AN: Hello! how are you all! Just as a warning I have not played online multiplayer games before, so i have no idea how they work, so be warned.
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight. You should be grateful for that.
NerdFury1457 pulled out his mace and killed the bear that had been charging towards him. It had been a month since I had set up the profile, and I had already maxed out the smithing skill. I was wearing black diamond armor with a dragon skull helmet, and I was equipped with a crossbow and a demonic mace that I had lovingly dubbed "Skull Crusher". I bent over the bear corps to get the hide to sell in town, when I heard the telltale cracking noise that said that a dark dryad had just jumped out of a tree. Looking up from the bear I saw the creature lunging at me. I gave a shout through the head set along the lines of "Holy $ #%!" when an arrow shot from behind me and embedded itself into the dryad's chest. I spun around and saw a wood elf standing with his bow drawn.
"Thanks" I said into the headset.
"No problem." Said the wood elf. As the player approached I could make out his gamer tag, BloodyKatana719.
"Dryads are usually guarding chests. If you look around you might find one." I said feeling mildly indebted to him.
"Really? I didn't know that! Will you help me look?" He said. I didn't detect any sarcasm.
"Sure dude! Let me just check this bear for stuff."
"Are you going to town to sell some things?" he asked.
"Yeah, I need some more crossbow bolts, and I'm completely out of health potions."
"Wow, so if that dryad had gotten you, you would have been toast!"
"Yeah. It's a good thing that you happened along then!"
I straightened up from checking the bear, and helped search the clearing for the chest. In the end I found it half hidden behind a bush.
"Hey, BloodyKatana! I found it!" I called into the headset. He jogged across the clearing and squatted in front of the chest and tried to open it.
"I think it's locked." He said after a few seconds.
"Just use your lock picks." I said.
"I don't have any." He said sounding sad.
I laughed. "Well it's your lucky day! I have 50 lock picks! Move over." I crouched over the chest, and after a few seconds of fiddling with the controls I had it open. Inside was a potion of wellbeing, a black diamond dagger enchanted with ice damage, and 5,000 coins. I stepped back and looked at Bloodykatana719.
"What are you waiting for." I asked
"You found the chest and opened it. You should get the contents." He said, as if it was obvious.
"Tis a falsehood!" I declared grandly. "You killed the guardian! Anyway, I owe you for saving my hide back there."
He laughed. "Okay, a compromise. You take the dagger and the potion. I'll take the coins. They're worth about the same, and you need the potions."
"Okay, that sounds fair dude. I'd better get to the town and sell some of the crap I'm carrying."
"I was on my way to the village when I saw that dryad, can I walk with you?"
"Sure dude! Sounds like fun!" we switched our communications to a private channel and started the short trek to the village. We were about half way there and chatting merrily, when we saw some other players ahead. There were three of them in really nice demonic armor, and they were all carrying maxed out short-ranged weapons. As we watched, another player came out of the woods. The three gamers rushed at him and killed him. They started to rummage through his stuff, laughing about weak players.
"Ugh, I hate those kind of gamers." Said BloodyKatana719 with disgust.
"Yeah, they make the game no fun for everyone!" I agreed. Grinning evilly I said. "Wanna teach them a lesson?"
"Oh dear, I can feel your evil aura through my laptop! What's your plan?"
Laughing I explained. "See how they all only have short range weapons? If we take them out with our respective bows, they won't be able to retaliate. Then we take their gold and leave a chat message telling them that they should stop ruining the game for everyone, or we will strike again!"
I could hear BloodyKatana laughing through his head set.
"Dude we have to do that! We will be like the gaming avengers! But we should give all their gold to that gamer they just killed!"
Now I was laughing too.
"The Gaming Avengers, I like that! Let's make it official and start a team with that name!"
"Yeah! That way those jerks can't track the attack and hassle us!"
We were hooting with laughter into our respective headsets. We set up a team and dubbed it "The Gaming Avengers". Then we attacked!
BloodyKatana was amazing with his bow, he took out the first two avatars with a single shot. The third guy tried to rush me with his sword, but I got him with two crossbow bolts. After sending the gold to the player they had killed, we continued onto the town.
"Wow NerdFury, this was crazy fun man! We should play together more often!"
"Yeah, we should!"
I heard my mom calling me from downstairs.
"Alex, honey! It's time for dinner!"
"Aw, crap dude! I gotta go! I'll send you a chat message when I'm logged in next, okay?"
"Sounds cool man! I'll see you then!" he said and took off, heading for the weapon shop.
I logged out and sighed. My first gaming friend. I wondered what his name was.
Takuma Ichijo watched his new friend do the standard fade that the avatars did when a player logged out.
"Alex." He said quietly to himself. His vampire hearing had picked up the boy's mother calling him to dinner. He idly wondered if he would ever meet the boy outside of this game, then dismissed it. Shiki was telling him to turn off his computer, and go to sleep. It was nearly 9:00 in the morning and they had their first day of class tomorrow night. He sighed and flipped the laptop closed. He hoped that he and Alex would play again soon.
AN: Yep so that's that. Like I said, I have never played online multiplayer games so please be nice.
