//------------------------------// // Chapter 0 // Story: More Than Just A Figure // by Undertotem //------------------------------// "Oi, Andrew, could you at least fix the the mess that you made at the couch. The consoles are everywhere and you bags of eaten chips are scattered all over the place. Fucking fix your shit, I'm not going to do everything for you." A male voice said, as he enters a bed room filled with posters of various things, and air-con connected to the wall, a white cabinet, and a desk with a laptop on top, opened. The figured that entered has a semi-fit build, with a pale tan skin. He also has a slightly wavy near red hair that reaches to his neck. He also has narrow eyes, accompanied with a thick black framed rectangular glasses. He wore a plain white shirt and blue checkered boxers. His name is Furoato Sho, a Japanese transfer student in America. "I'm watching something right now, I'll do it later." The boy named Andrew said. Andrew Hitchman has a slightly chubby body build, with brown messy hair on top, as well as hazel eyes, and tan skin. He is wearing a blue shirt with an "S" symbol on the chest and tan boxers. Andrew was watching on his tablet as he laid on his bed, ignoring his room mate as he continued to watch a children's cartoon "My Little Pony". Sho on the other hand got annoyed and stepped forward towards the bed where his friend laid. He then reached out and took the tablet from his friend and paused the playing video. "Bro, you can pause this shit, so get your ass up and fix the mess you made." Sho said as he tossed the tablet on the bed. Then he headed hot of the room, but went back inside again only to remind him of something. "Also, you have work today, so I suggest that you start moving if you don't want to be late." Sho said then left the room for real. "WAIT!! I have fucking work today?! FUCK!!!" Andrew said as he hurriedly stood up and started to grab clothes from his wardrobe. "Why didn't you say anything, AAAUUUUGGGHHH!! FUCK!!!" He said as he rushes towards the bathroom to make a quick shower. In a few minutes Sho's friend was fully dressed and headed to the kitchen to quickly heat up food using the stove. While Sho was in his room, door open, in his desk drawing, or rather animating. Although his animations are not of those of experts, since he only manages to animate stick figures fighting other stick figures. He does earn money though this through Patreon, as well as post his animations in Youtube to at least gather some people who like what he makes, so more patrons for his Patreon. Although it does give him some money, he is still a student, well a working student. Both him and his friend only works in weekends though, to pay for rent. He was doing his animation on his laptop when he heard his friends voice behind him. "Yo, I'm gonna go now, there's chicken soup on the stove, and I also brought some with me. Don't forget about the bet we made, you lost, so you have to watch at least five episodes, okay? Bye." Andrew said as he then rushed towards the front door and shut and locked said door. Sho on the other hand shook his head and stood up from his seat and head out to the living room, only to see that the room was still unclean. Sighing under his breath, he worked, fixing the mess made from the previous night and the night before. After finishing fixing he room, he then took his laptop and drawing tablet, set it on the couch table and then opened the TV for some news. Sho was animating his next animation video while listening to the TV's news, from what he heard, there was a scheduled electricity shutdown on the large part of their town, and that includes their street, due to the part of town having some electricity issues. So he stood up from the couch and went to another room, deemed the storage area, and took some candles, he then went to the kitchen only to find the thing he was looking for. A trigger lighter on top of the kitchen counter. He then took it and went to the living room and proceeded to light the candles alight, one on the living room and one in his room. Good thing that he was using his laptop to do the animation on, or else he would have to start to scratch if he did it on the desktop. Sho was spending the rest of his time finishing dare from the bet he lost in while waiting for the electricity to die out. What was the dare he was doing, you ask. Well it was to watch at least five episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Sho did not understand what kind of appeal of the show had in order to attract an adult audience. Not that he's saying that its wrong, it's just his way of thinking about why it happened. He manage to finish at least three episodes before the electricity shut all power out. With the candles already alight, he didn't have to go in panic to search for candles. The power was still out, but that didn't stop Sho in continuing his animation in his room, lit by a candle. The animation was called the "The Imitator 2" that's been hosted by Shuriken255 again, and to be posted in Hyun's Dojo Youtube channel. Good thing that he downloaded the music for the animation beforehand, since the animation is a music sync style of animation. The character that he chose for the animation was the first one he made, a tan stick man with armored gauntlets and greaves, as well as tonfas. The character was made when Sho was in his young years, and it further developed towards his teens. The stick man was inspired through several different types of martial arts, and hand to hand combat techniques, thus he gave it the name "Ballista", mainly because the character hits hard and hits fast. Not only that, young Sho decided to give him powers that control the elements, he just stuck with the power for a long time, but now just altered it completely different, so instead of controlling the elements, he now has control over energy or raw energy. He was almost finished with his work when a certain smell reached his nose. "Ugh!!" He grunted. "What the hell is that smell?!" He said as he tries to cover his nose, but the smell still prevailed. he stood up from his seat and took the candle near him and walked out the room. By then the smell got stronger, that he couldn't almost bare it but he still managed to take in a few breaths. That is, until he reached the kitchen. Andrew was behind the counter giving food to people and taking in their orders. That is until his break hits. normally Andrew was talkative, but somehow right now, he seems to be quiet. One of the employees saw this and decided to ask. "Yo, Andy, you seem quiet, what happened?" the co-worker asked. "Huh? Oh, um, nothing. Just wondering about some things." Andrew said as he puts a spoon in his mouth. "Like what?" The co-worker asked. "Well..... I was wondering....... did I leave the stove on????" He asked to himself.