“Sir...?”
“Sir are you okay?”
“Sir?!”
A voice roused Zade from her thoughts. She could only see dark grey, probably due to lying face down on the ground.
The goddess rose to see a very boring looking man. He had boring slicked back brown hair and wore a boring black and white outfit. Though she admitted it was a great colour scheme.
The man's mouth was now hanging open. Zade wondered if she had something on her face, or perhaps it was her appearance. She had probably seen better days.
“I do not usually take to such formal titles but I will acquiesce it just this once,” she said, brushing off her shoulder.
“You're...!” he replied, failing to form a coherent sentence.
She tilted her head and looked around. She appeared to be stood in a small crater in the side of a road. Strange buildings reached to the sky as far as the eye could see. A honk sounded from her left coming from a metal box with a human sitting inside. Every time the human pressed their hand to the circular object in front of them, the honk sounded again.
“What a strange world...”
Zade then realized people were staring at her. An awful lot of people. All with the same expression of shock on their faces.
“Um... hi?”
People started to walk towards her. Not everyone, but those that did were definitely making it fast. She backed up against a solid object behind her. She was weak but she definitely wasn't going to resort to violence.
She turned and found that it was some type of notice board that had stopped her retreat. On the top was a digital display that contained a series of numbers and letters: '06/02/MM/E182'. There were also various bits of paper on the board, one in particular catching her eye. It had a crudely drawn picture of her on and read: “Wanted: Strange Humanoid Entity | Alive, Reward 10000 Eras.”
“Well that explains the first part,” she said, narrowly dodging someone as they tried to grab her from behind. Zade swiped her arm to the side, bending the light around her to create an illusion in her place whilst she became unseen.
The illusion held for a second, just long enough to confuse the mob as she sprinted down a nearby alley. It didn't take long for the citizens to follow though, and the alley exited into another street, but there was a narrow fork left. Zade took the risk and ran for the fork, immediately regretting that decision as it opened into a wide courtyard with no other apparent exits.
It was like a clearing in a forest of stone, occupied only by nature. At the centre was another towering building, taller than all the others. On the side of the building facing her was a logo resembling a flame. Far below that, over the entrance, was a white sign that read: “The Chaos Corporation”.
Zade turned to the shocked eyes of the mob of humans but noticed that this time they weren't looking at her, but behind her. A familiar energy pulsed in the air, one that smelt of iron and hung heavy like smog.
A couple of the villagers bowed, others turned around and went back to their business. The rest just staed.
“Dr. Familiares,” one of the bowing citizens said. “The strange entity has appeared, what shall we do?”
“Ah well...” said a calm soothing voice. “You see I should probably clarify.”
Zade turned. Behind her stood a slim young gentleman in similar clothing to that of the citizens, yet still appearing more dapper and of a higher class. He wore a black double-breasted three piece suit with red pinstripes, two spiked vents, and a red tie with a skull pattern. His dark brown skin didn't seem to reflect sunlight. The man's sharp gaze turned to Zade, peering at her through a greasy curtain of short black hair and a pair of white square glasses framing pure black eyes.
“It was more of a missing persons poster than a wanted poster,” he chortled and extended is hand to Zade. “I am Dante Aleistar Solomon Familiares PHD. Please, allow me to be the first to welcome you to Eterna, Zade.”
She sighed. “What the fuck Danae.”
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