The Successor Games

Rebirth and Training

As my world is engulfed in darkness a sweet voice reaches out for me. “Young heroes, it's your time to awaken and start your journey,” the mysterious voice says. My body feels like it’s floating in a void of space collecting nearby energy. It feels like my body was being charged up like a battery. My surroundings start to show around me but I know my eyes are still closed. It's like my senses are becoming more sensitive to the things around me. After slowly opening my eyes I look around the room at a big Japanese style dojo with a few pillars around. The person sitting in front of me was beautiful as if she was a goddess. Her hair was pure white with slight gold highlights and her eyes were gold. Her long hair was complemented by her caramel colored skin she also wore a light blue and green kimono. “Good morning shiro I am Kokono a world god” a light smile appears on her face. Rubbing my eyes I look at her again and my face turns sad. My mind starts to wonder about everything I’ve done. “So is this where I get judged on my life” I say letting out a deep sigh. “Actually I have a mission for you and I’ve summoned you here for that reason” Kokono says while handing me two little boxes and an envelope. I take a letter out the envelope and start to read it. It entails of a place where they are under attack from a being called the dimensional they trace through the void to take over different planets and dimensions to grow in power and they’ve targeted this dimensional plane. After reading the note I take the two boxes and open them up. Each holds a dual wield weapon. On the left is a gun that looks like a gun blade that kokono tells me can switch into any weapon I’m thinking of. On the right holds a double edge scythe that looks like something a demon would hold you can feel the energy pulsating off of it. I choose the dual wield guns and grab the holster for them. I’m glad that it’s not a waist holster and it’s more like a backpack. “I’ll be giving you your magic prowess and sending you to the training area then I’ll give your friend his gear” I bow down in front of her and she places her hand on my head after being surrounded in a warm gold light the guns on my waist light up. After she takes her hand , I stand and walk to the next room over. As I was walking out I could hear híroÿ waking up. After meeting in the other room with híroÿ. after his meeting another person descended upon us he claimed that he would be our trainer for the next year. He introduced himself as muray. he was sent to make sure our perception and observation skills weren’t weak. Throwing each of us a wooden sword and a shield he tells us that we train everyday for 12 hours then clean til it’s time to sleep. Today was an easy day and by easy I mean totally cruel he beat us til we could barely walk. Each time we tried to stand he knocked us back down. Compared to the people of earth our strength paled in comparison to his. No matter what we tried together or separately we got knocked down. On the first day after 5 hours of combat training we had 7 hours out endurance and strength training. After our bodies were run rugged and dry from training and exhaustion set in we had to clean the dojo. After the cleaning we set up some mats and closed our eyes for a good night's sleep and immediately after laying down the exhaustion set in and my body relaxed. Waking up the next morning the ground under me felt unsteady and rugged like I was sleeping on rocks. Opening my eyes I see the top of trees looking around to a forest venue. Grasping at my chest the air seems thinner and it’s getting harder to breathe like we’re on the peak of a mountain. Looking over at híroÿ there was a note sitting on the ground next to us that read that we must make it off the mountain or risk suffocation. Standing up I wake up híroÿ and we get up and start to traverse the mountain stepping forward a flurry of arrows fly down at us jumping out of the way quickly. Quickly looking around I notice that making it off this mountain will not be that easy. As we traversed the mountain dying of suffocating was the least of our worries each and every step we took found us in another trap that could take our life if we weren’t careful. After grabbing a branch off a tree and swiping down multiple arrows that come our way we continue down the mountain. After reaching the bottom of the mountain the fatigue was shown on our faces we were covered in sud and dirt and the branches we grabbed we broke. Looking up we see our training instructor and he throws us each our weapons. “You’ve made it down the mountain but the sun hasn’t set yet so now more training” the expression on our face changes and we both look at each other as if we are about to collapse. the heavy burden on our body makes it feel as if the gravity around us has increased multiple times over.