Jesús: "And I'm back once again. Let's get this started right away…" [Disclaimer] "…I don't own anything but the originality of this story, all credit goes to their respective owners."

Ch. 4

Normal POV

The world started to generate. As the game's name implied it didn't look nothing less than a dungeon. Raguna, Uzuki and all the other players started to spawn into the game in different locations.

"Alright everyone, the game is on. Now there are many different dungeons, all of them are connected so walk around the dungeon you are in, you might find someone in your near location. If you think there is no one anymore then you can move on to another area if you want. As you all might notice already half of your sight in blurred a little. A map will display in that half of your sight; you can activate it or deactivate it with the simple voice command, off or on. Everyone good luck and now you can all go." The announcer's voice was heard inside of the game and everyone got to it. "Also I was forgetting, you may find secret treasures or items along your search for other players, some of those items can increase your health in case you are low so keep an eye out for those."

"Well I guess I'll get started…" Raguna said looking at his surroundings "…wow this place looks a lot like the green ruins." He finished and started moving to what the map showed to be someone else.

-Elsewhere-

"I hate this place…" Uzuki said "…Why did I have to land in the lava area?" she started walking north from where she spawned-in looking for other players. So far the area showed no hostilities whatsoever, then again she had turned her map off.

"I see I get a quick first fight!" Someone yelled.

"Huh?" Uzuki said looking in the direction of the voice. There stood a man about twice the size of Uzuki holding a scythe.

"Don't worry girlie I'll make this quick." The man said and Jumped from a cliff he was standing on and slashed downwards at Uzuki. She blocked it with her Spear, which was the closest thing to a Naginata in the weapon options.

"Don't think it'll be that easy." Uzuki said and pushed the man away. Usually Uzuki would have been pummeled by the man's difference in strength, but the fact that they were in a game world and everyone only had their starter stats made them both evenly matched strength wise. But speed? That was a different thing.

"What?" the man said as he noticed Uzuki was right behind him and had managed to get her spear under his dominant arm and made him drop the scythe by flipping the man into the air.

"Too easy." Uzuki said and then looked at the man. She tossed the Scythe back to him. "Let's start over, this time fairly." She said and when he picked up the scythe she disappeared and appeared right in front of him slashing completely across his face and making more than half of his health go down and the word critical appeared in front of the guy. "That's payback for catching me off-guard earlier."

"Ok then…" the man said getting up "Let's get started." He got hold of his scythe and rushed Uzuki.

The man slashed at Uzuki from the left and she blocked it, but the man pulled on the scythe cutting her on the back.

"Nice move." Uzuki said

"Thanks, but we're just getting started."

-Back with Raguna-

Raguna started walking east from his spawn point and saw on his map that there was one person near him on the top of a stair case.

"Excuse me! Anyone out there?" Raguna called out when suddenly... "Huh?" Raguna jumped out of the way from a couple of arrows.

"Seems like you have good reflexes." A girl's voice was heard.

'A ranger? And a girl at it. Great!' he thought to himself

"I'm sorry honey, but I really want that game so…" the girl said again and shot some arrows at Raguna.

Raguna sidestepped the arrows and then jumped to a near tree branch that came from the wall. From there he jumped to the Ranger girl and deflected some arrows with his sword.

"I'm sorry." He said and slashed at the girl from behind once he landed. The girl was able to step aside but the sword made contact with something that made Raguna glad she moved. The sword hit her bow, which was cut in half and she had to retire the match due to the fact she didn't have a weapon any more.

"Well that works too. I'm actually much happier with this end." Raguna said "Hey, if you can hear me. Thanks for the match!" Raguna yelled upwards.

-Outside of the game-

A couple of teens, a guy and a girl, started to awaken.

"Man this stinks, I can't believe I lost to that girl." the guy said angrily. While the girl just stayed quiet and kept looking at the screens to see the game.

-Back in the game-

Raguna kept looking around the dungeon, mostly to see if he could find any health recovery items just in case he needed them.

"Attention Players only in the 5 minutes that the game has started two players have already been disqualified. Everyone, please keep alert if you want to win." The announcer's voice was heard.

"HA!" someone yelled and Raguna jumped to the side, a sword landing on the spot where he would have been.

"Hey, that was close." Raguna said

"Well excuse me, but I only play to win. No matter the circumstances." The guy replied and picked up his sword, a heavy sword.

"Alright then…let's see what you can do." Raguna said and both rushed each other.

-Elsewhere-

Uzuki managed the leave the lava area and moved on to a simple dungeon looking one.

"This place must be easy." Uzuki said and then spikes started coming from under her.

"This is the Trap area. You have to watch it from any traps you could trigger here." A girl's voice was heard.

"Not only that. But you should also watch it from the occasional people that decided to work together." A guy's voice was heard.

'Darn it, two-on-one in an area full of traps.' Uzuki said to herself.

"Here it goes." The guy said and jumped to attack Uzuki with a spear.

"Too bad." Uzuki said and countered his strike with her own sending the guy flying into a trap that made him drop-out of the competition. The girl then got angry and rushed Uzuki, but on her attempt to attack she activated a trap and fell on a pitfall that she couldn't get out of and was dropped from the game.

"Two more players have been dropped." The announcer called

Uzuki got out of the trap zone and into a water area. As soon as she entered…

"Kya!" Uzuki yelled as someone surprise attacked her.

"Too bad little girl." A woman said and slashed at Uzuki with a dagger

-With Raguna-

The guy with the heavy sword was down to half health but almost out of stamina. Raguna had managed to keep more than half health and half of his stamina left.

"Seems like you need a little help." A voice war heard and someone attacked Raguna.

"What the-" Raguna said blocking an iron ball that flew at him.

"You could have gone to the next area. I'm almost done with him." The guy with the sword said.

"Here, looks like you need it." The guy with the iron ball said and gave his friend a health potion. "A couple of noobs dropped them, I guess they found them."

'Darn, if only…' Raguna said thinking of dual blades, and then he saw a treasure chest.

Raguna made a mad run to the chest and speed opened it getting what was in there without even checking it. He kept moving and opened his menu to he what he got…a second sword, the same one he had.

"I hope this works." Raguna said and placed the item over his current sword, this gave him the ability to dual wield. "LUCKY!" Raguna said smiling and jumped at the two opponents.

The guy with the iron ball threw the small end of his chain in hopes of hitting Raguna. He moved out of the way and kept going forward, where the guy with the sword tried to stop him by slashing at him but Raguna blocked with both swords and then slipped one off and slashed the sword man twice making him drop-out of the match.

"Now you've done it." The iron ball user said and tried to smash Raguna with the ball. Raguna jumped and then did a double down slash on the guy making his health drop to zero and making him drop-out.

"Man that was a work out. I hope I can do this on the actual game." Raguna said putting both of his swords away on the sheaths at his waist.

"Alright listen up players. 12 players have been defeated, now only 4 remain. May the best player win!" The announcer said.

-With Uzuki-

Uzuki's health was low. In fact if she didn't have a quick sip from one of the health potions she found earlier she would most likely be dropped.

'What do I do…I need help.' Uzuki started thinking. "Raguna!" She yelled and then out of nowhere, said person came flying in and blocked the daggers of the attacking woman.

"You called?" Raguna said cockily and then pushed the lady away. "You might want to get some health. Do you have any potions?" Raguna asked

"Yeah. But why?" Uzuki asked

"Well this might be a game, but I really don't feel like attacking a woman. Maybe if it was an NPC enemy, but this is another player." Raguna replied.

"I understand." Uzuki said quickly drinking her health potion. And rushing her opponent.

Uzuki traded a few strikes and eventually the two came to a stop. Both their health were low, too low in fact. Neither could make the next move since the two were completely exhausted.

"You're good kid." The woman said

"Likewise ma'am" Uzuki replied and suddenly…

"Uzuki!" Raguna yelled as an arrow blasted across both Uzuki and the lady taking what was left of their health and making them drop from the game.

"They bored me. I guess I should finish this." I guys voice was heard.

"You. I'm guessing you are the only other player here now." Raguna said really angry.

"Sure am. Now let's just finish this shall we?" the guy said and pointed an arrow to Raguna. He fired the Arrow and Raguna just deflected it with one of the swords.

"One of those two is my friend." Raguna replied. "This might be a game, But I won't forgive you!" Raguna finished yelling and rushed the guy.

Raguna threw one of his swords, which the guy dodged and Raguna slashed with the other sword when he got close enough. The man kept dodging Raguna's attacks and jumped away to shot at Raguna. Which didn't work because Raguna closed the distance and attacked mercilessly making the guy's health drop like a rock until eventually it reached zero. Raguna calmed down and then looked upwards.

"Hey! Sorry about that. Kinda lost my cool." Raguna said and then he dropped to go back to the real world. Once in the real world…

"And a round of applause for the Champion!" The announcer yelled and raised Raguna's arm as everyone cheered for him.

"Congratulations Raguna on both the tournament and your B-day." Uzuki said and gave him a box, a present.

"Wow! Thanks Uzuki." He replied and hugged her showing his appreciation. That doesn't mean she didn't turned as red as a tomato.

"Congratulations Raguna you're the champion, Now you get the first early release copy of "Dungeon Crawler" with a full set of Linker and all accessories, with whatever design, color, or picture you desire. Now, do you have any victory words?" the announcer said

"Everyone! Just one thing. If you decide to play PVP on any game, please do it fairly and not pulling some cheap trick." Raguna said remembering what had just happened.

"And there you have it. This has been the first look at Dungeon Crawler. Raguna Tomorrow on the mail you should get your special order form for the accessories designing and two weeks later you're receive your Linker set. Also I hope you enjoy the final form of the game which I believe will be much more entertaining than this Beta." The announcer said and everyone cheered once more.

Jesús: "And that's the end. Like usual Hope you enjoyed and see ya next time. Please leave a review and I'll see you all later."