Green Maiden

Chapter 2

“Oh my God! What did you do!?”

I looked around the room, and saw what I had always feared.

It.

Was.

Clean.

“Brother!! What in the world happened to our living room?”

“I cleaned it.”

“Why?” It was horrible, the room used to be filled with my half-filled soda cans and opened pizza boxes, why oh why did he have to clean it? “You destroyed my awesome trash lair!

“It was disgusting, I mean, if any of my Green teammates come over and saw all this place, I’d die from the shame!”

“See, that’d only be a problem if you had friends. But you don’t, so it’s not.”

“I have friends!”

“Do not!”

“Do too!”

“Do not!

“DO TO!”

Did he really just shout? “Dude, if you piss off the neighbors, I’m going to beat you into oblivion, got it?”

He paled visibly, we both knew I could kick his butt into next week. I wasn’t all the strong, but I did do several years of Judo. I could throw him farther than he could see, and I loved that about me.

“W-whatever! I’m going to play Everlife, don’t wake me up this time.”

The thoughts of going into his room and destroying every chance of him being able to play did cross my mind, but I decided against it, only because I should probably start playing too.

I skip into my room, since walking is for losers, jump onto my bed and plop on my headset. Quickly the world around me fades to black, and I can feel my back hit the bed. I’m lucky my head didn’t hit the headrest this time, that happened once and I was sore forever. Now that I couldn’t see anything from the outside world, the words “Would you like to play?” popped up in front of me.

“Yes.” I replied.

The words disappeared, and in it’s place filled the world that I had left this morning.

“Oh god, that always gives me a headache.” I mumbled to myself as the world around me set into place. The game had an automatic system about when you log in, so that when your logging in no one can see or touch you until the world has fully loaded. I loved that, because it gave you a small bit of time to look for ambushes.

I’m being serious, it’s happened before. Luckily, it was only a few people and I properly destroyed them, but it still happened. Strange things happen to you when your an important person, and it doesn’t help to be me. I don’t look back on that day poorly, more like it was an awesome achievement to my skills as a leader (and totally a ninja).

When the world is finally in place I can immediately tell that something is wrong. It’s quiet, too quiet. Siege isn’t around screaming, so I guess that he’s just off killing some random red guys. For some odd reason that makes me feel bad, but I decide that being weak about it right now isn’t going to help anyone, and that I should just leave it for another moment. I step out of my logout spot, and begin to run into the city.

Most advanced players had a logout spot, someplace that generally only they had access too and would allow them to enter the game without being attacked. I chose a logout site outside of the city in case of an attack, so that if I logged on and something bad was happening, I had the option to either enter the city or run away (but only if the situation was beyond helping.) Stepping up to the city gates, I’m let in with a smile and a salute. Why they don’t just act like normal people is beyond me. I’m not special, well, maybe I am, but that’s not the point. I want people to feel natural around me. That probably won’t ever happen, but I can hope.