why karma guy sucks and is also an idiot
1. He killed me (still not completely over that)
2. He forgot about the pain of my body literally rearranging itself and made me suffer through it (not over that either)
And number 3. The latest reason he sucks, was my placement in my new world, I knew he got the right place because from where I was standing, I could see the going Mary bobbing in the water, so he got that right, no the issue was what I was standing on, or more to the point not standing on, he spawned in in the air, and not by a couple metres nooo, he put me (what I'm pretty sure), was a good mile. (definitely not over that one)
Of course at the time my thoughts weren't quite so coordinated, they were something more along the lines of 'hey the going Mary, whys the island down there, huh so this is how I die for the second time, where's Damon' I looked over and saw he was still on my shoulder, 'that's good'.
And then I was falling and my thoughts something along the lines of 'SHITFUCK, I DON WANNA DIEEE!!', as started picking up speed.
And right as I started in on my main coping mechanism: anger (so swearing and trying to find something to hit. which was mainly swearing at that point). I felt the muscles on my back jerk.
It took me longer that I'm proud of to realise that. 'hey, I'm not falling anymore' and smile cause 'oh thank god, I was not ready to die again' at which point I realised that i was still screaming.
I paused and looked for the positives, what I got was that even as I was falling to my death it wasn't terrified screaming (well mostly). For the most part it was it was me saying every swearword I knew. (I think it says something about me that the feeling I got from that realisation was pride. not sure what though. Although maybe that was just my reason facepalming.)
Then I was confused. Mainly Cause I asked the question of why exactly I wasn't falling. That made me panic, cause I'd wanted to be a bird before and 'HOLY SHIT, IS THAT THE EXTRA GIFT'.
And then I was freaking out, and 'hands'. my eyes shot to my arms, (and thankfully) my hands were still there. and then I was realising that. 'Hold up, having hands is not something that should make me this happy.' I scowled 'I'm hitting that bastard again. no matter how much it hurts'.
I checked on my hands again (humanlike just so you know), and went back to finding an answer to why I wasn't currently a crater in the ground.
I figured that it might have something to do with why my back muscles hurt, (followed that thought right into the Oncoming car-crash that was) my brain realising that, 'huh... wings... That's new'. (at which point the cars made contact) and my. brain. just. Stopped.
It took me a bit. As I tried (and failed) to derail the thought loop that was 'I have wings. I shouldn't have wings. I have wings. I shouldn't have wing. (repeat)'.
(During which the ambulance arrived. got out the jaws of life. Tore the door open. Dragged the metaphorical unconscious body that represented my reason. And proceeded to prep the defibrillator) and CLEAR. I was back.
I shook off the thought loop for the more important question of, 'Why? do I had wings'. Got that answer pretty quick, karma guy. Then a fight started between 'KARMA GUY SUCKS' vs 'KARMA GUY RULES'. (They tied. although there was a close call with a lucky shot from REVENGE with 'HE SPAWNED ME IN MIDAIR'. forgiveness responded with the mental Haymaker that was 'wings' and evened the score).
Anyway, back to my wings. And that made me smile, 'cause holy shit man, I. HAVE. WINGS!'. Eventually I had the thought that, 'if they're part of me(i was pretty sure), I should be able to move them. Right?' (at which point, reason froze. Giving curiosity the chance to take control.) and then it was too late and I was back in freefall. (Man did that suck. I mean 2 times in one day. Come on)
I tried spreading my wings again and realised that 'hey, they came with instincts'. Managed to level myself back out, and then I wasn't falling.(which was good)
Once that little episode was over. I started thanking my lucky star for wishing for that body control because It helped, cause otherwise... nope, I stopped that thought before it could get anywhere.
I spent some time figuring out how to actually control where I was going(carefully this time. reason was very adamant about that). Once I'd gotten (what I considered) a reasonable level of control, I started looking for somewhere to land.
I Spent about a minute reasoning that heading to the going merry and letting luffy 'find' me seemed like a better choice than the alternative. Which was me looking for him, And that had the glaring issue that I didn't know how to find him.
By the time I'd gotten down to the going merry I was feeling pretty good about my flying. Right up till I went to land and clipped the mast. It occurred to me (as I fell), that I hadn't accounted for the additional width that my new wings gave me.
And then I was hitting the deck stomach first. I waited before it hit me, (or more to the point. It didn't hit me) that I wasn't hurt, my new body meant I could take a fall without so much as a scratch. I stayed on my stomach for a bit as I mulled that little tidbit over, figured out that I was completely okay with It, got my feet under me for the first time in 10 minutes and headed for the mast so I had something to sit against.
figuring out how to fold my wings in a way that would actually let me lean back against the mast took a minute, but once I got that out of the way I spent the next minute figuring out my game plan. I took a quick look round the ship, figured that luffy and the rest of the 'Strawhat Pirates' were still out (cause my entrance wasn't exactly quiet) and reasoned I had awhile alone.
And since I had time it occurred to me to check on my furry little passenger. As I glanced at my shoulder I realised two things, 1. Damon was stockstill and 2. Shit. claws. To which I made the sensible response of howling out "OWWWWWWWWWW" 'WORDS. NEED WORDS.' "CLAWS, MAN, CLAWS" 'there we go'.
that seemed to wake him up, he twitched and then the claws were gone from my shoulder. I glanced at the wound and watched as it started healing in under a minute, this fact confirmed my suspicion about whether I had a healing factor.
With that question out of the way, I got to doing what i was trying to do in the first place, checking to see if he was okay, he paused when I voiced my concerns, which had me worried and then he was grinning at me. "Never better" and suddenly I was releasing the breath that I didn't notice I was holding.
I took a sec to mull over the meaning behind a not even one day old answering with 'never better', then I figured that I was overthinkin it and stopped.
With that sorted I moved on to my next step,
checking out the system, the though of a system sent my heart pumping, I mean it just put it all into perspective for me, I'm currently in a different world, the world of one piece more importantly, my best friend's a tiger... scratch that, a TALKING tiger (important distinction), I'm currently sitting on the going Mary waiting for luffy to show up and I'm about to check out a system that I asked from some... god?... urg, karma guy.
My life was suddenly completely different from what it was when I woke up Just this morning, I mean it became so different so very fast you'd think I'd have whiplash or something.
I stopped once I realised I'd got sidetracked and got back to the task at hand, I took a second as I wondered how exactly I was going to do that, then Suddenly something answered, =simply think access menu= and then I was in the air again, cause who could of guessed that disembodied voice are freaky enough to make me jump... right, me.
Once I landed again, on my feet this time, I was proud of that. I took a moment to reason that the voice was probably the system, cause who else could it be, and decided see it the advice would do anything, it couldn't hurt... right?.
as soon as I thought 'access menu' it was there, it blinked into existence and floated in front of me. I turned my head left and it followed, I looked up then down and it moved with me, 'that's helpful'. With that over I focused on what it the menu actually said.
<menu>
Name: Lian alder
Current Status: healthy
Mood: excitable (it thinks it's funny, i don't. Most of the time)
Health: peak health, no injuries
Stamina: 97%, slight tiredness of wing muscles
*shop +/-
Currency:
shop: 500,000
Belli(one piece currency): 0
Mana: locked
Qi/chi/chakra: locked
Strength: 1.6 +
Intelligence: 1.5 +
Wisdom: 1.6 +
Constitution: 1.7 +
Dexterity: 1.5 +
luck: 5.0 +
*Devil Fruit: none
<close menu>
My first thought was that it was kinda see-throught, which I then realised was good because if it blocked my vision I wouldn't be able to see anything behind it when I had it up. I spent a minute or two just going through the menu, checking my stats, abilities and skills. (Half a minute of which was me trying to figure out what exactly the system meant by 'excitable', I eventually brushed it off as system weirdness. if only I'd known how right I was).
And then I figured that I should probably see what Damons' looked like too, 'access menu, Damon'.
This time I got a message back.
—checking access___ access granted to user:Lian Alder—
<Menu>
Name: Damon Alder
Current Status: healthy
Mood: vigilant
Health: peak health, no injuries
Stamina: 100%
Mana: 0% currently locked*
QI/chi/chakra: 0% currently locked*
*shop +(expand)/-(Minimise)
Currency:
shop: 500,000
Belli(one piece currency): 0
*STATS:
Strength: 1.6 +
Intelligence: 1.5 +
Wisdom: 1.3 +
Constitution: 1.7 +
Dexterity:1.6 +
luck: 10.5 +
*Devil Fruit: 0/1
<close menu>
As I was going through his menu i glanced over at the furball and compared our stats, which huh, yup those were wings on a tiger (HA, he literally put wings on a tiger) I sniggered as I realised the proper response to the age old Chinese idiom, yes(as in, holy shit does this make his fear-me and badassness levels go straight through the roof) their colour pattern matched his fur, they were obsidian black and they were also beautiful. I reached out and brushed them, I guess it felt good cause he started purring. I don't know how long I was doing that, but I do know why I stopped, there was a person in front me.