Past The Screen
Chapter One
I blame my English teacher.
Seriously, it's all her fault that I'm in Edelstein and stuck in the body of a seven-year old.
…
Okay, maybe it's not entirely her fault. Seeing as how I was the one who decided to procrastinate doing the essay I can admit to taking part of the blame.
Enough of that though, I'm sure you're probably wondering what in the world I'm talking about. It's actually sort-of a long story though.
It starts off like this.
I stared at my computer screen, eyebrows furrowed in deep concentration. Nothing could distract me. I was in too deep thought-
RING
Oh screw it.
I averted my eyes from the blank page of my Microsoft Word document and reached over to my left to grab my phone which I had earlier haphazardly thrown on to my bed. I swear my arm felt like it was going to rip out of its socket with how much I was stretching it but I managed to grab my dear phone before that happened.
Now I'm sure that most people would ask, "Why didn't you just stand up and walk to your bed and pick it up?"
The reason is because I am lazy. It's as simple as that really.
Looking at my phone I saw a text from my friend Riley.
Hey Elissa! It's Riley, how's your essay for English going? I just finished mine.
Frick you Riley.
I threw my phone back on my bed and held my head in my hands.
Usually I was great at writing essays but this one topic absolutely stumped me.
The topic was: "Where do you see yourself in ten years?"
My answer to that? I have no idea.
You see, I don't really like to lie. I try to tell the truth as often as possible and I feel terrible on the inside when I lie. So I don't.
Now since I don't want to lie, my only option for that essay is to write that I do not know where I see myself in ten years. This however is actually not at all an option because the essay has to be at least two pages long and I do not see how I can turn 'I do not know' into a two page long essay.
Sighing, I closed my eyes and internally resolved to start on it later. I still had plenty of time after all.
Looking back at my computer I closed Word and opened up Google Chrome. Then I couldn't help but smile as my homepage loaded.
Maple Story
Yeah, my home page is the Maple Story website. There's nothing wrong with that. Most of the time I go on the internet is to log into my Maple Story account and start-up the game anyways so I just decided to make it my home page. Smart huh?
After logging in and doing all that stuff I waited a minute or so for it to start-up. When it finally loaded I clicked on Bera then channel 8 (because that's the awesome channel) and selected my battle mage character BattleQueen.
Okay so I know the name is kind of lame but I seriously hate coming up with character names so I just slap on some words and think to myself okay this is decent I'll go with this. And besides, it fits with my job. Battle Mage. Battle Queen. Yeah I'm a queen got a problem with that?
Then of course I entered my PIC and I happily watched the screen fade to black and waited for that chime-like sound effect-
Oh there it is.
It wouldn't be Maple Story without the awesome sound effects. No it would not.
Patiently I waited for the black to fade and show the map that I was on…
Oh shit, TELEPORT!
Ugh. Damn it Maple Story. Why do you have to let me start right in the god damn middle of a map where all the monsters are?
After getting to a monster-free platform I checked to see if anyone on my buddy list was on. Sadly, no one was on and I couldn't help the frown that made its way onto my face.
I wanted to do a party quest damn it. Grinding is boring and the only other way to train is by doing a party quest but I can't do a party quest without other players and oh my god it's so awkward doing a party quest with strangers. There's practically no talking at all except for an occasional command or question here and there.
Hey did you get that thing?
Yeah I did, did you kill that monster?
Uh huh.
Oh okay. Cool.
…
You guys ready for the boss fight?
Yeah.
Okay.
See? It's awkward. At least when I do party quests with my friends it's so much livelier.
DAMN IT STOP KSING ME
WHAT DO YOU MEAN KSING YOU YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GET THAT THING FROM THAT OTHER MONSTER
…
Crap I ran out of HP pots can I have some of yours?
You're a freaking bishop you don't need HP pots
Wait shit I meant MP pots sorry lol
There. It's not awkward and it's a lot funner. Yeah I know funner isn't a word but who cares.
Anyways, now I was in Leafre just chilling. I wonder what I should do now-
Oh look a text box thingy. What can I help you with Maple Administrator…?
"Eh?" The sound came out of my mouth before I could stop it. I frowned. The text box didn't look different. There was the Maple Administrator standing to the left which was pretty normal but it was the text on the right that caused my confusion.
Soul Warp Starting…
And instead of their being two buttons Accept and Decline there was only one.
Cancel
Wait what? Soul Warp? Is that a new game feature? Shoot maybe I should have looked to see if there were any updates made.
I briefly contemplated whether I should cancel it. The Warp part of it made it sound like my character was going to be teleported. On one hand I didn't really want to teleport anywhere because Leafre was my current training spot. On the other hand, I didn't want to miss out on any events because that might mean missing out on cool items.
For maybe about half a minute I debated the pros and cons of clicking cancel and not clicking cancel.
That was my big mistake.
DING!
The sound tore me away from my thinking. Looking back at my laptop screen I saw the text being rewritten.
Soul Warp Activating
Thank you for participating
Oh shit.
All of a sudden I could feel my eyelids getting heavy. My vision blurred and I heard something akin to a chime ring. How familiar it seemed…
Warm…
It was too damn warm.
I groaned and tried to throw the blanket off-
Wait… blanket?
My eyes snapped open to show a light blue ceiling.
Huh? A light blue ceiling? That didn't make any sense because my room didn't have a light blue ceiling. No other room in my house had a light blue ceiling either…
OH MY GOD WAS I KIDNAPPED?!
Smack.
That was me smacking myself. That was such a stupid thought that I just had to smack myself. I mean, if someone had kidnapped me then why would I be in a nice comfortable bed?
Speaking of nice and comfortable beds though…
I turned my eyes to the bed I was sitting in. I couldn't help but grimace at the color scheme.
It was all blue.
Sure it's not like they were all the same shade of blue but still…
The blanket was a navy blue, the bed sheet was sky blue, and my pillow cases were azure. That's way too much blue in my opinion.
I frowned again, realizing something else.
I was pale. Looking at my arms over the blanket I saw that they were a rather unhealthy looking pale.
This however made absolutely no sense because I distinctly remember going to the beach with Riley and the others just a few days ago. Now that gave me a pretty nice tan along with some not so nice tan lines. (Which I completely blame Riley for because going to the beach was her idea in the first place.)
And to add to fact that I was now pale I was also wearing a nightgown. You want to guess what color said nightgown was?
It was freaking blue.
Growling I stood up from the bed and started walking towards the door. I wanted answers and I swear on my name Elissa Saris that I was going to get them.
While making my way to the door though I wasn't really paying attention to anything else in the room and so when my head turned slightly to the left and I caught my reflection in the (damn blue) vanity mirror I just stared for a couple of seconds.
Then I screamed.
Because my hair was purple and my eyes were blue and what the hell is going on?
Now some of you might be wondering how did she not notice her hair was purple? And the answer to that people is because it's in a bun and why the heck is my hair purple.
The blue eyes didn't really bother me much because I figured it was just contacts but the hair…
A tug here and there revealed that no Elissa it's not a wig. And a couple of hand waves at the reflection revealed that oh my god yes that's me.
And just to top it all off, a woman and man came bursting through the bedroom door just seconds after that. And you know if I wasn't so terrified of my situation then I would have laughed because the woman was holding a frying pan and the man was holding a fire extinguisher and it looked really funny but I was in fact terrified of my situation so I did what a normal person would've done.
I screamed again.
"Eliza sweetie what's wrong? Why are you screaming?" The woman took a few steps towards me. She had long purple hair tied into a pony tail and pale skin. Her frying pan lowered but her grey eyes darted across the room looking for any signs of danger.
The man frowned and lowered his fire extinguisher. (dude what were you planning on doing with that thing anyway?) He had short black hair (thank you for being normal) that curled slightly at the ends along with tan skin and blue eyes. "You shouldn't even be out of bed young lady. You have a high fever and you need your rest."
I was already confused and now feeling tired so I just said what was on my mind at that time which was, "Who the hell are you people?"
I probably shouldn't have swore but eh, it was a slip of tongue really.
This however made both adults freeze and the woman actually dropped her frying pan and brought her hands up to cover her mouth as her eyes widened. The man on the other hand unfroze after a second or two and left the room cursing under his breath.
This left me with the woman who was staring at me in shock.
Awkward…
Eventually though she regained her composure but seemed kind of sad. Hesitantly she took a step forward to which I responded to with a step back.
"Do you really not know who I am Eliza?" She asked sadly.
I was half tempted to tell her hey you're saying my name wrong, it's Elissa not Eliza but she looked genuinely upset and I didn't want to upset her even more.
After a couple of seconds I internally shrugged and did what I did best, telling the truth.
"Uhm, yeah. I don't know who you are, or that man who just left earlier." I said lamely. I mean, what else was I supposed to say? "Sorry." I added as an after thought, looking down at my feet. Crap, that didn't even sound sorry to me.
I heard her sigh quietly and looked back up at her. She looked unsure and kept fidgeting. I frowned. If she had something to say then she should just say it instead of-
"Eliza sweetie, I'm your mother." She said, smiling a bit at the end.
Now I was the one that froze.
Wait… what?
Hi.
I guess thank you for reading this…?
The idea for this just appeared in my head a couple of days ago and so I decided to write it out.
I plan for this story to be pretty long and my goal for this is to make Maple Story seem like an actual real world. Or as real as possible I guess.
I'll have Elissa/Eliza here meet a bunch of characters from the game of course. After all, to make Maple Story seem like a real world the people living in it need to be real too.
I appreciate feedback on my writing since this is pretty much my first time writing a fanfiction. (There was this one other time but that was a couple of years ago so I don't count it.)
Next time on Past The Screen: Oh hi Claudine you're a lot younger than I thought you'd be.
-Starry Glasses