A/N: Sorry about no actual chapter, couldn't get in the zone to write it, ended up writing a chapter for my other book instead, but I'll give you guys this for now, I'll change the chapter order after I upload the actual next chapter.
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Elysian Realm -
[Futureless people]
[Walk on the wrong path]
[Towards an end full of failure]
–Click–
"Mou~ Okay…" Elysia landed with a graceful twirl as the three cables flew up and boxed her in, her coat fluttered as she closed her eyes and aimed her bow skyward.
She pulled the string back as a pink arrow flickered to life, "Calm down~"
As the cable's maws opened Elysia opened her eyes with a smile and let go of the arrow as it flew straight up.
Hitting nothing it expanded into a pink dome around them, time slowed as shimmers of pink ricocheted off the dome's walls passing through the cables as they did.
–Crack–
–Shatter–
The cables were split into tens of pieces and turned to static.
The dome retracted and Elysia flicked her hair as she giggled smugly waltzing forward.
–Rumble–
"Auh?! Ah!" Elysia lost balance and fell face first forward.
–Thud–
She landed right on her face as she moved her hands to push herself back up groaning, but as she did so someone shouted.
"CUT!" As she heard the shout, her groan became a pout as she could see two shoes appear in front of her.
Prepping herself she looked up and saw Thor's deadpan expression. Just as she was about to make an excuse Thor said,
"Come on Ellie, this is the fifth time we've had to redo the scene today." His words made her wince internally.
Elysia smiled wryly, "Sorry?"
Thor's face didn't change, he just kept staring at her with a 'Seriously?' face.
Her pout returned and she resorted to desperate measures. "Why do I even need to do this? Can't we just animate it? The players won't even be able to tell the difference."
As Elysia finished she noticed Thor was looking at her with a raised eyebrow. "Are you seriously saying that? Who's idea was it to turn out life into a game? Who's the one who insisted that we must 'Be Authentic', hmm?"
Elysia flashed a sheepish smile, "Um…Kiana did…" She tried to throw her airheaded dense sister under the bus.
Thor wasn't having it though, "Nono, you deceived Kiana into that, saying she'd be the main character and have all the spotlight." He then summoned a transparent screen in front of her, it was a leaderboard.
[Popularity Ranking]
[1. - Elysia]
[2. - Raiden Mei]
[3. - Kiana]
[4. - …]
"These rankings don't lie Ellie. You're lucky Kiana hasn't seen this or she would drop her adventures and rush right over here and try to 'deliver justice' as she calls it." Elysia didn't have any comeback.
It's not her fault that she's just that perfect that she toppled the popularity poll with just one scene ok!
"It's not–"
"Not your fault you're that perfect? That's what you were going to say right?" Thor had cut her off mid rebuttal, prompting Elysia to have a blank look on her face.
[Umm… Did I do something wrong, Boss?] A more synthetic voice mirroring hers came from behind her.
She looked back and saw who she aptly named 'Budget Me.'. Why? Well because they looked almost identical to her, almost matching her body perfectly, but the colour scheme was all wrong, 'A disaster.' was Elysia's first thought seeing it.
"Hmm? Ah, no, you were great, incredible if anything, though I noticed you dropped a few lines you said to our sims back when it actually happened."
The 'budget' Elysia had a subtle blush at Thor bringing up her embarrassing past, she fidgeted in place and Elysia took the chance to try and sneak away.
She was almost off the platform but Thor's hand landed on her shoulder as he stretched across the entire platform and yanked her back towards him.
"Now where do you think you're going?" Thor's face reached her oddly sensitive ears as she shivered, not from some weird pleasure that she would usually get, it was from fear.
Thor's tone was ominous and Elysia knew that meant one of two things. 'Sexy Time!' or what she knew it was going to be,
Thor turned to face him as he gave her a bright smile, "Kiana is already on her way over here, she's a few universes away so I'll give you a head start."
Elysia's face fell as she scrambled to her feet, throwing a quick look at her 'Budget' self, 'Lucky you.'
–Click–
Elysia pulled out a remote, clicking the button as a pink portal opened before her to which she quickly hopped through.
The other two watched the portal close down behind her, the other Elysia gave Thor a shy look, she was about to make a move–
–CRASH–
"ELLLLIIIEEE!!!" Kiana yelled as she fell from the sky, she landed between Thor and 'Elysia' and muttered.
"Superhero landing…" Thor chuckled at her antics and proceeded to 'Not' tell Kiana 'Exactly' where Elysia went, definitely 'Not' entertained at the idea of Elysia running from a raging Kiana.
"Thanks Thor!" Kiana kissed Thor on the cheek before she opened her own portal and began what would be a great chase across the omniverse.
With just the two of them left, Thor looked at 'Elysia' and shot her a gentle smile and waved her over. 'Elysia' blushed but meekly went over next to him.
The two then went to find something to fill in the time, Elysia and Kiana would be at their antics until something distracted Kiana from her chase.
Sadly for the game's players, for the first time since the company existed, they would delay the release of the cutscene and update for "Technical Reasons."
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