Crossover

"Earth: 2339" and "Dragonfable" (with ideas from Heir Apparent)

Chapter 1

"Come on, Aloth, let's go!" Joseph called. He banged on the bathroom door. "We need to hurry or we won't have much time on the game!" The bathroom door flew open and Aloth breezed past.

"Okay, let's go," he said.

The pair rushed to the elevator and hit the button for the ground floor. They were on their way to Arcade Galaxy, the most popular arcade in the state. More specifically they were going to play one of the most popular games there, Dragonfable. It was a brand new game from Artix Entertainment, who had created several good games in the past, but this was by far their best one.

Aloth and Joseph hit the ground and sprinted toward the speeder that was idling nearby. The hatch opened and they jumped inside, quickly strapping themselves in between others of their friends as Chris, the oldest of the group and a veritable videogame genius, piloted the speeder deftly away. They swerved into the carpool lane and arrived at their destination in record time. The parking lots were all packed but luckily their speeder had an autopilot system so that it could return home then come back when it was called. They disembarked at the drop-off area and headed inside.

The place was packed but Chris handed out the group's all-access passes, which allowed them to go right up to the front desk. Their passes got them a room to themselves on floor 231, room 13. They took the elevator, having to stop several times for other gamers getting on and off. They gathered from the general conversation that a long-awaited update to the game was finally here: the dragon eggs! They were the reason the game was named Dragonfable; when you created a character in the game you set out on a journey that would lead you through many trials, tests, and wars, and countless thousands of battles versus monsters of the most fearsome type as well as other players at times as you and your companions quest to become Dragonlords, some of the mightiest beings in history. They rode the fearsome dragons and came in three varieties: Warrior, Mage, and Rogue. Warriors were skilled in physical combat and use swords, axes, etc. Mages are skilled with magic of many sorts and their main weapons are staffs. Rogues are skilled in underhanded combat such as poisoning and use knives as their main weapons. All three are powerful if you use them well.

There were six people in Aloth's group; three boys and three girls, and two of each type of Dragonfable character. Aloth and a girl named Kara were Warriors, Joseph and Aloth's friend Terra were Mages, and Chris and Jordyn were Rogues. Chris was by far the highest leveled character of the six of them and he and Aloth were the only ones with Dragon Amulets, objects of great power which granted your character access to DA-only areas and weapons. Aloth only had one because Chris had gotten him one for his birthday.

By the time the six friends reached their friends reached their floor they were stoked to log in and get their eggs. They checked into the desk and found out from the staff member that you have to actually quest for the egg, you don't get it for free.

"Go figure," Jordyn remarked, "Nothing in this world is free. At least we don't have to pay real money for it though, like you do with the Dragon Amulets."

The group found their room quickly and retired into their separate VR (Virtual-Reality) pods. Aloth sat in the soft seat and attached the sensor pads to his arms, hands, and face. He gave the signal to his friends and they simultaneously hit the controls to close their pods and start the coma-like state one enters when entering the game.

It took longer than usual to log in, probably because so many people are playing, Aloth thought as his consciousness floated in a black void waiting to enter his Warrior's body. A pinpoint of light appeared in the distance and began to grow larger. Aloth saw his Warrior's body in the light, standing there staring blankly ahead, waiting to be taken control of. It just stood there in it's boxers until it had armor on. Aloth entered his body, which stiffened, then flexed his fingers and arms to get used to the new body. He looked around, seeing his friends' character bodies standing similarly clad, then stiffening and beginning to move about.

Each character had a large bag next to it with its name on it. The bags were varying sizes, depending on the amount of things in their inventory. All the characters quickly went through their bags and took out their armor, robes, or whatever their character wore and put them on then armed themselves with their preferred weapons, pets, accessories, etc. Aloth's armor consisted of his Warrior plate armor, which was silvery-grey with blue swirls and trim, a matching shield emblazoned with Aloth's personalized crest (an 8-sided star inside a gold circle with a fancy letter A inside the star), and a belt made of scales, which provided protection from fire. He also wore a pair of black and red demon/bat-like wings and carried one of his favorite weapons, which was a bit of a Dragonfable joke. It was called the Unsqueakable Farce, and it was a sort of a hammer, only on the head was mounted a small pig. No one was really sure where the pig came from, or if it had once been alive; all that was really known about the weapon was that it had a good damage range, and that the weapon smelled oddly like bacon when fighting fire-type enemies. Another thing was that there were very few enemies, both human and monster, that had a resistance to element Bacon. One earned the right to buy this weapon by defeating five enemies fairly in the Player vs. Player arena, and therefore earning the Novice trophy. After the first you can earn multiple trophies and use them to rank up or buy exclusive PvP equipment.

When everyone was equipped they all put a hand on top of Aloth's and together they said "Falconreach!" They vanished and reappeared in the town of Falconreach, ready to begin the quest for their dragon eggs.

(End of chapt. 1)