Sorry for the last chapter being so short, but I wanted all of this put together. If you like the story, fav and follow! BB
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"I've never been more excited." I was positively buzzing as my lover and I took the lift down towards the basement. Test day was upon us. Damian was staying with Seth at the vast Kaiba Estate, Mokuba had gone down a few hours prior to prepare the pods. "I've been looking forward to this myself." Replied Seto, his hand finding mine and lacing them together. "I couldn't have done this without you." He murmured, bringing the hands up to kiss the back of mine, drawing a smile on my lips. As the lift doors opened my smile turned to a grin. "Are you ready?" "As you are." We walked the familiar path towards the testing room, finding our testers had shown up and had been loaded into the program, minus a few. "Great timing guys, they're going through the character creation now." "Where's the rest of them?" Asked Seto, scanning the pods. "Ryou said Bakura wasn't interested, and took Marik with him." A clear look of discomfort covered the boy's face. "I wasn't complaining." Seto snorted, before looking to me. "You ready?" I nodded and he offered a hand to help me into a pod of my own. Taking a deep breath, I held down the panic at the thought of being trapped in the bubble. "You know the drill right?" He murmured. "Just count back from sixty, right?" "You got it." I shut my eyes and I heard the lid shut. 60...59...58...57- A sharp buzzing would draw my eyes open to see a large 'Warning' flashing across the lid of the pod. The lid popped back open and I sat up, a frown on my lips. "What happened?" Asked Seto, looking to his brother. "I don't know. It's popping up an error." "What's the code?" Seto stepped around the panel to look at the screen his brother. " ." Replied the teen. "That's a medical failsafe." Seto looked to me. "Are you okay?" "Yea." His stare narrowed and I gave a clear look of confusion. "Honest! I don't know." "It doesn't just go off Milo." He scolded. "I don't know! Honest." "You're not sick." "No." His brows lifted, and he crossed his arms. "She said something about an ulcer... would the computer sense that?" Said Mokuba, wincing at my dirty look his way. "When did she say that?" "I don't know..." "I have an appointment for it. I swear, it's nothing. I get them all the time." I said, giving a begging look to the blue eyed man. "Don't make me miss out because that stupid thing." Seto sighed but typed in a code to override the error. "It might have caught a lower immune system, we'll let it go..." Turning that sharp stare my way, he emphasized his next point. "For now." I gave a relieved smile and sat back as the pod shut once more. 60...59...58...
The game loaded Seto and I's file automatically, allowing us to arrive in our full armor, the other's arriving one by one as they finished the tutorial creation. Mai had chosen an elf druid from the look of her, while Yugi had chosen a half-elf sorcerer. Yami had chosen to stay human, but as a paladin, his god's symbol brazen across his breast-plate. A white haired boy I had yet to get the name of looked like an elf, but he was either a ranger or a rogue. A dark-skinned man whom I also wasn't sure the name of was in monk's robes, his form human. Then there was Joey. "What?! I didn't pick this!" Clad from head to toe in fur, the blond had a pair of floppy ears and a fluffy tail. For a long moment, all I could do was stare. It was an amazing piece of work. I heard Seto rumble, a quiet chuckle slowly growing in his chest. "Did you do that?" I asked, ducking my head to hide my amusement. "I did." His blatant admission had a laugh escaping my throat, drawing the group's attention to us. "Kaiba?! Did you do this?" "It's fitting." "Why you-" "Easy." I waved down the blond with a smile. "System! Override Seto's hack!" I called. "Authorization?" "Palistine." "Authorization failed. Admin override not allowed." I shot a dirty look at a bark of laughter from my lover. "That's cheap." "Oh come on, it suits him." "Fix it." "Fine..." A sharp snap would bring forward heavy armor plating, his skin scaly. Looks like he'd chosen a red dragonborn. "Noa?! Are you nearby?" I called out. "Always." Came a cheery voice from above before the boy materialized before us. "Glad to see you all made it." He greeted the group. "Noa is the head of the VR team." I explained to the group. "He helped us make the game as close to reality as we can be." "Aren't you the pipsqueek from battle city?" Said Joey, giving a suspicious stare toward the green haired teen. "I am... I've been working for Kaiba corp for a few years now. Pushing the VR." He explained patiently. "You're not... after..." Asked Yugi, unsure of his question. "Your bodies are safe." Reassured Noa. "Speaking of..." A soft voice came from the blue eyed man in my ear. "Mokuba put in the file you asked for." I gave a smile. "That's right! Noa, I owe you a Christmas gift." The boy raised a brow and sent a curious look my way. "System! Load Noa's gift." Said Seto. "Hidden file accessed. Admin authorization granted. Loading Noa's gift." A shining glimmer started at his feet and worked up, leaving in it's wake, a body of worth. Stronger, taller, and broader, in an instant what was a boy grew to the age he belonged. His hair had grown, and gone were his boyish cheeks, holding his father's cheekbones and mother's soft chin. The light faded and at first he seemed confused. "What-" He stopped himself and held his throat. "Merry Christmas Noa." I said softly, drawing his attention to me. Summoning a mirror to take in his image, shock flickered over his new face. "You did this?" I stepped over and studied him close. "Well I drew it up, looks like your team did an awesome job-" The mirror vanished as he walked through it, arms wrapped tight around my waist in an embrace.
"Listen up you dorks. Each of you has a set of dice at your disposal." He indicated a brace on his arm, a matching one on each of the other players. "To access it, all you have to do is press your hand to it." He showed by example, and in an almost ghostly image, a full set hovered over his arm in a line. "Automatically the one you need will be highlighted." He picked a 20- sided and it enlarged to roll before him, a opalescent blue in color, a 16 flashing as it stopped rolling. "Sound easy enough?" "Wonder what mine are." I muttered to Noa as I looked to my brace. "I made those special for you." Said Noa, a wide smile in place. "Ohh!" I summoned them and rolled, my grin widening as I saw it as a splattered paint design of all colors, a metallic shine causing it to shimmer. "Good pick Noa. I dig it." He gave a prideful smirk and I looked back to the group. "Give it a try." Several ghostly dice appeared before the team, and I looked to Noa. "You can't adventure without armor. You're a sitting duck!" "You are so right." Said the teen, summoning a dark armor plating over his form, a mace at his side. "Cleric! Nice." He flashed a grin. Looking back to Seto, I smirked. "We going to fight something or what?" "You looking to pick a fight?" "Always." The blue eyed man drew his sword and I quickly followed suit, Noa pulling his mace as a deep rumbling started from the ground below.
Within seconds a huge worm irrupted from the earth, it's mouth a huge endless spiral of teeth. Tentacles emerging with it, it used them to haul itself up onto the clearing. "It's Wicked Worm Beast!" Said Yugi from behind us. "It's ugly." I said, curling my nose. "Roll initiative." Said Seto to Noa and I. Bringing up our dice, I rolled a 14, which then flared to a 16. "Your stats will automatically add in to your dice rolls." Explained Seto, who had rolled an 18. "This is great. All the fun without the math." I said to Noa with a smirk. "When it's your turn, or you need to roll, your brace will glow." Explained the blue eyed man, his own shining to indicate he was first. "First you roll to hit." A 20-sided flashed a 17, which bumped to a 22 with his stats. "Then you attack." I watched him dive forward, sword at the ready. With a great leap, he jumped and swiped at the beast, it's cry piercing the sky as he landed a hard hit. "How do you get damage?" I asked as he returned. "The system rolls for you, as long as you hit." I looked to Noa. "Your turn." "Sweet." He swung his mace, and rolled to hit. An 8 would jump to a 14, but I wasn't sure if that was enough. "Did he hit?" I asked Seto who shrugged. "You find out when you attack." The teen ran in, his mace held high, but at the last moment, a tentacle whipped out and wrapped around his arm and the mace, pushing him back. "Nice..." I nodded, impressed. "Your turn." Said Seto. "Alright!" I rolled my dice, my heart soaring as a 20 glowed from my dice's face. "YES!" I called, watching as a bright gold light soared from my dice to my blade, wrapping it in it's glow. "A natural 20 is a critical hit, and all damage is doubled." Seto explained, giving me a smirk. "Have at it." With an almost wild hoot, I took off, sword at the ready. Unlike my first trip, this time my sword art seemed almost natural. I knew just how to move, how to jump, how to swing. Running up it's squirming body, I gave a giant leap and swung my blade down, it's light irrupting down and over the worm, spreading and breaking up it's form. With a loud screech the creature shattered, much like in a duel. From above a card floated down, and I caught it. "Did you see that?!" I called back, drawing a smirk from my lover. Strutting back, I bumped Noa's fist as I looked at the card in my hand. It showed the duel monster in it's natural form, as a card. "When a monster is destroyed, you can decide to keep it, so it can be used in battle." Said Seto, showing the group the monster we had just defeated. "What happens after it's summoned?" Asked Yami. "So long as it isn't destroyed, you can keep it. But once it's gone it's gone. Each player can have up to 10." "How interesting." Commented the white haired man, his hand coming out. "May I see?" Seto handed over the card and the group took turns looking it over. "Does anyone have any questions?" I asked. "How do spells work?" Asked Yugi. "Anyone with any spells, so looks like you, Mai?" The woman nodded, showing I'd gotten her name correct. "Yami? Did you choose a Paladin?" The spirit nodded and I looked to the pair I wasn't totally familiar with. "What's your name dear?" "Ryou." "Did you choose ranger?" He nodded. "You too then. And you are?" "Malik." Said the monk with a kind smile. "Good! So your chi will work in a similar way. Each day you have a set number of spells you can use. Depending on your class, you can pick those spells during a long rest, which will heal you and regain your spell slots. To use it, all you have to do is say so. Noa? Would you be so kind?" The green haired teen nodded. "I cast Guidance on Palistine!" Called the teen, his hand coming out towards me. "Guidance gives you an added bump to your roll to hit." He explained as I summoned my 20-sided. A soft glow wrapped around it as I went ahead and rolled, turning my 17 into a 19, which was then bumped to a 21. "Very nice." "Your classes' spell list, along with any questions on spells can be accessed by your brace." Said Seto, looking to Mai. "Swipe left and right to see it." She did as he bade, a small list appearing just above her arm. "That's convenient." She commented. "It will also hold any special talents that come with your class, along with proficiencies and stat totals." I brought mine up, and saw I was proficient with any melee weapon, giving me a +1 automatically. It showed my armor class and total hit points. "Keep an eye on your hit points. Once you hit zero, you have 3 tries to stabilize yourself before you're dead. Game over." Said Noa. "What happens then?" Asked Malik. "You start at level one and create a new character." Said Seto. "What? You lose it all?" Exclaimed Joey. "That's harsh!" "Then I suggest you don't let yourself drop that low." Replied Seto. "Every battle and quest will reward you with gold, which can be used in the game to buy potions, although, my suggestion would be nice to the druid. She's got all sorts of healing spells in her arsenal." I said with a wink to the blond woman, who grinned. "You hear that? You better be nice Joey!" "What?! I'm always nice."
We set off on a simple quest to allow the new players to test out their talents. As a reward, each were given the chance to pick out a rare style of dice wrap. "I always liked playing a druid. It's really fun." I said to Mai as the boys started on finding another monster to fight. "I thought it looked interesting, how does the shape change work?" "To my understanding you should have a list with your spells that gives you options. Once you get to a higher level, you can decide if you would rather pursue more spells, or specialize in shape change." I explained. "Which did you pick?" "I've done both, but I always liked the spell casting features. I was always the healer though, so the more spell slots the better. You will always be able to shape change though, one way is just more dedicated to the beast shapes." "That's interesting!" "It's really fun. And you get certain perks being a druid, you can sense weather patterns, commune with nature, make allies with animals easily." "A nature witch." "Exactly!" I smiled. "I think Seto put in that when you pass level ten as a druid you can carry more then just the 10 monsters. Something about befriending them." "Good! I have a specific set of monsters I'm looking for, and the more the better." "That's right, Joey mentioned you have a favorite. Harpy lady?" She nodded, a proud smile on her face. "When my Harpy Ladies are in a flock, there's no stopping them." "That's great! Good to know you've decided to play more." She gave an excited nod. "I like it! This new game is amazing. It hits home with the collector in each of us." "Good to hear." "Yugi said you helped Kaiba make it?" I shrugged. "He and I came up with the idea late one night, I drew up a few things and we started working with Noa." I nodded towards where the dark armored teen walked beside Seto, both discussing potential weak spots in the programming. "Noa did a lot of the work, but anything he needed I drew up. When you guys start in on the plot, you'll meet more characters, I drew those with my team." "Wow. That's a lot of work." I shrugged once more. "Not as much as those two. It's been a long struggle, but now that we've finally got it in the final stages, I'm ready to see what's next." As we came to a small village, the group started to spread out and explore. "One more thing." I commented as she turned to head towards a merchant. "What's that?" "I hear rumor Harpie Ladies roost in the mountains." I shrugged, trying for nonchalant as Seto returned to my side. "And just what are you up too?" "Girl talk." "Right..." He bumped my chin as he walked passed, giving me a chance to flash a grin and a wink at the other woman.