The Dangerous Path

Chapter Two

The Game of Death

The hooded figure vanished away in an instant while everyone was either panicking or laughing, thinking it was all a big joke. They thought changing everyone to their real-selves and telling that so called "story" was just a prank for the first day release. I didn't do anything at all because I knew, I just knew for sure, that from this point on, this wasn't a game anymore…

"He's not serious is he?" Darren said in his true voice. I stared at him for what felt like minutes because he wasn't the huge man I thought he was. He was probably smaller and even younger than me. If I had to guess I would say he was 5'9", and about 15 years of age. He was American too. That was the strange, awkward part of our stare.

"I think he really was," I said with the most serious face I could give.

He fell to his knees, "This can't be happening, I have my whole life ahead of me, I.."

I screamed at the top of my lungs to get him to shut up. "This isn't just you; this is thousands of people who were too scared to show their true selves to anyone close to them. That's why they bought this game; they thought they could hide from reality in a stupid video game! Just like myself…"

I looked up and everyone was staring at me. They were terrified of how scared I really was on the inside of this stupid, virtual body. I thought about it for a second and I noticed they weren't scared of how I felt. They were scared of me overall. This is my chance to be someone, my chance to be the dictator of this Godless world.

"Bro chill, everyone's staring at us." Darren seemed to pick himself up.

"Good, you're finally up, let's leave." I straightened myself up as well.

We walked right outside the town. "Do you have anyone you know here?" I asked Darren to make sure we couldn't recruit specific people.

"No, I'm kind of a loner IRL. Do you?"

I thought about it and got angry. "I do, but they'll never join up with me." Darren looked at me and shrugged, "Well why the hell not, besides you being a pretty scary person?" It's true that I wasn't the nicest person to be around nor was I the prettiest. I was nearly six feet tall, very skinny, and what made me was my long, black hair. It made me look like a serial killer.

"What's that group over there?" Darren pointed at a group of people what seemed to look like a guild forming up, but I was sure it was just a party going to level grind somewhere. I looked more closely and I noticed something, no, someone even further back from that party. It was a girl, and she was solo. I told Darren to follow me and we went around the group to see who she was. My mouth dropped when I saw it Asuna.