It was a cold snowy winter day as I stood by the rusty pole that held up the bus stop sign. I breathed out a sigh and watched the vapor of my breath billow out in front of my face. A lone car drove by, sending the snow in its wake swirling. The gust tugged at the hem of my uniform's skirt and I shivered as it reached up my already freezing legs.
"Geeze why is the bus so late today?" I asked to no one in particular as I reached into my coat pocket to fish around for my IEarth.
As I pulled it out I pressed the ON button, the circle screen lighting up and displaying the time in round bubble letters. It read three thirty-five. I sighed again and shuffled my feet trying to get my blood moving as I double tapped the screen. The bubble clock disappeared and the home screen appeared with the small bubble icons for each application. I tapped a bright electric blue icon and its home screen popped up. It read Playing Fate Extreme in flashing letters before it opened to the menu.
This app was the newest game by the Heta L. A company, and all of their games had become major hits even before this game. It had only been out for a week and my entire school was playing it. You were given two scenarios and you had to pick one to start the game. Every person who played the game got different scenarios and different types of goals to reach, making it impossible to cheat or get help.
Normally I didn't get dragged into the new game fads, but after three days of constant nagging from my friends and class mates, I finally broke down today and downloaded the game. I tapped the start button, and the screen went to a dark gray that varied in shades. A small text box popped up and I read it.
'Welcome to Playing Fate Extreme! Please enter your name.'
I tapped the screen and a small keyboard popped up, "R-E-M-I," I tapped the enter button. Another text box appeared.
'So Remi, what gender are you? Tell the truth or you'll suffer for your false choice later.'
I tapped the pink female sign, which led to another text box.
'Birth year?'
I frowned at the question but tapped in my birth year, I'm seventeen if you were wondering.
'So your name is Remi, you are a girl and you are seventeen?'
I tapped the yes icon, and looked up as a loud puff of air sounded in front of me. A city bus was now parked in front of me with its doors open. I gaped at it before I quickly entered the bus. The doors shut with another puff of air and I peered around the bus, which was unusually empty.
"Miss? Are you coming on or getting off?" asked the bus driver.
"I'm coming on," I said after a second as I placed the allotted money in the box.
The bus driver nodded to me as I passed to to go sit a few seats back on the other side of the bus. I shivered as my legs touched the semi warmed seat and I placed my bags into the seat next to me. Getting myself into my seat, my attention was back to the screen of my IEarth. A small earth was spinning as the screen read "LOADING... PLEASE WAIT." I sighed and watched as the Earth continued to spin.
After ten minutes I was beginning to get irritated as the Earth continued to spin. I had watched some of my friends start their games and it had never taken them this long to get started. Sighing, I assumed that the game had frozen, lifting my finger up, I reached over to hit the ON button again when the screen changed. To my surprise, a small red haired chibi with a strange hair curl sticking out from the side of his head with his eyes shut appeared.
'Sorry for the wait, ve!' it said as it sweat dropped. 'I'm Feli and I'll be your helper! Are you ready to start?'
A box with popped up with the YES or NO option, and I shrugged and giggled as I pressed the YES button.
The chibi named Feli popped up again, 'Ok so let's get started with your first question, ve! Would you rather: Understand every language but be unable to speak or Speak every language but not be able to hear it?'
Feli gazed in my direction as I pondered the question. As I let time pass, Feli began to hum the Heta L. A company's theme and began to squirm as it waited. My finger hovered over the screen before I pressed the first button.
'So you'd rather be able to understand every language but be unable to speak? Is this correct, ve?' Feli asked as it stopped humming. The YES or NO window popped up and Feli peeked from behind it, 'Your choice will influence your game, so choose wisely.'
I pressed the YES, and Feli was about to start talking again when the bus came to a stop. I looked up startled before I stood from my seat and quickly exited the bus, not bothering to say goodbye to bus driver as I got off into the snowy ground outside. The bus puffed as it shut its doors behind me and I looked down at Feli before the horror set in as I went to fix the strap of my book bag, I didn't have a book bag strap to fix. I spun around to get back on the bus but stood frozen as I didn't see the bus behind me. I quickly looked up and down the snow covered road I was on and saw the bus tire tracks stop right were I was at but came from my left.
"Great," I muttered as I stepped out of the snow and into the tire rut as I began to shiver again.
A beep came from my IEarth and I looked at it, only to see the spinning Earth again only this time Feli was walking on top of it. It read, "LOADING GAME... PLEASE DO NOT TURN OFF!" I growled under my breath and shoved my IEarth into my coat pocket as I buried my hands in the pockets as well.
"Just freakin' great," I muttered as I began to walk up the cleared rut.
A gust of wind blew behind me as I walked away and pushed the light snow into the rut behind me, hiding the rut from view.
The wind seemed to howl continuously and it ripped its way through my winter coat, freezing me to the bone. My limbs felt stiff and my nose, ears and cheeks stung, the skin on my legs burned with the cold. My eyes were stuck in a squint, even though it was almost too dark to see anything around me. I had almost nearly stopped shivering, and from my health classes in school I knew I wasn't going to last much longer out in the howling wind and snow.
As my body rocked itself with a shiver I scanned the road before me. When I spotted nothing I heaved a light sigh, due to the cold air hurting my lungs. I was about to stop walking when a speck of yellow white caught my eye. I stood still for a second, before I forced my nearly frozen body to move towards it.
Stumbling many times, the light got brighter and closer with every step before I came upon a small hillside that led down to a fairly comfortable sized house. Stepping carefully, I tried to step down the hill but my knees gave out and I tumbled down the hill and rolled a bit before I came to a stop facing the house.
I tried to get up, but my muscles refused to move. I opened my mouth and let out a cry, but a strong gust of howling wind carried my voice away, a strange singing going with it. A single hot tear seared its way down my face and fell into the snow beside me.
'So close.'
A beep sounded from my pocket and I shivered violently again. My eyes began to feel too heavy and I knew what was coming next. As the world of darkness and the house lights blended together, a shadow from the light appeared before the darkness swallowed my.
A beep sounded from my pocket, and if I had been conscious to look at the message, I would have seen, 'Let the games begin! Good luck, Remi.'
Newest series I'll be writing! For explaination purposes, the IEarth is the circular version of an IPod but much more awesome. The Heta L. A's song is just Marukaite Chikyuu.
Please review! I want to know what you think of this so far! The button is right there! V V V