Anon: Saki did a great job starting the story, now it's my turn to write. :)

El Gang: Are we going to be introduced!?

Anon: Maybe.

El Gang: We will be staring at you until you put us in.

Blaze: Plus, who's Kaji?

Anon: A combination of Ember and yourself~.

Blaze and Ember: WHAT!?

Kaji: Sup.

Elsword: Wait, if Kaji is a combination of Ember and Blaze... then that means... o.o

Aisha: *Hits Elsword with her staff* Baka, they didn't do what you think they did.

Anon: Anyway, ONTO THE STORY!


Kaji's POV:

I waved slightly as she left with a smile and only stopped when she disappeared I stopped. I mentally face palmed before physically hitting my head into my locker lightly

"'Come find me okay.'? Jeez I sound like I'm desperate or something." I turned the dial to my locker opening it up to place some books before closing it with another sigh.

'Should have I...No, it doesn't matter.' I push all my thoughts off to the side as I made my way home. It was a nice day for a walk back home with the sun up in the sky with not a single cloud in sight and the temperature wasn't that bad either at a warm 72 degrees with that was accompanied with a nice breeze. People were walking about and on my way back home, I decided to pass by the local game store to see a massive line stretching from the inside of the store to the long line of waiting customers and gamers along the sidewalk. I could only imagine how long some of those people were waiting in line to get the new hit game, Immersion Online and I could only chuckled at them. I kept on walking past the store and before long, I reached the entrance to my home. Getting to the front door and reaching for the door handle, it opened on its own and I found my self face to face with my sister.

"Oh, hi there Kaji."

"Hey there Ember. Is Mom and Dad home?"

"They won't be for a while. Dad is still going to be out of the state for some time and Mom had a meeting turn up recently so there's something in the fridge for dinner. I'll be off to practice now. Later."

She passed me and I waved to her before heading inside. I chucked my bag off to the side into the closet before heading upstairs to my room. I closed the door behind me and looked at my computer screen to see that the IO servers weren't coming online for another five minutes giving me enough time to check my head gear, too see if it was plugged in before sliding it on my own head and lay in my bed. The clock on this inside blinked the just a minute before the IO servers started for what seemed like an eternity until it switched over and a small grin spread against my own face.

"Link Start!" The dark screen was replaced with a spectrum of colors appeared onto the screen before I entered in my log in information and password and scrolled over to my own character to select it. Clicking him, my vision went dark before color returned to the familiar little village. I looked down at my own hands to find them having a metallic sheen to them and I grinned even harder as I clenched my fist.

"It's good to be back." I looks up at my surroundings to see multiple other players starting to enter as well. I placed my fingers together and swiped down opening up my own menu and switched over to my inventory slots to find a few items stored inside consisting of my weapons, combat clothing, and some potions and a valuable teleportation crystal. I exited the inventory section to find a new message in my inbox from the creators of IO. I opened it to have it say:

"Thank you for your efforts in the Beta. As a reward, you'll be rewarded with 75,000 ED along with a random beginners weapon." I looked down to see the amount of ED deposited in my bank along with this gift in my inventory. I opened it to find the one weapon that I would have been looking for and bought but I guess not. I quickly equipped the assault rifle along with the retractable swords along with replacing my plain tan pants with some blue ones and some beginners leather armored top when this random person with blond hair came up to me.

"Hey you!" I turned to look at him with my eyebrow raised and he leaned down panting before he looked back up at me.

"May I help you?"

"Yes, yes you can. You look like a person that knows how to play this game, can you teach me the basics?"

"Um well..."

"Please? It would help me very much!" I looked at him for a second considering my decisions, but it wouldn't hurt to help a Bambi in need.

"Fine, come along then, I know where a good place to hunt is" His face light up with a smile and he jumped with joy and I looked away slightly when he stuck his hand out.

"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!" I looked at his hand for a second before grasping it. "The name's Chung by the way!"

"Blaze."

"Well Blaze, enough standing here, lets get on with this monster hunting!"


I look on with one of my hands on my hip as Chung laid flat on his back at my feet.

"Jeez that hurts..."

"Well you can't go in swinging like that, there's a certain rhythm you have to hit and you'll get used to it." I extended one of my own swords and approached the mob we were fighting and I looked at it. "Once you get used to the fighting, you can predict an attackers movements to deflect and defend against." It lunged at me and I brought my sword up to block and hold him still before circling around.

"It's all about getting the right movements around and when you do so, the system will kick in to activate the ability. Once you get used to knowing how to swing properly and get the system to react, fighting won't be that hard."

"Right!" He squatted down with his sword drawn focusing on the target before he lunged forward skewering the weakened animal killing it rewarding him with some ED, XP, and an item.

"Now that wasn't that hard was it?"

"No, it wasn't at all."

"Then again, this is one of the lower level creatures here so it wasn't that hard to defeat it but once you've got those basic skills down, then it won't take that much time to get the hang of it and you're on your way.

"Say, you wouldn't be one of those Beta testers are you?"

"What?" I fidgeted a little and looked down at him surprised.

"Well I'm only saying that since you seem to have a wide range of knowledge about this game so I guessed your one of the 1,000 picked to play." I sighed in defeat and sat down on the grass.

"Yeah, I'm one of the Beta Testers but can you keep it between the two of us? I'd rather not have a trail of people behind me asking for some tips and even some pointers to what's ahead." Chung sat down next to me and we both looked off into the distance into the surrounding area.

"You know, I've never thought that this would be possible."

"Hm?"

"I mean this virtual reality. Our own bodies are at our houses laying in a bed or what ever they were when we linked up, and yet here we are moving around like we would have in real life. Everything seems so real yet we're here in a video game." He then looked over at me with one of his warm smiles and I turned to look at him. "You know I'm going to be meeting up with some friends real soon. I'm guessing they've also logged on as well and I was wondering if you wanted to join us."

"I'll think about it." To be honest, I didn't really want to get involved with any guilds and I usually play it more of a solo rout. I was about to say something when I heard Chung's stomach growl.

"Well in this game, food might satisfy the my characters hunger but it won't do the same thing with my real one. I think I might log out for a bit to get something to eat before I come back online."

"All right then, I guess I'll be seeing you around then right Chung."

"Right." He swiped his fingers down and scrolled through the different options to pick from the menu but his face turned into a scowl.

"Hey, where's the log off button?"

"What? It should be right there..." I trailed off as I looked on his screen before opening my own to find that I was missing my own log off button.

"Have you tried to contact the Game Masters?"

"They haven't picked up or answered at all. Is there any other way for us to get out of this game?"

"There is one other way, it's if the full immersion head gear is removed, we should return back to the real world but you'll need an outside source to do it. Do you have anyone living with you?"

"I don't, I'm living solo. How about you?"

"I have a sister but she's out at practice and my parents won't be home for a while but this doesn't make any sense. The log out button was there during the Beta and it was there when I logged in as well."

"Hey, what's that in the sky?" Chung pointed at this image up in the sky and I squinted to see it but nothing made sense.

"Wait, but that's- AGH!" A sudden bright light blinded the two of us for a moment before it faded to show that we were in the center of the beginners town with everyone else around us.

'Wait, was that a forced teleport? Why would the Game Master do that!?'

"Hey Blaze, do you think everyone here that logged on is here?" I only looked around stunned and nodded slightly. "In that case my friends should be here somewhere. I just need to find them so I'll be right ba-" He paused in mid sentence as he looked up at the sky to see it turn a dark red before an object, no a person started to materialize above us all and everything, everyone, was dead silent. The cloaked figure floated above us all and some people murmured between each other and the single name passed through us all. "Game Master."


Anon: And here's my chapter :D

Chung: YES! I've been introduced!

Ember: I'm Kaji's sister?

Anon: Yes, yes you are.

Blaze: And I'm Kaji's avatars name...

Anon: Yep :3

Everyone but Anon, Blaze, Ember, Chung, and Kaji: WHAT ABOUT US!

Anon: Hush little ones, you'll be introduced in due time. Now, Saki it's your turn~.