Hello. Welcome to the Multiversal Traveler. Long story, short; I made it years ago on Wattpad then looked back at it and realize that it's shit from a writing's perspective. I hope to make it better and enjoy this remake.
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{Somewhere in the USA | Time: 6:00 AM; 3rd POV}
Inside, a dimly lit room houses a small, well-dressed audience. Surrounding them is a large white wall with a podium in front of it. The room is silent; only the humming of vents blowing air can be heard, but there's a tense feeling within as they anticipate something. A sudden noise cuts the silence as a double door behind them opened, and a man in a white coat walked to the podium, facing the stoic crowd.
"Good Morning. I am known as Dr. Octavius," he greeted before continuing his speech. "The reason we've gathered here today is because we have an urgent announcement to make."
"Now, does anyone know about the Multiverse theory?" As he asked, a couple of hands were raised, then he pointed to one of them. "You."
"It's a theory that suggests that there's a group of universes that exist." One member answered.
"Correct, my boy. For a while now, we haven't had any evidence that suggests that the other universes existed, that is until today. Just this morning we had a breakthrough on a project that me and my team has been working on for a long time now," He said as some people in the crowd widened their eyes at the mention of the project. His hands rustled in one of his coat pockets.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to introduce our long-awaited project! U.T.D! Also known as Universal Teleportation Device." He announced loudly as he pulled out what seemed to be an ordinary phone and showed it off to the crowd. He studied their reactions as they masked with an expression of uncertainty.
"That looks like an ordinary phone." One of the crowd commented.
"Yes, it may look like one and function like one but it isn't." He replied with a scowl before his expression changed back to joy as he continued on. "If this device is working properly then it will take us to a whole new universe," he's walking back to the only door in the room then turning around, pointing the device at the blank wall behind the podium.
"Today! You will witness the beginning of a new era not only for this country but the entire world!" he announced with glee as he tapped a button on the screen to summon the portal. A blue vortex appeared under the scientist. He jumped back as the portal quickly disappeared. The audience had their jaws dropped at the display that just occurred. The doctor jumped with excitement until he noticed that something was missing from his right hand. His happy face turned terrified as the device was now missing.
'Where the hell happened! Where did it go! I need to contact my team to active the track-' his thought process completely froze.
'We never think to install the tracking chip on the damn device; now it's gone...gone...'
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It was a pleasant morning. The sun was rising from the horizon, blanketing the sky with bright orange and yellow with a touch of blue. Not a cloud in sight. Shimmers of light resting on top of the flowing river. The wind blows softly, bringing the scene to life. Two deer were having a refreshing drink of water.
"GOD DAMN IT!"
These deer ran from the intrusive sound.
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{Richmond, VA | 10:30 AM; ??? POV}
"Fuck!"
I shouted as I concentrated on completing my objective, which was beating Yozora. I recently bought Kingdom Hearts 3 on my PC. It's been a couple of days since I started fighting this boss. He's one of the most difficult bosses I've ever played against. My health bar was already low when Yozora struck the final blow with one of his attacks.
"Damn it! I was so close!" I yelled as it went to a bad ending cutscene, but I ignored it and went to my dresser with a mirror attached to it. My phone was positioned on top of the furniture. I picked it up to see the time,
10:30 AM
Now normally, I'll keep playing for the entire day, but I got a couple of friends to hang with in an hour. After I got dressed in a simple white shirt with black jeans with blue accents and white socks. I looked at my reflection to see my usual messy black hair with my brown eyes.
I walked out of the room and went into the kitchen to fix myself breakfast. I sat on the table, looking around to see a common sight, an empty house.
Anyway, my name is Matt Brown. I'm just an ordinary high schooler, sophomore to be exact. My parents; non existent. They only provided me with the bare minimum you can think of. Because of that, I had to take care of myself early on which for example I learned how to cook. I'm not Gordon Ramsay, but I think I cook better than an average home cook.
After I finished eating, I put my plate into the sink. I headed back to my room when suddenly I saw blue electric sparks coming from the ceiling. It startled me to see this weird phenomenon. Sparks turns into a blue vortex as it spits out an object that landed on the table with a loud thud. As quickly as it appears; it disappears like nothing happened.
I was speechless for a moment before warily walked over to get a closer look to see that it looked to be the latest Android model from Samsung. However, it doesn't have their logo on the back, it's blank.
Now normally I would suspect that it was from a foreign country, but that theory is easily dismissed from the way it appeared just a moment ago. The only best explanation I can think of is that it must be some sort of secret government project or it's some alien bullshit.
I grabbed the phone, turned it on, and there was no introduction screen like you see in any other phone, instead it just booted straight to the menu. Looking from the surface, it looks to be a typical thing you see when you buy a new phone with generic backgrounds, and some apps that have already been installed like YouTube for example; but there's one app that stood out to me. It has a black and blue vortex icon. That app is known as "Dimensional Travel".
"This is getting weirder and weirder," I murmured. My curiosity got the better of me, and tapping the icon, sent me to another menu with a high-quality galaxy image. This time it has three buttons, in the center, the textbox with bold lettering that says, "Travel". The other two texts on each corner are "Destination" and "Options".
I noticed that the option "Destination" is blacked out; and can't be accessed at the moment. I tapped the "Options" textbox, which prompts a new menu, but I quickly exited out as it's nothing but if you want to change the look of the app.
Now onto the main attraction, I had my finger just hovering above the "Travel" textbox. I felt a moment of hesitation in pushing it. What if this thing was legit and took me to another universe, possibly never seeing this world again? Now don't get me wrong, I don't give a fuck about this world, but the only thing I'll feel sadden is leaving my friends behind.
Despite my concern, I pressed it and waited...
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Nothing happened.
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"I guess this thing must be a hoax after al-," I said before I felt a strong push from beneath me. I looked down to see a blue glowing portal just formed. I knew I was in for a rough ride.
"SHIT!" I screamed as I dropped inside. As I was falling, everything around me was black like a void with white outlines, they're like when you break a glass. I briefly glimpse through different vision windows. Everything was so overwhelming, that my vision slowly faded into darkness.
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{Unknown | 8:00 AM}
My vision slowly returned, at first, it was blurry. As my sight became clearer, I felt a sharp freezing wind blowing to my left side. I felt the shiver in my body as I got up while rubbing my arms in vain to keep it warm. I looked around to see I was surrounded by a sea of trees, not only that but the entire forest was blanketed in snow. The cloudy weather makes the whole place look lifeless and dull.
"Where the hell am I!?" I questioned loudly to myself as I spotted the device in front of me. I retrieved it. The screen immediately comes on as it shows this message,
You have traveled to the universe of "DS02162016"
I stared at it in shock for a few seconds, before it became clear.
"Oh shit. The multiverse is real." I muttered as I stood frozen for a moment before looking at the device once more.
The travel function will be on cooldown for an indefinite period.
You got to be kidding me. So not only do I travel to this unknown universe, but I'm stuck there for god knows how long.
I really want to scream out my frustrations, but alas there's no point in doing it. I looked at the destination once more; the first two initials caught my attention along with being in a snowy forest, everything clicked into place.
"If I'm right in my assumptions then I'm in the Demon Slayer universe." I analyzed my situation. While it would be awesome to meet people like Tanjiro, on the other hand, this country of Japan is infested with man-eating demons created by the demon king, Muzan.
This poses an immediate problem for me because I'm simply too weak to take on anyone in this verse. Hell, I hardly have any fighting experience aside from getting into a couple of fights in my school. Adding salt to injury is that I know that I eventually will be facing opponents that make Muzan look like a complete joke.
My best course of action is to find Tanjiro and join up with him to become a Demon Slayer, which leads to the next problem. I don't know which direction to go to, but I can't hesitate since I'm freezing my ass off due to this dumb thing not sending me to a warmer place. For reference, my world had just started its summer season, so it made sense for me to wear clothing for that season.
"I guess I head North." I decided as I began to walk towards the unknown. It's fifty, fifty. Either I find a village or Tanjiro's house if I'm lucky or either freeze or starve to death. I didn't get far before I heard a familiar voice.
"You need any help." When I heard that familiar voice, I turned around to see a face that I was really happy to see.
Tanjiro Kamado.
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Hope you enjoyed the new prologue. All I'm gonna say right now is that I got the entirety of the Demon Slayer arc planned out along with planning out a couple of future arcs.
I'm planning to release them all once I finish writing the whole arc. I don't have a release date for that.
I hope you have a great day and see you next time.