Innocent Betrayal

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I enjoyed writing it. So Disclaimer and such:

Chrysanthemums are red, daisies are yellow, the characters ain't mine, so lawyers be mellow!

And now, Chapter 1!

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Chapter 1: Welcome to my life

Some call it solitude

Some call it liberty

--The World

It had been a few weeks since I had woken up in the sterile white of my hospital room with a sense that I owed my life to someone I would never meet, a man named Kite. Ever since my… "Episode" in The World, I have had my dreams plagued with red wands and terrible creatures with glowing appendages. I'm already back home, living with my mom and dad again. My older brother's a senior now and is applying for colleges. I'm slacking off. It's the start of summer and I have no desire to finish the homework I missed when in my coma. Perhaps I should explain who I am, before my story continues.

My name is Ryou Misaki and I'm 16 years old in August. Well, actually, that's not true. My real name is Sora. Sora the famous, Sora the Bad, Sora the PK'er. I actually enjoy the last one. It's just so… Lively. I'm infamous in The World, and I love it. What better way to liven up the game than have someone on your tail for revenge? But it got me in trouble, and I wound up in a coma for getting involved in the wrong story. I'm okay now though. But the dreams, they seem so vivid, so lifelike, like the wave hasn't lost yet, like there's something still to be done. Every time I log in, I feel this same feeling. I need to get back to the fun I had playing. So I signed up for camp.

Camp Delta sounds military, but it isn't. It's Delta as in Delta server Mac Anu. It's a camp for players who want to improve, or just have fun with other players. I leave tomorrow…

"Screw it…" I said sleepily as I closed the word program without saving. I was trying to chronicle my summer for a blog I had started up, but it was too time consuming. I yawned. I have a big day tomorrow, and I want to wake up early for it. I crawled to bed, and fell asleep under the covers.

I stifled a yawn as I flew down the stairs to breakfast. It was 5:30 in the morning, and I had to be at the pick up point in an hour. I gulped down my pancakes, washed them down with milk, and then was in the car's passenger seat ready to leave. I had packed my duffle bag with clothes the night before, and it was already in the trunk. My mom and I talked about how she couldn't wait to see me when I returned in a month and a half. It was a long camp. I smiled and waved as she drove away after dropping me at the park we were meeting at. I turned around and walked to one of the two instructors. He was an old man, around 60 it looked, but he seemed full of life.

"You are?"

"Ryou Misaki." He stuck out his hand to shake.

"Nice to meet you. Names Sakuma. But you'll call me Bear." He said as I shook his hand. I choked on my own saliva. Bear?! Here!? What are the odds that someone from my ill fated quest was teaching this class. I smiled. Thinks were heating up. I think I'm going to enjoy this camp very much. "Put your stuff over there." He motioned to a pile of bags a few feet away.

I took a moment to observe my fellow campers as I deposited the bag. There were about 20. Many, as I feared, were pasty white and a few were quite overweight. I had never been fat. I had always played sports, not religiously or on a team, but I would be outside with my buddies. I tended to think I was rather attractive. Many of them were rather regular looking. I also noticed that there were more than a few fine looking girls attending. This camp wouldn't be so bad at all.

After we had all arrived, we loaded up the bus. I sat in the window seat about 6 rows back. A tall, slender girl was sitting next to me. She was about an inch taller, and had fiery red and black hair. Behind us, in the handicapped spot, was an attractive girl with her hair dyed blue. I ruffled my blonde hair in boredom. We had been driving for about an hour now, listening to the radio. It began to crackle out as we approached the mountains where the camp was located, so I figured we had about an hour to go.

"Hey Mimiru, you know any good songs we could sing while we wait?"

"?!"

"No Subaru, I don't. How 'bout you?"

I blanched as the impact of what I had just heard fully hit me. I was sitting next to a girl that wanted to disembowel me, with my worst enemy, the very leader of the Crimson Knights herself sitting behind. This camp was going to be interesting indeed.

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