Reincarnation | Chapter 1: "Second Chance"

Anywhere I want to go but I don’t really know. I love magic and fantasy but I don’t know where though. I always did love Norse mythology I wonder what that would be lik-

As I thought about that exact thought everything around me seemed to vanish into dust and I was blinded by a bright rainbow beam all around me as what appeared to be the shape of an ancient summoning circle. I would normally see in a video game formed below my feet. The light became too much to bear so I closed my eyes as it went away but the circle stayed. The void of space is gone. I'm no longer floating in the vast nothingness of space. I’m standing in a medieval dungeon of some sort. I look around the room, it's dark chains with dead bodies hanging from the ceiling. I’m trembling as I look around the room, Just my luck get summoned to A FUCKING SEX DUNGEON it looks like. There are all kinds of strange torture devices everywhere.

“Who are you? The Mistress demands to know.”

I look over at two wildly different ladies. The one demanding to know who I am is jacked like a dude. It almost threw me off, no lie. I was a little jealous in my previous life. I wasn’t fat but I was not in the best shape either. She has a six-pack that would put most bodybuilders to shame. She is wearing a half-top metal armor that covers her breast but leaves her abs exposed almost like she wants you to look. She is also rocking an armored-up skirt that goes down to her knee but offers her freedom of movement to flip around if need be. Her stockings have a black connector that connects to something underneath her skirt and the stockings run underneath her shiny boots. Underneath her skirt pokes out a fluffy tail that is brown-orangish with black stripes. It almost reminds me of a Tiger. Her hair is short but is colored similar to her tail. Two cat-like ears also stick out of the top of her hair with white fluffy centers that make me want to pet her head. Her color for her tail, ears, and hair reminds me so much of a tiger. The other girl who I assume is this so-called Mistress. She Is the polar opposite of this intimidating tiger cat lady. For starters, she is like a fashion model trying to compete against an all-time Pro Women’s BodyBuilder. This Mistress is significantly smaller and is more shaped like a beautiful young woman. Minus the very pale vampire-like skin, oh and the 4 giant FUCKING horns sticking out of her head. I’m trembling is this little angel face a FUCKING DEMON please HELP ME. Calm down. I need to calm down. First of all, she looks harmless. She’s wearing a dress with flowers all over it befitting a little princess. She even is in black high heels befitting a proper lady so maybe she’s not going to eat my soul. She has adorable sky blue hair that hides her ears that are pointy like an Elves.

“Answer the fucking question insignificant worm.” The tigress yelled as she slammed a sword on the ground to get my attention.

I stared at her intimidating stature. Her look alone looked like she could kill me before I even knew what happened. I fumbled as I tried to remember my name but out of nowhere this name, I’ve never heard in my life slipped off my mouth. I don’t who the fuck I was talking about but at the same time, the name felt familiar to me. “My name is Stargrim Blackhand, famed Black Sorcerer Knight from the Holy Realms War.”

Her face changed from who the fuck is this man into instant terror. She clenched her greatsword as she tried to understand what I said. “Mistress a word please” She whispered to the angel-faced vampiric-looking girl. They both looked like they have heard that name before but who are they? They kept arguing back and forth about the tigress never losing eye contact with me. She seemed to keep getting madder and madder by the second. She grabbed her greatsword and dashed at me at lightning speed. I thought I was dead for sure but my body on its own reacted. Out of thin air, a sword materialized in front of me and I grabbed it. Just as fast as the Tigress I blocked her attack. My muscles and veins in my arms pulsed as I pushed her back with a block of her second attack. This is not my body anymore clearly I’ve never touched a sword in my life but yet I was going hit for hit with her attacks. Clashes of swords filled the dungeon as we kept trying to get hits. She kept getting careless with her attacks like she was getting upset by my mysterious strength. Hell, I don’t even know how I’m doing this.

“Hellblazer: Death God Style” She yelled as her sword became engulfed in purple flames. She went in for a strike as I went to block it. The blade vanished before my eyes and before I had time to react the tigress knocked my sword out of my hands and was ready to behead me but stopped holding her sword next to my neck. (Flames went out as well) As I realized the girl behind her was holding out her hand in a manner like she was saying stop.

“Mistress I’m still not sure yes he’s powerful but you’ve heard the legends about Stargrim Blackhand. This man is not to be trusted; he is a user of black magic. Everyone knows users of that magic are evil and use their powers for selfish purposes. I don’t trust him one bit, please let me execute him. We can always summon another warrior from the past.” The tigress proclaimed to the mistress.

“לא, הוא האחד (No, he’s the one). איתו נזכה במשפט (With him, we will win the trial).” The mistress said in a language I’ve never heard. (Hebrew, sorry in advance if the translation is not accurate)

“As you wish, mistress but he seriously needs training. Sure he can wield a sword but that will only get him so far.” The tigress said as she bowed toward the girl.

בשביל זה אתה כאן. תאמן אותו “(That’s what you are here for. Train him.)” (I noticed Hebrew is written like Japanese. I think it reads the reverse English order.) The Mistress said to the tigress.

“As you command MiLady. Listen up you selfish black magic-user. I’ll teach you how to practice the Sword God Stance of the Death Gods. You’ll have to learn magic on your own, the mistress and I both aren’t skilled in that.” The tigress said in a somewhat nice tone but I could tell she didn’t care if I survived.

A Sword God Stance that must be some kind of magical sword-based attack. I’ve remembered playing some games with similar abilities in my previous life. I wonder if I'll be able to have flames I can launch from my sword at a distance or something. Speaking of which, what did Hellblazer: Death God Stance do earlier. I saw her blade get engulfed in purple flames but she didn’t use it to set me on fire. Plus the blade seemed to disappear and reappear to deceive me like it was an illusion or something.

“Watch me I’ll show you something almost any beginner user of this Sword Stance should be able to do.” She said as she held her blade sideways in her right arm from the hilt and the blade with her left arm. I notice this black mist flowing from the sword up to her arms through her veins like some kind of energy is flowing from the sword into her body. She stands in this stance for a couple of minutes as the energy stops flowing from the sword in her body. At that exact moment she materializes mist wings from her back they appear transparent. “You try now as well, you should be able to at least materialize one wing.” She said to me as I guarantee I had this look of disbelief in my eyes.

My blade materializes the same it did before like I’m calling it from the ground itself. I hold it similar to how the Tigress did. Wow-what is this feeling, I can feel this strange energy flowing throughout my body. It doesn’t hurt but I can feel it running through my bloodstream as it feels like the muscles in my body grow tenfold. My body feels lighter almost like I weigh almost nothing. As the energy keeps flowing I can feel it running out as I feel these strange muscles in my back flex. I feel my back rip open as two mist wings rip through my body. At that very moment, I get this strange vision. I see wings of death flapping across the skies raining fire down on a planet. In the center of all the destruction is a cross. A man is shown on the cross similar to Jesus but they are cloaked in darkness. Their eyes glow red as they pull themselves down from the cross. I fall to the ground backing up as this cloaked man inches closer. They materialize wings similar to mine as they get right up in my face. I close my eyes as they seem to vanish but I’m still stuck in the vision. I see 1 man fighting 7 demons. He’s getting destroyed as the 7 tear him apart. The demons laugh at the man as he lies bleeding out but his hand moves slightly. As he raises backup no longer human looking at all. He chuckles as he keeps laughing, brutally slaughtering the 7 demons. He looks at me as the vision goes away. (This is foreshadowing Ragnarok) What the fuck was that and who was he?

“You awake come on you listening shit head!” She looked pissed off at me.

“Sorry I got this strange vision. I don’t know what it means.” I replied as I still tried to figure out that vision.

“Don’t worry we all see that our first time none of us knows what it means. Some believe the man in the vision is the first true user of Death God Stance. Others think it's a warning for all users of the stance. That we will become that man one day but who knows.” She said with this look of sadness on her face like she doesn’t understand the vision as well.

So if it happens to all the users it's got to mean something but what. The Tigress and I begin sparring. She shows me all kinds of moves.

To be Continued in “First Battle”