“Note to self; stop saving people— I’ll probably live longer,” I thought, sweat pouring down my forehead. My back pressed against a wall and nose to nose with a very, angry filly. If looks could kill I’d be nothing but a smear on the wall by now.

“Explain, now,” She hissed through clenched teeth.

PING!

Intimidation attempt successful

You are being intimidated

I blinked at the notification in shock before I felt like a rabbit cornered by a wolf, and I caved.

“Alright, alright! just tone it down will you please? Jeez, after being saved from an assassin, you don’t usually interrogate the one who did the saving,” I said, holding my hands up in a placating gesture. Melody snorted, but backed down, and sat on her haunches. I heaved a sigh of relief; though now I had to give her something, or she’d start all over again.

“What do I tell her? I can’t tell her the whole truth, because I’d sound insane, so what the heck do I do?” I wracked my brain for an answer. Perhaps fate decided to give me a freebie because Melody actually helped out.

“Where did you even get all that information on that stallion? I didn’t notice at the time, but looking back now, it was really personal stuff,” She asked with a raised eyebrow. A simple plan formed in my mind that gave me a good out. I took a deep breath to collect myself and explained.

“I have an… an ability that grants me certain amounts of knowledge about objects— be they a simple box, or a living pony,” I said with a casual shrug of my shoulders, trying to play it off as if it was an everyday thing. Melody gave me a blank look; she clearly didn’t believe me.

“Prove it,” she said, showing her age and doing what any normal kid would do when told a crazy thing. I sighed and dragged my hand over my face, pausing at my mouth for a second to cover my whispered Observe. I was surprised at what I read; apparently the hidden fact was something different every time I used Observe.

Melody has a small stash of porno mags she swiped from her father in a hidden wall compartment behind her bed.

My jaw fell open in complete shock as I just stared at the notification. I started to feel my left eye twitch and I pinched the bridge of my nose. Why was my power being so perverted?

“What’s the matter? Can’t learn anything about someone as pretty as me?” She teased. I opened one eye to cast an annoyed look at her and caught her with a smug smirk. Now I’m normally a ‘water off a duck’s back’ kind of person, but seeing that smirk just rubbed me the wrong way. I scoffed.

“Well, pretty filly, what’s with the porno magazines behind your bed? You didn’t have an imagination so you needed some visuals to help it along?” I snarked back. I realized it was kind of a dick move. Even though I’m physically around the same age my mind isn’t. I have the intellect of a full-grown adult and here I am picking on a little girl...filly… Ah, the same idea anyway. She may have pissed me off but that’s not really and excuse for this. I wonder if it has something to do with me basically being a kid again? I’ll have to keep an eye on it in the future.

While I was upset at myself for picking on her, I couldn’t help but feel amusement spring up as I saw her mouth opened and closed like a fish as she just stared at me. Now I was the one with the smirk on their face.

“Did I prove it, or do I need to dig a little deeper?” I asked. Melody snapped out of whatever shock she was in and glared at me while blushing violently.

“How do you know about that?! No one’s seen me with those ever!” She demanded, stomping one of her forehooves in frustration. If I wasn’t annoyed, I would have found that action to be somewhat cute.

“I told you; I have the ability to learn things about others when I look at them. It’s only if I choose to though, and the more I look, the more I learn. I don’t know how it works, I just know it does.” I wasn’t lying per se. It was an ability of my ‘Gamer’ powers so I really didn’t know how they worked.

PING!

What now?!

A half truth is still lying, brat!

New skill created!

Lying: Lv 1 (15/100)

“But I am a real boy!”

The ability to tell half and non-truths as if they were the truth.

5% chance of lying successfully

My eye started twitching violently as I read the screen. This was the most bullshit of all bullshit things to pull at this point and time! Whoever this Gaia was, if I ever found them, I’ll wring their neck till they’re blue in the face before I—

“Thank you.” I stopped my mental temper tantrum and looked at Melody confused.

“What?” I asked. She glared at me slightly but it had none of the heat it’d had before.

“For saving me… thank you,” she said, her head dipping down a bit.

“You were right; you don’t bully someone who rescued you. I’ve always had about as much patience as ‘an exploding volcano in an earthquake’ as my Dad says.” She rubs the back of her head with an embarrassed grin. I give her a small smile.

“Well, you’re welcome, and it was my pleasure. I wish we could have met under better circumstances,” I said, and I meant it, too. That quest had been stupid crazy from the get-go. I felt my blood freeze as that thought bounced around in my head.

“The quest.” was my only thought as I mumbled Quests out loud and a screen displaying both my quests popped up.

Impressions are important: It’s your first day so make it a good one.

Objective: Clean up, eat breakfast and don’t be late!

Quest Completion Reward: +500 EXP, +15 REP with ???

And the one I was on now.

“Edge of the knife”

Objectives:

Stop the assassin from killing his target.

Make it back before your Dad notices you’re gone ( 0:30)

?

?

Rewards:

2000 XP

400 GP

Random mid level spell book

Enchanted weapon

?

Failure:

Possible death and death of target

I panicked as my eyes fell onto the timer counting down on the right-hand side. I had less than thirty seconds left before Dad noticed I was gone!

“Oh crap,” was all I could say. Melody got a worried look, but I ignored her as I ran toward the garden entrance.

“WAIT! What’s wrong?!” I heard her hooves thumping behind me quickly as she ran to catch up. I didn’t have time to explain it to her, so I kept running. I made it back to the crowded main street and I frantically looked left and right, trying to get some kind of glimpse of my Dad. I hadn’t dismissed the quest screen, so I looked at the time again, and I almost started to cry. It had only eight seconds left.

“Why’d you run off like that?” Melody poked her head into my field of vision on my right side. I still had a chance to save my life, so I darted left, my eyes straining to find any sign of my Dad.

“Stop running away from me!” Melody yelled behind me. I finally reached a clear patch in the crowded street but even as I did my last hope died with a now common sound.

PING!

Quest Completed!

“Edge of the knife”

Objectives:

Stop the assassin from killing his target.

Make it back before your Dad notices you’re gone: Failed

Hidden objectives:

Stop Assassin without throwing a single punch - 1300 XP

Create a secret shadow organization - New title! - 1300XP

Rewards:

2000 XP

400 GP

Random mid level spell book - placed in inventory

Enchanted weapon - Placed in inventory

Possible future friendship with Melody Song

PING!

Level up!

I didn’t know what to think. My head was a boiling cauldron of so many emotions it felt like a liquid landfill. I didn’t know one thing though, as I grabbed my mane and stared at the ground in fear.

“I am so dead.” Was all I could say. Then I felt, FELT I TELL YOU, a large shadow loom over me.

“Not yet you’re not.” The scathingly quiet voice of my Dad said. A shiver went down my spine as I glanced up at him. His large arms were crossed over his chest and his piercing grey eyes were narrowed to slits.

“You better explain yourself, son,” he said, every syllable sounding like a hammer on my coffin nails. I give a weak chuckle and open my mouth to explain when I’m interrupted.

“Get back hereAHHHHHHH!” Was all I hear before I feel a warm body collide with my back get sent sprawling on the ground in a tangle of limbs and feathers We start struggling to get up, though it only makes it worse.

“Get your hand off my wing!”

“Well stop shoving your hoof in my eye!”

“It’s in your eye because your horn is in my ear!”

“Than stop slapping your tail in my face!

“I’ll stop when you get your fingers out of my nose!” I’m certain we would have gone on much longer but a sound, or rather a lack thereof, made us stop and look around. Every… Single… Pair of eyes were staring right at us and there were multiple snickers and snorts of barely contained laughter. In a blink, I was shoved away hard and I saw Melody Song standing there with a violent blush spread over her face.

“Huh, so that’s where you’ve been,” Dad said. My head whipped up so fast, I swear I felt a crack and was met with a ball retracting terrifying sight. My Dad with a smirk on his face. I was truly scared now. Mom may be the prankster of the family but if Dad got even the slightest bit of dirt on you, then he would tease you to death and back.

“Should your mother and I start making wedding arrangements now, or do you want to wait a few years?” He asked, his eyes practically sparkling with delight. I knew to keep my mouth shut but Melody had no such instruction.

“It’s not like that! He just saved me is all.” She said before I could clamp my hand over her mouth but the damage had already been done.

“Saved you? Really now?” His smirk only grew. I tried to get up to stop her but Murphy was being a dick, and my pack, which I hadn’t realized had fallen off my back, got tangled around my hooves and sent me back to the ground— face-first this time.

PING!

Physical Endurance - Passive - Lv2 (14/100)

“There’s no gain without PAAAIIIIIN!”

(Your body’s ability to endure physical attacks and injuries)

Current level nagates 8 points of physical damage

I vowed that if I ever found Murphy, I’d slowly boil his balls in tar, before setting them on fire!

“Yeah, he stopped an assassin from killing me by just talking to him. Then he scared him off by threatening him, and I can’t stop talking when I’m nervous.” She clamped her mouth shut with her own hooves, but the damage had already been done.

Dad’s eyes changed from mirthful to steel hard in an instant, making us both flinch. He stared at me for a few moments before frowning hard. My whole life, well lives, was starting to flash before my eyes. Could this get any worse? I wanted to slap my face so hard for thinking that, but Murphy did it for me in the form of a notification.

PING!

Quest failed

Impressions are important: It’s your first day so make it a good one.

Objective: Clean up, eat breakfast and don’t be late!

Failure: Ya get nada.

“We’re going straight back home son— your mother and I will have quite a few questions for you,” his words brokered no argument. I felt like crying. I glanced over at Melody and saw she was giving me a sad smile— that changed very quickly.

“You too missy,” Dad said as his eyes flicked over to Melody. She let out a startled ‘EEP’ and darted behind me. It would have been adorable if I wasn’t about to go face a firing squad. My Dad just gestured for both of us to start walking, and I started to trudge homeward— toward my doom.

“Well, this new life was fun while it lasted.” I thought sarcastically as my hooves dragged along the ground. Melody was doing a very good impersonation of a depressed me to my right. She leaned a bit closer and I heard her whisper.

“Your Dad’s kinda scary.” While I still felt down, I felt a small smile spread my face.

“He’s nothing, it’s my Mom I’m worried about,” I said. I saw Melody swallow the large lump down her throat with a shiver. I brought my hand over and patted her on her withers with a comforting gesture. She looked at me, and I did my best to smile reassuringly.

“Don’t worry. Mom’s not that bad and besides, think of it this way. You faced down assassin earlier, my Mother should be easy compared to that.” I told her. She gave me a small, friendly smile in return before looking ahead again.

PING!

+10 Rep With Melody Song

Well, that was a plus to this whole cluster fuck at least. I took a deep breath and did my best to steel myself for what was to come. An angry Dad, an explosive Mother, a scared filly using me as a meat shield, and me in the middle. Yep, there was only one outcome.

“WAHAAAHHHAAH I’m so dead.”

Author's Note

And that's Chapter Number 5! hope you all enjoyed it!

Now first things first, In future chapters, He-who-has-not-been-named-yet , will get a familiar and I'm giving you readers the chance to choose what he gets. I'm leaving a poll here in the Author's notes.

The link to the poll is here. I'll let you all know what's won when I do another Stat check in five chapters

Now here are his current stats, this is right after his level up. And as of right now he stand at a whooping... uh.... wow... Just take a look.

He-who-has-not-been-named-yet
Level: 2 - (14/6000)

HP: 400
MP: 400
STR: 17 (-10) - 7
END: 16 (-10) - 6
DEX: 17 (-10) - 7
INT: 19 (+10, +10) - 39
WIS: 19 (+10, +10) - 39
LUK: 7

Unicron tribe: +10 to Wis and INT
Special Status: (passive) (+10 WIS and INT due to ? status)

??? Is a blank slate, his choices will determine whether or not he lives happily or not. He is gifted with high magical potential due to ? status. He is destined for greatness but what kind of greatness is uncertain. Only time will tell.

He really need to eat his wheaties. Anywho I hope you all enjoyed this new chapter and don't forget

Evil, Always finds a way.