[1]The Start of the Chuuni Gamer

In a dark room, a man that of a 20 years of age is watching the last episode of the anime 'Eminence In Shadow'.

"Haaaaaah..." He let out a tired sigh.

"Finally finished the last episode. When will they release the volume 6, I may die of boredom if this continues." He said in a mixed tone of anticipation and boredom.

He stood up from his Asian gaming chair and sit besides his window. "It's already nighttime? I watched for almost 5 hours? Not like it matters."

He voiced out with loneliness in his tone. His thoughts going to a dark path. Then he shook his head to dispell such thoughts.

He opened his window to enjoy the wind brushing past his skin, then looked up, admiring the shine of the moon. The teens name is Gray Madrid, his name fitting his uneventful day to day life, an almost non-existent connection to the outside world, his only connection is the owner and the 2nd year part-timer teenage girl that also works in the nearby grocery store he's in for 5 years.

Branded as a weird kid because of his shameful acts in elementary, saying some weird and incomprehensible things like 'The Shadows is calling me' and the likes. because of his 8th grade syndrome, he becomes known as the Chuuni kid.

At his 15 years of age, in his supposed to be first year of High School which is located very close in his home. The tragedy happened, his parents disowned him because he no longer wants to go to school. Wake up, eat, watch, bath, sleep, and the cycle repeats, his length of sleep is just 4 hours, which is a wonder of why he's still alive after 2 years of continuing such dangerous habits.

After he got kicked out of his parent's house, he wandered off the streets for about a week eating scraps from other peoples food he will normally not do, till he got a decent job because of the life he saved that night, the owner of the grocery store. Which in turn lands him a job at the said store. The owner offered for him to live at the apartment complex beside the grocery store, which he is truly grateful for.

After that he started his journey of self-improvement, an hour of exercise everyday, punctual in his work, but his Chuuni syndrome have never gone away, he just learned to suppress it.

That's why after a day's worth of work, he always spent the majority of the night watching and reading.

Uneventful..

Colorless...

No friends to lean on, no family to speak out his burdens on. That's who Gray Madrid is.

He looks up the nightsky, stared st the moon, admiring its ethereal beauty, chuuni style of course.

'Is there a higher being above there? Can my life atleast have just a little bit of worth, of meaning. I want to be something more, someone above everyone, but this world won't let me.' He thought to himself, silrntly wishing that someone's listening to his pleas. Although he knows that it's improbable.

Seconds after that, in the sky, a giant dark cloud started to form, which has a circumference of the same measurement as that of the 2 Eiffel tower, the cloud is so dark that it practically absorbs any light that comes in contact with it even from the moon, the scene looks like it came straight out of the start of a world - ending event, an apocalypse.

Silence descends as everyone starts feeling fear, some people with courage took out their phone and started taking images of the apocalypse looking event that is happening in this very moment. Posting in every sites they can think of, even in PH.

Suddenly, the silence broke as the cloud let out a crackling sound, so loud that everyone in the city's covered their ears, up a minute later, the cloud surprisingly let out dark purple thunder and lightning, countless thunder strikes comes out of the cloud in the short span of time. Then, under the astonished eyes of everyone present, all which still have their hands on their ears, heard a very loud noise and saw the thunder strikes quickly converging into one, then heading to a certain part of the city, the thunder go past above the tall skyscrapers, then the grocery store where Gray is working, to the apartment he is currently at.

Gray, witnessing all this in a slowed-down perception, saw everything with clarity that baffles him, he didn't know if there was some kind of higher intervention.

The thunder, under Gray's slowed down perception, started coming dangerously close to him, even though he has such a perception, it doesn't mean that his body can keep up.

All he can remember in that time of his life is that the head of the lightning looks like that of a truck.

Then, everything went dark.

Gray's POV

I slowly opened me eyes after feeling that I still have my whole body intact. Looking around, I saw... Well, nothing. Really nothing, everything is shrouded in absolute darkness, but it's still a wonder how I can still see my body when pitch black darkness is around me.

Then, I heard a voice amidst the silence I'm in, which sounds like that of an old man.

I looked around frantically trying to locate the source of the voice, but didn't find any.

Suddenly, a visage of an old man shrouded in the brightest light I saw in my whole existence appeared, how am I not blind is still a mystery to me.

The light around the man slowly receded, revealing the myth, the legend...

STAN LEE!!

Good thing it's not Morgan Freeman. My mind right now is racing with wild fantasies. "Kid, your thoughts are entertaining, but calm down." Stan spoke in a very soothing voice. Unsurprisingly, I did calm down, only anticipation for my future remains.

Not even a while has passed, Stan spoke up "I'm sure you already know how it goes, because I've read through your memories. Gray Madrid, no friends, no family, technically you have, but practically have no connection to them. Your life? Hmm. Mediocre at best"

"Ow, you don't have to go that harsh to me" Hearing Stan's words hits every flaw in my being. Regret? Maybe. "Sooo, how should we proceed to this?" I blurted our, trying to shift the topic, Stan probably knows what I intend to do.

"The life you lived is unfulfilling, causing your soul to scream in agony, your scream reverberating throughout the whole existence of everything, yet only I heard you. That's why I'm here to pull you out of your misery." Stan told me in a very chuuni tone, I recognized who he was copying, Cid Kageno in his Shadow persona. Also me, probably.

"I thank you wholeheartedly for the chance I have been given." I replied in the same tone he's using.

"Okay okay, let's stop with this, i almost died of cringe. Let's move on, you already know how it goes, you have 3 wishes. Go on, speak your hearts out." He followed up a reply to me, and I started to get excited for my future endeavours.