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Hurrying through Treeston I get bunch of stares from some not so inviting people. The scenery is beautiful, but the people there are not the prettiest. I ignore the creepy people and keep to myself. Eden, calm down.
There are so many trees and plant life everywhere, nothing like the crowded Communal. With a super sunny sky and not a cloud to be seen. They have vines growing up every other building some even blooming very pretty yellow wild flowers. Many boutiques, just plants Everywhere! I see many fairies and quite a few knights here and there walking, usually in big groups which is a little intimidating.
I come up to the Oak Woods and it becomes darker due to how many trees there are. They block the sun completely, not even a ray of sunlight peers through a branch. I get a little nervous due to the darkness. As I am walking, I hear someone's footsteps nearby. I stop and look around, Nothing. I continue forward, crossing a bridge arching over a stream of running water. Very shortly ahead I find a circular area with no plant life of a sort, this must be Trolls' Trolley Way. I take a step forward as someone jumps on top of me. I squirm and kick.
"Shhh!" she grabs my mouth, "I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just going to help okay?" she lets go of my mouth and I get to my feet. She must be about a year older than I am. This girl is in all black head to toe, shirt, pants, cape, everything along with a skull necklace and ring.
"What are you doing?" I am stern.
"Look, I am a death wizard which means I'm definitely not the weakest even at the lowest level. I have tried this quest before and it's extremely difficult to do alone at your level. When I went back to the GrandHall to actually grab this quest, I saw You take it. Just to confirm, I looked up who took the quest at the desk. I know you can use the help. "
"Well I was with my friend."
"Well... I didn't see her around. You want help from an expert or not?"
"Not much of an expert if you've failed before, huh?" I laugh. She looks upset and squints her eyes at me. She's plotting to kill me?!
"You can come, you can come! Just don't kill me." I beg.
"Haha, alrighty."
We step into the center of the circle and wait.
"Soo, Ivy... what do we do?"
"Shhh! By the way." she whispers "There are more than just five trolls..."
We wait a bit longer and a troll comes out from the trees on Ivy's side. He's dirty looking, brown and grey with elf ears. His nose is way too big for his face and equipped with quite a large tummy. Sharp claws, about my height. He's got just a sack thing to cover his junk. She takes two steps forward, raises her hands and sends out a plague towards the troll. I hear something and become more alert, I'll learn more about Ivy when the time is right.
A troll comes out from my side, running towards me I ready my sword. Posing it in front of my chest, I wait for the troll to get to me before I swing at him. He is weaponless and I take a good slice through the neck.
"This is too easy.." I say
The next moment, a good one hundred trolls come out, with all sorts of weapons. We stand back to back, ready as we'll ever be.
"Stay alive", she yells "Otherwise we have to start the quest all over! Oh, and you can feel Pain in the Game."
She takes off and I take off in the other direction. A troll swings what looks like a steel sledge hammer right at my head. I duck, slamming my torso straight into the ground. I swing my leg around to hit his calf and he falls. I leap and pierce his chest with my sword. The others start coming up in big groups. I roll and dodge every single one of them. I hit each of them in different places trying to figure out what all I can do.
"Eden!" Ivy screams. A troll has tripped her, holding a dagger just inches near her neck.
I sprint, putting my sword in it's scabbard. If one of us dies.. we have to start over. I tackle the troll, causing us both to fly. I hit the ground pretty hard, not able to get up. Another one sits on my stomach lowering a sharp sword to my heart. I manage to get both my hands on my sword and push up on his, Don't give up, Eden.
I turn my head and I see Ivy struggling again. My arms start to lower to my chest, he's winning. I close my eyes and the weight comes up off of me, Am I Dead? I force myself to look and I see Iridessa standing over me with some sparkly looking shield. Along with her, she's brought a guardian who is assisting Ivy ,and Peter who is taking care of the last bit of trolls.
"Perfect timing?", she asks.
"Ira, thanks! I gotta help."
She moves and I jump up, joining Peter's side. He just smiles at me as he's freezing these things, like it's a piece of cake... With icing.
Ivy is still being treated, I wonder what happened..
We finish up the trolls. I notice Peter is a level 35.
"How are you level 35?" I ask.
"How are you not?"
I blush, "Well, because I am struggling."
"You need someone like me." He winks.
"Right" I roll my eyes.
"Hey, Eden wanna go out tonight?"
My eyes burst from my face "Y-Y-YES! I mean uh.. that would be nice."
"I'll see you later tonight."
He disappears into the woods. I run over to Ira, Ivy is gone.
"Where's Ivy?"
"She is alive don't worry, but she needs some more guardians assistance."
"Well what happened?"
"You know the guardian I met, his name is Derek- So cute! Anyway, he's like level 60" How are they such high levels, play too much? "He said that a troll actually would not take damage for some strange reason, then another troll actually should of been going against level 50s not level fives..."
"Is it a glitch?"
"I'm not sure Eden. He said this type of thing has happened for a little while now."
"So where was she taken to exactly?"
"She was taken to the Hopeful Hospital in a the Communal."
"Maybe we should visit her." I suggest.
"Let's go, but first let's turn in the quest."
We return to the Communal and enter the Grand Hall. There's a little machine that you insert the quest into. I take the quest out and insert it. It asks for who I was with. I type in the names of the four of us. The rubies split and go to everyone's account, xp is also given. I level up to a level 10, that's pretty steep and doesn't seem right, but I won't complain.
We exit the Grand Hall and the skies goes dark and blood shot red. Everyone is in panic, embracing each other. I let Iridessa hug me and I stay as calm as I can.
A deep voice releases "Good evening young players! I'd love to introduce myself as the game maker, Bryant the Brawny. I hope you have enjoyed the game so far. There's been a little change to the game. We are making this Your Life NOW... There are no more levels, or xp given. Yes, you can use quests to gain your own personal experience and jewels, but it will not make you stronger until you learn how to gain strength. Any pain you may face, you will actually endure. If you get killed, it's over for you. You will actually be dead. This goes for quests, bosses, and even practice PVPs. There is no escaping the game under any circumstances. As for the real world, if you are disconnected from your headgear, you will also die. For those of you who do not have apartments, you may want to get some now, I wouldn't to face sleep deprive if I were you. Also, eating, and all those other essentials are necessary. Welcome to Your NEW World!"
His voice disappears and all the players disperse, trying to get apartments, food, and new weapons. I grab Ira's hand we we fight through the crowd to Hopeful Hospital. We go straight to the front desk.
"Hi, I'm Eden. I'd like to see a girl named Ivy, she's a death wizard." I tell the receptionist.
"She's on the 4th floor.."
"Thanks!" We take off just when she stops us.
"The room number is 506, please do not spend too much time, she really needs rest."
We get in the elevator and click the 4th button. We wait patiently watch the numbers increase slowly. The elevator comes to stop and the doors slowly open, Could they open any slower?
We dart out and down the hall to room 506. I quietly knock on the door and slowly open the door, sticking my head in. I see Ivy laying there, hooked up to some tubes sending some clear stuff to her bloodstream.
"Ivy?" I whisper.
She perks her head up and smiles, "I'm gonna go get her some flowers" Ira whispers.
I enter her room, "How are you feeling?"
"I'm doing alright" she says, "They really got me, huh?"
"You took a lot from them. You're going to be okay now."
"Great."
"I put the rubies you earned into our bank."
"Oh, thank you!"
"There's some not so good news though. We are stuck in this game, it's now our Life.." I explain to her the dilemma.
"That's awful. There's got to be some way we can get out of here." She looks desperate.
"You're right. I'm sure there's some way to get out of this." I reassure her.
"Soo" I say, Ira barges in.
"Hey! I brought you some sunflowers." She's thrilled.
"Thanks, Ira" she smiles.
"When can you leave the hospital?" Ira asks.
"Probably within a few days."
"Where's your apartment?"
"I haven't gotten one yet.."
"You can live with me!" Iridessa is excited.
"Ok, well we better get going. There's somewhere I have to be." I interrupt.
"You go on, I'll stay with Ivy." she jumps into bed and starts clicking buttons. "Woah, this moves the bed!" clicking another button "A massage!"
"If she gets on your nerves let me know"
"Hey!" she yells at me, I wink.
"I'll see you both later, tomorrow? Ok, be careful." I leave the room.
As I am leaving the Hopeful Hospital, a shop on the corner catches my eye, Pagers' Emporium. I take a look through the window and see a wide variety of pagers.
"You can buy a pager, it's almost like a cell phone, you can send messages, alerts, and signals to your friends."
I turn around and see Audrey, "Hey!"
"Haha, hey thought you'd need to know."
"Yeah, so how does it work?"
"You go in, buy a pager, and it'll be inserted into your 'bag'. Each of them have different fees depending on your friend list and how long of messages you want to send. They created this after we all got 'captured'. It's a good idea to get one."
"Yeah, I'll think about it." there's a moment of silence between us.
"So Eden.. You and Peter?"
"Well we're just going out tonight."
"Cute. Be careful.."
"Huh?"
"He's a tricky one."
"Oh uh ok, thanks..?"
Audrey has been acting weird lately.. Audrey walks away without another word and I enter the store. There are different types of pagers, one type for each class. I read the labels on the shelves and finally find one just for a knight. I look around the store and a guy is watching me very closely. I try to ignore him and pretend to check out the pager before I buy it. I watch him out of my peripheral vision. He equips the pager to his 'bag' without paying. I turn around and see some more players doing the same thing. I'm not sure if that's what we're suppose to do or not. I go ahead and equip it in my scroll, look around and head out the door.
I return back to my apartment and lay on my bed. I drift off into a nap to regain my energy. It's not long before I wake up and there's a knock at my door. I look at the time on the clock on my nightstand. It's 6pm and the sun is setting. I answer the door, it's Peter.
"You ready? I've been waiting out here for about an hour now." He isn't too happy.
"Sorry." I am embarrassed. He grabs my hand and we walk.
"So where are we going?" I ask.
"There's a little place I want to go to in Treeston." he insists.
Treeston is definitely not the place I want to go to.
"Oh" I hesitate "Isn't there a place nearby you'd rather go to."
He grips my hand tighter "I got you, don't worry" he laughs. I fake a smile.
We reach Treeston, there's still a little light in the sky. We walk through the town and turn down an alley way. I grip on Peter's arm, he smiles and kisses my forehead, I feel a little better. We take many turns and I forget how we even get here, but we reach a pub at a dead end. He nudges on me.
"Um.. Peter, this really isn't the place I want to be.."
"What are you talking about?" He's confused "We only live once."
"Yeah, well I'd rather not be here."
"Oh hey!" A girl's voice shouts from the door, it's Audrey, "Oh, Eden ready to have some fun? Haha"
I shake my head, "This really isn't the place I need to be." He invited her too? Wow, ok...
"Just come in for a minute" she pulls me through the doors. We take seats at the bar. I feel very uncomfortable. This guy who is serving drinks asks what we want. Audrey and Peter shout out some fancy names and he quickly pours the drinks.
Audrey give me her drink, "Take a sip girl.."
I take the cup and get a good drink, I gag. "What is this?"
"It's Sierra Tequila." she's proud, "Like it?"
"Uh no."
"You're no fun."
"That's fine, I can't take this stuff." I feel shameful, " I need to go for a walk.."
"Suit yourself", she says as Peter gorges down some drinks then, starts taking shots. I leave the pub, lonely and cold. It has gotten darker, the street lights turn on. I start to trail away from the pub, trying to find my way back to the Communal. I go down an alley way, it leads to a dead end, I turn around and go the other way, I'm completely lost. I go down a street and out of nowhere, the street lights go off. I tuck my arms close to me and continue to walk on.
I see groups and I hear people walking in the streets, somewhere. I feel that I need to be with someone. I pull out my pager, but there's no use. You have to have someone else's pager number in order to contact them. Sighing, I put it away. It's hard to see anything in front of me, I can only see silhouettes. I see two people ahead of me, I turn around and go the other way. Then, a group stands in front of me and they corral me into a circle. I'm guessing that there's five of them. My heart starts racing, no one says a word. Then, I feel someone's hand go down my back.
"Where are you going?" Someone asks.
I move forward and bump in to another player.
"Don't touch me." I scold at them, I grasp my sword. They move in closer, I rip my sword out and I hear a clang. Someone has a sword as well, this won't be easy..
I keep myself at ease, "Put that away or we'll kill you." he is stern. I don't listen and someone grips my hand so tightly, I let go. It starts burning my hand. It's painful.
"What do you want?" I need to know.
"Haha, Why are you by yourself? You shouldn't be out this late at night."
"Why does that matter?" I shove into a tall masculine guy.
One touches my butt while another grabs my waist. I kick up on the one in front of me and turn around and punch the guy directly on his nose. I knock him to the ground, they're angry with me now, bad move, Eden.
I gasp and try to get through the rest of them. "I need to be somewhere", I lie.
I jump over the one lying on the floor, he catches my leg and pulls me down. I smack my head straight into the stone path. He picks me up and throws me over his shoulders, "I'll take you somewhere."
"Put her down or I'll send you somewhere." A voice comes from ahead.
"Huh?" We're all confused. Another guy? You have to be kidding me...
"Well, I guess you'll be meeting the flames from Hell tonight.", he laughs.
I look up and flames splurge straight to the sky, he sets a building right next to us on fire. I guess he does that to produce some light. This can't be real, I feel so much better even though I don't know what's going to happen at the end of all of this.
Only because it's Him...
