Authors forward: First off, this story comes as a request from fanfic user 3697014, that after much deliberating and questioning, convinced me give it a shot. I am giving it a shot as an attempt to hopefully fix my block on messiah. If it works, great, if not, I have another fic for people to enjoy.
As it is Hyperdimension, expect madness later on, though not immediately. It will also be a little less serious, and will not have a set update schedule after the third chapter so I can keep working on my primary story.
Please enjoy the madness.
Gameindustri, a land where four goddesses rule over their own lands, trading and competing with the others to advance and better their lands, while protecting their people from the monsters that roamed it. The people belief forms share energy that forms the goddess's strength, and with this strength, the strength of faith, the world is protected.
However, sometimes share energy acts in ways that no one expects, creating CPU Candidates, sisters, for the goddesses to love and care for and to be cared for in turn. Four such sisters came into creation, one in the land of Planeptune, one in the land of Lastation, and two in the land of Lowee, leaving the goddess of Leanbox sadly lacking in the sibling department.
At least until a year later, when the shares answered her prayers.
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Louise Vallière opened her tired eyes and found herself looking up at a ceiling the color of warm cream and honey. Bright light covered the room, and a cool, but soft and sweet breeze blew into the room, creating a calming environment.
"YOU MEAN I FINALLY HAVE A SISTER?!"
Calming, if not for the extremely loud yelling, muffled from outside of the room. The sudden noise caught Louise totally by surprise. She did not recognize the voice, and could now hear muffled voices as well, and pulled herself up to look around. The room's walls were yellow with green trim around the edges. A green carpet, the color of cool grass covered the floor, and a pair of pale green curtains, slightly transparent, blew lazily on either side of the room's only window.
"She's really very cute, isn't she lady Vert."
"Yes she is! My own little sister!"
Louise looked around for the voice's that were speaking and turned to her right. What she found was a person she did not recognize. The girl was interesting looking with bright blue eyes and blonde hair that was straight, reaching just down past her shoulders. her chest was accented by small, yet shapely breasts that were clearly visible, yet not overly large or in the way, and the rest of the girl's body was well shaped as well, curved in all the right places, but not out of proportion like some people Louise could think of. She was wearing a simple yet elegant pale green nightdress that fully covered her body, yet was held up with thin noodle like straps, showing off her shoulders and hair. She was quite simply, one of the most beautiful young women Louise had ever seen.
What was strange though was she was in a bed of all things, had she invaded someone's room? The thought crossed her mind and made Louise immediately feel embarrassed, and needing to say something. "Ah, um sorry i-"She began to say, until she noticed the girl's mouth moving as well.
Louise moved her hand up to her face, touching her cheek to find it soft. The girl in front of her moved the exact same way she did. Then she noticed the border around the girl, the frame of what was very clearly, a mirror.
Louise looked away from the mirror and down at her lap, only then realising she was sitting up in a bed with cream colored sheets in a pale green nightgown she had never seen before, unless she counted the mirror a few seconds ago. Then she took her hand and touched her hair, bringing it in front of her face. It was blonde, and shorter, likely down to just past her shoulders.
It wasn't someone else she had seen in the mirror. It was herself!
Louise watched herself go pale as she looked at the mirror again, touching her face all over, then her arms, and even going so far as to touch her own breasts, feeling them and their shape. It was all her, she felt it all, and saw it in the mirror! "B-but why, why am I blonde? Blue eyes? Why- why do I suddenly have hips and curves and, and, and assets!?" She asked herself, unable to stop herself from wondering aloud.
"Phhhffff."
The sound of someone muffling a laugh grabbed her attention and pulled it around, to where a door was sitting, slightly ajar. "Who- Who's there?" Louise asked instantly, grabbing the bed sheets and pulling them up over her chest, the thin strapped nightdress suddenly far too thin for her liking.
The door immediately opened, allowing Louise to see one woman that made her eyes go wide. She was very tall with blonde hair down the entire length of her back at least, and eyes the color of the ocean. She was extremely curvaceous, and her breast were larger than any other woman's she had ever seen, yet seemed to fit her somehow. She stepped into the room, hips and hair swaying as she did, and stepped up to the end of the bed with a beaming smile on her face. "I'm sorry for that, Chika was getting a little rowdy." she explained as she gesture to the door where she could see the edge of someone hiding behind the doorframe, just out of sight as she seemed to be shaking, or chuckling.
"Um, okay, who are you? Why am I here?" Louise asked quickly, hoping to sound imposing, but realizing her voice sounded slightly different, though she wasn't sure how.
"Ah of course, introductions are in order!" The woman said with a happy smile plastering her face as she clapped her hands together. "I am Vert, CPU of This land of Leanbox, also known as Goddess Green Heart! And of course you are here because you're my newly formed SISTER!"
Louise looked at vert for a full minute before what she said clicked into place. Their hair and eye colors were the same, so somehow she knew it was true, but still could only utter a single word of confusion.
"WHAT?!"
"Hmm, is something wrong?" Vert asked in a worried tone as she stepped around the bed, and then proceeded to place her forehead on Louise's, giving her a glimpse of deep cleavage.
Louise shifted back instantly, whacking her head against the headboard of the bed, making her wince in pain.
"Ah! Are you okay?" Vert instantly asked as she climbed onto the bed and leaned over to pull Louise closer and check her head.
Louise however was having none of it and pushed her away as she spoke, still wincing slightly, but mostly ignoring the throbbing from the back of her head. "N-no I'm not okay! You're making no sense!"
"What do you mean?" Vert asked, clearly worried as she leaned back a bit, noticing Louise's discomfort.
"You! I mean you!" Louise screamed, causing Vert to visibly lean back in shock and surprise, looking visibly hurt as she did. "Nothing you are saying makes sense! I don't know where this 'Leanbox' is, I already have two sisters, and you can't be a goddess because the founder is a god and there is only one! Even more you can't be a god because I can't be your sister and I can't be a goddess!"
Vert looked at Louise as she breathed heavily, clearly worked up. Chika however did not want to be so patient and stepped into the room, ready to give the girl a mouthful, until Vert put a hand up. "Chika, can you please cover the Basilicom for a while. I need to do this myself, you understand, yes?"
Louise looked up to see the woman named Chika. She was beautiful and stern looking, with long green hair and eyes that were like her mothers, they saw everything, or at least gave that impression. Chika nodded and stepped backwards out of the doorway. "I Understand Lady Vert, please call me if you need me and I shall arrive, in but an instant." She said before she closed the door, leaving Vert and Louise alone in the room.
Silence Reigned for what felt like an eternity as Vert sat on the edge of the bed, her long legs draped to the side as she looked at Louise with a soft gaze, waiting for her to be calm and speak on her own. After a few more moments it was clear however that Louise was waiting for vert to speak. "We look the same you know?"
"What?" Louise responded, taken surprise by Verts words.
"Look." Vert said as she glanced at the mirror, dragging Louise's gaze there as well. "Our hair is the same color; our eyes are the same color. Even the accents of our faces are similar. Even if I am older and you younger, we share a very obvious similarity, is it so hard to believe we are sisters?"
Louise's face easily told that she understood what Vert was saying, but she quickly shook her head and looked down at the bed. " No, it's impossible. Even if it, no it's impossible, you can't be my sister, and you can't be a goddess! That'd be Heretical!"
"Hardly when there are only four of us." Vert said with a light sift chuckle. "Why can I not be your sister though? why so adamant against it?"" She asked softly, not allowing the sadness she was feeling from her new sister's words to affect her.
"Because I have a sister already! I had two sisters!" Louise nearly shrieked, growing frantic for some odd reason.
"I see you," Vert paused for a second, noticing something amiss in the girls words. "Had?" She questioned.
"What?"
"You said you 'had' two sisters."
Louise looked at Vert, her expression going from frantic confusion to horror and sadness as her eyes filled with tears. "N-No no no no! I- I aaaaagh!" She suddenly burst out crying, dropping her head against her lap and hands, using the covers to hide her face.
"Hey, hey it's okay!" Vert said as she shifted and pulled Louise against her with no difficulty, holding her crying form against her. "it's alright, let it all out, let it out and tell big sister Vert what's wrong okay?"
After easily five minutes of crying, slightly calm, more crying, and low sobs, Louise finally spoke. "I – I remembered, it came back to me." She said as she sobbed into Verts chest.
"What did you remember?"
"I- I died!" Louise screamed, falling back into heavy sobs. "I- I failed the Ritual! I summoned a familiar, a great lizard, but, it was dead when I summoned it! I failed and was mocked and sent to my room to be sent home and- and. I couldn't take it! I left, I went into the forest, kicking and punishing myself with words and hate and, and, then night fell. I – I got scare and realized I made a mistake leaving the academy and going into the forest. I turned back, but I was found, found by wolves! I- my magic got one of them, I killed one with my failure of magic, but the others, they surrounded me and- and, and their teeth. aaaaaaaaaggghhh! I DIED! uuwwaaaaaaaggh!"
Vert silently held Louise, hugging her close as she cried and let it all out. She completely lost track of time, but once Louise calmed down a bit, Vert looked down at her head and softly spoke, barely more than a whisper. "Some people say that the soul is immortal."
"W-what?" Louise said as she sniffed.
"It means that a person's soul never dies. It said that when a person soul moves on to another life, it will forget its past life, but sometimes, it remembers it instead of forgetting it."
" . . You- you think I died and . . . came back, here?" Louise asked between sobs.
"It would explain why you know of your past life, when you are sure that you passed on." Vert said carefully, being sure not to say it too hard, or casually. Death was not something to speak casually of after all.
"Ugh, I . . . . . do you know a place called Halkeginia?"
"No, I've never hears of a place called that."
" . . What is this land, this place, called?"
"We are in Gameindustri, in Leanbox, Land of Green pastures. It is one of four lands, each ruled by a CPU, or Goddess."
"And you are one of those?"
"Yes. CPU Green heart is my official title, but my name is Vert, as People like the other CPU's and Chika call me."
" . . H-how did I. . Come to be here?"
" Leanbox's shares, the manifestation of peoples belief in us CPU's, reached a threshold. Though we truly do not understand it, you were created by this sudden spring of Shares and desires, and formed right here in this room, just like the Other CPU's sisters had."
"They appeared here?"
"Oh no, in rooms in their lands I meant."
" . . . . I- I really died, and came back to life in another world?" Louise asked, still against Verts body, and looking down at the bed and her lap.
"If you are sure that you did indeed . . . pass on, then it would explain knowing what happened to you."
"And in this world I-I'm your, sister?"
Vert smiled as she looked down. "Yes, you were formed by the people's belief, the shares and my desire for an adorable sister!"
"I'm, the sister of a goddess?"
"A CPU Candidate, yes. A Young Goddess I suppose."
" . . . I, I'm not sure I can deal with this." Louise said as she wrapped her arms around vert and held her close, willingly burying her head in Verts chest.
"It'll be okay. I'll be here for you." Vert said softly. "Can I know your name?"
Louise sniffed and held Vert tighter. "Louise. It's Louise."
"A beautiful name Louise. I'll do my best to be a great Big sister for you, my little sister Louise, and okay?"
" . . . . . . Okay. . . .Thank you. . . . . . . . Sis."
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"So, she's claiming that she's had a previous life?" Chika asked as she and Vert sat in a sitting room, a pot of freshly brewed tea on the table between them, and a glass of tea in their hands. After being alone with her new sister for over four hours, Vert figured it would be best to explain everything to Chika over a glass of tea, and considering the expression on Chika's face, she had been correct.
"Yes. Up until a few moments before she formed here, she had another life. One that was ended rather, viciously." Vert answered solemnly.
"And you believe that?"
"She is my sister, of course I believe her!" Vert said with a huff as he took a sip of tea. "Besides, no one can fake that kind of event, not those kinds of tears."
"So you don't think she's lying then?"
"She could not lie about that if she wanted too." Vert said surely.
"I see, so she refused to admit she's your sister then. How dare her! I'll-"
"She has admitted it." Vert said after another sip of ta, stopping Chika from continuing. "We talked about it for a long time. But she does now understand that her previous life is, past, and that she is my sister in this one."
"Oh? So she understands then?"
"Yes, though we both agreed that it will be difficult to forget a past life, and there will be many things to work past, both from her past life, and this new one."
"Is she still in her room?"
"Yes, recalling her own death was trying, as was learning of her new one. It broke apart many of her old beliefs, and as it is already the evening, I said we could continue speaking, and getting to know each other, tomorrow. She'll need the time to think to herself as well I think."
"Oh, I see. Shall I be able to meet her then?"
"We'll have to see. I am thinking of taking her out to see the city, as a chance to learn about Gameindustri and Leanbox.
"You should be careful then. Other than being seen by your people, lady Vert can be quiet busy when in the city after all."
"I know!" Vert said with a pout. "There's just so much Leanbox has to offer, that's why I told her to get a good rest!"
"As long as she does get a good rest and you both have a good breakfast." Chika said with a sigh. "I'll wake up early and make you both some breakfast. It'll be a good chance for me to get acquainted with her!"
"Oh, thank you so much Chika!"
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Louise sat on the bed of what was apparently now, her own room. She had pulled her legs up to her body and had her arms wrapped around them. The sheets lay down the bed, barely covering her feet. The light was off, making the room dim in the evening light.
She had spent hours in this room already. Some of it was her simply crying, but most of it was spent sitting beside Vert and talking; about everything. She understood the situation fully now, or at least mostly. She had died, and had somehow come to life again in another world, and in this world she was the younger sister to a goddess, making her a goddess as well. It was a lot to wrap her head around, but she did understand that was the situation. The problem was that it clashed with her past so seriously.
"OH comes on its not like it matters!"
"It does matter. If I'm a goddess, that means, that the Brimiric faith was wrong, it was wrong all along and that, it's just-"
"So it was wrong, it's not like that matters now!"
The other problem was that she was now arguing with herself. she wasn't sure if she was speaking both sides of the argument, or just imaging one side. She also wasn't sure if she was winning or losing, which was just as problematic.
"It does matter! If it's wrong, then what of all that teaching, those years of learning and failing at magic! Was it all for nothing?"
"Of course it was for nothing. Everyone served the word of a dead man from six thousand years ago! No one cared about anyone who couldn't do magic, and no one's probably even looking for me!"
"No, that not true. The teachers-"
"Only cared about students that could actually cast magic! we saw it! No matter how hard I worked nothing came of it, and no teacher gave us any help for fear of getting blown up! Because I couldn't cast magic I was a pariah, hated by all and made fun of on anyone's whim!"
"No, that's, that was because I always kept to myself when studying, because I was so intent on casting magic, I never spoke to anyone, never got angry at their teasing!"
"Oh, so I had to tell them stop to make them realize it was wrong now? Even my own family didn't bat an eye at me for being unable to cast magic! All I got was ashamed looks from them!"
"No, Cattleya didn't-"
"Cattleya was the only one who saw past my ability to use magic! Eleonore scoffed at me, always saying I wasn't trying hard enough. Father barely even noticed my presence, and mother always looked upset over our existence, like we were a stain upon her honor!"
"Well, that's. . . ."
"Why do you even care anyway? We've been reborn as a Goddess! We don't need to care about my old life, just this new one! We have a sister who already cares greatly for us, why care about the past?!"
"Cattleya and even Eleonore will-"
"They'll be sad sure. But mother, father, the other students at the academy and its teachers? They won't care about our death! The rest of Halkeginia will not even know of us! It'll be kept quiet and no one will know!"
" . . . . Henrietta will know."
". . . . . Yes, she'll know, and it will make her cry, but no one else will know, or care! She needs to get Stogner if she's going to be queen anyway, and maybe my death can help her with that if nothing else. It not like we helped her much anyway."
"Yeah, that's true."
" . . Just think, it's a new life. We can learn more, and be more than we were before. And we can stay as far away from magic as we want to!"
"Yeah, I guess so." Louise muttered as she slid down into her bed and felt exhaustion and sleep overtake her, images of her new sister, and the hopes of a new life filling her thoughts as she drifted off to sleep.