Thankies to everyone that read the story during the wait. Okay, I have a new idea and it'll involve the whole gang…hopefully the idea will go down well…
-miano53
Online MMOs and Midterms, pt. I
At the Pellegrino Household, March 30th, evening…
After hearing from their professors that the midterms were coming up, Ven and Roxas rushed home to study. Sadly, when they did, they heard, "What? What? What?"
That came from Terra's room. Ven and Roxas peeked in and saw that he was raging after getting 20 rupees from completing a Spider House in Majora's Mask. "WHAT! WHAAAT! WHAAAAT! WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET A BIG WALLET! WHAT!" Terra yelled.
Roxas and Ven stifled their laughter and Terra began his epic rage fest. "AAAAAAAHH! AAAAAAAH! AAAAAH!" Terra screamed in a vain attempt to kill the virtual man that gave him said rupees.
He started panting and began screaming again. After several minutes, Terra whimpered and said, "I can't believe…AAAH! Okay, okay….Calm down, Terra…I can just start over and skip forward to where I collect the big prize. No need to freak out…"
Ven and Roxas started laughing uproariously and Terra heard them. He came out of his room and yelled, "What the…? Why are you outside my room?"
"Because you were that loud," Roxas said.
"Shutty," Terra said darkly.
Roxas and Ven headed back to their room and started studying. After two hours, Ven received a text on his cell phone. The text was from Yuffie. "Skype us really quick," the text read.
Ven turned on his computer and went to Skype. There, he found Yuffie, Lea, Isa and the rest of the gang was in the chat room. "Hey, Ven…Roxas!" Zack said.
"Hey. Aren't you supposed to studying?" Ven asked.
"Yeah, but I'm done," Lea said.
"Me too," Vivi said.
"I think we're all done," Isa said.
"Well, me and Roxas were just studying. What's up?" Ven said.
"Have you seen what's on ?" Firion asked.
"No. What?" Roxas asked.
"There's a new game on there called Crystal Chronicles," Tidus said.
"Wait...That's an old Final Fantasy game. They made it as an MMO after all these years?" Roxas asked.
"Apparently so. So, anyone wanna play?" Zack asked.
"You know we have midterms next week, right?" Isa asked him.
"Well, we can start our profiles now and finish it after midterms. Cool?" Zack said.
"One problem," Firion said.
"What?" Yuffie asked.
"We'll all be on separate teams. You can only have eight party members in each village. And there's fourteen of us," Firion explained.
"Oh...Then we should split into two teams," Zack said.
"Aw..." Vivi said.
"We'll find each other through the server," Zidane said in reassurance.
"I'm on now...I don't see...Hey Yuna! Guys you'll find me in the village of Zanarkand as a Clavat that looks like me," Tidus said.
"That was quick," Isa muttered.
"I'm there. I'm a Lilty," Vivi said.
"I'm there as a Selkie with...black hair. Sweet. They added stuff," Yuffie said.
"There too," Zidane said.
"I as well," Garnet said.
"There," Firion said.
"There too," Shuyin said.
"Well, that's all. We can't accept any more," Yuna said, finally logging in.
The eight immediately left the chat room, leaving Isa, Lea, Zack, Ven and Roxas in the chat. "Um...I can tell that Terra and Aqua would want to join," Ven said.
"Found them!" Zack said.
He immediately created his character. Isa and Lea did the same and logged off, creating their own village. Ven looked over at his brother and said, "You wanna see if Terra and Aqua really are there?"
"Yeah," Roxas said. He turned on his laptop and logged onto the website with Ven. He then downloaded the game onto his computer.
The two saw the intro video of the game and was asked to create their characters. The twins created characters that were twins from the same family. When the video of their family was shown, the two saw that Terra had chosen the name...Dryer. "What the...? TERRA!" Ven yelled.
Terra came in and saw that the two were playing. "So, you're in too?" he asked.
"Yeah, you saw the village name?" Terra said.
"Yeah. Um, why Dryer?" Roxas asked.
"Oh. Because the dryer downstairs was extremely loud during the play through. You two gonna play now or...?" Terra said.
"Yup!" Ven said, excited to see the game.
"Alright," Terra said and went back into his room.
Within seconds, the three saw that Aqua had also created a character and was playing. She, an Owl Head Selkie, was the daughter of an Alchemist. Terra was a Clavat that was the son of a farmer.
Ven and Roxas were Clavatian sons of a blacksmith and someone else was there. "Cloud? What's he doing here?" Ven yelled.
Cloud was a male Raccoon Tail Selkie and he was the son of a merchant. "'Sup," he said over the headset.
"Alright, who else is here?" Roxas asked. Much to his surprise, Tifa, Squall and Rinoa were playing.
Tifa was the Clavatian daughter of a rancher. Squall played the Clavatian son of a fisher and Rinoa was the Wolfie Selkie daughter of a miller. When Squall saw that Ven and Roxas were of the same family, he said, "What are they doing here? And how did they get the same family?"
"That's the new feature," Terra explained.
"So...no tailors?" Rinoa asked.
"I guess not..." Cloud muttered.
"Well, this is EarthBoss312 with..." Terra said.
"FenrirFF7," Cloud said.
"Lion'sHeart," Squall said.
"AzureSea23," Aqua said.
"WindRage96," Ven said.
"KeyofDestiny_13," Roxas said.
"Lion'sHeart's_girlfriend," Rinoa said.
"And FenrirFF7's_Girl," Tifa said.
"Wow, Rinoa...Your name's not really...creative," Roxas said.
"Shut up," Rinoa said.
"Okay, the gang's all here for this Let's Play. It's all relatively the same except that you now race against different caravans to get myrrh," Terra explained.
"And you only have a week real world time instead of an infinite amount of time before the crystal grows dull and your town dies. So you'll be going against other caravans and actual real world time," Cloud added.
"So it's a race?" Tifa asked.
"Yep. It's a race," Cloud replied.
"But we all have lives to live," Rinoa said.
"Don't worry. At least one of us will do something...until Terra deletes the file," Terra said.
"And viewers, we'll set off tomorrow because it's late. Bed you two!" Terra said, talking to Ven and Roxas.
"Aw..." the twins said.
That weekend, March 31st...
That morning, Roxas and Ven, excited to play, hurriedly ate breakfast and into Terra's room with their laptops. There, they found Terra and Aqua waiting for them. "Cloud's been waiting for us and...HE'S ANGRY!" Terra yelled, seeing Cloud's scowl via Skype.
"He's so angry..." Terra said.
"I got the day off...so does everyone else. So, we should be fine," Cloud said.
"Okay...Well, welcome back to this LP. So, we're going to start now as I heard that others already started getting myrrh," Terra said.
"I'll be the white mage!" Rinoa yelled.
"I'll be the black mage!" Aqua said.
"We'll decide when we find some myrrh!" Cloud said rather impatiently.
"Okay..." Roxas said. The large group left the village of...Dryer and headed out.
Seconds later, they were stopped by a caravan from the northern fortress of Alfitaria. Since they functioned as NPCs, the caravan was programmed to tell newbies about the world and the progress of other caravans. Much to their surprise, there were over 650 villages in the peninsula of Tipa (the region they were in; also was the server for players in Radiant Garden). After talking with the caravan leader, Sol Racht, the party was told that another group had headed into the River Belle for myrrh.
"If you go in, you may be able to beat them to the tree," the NPC said.
The Dryer caravan rushed past them and headed for the River Belle. Once there, they found another caravan leaving. That caravan was Zack's. "Hey!" he said.
"Yo! What are you doing here?" Ven asked.
"Oh, Lea, Isa, and me made our own village. We found some myrrh too," Zack said.
"You didn't...? Did you...?" Cloud asked.
"No. We found some somewhere else down the road. But man, those monsters were killer," Lea said.
"That was only because you kept going out of the circle," Isa said.
"Oh and one more thing before you go in there. If you have a big party going in there, there'll be more monsters and the boss will be a lot stronger," Zack said.
"Got it," Terra said. He then spotted another caravan overhearing them.
They rushed to the entrance and Terra yelled, "No you don't!" The caravan chased after them, running into the dungeon.
After an hour of monster killing, Aqua dying and Squall raging, the party defeated the boss, a giant crab. When they arrived at the tree, Terra was relieved to find that the tree was okay. "Whew. Now to put the chalice at the tree," Roxas said, holding the chalice.
"STOP RIGHT THERE!" someone yelled.
The eight turned around and saw...Sora (a Clavat) and his caravan of Riku (a Selkie), Kairi (a Clavat), and Xion (a Clavat). "Too late! The tree's ours!" Ven yelled.
"Seriously, Sora. Can't we just head north? There's gotta be more trees there," Riku said.
"No! We made claim to this tree yesterday!" Sora yelled.
"No, it was more like you made it," Kairi said.
"Oh well. Let's just go to the next place," Xion said.
"NO! I CLAIM THIS LAND IN HONOR OF DESTINY ISLANDS!" Sora yelled.
"Let's go, Sora," Riku said, dragging Sora by his collar out of the dungeon.
"Okay..." Tifa said.
The mail moogle arrived and gave the eight letters. "Guys, don't be total jerks to your families," Terra said.
"Eh, I'll do it for the heck of it," Squall said.
"Squall!" Rinoa yelled.
"I was just kidding," Squall said.
"Squall? Kidding? IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!" Ven yelled.
Squall glared at him with the Skype and it was quite...scary. "I'll stay quiet now," Ven said.
A bit later...
The group stopped after going through a miasma stream and staying in the village of Mikoto (created by Zack). "Okay, we'll stop here for now. Ven, Roxas, Aqua and I will pick up where we left off tomorrow," Terra said.
The eight logged off and their adventures were saved. Sadly, Sora's caravan laid "claim" to the myrrh tree in Mushroom Forest, prompting rage from Terra...
Next up will be the midterms for the high schoolers. Hopefully they'll pass...