《Summoners dilemma》


 Chapter 1

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    I stood up from my chair and looked around at my cramped room. There was trash scattered across my desk and dirty clothes all over the floor. looking through everything on my desk I let out a cuss as I came to the realization that I must have eaten that last slice of pizza. Thinking back on it I realized that that slice of pizza had been sitting there for three days and may not have been the best... My stomach let out a long and anguished rumble as my innards shifted. This must be karmic retribution for the fact that I let my guild down in every storm online, failing to pull my weight in a raid that took a month to plan. I ran over to my door and threw it open as my breath came shallower and my face broke out in a sweat from the strain of holding the blasphemous act inside my body. Running over to the bathroom door I tried the handle to realize it was locked, crap. My legs trembled as I reached up to find the key when it happened. The worst thing to ever happen in my apartment. I farted long and hard, startling me right as I grabbed the key. stumbling backward I tripped over a dirty pair of pants and almost in slow motion, my shoulder slammed up against the window overlooking my third-story apartment. I felt a sharp pain In my shoulder as the window broke, but that was the least of my worries, as I fell through.


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    Plummeting to the ground I could almost see my life flash before my eyes, but it looked wrong somehow.


    *dooong dooong dooong* I heard as I was falling. Red circles seemed to appear around me, but because I was falling I quickly passed them. Realizing that I should have hit the ground by now I tried to twist my body in mid-air to look down. as I did I could see the ground, but it felt like the ground was stretching away from me, fearing the impending collision between it and me. I got closer and closer, but slowly at first before speeding up. the ground snapped back into focus right before I hit it to realize that there was a red pentagram that seemed to be carved into the concrete with burning red blood. That was the last thing I saw before I hit the ground, splattering all over it. as I lay there, somehow not dead yet even though my body was torn apart, my innards scattered across the pentagram, I came to one sinking realization. I was killed, by my need to take a crap.

 Chapter 2

    I opened my eyes to realize that something was wrong. I was hot, like really hot. My skin was burning as I lay there on the ground. I could hear people walking past me and snickering. I didn''t understand though because I was splattered all across the ground, what was there to laugh about that, right? Wrong. I saw that I was still in the middle of a blood-red pentagram but something was different. As I planted my arms to lift myself up I felt that the cobblestone road was burning hot, and for some reason, it had a red tint to it.


    ¡°Get up, you useless neanderthal! You must do my bidding, mwahahaha!¡± I heard coming from my left. The voice sounded as if you took a toddler and made them a chain smoker for 3 years. It was high pith and grading. I felt a small foot thud into my ribs that made me cough from the force contained in it. When I rolled onto my back I couldn''t believe what I saw. Standing next to me appeared to be a fat red imp with a potbelly and 2 crooked horns standing next to me. As I looked at him an arrow formed next to him, and a box dropped out of the bottom of it to show a little screen. *imp, Minor demon* In the realm of Gahanna there are many different demons and other beings, they can be broken down as such: Minion, Minor, Major, Master, and then finally Matriarch.*


    I snapped out of staring in shock at the screen when I heard a laughing voice come from next to me.


    ¡°Hahaha, I am surprised but I am actually sad for this poor human, being bound to a lowly imp, and only a minor demon at that. Hello male human, why dont you come and join me?¡±


    As I looked over at where the voice came from I realized that It was a succubus. A box dropped down next to her and this time it read *succubus, Minor demon*. I was shaking with fear as I was trying to respond but got tongue-tied. She was extremely beautiful and looking at her brought a blush to my face, making me turn away.


    ¡°This neanderthal only answers to me!¡± He squeaked out as he stomped his feet. ¡°Up, up I say!¡±


    Standing I turn to look at the annoying little creature as it fluttered its stumpy little wings at flew right at my face, before landing on my head and claiming it as his new throne.


    ¡°Now on to grow stronger!¡± he squeaked. Not knowing what to say I decided to just keep my comments to myself and headed in the direction he pointed.


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    In no time we walked up to a portal, the first thing that I have seen so far that wasn''t red. It seemed to be tinted with green and blue, with sparks of silver and gold in it. I could almost feel a resonance with it as I reached toward it.


    ¡°No!¡± The imp screamed. ¡°I must be the one to touch it first, slave!¡± He grabbed a tuff of my hair and yanked back on it as if it were the reigns on  a horse.


    ¡°What the heck you petty little monster?!¡± I yelled back up at it. This seemed to startle him as he looked at me in shock, before his face grew dark.


    ¡°I am no monster you idiot, I am a demon! Do not call me something so low as a beast.¡± At that, he stood up and started stomping on my head, sending vibrations rattling through my skull and giving me a migraine.


    ¡°Oh, ok pardon me you little beast. And how do you propose we gain power?!¡± so far this was not his day. He had always dreamed of being a summoner, but never being a summon. This was like God himself was playing some sort of joke on him, making him so close to his dreams, yet so far away.


    The imp pointed at the portal and spoke. ¡°See that portal? That is a portal to the mortal realms. I''m Gahenna demons can not kill other beings, but in the mortal realms, it is free for all. To gain power a demon must eat or drink the blood of its enemies. Because you are my summon, and you have been to Gahanna you are no longer a human, but a half breed, or a mutt. As such you are still able to eat your enemies to gain strength, and you may use a Gahenna gate, but you are unable to attain a place of power in any of the demon cities and if any mortal knows that you are not a human then they will do everything they can to kill you. YOU are a monster, I am not. I dont have a core, but you do so hah.¡± The demon spoke and taunted me. I was confused at this point. I was no longer a human, even though I felt like one. Nonsense. I was a human and there was nothing else I could be. I felt like I was going insane, and I let the stupid little imp know that.


    ¡°Hahahahaha, you expect me to believe that I am not a human? You truly are a mindless beast if you expect me to believe that!¡± I spoke through my laughs.


    ¡°Have you not seen the screens appear in your vision that is constructed out of mana? And have you not noticed that you are slowly growing horns and a tail? You truly are a foolish mutt¡±.


    I reached up to touch my head to realize that he was correct and I had small stubs where I was starting to grow horns. And when I touched my back I realized that I did indeed have a tail, but it was tucked into my shirt. I gasped as I realized that the imp must not be lying and started to black out from the shock, falling towards the Gahanna gate.


    ¡°Noooooo!!! The imp screamed as it tried to get me to stop, not realizing I was already out. I touched the gate and was taken to a random place in the mortal plane.

 Chapter 3

    I awoke and looked around as I realized that there was no red tint left in my surroundings, instead I was laying in a small meadow in the middle of a forest. Giant bees were flying around everywhere and there were yellow flowers that seemed to release a scent that lured me in. I stood up to head over to the flowers when I saw the little demon, sitting there on his butt and staring at me fearfully.


    ¡°What are you looking at me like that for?¡± I asked.


    ¡°You have broken part of our summoners contract by using the gate without my permission, you have broken the part where you cannot hurt me,¡± he said as he stood up.


    Now bow to me and pledge yourself, and I won''t kill you! I started to bow when I realized that I could stop myself. Deciding to go with what he said partly I bowed and asked a question.


    ¡°Yes master, but I have a question first¡±.


    A smug look crossed his face as he thought that he could still control me. ¡°What is it, minion?¡±


    ¡°How do I know my own strength? I can see that you are a minor demon, but what am I? And what happens when a summons master dies?¡±


    ¡°Well, if you think about your status, a screen will show up with all your information, and when a summons master dies, it depends on what happens. As a half breed if you were to eat another demon you would gain a modicum of their power, and there are legends of summons escaping there fate by eating there master and gaining the power to keep themselves summoned, for if something kills me, then you would fade from this plane of existence, returning to our plane. As such because you died in your plane you would just disappear forever, becoming a wraith that exists for only hunger.¡±


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    Thinking to myself I realized what I had to do but what disgusted by the thought. Looking at the bees I could see that everything was ranked differently were, and that they were ranked by tiers, the higher the tear the stronger they were. These simple-looking bees were anything but simple, being tier 5 and having an ability *call* that summoned others of its kind to aid it in fending off a threat, buffing the others that it calls and giving them +50% stamina. I would not survive wherever I was and knew that neither could this lowly imp. There was also the fact that I did not want to live my whole life in service to a disgusting demon who was the shape and size of a watermelon. Thinking status I got my information. **name unknown, tier one, minion beast, no abilities* Str. 1, Sta. 1, Min. 1, Int 1, ???, ???, ???*. That was when I made my decision. I was not going to be somethings minion, and I would rather die than be tied to this imp. Looking up at it i spoke.


    ¡°Hey you little monster, catch¡±. And with that, I threw dust at it, before charging at it like a mad beast and tackling it. I was going to do the unthinkable. I was going to eat this little thing, and hopefully, it would give me the squirts that dang pizza did.


    ¡°Nooo, stop, please! It screamed before I bit down on its fat neck. Its blood sprayed all over me as it let out a gurgling scream and than went still. Its blood smelled like rotten eggs and its flesh tasted like sulfur, but I forced it down, blocking out all thoughts that I had left.

 Chapter 4

    I awoke an hour later with a *ping*. I realized that I was still here which means that I was able to successfully gain its abilities and the imp wasn''t lying. This also reinforced the fact that I was no longer back in my apartment, on Earth. I read the message that was floating in the corner of my vision before letting out a stream of expletives. The little imp lied to me. I didn''t need to eat the whole of my enemies but just a bite. *Congratulations, you have tasted the blood and flesh of Fred, the minor imp. As such you have gained a minor blessing and power from Fred, the minor imp.*


    *Summon beast; this skill has been modified and tailored to you. You may choose to summon a: Wolf, Turtle, Bear, or chicken. You may only choose one animal, and whichever one you choose may not be changed*


    *Boon: Black Blood; your blood is made up of toxic poisons that allow you to excrete and poison you have come in contact with, this down not make you immune to poisons.*


    Laughing to myself I Spoke aloud ¡°Summon Beast¡± and a window appeared in front of me asking me which beast I would like to summon. Laughing I mumbled to myself, ¡°chicken? Seriously, who would choose chicken?¡± All of a sudden a swirl of black particles appeared and disappeared, leaving a chicken that was about 2 ft. tall standing there. Then a message appeared reading *Congratulations! You have gained the skill Summon Minor chicken, you have lost the skill Summon Monster*


    ¡°What, I did not say I wanted a chicken!¡± I screamed at the air. I did that for the next 5 minutes as I looked on in anger, hoping that a new window would appear. It didn''t. I was stuck, with a chicken now as my Summon. I had always dreamed of being some epic summoner, and when I get my chance to become one, I instead become an epically LAME summoner.


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    Looking down at the clocking chicken I realise that it was a rooster, the one good thing. If I had a useless then I would have really been screwed. It looked up at me and crowded with an evil glint in its eyes as if it was laughing at me.


    ¡°Why you little¡­¡± I yelled as I ran after it, trying to catch it. It was a beautiful red and brown chicken with long black tail feathers. Calming down I decided to sit down and study the chicken. *Pheonix, minor minion, level 1.* I closed the screen as there was nothing important. Deciding that I needed to test it out, I pointed out a bee and said ¡°you seem like just a chicken, but maybe you''re more. Sick¡¯em!¡± The rooster crowed and charged the giant bee. When it got 5 feet away it flapped its wings and took to the air, reaching the head level of the bee and spurring it in the eye. The bee let out a bzzzz as green ichor flowed down its face. It was over in an instant as the bee took to the air and stung my chicken, before turning to me and letting out a bzzzzzzwzzzzzz. My chicken froze, before collapsing. Another bee turned to face me as its eyes turned red. The first bee collapsed from the loss of its stinger as the second one launched into the air and started to charge me. *Congratulations, your summon *chicken* has defeated a tier 5 bee and gained the ability *call*; you have gained a tier 5 boon.*


    *Boon: Bee¡¯lzebub; You are known all across the mortal plane of Insectus as the devil. As such all insects will hate you and attack you on sight. When killing insects you have a chance to gain an additional ability related to the insect.*


    Jumping to the left I dodged the stinger of the giant bee. Looking down at my hand I realized that a small amount of the poison dripped down on me, burning my skin and flesh all the way to the bone. Suppressing a scream, I blocked out all the pain in favor of staying alive. When the bee flew at me again I ducked right below the bee, grabbing the stinger and holding on tight as the momentum of the bee attempted to rip it out of my hand, before the stinger detached from its body and its stringy insect guts came falling out, followed by the thump as the bee landed on the ground. Steam rose in the air as the pile of intestines cooled against the air. The sky was slowly going green as what appeared to be the moon rose into the sky, It was turning night.

 Chapter 5

    For it being night it was quite bright. It was also eerie as everything was cast in a green shadow. I held out my hands and spoke *summon chicken*. Yet again the same chicken appeared and it looked over at me before cocking its head and letting out an angry ¡°cluck¡± at me, before running at me and spurring me in the foot. I was wearing jeans and a red and black jacket before the¡­ unfortunate accident that happened, but I wasn''t wearing any shoes.


    Backing up I scolded the little cock before turning and walking away. Sensing that my bally high was completely gone I got another message; *Congratulations you have killed a tier 6 bee! You have gained a Boon! Congratulation, Bee¡¯lzebub has activated and you gain one [bee] related ability.


    *Astral Stinger Gauntlet tier 1; Cast a phantom stinger that surrounds your hand. This counts as a gauntlet weapon and can be combined with poisons.*


    *Boon: Bee right back. Allows you to unlock the map of Insectus, the insect plain. Can be viewed from your P.S.S. (personal status screen). Just think ¡°map¡± to access*


    Thinking map a screen popped up in the top right of my vision that, even though it wasn''t in the focussed area of my eye, I could still see clearly. Of course, though it only showed where I have been, so all that I could see was this field. Holding out my right hand I decided to wait to experiment with the map later and thought *stinger*. A blue see-through stinger appeared around my hand, and when I touched it with my other hand I realized that it was solid even though it seemed like only a projection. Focussing on my black blood ability I thought of the poison that burned my hands and a clear substance started to trickle and fill the tip of the stinger. Walking over to a tree I thrust out my hand and the tip of the stinger impacted it, causing it to lodge into the tree before disappearing. Ripping my hand back I was concerned that the venom I had used was going to get all over me again when I realized the stinger had injected it all into the tree, and smoke filtered out of the hole it left in the tree. I also realized that my hand had recovered and when I checked my screen, I found that there were two new development. One was that I was no longer classified as a rank 1 minion hybrid, but a rank 3 Minor Hybrid. The other development was that I unlocked a new stat, Reg. or Regeneration. I dont know if it was a side effect of my black blood, or because I was a hybrid being, but My regen had jumped from the baseline of 1 to 7.


    I heard a rustle that broke me out of my contemplation. There was something to the left of me in the bushes and as I looked at my chicken, I realized that it was terrified. It had laid down on its chest and put its forehead down on the ground in front of it. Getting up I faced the edge of the forest and got ready for a fight. A giant praying mantis came out and into the small meadow. It was black but tinted green due to the color of the moon. I heard an angry buzz come from behind me as a swarm of bees passed me and attacked the praying mantis. I wasn''t planning on sticking around to see the outcome and turned tail to run, but not before I shot off a scan to see what the praying mantis was.


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    *Ninja Mantis, Tier 12*


    As I was running away I realized that My little chicken wasn''t coming, it was instead creeping closer to the ninja mantis. Swearing I ran after my chicken as It let a loud and reverberating crow out. 5 spectral hens formed behind it as the rooster charged into the fray, the glowing blue hens quick on his heels. I stopped in shock before scanning my rooster to see his stats as well.


    *Pheonix, Tier 5. Abilities: Ghostly Call* I remembered that he had gained an ability from killing that first bee and looked on as he and his spectral flock slowly pecked the mantis to death. Getting excited I forgot my fear and charged in, calling upon my Stinger and bee venom. Sneaking under it stabbed upwards. The mantis lurched as venom was injected directly into its blood, dissolving it from the inside. It started to flail, which seemed to set my rooster into a flocking fury. He jumped up on the mantis head and began to attack its eyes with his spurs. I started to back up as a long black-bladed arm came sailing towards me.


    I didn''t have enough time to dodge it so instead I held up my arms over my chest in an x to try and stop the attack from hitting any vital points. I was sent flying in an arch of blood as the mantis blades shredded my arms to pieces and sent me flying. I thudded into a tree trunk and came to a rest at the base of the tree, just barely able to bite off a scream as I saw green blood start pouring from holes that started appearing all across the mantis. The venom was working as hoped. In no time the mantis collapsed, and a message screen appeared. *Congratulations, you and your summon [chicken] have successfully killed a Ninja Mantis. You have gained a boon. Your chicken has gained an ability. Congratulations! You have gained an ability from Bee¡¯lzebub activating.*


    *Boon: Bugged-Eyed Weirdo. You may customize your eyes now, and your vision has been enhanced, allowing you to zoom in on things with your eyesight alone. Unfortunately, all other people will look at you differently depending on what you make your eyes look like.*


    *Ability: Phantom Scyth, tier 1; When hitting, punching, or kicking things, you have a chance to conjure a Phantom blade that does piercing or slashing damage, and has a chance of critical damage*


    A screen popped up allowing me to effectively change my eyes once. Unfortunately, I wasn''t able to see what it was randomized to as I passed out from loss of blood before I could make my selection.