3. [You Have Been Invited!]

"Alien X you know it's only been three years now since my life turned upside down forever. right isn't that crazy man?" I said while talking to my secret bro.

Alien X: ~~~~~~~~

"What day did it happen on, did I get that right? Oh ya, you weren't there at the time. It was February 20th, 1987, and only seven days after my 13th birthday that we got into an accident." I said with a grim face before continuing my tale to my buddy.

"Everyone but me and my family died that day. It was only after I woke up that I discovered the hidden side of our world." I said before looking at my buddy.

Alien X: ~~~~~~

"Dude get off my balls already bro... It's not that big of an issue. Those kids won't get themselves killed with me wanting to spend some time alone in my room. They are still in our house, one of the safest places in the world if my parent's comments are to be taken at face value." I said before looking at my buddy's wife, the first gift Echidna my teacher/friend gave to me a while ago.

She was a stuffed doll shaped like a small 12-inch white spider with a black book symbol on her back. My buddy Alien X was a 12-inch stuffed doll who looked to be made out of the night sky itself with shining light green eyes.

 Echidna had given me the white spider while my uncle Ben had given me Alien X as a Christmas gift.

"Alien X, have you had a million kids yet with your wife yet or is it a billion kids with your wife since she's a spider." I said with a sly smile as I stuck my tongue out a bit.

Alien X:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

"Calm your ass down dude, it's not that serious bro..." I said while looking at my floating friend with shining light green eyes as his wife sat on my computer table watching this all go down.

. . .

I was one of the blessed ones apparently or something similar. My parents have been a part of a profession called hunters, they hunted monsters for a living.

Back in those days, my parents got paid by taking the commission of a successful hunt.

Another way they got paid was by selling the monster corpses to the black market or directly to rich customers. 

Most monsters of legend, or gods of myth with most supernatural creatures are real.

Yet the strangest fact of all was what my father told me back then.

. . .

"Dad if vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, ghosts, demons, angels, Gods, and almost every kind of monster of legend is real. What about aliens or those grey or green people in the sky with spaceships." I asked whilst giving my father a blank expression.

"Ya surprisingly they don't exist, but some Gods probably use their reality-warping powers to make it into existence for a joke." James said with a grin, as he thought of all the legends he heard about Loki from his encounters with hunters over the years.

. . .

Hunters have long been a dying breed nowadays due to dangers, and comforts of technology. Being replaced by Beyonders as it was getting harder and harder for regular humans to keep up.

My Dad told me he knew the answer, but Mom kept giving him the dirty eye the moment he opened his mouth.

Dad said he knew a friend named Dale from his best friend Hank. This Dale guy was a magical conspiracy theorist who said it was all a scam and someone was behind this. The so-called clues Dale had found were his so-called errors in the world, with his so-called insertion events as he called them at the source of it all.

This crazy guy even said some sort of mysterious organization was also behind this as well.

Mom even said her witch coven talked about some sort of group scheming to cripple humanity's defenses back in the day. But, Mom denied these claims due to it all being a theory with no solid evidence. Like usual Mom denied anything that didn't have absolute proof that was true.

. . .

February 13, 1990…

My birthday, and yet my parents remain to be seen anywhere and the last time they contacted me with Mom's familiar was ten days ago.

Dean and Sam had given me some time to myself today after finding out it was my birthday in the morning…

Did it really have to be my birthday of all days?

My parents have gone off to God knows where somewhere in Mississippi with Dean and Sam's father.

Then there's the fact they didn't even think to leave behind some sort of secret present FOR ME, THEIR SON. I looked all over the house and found nothing besides a large locked box in Dad's room under his bed.

No matter what I did I couldn't even open it, I shook it a few times and it sounded like some sort of book of some kind. It was either a book, knowing Dad, or it had to be something made of paper.

Now, I'm left all alone on what was supposed to be my special day…

All I have around me to celebrate MY BIRTHDAY

was some little kid with light green puppy dog eyes and my first student.

Happy 16th birthday, and happy me, I guess.

. . .

[You have been invited to join!]

[Dimensional Adventure Group Chat is now beginning its scan.]

[Your unique status in the world was one of the many qualities the system's algorithm found in you.]

[Lucas T. Bellaster your qualifications passed the standards. You have been invited to the Group Chat.]

[Do you accept?]

[YES] [NO]

. . .

"What in God's green earth is this fucking abomination". I looked around the room trying to find the mysterious voice as I suddenly felt something appear in my hand out of nowhere. I looked down to see a mysterious phone in my hand.

If the system is anything like I read before in those books, this is going to change my life forever. All these changes started to come out of the woodwork after I awakened three years on that day.

. . .

I started to read the text, but none of it made any sense.

My first instinct as a rookie hunter was to destroy even if it was exactly what I thought it to be.

I rejected my greed and followed my instincts to destroy whatever this system was since the odds of this being a trap were high.

I threw the phone to the ground before launching a flurry of magical spells towards the phone.

After the smoke cleared in the room and my visibility started to improve I was shocked.

The carpet in my room was slightly damaged even with my magical reinforcement towards the room, but the mysterious phone remained undamaged.

*[The system will wait, and respond once ready.]*

....

*[The system will welcome the possible user with their choice.]* An emotionless robotic voice said loudly as the mysterious phone lay on the bedroom floor in front of him.

None of my Mom's protections were activated… or destroyed, so how did it get inside?

My parents weren't home nor did they carry any device to contact them.

They were on a serious hunting trip for the last month and hadn't been back yet.

Well, I guess it may have been my fault since I supplied them with the information about that yellow eyed demon, but how was I supposed to know they would take this long.

My next choice was to light up the furnace downstairs to throw the phone inside for an hour as a test.

If this Dimensional Adventure Group Chat System really is the thing I'm imagining then it shouldn't break from my attempts. If it breaks that only goes to show it really was a scam, and my caution was warranted.

I grabbed the phone with my hands before heading downstairs.

. . .

The furnace took a minute to get ready before the flames were raging.

The furnace had enough fuel to last an hour or two.

Before tossing the phone inside, I made sure to add some holy oil inside the magical furnace.

After disposing of the mysterious phone I went online to search up some terms to try to get as much information about that system as possible.

I looked up terms like (Dimensional Adventure Group Chat), (Unique status), (System invite) and terms like magical systems or similar concepts matching my idea of what this thing was.

It was already 1990 and technology has already taken over the world. All of humanity's knowledge was just a few clicks away.

Yet, my parents said technology was dangerous due to the demons or something. 

They said up to 60% of those in the tech industry made deals with demons. Along with most of the founders of these huge tech companies joining these demonic clubs.

My father, even though he was a hunter, was also a conspiracy theorist and nerd with friends who had similar ideas. 

Dad's evidence was pretty solid in my opinion as he pulled up the fact that those company founders always looked young even though they were super old. 

Dad then went to double down and tell me they all probably had some sort of demonic involvement, he said this with almost every modern gadget I would show him as a test…

I swear Dad can be a little too extreme sometimes even if he's right.

. . .

My current search for clues was bringing me nowhere as the hunter community forums had nothing.

I left a comment on the forum talking about if these fictional tropes were real or not, and tried to play it off as asking for writing advice.

With my dad's book in his office also containing nothing of value, I started to take alternate paths in my searches.

I wasn't really the kind of guy to immerse myself too much online ever since I awakened 3 years ago. Ya, I play the occasional game with my new Red fur gaming chair my parents made me this year, but I usually spend my time working on something.

I enjoyed studying real things and not wasting too much of my time on those nonproductive hobbies.

Sadly my research was leading me to crazy results after opening my mind a little. All sorts of fictional novels are about protagonists who were reincarnated into different worlds.

Most of them had powerful systems created by seemingly Godlike entities with unknown purposes…

Other times it looked like these fools in the novels were slaves to the system they 'owned'.

Some were led to move due to lust or were literally coined as system slaves by those in the community due to the punishments given by the system.

The group chat aspect of these systems is another archetype of the system community from my findings.

Group chats apparently linked people from far away together via some sort of magical group chat in essence.

Most of the time these group chats were across the multiverse in different universes & worlds.

The proposes of these so called systems is currently important in my eyes if I ever going to accept any sort of offer.