make me come up there!"
Just ignore him. He'll give up eventually.
Thump, thump, thump. Damn it all. I know those footsteps... Crash! The door to the bedroom slammed open to reveal a little girl, with a grin almost as wide as her face who proceeded to leap up onto Emiko's bed and begin to vigorously shake the stubborn sleeper.
"Emi! Emi! Emi! Get upppppp! Come onnnn! Daaaaad! I think Emi's dead! She's not moving!"
Annoying little...
"Fine! Fine! I'm up! I'm up!" Emiko shouted, trying to rub the sleep out of her eyes with one hand and pushing away her energetic foster sister with the other. "Yuki, get out of here so I can change, would you? Go on, get out!" With Yuki out of their shared bedroom, Emiko sighed to herself. Daigo (she refused to call him "dad") was getting smarter when it came to dealing with her. It was a low blow to send Yuki up here. Not that I can talk but still.
Emiko hastily got her school uniform on and some of what she needed packed in her bag before opening up her bedroom window. She could still hear Daigo pacing about downstairs, which meant he was down there waiting to pounce and give Emiko a chewing out. Not gonna happen. Emiko jumped out her bedroom window, her fall cushioned by the same bush as all the other times she left the house this way. Bang! Crap. That was the front door, wasn't it?
"Emiko! Come back here, young lady! We're gonna have this talk whether you like it or-"
Time to go! Emiko was up and sprinting down the street in a heartbeat. She'd avoided getting yelled at for now, but that yelling was going to come around to her eventually. Guess I'm going to school today. No sense skipping and pissing him off even more.
Up on Melancholy hill.
Ah, yes. They would do just fine.
And so, to those five, seemingly unconnected, seemingly random indviduals, their lives would change right then and there, with the faintest flicker of light up in the sky, too far and too dull for them to notice...
Until it was far, far too last.
What happened next...may have been considered "humorous" had it not been for the circumstances. As they carried on their lives and events, be it something as innocent as walking to school, tending to their dog or digging up a well, the slight sound of whistling could be heard from above, almost like something small was falling from a grand height.
Had they looked, their attention would be brought to a pin of light, about the size of a baseball and made out of a strange, solid light of various colors. Pink, White, Yellow, Black and Purple, beam down from the heavens above, followed by a trail of energy...and then turn a sharp 90 degree turn and head...
Right for their faces.
Attempts to dodge would be met with failure, as no matter how swift they thought to be, they would be smacked with this energy and throw a solid five feet behind them, wherever they may have been. And through the haze of getting smacked in the head, they would hear something in the back of their mind. An animal scream, a roar, a noise, a vision...anything to help get the message across.
And on their right wrist? A strange device that seemed to have formed there in their dazed stupor. Oval shaped and taking up the entirety of their wrist, made out of strange, heavy metal with a glass visor on the very top, that held an etched animal image within it, all different colors.
The yellow held a monkey, the pink held a rabbit, the black a dog, the white a tiger, and the purple a rat.
Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun?
King among Xanas
Adrian
As someone born with a rather heightened sense of irony it wasn't lost on Adrian that the moment he put down his shovel was also the exact moment a flying piece of something was going to hit him in the face and send him rear first into the rather sizable hole they had been digging. Thankfully years of getting thrown on his ass by life had prepared him to spread both arms and legs to prevent himself from being sent into a dangerous fall. Of course what he wasn't prepared for was the howling of a monkey to explode in his ears, especially given that there weren't any monkey's for miles from his location due to hunting. "What in the hell," a few of the villagers that had been helping him came over to get him back on his feet, giving an odd look at the device now on his arm.
"Okay then," he tapped it with his finger and tried to find a seem so that he could remove the odd device, but found nothing of the sort. "This is...new." if there was one skill he had developed in his life it was adaptability, but even so he was a bit freaked out by this sudden occurrence.
Be better, because what is the harm in trying?
"Good, you?" Kuji felt a bit awkward around Anne ever since he told her about his crush on her. He had known how she would respond though, the two had very similar tastes when it came to romantic partners. Distracted as he was he didn't notice the beam of White light until it was too late. He futilely tried to block his face when he did see it, but all he managed was that he had let go of the wheel of his bike when he got hit.
As a result his five feet backwards launch at least didn't end with his bike on top of him. "Holy s**t." Anne rushed over towards Kuji who while still confused was already getting back up. "What just happened?" "I have no idea, but I'm fine I think. I did briefly see a strange robotic tiger for a second though."
The tiger comment made Anne worry that her friend had some strange brain damage but something caught her eye. "Speaking of tigers is that thing on your wrist new?." At first Kuji wanted to say there was nothing on his wrist but after what just happened he figured it didn't hurt to check. "I've never seen that thing before."
Edited by dutchguy1986 on Mar 19th 2019 at 5:24:08 PM
Surrounded by weirdoes
Alejandro
The boy was looking around, not really giving much thought to his surroundings. After all, he runs through here every day. But when something came directly at him, he could barely cover his face, but ended up getting sent flying a few feet back.
A series of howls and barks rumbled through his mind, as a giant canine shadow loomed over him.
"¿Qué?" He whispered, as he pushed himself up. Looking at Augusto, he petted him a bit "Estás bien?" He got a lick as an answer, as he smiled. They turned back so he could leave his friend back home. He noticed his arm had something, a strange device wrapped around his wrist. The image of a dog was what called his attention the most.
"What in the...?" First, he got knocked around, then he went into a dream, then he had this thing on his miraculously not broken arm.
"That's weird" He muttered. Well, he hid it under his sleeve. Whatever it is can be checked later.
He had a day to look forward to.
Wake me up at your own risk.
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"What was that? Why did I think of a rabbit?"
She felt something on her wrist. She looked down and some sort of thing was on her. She first looked at it wide-eyed before trying to analyze it. It was pink and there was an image of a rabbit. As the train announced her stop, she got off the train, still looking at her wrist.
"What is going on?"
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"Get out of the way!"
Emiko was not having a good morning. Even after leaving home she'd had to deal with her bus running late, Daigo blowing up her phone with angry texts, getting drenched from a passing car driving through a puddle and now this moron blocking the way like he owns the whole sidewalk. Yep, there he was. Mousy little guy, about the same age as Emiko, clad in a school uniform Emiko didn't recognise. Just standing there like a gormless idiot, head pointed straight up, looking up at who knows what. Probably nothing. Just another moron with no spacial awareness.
"Move!"
Emiko wouldn't have had the patience on her best day. On one of her worst in a good while? Kid didn't stand a chance. Emiko walked straight on like he wasn't even there, roughly shoving the kid out of the way, sending him sprawling into a heap. As she passed through the space he occupied a moment ago, some whim directed her own gaze skyward. What was this kid even looking at anyw- Crack! Emiko was met with a flash of purple and a hard blow to the face as something smacked her in the face and sent her flying like the boy she just pushed.
Squeaking. From everywhere. Sourceless. Directionless. Like there was a swarm of invisible rats all around. And there was some... thing on her arm. What the hell! What the hell is going on! For the second time that morning, Emiko found herself sprinting like her life depended on it.
Up on Melancholy hill.
Their days would carry on as necessary. The strange armament didn't seem to be damaging them, or changing anything. From the perspective of literally anyone else, it would look as though it was a very ornate bracelet. Nothing fancy, nothing...out of the ordinary, even as they went about their day.
...
"I'm tired of waiting!" Shouted a muscular, bi-pedal Shark as he stomped on the ground with a snarl, his eyes dark like a dolls eyes and his fists gripped tightly. "We've been waiting for long enough! They've fallen and we're wasting time sitting here and doing nothing!"
"Still your tongue, whelp!" Snapped the Beetle creature, stomping forward as well. "Doing such a miraculous acts as bringing the Twelve down would take the energy out of anyone! You do not speak ill of him, lest you wish to deal with my blades!"
"He promised riches and power! I want what's owed to me!"
"...Then prove it." chuckled A voice, as smooth as silk as the Crocodile approached from the side, the smile as wide as ever. "Perhaps this would be a good time to punish those who have forgotten us? Get within the good graces of the Master...and when he awakens to see the destruction laid out before him? He will reward you HANDSOMELY."
"He promised the Power to all of us!" The Shark argued.
"Ah, you misunderstand my friend. He promised the power to the twelve...and me and my companions here take three of those slots ourselves. No, he will likely need to see proof of such dedication! So perhaps you should get a head start on that? Imagine...your figure among the stars! Because you took the initiative...!"
The Shark stared for a moment, stroking his non-existent chin. "Yes...yes that's right! I must prove my worth!"
"Then go, my friend..." Gestured the Croc. "Fulfill your destiny!" He gestured, and in a flicker of silver scales, he vanished.
The Beetle glared at the Croc, who merely chuckled and walked off...
...
And once the beast landed on the human world, the five chosen would feel the strangest sensation...the buzzing in their wrists to grab their attention...and then, almost COMICALLY, a...loud scream from the back of their minds?
"HEY!"
Um...Excuse me?
"Hey, can you hear me!?
"HUMAN! IT'S TIME!"
"HEY! LADY! SOMETHING'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN!"
Edited by MichaelDj54 on Mar 29th 2019 at 9:40:34 AM
Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun?
While the bracelet and how he got it were weird the fact that nothing else had happened for a few days meant that Kuji wasn't too worried about it. However all of a sudden during math class the bracelet started vibrating like a cellphone. Shocked he dropped his pen and while he was bent over to pick it up something even stranger happened. "HUMAN! IT'S TIME!"
At first Kuji wanted to believe the voice was just his imagination but he knew better. Forcing himself to act normal he asked the teacher if he could go to the bathroom. As soon as he was in the hallway he checked to see if it was empty. "Time for what? Who are you?"
Edited by dutchguy1986 on Mar 31st 2019 at 8:40:18 PM
Surrounded by weirdoes
Alejandro's days were a mix of practicing, studying and trying to do some socializing. So, ignoring the weird bracelet wasn't that hard. So, in the middle of a class, no matter how his interest was lacking, he wasn't ready for what came.
Hey, can you hear me?!
He nearly fell from his chair.
What the hell?!
"Who are you?" He whispered, ending up nose deep in a book.
He had to avoid being heard, and pretend everything was fine, at least until he figures out why his head just spoke to him.
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"Um, excuse me?" The voice caught her off guard. She looked around to see if who said it.
"Who said that?" Yui said out loud, trying to find who talked.
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King among Xanas
Adrian
For the rest of the day Adrian had been forced to rest by his team, given one of the more comfortable cots they had brought along. Apparently almost falling to your death down a well was the sort of thing that people expected you to take a sit down for. And while he felt fine now he still hadn't managed to get the thing off his wrist and was getting quite frustrated by it. "What the heck are you?" he tapped the 'face' of the device but couldn't seem to get any answer.
Then a voice spoke in his head and the day got weirder.
"Uh, hi, I...am I high right now? Is this what being 'high' is?" this entire situation was too surreal for him.
Be better, because what is the harm in trying?
It looked like a parody of an ancient temple in a dull world of swirling purples and blacks. The skies swirled with energy unlike anything the world above had ever experienced. A sea of horrible creatures as far as the eye, twisted, shifted mockeries of the beautiful, bountiful creatures that dwell on the planet that these creatures once knew as Earth.
Up the massive steps of the temple sat three creatures, two on the right of the massive double doors, and one on the left. The one on the left looked like some kind of strange Hercules beetle with gilded golden fringe around its "armor", with two blades on either side of his hips, four arms crossed in front of him.
With dark purple skin, dark eyes that held a certain malice behind them with dark, malicious intent. Her clothing was loose fitting but still managed to show off her impressively built form underneath, rippling with power and crackling with energy underneath.
And to the side of her, with silver and green skin was a man with the widest smile one could imagine. Slit eyes staring out at the massive sea around him and a simple robbed outfit that clung to his slim figure, clawed hands tight in fists as he chuckled a little bit to himself. The Hippo lady glared at him but did nothing else, never taking his eyes off him.
The doors opened and out stepped a figure that radiated an aura that commanded authority. His features, whatever was revealed, was surrounded by the same inky, swirling darkness that surrounded the skies above them. He didn't seem to have any features that told anyone he was animalistic...but he was anything but a human.
There was silence...and then, the figure raised a hand to the sky, turning all eyes to him.
"Are you prepared my children?"
A roar of affirmation.
"To bring your name to greatness! To push away the wretches who dare think they deserve their place among the heavens!?"
The stomping of claws, hooves and paws reached a crescendo over the entire sea of hideous, demonic looking creatures that looked like hideous mockeries of animals that occupied the planet below.
"Then gather my children. And take your position among the cosmos!"
And then, the sky stopped swirling. Pulsating dark energy began to build in his hand until it was little more than the size of a baseball, and yet, incredibly, disturbingly, impossibly dense. The man stared at the orb for a moment, as if it were admiring its work...and then the orb flew up into the sky.
Over the roar of the crowd and the thunderous excitement of what was coming next, the man said only one word. One word spoken with such malice, it's effect was instant on the world above.
"Fall."
And so, the 12 fell.
To those down on the planet, it looked like a simple series of shooting stars that careened across the expanse of the globe. It wasn't anything special or graceful to write home about. Just flashes of light across the cosmos and nothing more. The poor populace below did not know the terrible consequences of what was going to happen soon, and how their world would be rocked...
But those twelve pins of light sought out those worthy. Sought out those that radiated with their spirit more than any other, who had the greatest potential of all the humans down below.
And with any luck those chosen would help save the world from the coming catastrophe.
Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun?