A/N: Hiya readers! As many of you know RW is on hiatus until the new year. But in the meantime you can enjoy this mini-sequel side-story I've come up with in the meantime.

This is set place a few months before Revolution Wars and it features Mira as its main character along with a new one, which I know you guys will find interesting to know her. Also, this is an original story made by me!

So read, review, and have a Happy New Year! Time to start this side story with Chapter 1!

Disclaimer: The OCs appearing in this fic and SRO belong to me! And the surprise characters appearing belong to their respective owners!

ToonSchool Revolution Wars SS: Rookie Quest

Calm Before the Storm

At her virtual home in Salvus, newly-named Rare Item Hunter avatar named Mira is typing into her holographic journal window as she relaxes on her bed.

"Alone can be such a drag, especially if your special loved one isn't around to aid you in a special time of the month. It reminds me of me being sick of flu, missing out of my family reunion or a date. As for me, that special day is actually a special quest in an online game I'm playing called Soul Resonance Online and my special loved one is not only my boyfriend in real-life, but he's also my partner."

As she types on her journal, she saw some screenshots in form of photos of her and her boyfriend's avatar, Jiraya on her wall.

"My name is Maria Rizal or as of right now, I'm called Mira in this game. I'm a Filipino who is currently dating my friend and partner, Jay Santos. In here, he is known as Jiraya in the game. Together with Jiraya, we are known as Rare Item Hunters in the game, which like our titles said, we hunt rare items for a living. But unlike some Rare Item Hunters who prefer selling them for profit, we rather use them or give them away rather than selling them. And also, we became Hunters because it's fun trying to find new discoveries through new rare items we found in every quest. And best of all, we're doing it together as a couple."

Then she looks at her new rare item sitting on her bed near her, which it looks like a sun, only it was cut in half and it's other half is nowhere to be found.

"However, the recent quest I took a few days ago is the only quest that Jiraya didn't come along with me. Like I said, alone can be a drag, especially with some bullies and hunters want to take advantage with your loneliness."

After seeing the half sun pendant, she pulls out another window while typing, which is a friend list containing a star marked friend other than Jiraya's.

"But on that same day, I met a newbie that I defended from the bullies. On our meeting, I made an accident I formerly regret. And that accident became a new friendship. To start off, it begins with a very bad news..."


A few days earlier...

"SAY WHAT?!"

Mira is shocked at what her boyfriend told her as she sat back on the sofa in her living room.

"I know that there's a special rare item quest announced, but I still need to study for the English exam tomorrow," Jiraya said on her SoulCom. Despite his inability to speak English in real life, he was able to speak it without a problem in SRO thanks to its universal translator. "If I flunk on the test, I have a risk to not able to go to SM: Mall of Asia with you this summer."

"I know. It's just that, it might be never the same without you in this quest," Mira said in dismay, wanting to go on the announced quest with him, but still want him to pass his exam.

"Don't worry, Mira, you're a great player. Although we became Rare Item Hunters together, you were able to become a Blade Magi without my help. I'm sure you'll do just fine without me."

"I don't know," Mira said, still unsure about this.

"Again, don't worry! Besides, I'm looking forward for that new movie in the IMAX theater, Stormfall!" Jiraya said in glee, couldn't contain his excitement for it.

"Yeah, yeah. I promise we'll see that movie this summer," Mira said, seeing he has a point, "Alright, I'll do it. I'll get that rare item while you study for the test tomorrow."

"Thanks, Mira. Wish me luck for the test," Jiraya said before he hangs up.

"Same for me, Jay," Mira said as she turns off her SoulCom, which she quickly sighed in dismay after that. "If I can do it by myself..."


At Inceptem, one of the main cities of SRO's in-game world, Lumen, Mira is sitting at the bench in the town square as she watched some couples holding hands and having a picnic together after a quest, disappointed that her boyfriend is not around to be with her for once.

She groans at this and says, "It wouldn't be the same without you, Jiraya. I just hope you can pass the exam with flying colors."

As she continues to stare at the couples, she heard a load shriek not far away from where she is, startling her and pulls out her sword in panic.

"Huh? What was that?" she asks when she hears the same scream, which she somehow able to trace the source of it. "It's coming from the entertainment streets of Inceptum! Figures, those creeps were able to take advantage of those streets' empty sidewalks in the morning to bully someone."

She then heads off to the entertainment section of the city in determination.

"Just hope that I'm not too late!"


At the sidewalk between some arcades and a karaoke bar, a girl was being harassed by some bully avatars, who is trying to run away from them, but failed.

"Hey, come on now, cutie. Why don't we make some trouble and do something together?" one of the avatars said to the frightened girl.

"You can't treat a woman like this! I'm going to report to the authorities for this!" the girl, whose voice is a little mature, said in fear.

"I don't think that's going to happen. This game has no police or anything and also, we have higher levels than you, girly!" another avatar with a beanie said.

"Plus, we only want to teach you more about the game if you want," the one with a bandana added, "No extra charge, as long as you hang out with us."

However, the girl still refused, not wanting the bullies to take advantage of her.

"I don't think so. Look, I'm only playing this game to find somebody and give him a piece of my mind about it!"

"Well, you can always find your boyfriend with us," the leader suggested, "If you can agree to let us hang out with you."

Before he gets closer to the girl, a magical blast suddenly hits him, blasting him onto a statue.

"What the?!"

As the dust clears, it revealed that Mira is the one who made that magical blast as she walks through the smoke with her trusty sword.

"Hey, you jerks! You heard what the lady said; she doesn't want your help."

"Drat!"

"It's her!"

"What? What's so scary about a pink and glittered fashion-crazy girl with a sword?" the leader asks in confusion.

"Don't you know her? She's one of the new Rare Item Hunters," the avatar with a beanie explained.

"Not only she's a Blade Magi, one of the strongest job class in this game, but she wiped out 50 opponents in every rare item tournament she entered," the other one with a bandana added, "She's the SoulMagi herself, Mira!"

"Glad some of you were able to recognize me so easily," Mira said in an inpressed tone.

Then, the bandana-wearing bully noticed something and asks, "Hey, where's your partner that he's always around you?"

"You mean my boyfriend, Jiraya. He's busy offline right now, so I'm alone for now," Mira explained when she quickly raises her sword to the avatars, "But that doesn't mean I can't take you guys on by myself!"

"Although I don't personally hit girls, I always want to outrank a legend," the bully leader says as he pulls out his two broadswords from out of nowhere, "Alright, SoulMagi! Let's see if you really are a Rare Item Hunter!"

Seeing the leader's swords, the girl became worried about Mira and says, "Y-You can't take him! You'll get killed! I'll call a police or somebody."

But Mira stops her from leaving as she says in determination, "Don't worry about me. It's just a game. Plus, I have experiences when it comes to 'defending newbies from bullies' situations like this."

"But, but-"

"Trust me, I know what I'm doing and I promised that I'll keep you safe from them."

Seeing that she's determined to save her from the bully avatars, the girl reluctantly trusts her as she lets her go.

After he whispers something to his companions, the leader rushed to Mira as he tries to attack her with his first broadsword. However, Mira was able jump out of his sword's range in time as she flips in mid-air, much to the girl's awe. But much to her shock, the bull avatar's friends suddenly appeared behind the Blade Magi, which she shouts to her, "Look out! Behind you!"

But this doesn't faze Mira at all, as she puts two fingers on her sword's blade and recites a spell incantation as runes start to appear around her and her sword.

"Gelus ralu eurus cito moro kari turbo!"

Completing the incantation, a heavy, but a small snowstorm tornado appeared in Mira's command, blowing the leader's friends away, much to the bully leader and the girl's shock.

When the two bully avatars landed, they became frozen due to the small snowstorm tornado.

"Want to try making that ambush again?" Mira cockingly said to the leader as she prepares to strike again.

Angry at this, he then makes a full strike on Mira with his swords, which she did the same with her sword. The two clash their swords in this intense battle as the girl watches in awe and worry. As they continue to fight against each other, the girl pulls out the +OPTIONS+ window and tries to find the call GM button in order to call someone who can help her and the pink-claded Blade Magi who is defending her. However, she was confused by the window's design, that she instead presses the +PERSONA SHIFT+ tab instead.

Back at the battle, Mira is getting an upper hand as the leader tries to block her multiple attacks with his swords, but was unable to block all of them as he fell down on the ground after she strikes him with her charge attack.

As he tries to get up, Mira points her sword near his face as she asks in a cockingly manner, "Looks like I win. Any last words before I say leave that newbie alone?"

Somehow, the leader starts to smirk, despite his incoming defeat.

"Not likely."

Mira became confused at his smirk, until she felt a small stab at her back. When she turns around, she saw not only that she was struck by a dagger behind, but also saw the leader's friends who were supposed to be frozen due to her spell, were actually behind her all this time. Realizing that she's been tricked, she muttered before she fell, "Y-You jerk!"

Shocked about this turn of events, the girl called out to Mira in worry as the bully avatars gathered around Mira, laughing at her mockingly.

"You are SO predictable! You really think I fell down that easily?!" the leader mockingly said to the fallen veteran, "We knew you're too strong to us to beat you down fairly. So we did the next best thing: cheating! Put in some clones to distract you so my friends are hiding behind you and when you win, paralyzing dagger ambush! The perfect cheat!"

"Man, you've should seen your face! You're shocked face is really funny!" the avatar with the bandana said as he laughs.

"Yeah, looks like the legend has turned into a fallen hero! Talk about priceless!" the one with the beanie added.

"Looks like we'll be the one who will say leave the newbie alone," the leader says with an evil smirk.

"Y-You won't get away with this!" Mira weakly said in anger.

"Oh, we will, SoulMagi. And I think it's time to take your Rare Item Hunter title," the leader says as he prepares his swords for Mira, which shocks her a lot since she's working for that title for so long, learning that under normal circumstances, when she is PKed, her title is lost and the PKer will take that tile, "I always want that title for so long."

"STOP!"

The girl then blocks Mira from the bullies and says, "I won't forgive you if you hurt this young girl!"

"Hey! Who says you're interrupting?" the beanie avatar angrily asks to the girl.

"Yeah, you know what happens when you interrupted!" the bandana avatar put in.

Seeing the girl, Mira weakly says to her, "W-What are you doing? Those guys are dangerous! Get out of here, right now!"

"But I won't leave you here in danger!" the girl tries to reason with her.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine," Mira says, "I should be worrying about you. You can't handle them alone."

"But I won't leave you alone, too!"

She then weakly tries to reach the girl's shoulder as she says, "Listen! You're level 1 and these guys' levels are 20-30. You can't face them alone, I'll handle things from here."

"But you're hurt! I won't leave you like this!" the girl says in worry.

"But nothing! I'm determined to save you from these guys and I won't leave until I've succeed in defending you," Mira weakly explains to the girl, "So until you get leave, I won't leave either!"

Seeing Mira's determination, the girl is moved by her confidence and her remaining strength to save her.

"She reminds me of someone I know. Someone like-"

However, the moment stopped when the leader kicks Mira from behind. "Blah! Blah! Blah! I have enough anime drama already! Let's get this over with!" he says as he aims his sword on her back.

But, Mira tries to get up, despite being paralyzed from the dagger, unknowingly that her arm is still raising to the girl's +OPTIONS+ window.

"No! Stop it!" the girl pleaded.

"Sorry, girly! I'll deal with you, later! Right now, it's bye-bye, Blade Houdini girl!"

Without remorse, the leader is about to stab her with his swords, but with her remaining strength left, Mira managed to get up in time to stop his attack.

Seeing Mira escaped from his clutches, the bully avatars were about to attack her, only to her a beeping sound.

"What was that sound?"

"Probably an e-mail."

"Idiot! Can you turn off your beeping while were busy?!" the leader scolds the two.

However for Mira, she recognized that beeping sound and when she turns around, she was stunned to saw an +OPTIONS+ menu showing the words +PERSONA SHIFT SEQUENCE ACTIVATING...+ on the screen.

"PSS?! But who's-"

All of the sudden, the girl froze in shock before she can help Mira, which she notices and realizes something.

"I have my arm raised just to try to reach the girl's shoulder and she has her +OPTIONS+ menu opened when she's trying to defend me. So if I raised my arm that long to escape, then that would mean-"

"Drat! Mira, what did you done?!" Mira shouts as she slaps herself in realization, much to the bullies' confusion.

As the girl is still stunned, her shy expression is starting to disappear and when she snaps out of it, her face is expressionless as her bangs hides her eyes along with it.

"What just happened?" the bandana bully asks in confusion.

"No clue."

"Whatever it is, it's distracting us long enough to eliminate this so-called legend. Let's hurry this up so I can hit the arcade already," the bully leader said as he prepares his swords again. However, he stopped when he hears a threatening voice.

"DON'T YOU EVEN TOUCH HER!"

When the bullies turn around to see find who spoke up, they were shocked to see the girl, the newbie who is shy when they first saw her, now became serious all of the sudden.

"I knew it," Mira muttered.

"What's with the sudden mood swing? Want to end up like your hero back there?" the beanie-wearing bully asks in a mocking tone, only to be stabbed by a dagger wielded by the girl. Then she starts beating him up and throws him to the wall.

After that, she turns to the bandana-wearing avatar, which he pleading, "No, no, no, no! Not me! Not me!" But she ignores his pleas as she proceeds to beat him up next.

After finishing with the two bully avatars, she turns to the leader, which he was starting to panic right now as his hands are shaking in fear. However, he holds his ground and says, "What? So you want to fight me and end up like that veteran?!"

However, she ignores his offer as she easily knocks his swords away with her own bare hands, much to the leader's shock in horror.

"So, any last words before you're history?" the girl coldly asks to the scared bully avatar.

Seeing her cold eyes, the bully then replies in a sheepish tone, "Uncle?"

Without a word, she started beating up the leader without a remorse, much to Mira's shock as she notices what kind of persona did the girl have now thanks to her PSS. Without thinking anything else, Mira decided to use this shocking moment to try taking out the dagger from her back.

"No, please! Have mercy!" the bully avatar plead to the girl, "I promise to leave you alone!"

However, the girl paid no heed to his pleas as she deal a final strike to the avatar, which he fainted completely, leaving 1 HP after that.

After a paralyzing and painful process, Mira managed to get the dagger out from her back and also managed to pull out the antidote for her paralysis despite her being weakened from the dagger, which she quickly drinks the bottle of it completely, healing her not only from her paralysis, but also her injuries.

After drinking a few potions, Mira gets up after recovering and sees the defeated avatars and the girl, shocked that a level 1 newbie defeats some level 20-30 veterans so easily.

"So what do we do with them?" the girl asks to Mira in surprisingly younger voice.

Thinking for a few seconds, Mira answers, "Let's leave them in here, stunned and tied up for a few hours. At least we've teach them a lesson about harassing newbies."

Then she turns to the girl and says, "And I just want to say thanks for saving my butt, although I was supposed to be the one who save yours. But I'm really sorry, too."

"Sorry? For what?" the girl asks in confusion.

"For activating your PSS without you knowing or even asking," Mira explained, "You see, PSS or Persona Shift Sequence is a feature to alter your personality when it's activated. When you remained your +OPTIONS+ menu on, I accidentally activated it during the struggle without even knowing."

"Oh, so that explains why," the girl said.

"By the way, I didn't catch your name. I'm Mira," Mira introduced herself.

"I'm Rimiku. Nice to meet you."

As they shook their hands, Mira asks, "So Rimiku, why are you playing SRO in the first place anyway? To read virtual books to get away from your shyness?"

"Actually, I'm looking for someone," Rimiku replied.

"Someone?"

"Yeah, I want to talk to him about something. But, I forgot what it is," Rimiku explained.

"Forgot? What do you mean?" Mira asks.

"Well, I do remember what I want to ask him, but it seems I forgot after my PSS is activated."

Hearing this, Mira asks, "Can you pull out your +OPTIONS+ menu again?"

When Rimiku did, Mira notices something and says, "I knew it. You're forgot because you're PSS is in on higher setting."

"Huh?"

"You see, when the PSS is activated, you become your avatar, literally in terms of personality and memory. The lower the setting, the higher you keep your real-life self, but the higher the setting the more you become your avatar," Mira explains, "See? Your PSS settings is currently 80, so you forgot your real life self, but you can vaguely remember it."

"I see. How did you know all of this?" Rimiku asks in curiosity.

"I read all about PSS in the game guide in the internet. Anyways, I can lower the settings if you want-"

"No!"

Mira become confused at what she answers as Rimiku explains, "I know my higher settings almost suppressed my whole memories, but I never felt more alive with my new persona. And after seeing you defending me with determination, I want to do the same."

"Rimiku..."

"So, I don't care about my memories for now. I just want to be determined like you. I want to be like somebody," Rimiku pleaded.

Seeing her determined expression, Mira then says, "Okay, but don't say I warned you."

"Thanks. And don't worry about accidentally activating my PSS, I forgive you," Rimiku said.

"Thanks. And since I don't want you to suffer the same event in here earlier, how about I let you show you around and teach you more about game?" Mira asks.

"Are you sure? I mean, you're not busy with anything else, right?" Rimiku said.

Knowing about the quest she was supposed to take, she decided to hold it off to help Rimiku as Mira says, "Don't worry, I got time."

Thinking for a few seconds, Rimiku answers, "Well, okay. I need someone helping me in this game, anyway."

"Don't worry, you won't regret having me around!" Mira said as she and Rimiku leave the streets.

"Well, at least I'm not alone again."


A/N: So, now it begins! How do you like my mini-sequel side story so far?

Well, all I can say is: it only gets better from here! Read and review to find out more.

And Happy Upcoming New Year, everyone!