FPV Harbinger
I was falling… falling very fast, I could feel the air rushing past me, so I opened my eyes… that’s when I saw the floor.
“Ouch…. Ok that hurt… but, why aren't I dead?” I look myself over and find that my wounds have left faint scars all over my body; I can even see the fifteen gunshot wounds on my chest as little white spots.
“Well… this is different, but different can be good, I just need to figure out where I am…” I dust myself off as I head in a random direction.
(Here is song one “/watch?v=ruP672bL8eA”, it should only be played for the duration of his wandering.)
“Hmm, this place seems to go on for quite a ways… well no mater I’ll just keep going, it’s not like there’s anything else to do…” I mumble to myself as I walk off towards the horizon. Or what I think is the horizon that is, you really can’t tell in this place.
POV third
Time passed slowly, or seemed to anyway since there is no sun or moon to give a shadow or to gage the time with, what he thought was days was only a few hours.
“Well this is boring…. Well fuck it… I’m doing random shit now!” and he started doing everything possible for a man to do when he is bored out of his mind, sword fighting with his ‘ghost’ being chief among them.
After another hour of that he began walking again, when all of a sudden he found, off in the distance, a tombstone, when he got to it he saw that it was unblemished except for a year.
“33-1352AD… hmm well, that tells me that whoever this was lived a fuckin’ long time… well I have a check point now… so let’s see…” Harbinger marked a spots on the ground next to the tombstone, making a compass rose. North, South, East, West.
“Well, I guess if I go by my little marker here, I’ll go west and see what happens.” Therefore, he kept walking.
“Walking, I love walking, walking, I love walking… you know what fuck it! I’m tired of this shite; I’m staying right here till something happens.” Harbinger shouted to the air, hoping something or someone would hear him.
A portal then opens in the middle of the area Harbinger is occupying, incinerating a good section of the ground he walks on, and out stepped a wondrous figure.
His name was Shade, the man, cloaked in deep blue colors, wore a cloak of midnight blue with its cowl up, he also wore a lighter blue tunic and under shirt, the tunic had the symbol of a crescent moon, but set to where it looked like a closing eye. His stature was of one who had been through much, and cared little, his face was half covered thanks to a scarf like cloth that covered his mouth and nose.
“Hail!” Harbinger cried, he was now walking towards the man in dark blue, curious as to how they had gotten there and hoping that the man could shed some light on the situation.
“Hail, stranger… How did you get here?” The man in blue asked.
“Well I was on earth when my brother and I were attacked by some gang members saying that I owed them money, and things spiraled downhill and I ended up taking fifteen shots in the chest… not the most pleasant experience mind you.” Harbinger was now standing before the man in blue, not intimidated by him in the least, which intrigued the man somewhat, seeing as most would cower from him in fear.
“Well then, it seems you are now stuck here… with me.” Shade gave Harbinger an appraising eye before walking away, with Harbinger in toe.
“What do you mean ‘stuck here with you”? How in the world does that happen?” Harbinger asked the man in blue, they were now walking at a leisurely pace, just shot of standing still.
“Well, I figure that since you are here, in this realm of oblivion, you had done something of importance with your life right before dying, but that it was not an honorable thing you did to accomplish it… So, since that must be the case seeing as you ARE here, then you are stuck in this limbo with me, until something or someone comes to have a use for us.” They had stopped once the man in blue had started talking, not wanting to have a moving conversation.
“Well, if that’s the case then let me introduce myself, I am Harbinger of Death, Ranked fifth in my clan and leader of the ‘shield wall’. I am also the head of a small detachment of men named the ‘unforgiven’, they a-were like my children when I was still alive…” Harbinger sighed as he remembered his lost family and close friends that he had left behind.
“I see… My name is Shade, master of the shadows and ruler of this and many other realms, I have entire religions named after me in some way, shape, or form, and I am a fighter without equal, and I have over a billion children to call my own.” Shade said the last part with a slight smile, as if thinking of his demented sons and daughters filled him with a certain joy.
“Now come we must keep walking, if one stays still here to long they will die and be forever lost to the void.” Shade then began walking off in a different direction from before.
Shade came to a sudden stop, he flung his arm out to stop Harbinger but he had already felt the disturbance and had stopped on his own.
“What is that?” Harbinger asked as another portal appeared less than two hundred feet away from them.
“We have more visitors, well this has turned out to be an eventful day… wouldn’t you say Harbinger?” Shade asked, he had a sardonic smile on his face as he approached the portal, nothing had come through yet but he could hear some voices echoing from the inside.
Then the portal closed, leaving behind its cargo, two figures, one dressed n white and blue the other dressed in green and black.
The man in white and blue was very skinny, not anorexic but thin nonetheless, he was dressed in a white pair of jean pants and a white hoodie with blue stripes going down the arms and down the back. the man in green and black also wore some jeans, the jeans were black while the shirt he had on was an emerald color with black strikes in the same design as the first mans.
“Well, I guess we should say ‘Hi’ then…” Harbinger mumbled to himself as he made to catch up with shade.
“Hail, what brings you to our humble dimension?” Shade, being kind of a dick, shouts when he is less than ten feet from them. We were walking up from behind the two men.
“O stercore!” the in white yells as he falls over from the shock. Harbinger goes over to help pick him up off the ground.
“You are all safe here, there is nothing here that can hurt you, and you cannot age…” shade was say before he was interrupted.
“A Domino factum est tibi, quia non pro superbia tua! Fuisti nunc indica quo te hic!” the one in green and black bellowed to us.
“Hey, we are just stuck here, so don’t get your panties in a bunch!” Harbinger yelled to the emerald dressed man.
“Quam audet te contumeliam me! ego percutiam te facile, vermis!” the Emerald man shouted back.
“BE QUIET YOU INCOLENT FOOLS, INSOLENS QUIESCATIS VOBIS INPRUDENTIUM!” shade yelled in their language and ours.
“We are all friends here! “ Harbinger yelled, mostly at shade and the emerald guy, since the one in white was standing next to him being quiet and actually trying not to be a threat.
“Gagh, he drives me crazy,” Harbinger turns to the man standing next to him while shade and the emerald guy duke it out, “so what’s your name friend?”
“Mihi nomen est Banskton Goff, et spero cessat pugna.” Harbinger looked at the man and slightly tilted his head.
“SO your name is what… Goff Banskton?” he asked the white clothed man, the man then nodded in confirmation.
“SO, you speak English… instead of Latin…. Very interesting.” The man known as Goff, looked Harbinger over with critical eyes, not seeing any weapons on him he deemed him as a nonpartisan and looked over at the blue man.
As Goff turned to look at what the other two were doing, a little put off by what was going on. The two men were shaking hands as if they had come to an agreement.
“So sire, what shall we do with them?” Goff asked his commander.
“Well, we shall be joining them, for I have seen what they will be doing in the near future and they will need as much help as they can get.” Said the emerald and black man.
“Oh, where are my manners. My name is Emerald Knight, and this is my shield brother Banskton Goff, though most just call him Goff.” Emerald Knight said as he reached over to shake Harbingers hand.
Harbinger replied in kind, took the proffered hand, and gave it a firm shake.
“Well, where are we off to then?” Harbinger asked of their new allies.
“Well, we are going to a world where magic is an element and power is being subverted by a strange being of other worldly proportions. So, we are going somewhere fun!” Goff exclaimed, as a portal appeared right below them, sucking them in in the process.