"I do not own any rights to the Chaotic Trading Card game nor the show, the song "The Minstrel Boy", or Olo (if anyone already owns any rights to him)."

This story is about me, a creature named Olo, and a "Minstrel Boy."

My alias is Justinian (it should be easy to find out what my real name is), my screen name is RisingStar (one word), and I'm a Chaotic player.

Chaotic is a trading card game that I play; there is another place that other players like myself play by means that may confuse you.

What is this place, you say?

Oddly enough it is called Chaotic as well. Think of it like a club, and only a select few are allowed to join (actually it's more like an invitation only).

This stuff is not important to the story I'm going to tell you, though.

My story starts a while ago. I had just lost my umpteenth match in a row, and that's not the worst of it. I was humiliated during the match.

How humiliated you say?

Image if your four-year-old cousin gave you a wedge in front of everyone you know, and your cousin is barely able to reach your belt buckle. Though I never expected it before.

That's how humiliated I feel.

I was so frustrated and upset that I was playing, ping-pong with my head and my fists were the paddles.

I don't really have any friends in Chaotic to talk to about my emotions, so I decided to go to a location in Perium that only I knew about.

What is Perium you say?

It is like Earth, but instead of humans, there are these creatures that would take too long for me to describe.

The location is called Tranquillus Ruins. I'm the only known player to have a scan of the place, and I am not willing to tell anyone where it is.

I walked over to the transport station and got myself ready for the instant ride.

It only took a moment to get there, but the second my feet touched the stony ground, I could feel all my frustration leaving me.

I found this place one time when I was walking around Perium. I was looking for a one-of-a-kind scan and I found it. (As I said I am not willing to tell anyone where it is).

The place looked like any old ruins, broken bricks, abandoned buildings, and well, the usual.

The only thing was that most of the buildings in the area looked as though they were still livable.

I got a scan of the area and thought of telling people of this place. That was until I felt a calming feeling surround me. It must have been the quietness of the area, and then I knew that if I told anyone about this place, the peace in these ruins would be ruined (pun intended).

The place was the same as I remembered it from the last time I was here. I forgot to mention that the ruins have a shining glow to them during the daytime, and that helps with calming me down, too. This is not important though, except to me.

I walked around a bit, and found my favorite place. It must have been the town's square back in its day, because most of the buildings in the area were all focused on the center.

When I got there, I began to do the next thing that calms me down. I began to sing my favorite songs (I'll leave it up to you to decide what I was singing at the time).

I was still singing when I heard a sound, I stopped singing and turned to the direction of the sound, to see if anyone was there (like a creature, or another player who just happened to find this place like I did).

No one seemed to be there, so I turned back and was ready to sing again, when I heard another sound. "Once is just a coincidence," I though "but twice, someone had to be here."

"O.K!" I yelled, "Who in Peruim's name are you?" There was no response. "I know you're out there. I heard you move, TWICE!"

Just then this creature with blue scales, and these two weird things on his head that curved back (if you were to call him a butthead, you would be close to a bull's-eye). He walked on two legs that had scars on them; his two arms had scars on them as well as if he was in some huge battle. His body had one large scar that went from his left shoulder to his right hip, and another scar that went from the right side of his neck to his stomach crossing the larger one. His hands only had four fingers, and his feet only had three toes.

I swear he looked like a Mipedian lizard, but he didn't have the right coloring nor a lizard's face and tail, and the pants he wore than only went down to his knees looked like that of an Overworld design.

The Mipedians and Overworlders are two of the four tribes of creatures that live in Peruim. The other two are the Underworlders and the Danians.

"Who are you?" I yelled.

"I-I'm the o-one who ask the ques-questions a-around here hu-man," he said in a terrified tone. "N-now, who ar-are yo-you?"

"I asked first!" I yelled taking one step towards him.

"Stay…stay back," he asked still in the same tone.

"Not until I get your name," I demanded still moving towards him.

He was saying something, but I couldn't hear what it was. It was like he was mumbling or talking to quietly for me to hear, but I did hear one thing that was loud and clear coming out of his mouth.

"SHADOW STRIKE!"

To be continued!