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2024-10-29 19:42:56Leo woke up with a groan and a throbbing headache. He yawned tiredly, then sat up from where he lay. With horror, he found out that he was naked.
He screamed.
Draven
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They got to the site by midday the very next day. It was a long walk that encompassed less rest and less eating. Draven would have preferred if they walked by midnight and covered more grounds, but Leo was adamant that midnight was the only time he had to sleep and care for his wound.“You’re healing nicely, you don’t need that much rest when we’re in danger,” Draven argued one time.“I need as much sleep as I can get so I don’t fall ill and have you foster me again,” Leo replied.He left him alone then; and it was true, he didn’t want to foster him anymore than he already did. All Draven was concerned about was covering more ground and getting to the place faster, and caring for Leo should be the last thing he wanted. For that, they drank as much water as possible, avoided any danger possible and walked faster than usual.Once, they heard the movement of a group of players. Leo wanted to meet them for more water, as the one in their container was finished and he could not hold back h
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Draven stared at the hologram features in surprise. He could not believe the master was saying such words. How many times would he have earned something in order for it to be given to him? Hadn’t he earned enough already? Hadn’t he worked enough already?No, he was not going to do such a thing. The sword had been damaged when he was trying to survive with his life intact, and even the master knew that. Hell, he said he was aware!Since he was aware, why was he still trying to punish him? Because this sure as hell feels like a punishment.“Don’t I deserve to be given a gift?” he asked as a last resort.“A gift?” The master made a sound that Draven could only decipher as a scoff. “My dear student, why do you think I will make you a new sword as a gift?”“Because I survived when I could have died from it?”“The fact that you allowed this sword to shrivel and die without you in it is an indication that I should not make you another one. You do not know how to handle a sword, Draven. There
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“What do you mean we’re under attack?"!” Draven nearly yelled.“Exactly what I mean, man, we’re under attack!” Leo replied just as bluntly.“Alright fine, where’s the attacker?”“They’re on their way here.”He arched his brows at Leo. “Really, man? They’re on their way here?”“I heard screaming, okay? And then I came to check if you'd gotten the sword back so we could fight them off but apparently you haven’t had a single thing!”Draven inhaled and exhaled consecutively. The Master taught him that he must be calm at all times, and that’s exactly what he wanted to work for. Maybe if he became obedient and started his training again, the master might just take him seriously and make him a new sword. It had to be earned, right? This was part of the earning process.“I didn’t get the sword,” he said quietly. “But I’m going to work for it, alright? That’s the condition they gave me.”“You were given a condition in order to have a new sword.”“Yes, that’s basically what I just said.”“Do yo
FortuneCraft in Apocalypse Injured...
Draven did not step back, much to Leo’s disappointment. He wanted to help the girl. She didn’t look like she was injured, but if they left the tree trunk under her for some time, then she would die. He didn’t want her to die when he knew he could save her.“What are you doing under there?” he asked. “Did it like fall on you but you were somehow miraculously saved from being crushed by it?"She didn’t answer. Actually, she seemed out of sorts and breathed. Draven realized with horror that she would die from breathlessness before the tree even got to her. He bent over to her, examining the damage done. Apart from the pressure of being pressed by her side that would eventually kill her, Draven didn’t see any other issue.“We have to lift the tree off her,” he said to Leo as he straightened.Leo was appalled. “What? You want me to lift the tree from her body? Do I look like I’m 300 pounds of muscle?”Draven rolled his eyes. “Jesus can you be serious for once? We’re only helping the poor g
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It took a minute for the girl’s words to register in their minds. Leo growled and looked around very quickly, as though expecting the monster to just jump out of nowhere.“I knew it!” He said in a heated tone. “I knew we shouldn’t have saved her ungrateful, killing ass!”Draven simply stared at her, too tired to say anything. If the monster she spoke about came at them, he would die because he’d lost half of his energy pushing that very gigantic tree trunk off her. It would take at least 2 days for him to fully recover. Maybe less than that, but at that moment it felt like his relaxation would go on and on. And oh how he craved it so well.“We should have just left her to die!” Leo continued to say as he rotated about.“Hold up for a damn minute,” the girl said, looking around. “What do you mean left me to die? Why would you leave me to die?”“Why would you lure us here when you know you want to feed us to your monster?!” Leo fired back. “Now where is he?"The girl looked surprised, s
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They walked briskly out of the forest, all on the lookout for the large monster Lara had explained. Draven imagined it would be a pretty big and monstrous monster if it was able to overlook Lara hiding under a tree because it was like a branch in his eyes. He found many loopholes in her story, but he imagined that she was too distressed to tell the whole full story. Leo didn’t buy it, though. It was written on his face; it was so wide and telling. Draven knew that Leo was thinking about that time with Elena, when they were so betrayed that they thought she would kill them for sure. Once or twice he yelled at Lara when she stepped into his lane. “I’m sorry about his behavior,” Draven apologized. “Leo is not usually like this, but he is so agitated right now, you know?” “Is it something I did?” she asked. “Yes!” Leo shouted from where he was walking. “It’s not your fault,” Draven said reassuringly. “Please don’t just mind him. Our friend Elena betrayed us one day and tried to kill
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Draven was smiling when he went back to Leo and the girl. He reminded himself over and over that this girl was Lara, not Elena. Lara was stupid and clueless, and she would not last long in a game. He didn’t know why he cared, but it was these simple acts of caring that made Master reconsider his mind.He would never understand how the robotic man thought, but clearly hard work was a factor that finally gave him the sword. He waved the sword in the air, testing it. Actually, he had been testing it for the past 15 minutes, but what did that matter? He had a new one now—maybe better or less, but he would figure it out. He always does.Leo was making a fire to brew his medicinal tea when he came in. Both hands were behind his back, and so was the sword. Draven wanted it to be a surprise, but then he was just too excited to keep up with it.“I’m hungry,” Lara suddenly said, forcing his attention to her.He smiled. She actually cut off her hair; so low that there wasn’t any call down to her
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“Kill it!” Lara shrieked. “Don’t just sit there like a princess, participate in the killing contest too!” Leo shouted back at her. She shrieked and jumped into a tree when a tiny foot soldier came at her. Draven rolled his eyes as he rotated around a much smaller monster; something that looked like the baby out of the bigger ones. The group of five trolls had jumped on them when they were walking east. Lara saw them first, and of course she screamed her head off. If she hadn’t screamed and the trolls didn’t see them, then they wouldn’t be having a semi-fighting and killing contest. Plus the trolls were troublesome. It was not enjoyable to be fighting off things that crawled on your leg or jumped on your back and what not. Draven certainly didn’t enjoy it, and by the looks of things, none of the others did too. “You’re not going to kill anything if you hang on to that tree!” Leo yelled at Lara as he chopped off the head of a troll with one arm. There was no use talking to her. Th
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Draven couldn’t believe it was over. Three months later he was still thinking if he was making the right decision. Assistant David sat in his living room with a bunch of documents in front of him. He paced up and down, not sure what he would do.“You can just sign here,” the man said for the umpteeth time. “It’s not really that hard. You sign that you’ve taken ownership of the game and you decide what you want to do with it.”“But I don’t want ownership of the game,” Draven said again. He had repeated this exact words countless times but the guy didn’t seem to be hearing him.“You should have known what you were getting yourself into when you challenged late game owner Timothy—” David paused and looked to the heavens. “May his soul not rest in peace. You should have known that killing him would automatically make you the owner of the game. Those were his rules.”Draven rolled his eyes. He was sure that Timothy had made that rule because he didn’t believe anyone would be able to defeat
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Timothy laughed. His laughter was vivacious and full of life. This was what he wanted, after all. The very end of judgement day where he would punish all those who failed him; those who went against him and those who was party to his torture.Here was Draven, the strongest man to ever grace his game. Timothy knew he was going to be a lot of trouble in the future and so he had specifically looked into him. Now that Draven has waged war with his full chest over a woman, he was ecstatic. This was historic, and he was living a historic time in the present. How many men brought knives to fight for their loves, anyways?Smiling, he snapped his fingers. A single door opened and his assistant ran to him carrying a box.“You’re about to experience an historic moment with me,” He said to Draven. “Diane will be our goddess Diana, and we will be the lowly men who are fighting for her love.”Diane scoffed. “You don’t have to do it, Draven. The guy is nuts. Let’s just get out of here.”“But darling
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Draven panicked for a minute. He thought for sure that the darkness and pressure meant he was losing his consciousness, but that wasn’t the case. One minutes there was stark darkness and the next minute they fell into an extremely white room with hard cardboard. They fell through the sky, hitting directly on the wood and groaning in pain. The stark white color of the room blinded them. It was brighter than a sky or white paint. It was so bright that Draven closed his eyes and tried to regain his or he r senses. He knew there was a betrayal in the group—which wasn’t surprising as their group was made of weird, diverse people, but he needed to see who exactly did it.He won’t even be surprised if to was Lara. She was the one who had led them to the cage, after all. She was the one who offered to test the waters and make sure the portal was okay. Who in their right senses tests water and portal to make a point of the portal not working? Unless he or she was working with Timothy and knew
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No one said anything after Diane’s statement. They were so tired and hungry and unsure of what to do next. Draven’s goods felt heavy to him. His sword even felt heavier than normal. He didn’t believe he came back to this game to be ridiculed and placed in a very unstable condition because of a silly fight that was going on between two lovers. When he looked at Diane, he wondered if she was toying with them again. Was she afraid to meet Timothy or what? He knew that the portal might likely take them to Timothy as the owner can easily manipulate events, but at least he was ready for that stage. He could exactly tell what Diane was thinking when she was looking her nose down on the portal.“We cannot just stay here,” Lara said. “Do you want us to keep waiting for him to keep finding opportunities to kill us? We’re certainly going to die of hunger if we keep waiting!”“She’s right,” Draven concurred. “We can’t keep lying about in wait like lambs to a slaughter. We must make the first move
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Everyone was super awkward after the kiss. Leo avoided for the rest of the morning. He didn’t want to talk about it but it was too late; Draven had seen them and announced to the whole pack in the morning that the kiss was probably the most hottest he’d seen.“Whoa,” Diane said excitedly. “You two kissed? That’s great. Are you like a couple now or something?”“It’s nothing like that, okay? It was just a kiss, and a mistake at that,” Leo piped up.Even though he didn’t want to talk about the kiss or look at Lara’s face, he was glad that Draven brought it up. At least he’d air his opioid publicly about it so he won’t have to be in an awkward space with Lara.“Ouch, Leo, you’re a player!” Diane said, laughing. “You can’t say those kind of things to someone when you’ve kissed them!”“I didn’t kiss her, okay? She’s the one who kissed me,” Leo defended hotly.“It’s still hurtful that you say it that way. Have some feelings, pal,” Diane said, her laugh increasing.It sounded mocking and cont
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Thoughts
Leo could not sleep. Draven had been out for close to an hour, yet he wasn’t back yet. Lots of thoughts assaulted his brain, but the one that stayed the most was Diane.Diane. Diane. Diane.He bet she was here to true their life again, and that bet was true. If Leo was the one to handle this, he’d definitely not want to help her out the way Draven was. It was as if the guy didn’t want to learn any lessons about why it’s dangerous to just not help anyone for too long. Draven was lenient when it came to Diane and he didn’t like it one but.He turned his head to the side and saw her sleeping peacefully.“Yeah, like you didn’t just send someone to their death,” he murmured to himself.He wondered if Draven was still talking to the game creator or if he’s been killed. If he was truly killed, Leo won’t honestly know how to handle that. He tried not to think about it because it was depressing enough. He sat up now, still watching Diane. If she had been careful, they won’t be in this shit hol
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Dissappearing
Draven waited until everyone was comfortable with him being their security for the night before he left into the woods. Diane was surprisingly quiet and compliant. It was like she was into her head too much to care about what Draven wanted to do. Seeing that all odds were in his favor, Draven waited a bit before withdrawing to the forest. He walked deeper and deeper, wondering if he should just sit on a log and wait for Timothy to appear.“Hi Draven.”He yelped and fell to the ground, startled. His shouts of surprise startled the forest a bit, and so Draven waited it out to make sure no one was coming to check what the noise was before turning his head slowly to the side. There was Timothy, standing under the moonlight. He looked attractive and mysterious and just too handsome to be standing there. Draven sat up as he brushed away the small dirts on his body.“You scared me,” he hissed at Timothy. “You know you should learn not to sneak up on people like that.”“I didn’t sneak up on y
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Dumb Ass
They camped inside a cave, just as Draven wanted. He’d taken his time and made sure they covered a 12 hour distance just so he could find the perfect place for them to camp. Finding a cave was not just the problem—and caves were pretty scarce. The problem was finding one that was deep and big enough to accommodate more than three persons. When he finally found it, it was nearing dark. The blanket of darkness that fell over them was just the right thing Draven needed to carry out his plans. He’d been thinking for hours how he would get away with talking to Timothy without anyone noticing and this was the best part.“A cave?” Lara asked in disbelief when they stood before the place. “Isn’t this kind of weird, Draven? Some crazy monsters might be in there!”Draven nodded in understanding. “Leo and I are going to check it out and see if it’s free of monsters; how about that?”“I thought you said we were getting to the end of the game,” Lara moaned.Draven gave her a confused look. “Lara,
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Long Mile
They walked a long mile, Draven and Leo leading the way while Lara and Diane walked behind. Diane stayed at the far end so she won’t walk on the same lane with Lara. There was something suspicious about the young girl that she didn’t like. Diane wasn’t usually suspicious of people but when she does, her instinct was definitely right—just as it was right with Draven and Lara. Leo cleared his throat and glanced at Draven. “So… were you lying?”“Was I lying about what?” Draven mumbled.“You know… about what Diane said?”“Why would I be lying about that?”Leo cocked his brows at him. “Don’t forget that I know you all too well, Draven. I know when you lie out of necessity and when you lie out of leisure. I usually don’t catch the leisure one but the necessity one is very obvious.”Draven glanced at him with an amused expression. “Really?”“Yup. You get all tense and defensive and violet most times if you’re pressured about it. It’ll make you want to protect that little lie of yours quite
