478 My Original Stash #78 - Reincarnated as a Gun of all Things by randommark

-And then he turned himself into a gun. Funniest shit I've ever seen/

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Rated: M

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Chapter 0+1

Well, that could've gone better.

In fact, if you were even capable of remembering what it was that went wrong in the first place, you'd consider it an improvement already.

But alas, it seems like you are dead. Hell(because the chance you ended up in heaven is miniscule at best) looks like a boring place, judging by the whole lot of nothing, nothing and nothing, as well as the nothingness that is your body, but you can dea-

Revival process initiated.

Well, there are worse things to have one's thoughts interrupted by. The question now is if you have to do anything for this to-

Beginning process.

You have (zero) Revival Tokens remaining.

You have (one) Reincarnation Token remaining.

Revival not possible, would you like to use your Reincarnation Token?

Well, depends on what you get reincarnated as, you'd guess. So, are there any-

General consensus of 'There is no fate worse than death' overwrites possible decision.

Well, that doesn't bode well.

Beginning reincarnation process.

The next few not-moments of your not-life, nothing happens. Then, nothing continues to happen. Then you're a gun.

Yep, a gun.

And not just any gun, but one of those ancient single-shot ones you have to load from the front. Just lying there on the ground in the middle of nowhere.

Well, at least you can tell what's going on around even through your total lack of eyes. Actually, now that you noticed, you seem to have perfect 360° vision, which is nice. It lets you see the full glory of

[X][Surroundings] an enormous mountainscape

[X][Surroundings] a flowery plain

[X][Surroundings] a hilly forest

[X][Surroundings] a sandy beach

It, however, doesn't change the fact that you can't fucking move and have to stay there until somebody deems to pick you up.

The first three days, you find out that you probably can't go insane anymore, since even with the burning boredom lancing through your very being, you haven't lost your cool. Not because of the boredom, at least.

You might have screamed a bit internally when you noticed the wolf approaching you.

The animal tilts its head in a way you might find cute if you weren't pretty sure it was considering if it could eat you.

In your panic, you fire yourself - which is apparently something you can do now. You weren't pointed even close to the wolf's direction, but the sudden sound still served to shock it into a retreat. As you watch it run away until it left your vision - not particularly far, since you're in a small crevice on the floor - you really hope it's not coming back. You don't want to find out what would happen if you get eaten, and there was only that one bullet in.

However, several minutes later, as you are still worrying about your fate, you feel a weight appear in your body, and the triggering feeling you used the first time seems reachable again. A bit of experimentation lets you find out that your reload is about five minutes.

You come to that realisation after almost half an hour of testing. You also come to the realisation that you're perfectly aware that your reload is exactly 300 seconds long, just as you're aware of your other data.

Stat Sheet discovered!

Well, at least something good came from this.

The day after, the wolf is back. You're really wondering if it doesn't have anything better to do. It approaches you carefully, and although it flinches when you trigger, it doesn't stop for long. You're really lucky you can't smell or feel, because the way its slobber runs over you looks disgusting. Not that the view you get into its mouth when it picks you up is any better.

However, at that point, the wolf has spent quite a bit of time, and so it only gets a few meters before your bullet comes back. You fire immediately.

It misfires. Because of course it does. And so you wait for your next reload, the animal carrying you god knows where until you get the shot off.

The combination of a loud noise and you jerking in its mouth makes the wolf drop you again and jump away in fright. It eyes you from a bit away.

It takes its time coming near you again, but the wolf's circling brought it right in front of you, and as its mouth comes down to pick you up again, you're already reloaded. You fire, the bullet going straight into its unprotected throat and finally ending the damn thing.

+3 EXP gained, 2 EXP to next Level

As its corpse slumps to the ground, you suddenly remember that you can't move. Which means you're going to have to watch it rot. You let out the mental equivalent of a sigh. Just perfect. Your life just keeps getting better.

A few hours later, you get the feeling it just actually might. Over the insistent buzzing of the flies that had accumulated on the carcass, you hear soft steps approaching. You can tell that they're coming closer, and soon after, a girl - although you'd guess her about 18 years old - comes into view. Your mental connection almost subconsciously snaps into place, although now that you've felt it once, you're pretty sure you could hold yourself back in the future.

Well, looks like this girl is your Wielder now. You get a better look at her, and see that she is…

[X][Wielder] a tall girl, her long red hair drawn into a messy ponytail behind her. Her eyes flash searchingly over the surroundings, filled with paranoia.

[X][Wielder] a short blonde, free flowing hair reaching her shoulder. Her gaze falls on you and the corpse next to you, and fills with ambition.

[X][Wielder] an average brunette, her short hair in a boyish cut. As she draws her conclusion on the situation, her pupils dilate in greed.

[X][Wielder] Write-In (height)(hair)(neutral/negative personality trait)

And with that, the first chapter of my first quest is done!

Please comment and review!

Especially with my inexperience in the area, but also im general, I'm always up for constructive criticism. If you spot a mistake, please point it out to me!

Just a few thing before I get to the informational posts:

Chapter 1

Your surroundings are fantastical in their own way. Halfway up one of the mountains as you are, you have a breathtaking - not that you're capable of breathing - view down a valley, snaking itself between the enormous mountains that fill the landscape to the horizon and further.

The mountains are sparsely forested, only some dense patches of trees covering the less steep areas and moss clinging to a few of the outcroppings. The higher ones are covered in white, some because of snow and ice, some because their tips break through the clouds and are hidden from you behind them.

However, for all their beauty and height, they can't hide the lone black mountain in the distance, its unnatural shape reminding you more of a gigantic spike than anything else.

Day 0

Her blonde hair drifts in the wind as she stares at you, cautiously edging closer even as she steps around you to the opposite side from where the corpse is rotting. Not that it'd spare her overly much, you barely fell out of the wolf's mouth when it died, after all.

As she reaches the area in the dirt where the residue of the blood had tinged it red, she looks around once more, as if to ensure there was no more rational explanation behind this - a weapon that could use itself was absurdly rare, after all, and she had probably not even heard of one that was self-aware.

Now, you just have to ask yourself where the hell you know that from. If you're getting information pumped into your head, you'd like to at least be aware of-

Command accepted.

From now on displaying all system messages.

Messages from before this option was activated:

Discovered: Informational - On Sapient Weapons

Stat Sheet discovered! (already displayed)

+3 EXP gained, 2 EXP to next Level (already displayed)

Potential Wielder in range.

Bond formed.

End of stored messages.

Well, that wasn't very Mind-full.

…

Was that supposed to be a pun?

You hope you weren't trying to pun there. That was just awful.

Ahem. Moving on.

The girl was standing almost on top of you, looking down on you with apprehension. Now that she was closer, you could see none of the disgust you'd have expected her to have when this close to a corpse. Well, as much as you can see with half of her face covered by a scarf, the pale tone of her upper face the only guess you have to her appearance under her heavy winter clothes.

Which means she's probably stalling because of a fear of infection, which is understandable.

But you're not going to let her stall forever, and you think you've figured this telepathy-thing out.

Hello.

That gets a reaction out of her, and she takes a step back, her eyes flashing around until they land back on you.

Mind picking me up? The floor's not the most comfortable place to be.

You can easily tell that wasn't what she expected by the flat stare she's giving you, but she also doesn't complain, bowing down to pick you up. The girl takes a deep breath before actually picking you up, as if preparing herself, and then she's holding you fairly awkwardly, as if she knows what a gun is but has never handled one before… which really doesn't tell you a lot.

You feel a sort of presence, trying to convey something to you but not succeeding. It's as if a total novice was attempting to contact you telepathically… well, this is awkward.

I can hear, you know? You can talk to me normally.

She blinks at that and takes a second to look around again, making sure there really is no other possible source for this, before she speaks. "Greetings" her voice is quiet, but with a definite determination in it "I am

[X][NameWielder] Write-In

,who are you?"

[X][NameGun] Write-In