"Unforeseen Danger"
Chapter 1: Vision of Death
Prologue: "Yo David, I heard about this new game called "The World" and I was wondering if you wanted to try it with me sometime." Jon stood talking to his friend heading to their normal meeting place for lunch. He didn't want to start this popular on-line game alone so he recruited some of his friends.
"Sure I'm game for any kind of RPG. As long as I can be the spellcaster of the group." David had always been that kind of guy, more into the fantasy realm of games and more mystic in his explanations of things.
"Cool, Log on at about seven tonight. Get it started early so you can get the registration and character model done. By the way, my character name will be The Enigma, don't forget."
"Don't worry, I won't and my name will be Chaosb1ade."
The Story: As Jon entered the Delta root town of Mac Anu he noticed few people were there playing. It was strange to see so few people on-line knowing "The World" was a popular game world-wide. He thought about it for only about a minute then guessed it was only people were in a different server. After shopping for a recovery items, he noticed some people back at the chaos gate. It was a group of a twin blade in a black ninja-like outfit and two wavemasters one a guy with typical long robe and the other a girl with short hair in pig tails.
"Yo people, you're all a bit early but that's cool," Jon yelled as he ran toward the chaos gate.
"Hey you," said Jasmine, the twin blade, "Ah you made yourself a heavy blade, that could be helpful as another attacker, seeing we have two wavemasters. By the way I'm DarkAngel, Kelly here is called Sakura and David is..."
"Chaosb1ade, yeah I know, what about Lan," Jon said showing he wanted to get going.
Kelly spoke up," She said she was busy and couldn't get on-line right away but probably later if she has time."
Jon told them all of them of the field that they were going to start training at. The field was Delta Burning Passed Over Aqua Field, a very easy field just meant for new players to get used to "The World".
"I bought some fairy orbs while I was waiting for you guys. We'll split up into two groups and search the dungeon because the field is clear," Jon told everyone.
"Alright let's pair up one wavemaster and one attacker," said Jasmine," I'll take David and you take Kelly and at the first fork in the road we'll split up." The group spilt up shortly after entering the dungeon.
The next room after splitting up, Jon and Kelly ran into a portal.
"What is that Jon," Kelly said obviously scared at how the portal changed and suddenly some monsters came rushing out of it.
"I'll get their attention, you just keep me healed and cast what attacks skills you can," Jon yelled as he rushed head toward the portal.
Jon swung the blade off his back and rushed toward the first thing he saw with sword ready to strike. The goblin went straight at him growling and holding up its own small dagger. Kelly stayed back and couldn't move for a second. To her the goblin was real and that Jon was in real danger by rushing in. The sound of Jon's voice snapped her out of it.
"What's wrong Kelly, I need your help."
Kelly came out of her daze and quickly cast a fire skill and incinerated the goblin. Jon came back to her. "That was a little intense huh?"
"Sorry about that, it just seemed so real."
"Don't worry about it. It's not that easy having some monster right in your face trying to swinging a sword around."
Kelly healed Jon and continued on to the bottom of the dungeon. After a while everyone met up at a room that had purple flames rising up from the ground.
"What could this fire mean," David said as he started to inspect it.
"It's probably something saying we're at the end the dungeon or something big is in the next room," said Jasmine with a worried look on her face.
"Don't worry about it, if anything in there is too big we can always run from it and log out or go to another field, no big," said Kelly being her normal, perky self.
If only that were true, because as they went in they found another group was there fighting a very large monster that had horns on its head and a red wand with the top shaped like a circle with a cross inside of it.
"What the hell is that thing," Jon said too scared to move at all, "and who are those other guys."
"Should we help them or just run like we planned to do," David looking for someone to take charge.
"I say we do what we can to help those other guys," Kelly said as she rushed forward to heal who she could.
"Whatever, if we die, we die," Jon rushed after her sword ready to strike.
The rest joined in and not long after Kelly, Jon, David, and Jasmine joined in the fight something strange happened. One of the other fighters attacked the stone giant but to no avail. The beast stopped his attack with the red wand and then somehow trapped him with it. The worst sight possible happened then when the monster disappeared and then reappeared in front of the wand and the captured warrior. The monster held out its arm and suddenly the arm glowed with a ring of light. The ring spread out into a bracelet and then blasted the warrior with a strange beam of light. After the blast subsided, the injured warrior simply vanished without a trace. The fallen warrior's friends took off after seeing this and so did Jasmine and her group.
After returning to Mac Anu, no one said anything for a while just because they needed to understand what they had just witnessed.
"Can anyone tell me what the hell just happened back there," Jon said just to break the silence.
"I don't think anyone can tell us what went on and if that monster was some sort of super monster or whatever," David said not really knowing what to say.
"The only thing I do know is that is not part of the game at all", Jasmine yelled as she was shaking.
"Hey perhaps the guy is all right and he just logged off, come on this is a game where players die all the time, and maybe that is just a different death animation," Kelly said this to convince the others everything was all right but she was only trying to convince herself.
The silence resumed with no one saying a word and no one really moving from their position until suddenly they all received an e-mail. Everyone left the game to check the mail. When they returned only Jon and David came back. They thought that both of the girls had left and after their incident they didn't blame them. Seeing that giant just blast the fellow player into nothing was just something unsettling and just couldn't sit right in either of their minds.
"I checked the board, "Jon started," but I guess the guy that disappeared has come back on-line and I guess his friends are looking for him."
"Should we go look for him ourselves?"
"Maybe I'm not sure. It's just that what if we run into the thing again will it try to do the same things to us."
"Come on we'll all go."
The two turned to see that Jasmine and Kelly were at the chaos gate with another girl. A Heavy Axeman that wore a light pink dress and had small angel wings on her back. All three looked fairly light-hearted considering what had happened.
"Is that you Lan," Jon seemed startled," I just never thought you would pick such an attack based character instead of a twin blade or blademaster. "
"Yeah it's me and I picked this model because of the angelic appearance to it," her voice was calm like she hadn't heard anything.
"Has Kelly told you of what happened before you got here?"
"Yeah, it sounds so strange about that guy going missing."
"The e-mail I got wasn't one that helped me stop thinking about it either. It was from some woman named Helba, and I read on the board she is a hacker and a good one at that. She told me that if I wanted to live to forget about what we saw and not to figure any of it out."
Jasmine spoke to him," So that's why you were you so unsure about seeking this thing out."
"Yeah, but your right we need to at least find out what happened to that guy. Let's all go back to that dungeon to see if "it's" there."
They all returned to Delta Burning Passed Over Aqua Field and after going back to where they had seen the giant before. This time nothing was there, only an empty room with no treasure, no portals, nothing. Even the purple flames that were in front of the doorway to that room were missing. The whole dungeon was searched, even the room with the gott statue and still nothing was found. Everyone decided to leave and head back to town. Without any clue on where that giant or player went everyone decided to log off and get some sleep.
The next day Jon received another message from Helba saying that obviously he didn't take her up on her warning, but how could she have known where he had gone that night. After checking the message board again he found a new strand titled "coma". The strand mentioned that certain players had fallen into a comatose state. He thought of the player yesterday that had "died". Was he also one of these players who had fallen into a coma also? He logged in to tell everyone what he has just read.
Chapter 1: Vision of Death
Prologue: "Yo David, I heard about this new game called "The World" and I was wondering if you wanted to try it with me sometime." Jon stood talking to his friend heading to their normal meeting place for lunch. He didn't want to start this popular on-line game alone so he recruited some of his friends.
"Sure I'm game for any kind of RPG. As long as I can be the spellcaster of the group." David had always been that kind of guy, more into the fantasy realm of games and more mystic in his explanations of things.
"Cool, Log on at about seven tonight. Get it started early so you can get the registration and character model done. By the way, my character name will be The Enigma, don't forget."
"Don't worry, I won't and my name will be Chaosb1ade."
The Story: As Jon entered the Delta root town of Mac Anu he noticed few people were there playing. It was strange to see so few people on-line knowing "The World" was a popular game world-wide. He thought about it for only about a minute then guessed it was only people were in a different server. After shopping for a recovery items, he noticed some people back at the chaos gate. It was a group of a twin blade in a black ninja-like outfit and two wavemasters one a guy with typical long robe and the other a girl with short hair in pig tails.
"Yo people, you're all a bit early but that's cool," Jon yelled as he ran toward the chaos gate.
"Hey you," said Jasmine, the twin blade, "Ah you made yourself a heavy blade, that could be helpful as another attacker, seeing we have two wavemasters. By the way I'm DarkAngel, Kelly here is called Sakura and David is..."
"Chaosb1ade, yeah I know, what about Lan," Jon said showing he wanted to get going.
Kelly spoke up," She said she was busy and couldn't get on-line right away but probably later if she has time."
Jon told them all of them of the field that they were going to start training at. The field was Delta Burning Passed Over Aqua Field, a very easy field just meant for new players to get used to "The World".
"I bought some fairy orbs while I was waiting for you guys. We'll split up into two groups and search the dungeon because the field is clear," Jon told everyone.
"Alright let's pair up one wavemaster and one attacker," said Jasmine," I'll take David and you take Kelly and at the first fork in the road we'll split up." The group spilt up shortly after entering the dungeon.
The next room after splitting up, Jon and Kelly ran into a portal.
"What is that Jon," Kelly said obviously scared at how the portal changed and suddenly some monsters came rushing out of it.
"I'll get their attention, you just keep me healed and cast what attacks skills you can," Jon yelled as he rushed head toward the portal.
Jon swung the blade off his back and rushed toward the first thing he saw with sword ready to strike. The goblin went straight at him growling and holding up its own small dagger. Kelly stayed back and couldn't move for a second. To her the goblin was real and that Jon was in real danger by rushing in. The sound of Jon's voice snapped her out of it.
"What's wrong Kelly, I need your help."
Kelly came out of her daze and quickly cast a fire skill and incinerated the goblin. Jon came back to her. "That was a little intense huh?"
"Sorry about that, it just seemed so real."
"Don't worry about it. It's not that easy having some monster right in your face trying to swinging a sword around."
Kelly healed Jon and continued on to the bottom of the dungeon. After a while everyone met up at a room that had purple flames rising up from the ground.
"What could this fire mean," David said as he started to inspect it.
"It's probably something saying we're at the end the dungeon or something big is in the next room," said Jasmine with a worried look on her face.
"Don't worry about it, if anything in there is too big we can always run from it and log out or go to another field, no big," said Kelly being her normal, perky self.
If only that were true, because as they went in they found another group was there fighting a very large monster that had horns on its head and a red wand with the top shaped like a circle with a cross inside of it.
"What the hell is that thing," Jon said too scared to move at all, "and who are those other guys."
"Should we help them or just run like we planned to do," David looking for someone to take charge.
"I say we do what we can to help those other guys," Kelly said as she rushed forward to heal who she could.
"Whatever, if we die, we die," Jon rushed after her sword ready to strike.
The rest joined in and not long after Kelly, Jon, David, and Jasmine joined in the fight something strange happened. One of the other fighters attacked the stone giant but to no avail. The beast stopped his attack with the red wand and then somehow trapped him with it. The worst sight possible happened then when the monster disappeared and then reappeared in front of the wand and the captured warrior. The monster held out its arm and suddenly the arm glowed with a ring of light. The ring spread out into a bracelet and then blasted the warrior with a strange beam of light. After the blast subsided, the injured warrior simply vanished without a trace. The fallen warrior's friends took off after seeing this and so did Jasmine and her group.
After returning to Mac Anu, no one said anything for a while just because they needed to understand what they had just witnessed.
"Can anyone tell me what the hell just happened back there," Jon said just to break the silence.
"I don't think anyone can tell us what went on and if that monster was some sort of super monster or whatever," David said not really knowing what to say.
"The only thing I do know is that is not part of the game at all", Jasmine yelled as she was shaking.
"Hey perhaps the guy is all right and he just logged off, come on this is a game where players die all the time, and maybe that is just a different death animation," Kelly said this to convince the others everything was all right but she was only trying to convince herself.
The silence resumed with no one saying a word and no one really moving from their position until suddenly they all received an e-mail. Everyone left the game to check the mail. When they returned only Jon and David came back. They thought that both of the girls had left and after their incident they didn't blame them. Seeing that giant just blast the fellow player into nothing was just something unsettling and just couldn't sit right in either of their minds.
"I checked the board, "Jon started," but I guess the guy that disappeared has come back on-line and I guess his friends are looking for him."
"Should we go look for him ourselves?"
"Maybe I'm not sure. It's just that what if we run into the thing again will it try to do the same things to us."
"Come on we'll all go."
The two turned to see that Jasmine and Kelly were at the chaos gate with another girl. A Heavy Axeman that wore a light pink dress and had small angel wings on her back. All three looked fairly light-hearted considering what had happened.
"Is that you Lan," Jon seemed startled," I just never thought you would pick such an attack based character instead of a twin blade or blademaster. "
"Yeah it's me and I picked this model because of the angelic appearance to it," her voice was calm like she hadn't heard anything.
"Has Kelly told you of what happened before you got here?"
"Yeah, it sounds so strange about that guy going missing."
"The e-mail I got wasn't one that helped me stop thinking about it either. It was from some woman named Helba, and I read on the board she is a hacker and a good one at that. She told me that if I wanted to live to forget about what we saw and not to figure any of it out."
Jasmine spoke to him," So that's why you were you so unsure about seeking this thing out."
"Yeah, but your right we need to at least find out what happened to that guy. Let's all go back to that dungeon to see if "it's" there."
They all returned to Delta Burning Passed Over Aqua Field and after going back to where they had seen the giant before. This time nothing was there, only an empty room with no treasure, no portals, nothing. Even the purple flames that were in front of the doorway to that room were missing. The whole dungeon was searched, even the room with the gott statue and still nothing was found. Everyone decided to leave and head back to town. Without any clue on where that giant or player went everyone decided to log off and get some sleep.
The next day Jon received another message from Helba saying that obviously he didn't take her up on her warning, but how could she have known where he had gone that night. After checking the message board again he found a new strand titled "coma". The strand mentioned that certain players had fallen into a comatose state. He thought of the player yesterday that had "died". Was he also one of these players who had fallen into a coma also? He logged in to tell everyone what he has just read.