This is my.. well, first published fiction. This is chapter one, and the first two characters are my OC's. I have unpublished fanfictions about each, if anyone wants to read them. I have bio's, too, if anybody wants them, I'll message them to said person. All reviews are accepted, from constructive critiscism to being flamed. Because, I'll flame you back. Please, read and review.

Hikaru frowned. It was much to loud in the town square. No real peace... He stood up, brushing himself off. Why, he had no idea. It was a habit. Looking down, he noticed his red armor reflected an eerie crimson light on the ground, that he stared at for a second, then shook his head. He was much to distracted these days..but he had nothing, really, to focus his scatterbrain-ed mind on. Everything was so...monotonous, purposeless, he really didn't know why he was still playing. His playtime consisted of wandering around town, usually. He walked around for a little bit, staring at the water and subconsciously eavesdropping on other people.

"-High level ones?" Someone said. Hikaru had heard the story a million times. Some guy showing off to someone else by saying he cleared a huge high level dungeon. Ugh. Bo. Ring.

"Yeah. It got harder and harder near the bottom. Then something, like, really wierd happened." To this Hikaru became minorly interested. A bug is something, while uncommon, is usually entertaining, ie, sometimes character clothing could disapear or warp, which led to some strange situations, or for girls, quite embarrassing. At least, according to the message board.

"Dude, what was it?" The higher pitched voice asked, probably a younger child.

"I dunno what to call it. the place kinda reversed and warped, and a strange noise came on. I bolted, man." the boaster said. Hikaru's interest peaked a bit. Might be worth it.. a graphics glitch can be cool. Like tripping. not that he ever had. He decided to head to the area, if he could remember from the conversation.

"World-eater's...Fatal..Midnight. Huh. Normal place." He said, entering the words into the chaos gate.

"..I.. gotta be faster..." Arkell said, readying the obstacle course for the fiftieth time. He had tried to beat the high score for ever. He always came up 3 seconds short. He ran it again. Over the spike trap, under the flame spout, between two smashing logs, over a ledge, across the water. He deftly avoided the final trap, a quartet of snapping iron jaws that nearly diced him to shreds, like they always almost did, and hit the endzone. His score came up. he had done it... 4 milliseconds faster. "...Better than nothing..." He muttered. Warping out of the obstacle course area, he entered a area code without looking. didn't matter, he just needed to do something else than try that again and again. Maybe it would be high level, maybe not. Like he cared.

Haseo carved through the last monster.

"Why did you suggest this place, again?" He asked Atoli, who had hung back to heal him in case he sustained any damage, however unlikely. Atoli looked sad for a moment, but then her usual cheer returned.

"Just because. Oh, actually, I heard some glitches appear in the dungeon bottom. Exciting, right?" She said, holding her staff horizontally near her waist. Haseo straightened up and turned to face her.

"Yeah..real exciting." Haseo said, his voice dripping with scathing sarcasm which Atoli, like always, failed to notice.

"So..should we head into the dungeon?" She said, her voice waivering as if asking him might make him storm off and leave. He rolled his eyes. He had told her not to be scared to ask him something, but she always was.

"Well, the field is cleared. So..yeah. Sure." Haseo replied, and led Atoli to the dungeon.

" Kite...hurry up!" Blackrose groaned. Kite chuckled.

"I'm coming, I'm coming! It's only a glitch, you know." He said, walking up beside the Edge Punisher. Blackrose had insisted on going to the area, if only out of curiosity.

"Yeah yeah, I know! But I was bored. Weren't you?" She replied, walking faster than Kite, forcing him to jog a little bit.

" Not really. I got your message on my phone. I was on my way to play soccer. You made it sound so important and amazing..." Kite said, teasing her. Blackrose opened her mouth to talk, but stopped. That was a first.

"Who are they?" She said, pointing to a White haired, white clothed boy and a similarly white Harvest Cleric. She couldn't recognize the boy's class. Kite shook his head.

"Probably other players. Rare, though, that there are more than two parties in one area." He said. Blackrose stared for a moment, then shrugged.

"Ok. But if they get in my way.." She muttered. Kite rolled his eyes at Blackrose's agressiveness.

"Lets just press forward. We want to beat them to the treasure, right?" Kite said. Blackrose sighed and nodded, moving forward.