Lyn remembered the first time that the Raposa ever called to her.

She was about to lay her head down to go to sleep on a warm summer's night. She kept her head towards the fan on the floor, in a desperate attempt to get cool. She never knew how her room always kept the most heat and the most chill all the time. It also sometimes kept the most bugs, but that's not important.

She had a neat contraption that she treasured dearly. It was meant to be a handheld entertainment gadget. It had 2 screens, one of them being a touch screen, and a microphone. She had been pushed to the verge of tears when she lost it one time.

That night, sleep was almost impossible. She had no clue why, but she knew that something… some sort of invisible feeling… was nudging her awake. She thought someone was telling her that more was needed before she could fall into slumber.

Eventually, she gave up on sleep, grunted, and sat up.

"Why can't I sleep?" she whispered to herself. "I feel like… something's calling my name. Desperately calling my name… Am I hungry? Did I miss something?"

Then, she looked to her dual screen entertainment gadget, which she named Blue. It was a name she had given it one of the very first times she had lost it. She just randomly started calling out "Blue!" and the name stuck.

"Blue?" she whispered. "…I feel like you need something from me."

At that, she reached for it and opened it. When she did, she could hear a voice crying for help. A tiny voice, almost like that of a baby… but speaking fluent words. Instead of waking her mother up and insisting she be taken to the hospital down the street, she responded. Finally, a chance for her one greatest dream to become real. She'd always wanted to live in a world other than the one she was born into. At least, live in association with another world. She wasn't about to pass that chance up.

"W-Who are you?" she asked. "What's wrong?"

"Oh, Creator," the voice responded. "We need your help. I know we haven't talked to each other before. I'm Mari, the daughter of the Mayor of the Raposa Village."

"Raposa Village?" Lyn asked.

"This may all seem very strange," Mari sighed. "Turn on your dual screen gadget so you can see us."

So Lyn did so. And every startup screen she was usually presented with was overridden. She was looking at a peaceful village. It contained many houses and businesses. But why weren't there many people? Maybe they were inside?

Wait… there were living things here. They were really short and had rabbit ears. Rabbit ears and dotted eyes. Who were these things and what had they done to Blue?

"Hello there," she said nervously. "I'm Lyn… the one you referred to as 'the Creator.'"

A bunny-like thing with brown hair and a yellow dress looked toward the screen. This shocked Lyn a bit.

"Creator!" she cried. "We need your help! One of our villagers has become evil and is now threatening our poor village! We need you to create a hero to defeat him!"

"Eh… how do I create a hero?" asked Lyn.

"Oh, follow me," said Mari.

But Lyn didn't have to take a step away from her bed. Her perspective magically moved her from the outside of the village into a building. There was nothing but a huge easel in here. That easel was larger than any she had ever seen before.

"Draw a Hero," Mari nodded. Lyn nervously took out Blue's stylus, and following the guidelines on the easel, created a figure that she knew reflected her personality. She had red, curly hair, a black shirt, black pants, and decorative purple boots. She smiled.

This is when her adventures began. She watched as the Hero she had created ventured around with Mari and her friends by itself. She definitely felt as if she were living a fantasy of some sort, like she had always wanted.

The first time she had to draw a platform, she said "Huh," in surprise when it dawned on her what her true purpose as the Creator was. To create stuff, including the Hero she had to help along the way. The first time that the Hero ever fell in battle, she almost fainted, but regained her composure when she found that there was a life count involved. A life count that only occasionally depleted by 1 or 2, but would always be made up by strange, spinning versions of the Hero's face along the way. A life count that was never brought lower than x2.

Somewhere along the way, Lyn fell asleep. She didn't see it coming. She had no warning. She suddenly woke up 2 hours later, realizing that something had just knocked her out, like a blow to the head. Of course, what she woke up from was peaceful, natural sleep, but she darted upright and opened Blue, desperately hoping that her Hero was alright.

It was. In fact, its life counter was at x5, and it looked ready to battle something. Maybe that something was the black thing in front of it… wait, what was that? It wasn't just some black thing that had gotten on Lyn's screen, which she realized once she smudged it in an attempt to get it off. Looking closer, she realized that it kind of looked like the people of the Raposa village. Another one of them… was who they had to fight all along?! She pictured this being a bunch of animals being terrorized by an evil human mastermind… but things got interesting since it was another one of their kind. He seemed completely covered in shadows. Dancing, swirling shadows from head to toe. The only thing that stood out from the darkness was his big, white eyes.

This appearance intrigued Lyn rather than threatened her. She didn't realize that she was leaning closer to the screen to get a better look at this mystery being. He stood so tall and proud for his size.

At the time, she determined that all she was thinking was that he was really handsome. And those feelings were especially confirmed when she heard his voice.

"So you've made it this far," he chuckled. "My little scorpion friend will take care of you!"

At that, the Hero she had come to know and love as a sister was almost snapped in half by the claws of what seemed like a giant, robot scorpion. An ugly one, at that.

As the battle played out before her eyes, she couldn't help but look around for the shadowed being. That was eventually what her attention was completely focused on. So focused that she didn't see it coming when the screen shifted directly to the one in question after the scorpion's defeat.

"This has gone on long enough!" he growled. "I'll destroy you myself!"

Lyn gasped. This Raposa was using attacks that she remembering creating for her Hero… He was intelligent. Either that, or he must have gotten ahold of some pretty insane power.

Eventually, a hit landed on him by the Hero made the backdrop go black again.

"Ooooh!" he raged. "Now prepare to die!"

Lyn hadn't seen anything so mad in quite a while. She was even a bit taken aback when the Raposa continued using the same attacks.

Eventually, the backdrop went black once more, and he froze in the air, a shocking look on his face.

"Ow ow ow!" he cried in defeat. "What?! No! This cannot be!"

In an instant, he slowly fell face first to the ground. The shadows turned out to be simply shadows, for they suddenly disappeared into thin air to reveal another figure. This one almost looked like a friend Lyn had met on the Hero's journey, Jowee. What the shadows had just revealed was a light-gray colored Raposa in blue clothes. He looked scared, and he then disappeared into thin air as well.

"No…" Lyn said absently. "…Wait, why did I just say that?"

She quickly closed Blue, putting it down and putting her head on her pillow, face down, trying to comprehend everything she had just seen. Strange figure… involuntarily possessed by shadows… defeated… gone…

She couldn't get this figure out of her head, and her thoughts of him almost drowned out the subliminal sound of Mari quietly calling to her from Blue again. So she opened Blue. The view was back on the Raposa village, which almost looked more peaceful than it was before. Mari was looking at Lyn worriedly.

"Are you alright?" Mari asked. "You just seemed to have left for a while."

"WHO was that figure my Hero was fighting?" Lyn asked impatiently. "I can't get him out of my head… he looked so scared once he was defeated and… and…"

"That was Wilfre," Mari explained. "He stole the Book of Life from our village and drew in it, attempting to outsmart you."

"Me?!" Lyn cried. "…He was trying to outsmart me?"

"Yes, you, Creator," Mari smirked. "Anyway, his drawings came out evil and twisted, and shadows corrupted him until he became the monster that your Hero fought."

"Is that you, Creator?" another voice rang, and Lyn had to see Jowee walk into view before she remembered that the voice belonged to him. "Hey, catch a break. Who knows when we may need you in the future?"

"A-Alright," were Lyn's final words to the Raposa that day. She closed Blue, shuddering at the situation that was dawning upon her. What was it about Wilfre that captivated her attention so much? He made her heart flutter like nothing had ever before. Not any other video game character, or her two and only crushes in school. Nothing.

Those crushes seemed obsolete now.


Author's note: I'm a little nervous about this chapter. I'd REALLY appreciate it if you'd review this fanfiction and tell me how I'm doing!