Otto's journey

This story begins in the urban city of Madrid, the capital of Spain.

Our protagonist isn't a demigod, nor the descendant of some powerful demon, nor a wizard. Octavius Leon was just your average fifteen years old lazy, unmotivated teen. His greatest accomplishment in life? The chess tournament he won when he was 8 years old. It was a great accomplishment for such a lazy kid, his opponents were all between 10 and 12 years old!

But that victory didn't mean anything for the boy, he only participated because his chess-obsessed grandpa made him. His victory wasn't due to some special talent but because his grandfather made him play chess with him every day for years. Pre-teen kids are nothing compared to a man who won the World Chess Championship twice!

Unfortunately, Oscar Leon died and Otto hasn't played chess ever since. Who knows maybe if he continued playing he could have developed some amazing strategic abilities. But he hasn't played chess ever since.

Otto lives a normal life, he goes to school, plays video games, hangs out with his friends,...

This normal life changed when a friend of his sent him a link: a Pokemon CYOA.

What is a CYOA? Well, CYOAs are gamebooks that allow the reader to choose how the story developed. Based on that some people created a new version of it: creating your own character. You get a number of points and you can choose different powers or skills, each one costing a certain amount of points. A great number of authors created a huge variety of CYOAs.

"Pokemon CYOA? What is that?" Wonder Otto as he clicked on the link.

"Create your own Pokemon Trainer! You can choose the timeline, your skills, perks, and much more!" Otto read the description of the CYOA. Not having anything else to do he completed the CYOA. And he loved every moment of it!

"Who would have known that completing this sort of quiz would be this much fun! Let's find more!" Otto sent a Whatsapp to his friend thanking him and asking for more CYOAs.

And so Octavius Leon developed a new obsession: CYOAs. He would spend hours each day finding new CYOAs but as with every other hobby he had Otto got tired of it after a week or so. Months later a bored Otto was checking his email when he saw a link.

"Create your own ideal fantasy protagonist! A CYOA? I haven't done one of these in ages. Since I am dying out of boredom let's give it a try! It's not like anything is gonna happen anyway." Otto clicked on the link and started creating his original character.

"Let's see I have 5000 Points to spend? Weird, normally authors only give a thousand. Maybe it is one of those OP CYOA. Let's get started! The first choice is appearance. My current self is a free option, nothing new there. Changing my appearance but not my race cost 100 points. Changing my race is rather expensive: Elf 500 Points, Demigod 2000 points, Orc 800 points, Beast kin 1000 points, Dragon 1500 points, Elder Dragon 4000 points,... So many options! But I will choose the free option, I am rather good-looking anyways" Otto has blonde slightly curly hair, blue eyes, and is quite tall for his age: 176 centimeters! He looks a lot like the typical good-looking American quarterback. He inherited his looks from his mother, Alice.

"The second choice is magic? Usually, the second choice is perks. Let's see. To have the ability to use magic you need to pay 1000 points? That is expensive but fine, mages are awesome. Now I have to pay to choose the amount of magic I start with? There are seven options: Class S costs 20 000 points?! Nope. Class A cost 15 000. Class B cost 10 000. Class C cost 5000 points. Class D cost 2000 points. Class E cost 1000 points. Class F cost 500 points. I can't afford S, A, B, or C. So class C it is. Man being a mage is expensive as hell." Otto took a small break to go grab something to drink. With his coke in hand continued the CYOA.

"Now to choose the types of magic my character will know. I always preferred elemental magic. I want Fire, Wind/Air, and Lightning magic!" Very excited Otto looked for his favorite magic.

"What the hell?!" Otto jumped out of his chair. "Novice Fire Magic 1000 points?! Who made this CYOA?!" Otto threw his coke to the trash can and took a deep breath to calm himself.

"Damn. Whoever made this CYOA sucks!" Otto decided to take Novice Fire Magic and Novice Lighting Magic. After spending all his points Otto clicked on the `Complete` option and closed his computer.

"What a waste of time. That CYOA was made by an idiot!" Otto ranted as he got up from his chair. Once on his feet, Otto started to feel a bit weird. The room started to spin around him.

"What? Why do I feel so dizzy?" Otto tried to get to his bed to lay down. But as he was trying to walk he suddenly felt worse. Everything went dark.