Zen And The Great Ones Vault
#1 of Zen And the Great Ones Vault
After 6 months of Procrastination and lack of motivation. 30 mins of yelling at myself in the mirror and 3 hours of writing we have the first 800 words of a story I hope to complete as my first ever non school required story.
This Was Heavily inspired by DragonTalon's COELL And i thank them for Inspiring me to actually attempt to write something instead on just keeping the scenario in my head
-Starting Primary Boot Sequence
-Initializing Core functions
-Warning Power Reserves at %0.006
-Attempting to start Primary Reactor
-Error
-Attempting to start Secondary Reactor
-Error
-Attempting to start Emergency Reactor
-Successful
-Power Usage stabilizing
-Attempting to start most useful systems
-Starting memory storage
-Successful
-Starting External Sensors
-ALERT DISTANT MOVEMENT DETECTED
-Starting Auditory Sensors
-Starting Visual Sensors
-Starting personality
Blinding light is all I could see. I can hear a loud whirring as one of my reactors picks up to keep with my current power usage.
"Where am I?" I think as I try to remember what happened last.
"Hey Zen____ Stop Crying. I know it's scary. Having to be reprogrammed to guard one of the Halls of Knowledge is hard. But we need to do it." A fox named Fuku says as he soothingly scratches behind my ear.
"But i don't want to leave you" I Say as I hug Fuku as hard as my small body can
"I Know. I Know. I don't want to leave you either but your the most suitable for the reprogramming. Once the War is over, We will restore you from a backup and you will forget that this has ever happened."
There was a slight crack of a tile nearby that brought me back to reality. I attempt to get up quickly, But due to the unknown amount of time I have been off for. I can only manage to lift my head up to see a tall coyote.
"Shit one of them is still active!" He says as he raises up a small metal box in his hands and points it at me.
I can only stare as my body tries to work out all of its disuse.
"Hello?" I try to say but it only comes out as a quiet whimper.
"Why aren't its lights turning red?" Inumi whispers to himself. He had been raiding the 'Halls Of Knowledge' or so they were called. Most people call them vaults nowadays due to the power contained inside of them. They used to be strongholds of the greater beings before the war 2000 years ago. Now there just decrepit dungeons unfriendly to anyone who dares enter them. Guarded by traps and general dangers caused by the disrepair of the place, But the most threatening of all being the Protogens. A best of both worlds race created by the greater beings. A race of both mechanical and living. Taking the power of machines and combining them with the instincts of living animals.
While most have thankfully shut down, some still remain on standby waiting to flash on their red lights and attack to protect the vaults. Just like the one in front of him now. But unlike the others this one's lights remained green. Normally as soon as they notice you the lights switch to red and they will attempt to kill you but this one clearly notices Inumi and is slowly backing itself up as if it's scared of him. That's when he notices it. A hole right through where its heart would be if it was a fur and not a protogen. Which from his limited knowledge on the reverse engineering market would be where most of the primary machine code would be stored. With this new found knowledge he Lowered his gun and walked up to the protogen and scratched behind its ear.
"Fuku?" I asked weakly. Remembering a feeling and a name.
"No, I'm not Fuku." The Coyote says "Who is Fuku?"
"Fuku was my..... My... I'm sorry i do not know"
I pull away from the Coyote fearful of what he would do.
"Hey there's no need to be scared. I can see what's wrong with you." "You've taken some damage to what I think is your programming module. The Machine part of you is not active right now."
"I'm going to assume that is a bad thing?"
"It's a really good thing but in ways you would not understand. We haven't been able to talk with one of you for a long time." "But enough about that I could use your help. And if you help me I can help you get that repaired."
"If it will help me remember then I will. But what is it you need help with?" I asked
"I'm going to need your help to enter the vault in this place."
"I hope i can help with that"
"I'm sure you can. But if were going to be together for a while i'd like to know if you have a name?"
"Yes It is Zen, Or at least what i can remember of it is"
"Zen it is then. I'm Inumi."
---And that's it for now. If you have any criticisms or anything its all appreciated!