Well, so sorry for the wait, everyone! I hope you enjoy this chapter! I found the first part fun to write and the last part of it somewhat slow as I needed those kinds of things to happen. I'll probably go back and flesh it out a lot more later, but I just got lazy, I hate to admit. I'm actually not very happy with the last part I wrote and am sad to say it's probably one of the worse things I've written... *hides* Anyways, like last time I have the translation for a few terms, but if I leave one out please note it in a review/message and I will fix it ASAP. Again, sorry for the wait, but I've been crazy busy! Also, I apologize about this, but I took it off momentarily because I had a different version on my computer than I had on fanfiction, so I edited the story, and I hope that clears up some confusion. I tried to keep it similar but I had to take out a lot and add some new stuff in.
R&R, everything here (C) to Yu Wo except for things that I made up... But that isn't much... .
ID: Storm
Level: 11
Reputation: 0
Spider's Laire
A Second Start II
"Watch out!" someone yelled, and I felt an intense pain in my back. Was I dying? The thought raced through my mind. I slammed to the ground. No, the pain was too real. How the heck could it hurt so much if I was dead! Wait, this was a game, wasn't it? Why was there this much pain! I bit my lip to keep myself from screaming, and slowly stood up and turned around to face the threat.
I immediately started screaming at the top of my lungs. A huge, hairy spider twice as tall as me was leering at me with killing intent in its eyes. I panicked and kept screaming, instead of attacking it as I should have. I had never been so scared in a game before. Plus, the pain was keeping my hold on sanity at bay.
"What are you doing! Don't scream, move or you'll get hit!" And before I knew it, I was swept off my feet and hurled into a conveniently placed tree. I groaned at the impact and quickly drew in a breath. Was it just me or was this just a little too realistic? Anger swept through me as I realized what had happened. That freaking spider had just hurled me across the clearing!
"Sorry." I spat, and I took my sword and slashed half-heartedly at the spider and leapt away quickly, fear still numbing my arms and making my hands slip on the hilt. It took the hit with little thought.
| Storm has attacked Noble Spider for -4 Damage|
"Too weak!" the player screamed from behind me.
"What!" I hissed, and instantly struck again, putting more power into my hit.
| Storm has attacked Noble Spider for -7 Damage| Technique Learned: Angry Hit |
"GRRR!" I growled and used my aoe attack, but it ended up doing even less damage! I was so screwed! Anticipation of the huge spider's attack made me tremble and I dropped my sword. It immediately swept forward and dealt some damage, simultaneously hurling my sword out of my sight and knocking me back a few feet.
"Come on!" I yelled, and I kicked it in frustration.
| Storm has attacked Noble Jelly for -10 Damage| Technique learned: Power Kick |
"Is this some kind of joke?" I muttered, but it had done more damage than just the sword strike, and I had lost the sword. "Might as well." I muttered, and kicked it again, and again, and again.
| Storm has attacked Noble Jelly for -10 Damage|
| Storm has attacked Noble Jelly for -10 Damage| Technique: Power Kick Leveled up |
| Storm has attacked Noble Jelly for -15 Damage|
The spider squealed and dissolved in a blue light. I sighed in relief.
| Storm has defeated Noble Jelly and Gained 112 Experience | Storm is now Lvl. 13 |
"YES!" I grinned triumphantly and punched the air in celebration. I quickly crouched down to see what I had gotten. A weird-looking light-blue sheathe, a weak dagger and a small amount of money. Sighing, I put it in my bag, and it was deposited in the system. My triumph faded. What a lousy reward.
"Hey, are you okay?" a flirtatious female voiced asked me. I immediately looked up and smiled daintily at her.
"Yes, thanks for asking." I stood and smoothed my light green newbie pants. I realized how much of a newbie I must have looked like. Well I had only been playing this game for about an hour.
"I'm Silver." She smiled, blushing furiously. I stared at her incomprehensively. Why was she blushing so much?
"Um, thanks Silver. Is something wrong?" I asked. If only I hadn't. Well you know what they say, ignorance is bliss.
"Kyaaa!" she started jumping up and down, "Please please please please please go out with me!" she begged, literally drooling. I stared at her, dumbfounded.
"Are you… lesbian?" I asked numbly, my jaw literally dropping.
"Why would I be lesbian if I'm asking a guy out?" she asked, but she was still fawning over me with a scary expression on her face. That's when it dawned on me. I was a guy! That was why those girls had been following me around! When that realization struck I looked at her and then she was suddenly hugging my arm.
"I'm not interested!" I said sharply and pushed her away on impulse. Now I was thoroughly disgusted.
"Come on, Storm-chan!" Silver sang familiarly, bouncing up and down.
"I said I'm not interested. Piss off!" I yelped. Why was she bugging me? Anger swept through me and my hand seemed to move of its own accord as I gripped the hilt of the dagger I had just received and thrust it through her heart. She suddenly looked stricken and her gaze dropped to the blood dripping slowly down the blade. She moved her mouth as if she was trying to speak but no sound came out. Then blood gushed out all over her and she shot up in a yellow arc of light. I stood there for a minute, remembering over and over again her stunned face. I didn't want to be a PKer*!
| Storm attacks Player Silver, Reputation -100 | Storm Gains 224 experience | Storm is level 14 | Storm ranked 01 on Notorious Board |
I jumped as the message popped up in front of me. I swore under my breath. I might have leveled up twice but I had just taken the top on the Notorious charts. The game had only been around for an hour and here I was, the "most dangerous" person in the game. Now I would be branded as a PKer! I glared at the dagger I received and hurled it away. I swore under my breath and began looking for my sword.
"Looking for this?" a masculine voice asked me, and I snapped my head around to see a lithe man in a weird blue outfit. I smiled and nodded, thankful to have been interrupted by him. I looked at him closely, both attracted by his good looks and wondering if he had seen my crime.
"Thanks." I said cautiously a little paranoid still from what I had just done.
"No problem." He smiled and handed me the thin sword. I took it from him and stared down at the perfect blade appreciatively. When I looked up to ask him who he was, he was gone.
Shaking my head, I reluctantly decided to start playing with the techniques I had learned. It appeared that if you did weird things that you would learn interesting techniques, so I employed all different types of battling styles, including some aikido moves I had learned during some of my classes and even resorting to kicking, punching, pinching, slicing, dicing, and sitting on monsters(Don't ask!). I constantly roamed around the newbie field, and moved on to higher-leveled monsters once I got bored with the weaklings. After dealing with a particularly nasty round of Small Foxes which almost killed me, I decided I should look around for a team member. I was now level 16, and I figured I had probably stalled for too long. I was a dps** so I would need someone to protect me or buff me.
So I set foot back to the town to find someone, nonchalantly just swinging my sword and killing monsters with my new aoe, which was a slicing-type move. Somehow it created a weird gust and killed several monsters. Sadly, though, it only went one direction, even though it had great range and went pretty far. But my sword had a lot of attack power so most of the monsters died in one hit.
The second I stepped into town I felt weird. The staring from the girls resumed and my awareness ability made me (only vaguely) aware of the girls following me. A window popped up letting me know my ability leveled up. I realized that I wasn't going to be able to find anyone useful if they were all just going to chase me like this, so I went back into the field after resupplying. I returned the where the Foxes were, hoping to level up a little bit.
But now, about an hour and a half into the game, there were too many newbies that were dying in the fields and hogging all the aggro mobs to do anything. They were too low of a level for these fields to be practicing here, but they didn't know that yet, so they just kept coming. It was always this way in new games. The mobs here were little blue foxes: vicious beasts that had no qualms tearing people apart limb by limb
"Can you guys move?" I asked with a friendly smile.
"No, sorry, scram newbie." They didn't sound sorry at all. As if they should be talking, anyways. They were the newbies here, not me.
"Get out of the way!" someone hissed at me, chasing a monster and promptly getting attacked and almost dying. They sucked down a potion and I killed the monster for him. I, of course, stole the loot that it dropped with a grin. "KS{+}! Really?" the player proceeded to cuss me out and start to attack me. I deftly dodged his attack and made a counter-kill, a skill I picked up when fighting mobs. It was an instant kill and I ignored the window popping up showing I lost reputation. Who needs reputation. I deftly dodged his attack and made a counter-kill, a skill I picked up when fighting mobs. It was an instant kill. My eye twitched as another window announced my loss of reputation. Great.
"You'll just die, so get out!" That made me snap. No one tells me I'm weak!
"I'M NOT WEAK!" I yelled, and I launched myself at the nearest player. Before I knew what was happening, all the players got pissed expressions on their faces and started attacking me. Within ten minutes all the players were dead, I had lost almost 2000 reputation points, gained three more levels, and had half the mobs in the area chasing me viciously. I dispatched them quickly, trying out a few new techniques with my agility. I was kind of hoping for some kind of boss to appear but I didn't have any luck. More people were starting to show up and wonder about the blood on the ground. Time to get out of there. I slipped away quietly after I dispatched the fox that was attacking me.
I decided it was time to update my equipment. I badly needed some new clothes, since my newbie stuff was outdated and weak for my level, and made me look like a… Newbie, as those other players had stated so rudely earlier. I walked into the shop, blissfully unaware of the unusual number of guards hanging around. I walked up to the counter and pointed to an expensive set of armor.
"You want to buy this?" the shopkeeper asked in a monotone. He was obviously not a very good salesman
"Yup." I smiled shortly. What was it with rude people in this game?
"Here."
"Thanks." I said sarcastically and paid for it quickly. I was now broke, thanks to this armor, but it would last me for another ten levels and had fairly good stats. It was even kind of cute, with a lot of gorgeous blues and greens.
"Storm, right? Can you come with me, please." A tough woman's voice demanded. I looked over and my heart sunk as I recognized the insignia on her armor. She was the captain of the guard, and her purpose was to take away criminals.
"I haven't done anything." I immediately denied anything that I could have possibly done.
"You're wanted. You're the top on the Player-Killer list." Apparently I had been busy. I hadn't actually killed very many people, compared to the past, but I still had killed like twenty players. I guess that was enough to be ranked number one.
"I just started playing! I just got out of my newbie equipment! I'm not even level 20!" I babbled, shocked.
"Don't resist." Several guards came up behind me and grabbed me.
"You can't do this!"
"Yes we can."
And with that, I was dragged away.
*PKer – Aka Player-Killer, I'm just so used to saying PK it's what I typed. This is a person who takes advantage of a newbie's unfamiliarity with the game and their weak PCs and tricks them into battle or just attacks them and kills them, usually for experience, items, and money. These people are generally feared (if they are a high level) and looked down upon by other players.
**DPS – Damage per second. Can refer to weapon speed/time but sometimes is used to refer to someone who deals a lot of damage in a short amount of time (aka a warrior). When someone says "I got DPS" it means that they are going to require a lot of MP/HP healing as they are focusing all their resources into attacking. A lot of times this means their equipment is all geared towards attack and speed, with low defense. A lot of times these players will make their stats higher in attack, agility, and crit, and accuracy.
{+}KS – Kill Stealing. Basically when someone goes in at a monster someone else is attacking that's weakened, defenseless or almost dead and claims the kill, and then stealing the loot for themselves. It's considered pretty immoral and rude.
