Companion

"Wow it looks prettier in your dreams." Joseph thought gawking at a Dream State's technological mystery of a forest wrapped in a dreamy fog. "Wait, I'm dreaming but how am I…" Skint! Skint! Turning to the man in the top hat next to a golden lever he fritzed, going staticky for two phases. Seeing a small castle in his peripheral he turned towards it and the white light before blinking out. After that everything went black.

Waking up out of his sleep Joseph made sure to kick his legs out of the bed in fear of falling back to sleep. Flashing in his mind the dream caused a smile to stretch across his face and lifting his spirits. Springing up out of the bed in a good mood he took it as an omen. Something good was to bound to happen.

~G.O.S.E~

"Did you find it?" Asked a man with long blonde hair with and glasses.

"No sir, we haven't detected any bugs in any of the systems. There haven't been any reports of glitches in in console neither."

"But I saw it. I saw a young black male stand right in front of me, he wore a mohawk and everything. I saw it he stood right in front of me of then fizzed out. Was no more." Checking a few of the screens the director backed up huffing. "Is there a chance of hacking?"

"No sir Mr. Divian, hacking isn't possible either. The frequency the grail emits is unworldly. We have no way to recreate the vibration."

"Yes I know but how is it possible for someone without an DSC enter the game."

"Astral projection no because you have to be in sync with the grail. Maybe somebody mind somehow tuned in to the frequency of the grail."

"What do you mean?"

"I've been studying this theory called the laws of attraction, where they say if you think something you tune in and become one with it. If you desire it and work towards purpose in life and…"

"We aren't subscribing to any of your spiritual lectures get to the point."

"Basically, I am saying what if this kid wanted so bad. Desired so bad to play this game but never could afford it. So, through attempts to buy it and or practices that require you to actually go Lucid. I don't know what he done but whatever it is it caused him to be able to tune to the Dream State Console."

~Ace~

Wooooweeeoooh! The wind howled having a shoving match with Ace. Every seven steps he took, it pushed him back four. Grrrn, his stomach creeked through the salty wind rain drops. Pushing forward trying to peek through his arm to see where to go only dirt and leaves filled the air. Himph, Himmmph something caught his nose.

Food Source Detected Shift Activated

Feeling a jolt through his body Ace went into autopilot.

Next Day. Creeping into consciousness Ace could feel the pleasantness of the skin tapping his side. Sleepily tossing over and nuzzling into bed the wet, squishiness caught his attention. Prying his eyes open pink and red flesh decorated the wall of his moist dark shelter. Searching for the way out he crawled out of the carcass ooze dropping to the tossed earth.

Eole 65% consumed Consume the whole corpse and gain experience

Shrugging his shoulders Ace peeped up at the mammoth of a creature laying before him. He doubted he ate that much of the beast or even killed it. The fallen trees could vouch for that. Taking a second to think he nodded his head. "In that case, I'm gonna have to protect my stake. At least until I'm able to finish it."

~Eric and Samantha~

"You know what. I wish we could bring something from our world."

"What would you bring?" Asked Eric.

"Some seasoning, ass some flavor you know some umph to our meals. It doesn't taste so bad but man."

"I understand you. If we could just find some jalepenos or something to spice it up it would be the bomb." Looking up over at Samantha perched up on her log leaning against the trunk of a tree legs kicking he laughed. "I have a question."

"What's that?"

"Can you only mock animals, or can you mimic people to?"

Tilting her head Samantha replied. "Mimic people to."

"Wait do I really sound like that. I mean I hear myself talking but I didn't know it was so sexy."

"Alright don't be touching yourself to your voice now that would be creepy."

"It's too late I spoiled your plans before you finished mimicking me." Eric remarked. "But in honesty if we could take anything out of Dimentia it should be that ability to mimic. You would get billions of views from you singing in different people voices."

"If it helps, I'm all down for it." Drawing a deeo breath Samantha tried to breach trough the canopy with her bird vision to see the stars with no success. "You never told me your dream."

"I am going to be an Architectural Engineer. When I was younger, I would tell him my dad that he would be constructing one of my buildings one day."

"Awww how cute when did you make that promise."

"Like second third grade." Eric replied stretching his arm out to the cackling fire.

~Ace~

Protect Quarry

Dropping a bundle of branches Ace galloped back to the deceased Eole following the must he left on the trees using an ability called Marking. Spotting his food source from a distance the smell of three intruders slithered through his nose. Unknowing of where the thieves lay, he crept inside of the carcass in wait. Taking deep inhales to locate the beasts, saliva rolled down his lips in favor of the flesh he housed in.

Arkwwop! One of creatures cried from being stabbed in the eye with a stone dagger. Lunging out of the as the hyena looking creature backed away Ace grabbed it by the head crunching into the back of its neck with his powerful jaws.

50 exp gained

Howling for their dead comrade the remaining two Grishnas lined up facing their prey.

Shift Activated. Flinging himself at one of the beasts they collided hitting the ground with a loud thud. Grabbing a big rock off the ground as the Grishna bit into his leg he hit it upside the head. Scuttling over to his stone dagger he commenced to stab the creature repeatedly before something rammed against his body. 50 exp gained.

Rolling on the ground Ace worked his way back to his feet but the Grishna latched onto his back biting into his shoulder soon as he stood up. HP 16/35. Slamming his back into a tree he pounced before it could move.

Eeee, eeee, en. The creature called out. 50 exp gained.

Hunger Grows.

Grrrr, a low rumble soared through the air like a car engine welcoming a musky, pungent smell with it. Stepping in view twelve more Grishna crept from the deep forest eyes radiating a red glow. Holding his ground Ace did not move when they charged in. Keeewoop! One of the creatures howled taking a sharpened branch to the side as its comrade next to it only got mildly injured from the same trap.

Greeting another of the Grishna in midair Ace plunged his dagger into the chest of the beast. Slamming it on the ground he chomped down on its bare neck crushing the windpipe. Rolling to his feet as one of the creatures sailed over him.

Jerking to a spasmic halt one of the Grishna bit into Ace calf causing him to fall to the earth with a boof. Kicking the beast in its mouth he managed spin over to his back watching the creature as he crawled to his feet, but another sunk their teeth between his shoulder and neck. Letting out a welp he swiped backwards with his dagger cutting only fur before the beast evaded.

HP 10/35 HP 7/35

Watching his health bar Ace noticed that upon his healing his points also dropped. Scuttling to his feet and pulling out a stone he hurled it at a Grishna popping it in the eye. Diving into the creature he made sure to bury his weapon, far as he could into its face before slashing.

Falling backwards stiff as a log, Ace pulled his victim on top of his body. Biting its comrade under the leg the attacking Grishna took a stone to the face before his target scurried to his feet climbing up the Eole carcass.

Hunger Grows. Standing on top of his claim Ace could feeling himself losing the beast again. Falling to his knees he dove into the raw flesh of the Eole ravishing it for all it contained.

HP 10/35 Hp 15/35. With each chunk his health began to rise. HP 20/35. Hopping off his meal Ace stabbed at one of the beasts trying to take a nip out of his meal, but he over swung and missed. Going into a dive a roll he pounced on the next one throwing a stone to knock it off balance then attacking.

Growing wise to his plan of action the Grishna broke away from his reach, encompassing him with the rest of its pack. Surrounded with no escape a thought flashed into his mind. "Demo" he called. Materializing into the circle next to him a Chowmin cub joined the fight ramming into one their foes before whirling with a slash of a tail slicing through another along its side. Charging a third it bit into its neck once it tripped over its foot in mid flee. Holding firm to its prey the cub would not let go until it stopped breathing.

Taking advantage of his cub attracting the Grishnas attention Ace sprinted over consuming the Eole until his HP was full once again. Tossing a stone at one of the beasts Demo smashed his horns against its ribs while it shook its head. Running up on the creature Ace made sure it took its dying breath.

Charging another, a roar ripped through the forest causing all the Grishnas to tremble except for three which simultaneously attacked Ace, while the rest were being chased away by Demo. HP 22/35

Coming to his master rescue Demo swiped at one of the beasts with her fierce claws then ram the other which rolled over scurrying out of the Chowmin way tail tucked in between it legs. A second roar sent these three Grishnas fleeing but not without first receiving a pommeling of rocks as they ran. "And don't come back." Ace spat feeling the burn of his healing wounds.

HP Full Hunger Grows. Petting Demo on his head the usual popped up on in the center of his vision. 250 EXP gained. Glancing over at Demo with his head buried in one of the Grishnas Ace shrugged his shoulders diving back into his meal leaving the bones with not a morsel. Eole 92. 3% consumed. Snapping his head back Ace could not believe it, he practically licked the bones clean, and his objective was still incomplete. Considering he may have to eat bone to he broke a small fragment tossing it into his mouth crunching on like a peppermint. 92.4% consumed. Sighing he snapped through the rest of bone until only blood laid splattered on the earth. Objective complete 25 EXP gained.

Leveled up One, Abilities unlocked.

Lvl 4 reached.

Ability unlocked Devouring- Ability to store or use any beast eating dead or alive for HP

Ability Unlocked Store- Ability to store food in tail using it for hunger or to regain 10 HP with each summon.

Ability unlock Ossiyith- Ability to create equipment from bone.

Objective Consume Eole Corpse Eole 90% consumed

Curious in what he could create using the ability Ossiyith he went to the tab clicking on with his mind.

Bone Sword Bone Gloves Bone Helmet Bone Boots

Going over the information and stats gained from equipping Ace decided to go with the sword.

Bone Sword Acquired Strength 20(+7)