CHAPTER 1, LENS OF TRUTH.
Mekishiko, NewLayion, KingHill. Smoly´s apartment. Modern era, 3:14 P.M, INTERIOR.
It was almost summer, sunny - no clouds, HOT AS HELL day. We see Smoly staring at her screen crashed smartphone, wondering what she will buy next.
Let me introduce Smoly to the world. She is a clumsy, adventurous, generous, cheerful and reliable 25 old BZ girl. She has pointy bunny ears, she is tall (around 1.83 m), her skin color is yellowish, green/brown mix eye color, kinda busty (34D), slim, brown hair and a very cute little bunny tail up her rear.
"Look Foreno, I want sunglasses with this style, you know summer is coming and the sun is getting annoying as hell!".
Foreno is reading "The Selfish Gene" from Richard Dawkins seated in Smoly´s couch in the living room.
"*sigh* Why all females love to buy unnecessary things they don't need?!
And what about all those piles of cloths in your messy room?. You have like 20+ pairs of shoes, 10+ purses, and that's not enough…. how deep is that consumerism hole?".
And here's our protagonist Foreno, an old 26 year Mexican guy, with a tragic and sad past. A difficult person has a difficult past. His positive personality has fallen through the years of long existence. His life hasn't been easy, he doesn't remember his original real parents, his "brother" betrayed him, has a son that hates him, and his love interest don't last long.
His appearance is normal as any human being. His skin is Caucasian color (very white), his eyes are brown light color, his height is 1.75 m, he has pointy hair (all mess up) and deep eye bags by playing video games for long periods of time. (also doesn't sleep so well these days). His personality is a bit bitter, aggressive, cynical, sometimes surly and vulgar, etc. BUT HEY, he is still a nice guy, and also…he is very wise, has empathy for others and has a special unknown connection with the universe.
"*HEY HEY!? For your information, we women do that to control and modulate our mood". our crazy hormones!"
"*??? HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I REAPEATED MYSELF? YOU ARE NOT HUMAN" get used to it…. you can't have hormones because you are NOT HUMAN!"
Smoly goes to the main entrance of her apartment, she is ready to leave, also a little pissed.
"*OK OK, you win again this time, but I will prove you wrong! cya!". Smoly hard close the door. *SLAM*.
Foreno doesn't gives a crap and keeps reading.
A curious, silent and friendly vanitoza tries to approach him from his right.
"All mighty god, thx you! AT LAST!"
Foreno finds relief and tranquility, he just likes to be kinda alone.
"*I HEARD YA, DICKHEAD!" Smoly yelled from afar.
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Some mall in KingHill city, 4 P.M, INTERIOR, and after TONS OF traffic.
Smoly is just walking around, looking for things she doesn't need, you know, try on clothes, try on shoes, looking in the mirror, looking at her butt. She is wearing a green blouse and tight blue jeans. She just loves those color combinations.
She stops in an accessory boutique store and stares at some sun glasses, in those pedestal thingies that spin. She tries them on, but something lacks.
"*Hphm,….I don't know(IDK), I look so fat with these… ill better buy them online!".
She takes out her smartphone and look in Mamazon e-commerce site.
Analyzing prices, sizes, colors, etc, she comes up with some FREE sunglasses with Japanese kanji in the title, Smoly doesn't understands it.
FREE is the only thing she understands and hits that BUY NOW button.
She gets out of the store, heading for the elevator, her goal is cleared, time to go home with Foreno. While inside the elevator, still seeing her phone, a strange pop up with the sign "INMEDIATE DELIVER, with 2 possible actions YES NO" appears. (and she couldn't leave that window)
"*And…. READY….whaaaa??!!, what's this? Never seen this notification push message before, what should I do?...mmm o well".
She presses it.
Suddenly from nowhere an unknown object fall form the top left corner of the elevator.
Landed in the silver metallic floor and bounced 2 times to Smoly´s feet.
"Damn, that was fast!". Smoly looks curiously for the vendor in the purchase resolution panel.
"KKDP6969 (unreadable kanji) …well I think its Chinese, IDK, maybe Japanese, ok."
Smoly picks up the box. Not so heavy, around 3kg, covered with black onix reflective surface. With a big Egyptian eye symbol on the top. Apparently it had some kind of lock, you could see the silhouette and dust/moist around it. There was a little post it note in the bottom left with the words "they live".
She opens the box with no effort.
"WOOOW, there's so pretty, I love em!"
She is out of the mall, it's so shinny and the sun tries to ruin your sight.
"OMG, this sun….ok I think this is a good moment to test this brand new!".
A brand new world opens, everything changes, the colors are more vivid, awareness and perception increments to 100 points, the truth is out there.
She can't believe it, she turns around in 360, looking all around, anything is a target of that morbid sensation.
She calls Foreno immediately with her smartphone.
Foreno is still reading the book, laying on the couch. It vibrates near his crotch; he answers with so much laziness.
"Wtf do you want?".
"BROOO!! COME HERE ASAP, NOW, ITS AN ORDER SOLDIER!"
"it's urgent?". Foreno replies with a monotonous tone.
"YES, FKING GOD DAMN IT!". Foreno´s ear almost bleed out.
"Mfuker..if she swear like that, it means its serious business".
He points his finger to his vanitoza with an imperative attitude.
"You stay here, don't follow me, don't touch anything, don't break and make a mess here, YOU HEAR ME??!".
She gets near and licks his index finger in a naughty way.
"HEY, DON'T DO THAT! you licking crazy fox weirdo shiii...STOP IT!"
She stares at him silently, with her light green beautiful eyes.
"What you looking at? Ok, bye, be right back, and DON'T FOLLOW ME!"
Foreno instantly teleports where Smoly is waiting.
"Wow, I never thought Pepzi was such a ----- company…..AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH(jumpscare)….fuck! can you warn me before you appear from thin air?".
"STFU, no time, I´m already here, so WHASAAAAAP?"
"Just put these on and look to that APPLLE ad over there". Smoly said excited.
Foreno sees a BIG CONSUME TEXT instead of the ad, then it changes to CONSUME ME, IM THE BEST AND OVERPRICED, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO CONSUME, STATUS IS EVERYTHING, EVEN IF YOU SUCK!
"Dude, wtf, where did you get this sunglasses? They are similar to the lens of truth from Zelda ocarina of time to enter and beat the shadow temple, see through illusions!". Foreno said surprised.
"I bought them in Mamazon from an unknown seller, I think he was Asian. I don't know why they were free.".
Foreno opens Smoly´s car door, copilot side.
"OK OK!, Lets go to look for more urban ads, stores, spectacular commercials, everything!,gogogogo!"
The both enter at the car same time as some American movie car persecution.
"IKIZO!" smoly screams excited.
After cruising the highway for 3.14 minutes, Smoly asks Foreno what difference have he observe.
"That, UDEMN university, what does it say?". Smoly asked.
"Nothing good, what a pity". Foreno replied.
After some time of profitable non personal cynical time, they realize that mankind is consumed by its consumerism.
"Whoa, this so sad, almost EVERYTHING has some kind of CONSUME ME obey subliminal message in them". Foreno said.
Some silence.
"ya know, just like Tyler said in Fight Club, the things you own, they end up owning you…..so true". Foreno said looking to a random ad with no face emotions, static body.
"What you mean by that?". Smoly replied dismayed.
"Are you dumb or you pretend to be? It means, that we have to stop to buy shit we don't need. Because our happiness doesn't depend on how good our status is, and the things we own". Foreno said a little pissed.
"You mean…like the neighbor that bough that Mercedes?".
"Yea, like that, he is just pretending to be something he isn't…".
"Riiiight…..let´s say I'm the same". Smoly replied with a poker face.
"?? Did I miss something?". He replied with a wtf face.
"Are you stupid or pretend to be….MY CAR..THIS CAR IS A MERCEDES!".
Foreno looks down, kinda of ashamed.
"Ooom, well…mmm, it's not the same thing, because I know you…and..I was distracte…"
"NANANANA, don't try to fix what you said…" she relied quickly.
Foreno takes a deep breath, looks at the horizon and thinks in silence for some seconds.
"You know what, fuck off, let's go home, this CONSUME thing just makes me sad and angry, what is mankind becoming?." he said in a low disappointed tone.
They travel through the city for about 15 minutes, with all this really crappy traffic, they stopped on a traffic light, waiting for their turn. He had the sunglasses in his forehead, you can see his sleepy and bored eyes.
This sensation, my sense is tingling, something was not right. At that moment, people advanced forward to cross to the other side of the street, but a single man with a trench coat caught his attention.
The man wearing the trench coat felt the same and turned his head facing Smoly´s car.
Foreno felt something on him(dat menacing stare), so he dropped those sunglasses to cover his eyes, just to reveal…..
A DARKPIP!
End of chapter 1.