What is your beginning?
And what's the beginning of this beginning?
And what's the beginning of that beginning of this beginning?
The beginning is a multifaceted and ambiguous concept. After all, how else can one explain the logic behind the phenomenon of the "Big Bang" except for "something had to exist."
But still... if something had to exist, then it had to leave its mark so that it could become a "memory".
And memories... are truly amazing phenomena. Even now - reading this short story - there is a memory, despite its appeal, because this is the "proof" of its existence...
...
Pay no attention to my wanderings.
The beginning of this story begins now.
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Wake up
This voice...
- "W-What...?"
Wake up... please ...
It sounds so familiar... So... Real...
- "I-It's too early..."
Don't leave her...
But why...? What do they want?
- "I don't understand..."
But you promised...
I don't understand...
- "W-What...?"
Wake up... Remember...
I have to...
- "I'm trying...!"
...
...Wake up
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- "Gwaaah!!"
Lucy winced in shock, but realizing it was just a dream, she sighed and slowly stood up. "What a nightmare..." she thought, but looking at the sundial near the tree she had taken a nap under, she panicked. She was late!! And it was the first day back from school!!
"No-no-no!!" she scolded herself under her breath. Taking her grimoire and dusting off her dress, she ran to the village, hoping that she would not be forced to study extra hours for her insubordinance.
But even in a hurry, she enjoyed the early autumn freshness, admiring the leaves on the tall trees running along the path. Suddenly, she was attacked by a common adherent - "Lopara "
- "Loparaaaa!!"
It started blowing compressed and dense dust particles at her, which she was terribly allergic to, and she called her light pistols and fired in the direction of the lopara. It immediately burst and Lucy covered herself with a scarf to avoid suffocation. "Phew..." she said and started running faster, thinking that the lopara had simply decided to make fun of her... but no.
Soon, she was attacked by more common adherents: slimes, mushlings, seele troops and other adherents. Knowing that the place guarded by the tree - it should not have adherents and she quickly suspected something was wrong. And although she wanted to find out why the adherents were so turbullent, school was more important to her. In passing, she noticed strange red and blue wisps that were possessing the adherents and making them stronger and more aggressive and upon defeating the adherents. This was strange. Where did these wisps come from? It does not matter. The important thing is that she needs to get to school and hope that she does not get "disciplinary actions" from the teachers. But running even further, she saw the chaos that was happening in the school, bullets of magical energy were fired from everywhere and these wisps surrounded this school. "Wh... What happened...?" she said out loud, frozen in place. "What? Why? How?" These thoughts worried Lucy. She ran to the village, fighting off adherents, to find out what happened at the school.
However... When she came to her village, she saw many slimes and in the center she saw their leader.
DEMON OF THE BEGINNING – Great Inizio
"Your Friendly Slime"
It was about three meters tall, maybe more, and the same in diameter. It was green like an emerald and had a deceptively friendly face, and above it was the fruit that gave birth to slimes left and right. It was total chaos. All the doors and windows of the buildings were covered in this thick mass, it's good that it doesn't eat away at the wood, so at least thanks for that. But even despite this mess, it seems like he wants to protect this village from these strange wisps.
- "Can you talk?"
- "Nguuuu ..."
- «...»
Sighing and not knowing what to do (after all, this slime was blocking the way to school), she summoned her pistols again.
- "You are preventing me from passing, I will have to banish you to the land from where you came..."
- "Mogu-Mogu-Nyuu..."
- "Sorry."
A barrier appeared, signaling a duel between the slime and Lucy, who clearly understood human language. She readied her guns and began shooting at him, and he began spitting slime in her direction. Remembering her training against demons and their familiars, she dodged the spit, and he launched his first attack.
ACT 1 - INTRODUCTION
"The introduction is a section preceding the main theme of a work or one of its parts and preparing its appearance"
Splashes of thick slime began, flying in all directions. If before this there was only a warm-up to warm up, then here the real test began! But for Lucy - it was like a test in dodging attacks - a piece of cake. Jumping from one side to the other, she accurately shot at her opponent (even though he, in fact, was already a big target), trying not to stain her dress. After a while, the slime began to get exhausted, so he began his second attack.
ACT 2 - THE BEGINNING
"The Big Bang Theory"
He soared high, up in the sky, and only after looking closely did she realize that he would soon land right on top of her. She ran away as far as she could, and he landed with a crash that splashed slime everywhere. He turned towards her and rolled with all his weight. One rule that you must know is that you shouldn't run away from danger moving towards you - you should instead step aside if possible: so Lucy ran to the left to avoid the collision. If it weren't for the barrier, this slime would have certainly destroyed someone's house!.. Having come to his senses, he jumped high again and again, all over again. Lucy was already a little tired of endless running, shooting only when her opponent was unconscious ; and the slime himself, too. Having taken a defensive position (if you can call it that), he began his final attack.
FINAL ACT - CONCEPTUALIZATION
"From time immemorial, the goal of every organism has been the reproduction of its own kind. There are several ways to continue one's race - agamogenesis , parthenogenesis and memetically"
Slimes started to emerge from the fruit , spitting out gobs of slime. "Damn it! There's too many of them!" she thought to herself as she shot back at the little bastards. And that slime wouldn't stop reproducing them. Soon, those slimes started to fill the arena and shoot out slime projectiles. Remembering her lessons on fighting demons - where it was about dealing with demonic familiars - she aimed for the core.
- "Well... Time to use my ultimate attack."
ACTSTOPPER - IONIZING RADIATION: NEUTRON
Concentrating all her energy into herself, she combined her dual pistols into one and released a large amount of energy into the leader, causing him to explode and all the slimes he had spawned to disintegrate into mush.
The duel is over. Lucy has won.
- "Phew ... That was stressful. I hope there won't be any more troubles like this..."
After walking through puddles of slime, disgusted at every step, she reached the door to the school and opened it, afraid of what's behind it.