After the scare and event that happened in Manehattan, I realized a few things. First off, there are things that are just way too powerful exist. Second, that some people can be too OP given Cript and his daughter, that thing destroyed the city in the time I was gone and she took it out in one swing. Lastly is that I need to beat Dorlu and finally master these cards. I don’t know if beating Trinity is even possible with what she can do, but I think she can train me in being stronger. “Good lordy…” I sigh out, scratching my head as many many thoughts rushed through my head. “Hopefully Dorlu is around and hasn’t been deployed to Manehattan…” I mutter before looking around for Detective Gambler.

I walked into the police station and it was hectic with people moving back and forth, and papers were scattered everywhere. “Ben!” Dorlu called out, walking out from the chaos. “What are you doing here?”

“Hoping to not see this for a start.” I start, looking around at the chaos worriedly. “It’s because of that monster right?”

“Yeah, lot of folks here are being sent there to scout for survivors and… clean up. I gotta head out soon, some reports tell that heartless showed up not long after the thing was killed.”

“Well shit…” I frown. “That’s not good. I better go out and help cause I’m supposed to be the ‘White Knight of Equis’ after all.” I say while twirling my finger pointed up in a ‘whoop-de-doo’ kind of motion.

“I think Celestia would appreciate that.” Dorlu said, picking up some papers. “This is, from what I was told, Equestria’s first major tragedy since the changeling invasion, and no one even died in that.”

“Yeah, nothing like starting to realize the world is a fuck lot bigger than you originally thought.” I sigh out bitterly. “Anyways I better head off, I’ll be there a lot sooner than most of the guards, unless you want to tag along on my glider.”

“I have my own way.” Dorlu said, tossing out two cards that grew and stuck to his back like wings. “I’ve been meaning to try this out too.”

“There’s a lot of things you have yet to accomplish my fine friend.” I chuckle while summoning my glider. “With just a little imagination those cards could become so much more. Come on we’ve got work to do.” I say before hopping on my glider and speeding off to Manehattan.

After about twenty minutes of flying with Dorlu we both made it to the island city and things were not pretty in anyway shape or form. “Shit…” I frown.

“You take on the heartless, I’ll look for survivors.”

“Sounds like a plan.” I say before speeding headlong into the heartless, landing on the ground as I dismissed it, summoned my keyblade and shield and ran in, killing Heartless that tried attacking me in the process. The day was pretty long as I played exterminator and cleaved my way through Heartless rather quickly if I do say so myself, but sadly there was so many of the damned things. “Jesus hell where do you things keep coming from?” I grumble while continuing to rush through and kill heartless, trying to find survivors in my spare time to help Dorlu out.

We found more corpses than survivors, and those that were alive were… heavily injured. I used cure more times today than I ever have, and even then it only made them stable, sealed deep wounds, and even fixed broken bones, but anything that was… missing… didn’t come back. Damn it, did Core bring that thing here?

“Ben, some reports came in about a group heading our way, make sure they make it.” Dorlu said.

I nodded and flew off on my glider, finding the group about five miles from where we set up camp. I swiftly flew down outside the camp and jumped off my glider, walking up to the group. “Hi, here to help.” I say simply, readying myself for a fight that may come.

“Thank the stars.” One of the people in the group, a grey stallion, said. “There’s more injured over in the old library ruins, including some foul-” He was cut off by being cut. In a blink all of the group was hacked in half, the one responsible… a little girl, no older than ten, holding a small dagger.

“Finally found the stragglers.” She said.

“Oh come the fuck on~.” I groan, readying my sword and shield for the little girl. “Who are you? And why did you murder them?”

She smiled at me, some kinda psycho cutesy smile. “I’m Jenny Ventral, and collecting the stragglers corpses is my job.”

“Corpse collecting doesn’t seem that good for a ten year old. Even for a Ventral in my opinion.” I say honestly.

“Core needs spare parts for his latest creations.”

“Did he not hear some weird reports of a fucking titan that destroyed the city?” I ask with a frown

“He sensed that thing appear, surprised him too. But he decided to take the opportunity to gather resources.”

“Of course he would…” I sigh out. “Just peachy. And here I thought that after hearing Core was just a little bitch in the grand scheme of things I wouldn’t be so worried.” I joke before dismissing my sword and shield and summoning Fair Game. ”Good a time as ever to try and be a ‘master’ at this…” I think to myself, thinking that she could be a handful if she’s that fast. “Let’s play a little game shall we?” I say with a little smile, the girl suddenly sensing a weird foreboding that felt very worrying even for her.

“This is a fight, not a ‘game’.” The child says before bolting after me, trying to slice at my neck to finish me but was immediately dropped to the ground as a crushing pain suddenly shot through her.

“Oh I’m sorry, I forget you’re a Ventral.” I say with a little chuckle. “‘Games’ are always ‘how many kicks to the head will kill a puppy’ right?” I ask, seeing the girl get up and jump away, her knife at the ready. The girl vanished and appeared behind me, but then a ‘thump’ was heard as she gasped, her failed attempt at trying to deal a fatal blow to me winding her this time. “My god can you wait five seconds to know the rules?”

“Fine.” She growls before getting up and appearing in front of me. “What are these ‘rules’.” She says, poison in her tone. “And no we don’t play ‘how many kicks to the head can kill a puppy’, my father loved dogs!” She shouts at me.

“Wait really?” I ask honestly, surprised at hearing that.

“Ventral's may be monsters but we’re still human...to some degree…” She says with a shrug. “Anyways, rules go.”

“Okay so rule one, no killing.” I say, quietly making some hidden rules without her knowing. “Two, we both have a set time limit so whoever runs out of time first loses.” I say before two cards appear, showing that me and Jenny had the same exact amount of time. “And with each minute or subsequent hit we deal to each other will knock off our time. Whoever runs out of time first is the loser alright?” I ask, seeing the girl nod. “And three, keep the speed to visible alright? Wouldn’t want to make this too easy right?”

“Yeah yeah.” She says before readying herself, putting away her knife and dropping down into a battle stance. “Whenever you are.”

“Ready.” I say, cards starting to circle around me. “Fight!” I shout, a hidden timer already ticking down on Jenny as she bolted towards me, swiftly and with purpose, swinging a fist towards me that was blocked by a card quickly. The card flipped around and a slow stamp was on it as she was pushed back, her movements feeling slower as her time ticked down steadily from the hit. I grabbed the card and threw it at her, the big card splitting into ten smaller cards all homing at her, which she dodged with just the smallest of movements as she dashed towards me and punched me in the stomach. I gasped in pain at being punched really hard as my time went down as well before I skidded to a halt. “Look closely.” I say before vanishing behind a card, seven different cards appearing with me on it, two blank, two explosive and one time stamp before they all moved around swiftly. As Jenny was focused on my card that slipped under another card I decided to do a little trick that almost got Dorlu as I shrunk my main card down and swapped it with another card.

“My mother taught me how to beat this silly ‘find the real card’.” She says before seeing each card flip up back first, walking over to the right one and flipping it, only to spot a time stamp on it and knocking her back, slowing her down even more. I revealed myself and readied for her next strike, the game still in full effect and things going a little too easy for me. She got up and shook off the dirt. “Alright, time for a trump card.” She said, lifting up one of her hands, which had some kinda symbols on it. “Oh Caster.” She said, a crazy eyes man and a hooded woman appeared. “Rule breaker, and some extra magic if you please.”

They nodded, the crazy eyed man summoning a book and darkness began pouring out of it, while the lady pulled out a dagger and I could feel the game change.

“And mind if I ask why the rules have proceeded to be changed to?” I ask, looking at my cards to see if the timers were still there. ”God please tell me my hidden rules are still in effect…” I mutter before sensing they were still in effect. ”Yes!” I mentally cheer.

The corpses she made were covered in the dark magic from the crazy eyed man and then… they crawled to each other, and stood up before changing into a deck of black cards that fell into the girl’s hands. “Isn’t the game better with more cards?” She mocked, tossing cards out that nearly mimicked what mine did.

”Crap, she learned by watching?!” I mentally panic, readying myself. “While that’s true it only seems to be fair that I told you the rules of the game I made. So mind telling me the rules you made up?” I ask, taking a deep breath and starting to relax and focus.

“The cards I placed have mixed in with the cards you already placed out, to keep it fair, some of yours are in my deck, and mine in yours. If you pull out one of my cards, you miss a turn, same applies to me, but now, thanks to my Casters, no physical attacks are enabled, only spell cards, you run out of magic then you skip a turn to recharge.”

“Who knew Deja Vu could become real life.” I say, finding this kind of funny that Chain of Memories is now the new rules. “Welp, let’s get it started.” I say before my deck appeared in my hand, feeling the dark cards intermingled with them.

She pulled out a card, to which the number was seven and seven fire blasts hit me. “Oh, the number on the card determines the potency of the attack, and how many hit you, when summoning, the number determines how many of what you summon appear.” She added.

“What about Aces? Since they can count as either one or higher than a King.” I say, wanting to at least know that bit.

“Those are basically a ‘wish card’ pick extra magic, an extra turn, or you can draw two cards next turn.”

“Alright then.” I nod before picking up my card, turning it around and five icicle spears shot out and hit Jenny. “Just gonna point out that this feels less like a fight and more of those anime’s about children’s card games...just saying.”

“I’m ten, what did you expect?” She retorted, pulling out another card to which I was hit by four gravity spells at once.

“I don’t know...taking care of your own pony or something?” I ask, trying to ignore the pain as I drew my card, eight bolts of wind slashing at Jenny. “Do we still have the timer I set or do we have a new thing to point out our health?”

“That is when a joker is drawn, timer starts for ten seconds, we basicly bombard each other for that time to try and and knock the timer off each other down enough to win.”

“I really wish we were normal people…” I sigh out.

“Even back home normal is impossible for a Ventral, no matter where we go, police and fear is there, whether we did something or not.” She said, pulling out a card, to which three heartless appeared, charging at me. “Each summon takes the according number of seconds off your timer regardless. Beat them in less, you gain the time back.”

A card appeared in front of all the heartless before splitting off into smaller ones, glowing and exploding, killing all the things rather quickly. “That work or is that a little no no?”

She pulled another card, a queen. “One queen, nice. Two queens or three kings drawn, winner automatically.” She said, placing the card in her pocket. “Sadly, I miss a turn.”

I draw a card, and it just so happens to be a king. “Well looky there, I suppose we’re both getting lucky here.” I say before placing it in my pocket. “Go ahead.” I say, moving my hand in a ‘pass turn’ motion.

She drew a card, to which two… half human half heartless things appeared. “I think you’ve seen these things before, you like?”

“Three things, one don’t you think the police would actually stop hunting down a criminal family that...they can’t stop?” I ask before drawing a card and flipping it around, two Nobodies suddenly appeared and...they looked rather different than what I was accustomed to. “Two, when I said ‘I wish we were normal’ I meant more of ‘I wish we could be friends’ to some extent or another...and my third point was taken up with these giant wolf Nobodies.” I say, seeing the two growl before I looked at my card, seeing that it was a six. “I’m missing something...rather important. This was a six yet I got two...does it depend on the strength of the thing that was summoned or what?”

“Yeah, you can use a higher level card to summon one or two strong allies, or the number of weaker allies the card allows.” She said. “As for friends… Maybe in another life.” She said, pulling out another card… which was a joker.

“What’s the Joker's time limit?” I ask, readying myself for our fight.

“Thirty seconds.” She said, drawing cards like crazy, to which I did the same. Magic was practically being flung like kids in a food fight if a bystander saw it, wind, fire, ice, gravity, all sorts of normal spells hit us both which dwindled both of our times like cocaine addicts on a severe Netflix binge before our time was up and we both ended up without a single card left in our deck.

“Shit…” I frown, but glad it was my turn as I reformed my deck.

She drew her last card, he deck reforming as she did and a three fireballs hit me. She started chuckling. “So, what reason do you have, for fighting?” She asked.

“I’ve been rejecting everything for so long.” I say. “Too long...but now I have those that I love and care about, those that accept me...and I accepted back.” I say, my cloak covered in suit, ice, and other magical residue at this point. “And...even though you're a Ventral...and I barely know much about you’re family...but you can be that which you never thought you could…” I explain.

“What? Be like cousin Zeke? Different? Everyone thought of him as odd, raised by the families best, yet never killed, never really participated. He just never seemed to care about anything.”

“I think Zeke was the first in your family to have the balls to find a way to be apart of the family without being thief, murderer, slaver or anything else.” I say. “He found a way to be a kind person, yet still be of dark origin.” I explain, starting to look down at the thought of what that one Ventral I killed wanted to be if she wasn’t haunted by being a Ventral.

“That’s why his difference shocked everyone. His red eyes man fate labeled him for the greatest monster of the family. Those red eyes are how our family started after all.”

“And you're probably right. I’ve never seen him fight, but I think it would take a real monster to decide not to fight in a line of monsters willing to fight every chance they got.” I say. “Besides, it wouldn’t be fun if the strongest got to do everything without anyone to stop him.” I explain, remembering that in plenty of stories.

She hung her head. “Do you even know how the Ventrals became villains… became real monsters in the first place?”

“I have no idea but I think it involves a nice person being called a demon in some old age because they had red eyes.” I take a wild guess.

“It was back in the fifteen hundreds, our oldest traced ancestor with the Ventral name was doctor to spanish royalty. He managed to marry into the family and his wife gave birth to three sons, one born blind, one mute, and one def, you know the old cliche. He and the kids were thrown out for some religious BS and the mother was hung. Years later he was a doctor in a small english town, raising his kids to heal as well. The blind son though, managed things he shouldn’t have been able to do.

“Perfect amputations, stitching, all of it. He met a ‘witch’ that passed through town one day, and in exchange for medicine for her illness, she’d give him an elixir that would give him sight. He laughed it off, but helped her anyway. Out of curiosity he drank it, and he could see, his foggy eyes cleared, revealing the red behind the fog. His family celebrated, though something was off, his surgeries ended in deaths, and his patients never healed, only got worse. He was hunted down by the church and was to be hanged. In his cell, something changed, she gave him sight, but took his healing away, and replaced it with death’s eyes. He used it to his advantage and escaped, killing the whole church on the way out. The Ventral family continued after that, every red eyed Ventral keeping the legend alive.”

I remained silent for a bit. “A potion took away healing hands...only to give death’s eyes…” I take a deep breath. “I...I really don’t know what to say really. I mean...I could spin something silly but...wow.” I say, hearing that entire story just made my head do a little spin. “But...I don’t know the proper name of it but I think it’s a thing...have you ever heard of a cycle where the beginning cycled to the end?”

“Yeah.”

“Well...I think Zeke...might be the one to bring the healing touch back into your family.” I say. “I’m not entirely sure if Zeke will go blind or anything but...just meeting him the few times I did...he always seemed like the one that you could always trust on for help, to always make those that are broken heal and be better in life. Maybe he’s the one to bring the healing hands out of the ocean of blood, as it always tried to for so long…” I explain, not entirely sure if this is true but it making all the more sense the more I thought about it.

“Maybe.” She said. “Maybe the legend is just that, a legend…But hey, all stories have a source, right?”

“Yep. All stories have a source…” I nod. “A bookworm wouldn’t be a bookworm if they didn’t know the source. And now knowing this…”

“Still, if the story is true…then if there was no magic on earth, where did the witch and the elixir come from? After all, a witch and elixer’s are magic, so where did they come from?”

“It’s funny...cause when you started saying that I thought Core...but I have a feeling he’s either involved in it somehow to gain a powerful family with hearts dark enough to easily bribe...or someone working under him. Or it could be one of the many monsters just fucking with Earth that God or Core couldn’t stand up to.” I shrug.

“Maybe. Maybe something slipped under God’s defence. EIther way.” She said, taking the dagger from one of her ‘casters’. “We have a game to finish. What do you say? One last draw, both of us using our trump cards?”

“Let’s have a little wager shall we?” Ben asks with a smile.

“What you offering?”

“My life.” I say, patting my chest. “If you win, I die, but if I win, you have to sever all ties with Core and and get help from Zeke. Unum was able to be saved from darkness...hearing your family’s story and knowing that your family still has humanity left in it...I know you can be saved as well. It’ll be tough but I’ll be damned if I’m wrong.” I say.

“I accept, though, if I win then I’m not killing you. I’d rather take you alive, Core has been getting more interested in you given his newest…allies.”

“Trust me...I’ve met some people that makes Core, and any of his allies look like ant’s. It’s...actually quite scary to be perfectly honest.” I chuckle before putting a hand on my next card, hearing the inaudible clock tick it’s final time. “Ready?”

“He knows, why do you think he’s interested in Zeke so much? Other than having the X-blade, he found something interesting about our families red eye legend, but only Josh knows the whole thing.” She said, readying her dagger.

The card I drew started glowing a bright white as I lifted it up in the air. “Ladies first.”

She drew a card, but rather than something like an attack or summon appear she started charging at me… really fast as the dagger glowed.

“Doom.” I say, the simple word echoing somehow before everything seemed to slow down for her. A cloaked being appeared behind me that only Jenny noticed, something that even the strongest Ventral feared.

“Crap.” She muttered as she stopped charging and came to a stand still. The cloaked being move forward, grabbing her head with both it’s hands and poured some kinda energy into her head, making her scream in both fear and pain. After it was over, it dropped her and she was out cold.

I looked over and just like one of my hidden rules stated, once it took into effect her entire time was lost. “I win…” I mutter, before falling to my knees as my eyes started to blur. “Fuck…everything hurts…” I mutter before gently moving over, our ‘game area’ dissipating as I checked her pulse. ”Doom was just to knock her out...thank fuck I managed to do it…” I think to myself, feeling a steady heart beat. “Oh thank god…” I sigh out happily. “Let’s get you somewhere safe…” I mutter as I get up shakily, gently picking her up and carrying her off, making sure to keep her knives away from her. “Crap...don’t have enough energy to summon my glider or Nobodies...and those wolves died in that flurry of spells. That was fun Jenny…” I say to the unconscious girl, hoping to find Dorlu and get home before I pass out. “Trinity?” I call out, hoping she somehow heard me call out to her.

“Waz up?” A voice came out from above me, when I looked up, she was floating over me. Thank god she now is wearing jeans and a T-shirt.

“Too weak...fought a very powerful ten year old in a children’s card game.” I say. “Cast Doom...hurt like a bitch.”

“Oh.” She floated down and gave me a rather large bottle with green liquid in it. “Mega potion.” She said.

“Oh thank god.” I smile before fixing Jenny’s position and taking the bottle before drinking a little bit of it, and already I felt a whole lot better. “Thank you. Oh, this is Jenny Ventral...and if you haven’t already looked at my mind of the events that happened then I beat her with the bet that if I win she cut ties to Core and get a lot of help.” I say.

“Nice, reminds me of dad’s stories of how he did stuff before he made the Humanity blade.” She said, looking over Jenny. “Huh, well she’d been twisted pretty good, that I can fix… but how did she ingest cursed blood?”

“Soul Eater world....”

“No, not that junk. There’s some other blood, really old and really nasty in her. I think I can analyze it, but I’ll need her laid flat on the ground.” Trinity said.

“She actually told me her family origins...which all started with a blind doctor, a witch and a magical potion.” I say. “It’s a long story but I think I can tell you...and should I wake her up? Doom took a lot out of her…” I say, staring at the once murderous child and now seeing the sleeping form and finding her in such a vulnerable state that you’d mistake her for a harmless ten year old.

“Let me just see something.” She said, her hand glowing with light as she passed it over Jenny. “Oh…” She said, the light in her and fading as she looked horrified.

“What?” I ask worriedly, hoping this isn’t as bad as I think.

“Well…it’s a long story, but you know the bible story about Cain?”

“Not really but I do remember that Cain killed Abel if that means anything.” I say worriedly, not really that much into religious work.

“Yeah, well, that did happen, but the events after took a different take. You see, like how this realm was once one world, that’s true for my realm too, though, you know, differences. On that first world, Cain killed his brother, but unlike in the bible, he creates something new in a newly made existence, something that exists in all realms now. Murder. He became that fact, the physical representation for murder. As time passed, his power comes from every death from every murder committed. As such, those that kill so many, he changes, integrating himself into their bodies, souls, minds, etc. His signature are red, demon like eyes with black whites. We call those he has access to in that way, Psychopathes. This girl has the blood of an ancient psychopath in her, maybe an early or even from Cain himself.”

“But the story she told me was that the original Ventral gave birth to the children, one who was deaf, blind and mute. The blind one had hands that could practically cure anything, but then a witch told him he could have his sight back for medicine, and when he took it he gained red eyes and gained the ‘eyes of death’...which then turned his hands of healing into hands of death...and then he took that in stride when he was sentenced to death…” I explain.

“Well, it’s still a possibility, Cain was still at large til my dad helped him, then there are still old and powerful Psychopaths out there. That which could have been one that tried to create more… or she was a member of Nexus, but that’s a whole other thing.”

“Yeah…” I sigh out. “I just hope to help her out to be honest. Zeke is a red eyed Ventral yet he wields the X-blade and has saved countless worlds and saved Unum...I maybe getting a little off topic here but still…”

“Well, with this blood in her, she and anyone like her, as in family, has a direct connection to the fact of murder. I don’t think I can take it out, though dad might… He was fated to be a new Cain, but after the first time that fact turned him, he did a turn around and now only uses that power when dealing with other Psychopaths.”

“And the world just keeps getting bigger and bigger.” I chuckle. “But the Ventrals...from what I’ve been told they still have some grounds in humanity thankfully...so maybe that can help pull them out of their blood thirsty rage...or god help those that stick with their bloodthirsty ways.” I frown, still holding onto hope that if one can be saved then others can as well.

“Well… dads Humanity blade should work, but he’ll have to make another one. That might take some time, unless he pulls the ones he keeps in the vault.”

“I don’t know if I should ask for him to make a new one or ask for the spare…” I say honestly.

“Either one works, but the spares he keeps in case of realm wide war, which has happened several times.”

“That’s concerning.” I say worriedly. “But question...am I even allowed to have one? Cause the strength of that blade sounds like there’s a catch or two behind it.” I say honestly.

“Well, it’s powered by the user Will power, as long as you’re determined to win, the attacks will stay strong, and as the name suggests, anyone with humanity in them will be saved by it. As for getting one… even his kids have to take a special test his boss made, and it’s not easy.”

I take a deep breath, closing my eyes and trying not to groan in rage. “I spent two whole months on math tests…” I sigh out. “I mean...taking a major test while I have twelve others waiting doesn’t sound that bad...but how do you define as ‘not easy’? Cause ‘not easy’ for you could mean ‘impossible’ for me.”

“Dad’s boss made it that it’s, well, to simplify it, since you’ve played Kingdom Hearts, fighting the Lingering Will at level forty, when he’s level one hundred. It’s three trials, one to test your inner strength, one to test your outer, and the last to test your willpower, showing you your greatest pears and darkest moments.”

“Huh...even though that sounds simple that sounds really fucking hard.” I say simply. “But not impossible thankfully.”

“You’ll have to prove to dad you can take the test though, there are few exceptions for an outside the family person to be given a humanity blade.”

“And I have a feeling those few exceptions were stuff that impressed him right?” I ask curiously.

“Either you get adopted into our family, which thanks to a family curse, you become biologically his child also, or you can either beat, or equal at him in a fight.”

“There’s no way I can beat a literal god...unless I figure out how to master and mix all my abilities together to be a ‘god’ of some form...but that’s not for a long ass time…” I sigh out. “Oh dear…”

“There are perks to being adopted, instant power upgrade, a demigod title, and an Assistant.”

“Now while that sounds tempting it sounds too easy of a solution for some reason.” I say honestly. “I mean sure it would be awesome but...I don’t know why…” I say.

“The choice is yours, but beating or meeting dad in terms of power is near impossible unless you’re a Psychopath. Getting adopted and being an adult you’d be given some rather impressive opponents to practice against. As in the other kids.”

“Hmm…” I hum. “I got it.” I start. “I’ll be adopted but there needs to be a deal along with it. And Cript is gonna need to be the one to hear it.” I explain, already having a good idea of how I can do this.

“Alright then, I think I can call dad now.” She tapped on the device on her wrist and then it made a beep noise. “Three, two, one.” She counted.

In a flash, Cript was standing next to us. “You rang?” He asked.

“Cript. I have a deal.” I say to him. “And that deal is, I am to be adopted into your family, but that will only happen when I am able to pass your test and gain a humanity blade.” I start. “I will still be apart of your family but all the powers, curse, and demigod status will be withheld until I have passed that test. Sound good?”

“Wait… you want to join my family for a Humanity Blade? For what reason?”

“Psychopathes.” Trinity said to Cript’s surprise.

He sighed. “Crap. They shouldn’t be here…Alright, you got a deal, but just to warn you, you also get a new mom, who will also be genetically your mom, among a few things you might get from them.”

“The only mom I know of...was my fault…” I say before shaking my head. “Listen, I want to save any Ventrals I can...and Jenny is the first. Their family was probably poisoned by a Psychopath to become them but I don’t know...I just don’t want blood of another soul that wished they were different on my hands…” I say bitterly, knowing that I would have to kill more but still.

Cript smiled. “You’re more like me already than I expected.” Cript held out a hand. “Deal, and welcome to the family.”

“Thanks…” I smile. “But don’t be expecting me to call you dad okay?”

“Your own pace, but whatever.” Cript said as I took his hand. Instantly my body felt… different. When I stood up I had one of those devices on my wrist. “Assistant goes to everyone, it’s free, can do a stupid amount of stuff, think of it as the ‘menu’ for a game. Also you can buy shit from my company just by, well, the store option, and it’s basically that game breaking inventory were you carry a shit ton of stuff while no differences externally. Oh, and you can set ‘waypoint’ to teleport to places, Trinity will show you the basics, one is set to your room back in my realm, yes you have a room, and later.” He finished as he vanished.

“Later…” I say. “So...question, can someone steal this?” I ask, hoping to christ nobody can steal this.

“If they try it will turn into something akin to a transformer and beat the hell out of them.” Trinity said. “The safety features in these things are ridiculous, and only you can take it off.”

“Glad to know these things can’t be taken.” I sigh out thankfully. “Anyways, how do I disguise this? I don’t want anyone freaking out when they see it.”

“Mentally. Just think of something you want it to look like until you tap it, taping it disperses the disguise.”

“Alright then…” I nod before thinking for a moment, before seeing the thing somehow transform into a bracelet with a heart shape on the top. I checked it and saw that it opened up to hold pictures and I smiled warmly. “Thank god…” I mutter with a smile. “Now all I need is pictures and I can have it remind me of my new family…” I say with a smile, hoping to get a family photo soon so I can remember it.

“Take off your hood, I wanna see if there are any physical differences.” Trinity asked.

I raised an eyebrow before mentally shrugging, gently taking off my hood and glad to feel my crown was still there sitting proud on my head. “Anything different on my normally wonderful looking face?”

She was grinning, then laughed a little. “Uh, I think I know the race of your new mom.” She said, chuckling.

“I better not look like a troll…” I mutter, checking my face in hopes it’s not different.

“Nope. More… canine.” She chuckled.

“...How?” I ask worriedly.

“Wolf eyes, ears on your head, fuzzy sideburns, and your hair is now a dark blue.” She explained.

“Are my eyes still blue?” I ask, remembering my original parents loved my shiny blue eyes.

“Yeah.”

“Oh thank god…” I sigh out. “But...what are my girlfriends going to think? And does this also include a tail?” I ask.

“Check.”

I took a deep breath and focused on if there was a tail...and in fact yes, I did have a tail and it was wagging. “Oh no…” I whine, and to add insult to injury my whine sounded like that of a dog’s whine.

Trinity broke out in laughter. “Sorry, but I never saw the change before you just look so… Sorry.” She said, wiping tears away. “Anyway, let me see if you’re on the sibling list.” She said, checking her Assistant.

“God...my girlfriends are not going to let me live this down…” I mutter, putting my arm back around Jenny as she breathed gently, soundly asleep in my arms and curling up in my hold.

“Let’s see. Here you are, Ben Cronthgh, that’s dad’s last name, age eighteen, level seventy nine, list of weapons, skills, stats, ets… Ah, here we are. Your mother is Den.”

“Does she have a sister named ‘Nyla’?”

“Yeah. Looks like she’s now your aunt for real.”

“And I’m technically related to Dorlu...he’s not going to like this.” I say nervously.

“Well, not by blood to him, just his kids.” Trinity corrected. “Well, enough worrying, we got people to save, stuff to do, and you, according to your states, are close to mastering your cards. Yes it tells that.”

“Wait seriously?” I ask in amazement. “More of the fact that I’m close to mastering Fair Game, that’s awesome.” I smile, glad to achieve my second weapon.

“Yeah, from what I saw, just one last tough opponent to beat and you get the master rank for them.”

“I have a good feeling I’m going to have to fight Dorlu for my master rank. Only feels right ya know?” I ask honestly.

“Yeah, and with your assistant, go on and buy some stuff if you want, it materializes in front of you after purchasing it.”

“Uh...sure.” I say before before summoning a card and gently putting her on it, the card floating in the air as I tapped my Assistant as it flashed back to normal. It pressed the ‘shop’ button and up came a screen with a...Moogle on it asking if I wanted to buy, sell, or Synthesis stuff. “Huh…”

“Well dad does have a sense of humor. Want it normal or that okay?”

“No no this is perfect. Reminds me of when I played and went to a Moogle shop.” I say before pressing ‘Buy’, and noticed I had a shit ton of Munny.

“Alright then, what you gonna buy, weapon, accessory, other? Other is normal things like games, furniture, the usual, even instant homes.”

“Does a fuck ton of munny come with being a family member or did I just never notice I was somehow ambiently collecting the stuff?” I ask honestly, going to accessories and checking that out.

“You get an allowance of a million rem a week. Rem is a…special currency in my realm, equal in value to all other currencies. I know that sounds broken, but that’s part of why it’s used.”

“Makes sense…” I say while perusing the thing, starting off on the small sections and seeing what I can buy. “Oh, Sweetie might like this…” I say before pressing a button and accepting, losing three thousand Munny before out popped up a silver necklace with a golden gem in it. “A ‘Resist All’ necklace. It looks pretty and I’m sure it’ll help her in fights.” I say with a smile. “And maybe I should get the others something nice, I’ll save money for something of my own but I’ll keep that off to the side after I beat Dorlu.” I say while going back to looking through it, already planning out gifts as I pocketed the necklace.

“The weapons are usually pretty expensive. One of them being the Mouse.” Trinity said.

“I immediately thought of ‘Mickey Mouse’ for some weird reason.” I frown. “Damn Disney.”

Trinity chuckled. “No, it’s basically a hand held nuclear reactor that fires a beam through a elemental crystal, amplifying the power.”

“That sounds like the perfect toy to give to all children. Coming to stores now, ‘The Mouse’! Capable of murdering all your pesky problems and giving you two different types of cancer all in one!” I say in my best ‘tv salesperson’ voice.

“Well it’s not priced at fifty billion rem without a good reason, plus only like, ten were ever sold and whatever wasn’t was hidden in other dimensions and such.”

“Kind of sounds like the RHYNO from Ratchet and Clank.” I say, remembering that game series. “Anyways we got shit to do, no need to go on a shopping spree now, heartless are still attacking innocents and Dorlu needs our help...or my help I don’t know what you're going to do now.”

“I’ll look for survivors, you get some medicine with this thing and bring it to them, then challenge Dorlu.”

“Alright, before Jenny killed them, a survivor said more were at the library ruins.” Trinity nodded and flew off.

“Right then.” I say before summoning my glider and flying off after Trinity, summoning Gamblers, Snipers, and Assassins to help protect Jenny and also left a note saying I was going to be gone for a bit helping people, stay here and the Nobodies will protect you from anyone that may try to do her harm. After a while me and Trinity found the library ruins and for a bookworm it really hurt to see a library filled with so many stories just destroyed so remorselessly that it kind of pissed me that.

The survivors came out, to my surprise I recognized one of them as Applebloom’s cousin. “You with the royal guard?” She asked.

“No I am not Babs Seed. I am the White Knight of Equis!” I say with a little flourish, just to help the kid laugh at my silliness.

She smiled. “Oh, you’re that guy that fights the monsters, did you kill the thing that destroyed the city?”

“I-”

“It was all him.” Trinity cut in. “He’s not a hero without a reason, right?” Trinity said, giving me a ‘play along’ look.

“That is definitely true my fellow friend.” I say with a smile. “Cleaved the thing down in one swing of my mighty sword.” I say while summoning Reunion. “I’m sorry I couldn’t get there sooner though...could have stopped so much destruction…”

“Well, at least you came, better late than never, right?” She said, walking off to get the others.

“That’s more true than you’d ever expect.” I sigh out, following Babs along to help her with the other survivors and guard them from any Heartless. Thankfully it went a lot smoother than I originally thought, Heartless did appear but I stopped them with ease, even though a Reverse Armor appeared just for irony’s sake, but I took it down just the same. “Reverse or not you're still a bitch.” I say with a grin, going back to helping the others to safety. “Wonder where Dorlu is? I hope he’s alright…” I mutter to myself, hoping my master was alright in this Heartless infested wreck that was once a city.

“He’s in the main tent.” One of the injured said.

“How many survivors did he find?” I ask curiously, knowing he’s a good officer and has an eye for detail.

“So far there’s fifty.” The man said.

“How many were originally in the city?” I ask worriedly.

“Sixty thousand.” He said.

“Oh…” I say before taking a deep breath. “Every life we can save right now matters. We’ll mourn the dead later.” I say, trying to force down the feeling of sadness at not being able to stop that thing before practically the entire city was killed by either the Titan, Jenny, or the Heartless. After a while me, Trinity, and the survivors we found made it to the main tent, where I saw many ponies crying and helping others calm down we all made it. “I’m here to see Dorlu.” I say to a guard, letting him know instead of just rushing in.

He moved aside and upon walking in I saw Dorlu looking over some of the major injured. “Hey Ben.” He said. “This gives me some flashbacks to some days back at Knowhere.”

“Just a little...I didn’t expect something like this to happen…” I sigh out. “But how are you doing?”

“So-so. Really makes you think, first that whatever it was, now heartless. Feels like the whole universe is against us sometimes.”

“All you can do is look at the positives sometimes.” I shrug, glad I had my hood covering my face and hid my tail under my coat. “But I managed to beat someone really powerful in a game.” I say honestly. “Got to do something really fancy as well.”

“Really, that’s good. The cards are tricky to master, but once you got the hang of it, they do pretty much what you want.”

“When you manage to input the spell ‘Doom’ into a hidden rule then that can always make things wonderful...too bad it took a lot out of me.” I say sheepishly.

“I can imagine. Well, any lock finding supplies? Medicine and such are needed badly.”

“Sorry no…” I sigh out. “But...maybe…” I start before I focus and snap my fingers, five Nobodies dressed up as doctors standing there at the ready. “Didn’t think that was possible…” I mutter, their faces and uniform symbols being red Nobody symbols. “Heal the injured.” I order as they immediately rush off, starting to do what they actually looked like, being doctors and helping the injured at great speed and precision. “I...honestly didn’t know that these Nobody's existed...but hey any help right?”

“Yeah. Must have been doctors before…. Well, they became that.”

“You’d think that.” I say, glad to see them all healing the injured. “Why I thought they existed was because giant wolves are also Nobodies...that world is starting to get a whole lot bigger than I thought.” I say. “Anyways after we’re done and take a day or two as a break, want to try another fight? Just to get that over with?” I ask honestly, hoping to get my mark of mastery done.

“Sure, could use a break from all… this, plus these Nobodies of yours seem to have it handled. Let’s make it quick though.” Dorlu said.

“Wait right now?” I ask honestly. “Cause I don’t think it’s gonna be quick…” I say honestly.

“Relax, we fight in the hot zones we can take out heartless at the same time.” Dorlu said. “Two birds with one stone.”

“Sure. And maybe it’ll be the match I master Fair Game.” I say with a smile, hoping that to be true even if stats say that might be true.

“Only if you beat me.” Dorlu adds as the two of us head off into an area with a fair amount of heartless around them. “Ready?”

“Ready.” I say, summoning my cards and noticing that Jenny’s cards are long gone. After a moment the both of us summoned a big card and clashed together, a gust of wind pushing outwards as we both swapped out the big card and threw smaller cards at each other. The two of us always dashing around slaughtering heartless, which I swapped out my cards for my Keyblade briefly just to kill heartless that got too close just to make sure they didn’t stick around, before leaping back in with Fair game. We both did our little games at the same time, the two of us guessing correctly before vanishing in cards, leaping out of others and clashing again and again with new and varying ways. He would surprise me with coming out of well placed cards I didn’t notice he placed, I surprised him by turning him into a six sided die! The fight continued and felt like it lasted forever, so many cards clashed, bruises and cuts littered our bodies before suddenly Dorlu grinned and a flash of light blinded me.

“Look who’s on top of the game!” He shouts before his throwing his deck out, a ton of cards littered the area as I knew full well what he was doing. Now what I didn’t know is that he summoned three card clones and started assaulting me on several sides which I was hard pressed to defend, but thankfully a quick card clone and quick dodges helped wonders. Another brief flash of light appeared, before I chased Dorlu who vanished and a skyscraper sized card appeared, before a giant cage appeared around us both before I started at him. “Do you know the rules?” He asks while four cards appeared, but they all appeared blank which instead of flipping around he decided to keep it for me to see, but then each card started flashing ‘X’ and ‘O’ in varying degrees of speed, but I was a fan of the fight and even though it went to blazing speeds I was ready. All that was standing between me and total victory was one final card that practically vibrated between the two choices.

“Now!” I shout before it hit ‘O’ which surprised Dorlu, his entire deck flying to my hand before I flung it straight at him, causing him to stagger back and take a knee, panting in exhaustion.

“Look’s like I am on top of the game.” I say before flipping a card towards him like a weapon. “Do I win?”

“Yes my apprentice, you have become an official master.” Dorlu says with a proud smile, my card suddenly glowing before I looked at the back and saw the Nobody symbol on the back got a strange...mark on it. It wasn’t a checkmark or anything, but it looked like a good enough sign to me that I mastered it.

“Thanks Dorlu...you were an excellent master.” I say with a smile, the deck disappearing before I lowered my hand, the man grabbing it gratefully and I hefted him up.

“Well, now that you have mastered the cards, are you gonna tell your girlfriends about your new body?” Trinity asks curiously.

“New what?” Dorlu asks with a raised eyebrow

“It’s….” I sigh out before taking off my hood and fixing my coat, showing my new features. “Nyla is now my aunt because of magical reasons…” I say nervously.

Dorlu just looked at me, then laughed. “I’m sorry, but you look like that grumpy cat meme!” He yelled out in his laughing fit.

“I’m sorry, but you're technically fucking my cousin.” I frown. “Also I’m part canine, not part cat asshole, and I don’t want to figure out if I have a canines sharp teeth on someone living.” I growl, the obvious sign that I’m part canine blatant enough in the growl.

“I guess you’re a good example of what my kids will look like grown up.” Dorlu said as he calmed down. “Either way, glad to have you in the family. I didn’t know Nyla had a sister.”

“Well she’s in a...strange place.” I say sheepishly. “But I hope to god my girlfriends don’t treat me any other way cause if they try to treat me like a dog then I’m going to slap one of them.” I frown. ”And I know at least one of them will enjoy it...still not into that…” I think to myself, remembering the ‘spanking’ thing one night.

“Well, let’s head back.” Trinity said.

“Yeah, I also need to check up on someone that I hope is still alright.” I say before summoning my glider. “Need a lift back to the main tent Dorlu?”

“I’m good, if you see Crystal let her know I’ll be home in a week.” Dorlu replied.

“Alright.” I nod before the glider floats up. “See ya Dorlu, and thank you for everything...even though the math could burn in a hole.” I frown before flying off to find Jenny and make sure she’s alright.

I flew back and found Jenny, she was still out cold, and the Nobodies I posted told me no one appeared as far as they sensed or saw. “That’s good…” I sigh out thankfully before pulling up my hood and fixing my cloak to hide my tail as I grabbed Jenny and made sure she was comfy flying along with me, dismissed the Nobodies and thanked them for their work and headed off home. After a while of flying I finally made it home, I picked Jenny up off my glider and dismissed it, and when I got to the door of my house I heard...

“So when should he get back?” A female voice I never heard before spoke.

“I’m sure it’s… soon.” Twilight’s voice replied.

I took a deep breath, and entered… to which I was greeted with Twilight, sitting next to a twelve foot tall wolf lady with… six… breasts...I walked over to the couch and gently put Jenny on the couch, putting a pillow under her head and made sure she was comfy, before walking over to the two and waving my finger towards the wolf woman. “Why...is there a Dire Wolf lady with six tits in our house?” I ask in a very calm tone.

“She says she’s your…mother?” Twilight says.

“You’re Ben?” The lady asked.

I raised a hand for the two to wait, before I walked into the kitchen. The two heard some rustling before I came back with a big bottle of scotch. “SO! How can I help you today?” I ask, opening the bottle and already taking a swig of it.

“Uh, I asked if you were Ben?” The wolf lady asked again.

“If any of my girlfriends laugh I’m honestly going to be pissed.” I sigh out before lowering my hood and fixing my coat, showing off my new wolf parts. “But yes, I am Ben. I suppose you are my new mother, Den. I know your sister Nyla...but these breasts...why are there six? I mean...I know normal dogs anatomically have six nips but still…” I say, trying not to be happy to see titties but seeing six on one lady is kind of something.

Den’s only response was grabbing me, causing me to drop my scotch, and hugged me tight between her… assets. “Oh, a new pup!” She cried in joy.

”I am so thankful that my six girls taught me proper breathing in these mounds.” I think to myself gladly. “Uh...I know you're happy but...I’m not ready to call your mother…” I say, my voice muffled by fluffy breasts.

“Oh, that’s alright, before Cript saved me, and before I got injected with darkness, I was the tribe den mother, I raised the young but was not allowed any myself.” She said, not letting up on the hug.

“I can see why.” I deadpan. “But...it’s more of a personal issue I...need to get past…” I say, moving my arms up and trying to hug her. “But...sooner or later...I’ll call you mom…”

She gave me a kiss, and a wolf style kiss, aka a lick. “I’ll be happy for that day young pup.” She says, nuzzling my face.

“This is going to need some getting used to…” I say, nuzzling her back gently. “But I suppose you met my girlfriend, Twilight. I wonder when the other four will get here.” I wonder, before it just so happened the door opened.

“We’re home!” Pinkie calls out and bounces in. “We’re a-”

“What the?” Rarity starts.

“Dire Wolf…” Zecora mutters.

“How is she bigger than me!?” Luna freaks, before closing her mouth quickly. “I’m sorry but...who are you? And why are you hugging...Ben?” Luna asks, seeing my cloak and my blue eyes and knowing it’s me but the other new things was pretty new.

“Hey girls...this is Den...my soon to be new mother…” I say, while the mares tilt their head at the ‘soon to be’ part. “It’s...personal. I’d…”

“You can tell us.” Pinkie says calmly, which surprised the fuck out of me seeing Pinkie not flipping out at seeing a new person.

“Well, Ben here,” Den started. “Ben here made a deal with my husband. He’s been adopted into our… special family, and as such is now, because of a curse, biologically mine and my husband's child upon adoption. He’s got a new large family. Also, Nyla is my sister. She’s just not as big as I am in terms of height and… assets, because she was the runt of the tribe.” Den explained.

“Wouldn’t really say that to be perfectly honest.” I say honestly. “But anyways I think they were talking about what I wanted to talk about...about my former parents…”

“Oh, my bad.” Den says, letting me go.

“It’s alright Den, they needed to know that anyways.” I say while grabbing a tissue and getting the saliva off of me. “Lordy…” I sigh out. “So my former parents...it’s a long story…” I mutter before grabbing my bottle of scotch and taking a swig. “Well, I was born in a normal family, we all got along great. One day, when I was about six, we went to the beach, my mom told me to stay on the sand but my dad said I could play in the water so long as I was in sight. They bickered over what was best for me, so I just jumped in the water anyway. Not knowing about waves, I got dragged out pretty far…then some asshole on a surfboard hit me and I went under. He got me out, and my parents took me to the hospital. That’s when things went south in a burning truck…When I came to in there I heard my parents arguing outside, saying that if I had stayed on the sand I’d have been find, if I was let out in the water dad would have kept an eye on me.” I say, taking another swig before continuing, already feeling tears of regret forming on the corners of my eyes.

“Things went on like that for the next few years. They argued over everything and me being the source/in the middle of it all, I just started doing my own thing. One rare day when they both agreed I shouldn’t go out that night cause some robberies and muggings were happening around the area, I, in my infinite fucking wisdom, didn’t listen and snuck out the window. Well, I got mugged and on top of it all the cops thought I was the mugger when they drove by me. Parents picked me up, and apparently the system screwed them over with a large fine neither could afford alone. Dad ended up taking an overtime shift as his job at the bread factory…he fell asleep cleaning the ovens and they turned on automatically to keep some kinda schedule…Dad was baked alive.” I explain, taking a heavy swig this time before continuing, tears freely falling now.

“Mom, having to pay my fine and the the funeral caused our insurance dropped us after they found out I got arrested once, fell into depression. I woke up one morning to find a ‘do not disturb’ sign on my mom’s bedroom door and for once I was listening…only for an hour later to hear gunshot…I ran in, saw my mom blew her brains out with dad’s old hunting shotgun… Got shipped off to child services and my grandparents took me in. I stayed away from people and such till, well, I came here, where you girls kinda threw yourselves at me and…made me care about people again.” I explain, looking at everything, sniffling before openly sobbing. “If I didn’t fuck up for once I could still...they could still…” I stutter, taking the bottle and practically chugging the thing now just to take away the pain.

Den took the bottle from me and gave me another tight hug, to which the others joined in. “Pain like that should never fall on a child’s mind.” She said, petting my head. “When I first got injected with darkness the madness I felt made me lash out at everything around me…I was in the den…seventeen newborns…I couldn’t do anything because of what some sick warlock did to us…Things went on like that til I was in a new master’s care and ordered to attack the classroom of Cript’s children at the time…rather than kill me, he saved me. His true power is seeing the good still in anything. You, from what I was told about that girl you brought, are just like him. You’d rather save than kill, even if you fall in the process.”

“I...I…” I mutter, my tears still falling as I tried burying my face into Den. “Please...I don’t want to lose...another mother…” I plead.

She nuzzled the top of my head. “I have been through hardships like you, and I am in the most, well, happy, and open, family to ever exist, one that you are now a part of… but you also are making your own family I see. Like any mother, I will be there when you need me, for you… and how ever many grandkids you have.” She giggles before I snap my head up.

“Mom!” I bark with a huff. “We don’t have grandkids yet. Wait until we’re married damn it.”

“Some of your siblings do, about a quarter of them.”

“I’m not them.” I huff.

“Yeah, most of them are older, or younger with a few trillion your age.”

“I’m not going to bother with knowing who I’m related to and who I’m not. All I care about is knowing that you're my mother...and…” I start. “That’s...all I really care about at the moment.” I smile.

“Thank you pup.” She said, licking my face again. “So, as the newest pup, would you care for a feeding?”

I blush brightly. “You girls wouldn’t mind right?”

“Only if we got some!” Pinkie and Lua said simultaneously.

“She’s our soon to be mother in law girls!” Rarity snapped.

“So? Most of Ponyville's milk comes from mare milk brands, only cows are used for the big cities.” Pinkie said. “Mrs. Cake has a milker in the basement.”

“Does that mean I’ve been drinking Cake brand breast milk for the past half year?” I ask in surprise.

“Only when you eat there, when you have a cup here it’s either mine or Luna’s.” Pinkie said.

“Magic.” Luna said. “Otherwise we’d have to be pregnant to have milk in the tanks.”

I wasn’t sure if my new ears were as beat red as my face was, but all I could imagine was the obvious. “Uh...yes please.” I say with a shy smile.

Needless to say… everyone managed to join in. Time, Sweetie, and Luxu walked in at the most… nude part… and walked right out. That kinda killed the mood so mom left, saying she’d be back later some time to visit, probably with some of my brothers or sisters… which Trinity now is actually now that I think about it. “Sup bro?” The angel in question asked, taking a seat next to me on the couch.

“A lot of things happened...did you know that moms breast milk tastes good and actually helped get scotch out of your system?” I ask curiously.

“Well yeah, all our moms breast feed, but few do it once the kids can eat on their own. Mama Den is just devoted like that. As for the milk, yeah all our moms…milk is magically enhanced, being married to dad they’re gods by marriage, few earned the title. It’s like a cure all for a bunch of stuff, plus they act as liquid exercise. Expect some muscles tomorrow morning.”

“Well then…” I say in surprise. “Magic is a wonderful wonderful thing to be perfectly honest.” I chuckle. “I just hope Luxu, Time and Sweetie aren’t...bleaching their brains at the moment…” I say nervously, remembering seeing them enter and then promptly leave.

Trinity looked through her Assistant, and showed me that, in the store section, there was actual brain bleach. “Fifteen rem for that last twenty-four hours or less gone from your memory.” She says.

“While it sounds tempting I’d rather not.” I shrug. “But...I’m glad Den is my mother...got me to get something...very important off my chest…”

“And you and your girlfriends onto hers?” She said with a sly smile.

“Honestly it happened when I figured out I was drinking Luna and Pinkie’s breast milk for a majority of my stay in this new world.” I say honestly. “But Luxu, Time and Sweetie kind of saw us doing that…” I say sheepishly. “But besides that...I kind of did need it. Just to...know I now have a mother again…”

“Lot of us are orphans, broke, or just plane alone. Dad takes them all in. He has this one move to, he often does it to some bad guys the Humanity Blade can’t save.”

“Sounds like a nice guy.” I say.

“Well, first off, you know how some people say everything is a computer simulation virtual reality?”

“I barely played MMO’s so no.” I say simply.

“Well, just from hearing that you should get the idea… well, it’s not false. We are literally a massive ass game a higher being made to both kill time and dive into it every so often to give help to he dubs the ‘protagonist’ which was a few other people before my dad popped up.”

“Makes sense.” I shrug. “There’s always a bigger fish, no matter how big you get.” I shrug.

“Yeah. Well, that higher being is my dad’s boss and friend, Jose. He’s had a lot of names but that’s his name this time around. Dad’s move accesses realities ‘code’ and he hacks into the person, erasing memories and even resetting the age, then he takes the de aged ex villain and raises them as his own. His alternative to death, a literal Reset.”

“Well I can’t do it to that extent but…” I say while looking at the sleeping form of Jenny. “I’ll at least start by giving someone another chance.”

“Just to make it easier I placed a sleeping spell on her. In case she doesn’t keep her word. Don’t worry, the spell keeps her in a…sleeping beauty like state. No need to worry about food or water, spell takes care of that.”

“I don’t know how binding a ‘bet by blood’ is but I probably should have done that to make sure she wouldn’t go back on her word…” I sigh out. “Cause you know, even Psychopaths have to obey either their code of conduct or a rule that even they wouldn’t go against.” I shrug.

“Some do.” She said. “Otherwise… I guess Cain would have died fighting dad.”

“And here I was thinking religious stories were all but piles of shit because of some of the people wanting to ‘spread the word of god’.” I sigh out.

“God’s, the ones in my realm, as in bible god, is retired, and most of the Jesus’s are pothead hipsters…” She grumbled.

“My version of ‘Jesus’ happens to be the first Keyblade master and very dangerous scientist because he made….very powerful things that have no right to exist but still do.” I frown.

“I can see that, dad keeps a vault full of stuff like that back home, safer there than anywhere else. Oh, I got you a present. My way of saying ‘welcome to the family’.”

“Really?” I ask honestly. “Well...thank you. Wish I kind of got something for you for helping me this much…”

“No need, first the standard gift.” She said, handing me a computer chip the size of my hand that was in the shape of an X. “Put it up to your forehead.”

“This better not do something weird…” I mutter before putting in up to my forehead a little reluctantly, worried about what might happen.

As soon as it touched my skin it sunk into my head, giving me a small headache before everything felt…super clear. “Chip X, helps the brain process information of everything, and kinda turns it into a supercomputer.”

“I mean I was a living calculator before this but thanks.” I say with a smile. “Still bad about the headache though...anyways you said that’s the ‘standard gift’...”

“Well, before I give you that, the chip X helps the Assistant show you the ‘HP’ bar of others. That was a spell matrix dad is proud of. Turn it on in the settings.” I looked though the setting in my Assistant and there was indeed an HP bar reader option. Mine was set to off, upon turning it on I saw green bars floating above Trinity's head, a number at the bottom of them, and a slam list of things next to her face. “Takes a bit of time getting used to.”

“Fuck you have a lot of stuff about you.” I say honestly.

“That’s my battle stats. Yours are pretty neat too, now for my personal gift.” She raised her hand into the air, and as if on cue lightning came out of nowhere and hit her hand, the light taking form into what looked like a ring that she placed into my hand. “Ta-Da!” She said. “An ethereal armory. Basically any angel weapon you can conjure with this ring on.”

“Well I suppose having some armor wouldn’t hurt from time to time...maybe I can find one of those ‘halos’ that give a person plenty of nifty buffs besides just having a halo over one’s head.”

“Oh, those are a status thing. Only archangels have those, and you have to earn that rank, which is easier than the test for the humanity blade, but again, you have to be an angel.”

“I kind of thought that.” I say while putting the ring in my pocket. “Thanks...sis.” I say, not believing I would say that when I’ve never had any siblings at all. “What a day…” I sigh out, the entire day feeling so long. “Mastered a weapon, became the son of some multidimensional god, beat a Ventral without killing her, and...got a mother…” I explain. “Maybe this will be a good start for me to shedding the past...hopefully…”

“I’m sure it will.” Trinity said, placing a hand on my shoulder. “If you ever feel like you need a challenge, just head on home and walk into the arena, no shortage of challenge there.”

“I’d rather wait on that cause I already have plenty of masters that are gonna give me a run for my money.” I say honestly. “But um...how do I set way points?” I ask curiously.

“Open up maps and tap on the ‘you’ icon, sets it automatically.”

“Right then…” I say before doing just that, finding the write button and tapping on the ‘you’ icon. “And that should do it...I should probably set way points to other places when I get there…” I start, already thinking about how I should set quick travel spots to my friends worlds.

“Yeah. The Sunset looks nice here.” Trinity said as I noticed the sun was setting through the window.

“Yeah…” I smile. “A lot nicer than Earth...but why did a Titan just randomly appear? Do they just do that or what?”

“Sometimes. Though, we tend to manage to keep them away by not entering other realms too often, leaves bits of itself in the realm they enter, and that’s a way they can enter.”

“Ah, makes sense.” I nod. “I just hope they don’t keep up their random encounters like this...one destroyed city I couldn’t save…” I look down bitterly.

“As long as portals are kept at minimum, and I set up a perimeter on this world, we’ll know when something from home realm sneaks in here. There’s over six hundred different species of shadow creatures, little under a hundred humans, and five variations of Subhumans, but the last ones aren’t as bad as you’d think.”

“I can imagine…” I shrug. “But...at where I am now how difficult would it be to fight one of those things?”

“If you hit the weakspots, it would be as hard as fighting a Darkside with armor, little harder I guess, the armor they have is the hardest part. Cutting through that is the challenge. That takes raw power.”

“Yeesh.” I frown. “By the by...you said I was ‘78’...should I wonder about that or just throw it out the window like power levels?”

“That’s your “level” a scientific and magical calculation of all your power and abilities in number form.”

“So it’s just like power levels...I should probably ignore it because many stories and anime’s have shown that power levels are bullshit.”

“More like a videogame level system honestly. For instance, I’m level 98,879. And then there’s higher than that.”

“Right then...but if I was 78 when before I mastered Fair Game…” I mutter, now feeling a little giddy about wondering if I leveled up. “Oh well, I better not focus on it…”

“That eagerness is how dad indirectly got the whole realm to train in combat for self defense, humans/intelligent races have a natural desire to challenge each other. He just finally made it measurable so they can see themselves get better.”

“Well I have masters to make that happen.” I say honestly. “So I won’t bother thinking about it for a little bit. I’m gonna take a break, it’s been two solid months just focusing on one weapon and I’d like more than a three day break before more craziness happened.” I chuckle.

“Sure.” Trinity says, standing up. “Just remember, condoms, and a wolf’s endurance.” She said, leaving me to quickly get what she meant.

“Uh…” I start before I suddenly got a shiver down my spine, only to see five girls staring at me at hearing what Trinity said. “Uh...now listen girls…” I start sheepishly, before trying to bolt but sadly getting caught in a magical hold. “I don’t want my hips broken~!” I whine.

“It’s been a while and we haven’t spent time with our lover so shush.” Luna says simply.

“I’m...glad you didn’t laugh at me though…” I say. “Everyone else has been laughing at me because of how I look now…”

“Remember Ben, we’re all covered in fur, you getting some on you just makes you look more sexy.” Luna says, floating me over to her.

“Now I want to say that’s weird...but knowing you girls it’s probably normal…” I say with a frown.

“Exactly, now let’s find out if you has a wolf’s endurance to match that look~” Luna said as they all started closing in around me.

“I love you all.” I smile, just glad to have girlfriends that love me so much.

Author's Notes:

So fucking much in this story! New revaluations, a new family for my character, a look into his past that is pretty depressing and so much more, and he mastered a weapon yay!
Hope you all enjoyed it.