Reborn Online

BETA Server

BETA server.
Only a selected few were allowed to stay on that server, paid by the company to test the features.

And today, was the day that they were to test something new.

They had been assembled.

Natael had logged in, this time around as Ren, his BETA server alt. His looks being almost identical to his main, except that this character had red hair like the irl counterpart did.

He was now Ren, Hongo Ren. And the era set was called Ansei, which happened during the time when the ruler of Japan was Koumei-tennou. It wasn't sure which year it exactly was, A sei-era had started from November 1854 and ended around March 1860. But from the looks of it, the Cosa Nostra was silently starting to raise its head, which implied that it was closer to 1860 than it was to 1854. Nao-I mean REN, was sure that he'd just recently seen the young Vongola Primo go around with his group.

The BETA server was different from the rest of the servers. Especially from the international one on which Natael usually was, another BETA perk. The male looked around as he spotted the rest of the group of gamers headed to his way.

They had all started out as regular humans in the test server, but only some had remained that way. Naoki/Ren opened and closed his fists testfully, the now tiny hands that were once so much bigger. He tried to draw out bit of the sun flames , but it was no longer possible for him. The power he'd had previously was long gone. And he was not okay with it.

He'd still remember how it had gone down, how the GM had been smiling devilishly to them as they had been assembled, had been assigned to try different sections. And he'd hated it. He'd watched the Avatar ramble on and on about what the factions held within and then he'd given seven of them letters. That's when Ren/Naoki had known that everything was about to go to shit.

Third of the players had vanished to thin air, another seven going to where they ought to and the rest going to their own separate ways.

Ren/Naoki had been bitter over his own luck, the bitterness and the sour mood of it growing more as he had been sitting in the table with the rest of the BETA testers. Because he knew. He knew that he was the weak link of this arcobaleno set. His flames weren't strong, he was there only because of having greater control over them than the rest. And these people were looking down on him.

That's when he'd met Suri (called Mimosa within the BETA), who was the Storm arcobaleno of their set, she'd been just as confused as the rest, but accepted what was to come. Their Rain was someone who hadn't even known about KHR series and was boasting about his own strength, the fact that they were called the strongest seven already risen into his head. Their Lightning was a tween who was too excited to realise what this storyline would mean to them. Their Mist had been insufferable, their Cloud had been stoic. And then there had been their Sky. The person who'd later on become known as Seth within the other player. Ren hadn't known what to think of her, her name being Speuran, skylark. She'd been boastful and chaotic, the shy male was sure that everything would fall apart with her as the leader.

Except that it didn't. She somehow managed to get everyone listen to her. And when she wasn't present, Ren had automatically assumed control of the situation, Mimosa/Suri as his support.

And now they were there again, meeting at the fountain of the Arcobaleno. But they weren't alone there. Ren looked up towards the floating capes and robes, feeling grief as he recognised the rest of his own set underneath them and Valentino.

Valentino, Baku, Efa, Nyx, Cecilia, Maya Alex and various others had been unlucky enough to become Vindice. Naoki, Suri, Seth, John, Ming, Charlie and Damien had become the Arcobaleno. Both groups now fully knowing how much it sucked to be part of either.