Jax ran as fast as he could down the street gasping for air as he was chased.
"GET HIM!" Someone behind him yelled.
Jax kept running . Bruises covered his body. His shirt was ripped and barley hanging on to his body. His jeans were ripped and slashed and barley hanging on him as well. He was barefoot. He had black hair that flew behind him, he had a baby face , with deep blue eyes currently filled with tears that flew off of his cheeks as he ran. He was 18 but everyone confused him with being 14 even though he was tall. He didn't know where he was going but he had to escape. he had to get away from those guys who'd just tried to rape him.
He tripped but kept his footing. A stone fence was up ahead. It was tall but he thought maybe he could make it. He jumped and grabbed the top of the wall hoisting himself on top he quickly dropped on to the other side ignoring the pain racking his body. He was a sickly person and didn't have much longer to live. He'd wanted some milk and they'd been out so he'd went to the store and ran into these guys. He fell on to his butt and began coughing. His body jerking with every movement. Blood splashed over his hand. His brother was going to kill him. He began moving again not seeing the cameras turning to follow him. He stumbled around until he found himself in what looked like a store room. He hid behind some boxes that were pilled high and tried to catch his breath. His whole body hurt.
"Huh?" he saw a visor laying on the ground. "This looks like Jason's VR visor." he stared at it. " He said that he uses that game to escape..." he stared at it for awhile longer. "I could really use an escape right now." he put it on. His body went slack as he slipped to the floor in a pool of his own blood. He was bleeding badly from a gnash on his back.
He didn't hear people come bursting into the room and to his hiding spot.
"He's really hurt." A woman said, " We have to get him to a hospital. "
"He wont make it." A man said, "Get him into our hospital and call everyone you need. I'll pay the over time costs. " he knelt watching the boy . "He found a visor...get me this visor data at once! I'll be in my office!"
"Hello." Jax blinked at the woman sitting on a chair in front of him. "Please make your character. "
A screen appeared in front of him. He used himself as a base, he chose an elf class so his ears grew on either side of his head. He chose black hair like his own that was messy spiky and down to mid back. His eyes he chose silver. As armor he chose black hiking boots, black jean pants , and a leather jacket with no shirt. He picked motorcycle gloves on his hands.
"Choose your weapon."
"Weapon?" Jax wondered, looking at the list of weapons he could choose. "I'd like to wield magic..." the magic list showed up. "Uhm...lets see...I'll start off with the most basic fire..."
"Very well." the person said, " Now your name choose a name for yourself... "
"I don't know." Jax said, he felt weak. "I don't know what to pick..."
" Are you feeling well?" The girl asked, frowning. "How about I name you...You are Prince. " she smiled at the boy. "Hey, pay attention..." he blinked weakly at her."My name is Jess send me a PM when you arrive."
With that Prince was falling. He landed safely on the ground near a lake. He was unconscious.
"Prince , huh?" the man said watching the monitor . "You have a sick humor Jess. " the woman next to him removed her visor and smirked at him. "Hn? He chose Magic. He doesn't know anything about this game does he?" Jess giggled next to him. "His body was in such bad shape. I wonder what he was doing putting on that visor. "
"Maybe he wanted to trap his mind in the game in case his body died."
"You read to many manga. " The man scoffed. " Though theoretically it could work. " he pressed a button and another monitor came up showing his medical staff. He pressed another button. "How is he doing?"
"This maybe all for nothing. " the female from before said, "This kid is very ill. He has cancer that's been untreated..."
"Do what you can, Tasha."
"I will , of course."
he ended that call.
"Brian look into this kid's family. "
"No need, " A man on his left said, "He's Jason's baby brother. " the man clenched his teeth and looked back at the still sleeping boy. Yeah, he could see it. "Different mothers. He lives in town with Jason. His mother died six years ago to cancer. He's had it on and off for years never getting treatment once. Jason can't pay for it on a cops salary and their father refuses to acknowledge him as being his. According to what I've found out they've given him less than a month to live. "
"I can already tell you he has longer than that." Tasha's voice said, "He was up and moving around, and the cancer seems to be contained to one of his kidney's. This kid would have had to be in a lot of pain. " She was working hard. "If we remove it the kid could probably survive. "
"THat's odd why hasn't it spread?" Brian wondered leaning back in his chair. " That's not normally how cancer works is it? I mean I'm no Doctor but that doesn't sound right."
"It's not ." Tasha agreed, "It's very confusing. We'll know more soon. We've patched up everything that was hurt tonight and are doing scans to see what is going on. "
"Keep me updated." Chain said, "Jess, go in game to check in on him. After all you did tell him to contact you."
"I'm on it!" she lowered her visor again and was soon going through the process of becoming her character.
Her shirt tore of and became a shirt that covered her breasts only with a spaghetti strap on her left shoulder, a huge blade formed on her back, her pants tore of leaving short shorts, gloves appeared on her hands, her sneakers changed into knee high boots, her black hair done in a ponytail became blue hair down in a braid down her back. Her green eyes became the same green as a cats and a black leather vest with a silver chain in a noose on the back over her shirt. She did a flip as she entered the world and landed beside the body of Prince.
Prince woke with a bit of a moan. he was feeling better. A lot better. Better than he had in a very long time. He sat up.
"There you are!" Jess said, squatting in front of him. "Have you been resting this whole time?"
"Here i am?" Prince repeated, he tilted his head to the side. "Oh am I ?"
"Don't you know?" Jess asked , frowning. Prince shook his head. Jess smiled gently. "You're Prince and I'm Jess. I'm your friend and we are traveling together. "
"We are?" Prince asked , as he was pulled to his feet. "Why , what are we doing?"
"Anything we want." Jess laughed, "But first lets teach you some basic skills. "
"Okay." Prince said, "What do I need to do?"
"Do you remember how you can fight?" Jess asked pointing to some kind of jelly slime. "Try and kill that."
Prince thought about it. He summoned fire into his hand on instinct and shot it at the Jelly Slime.
"Fireball." the Jelly Slime died . He looked at Jess. "Like that, sister?"
Jess blinked at the baby faced teen that was the same height as her.
"Sister?" she mumbled, "That's right, I'm your big sister and you did good. That's right. Now lets pick up what was dropped. "
"Okay, sister." Prince smiled, brightly. Melting Jess's normally icy heart. "Oh, Sister I got some gold pieces and a small jewel, and some jelly . "
"That's great." Jess said, kneeling down next to him. "The gold is money of course. Put it in the second pouch around your waist. " he did. "That's your money pouch okay?" He nodded at her. "Put the jewel and jelly in the first pouch. That's your inventory."
"Inventory?" He asked as they stood. He blinked at her. "I don't think I understand , Sister."
Jess gave him a sad smile then sighed.
"Don't worry about it for now, okay?" He nodded, "You did really well. Now, tell me, Prince what Job do you want?"
"Job?"
"Yeah, " She said, "Do you want to train as a Healer, A mage, a Mage knight, you know your job? Because depending on what you want to be we'll need to find different things like those jewels and jellys that can some how make your weapon."
"Okay, I want to be really strong and use all sorts of weapons so that I can protect you and others, Sister. I want to learn lots of magic and help lots of people. Can I do that?"
"I think you want to be a Guardian class." she told him. "In that case we have a lot of work to do. You're going to be killing a lot of monsters so that you can get what you need and grind your spells ...er...train your spell so that you can get better at casting it. " He smiled at her hanging on her every word. "Well, lets go find some more of those slimes."
"We don't have a Guardian Class in this game. " Brain said. They were in a giant circular room with small monitors and large ones that took up most screens. They all sat in small pods that were raised off of the ground. The boss was in the highest with Jess on his right and lower down, and Brian on his left on the same level as Jess. "Should I create one?"
"I'll do it."
"Hey , Chain. " Brian said looking up at the man. "I'm going in. Jess is getting flustered. Prince doesn't know this is a game. "
"yes , keep him occupied, I have work to do. " Chain replied.
Brian lowered his visor down to cover his eyes and let the game take him into the vortex he would fall through to do his change and go in to the game. He wore no shirt, only his black leather vest with a silver chain in the form of a noose on the back, baggy light weight jeans, sneakers, archer gloves, a quiver on his back with a bow, his brown hair became a flaming red, his eyes a cat green, his right ear was pierced all the way up.
He flipped and landed right in front of the two of them scaring Prince.
Jess glared at him.
"Where'd you come from?!" Prince demanded "Leave my sister alone."
"Cool of, Kiddo." Brian laughed, "I'm a friend of your sisters. "
"Brian!" Jess yelled kicking his face with her foot and sending him flying into the tree behind him. "You idiot! What are you doing here! I told you I was busy today!"
It was code for you moron why'd you appear right in front of the kid who doesn't know this is a game.
"I thought I'd pop in to have some fun." Brian said getting to his feet. He smiled at Prince. "Hey, you must be Prince, yeah?"
"Huh?" Prince asked, "am I ?"
"Yes, you are." Jess said, "I told you that earlier remember?"
"Oh, that's right." Prince nodded, 'i'm sorry Sister I keep forgetting. "
"It's alright, little guy don't worry about it. " Brian said, "anyway, I'm Brian, My job is Sniper. Let me hang out with you."
"Okay, since your sister's friend. " Prince said, looking around, "Right, now we are hunting stuff down so I can get a weapon made when I get my Guardian Job."
"That's a worthy job." Brian said, having thought of something. "But you know Guardians have to help lots of people and go on missions to save people..."
"I can't wait!" Prince said, "I just want to help everyone! Everyone deserves to be happy."
Outside the game in his office Chain worked hard to create this new class and classes within that class. He suddenly had an idea to do class upgrades he'd have to rewrite a lot of the game and piss off a lot of people playing the game but he didn't care he'd already ordered Ashley to set a press conference and release a statement.
