The First Wave

by Luna Silvereyes

Shiki Kawegama has just begun the most popular MMORPG, The World III. The day he logs in for the first time, he sees a year old entry on the forum with a grisly message. A player once logged into The World...and never again logged out.

1. Prelude

The First Wave

Luna Silvereyes

A/N: This is my first .Hack fanfic. I LOVE this series!! I'll do my best to make it come out right. If it doesn't, may I be digitized!!

Prelude

Welcome to The World.

That was what it said on the screen. A click. A few typed keys. I was in. I knew exactly what I wanted to be after reading the manual. I wanted to be a Wavemaster. I customized my character, long black hair with pink highlights along the bangs over my eyes and my neck. My staff held a sapphire amulet hovering in the center of two spikes sticking out vertically. My outfit matched the amulet.

Finally, the last step; naming. I would only get once chance to choose and it had to be special. Something everyone would someday know me by, once I surpassed the level of beginner.

Aeon.

That was it. My name in The World would be Aeon.

I was ready to begin my adventure. Everything was so perfect. I was beginning the most popular game of the century.

How was I to know that it would turn out so wrong?

A/N: This is the shortest chapter I've ever written, but believe me, they won't all be like this. Looks can be deceiving and I discovered I have a somewhat unique ability to write in the style of whatever I recently watched or read. Kinda helps. Please review and tell me what you think. Oh, and Of Life and Arrangements still has some bugs that need to be worked out. The same applies for Times of Change.