Disclaimer: I no own Gakuen Alice and Ragnarok, Gakuen is owned by an anime artist that I no know, and Ragnarok is owned by Gravity. And sorry for using Dark RO's name without permission.
(UPDATED!) For some: who don't know Ragnarok, it is an MMORPG that is sweeping the nation by the addictives added to it. Ragnarok is associated with Norse/ Scandavian Mythology (I just researched it). Ragnarok means "the end of the world", and it's a war versus the gods and the humans… (Well I think so…)
XD; but if you listen to the explanation, you'll never hear my story…
Summary of the last chappie: She entered the tutorial and noticed Ruka was playing too. She was trying to find Hotaru, but instead she found him!
Love at the War
By SilentWriter132
Chapter IV
The Deadly Classmates
"Hey, Ruka, are you alright?" Mikan typed away in the chatbox.
"Hey, she replied." Ruka's cousin, Jin, reminded him.
"I'm alright." He typed his reply.
"I'm going now…"
"Wait a minute!"
They've gone through many trials. Killing porings, learning how to sit, to create a party, killing porings, learing all about the stats… killing porings… Did I mention killing porings? Then, the determining of the job.
Determining of jobs… they've asked many questions… like, "if you saw a knife, will you pick it up?" Well, if you think about it, in the attitude she has, she will say, "Leave it there." Or "Give it to the owner." Then another question says, "Money talks.", it reminded her of Hotaru. But, she said "false."
"Great!" The NPC said, Mikan read this while she was running her index finger through the words. "You have finished the test, now; we will determine what job you will be!" Next. "Drumroll please!" Next. "You are an Acolyte!" Next. "An acolyte is a character who helps people in battling, especially when they are low in health power (HP), acolytes can also help people increase they're speed." Next. "But you don't have to be an acolyte; you can do any job you want."
There were another two choices. "Be an acolyte." Or "Choose another job."
"What? I can also help people in here? Yay! Okay, I'll become an acolyte." She said to herself with a clenched fist.
"So Ruka-pyon, which job would you choose?"
"I'll become an archer."
"Archer? Is there a job like that?"
"Yeah, my cousin recommended it."
"Wow. What's the job of your cousin anyway?"
"He's a hunter."
"Now, what's a hunter?"
"A hunter is the second job of the archer."
"Second job?"
"A promotion to your first job."
"Oh, I see, what's the second job of an acolyte?"
"Uhm… I'll go check… Ah. It's a priestess, it's a priest, but you're a girl, so, its priestess."
"Ah, I see."
"Mikan-chan…" Narumi-sensei said as he entered the room. "Don't stay up. Remember, you're curfew is 8pm."
"Oto-san, I'm not five anymore. I can stay up whenever I want, and still wake up early."
"I'm just reminding you that, or else you'll get pimples."
"Really?"
"I'm afraid it's true."
"Just 10 minutes more…"
"Okay, just, don't stay up too late."
She continued playing. "Hey, are you still there Ruka-pyon?" But when she searched him, he was gone…
"I guess he went on without me." She said to herself as she clicked the 'Be an Acolyte choice.'"
"Okay, you will be warped to Prontera. There, you will level up to job level 10 to be an acolyte. Now go."
Wow… cool graphics. I've been warped! Teleported! Vamoosed! Whatever that means…
She went out of the Prontera church and went out to the field. "Hey, Porings!" she again says to herself, as she was trying to approach the little pink blob. She neared it, and tried to kill it, but another person comes and kills it with her.
"Hey, that's my experience points!"
"Hey, Full Blossom!" Then, she scrolls down to click her, but, instead, when her mouse was over the character, some text appeared. bLinK. It was the person she met before!
"Hi again!"
"So, what job did you get?"
She told her all. And after, she told Mikan, "I'm gonna be a swordsman, swordsmen are really strong, they say…"
"Really?"
"Yeah. Then they become a knight… or a crusader, who can even be stronger! Then, they become a Lord Knight, well, if they become a knight anyway…"
"Hey, why does a swordsman have two jobs, but an acolyte has only one…?"
"Oh, an acolyte? An acolyte has a 2-2 class job too! An acolyte can either be a priest or a monk. Then if you become a priest, you can become a High Priest, which is much better than the priest."
"Wow. I didn't know that."
"Maybe you can ask a professional."
"Oh, yeah! I can ask Hotaru!"
"Who's that?"
"Later, I'll go find her."
She then went out of the fields to the town, where there are so many people. She typed, "Hotaru, where are you!"
Then she gave up. She went in a place. There were other people in it, but not too many. Then she saw an NPC, two actually. She moused over them, she saw again the ellipsis. One was Armor dealer, and the other one was Weapon Dealer. She clicked them, she saw they had so many items, then she saw the price. The price was very large, she couldn't buy that.
She then went to a place in Prontera, she thought it was the square, since there were so many people there.
Then she asked somebody called "aBsolUte". "Hey, did you see someone named Hotaru?" She wondered why there was a little picture beside her name.
"Hotaru?"
"You don't know her?"
"I know her, but how did you know her real name?"
"Huh, you know her?"
"Yeah, she's a wizard and a powerful one too!"
"Why did you ask 'How did I know her?' She's my best friend!"
"Everyone uses codenames here. Look at your name. It's FullBlossom. See, no one uses here their own name."
"Then, how did you meet her?"
"We're in the same guild, silly. But, since you're a novice, you probably don't know that."
"Oh… but first, what's a guild?"
Then, the door busted open, ruining her conversation with aBsolUte. "Mikan… You said 10 minutes… hear me? Ten minutes." Narumi-sensei scolded her.
"I'll just talk to you tomorrow then. See you!" she typed, and then logged out.
"Okay, I'll go sleep now." Then, she went to sleep.
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The next day, she went to Gakuen Alice, their school, which they went in… and are in third year.
"Hotaru-chan… in ragnarok…" Mikan said, but was interrupted by Sumire's gasp. Hotaru's blank expression remains the same.
"Eh?" Sumire asked. "You play Ragnarok? Oh. My. Gosh. Mikan… are you still a child? Still playing computer games?" then she laughed.
"Baka." Hotaru hit Sumire's head with the newly invented "Baka Staff".
"Is that the 'Baka Staff' you were working on? It's so cool! It's so like you Hotaru-chan!"
"I was going to test it on you later, but Sumire has become more baka than you earlier…"
"You mean I was the one you were about to test?!"
"Shut up, baka." Then she hits her with the Baka staff.
"Hey… Hotaru-chan… I'm serious. I need help with Ragnarok."
"I knew the reaction from me playing it will cause you to play it too." Mikan just stares at Hotaru dumbly, as usual. "Well, what do you want?"
"I want to meet you at Ragnarok."
"Do what you like."
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"Hahaha! What do you think of Mikan, Ruka-pyon… She still plays childish games like Ragnarok… Ruka? Ruka?"
"…"
"Don't tell me you play it too?"
"Yeah."
"Eh? You mean you play that darn game too?" Sumire was not the only one that was shocked, but also Nastume, who was, as always, sitting beside him.
"You play it too?" Natsume asked.
"You too? When did you start? What's your job? And level, and job level? What are your attributes?"
"Stop, Ruka. I've never heard you ask so many questions at once. You must really like it. Tell me, why did you play it? When I played it, you told me it was rubbish." Mikan can't help but eavesdrop… ahem… hear them talking.
"Natsume? You play it too?" He glares at her.
"Geez. You don't need to be angry at me. I was just asking." Then he finally answered, "Yeah." Despite Mikan's "Feeling Down" state, she turned around with a big smile on her face and said, "Really? I can't believe it! So, what's your job?"
"So much questions, so annoying, and nosy too. Ask Hotaru, she knows it."
"Hotaru, wha…" as Mikan said that, she was disrupted because Hotaru had already left the room. She turned back to talk again to Natsume and Ruka, but they were both gone. "Geez, they left me behind." She said.
Now, I know where that girl's going! She thought with a victorious smile on her face.
She went in the internet café and saw many people playing "the game". But, no sign of Hotaru. She just went in her room and logged in again.
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Then a loading screen came up to her. 1, 2, 3...100 she was in Prontera again.
She saw a blue aura somewhere in the middle of the screen and approached it. Then she was in the loading screen again.
She now noticed she wasn't in Prontera anymore. It was a castle, with many people there, it was scary. Since the castle was old and stuff. Mikan's heart was becting so fast, even if it is in a computer game. Even you would feel the fast beating of your heart when you had your first time warped into an old… scary… and weird castle.
She went inside, looked around, and then she saw a person, under a cloud, then the words, Storm Gust below it. Then she noticed another few players with pictures beside their names. Then she saw the picture she saw earlier beside the name of her newly met friend, aBsolUte.
"Where am I?"
"Glast Heim, or as some people call it, GH." A person dressed in a bra top with shorts and a cart on her back.
"What's that picture?" She typed.
"This is to certify we are members of a certain guild." The one that made the Storm Gust happen answered.
"Hey, do you know Hotaru? I once knew a girl who had the same logo as you and said she is with the same guild as Hotaru."
"Hey… wait… don't tell me you're…"
"Hotaru?" then Hotaru made typed /wah emoticon. "Hey, look out! There's a skeleton prisoner behind you!" aBsolUte said.
"Hi! And so we meet again."
"Look out!" She was about to be killed but a person saved her.
"Who was that? He looked so cool."
"Eh? You mean the assassin that saved you? He's the newest member in the guild." aBsolUte replied.
"Do you know what his real name is?"
"Of course I do. His real name is Hyuuga. Natsume Hyuuga…"
Oh. My. Gosh. Natsume is the one that saved me?
"…Hotaru says she is a classmate of his, but I don't believe her…"
Natsume was the assassin? Wait. I don't know what an assassin is.
"…But when Natsume said that she was his classmate that was the time I did believe her…"
Whatever. I think it's a job. But why would Nastume save me? Unless…
"Hey FullBlossom, are you still there?"
HE STILL DOESN'T KNOW WHO I AM! I MUST NEVER REVEAL MY IDENTITY FOR HIM TO NOT KNOW IT IS ME!
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Thank you for reading the chapter 4 of Love at the War. I wanted to elongate it, so there! 6 pages! Thanks, really! Sorry about advertising Dark RO without permission. I just forgot what the real RO's server looked like… so sorry! I forgot to tell you what's the name of Natsume and the job of aBsolUte. I'll just tell you in the next chappie.