After the Inquisitor job was done and us all getting roughly a 60k+ split of the 8 of us we planned to go and party at Lizzie's later that night so we all went our separate ways in the meantime.
I dropped off Briar and Rebecca so they cloud play around in my apartment, an upgraded one from my old Glen apartment as it's one of the ones on the upper 50 floors of one of the Mega buildings close to Corpo plaza now.
It's much bigger has two bedrooms, two baths, personal armory, huge ass plasma screen TV with leather couches, kitchen/dining room, pool table, a few arcade machines and a patio that overlooks the city.
After I left them to have there own fun I called up my new Rayfield Caliburn which if I had to equated it to anything it would be something close to a Lamborghini or Bugatti in my world.
Reason why I got it? Well besides it looks fucking amazing and drives like a dream, unless you work in Paradise only the rich and powerful Corpos and celebrities can get it from recognition alone and so you need a nice car if you don't want the guards to give you a hard time.
And besides this car is the only one that has the unlimited access pass in and out of Paradise proper so I hopped on in and sped off to Paradise to see what Shie needs to talk about.
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Soon enough I arrived in the private parking lot of the AWG and after handing the keys over to the lot chauffeur I headed on inside with clearance to use the private elevator that only me and the others can access as its hidden from prying eyes.
So after stepping in I went straight to the penthouse where I stepped on out of the hidden wall panel as I came right into the living room where Shie was sitting on the couch as I went and sat next to him.
"So? What's the rush that you need me here asap?" I say as I look to him as he's slowly drinking a scotch while watching the fluctuating stock index on the TV.
"Somethings wrong, very wrong, I don't know what it is but it felt like something from outside this world was watching me and I got the chills when that happened." He got straight to the point and not saying any extra bullshit in the process so he seemed serious.
"You feel anything recently? You feel like something was off at all?" He asked with a serious look as one of the Twins bringing me a coffee.
I took a sip as I began to think, "Well just before the gig I was just on as we were heading to a location I saw silhouettes of our old…. Friends… before they changed shape but then it faded as we got into a fire fight soon after." I explain while he grabs a cigar and begins to smoke it while holding his forehead.
"Haaaa….. Fuck….. around the same time I had a chill go down my spine as if I was being watched." He said before blowing out some smoke from his cigar.
"Maybe we should have a certain someone do her job." I say pulling out my Cerberus before I smacked it, "Oi Shinigami! Wake up!"
"Mmmm…. No mister rabbit I already had dessert I couldn't eat another bite….. maybe one more….." I could hear here muttering about inside the gun which made me smack it even more.
"Shit! Why the hell isn't she waking up?" I say but Shie grabs the gun and hands it to one of the twins.
"Right, insert this in your abdomen and begin rapid ballerina pirouettes." He said as the Android complied and did as he asked.
Soon she began to levitate off the ground before she began to rapidly spin and spin in pirouettes.
"AhhhHHHHhhhhhHHHHHhhhhHHHHhhhhhhHHHHhhhhhHHHHH! MAKE! IT! STOP! IM! GET-TING! BBBLLLLLUUUUUURRRRRRRGGGGGG!!" She cried out before supposedly throwing up inside her AI form somehow.
"Right, that's enough, give me the gun." He said before she came to a stop and bowed before floating on back down and pulling the gun out from her abdomen and placing it back on the table before she went back to stand guard along with her sister.
"Good morning Shinigami, glad you could join us." I say as I see where her AI eye on the gun was spinning in its socket.
"Uggghhh…." She groaned before she pulled herself out of the gun as her eyes were all swirly like from how dizzy she still was before she held her mouth trying to hold it in but-
"BLLLLLEEEEEERRRRRGGGGG!!!!" She began to puke up a rainbow colored substance from her mouth, but luckily it disappeared as it hit the ground and not actually covering anything in vomit as a result.
She took several deep breaths as she refocused her eyes and shook her head before getting seriously pissed off at us both, "HEY! What's the big idea huh?! You like seeing me suffer you assholes?!" She said as she screamed out as us as we looked at eachother and shrugged.
"Only way we were gonna get you up since you were far off in never neverland…. Can an system admin even sleep in the first place?" Shie asks while scratching his chin.
"Of course I can jackass! I maybe only a copy of the original Shinigami but I can eat, sleep and help solve mystery's just as good as the original! But unlike her I have more duties but at the same time less limitations and more free time to enjoy myself." She said angrily at first before seeming proud of what she can do compared to her original self.
"Okay we are sorry for doing that Shinigami but we needed to wake you up, something happened and your the only one that can look into it." I say apologizing on his behalf, though he is me but still it's the thought it counts in situations like this.
"Ohyah ohyah? Does that I'm your only hope? Hmmmm?" She said acting all smug like which just irritated both of us in response.
"Alright! Just leave it to me! So what are we looking for exactly that you need my help?" She goes onto ask before both me and Shie explained what happened to us both.
"Humumu, I see this does seem like something I can look into! Let me scan the system for anomalies of any kind, and I'll also see if any alerts from those above me sent anything!" She said as she began to 'power up' so to speak.
"Oooooowwwwwwooooooooaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"
"…. What are you? Goku?" I mutter to myself as I watch her power up but-
*Shutter* both of us got the chills suddenly as we stood up rapidly and began to look around as to what that may be.
But suddenly everything began to lose color and both of our movements began to slow to a crawl as everything around us went still.
"S…. Hit…. C…. An't….. move!" I could barely mutter out as Shie was forcibly merged with me once more making me whole as me and him regained our full memories.
But that didn't matter as the sight of an massive eye that arrows coming out of it that spread in all the cardinal directions of a compass along with the minor ones as well.
"Gghhkkk" My eyes, ears, nose and mouth began to bleed as I looked upon this thing as I felt as if something was scratching my very brain matter into mush causing me insane amounts of pain but I couldn't even scream in this frozen place.
✌︎ ☝︎♓︎♐︎⧫︎...… ☞︎□︎❒︎ ✡︎□︎◆︎...…
It spoke but I didn't understand as a phantasmal hand approached my face but then a hand came out and intercepted it from my face as if it phased through me.
"You seem to wish misfortune onto my master, that I cannot allow." It said in a familiar voice as it was none other than Fortunate Son blocking this beings hand.
✌︎ 👌︎♏︎♓︎■︎♑︎ □︎♐︎ ☞︎□︎❒︎⧫︎◆︎■︎♏︎✍︎ ☟︎□︎⬥︎ ♍︎◆︎❒︎♓︎□︎◆︎⬧︎📪︎ ⧫︎♒︎♓︎⬧︎ ❍︎♋︎🙵♏︎⬧︎ ❍︎♏︎ ❍︎□︎❒︎♏︎ ♋︎■︎♎︎ ❍︎□︎❒︎♏︎ ♓︎■︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎♏︎⬧︎⧫︎♏︎♎︎ ♓︎■︎ ⬥︎♋︎⧫︎♍︎♒︎♓︎■︎♑︎ ⬥︎♒︎♋︎⧫︎ ♓︎⬧︎ ♋︎♌︎□︎◆︎⧫︎ ⧫︎□︎ ◆︎■︎♐︎□︎●︎♎︎📪︎ ♌︎◆︎⧫︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎ ♋︎❒︎♏︎■︎'⧫︎ ❄︎❒︎◆︎♏︎ ☞︎□︎❒︎⧫︎◆︎■︎♏︎📪︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎ ♋︎❒︎♏︎■︎'⧫︎ ♏︎❖︎♏︎■︎ ♋︎ ♐︎❒︎♋︎♑︎❍︎♏︎■︎⧫︎ □︎♐︎ ♓︎⧫︎📪︎ ⬥︎♒︎♋︎⧫︎ ❍︎♋︎🙵♏︎⬧︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎ ⧫︎♒︎♓︎■︎🙵 ✋︎ ⬥︎□︎■︎'⧫︎ ♎︎♏︎⬧︎⧫︎❒︎□︎⍓︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎✍︎it said as cracks began to form on Fortunates Sons hand.
"Be that as it may, killing me will cause my host to become catatonic and you will even get the true ones attention for messing with their chosen." He said as he held firm even as his fingers started to crumble.
It stayed silent as it held its ground almost as if it was weighing what Fortunate Son had said and soon enough it retracted its hand before tossing something as Fortunate Son grabbed it.
It was the same symbol that was on the things singular eye, ❄︎♒︎♏︎ 💧︎⍓︎⬧︎⧫︎♏︎❍︎ □︎♐︎ 👍︎♒︎♋︎□︎⬧︎📪︎ ◆︎⬧︎♏︎ ♓︎⧫︎ ⬥︎♏︎●︎●︎📪︎ ♌︎◆︎⧫︎ ♌︎♏︎⬥︎♋︎❒︎♏︎ ⧫︎♒︎□︎⬧︎♏︎ ☜︎♓︎♑︎♒︎⧫︎ ♋︎❒︎♏︎ ■︎□︎⬥︎ ♋︎♐︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎📪︎ ■︎□︎⬥︎ ●︎♏︎⧫︎'⬧︎ ⬧︎♏︎♏︎ ♒︎□︎⬥︎ ⧫︎♒︎♓︎⬧︎ ●︎♓︎⧫︎⧫︎●︎♏︎ '♒︎◆︎■︎⧫︎' ◆︎■︎♐︎□︎●︎♎︎⬧︎📬︎ It says while pointing at me before it began to pull back and fade from existence.
Soon the world returned to normal as Fortunate Son dropped the amulet into my hands which faded from existence as well as I suddenly got a notification appear from the system itself.
[👍︎♒︎♋︎□︎⬧︎ System has been activated]
And that was it and when I checked my status it showed it as a new system but I couldn't decipher what it was and what I needed to do with it either.
Not only that but Shinigami was flat out on the table as well with steam coming off her head as I held mine with a headache.
"Man…. This shit just keeps getting more annoying and complicated by the minute."