The main character of this story is Cloud Strife, a beginner of the MMORPG called "The World". There are the characters from SIGN, a few from the games, and two characters I made up: Kammy and Miroku.

I have also written it in first person, so I am Cloud.

I have rewritten the story because of the bad reviews I have received. Enjoy the rewrite.

Chapter 1: The First Day

Written by: Chosen Paradise

Scene 1: Registration and Log In

"Finally I'm done with the registration! Now I can start the game. My friends are probably waiting for me. I better hurry!"

As soon as I finished, a screen came up. It was red and had signs on it. Hey, I thought. I got new e-mail. When I opened the screen, I had a few e-mails. There where two from C. C. Corp, and a few from my friends. As soon as I finished reading my mail, I went ahead and logged on.

There was flashing and colors. I noticed the colors transform and turn into something in the portal he was in. A dragon, I thought. Why am I seeing a dragon? I like it. Then everything went black.

Scene 2: Party

When I logged on, I noticed a couple of players near the chaos gate. "Finally! You got here," Miroku said.

"Wow! Is that you?" Kammy said. "I like your character!"

"Thanks!" I said. "I'm a Twin Blade. And as you can see, I am wearing black cloth, a black cape, and black wings, long and beautiful. I even know a few secrets of character profiles and their special looks."

"That's nice...Tell us later," Miroku said. "Right now we have to prepare for the area were going to. Here, take our member addresses."

Then I got their member addresses. "Let's get ready," Kammy said. Then we headed for the stores.

The way they looked was okay. Miroku's yellow/orange clothing was gay looking and Kammy's Blademaster armor with its grey coloring was okay. Eh, they're still powerful… I think.

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Subaru, Silver Knight, and Crim are on one of the boats. "I see there are 3 new characters. Look even one of them has wings." Subaru said.

"Isn't that illegal?" Silver Knight asked.

"No, its not. Balmung of the Azure Sky has wings as well."

"I see..."

"But enough of this," Crim said. "I just received an e-mail from Mimiru. She is inviting us to D Obsessed Peaceful Wavemaster" After that, they got off the boat and went towards the chaos gate.

"Let's go to D Obsessed Peaceful Wavemaster!" Miroku said.

"Why there?" Kammy asked. I was also wondering why there.

"I heard that there are strong items there and there are monsters there that can give us EXP to level up fast. Plus, it's a popular area here. The monsters are easy to kill."

"Um…fine. Let's go. I want to know how the battle system works anyway."

We agreed and went towards the chaos gate. We warped to the area first. Then Subaru and her party waited for the others.

Scene 3: Area

We were still in the portal. Once again I saw the shape of a dragon in the portal.

What is that, I thought. I bet I'll find out soon enough.

Then we entered the field. It looked like a desert. When we were on our feet, we noticed others were warping here as well. We didn't know who they were, so we went towards the dungeon.

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Subaru, Crim, Silver Knight, Mimiru, Bear, and Tsukasa were in the field.

"Were suppose to meet Kite and BlackRose here." Mimiru said.

"Balmung and Orca should be here too, am I right?" Subaru asked.

"Yeah, they'll be here." Tsukasa said.

Then they went towards the dungeon.

Scene 4: Dungeon

We entered the dungeon. "Oh, wow!" Kammy said.

The dungeon was a castle-based area.

"Let's move on," I said.

When we entered the next room, there was a monster portal. When it opened up, there were three monsters! "Ah! Not a Fire Wyrm!" Miroku said. "It's fire tolerance! We need to use water based skills and scrolls!"

"Got it!" I said.

We used all of our skills to kill it. Neither of us had a water skill and scroll, so the battle lasted longer. When we killed it, we gained 560 EXP! Then a treasure box came out as soon as it died. "I wonder what's inside..." I said.

"Open it and find out!" Kammy said.

I got close to the treasure box. I opened it and got a weapon.

"Hey!" I said. "This is a weapon for Twin Blades! It's Hell's Gate! And it's at level 14! Way cool!"

I equipped it right away. I became stronger, and I was still at level 1! "What level is this area again?" I asked.

"It's at level 16 area," Miroku told me. "That is why the monsters are strong..."

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"Lancer Pha!" Tsukasa screamed out.

Water Wyrm was killed instantly, but they still had to face the goblins.

"Rue Crack!" Bear said. The goblins died instantly.

"The monsters aren't that strong anymore," Mimiru said.

"They're harder if you go alone," Subaru said.

"But if you go in a team," Crim buds in. "It is a lot easier."

"I don't like to battle, so I'll just heal you guys." Tsukasa said.

"Fine," Mimiru says.

"Hey!" Bear says. "Silver Knight died!"

They started to laugh.

"Laugh all you want," S.K. said. "Lady Subaru, please revive me."

"That's Tsukasa's job," she said.

"I kind of like him better as a ghost." He hesitated a little bit, then he revived him. Subaru giggled a little bit. Then they went ahead.

Scene 5: B3

We had survived the first tow levels and now we are at B3, the last floor. We all have had share of death, items, weapons, and level ups. I am at level 10, Miroku is at level 9, and Kammy is at level 11. We were close to the Gott Statue, but we had to go through a few more rooms.

"I'm tired..." Kammy said.

"Yeah, me too." I agreed. "Let's rest a bit."

"Fine." Miroku agreed.

Then we entered a large room. There were four people fighting a glowing monster. "We have to help them!" I said.

"We won't get any rest if we keep this up!" Miroku said. "All well. Let's go!" And so they went ahead and fought the monster.

As soon as we entered battle, the four players were weakened a lot. The beast was very powerful, but what is it?

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Subaru, Crim, Tsukasa, Bear, Mimiru, and Silver Knight made it to the bottom as well. "I think this is the room." Mimiru said.

"Let's hope so." Bear said.

Then they went in. They saw them, but they also saw our heroes and the glowing monster. "Let's go!" Tsukasa said. Then they went towards it.

Scene 6: Data Bug and New Weapons; Twilight!!!

"Stop pissing me off!" BlackRose said.

"I still can't use data drain!" Kite said.

"Well," Orca said. "Keep trying!"

"Use everything you have!" I said aloud.

"Don't give up!" Subaru said.

The data bug was probably at level 25, but we didn't care. It was strong. It was very strong.

"Data Drain!" Kite said.

"What a cool skill..." I said.

Then I entered the data of the dungeon. In the static I saw the twilight colors again, but this time the dragon went towards me. "Ah!" I screamed out. Then Kite saw me. Kite and I entered back into the room. I was standing, but barely.

Kite held a virus core. Then the monster was easy to kill. I got up to his feet and ran towards the monster. In a flash of light the monster was gone. "Cloud!" Miroku shouted out.

"How'd you do that?"

"I..."he said. "I don't know..."

I checked my status window and noticed that I was holding twilight equipment and weapon! The entire arsenal is at level 99! I was excited, but I had noticed that there were weird marks on my cloth, almost the same as Kite's.

"Sorry for intruding, but we only came here for the treasure in the Gott Statue. So… bye." I said.

Then I and my party went towards the treasure room. Before we got there, we were transported to a different field and so did the others. "Not now!" BlackRose said.

"One of the 8 Phases." Kite said.

"One of the 8 what?" I said. Before Kite had the time to answer, Skeith came out of one of his portals. Then it began...

Scene 7: The Usage of the Legendary Twilight Items and Twilight Dragon

Skeith immediately used data drain on Silver Knight. He was knocked out cold for a few minutes. "Someone heal me!" he said. But no one listened. We fought Skeith with all of our remaining power.

"Lancer Pha!" Tsukasa yelled out.

"Pha Rai Don!" I yelled out.

We all wasted our entire SP immediately. Then something happened. Kite's bracelet and my weapons were glowing.

"Kite," I said. "I think they're saying something. I think they're saying that if you data drain me I will be able to summon the Twilight Dragon! He will be our key!"

"You sure about that?" Kite asked.

"I'm positive. Now Data Drain me!"

Kite paused for a moment. "What if it doesn't work?"

"There's only one way to find out." I closed my eyes and waited.

"Hurry up!" Miroku yelled out.

"We can't hold him much longer!" Bear screamed out.

"There's nothing else we can do now!" BlackRose said.

"Now hurry!" I yelled out.

Kite was still nervous.

Then Kite performed Data Drain on me. I started glowing the twilight colors. Brighter, brighter, brighter. Then I took form of the dragon.

"Twilight Dragon!" I screamed out. "I summon you!"

Then after stunning Skeith with the light, I turned into the Twilight Dragon. I roared and roared.

"Wow!" Miroku said.

"Way cool!" Kammy said.

"It's beautiful." Subaru said. "The colors. How wonderful. But..."

"Yeah," Tsukasa said.

"We still need to kill Skeith." Kite said.

Then I (twilight dragon) shot a stream of fire at Skeith. The damage was incredible. The speed of my dragon form was blindingly fast. Skeith couldn't outrun me. He was doomed. Then I used my tail to put it in Protect Break.

"Use Data Drain!" I told Kite.

"Right!" The he performed Data Drain once again. Skeith was now vulnerable to damage.

I told them he would take care of the rest and so the dragon shot the fire again and killed Skeith. At least I think I did. Skeith soon started to malt and then became a puddle and the puddle fell through a crack on the ground. We all cheered and threw our weapons over our heads. Good thing we can catch our weapons. Then I turned back to normal.

"Let's go back to town and rest." I asked.

We all agreed with that idea and gated out.

Scene 8: Back to Town

We all appeared in front of the chaos gate, exhausted from the battle.

"How did Skeith come back?" Kite asked.

"What's a Skeith?" I asked.

"I forgot...you're new..."

"Heh heh..."

"It was the reborn of the Dragon..." Helba appeared in front of them.

Kammy was startled and landed on Miroku's back. "Get off me you silly girl," Miroku dropped her on her bottom. I was confused by what was going on, again.

"Looks like you're not the little boy with strange powers anymore." Helba told Kite. He just smirked.

"The... Dragon? The thing I turned into?" I said. Soon Lios also appeared into the scene.

Everybody had logged out except for Kite, Helba, Lios, and I.

"I'm still confused. What's a Phase?" I complained.

"We'll continue tomorrow?" Kite asked Lios.

Lios was in thought. "Yes...the little ones should go to sleep. It's getting late." Helba said. Kite logged out, but Cloud stayed. He wanted to know more...

A/N-

I have described the characters (new ones that is) and the situation.

Can Cloud be able to use Dragon again? And is Skeith really gone? The only way to find out is if you read Chapter 2. (Damn it! That sounds corny.)