Episode I – The Pilot
“Hey? Alex! Stop looking at Elika for one moment and listen to me!”
Alex’s line of sight was broken between him and Elika, Roger Elyske (Alex’s good friend) stood in front of Alex’s desk trying to catch his attention. Alex shook his head and refocused his attention to his friend.
“Sorry, I was in, uh… Deep thought.”
“Yeah, about making out with her. Have you even asked her yet?”
“Asked her what?”
“Never mind you’re hopeless.”
“What did you want anyway?” Alex said a little irritated by his friend
“You know that new game is coming out today right?”
“New game?”
“Wow, you’ve haven’t heard of Aria?”
“Oh, that game?”
“Dude, that is the game! It’s the first 4D game where you’re almost in the game!”
“Great.”
“You’re not even excited one bit, are you?”
“Not really.”
“Well, I’m stopping by the arcade after school to get it and you better come with me! Or else I’ll murder you while you sleep!”
Alex laughed inside a little at Roger’s threat. Roger barely had any muscles, he was short and skinny but his lively attitude kept him from looking like social outcast. He was the same age as Alex, fifteen and has a brownish hair color with brown eyes. His skin was slightly pale probably due to playing video games most of the time. On the other hand Alex was a bit taller than average but still didn’t have much muscle. He has green eyes and a more creamy skin tone. Alex looked over to Elika again and let his eyes gorge themselves on her. She was beautiful, in looks she was pretty but Alex loved her personality. So spirited and smart. The sound of a fist crashing into the table brought him back to his current surroundings.
“Dammit Alex! You were thinking of her again!”
“Was not!”
The school bang rang throughout the halls and students raced out the door eager to get home while Alex casually walks up and heads out the door. The hallway was busy and filled with a horde of young adults rushing to and fro. Alex tried to dodge the heavy traffic but got swooped into it and decided to just follow the crowd. They were heading to the south exit where Roger’s locker would be so he didn’t mind.
Alex finally stepped out of the rushing crowd to meet Roger but Roger was in peril. The schools bully Lukas and his two friends had Roger pinned to the wall.
“We know you brought money today for that new game Roger. You’d better give us the money you piece of s**t or you’ll end up looking like a smashed bug.”
Alex hated these guys but was no match for them. Alex didn’t care he wasn’t going to let his friend get hurt. Alex leapt forward and swung his fist out. One of Lukas’s friends turned around in time to see Alex coming but not enough time to react turning his face into a bloody pulp. Lukas grabbed Roger’s head and slammed it against the locker knocking him unconscious. The other bully tackled into Alex and pinned him against the floor, Lukas frantically frisked Roger for his wallet and soon found the money he carried. Lukas held the money in his hand and threw the wallet back at Roger. Alex tried to lift the bully off of him but the bully was part of the wrestling team and Alex was part of the chess team, Alex was stuck and received a flurry of punches. Lukas told his friend that they were leaving and all they all quickly vanished out the area. Alex couldn’t move. His nose was broken and blood soaked his eyes. He couldn’t even breathe properly. A distant sound echoed into Alex’s ear. It was a rhythmic sound, a sound much like footsteps. A gasp was heard and the rhythmic sound sped faster and grew louder. It was Elika, she bent down beside Alex,
“Oh my god, are you alright?!”
“I… I could be better.”
“Wait here, I’ll get help.”
Elika quickly got back onto her feet and ran down the hall. Alex formed a smile or at least mentally, (He had a hard time moving his mouth) because at that moment, he couldn’t feel pain at all. Alex tried to raise his head to look at Roger, he could see a big bruise on the back of his head but didn’t see any blood. More footsteps returned and they were the doctors of the school tending to him. He closed his eyes and tired to brush away the pain.
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Three months later…
Alex opened his eyes and found himself in his room lying still on his bed. Alex sighed and tried to sit up but the muscles in his body denied him to any movement. Alex laid down and thought about what happened. He tried to protect his friend and failed. He got his body damaged, and he managed to be sarcastic with his dream girl at a horrible time. Alex sighed at his horrible failure of a save the day attempt and closed his eyes. A knock at the door pried his eyelids open.
“Come in,”
Roger came into Alex’s room and sat down at his computer desk chair.
“Hey Alex,”
“Roger, I’m sorry-“
“Why are you sorry for?! Those bastards are the ones who need to apologize!”
Alex kept silent. He felt responsible for his friend getting robbed. If he didn’t charge into the situation, maybe Roger could have talked it out.
“What are you going to do about your money Roger?”
“I’ve saved that money from the summer waiting for this game… I guess I’m going to have to save up during the winter. I’m gonna go, you should rest.”
“Bye Roger,”
“Good night Alex.”
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One month later
Alex stacked the box on top of the randomly lying crate and opened it up. It had the new game Aria inside. He resisted the temptation to just grab one for Roger, but it was against his morals. Roger was behind him eyeing the game in front of Alex.
“You know Alex; if you stole a copy we wouldn’t have to be working at the arcade to get money for the game.”
“Haha, I was thinking the same thing, but man that game is so expensive! 150$ for a game?!”
“Well, it’s the world’s first 4D game! You get to be in the game!”
Alex sighed and shook his head not understanding why it was so crucial for him to play the game.
“I bet it’s not even that great, you should get a different obsession Roger.”
“What are you talking about?! I heard that it was amazing, it’s got a few bugs and problems but they have a team for that kind of stuff.”
“Whatever, you’re wasting your time,”
“I think this is better than obsessing over a girl who you can’t even ask out!”
The door bell swung Alex’s attention to the entrance. He couldn’t make out the faces because of the dim lights but their gait and stature shouted their names out for him. It was Lukas and his two friends and they carried a baseball bats. The owner a old man about sixty walked up to Alex,
“Hey Alex, you know anything about those hooligans? They’re got no reason to take baseball bats into my store.”
“They’re the school bullies, they’re bastards and they need to be taught a lesson.”
“I’ll show them out the door,” interjected Roger but the owner put his arm out and stopped Roger.
“I’ll do this.”
The owner walks up the three boys and asks,
“I would to tell you baseball bats aren’t permitted inside this store.”
Lukas smiled and swung the baseball bat. A large electrical smash sound soon followed. Lukas hit a arcade machine and smashed it’s screen.
“Give us the money old man!”
The owner was surprised and shocked, he trembled and feared for his life.
“We gotta do something!” Yelled out Roger
“But what can we do?! Uh.. Um, Roger! Call the cops! I’ll deal with them and hopefully they’ll go away.”
Roger nodded his head and took out his cell phone.
Alex picked up the large bag of tokens for the arcade machines and charged at Lukas.
“Here’s your money!”
Alex swung the bag of tokens like a morning star into Lukas’s face. Alex kept running and tackled him back against the door and Alex kicked Lukas in the stomach knocking the hinges off and Lukas fell down with the door. One of Lukas’s friends swung his bat at Alex but the large token bag absorbed the blow. Alex aware of Lukas’s friends now swung the bag at the one who attacked him, knocking him down onto the ground. A baseball bat flew over his head has the remaining bully tried to hit Alex. Alex filled with adrenaline was ready to tackle him when a dart went into his neck. Alex looked over to see Roger with a blowgun in his hand.
“Where the hell did you find a blow gun?!”
“It’s mine; I keep a lot of weird items in my shop…”
The bully paused to take the dart out when sirens blared through the streets. A flash of red and blue as the cops came rushing down the block. The bully was scared and didn’t know what to do. At this moment Alex formed a smile and knew that he had won this fight. The cops arrested the three boys and each one of us what happened.
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After the cops were gone Alex sat on the counter with a cold drink in his hands trying to remember exactly how he accomplished his feat. He couldn’t remember it happened so fast it was like a blur. Roger jumped on the counter also and smiled,
“We sure showed those bastards!”
“Yeah, but why did you use a dart gun?”
“A dart can be very powerful my friend,”
Alex stared at Roger with a puzzled face, then they both broke out into laughter.
“That’s bullshit!”
“Shut up, it was close by and it seemed like a great idea at the time!”
The shop owner came out carrying two boxes.
“I’d like to thank both of you for saving me from those hooligans earlier, so I present to you-“
The shop owner opened the boxes and handed both of them to Alex and Roger,
“The Aria game, I’ve seen you two eyeing it, go home. Play it to your heart’s content.”
Roger had the biggest smile on his face and he instantly got onto his feet.
“Come on Alex! Let’s get to playing it!”
“I guess I could give it a try…”
Alex walked out the door with Roger ten feet ahead of him.
“Why do you walk so slow?! Hurry up!”
Alex laughed and started to sprint forward and went pass Roger,
“I’ll be home before you Roger, and I’ll get to play it first!”
Roger matched Alex’s speed and they ran side by side,
“Not if I get to my house first!”
They came up to the street that split their paths, Alex ran to the left and Roger ran to the right both headed towards their homes. Alex ran up to the front door and frantically tried to grab the keys out of his pocket and unlock the door. Inside was his family at the dining room table.
“Alex, come sit with your sister, father, and me.”
“Sorry, I’m going to be in my room, I gotta do something!”
Alex rushed upstairs and opened his room door to find Leo lying on his bed. Gizmo looked up and meowed at Alex,
“Hey Leo!”
Alex ruffled up his ears and quickly put the game into the console.
His cell phone rang and it was Roger.
“What is it loser? I beat you to it!” Yelled Roger through the phone
“What are you talking about I’m making my character right now!”
Alex could hear Roger laughing through the phone.
“I already made my character! His name is WonderWaffle94!”
“Wonder…Waffle?”
“Never mind just add me as a friend when you’re done.”
Roger hung up and Alex put the phone on his desk. He made his character a tan skin color with jet black hair. He picked one of the generic outfits to start out with and it was a royal looking shirt and pants of the color green. His class was a Mystic Knight. It allowed him to perform attack magic well and physical magic. His screen name was Spirit. The game started and he felt like his soul got sucked into the screen when he put the equipment on.
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Spirit looked around and saw large white brick walls and torches that lit the room; however it was blue flame that glowed from the torches. A player walked closer to him, and a line of words appeared over his head that said WonderWaffle94.
“Hello there Spirit, you ready to do this?!”
“You know it’s really hard to take you seriously when your name is WonderWaffle94.”
“Whatever, I’m gonna be amazing at this game, so you can call names as much as you like.”
Down the hall lead into a larger room where Spirit could see players fighting enemies and flashes of light. Spirit peeked around his friend to see if he could see anymore of the action ahead. WonderWaffle94 turned around to see what Spirit was looking at and saw the large battle raging in the large decorated room ahead. The whole building seemed like it they were in heaven, it was so bright and neatly designed, but of course it was just game. More people kept appearing as Spirit and WonderWaffle94 stood gazing at the combat ahead. So many people… and we’re not even on a crowded server…
Spirit walked forward and entered the large room, it had the style of a grand ballroom, marvelously painted ceiling of a fortress in the sky and one side angels fighting shadowy demons that originated from the other side. The floor was smooth and polished shining against the torchlight. Even with the warfare the ground stayed in perfect form. Spirit looked away from the floor and looked across the room to find the enemies players were facing were shadowy humanoid figures, and the figures closely resembled their attacker. Spirit shuddered. The thought of something looking like you and then fighting against you is a little frightening.
An NPC walked up to Spirit and greeted him, the same to WonderWaffle94.
“Hello, Spirit. Welcome to combat training 101. Since you a Mystic Knight you will be given this special weapon.”
The NPC raises her hand and summons a scimitar; the curve of the blade was to supposedly increase the magical attack of the sword. The NPC smiles and raises her again this time summoning a shadow of Spirit.
“You must defeat yourself in order to continue in this game. Good luck!”
The shadow carried the same weapon Spirit just received and taunted towards Alex’s avatar. Spirit raised the sword and beckoned the shadow to attack. It mirrored Spirit’s movement probably to mock him. A long pause was initiated, the two stood in their tracks and studied each other, planning carefully and waiting for the right moment to charge. WonderWaffle94 was already in a fray with his dark doppelganger that both carried swords that seemed to be larger than life, for they were blademasters, a class that excels at using brute strength and stamina to achieve victory. Spirit faced his enemy again to find him only a foot away with his sword in midstrike. Spirit raised the scimitar in time to block the blade from harming him. The shadow seemed like it smiled and stomped on Spirit’s foot, leaving him open for only a second but enough for the shadow to strike at spirit’s arm leaving a large gash. Spirit clenched his arm and the dark figure retreated backwards beckoning Spirit to come forth and strike. Spirit charged back the shadow demon ignoring the wound, the shadow stood still and fully composed.
Spirit was about two feet away when the entire room seemed to freeze in time and the environment started to distort, turning objects into a negative color and leaving binary code in cracks of the environment. A small gold glowing object about the size of a small rock rose from the ground that came between the shadow and Spirit. The shadow was being ripped to shreds into binary code, the code forming a larger shape.
Nothing else moved in the area except the shape shifting shadow and the floating object. The binary code started to turn solid now giving shape to a large and ferocious beast. The titan now looking enemy that came from the shadow towered at twenty feet high and wore black armor, its face covered by a helmet and its wings were both demonic and mechanical like. Alex didn’t understand what was happening in the game, was this a glitch or was it part of a quest?
The small floating object propelled itself into spirit’s body causing him to get knocked down. Spirit felt a surge of immense power rush all over his body and his sword changed from the curved sword into a large sword about 42 inches with a blue leather grip. The blade was made from metal that seemed to give off a shade of blue rather than pure silver metallic color. The large beast attacked smashing its fist against the polished floor opening a crack of binary code in the floor. The crack was growing fast and in the direction of Spirit who evaded to the left and managed to reach the far end of the room in a matter of seconds. It almost seemed liked he teleported. No one else in the room moved and it seemed like they didn’t have a clue of what really was happening. The edges of the room were all starting to melt down slowly into code, Spirit tried to conjure a plan of defeating the monster when he saw a scan ability appear on his screen. With haste Spirit used scan which sent forth a small blast of energy at the enemy and went inside it. Instantly, Sprit knew the type of enemy; a Shadow Titan but the rest of its stats were in garbled letters and symbols. Spirit ran forward with the sword resting on his shoulder and the Shadow Titan stood prepared for the assault. Spirit leapt into the air both hands grabbing the hilt bringing the blade down vertically, the Shadow Titan crossed its arms and blocked the blow but it was pushed back by the blow and it’s armor cracked where Spirit’s blade met his arms.
“Come on you big tin can! Eat my sword!”
Spirit rose into the air at a breakneck pace giving off the illusion of teleportation again and Spirit sank the blade into the Shadow Titan’s helmet. Light spewed from its helmet and the monstrous beast roared in agony and pain. Its entire body exploded into a large blinding light. Spirit fell from his location in the air and closed his eyes to avoid getting blinded.
The room returned to its original state and time resumed everyone completely unaware of what has happened. Spirit looked around trying to find the sword that helped him accomplish the amazing feet, but could not find it anywhere in the room. Alex put a hand over his heart trying to see how bad his heart was beating, and he took a few deep breaths.
WonderWaffle94 walked up to Spirit with a large grin on his face.
“How was your battle Alex?”
“Intense,”
“Really? It didn’t seem like it. You were guys were staring at each other and then it was like over in two seconds.”
“You mean you didn’t see the Shadow Titan? The binary code? The room melting away?!”
“Uh… No.”
“Yeah… Just kidding. I think we should keep moving.”
They both started to make their way to the next room when a small kid about age 12 runs in front of Spirit.
“Hi… Uh, I’m Gizmo.”
“Hi? Do I know you?”
“No, not at all, it’s just that… Well… You…”
WonderWaffle94 was beginning to get impatient.
“Listen kid, what do you want?!”
“Did you really take down that Shadow Titan?!”
Spirit eyes widened in surprise, he was certain that there was no one that saw the battle, after all no one else moved.
“How did you-“
“I think that floating piece was part of the key! And I was close enough to it to be able to see the battle.”
“What key are you talking about?”
“It’s not really a key, it’s a-“
Spirit and WonderWaffle94 both could hear a background voice through Gizmo’s headset.
“Sorry guys, I have to log off. Add me though!”
Gizmo disappeared and left the game.
“What a weird kid,” said WonderWaffle94
Spirit slowly started to walk forward but his mind was still with Gizmo’s words. The piece that appeared was part of a “key” that he doesn’t know the function of and that kid watched the battle. What was going on?! Spirit laid a hand on his chest. Worst of all, that piece of the key, was inside him.
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The alarm clock shouted right into Alex’s ear and forced him awake. A grunt left Alex as he got up and turned the alarm off. Leo jumped onto the bed next to Alex and brushed up against his torso.
“Hey there Leo, I probably shouldn’t have stayed up so late playing that game, huh?”
Leo just silently looked up at Alex expecting him to pet him. Alex rubbed his eyes and tried to stretch out the weariness. Alex opened the door and heard conversation downstairs, which was slightly odd because only he was usually the only one awake at this time. Alex went downstairs to find Elika talking to his parents.
“Oh hi Alex, I was just talking with your parents about… Lukas.”
“How come you never told us about it Alex?”
Alex wasn’t sure if this was real, he rubbed his eyes then opened them again. Yep, it was real and it wasn’t great for Alex. His crush just told his parents about a problem that
He was trying to avoid telling his parents.
“About Lukas? Because he’s not a problem anymore, now that I think about it he’s probably afraid of me now.”
“If he ever hurts you just tell one of us and we’ll-“
“No, it’s alright, I got this under control. Uh Elika can I see you for a moment?”
“Sure,”
Alex took her into the study room, and he sat down in one of the large comfortable chairs, that littered the study room. Elika followed suit and sat across him.
“Why did you tell my parents?!”
“I was worried about you guys, and you live on the way to school from here, and-“
“No, I’m sorry. I should have told my parents but I figured that I could solve the problem myself, which I believe I did in the store yesterday.”
“Really?! That’s great! What happened?”
Alex grinned and told her his story of his battle at the store, with a little exaggeration to hopefully impress Elika.
“You beat them up with a bag of tokens?!”
“It’s a little ridiculous isn’t it?”
“A little?”
Alex saw the time on his watch and jumped out of his seat when he saw it only ten minutes before school started and he wasn’t even dressed.
“Oh man, I think we need to hurry. You can go ahead and leave I have to change.”
Alex ran upstairs and changed into the school uniform, a dress shirt and dark blue pants. Alex pat Leo on the head and opened his room door in a hurry and bumped into Elika.
“I’m sorry, wait, Elika? What are still doing here school starts in five minutes!”
“I uh, come then, we shouldn’t waste time.”
Both Elika and Alex ran out and raced to school.
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Roger threw a paper airplane at Alex hitting him the head. Alex undid it carefully to find the message, and hoped not to alert the teacher of note passing. Inside the plane the words Aria and a time of 4:30 below it, Alex didn’t completely comprehend the message so he sent back, are you saying we should play at 4:30?
The plane struck him in the neck and Alex was getting a little annoyed by his friend with great aim. Alex opened it up and it replied, Yeah, I heard they’re having this special event thing going on at that time. Alex wrote his response and prepared to throw it. He aimed it so that it would strike him in the eye, when the paper left his finger tips the teacher extended his arm and expertly caught the airplane.
“You two stay after school.”
Alex sat in his desk finishing the homework assigned to him, by no means was Alex dumb, but he wasn’t an A average student. The teacher just kept assigning work as Alex finished them with ease, the teacher finally found work on a subject they rarely touched on and handed a pile of assignments. The teacher Mr. Jari didn’t particularly hate Alex and Roger he just felt it necessary to act tough towards all his students. The clock ticked away as the short arm fell onto the four while the longer on the 6. Roger looked at Alex with a face of defeat and laid his head on the desk.
Finally when it became five o’clock they were released and Roger ran home Alex not far behind to keep up with his friend. Roger turned at the intersection and Alex went the other direction. Alex opened the door and went upstairs and prepared the videogame console for Aria.
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Spirit looked around and found everything was normal. WonderWaffle94 hurriedly approached Spirit.
“Alex! We need to get off Tutorial Island so we can get to that event, it still might be going on!”
“This is Tutorial Island?”
“Yeah, I read up on this stuff, all we need to do now is get our wings and descend to Aquaria City.”
“What? Wings?!”
“If you haven’t noticed we’re on a cloud. This is a fortress in the sky that trains beginners at Aria. We must earn our wings here so we can live in the mainland. We’ve beaten our enemies so all we have to do now is descend.”
“Let’s go then!”
Spirit and WonderWaffle94 raced to the end of the hallway where the floor was a large cloud and the far wall was nonexistent. He watched as players equipped the wings and jumped off. WonderWaffle94 was already in line for the wings while Spirit was standing and examining players take their leap of faiths into the mainland. An NPC walked up next to him and handed him a pair of wings.
“Enjoy the game,” Was all the NPC said
WonderWaffle94 walked beside Alex and asked,
“So you ready?”
“I… I guess…”
“We’re pretty high up, so try your best to land in Aquaria City, there’s where the event is at.”
Alex and Roger’s avatars walked up to the edge and looked down; the mainland seemed only like the size of a stone from his position.
“On three?” Asked Spirit
WonderWaffle94 grinned and jumped off,
“Roger wait!”
Spirit watched as WonderWaffle94’s altitude drop drastically, he didn’t know how to control it and he was spiraling out of control. Spirit jumped off and opened the winds and soared downwards in attempt to catch up and rescue his friend. As Spirit went through clouds and the wind rushed past his entire body the mainland seemed to grow larger and larger, a city was right below him, he concluded that it was probably Aquaria City. WonderWaffle94 was now out of sight and Spirit kept soaring downwards towards the city below him. The ground now seemed pretty large and he was within the city limits, Spirit spread his wings and used it much like a parachute. He slowly glided downwards onto a small brick arch bridge. As soon as he landed the wings disappeared, a message appeared on his screen from WonderWaffle94.
Hey have you landed? When you have come meet me by the big fountain, you can’t miss it.
Spirit scanned the area if he could find signs of the big fountain, but couldn’t find it. Spirit started to run forward in search of the fountain, as he went by he noticed the architecture, the entire city seemed similar to Venice. There were rivers running through many parts of the cities and the brick bridges and buildings helped the Venice effect. Spirit wasn’t watching what was in front of him and he ran into another player. The other player pushed him and yelled out,
“Watch it!”
The player was travelling in a large group of about ten people, one of them rested a hand onto the one he ran into.
“I’m sorry, I was looking around for the big fountain.”
“Stupid noob, you didn’t even know who you’re talking to, do you?”
Spirit tried to look at their faces and tried to see if he recognized them anywhere but didn’t.
“No, I’m sorry. I don’t know who you are but please if you know where the big fountain is,”
“We’re D.A.R.T. the debugging and research team. We’re top of the leaderboards so address us nicely and-“
One of the other DART members sighed and raised his hand to halt the one speaking,
“Forgive Raiyu, he’s quite rude.”
The other seemed angry then worried.
“I’m sorry Myraluna did I dissatisfy you?”
“You shouldn’t care about my silly opinions, I’m not your teacher, it’s Darki who’s your sensei. Sorry, uh… Spirit, the big fountain is behind us, just keep following this path.”
“Thanks, Myraluna.”
Raiyu walked up to Spirit with a frown.
“Spirit… I challenge you to a duel!”
“What?! Why?”
“It’s my teacher’s wishes.”
Spirit withdrew the scimitar he received in the sky fortress and took a few steps backwards.
“It would be dishonorable of me to oppose correct?”
“Correct.”
Spirit prepared himself for the duel. Raiyu was a blademaster, but his sword was an average size with a finely crafted blade and hilt, Raiyu stood in a unique battle stance and told Spirit he was ready.
Spirit and Raiyu charged forward, Raiyu’s blade coming down at a vertical descent, Spirit step sided to the left and dodged the attack following up with an swing at Raiyu’s chest, he expertly jumped back before the blade could touch him. Spirit observed Raiyu, he was strong, Blademasters were always the strongest physical class but he could also evade efficiently which most Blademasters traded for power. Raiyu’s sword was an example of this. He had the strength to carry a large claymore but instead choose an average sized weapon to balance out power and evasiveness. Spirit wanted to believe that there was a large vulnerability, but could not find it. Raiyu’s blade skimmed his face, drawing blood. Raiyu swung his sword out again horizontally but Spirit ducked down below it and aimed low at Raiyu. Spirit’s scimitar meet Raiyu’s ankle making him stagger backwards. Spirit had found the weakness. No matter how good Raiyu was at evading it takes him a moment to reposition himself after a strike. Raiyu let out a hiss and lunged forward the blade in a stab motion. Spirit went to the right avoiding the sword, he grabbed Raiyu’s arm and sent forth magic stunning him with lightning. Spirit saw the chance of a kill blow and went for it; he sank the scimitar into Raiyu’s stomach making him fall down to the ground.
Myraluna applauded and walked up to Spirit.
“How is it that you do not know where The Great Fountain is yet you can defeat a D.A.R.T. Member?”
“I do not know Myraluna; I’ve only started from yesterday.”
Myraluna gave off an awed look.
“Do you wish to get better?”
“Of course, it’s the reason people play this game, to strengthen their characters.”
“Good, would you like to be my apprentice?”
Spirit looked at Myraluna. His avatar’s age was quite young; around twenty to twenty three and he wore blue military uniform with knee boots. He wore leather gloves and had pins attached to his chest probably signifying awards and achievements. He was fair skinned and had blondish/brownish hair with the same color eyes. He looked as he could be an apprentice himself but something in his eyes spoke otherwise.
“I will take up your offer; I wish to become your apprentice Myraluna.”
“Great! But if you’re going to be my apprentice you can’t have a silly name like spirit. Hmm… How about… Miramusa?”
“Miramusa? It has a ring to it, sure why not?”
Myraluna fiddled with a device and Alex’s avatar name changed to Miramusa. He now was the apprentice of a top leaderboards player and carried a different name. Miramusa… sounds good.
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Roger’s avatar also carried a different name now, it was Voroger. The Great Fountain did live up to its name, it towered at almost forty feet high and the water displayed an amazing show the water changing colors and bending physics of the real world while it moved about in the fountain. Voroger walked up Miramusa and looked at his name.
“Why the sudden change Alex?”
“I’m now Myraluna’s apprentice.”
Voroger let out a sarcastic laugh,
“Yeah right, stop kidding around why did you change your name?”
“I’m really Myraluna’s apprentice!”
“You’re…You’re not kidding are you? Oh damn! How did you get to become his apprentice?! He is part of D.A.R.T. and top of the leaderboards!”
Alex sat down on the fountain and explained the story of how he and Darki’s apprentice dueled and he won, impressing Myraluna. Voroger was impressed and a little jealous.
“That’s totally not fair! I should get a cool teacher also! What are the perks? Do you get discounts at stores now or have people part their way for you?”
“No, I don’t even think most people know I’m his apprentice, he said that I’ll begin training with him when he next messages me.”
“When will that be?”
“I have no idea, he’s probably a busy person. So, what was that event that was supposed to be happening?”
“Earlier, The Great Fountain was spewing out presents into the air and people lucky enough got items, but we were stuck in school doing work…”
“Well I doubt that I would have gotten anything anyway,”
“What are talking about?! You got to be Myraluna’s apprentice! You’re the luckiest person I know, and from now on I’m gonna bring you to where ever I go, so you can bring ME good luck.”
Miramusa looked around the fountain and saw a large crowd forming, the noise level was rising quickly.
“Hey Voroger we should go somewhere else,”
“I agree, this place is getting too busy, and this server is usually a calm one. Don’t worry I know a place.”
Miramusa followed Voroger around passing stores, buildings, houses, and bridges. Miramusa started to examine the buildings and wondered if they were scenery or actually accessible. He didn’t have the time to find out but he would have to keep it in mind to explore one day. Voroger stopped in front of a pavilion which had a large number of floating rings that spun around each other, forming a blue sphere of energy in the center. Voroger touched the floor and two rings floated from the ground and started to circulate.
“What is this?”
“This? Oh, this is the dungeon system in Aria, this is called a Main Gate, the large one in the middle of the pavilion, it powers all teleportation to the dungeons, and the smaller one from the ground is a Sub Gate, it specifies the area and difficulty of dungeon. You can also create your own custom dungeon here, if you don’t like the presets.”
A familiar voice called out Miramusa’s name.
“Hi, it’s me Gizmo! I see you guys both changed your names; I hope it’s not to avoid me… I’m not that annoying am I?”
Miramusa remembered the small kid; he was the only other person that was able to see the glitch.
“No, you don’t annoy me Gizmo,”
“Thanks Miramusa! So can I go with you to the dungeon you’re going to?”
Miramusa looked at Voroger who signaled a big no.
“Sure why not, the more the merrier”
Voroger had a disappointed look on his face and opened the Sub Gate. The Main Gate spun ferociously and shot a bolt of energy at the Sub Gate which then shot energy at the three players.
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Unfinshed Tales
Here i will my stories that either make no sense, is weird or is just plain not completed.
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