The Dark Stone (Accel World x Semi-OP OC) (Sacred Seven Elements)
Author: TrueRisingFTW© WebNovel
Chapter 1: The Darkstones Appears
A/N: Some stuff might change from the canon, but nothing too serious.
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"Speech"
'Thoughts'
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"What do you need, Ren?"
"I want to show you something!"
Two young male voices could be heard from within what appeared to be a house, both males appearing around the age of fifteen as they were seen sitting down at a table within the house as they were facing one another. The first male appearing to have a lean yet built body, his skin being fair and having straight black hair and a pair of crimson eyes.
The male's outfit consisted of a tight black t-shirt along with long tight black pants, having on a pair of white socks and had on two black wristbands around each of his wrists. The other male having black hair as well, but it was slightly spiky and swept to the right. The male had a pair of amethyst eyes as well as having slightly pale skin.
His outfit was consisting of a white t-shirt with a black open hoodie over the top, wearing also a pair of slightly loose black shorts as a black choker could be seen around the male's neck. The first person was Sora Tandoji, and the second boy was Ren Kijima, both being the same age as both of them were currently in Ren's house.
Sora had remembered getting a phone call from Ren to immediately come on over to his house, which he complied to and was what lead to them sitting at this table and looking at each other. Ren had told him that he had wanted to tell the boy was something, but he wasn't exactly sure what Ren wanted to show him exactly.
"Here, hold on a sec." Ren said before connecting what appeared to be a cable between both of their Neurolinkers, which was the device that was around both of their necks. When he did, he twitched his hand a couple of times in front of him before a pup-up appeared in front of Sora, making him raise an eyebrow. "I want you to install that program."
"Okay...?" Kira was unsure as to what the program was, but he trusted Ren, they were good childhood friends after all. The pop-up that appeared also seemingly was on fire as the letter B could be seen at the top of the pup-up, which he assumed must have been the logo of whatever this program was.
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[Install Executable File BB2039]
[Instal] [Cancel]
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When Sora had clicked onto the [Install] button, he watched as the screen broke into bits of data which soon turned into streams of fire that began to circle around both Ren and Sora. They were both calm as their lives were anything but normal due to certain reasons, so situations like this was nothing that would surprise them.
Sora watched curiously as the fire slowly began to form a word in front of his face, when it finished, he was shown the words 'Brain Burst'. Sora rose an eyebrow as he didn't find the name at all familiar to him, also having what looked like a progress bar that was attached to chains just below those words.
Ther progress bar went up quickly as it didn't take long before it fully filled itself in, to which he then saw it disappear as flames once again swirled around before forming into a new set of words in front of him saying 'Welcome To The Accelerated World'.
"What's this Accelerated World?"
"Great! I knew you would be able to successfully download it, I was right in choosing you! Not surprising though, considering we both have similar lives." Ren chuckled as Sora rose an eyebrow at him. Ren smiled as he explained. "This is a Full-Dive game, a fighting game. Now, for you to actually play the game, you'll need to go the sleep first."
"I have this itching feeling that there's a huge catch to this..." Sora said with narrowed eyes as Ren seemed to nod his head in approval to this. Ren then gave Sora a serious look as he then answered. "You would be right about that. When you go to sleep, you'll experience a dream where you'll end up facing your greatest fear."
"My greatest fear...?"
"Right, you can stay over tonight. It's getting late anyway, I'll see you in the morning. Good luck." Ren said with a smile as he stood up from his chair. Sora watched with narrowed eyes as his friend walked out of the room and into his own bedroom, Sora hesitantly doing the same as he went to sleep in the guest room of the house.
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"Ah~!" Sora yelled as he shot up from the bed as a bead of sweat ran down the side of his face, he was breathing slightly heavily as he tried to calm himself down. A few seconds later, he sighed as he sat on the edge of the bed and looked up at the ceiling"Jeez, Ren wasn't joking when he said that I would be having a scary dream."
Sora wiped the sweat from his face as he then heard the sound of the door opening, he looked up to see that it was Ren who was walking into the room with a smile on his face. Ren then helped him stand up as Ren then stated. "Glad to see you awake, that dream must have been bad if you were reacting that badly when sleeping."
"I was hoping that you were joking when you told me about that dream, or nightmare in this case." Sora sighed as both of them went out of the room and into the living room where they both sat down on the couches as they continued their conversation. "So, what exactly is this Brain Burst game? What do I do?"
"Nothing, I'll invite you to a match and we'll continue from there." Ren stated. Sora seemed confused but just complied as he saw Ren twitching his hand once again in front of himself as Sora soon received a dialogue box that appeared in front of his face. [You've been challenged by Darkstone Serpent! Prepare for battle!]. "Hold on, Darkstone..."
"I know, it sounds bad. But, don't worry, you don't need to panic." Ren assured. Sora just slowly nodded as he has had some bad memories with the Darkstones, and they weren't memories he wanted to relive. Ren went through similar things, so he decided to trust his childhood friend on this one as he waited calmly.
He watched as the world around him shattered into data, to which then a blinding light appeared and everything faded away. Sora opened his eyes to see the world had completely changed, he looked to be in some kind of arena. There were stands surrounding them and he looked around before seeing a strange figure in front of him, though he widened his eyes at what he saw.
The figure in front of him was a figure that appeared to be composed entirely of a metal material, the material being completely black in colour along with light blue spots and a strangely shaped cape on the back, two horns on the figure's head as well along with a pair of crimson red eyes. The figure also having incredibly sharp looking claws.
"No way... Ren?" Sora muttered with shock very much present in his tone. The person in front of him was his childhood friend Ren, but was now appearing like an armoured character. But, the avatar he was seeing was anything but unfamiliar, it was the Darkstone counterpart that Ren had inherited from his father. "That form..."
"I know, crazy, right? This is apparently my game avatar." Ren had responded. He then seemed to look at Sora up and down as the boy rose an eyebrow at his friend's actions, just calmly standing as he waited for the boy to finish what he was doing. "It seems that you're in the same situation as I am, it seems that we both took on the forms."
"Huh? What are you... talking about...?" Sora trailed off as he looked down at his hands. His eyes, no... his singular eye widened in complete shock as he inspected his body. Which was now completely different to what it was before, now appearing to be an armoured figure with a rather unique design to it.
He was now replaced with a figure consisting of a variety of different tones of red, looking as if there was scrap wrapped around his whole body with the exception being his left eye, which appeared like it was cracked and had a crimson red eye glowing through the darkness of it.
His arms and legs were the darkest shade of red and the head along with the body were the lightest of the shades of red. The final shade was present on what appeared to be what looked like a scarf around his neck that wrapped on his body reaching all the way down to his right leg and also onto his right arm.
"My Darkstone form..." Sora muttered with shock as he clenched his right fist. He was starting to breathe a little heavily, but stopped when he felt a pair of hands being placed on his shoulders. He looked up to see Ren in front of him with his hands gently placed on his shoulders.
"Calm down, Sora. You aren't losing your control, and neither am I. This is a game, you don't need to panic." Ren stated strongly. Sora shook his head as he gripped his head with his right hand as he gave a long sigh before looking at Ren. "You okay now?"
"Yeah... But, why do we look like our Darkstone forms?"
"Don't panic. But..." Sora gave Ren a deadpanned look after he heard this, what the heck was this dude about to tell him? "It was all due to the dream that you had last night, the reason for it was the Brain Burst program. It was going through your memories to collect data, and it forged this character in response to what it had found and made the best fit for you."
"My... memories..." Sora said with a dark glare as Ren panicked and waved both hands in front of him to try and calm the boy down. Sora glared for a couple of seconds before sighing as he slumped his shoulders and shook his head. "No wonder I had that horrible dream about me going on a rampage with dad having to knock me out, that was a pain..."
"Yeah, kind of went overboard on that one. Anyway, take a look up there." Ren then pointed upwards and Kira looked and saw green bars that superimposed themselves over their vision. There was a timer between the bars that read [500] and was going down by the second. "See that? Those are our health bars, they're self-explanatory. And the names beneath them, those are our names."
"I see..." Sora looked up at the names as Ren's had [Darkstone Serpent], and when he went over to his own, he saw that he had the name of [Darkstone Crimson]. Ren then continued to explain as Sora crossed his arms over his chest and listened.
"You automatically get assigned a name upon creation of your avatar, they normally have a colour or element followed by a term or object. Now, the timer displays how much time we have before the match ends, and once it hits zero, the match is over."
"Is the colour significant?"
"Their colours signify what type of fighter they are, like long-ranged and melee etc." Ren explained as Sora nodded in understanding, Ren then pointed at a smaller blue bar below the health bar. "That is the Special Move gauge, you have to have enough in that to use a special move depending on how much it requires."
"Special moves?"
"I have a special move called [Darkness Archaela], it costs me around a quarter of my Special Move Gauge." Crest added as Kira nodded. "Now, go into the menu by swiping your hand, that should open up the options and allow you to click the [Abilities] option. Tell me what you have."
"Okay..."
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[Avatar Abilities]
Red Pulse Barrage: Encompass your fists with your almighty power and pummel your enemies into the ground with overwhelming strength.
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"That sounds pretty good. Though, we should probably refrain from using it right now as we don't know it's full capabilities." Ren stated as Sora nodded in agreement. They knew how immensely powerful they were with their Darkstone powers, and if this ability perhaps strengthened him, then it would be best to hold it back for now. "For now, I want to get you some points. Give me a punch or two."
"If you're sure..." Sora muttered as he then delivered a quick and powerful punch to Ren's stomach as the male recoiled back in pain as he stumbled on his feet, the force of the punch creating a small shockwave through the area. Sora raising an eyebrow as he heard the grunt of pain come from the male. "Did you actually feel that?"
"Oh, right. I didn't tell you. The pain you feel in the game, you actually feel it in real life." Sora looked at him like he had grown a second head, was this guy for real? "I know, it's insane. But, It doesn't actually harm your body. You just mentally think you're being hurt. So, it'll feel painful in the real world, but you won't take physical damage."
"Okay, that sounds absolutely retarded. Whatever, I'll see you back in the real world." The world then changed back to normal as the timer hit down to zero with Sora and Ren opening their eyes as they found themselves back in Ren's living room. Ren then turned to Sora and grinned before saying.
"So, what do you think?"
"I think you're special."
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