Chapter One

Chapter One

Looking around, Kay was, to be frank, really pissed off at what he was seeing. Spread around him was a fairly beautiful field of green grass, interspaced with nice flowers of varying colors. A few hundred yards off behind him was the start of a forest that kept going as far as he could see, and very far off in the distance ahead he could see the edge of what was probably a mountain. The entire scene was gorgeous, just the kind of place he would love to travel to.

The reason for his anger was simple, at least in his mind. He expected to wake up in his damn apartment! Not some random field! He lived in Arizona dammit! There wasn’t scenery like this for hundreds of miles!

“Where the hell am I?” He muttered, doing yet another slow spin to try and find some landmark he might recognize. The sun hit his eyes as he slowly shifted around, exaggerating his headache. He covered his eyes with his hand. “If those idiots dropped me off in the middle of nowhere...” He growled, but internally he was very worried that wasn’t the case.

The last thing he remembered was getting together with his friends in his apartment to hang and out and drink. The first few hours had been the normal thing, playing games, talking, and just having a good time. After that things got... blurry. As much as he wanted to imagine that this was all some dumb prank, his friends weren’t the type of people to do things like that, hence why he was friends with them.

Also, logically thinking, there was no way that he’d drank enough to keep him unconscious long enough to travel out to a place like this without waking up at least once. He could have been drugged but... No, that wasn’t it.

“Status.” He said out loud, staring directly ahead of himself.

Kay had so convinced himself of the impossibility of being suddenly dropped into another world, one containing some kind of system or mechanics with a status page and such, that the partially-translucent screen that appeared in front of him startled him so much, he tripped and fell over.

Kay pushed himself upright and stared at the screen. It had followed his field of vision, staying in the exact same spot relative to him as he fell. He stared at it, sitting on the ground for awhile.

Then, in reaction to what the screen said as much as the fact that it existed, he shook himself and cursed. “Well... fuck.”

[Status Locked]