Chapter Two: I Am More Than a Program:
Walking, walking, just endless walking. Demetra also known as the deceiver of Game Over gazed out over the vastness of what remained of the once highly anticipated video game. She did not know what to feel. Part of her felt happy. Happy, because for the first time she was able to resist her programing and actually do something to help someone by her own decision. However, that was not the only emotion she was feeling. She also felt lost. Lost, because now she was the only one left, a computer program wandering aimlessly through cyberspace. No purpose, friends, or even a reason to keep going. Okay, technically the last statement was untrue. Demetra knew she did have something or rather someone to keep her going, but she had no idea if she would even ever see him again. After all she thought, the last time I saw him, he was heading back into the real world. She thought back to watching his face as he realized if she held the portal open, there was no way she could go with him.
Demetra could feel her eyes getting wet, but because no one was around she had no problem letting the tears flow. After crying for a few minutes she continued walking. She had no way of knowing how much time had passed since the boy had left, but it felt like forever ago, or at least it did for her. She looked up and realized she had walked so far that she was standing in the green fields with the targets. Although today, there were no targets to be seen. Unphased by this observation she stood there for a moment just to take in the greenness of it all. Even, though, she preferred darker colors her hair and battle attire were indications of that, the green field always calmed her down. It made it easier for her to sort through the mess of thoughts which continually raged within her head. Recently however, she found her thoughts more and more consumed by the boy in the yellow battle attire.
She only knew him as Juni, never asked if he had a last name. She laughed out loud, when she thought back to when Juni was the "supposed guy" the game character which could lead all players through the unwinnable level 5. She began to smile as she thought back to when she gave him the map to help find his sister. Granted this act was part of her programming, but it was still something which ended up helping Juni in the end, so she figured it was worth it. As she sat there in the green field, she slowly allowed her eyes to close.
She sat there unmoving for a few minutes, just surrounded by the peaceful quietness. It was then she began to wonder about things. Talking aloud to herself she began by saying, "I was created by the Toymaker so that level 5 would be unwinnable. I am just a computer program he designed and implemented. I am just a code, a code built of 1s and 0s, just like any other program." However, as Demetra begin to think more and more on it, she came to a startling conclusion. "If I am a program, I am supposed to do what I was programmed to do, there is no room for me as a program to write my own code per say, and make my own actions", and yet Demetra thought, that is precisely what I did when I saved Juni and all the other gamers from the robotic gorillas. "I defied my programming", Demetra yelled out to no one. Once Demetra had come to this conclusion another thought popped into her head, but this one seemed so impossible she doubted it was even possible at all. However, after giving it even more thought, to the point where her brain started to hurt, Demetra made one final conclusion. There in the green fields of the remainder of the game formally know as Game Over, Demetra whispered into the silence "Maybe I am more than just a program."
She did not know it at the time, but this path of thought was going to take her to a place she never thought would be possible. As she got up and continued walking one other thought crept into her head. She realized everyone is gone, except me, but I wonder why the Toymaker has not shown up again. What she could not predict, was she was going to see the Toymaker again soon, and he was not the only one she would seeā¦
