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Reality and Virtual Reality

We take you to a house of a girl named Kristen Harper. She was an average girl. She was very attractive and had an average IQ. She lived a normal life. She was good in school and had many friends. She also really loved video games.

Yes, video games were her favorite past time and she liked nothing more than just staring in front of a screen. She owned every system in existence. She owned a gameboy, a gameboy color and a gameboy advance. She also had a PSP and a DS. She also had a Playstation 1 and a Playstation 2. She also owned a gamecube and an Xbox along with Sega Genesis and Sega Dreamcast. She also had a Nintendo, Super Nintendo and a Nintendo 64. She had many games along with her collection. She had over 30 games for each console and cherished them as if they were her children. Of course, her favorite games were from a series known as Mario Brothers.

She had every Mario game up to date. She enjoyed the RPGs most. She would always play Mario RPGs over and over again. While she only played some of her games a little bit at this point in time, she played the Mario RPGs countless times, discovering new secrets every time she played. Her favorite game was the original, first Mario RPG to come out, Super Mario RPG. She would always play that particular game whenever she felt tired of her other games. It was her favorite past time.

One day, she came home from school eager for a long weekend of video games. She finished her homework, ate dinner and rushed down to her pride and joy, her video games.

She felt like the other games had gotten kind of old, so she inserted the Super Mario RPG pack into her Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). As the screen came up, Kristen noticed an option she had never seen before… an extra game mode. 'This looks interesting.' She thought as she directed the cursor up to it and pressed the "A" button indicating that she wanted to play this "extra game". As she selected it, a message came across the screen with the text "Do you wish to proceed?" Of course, Kristen selected "yes" as a bright light came out of the TV. Kristen shrieked as the light pulled her into the TV. The television set turned off, the console had turned itself off and the a note saying "I am staying over at Stacey's for Spring Break, love Kristen" popped out of the TV screen and into plain site.

Kristen awoke several moments later to find herself in a sewer. She sniffed the air, which smelled gross as can be. She plugged up her nose and looked around. She had no idea where she was. She removed her hand from her nose and thought, 'How am I going to get home? Let alone that fact, where am I?' Kristen decided that this question was better off ignored for the time being. She had to find a way home.

After about twenty minutes, she had grown used to the smell. It had become more bearable. Sadly, she still had no idea where she was or where she was going. She noticed a lot of giant rats running around, which creeped her out. 'These rats look somewhat familiar.' She thought to herself.

Kristen soon found herself in another dank room. She noticed a sign that said, "If you are lost, this way is your ticket out." What luck! Kristen had found the exit. All she had to do was take a few more steps and she would find the exit.

Suddenly, something tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around to see a beautiful girl with a ponytail and black hair standing right behind her. Her eyes twinkled with delight as she hugged the girl and exclaimed, "Stacey! How did you get here?" The girl, whose name was Stacey, grimaced and answered, "The same way you ended up here. I turned on my SMRPG console, selected 'extra game' and found myself here. I don't know how we got here, but I do know that we should find a way out."

Kristen felt both relief and sadness. Her best friend was here to help her get home so she wouldn't be lonely, but sadly, Stacey didn't know how to get home either. Stacey was usually quick to figure these things out, but for once, Stacey was utterly clueless as to what was going on.

As they progressed, they neared the exit, but blocking their exit was a round dog-thing with four strange ears and a tongue that was so long, it couldn't stay in the creature's mouth. It had two round feet and rounded arms and it had a strange ancient writing all over its body.

Kristen and Stacey's eyes both shot wide open as they realized where they were. The dog-thing noticed them and exclaimed, "Wow! I'm in luck! Room service has been good to me! Where's my bib?" The two girls finally figured it out.

Kristen slammed her fist against her open palm and announced, "I've got it! We're in Super Mario RPG!" Stacey nodded and exclaimed, "This must be the Kero Sewers! And that creature in front of us must be… the…" "Belome…" finished Kristen. This was a scary moment for the girls. They had come face to face with their worst nightmare. This may not have been the toughest villain in the game, but he certainly was the scariest-looking and the only carnivorous enemy in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Belome ran up to Kristen, licked his lips and stuttered, "I… I c… can't resist… the hunger… THE HUNGER!" He scooped up Kristen with his tongue and forced her into his mouth. Stacey was now furious. She had always feared the Belome, and seeing it up close was even scarier than looking at it on a video game screen.

Belome smiled in triumph and stated, "That was DELICIOUS! Young human girls always make for a tasty meal! I guess it must be their tender soft skin that makes them so good!" Stacey was scared of the monster, but when she was angry, fear was not an option, and in this case, nothing on Earth could have possibly scared her because she wasn't just angry. She was pissed off to the max!

She ran up to the Belome, who noticed her and jeered, "That's it, dinner! Hop into my mouth! I skipped lunch today!" Instead of running into an obvious trap, Stacey leaped above the Belome's head and planted her feet in his skull. This was enough to make him spit up a horrified Kristen as he stated, "You may have beaten me, but you'll never keep me down forever! Just you wait! I may show up in your next destination!"

The Belome walked away as Stacey turned to a shivering Kristen and stated, "Okay, he's gone now. Let's go." Unfortunately, Kristen couldn't move. She was too petrified to even try. After about a minute, she finally uttered something. She shook as she uttered, "I can't believe… that I… was in the belly… of that… thing!" Stacey tried to shake her out of it as she coaxed, "He's gone now. Let's just get going so we can find a way home."

In the end, Stacey had to drag Kristen into the warp-pipe leading up because Kristen was too horrified to move.

Anyway, that sums up chapter one! What did you think? Should I continue? Please R&R and let me know what you thought of this. I had a long debate with myself to decide whether or not I should have submitted this. Anyway, bye!