So I've realized that since it's summer, I'm really on top of my current, in progress fic so I decided to upload this one, a fic I've been working since the end of my first Ouran fic (beginning of this year). Just a quick notice that when the text is underlined, that means Rowan is in the game, bold usually indicates POV change (as usual), and italics indicate thinking (duh). So with that out of the way, please enjoy, I hope I can keep my word and manage two fics at once!

'Sup, the name's Rowan. Rowan Keith to be exact. I'm something that most people would call a 'ginger' or a 'ginge' (short for ginger) which basically means I have long, red hair. I'm also notoriously known as 'Freckle Face' at school for my abnormal amount of freckles dotting my face. But who cares about the bullies at school, right? I've lived with them for ten years so I don't give a frig about what they say! I have my friends that support me, tell me I'm pretty, and always point out my sparkling, blue eyes. So my life really doesn't suck as one might think and besides, the bullies at school will be working for me one day anyway! I live in southern California and not in a rich subdivision either. I live in a place that has drug dealers at night and crazy people after dark on weekends. I suppose I should get down to what this story is about, shouldn't I? Well it's about my trip over the Pacific Ocean and into a world I never would've thought existed. It all started when I was eleven: when I discovered this EPIC MMORPG call Realmz and when I found it, I fell in love.

The game lets you do whatever the hell you want with bunches of different races, endless variations of mounts, different factions, countless emotes, your own customizable house, infinite pets, and so much more! I started out with a simple wolf humanoid character and named her Kazuli or as I liked to call her: Kaz. Kaz had dark grey fur that was almost blue, yellow eyes, a foxy tail, and dual daggers. She was one of those characters you would cringe at when she snuck up behind you and took you out just when you were winning your PVP match. When my adventure began, I was sixteen so I had five years to level Kaz up to the best she could be and I could beat just about anyone in the PVP arena. Almost everyone. One cold December night, I logged on to vent some of my anger on PVP and joined a ladder tournament. Right away, I was absorbed into the game and began my first match of the night.

"Let's do this!" I said, pulling out my dual daggers and giving my opponent an intimidating glare.

The German Shepard humanoid looked very nervous as he pulled out his axe and took a fighting stance. Just as he took a paw-step forward, I entered my sneak mode on and made a bee-line straight for him.

"Gotcha!" he said as he blocked my sneak attack.

"Not quite!" I said as my daggers broke through his defense and slashed him through the middle.

I watched in pride as his HP was diminished by almost half. My two black daggers were so leveled out, I was surprised the moderators hadn't told me to stop leveling them because they were so strong!

I mashed away at the keyboard, hitting him with all kinds of combo moves and dashing away when he tried to take a swing at me. He went down in under two minutes and the others after him met the same fate.

I put a health potion to my snout before the final round began which was a peculiar one.

As I studied over the stats of my last opponent, I was very shocked! His armor rating was beyond anything I had ever seen and his bow and arrow could deal more damage than my daggers! I had never seen another player like this before and I was a little nervous that my reputation might be ruined but I just shrugged anyway and went for it.

We spawned on opposite sides of the arena and I was able to get a good look at him. He was a maroon, lizard humanoid who went by the name of Urakih and he was decked out in some pretty sweet gear! It was the kind of stuff that you would pay the game to get extra accessories, black wings, fangs, devil horns, and a devil tail. When the countdown for us to begin ended, his reptilian feet sped towards me at a faster speed than mine! He shot an arrow that I dodged by a hair then jumped up and released a folly of them! That I couldn't get away from and it took a hardy bite out of my HP. After he landed, I rushed at him and used the strongest skill I knew but it barely did anything!

"Oh wow…" I mumbled as I clicked to dodge another arrow.

"Agh!" I shrieked as an arrow hit me, taking out more HP.

In desperation, I threw both of my daggers which somehow managed to hit him and come back to my paws. We went on, fighting for ten, twenty, thirty minutes!

"I have not had a good fight like this in ages!" I smiled as I hit away at my keyboard.

Things were getting tense and Kazuli's HP was dropping as well as Urakih's. I flinched every time I got hit and smirked every time I hit him, feeling my muscles tensing up by the second.

"Come on, come on, come on!" I pleaded with the game as I jumped up and tried to bring my daggers down on him to finish the match.

I was so close to slashing his lizard head in three when he whipped out an arrow faster than expect and shot it straight through my stomach! That sent me flying and when I fell, I didn't get back up.

"Oh, darn!" I pouted but still felt very satisfied!

It had been almost a year since someone could match my skills, let alone beat me! As I exited the arena, chugging as many potions as I could, a whisper showed up in my chat box.

Urakih whispered: You're really good!

I was taken aback by this a little. Most people played MMORPGs and got frustrated when the lost or rubbed it in the face of the loser! I thought I was the only one on the mega-server to be nice to people even if they beat me, because to me, it was just a game: a game not worth getting worked up about. So I typed back, 'Thanks!' Then a little notice popped up on my screen that said: 'Urakih has sent you a friend request. Do you accept?'

Of course I clicked yes! I didn't actually have any friends in the game because they unfriended me when they knew they couldn't beat me anymore! It just warmed my heart to see that someone wanted to friend me without pouting that my character was over-powered! His name appeared on my empty-looking friend list and I spun around in my swivel chair with joy!

Urakih whispered: Hey, do you want to try that new dungeon's hell mode?

Kazuli whispered: Are you sure, that one's really hard, even for me!

Urakih whispered: I know but since we're both experts, I'm sure it'll be easy!

Kazuli whispered: Um ok.

And we were off! I met up with the same lizard that had just sliced me up a few minutes ago and was now going on an epic adventure with him! Yay! We totally killed that dungeon and the loot was worth it!

"Don't you want any?" I asked as I scooped up gold from the chest.

"Nah," he said, flicking his tail, "I've got more than enough gold. By the way, if you're such a strong player than why don't you look it?"

"Huh?" I snarled.

"It's just that most high-ranking players pay money to get cool armor like mine. I didn't know there were tough people without special armor," he explained.

"Oh," I sighed, "I just don't want to have to pay extra money to look good."

"Why not?" he asked, "You'll look more intimidating."

"Hold on," I said as I threw a dagger, killing a skeleton, then catching it as it flew back to me, "Well I guess I don't want to really,"

"Meh, ok," Urakih shrugged and continued our quest.

"That was righteous!" I howled as we walked out of the dungeon, "I've never cleared that place on hell mode so fast before!"

"Me neither," Urakih smirked, "You're a great partner,"

"Really? Thanks!" I chirped as I added a skip to my step, "You're awesome too! No one's been able to keep up with me in a dungeon like you! How come I've never seen you around before?"

"I actually don't log on very often," Urakih sighed as he put his arms behind his back, "I quit the game about two years back when I realized that the game was boring if no one could rival me. It's just that if I get bored of something, I ditch it. I only logged on this morning because I was so bored."

"But now I think this game just got a whole lot more interesting," he said, giving me a sly look.

I rolled my eyes then realized something.

"Hey, you mean it's morning where you are?" I asked, stopping in my tracks.

"Yeah," Urakih said, stopping too, "Does this mean we're on different sides of the world?"

"I guess so," I shrugged, "That's cool!"

"So what country are you in?"

"Don' be a stalker! Haha!"

"I wasn't, I wasn't. Just curious,"

"ROWAN, TIME FOR DINNER!" a voice yelled from downstairs and waking me from my fantasy land.

"Oh shoot!" I yelped, "I have to go! When are you usually on?"

"Days off, breaks, Fridays," he said, "the usual,"

"Ok then, Urakih, bye!" I said, waving and disappearing from the server.

And it was on that day of my sophomore year that everything changed.

Tell me what you think and if you have any suspicions about Urakih, try to avoid posting about your thoughts on who he is in the reviews just in case you spoil it for someone else. Thank you so much for reading this far, I love you ALL! I would've quit writing long ago if it weren't for you amazing ppl!