. HackThe Twilight Dragon
Chapter 1: First Time
Shunningthe field broken by wave, the shadowed girl whispers, "Surely I will return." Alas, the truth unbeknownst, awaiting her at journey's end; Eternal mourning for her land. So it says in the Epitaph of Twilight.
"The World" isn't just an online game. Something with another purpose is lurking with in it. We had come so far, but we knew so little. In spite of all we had done, only destruction came with it.
The relationship between the game, and me "The World" has gone beyond pure amusement…and it was spreading beyond the network…and the final battle was about to begin…
"Hey Zansa! What took you so long? I've been waiting for a reply from you for three days now!" A girl carrying a fairly big sword asked frustrated as she started stomping towards my direction.
At first I didn't know how this girl knew my player name, considering the fact that this was my first time ever being in "The World". I looked at the rather peculiar girl who finally stopped right in front of me with a death glare. I tried not to make eye contact with her because one: I didn't know who this girl was, and two: I was waiting for my friend, Reeni, who had invited me on to this game. I didn't have time to mess around or make friends right away; so I just tried to ignore the character and pretend I wasn't interested in how she knew who I was.
"Um…Sorry, I don't mean to assume anything but, um…is your name by any chance, Zansa?" The girl asked politely, giving me a slight smile to make her question less uncomfortable for the both of us, just in case I wasn't who she thought I was.
"Huh? Y-yeah, my name is, Zansa!" I answered, stumbling on to my words shyly. "Are you…well what I mean is are you Reeni?" I asked hoping she was; considering the fact that she didn't really tell me what her character would look like, leaving me with out any clues on how I could identify her. The only thing she said in her email was to meet in Aqua city on the Delta server.
"Well, finally we meet…eh? I mean I know we've been email friends for years now, but its definitely better when I can sort of see you in person. I like you characters clothing color, Zansa; black and silver is very rare to see or come by in this game." she commented, still smiling. "You do know that color is sort of illegal in this game right?" She asked very peculiarly.
"Yeah, I know it's an illegal color as well as red and orange. It's against "The World's" policy. However, there are exceptions, such as; some people who are able to by pass that policy, but its very rare and hard to get around the system like I have."
"Yeah, well who cares right? As long as you are able to get away with it then you should be fine. Now that we got this whole thing figured out, lets go on a dungeon adventure." Reeni smiled once more and asked me to follow her to "Mansion of Terror" where we would begin our first dungeon adventure together.
Four virtual gold rings surrounded Reeni's character, warping her to the "Mansion of Terror" area, where Reeni and I would try to become stronger and find the treasure that was hidden deep with In the bottom chambers of the dungeon. Soon after I yelled out "Mansion of Terror"; four gold rings warped me to the area just as it did for Reeni. When I finally made it to the area Reeni was already starting off with out me.
"Inpatient aren't we!" I shouted out trying to catch up to her.
"It's not my fault you took forever getting here! Just hurry up ok, I want to get this adventure started!" Reeni yelled back running even faster than before.
We both quickly made our way to the mansion; it was huge and scary looking. The felid its self was really dark and cold, a perfect place for the dead to live in. The mansion was really dark and gloomy looking, like most haunted houses looked like in movies. Reeni finally slowed down after we made it to the entrance of the mansion.
"T-this place is a lot scarier up close than it is at a distance. Just looking at it gives me the creeps." Reeni whined, looking really frightened and discouraging at the same time.
"Ladies first." I quickly stuttered, pushing Reeni forward, closer to the door of the mansion. "Ha Ha very funny, if anyone's going first its you Zansa! You're a guy, so act like one and go first."
I quickly applied pressure to my palm and out came two blades on both sides of my hands. My weapon was called a Twin blade. Most twin blades were hand held, but mine was attached to my hands, so all I would have to do was apply some pressure and they'd launch out. They're for very fast fighting situations, which I liked because I was pretty fast with them. Reeni gripped on to her sword getting ready to do battle with anything that came our way.
"Alright lets do this!" I shouted out, pushing the doors of the mansion open and running inside quickly, looking for any monsters in the room.
When we came to the middle of the room, we both came to a stop. Reeni and I both had our backs pushed up against one another as we both glanced around looking to see if there were any monsters in the first room. We both relaxed a little when we noticed that there weren't any monsters in this room form what we could see.
"How many rooms are in this mansion Reeni?" I whispered softly, still troubled that there were monsters in this mansion, but interested at the same time.
"There's only three rooms in this old mansion, at least that's what I heard on the message board when I looked it up." She answered back just as quietly as I had a few moments ago.
We both studied the room a few times making absolutely sure that there weren't any monsters in sight. After realizing there wasn't a single monster in sight we both headed off to the next floor. Reeni and I climbed a few stairs until we entered the second floor of the mansion. It looked exactly like the first floor! It had terrible tacky wallpaper, a few candlesticks lighting the room up and some creepy picture frames that had no pictures in it. We were both slightly confused and to our surprise there wasn't any monsters in the room; just like before on the first floor. None of this made any sense to me, but I figured we would run into something sooner or later.
I stopped for a moment looking in all directions. This doesn't make any sense! Where are all the monsters? I know I've never played this game before, but we should've ran into a monster or two by now. "Hey Zansa! Quite day dreaming…Its really irritating seeing you stare off into space blankly." Reeni growled in frustration, gripping onto her sword even tighter. "Sorry Reeni. Let's get going." But still; why do I get the feeling that something isn't right here. I don't like the way this dungeon adventure is going.
I followed Reeni up another set of stairs that lead to the final floor. As we came to the entrance of the third floor we found that there was a door in our way. I could hear Reeni's teeth chattering; it echoed through out the entire room so it was hard not to hear it. I walked in front of to open the door considering she wasn't getting very far with it. "Are you ready Reeni?" I asked nervously. She nodded, clenching onto her sword. I pushed the door open and it made a loud creaking sound that you would hear in most horror films. We both ran in carelessly not knowing what we would run into or what dangers awaited us.
"Huh? What the heck! W-where are all the monsters?" Reeni questioned. All that was in the room was a single chest in the middle of the floor. There weren't any monsters or traps in the room. Reeni slowly walked up to the chest and when she got close enough to open it she crouched down to open the chest and see what was inside. "I wonder what kind of rare item is in this chest!" When Reeni opened up the chest a bright gold glow came from with in it. "Hey Zansa, today's your lucky day! It looks like the chest had a pair of Dragon twin blades, a very rare item and not to mention powerful." she said once more getting ready to grab the blades and hand them to me. "Wait Reeni don't touch the blades!" I was too late; Reeni had all ready touched them. The whole room glowed a bright gold and out from the gold light appeared a huge monster. It was called a pumpkin knight ghost. This monster had to swords, one in each hand. It's head looked like a pumpkin and its body looked like a dark ghost like trench coat, but it had no feet.
"Reeni watch out!" I cried out trying to get to her before the monster hit her with its swords. Reeni was completely frozen in fear. The monsters swords hit her in a matter of seconds. She went crashing into the wall and then fell to the floor. Soon after she began glowing red, which meant she was about to be deleted. "He got me in one shot. One shot and I'm done just like that." she mumbled still laying on the ground with a blank dead expression. "Don't worry Reeni I'll heal you with one of my potions." I yelled once more. My potion began to work it's magic and recover Reeni's HP. She stopped glowing red, which was a good sign. The monster turned to me focusing all of his energy on me. I knew I was next on the monsters list. That thing took Reeni out in one shot, barely leaving her with a single hit point. How am I supposed to beat this monstrosity?