The year is 2020. The entire world connected by the Internet. Everyone has remote access to the Net. These personal terminals (or PET's) have customized navigational programs, called Navis, which include an AI feature.
The World , after recovering from the "Twilight" incident, reached forty million users; making it the most popular MMORPG in history. In order to keep up with modern technology, CC Corp issued a new version of The World. It includes a program that lets you play The World with your Navi.
This is a story of a boy and his Navi playing The World.
Chapter 1"Ready?"
"Yeah."
"Jack in Katsutsu!"
A heavyblade and a longarm gate in at Mac Anu, the water capital. They both look around and start getting excited.
"This is great that I get to play with you." Said the longarm, whose username was Shurimpu.
"I want to go stab something! And I don't mean the viruses in mom's stove." Complained Shurimpu's netnavi, Katsutsu. They both approached the bridge over the river of Mac Anu.
"You know that you look dorky in that armor." Katsutsu eyed her op's avatar.
"Heeey, I like it!" Shurimpu examined his armor. "Dun make fun of it. And don't think that I haven't had disagreements about that skimpy outfit. Don't you know that people already make fun of me for having a girl navi anyway?" He frowned.
"Humph, all heavyblade look close to this. And what's wrong with a girl navi? I've seen girls with guy navis!" She crossed her arms.
"That's not the same! I'm a guy! People think I might be a pervert!" Shurimpu turned his back to Katsutsu. He did get teased a lot at school; a seventeen year-old boy didn't usually have a girl netnavi.
"Aw c'mon! Don't give me that! No one knows in The World! Let's go to a field! Have you heard of any good ones?" She stood in front of him now.
"Well, there are plenty of new…"
"No! I want to go where you go when you play by yourself!" Katsutsu said indignantly.
"Fine" They walked to the chaos gate. "Passed Over Forbidden Holy Ground!" Shurimpu yelled in front of the gate. They bother warped to the field.
"Now Kat, you DID read on how to fight, right? I can't believe that we were attacked so early getting here!" Panted Shurimpu while hacking away at a strange monster with his spear. Shortly after gating into the field, Shurimpu and Katsutsu were attacked by a strange monster. It had the head of a unicorn and the body of a serpent.
"Holy crap! We're dead, we're dead!" Screamed the navi as she stabbed the tail of the monster. Shurimpu jumped on the back of the serpent and rammed his spear into the back of the unicorn's head. The monster let out an unearthly screech and flayed around.
"Whoa! Watch out!" Shurimpu was thrown off.
"Shurimpu!" Katsutsu rushed over to him. "Are you hurt?"
"I'll live. Kat, since I'm a higher level, I'll attack and you watch my HP and try to hit it with what spells you have." He got up and ran back to the monster.
"Right! Vak Dom!" She hit it with the spell.
"Good! Now…"
Virus Deleted.
"See! We…what?" Shurimpu walked over towards where the virus/monster vanished. "It must have been a virus that made itself look like a monster in The World. It left data behind. Kat," he turned to her, "what is it?"
"A navi customizer program called 'Dark Aura'. Hey! That sounds familiar! Some undernet navis…uh…were…" She stopped.
"What did you say? Undernet? Kat I told you not to go there after…" He looked down.
"I know you did, but I couldn't help it, I wanted to know more on what happened that one day. I promise not anymore! Let's go back, maybe tomorrow you can go to that new chip shop and see if the person knows anything about this 'Dark Aura' program." Katsutsu started to walk away.
"You're right, let's log out."
To Be Continued…