The Tale of Kiweh

Let it be known that I, Kiweh, am the greatest of all sorcerers.

'Why?' you ask? Huh..? What do you mean, you didn't ask?! Well, whatever. I'll tell you anyways.

It's because I cast the ultimate spell. The ultimate spell of ultimate power with ultimate timing of... ultimate proportions...? Whatever! Just know that this spell was AWESOME and it makes me better than you!

You see, it happened like this.

I was fighting a monster, because that's really all you have to do in this world. It was pretty crowded since my loser 'Controller' always joined the first channel she saw, so I always ended up having to fight for my monsters. Well, it wasn't ME doing the fighting but.. whatever, that's not the point!

Anyways, I was giving it my all, and trash-talking all those silly monsters. I remember the first time I did this, I thought my player had to be some sadistic creep! She killed monsters that said stuff like, 'What a nice day it is!' Then I realized, what the muffins, they're monsters! What should I care? (Plus they're only recycled and transported back to the same area of the map.)

Oops, did I get off-track again? It's your fault for reading so hard! ANYWAYS, it was maintenance time. I know now that was the time that 'Controllers' changed and tested our world, or something like that. Anyways, I watched the people disappearing around me but... this time, my player didn't make me leave. She stayed all the way until the maintenance was starting! I was kind of annoyed, because I didn't want my level (leveling is hard y'know) to go away because of a rollback. I kept watching as people disappeared before the countdown to maintenance, and waiting for the time of Darkness to arrive. That's what I call that maintenance thing now. I just thought of it, because when it happens, everything goes dark for a while. I don't even get to sit with the other characters.

The server countdown reached one, and I got worried.

I don't like the dark, you see... Shut up! It's not funny! It's just... nobody knows I'm here. I see other people around me, but I couldn't talk to them on my own. I couldn't pet dogs that followed me, I couldn't fight my own battles, and all of this just amplifies in the darkness. You realize how insignificant you really are. In one second, you can be erased. Stop existing. Forever.

And the one life you had, wasn't even yours.

It's because of all these thoughts that I had started to fear the dark, and the thinking that came with it. Would I ever see the light again? I wondered in that brief second before shut down.

But wait, why was I still there? Everything else had gone around me. Everything except the ground I stood on and that, too, seemed to be getting more and more transparent, and less and less likely to let me keep standing on it. I was scared out of my mind! I wouldn't tell just anyone this, by the way. I consider us buddies since you've stuck with me for so long... Oops, again... getting off track. Sorry.

I knew I couldn't do anything on my own.

Was I really going to disappear? Was this it?

No! Did you forget I'm the greatest sorcerer of all time? I cast a spell! But, wait. I had cast a spell. Me. And it was a spell that I didn't have. It was a spell nobody had.

I shouldn't have been able to do it, but I did.

The second I did it, for a split second, everything went really weird. It seemed like everything was made out of squares, and my arm had disappeared. I thought maybe I broke the world. But no, just as quickly as everything went screwy - everything fixed. People started reappearing around me. Monsters came back. Trees, the ground, water. Everything came back.

I fell to the ground in relief and kissed it.

Wait, WHAT?

That's right, whatever I did... now, I could move. Now, I was my own person.

**Meanwhile**

Naomi, in another world, tapped her chin in confusion. Why couldn't she use the name Kiweh again?