Mother, god within the world

Morgana code shall not fail

Her child of Death shall arise from the wave

And cause calamity upon our grand pave

One named of beautiful sky

silenced and blinded by deaths destructive chime

Come forth heroes, dispair will rain

upon the soul of the heavy hearted.

W.B. Yates

Shugo woke up abruptly in the middle of the night.Looking softly into the black night sky. There was a constant hum from the computer that he used to access the world. He didn't log off properly because he disowned the idea of having to turn on the computer and wait fot the stuff to load. He was bored and he still had many questions to ask Aura. Like how did you know where to find me? And other questions, ones that he had sought to be answered.

He looked back at the computer, remembering that Rena had taken her's to her room so that they could play seperately, because sometimes when they ended up yellin at each other, their words would stumble into the speaker of the headset and be spoken into the world.

He looked out his door checking to see if Rena was awake. Maybe I should just log on by myself. Rena stil doesn't want to talk or even see Zefie at the moment. He got up wrapping a blanket around himselfand taking a seat on the cold chair. Placed the head set on and increased thevolume a bit so he could hear some of the cahts of the other people. He logged on without taking a glane at the BBS board, there were new ones but he tried not to see it. Now which world am I in again? The monitor turned bright and suddenly he found himself in Mac Anu.

He liked the theme song for this server, he was only lv 31, and this place was too low level for him to come and train anymore, although, since there were some newbies, besides himself, it was an easy place to trade for healing itmes with the players that were role playing merchants. Shugo looked around noticing that even though it was like 3 am in the Japanese server, it was still lively as ever. There was party of scantly dressed girls trying to buy some optimal equipment from an ax-man.

"Please sir, I really want that raccon cap, la repth would really help my party," spoke a a young female wavemaster dressed in blue baggy clothing. Her hair was blue also but her eyes were a distinct type of green that looked like emeralds.. The Heavy ax-man spoke out in a harsh and booming voice that made Shugo fidget.

"You newbie, this thing is hella rare. 5000 gold is nowhere near enough to pay for this. But i will take your rod, I've never seen that before." The girl stood in terror and you could hear a slight whimper coming from the speaker. Raccoon Cap huh? Shugo looked at his invetory noticing that he had the item, and it was nowhere near the price had stated.And Shugo had absolutely no use of such a low ranking item. Shugo looked around, and approached the crowd of lv 5 and 10s that were falling for the mediocer equipment.

"Do you want the thing you stupid girl?" the heavy ax man in a bulky green blue armor spoke again with a more snobbish voice, that almost madeShugo pk him on the spot, even if it was off limits inTheWorld. Shugo took a look at the staff that the girl was weilding. It was a red crossedrod at the tip with a circle around the edge near the tips. Shugo thought to himself, that doesn't look too common. I guess I'll help.

Shugo went up to the girl and offered a trade, with a smile on his face. He opened a private chat with her. "You can have this for free, that guy is trying to rip you off big time." The girl responded and accepted the trade, offering 2500 gold. "No you can have, just give me a fortune wire." She did and never responded to Shugo's chat. She hit the command bow to Shugo and walked off. The guy started yelling. "You asshole, you gave her a raccoon cap didn't you?"

He was in fury noticing that he had lost a chance at a rather peculiar item in the world. Rare items were seldom seen by others, but Shugo had quite a stash for himself considering all the data draining that he had done himself.

Usually whenever he was with Mireille and he had found a rare item, he was forced to data drain the poor saps until he had a spare to give her. He traded her the one that he had one without the data drain because she thought of it as cheating but in turn would trade something of equal value.

"Did you hear me Newbie? You just killed my chance!" He had stopped all business and was direct with Shugo.

Aww did I hurt your feelings? "Aw you can't find one on your own?"

"Does that matter to you?" He looked down at Shugo climbing closer. He was lv. 50 but the armor and weapon that he had were abysmal. He couldn't handle the monster in the higher lv. areas. Shugo's own equipment ranked 52 thanks to the help of Ouka who forced him to come training with her so that he could gain a few levels. Sure he had died multitudes of times, bouth as time progressed he got use to the combat and hardly ever died.

Technically in The World doing these kinda things, taking a low level player to a higher one was common. However only good freinds brought their freinds like this. Others usually used it to their advantage to bring low lv. ones and then gate out right before he or she could engage leaving the poor souls to die.

"Cmon noob lets PvP. I'll wipe you out like the newbie you are." He was going to the chaos gate waiting for me to follow.

Ouka said that I should PvP every now and then, I can get much exp and learn some new stratagies. But she did say to watch the levels of others.

"What you chicken!" Shugo was getting frustrated. God this guy can't shut up.

"Fine then whelp, I'll show you the power of a Newbie." He followed and so did a number of others that had watching including the low ranked characters.

Shugo tried to recall the rules of PvP keeping in mind the consequences.

If a player died they lost all that they held, and they lost 3 of the lowest rankeditemsthat they equiped, including anything that was in their inventory. If their weapon was taken it was immediantly replaced with the noobiest weapons of the game, in Shugos case, beginer blades.

Everyone joined in.

Mph a normal late night log in turned into a battle. What a way to begin the day.

The Ax-Man cried,"Bursting PassedOver Aqua Field!"

A ring of light absorbed Shugo and the rest taking them to the designated arena.

The light went off, "Kill them all!" There was an uproar and heavy-ax man and heavy blades began strinking the low levels leaving only a handfull of them in moments.The bastard had led us to a PK zone, and once you were engaged there was no logging out.Soon the living were replaced with shades whom cried desperately for their items. It was a ghost field. All that stood left was Shugo and a Pole Arms. He was only lv 15, and he was standing beside Shugo.

Their opponents were 5 lv. 50s. Two heavy axman, and 3 heavy blades, a power crew.

The pole arms jumped at the heavy blades taking advantage of thier heavy weapons while casting on himself a few stat raisers. Wow the guy may be in a low level body, but he has some fighting experience. A red aura appeared on Shugo and apparently the guy had casted something to help Shugo.

The Heavy axman ran at Shugo.

"You call this fair you bastard?" Shugo said as they grinded weapons, briefly until Shugo had to disengage to worry about his allied ax-man. The air got thick in Shugo's room. There was much adreniline coursring through him. And he liked it.

"Wolfs Bane!" Shugo used the item twice bringing his and the Pole Arms accuracy.

Gesssh I'm sweating buckets here.Shugo was barely making it as he slashed at the raiders. Shugo watched his health knowing that if he were to get hit, it could be a serious blow that would end him.

Dam these guys are ametuers. They only do forward slashs ignoring the sides leaving them open.

"Kyaaaa," Shugo knocked down the other ax man and finished him off.

"Staccatto!" Shugo did a flurry of slashs knocking out the ally. The bastard that had set him up responded by reviveing him, Shugo wasn't gona let that happen and struck a fatal blow again to his fallen comrade. The processcontinued again, as the other guy screamed at his ally for reviving him at the worsest time. Finally he stopped reviving him, he had run out of ressurrections. And was now diverting his attention to Shugo.

"Time to put you in your place boy." The Ax-man whoms name still remained a mystery to Shugo, started hacking. There was a scream from the other side.

The pole arms was knocked out from the remaining2 Heavy Blades. Apparently he was ableto knock one of them out. Quite a feat for such a low level to do. Esspecially despite thee fact that he had to hit thems 100s of time to bring them down, if they forgot to heal.

There was a silent chat opened with Shugo suddenly. It was the pole arms. "Sorry man, I can't take down that many at this level..."

Shugo responded," its alright, I think I can hanlde whatever else they try to throw-"

"MOVE TO YOUR RIGHT!" Shugo jumped dogding the devastating swing that the player thew.

"Err thanks." I forgot that when your dead you can keep talking...

"RA RIA ROM!"Thunder flashed everywhere leaving the bandits glowing red. Then a moon appeared putting the others to sleep. The bandits started cursing. The leader yelling that he thought that they had killed off all my allies. Shugo sat down, who did do that? He started by reviving the pole arms, and noticed that his hero had been the girl with the red staff from before. She bowed down casting la repth, puting Shuogs health to natural standards.

She bowed. "Thank you for the help a while ago. He was trying to take all 7000 of my gold, but when I declined he went after the staff."

Shugo looked at her avatar and noticed that she had some rather cute features. Her clothes might have been baggy, but they looked easy to move in with a closer look.

"Thanks for the help." The pole arms spoke, he was still a ghost.

Oh crap I forgot to ressurect him! Shugo fumbled the controller and used a recovery item on him. He was covered in light and brought back to the plane that both Shugo and the wavemaster had been.

"Your pretty good. The names Alistor, you had quite some guts to attack head on like that. His equipment had been recovered since he had been in Shugos party and was victorious.

"The names Shugo nice ta meetcha freind, Shugo said jokingly." Shugo walked up to the bandits giving them their death sentence. The feeling when he killed them was self gratifying, sure he didn't kill all of them, but this was a simple way of victory nonetheless.

Again the Wave master bowed," the names Arukasa." She smiled gave the smile command, and Shugo couldn't help but blush when he noticed that she lookd really cute.

She had Mireille's look although it had a older appearance that made her more mature.

Shugo then took the chance to check his inventory of the loot he had obtained from slaying the bandits. It was all weak, and Shugo took notice to all the items that his new freinds could have. A bunch of elemented sprears, and wardrobes that could make a low level wavemaster feel like a princesses wardrobe. Maybe, I should visit Aura, she might be able to tell me something... The screen flashed and the people around him dissapeared and Shugo found himself face to face with a giant red monster.