Okay back again! Quick ne? I acctually wrote this chapter BEFORE the prologue, sad ne? oh well never mind i hope you enjoy this! And yesI DO have busta heads permission to use her charecters! Enjoy and R&R!
Chapter 1-Arson
It was almost 4 am on a Sunday morning when 19 year old Leanne Rotaski (Orr Lee as she likes to be called) stepped out of her workplace, the nightclub 'Lava and Ignite', she sighed and rubbed her grey eyes tiredly, before she slung her bag over her shoulders and walked up the road in the general direction of her house. The others had stayed behind for a celebration drink; it had been the first time the club had over 2,500 people in at one time. Lee however, didn't feel up to it. "Sorry guys I'm gonna go, I think if I stay, I'll fall asleep" Mark, Lee's best friend at the club nodded.
"Alright Lee, if you're sure, I'll talk to ya later, be careful!" Lee nodded sleepily, a small tired face, grazing her lips, as she brushed some of her, red/brown hair away from her face. "Yeah I will do, Thanks Mark" she replied and with that, she said good bye to everyone else, and left the building, her long black leather coat swirling behind her as she closed the door
Then Lee began her short walk home; up the hill, across the road, past the local cinema, around a corner and straight up the road, to her home. 'Heh, my conversation with Simi was funny today...poor Reiko and Vinnie, getting interrupted by Arson and Reno' Lee chuckled to herself as she thought this, just as she arrived at her front door, she had her hand on the door handle, while she searched in her purse for her keys, but to her surprise, the door was already unlocked. Lee frowned. 'Strange, mom usually locks the door...heh maybe she forgot" With a shrug Lee stepped into her house and locked the door.
The house was pitch black, but this didn't bother Lee; she was used to walking around the house in pitch blackness by now, she walked straight ahead to the back room, before she turned on the light on low, she blinked a few times before she was used to it, then she mad her way to the kitchen to make her self a cup of tea and some toast, before hitting the sack and going to sleep.
After her tea and toast was made, she turned off the kitchen and back room lights, switched on the ones for the landing and crept upstairs to her room. But there was a surprise waiting for Lee, for her bedroom light was on. Lee frowned again and sighed continuing into her room, she opened the door with her elbow, the lock squeaking as she did, then she stepped inside, half expecting an intruder, but no, her room was the same as it has always been; slightly untidy, her cloths piled on her computer chair, the little make up she had (She wasn't too fond of it, but had to wear it for work) was scattered on her desk, her bed was hurriedly made, and collage papers were dumped messily on her bed. 'Well that's really strange, I never leave my light on, and I'm sure I didn't today...' then without really thinking about what she was doing, she looked up tiredly at the ceiling.
A pair of bright brown eyes stared back at her.
Lee blinked, once twice, before she realized what she was seeing, a boy, about the same age# as her than her wearing all black, was clinging upside down, on her cream coloured ceiling. Lee opened her mouth to scream, but the boy jumped down gracefully and silently and covered Lee's mouth with his hand. Lee struggled, managing to elbow him in the stomach and wind her intruder. The boy gasped and clutched his stomach, While Lee ran for the door.
But the boy was faster than her, a lot faster than her, he shoved his hand on the door shutting it, and blocking the young girls only escape route, she turned to glare at the boy and put up her fists, ready for a fight, and was about to demand what he wanted...when she stopped, the teenager looked awfully familiar...The boy blinked at her again, then he smiled sheepishly. "D...do you recognize me Lee?" The young women's mouth dropped open when he said her name. 'How the fuck does he know my name?' But she was about to ask how he knew her and as she kept on looking at the strangers face, she realized that he did look remarkably familiar...Then her eyes widened in surprise and recognition.
"A...Arson?" Lee gasped, her eyes were wider than a pair of dinner plates, Arson couldn't be in front of her, not the same Arson, who's drawing she had drooled over, not the Arson, she had pretended to talk to on her MSN conversations, no he was just an imagined character from Simi's imagination...
The boy, Arson grinned happily and hugged Lee when she said his name "I'm so glad you remember me, I was so worried...that I would be alone..." The elder teenager frowned and she pulled away from Arson suddenly, the teenage demon looked confused, and then hurt. "What's wrong Lee? Leanne?" Arson waved a hand in front of Lee's face but he couldn't get a reaction from her. "Lee you're scaring me..." Arson said slightly worried. Lee blinked, she blinked again before she slowly sat down on her bed, Arson watching her every move.
"This...this can't be happening to me..." She looked up at Arson, her eyes wide. "You can't be real...you just can't be..." Arson again looked hurt for a moment, but managed to mask it with a blank look. Lee sighed and rubbed her head tiredly. "Why me huh? Why does this shit always happen to me..."Arson walked over to Lee and knelt down in front of her until he was level with her eye sight.
"Because, me, Reiko and Simi consider you our friend...and I came here to ask for your help Lee, something bad happened last night, something really bad..." Lee looked into Arson's eyes and saw sadness, and truth; she took Arson's hand in her own and entwined her fingers with his, and tried hard to smile reassuringly at the brunette demon. "It's okay Arson, I believe you...but, it's just so strange, one minute you're an imagined character, the next, you're here, in the flesh and real...It's just going to take me a little time to get used to it..." The other brunette nodded and smiled squeezing her hand before he let it go and stood up again, sitting himself on Lee's bed next to her.
"Alright then...I guess I'd better explain why I'm here" Lee nodded, and gestured for him to continue, Arson sighed and took a deep breath. "Well...I guess I'd better start with why were real, when Simi first created me and Reiko, we were just in her mind, but then we were transferred to the computer, and we lived trough her stories...that's what used to keep us alive you see..." Lee nodded; her face was full of rapt attention, as thought trying to process this as fast as she could. Arson continued. "One day, before Simi met you online, an unknown virus, which was named the Phoenix virus after the epidemic, hacked itself into her computer and began copying her files, then erasing them, it was a strange virus...and when it came to our program data, it did something really weird..."
Lee rose and eyebrow; She'd heard of the Phoenix virus from the news reports, but it had only hacked in to a few computers and not a whole batch of them, then spread to other computers, like most viruses did, instead it had selected a few computers at random and it had screwed up the files on that computer.
Lee smiled at this, surprised she remembered so much from such a small and short report; she looked at the brunette demon and waited for the next part of the story, but it didn't come, she smiled at Arson as he looked as though he was deep in thought; Lee smiled at that thoughtful look; it reminded her of the picture Simi had sent her of Arson a few months ago. She sighed and poked him gently in the stomach, trying hard not to grin or have bad thoughts when she felt hard abs there. Arson looked at the brunette girl and sighed. "The next part is hard to explain but, long story short, the Phoenix virus made us real"
Lee nodded and frowned at this. "I understand that now, but it must have been hard for Simi to hide you guys from her parents though" Arson grinned and shrugged happily, a small blush forming on his face, which Lee couldn't help but smile back at as Arson answered "Nope not really, even though were real here, we still have a data code encrypted into us, so when her parents are around, we just hide in her computer as data" Lee's eyes widened at this, before she grinned.
"Wow that's pretty smart...wait a minute...does that mean when I talked to Simi on MSN...you really were talking to me?" Arson nodded and blushed even more. "Well, that's weird, but hey, At least I know it's you next time I talk to her" Arson nodded then sighed and shook his brunette head sadly.
"You can't talk to her Lee...she's gone..." The brunette girl blinked in surprise at Arson's comment, he looked extremely upset, and sad; his head was lowered and his shoulders were shaking, Lee lifted his chin up with her hand and was startled when she saw a solitary tear fall from his puppy dog brown eyes. "Oh Arson, What happened?" Lee asked as she pulled the brunette demon into a hug.
The two stayed like that for a while; until Arson pulled away form Lee's embrace and answered her. "She was kidnapped Lee, by a guy...her father tried to stop him, but he was too fast, too strong he was really strong...Me and Reiko tried to jump out of the computer, to help her...but by the time we jumped out of her computer, he was gone with Simi..." Arson's shoulders started shaking again. Lee looked at the brunette boy helplessly; Simi was gone...her friend was gone, the friend she'd Role played with online, and talked to, who she knew so much about...Lee snapped out of her thoughts and hugged Arson again. "Arson...Arson, look at me..." Arson lifted his head and blinked. "This is not your fault, nor is it Reiko's, there was nothing you could have done, if this guy really is as strong as you say, and then I doubt that he was human..."
The younger Brunette nodded rapidly "That's what Reiko said! He said he could sense a demon aura in the room, a pretty big one, so whoever this demon was...he was a powerful, high ranking one" Lee nodded and sighed rubbing her eyes tiredly and took a glance at the clock; it was 4:55pm, Lee yawned and turned to Arson who was watching her intently. "Listen Hun, I'm really tired, I need some sleep until we try and get to the bottom of this, but one question; why did you come and get me Arson? Why not one of Simi's other friends? Like Iesha?"
Arson simply smiled at Lee and stood up from her bed. "Because...one of the last thing's Simi said to me, before she was attacked, was that if anything happened to her, I had to find you..." The brunette girl just blinked and nodded dumbly, what Arson said slowly sinking into her tired and sleep- deprived brain.
"Okay..." Another yawn and Lee sighed again "Arson...where are you gonna stay now?" Arson shrugged off-handily as he opened her bedroom door "Well then...stay here for the night; I'll grab some blankets and pillows you can sleep on the floor here okay?" Arson nodded as Lee walked past him and to the airing cupboard on the landing, and looked for a quilt.
"Lee...why don't I just stay in you computer? It'll be easier for the both of us" Lee turned to Arson and nodded a small grin on her face; she closed the airing cupboard doors quietly and turned to Arson. "Okay...heh, Simi was right, you always were the smart one" Arson nodded and blushed, while scratching the back of his head sheepishly, Leanne laughed and grabbed Arson's hand, dragging him back to her room and in front of her computer. "Erm do I need to turn it on for you to get in?" Arson shook his head and turned to the computer before he closed his eyes. Then, with a quiet 'pop' he was gone. Lee blinked then she sighed, before she grabbed her PJ's and headed to the bathroom to get changed.
Five minutes later Lee was ready for bed, and Lee was sure she could hear soft breathing sounds from her computer, Lee smiled as she kissed her fingers, then transferred that kiss onto her computer screen. "Goodnight Arson" She whispered, then she turned off her light and slipped into bed, falling asleep almost instantly.
In the computer, Arson grinned happily in his sleep...
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#Actually, according to Simi Arson is younger than Lee by 6 months
So...What do ya think? Was it okay for a first chapter? Hmm? Lol! If anyone thinks that Arson's characterization is wrong tell me and I will see (If I think it's worth doing) what I can do to change it! BIG Thank You to Bustahead for letting me use her characters (And herself of course :-)) please, please R&R!
Jade Queen of the Damned
