Chapter 2: A new adventure awaits.

As open my eyes I see that I am in an open field no trees or anything in view.

I sigh closing my eyes and taking a deep breath. "Okay what bullshit am I gonna have to deal with now?"

I look for the pop-up and find it, but I really don't like what I just read.

"Survive? Are you fucking serious? I just can't catch a break." Talking to myself I look around to see what I am supposed to survive. My eyes catch a red orange sphere on the horizon. The sun I suppose. I turn around and see just more grass. Once again turning around I look at the sphere. Was it always that big? No. No it's getting bigger. Suddenly it whizzes past me slamming into the ground about one hundred meter behind me. Correction not bigger just closer. Once the ball makes contact it explodes into a ball of fire.

I blink "DID SOME JUST SHOOT S FUCKING FIREBALL AT ME?!" I shout with anger and later a tiny bit of fear in my voice. Maybe a bit afraid. No. No Very afraid I start to look around for another fireball being sent my way. I relax slightly after not seeing another for a few minutes. Ok given that I haven't returned yet means there is something else I need to survive. Great. Just. Fucking. Great. I must have kicked puppies in my previous life to deserve this.

You know how people say life is hard? I disagree. Life isn't hard people make it hard. In my case the Universe apparently just fucking hates me. So, I guess I got that going for me.

I spot another fireball in the distance. Another. Another and another. A few seconds pass and there are now roughly ten fireballs coming towards me. I start to sprint to my left for a minute. The fireballs fly past me not even nearly close. What? Were you expecting me to run in the other direction the fireballs came from? That would be stupid. But fair enough I am not the brightest of light bulbs on the Birthday cake so I guess I can see why would think that.

Do I hear screaming? Yeah. Yeah, I definitely hear screaming. I turn into the direction I heard the screaming from and spot about ten people running towards me. All in medieval armour. They are a lot more agile than I thought they would be with the armour suits. They look like standard knight with swords. But jack I hear you ask. Why are you not freaking out? These medieval suits of armour are quite thin and as I know from experience my Fn five seven has no problem getting though them. Once they are in a range, I am comfortable I can hit them I open fire. Two shots one of them collapse. Three more shots and one falls over clutching his knee. Ouch that's gotta hurt. I fire five more shots and from the ten knights four are left. I take out the magazine. Ten more shots in this magazine. I put it back in and see the rest of the knights coming closer. I shot what I have left, and the knights are no more.

A pop-up opens in front of me.

"That's new." I say curious about the new function of this curse.

A shop? Okay what can I buy. Let's see. Okay given the gold in the right corner I have 150 to spend on… troops and buildings?

I guess this is like one of these tower defense games. I love playing those on my phone. I buy a tower called archer tower and a couple of knights which pop into existence right next to me. I look at the pop-up and see a timer. Next wave in 60,59,58. Ah ok so I need to clear all the waves guess? After toying around with the interface, I see that's how I can command my troops too. Okay So I can send to them to certain positions and whether they should attack or defend.

"Neat!" I exclaim seeing as this would be easier than I thought It would be.

The waves are all pretty similar a group of knights come me, and my troops take them out I buy new stuff and the next wave comes as of now I have two archer towers and one mage tower which was expensive a shit, but It was worth every gold piece seeing as he shoots fireballs that take out entire platoons of knights.

I take a quick look at the interface and see that I was the last wave. A few seconds after that I am standing on my bed again with small sack of about fifteen gold coins inside. Neat that will cover my rent for a month. Probably. I don't know how much they are worth, but I hope they are worth at least a bit given that working at McDonald's doesn't exactly do much more than cover the cost for my rent.

I lie down once again this time feeling only my pillow and now grass. Oh yeah did I mention no time passes while I am in these quest worlds? Nah probably not since I have the brain of a god dam goldfish when I try to remember stuff.

[One Week Later]

I wake up about four hours after going to sleep to a knock on my door. Groggily I open the door to face my best friend, Anton. He is Asian, black hair in a ponytail and an absolute asshole that I have been friends with for years.

"Morning." I say with a yawn.

"It is two in the afternoon you insomniac. Come on let's get you a coffee so we can actually watch this movie without you falling asleep."

"Ah yes coffee. My life energy. My ambrosia. My- wait did you say movie?"

"Yes, you know the movie we have been planning on watching for a month now?"

"Oh yeah I knew there was something."

"I swear to god you would forget you own name if it weren't for me Jack." Anton says with a chuckle.

"Who's Jack?" I say with a grin before putting my hair into a man bun.

"That's you."

"I know. It was a joke."

"Sorry you can never be sure with you" Anton answered with a shit eating grin an his face

"Yeah, yeah fuck you too buddy."

"Are you finally ready to go now?"

"Yeah, one sec!" I shout from my room pulling simply dark green shirt on and a not so dark green pair of pants.

"OK let's go waaatch…. What movie again?"

"Monster hunter. Are you sure you don't have dementia or something?"

"I only need to remember the really important stuff the rest is meh!"

"You mean the exact price of your burger with coke and fires from you Burger place?"

"16 dollars and 70 cents and yes that is very important!"

Anton sighs "If you say so."

With that we embark on the epic adventure of going to a cinema, buying tickets and popcorn before watching the movie of which I most definitely did not forget the name of.

After the movie we go to my place and decided to just Netflix and chill.

I get up from the sofa about to get myself a coke from the fried when suddenly all my surroundings are replaced by a thick forest.

Before getting a proper look at the things around me I hear the awfully familiar Asian voice of my best friend.

"Jack?"