July 4,2010. 00:00 am
Happy Harbor, Rhode Island
In a dark alley at the middle of the night a poor drunken man's piss was interrupted by the sudden flash of a whirlwind of lights, five to be exact: white, blue, black, red, green.
Eventually the lights slowly subsided allowing him to see it's source, which was a young teen floating above the ground with his eyes glowing the previous colours.
"Oh, hell no" was the man's response as he quickly turned and ran not even bothering to close his pants.
As soon as the man turned the corner the lights faded from the boy's now brown eyes, and he fell flat on his face.
??? POV
" Argh, what the hell" waking up by hitting your face on the floor is not an experience I would recommend to anyone,but it's still funny and you can laugh about it later. Waking up in a dark alley with a bloody nose is a completely different story.
The only reason i didn't freak out is the fact that am the only person here, so no immediate danger. However, this place still creeps the crap out of me, therefore I decided to get out while I still can.
Unfortunately there was one flaw in that plan, am bare foot. The result, stepping on a some thing sharp.
" Aaargh. Son of a b..." I managed to hold myself, after all I have no idea where i am and screaming might attract unwanted attention. After checking the superficial wound, and confirming that it's not that serious. I continued moving to the moon lit entrance of the alley, while avoiding a puddle of what obviously smells like urine.
Peeking out I saw an empty street, the street lights giving me some comfort. I never feared the dark but if I had to choose between standing alone in the dark on in light, I'll always choose the light. Still for now am gonna stick to the shadow of the alley at least untill I confirm my safety.
Ok James, take a deep breath. From my situation I can assume that ether i lost some memories or reincarnated, which in both cases can be dangerous depending on where I am. Also why does my clothes feel baggy? Suddenly noticing my clothes which are similar to the ones I was wearing when I went to sleep only bigger got me confused at first. Only for that confusion to desapear as I compared the size of my hand to the objects around me.
I have been deaged, unfortunately am gonna need a mirror to tell how old I am now, but most importantly I really did reincarnate.
Judging by the the street lights and the buildings, am on a version of earth. Without any money or my phone, great, awesome. No wait, maybe I have a system or a golden finger, and just as I thought that I felt it.
Like an inaudible sound pulling my attention, not outward but inward in my mind. And as paid attention to it, it hit me. A wall of information downloaded into my mind explaining my powers which are basically a game of MTG.
My powers created a space in the back of my mind that's divided into two. The first is the battlefield, on it was a single card, me, no seriously it's me as a card.
{James walker - legendary creature - 1/1}
Apparently I didn't have any abilities, and there's an art of 14 years old me wearing exactly what am wearing now. And if that's not enough clue the flavor text say " this card is you ".
The second part which is my hand, has seven cards, the normal number of cards a player would have. If I would end my turn ( which last 24 hour here) with eight or more cards then I'll have to discard as many cards as it takes to go back to seven.
My hand consists of:
[Swamp]
[Light up the stage( sorcery)]
[Sinister Cryologist( Creature - Jellyfish Wizard)]
[Sol Ring( Artifact)]
[Sift Through Sands( Instant – Arcane)]
[Spike Worker( Creature – Spike)]
[Boldwyr Intimidator( Creature – Giant Warrior)]
Before I start complaining about this hand a new card appeared in my hand signalling the beginning of my turn.
[Plains]
Not much of of an improvement but at least now I don't have to go looking for a simitary or such land that produces black mana to bind my self to through the swamp card.
Checking the card confirms that wherever I am, does produce white mana. So I get to business.
With a tug of my will the newly drawn plains card is put on the battlefield quickly transforming, instead of plains it's now[ business district ( happy harbor)].
For a second I stop and look at the name I feel like I know it somewhere, but no matter how hard i try I just couldn't place it, eventually I dismiss it and continued.
Feeling the white mana inter my body as I tapped the card was intoxicating. suddenly I am the king of the world and I can do anything or at least that's what I felt. Luckly the orderly nature of white mana seems to have an effect on me making me calmer and more centered.
And even through the implications this poses, it actually made gratefull.
Imagining how black mana could effect me and my apparently mana inflated ego, send shivers down my spine. But regardless of how much am grateful I quickly use the white mana to cast [ sol ring]. The previously downloaded information clearly stated that using mana has no permanent effect on me but I could take any chances.
For a second I just stood there waiting for something, but nothing happened. A quick check confirmed that [ sol ring] was indeed on the battlefield. So... what happened?
A mental probe of the card confirmed that its working just fine and he can tap it any time, yet nothing happened which completely sucked. I totally was expecting a lot of light work from a card with a fire ring art on it.
Having done everything in my capabilities at least for now, I decided to explore my surroundings. Hopefully am not in a zombie world or something like that, and who knows maybe I'll find a hundred bucks on the curve or something like that.
2 hours later
Paris Observatory
Third person POV
"Well I don't want to be on the first shift either" complained an astrophysicist to his colleague as they turned on there computer and machines.
" Then there's only one way to solve this" the other said, suddenly serious.
" Let do this" seeing how serious his colleague is, he decided to take it as seriously.
" Rock, paper, scissor..."
" Rock, paper, scissor..."
" Yes" his colleague celebrated his win " good luck, man"
Sighing, he had no choice but to do the most boring part of being an astrophysicist, sit in front of a computer and watch numbers move scanning for any discrepancies.
However, today was deferent, because as soon as he sat down he noticed something deferent.
" Umm, Jules?"
" Yeah?" His colleague replied.
" Something is of" he said as he started tipping, pulling more data.
" Nice try Louise, but you lost fair and square" said Jules while flipping through paper.
" No seriously, you got to see this" hearing the seriousness in his friend's voice he left what he was doing and walked to him. By the time he reached there, there was a picture on the monitor.
" What am i looking at?" He asked.
" As far as I can tell. A perfect circle of plasma on the surface of the sun?" Louise replied.
" Huh, cool" Jules said decisively.
" No, you don't get it. It's been like that since the censors picked it up 2 hours ago. And even weirder, there's no fluctuations in power what so ever. It doesn't shrink nor grow" that seems to let his friend speech, then he spoke.
" When we name it, my name is going first"
" Go to hell. I was the one on shift, I go first" came Louise's quick reply.
July 4,2010. 06:48 am
Happy Harbor
James POV
" Kid, hey kid, WAKE UP" i was suddenly woken up from my very terrible sleep. And no wonder I slept terribly.
After walking for hours in the mostly empty town, since everyone are asleep except for few drunk people or shady characters, which I averted both. I end up on a bench in a park.
With no money or ID or shoes, I needed a plan to move forward which I couldn't make without knowing where I am. The best I could come up with was wait until the next card and hope its a good one. Eventually, I fell asleep on the bench without realising it.
Sh*t, the sun is so bright how long did I sleep.
" Your ok there, kid" said the cop drawing my attention to him. Crap a cop.
" Yeah, yeah am fine..." As soon as I finished that sentence i turned and ran. The last thing I need is getting arrested for public disturbance or something like that, except there was a single flaw in that, wanna guess it? That's right, am still barefoot.
" AAARGH, SON OF B*CH!!!" the same God damn foot!!