✧ So Shoot for the Stars, Kid ✧

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Hello, I hope you're all doing well. I wrote this little 'falling in love’ story for my dear friend Nova, it revolving around her magnificent OC Terra Allen. Love ya’ kid, never forget it!

PS: Thank you so much for the feature! I'm really glad you guys liked it!!!

All other characters are either my OC or my friend's OCs. It took me two nights and one day to make this; I hope you all like it.

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✧ So Shoot for the Stars, Kid ✧

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“Y-You guys, okay, I know I said I would do it-”

“And you will.” Marx reminded her with a swift pat on the back.

“I don’t think I can actually do this, I’m so sorry.” As Terra prepared to run, she felt something pull her back.

“Katherine, I thought you didn’t use your powers out of serious situations.” Terra looked at her friend, in an almost pleading way.

“I don’t… I did that with my hand.”

“Oh? Really? The hand I didn’t feel on me?”

Katherine looked ashamed for a second. “Well I did, we all saw it, right Kyle?” She raised her voice, so the gloomy teenager could hear her.

“You all are so childish.” Kyle walked closer to the group and without warning, grabbed Terra and started pulling her towards the establishment.

“You think he finally snapped and is going to drag her to meet the fishes?” Marx whispered to Katherine, only enlisting a scoff and an elbow towards his arm. “Of course not.”

Marx stared at her for a few seconds.

“We should probably follow them.” Katherine was now visibly worried thanks to Marx.

Meanwhile, steps ahead of them, Terra was pleading for her freedom.

“Kyle, Kyle, buddy, dude, bro, let’s talk about this, if you let me go you can come back to my house and we’ll eat so many tacos, you are going to not want tacos for the rest of your life, which is a lie, because no one can get sick of tacos, they are amazing, but, oh boy, I’ll feed you so many it’ll seem like it for a while.”

Kyle said nothing as he reached the door, standing Terra up straight, still holding a grip on her. She looked up to his intimidating eyes and laughed nervously.

“I’ll give you a free taco every day until we graduate?” Terra felt her heart racing out of her chest, and although she really did think it would work and he would immediately let her go, it did not. As he opened the door, she could have sworn to have seen a ghost of a smile on his lips.

“Shoot for the stars Terra.” Kyle told her as he pushed Terra into the arcade.

As she felt the door shut audibly behind her, she saw people darting their eyes towards her. As she contemplated an escape plan, she saw a pair of eyes stay fixed on her. Those same eyes now started coming calmly towards her, and she completely froze.

“Hey Terra, you look absolutely beautiful.” Sven looked amazing too, but she would never dare say that aloud.

“Thank you. Y-You too. I like your goggles.” Was all she could manage to scramble together while her eyes darted to the floor.

“And I like you.” Sven raised her chin and smiled kindly, his eyes only expressing how happy he was at this moment.

“OhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhH.”

Yup. That’s Terra. You’re probably wondering how she ended up in this situation. Well, it all started a month ago at her favorite arcade place when a stranger approached her because they had the same quirk.

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-A month earlier-

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“So, you guys, I’ve officially gotten nothing on Kyle from my search on the internet and all of his social media.” Marx shoved a fry in his mouth, quite upset as he sat down on the table to his friends for lunch.

“Marx, you need to stop before Kyle discovers what you’re up to and-” “Wrecks you!” Terra interrupted, and Katherine just nodded. “For lack of a better term, yes, you need to stop before Kyle wrecks you.”

“Oh, so you both are telling me you aren’t curious? The guy has been our friend for years and all we know about him is his name, last name thanks to attendance, that he’s smart, that he’s into black, and that he hates my awesome humor.” Marx kept shoving fries to his mouth, each time seeming more worried.

“I think the last one is universal dude.” Terra giggled as she ate her seventh slice of pizza.

“You’re just bummed because you don’t know anything about him either.” Marx stopped eating to confront his friend.

“He has a job.” Terra argued.

“He lives a walking distance from school.” Katherine added.

“I think he likes anime.”

“I believe he loves literature.”

“Please, you guys, tell me something about Kyle that I don’t already know from my extensive research skills.” Marx started eating fries again, this time with an overconfident smirk on his lips.

“He will hit you if you keep being an idiot and snooping where you certainly don’t have to.” Kyle sat next to Marx, a dull expression present on his face.

“Kyle! Buddy! We weren’t talking about you! Trust me! Right guys?” Marx looked at his friends hopefully.

“I, uh, about that.” Terra looked over at Katherine.

“I have no input on this.”

“What a shocker Kath, really.” Marx shoved fries in his mouth, marking the conversation as dead by his part.

“So, you guys, after school today I’m officially inviting you to this new arcade place that just opened by my house.” Terra announced to avoid any more bickering.

“Really? That seems neat, what’s it called?” Katherine asked, seeming to be the only one in the table paying attention to the now new conversation.

“It’s called ‘The Last Arcade In The Universe’, the name is based on this cool fighting arcade game from the eighties called ‘The Last Human In The Universe’ where a seemingly quirkless human fights with beings from other dimensions to discover the meaning of life.”

“A fighting arcade game from the eighties?! I imagine that has to be their main attraction, right?!” Marx asked, the excitement obvious in his voice, Terra knew that as soon as she mentioned fighting he would be hooked.

“Actually, I don’t think so. The game had a limited release everywhere, since, even if it had a popular demand, parents deemed it as too much for their kids, due to the main character implying that maybe by killing himself he’d know what it would be like to feel complete, those same parents never bothering to reach the ending of the game of course. Well, soon production shut down and now, every arcade in the world is fighting to have it.” Katherine ate more of her nuggets as her friends stared at her in silence for a few seconds.

“Oh, it has a book.” Katherine raised her head and gave a timid smile, answering the question before her friends asked it.

“Also, the owners really are trying to get it, rumors are that they’re going to have it by the end of the month, but they won’t confirm anything.” Terra added, her tenth slice of pizza gone.

“Well, I would rather not go.” Everyone turned to see that Kyle had talked. They knew that him just saying a word while he was at lunch with them was lucky and they should not push it, but Terra was excited.

“Kyle! Dude! Come on! My friend Dansei is going to go and everything! I promised him he would meet all of you!”

“Well, Terra, you really should of thought about the vastly great possibility of me not attending before making such promises, right?” Kyle got up and immediately left their table.

“See you in class Kyle!... well, Kath, how long?” Marx made sure to whisper the last part so only they would hear it.

“This is ridiculous, you know that? Five minutes and, I think-” “Thirty seconds.” Terra interrupted, writing it down on some notebook.

“Well I think that’s the longest he’s been on our table this whole week.” Marx noted, seeming surprisingly happy.

“Yesterday he was here for five minutes and thirty-two seconds though.” Terra seemed to be inspecting the notebook closer.

“No, we said we weren’t counting four seconds of that because he just looked to be contemplating if he should beat up Marx or not.” Katherine took the notebook to fix the mistake.

“I just implied that he should really appreciate my jokes more due to the context.”

“Marx, you made a dick joke and when no one laughed you just said, ‘At least Kyle should get it’ and attempted to high five him.” Terra laughed at the memory, making Katherine almost laugh with her.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone be so offended by the simple implication that they’re the same species.” Katherine muffled, hiding her face behind the notebook while Terra laughed more.

“Shut up, I bet I can make him stay for six minutes tomorrow.” Marx challenged.

“Oh, you are on! Loser buys the winner lunch!” Terra suddenly got up and wore the greatest grin on her face.

“Terra! You eat like ten times more than the average human!” Marx argued as he got up too.

“You don’t have to buy me anything if you win, or what, doubting yourself Marxie?”

“I would- Of course I- You are so on!”

“Bring money tomorrow, you’ll need it.”

With that, their argument ended, and they proceeded to talk more about the arcade and the ridiculous homework they had to do, the bell signifying that lunch was over rang, and the day kept going until they finally left for what Terra considered as ‘an adventure’.

Ah teens, always so unexpecting of destiny and its ways. Is it not cute?

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“Okay you guys! Roll call!” Terra exclaimed in the entrance of her school as she started calling her friends.

“Marx?”

“Here!” The teenage boy screamed.

“Katherine?”

“Here.” The teenage girl calmly replied.

“Kyle?!”

“You can see me, what is the point of this?” Kyle asked, making Marx jump.

“Dude, you came?!” Marx was about to approach him when Kyle put his hand up.

“Yes. She promised her friend. I’m not that rude.”

“Well, now that we’re all here, let’s go!” Terra smiled as she got into position.

“Terra! , we’re behind you, you just can’t speed it to the-” Katherine was about to finish her sentence as Terra speeded away from them.

“Oh, darn, I think they were saying something.” Terra mumbled to herself, already in front of the arcade.

“Hey! Did you just speedrun over here?”

She turned to see who was speaking as she pushed her auburn hair back and adjusted her goggles to the top of her head. Terra was almost left in shock when she saw a tall, smiling, silver haired boy approaching her. He had a pair of goggles and as he walked closer, she could feel her heart stop. He was simply gorgeous, there were so many words she could use to describe him, but she just settled with jaw dropping gorgeous for now.

“Hello, my name Sven Maximoff, I’m sorry I didn’t introduce myself before screaming at you, it’s just I’ve never seen a speedster our age.” Sven politely extended his hand as Terra just looked down at it.

Oh, was he expecting her to take it? He would probably sense her shaking since every nerve in her body was trying to escape, but she needed an actual excuse not to do it, so she started thinking. What if she said she was sweaty? Yes, that would definitely- wait, did he just say Maximoff?

“Maximoff, like Pietro Maximoff?” She asked, the silver hair making much more sense now.

“Uh, yeah, you know my dad?” Sven looked confused, with his hand still in the same position. Terra breathed in a little and with no other option left, she took a deep breath and shook it.

“I’m Terra Allen.” She calmed down a little as the words left her.

“As in, Barry Allen?” He asked, and Terra just nodded. “Ah! I should have guessed! I mean, I think our fathers are the only speedsters around here! Now I feel like an idiot in front of such a beautiful girl.” His smile got wider when he spoke this line and Terra could feel her cheeks heating up, only now noticing they had not let go. She pulled her hand away in a speed that would have seen abnormal to anyone else, but too slow for her. She could hear Sven laugh a little and she just hoped it was not at her.

“Of course you’re his daughter, I mean the hair, the looks, I can’t believe I didn’t ask first, I guess seeing someone with my same quirk got me a bit too excited.”

“You run too?” Terra looked up immediately and asked, finding herself with new spirits. Another speedster? And he just happened to be one of the cutest boys she has ever met?

“Yeah, I could show you, but if you blink you’ll miss it.” Sven winked at her and she giggled as she felt butterflies in her stomach. Those had to be terminated soon. I mean, she just met the guy, she could not like him so fast. That would be ridiculous.

“What? You don’t believe me?” He asked, obviously joking.

“I believe you, I just find it funny that you claim to go faster than a blink, doesn’t that take practice? Years of it too, and I don’t think at our age we can achieve that yet.” As Terra finished her sentence she felt a gush of wind come to her side.

“So, I got you this soda from the vending machine inside, but be careful, it might be shaken.” Sven smiled as he handed her the can. Terra suddenly knew how her friends must feel when she does that, but she was still very impressed. Also, she knew she wanted to like Sven so much more now.

“That is the neatest thing, thank you!” Terra smiled, and Sven looked at her with an expression she could not quite describe, but it did make her feel warm all over.

“So, are you going to come in and play games with me, or do I have to beg you? Because I will.” Sven got closer towards her and Terra almost dropped the can to the floor.

“Hi Terra!”

Terra turned around and saw Dansei smiling, she could have not been happier.

“H-Hi! Dansei! There you are buddy! Pal! I’m so glad I found you! Hello!” Terra screamed every other word, hoping no one would notice.

Dansei got closer and whispered. “Um, why are you screaming Terra? Not that you usually don’t do it, but I’ve never seen you do it like this before.”

“Hi, Dansei I believe? I’m Sven Maximoff, and I just met your lovely friend Terra.” Sven extended his hand and smiled brightly. Dansei looked at Terra, and then at Sven, as if thinking. He finally shook the other boy’s hand. “Hello. So, the town’s youngest speedsters finally met huh?” “You knew about him?” Terra asked, controlling herself from uttering ‘and you never told me?’ out loud. “Yup, he actually goes to my school.” “Ah, yes I do! I’ve seen you before!” “Well, I am one solid color all over, it’d be hard if you didn’t.” With that everyone laughed, and any tension left in the air, disappeared, if only for a few seconds.

“Terra, that begging offer is still up for it, I’ll you and Dansei in a heartbeat.” Sven winked at Terra’s direction again, and she would have melted right then and there if it was not for someone’s familiar screaming stopping her.

“Terra! You do this every time! We had to look up the direction by GPS! You are lucky this was a short walk! Katherine told you to wait dude!” Marx was hurriedly walking towards her while Katherine and Kyle followed him in a much slower step, presumably not wanting to be linked to the screaming boy. Terra immediately regained herself as she sported a nervous smile.

“Oh, you guys I’m so sorry, I knew you were saying something before I left.”

“Duh that we were! Every single time we- oh, you’ve got friends.” Marx suddenly lowered his voice, Kyle and Katherine finally at his same pace, as the three of them arrived in front of Terra.

“Oh uh, yes, about that, you guys, please meet Dansei and Sven! Dansei-” She pointed at the slime-like boy. “Is the friend I’ve been telling you about all these months that I met in the arcades. Sven-” She pointed at the boy with the dashing smile. “Well, I just met Sven really, but he seems very nice. Please, do introduce yourselves to each other and mingle.” Terra knew how awkward she sounded, but she knew that the fact that she was producing noises right now was something to be proud of.

“Hello everyone, as Terra said, I’ve just met her, and if I do say so myself, your friend is very lovely, so it’s a pleasure to meet all of you.” Sven smiled once more, and Terra wondered if he had an off switch, so he would stop making her feel so helpless.

“Hi guys, pleasure to meet you all! Terra has talked about you guys so much though it feels like I’ve already met you.”

“Hello Sven and Dansei, quite a pleasure to meet you. My name is Kyle and I do excuse if our friend Marx was too loud.” Kyle extended his hand and Sven gladly shook it, it being the first normal handshake Sven had received in a while. He proceeded to do the same towards Dansei, this time receiving a more nervous handshake. Kyle was always so well educated with strangers, the days he met people were the ones he would talk the most.

“Hi you guys! You just got Kyle to it I’m his friend, so you are extremely cool in my book, sorry for the screaming.” Marx happily shook both guys hands, avoiding seeing Kyle’s reaction to his statement.

“Well, hello Sven and Dansei, pleasure to meet you. My name is Katherine.” Katherine pulled of a small smile as she shook Sven’s and Dansei’s hands.

“Oh, wow, your eyes are the same color as your skin huh?” Katherine asked Dansei, getting a bit closer.

“Yeah, I-I know it’s kind of creepy-” Katherine interrupted him. “Oh, it’s not, it’s fascinating, I’m sorry if it came out wrong, it’s just I study textures of bodies as quirks and I’ve never seen something like you… you look great” She timidly whispered the last part while looking to the side. “W-Well, I’ve never seen black eyes look so lively, but here you are.” Dansei slowly started to turn red, and if Katherine had not avoided his gaze, she would have surely noticed.

“WELL WHO HERE IS UP FOR SOME GAMES?!” Marx screamed, making almost everyone jump.

“I AM!” Terra ed him, again, whatever tension there was in the air being gone by now.

“And I’ll you, just know that a friend told me the line for The Last Human In The Universe is horrendously long.” Sven started walking when Terra grabbed his sleeve.

“They got it?!” She asked, realizing her actions, and immediately letting him go.

“Yeah, it just arrived, supposedly it cost them a fortune, but they got it.” Sven smiled at Terra as if she just made him the happiest man alive.

“Oh, we are doing that line now!” Terra screamed happily at all her friends.

“Hey Allen, I’ll race you.” Sven was getting in position, and as much as the guy made her feel a million things, she could never turn down a race.

“You are so on, Maximoff.” Terra got into position. “Go!” He shouted, and they were soon in the line inside, leaving all the others behind.

“There’s two of them to abandon us now.” Marx scoffed.

“Better than two of you.” Kyle was soon walking ahead of everyone, leaving some quiet laughter from Katherine and Dansei behind. “Ruuuuude!” Marx screamed as he started jogging towards Kyle, the others following them once they calmed down.

That was just the start of it though.

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Terra and Sven quickly became friends, him ing the group, as well as Dansei, on their afternoons of arcade gaming. During this time two things became amazingly clear for Terra, the first being that The Last Human In The Universe was a very hard game, and the second one being that she had a huge and undeniable crush on Sven. No matter what she did, he was always on her mind, his jokes, his smile, his hair, his laugh, and many other things were starting to become vital parts in the days she went to the arcade. That is why when he asked her out on an actual date after a month of her having these thoughts, she could have fainted, thankfully she did not, but she did speed run to the bathroom to scream in terror and excitement and went right back to Sven with a now embarrassed and fully red expression.

Terra thought for a while, to really analyze if saying yes was a really good idea, but Marx hearing everything and being the oh so caring friend that he is, told Sven that she would absolutely love to, Terra only being able to nod her head, considering how weird it would have been to say no now, and also considering she had no reason to say no.

And well,

that brings us to now.

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“Shoot for the stars Terra.” Kyle told her as he pushed Terra into the arcade.

As she felt the door shut audibly behind her, she saw people darting their eyes towards her. As she contemplated an escape plan, she saw a pair of eyes stay fixed on her. Those same eyes now started coming calmly towards her, and she completely froze.

“Hey Terra, you look absolutely beautiful.” Sven looked amazing too, but she would never dare say that aloud.

“Thank you. Y-You too. I like your goggles.” Was all she could manage to scramble together while her eyes darted to the floor.

“And I like you.” Sven raised her chin and smiled kindly, his eyes only expressing how happy he was at this moment.

“OhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhH.”

“Terra, do you like me?” Sven asked getting closer as Terra took some steps back.

“Well, uh, I like everyone that’s nice, like you, you know? I, um, I like tacos too, they’re great, have you ever had a taco? I bet you’d like them, I love them, love is stronger than like though, which makes me think, is love like an actual thing? I mean isn’t love just a word for liking something a lot? When you think about it isn’t like half of our vocabulary the extreme version of other words?” Terra looked at Sven with a nervous smile, as he looked at her with an expression of shock mixed with surprise.

“...You don’t like me, do you?” Sven asked.

“What?”

“I should have known you didn’t like me in that way, it was kind of dumb to assume you did. I mean, a big red flag should have been Marx forcing you to say yes and you getting dragged here by your friends.”

“You saw that?” Terra asked, her voice hinting sadness.

“Yes, at first, I just thought you were nervous, but you really did try to fight them off. Terra I’m so sorry, it’s just, I know it sounds insane, but ever since I saw you, I think I fell for you. I know, it sounds ridiculous, but you really are gorgeous, and we share a quirk, and then I got to know you, and you were funny, smart, into everything I was into and so nice, too nice, and for a second there, I got confused and thought that, this sounds so silly, but I just thought that you liked me as much as I liked you. I’m sorry.” Sven smiled weakly, as if he had never gotten rejected in his life. Terra stood in shock for a few seconds, her brain completely giving up on ever forming an understandable sentence.

“I-I-” “No Terra it’s fine. Eventually I’ll just stop liking you that way and this will all be over, and we can continue to be friends, you’ll just have to give me a little while, since you really are too amazing to simply get over in a few days.” “Sven I-” “Dude, it’s fine, I get it, you don’t have to let me down softly, I understand, we’ll just be friends, It’s-”

“Sven would you shut up for a second?”

Terra finally managed to say. Seeing Sven’s completely shocked face while nodding made her wish she had thought of better words, but she still deemed it a success. With some shaking, she grabbed one of his hands and closed her eyes, taking a deep breath as she finally spoke.

“Sven, I like you. I like you a lot, okay? Of course I like you in the same way you like me, you’re brave, smart, funny, and so handsome, It’s just, I… I’m scared. We’re young and I don’t know what to do. I’m not like you, I can’t be all daring and decisive, but that doesn’t mean I like you less, it’s just, I’ve never done this, I’m scared of rushing in and making mistakes because I like you too much to simply mess this up… I’m sorry I’m a mess.” Terra did not dare open her eyes, feeling them get wet, no one her age should have issues like this, but here she was, in the middle of an arcade about to cry because a guy likes her.

“Oh Terra. Open your eyes.”

“I-I can’t.”

“Yes, you can, I’m here, and I promise you nothing bad will happen, open your eyes.”

Terra slowly opened her eyes and stared directly into the eyes of the smiling boy in front of her.

“I know we’re young, but I also know you make me happy, and due to that, I’d do anything to make you happy too. You want us to take it slow? You got it. You want us to take a break for a while? You got it. You want us to not do public displays of affection? You got it, as long as you promise me that, for now, you won’t stop liking me as much as I like you.” Sven immediately hugged her, and Terra simply hugged him back.

“I promise, but I feel like you’re breaking the public displays of affection thing already.” Terra laughed, and Sven let her go. “Oh crap, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” “I’m joking you goofball, but, thank you, I really appreciate it, I really appreciate you.” She smiled at the boy, and at that moment, all he wanted to do was kiss her, but he decided to ire her instead, content of just having the blessing of being able to see her happy.

“So, what do you want to do for our first date?” He asked, his normal, kind of cocky attitude returning. Terra blushed before speaking.

“Well, now that I have written all of our strategies down, I’d figure today would be the perfect day to defeat the final boss in The Last Human In The Universe and see the ending.”

Sven stared at her for a few seconds. “Oh. I am so in love with you. Let’s do this.” Without waiting for Terra to have another crisis, Sven grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the game.

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While waiting in line, they talked about their training, their families, new shows, new games, new heroes, their friends, Marx’s quest to find out more about Kyle, and Katherine and Dansei’s adorable forming friendship. When it was finally their turn they really got to it. They took turns defeating bosses the other one could not, and finally, they reached the last boss, defeating him easily after so much practicing. They almost screamed with excitement and the few people around them clapped, their performance slowly gaining an audience.

The protagonist then started talking to the boss.

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❝I’ve finally found you, after fighting for so long I have finally found you, the wise one!❞ The protagonist dialogue box exclaimed.

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❝Yes, I guess you did. So, tell me great traveler, what do you want to know, human to human?❞ The white-haired boss asked him through his very eighties text dialogue box.

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❝You’re human too?! I guess I should have known. I want something that for you may be deemed simple, but for me, it took me a whole quest.❞

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❝Well, do speak.❞

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❝I want you to tell me the meaning of life.❞

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❝The meaning of life?❞

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❝Yes, the meaning of life. I’ve travelled planets to find this, and every single one of my opponents just tell me what life means to them, and not it’s true purpose, so I want to know, what is the true meaning of it. Human to human.❞

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The boss picture laughed, Terra and Sven got ready to defeat him once more if necessary.

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❝There is no meaning, young one.❞

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❝NO! There must be! My quest should not be taken in vain!❞

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❝Fine. Do you really want me to tell you the true meaning?❞

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❝Well, yes, it is what I most desire.❞

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❝It’s whatever you want it to be. Truth is, there is no meaning in life because we are the ones that must give it purpose. That’s why every foe you won against told you their personal experiences. Young one, do you not know? Life is only as amazing as you let it be.❞

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❝B-But… Why do I feel so empty?❞

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❝Because you are trying to find a solution to something that has no definite answer. You must live life, only as you wish, facing everything only as you can. Believe in yourself young one, and you’ll soon see that life has more rewards than it has punishments.❞

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The protagonist was left in silence, as the boss started walking away.

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❝Well, young one, are you ing this old human to dinner, or are you just going to stand there as if everything I just told you is meaningless?❞

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The protagonist soon caught up with the other human.

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❝Just like that everything is over? What do I do now? How do I find the meaning of my own life?❞

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❝I do not know, I believe that is very much your decision,

so shoot for the stars, kid.❞

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They walked for a while more in silence and then the credits started rolling, showing pictures of the protagonist and the final boss eating, talking, and joking around together. The screen turned black and in big, bold, white letters, the words ‘The End. Shoot for the stars kids.’ were sprawled all over it. A few seconds ed, and the screen went back to the main menu. The whole arcade fell silent, Terra and Sven were the first ones to defeat the game in this place, even garnering the attention of the owners. Everyone started clapping and discussing the ending, some saying it was beautifully fitting, others saying it felt a bit empty, but right. Terra sniffled a little next to Sven.

“Terra, you good?”

“Y-Yes it’s just, Sven, wasn’t that beautiful? We finally did it and the game rewards us with eighties philosophy.” Terra sniffled, and Sven could not help but smile. He grabbed her face and Terra gasped while he just stared at her. He slowly got closer and planted a kiss on her forehead.

“This is officially the day I’ve started planning our wedding Terra, you’re too good for this world and I’m never letting you go.” Sven hugged her, and she just hid in his chest, deciding that it was best for him not to see how all her blood had just left her body.

That was the start of a beautifully confusing and charming relationship.

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Shoot for the stars indeed.

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Cover Image - https://es.verbling.com/articles/post/4-estudios-de-cine-que-se-pueden-visitar

Sven and Terra drawing by http://aminoapps.programascracks.com/p/ou0tn6

Terra and Dansei belong to http://aminoapps.programascracks.com/p/ou0tn6

Sven belongs to http://aminoapps.programascracks.com/p/0rk65j

Marx belongs to http://aminoapps.programascracks.com/p/bfntih9

Dansei drawing by http://aminoapps.programascracks.com/p/ou0tn6

OC drawings (Katherine, Marx, and Kyle) done by my other very lovely friend BunnyCake, which I send her a thousand thanks for. She does not own an Amino but owns an amazing instagram that I encourage you all check out: https://www.instagram.com/bunnycake88/

Again, special thanks to Nova! She encouraged me to put this up, dealt with my thousand questions, helped me pick out banners and pictures, and helped me understand Amino a whole lot better. Get you a lovely friend like her :hearts: :cookie:

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