It was a bright and sunny morning when I got up to go to the convention, my very first in fact. Doing my morning routine I put on my white button up shirt a gray hoodie over that and a black leather jacket with a red tribal marking on the back. I was going as my favorite game character ever, Alex Mercer but due to my poor eyesight I had to put on some contacts so I went to get them.
“Weeellllll shit” I cursed as I realized I was out off regular contacts. Remembering my special contacts I ran to my room went over to my bed and looked under. Right there it sat completely unassuming was a small box. Within was something I never thought I would use, two sets of specially designed prescription contact lenses that make my eyes look like the sharingan and rinnegan respectfully. Pulling it out, and going to the bathroom for a mirror and better lighting I pulled out the sharingan and put one in my left eye. When I went to put the right one in I dropped it on to the floor scrambling to get it I ended up crushing it.
“Damn it!” I yelled. I took a deep breath. Held it. Then slowly released it.
“At least I still have the rinnegan ones.” Not wanting to take the one I had in already I just kept it in. I had no trouble getting the right one in but that left me with only one rinnegan for later. Deciding to deal with it later I looked my self over. I could see just a bit about my dark brown hair covering my pale face.
‘I need a bit of a shave’ My scruff was getting a bit long but I had to leave now or I would be late.
Running downstairs out the door and to the car, I got in started it up and drove off to the convention going on down town, getting there and parking just an time to meet with my friend, Tony cosplaying as Virgil only missing his signature yamato.
“Hey, John.” He yelled while waving me over.
“Hey man how are you.” I responded happily.
“Thought you were a no show.”
“Hey my first con I’m not gonna miss it.”
“Alex Mercer nice choice… But what’s with the eyes?”
“I ran out of normal contacts ok. You know I don’t have many because I prefer glasses.”
“Looks cool but as Alex doesn’t make much sense. Hey look we’re in. How did we not notice?” He finishes sounding confused.
“What fun is there in making sense?”
“Amen to that!”
Shrugging we walked in a bit seeing a slightly less crowded area around a small and almost abandoned booth I lead Tony there I asked. “So what’s the, holy shit this is some true quality!” I said cutting myself off and motioning towards the high quality merchandise. He had things from the gjallarhorn to the dagger of time, all very high quality.
Seeing what I was pointing at he decided to take a closer look with me right behind. “Wow that’s some good stuff where did you get it?” He questioned while picking up a yamato and examining it.
“I make them myself stranger.” Said the man behind the table. Standing there voice and all was the merchant from Resident Evil.
Looking over the various items for sale I saw Alex Mercer’s claws. “How much for the claws and katakana?”
“That would be about $200 stranger”
Seeing Tony reach for his wallet and knowing exactly what’s gonna happen I put a hand on his shoulder and say “Don’t worry man I got this.”
“But shouldn’t I pay for the katana.”
“No just buy me lunch and we’re good.” I responded, getting a thumbs up. “ Ok $200 and here you go.” I wait just long enough for Tony to grab his new sword to slip on the claws. Once in place they start to tingle then slowly after that they start to burn. I look over to my friend and see his sword start to glow. Looking back to the merchant as my vision starts to fade “Don’t forget the eyes.” My vision goes black “They may have been mistake but I would love to have them included.” I start feeling nauseous and I swear I hear him chuckle and say:
“He he he. No problem stranger.”
I then collapse after a moment I hear Tony collapse next to me “ What’s going on?” I barely hear him say. I just smile and let unconsciousness take me.
’Unknown’ Location POV John
I slowly awaken to the chirping of birds nearby and the feeling of grass beneath me. Hoping the merchant actually followed through with my request I pulled out my phone and use the forward facing camera and take a good long look at my eyes and even tried taking out the contacts finding them to be real. The odd thing was my sharingan was a bit different it looked like a fusion of all of them.
‘Guess he couldn’t decide which one to give me oh well more power for me’ I jumped up in celebration accidentally leaping ten feet landing on my head with a thump my jubilation was cut short by a groan. Looking over I saw Tony, or should I say Virgil, waking up a few feet away.
‘What he should be in his own universe! Oh well, at least I have someone to help me through these odd times.’ Running over to him I crouched down and tried getting him to wake up faster by shaking his shoulders lightly.
His eyes flutter open as he sits up and looks at our new surroundings “Ok, what the fuck happened?” He more of demands than asks.
‘Should I lie and say I don’t know or tell the truth. He’ll probably get pissed if I say I knew what was going to happen and didn’t stop him.’ Finally deciding to play dumb I say “I don’t quite know but I do know I can jump higher and my eyes are real.”
“What! Bullshit! Wait how did you prove your eyes were real? How would you prove your eyes are real?”
“I can see much better and I see your demonic energy. So there’s that. Wait I have a amazing idea.” I stand up, make a hand seal and focus on pouring my new chakra into my hands and say “Shadow clone jutsu!” And in a poof of smoke ten perfect clones appear and five flawed ones. Tony is staring jaw dropped and eyes wide. “Ok you five disperse.” I order pointing at the flawed clones. Pointing to the other three I order, “The nine of you walking on trees. You meditate and remember all jutsus you can.” Saluting they all go to carry out their orders. Meanwhile Tony looks like he’s having a mental breakdown. So I give a good back hand to try and wake him up like I did in the good old days accidentally launching him into a tree snapping it in half. “OH SHIT! Dude you ok?”
Running over to him to see for the most part he’s just fine. “One ow you are dick. Two why didn’t that hurt more let alone not break anything. Three how did you get that strong? Four HOW THE FUCK DID YOU USE SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!”
“My guess is you are now actually Virgil now and blind luck.” I answered while walking back to were he dropped his sword.
“Ok then but how did you get that strong?” He asked getting up and brushing himself off.
Tossing his sword to him I started concentrating on my arms imagining them shifting to claws they shift quickly. Turning to him a look of fear on his face and a hand on his sword I answer. “Blacklight probably.” I turn around quickly faintly hearing clashing of steel. Without turning back to Virgil I say “Sounds like fighting, time to test our newfound power. Let’s go.” Shifting my claws away I start running towards the sound soon after I hear him follow not far behind.
“Wait the fuck up ass hole!”
After a minute or two we stop upon the edge of a clearing. Within said clearing is something I only partially expected, a camp of anthro ponies being raided by anthro griffins. The ponies are wearing golden knight armor while the griffins were wearing roman style steel armor at least I think it’s steel. The griffins main weapon seemed to be steel tipped partisan with short swords just in case they need it. The ponies used a more diverse range of weapons but even with diversity on their side they seemed to be losing. Considering the fact that some of them aren’t wearing full sets of armor I’m guessing that this was an ambush.
I turned to Tony and started whispering “Ok here’s the plan….”
Equestrian military camp POV Private Steel
Things were not going well for private Steel a unicorn with light gray fur and dark blue mane and tail. Ten minutes ago the camp was ambushed and 10 men fell immediately. Since then 15 more have fallen but at least they took some griffins down with them 12 to be exact.
The griffin in front of me was wielding twin daggers his spear having gotten stuck in the ground on a missed thrust. He dived down daggers aimed at my throat. I waited for the last second to dodge while he was to close to move I bashed his beak with the pommel. Making him squawk and put his hand over his face at that moment I stabbed him in the neck. Turning to a sword flying for my face to fast and close to block or dodge my eyes widen and I know I’m done for.
Clang
His sword stops an inch from my face, being blocked by a man in a blue trench coat using a neighponese style of sword that I can’t remember the name of. He has an flat face with small ice blue eyes, ears on the side of his head and white hair that’s slicked back. He looks the griffin straight in the eyes and says in a dark chilling voice, “My sword is thirsty I guess your blood will suffice.”
He then turns his blade so its edge mets the griffins edge and cuts right through his blade and decapitates him in one movement. He then turns to me and asks, “You ok?” My only reply is to slowly nod with a shocked expression. “Good, go help your friends.”
Shaking myself out of my shock I responded with, “Of course.” I watched as he ran off dismembering opponents left and right. He didn’t have much skill but he more than made up for it with speed and strength. I ran towards a group of five of my friends holding off seven griffins when a second man burst from the forest this time wearing a black jacket with white bands around the arms, red collar and an odd mask. The mask covered his whole head and had a swirl that led to it’s only eye hole on the left side of its face.
He jumps at the seven griffins with pure white blades extending from his sleeves. Stabbing and slicing them to bits. Within less than a minute all seven are dead their armor giving no resistance. I run over fearing for the lives of my comrades but it seems that fear is unfounded as offers a hand to them after retracting one of his blades. “Sorry I’m not good at healing, like at all.” He says before he notices me coming up behind him but when he does he looks over his shoulder at me. “Shouldn’t you be fighting?”
“I just wanted to thank you for sav-“ I’m cut off by him grabbing my shoulders and pushing me to the side just in time for a dive bombing griffin to miss me but still impale him. We all stare as he doesn’t even flinch at the spear in his chest. Reaching down he snaps it ware only two inches are sticking out then grabs the part the griffin is holding and yanks him down so he can stab him in the chest after he does black tendrils shoot from his sleeve and, for a lack of a better word, consumes him!
“W-w-what was that?!” I stutter shocked by what ever it was standing before me.
“You don’t want to know.” He answers as he pulls out the broken spear not even leaving a hole. “All of you clear out the camp!” He then jumps away to presumably kill some more.
“I have a felling something big has begun today.” One of the pegesi says in a disturbed tone.
I can only look to where the masked man jumped off to and say “You may be right. But let’s just hope it’s a good thing.”
Equestrian military camp a few minutes later POV John
All of the griffins were either killed or captured, my shadow clones had dispersed and we were being thanked for saving many lives. Tony turned to me and whispered, “What names should we go by?”
“I’m going by Alex Uchciha. You can go use anything just don’t make it stupid.”
“Really. Ok I’ll just be Virgil. Also how and where did you get that mask?”
“Alex Mercer can shape shift in game he never made any form just stole them due to game limitations I made this.”
“Oh, guessing it’s to hide your eyes.”
“Yep. Also we should give them as little information as possible, at least for now.”
I see the guy we first saved walking over to us. “I just wanted to thank you for saving us but, who exactly are you two?”
I look him in the eye and step forward “Alex Uchiha and my friend here is Virgil. Now can you give us your name, common courtesy after all.”
He straightens out gives a salute and says, “I’m private Steel Shield of the equestrian army.”