I've been getting reviews lately saying my fic is getting unoriginal and
it's too much like other things (.hack, The Matrix, etc.) but I can assure
everybody that nothing from those games will occur here. Keywords aren't
going to be used at all nor will a character obtain a bracelet and Data
Drain everything, and Agents aren't going to come after people in the
Garden and nobody is getting "unplugged". You'll have to bear with me and
find out where the story goes.
Now that that's over with onward!
Chapter 7
Innocent?
Lucca and I followed Tucker to the fourth level of the Garden, the Administrators Office. This is where some of the SquareSoft workers discuss various things about the game. Why discuss the game inside of it? Saves on travel time I assume.
"This should be interesting. I wonder what will be discussed." Lucca said as Tucker approached the door.
"We plan to talk about the monster in the black armor that has been running around, Miss Lucca." Tucker said not turning to face her. He's a little less shy when he isn't facing you.
"I'm interested myself." I said walking inside. A series of tables were set up around the massive room. It was like a ball was being held.
"Have a seat wherever you wish." A man told us bowing. We sat together at this vacant table in the corner.
"They should begin soon." Tucker informed.
"Attention everyone! Thank you for attending. We will now discuss this monster in black armor we've been hearing about." a man in a suit shouted so all could hear.
"Recently Square has recieved a series of emails about some strange monster in black armor that has been attacking various people. This is, I'm afraid, true." as he finished saying that peice there were gasps and looks of shock around. The people here began to talk among themselves. One player broke the chatter.
"Then why don't you do something about it!?" A Knight yelled. He looked like the one I saw attack that monster, but different hairstyle.
"We cannot. It seems all our efforts to delete this creature are failing. We believe the only way to remove it is to kill it. However we do not encourage such behavior. Reports of people at Level 30 have been defeated. We advice if you were to try to kill it to be at least Level 32 and have an equally strong party with you." He explained.
"Is it true it can kill people.........you know in the real world?" Lucca asked standing.
"We have also heard rumors about such things but it is fortunately untrue. This game is not capable of killing people. We believe some players may have been defeated by the monster and have just been too afraid to log back in again. However we cannot say for certain." the man continued to explain.
This wasn't all making much sense. How can they not just simply delete it or make something to delete it. And players not logging back in? That's pretty lame if you ask me. Sure this is realistic but still.
"That is all for now. Please exit downstairs." He said as people began to file out and leave. I stayed put.
"Sir Eliot we must go." Tucker told me as he started walking out.
"Eliot we should be leaving." Lucca said tugging my jacket.
"He's hiding something and I don't know what. I intend to find out." I told them following the man where he went, behind the curtains.
"But they'll probably ban us or something!" Lucca protested.
"You don't have to come then." I told her.
"Well as long as we're just looking then it'll be fine with me." Tucker said walking forward to meet me.
"You in Lucca?" I asked.
"Fine, but if we get caught I'm kicking your butt!" she complained following us.
Where the man went led straight to an elevator.
"Wonder where this could lead." I said getting in and hitting down, the only available button.
We felt the lift move down far, very far, as thought we were going through the ground into the earth.
The doors opened and we were inside some kind of metallic hallway. It was barely lit and hard to see too far ahead.
"He probably is far ahead by now so we shouldn't worry too much about being caught." I declared walking along our linear path.
We got to this wider area and a series of machines appeared in front ready to attack us.
"Guess they don't want visitors." I said drawing my weapon, as Lucca drew her daggers and Tucker always had his Rod out.
Sending a Fire spell at one it fell to the ground and was destroyed. The other two were larger though, with longer arms with spikes attached to the ends.
"Let me handle this!" Lucca declared running to one and taking something from it, she must have stolen something.
"That really didn't accomplish anything." I said. Then the machine she stole from literally fell to peices.
"Silly boy." she giggled as the last machine was waiting to be destroyed by a good Rough Divide.
Slashing upwards the foe was cut up the middle and fell to the ground in half. My level increased and I was informed that I learned "Fated Circle" which attacked all enemies but cost 25 MP to use, and I only had 30 MP total.
"Let's keep going!" I shouted running onwards.
Eventually we were in this large generator room and there was the suited man talking to a thinner suited man. They were talking about something.
"I can't hear them." I whispered.
"Let me try." Lucca whispered back. She pressed the side of her headgear and we could hear the conversation a little better. It was playing directly into her headset.
"Did it go well?" the thin man asked.
"Yes, those players are still fooled." the other responded.
"Good we cannot afford for them to know the truth about the game."
"But what if one or more of them succeed in killing that monster?"
"I highly doubt that is possible. Necros is a very powerful girl. And without her we'd lose control over part of the game."
Necros? That monster in the black armor is Necros. Than the Necros in that black robe and the armored monster are the same person. This makes even less sense.
"Where is she?" the larger man asked.
"Her avatar is currently in hiding. The girl is still resting well. We plan to relocate her avatar to another server area." the thin one answered.
"Which one?"
"Highland Capital. Then people will begin to think she's a virus or hacker that is restricted to one area."
In all the talk Tucker managed to let his Rod slip and fall to the ground, making a little too much noise.
"What was that?" the thin one demanded.
"Uh oh! Not good." Lucca said turning her headset off.
"This would be a good time to run." I said as we crept away but soon found that a group of guards were waiting for us.
"Stop! This is a restricted area!" One of them said aiming a gun at us.
"Lucca Log Out!" Lucca shouted but nothing happened.
"We'll decide when you log out or not!" the guard said as his underlings quickly detained us.
I woke up in a room strapped to the wall. Lucca, Tucker, Ashley, and Heather were all there too.
"Ashley, Heather! How did you two end up here?" I asked them.
"I don't know. I was just sleeping and then woke up in the game." Ashley said.
"Same with me. What did I do wrong?" Heather complained.
"We're stuck here I guess." I told them.
We were strapped by our ankles and across our chests with our hands tied down as well.
"This isn't very good. I'm sorry it was my fault." Tucker said lowering his head.
"Don't worry Tucker. I dragged us down there." I told him.
"They'd better let us go soon. This is really starting to hurt." Heather shouted. Out of all of us, she was strapped the worst, due to her large chest the strap over them was starting to press into her, which I can imagine must hurt for a girl.
"How will we get out of here?" Lucca asked us.
"I'm not sure." I said lowering my head. They must have gotten to Ashley and Heather through me. How else would they know?
Then that strange little boy I encountered earlier appeared in front of us.
"It's you!" I yelled.
"I am sorry for what happened to all of you. But the company does not want you finding out too much. I can free you all but please be more cautious." He said as magically our straps were undone. Heather let out this big sigh of relief.
"But I can't give up now. I want to know more about it!" I protested to this child.
"My sister is the monster in the armor as you may already have guessed. She does this because she cannot help it. It is her nature." he explained.
"Her nature?" Tucker questioned.
"Yes, she is what you'd call my 'evil twin' and she takes pleasure in the pain of others. And if they move her to the Highland Capital then she will only continue to destroy more." he pleaded.
"How can we stop her?" I asked.
"By killing the monster in the black armor you will free her from this violence. She does not wish to continue doing it either. She would rather die than support this world." he told us.
"Support this world? She's killing people though, that's hardly support." Ashley said.
"I'd tell you more but you aren't ready to know. I will send you back now." he told us. Before we could respond I woke up in my car in my driveway.
"What happened? This is getting weird." I said walking inside and checking my mail before going to bed. It was 11:30.
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To: Eliot
From: Necros
Subject: My brother
My brother has told you about me. It is true, I am the monster in the black armor. If you wish to learn more than follow a convoy taking my body to Highland Capital leaving tomorrow morning at 5am. Bring whoever you wish.
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To: Eliot
From: Lucca
Subject: Weird
Wow, I never thought meeting up with you would lead to this. I'm concerned about this monster in black armor too and I'll help in any way possible. Please call me up.
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To: Eliot
From: Ashley
Subject: Sorry
I'm so sorry about today. I lied to you. I really wasn't sick at all. I was just so afraid to log back into the game again because I was afraid I'd die from it. But please call me anyway so I can help you out in the future. I hope I don't let you down. And I've been able to control my summon now. It's useful.
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That explains why she didn't seem too bad in the game. Even though it is just a silly game.........or at least I hope so.
Emailing all the people I've met so far, Tucker, Lucca, Heather, and Ashley, I told them about tomorrow morning and how I'm gonna see what can be done about Necros. I know I'm only at Level 10 but I still have to do something to stop these killings from happening.
Well review and tell me what you think. I hope the story is progressing well enough. At least it made it farther than my other original fics I've written.
Now that that's over with onward!
Chapter 7
Innocent?
Lucca and I followed Tucker to the fourth level of the Garden, the Administrators Office. This is where some of the SquareSoft workers discuss various things about the game. Why discuss the game inside of it? Saves on travel time I assume.
"This should be interesting. I wonder what will be discussed." Lucca said as Tucker approached the door.
"We plan to talk about the monster in the black armor that has been running around, Miss Lucca." Tucker said not turning to face her. He's a little less shy when he isn't facing you.
"I'm interested myself." I said walking inside. A series of tables were set up around the massive room. It was like a ball was being held.
"Have a seat wherever you wish." A man told us bowing. We sat together at this vacant table in the corner.
"They should begin soon." Tucker informed.
"Attention everyone! Thank you for attending. We will now discuss this monster in black armor we've been hearing about." a man in a suit shouted so all could hear.
"Recently Square has recieved a series of emails about some strange monster in black armor that has been attacking various people. This is, I'm afraid, true." as he finished saying that peice there were gasps and looks of shock around. The people here began to talk among themselves. One player broke the chatter.
"Then why don't you do something about it!?" A Knight yelled. He looked like the one I saw attack that monster, but different hairstyle.
"We cannot. It seems all our efforts to delete this creature are failing. We believe the only way to remove it is to kill it. However we do not encourage such behavior. Reports of people at Level 30 have been defeated. We advice if you were to try to kill it to be at least Level 32 and have an equally strong party with you." He explained.
"Is it true it can kill people.........you know in the real world?" Lucca asked standing.
"We have also heard rumors about such things but it is fortunately untrue. This game is not capable of killing people. We believe some players may have been defeated by the monster and have just been too afraid to log back in again. However we cannot say for certain." the man continued to explain.
This wasn't all making much sense. How can they not just simply delete it or make something to delete it. And players not logging back in? That's pretty lame if you ask me. Sure this is realistic but still.
"That is all for now. Please exit downstairs." He said as people began to file out and leave. I stayed put.
"Sir Eliot we must go." Tucker told me as he started walking out.
"Eliot we should be leaving." Lucca said tugging my jacket.
"He's hiding something and I don't know what. I intend to find out." I told them following the man where he went, behind the curtains.
"But they'll probably ban us or something!" Lucca protested.
"You don't have to come then." I told her.
"Well as long as we're just looking then it'll be fine with me." Tucker said walking forward to meet me.
"You in Lucca?" I asked.
"Fine, but if we get caught I'm kicking your butt!" she complained following us.
Where the man went led straight to an elevator.
"Wonder where this could lead." I said getting in and hitting down, the only available button.
We felt the lift move down far, very far, as thought we were going through the ground into the earth.
The doors opened and we were inside some kind of metallic hallway. It was barely lit and hard to see too far ahead.
"He probably is far ahead by now so we shouldn't worry too much about being caught." I declared walking along our linear path.
We got to this wider area and a series of machines appeared in front ready to attack us.
"Guess they don't want visitors." I said drawing my weapon, as Lucca drew her daggers and Tucker always had his Rod out.
Sending a Fire spell at one it fell to the ground and was destroyed. The other two were larger though, with longer arms with spikes attached to the ends.
"Let me handle this!" Lucca declared running to one and taking something from it, she must have stolen something.
"That really didn't accomplish anything." I said. Then the machine she stole from literally fell to peices.
"Silly boy." she giggled as the last machine was waiting to be destroyed by a good Rough Divide.
Slashing upwards the foe was cut up the middle and fell to the ground in half. My level increased and I was informed that I learned "Fated Circle" which attacked all enemies but cost 25 MP to use, and I only had 30 MP total.
"Let's keep going!" I shouted running onwards.
Eventually we were in this large generator room and there was the suited man talking to a thinner suited man. They were talking about something.
"I can't hear them." I whispered.
"Let me try." Lucca whispered back. She pressed the side of her headgear and we could hear the conversation a little better. It was playing directly into her headset.
"Did it go well?" the thin man asked.
"Yes, those players are still fooled." the other responded.
"Good we cannot afford for them to know the truth about the game."
"But what if one or more of them succeed in killing that monster?"
"I highly doubt that is possible. Necros is a very powerful girl. And without her we'd lose control over part of the game."
Necros? That monster in the black armor is Necros. Than the Necros in that black robe and the armored monster are the same person. This makes even less sense.
"Where is she?" the larger man asked.
"Her avatar is currently in hiding. The girl is still resting well. We plan to relocate her avatar to another server area." the thin one answered.
"Which one?"
"Highland Capital. Then people will begin to think she's a virus or hacker that is restricted to one area."
In all the talk Tucker managed to let his Rod slip and fall to the ground, making a little too much noise.
"What was that?" the thin one demanded.
"Uh oh! Not good." Lucca said turning her headset off.
"This would be a good time to run." I said as we crept away but soon found that a group of guards were waiting for us.
"Stop! This is a restricted area!" One of them said aiming a gun at us.
"Lucca Log Out!" Lucca shouted but nothing happened.
"We'll decide when you log out or not!" the guard said as his underlings quickly detained us.
I woke up in a room strapped to the wall. Lucca, Tucker, Ashley, and Heather were all there too.
"Ashley, Heather! How did you two end up here?" I asked them.
"I don't know. I was just sleeping and then woke up in the game." Ashley said.
"Same with me. What did I do wrong?" Heather complained.
"We're stuck here I guess." I told them.
We were strapped by our ankles and across our chests with our hands tied down as well.
"This isn't very good. I'm sorry it was my fault." Tucker said lowering his head.
"Don't worry Tucker. I dragged us down there." I told him.
"They'd better let us go soon. This is really starting to hurt." Heather shouted. Out of all of us, she was strapped the worst, due to her large chest the strap over them was starting to press into her, which I can imagine must hurt for a girl.
"How will we get out of here?" Lucca asked us.
"I'm not sure." I said lowering my head. They must have gotten to Ashley and Heather through me. How else would they know?
Then that strange little boy I encountered earlier appeared in front of us.
"It's you!" I yelled.
"I am sorry for what happened to all of you. But the company does not want you finding out too much. I can free you all but please be more cautious." He said as magically our straps were undone. Heather let out this big sigh of relief.
"But I can't give up now. I want to know more about it!" I protested to this child.
"My sister is the monster in the armor as you may already have guessed. She does this because she cannot help it. It is her nature." he explained.
"Her nature?" Tucker questioned.
"Yes, she is what you'd call my 'evil twin' and she takes pleasure in the pain of others. And if they move her to the Highland Capital then she will only continue to destroy more." he pleaded.
"How can we stop her?" I asked.
"By killing the monster in the black armor you will free her from this violence. She does not wish to continue doing it either. She would rather die than support this world." he told us.
"Support this world? She's killing people though, that's hardly support." Ashley said.
"I'd tell you more but you aren't ready to know. I will send you back now." he told us. Before we could respond I woke up in my car in my driveway.
"What happened? This is getting weird." I said walking inside and checking my mail before going to bed. It was 11:30.
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To: Eliot
From: Necros
Subject: My brother
My brother has told you about me. It is true, I am the monster in the black armor. If you wish to learn more than follow a convoy taking my body to Highland Capital leaving tomorrow morning at 5am. Bring whoever you wish.
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To: Eliot
From: Lucca
Subject: Weird
Wow, I never thought meeting up with you would lead to this. I'm concerned about this monster in black armor too and I'll help in any way possible. Please call me up.
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To: Eliot
From: Ashley
Subject: Sorry
I'm so sorry about today. I lied to you. I really wasn't sick at all. I was just so afraid to log back into the game again because I was afraid I'd die from it. But please call me anyway so I can help you out in the future. I hope I don't let you down. And I've been able to control my summon now. It's useful.
---------------------------------------------------
That explains why she didn't seem too bad in the game. Even though it is just a silly game.........or at least I hope so.
Emailing all the people I've met so far, Tucker, Lucca, Heather, and Ashley, I told them about tomorrow morning and how I'm gonna see what can be done about Necros. I know I'm only at Level 10 but I still have to do something to stop these killings from happening.
Well review and tell me what you think. I hope the story is progressing well enough. At least it made it farther than my other original fics I've written.