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Chapter 2

Welcome to my game

In a small dark room, lit only by the light of a computer screen, sat a motionless boy. He seemed to be in a trance, motionless, barely breathing. His hands gripped a controller loosely, as if it were ready to drop. His eyes were hidden behind the silver neuro-visor. The computer screen in front of the boy was lit only by the words 'Welcome to my game…'

"BiVak Rom!" Called Kirian one last time, flames engulfing, and finally killing the last of many monsters in this room. They had now reached the sixth level of the dungeon, and something seemed wrong.

"It's impossible; no dungeon can be this hard deep. It shows there's still another level on the map!" Mori leaned on his blade; this dungeon actually seemed to make him tired.

"I'm out of healing and SP replenishing items" Yuzi notified them after searching his inventory. The three sat down, leaning up against a wall. Yuzi spoke again, "We've had to be here for hours now, and don't seem to be making any progress."

Mori stood and grumbled, searching his inventory. Finally, he pulled out a sprite ocarina and held it to his chest. The golden rings came and went, but Mori remained, the dungeon exit hadn't taken him. "What the hell!" He looked to Yuzi, withdrew another ocarina and tried again. Again, there was no change, Mori just stood there, quiet, motionless.

"Wow. We must be so deep in the dungeon that exit items don't work. It's okay, we can just retrace our steps… Right?" Kirian smiled, looking from Mori to Yuzi.

"Actually. Unless I'm mistaken the door we came from didn't open after we finished off the last monster." Yuzi motioned to it, sighing quietly. "Why can't the staff just fix these problems, rather than releasing 'fixes'?" Yuzi got up, took out the map, and then looked to Mori.

"Don't say it, Yuzi. I know what you're thinking. Unless we come up with a really good strategy, there's no way in hell we'll be able to survive more than a couple more battles. I'll be right back." Mori made a move as if he was going to remove something from his head. His eyes widened and he tried again, a look of worry on his face. "Y-yuzi? Can you take of your headgear?

"Why wouldn't I be able to?" He then did the same thing as Mori, attempting it repeatedly, franticly. "What the hell! I can't get it off; I don't even think I'm actually really moving."

"You two are stupid. Just because you can't, doesn't mean I can't. I'll log and call the help line." She then sat still for a moment. After a short while her face shaped into a frown. "I can't access the log out menu. It's like it doesn't exist…" Kirian looked to Mori, and then lowered her head. "Sorry."

"Don't worry bout it…" He motioned for the others to follow, then entered the next dungeon room. A large portal quickly expanded, then became small, a single treasure chest taking its place. "Well, looks like we got lucky this time." Mori motioned for Yuzi to open the chest; he never liked to get stupid items.

"Awesome." Yuzi quickly moved forward, checking the chest for traps before opening it. Yuzis' eyes widened and he turned to look at Mori. "Wow… That's unusual, but… My inventory just filled up with revives and healing elixirs." He offered to give Mori a gift.

"Well, whatever's going on here, it's obviously ing with us." Mori accepted the trade, then offered a gift to Kirian, giving her half of what he received. "The least this place could have done was lift the profanity censor…" Yuzi rolled his eyes and walked to the next door.

"Shall we continue and see if we can find a way out?" He waited for the others to catch up, and then walked through the door. This room, thankfully, was empty, and the next door led down to the next dungeon level. They all exchanged looks, and walked downstairs.

"Oh my god! Look! There's someone else here!" Kirian quickly ran up to a person slouched against the wall. "Hey, you okay? Why are you just sitting there?" The wavemaster just sat there, eyes widened, repeating the same thing over and over.

"They're gone… It took them away from me." He didn't seem to notice the others, lost in his own little world. He was covered in digital blood, scorch marks covered his clothes.

"Forget it. It's probably just a broken NPC, there's no way a wavemaster could make it down here on his own." Mori walked over to the wavemaster, placed a foot on his shoulder, and pushed. The wavemaster fell over, then curled up, whimpering quietly. "P-please don't hurt me."

"Hey! What'd you do that for!" Kirian quickly helped the poor player back up, sitting him back against the wall. "You can come with us… We can help you look for your friends." She smiled weakly and offered a hand to him. The wavemaster stared at her for a moment then vanished amidst a cloud of pixels.

"Odd. It looks like Mori was right. He was probably just one of those famous wandering AIs… Interesting." Yuzi walked up to where the wavemaster once sat, looking to his companions. He looked around the room, tilting his head a bit. "Hey… It just me, or does this dungeon seem a bit… Weird?"

"What? Besides the fact that we are being held here against our will? Maybe it's the fact that the monsters are insanely strong. Could it be that we can't LEAVE?" Mori finished off with an angry yell. Yuzi cowered a bit then shook his head.

"No. I mean… I thought this dungeon was a shrine dungeon." Yuzi motioned around. "Doesn't this seem a bit… Odd?"

"Yeah, it looks… Darker." Kirian said after taking a quick look around.

"Whatever, it doesn't really matter. Let's just go and see if we can find something out." Mori sounded aggravated, making the others run after him as he continued into the next room. Once in the next room, a single enemy appeared from the portal. It wasn't normal though, it appeared to be a player character. It quickly withdrew two long swords and ran at the group.

"What the hell?" Mori yelled, quickly withdrawing his blade, having to work hard at blocking each hit. "Since when did monsters look or act like this?" He stumbled backwards, narrowly dodging another attack.

"I'll distract him!" Yuzi ran forward, slashing his blades at the new character at high speed, every hit doing minimal damage. It quickly turned on the small twinblade, turning the attack around and making the player dodge and block every hit.

"Kirian, keep us at full health, otherwise we'll all be turned into ghosts!" Mori managed to get a few high damage hits in on the enemy, only to have it turn its attack on him. Yuzis' blades glowed for a moment, then he went wild on the enemy, landing a few good hits, but getting killed in the process.

"Damn it! Don't die!" Mori used another revive on Yuzi, then quickly jumped away from another attack. Kirian stayed away from the fight, constantly trying weakening spells on the enemy, and healing her party. Mori held his blade straight out in front of him and began to spin at high speed, slashing away at the enemy like a top. His attack ended, a grin crossing his lips.

"Finally! It's HP is down enough!" He used his special attack, blade pulsing, then going berserk on the enemy, finally ending the battle. The monster turned grey, then vanished in a cloud of pixels. Everyone was covered by a short-lasting glow.

"Yay! Level up!" Kirian yelled,Yuzi smiled and replied with a single nod. Mori used a healing elixir on himself and walked to the next door of the dungeon.

"Don't get your hopes up yet. If we encounter another one or two of those, we might not get so lucky." The others sighed, then followed him through the door. The room they had just left pulsed a dark red energy, a shadowy figure visible for just a moment. Mori had a bad feeling at that moment, as if they were being watched… Followed…