Chapter 1: Hellscape of an ideal
As the skies turned crimson, a small grin appeared on my face, as I turned to face someone who I knew all too well. Raising my spear, I used everything I had, and my vision dyed in red faded away.
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A strange warmth held me down, wait no. It wasn't strange at all, it was my comfortable bed and blankets weighing down on me.
I softly opened my eyes to the sight of my room. If anyone saw it, they'd surely yell at me to get my act together.
That didn't bother me in the slightest, as if I could care about what they'd say. Gradually waking up (30 minutes later), I woke up to a loud explosion.
Or so I thought, It wasn't a loud explosion, it was many loud explosions.
In disbelief, I had to look outside, however the outside palace was ruined to shreds, buildings falling down as fires burned whatever didn't crumble.
That's when something truly shocking happened, a fairy? No. Too small and devilish, but it certainly didn't look like a demon either, and to top it all off, it was ugly…
I blinked a few times before I spotted a few features that I could associate it with, a tail of a rat, a head of a fish and the body of a plush…
Perhaps I should just go back to sleep as if this never happened and wake up to see if I was still in a dream? But, before my head could wander off anymore, that thing began to speak.
"Kjur waslD 7s n@w 6kne, ho1 will you adapt to this new world I've created" spoke that THING.
Ok, wait, what. Did it just speak in my native tongue? It created this world? NO, if anything it RUINED my perfectly enjoyable day off with whatever that hellscape of an outside it turned into.
"I can hear y0u"
I stared at it for a few seconds, my mind went blank.
"You have a 2 options now, adapt in this new world and entertain me or die"
No way No way No way No way! This IS not happening! I DO NOT want to be thrown into a weird fantasy novel by… that. My day off can NOT be ruined just like this.
"You have forty-eight hours to decide" said the thing, before using its tail? Suddenly a scroll appeared in my hand with the following written upon it.
I, Lilith Memoir agree to ???
Sign Here
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Ok, first of all what? Secondly, I don't even know what I'm getting myself into. Third, did it just SPAWN a contract into my hands. At least it was nice enough to ask for my permission, but it did say I would die…
I didn't know what to say, stupefied I looked at the outside which seemed to turn back to normal?
Maybe I got too drunk last night, hey wait… I only drank apple juice last night, there's no way.
I scrambled around my room looking for my phone, that thing sent everything in my room flying around when it left, what a jerk.
I went to social media and no signal… OK, turned on my data, no signal. Yep, might as well die.
No way can I live without signal or my phone, and I couldn't even look up if anyone else had this happen. Surely, in this palace, one of my maids would have encountered the same problem right?
I changed before running outside. Frantically, I searched around the palace and found one of my maids. Out of breath and scared, I jumped into her arms before asking.
"Did a weird rat, fish appear in front of you and give you a weird scroll?"
She had a scared look on her face, trembling in place before confusion overtook her.
"You're awake?"
"Well, with all the loud explosions, how could I not?"
"Ah yes, sorry for my rudeness, but one of my fellow co-workers declined the weird creature's scroll, and she… she blew up."
Ok, so that thing had real magic powers and will kill me if I decline, wow.
"I'm sorry, but I must leave. I do not wish to stay here any longer, perhaps if I run far enough it won't track me" She said before running off.
I returned to my room slowly while trembling, there was so much blood, how did I not see any when I ran around? After I got back to my room, I stared at the outside, and it was back to the wasted rubble that woke me up.
I don't have any special talents that could entertain that jerk, so even if I do sign that scroll, I'm sure I would die sooner or later. From the looks of it, without the support of my maids, I'm practically useless and I would die from something stupid like starvation even though I'm royalty, how laughable is that?
With a sigh, I opened the scroll and began to write my name on it.
Lilith Memoir
… something supposed to happen right? I stared at the scroll in confusion, as I blinked, my name turned crimson, and a bright light enveloped my room.
But, that was all that happened? Maybe something physical changed?
I looked at my mirror that was now shattered on the ground, damn jerk.
My hair was still silver, my skin was the same, silky and pale white. However, my eyes seemed a bit off, it was like my irises had turned into an x shape glowing a crimson red.
Is that all it did? My new irises looked good on me, of course as I am a natural beauty. But, if signing the scroll changed my eyes, shouldn't it also have done something else?
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"Looking back, it seems we had a similar start, but your efforts amounted to mere struggles in front of me, a pity you were too dull to see what I was truly after" - ???
A massive sword collided head on with my spear, struggling with all my might, the sword and spear both broke at the same time. However… my grin slowly distorted as I realised what was about to happen.
??? drew his own sword from seemingly nowhere, before pointing it at me.
"Stop [][][][][][][], you're about to die you know?"
There was something only I could do, and I failed? Tears began streaming down my face, as blood covered arms and legs.