《New Reality [HIATUS]》Chapter 49: The Dreaded Luciana
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Author's Note: Another chapter for you sexy people. As always, if you find any mistakes tell me. I'll get to it. Eventually. Probably.
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David then got out his pod. He washed, brushed his teeth, and got dressed. When David was about to leave, he hears something he least wanted to hear.
“Oh Daaaaaviiiiiiid!”
David's face distorts into something unpleasant.
“Hello my amazing brother David! How are you doing today!?” Cindy says with a big smile, running around David.
“What do you want Cindy?” David asks with an annoyed frown.
“Aw, can't I just be happy to see my brother?”
“No.”
“Ah. You got me. Can you take me to the Thanksgiving parade?”
“No. I see no reason why I should.”
“But David, I'll probably be out all day all alone! It's dangerous for a girl to be out at night!”
“Cindy, if there's someone that is strong enough to beat you, me being there will not have any impact on your safety.” Null points out. “You're faster and nimbler than me. Maybe if you were outnumbered, it would be a problem, but I've seen you take out a large group of men by yourself before.”
“That's not important!”
“Anyway, even if I did want to take you, guys always give me a mean look when I walk with you, mistakenly believing we're going out. In a parade, we would be surrounded by a lot of people. They would all stare daggers at me.”
“That's also not important!”
“I'm leaving.” David says about to walk out.
“David please!” Cindy says grabbing David's leg and getting dragged by it. “Why do you hate parade balloons so much!?”
“Go away Cindy! I won't take you to the parade! I'm busy in New Reality! Plus, I don't like you!”
Cindy then gets a confused look on her face.
She says, “What are you talking about? Your pod will be need of serious repairs that day.”
“What are you talking abo-... Oh.”
“I'm glad we reached and understanding oh bestest big brother of mine until Michael gets back!”
“Fine. I'll just tell all your friends about the time when you took a shi-”
Cindy covers David's mouth.
“Let's make a deal. We both go to the parade, your pod won't break, and nobody has to no about that event. Deal?” Cindy says with scary eyes.
“Fine. I guess. But I'll only go to the parade.”
“Woo! Woo! Woo!” Cindy yells out excited, doing fist bumps in the air.
David walks to school disappointed in himself for once again falling for Cindy's schemes. He opens the door when he sees something that shocks and arouses him at the same time. Someone had pasted a nude picture of Luciana on the wall. It looks like the person took it while she was showering.
David's mouth opens wide, so much that drool starts spilling out. David then starts to reach for the zipper on his pants. When he realizes what he is doing, he snaps back to his senses.
'No! Bad hand! We wait until we get home!'
Those feelings of lust were soon replaced with dread. Sweat starts dripping down his body. His heart starts beating rapidly.
'You fools!' Null thinks frantic. 'Whoever you are, you have doomed us all! Do you not remember what an enraged Luciana is capable of?! I still have nightmares from her last rampage!'
Since David didn't want to die, he took the picture down and tore it up into little pieces to the point where it was unrecognizable. He then wipes his forehead, and continues on where he was going.
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When he turns a corner, he looks at the wall and once again sees that vivid picture of Luciana. Once again David goes into lust before coming to his senses. David tears the picture and throws it in the recycle bin.
'I have to tear up all these copies before Luciana gets here!' David vows to himself. 'I always get involved every time she gets angry. Not this time.'
Unfortunately for David, someone caught wind of the picture before David had gotten to it. He was about to take a picture with his AR glasses, but David grabbed the picture and tore it up before he could snap a photo.
“Dude! I was in the middle of something!” The guy yells out to David.
David ignores him and continues running through the school.
The guy contemplates. 'Wait a minute. He's running throughout the school as if he's in a hurry. There must be multiple pictures out there! I have to tell everyone!'
He sends a message to his friends. They send a message to their friends. Soon, most of the guys in the school learn about Luciana's picture.
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The football team.
“We will find those pictures!” A football player yells out to his teammates. “We'll tackle anyone who blocks us, just like on the field!”
“Yeah!” They all yell out.
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The art club.
“This could prove to be an amazing muse.”
“Oh yes. I'm feeling inspired already thinking about that picture.”
“...Your bulge is showing.” The guy tells that second guy.
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The Honor Mathematics's Society.
“I heard that there's a nude picture of Luciana floating around!”
“What does that have to do with math?”
“Nothing, but are we going to just let the jocks take the picture? We're always getting the shaft! It's time we finally got some boobies!”
“I'm with you!”
“Me too!”
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Two boys are walking to school. Their names are Rick and Paul. Paul is looking to be in a foul mood.
“Paul, are you still mad at me for being kicked out of the Brociety? You have no one to blame but yourself.” Rick tells Paul.
“Yeah, Yeah. I know I know, but this is so terrible.”
Paul sees a girl walking to school. He straightens himself out and combs back his hair. He then walks up to her.
“Hey there.” Paul says with his best impression.
“Oh? Paul? Is that you? It's been forever!” The girl says with a smile.
“I know right?” Paul says not even remembering who she is. “So, how's everything been going?”
“Oh same old. Same old. Just applying to colleges like everyone else.”
“I hear ya. Well you see, there's this new place across town that makes the best pastries, and I was wondering if you wanted to go there with me.” Paul says to her.
She gets a sad smile. “Paul, you're a really great guy.”
'No.' Paul hears in dread.
“And I'm sure there are many girls who like you.”
'No!' Paul panics.
“But I think we should just stay friends.” She tells him with a pat on the shoulder as she walks away.
'Nooooooooooooo!' Paul thinks in dismay.
“Man, this is like your 100th rejection. The other 900 will go by like yesterday.” Rick says to Paul to comfort him.
Paul then gets a message on his AR glasses. He smiles wider and wider reading more of the message.
“Hahahaha!” Paul laughs with glee.
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“Well you're awfully in a good mood for just getting rejected.” Rick tells Paul.
“No, there's rumors of a nude picture of Luciana floating around! If I can find it, I can get back into the brociety's good graces and once again be a bro!”
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David is running throughout the school, tearing up the nude pictures of Luciana. Suddenly, a huge mass of people block David's path. They're the school's band team. There is no woman to be seen, and they all have their instruments out.
“We've heard about a guy named Dilan running around with clothes several sizes too big trying to tear down pictures of Luciana. Well, we've come here to stop you!” The conductor tells David.
'Oh no. More people are involved. Should I stop? I do not want the attention.' David then gives up on that idea. 'No. I fear her more than I fear everyone else. I have to go.'
David starts running. The conductor raises his hands and the instruments blow. It's so loud that David has to cover his ears. He runs the other way and takes a detour. He runs until he sees someone else.
The baseball club blocks David's way.
“Dilan, we know you've probably took a picture of Luciana. Give it to us or prepare to be pelted!”
“I never took a picture.” David tells them.
“Lies! Pitchers ready!” They all throw baseballs at David. He flips and takes cover in a classroom. He goes outside through the window.
'Is everybody really doing this just for a pic of Luciana? What a bunch of idiots! Ah who am I kidding? I would probably do the same thing. That ass was just...'
David runs inside another hallway, continuing his search, he tries running down another corridor, but he crashes into it. It was like an invisible wall. David hurt himself in the collision.
'What in the world?'
Looking closely, David could now see that this hallway was just a picture painted on the wall.
“So you finally make it to us.” One of the students says.
The art club students surround David.
“Hand over the picture Dilan.”
“I don't have any pictures.” David tells them.
The art students then put out buckets of paint. They throw them at David. He is hit, but not deterred. David keeps running, tearing down pictures of Luciana wherever he finds them. He then finds another picture.
He is about to tear it. A baseball is thrown at David's back, distracting him. The band then plays a loud sound. It's so loud that David has no choice but to cover his ears. He drops the picture.
'All the different groups are starting to get organized.' David thinks.
He then picks back up the picture and runs a corner. A great many people were blocking his way. He then turns around and tries to run. Another group of people were blocking his path. He was now trapped. A group of people then step forward. In the forefront was Paul, standing next to the council of bros.
“You have done good work Paul. We hereby reinstate your bro-liscence.”
“Fuck yeah!” Paul says with glee as he runs to find some women.
“We've heard about you Dilan. You have pictures of Luciana. We, the council of bros, demand that you give up the picture.”
David frowns. “You're all insane. Have you all forgotten about Luciana's last rampage? Even me who wasn't involved in any way was hurt in the crossfire. You all had it much worse.”
“That's a sacrifice we are all willing to make. Will you give it up or not?”
“I haven't even took a picture. I'm trying to save all of us!”
“What's that in your hand then?”
“A picture that I found along the way. Just let me tear it up for all of our sakes!”
“We will not relent. Clearly you don't know of the Brociety's reign. Our territory consists of 20000 square centimeters. You cannot hope to defend against that kind of power!”
“I'm more afraid of Luciana far more than I'm afraid of your stupid Brociety.”
“Take that picture.” A bro councilman says.
Null is mobbed. He couldn't defend himself and protect the picture, so the picture was exposed. Everyone there sees the picture, making comments about it.
“My god I'm going camping so hard.”
“I think we'll all be pitching tents tonight.”
“Her booty looks even better with nothing on it!”
“That booty looks so shiny I can see myself in them!”
They all have goofy looking smiles on their faces. Suddenly, footsteps were heard. All of the lust driven people there soon had fear in their hearts.
'Here it comes. Our time of reckoning.' Null thinks to himself.
“I remember that sound. That's the last sound I remember before I woke up in the hospital.”
“Oh no! It's happening again!”
“Luciana is here!”
“Shit! Tear the picture! Tear the picture!”
“It's too late! She's already here!” Someone yells crying.
Luciana soon arrives to the scene. The look on her face says apathy, but the invisible aura she's generating tells everyone there that this is just the calm before the storm. Luciana looks at David, and starts walking towards him.
“Urk!”
David clutches his chest. It looks as if he's having a heart attack. He falls to the ground in surrender. Luciana continues to go ever closer. David backs up until he hits wall. His eyes open wide, and he starts to sweat. He starts shaking and quivering. Luciana continues to go closer. David then covers his face and gets in fetal position, prepared for his beating.
“Thank you, David.”
'Huh?' David uncovers his face and looks at Luciana. Luciana looks at David with an apathetic expression.
“Leave David. You probably don't want to stick around for what's going to happen.”
“Yes ma'am!”
David then flees like the road runner. There's a dust cloud being generated from his trail as he runs.
Contrary to your expectations, Luciana doesn't give a single fuck about what David did. Luciana is one of the most beautiful people in the world. She has plenty of “nice guys” constantly trying to do things for her. If David didn't do what he did, someone else would have. Luciana then focuses her attention on everyone else there. Some people gulp.
“As for the rest of you, I honestly don't care that people see my naked body.” She closes her eyes.
“However, if I did nothing, you all would get the incentive to keep doing these kinds of things.”
She opens her eyes. What was once apathy had been replaced with pure, blind rage.
“So you all must be punished.”
She runs towards them with inhuman speed.
“Run!”
“Oh my god! We're all doomed!”
The guys run away and scatter. They tried to flee and hide, but Luciana had memorized their scents. One after one they fall.
In one group of people, there were five people currently running away.
“Keep running! There's no way she can make it to all of us!”
“Aaah!” Someone screams out.
The other four turn around and see that their fifth friend is nowhere to be seen. This makes them run even faster.
“I knew looking for her pictures was a-”
There was silence. “You knew looking for her pictures was a what?”
They turn around, and another one of them had mysteriously disappeared.
“We are so fucked!”
“Don't let her get to you!”
“Guys let's hide here!”
He turns around and sees that he's the only one left.
“...Guys?” He says in a sweat.
He hides in the closest. His clothes are soaked in sweat. He wants to pant but knows that it will give his position away.
'This is what I get for thinking with my penis.' He thinks.
“This is a terrible hiding spot.” A feminine voice tells him.
“It's the best I could HEEEEEEEE!”
He runs out the closet, but he didn't make it far. His ankle is grabbed.
“LET ME GO LET ME GO LET ME GO!! AAAAH!”
He was slowly dragged back into that closet while trying to grab onto the floor. When that door closes shut, only silence could be heard.
Scenes like this were happening everywhere. No one who had saw Luciana's picture was left safe. A lot were sent to the hospital. Of all the people who saw Luciana's picture, David was the only one who made it out unscaved. He will also be one of the few whose hands actually work.
David thought to himself while making a fist with a slight smile, 'Tonight, I will masturbate like a king.'
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David goes to homeroom and makes it to his seat. A little while later, David sees Luciana coming inside the classroom covered in blood that wasn't hers. Despite the odd appearance, no one looks at her, as if that blood on her is just perfectly natural. There's silence as she takes her seat. Some students enter the room after her with bandaged bodies.
Luciana looks up at them as they enter. Their faces twist in agony. Some groan. One even runs away. They quickly avert their gazes and sit quietly in their seats. There's an awkward silence in the room.
Soon afterwards, that silence starts to die down.
“Hey, have you heard that a new android model is being unveiled? They say that it's nearly indistinguishable from people.”
“Oh great. Just what we need. More androids working jobs so that we will have less jobs available to us.”
“Androids aren't so bad. It's because of the androids and robots that we even have the basic income system in the first place. Anyways, I've heard a disturbing rumor. You know how we mostly rely on solar for our power right? Some are saying that the materials that we need for solar are running out.”
“You know, that would explain why there is such a big push by the government in energy generating research.”
“You think nuclear fusion will be feasible any time soon?”
“They always say 50 more years. They've been saying the same thing for over a hundred years!”
“You know, these topics are kinda depressing. Let's talk about something else. What have you guys been up to?”
“I've been hitting the arcade. You?”
“I'm in the city of Caledona in New Reality.”
“What are you doing there?”
“Nothing in particular. Just hunting around the area. How about you all?”
“There's a nice sword I saw on the New Reality auction site that I really want to buy, but I don't have enough money right now. I'm mostly doing quests to earn the money.”
“Did you hear about someone selling that Grand Chaos Dominion Spear at the auction?”
“I wonder who did that. Whoever decided to sell it is smart. If he kept it, he would eventually be found out, and the big guilds would not keep quiet. If he tried to sell it in the game itself, someone would also find out. Since he sold at the auction site, he will be left anonymous.”
David listens to this astonished. 'What in the hell is with all this convenient shit happening to me lately? I expected to have to listen for weeks to find some useful information, and yet just during my homeroom, I get this information. This is just so ridiculous! Is there a switched that I pressed? Can I keep this on?'
David gets on his AR glasses and searches for the auction site. He looks on for the auction site that lets you stay anonymous. After a while of searching, he finds a site you can go to to sell your items, and get money back. However, you need reputation. People first starting out get no reputation. People rarely buy these items, as they can be scams or whatever. In order for more people to buy your items, you have to work your way up in reputation.
He reads up on all the things he needs. The only thing the auction requires is that you either submit your username that you use on New Reality or remain anonymous. However, the site suggests leaving your username, as no one buys from anonymous people who don't show their name, as they tend to be the biggest scammers. David decides that leaving his name up would be for the best, as his name is fairly common in New Reality, and since no one will know who he is anyway, it doesn't matter.
Class soon ends. During the day, David passes by Cecile in the hallway. She's happily talking with her friends. David doesn't look at Cecile, and Cecile doesn't look at David. They ignore each other, as if they're strangers. Cecile had decided to move on from David, and David has been ignoring Cecile like he always does.
After going through all his classes, he goes to the gym. Afterwards, he soon returns home. After doing his kingly duty, he logs back into New Reality.
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Author's Note: This arc is the most difficult personally I've done so far.
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