LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 1: Chapter 1
1st POV
"Uhhh" I groaned raising one my hands in a desperate and futile attempt to shield my eyes from the infinite colours barraging them. All around me every sound, sight and sensation flowed as fast as light as my body was constantly jerked too and through as if I were tumbling through rapids. The constant flow of information seemed to reach down to my very soul as I tried desperately to fight off the pain and finish a thought. After what seemed to my jumbled mind like an eternity, I finally adjusted enough to my harsh environment to think.
'Where am I' I thought whilst willing my brain to think of anything before the infinite colours, with mild success. For the next few minutes, I slowly started to recall my life before I ended up in the kaleidoscope hell hole.
'My name is Morgan, I vaguely recall having a last name but I can't quite remember it' I thought to myself ' I was 18 years old and fresh out of high school, I remember I'd left the house that morning and headed into the city to sort out my university application'. At this point my memories start to get blurry as I try to recall what happened. Whilst thinking I feel a general sense of rage and indignation put can't quite put my finger on why, then like a strike of lightning striking me the memories of my death flash back to me.
'Those cunts pushed me' I growled in my mind remembering the group of eshays that thought it would be a good idea to push me into speeding traffic. 'I was standing at the light waiting for it to turn green when a group of eshays walked up' I remember thinking to myself they looked pretty stupid with their pants halfway down and their hats sitting barely on their heads, but decided to put it out of mind as I had a bus to catch. Turning back to the front I un-paused the music I was listening to when I felt a heavy shove from behind and stumbled forward.
Time seemed to slow as I watched in slow motion myself falling onto the road in the direct path of a car, my body slowly rotated as I fell and I got a good look at the eshay group that pushed me. Two of the eshays were filming with large smiles on their faces whilst four more were mid laugh in the slow world I was experiencing, the final one, the one I assume pushed me still had both his hands extended forward while his face slowly changed from a grin into a look of panic as the car approached me.
*BANG* A loud noise rang out as pain shot through my body, I felt as my bones broke before physics took hold of me and I went flying off the bumper of the car into a street pole. As I slid to the ground pain racking through my body and breaths coming short, I realised I would die, the thought of my demise at the hands of some of the dumbest members of society caused rage to flood through my body. With the rage came a surge of adrenaline that drowned out the pain I was in, looking over from where I slumped to the ground, I saw the eshays still laughing and filming. People always talk average people achieving massive feats of strength in dire circumstances, such as a mother tearing the door off a car to rescue her baby or a father moving tons to free their child.
In that moment watching me would be murders laugh at my demise I only had one thought 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to ruin their lives first.' With strength I had never shown before I pulled myself up, one of my legs was broken, I could feel my ribs stabbing through my organs and I was constantly bleeding out but with adrenaline flooding my system none of that mattered and I saw red. Rushing forward towards them I ignored my broken leg and charged the eshay that pushed me.
As a child my mum had always insisted, I learn martial arts so I wouldn't get bullied, I never liked but I stuck with it for nine years before quitting. On top of that I grew to be a very physical imposing young man, standing at 189cm and weighing 105kg no one had ever tried to start a fight with me. At the moment I reached a close enough distance to the eshay I swung my right arm out smashing my fist right into the cunts jaw. I could feel his jaw breaking under my fist and followed up with a straight left punch to his nose knocking him out cold, not satisfied I grabbed his arm and using my years of experience broke it. Eyeing the other eshay I see one has grabbed a baseball bat whilst two more have pulled out knives.
Rushing the eshay with the baseball bat I duck under his wild swing and bring my elbow up into his chin stunning him, following up on my initial strike I grab him behind his head and slam it down onto my knee. Picking up his baseball bat his friends wary hold their knives out in front of them, still bleeding out and critically injured my mind starts to get blurry as I rush the two with knives. The first knife guy lunges at me and I smack his arm with the baseball bat hearing a large crack as his arm bends in an unnatural direction and his knife clatters to the ground, spinning to build momentum I smash the bat as hard as I can into his legs. I obviously broke his legs from the angle they bent at but as I focus on him the second knife guy stabs his blade into my side, flinching back the guy lets go of his knife.
By this point the adrenaline is starting to fade so in as quick a move as I'm able I smash the baseball bat into knife guy two's legs giving him the same treatment as his friend. Then I move onto the fourth guy who was laughing breaking both his arms with that bat, by this point I can barely feel anything and arms are tingling from blood loss. In a fit of rage, I smash the bat into the first camera guys back, breaking his spine, and as I fall, I pull the knife from my side and stab it into camera guy two's leg pulling the blade down with me and carving a deep gash down the length of his thigh. Exhausted and delirious from blood loss I fall to my back as the world starts to turn black 'At least I ruined those eshays lives' I thought as darkness encases my vision and I pass out.
Finished recalling my death I sigh and start to look around, surrounding me is what looks to be an infinite kaleidoscope of colours most of which my brain can barely comprehend let alone name occasionally through the colours I see what appears to be normal shapes and textures but they vanish as quick as I see them. My ears are constantly assailed with a mix of what sounds to be nearly every sound in existence from people talking to the screams of eldritch beasts, everything is sounding at the same time in a both discernible and undiscernible mess of sound. Looking down I don't see anything, where once was my legs, arms and body is now nothing confused I continue analysing the situation fighting back the panic and headaches in search of any form of normality. As I continue to stew in my thoughts my body, or whatever I still have left, is still being pulled around like a puppet on strings. Eventually I lose track of time and my conscience starts to fade, when I'm just on the verge of disappearing I crash through a solid object.
The violent impact is different from the kaleidoscope hell as the instant I hit whatever it is all the lights, sounds and movements cease and I start plummeting into darkness. The impacts jolt me enough to wake me up fully and I can think properly again. After a few seconds of falling, I notice a small dot of light rapidly expanding in front of me, crashing into the dot I feel myself blackout for a second. When I come to, I look around to see I appear to of landed in someone yard, a quaint little fence surrounds what I can only describe as a mix between a roman pantheon and a modern day mansion.
Collecting myself I attempt to move towards the mansion but realise I still have no limbs, trying everything I can think of I spend 20 minutes flailing around before I start floating in the direction I want. After spending another half an hour attempting to control my floating, I get a basic grasp of it and start approaching the mansion, by the time I arrive at the door to the mansion I would say I've become pretty proficient at flying. My next challenge is knocking on the door, without any limbs I decide the best course of action would be to try ramming the door a few times to knock. Moving forward to ram the door I pass straight through it into the most beautifully decorated front hall area I've ever seen. Realising I can't seem to interact with anything I attempt to call out to the owner of the mansion but once again I have no luck and my shout seems to stay trapped within my mind.
As panic starts to build within me, I hear a shout from deeper within the mansion "Who's there? I wasn't expecting anyone." Following the shout, I see the most beautiful woman I've ever seen appear from a door at the end of the hall, the woman is wearing loose clothes and seems to of been laying down before I arrived, the woman's general appearance is unkempt but her beauty easily overshadows any flaws in her outfit.
'Beautiful" I thought
"Thankyou, but who are you?" The woman says seeming to read my thoughts
'Wait you can hear me' I think, trying desperately to communicate with the woman
"Yes, I can hear you" she replies, "But who are you?"
Realising that I accidentally broke into this woman's house I quickly reply 'Oh, sorry my name is Morgan, I'm not sure how I got here but I saw the mansion and thought someone might be able to help me'
"Well, my name is Azalea and I certainly wasn't expecting a soul to show up here" the woman now named as Azalea replied
'Pardon miss, what did you mean by soul' I thought trying to get more information. I'd already come up with a few theories and I had concluded I was dead already so I figured I was probably a wandering soul, but without being able to see myself or even knowing what a soul looks like I wasn't able to tell.
"Well Morgan" Azalea interrupted my thoughts by speaking "You look to be a lost soul, I'm not sure how you got to my home as it's outside any dimension or universe but since I'm bored, I suppose I can entertain you"
Catching on to a few notable things in Azalea's sentence she confirmed I was outside dimensions which probably explains the Kaleidoscope hell, as well as confirming I was indeed a soul.
'May I question how I'm able to help entertain you Azalea' I ask trying to continue the conversation
"Well, I'm an incredibly powerful goddess, I've also been around for a very long time so I'm running out of entertain. Since your here I figured I would give you a few wishes and send you to a universe so you can entertain me" Azalea responded with a sentence that seemed to shatter my world view.
'Really? Why would you do that, do you want my soul or something' Curious I asked some more questions trying to figure out this goddess's true intentions. Living in 2024 I've seen how almost everyone has some kind of agenda and I didn't want to fall into a scam.
"I'm bored, I'm doing this for entertainment, I don't need your soul, if I needed souls, I would destroy a universe for souls, not harvest a single soul at a time in scams"
"Anyway, enough question let's see how many wishes you get" Azalea says as she pulls a six sided dice out of nowhere and throws it to the floor. Watching anxiously, I hope for a high number because if this is real it could be the greatest opportunity ever.
After multiple agonisingly slow seconds the dice teeters between the two and five before falling and landing five up.
"Cool, you get five wishes" Azalea says to me casually after picking up the dice
'Do these wishes work like a genie's wishes? Do I have to be really detailed with my wishes?' I asked quickly, as an avid fan of fanfictions and Isekai stories when I was alive, I always thought about what I would wish for if I was given the opportunity. I had also considered whether the wishes would be literally what I asked for and had to ask for sure.
"No, you can describe what you want for your wishes. I'll allow you to be as detailed as you want and I won't throw in any debuffs or cheeky loopholes so go wild" Azalea stated with a smug look on her face, seemingly proud of her own generosity.
'Okay then, do I have to wish for a world?' I asked seeking more clarity
"No" - Azalea
'In that case I would like to go to a AU universe of the MCU with X-men' I thought
I had chosen the MCU because it had always seemed like the liveliest world to me when watching the movies and I had always thought it had a lot of potential.
"Okay that's easy I might also add some other movies and shows that go well with that universe"- Azalea "What's your first wish"
Taking a few seconds to consider my first wish, I decided I should choose a race that would help me grow the furthest and I was seeking a change.
'My first wish is to be reborn as a perfect techno-organic chimera species that combines the best aspects of dragons from any media , the symbiotes from the marvel comics, the typhons from the game Prey, the Mecha morphs from Ben 10, and the Martians from DC' I stated confidently.
I could have chosen some more overpowered races but I figured just these races would be good. My reasoning behind this was: The dragons would give me increased physical attributes and magical affinity, the symbiotes would enable me to edit mine and others DNA, the typhons would allow me to shapeshift, tap into vast mental abilities and assimilate matter to heal. The mech morphs would enhance the techno organic nature and the techno abilities of the typhon, and finally, the DC Martians would all round enhance the abilities from the Typhon and Mecha morphs . Overall being a chimera of these species would make me powerful but not to powerful and add in the techno-organic nature I asked for would allow me to mesh better with any tech.
"That's quite a good wish, it could have been far more powerful though" Azalea responded seeming to contemplate my first wish
'Thanks'- Morgan
'For the second wish I wish for the abilities of Lucy at 100% brain capacity just with the ability to fully control the ability and without killing me' I chose this wish because in my opinion the movie Lucy is not talked about enough and shows an incredible power. By wishing for this power, I would easily exceed all the greatest minds in the MCU as well as gain perfect memory, matter manipulation, full biological control, radio wave control and many other powers.
"That's a good wish, I'll have to nerf it slightly though because Lucy was just too powerful at 100% and it wouldn't be interesting, instead I'll give you a template for her power that you have to progress on your own either by synthesising the drug she used or some other method. To not discount your wish too much though I'll allow you to start at 40% power.
'I'm fine with that, you're already giving me a lot for free'- Morgan
'For my third wish, I wish for total immunity to any form of Control, Capture, or Corruption whether it be minding control, possession, puppeteering, cloning or any other scenario that would fall under this immunity' Stating this wish I focus on Azalea and see her nodding her head.
"Another good wish there, I wouldn't want my entertainment to be a puppet"- Azalea
'For my fourth wish' I continued 'I wish to be able to adapt and evolve when exposed to something new, whether it be energy or attacks.
"Granted, though it won't be instantaneous"- Azalea
'Finally for my final wish I would like a gamer system that enables me to level up, buy items, do quests, gain skills, travel the multiverse and includes an infinite inventory' Finishing up my final wish I turn back to Azalea to check whether my wish is valid.
"Very well, I like all your wishes and shall grant them all. I will also include as a bonus, additional parts of your system that you can unlock as you level up" Stating this Azalea snaps her fingers and I feel a pulse of energy travel through me. As the energy travels through me I can feel myself changing in ways I could never describe, throughout the process I can feel how my conscience strengthens and merges with the changes in my body. After a few seconds I can feel the changes slowing and look to Azalea with what I assume is a questioning look on my face.
"The changes you felt are your wishes joining your soul, I made sure not to change your personality if you're worried. Also, you won't be able to use your new abilities till you reincarnate" Answering the look on my face Azalea responds to all the question I had without me even thinking them.
"Finally, is there anything else you want to know before I send you off?" – Azalea
Hearing her question, I take a few seconds to ponder before responding negatively to her question 'No, I don't think there is anything else I want to know'
"Very well, if everything is done, I suppose I should send you off" saying that Azalea gestures to her left as space seems to warp and a portal tear open. At first nothing seemed to happen, but after a few seconds I feel a gradually increasing pull on my soul dragging me into the portal. As I enter the portal starts to close and I fell myself blacking out. The final thing I see before fully passing out is Azalea waving to me through the portal before everything goes black.