ã€ŠDullest Adventure Everã€‹ Ch1 - Just another day It was just another Tuesday night, in your typical mental asylum. Just an old man looking hopefully at his own reflection flowing away into the shower drain. He had taken too long, but honestly, what were the guards going to do to him. They can''t do anything to him that hasn''t been done already. Life had always been cruel to him, but only by going forward can one achieve their goals. * Life isn''t fair, but that doesn''t mean you should give up. I had always strived for my goals, even now I still do, but I never imagined I would end up here. A mental asylum, he never claimed to be the most sane person on the planet. But really? Was he actually crazy material? The last person I considered family abandoned at this, quite cozy, place. I honestly can''t say I don''t feel a little betra- "AHHHH!!" Really? I barely just got back to my room, after being interrupted I had to cut short my monologue. Yet again, loud screaming could be heard just next door. I suspect my good dear neighbor is just having another nightmare, I would sugges- "NOT THE BBBEEEEEEEESSSS!" "AARRRGGGGG" Alright, I''ll just ignore that. As I was monologuing, I don''t quite know how to feel about being left to die here. Well... This is My Life Now. I just wished I could have at least said my- Upon hearing that noise I was immediately startled. I was fearful of looking away from the wall towards my cell door window and then onto the source of the sound. Trying my best to look away I stop brooding over my self and just wait for it. I wait for all the unwanted distractions to quiet down... I wonder if I should recommence from the start and pretend I was never interrupted or just give up in narrating my situation. For let us wait for a while. ''Odd?'' Come on, I know you want to. Just do it. You know you want to. ... Well, skipping ahead the of that, the point of my brooding is that I have always have had the worst luck and... I patiently wait, but nothing happens. <... Silence> Go ahead, I''m waiting. ... I''m not falling for that a secon- "NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!" As I heard that unexpected phrase I am unsure of what to do. At A loss I can only stare at what I can only imagine to be a floor. WOW. I really didn''t expect that, now I''m unsure of how to feel about this. Brings me back so many memories. Eventually I simply start to laugh, first softly but never quite changing the intensity. That''s it. No maniacal laughter turning into restless sobbing or anything of the sort. I just gently laughed. Nothing insane or ominous from my part. Just what could be considered a small chuckle. Anyways. There you go you old sap, I knew you had it in you. You got me good. You always now when and how to lighten up the mood. I''ll even add some slow clapping. I''m not even mad. Really. I mean it. If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. My life may be full of this... Chaos? However, my friend, if you can hear this... I just want you to know. That at least you haven''t abandoned me. Everyone has always left me behind. My parents and older brothers had to immigrate to a better country. Never heard of them ever again. I stayed behind with my little sister, but even she left eventually with some delinquent. Last I heard, she became a crack whore of sorts. Not allowing it to bring me down, I decide to focus instead on my own life. Afterwards I choose to study hard, and work for a better tomorrow. That day never came. Which is fine, It''ll come some day. I know it. Gaining my diploma I decided to continue learning at a higher institution. I had work hard to earn my scholarship, but had it taken away at the last moment. They were "broadening the demographic" and giving a chance a "higher diversity of people". Of course I knew what this meant. I was too white. As simple as that. They wanted to give my scholarship away to another more "deserving" person. Well, I don''t blame minorities for it, they have their problems too. This was just a quota system. Having no government support I was forced to fund my own education. Not wanting to ruin my life with a loan, I instead got a job. Simple. Right? Well, it was, kind of. I mean getting a job isn''t easy, but neither is it impossible. I did get one yet made nearly not enough money to even sustain myself. With that I was forced to save up my earning for years, then decades. All of this money wasn''t much, but getting an education wouldn''t probably help that much at this point. So, I went instead with investing it. More specifically, in the food chain industry. Sickening, I know. I think so too. Everything was going well, but then a fire broke out at the kitchen; with it all of my life savings went away. Then I .... ... I can''t do this anymore. Its to painful to continue. Let us not delve on the past. Just know that I''m happy you are here for me, and that I''ll be here for you. Either way, lets just immerse ourselves into the soothing sounds of the mentally insane. Wait... Do you hear that? <... Silence> ??? Where is everyone, I know its night and that everyone eventually needs sleep. But normally I wouldn''t even be able to go more than half an hour without something breaking the calmness of silence. "Oh" Just now I noticed I can''t see anything or feel anything. Am I dead? When did it happened? Why did I not feel anything or much less notice it? I no longer have any of my senses nor can I keep myself aware. Well... that''s fine I guess. No one lives forever. I had my time. I couldn''t do the most of it, but not everyone can be a winner. Goodbye my friend. At least you stayed till the end for me. Thank You. Ch2 - Your typical conversation Hmm... What? I''m back? How so? I don''t feel any different, nothing has changed either. I still have no body, or any sense of existing. I remember steadily losing myself in the lack of awareness, but now I''m back. [LISTEN HERE MORTAL, YOU HAVE GREATLY DISAPPOINTED ME.] I have? I always did my best, I learnt from my mistakes and let go off unnecessary emotions. My friend, could you explain to me what you mean by that. [SILENCE FOOL, I AM THE ONE WHO SPEAKS.] [I THE GOD OF FATE AM NOT YOUR FRIEND NOR WILL I EVER BE.] [I HAVE BEEN TESTING YOU THROUGHT ENTIRE LIFE, SENDING OBSTACLE AFTER OBSTACLE AT YOU. TRYING TO TEMPER YOU INTO THE IDEAL HUMAN, TO PROVE THAT BY CONSTANTLY FORCING A HUMAN THROUGH HARDSHIPS AND STRUGLES THEY CAN BE CHANGED. OR SO IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, YET YOU REFUSED TO CHANGE, YOU REFUSE TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE INJUSTICE OF THE WORLD, YOU SIMPLY WENT ON WITH YOUR LIFE. AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED.] So you were the one who did that? Well... I guess there''s no more meaning in thinking about that. I''m already dead. [...] [SEE! THAT IS WHAT I SPEAK OF. EVEN AFTER LEARNING THE TRUTH YOU TAKE NO MEASURES AGAINST ME. YOU SHOW NO SIGNS OF ANGER OR HOSTILITIES OF ANY SORTS TOWARDS ME.] Why should I? It will only get in the way of my decisions. Getting angry Never fixes anything. One should instead face the reality and move on with life. If you can do something about it, to make things better. Good. If not get over it, life isn''t over. [I ALSO KILLED YOU. HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL. NOT ONLY HAVE I TOYED WITH YOUR LIFE, BUT I ALSO CHOOSE TO END YOUR LIFE LIKE THE BUG YOU ARE. NOW, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT?] That there must be something you further want me to do or do with me. If you had to go through the trouble of torturing me only to later kill me and then have this conversation with to me. That¡¯s the only reasonable and logical explanation for this. [YOU, AS ALL LIVING BEINGS, HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN. TO MAKE A BETTER TOMOR-] Excuse me but, will you just get to the point already. All this ambiguity in your speech is really getting on my nerves. You may think you sound mysterious with your loud booming voice and unclear explanations, but it¡¯s just delaying all of this. [WATCH YOUR TONE MORTAL. I COULD HAVE EASILY KILLED YOU AND-] Yes, well you did. You just admitted to toying with my life, you also already killed me and there was a reason for all of this. You must obviously want me to do that you cannot personally do, and hence the need me for a middleman. I am necessary for whatever plans you may have and going by this logic, considering that I have already died once and wasted my life¡¯s work, I call the shots, not you. So will you skip the threatening appearances and tell me the reason behind trying to "prove" whatever your point is so that we both can get this over with... [¡] [¡] [Fine you win old man. Jeez. No one has ever taken that attitude towards me. So firstly, as I already mentioned I am the god of Fate. As you could imply, I see all the possible realities and outcomes within my territory. Now the main reason I made your life into what it was and speak to you now is because I got into an argument with a fellow god.] [He believes that humans are a chaotic species that brings nothing but destruction. That your race is naturally born to bring ruin, as you all cannot do any good.] Okay, I thank you for not ¡®BOOMING¡¯ your way through your dialogue, but I would have preferred if you started with an apology for killing me instead. It¡¯s just basic manners you know. But ignoring that, why go through the trouble of doing all this only for a petty disagreement? [You may think this is silly... Well, so do I.] [Either way I decided I needed a sample, specifically one outside of us gods control. To prevent said fellow from interfering. Fortunately this specific reality revolves around a primal energy or black hole as you call it, which might I add, makes us gods incapable of traveling here.] [So I manipulated your possible future to result with my desired outcome. With this I would prove that although the human race may be or become vile and greedy, they are more than capable of changing their ways. However you quite honestly proved the opposite, that humans can remain as they are no matter what. This of course put me in a great dilemma.] How so? Wouldn''t I just prove that humans won''t necessarily stray of their path just with a little trouble. [Well, you see. You aren''t the first one that I attempted to temper, in fact I already tried dozens of times with other people. It always resulted the same. They either became criminals out of sheer desperation or they just eventually killed themselves.] [Despite so I refused to give up. I eventually stumble upon you. You were different, you always remained calm and collected. You never let yourself be taken over by anger, and you remained always with your goals on sight. I though I done it, I had found the perfect subject to prove my point.] Is that so? [I thought so, but I was wrong. I couldn''t change you no matter how hard I tried, you just ignored and kept going on. I tried over and over, but it continually got harder to interfere with you. You learnt from your mistakes and took measures to not repeat them again, I couldn''t do much to begin with. Your country is already too stable, no constant conflict or any plague of the sort. They had an acceptable law enforcement, available medicine and doctors, advanced engineering and scientific knowledge, and a functioning government. ] Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions. [You kept handling yourself better and always remaining aware of your surrounding. Eventually I choose to take drastic measures, but even then it only worked once or twice. Yet you never did anything in particular against anyone or anything. You just reported it to the authorities, took note of all this for future reference and went on your way. So we eventually ended with you as before you died.] ... [...] [... *ahem* So anyways, I couldn''t prove my point and simply choose to end this mockery.] ... ... Well. I''m not sure what to say. So. What happens now? [I... I don''t know. I ended yours and every other persons involved life''s, yet I never managed to prove anything.] [I guess... I wasted my and everyone else''s time.] [Ha-ha. Some gods have even started calling me names, making a mockery out of this whole situation. Many have started to call me the God of Hate because of the way I lashed out against you and the other ones. I have even gotten on the bad side of gods who claim fall under the more "noble" side of matters. What a bunch of hypocrites.] [I guess the real question is what is it that you want to do? I already know what I wil do afterwards.] Can I get a second chance? This time without you gods interference. [Why should I? You had your life, some don''t even get the chance. Just because I''m a god doesn''t mean I can just start handing out a new life to those who didn''t get a good life. Besides its not even my job, not to mention that doesn''t happen on this reality, all people are simply recycled back. This reality will reject me and my actions here. I would have to get you out of here to a more manageable dimension or something.] Why not just try, I won''t barrage you with complaints of any sort or bring you any trouble later on. Besides don''t you think you own this to me? You interfered with my life since before I was born, prevented me from exiting poverty, made this only get worse only to then kill me just because you gave up on yourself. [You know you aren''t the only one right? Its unfair to just give you a second attempt at life and ignore the others and before you say it. I can''t do it for the everyone else too. I might be able to get away with a single one, but that''s about it.] Unfair?... Haha ha aha. When have you ever been fair to any of us? Why us and not someone else. Maybe already criminally involved fellows, instead of bystanders. Also considering you said this isn''t a place were you should be interfering to begin with, you know with the primal black hole thing. Look I''m not asking for fairness okay, neither will I bother to judge you or condemn you. Just give me a second try at life without your interference. [Fine, but I will choose yo-] Don''t try to make me do your work, as that''s well within the terms of non-interference. Neither should you modify me or try to give me some blessing, curse, power or whatever you wish to call it. I just want to have a simple life, I don''t want power, I don''t want women, and neither do I want anything of what you can offer besides a second chance. [???] [Why should I listen to YOU. What gives you the right to order me around?] For starters you probably still want to prove your theory right. So what I will do is find you a subject to test on, and hopefully you will succeed this time. [Couldn''t I just retry using you again to try a second time?] Honestly, if it didn''t work the first time I doubt it''ll work a second time. Especially not when I''m currently aware of it and further decide to take pre-emptive measures against you or any other possible danger. If I still can''t, well I don''t mind dying early. I had a life already. So in short, you can''t do anything else to hurt me. Your options on the other hand are limited, and you still wouldn''t want to be wrong. Combining this with the distinct lack of results from your side and my never changing attitude, I might succeed where you have failed. Just don''t interfere with me, don''t give anything that might bring trouble later and you don''t contact me. I will contact you, how, simple I''ll just say out loud that I wish to contact you while I pretend to pray or something.. [... *sigh* Fine, I''ll only give you the bare minimum to only properly exit this dimension to a weaker one were your more stable existence won''t be overwritten, allowing you to remember as good as you would if you were still alive.] [Is that good enough for you?] Is technology as advanced, will I be in same conditions as my previous life? Are the laws of physics or anything else proven in my world working there? Will my knowledge even apply there anymore? [...] Well? [No, no, not always and lastly I can''t really say.] Fine. As long as I get a second chance I will still try to cope with the rest myself. [Okay... this has taken too long. Are you ready?] I am. Ch3 - Unlikely Friendship (Authors Notes) WARNING: The following contains a not well flesh out emotional conversation that many of you may not like and a possibly controversial topic. Viewer Discretion is advised I''m sorry if some of you guys are offended by this chapter or feel this is too forced, but it''s necessary to establish the protagonist''s character. I don''t want to give you guys the bland and typical protagonist with a soul as plentiful as our future fuel reserves. It just that I''m a total amateur at convening emotions. The first chapter showed, in my opinion how calm he was, the second showed he didn''t back talk from no one, and this ones is a look at how the protagonist is within. If you guys don''t like this chapter, just skip it, I won''t get angry at you. I''ll be here for you. I will write you guys tomorrow another chapter. One that won''t be like this. (End of Author Notes) Before anything else was said I lost conscious and now reawaken in this darkness. So... What now? Do I just wait? Am I being still an ugly fetus embryo, when can I be a post-fetus? How long will it take for me to be born? Will I have to wait through all of this? Normally I suppose anyone going through my situation would do some meditation or some other nonsense, but I neither now how to nor do I think I could feasibly do. It could also stunt my growth, maybe even cause me to be born prematurely. I don''t dare to take that risk. Guess I''ll just let myself go to sleep. Goodbye. *Months later* I have finally reawaken. For now I will try to move my limbs or something, I expect that to help me calculate how old I am. Although I doubt that I would now very well. Lets see. I try to touch myself, as I do I can sort of sense the movements. Followed up by me trying to see if I can kick, maybe even get a sense of my current strength. As I do all of this I come to the realization that I may or may not be born in a couple of months from now. However what would I know about child birth. I''m no doctor, and as far as my first birth''s recollection goes, it never happened. So until I''m born this is my life now. It''s not as bad as I though it would be. I simply have to wait it out. ... I feel very bored and a bit lonely When can I leave? .... I wonder... Show Status

Buddy your you haven''t even been born yet and you already trying to train or something.

Not really my friend, I''m simply curious if this is one of those worlds the youngsters often read about. Don''t worry about showing me my status, I just wanted to know if you were there.

Well I am here, thanks for asking.

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Youngsters? What do you mean by that?

You know, those prepubescent, some teen, or the rare young adults who go through this process.

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How old are you?

My my, to just ask something like that. It''s okay I''ll tell you anyways, I was 97 years old before I died.

Hmm.... Might you also happen to not be an easterner either?

It is as you imply, I am a westerner and not one of those Asian kids.

That isn''t really a good way to say it, people could be offended.

Isn''t that what they are? For example: America is both the name of the northern American continent and the southern American continent, not to mention the name of that other half of the world and part of the name of a country. They seem proud to be called after their continent. Europe is also the name of a continent and those people inhabiting it don''t mind being called Europeans. The Australians also called themselves after their own small continent. Antarctica doesn''t really have a considerable population, so lets ignore it. Lastly Africa although they rather you didn''t refer them as such they still don''t give you too much of a fuss about it. So let me ask you why would the Asians be offended, while every other continent dwellers don''t care about it at worst. Is it that they are ashamed of their continent, or is it that they hate each other? Huh? Answer. Why would that be offensive?

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Listen... it''s just a complicated matter okay. So people are really uptight about everything and are easily angered.

Anger. That''s such an illogical emotion, why do people let themselves be taken over by it?

You. You are different okay, I don''t know if it''s because you are from a different time or are just naturally like this.

Look. I don''t hate them or any one else you might hear me complain about. It''s just that I detest it when people victimize themselves to either gain pity or the right to later attack other people. I''m just repugnated by it. I came from a hard time myself, but my people never allowed itself to be taken advantage of it self. Yet it never really tried to victimize itself or other people.

Your ideology isn''t a bad one but it''s just bound to bring you trouble, especially in this world.

Well, going back on our conversation, do you mean easterners are the most common people doing this? If so, why are they the ones who do this the most?

I.. I do-don''t know if I should answer that, it might get me in trouble later on.

I won''t tell anyone else, I''ll take the blame if it''s necessary.

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Well. When it come to kidnapping them from their dimensions a countries leader often specifies on the ritual, portal , or summoning to bring an easily manipulable person. Often they can also specify around how strong they are, the stronger they are the harder they are to kidnap.

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... Keep going.

*sigh* This will sound wrong too, their souls are more modifiable. By that I mean it''s easy to work with them as they aren''t too.... Well... Er ..

Just say it, I won''t get angry. I''m here with you.

I-It''s that they are generally too basic, they aren''t as complex as other species, as evolutionarily speaking they never really did much. They just stayed trapped on their continent as they couldn''t really travel anywhere else safely.

There is more you are not telling me.

I know, but I already said too much. Only way I could get myself in more trouble is if I mentioned the mental problems of most people brought here.

... Wait?

W-What? I.. I didn''t say anything.

So... You mean too say these so called "heroes" are actually psychopaths?

N-no no. NO. I didn''t say that!

But you suggest the IT.

I-Im not trying to say that.

Yet you did. SO, are you saying that psychopaths, who are surprisingly normal believe it or not, but with streaks of impulsiveness and often fearlessness behaviors, with a cold lack of empathy are actually heroes?

NO. Don''t Misinterpret. I never said anything of the sort.

That may be so, but thinking about it makes me wonder. Is it true? Are heroes just over-glorified psychopaths?

Listen to me. I don''t know where you are getting at, but I didn''t say anything of the sort.

This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there. Okay. Let''s do some role-playing.

WHAT?!

Imagine you''re walking down the street, when suddenly you see a house being engulfed in flames. A child leans out of a second-story window, screaming for someone -- anyone -- to help. Do you A) wrestle with your own fear of death, desperately grasping for some way to help without endangering your own life, before heroically whipping out your cell phone to dial 911, or B) charge straight into the blazing inferno without so much as a second thought for your own personal safety? If you answered B, congratulations, you hero! And also a psychopath!

Hmm... Neither? I''m just a blue screen. What could I possibly do?

Don''t Ever belittle yourself like that. You are that and more. Anything is possible no matter how hard it may seem, and even if you can''t always succeed you should at least try. Because you are bound to always fail if you never take a shot at it. So listen here friend, don''t be so pessimistic. Believe in yourself. If you don''t who will?

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What DO you know?

DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE EVERYWHERE BUT BE INCAPABLE OF DOING ANYTHING. I''VE SEEN TO MANY GOOD PEOPLE DIE AND WAS FORCED TO WATCH FROM BOTH SIDES, THE KILLER AND THE MURDERED. WHAT DO YOU EVEN KNOW? YOU LEGS CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE, YOUR ARMS CAN MOVE THE WORLD FOR YOU.

I DIDN''T ASK FOR THIS.

IM NOTHING BUT A PEEKING STALKER, ALWAYS A SHADOW TO EVERYONE ELSE.

What would YOU even know about me?

... I know what it feels to be helpless. I spent a whole decade in a coma, but I could hear as everyone around me fell apart. I wanted to do something, Anything, however fate is a cruel man. I always believed that if you tried hard enough everything was possible and when failure came I would be fine. I lived a life full of failure and misfortune, I didn''t expect to get far to begin with.

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But then one day, things changed, I had saved enough money to maybe change my life. So I look for places to invest it, to perhaps give myself and others a better chance. I looked and looked for possibilities, I talked to a lot of people, both in person and through a phone. It seemed the market wasn''t as I though it used to be. Times had changed, so I couldn''t be sure I would do the right choice. Tired and hungry I choose to stop at a small chain restaurant, I know I normally wouldn''t but I didn''t have the energy to go cook at home. So I ordered my food, I sat alone and just slowly ate. I thought and thought on what should I do. I finally had enough money to abandon my past and get a better life. But I was so scared to fail, what if I lost everything? I eventually got the attention of the manager, he came up to me asked me what was wrong. I told I didn''t want to be an inconvenience to such a hard working young man. He told me it was fine, as long as nothing too important happened he wouldn''t mind. So I told him my story, I got so caught up I ended up telling him everything about myself. Although I don''t remember well what went on afterwards, I can still see his concerned face. Even so I spend hours taking to him, it was almost closing time and we where still talking. He told me to invest while I still could, not necessarily with a big company or a large sum of money, maybe a small one. I just had to look for something most people either needed or where willing to pay for. My first thought was immediately food, I laughed at myself and how weak I was to self suggestion. He asked what was so funny, caught up in this man''s kindness I told him at my first thought. Told me why not try it with their business, it may be small and humble but its full of hard-working people. I wasn''t sure what to do, but alas I gave it a shot. ....

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What happened next?

Well... months passed everything seemed to be going well, but then a fire breaks out. Most people working at the kitchen inhaled to much monoxide and died, there was a gas leak and later everything was just an inferno. I wasn''t there myself that day, I had taken a day off, but when I turned on the TV that afternoon... The news made their way too me. I was immediately overwhelmed, what happened? Was it me and my bad luck? That business was doing so well. I spent the rest of the night tortured by my own guilt and sadness. I wish I was there, maybe I could at least helped. But then the next day the news got worse, that young man was caught under burning debris. He would never walk again, his lungs were starting to fail, and he could barely move his charred arms. ... I was so close to finally taking control over my life, to finally escaped this wretched fate. He gave me hope when I was doubtful of myself, and now he had lost everything.

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I never gave up on that man, I would visit him when I could, try to help him cover his bills as he didn''t have family that could help him. One day... He just died, that''s it. End of Story. I never got a Resolution. Even to this day I still feel helpless. ... *sigh* It''s not my intention to give you this pitiful excuse for a sad story, I just wanted to tell you that you aren''t alone. I... I don''t know what you been through, but neither do you know what I been through.

I-Im sor-

Don''t be, we both are. You know things I don''t know and I know things you don''t know. I''m here for you. And if it''s okay with you, I would like you to be here for me. I know I shouldn''t ask your for a special treatment or anything, and neither should I ask you to involve yourself with me. One day you may be forced to watch me die, and being friends with me will make things worse. Bu-but I''m... I''m Scared. Scared of being alone...

Is th-that so?

I wanted a second life, not because I was unhappy of my first life or because I believed that I had still many things to do. I just fear what lies beyond death... The Nothingness. SO.. Let calm down for now.

Alright.

This may sound weird to you, but can we talk a little more? I know your busy with work and all but... I just want someone to talk to.

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Okay, lets talk for a bit more.

Aha Ha. Thank you my friend, that is just what I needed to hear. Now... Lets get back to topic

Hmm?

As I was saying about psychopaths and heroes being one in the same...

Ohh... NOT this again!

YES! This again, lets leave no leaves unturned.

Why?... *slowly breathing in* Well, the god of fate did say you where a person that was hard to deal with.

Nonsense, let us discuss this more.

... Okay, but we have to be more private about this from now on.

Alright lets talk. ... .... ..... (Authors Notes) Also if you guys find any spelling mistakes please inform me so I can later fix them, good grammar is always important, and I don''t want to make this story seem less appealing because of bad grammar. Either way thank you for reading. Till tomorrow. (End of Author Notes) Ch4 - Common Childbirth With the company of Blue Screen I have no longer have had to be bored and alone. Without noticing it I eventually start feeling contractions.

Oh. So it''s finally time, I''ll talk to you more once you settle down with your new life.

Bye

Later my friend. I''m ready. Slowly I start to feel myself being pulled outside. I should be happy I''ll finally leave but a part of me is sad that I know have to leave this safe spot. Quickly brushing away that thought I start to cry, you know to keep appearances. After the whole ordeal I finally get to see the outside world. ... It''s SO bright out there. What''s going on? Not only that no slap ever came I was just immediately wrapped into a cocoon with a shirt, or at least that''s what I think it is. My mother, or I assume she is, tries to quiet me down. Feeling their is a good reason for this I start calming down and eventually go moderately silent. I look around and finally realize that it is in fact night-time, but I just happen to be in the middle of a forest fire. Lots of smoke and heat finally make me cry again, this time my mother doesn''t even bother trying to quiet me down. She just hold me in front of her and commences to run away from the fire. I barely now realize she has company, two men to be accurate. I wish I could describe the group, but I can''t see with all this blinding inferno and the smoke getting in my eyes. Even so I can still hear them shouting and screaming at each other. I guess it was far fetched to hope I could still understand the locals without prior knowledge on their language. Well I didn''t expect it that I would suddenly have a gift that allowed to understand them. Especially when I demanded to the God of Fate to only give the bare minimum and no gifts of any sort. My mother keeps running for a long time, I don''t know what is going on and how I should react to all of this. After some time it seems we finally made it out of the forest before the fire consumed us. I am no longer crying anymore, I just simply trying to sleep. My mother checks for any problems, she shakes me a little bit. Which I react with a bit of crying, she holds me to her chest and starts to cradle me in an attempt to calm me down. After so the my mother begins to talk to the two other men, they all sound so worried. I am finally starting to see better, but sadly now their isn''t a light or anything of the sort to allow me to see them. So descriptions will have to wait until then. I hope this isn''t some sort of cliche your parents are on the run, or a their is trouble afoot. I have just been born and I wish to avoid that. Status Show ... Whoops... I said that backwards. Show Status .... Common blue I know you are there, I just want to know if I should be concerned. Because I am very nervous of this whole situation. So just give me a simple explanation. ...

Well... this is a flash fire, there was no instigators behind it. Just a natural forest fire, no outer influence on any of this.

Hmm.. I''m not going to lie I''m both sort of disappointed to hear that, but also extremely relieved that everything is most likely okay.

Look just go to sleep, everything will be sorted out when you wake up.

Alright I''ll trust you on this one. ... .... ..... *The Next Day* I wake up to the worried shacking of my mother. What is up with you? Calm down, I''m okay. Stop worrying about me and stop it with your poking and prodding, you are not a doctor. I give her some brief crying to make her stop, with her immediately complying as such. Well, I can now finally start introductions and start describing the people around me. It''s an older looking man beyond his 40''s with short light brown hair, slightly rugged appearance. However, who am I to judge, they just ran all night trough a forest fire, they ALL are lucky to get away with just this. Either way I suppose this man is my father as he constantly begs my mother to let him carry me, or so it seems. The next male seems like a young adult, maybe 17 or so. His hair is also light brown but not as short as fathers. Their is also soot on his face, but I''ll just simply assume that not a normal occurrence with him and it''s just because of the fire. There is not much to say about him. Next my mother, she isn''t beautiful but neither is she ugly. She kind of looks plain to be honest or she would if her hair was all messed up. Also her face and clothes are all dirty. So unlike most of the other reincarnated I don''t seem to have been born out of a beautiful mother, I hope I don''t become a pretty boy. I want to look like my father instead. Okay lets just assume my parents are simple common people, which is what I wanted so it''s all good. Also they don''t seem too worried about anything in particular. They soon begin walking somewhere, I can''t say as mother is holding me against herself. Along the way she attempted to breast feed me. Something I wasn''t expecting her to do while walking. Since I''m already getting bored of my family I''ll just go talk to Blue. Show Status ... ...

What? You know I can''t show you your status yet and it''s best if you don''t even try it. Other people will also be able to see it.

Anyways. What''s Up?

Well I just got to see my parents but now I''m just bored. Do you know if their is something I could do while I wait.

...

Do you normally get this easily bored? Shouldn''t you be extremely stocked or happy to finally get a new family.

I remember you saying you never got to spend much time with your previous family.

Yeah, but that doesn''t mean I enjoy being a baby. Also what good is it for me to attempt to spend time with them right now. I''m a baby, so naturally they will spend time with me anyways. It''s just that I can''t interact back with them, I can''t talk or play with them.

Alright, If you say so.

Hey, I remember you said you were almost a hundred years old.

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You see, your childhood couldn''t have been more than two decades, you were at some point in a coma for only one decade, and the investment story didn''t take longer than a year.

...

If you add all this together that''s only at most 30 years of your life. So I assume their is more you haven''t told me about yourself.

Their is, but I didn''t feel like talking about it. You see I was born in 1918 just right after one if the biggest wars ever ended. So as a child there was an economic recession for my parents, so it was just constant struggles and me trying to help my parents by getting a job later on. Soon after they decided to immigrate to better land in hopes of making more money. They couldn''t afford everyone''s journey so they only took the older brothers. That left me alone with my little sister. I kept working and trying to look out for her, from time to time I would get a break. As my family still sent money from time to time. She eventually started to get involved with the wrong crowd, I tried warning her about it. However that only mad her get angry at me, one day she just decided to move out. I didn''t ever see her again. Their wasn''t anything I could do about it. She left no indications of were she went and I didn''t even know who would even be her friends to begin with. I looked for her for around an entire year, but decided to let it be. I just hoped she would be safe.

...

Afterwards I decided I needed to get myself an education, so I spent all the money I could on me going to school. I also started pushing towards getting a scholarship to be able to enter college once I was done with high school. Life was hard but It seem like I could make out if I just worked harder. When I finally graduated with honors among the top ten in the school I went and tried to take my scholarship. Nope. They denied it too me, I can''t believe they used my race as an excuse in the late 1930''s. Really? I later found out they just simply didn''t want a plebeian like me. That''s all. As I was working time went on, and soon came World War 2. Being already an adult I was drafted towards what will always be in my mind pure hell. I don''t think I''m ready to tell you about that for now.

Alright. I didn''t mean to intrude, I just wanted to now what else went happened during your life.

Its okay, I already came to accept my past long ago. I just don''t now if I''m ready to start recollecting those dark time on my life. Sooo... Do you have anything for me? I have been talking to you for quite the while, but it''s only been about me.

Hm...

I am in charge of running a system that covers the whole world, I don''t have to explain what kind of system as you already know. Their isn''t much to say about myself.

I have only ever been watching and showing people their information for a REALLY long time, but that''s it.

Are you sure that''s it? You must have done more, I imagine so as I doubt I am the first one to talk to you. You could have maybe given advice or something and in doing so changed events of whoever you were looking over.

Most people simply ask questions about the system or their stats, but that''s about it.

Nobody ever ask about my opinion, but I doubt I would know what to say.

Don''t be like that, when I grow up I''ll let you take choices for me. I''ll share this life with you. But for now, I want you to tell me if their is anything any particular I should be doing?

Hmm... Well most people reincarnation would have checked themselves about now for magic or something. I guess you could try looking into yourself and try to find something that wasn''t there before.

Wasn''t there before, you mean to say this body is close enough to my others body anatomy. So I simply need to see what''s different and play around with it?

... No. I didn''t say that... But it could work. Maybe.

I concentrate into myself and look for a feeling, a sensation I never felt in my previous life. Anything that could be worth my attention, but everything feels so... different What could I be looking for, I feel the wind against my skin, the dirt and dust covering me, the sun''s heat on my body, the humidity around me. The various sounds and sensations. Its something I haven''t felt in a long time. In back with nature. Never thought I would get away from the city and spend sometime outside. No. I should get distracted, I got to keep looking. Their isn''t anything else to do for now. ... .... ..... After a while I get bored and decide to start paying more attention to my family and my surroundings. Seems they got a little bit worried as I have been too calm for past day. Suddenly I hear my dad shout something, at that word my gets happy starts running forward towards somewhere. My mother just keeps walking at her pace. Dammit, I want to see too. Turn me around. I struggle to look around but to no avail she won''t let me twist myself around. ... More time passes I can now see behind me buildings an such. All made out of wood, nearly never one out of stone. I guess we entered a village? ... After almost a day my family gets a small shack as our new home. At some point my brother and dad go away, maybe to get a job. I don''t really know. For Some reason my mom thinks its a good idea to leave me here while she goes to the market. Are my parents this irresponsible? Is this why they only have one other son? What were they even doing in middle of the forest doing a forest fire? (?) What''s that? Oh... it''s just a snake... (!) This is bad. (Authors Notes) Sorry for the cliffhanger guys, I''ll see if I can post the other chapter before night-time. (End of Author Notes) Ch5 - Sneaky Snek (Authors Notes) Sorry for the delay guys, forgot it was Halloween and had already made plans. I promise you guys to atleast give you 1 chapter a day, if possible more. (End of Author Notes) Oh NO. Quick what do I do? I know I''ll cry as loud as I can. It''s not working, at least not fast enough It''s taking a stance to strike at me. Is this the end for me? I didn''t even get a chance. I''m sorry Blue.

...

I-I''ll ha-handle this.

*...*

[STOP RIGHT THERE!]

Who''s that?

[IT IS I, SNAKE GOD.]

Really?

[I AM THE ONE WHO ASK QUESTIONS.]

Sowrry.

[WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?]

Jusst passsing by, don''t mind me.

[GET AWAY FROM THAT BABY!]

Why? I''m on a misssion. Isss good.

[DON''T YOU DARE TRY TO EAT HIM!]

[GO AWAY NOW, OR ELSE YOU WILL TASTE MY WRATH.]

Don''t Worry. I sssimply have to bite him. Isss all. Won''t eat him. I am good snek. Am ssso curioussss I''ll just boop my ssnoot in hisss busssinessss ... Do not mind me I Am Just SNEAKY SNEK

[THAT''S IT YOU ARE GETTING IT.]

Huh? *Ting*

**********************<>************************** You have been targeted with system''s wrath for ''Defying the law of God''. Your life will be in danger.

Due to abruptly defying the status system. Your body will undergo in backlash. Effect ''FAINT'' has been applied and the length of status has been increased. Various other effects may apply for disobedience. Time remaining : 3 Hrs

What''sss thisss- Backlasssh? Even the time of the statusss iss increasssed. Is thisss for Defying the law of God? *Ting*

Due to backlash new status effects have been applied. Your body has become weak. New status ''WEAK'' has been inflicted with 3 hours duration. The countdown Time remaining : 3 Hrs

One more? Increase the time and ''FAINT'' wasn''t enough? You still want to torture me? What¡¯s with this unreasonable system? If my sisters came here, wouldn¡¯t they suffered this kind of unfair!? Damn! Why did they has to suffer this? This is just- *Ting* *Ting* *Ting* *Ting* *Ting* *Ting* *Ting* *Ting* The more I tried to remain my conssscious, the worssse the backlasssh got, and I was hit with many negative statussss. Before I knew it, I lossst concioussnesss. ... .... "Brother~ *Sob* brother. Where are you? I''m sscared *Sob* save me-" "Brother~ I don''t want to die. Hurry and help me. Please come here-"" I sssee my ssiblingss crying. Why are they crying? Sso, I sssee. Is this what¡¯s going to happen if I dissobey? Are they going to keep crying like this? What can I do to ssave them? I always talk about being a good snek and being the sneakiesst. However, what can I actually do? I can''t do anything, can I? I''m weak. I''m too weak. I ssaid I would protect them, but what can I do? *Ting*

Due to your disobedience to the system, several status effects have been casted on you. Status ''Depressed'', ''Drunk'', ''Confused'', ''Illusion'', ''Bleeding'', ''Hypnotized'', ''Paralyzed'', ''Weak'', ''Muted'', and ''Fainted'' have been added.

*sob* I-Im sowry siblinss, I''m too weak... *...* I''m scared, that snake is about to strike me... ... Huh? It''s wavering to the side, it looks drunk. What''s this?! Did it just drop dead? What''s going on? Blue, was that you?

...

I''m going to get in so MUCH trouble for this!

Why? What''s going on? Talk me okay.

Well, the snake was going to pounce at you and kill you.

So I had to stop it, but I''m not allowed to directly interfere with the world''s inhabitants.

What did you do to it?

I marked it as a disrupter of the system, got him punish by inflicting negative status on him.

Is it dead?

No. It should just be sleeping, although it''s greatly weakened.

Well, in that case it''s still a treat. I don''t know when my parents will return, or if anyone may come here to save me. How long do we have until it wakes up?

Hmm... Around 3 hours, why do you ask?

This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. We have to kill it before that happens.

WHAT? NO. I CAN''T DO THAT!

I ALREADY DID TOO MUCH, ANYMORE AND I MIGHT GET PUNISHED!

It''s okay. Calm down Blue. I''ll fix this. You just try to calm down.

*hyperventilating*

Hey, DON''T do that. Slow calm breaths only. Breath In. Breath Out. Hey just hang in there, I''ll try to crawl and look for a sharp rock. I struggle to turn around, after some minutes I finally flip on my fours. I take a long time and a lot of strength but I on my legs and hands.

+1 Strength

Ignoring that I continue to struggle until I reach the shack''s flimsy door. Although it''s not very heavy or even sturdy it will still be a pain to push open. It seems to be stuck. This will be hard. I push against it with all my strength, I put my everything in this push, but it''s barely budging. ... .... I spent like an hour or so pushing that door but it finally creaks open.

For opening a stuck door with insufficient Strength you gain 5 Strength.

Finally. I start to crawl on the dirt looking for a suitable rock. It takes really long, but I eventually find a suitable rock. It''s small enough for me to carry and hold, but it''s sharp enough to hopefully cut through it''s skin. As I start crawling away it hits me. I wont have ENOUGH strength to kill that snake. Even if I strike it with this sharp rock I won''t have the strength to make it pierce deep into it''s scales. ... But... Maybe Perhaps if I get a second rock, and a heavy one. I could drop it on the first rock after I stab the sharp end against it scales. Maybe the weight and speed of the heavy rock striking against the other rock will push on the first rock and succeed in inflicting a lethal would. Or at least it will die because of bleeding itself out or from the head trauma caused by the impact''s shock. Then... I''ll need another rock... A HEAVY one if I am to split it''s neck. Even so I can barely crawl with this rock, I''ll return for another one later. *Ting*

For predicting and solving your own problems before they even happened you gain 5 Intelligence.

I have to hurry, I don''t have to long. If the snake wakes up before I kill it or if the status effect is weakening to much as time progresses then I''ll be screwed. Crawling as at the fastest pace possible I make it to the knock-out snake. I attempt stabbing the rock multiple times until it finally gets stuck. Now the hard part. I crawl back outside, this time I move slowly to conserve my strength. As I search around I finally find a heavy rock. Unfortunately I cant lift it, and pushing it as I crawl wont work. I need to do something else... A STICK. I''ll use a long and sturdy stick for leverage to make the rock roll the way I want. But... I''ll have to crawl away from my house to search for it... ... I will do it. If I don''t try I will never succeed. ... .... An so I went on my brave journey away from my yard in search of the legendary "Stick". Only a true hero may wield it and with such they may vanquish evil with it. I may be no hero, but I''m the baby this shack deserves. I am BATMAN!

...

Okay. Now you are being silly.

I left you alone to calm myself like you said, but when I return you are just playing around.

You ALREADY opened the door just crawl away. You don''t have to kill the snake.

Look, I have to do this. Why? Because I''m scarred, that''s why.

Then just GET AWAY! Don''t take Unnecessary risks.

If I don''t kill it now when I can, I will regret this forever. ... I don''t want to be so weak and helpless. I only manage to survive because you broke the rules to save me. I will never forget your kindness, but if I don''t kill the snake, even if you were the one who to it down, I will always haunt me down. I Have To Do This.

...

I''m just playing around to try to calm myself down, to keep my anxiousness from distracting me. So please just let me do this. I have to.

Okay, I will trust you in this.

... As I was talking with Blue I almost looked over a very sturdy looking stick on the floor. Picking it up I realize it wasn''t to heavy for me. Ecstatic at my own finding, I quickly return back the yard around the shack. ... .... I then go searching for a big rock, after half an hour I finally find one. I commence rolling it back home, along the way my arms and legs started hurting but I continued on. I fell down many so many times, and cut all over my hands and knees. Hmm... What''s taking my family so long to get here? ... .... ..... That took way to LONG, but I finally got the big rock inside the shack. Now... I just need to Almost there... Oh... Damn... .... The smell is HORRIBLE... *Ting*

Level Up

*Ting*

Level Up

... .... ..... After resting for a bit and then dragging away the evidence, I can finally rest at home. Although I still have bruises on myself, I doubt my family will know from where they come from. Hopefully that will teach them to leave a new born alone, by itself. On to more calm and peaceful days. I hope. Ch6 - Revelations and Recollections (Authors Notes) WARNING: The following contains yet another not well flesh out emotional, and dramatical, conversation that you many or you may not like and a possibly controversial topic. Viewer Discretion is advised (End of Author Notes) *SNORE* .... *SNORE* Okay that is starting to get on my nerves, my parents are lucky that unlike most babies I am considerate about them. If not, I would be crying myself off out of sheer annoyance. I just got to ignore this an go back to sleep. .. ... Okay. That did no- Help... I''m so tired. I guess I''ll have to get used to sleeping during the day. .. ... Days then weeks, passed until eventually... .... ..... ...... ......

Hey. Wake up.

HEY. I''m talking to you.

Hmm?... What?

I have been thinking...

(?)

I know I said I would trust you an all, but was killing that snake was Really necessary?

Yo-you... You do realize that snake tried to kill me right?

Yes. Yes I do. I talked to it, and it''s intentions weren''t exactly to give you hugs and kisses...

But-

No buts, I know were you are going with this and I''ll just tell this: You can''t save them all. Who''s to say that snake wouldn''t have target me later if I spared it, or maybe it would attack another child. Heck what about other animals? Snake''s are carnivorous creatures, they aren''t peace loving herbivores. Do you get what I''m trying to say?

I do. I really do. I have seen this happens from both sides going both ways.

Is that so?

Yes.

Then what''s the big deal?

...

It had a family-

So did I... Would you have preferred if it ate me? Ignoring me and my selfish feelings, what about my family''s feelings. How do you think my mom or dad would have felt if their new born son died the one day they aren''t watching over it?

...

Answer me.

They... Th-They would have been heart-broken...

And they would have also blamed themselves forever about it. Just like I did for the young man in my story, they would have felt powerless and guilty about my death.

...

Look. I''m not trying to justify what I did. I don''t need an excuse for what happened back there. If you want me to admit I killed a sentient life form with feelings, a family, and heck maybe a likeable personality. Then... Yes I do, I do admit to having kille-... No. I admit to having murdered in cold blood that poor snake. You are right, I could have just crawled away, cry for attention and end up securing my safety. While in the process showing mercy to that snake and maybe give it a chance to turn it''s life around to focused on what matters the most to it.

... Look, I''m not trying to make look like the bad guy. Okay.

I know... but as an example let ask you: What does it take for a young man fresh of school to go to one of history''s most largest, cruelest, inhuman wars and escape relatively unharmed with no apparent mental issues?

...

You should know were this is going. Remember when I told I went to war, didn''t you ever wonder how I came back out still a working-capable man.

You don''t mean?

Ah-Ah AH, let me stop you there before you say something that may put strain in our friendship. Just to clarify. I am not a cold-hearted killer. I don''t enjoy killing, and I will probably never do. Also, just so that you don''t go around making assumptions, I didn''t desert or anything, I served my duty and fought alongside my brothers-in-arms. I was just a young man... No. I was a child, just like everyone else. I had heard and seen the propaganda demonizing the other side, just like they too probably did. I was scared...

...

Just. Like. Everyone. Else. ... Does it make me a psychopath for killi- Excuse me... For purposely murdering other young men, such as myself, without having a valid reason to do so. When I could have just aim my rifle slightly to the side and missed my shot as they were retreading. Heck, I could have refused to have shot my riffle in the first place, they were retreating. But what then? This is war. They will be back, and next time things might not be so simple. When I first killed a man... It was out of fear... I was just taking a bathroom break, when suddenly out of nowhere enemy soldiers came running at us and yelling at the top of their longs to us while pointing at us with their guns. We were caught of guard, a fatal mistake, if not the last one. I was paralyzed, I couldn''t react in time and before I knew it all hell broke loose. Ear shattering gun fire, that still be heard for miles away, echoed powerfully around. I stop doing what I was doing before, went and picked up my rifle... And before I could do anything a man came sneak behind me and shouted something...

...

I just turned around... A-And I... I stab him with my bayonet... I had somehow managed to potentially kill him in a single jab. But then... The.. The look he gave me... When he realized that his life was being taken away so suddenly from him, that he was leaving everyone he cared about behind without saying goodbye. That he wasn''t even ready to die, that he didn''t even get the chance to they tell his family that he loved them. There was nothing he could do about it... The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation. Then, gradually, I saw it... The life fading out of his eyes. Tears swelling out of them, as he slowly slid away from my bayonet... Only to finally dropped dead. I... I was so... Overwhelmed... I forgot I was in the middle of a battlefield, and just felt so sick, so disgusted... I couldn''t hold back anymore... and I puked... I puked all over the ground, and although tears couldn''t be seen in my eyes... I was still deeply troubled by what I saw. By what I did. My hands were sweating, my feet were trembling, my stomach was rumbling, my consciousness was crying, and I was so... Scared. I for the first time had done something of this... Magnitude. What I did that day, and the following years after, has haunted me even to this day.

.....

I''m s-sorry...

... So am I... I''m sorry, for the snake I killed. I''m sorry the men I killed. I''m sorry to the fathers, mothers, siblings, wives, and children of those I put through suffering. ... So let''s take a moment of silence... For the snake... and everyone else....

...

.... ..... ...... Alright. That should be enough for now. So... I ask you... Are you angry that you are friends with a murderer? Are you disgusted to be associated with someone such as me? ...

N-No... I... I was just a bit...

I... I don''t know... Upset?... Thinking back... I don''t know what I was trying to prove...

I glad to be friends with you, and I''m not disgusted to be associated with you.

I too am glad to be friends with you... ... I''ll tell you what I think happened.

...???

I believe that you generally don''t try to get yourself involve with anyone, that you try to be as separate of everything as possible. Aside me, that snake was possibly one of the few people you ever talked to... And later you found out more... About him or her... about its personality, and about its family. ... I don''t mean to break your bubble, but... this happens all the time... You better than me should know...

...I do...

Out there, is sure, there people who go on massive genocide missions... Killing many things, like they were nothing. Like adventures or heroes, going on Extermination/Subjugation missions, in which dozens, sometimes hundreds, and every so often thousands of living beings are murdered. Why?... Well, sometimes it''s for money, at times for security or many precaution. Yet at times their isn''t a reason and just simply happened.

I... I understand.

Me too... But unfortunately we live in a world while actions like this will be necessary... I will probably might still take such a type of mission or action. I will kill many things that don''t deserve to die... I will feel regret within my heart and mind. I will feel guilt in my thoughts and dreams. ... But I will have to continue to do this sort of thing. Their is no such thing as "good" or "evil", and neither is such as thing like "right" or "wrong". We and by that I mean all living things, even plants, are just trying to live. To survive. Their is no white knight, who knows only justice, who shows compassion for all, that only acts in the most righteous ways. We are all just trying to survive, it''s a jungle out there...

...

But wait up...

(?!)

That doesn''t mean you should give up on your dreams. That doesn''t mean you should just accept this cruel reality. That doesn''t mean you are wrong about your ideals. If you truly wish, to change the world.... Then... No matter how hard it may seem... Don''t stop... Keep going... It''s possible... My world may not be perfect, It''s not a bastion of justice, or fairness... But it has shown... NO... Proven that it is possible to change the world, and its people. To unite every race, every country, every gender, and every being together in mutual peace. Will it be Easy? NO... It will be the hardest thing that has yet to happen... It may seem many times like it''s impossible, but don''t give up... Be patient. You like many other people have a dream... Make your dreams come true... Just Do it... Start small, give hope to others, teach them to be kind and forgiving... If possible. ... Don''t let this grumpy old man tell you the world and it''s inhabitants are nothing but vicious monsters. Ha-HA ha... and neither should you let him bring you down... I think we are both hurt and should take a little bit of time to calm down. But before that let me just remind you... That I''m here for YOU... My friend.

I''m here for you too.

*sniff* Th-Thank You... ... .... ..... (Authors Notes) Yet again, I apologize for forcing this kind of emotional and over-dramatical moments down your throats. I didn''t script any of this... I just wrote it off of what I believe the protagonist truly feels and is like. This was just suppose to be just another cookie-cutter RPG reincarnation story. A dull adventure. Not this. Even now I am unsure if I should keep this chapter or scrap it for a less serious and more on the topic chapter. I''ll see what you guys think about it in the comments below. I''ll try to post a poll. Never done that. Wish me luck. Also, Sorry that this chapter is shorter than the usual, but I''m too tired right now. I gotta go rest. (End of Author Notes) Ch7 - Tempting Fate After that incident, my family has never left me out of their sight. Their is always someone watching me at all moments. Which is fine, after that snake encounter I myself haven''t wanted to get in any more adventures other than crawling around in the shack. Almost a whole year has passed with nothing eventful or note-worthy happening. As such I have calmly search for magic inside of me, or what ever, but haven''t yet found anything. Even so, I''m patient and still feel motivated. On the bright side I am finally starting to learn a few words of this new language. I was... How do I say it? Not at all phonetic. ... .... Time went by slowly, but after far too many more months, my mom suddenly decided to take me to a new place. Where? Her friend''s house, so that I could be playmate with their children. As she and her friend started talked they put me down with their children. "Be good." After saying so to me, my mom left to talk with her friends. Apparently many of them were coming over, and would leave us together as an excuse for them to socialize. Well... This is awkward. Although I may already have able to some degree capable of talking, certain words or phrases, I don''t believe I could be able hold a conversation. Much less with children this young. The oldest ones are probably no much older than 3 years old. Knowing this I decide to just spend my time alone, I start taking a look around the the room. As I do, I realize something, they are all looking at me. Not just in my general direction, but straight at me. As in they will follow me with their eyes as they more. Unnerving as it is, I attempt to ignore it. Maybe they recognize each other except for me or perhaps they are just curious. A WHOLE hour passes with them looking at me from time to time, they also seem to keep their distance away from me. At this point I''m not even sure what to do anymore, their is only one person who can help me. BLUE, I know you have been watching this whole time. I also know that you have been awfully quiet the whole time. I Want Answers. Now. ... ....

*sigh*... Where do I start?...

... I suggest... that perhaps you begin with why you have been horribly quiet since we came here.

... They... th-they are scared of You.

(?) Why?

Unlike most adults... children, alongside with most animals, can sense danger more easily than adult humans...

Is that so?... Wait!... If that is true, then why didn''t I sense the snake approach?

In this world, it''s not a biological trait like the ones from your world, but a system trait to protect the young. You on the other hand don''t have it.

Because I can protect myself?

Nope.

Do you still remember one of your demands to the god of fate. To be more specific on certain thing about changing you?

(?) ... Yeah. I do. I asked that he didn''t interfere with me or change me.... Why do you ask?

To quote you said, "Neither should you modify me or try to give me some blessing, curse, power or whatever you wish to call it."

.... As I''m steadily getting more and more annoyed with you beating around the bush I''ll ask you to just get to the damn point. Okay?

Jeez... Fine. I wanted to scold you a bit...

What is it with both you and that jerk trying to be ambiguous and indirect, just get on with it. Same applies to you. I hope that not everyone is like that.

*sigh* FINE. The thing is you are utterly incompatible with the system, or in other words me.

Your essence, or you yourself, were never modified to be functional along the system. I can still track what you do through your interactions with the world....

But... I can''t interfere with you... You on the other hand do have some capability to interfere with the system.

Is that why you never showed me my stats, even after I leveled up?

Actually, what the system showed that you got is inaccurate. You actually got way WAY more, but the system just showed you that because I didn''t want you to suspect that I wasn''t working on you...

Why?

... I thought you would be angry?

Well... I can''t say this doesn''t irk me a little bit, but I''m definitely not angry with you.

And also because I have to now make an interface for you of some sort...

But you said I was incompatible with the system?

Yeah. But not the other way around. Instead of changing you, I''ll just change the system a bit so that you can still uses it.

Normally through the system people, for their actions, are given back energy to choose powers and stuff. Your body simply absorbed all the energy that would have instead been channeled through the system.

Wait?... I don''t get how this makes the children scared of me. Why?

For starters, normally everyone has some energy within themselves, thanks to the system, but it''s never large enough to be noticeable. Well, when a creatures gets too powerful they generally have a massive amount of unconverted energy stored within themselves for many different reasons.

...

You on the other hand simply have a body that doesn''t work with the system, as such it just took the unconverted energy into yourself.

And that... Is what is being detected by the children, the noticeable amounts of energy in your body. They don''t feel the amount or intensity necessary high enough to categorize you as a threat. Yet they still are babies and infants, so they''re still bound to be spook by you.

So? How come the adults haven''t noticed?

As I mentioned, this is a sort of age exclusive trait. It will go away in time. So unless the have the detection skill they won''t be able to notice. I also said that the amount of energy in your body is noticeable to them but still a relatively small amount, compared to others.

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... Are you angry?

No. I don''t know why is it you keep asking. I would have thought you knew me more than enough to understand I don''t just get angry. Besides you already explained that this, in essence, is my fault.

Well, most people from a different world or dimension would instantly start cursing at the system and complaining how unfair life is. Eventually they just come to the assumptions that the system is just the gods messing with that person. I don''t want you to believe that about me.

I don''t'', so don''t worry. Now lets just figure out what to do about this from now on. ... So I''m incompatible to the system in what sense?

In simple words you are too solid to modify, if the system tried to apply a status de-buff on you. It would alert you about it but asides that you wouldn''t even noticed it.

Your soul is from a very stable dimension were their things such as magic, skills, abilities, systems, or heck even a gods creation couldn''t exist or happen. The of changing matter, at least not easily executable through something like magic.

Will... Will this affect my future life?

Yes, as your people would say "THIS IS TOO OP... ADMIN! I CALL HACKS!!... NERF PLS!!"

Are you saying I''m too strong?

Noooo... You are quite the opposite, you are incredibly weak at the moment.

Then... How am I OP?

Skill, perks, abilities, magic and any other system provided de-buffs will most likely never work on you.

Only induced damage with the help of the system but not through the system will get to you. So you are still incredibly weak and susceptible to harm, but you are immune to abnormal status effects.

This also means that status such as health, mana, and stamina mean nothing to you. I you will it, your body can do it. You can run as long as you force yourself to continue, you could cast mana as long as you can mentally sustain it. Losing all your health points will not kill you. Not to mention you also have adrenaline, something that doesn''t exist in this world.

Alright. So what will you do over this?

That''s the thing. I don''t know what to do, or to be more specific how to do what I want. I wanted to change the system instead so that it would be more compatible with you. But...

It''s not feasible?

No... it is but the change would be too drastic, everyone would notice.

I basically have to revamp the whole system, just so that you don''t get left behind. OR make a completely separate sub-system made exclusively for YOU and nobody else. Either or those to are so MAYOR changes that no one will be happy about.

So do I just go on with life like I never heard anything and hope nothing dangerous comes my way ever again?

Look. Don''t rush me. I''m working on it. I just hope that by then you are still safe and fine.

... Is there a way I can use that energy myself without the help of the system?

Yes. And No.

Explain.

I was going to anyway, no need to command me around.

You can use the energy any way you want, but it will destroy you. Specifically it will split apart your own atoms, and you should now what that means.

I do... So I CAN use the energy but it will most likely kill me, at least eventually.

Yeah... As long as you don''t go on any adventures for now... and maybe for a decade or so... This will take very long.

... D-Did... Did you really just say THAT?

???

Do you realize who I have already meet with before?

...

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You... You think the God of Fate will take advantage of this?

Honestly, he would probably ignore me, if only it wasn''t for you Tempting him like that. You just basically said, "OH NO... IT BE A REAL SHAME IF SOMEONE WHERE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ME WHILE I''M DEFENSELESS, OH WOE IS ME" or commonly used phrase "NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!"

...

I-I''m... sorry *sob*

C-Can we maybe ask him to spare you?

I... I doubt it, lets just hope he goes easy on me, at least for now. ... ..... OH YEAH... I almost forgot.

???

What?

The children around me are still pretty spooked about me, can you do something about it?

Hmm... Nope.

So is this it? This is my life now? Scawry little babwy that no one likes?

Yeah.

Damn it. .... ..... Ch8 - Unwanted Circumstances Well, things have been quite bad since BLUE made the mistake of challenging Fate with such wording. It''s been many months of unexpected events after each other, everyone culminating into pure absolute bad luck. All of this making the village people, and even my parents, believe I''m a cursed child and as such should be disposed off. Yet it seems fate isn''t sastifie-

I said I was sorry.

*Ssshhh* I''m not done yet...[/td3][/tr][/table] *Ahem*... And as such I''ve recently have been going through a "bit" of trouble.

I know, you are currently being held hostage by goblins along sides the other children of the village. But could you please stop this, you are making me feel bad about myself...

I already said I wasn''t blaming you before, now I''m currently just trying to accept our situation by narrating it to however may be hearing us. Among them possibly Fate himself. So anyways, now that we got that through I would normally explain how this happened and get on with a flashback... BUT.. Plot Twist... I won''t. At least not me... Maybe someone else will. Concerning ourselves with how this came to happen isn''t any longer important, what''s important is for me to escape and maybe for the others to escape too. THAT, and I actually don''t know how this happened, I was sleeping one day and the next moment a goblin was prodding my ribs with a stick. .... ..... *Goblin''s Point of View* I am concerned. New Leada wants children. Although dangerous he still wanted to do so. Messing with humans is bad. They Never forgive us. They send Adventures to kill us. Even though, humans are nicest race, as long as left alone. Dwarfs hate us, elves mock us, beastmen bully us, monsters eat us, and demons enslave us. Of all only humans ignore us. Only among humans will other races be found, like elven, dwarven, beastmen, not as many demon though, and also our kin the goblins usually as merchants. Not always though, sometimes humans be bad, not always though, but who am I to judge? All races are like so, not purely evil or good. New Leada''s words were he wanted soft food. So he insisted on children. I don''t agree with him, but now they here he won''t eat because: "Oh much tasty childs I see much of them I wish to do of consumption but infant must not chew a yet have childs wait I must bum blast from other, previous eaten food who is not being yet past" Much poesy from our leada, sad he only cares of himself and is such an idiot. He could have bargain with humans, they willin to do anything for money Just kill some of those adventurers here and there and Tada. Money appears. Now we are screwed, how long till humans kill us? Past Leada wise man, he take care of us.

*What is this? First a change in point of view, and now a Flash Back?*

"Unexpectedly, we Goblin in this world are genuine combat species, but despite so we are seen as petty thieves, rapists, and pillagers." As I hear that, I tilt my head and walk towards the maker of comment. Oh it''s brotha... What could brotha mean? Interested I walk towards him, he spots me, but I continue forwards and then since already here I ask: "What do you mean brotha?" "First I have to explain some things to you. Like our image, Goblins are seen to be weak, stupid, and dirty, but we here already breaks such an image completely." Weak. Brother they aren''t wrong. I guess? He immediately rebukes at me after seeing my face: "Listen first, yes although this isn''t necessarily wrong... Goblins being weak and all, amongst having a short live span resulting with dying really young. That''s only if we do nothing. The concept of level applies to all in this world. In addition, there are skill and magic too. And, we have seen that monsters who reach a certain level can evolve." I''m unsure of were big brotha is going with this. He too seems to have guessed by my look in my face. "Do you understand this little brother?" *Nu- UH* I shake my head in disagreement and move closer to listen betta. "Shame, but in time you will understand, for now lets move on with next point." "The Goblins are no exception when it comes to evolution. As far as I can see, there are the Hobgoblins of one size bigger than the Goblin in the village aside ordinary Goblins. When one evolves into a Hobgoblin, our life span gets extends, and our strength rises too." "Both males and females raise their level in order to evolve. For us, it seems that their is only one method to raise our levels. We have can only do so if we defeat monsters. That''s why, naturally, we Goblins have become a combat species. This is because we can''t live long with this short life span and our constant weakness if we don''t evolve." I wonder were he is going with this? "The next is the image of stupid. This also is not necessarily wrong. The Goblins are purely a combat species, and as such not interested in studying. I think that it''s probably me who''s the smartest in this village. Rather than that, it''s most likely certain." "Indeed it is brotha-" "However, it''s not because we are simply stupid. We fight using refined strategy when it comes to combat, and we know the way of efficient hunting. However, it''s only because there''s no chance to learn, that our intelligence is not good." "Rather, I believe some of us have attain a sort of enlightenment as if we were monks training, it somehow feels sacred when I see them training so diligently." "Dirty can have double meaning. If others say it, yes, we are dirty and at times mean. Goblins that are imagined to be weak, and even stupid, but we are still cunning. To us, we Goblins are rather the opposite. We are instead soldiers who retained our noble honor on our hearths." "A day of the Goblin starts with a prayer. Thank the world, thank the Gods who protects the world, and thank them for our daily bread. After giving a prayer, they are assigned to each work. The Goblins who haven''t yet evolved polish their skills, and the evolved Hobgoblins engage in developing the Goblins training. And, then a hunting group leaves the village." "This specific village is in the steep mountain range, and it''s a dangerous place with a severe environment inhabited by a lot of strong monsters. Among the Goblins of the hunting group, it''s only half that will return at all. But still, the reason why the Goblin''s village can continue on with such losses is that the Goblin''s fertility is high. But that''s only according to superficial knowledge of us." The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there."The Goblins who returned are greeted and together hold a funeral for the dead. They give prayers for the food that they brought back at the risk of their lives with thanks to the gods." "The Goblins proceed to their own deaths in order to keep the village alive. They leave the village with flowers netted around their hands. As a substitute for amulet. With the thoughts of "please return safely" put into them by their loved ones." "They depart towards a life-threatening trip and return without forgetting these thoughts. To live. To keep ourselves alive." "It makes tears run down my eyes..." "Don''t forget brother, we are not marauders or bandits." I had remained quite and concentrated on brotha explanation. But even so I''m unsure of what to make of it. "I don''t know what to say" "That''s fine, just don''t forget that we are just trying to survive, it''s our main priority" *Back to present day Goblins Point of view* But that was before he died. After his death everyone fought for the chieftains position. But our new leada seems to ignore everything my brotha has ever said. He pushed deeper and deeper out of the mountains with our hunting parties. Sent most of our hobgoblins away to find a new land. Leaving us with no protection as most died. At first I didn''t think his idea of moving the village to a safer place were bad... but... In the process of doing so we lost so much... Even now we are barely lucky to have made it out of the mountains. We are hungry, we are lost, and above all else we are unmotivated. At that moment of blight, one of our previously separated scouting parties reunited with us. They claimed we should leave immediately, as we were TOO close to a human village. I agreed with them, although humans can generally be very apathetic and at times even forgiving, they will not tolerate a threat near their lands. IF we stay here too long we may end up fighting them. If it comes to that it will be the end of us. But despite what I said, and what the scouts greatly encouraged... The new leada proposed we took over the humans village... By first kidnapping their children to eat them and regain our strength. I... I couldn''t believe my ears... Is he serious?... I though he was stupid before... but THIS? "Chieftain this will be the end of us. PLEASE RECONSIDER THIS!" "NO ... We Hungry We Eat We Lost And Became Homeless As such we Take Over them Besides I''m curious of the childrens taste" ... And that is how we got here... We are screwed! I just hope the humans have some mercy... most likely not... We did kidnap their children with the intention of eating them... They will obliterate us and give us the slowest most painful death they can dish out at us. Now I''m here just counting my time and looking over the children... Hmm... one hasn''t moving for the longest of time, didn''t move when we brought him over too. ... Is... Is he dead? I guess I could ask them, although most Goblins can''t speak the human languages, my brotha taught us the importance of learning them. As such, we all have a basic understanding of their language. But... How would they know if he is dead or not?.... Better make sure... I poke him and he eventually starts waking up... He looks at me with an annoyed glare... Such sharp eyes... He could cut steel with them. *Back to yet to be named protagonist*

So... What will you do now.. You know about the goblins?

I guess... Nothing much... Not much I can do without putting my life at risk here. I have yet to activate my event flags which will just ever so conveniently give me an ability or the power to fight. I''m still in the infant phase were I don''t yet have the means to protect myself. All I can do now is either wait for power to inexplicably come to me or play the waiting game and hope I survive by the time help arrives.

... What about the children?

Are you asking me to save them? I''m a baby, they will take me out before I can do anything. As I was talking with BLUE I only barely realized someone had the Audacity to compare Apples and Oranges, only to later claim they are a similar. "How Are Apples and Oranges Similar?" "HUH?..." "Listen here kid, I don''t know how you are but they are similar." "No they are not."

What are you doing? Why are you picking a fight with them now?

Shush. Listen here Blue, I have to do this. Trust me.

... But-

NOPE. Let me handle this. "Let''s observed them with our five senses first to see how similar they are." "But the AR-" "Hold it right there mister, let ME finish first." "First is Sight. One is either red or green while other is orange, as it names suggest." "Next is Touch. One is hard while the other is squishy" "Listen kid-" "Im Still Not Done, so hush it!" "As I was saying, now is Smell. One evokes an acidic scent, the other has a sweet scent." "As for Taste. One is sour to tangy, the other is sweet." "Last but not least is Hearin-" "Kid, I''ll admit those where pretty good examples, but their is no way in heck they either of them makes a sound, making them similar." "But you are wrong Mister." I put on the most serious face I could possibly make, and after calming myself reveal one of my worlds most sacred information: "When you bring it to your ear, an apple will whispers the secrets of the long forgotten Cyclopean madness, best never heard my mortal ears. An orange on the other hand just goes blurpblurpdurpblurp" Saying so I use all my strength and willpower to neither flinch nor smirk at what I just revealed. I simply stare at the him... Her?.. I don''t know all goblins look the same to me.

...

You can''t be seriously doing this right now...

I am and just did.

So... All of this Apple and Orange nonsense from your part was just a set-up for your cheap joke?

Look... I''m trying my best to be charismatic so that they save me till last, I don''t want to be the first to die.

... You... Forget it... Do whatever you want.

The goblin simply started at me, as everyone else around did, and just expectantly looked at me. As if hopping for something, an action that I won''t give them the satisfaction to see. After maybe a few minutes earned by this ridiculous display, the goblins started going back to doing other things. "Hey" Some goblins turn around to look at me. This is my chance "You guys want to hear a joke?" .... "Their is a Teacher that says to her class: Who ever stands up is stupid! *Nobody stands up* Teacher yells again: I said who ever stands up is STUPID! *Little Darsis stands up* Teacher doubtfully asks: Darsis, do you really think that you are stupid? Little Darsis calmly replies: No Mrs, I just thought that maybe you are lonely being the only one standing." ... Really? I found that at least mildly amusing the first time I heard it. .... ..... Ch9 - Uprising Although I though the goblins didn''t make any comments on my jokes, I could tell they were giving me a better treatment than the others. Taking advantage of this I would make small talk with them when possible, eventually I had managed to perhaps have built enough trust with a Goblin. "I... I k-know you are busy and all... but could you hear me out please?" As I petition him that, he started intensely staring at me, perhaps trying to figure me out. "Speak, I''ll hear what you have to say." "... C-Could... Could y-you turn me over?" He looked at me, but nothing more. Although I was speaking and looking at him, the way the had tied me up left me facing the ground. "I rather not get too close to you." "B-But... but why?" *teary eyes* "Something isn''t right with you." "What do you mean?" "I mean that you are abnormal." "But... you are a band of talking goblins who understands our language." "I... Wouldn''t group all of us together." "Why not, are you not all brothers and sisters?" "..." "I-Is everything... Okay?" "No, but soon it won''t matter anymore." ... "Sooo... buddy what are you guys going to do with us?" "I don''t think I should answer that." He frowned, or maybe she, after hearing my question. I will have to try again, but maybe showing some more concern might do it. Could make me look more friendly to him, lets call all gender indeterminable people as males. Okay? "What do you mean" I question with the most worried expression I could do. "I don''t need to explain this to you." As he retorted this he gave me his back and was about to leave when. "Do you fear Death?" Ever so slowly he turns around to look at me in the eyes. "Who doesn''t." "Then why are you doing this, you know your people are digging their own graves by doing this." "..." "Nothing good will come out of this." "What could you possibly know?" "I know that your people will be exterminated like vermin after this. Even If you all try to escape it will be too late if you don''t leave now." "... We have no choice." "You DO have a choice, you will die either way if you go on with this." "What do you know" "Clearly more than you give me credit for, unless fluently speaking toddlers is a thing common for you Goblins." "... NO. No it isn''t it." "I that case let me ask you, what is keeping you here? What could be SO important that your willing risk your life... No... to sacrifice your life for." "... My tribe." "They will all die if you guys stay here, it''s already been a day since you kidnapped us" "How long do you think it will take for the adventurers or soldier to come and find you. What will you do when that happens?" "Fight-" "Till death?... You are wasting your lives... And its not even for a good reason." "... We have to obey our leada.... W-We also need a new home and food." "Your leader is leading your tribe to ruin, where will you get your home and food? Taking over the village?" Hearing me mock him and his plan he turns red with anger. "STOP LAUGHING!" "Forgive me, but..." "Let me make ask you a question, you and your tribe seem abnormally smart compared to all other Goblins. You can speak our language, you seem to have some decent formations and distribution of roles. This all clearly points to a decently trained and coordinated tribe. The question isn''t how, it''s WHO trained you guys that is what I''m interested to know." "..." "Whoever it was clearly knew what he, or she, was doing. Which leads to wonder, what happened to that person as your tribe is clearly now taking dumb risk. What I''m actually getting at is:" "Who was your past leader, what happened to your past leader, how long ago did it happened, and why do you still follow your current leader." "You have nothing to lose by telling me so, in fact you might gain some insight by talking to me. Knowledge is power after all." ... "*sigh* Fine... I''ll tell you. Past leader was my brother, he died when he attempted an our usual hunting parties to bring back food. He died trying to protect his people, all of this happened around maybe a month and a half." "And... Well. We follow new leada because he prove he''s the strongest around. Is that not worthy enough of leadership." "... Are you serious?... You choose your new leader because he was the strongest? Leadership is about insight and intelligence, maybe also charisma but that''s an extra. Even so, strength is the most useless thing you could have on your leader, unless it''s mental strength instead of physical." "Actually... I have a better idea, why don''t you lead the tribe." "I couldn''t." "Yes you can, if you think you lack the skills. Well I can tell you that you have way more than your current leader. And if you are instead concerned of not having enough support, well you are brother of the past leader." "I''m sure he was at least a respected man, meaning you could build your leadership upon his." "...I don''t want to." "..." "Is your tribe not the most important thing in your life? Do you want to protect what your brother sacrificed his life for? Would you give your life for it?" "... Yes... Yes I would" "Then do it, lead your people to a safer tomorrow. Heck I''d even help you, my people hate too much me at this point. Either way, wouldn''t you giving your life to become the leader and giving your tribe a brighter future the same as I just told you." "... You... You talk a lot." "That is true. Through the power of our voice everything can be changed. That my friend is your first lesson in leadership, the next would be motivation and self-confidence." "..." "Were would I even start?" "Start talking to your and your brothers closest friends, then start with those who are dissatisfied with the current leader. Next try convincing the rest with the problem at hand and how the new leader is messing up. That if your brother was alive this would have not happened. That you need a new leader, one who is wise to lead you." "Tell them that this can still be fixed, that their is hope and if they lost all motivation... Then tell them to do it for their families, for everyone who has died to make their lives not be lost in vain." If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. "Should anyone dare rebuke you that you don''t now what they are feeling or that you don''t understand. Then tell them about your brother, how you missed and how you will honor his death by ensuring his work isn''t wasted." "Did you get all that?" "Hmm... NOPE. Can you write it down for me?" "I don''t know how to write yet... Wait you can write?" "Yeah... but not to well, I''m not anything magnificent." "You can only get better. Don''t worry for now." "Well... I don''t know how to write, you can''t teach in such a short span of time, so then I will have to make you a speech and have you memorize it." "I still don''t know if I should do this?" "Give it a try, do it for the tribe, for your brother." "Okay... wait.. Are you Guilt tripping me with my brother and my tribe." "Indeed, you learn fast. I''m proud of you. That aside, lets get on with the memorization." ..... ....... ......... *Goblin point of view* I guess this is it, after half a day and 3 dead children, I finally memorized most of my speech. It was a dark night, a perfect time for a secret meeting. The location was good, away from our base in the solitude of the forest. All that remains is to, as he says, "Sell this Show". Not sure what that means but I will try my best. I tried to get as many people together without the leada or his close followers finding out. "BROTHERS AND SISTERS!" I shout at my highest voice possible, so much I even startle myself... NO. Stay focused. "I have gathered us here to discuss the future of our tribe." They all look at each other confused. "It has come to my attention that our tribe will suffer annihilation once the humans find us. So attempting to conquer the nearby village for ourselves is the worst way to go." "B-But it is what leader says we do." "And wrongly he has leaded us, look around you. What have we come too" "We are now hiding like animals here on this... I can''t even call it a shelter." "SO Many have died during those damned exploration trips." I go quiet, I wait and allow those words to sink in. "... We can''t go on like this, the humans will find us soon. Their isn''t enough of us to fight them, we don''t even have the equipment to do so." "What would we even do?" Concern and murmuring could be seen all around. "We leave here, get away from the humans, hunt animals along the way. Have you forgotten what our elders taught us?" "We can still hunt, we just have to be more careful and keep a distance from powerful species, like the humans." "Won''t the Leda get angry?" "Angry?... We are DYING here, do you really care about his feelings? What about ours? We also have feelings, ambitions, and thoughts. Why does only his matter, he''s only one person. We are the majority, it is US who should matter the most." "But clearly he doesn''t, if so he would have never done this. He would have never allowed our families to die and starve. Things have to change, for the better." "What i-if he try to stop us." "Then we fight back, all of us against him and maybe a few others. He may be strong but we are many. That is how our species has managed to hunt larger and stronger animals." "We can subdue him and his followers if any arise. We live and one day no longer have to hunger. We can survive. We will survive. Yes We Can." "Say it with: Yes We can." "''Yes we can''" "SAY IT LOUDER! YES WE CAN!" "''YES WE CAN''" And with thunderous shouts and cheers a new leada had been chosen. I only hope I can make my brotha proud. This is for him, for everyone. This was surprisingly easier than I though, I didn''t even have to use all of my counter arguments or guilt tripping them with our still flesh loses. All it took was to give them some hope and move them in the right direction. I have to still many things to do, he told me this would just be the start. Next I would have to disarm the possible loyalist of the older leada, possibly with a supposed "break" or a "change of shift". Either or would work, but the hardest part afterwards would be removing the old leada. The kid told me that he wouldn''t give up. First he would try to ascertain his dominance by either striking us or talking us down. I had to ensure that when he fought we could sufficiently be capable of suppressing him. If instead, or afterwards, he tried to tell everyone he was the leada not me, I would have to tell everyone how bad of one he was and how much ruin he''s brought under his rule. But for now I all I have to tell them what to do and then get ready for tomorrow morning. While everyone is sleeping we will strike, we have already volunteer for all of the shifts and positions that require us to be awake. Those we knew would definitely side with him we would tie up while they are sleeping while keeping a cloth to their mouths. With this their noise will be minimized. Well... Enough of that I have to get ready now. Their is so much to do and not enough of time. We also have to leave after we subdue the leada, the humans could arrive at any moment and we shouldn''t be here by then. .... ...... ........ *Back to Protagonist POV* I have started hearing many movements around, I know he was successful. Since I didn''t know how hard it would be to start an uprising with the Goblins I had him memorize the best possible plan with the highest chance success. Nothing too complex, just your simple full blow sudden takeover. If things goes well, he should come to me and wake me up after all of this is over.

Is th-this aright? Many might die if things continue on like this.

They have to do this or else they will die, either at the hands of the humans or natures harsh elements. I good leader is always necessary. The right man in the right, or wrong really, place can do all the difference.

...

Lets hope that Goblin is the right man. It will be fine, don''t worry too much. Well enough of this, I''m going to sleep. Tomorrow morning will be hectic and I need all of my energy. Wake me up if anything comes up.

Okay. Goodnight.

Goodnight to you too Blue. I close my eyes and allow the darkness to envelop me... How I hate this. ... .... (Authors Notes) Sorry for the delay guys, I have been busy in real life. Any ways I''ll get the next chapter out as soon as I can. (End of Author Notes)