Victims of Darkness - ch.1

It was time. I released all the gates and let the slaves out. I am also a slave, when I first came to this world. The first mission was to escape and let other slaves be able to run and have their freedom. Rushing through the empty train, the fat villain and her minion chased after me.

"You can't run away little girl. You caused a lot of trouble for me!" Brigid, the fat women screamed.

I picked up the pace and ran through the door and into the blimp ship. A gunshot barely hit me as it scraped my arm. I hid behind a wall as the minion went closer. As he stepped pass the courier, I thrust a critical hit to the man's neck with a piece of glass I had found. A ding signaled in my head, telling my that I have killed the man.

**Ding: Man takes critical hit to the neck. Bleeding to death, is now dead.**

I ignored my AI and grabbed the gun. There was only a bullet left. The woman saw me and shot at me, missing me by half a feet away from my body. Clearly, she was out of bullets as she kept pressing but no bullets came out. I shot at her and got one of her legs. She screeched in pain and was angered. She limped to me, trying to claw at me. I took a bottle of thick glass and smashed it into her head.

I quickly escaped out of her gasped as she was unconscious. Entering another room, I meet two girls my age. They were about to attack but stopped when they realized that I was the one that released them.

"Thank you for letting us all go."

They thanked me and let me in. My spirit pulsed, telling me that these two are some of my eternal companions. I was shocked and glad that I was able to meet them so soon. They may not remember their experiences from the other worlds, but I will always treat them dearly.

"It's no problem, we needed to be freed. No one should be used as slaves."

"You're hurt!"

"We found some bandages, let me help you."

"I am Alicia. May I know your names?"

I asked even though I knew their names never changed from every world.

" I'm Micah and this is my sister, Amriel."

"Nice to meet you Micah, Amriel. Thank you for bandaging my wound."

"It's what we can do for all you have done for us."

" Alright, would you like to team up with me? I am willing to help you go back home."

"Is that really okay with you?!"

"Of course, I feel like I knew you two since long ago. I don't know, maybe it's a connection. I don't mind at all helping you."

Alicia half lied and half told the truth. They were her eternal companion but she couldn't tell them that, it's a restriction from the world system. They have to remember themselves with their own ability. Next on the mission is getting the madam's protection.

The mission screen read:

One: Release the slaves and escape from Brigid's hands.

Two: Make a connection with madam royal. She is within this flying ship.

Hint: She loves exotic wine.

Three: Complete this world, fail to do so will cause one of your abilities to be lowered by two ranks.

Optional: side missions will increase your world rewards and rank.

Looking at the map, I told the two girls that I had something to do and would be back in a bit. The map said that Madam Royal's room is around here. Knocking on the door, it was opened by a beautiful female that seemed to be 4 or 5 years older than me.

"How can I help you?"

"Hi, I want to make a trade with you."

"Depends, what do you want and what will be given to me?"

"I know some wine that you have never seen or tasted before. But I want your protection for me and my friends."

"...Fine."

"Thank you so much!"

As the door closed, I released a sigh and tried to calm my heart beat. When I first looked at Madam Royal, I knew she was one of my eternal companions. Most likely my special person, named Astra. I went back to the girl's room and we had decided to all use the single bed. Micah changed my bandages again before bed.

What Alicia didn't know when she met madam royal was that she too had a intelligent instinct about Alicia. Her soul told her to keep her safe as she was very important to her. It confused her very much. There was a sense of familiarity with Alicia. That night, madam royal had a dream, which was of her past life.

A girl was heavily injured, a man was embracing her as he called out to her. The man had a similar appearance to herself which shocked her. She could feel the great pain the man was in. The girl smiled as she pushed the man towards her group of companions and the thick dirt wall divided the two. Madam Royal woke up in full of sweat, all confused and her soul in deep grievance.

Alicia woke up early before the girls and went to find some wine. She had a special grape that needs to be soaked in a bottle of wine to mature and make the wine into a exotic wine of the garden of unicorns from one of her past worlds. She searched the room where the dead man was but all the bottles were empty or damaged.

That evening, she solemnly went to meet with madam royal. Nervously trying to calm her heart in confronting her special eternal companion. In the last world, they didn't leave off in a good situation. She had pushed him towards their group into safety but placed herself in danger. At the last minute, the system called for a mission completion and her soul returned to the system's home plane.

She had grabbed a purse and a coat out of her storage pouch. This pouch was always with her no matter what world she was in. The other girls wanted to follow Alicia, probably feeling twitchy from their sixth senses. All of Alicia's eternal companions had been traumatized from her last world's sacrifice, causing them to be unconsciously overprotective of her. She knocked on the door and the butler opened the door for them.

"Mmadam Royal...I'm sorry but I can't complete the deal anymore. The last bottle had broken when I had gotten here. I only found out this morning. I'm so sorry."

"..."

"Here, these are originally yours. Please take them."

Madam Royal had no idea what to say or think, she unconsciously took the purse and coat. Alicia dusted off the purse and handed the stuff to madam royal. Their hands touched and Alicia felt the familiar spark, her calm was slowly fading away so she said goodbye and quickly walked away out of the room with the two girls following.

"Micah, Amriel. You two can go back before me. I'm going to take a small walk."

"Alright."

The two sisters could tell Alicia was feeling down and returned to their rooms first. Alicia walked all the way back to the balcony of the ship. Her hair flowed along the wind as she stared at the sunset, lost in thought. She was missing her companions, was lonely and sad. Tears silently went down her cheeks as she pondered about her past experiences.

"...Euros…" She whispered out her lover's name as she looked at the flying stars.