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CHAPTER 1

ENTER THE WORLD

A boy slowly sifted through his e-mail, not finding anything other than junk.

"GET A GREAT MORTGAGE DEAL!"

"SAVE ON MEDICINE!"

"GET OUT OF DEBT AND STAY OUT!"

Finally, he saw a subject that caught his eye.

"COME JOIN US IN THE WORLD!"

He'd heard about The World from his friends at school. It was an MMORPG, or Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. It was an amazing game, and it was supposed to be really cool. If the boy could have played it, he would have, but it was so expensive that he couldn't afford it. Even though he knew that he couldn't play The World, he figured he could at least see what the message had to say. He clicked open the email.

Dear User,

We at CC Corp are pleased to inform you that you have been chosen as one of the winners of the Populate The World contest! You and four other lucky winners are receiving free copies of The World through mail! We know that you will enjoy adventuring in The World, and we hope you have fun!

CC Corp

The boy was so excited that he jumped up from his seat and nearly knocked his computer over. A week later, sure enough, the free copy of The World came in his mail. He ran up to his room and installed it. It came with some desktop images and BGM's. Of course, there were only three images and only one BGM, so he set it to those and saw that he had no new mail. He clicked the icon that read, "The World" and saw a screen that showed a pretty city with a river and a bridge, and had three words, "Log In" "Board" and "Quit". There was nothing on the board, so he clicked Log In and found himself at a character creation screen. It gavehimall these different things to fill out, and it took a while. First, there was username, so for that, he just put Jiryu (his e-mail address) and then below that it said character name. He thought about his name for a while, then decided on Kite.

Pronounced Kee-Tay, he thought to himself, hoping people wouldn't mistake him for a child's toy. It was the name of the .hacker hero, Kite the Twin Blade. He wasn't going to be a Twin Blade, though, or else people might think he was a wannabe. Next was character class. There were six classes, Twin Blade, Long Arm, Heavy Blade, Heavy Axeman, Blademaster, and Wavemaster. He immediately ruled out Twin Blade, and he couldn't stand to be a Heavy Axeman. His friends said that recent additions to the program stated that Heavy Axeman were so strong physically that they really didn't even need to use magic. So, because of his love of magic, he couldn't be that class. He decided to stay away from Blademaster, because there were already two great players who were Blademasters and if he turned out famous, people would think, "Oh, there's that guy, Kite." "Who cares? He's not as good-looking as Balmung" or something like that. Long Arms were cool, but if he met up with his school friends online, it wouldn't be a balanced party because his friend Hao's character was a Long Arm. Plus, after hearing Hao describe the physical attack skills of Long Arms, the only one he really liked was Repulse Cage. So that left Heavy Blade and Wavemaster. He was about to choose Heavy Blade because Wavemasters couldn't use physical attacks, plus they didn't have very much health. Then he thought of something. Why was the reason that he didn't want to be a Heavy Axeman? Because he liked magic so much! So why not be a character that focuses on magic? Plus, the data in the game was changed by the system administrators so that Wavemasters were the only class that could use Summon Spells, the most powerful spells in the game! He immediately chose Wavemaster. The rest of the character creation was all about appearance, hair, skin, eyes, clothes.

His character had shoulder length black hair, and bright green eyes. He had light skin, and he had two green markings shaped like scythes on his cheeks. He wore a black long-sleeved shirt, and black fingerless gloves that had rectangles cut out in the center of the back of the hand. He wore dark blue long pants, and brown boots. He also had a brown cape-like thing extending from his waist down to his feet.

It also allowed him to choose his starting weapon and armor. For his head armor, he had to choose the Bandana. His body armor was forced into being the Leather Coat. His hand armor was again chosen for him, being the Wrist Band, and his foot armor had to be the Sandals. For a weapon, he had to think for a moment. He eventually chose the Iron Rod, giving him the Gan Rom spell.

When he was finished, he pressed save and a message came up, saying, "PUT ON VIRTUAL HELMET NOW" so he did. He saw himself flying through a void, with stars and colors. It was absolutely beautiful. Then he saw a scrap of cloth float upward. He looked down, and saw several holes in his clothes. Soon, new scraps of clothing were flying up from the bottom of the void, and they stuck to his body, slowly forming his character's clothing! It was like his real self was being torn away and left behind, while his character was forming around him! It was a cool feature. Suddenly, he saw words in front of him.

DeltaServer

Aqua Capital Mac Anu

He was standing in a city, the one he'd seen in the Log In screen. It was much more beautiful in person. He saw four other players standing next to him, all looking lost. There was a female Blademaster, a male Twin Blade, a female Long Arm, and a male Heavy Axeman.

The Blademaster had red hair going down to her waist and slightly tanned skin with brown eyes. She wore a black body suit, and and a purple piece of translucent cloth with stars and moons painted on it in silver and gold tied down the front of her body. She wore a black piece of cloth tied around her waist that held her sword, and black boots. She had cat ears springing up from the top of her head, and a purple moon painted on her forehead.

The Twin Blade had almost peach colored skin, and his hair was black and ear length. He had three black x's written on his face, one on his forehead, and one on each cheek. He wore a wide-brimmed hat that shaded his eyes. He wore a long-sleeved white shirt and a pair of tight white pants. He wore black boots and had a red cape coming from his shoulders down to his back. His eyes were crimson.

The Long Arm had pale skin and wore a blue dress with a pink line zig-zagging down the front. She wore blue high heels, and had blonde hair stretching down to her knees. Her eyes were the same color blue as her dress, and she had no markings on her face, but had a curving pink line on her left ankle.

The heavy axeman was the shortest of them all, with brown spiked hair and small, light blue eyes. His loose T-Shirt was a pale green and his knee-long shorts were forest green. He had white shoes and wore a pair of bright green gloves that extended halfway up is forearms. He had a blue mark on his left cheek in the shape of a cat, and his skin was tanned.

He approached them.

"Are you the other winners of the contest?" he asked them. He realized that he had no idea how to talk in this game, but when he spoke his computer picked it up and put it into the game.

"Well, I was," said the Blademaster. "I'm not sure about the rest of you."

The rest all confirmed that they were indeed the winners of the contest.

"Cool," said Kite. "Let's give each other our member addresses."

That was what they did.

"I'm Kite," he told them.

"I'm Michoru," said the Blademaster.

"The name's Suzaku," said the Twin Blade.

"My name is Magora," the Long Arm said.

"You can call me Akazu," said the Heavy Axeman.

"Well, we know each other's names," said Magora. "So let's form a party and go adventuring."

"Why don't we pick up some items first?" Suzaku suggested.

"We just started playing," said Akazu. "We don't have any money yet."

"Let's just go adventuring and hope for the best," said Michoru.

"Ok, but who'll be Party Leader?" asked Kite.

Everyone looked at him. He got the point.

"Fine..." he said. He put them all in his party and found a basic area.

"Delta Bursting Passed Over Aqua Field!"

And they warped.

I don't want to beg, but please review!

BTW, these characters are people me and my friends made up. Kite is mine, Michoru is my sister's, and Akazu, Magora and Suzaku were created by my friends. So if you think that anyone but Kite is stupid, blame them. If you think Kite is stupid, then blame me. Also, I hope you don't htink it's cliche to have my character be a wavemaster. We actually made these up when we were playing a game, and we made them up long before I'd even considered writing a fanfic about them.