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He was just your ordinary and average person, he had average grades, was sleep deprived, had a part-time job in a flower shop to support himself and to pay rent, since he was living by himself in a shady apartment. Yeah, his name is Wemmbu, a typical college student, always relying on coffee, to stay awake. Who also gets slapped by many projects, assignments, and tests right in his face.
But he also loved playing video games, that's another reason why he's sleep deprived. As the purpled haired man, was scrolling on his phone, late in the middle of the night. He sees many different game reviews of the new video game called 'Unstable Adventures', Wemmbu is starting to get heavily annoyed at it, as he finally decides to put the phone down and finally sleep.
But he couldn't. "Man what's with all the clout with the new game?" The man said tiredly, his friends are also pestering him about trying out the new game aswell. But he didn't like these adventure games, he prefers the violent ones. The ones with guns and war and fighting, he likes that way more.
He yawned in exhaustion, as sleep finally creeped in, as the man knew he was going to naturally sleep soon, why not complain in his head, knowing well that tomorrow was a Saturday and a day off from work. No worries for waking up late and having to speedrun to get to his classroom in the collage building which was in the fucking seventh floor for some reason.
As the purple man finally went into rest, for another new day to come, and greet him the next morning.
Wemmbu was just strolling down the Video game aisle, as his friend's bugged him to come along with them to shop, as the purpled haired man spotted 'Unstable Adventures' the video game that was getting all the fame and clout recently. Man he was getting tired seeing it, and then wemmbu freaked out as someone patted his shoulder, turning around to see his friend Calzz right behind him, his smile bright as usual.
"Dude what the hell?! Man you don't go creeping out on people like that!" Wemmbu said angrily to Calzz, who of course had no shame doing it. "Why not! Your reactions are so funny when I do that!" He replied laughing his lungs out, as the purpled haired man pouted at the action. "You're so mean bro!" Wemmbu spat back to the laughing Calzz.
"Oh come on man you're no fun!" Calzz replied still laughing like he was on drugs and was high as hell, as the man finally started to stop, looking around to see that a small crowd formed looking at them like they were some kind of psychopaths. "And you laugh like a witch by the way" Wemmbu added in an equally mean tone to his white haired friend.
Calzz soon noticed the video game that was right behind the purple haired man as he gets it and shows it to his purple friend. "Y'know wemmbu! This game may seem easy but its hard! I swear! It even has routes like those otome games but adventure styled!" Calzz said ecstatically, but Wemmbu found it diabolical. Thinking here comes another of his friends trying to convince him into playing a game he was not interested in.
"Ew man! You play otome games?" The purple man responded to his friend, which the white haired man starts to get sweaty at, and immediately changes the topic for more persuasive talking. "I swear to you! On my mama! That this game will definitely be worth your time!" Calzz said trying to convince his stubborn friend to giving in. "Nope, and that's my answer" Wemmbu responded wanting to dismiss the discussion, but Calzz was also stubborn, when he tries to persue anybody, he will keep going until they try it out, even if it means chasing them until the ends of the earth.
And so the purple reluctantly agreed in annoyance. "Fine i'll try it, and if it isn't worth my time I will murder you" He said alongside a threat, which meant no harm at all, and grabbed the video game out of his friend's hand. As the white haired man started a small celebration dance, that he managed to get Wemmbu to play 'Unstable Adventures'. Which the purple male just rolled his eyes seeing calzz dancing.
After Wemmbu bought the game, Calzz recommended to go to a milktea shop with Wemmbu. Who in return accepted the offer, as both of them went inside and ordered what they wanted. Wemmbu ordered Strawberry milktea where, the white haired man ordered the cookies and cream milktea. The two would begin chatting with eachother waiting for their other friends to meet them there.
After those events, they eventually parted ways, some went back home, and other of their friends went to other places to hang out. The purple male were one of the friends that went home as Wemmbu went to immediately try out the game, he opened it up, the game had a pretty cliche and simple cover, but it was eye-catching he must admit. Then he would flip the game and went to read the back side of it, reading the summary of the game.
'This game follows the main character ParrotX2 who goes on an adventure with his bestfriend Wifies and meets others along the way. Where they would need to complete 12 main quests, each highly difficult. The quests are to find clues about the ancient End Egg. An egg containing a legendary creature, feared by continents. To stop Parrot's prophecy of a world demolished by the hands of an evil glitch demon, who wants to use the egg for their own selfish benefit'.
Wemmbu was intrigued by the summary, who knows maybe it will be worth his time. But he doubted it as he started, getting his controller and headphones. Having low expectations of the game, as the menu gui screen popped up, and the purple haired man started playing, as a tutorial popped in front of the computer screen.
It was a bit boring to the purple guy's liking, but he continued on with the unskippable tutorial, it gradually became more interesting, as the tutorial explains game mechanics, a short story about the lore, explanations, and a guide. Afterwards the purple guy starts officially playing the game.
And who knew that that after a couple of hourse he would actually get an unhealthy addiction to the game. Hours passed and Wemmbu did not not know it was already the next morning, he started playing at 1 pm and now it was in the middle of the night. The moment Wemmbu checked the time he freaked out, it was already 2 am, early in the morning. "I swear I played it for only a couple of hours its already Sunday?!" The purple man said loudly, baffled about it and couldn't even believe it himself.
Wemmbu quietly admitted that what Calzz said that the game was hard was true. The first quest was easy for him, then the second quest was undeniable and noticeable more harder, and on the this quest hell it took him a full 8 hours to complete, he was honestly completely drained by now.
'But it wouldn't hurt to play another hour right? I'm not even halfway through the fourth quest yet!' He thought in his mind, seriously sacrificing his sleep for the game he thought wasn't going to be anything interesting. But here he was only in the fourth quest, not even half way through it, he was on the Director's route currently! And its not like he also cried when wifies sacrificed himself earlier at the third quest to the invisible devils. Man he hated them! And hated that diamond level demon named flamefrags even more! Okay now he really is addicted to it.
And now Wemmbu has to choose, sleep or the game that makes him rage more then those gun games of his. And what do you know? He chose the 'Unstable Adventures'. As he went back to his seat, continuing where he left off, not being time conscious at all, which he thinks that he should definitely work on his time management in the future.
"Bro! I cant with this director guy! He killed Nufuli!" Wemmbu said in a frustrated and angry manner, he was literally about to punch his computer, but stopped himself after remembering how expensive it was. And then it hit, a wave of fatigue hit him directly. The purple man, looked up to his window and realized that the sun was clearly out, that 'another hour' turned into a couple way more hours.
The exhaustion was now clear to the purple haired man, as he finally turned his computer off and took the dvd out, finally accepting that he needs sleep. Man he hated to admit that the game was good, not the best but good. He tried to gaslight himself, as he sat down on his bed, and lied down.
'Man im so cooked' Wemmbu thought to himself, letting sleep take him in, he didn't bother taking a bath and stuff, just let sleep take him over.
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For the past two weeks, Calzz has observed that his friend Wemmbu, looked more sleep deprived then ever before. As his purple friend would rant and passionately talk about the video game he suggested to Wemmbu. Calzz was glad that his friend was enjoying the game. If Calzz were to be honest, it was rare to see Wemmbu being so open, which also made the white haired male to be happy that his purple friend was becoming more comfortable about telling him many things that he loves. Wemmbu also indulges and tells Calzz about his work at the flower shop, telling him about how boring tiring it was only to get played like a hundred after his shift.
Wemmbu was also complaining to him about the villains and also ranting to him about how annoying the Director and Flamefrags was, talking and complaining about the main villains in the different quests in the game being way too difficult to defeat. And also telling him about his favorites, being the other main character named Spokeishere who he recently unlocked. And Calzz could see the excitement on his friend's face, saying how he will immediately try him out once he gets back home.
And now Calzz is thinking about how Wemmbu seems to love the game more then him, and he just kept talking about the game. Calzz tried the game himself, and immediately just gave up once he got into the second quest. He looked like he recently just came back from war when he completed the first quest, and never wanted to touch the game ever again, it was not for the weak. He was obviously surprised when he found out that Wemmbu has almost finished the fourth quest.
Which Wemmbu complained being definitely one of the longest ones out of the twelve quests there is in the game. "Also bro after the fourth quest I would be able to unlock the special routes! They would lead into special side quests that would give Parrot an upgrade! And more lore!" Wemmbu now being the one to say ecstatically, as poor Calzz just nodded too, hey atleast it wasn't so bad, but as well as being the good friend Calzz is, he of course would remind the purple guy about studying, doing his homework and all of that. Which Wemmbu just reassures him that he's doing it, well hopefully.
Afterwards him and Wemmbu departed, both going their own ways to go to their own apartments. It was rare, really rare, about the fact that there was no bullshit homework to do, wemmbu was feeling like the happiest man alive as he went inside his apartment. Tomorrow was a Friday, he felt like he was being blessed by the grace of the deities, as Wemmbu took his shoes off, cooked dinner and ate, showered and changed clothes, and instantly went to play 'Unstable Adventures'.
To Wemmbu he first had doubt about the game, but holy now he was just obsessed he was so closed to finishing both the fourth quest and the director's route, just so close. "I'm so close to finishing it! Special routes here I come!" He said thrilled at the thought of it. So he grinded with determination. A flame could be seen in purple male's eyes, that was fueled by its bearer's intense determination.
"WHAT?! Wifies was the director?! I thought he died?!" Wemmbu said shocked beyond comprehension. 'Holy plot twist' wemmbu thought to himself. A couple of hours passed by, as the purple haired man looked at the screen with a baffled look, the plot twist was exceptionally insane, and he never saw that coming.
He was so flabbergasted that he actually needed to take a short break. The purple man left his room to eat and get snacks to devour. He really put his thought about it, and now just realized how obvious it was the Wifies was the director all along, well if he excluded table fact he thought that the guy died.
Was he surprised? Yes, he was done with the fourth quest but couldn't move on to the fifth quest just yet. He still needed to finish the Director's route, which was a pain in the ass. Wemmbu started to notice that he was getting tired, and checked the time seeing that it was 11 pm. He decided to continue tomorrow and just rest fonow, also remembering that he had work tomorrow, which he groaned by just the thought of doing work.
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Now a month has passed and Calzz is once again the listener to his purple friend's passionate talking about 'Unstable Adventures' talking about how proud he was that he was now at the seventh quest, and there was now new lore added. He also talks about his time playing Spoke aswell, how both Spoke and Parrot are now working together, alongside a new companion named Theo, another avian hybrid, they were currently at a cafe.
And Also Wemmbu talking about the how cool and fun the special quests is. "Y'know the Tropical civilization and the Aether dimension special quests are my favorite!" He said passionately to poor Calzz. "Also I love the Pandora quests and the Aculon family lore it adds more depth to the game!" Wemmbu added, as he kept blabbering and just pouring his knowledge of the game into his words, which Calzz all listened too.
"I'm also still upset that Wifies died, but he lowkey kind of deserved it cause he was a crazy psychopath" Wemmbu said to Calzz which he listened to. "I get why you're upset and I agree with your statement bro" Calzz responded to Wemmbu who was in a depressing state thinking about how Wifies blew up in Paragon at the end of the director's route. "Also there's this character named boosfer and on god he's such a pain in the ass!" The tension lifted the moment Wemmbu said that, as he ranted about this booster guy, saying how he was some kind of persistent bastard trying to scam Parrot all the time.
And It just became a routine just like that, it was the month of november currently, almost christmas break, him, Wemmbu, and their other friends were excited of it. Especially for Wemmbu since it meant that he could play his game peacefully, and work more also. But Calzz also encouraged Wemmbu to hang out some time and spend time off of games which, the purple man had to agree with.
"Y'know you should get rest from time to time, and hang out with friends" Calzz said to his purple friend. "Yeah, I know that, lets go to the boulevard during christmas break! Heard their lighting up a big Christmas tree there!" Wemmbu suggested in a energetic tone, which the white haired smiled softly at. "Yeah! Good suggestion" He responded to his friend.
"Also take care if yourself Wem, also I know you hate being cold" Calzz said with concern in his tone, as a server came up with their order. Calzz got himself Dark mocha frappuccino, while Wemmbu got hot choco, with whip cream on. "I know man, so ill get a heater next week, I'm saving money for it" Wemmbu responded to his friend in a reassuring manner.
"Also bro, y'know there's this character in the aether dimension that I liked a lot, his names Eggchan!" Wemmbu told Calzz, while Calzz raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Egg... Chan..?" Calzz said completely lost, and confused about the name. "So like did the developer just run out of names?" Calzz asked Wemmbu. "Its not that bad of a name man!" The purple haired man replied to the other. "It concerns me though!" Calzz replied back in almost lightning speed. "Oh... Uh sorry dude overreacted a bit" The white haired man apologized to the other. Only for them to just laugh at them, as Calzz turned away, face flushed pink with embarrassment.
"Awww is the great Calzz embarrassed?" Wemmbu teased him about it, as the other male just pouted at the teasing his friend was giving him. "Ok ok dude, just tell me about this Eggchan fellow" Calzz said as a way to dismiss the current situation. Where the purple man finally stopped talking as his eyes lit up. And started to talk about the Aether dimension and Eggchan.
"So basically the Aether dimension is a basically Unstable's version of heaven!" Wemmbu started, Calzz listened closely, listening to his friend, talk and talk about what fascinates him most about the Rather dimension, as both of them would finish their drinks. The two friends continue talking.
And so once again afterwards they departed ways, Calzz would think about Wemmbu, genuinely concerned for his wellbeing. From time to time he always reminded his purple friend to take care of himself. Him and Wemmbu after all knew eachother since middle school. Wemmbu used to have selective mutism, he didn't want to talk to anyone, he avoided situations where he needed to communicate. He wasn't shy nor timid, he just purposefully avoided talking.
As far as Calzz knows, he knew that the Wemmbu now still has secrets of his own. The white haired man thinks of himself as a good friend, but he knew full well that he never truly understood his purple friend. Never really knew fully about Wemmbu's world, and that's makes the white haired man feel guilty at himself. But seeing him right now being so happy and now being more comfortable with him. He was pleased and joyous himself. But knew there was still a long way to go before Calzz can know Wemmbu's true self.
'Wemmbu must still miss his parents' Calzz thinks to himself.
The purple haired male, after departing from his friend Calzz. Would go walk back to the nearest bus station. Planning to take a bus to go home. And realized there was no bus station in sight so he decided to just keep walking until he sees one. And then he noticed something, a man's wallet fell from his pocket. Wemmbu went into immediate action, taking the wallet and finding the man that dropped it.
"Uh... Sorry sir you dropped your wallet" Wemmbu said patting the shoulder of the man that dropped his wallet. The man with light blue hair turned around and saw the his wallet at the other's hand. "I see thank you very much good sir" The male thanked Wemmbu as he went away.
For some reason afterwards, Wemmbu started to have a painful headache, but it went away quickly. 'What the hell was that?' He thought to himself, as he went with his original plan, to find a bus station and take the bus to go home. And after a awhile of walking he noticed a bus that's soon to be going to the location of his apartment building. Wemmbu dashed to get over there, and before the door closed he got inside.
It was normal at first right? Everything was alright. Not until a big truck came at high speeds, and it also seemed that it was experiencing intense turbulence. Coming straight to the bus. And boom everything went black, everything in sight was just an endless void, and the purpled man could only hear static.
'Is this my end?' He thought to himself, feeling a tear down his cheeks, what would be Calzz reaction to this?.
As he finally blacked out.