please rate this story SIX GUNS. THE PATH OF DESPAIR CHAPTER 0NE Warning! There may be profanity! I walked home in a storm that was raining cats and dogs. I had just got out of my shift at the hospital. You see, I'm a doctor and I've been studying for years, and when I finally finished my degree I took the first job that was offered. It took some time to get a get a job as a doctor at a hospital, but it was worth it. When I finally got the job as a doctor, the hospital hours were unbearable and demanding. By the time I got home, I almost collapsed, but I kept myself up by leaning on the door of my apartment. I then walked in my apartment and locked the door. I took a quick nap before taking a bath. After drying off my hair and my body, I started to walk to my computer when the power shut off. I got a little irritated, but I guessed it was from the storm because I always paid my bills on time. Then a bolt of lightning struck the antenna of my house, causing a loud crack. Then the house became an object of static electricity that drew in more electricity until it fried all of the electronics but my ipad. It sucked my consciousness into the game I was playing. Well, that’s how I got sucked into Six Guns, and my life became a part of the story in the house. When and how I got sucked into the game is from my partner. His name was Drake. He's been stuck in here like me for weeks or maybe even years but, I've only been stuck in here for minutes or hours. Like me he was just as confused as I was when he came here. But lets get back to the story. I woke up drowsy and with an aching head like waking up after drinking all night at a bar.I took a look at my surroundings and it looked like I was in an old western looking bar. I then looked down on what I was sitting on and it looked like an ancient dusty chair. The paint was withered and the chair was a little broken. I coughed a little from the dust. I finally got out of the chair and started to talk to some of the people who, at the time, I thought were people, but were really most of them were non-playable characters (NPC’S). And most of them just said things like something bit me. I have an aching headache from this hangover, and other stuff. But there was one person who didn’t just say the same old thing. His name was Drake. The conversation went as follows. “Where am I? But you probably don't know do you?” “Well, actually I do. You're in Six Guns in the town of Socorro” “........How do you know that we're in Six Guns, if we are, and also how'd I get in here?” “ The answer to your first question is that I am the creator of Six Guns. I came up with the story of Six Guns, but sadly I am now part of the game. Like you will be if you don't get out in time” “Hold on, you're the creator of Six Guns? There’s no way!” “ I AM THE CREATOR OF THIS GAME!” “Okay, okay calm down. I believe you. No one would say that unless they're crazy or they’re telling the truth. And I’ll go with truth” “I am calm. I just don’t want to see another have the same fate as me” “So why don't you just get out of the game?” “Im stuck here I can't get out anymore.” “Why are you stuck here?” “I just am. Now so lets drop that subject.” “Fine. But what was that about being stuck in the game?” “Well, if you stay too long you start to lose your memory and your physical body will stop working. Without your mental presence, then you will never be able to go back to the reality. Also, if you die in this game, it has the same consequences. And you don't respond with one health point like in the game. You just die” “Okay. So what’s the time limit?” “The time limit is two years before your body finally breaks down.” “So how do get out?” “I dont know, But I’m guessing you have to beat the game” “how dont you know I thought you were the creator of the game.” “Hey! I may be the creator, but why am I supposed to know everything?” “yeah but you're the creator aren't you supposed to know what everything about the game you created” “well yes i am supposed to know but this is different a situation a lot different” “fine” “well you better get going” “Yeah why don't you come with me....you know with all this time we've been talking I should have asked your name” “My name is Drake” “hey can you answer the second question” “yeah i can the way you got here was from that storm i don't know how but i think your mental got stuck in here from that storm just like me” “okay………..hey i have an idea why don't you come with me” “Well I guess I'll come with just so you aren't put through this torture like me so let's get a move on” We then walked out of the bar after getting something to eat and drink. We then had to buy one horse from a shady oldish looking fellow and while we we're there at it we also bought some guns for mine and his protection I got the triple barrel terror and he got the duel guns,I then got on my horse and Drake got on his horse and then rode to guttermouth gulch on an ancient road that compared to the roads we use today. was a long and hard journey it took two days to get there and by the end of the second day my ass was really sore.when at guttermouth gulch we set up camp. At day break we were attacked by some bandits I shot a few of them but Drake got most of them each one we shot gave us money like in the real game. The money was transported into our seemingly endless saddle bags.I then leveled up five times so now I’m a level 6. The Bandits we're vicious like a stray pack of dogs that haven’t eaten in days.we then left camp and went to the next area the area's name was witch hack. “hey Drake can we take a break because we’ve been doing missions for days” “no we cant do you want to lose your body and be stuck here” “well no I don’t but I can barely walk so please” “.........well I guess you’ve earned“ “YES THANK YOU THANK YOU COULD WE STAY IN A HOTEL PLLLLLLLEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSS” “calm down okay just calm down” “fine i’m just soooo excited” “well keep your excitement under control besides were doing the lottery” “aw but why now” “dont question me and if you do it well stay at a good hotel” “fine ill do it” “good we'll also get some supplies too” two hours later plomp “ah this is awesome we don't have to sleep on to sleep on the ground and we don't have to take a bath in the in a freezing river” “dont get too used to it we’ll be leaving in the morning” “cant we just stay two nights” “i dont want you getting soft on me but you've earned it” “who are you calling soft” “wow hold on i was playing around” “fine” “lets just get some sleep okay well need the rest” “fine” “one more thing we'll stay one night got it” “THANK YOU THANK YOU” “calm down its nothing” “well thanks any way” the next morning “hey so how many missions are left” “about 60 more missions are left” “wow i can't believe it we only have 60 missions left” “hey finish what you eat first it's disgusting” “okay” “ good well lets go to the store” “ why don't you i want to gamble a little” “ fine but give me all your money so i can give what you can spend” “ fine but you give it back and don't spend it at all when you're shopping” “ okay” “ here it is” “ and heres what you can gamble with” “ yay bye” “ see you later then” an hour “ lets look for drake now i have to show him all this stuff i won” “ hmm why can't i find him he has to be somewhere around here” “ hey michael” “ AAH what was that for you startled me” “ sorry about that….so did you win anything” “ yeah look at all this stuff i won” “ well then lets get going” “ but why you said we could stay one more night” “ huh well I did say that” “ yeah you did so hahahaha” “ stop laughing or well go right now ” “ hmph well you're grumpy ” “ no im not we just don't have the time for playing games like that ” “ fine……….what happened to your leg ” “ ah that i just got into a little fight it's nothing ” “ thats isnt nothing lets get you fixed up ” “ fine grumbl ” “ ah that hurts ” “ shutup and take it like a man ” it took several hours to stitch his leg up after taking the bullet out his leg by cutting some of his flesh and by the end of that ordeal we both were exhausted and had to stay there for one more night. fortunately or unfortunately for me game wounds heal ten times faster than in real life. one day later drake woke up from a deep sleep restful sleep. He then woke me up rudely by kicking me in the gut. yeah he was kinda a dick like that “ well lets go already ” “ ugh you asshole why do you always wake me up like that ” “ I just dont want you to get soft on me you know ” “ I am not soft and lets get going ” we started completing all the missions one by one by using fast travel locations the fast travel locations are signposts that tell which way each city is. we traveled to each mission with horse or posts when we finished all the missions accept the death mission where you have to kill the grim reaper. now the grim reaper was the first of the three harolds and he wasn't a match for us so we finally went to arizona. when we got to arizona the missions got harder and harder and by the end of each mission we started to sweat like we were in a sauna and each night it would feel like we were in the arctic because the desert is like that