Fujio sat up, it was semi light outside, sudgesting it was just day break. He looked at the clock on the bedside table, the glowing red digits letting off a dim light. He took the clock off the side, not sure he'd read the time propperly. '7:00 am' the numbers flashed on and off, any normal person would think it was a chance to go back to bed and get some more sleep. he jumped out of bed, got dressed quickly and ran into the next room. a pile of paper work lay scattered on a desk, coffee rings stained the scawled out work. he realized he must have been working late last night, he gathered the unfinished work. Balmung was going to kill him, not only was he one hour late for log-in. the work he'd been hell bent on finishing was not only unfinished but in no state to be handed in. He sighed and walked into the hall, glancing quickly at a closed bedroom door. The person asleep on the bed behind the door wasnt his love. No. She was His younger cousin, After her parents died and No other family member would take responcibitly for her, he offered to. After all, he'd told himself, its not like he had anything else in his life, He had his job, writing up reports, answering to lord balmungs every beck and call and that was it. Besides, he wanted to get to know the girl. If she was family. Fujio grabbed the keys off the hall table and closed the front door behind him.

The girls purple eyes shot open, she sat up and peaked into the hallway, making sure her older guardian was gone. she smiled and flipped out her cellphone.

"monk?"

"Yeah?"

"You gunna log in? Fujio's gone off to cc corp" She explained, seating herself at the computer, she wiped the screen of the headset and loaded up the computer

"Logging in..now" Monk laughed, hanging up the phone. She arrived in the water city of Mac Anu. where they had logged off from they're first session of the world. Her avatar was really quite different from her real appearance, The girls hair was long and feathered, the fringe was a bright pink while the locks of glossy hair were black. she sighed and brushed her fringe out her face, the world really was a beautiful place. If anyone wanted to vist a place more beautiful and carefree than the real world itself, than this was the place to be, virtual. but still beautiful. The fact that it was virtual was a blessing to monk, if something went wrong, then it could be fixed.

"Sorry im late" Max exclaimed, appearing infront of monk. Her avatar was quite like her own, apart for the large blade strapped to her back, and the weird markings across her eyes.

"Its alright, i thought we could do a bit of leveling up today" Monk smirked, Max was a heavy blade, where as she was a Wavemaster.

"Sounds good to me!" Max replied, walking ahead

"wait up!" Monk yelled, running after her, something was on her mind, something was troubling her, she just had to ask right? "Max? I tried ringing your home number earlier, and you didnt reply. where were you?"

"at home.. No wait!" Max giggled slightly at her mistake "My new house. ill give you the number later.. if its alright with him"

"him? did you shack up with some weird bloke!" monk cried, ready to hit max for her stupidity

"NOO! no! Him.. Fujio. My cousin..See? after my parents died, no one else could look after me. and he offered to" she explained, trying to calm her friend down.

"I see..." Monk mused, nodding slowly. then something else hit her "He better be looking after you! feeding you right and stuff!"

"Oh he is.. ive got a nice room and stuff. dont worry monk. fujio even plays the world. well when i say play. i dont mean play, play like you, i and everyone else. he kinda helps run it"

"Oh..Oh! wow. so he works for cc corp?"

"Yeap! but enough of that, lets go!" Max smiled, running off towards a chaos gate.

Monk pouted and ran after her, her boots clacking against the cobbled street. she arrived at the chaos gate and stopped for a few seconds to catch her breath. then called out the name of a low level area.

The area they arrived at was a deserted landscape, just a few lone rocks dotted around in the sand. there was a light breeze which picked up a bit of sand, but without any clouds the sun beating down on the was hot, even if it was virtual.

"You sure this is actually a monster field?" Max asked, looking around blankly. there didnt seem to be anything for miles and miles!

there was a glowing yellow light and suddenly a monster appeared, letting out a huge cry.

"Alright! a Lamia Assasin!" Monk smiled, grabbing her staff.

Max drew her blade and held it steadily infront of her, ready to strike.

"RAI DON!" Monk shouted, a melee of thunder hit the monster, causing it to cry out in pain.

the thunder stopped, the fiend was in a worse mood then it had been when it had caught two newbies trespassing on 'his' field.

"The world was fun, shame we didnt last two seconds" Monk laughed, backing up against a wall as the monster approched

"VAK DON!"

hundreds of balls of fire dropped onto the monster, then. it dissapeared

"YAY! we beat it!" max smiled, "that was really good monk!"

"Urm..it wasnt me ()" Monk replied, tucking her staff under her arm and looking around

"Then..who was it?"

"It was me!"