The Story is slow, but it will warp into something. This story is in 1st person, hope I do well!

….Character Login...Diann..

…Class...Wavemaster..

…Level...18..

…User password...valid…

…Logging in user...complete...

(Warped in from chaos gate) Today is another day in "The World!" I had a day off from school so I can get back to leveling up my character. "The World" is an online MMORPG or an online RPG. This massive online game is where players get to choose different character classes and get to interact with each other. You can roam the root towns or go on a dungeon adventure with three party members. A chaos gate is the main way to get in and out of the town to go to a field map or another server root town. I've been playing "The World" ever since the prototype game "Fragment" was out. I have to replay as a different character now, so that's why I'm on such a poor level. My current character is unique to look similar to my real self, though this character is WAY skinnier than my real self. I have dark brown hair down to my mid-back and dark brown eyes. I'm wearing a dark red robe that goes down to my ankles with a crimson scarf near my neck and a similar sash around my waist. I have brown boots on and my weapon is pretty simple since I don't have enough money to get a better one. Today, I'm thinking that I can bring it up to 20 so I can begin to level up in the next root town.

Before I go anywhere, I want to visit my favorite place one more time before I set off on the adventure. But, I don't want to go alone…I know, I'll ask Balmung to come with me. I'll call his member address to come. Meanwhile, I'll just wait for him. Balmung is a renowned player in "The World" as he was one of the members to complete the final mystery of "The World". He is famous for his coat of white feathers and silver armor, something he won in a very special event, so his full title is "Balmung of the Azure Sky." I always get so happy to think that he's going to come with me to somewhere, he is so cute and awesome. Sometimes I daydream that he'll just come in riding on a beautiful snowy roan and sweep me off my feet.

I was then interrupted in my thoughts by a male blademaster; he was probably asking me to barter for his novice items. He asked, "Would you like to trade with me?" I kindly told him, "I'm sorry, I'm waiting for someone so I do not have the time to trade with you. You can go over to that group and trade with them; they look like they would have the stuff you want." He then replied. "Oh, alright, thank you very much," and then he left. Right now, I was in the root town of Mac Anu as I watched the sunset and the bright orange and red sky. I was startled to hear his voice, he spoke from behind me,"Hey, I got your e-mail, so where are we going to today?" I said, "Oh! Balmung, you scared me!" Balmung then said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that." I then said, "Well, I wanted to go to my favorite place today before I go leveling up, and I want you to come with me!" He frowned, "You called me out here for that, Diann I told you that it's alright to go by yourself to your place because there are no monsters in that area and there's no way you could ever get lost. Besides your level is 18 and that place is only a level 6 area."

I blushed a bright pink and whined, "It's scary to go there sometimes by myself and I want you to protect me from anything bad that might happen!" Balmung sighed putting a hand up to his face and then said, "Alright, fine, let's go…" With that I shouted with joy, "YAY! Thank you, Balmung" After that we walked to the chaos gate and when we got there it was time to leave. We both say the three words of the place we'd like to go and that goes for any other place in "The World". We both said, "Hidden Forbidden Holy-Ground!" then we warped out to the field. My favorite place is a different place than the normal fields of "The World"; this place is in a different dimension inside of the game. What makes it so different is that it's basically one giant hole or crevasse with high mountains so you can't see beyond it. In the middle of the hole is the tiny place that looks like a small cathedral, but I call it the sanctuary. It consists of a bridge that is cut short by tall walls so no one can fall over the edge and the only thing supporting the sanctuary so it won't fall in the dark abyss are some rock-shaped pedestals.

What makes this place so scary sometimes is when we arrive there you expect some BGM (background music) to be playing, but the only thing you here is complete and utter silence. Only your footsteps can be heard, also you end up gating in at the edge of the bridge you have to walk all the way down to the sanctuary(it's not that long of a walk), but I somehow find that frightening.

Now that we had arrived and we started walking to the sanctuary. I held on to Balmung's hand and walked behind him. We then went up the steps, but what I like about it is that once you get close enough to the sanctuary, that's when you start hearing the BGM. After that, I feel comfortable and I'm not scared anymore.

Once inside you can see a bunch of swinging giant pendulums with pews on both sides and at the end, which is the best thing about this place, is the crying statue of Aura. Aura was an NPC (non-player character) A.I. (artificial intelligence) who was an important role through the last mystery of "The World".

What I like so much about this place is that so many special, touching and tragic events have taken place here. Memories that lie in this place bring all the emotions back into my heart. I like being here in solitude because the sweet lament of sadness touches me so and I always think back to those times. So I officially call this place Aura's Sanctuary of Broken Memories. This place is what's left of a tragic past. The statue of Aura really isn't crying, but the statue is so sad looking with eight heavy chain intertwining around her it really does look like she is crying. After a while of solitude thoughts, I looked over at Balmung to find that his feathers were shedding again and now they left a trail of feathers behind him. He was still lost in thought so I thought I would be respectable to the sanctuary and not leave a mess.

I started to pick them up one by one; every feather of his is so gorgeous. I'm really lucky to have him with me all the time, I always tend to want to keep all of his loose feathers. After I picked them all up, I was about to go up to Balmung and tell him about it when suddenly someone had grabbed me from behind and wrapped their arms around me also holding two twin blades attached to his arms(by his weapons)close to my face. I then yelped and dropped all of Balmung's feathers. Then Balmung turned around surprised to see me in the grip of the worst possible person ever. The number one most wanted player killer in "The World" (player killers are ones who don't follow the rules of "The World" and kill other players which is not permitted in the game) His name is Sora and he pretty much vexed everyone in "The World". His style was to forcibly take someone's member address and join their party whenever he wanted to, then he would kill everyone in the party and take their treasures from the dungeon adventure they went on. He asked me calmly, "Your member address if you please." I yelled, "No! Let me go! Help me Balmung!" Balmung had taken a step forward and had taken out his sheathed sword. He said in a most sober and angry voice, "Sora, let her go! If you don't then I will kill you!"

Sora laughed playfully and said, "I see feather brain is still as stubborn as ever and so serious too. You better not do anything or else your little girlfriend here will get her pretty little face ruined." With that I got angry too, but he dragged us outside of Aura's sanctuary out to the far end of the bridge. Now the sweet music of the sanctuary was growing distant as silence surrounded us all, except for our steps and Sora's stupid humming. Once close to the edge of the wall Sora had said, "All I wanted was to have some fun with you Balmung, you don't talk to me much anymore, but once I get her member address, I can see you anytime and then we'll go on a dungeon adventure. Then, once we get the treasure, I get the girl and then I get you (meaning he'll kill us)." Then Sora started laughing putting his guard down. That's when I started to act. I quickly bit his arm and he drew it away. I dived behind him to get his attention, and it worked. He turned around to get me and totally forgot about Balmung.

As soon as Sora turned, Balmung had his sword drawn and he plunged at Sora's back, swinging his sword with mighty wrath. Balmung had managed to slash into Sora's back, which had almost shortened his hit points (HP) in half. He turned to Balmung and yelled at him, "Ow! Meanie, that's no fair. I guess I'll play with you another time!" Sora then jumped away spryly onto the edge of the bridge wall. Balmung yelled and tried to jump and slash straight at him a second time. Sora said, "Bye, bye! Boing!" Then he jumped and warped out as Balmung on forward reaction kept on going and slashed the air. Then gravity took him down over the edge, I had such a horrified look on my face. He fell over the bridge wall and I screamed, "Balmung! Nooooo!" I could only hear his scream echo far away until it disappeared. I desperately tried to climb the bridge wall to see, but it was too tall and I slipped to the side of it.

I began to cry because I thought that I had lost another loved one to this place (if you die in the sanctuary then you'll become just like the statue, chained up to stay there forever). I was filled with an overwhelming grief, blaming myself entirely because I was the one who had invited him. I uttered, "No Balmung, you can't. It's my fault. You can't die. It should have taken me instead." When a player dies in "The World" they become a ghost and stay with the party until they are resurrected back into the party or all party members die and its "game over". However, all games have bugs, only in this game, virus monsters had before in the past appeared and if you died from a data bug then you would slip into a coma in the real world and no one knew if you would come out of it. Now I thought that I should just go over the cliff myself.

All of a sudden, I felt something fall on my head; it turned out to be a feather. I was surprised and I looked up to see Balmung flying towards me, feathers flying all over the place. His magnificent wings shone in the light. He landed close to me and I became so relieved that he wasn't dead I ran to him and hugged him. He then gently asked me, "I'm sorry for letting this happen to you and making you worry. Are you alright?" I mumble softly, "What about you? I thought you might have…you might have…" "It's alright now. I'm fine, Diann. I'm glad you're okay too. How about we go back? We've been through a lot." I smiled at him and gladly said, "Alright," then both of us had gated out of the area and back into the root town. Once we got back to Mac Anu it was time to disband the party, like always.

"Well, thank you so very much Balmung for helping me and protecting me, even though you risked your life for me. I don't how I can ever repay you. You're so kind to me yet your always stubborn too, well thank you anyways." Balmung felt embarrassed when I probably said that, but he said in a cheerful voice, "No problem, if you ever need me, just e-mail, I'll always come. I'll see you tomorrow okay? Bye!" With that he turned around and logged out. That Balmung; he's such a great guy, even if it's only a game. Well I better log out too.

…Logging player out

…Saving progress…

…Complete.

XO AHH! The first chapter was good and the rest just suck!!! TT.TT