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Today was not the average day for a man by the name of Orion. It seemed like nothing could go right for him that day first due to a power outage last night the alarm he set didn't go off causing him to wake up late, then to us unfortunate he hit every red light on his way to work. As he began to wonder just what else could go wrong he looked at the clock as he pulled into the office that he worked at, to his dismay he was over 1 hour late he silently cursed himself. He walked in with his head in a slump knowing that everyone was looking at him he wished he could just disappear, and of course, his luck got worse his boss, a real hard case about being on time, happened to catch him walking in late. "Orion!" He bellowed as he walked closer to him "Do you know just how LATE you are?" Orion slumped his shoulders and barely managed to murmur out "I know, sir I'm sorry there was a power outage last night" at this moment Orion felt like a little kid being shouted out by his dad for breaking his favorite vase. His boss just shook his head and walked off, Orion imagined him saying horrible things about him under his breath, but Orion was too much of a coward to say anything about it. The rest of the day went like that all things that could go wrong DID go wrong Orion was so happy once the day was over he got into his car and began the journey home, but his journey was cut short as he pulled out of a green light a truck comes barreling down the road with the driver distracted by something on his phone and was unable to stop. Just like that everything faded away it was all darkness but then he heard a strange knocking sound when he looked around he found himself in a cottage he seemed taller than before and even felt a whole lot stronger. He strolled over to the door and noticed two men both very strong looking guys wearing gray suits, but they did not seem like normal suits these seemed enhanced somehow. The bigger of the two stepped forward and slapped handcuffs on him "Come with us" he said in a gruff voice and started pulling him out the door "you know what you did Ace." Orion or now Ace was more confused then ever he had no idea what was going on but he decided he wasn't going to roll over and take this so he quickly smashed the two guards heads together, then before Ace knew what was going on a sword came out of nowhere and sliced the chains off then he rubbed his wrist and said in a smooth tone he said "you should know who you are messing with I'm Ace" He started to walk away from the guards, but was unable to get very far as the two large men stood up shaking their heads with a smirk on their faces "you think a silly trick like that will work on us?" Both guards hit the emblem on their chest and a pulse went over their bodies as the normal gray suits turned into shinning suits of armor that covered their entire bodies. Normally Ace would run away from fights when he was Orion he was a coward, but now he felt stronger than before he felt as Ace he could do almost anything. The first of the guards came running forward, but before he could get to close the sword from before appeared in front of Ace and battled the guard. The second guard the one that tried to arrest Ace took a step toward Ace with a smirk "looks like your magic blade can't help you now" he walked toward Ace then snapped his fingers making his armor glow a bright red color, he then held his hand up making a fireball. Most of the time Ace would be afraid I mean the dude hade a literal ball of fire floating above his hand, but something inside him just looked at the ball and laughed. Before he knew what was going on Ace began to laugh as he walked over and smiled at the man "cute trick boy but that pitiful fire couldn't even scare a patch of grass, let me show you what I can do" Ace grabbed the fire and absorbed it into his hands then made the fire consume the knight in a matter of seconds. There was something a bit strange despite the man running around on fire nothing else caught fire and no matter how hard the knight tried he couldn't get the fire to go out after a few minutes of screaming the knight was silent as all that was left inside his suit of armor was a charred crisp of a skeleton only then did the fire subside. The other guard looked over and noticed this he quickly stopped the fight with the blade that seemed to have a mind of its own and took off "Don't think we will forget this Ace!" Ace shook his head in disbelief he had no intention of killing the man and what disturbed him, even more, was his body seemed to shrug it off almost as if this was not the first person it had killed. Ace was still confused where he was or how he got there he had no idea who he was, however, no matter how much he looked around nothing seemed familiar to him. Ace let a soft sigh out and quickly grabbed a few things and left this shack as he was walking he heard a voice it sounded much like his but sterner almost like a true voice. "You saved my life for that I thank you as you learned your new name our name is Ace." Ace smiled very pleased with this new change Orion was dead and now he entered this new world as Ace no longer did he feel afraid or cowardly he felt like he could say what was on his mind without the slightest care in the world so he would embrace this new change.

July 27, 2020 05:10

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