AN: No flames please. Kindness makes the world a better place. Review if you wish to do so. Advice is always welcome.

Most of the chapters are about 1000 words and when I'm into this obsession, updating will be fast. If not, you'll just have to wait, but I've been trying to stay in this one. If you want to use characters or ideas from this, feel free to do so, just send me a link or something so I'd have something to read.

Disclaimer: If you recognise something from somewhere, then I don't own it, him, her or thing. (Please copy this into your mind and projected onto the other chapters. It's annoying for me to write it and for you to read it every time. ^^).

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Chapter One – Aurum

Toss. Catch. Toss. Catch.

"ELLEN!"

"Wah!" The girl named Ellen fumbled about trying to catch the glass sphere that she was playing with out of boredom. The ball shattered and glass littered the floor.

"Oh… Sorry about that. I'll clean it up in a bit."

"What's with all the yelling, Celeste?" Ellen asked the girl who was by the door with two boxes in her arms. "What are those?"

"These?" Celeste grinned, spinning the boxes around to show her the name. "Your World. Got there early in the morning and got it first. I came straight back."

"You're excited," Ellen commented, crossing her arms and leaning back onto the couch.

"Uh huh. It sounds really neat. Got you one too." Celeste smiled, hopping over the glass and handing her the box. "Go start it without me. I'll clean this up first, since it was my fault." She jumped over to the kitchen to grab a box, a broom and a dust pan to dispose of the glass.

"Meet you in the game then," Ellen said, walking around the couch and into her bedroom. She opened the box and pulled out its contents. She set it up and slid the visor over her eyes. She lay down on her bed and tucked herself in. Soon, she found herself in a painfully white room. She looked around and saw that she wasn't alone.

"You are our first player, please wait a moment," a girl seated on an egg shaped chair greeted. She had a helmet on her head with words and diagrams appearing on the glass that covered her eyes. Her orange haired were pulled into low pony tails and she had wires coming from the helmet and the glove on her hands. "I will commence the infrared and sound wave scan." Her voice was void of emotion, making Ellen stare at her blankly. "From now on, as soon as you put on your game helmet, you can start playing Your World."

'…I wish this room was a little darker. All this light is hurting my eyes,' Ellen thought, as machines came out of the floor and the ceiling to scan her.

"Okay, you are now ready to create your character. Before creating your character, I must warn you, you have only one chance to design a character. Once the character creation process is complete, your race, name, and looks cannot be changed."

"Eh? Why not?"

"To make Your World as realistic as possible, each person may only have one character."

"…So what happens to my character if I die?" Ellen questioned, crossing her arms with an eyebrow raised.

"Dead characters will be reborn at the rebirth points, but you will lose a level," the girl explained calmly. "So, please start creating your character. First, choose the race you like." With that, a bunch of models of the many different races appeared around Ellen, who looked about with surprise. "The races are divided into humans, elves, dark elves, dwarfs, celestials, demons, elementals, and beasts. Beasts can be divided into wolves, birds, dogs, and the elementals can be divided between flowers spirits, and tree spirits. Commercial jobs are also a special feature of Your World."

'…God damn it! Why are there so many?!' Ellen yelled in her head, looking at the models that surrounded her. "How would I look like as a dark elf or beast?" The models disappeared and two formed; one a ghastly beast and the other a copy of Ellen but with different clothing and the ears were more pointed. "Hmm…I want to be a guy."

"You want to be male? I think this will be hard to do. The character's appearance and gender comes from the player's actual look."

"I just want to be male. What difference would that make to the game?" Ellen huffed.

"Okay, please wait. I'll inform my superiors of your request." After awhile, she said, "The rules are …Your World does not allow sex changes. But since you are the first to log into Your World, my superiors have decided to reward you, so your special request has been granted. As a result, your sex will change from female to male."

The dark elf model proofed and the gender became a male. After a long while, Ellen was finally satisfied with her appearance. She had kept her height, making him 165 centimetres tall with a lean build and fair skin. His hair was white silver, layered messily, and his eyes were a deep shade of gold.

"What would your name be?"

'Hmm…what should I be called?' Ellen thought on it for awhile. "Aurum," she decided on.

"Where do you wish to be born? There are North, East, South, West, and Central continents."

"Central."

"All done….You can be born now." With that, vortex appeared and suddenly, Ellen felt herself being tugged towards Aurum, who, at the moment, looked like he was thrown at her. They collided leaving Aurum's appearance and Ellen's mind, and then they were sucked into the dark vortex, sending him into Your World.

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"Ugh…" Aurum moaned as he sat up holding his head. "That hurt a hell lot." He looked around him and he was surrounded by trees. "Where am I…?" He sighed and was about to get up, when he felt a sudden pain on his thigh. "God damn it!" he screamed, smacking a pink blob off him. "What the hell is that…?"

In front of Aurum was a pink, fat tear drop shaped jelly with a face. They stared at each other for awhile and with the blow of a breeze, the blob bounced towards him. Aurum glared at it and it froze, the two of them entering another staring contest. The blob, gaining some confidence, started towards him again. This time before it reached, Aurum stomped on it. Getting irked by the jelly still trying to attack him, he continued to stomp on the creature until it rolled over with 'X's for eyes.

"Oh…it's dead…" he muttered, and the monster disappeared, leaving a plain knife, a pouch and some pink jelly. "Uhh…." He picked up the knife and twirled it about.

'Poring has been killed by Aurum. Earned 25 EXP, a knife, a pouch, pink jelly,' announced a woman's voice. Shrugging, Aurum attached the pouch to his belt and pocketed the pink jelly to sell. 'Advice for newbies: to view your statistics, say the word 'Statistics'.'

"Statistics." A card appeared in front of him. "Just a few more of those blobs to kill and I'll level up." The card disappeared and he turned around to find another Poring bouncing up to him. Rolling his eyes, he decided it was easier to stomp on them than to lean down to stab with the knife.

After picking up more pink jelly and some apples, Aurum looked down at his clothing and sighed. It was an off white shirt and brown pants with a leather belt to hold it up. On his feet were leather boots and on his hands were leather gloves.

'Maybe a job change is in need. I just have to find a city first…' he thought, looking around only to see many trees. "Uhh…." He spotted a rotting trunk running at him, waving its arm-like branches. It roared and Aurum stabbed the thing, trying to chop it up. "What the hell was that?!"

'Willow has been killed by Aurum. Earned 50 EXP, potato, resin, trunk, tree root.'

'Hmmm, they give better EXP.'

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A couple hours later at level 10, Aurum came across a fork in the path and a sign with two arrows. One pointed in the direction of Terra City and the other was leading to Siccus Desert. Deciding that a city was better than a desert, Aurum went down the much travelled path towards Terra City.

'Welcome to Terra City!' read a sign at the vine gates of the city made among the trees. There were some player shops at ground but the city buildings were built in and around the old trees. Some places were even set up in the tree tops. He saw a map and decided to check out where he could change his job class.

'I'm at the south section and I'm supposed to head to the other side of the city, up a reddish colour tree to the top...' he thought as he studied the map. Shrugging, he set off north and soon, he came across the reddish tree among the brown, green, and grey ones. He began the extremely long climb to the top of the tree on a thick brown vine with steps carved into it.

Feeling a little hungry, Aurum dug into his pouch and pulled out an apple he picked up from a Poring. He took a bite and hummed at the juiciness of it. He sighed at the fact that he was only halfway up the tree. Awhile longer, he arrived at the Job changing office of Terra City.

"Finally," he huffed, rolling his golden eyes.