DISCLAIMER: I do not own .hackor any of its characters.
"Yamato!" A young schoolgirl, long, brown hair flowed with the wind, blowing against her body, stands out on the basketball court cries out to a boy, who stops in the middle of a game, dropping the ball. "Come! NOW!"
"Sorry guys..." The black haired boy waved good-bye to the others, walking over to the girl; the other boys make whipping noises as he walked away.
"What is it, Sakura?" Yamato asked the girl, feeling like a loser to give up playing a game to WALK with Sakura.
"My friends told me about this game, The World!" She exclaimed in a high tone of voice. She pulled a guidebook out of her purse and handed it to Yamato.
"The World? What an original name..." A sarcastic remark given by Yamato as he flipped through the pages, looking at all the screenshots, weapon designs and pictures of example characters in the game.
"Oh come on! Try it with me tonight!" Sakura squealed slightly as she thought about the game.
"Why couldn't our other conversations have gone like that?" He gave a sigh as Sakura punched him for that remark.
Yamato and Sakura, both 15 years old, aren't always compatible, but they got along just fine. Sakura was always excited about something or another, thinking about the positive and puts on a happy face even in the toughest situations. Yamato, however, wasn't always excited about doing something, but he always tries hard and excels at most things he does, excluding anything revolving around school.
They each had a separate group of friends that they usually hung around with during the school day but some days, they just liked to hang out with each other. Yamato mainly hung around with a group of just some guys in his class, they weren't the most interesting conversationalists but Yamato didn't like to make friends that often. Sakura usually strolled around with the less popular girls in their class, as she wasn't too popular herself, though, she was always confident in herself.
"Are you on yet?" Growled a frustrated Sakura, tapping the phone as she sat by her computer.
"I'm still installing the program..." Yamato complained, smacking his monitor once before falling off his chair, phone slipping out of his hand.
"When you get on, I'll be at the Chaos Gate with someone." She slammed the phone and put the game gear on, starting up The World.
"The Chao wha? Wait, with WHO?" Confused, Yamato just hung up the phone and turned back to his monitor, the program FINALLY installed. He pulled his chair up and looked through the rulebook.
Sitting down on the chair, Yamato places on his game gear and turns on The World, a strange blue screen flashed before his eyes and before he knew it, a black screen appeared, the words "Welcome to The World" slowly emerged, letter by letter.
Yamato PoV
Taking a look at the next screen, I had to design a character. First of all, I decided on a name. What should I go with? This was a decision that shouldn't be taken lightly as it was going to be the name I was going to use for a long time so I thought about it. I entered a few names; some people already used them. This angered me, it took me a while before I came up with names I could actually live with using! After a while, I just put in my own name and figure that should be sufficient. Luckily enough, it was accepted. Next, I had to decide on gender and class. I decided to be male for obvious reasons. I then picked the only class that caught my interest, Blade Master. I figured this kind of fit my personality after, taking a look at the other options, though I was tempted in choosing Heavy Blade. There was colour of hair and I thought about it.
Should my character look like me? Will Sakura's look like her? Maybe I should make him look like me. I hope this will help Sakura recognize me.
I chose black hair and a tanned body, a lot of options but I decided to go with the basics. There were several different options for the designs that were going to be on the body such as the patterns of marks across my body. I chose red and orange lines to run throughout my body and for small triangles across my cheeks. Now on clothing, what types of clothes should my character be wearing? My character was a Blade Master so I'd have to use something looks like I'm a master of the blade. I chose a golden breast plate with a large red cross on the center, golden shoulder armour with a red rim, this armour only on his right side, a white long sleeved shirt under all this armour, a pair of golden gloves, white pants and a pair of golden leg armour, orange rims. Now that my character had been decided, I was moved onto the game itself.
As I began the game, there was some text that appeared in front of me reading "Aqua Capitol – Mac Anu". Three golden rings with some text that I couldn't read as it passed by too quickly, hovered around me and disappeared quickly. Looking around, I saw that the place
"Yamato!" Hearing that voice, I could only conclude that the voice belonged to my friend, Sakura. "What took you so damn long?"
"I had to design my character!" I found that I was always explaining myself to Sakura about one thing or another. This happened just about every time she yelled at me so it was quite often. I then noticed Sakura's character and it was very...revealing. Blushing slightly, I shook it off and looked at her without looking at her anywhere else.
"Fine, whatever!" She sighed and that's when I noticed him. There was a guy with Sakura, someone I hadn't seen before, but then again, I haven't seen anyone before.
"Who's HE?" I questioned, pointing over to the guy next to Sakura.
"HE'S a SHE." Sakura stated, laughing at my crude intelligence.
"What? That's clearly a man!" I stated, pointing at the character and waved my arms up and down to show how weird I got when she said that a guy such as that was a woman.
"She's Hanako from school."
"WHAT!!!!!"
"You know, characters don't necessarily represent the player themselves." Hanako stated, her character name being Elexis.
"You are too close-minded, Yamato." Sakura glared at me for a second. I looked at her character name; it was her real one.
"And not very original either..." Elexis coughed slightly hinting at my name.
"It was all I could think of since my other names were taken." I, once again, explained myself, though this time, to someone I barely knew. "Well, even so, Sakura's not very original either!"
For that, I get clonked on the head. "It was your first time, I thought this way you would be able to recognize me! Idiot..." She muttered under her breath as she walked back to Elexis.
"So what do we do now?"
"Did you like, NOT read the guidebook?"
"I skimmed through it..."
"All you have to do is interact with other players, buy equipment and get stronger."
"That's it? Let me ask this then, why do I have to play it?" Complaining was something I had grown accustomed to. I found from time to time, complaining was something easy and natural for me to do.
"You're gonna do it and your gonna like it!" Sakura clonked me on the head again and dragged me up to the big ring thing.
"Okay, add Sakura and I to your party." Elexis told me, giving a cold glare as he pointed his staff at me.
"How do I do that?"
"Eh...you go to your option screen and go to where it says party and add us, we'll give you our Member Addresses now." Sakura and Elexis both exchanged their Member Addresses with me and I did as they stated, opened that option window, scrolling down the words and clicked PartyAddSakura and then again, PartyAddElexis.
"Now what do we do?" The two sighed as they gave that look to each other, saying that I was a lost cause.
"Type in the keywords 'Chronicling, Destroyer's, Treasure Gem' and we'll go with you so we can fight some monsters." Sakura stated, jabbing me slightly as she began to disappear, three rings hovering over her, the same happening to Elexis.
"The hell?" I was confused but I figured, some strange new crap so I'll just go with the flow. I typed in the keywords and disappeared, the rings around me.
Materializing in a grassland field, I saw that Elexis and Sakura were already there, waiting for me but they seemed to find something strange about the area. I didn't see anything wrong with it, but this was my first time in one of these things so I guess it's only natural for me to think that.
"Something the matter?" I asked the two, though, they gave me no response. I continued to gaze across the fields and noticed parts of the sky were ripped out and numbers were written.
"What is all of this?" Well, Sakura didn't know what this was either so at least I'm not the idiot this time.
"I heard about this. The level has been corrupted. We should leave immediately." Elexis stated, turning around but stopped and her voice stopped. I looked at her expression and twisted around to see what she was staring at.
It was a large monster thing, a common thing, but it in translucent green hexagons. This monster had large claws but a skinny body and it carried around a large red staff that was luminous at the top, where the orb was. I didn't know what it was, but even I could recognize when something was wrong...most of the time. I saw Sakura try to attack it but the attack didn't even do anything to the monster. The creature prepared to strike back but I was going to allow that so when it fire a beam out of it's staff, I leapt out and tackled Sakura, moving her and myself out of the beam, but Elexis...he was not so fortunate and was hit.
"Data Drain!" Shouted the monster, Elexis being absorbed by the beam and she vanished before my eyes.
"What the hell?" I remarked getting up from the ground, seeing the monster target Sakura and I now.
The orb began to glow, Sakura and I were stuck, paralyzed, and the monster was prepared to delete us. I still wondered what happens when a player gets deleted, I guess I'll get to learn first hand. A powerful flash of light grew in the orb and I was engulfed in the luminous energy from the orb, as was Sakura.
"DATA DRAIN!"
"Yamato!" A young schoolgirl, long, brown hair flowed with the wind, blowing against her body, stands out on the basketball court cries out to a boy, who stops in the middle of a game, dropping the ball. "Come! NOW!"
"Sorry guys..." The black haired boy waved good-bye to the others, walking over to the girl; the other boys make whipping noises as he walked away.
"What is it, Sakura?" Yamato asked the girl, feeling like a loser to give up playing a game to WALK with Sakura.
"My friends told me about this game, The World!" She exclaimed in a high tone of voice. She pulled a guidebook out of her purse and handed it to Yamato.
"The World? What an original name..." A sarcastic remark given by Yamato as he flipped through the pages, looking at all the screenshots, weapon designs and pictures of example characters in the game.
"Oh come on! Try it with me tonight!" Sakura squealed slightly as she thought about the game.
"Why couldn't our other conversations have gone like that?" He gave a sigh as Sakura punched him for that remark.
Yamato and Sakura, both 15 years old, aren't always compatible, but they got along just fine. Sakura was always excited about something or another, thinking about the positive and puts on a happy face even in the toughest situations. Yamato, however, wasn't always excited about doing something, but he always tries hard and excels at most things he does, excluding anything revolving around school.
They each had a separate group of friends that they usually hung around with during the school day but some days, they just liked to hang out with each other. Yamato mainly hung around with a group of just some guys in his class, they weren't the most interesting conversationalists but Yamato didn't like to make friends that often. Sakura usually strolled around with the less popular girls in their class, as she wasn't too popular herself, though, she was always confident in herself.
"Are you on yet?" Growled a frustrated Sakura, tapping the phone as she sat by her computer.
"I'm still installing the program..." Yamato complained, smacking his monitor once before falling off his chair, phone slipping out of his hand.
"When you get on, I'll be at the Chaos Gate with someone." She slammed the phone and put the game gear on, starting up The World.
"The Chao wha? Wait, with WHO?" Confused, Yamato just hung up the phone and turned back to his monitor, the program FINALLY installed. He pulled his chair up and looked through the rulebook.
Sitting down on the chair, Yamato places on his game gear and turns on The World, a strange blue screen flashed before his eyes and before he knew it, a black screen appeared, the words "Welcome to The World" slowly emerged, letter by letter.
Yamato PoV
Taking a look at the next screen, I had to design a character. First of all, I decided on a name. What should I go with? This was a decision that shouldn't be taken lightly as it was going to be the name I was going to use for a long time so I thought about it. I entered a few names; some people already used them. This angered me, it took me a while before I came up with names I could actually live with using! After a while, I just put in my own name and figure that should be sufficient. Luckily enough, it was accepted. Next, I had to decide on gender and class. I decided to be male for obvious reasons. I then picked the only class that caught my interest, Blade Master. I figured this kind of fit my personality after, taking a look at the other options, though I was tempted in choosing Heavy Blade. There was colour of hair and I thought about it.
Should my character look like me? Will Sakura's look like her? Maybe I should make him look like me. I hope this will help Sakura recognize me.
I chose black hair and a tanned body, a lot of options but I decided to go with the basics. There were several different options for the designs that were going to be on the body such as the patterns of marks across my body. I chose red and orange lines to run throughout my body and for small triangles across my cheeks. Now on clothing, what types of clothes should my character be wearing? My character was a Blade Master so I'd have to use something looks like I'm a master of the blade. I chose a golden breast plate with a large red cross on the center, golden shoulder armour with a red rim, this armour only on his right side, a white long sleeved shirt under all this armour, a pair of golden gloves, white pants and a pair of golden leg armour, orange rims. Now that my character had been decided, I was moved onto the game itself.
As I began the game, there was some text that appeared in front of me reading "Aqua Capitol – Mac Anu". Three golden rings with some text that I couldn't read as it passed by too quickly, hovered around me and disappeared quickly. Looking around, I saw that the place
"Yamato!" Hearing that voice, I could only conclude that the voice belonged to my friend, Sakura. "What took you so damn long?"
"I had to design my character!" I found that I was always explaining myself to Sakura about one thing or another. This happened just about every time she yelled at me so it was quite often. I then noticed Sakura's character and it was very...revealing. Blushing slightly, I shook it off and looked at her without looking at her anywhere else.
"Fine, whatever!" She sighed and that's when I noticed him. There was a guy with Sakura, someone I hadn't seen before, but then again, I haven't seen anyone before.
"Who's HE?" I questioned, pointing over to the guy next to Sakura.
"HE'S a SHE." Sakura stated, laughing at my crude intelligence.
"What? That's clearly a man!" I stated, pointing at the character and waved my arms up and down to show how weird I got when she said that a guy such as that was a woman.
"She's Hanako from school."
"WHAT!!!!!"
"You know, characters don't necessarily represent the player themselves." Hanako stated, her character name being Elexis.
"You are too close-minded, Yamato." Sakura glared at me for a second. I looked at her character name; it was her real one.
"And not very original either..." Elexis coughed slightly hinting at my name.
"It was all I could think of since my other names were taken." I, once again, explained myself, though this time, to someone I barely knew. "Well, even so, Sakura's not very original either!"
For that, I get clonked on the head. "It was your first time, I thought this way you would be able to recognize me! Idiot..." She muttered under her breath as she walked back to Elexis.
"So what do we do now?"
"Did you like, NOT read the guidebook?"
"I skimmed through it..."
"All you have to do is interact with other players, buy equipment and get stronger."
"That's it? Let me ask this then, why do I have to play it?" Complaining was something I had grown accustomed to. I found from time to time, complaining was something easy and natural for me to do.
"You're gonna do it and your gonna like it!" Sakura clonked me on the head again and dragged me up to the big ring thing.
"Okay, add Sakura and I to your party." Elexis told me, giving a cold glare as he pointed his staff at me.
"How do I do that?"
"Eh...you go to your option screen and go to where it says party and add us, we'll give you our Member Addresses now." Sakura and Elexis both exchanged their Member Addresses with me and I did as they stated, opened that option window, scrolling down the words and clicked PartyAddSakura and then again, PartyAddElexis.
"Now what do we do?" The two sighed as they gave that look to each other, saying that I was a lost cause.
"Type in the keywords 'Chronicling, Destroyer's, Treasure Gem' and we'll go with you so we can fight some monsters." Sakura stated, jabbing me slightly as she began to disappear, three rings hovering over her, the same happening to Elexis.
"The hell?" I was confused but I figured, some strange new crap so I'll just go with the flow. I typed in the keywords and disappeared, the rings around me.
Materializing in a grassland field, I saw that Elexis and Sakura were already there, waiting for me but they seemed to find something strange about the area. I didn't see anything wrong with it, but this was my first time in one of these things so I guess it's only natural for me to think that.
"Something the matter?" I asked the two, though, they gave me no response. I continued to gaze across the fields and noticed parts of the sky were ripped out and numbers were written.
"What is all of this?" Well, Sakura didn't know what this was either so at least I'm not the idiot this time.
"I heard about this. The level has been corrupted. We should leave immediately." Elexis stated, turning around but stopped and her voice stopped. I looked at her expression and twisted around to see what she was staring at.
It was a large monster thing, a common thing, but it in translucent green hexagons. This monster had large claws but a skinny body and it carried around a large red staff that was luminous at the top, where the orb was. I didn't know what it was, but even I could recognize when something was wrong...most of the time. I saw Sakura try to attack it but the attack didn't even do anything to the monster. The creature prepared to strike back but I was going to allow that so when it fire a beam out of it's staff, I leapt out and tackled Sakura, moving her and myself out of the beam, but Elexis...he was not so fortunate and was hit.
"Data Drain!" Shouted the monster, Elexis being absorbed by the beam and she vanished before my eyes.
"What the hell?" I remarked getting up from the ground, seeing the monster target Sakura and I now.
The orb began to glow, Sakura and I were stuck, paralyzed, and the monster was prepared to delete us. I still wondered what happens when a player gets deleted, I guess I'll get to learn first hand. A powerful flash of light grew in the orb and I was engulfed in the luminous energy from the orb, as was Sakura.
"DATA DRAIN!"