A Tale of an Idiot

Today is the day, the day I become a man and with that the start of my adventure to become an all time great hero of this world. Ever since I was a kid I dreamed of this day where my feet are firmly standing on the path going outside my village along with my adventurous items. A rusty sword I picked up from the streets, a small rucksack that can barely fit anything and a pouch of coins, 3 coins to be precise but even with all these poor choice in equipment one can still partake in an adventure and one day might even save the world. The only thing blocking my path right now is but an old man, maybe he will say something like “It’s dangerous to go alone! Here take this!” and give me an awesome starting weapon that can greatly help me in my travels.

“What are you blabbering about? I’m here to remind you about the seeds in the next village and that to be home by dinner, now off you go and take care” says the old man in a somewhat scolding look.

“Don’t you worry! I shall partake this side quest and return safely with the seeds of ChingChunChimChong in my hands before the sun sets” I exclaimed loudly and proudly and proceeded in walking passed by the old man and out to the open field.

“The kid is kind and all but he can be quite stupid and has a huge imagination…” I heard this voice from the old man as I walked pass but I decided to forcefully ignore that phrase for the benefit of everyone and ran as fast as I could away from my village.

My feet felt light like a feather as I sprinted through this path, I could even hear cheer myself “Run, Myself, Run!” and even go faster than I have ever been. Faster and faster I find myself so fast I thought I was like so awesom- before finishing that thought my world spun around for a few seconds and then suddenly darkness came and I passed out.

“…ke…up” What… where did that cute voice came from? ah such voice, this must be an angel coming to take me away.

“….ake… up…” It sounds like she wants to say…..

“MAKE UP!! WOOOOOO!!!!” in an epic and motivated manner I rose from what could be the place I was unconsciously sleeping and stood straight with arms in a victory position.

“Um… I meant to say was…” AH~ this cute tiny voice is so addicting I must find the source… where could she be?

“I meant to say wake up…” There! I finally found her a small tiny body near a tree about 4 feet tall for convenient purposes I shall call her loli glasses for she is a small tiny kid with round glasses and a major turn on.

“Um… I can totally hear all of those things….” She said now in a very defensive stance as she stepped back 10 steps away from me.

I explained my current situation and about how I now journey to become a hero but since I tripped and fell unconscious for what looks like more than 12 hours I decided to change that part into, chasing a demon king’s minion and being surrounded and ambushed, badly injured and fell in battle.

“Well… well… that complicates things… I need to exterminate you now before you start being a threat to my brother” Loli Glasses said while completely changing her way of speaking as well as her appearance.

Silver hair and bright red eyes covered in round glasses wearing a normal girl’s clothing. Of course I wasn’t really expecting my lie to be true and that a demon king is actually in these parts of the land.. and whats more I encountered such a cute girl which I think could be befriended if I had not mentioned demon king slaying in front of her face. While I spent a minute doing a monologue for myself, she talking to herself… or wait… shes trying to cast a spell and it looked like a high level spell that rivals Lord of Vermi***ion or Indig***ion, natural instincts tell me to run away but to where, normal people would run away from the attackers and get hit on their backs and die a brutal death filled with agony and despair… that kinda sucks… So I ran towards Loli Glasses and sprinted passed by her and ran like the wind never looking back.

“I summon thee from a world unknown, come to my aid and become my familiar” A weird voice echos in my head.

That’s weird, did that Loli chick caught up with me already? I tried looking but without stopping but that was the worst decision of my life. Pain surged through my body as I hit what appears to be one of the trees in this forest. Slowly losing consciousness again I fell… and fell…. and.. I keep on falling!? Wait what? My senses went back to normal as I noticed I’m now passing through clouds and falling from… the sky! From this height it seems my death has come and my adventurous life will end without achieving anything. Still, its taking a while to hit rock bottom, it feels more like I’m slowly descending. A few minutes later I landed in what seems to be an unfamiliar land but strangely enough does not look quite different from my own in landscapes.

“It seems I was successful in the familiar summoning ritual, but I was hoping for maybe at least a dragon” A voice brings me back to my senses, it was from a girl with fluffy hair short in stature and flat in future.

Before anything else I asked if the girl standing before me is not in any way part of the demons or a demon king’s little sister, it appears she is not and is just a plain mage practicing nearby, It appears I also am the first successful fruits of her labor in terms of magic since she can’t properly execute such complicated spells, I should even be thankful I got here in one piece.

Filling her up with details of what happened to me in less than a day, well more like in the past hour since I was unconscious the for the 12 hours gap, She openly welcomed me to her world and gave me a job of protecting her as well as practicing my very dull and good for nothing skills as a swordsman or rather as a failure in her words. We went back to her small cottage across the hills where it seems she’s the only one living around the area, of course there were paths leading to town that can be visible at the most highest hills on the way to her place. To live in such a world where everything is familiar yet new to me, this has got to be a calling, to start a new life with new experiences and a cute fluffy marshmallow-like master.

“From this day on, you shall dedicate to improving yourself to protect me and answer to my every wish so that I can continue to study magic and…” She explains to me my whole new life experience which I was trying to monologue a while ago on the way here, still, it’s kind of long so I decided to omit the rest for the convenience of the others whom I can’t mention to prevent any issues in the future, though somehow I raised an issue by mentioning this in this very unusual out of place paragraph. I should go back to topic now.

Hours became days and days become weeks, as they surely passed by I can see myself as… not improving at all! How can I improve when all I’ve been doing the past few weeks are house chores and gathering herbs and ingredients for her little alchemy witchcraft that usually ends up exploding or making me taste such horrible out of this world (Though in a way I’m also out of this world by not being from this world originally) potions that would definitely kill me if I wasn’t trained in durability by my sadistic friend back home who likes cooking but was never good at it.

Hopefully one day I can actually improve and even get back to my world to really defeat that demon king and settle the score between me and Loli Glasses, though right now I’m content with my life here along with my Marshmallow-like little master and for some weird reason I get the feeling I developed the legendary Iron will and stomach just by going through with such experiments that actually make me cry deep inside.

“So, do you always talk to yourself like this whenever I’m not around ?” My marshmallow-like cute little master asked me in a very judging tone and face.

Trying to feign ignorance and denying every word she said, I forced the idea that I had an imaginary friend.

“You do know I don’t believe all that since you said it out loud again….” She retorts back
We continue to be like this for months to come.

“Please.. just stop talking to yourself already… and stop ignoring me, well fine, I’ll just leave you there with that wild imagination of yours and go back to mixing, don’t forget to get those seeds I need for my potion in the forest” She said uninterested in me now as she walked towards her cauldron.
This… feels awfully familiar somehow.. In any case, off I go for another day another adventure!



Writer's Note:
This was one of my earliest works and was used in a creative writing class, you can check the original post here, though it's inactive now so I'll be transferring most of the works here.