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Post by Nickpick on Jan 24, 2010 14:38:43 GMT -6
Legends
Episode 1, Chapter 1: Future To Past
I let the cold wind of death rush to me, I was going to fall into a coma in minutes then I’d be sleeping for who knows how long? Maybe I’d die, maybe I’d become another forgetful face in the crowd. I watched the dark blue sky, I didn’t feel the pain anymore, and I knew thousands of character all around me fought. The smell of fire filled the air while chaos was expressed through each character. They couldn’t control themselves and I didn’t understand why they couldn’t. What were the players going through? what were they feeling? Was it like this cold wind or were they asleep too?
I wish I could sleep and let the sound of the ocean fill my head, that’s my heaven…peace and quiet, yeah...I think I’ll like that
---Serv-ro----
Zero held his chest; he felt the blood drop to the glowing floor. Zero looks up at Echo
“Why…”
Zero falls to the ground, Echo smiles
“Orders are orders”
Echo walks off; Zero is on the floor until he gasps for air, Zero smiled as he held his chest as a blue aura causes Zero to glow for a split second, healing himself. Zero gets up and stretches his neck and cracks his knuckles
“ECHO!”
Echo is walking down the hall when he stops and lets his serious face become angry, Echo turns around and walks back into the room
“Well someone is clever”
“Think you can honestly get rid of me that easy? I’m Zero and well...I’m stubborn”
Zane takes his scythe out, Echo takes his sword out
“Computer…Simulate…Arena”
The bright white room starts to swirl and turns into the area in Aloro. Zero smiles, rushing at Echo
--- (Arena) Aloro---
Riku had his eyes closed with his arms open but nothing happened, he still hears the chaos all around him and that’s it. Riku opens his eyes and
standing in front of him is Frenchie, protecting him from other characters. Riku is silent, confused yet angry
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”
“What am I doing?”
Frenchie knees a character in the chest, swings him around and throws him on the ground, stabbing in the chest with his sword
“I’m kicking ass and taking names, what are you doing? Suicide is frowned upon in this game besides they might be glitches now but it doesn’t mean you’ll go all…comatose, you’ll just reappear…at your previous check point…PLEASE HELP ME!”
Frenchie gets frustrated, Riku picks his swords up
“You’re a pain in the ass!”
Riku starts attacking other players
-10 Hours Earlier-
Vector walks out from a white light, he steps out and the white portal closes behind him. He’s greeted by the team, everyone except for Zero, Who’s leaning against the bridge wall, staring into the ocean
“Hey Vec”
Riku says as he walks up to them
“Hey...Don’t call me that, anyway, you guys ready?”
They nod, Royal smiles and looks at everyone
“Guys, Thanks again for doing this”
“No problem!”
Riku smacks Royal on the shoulder, Echo nods with a smile and Vector looks at Royal
“It’s not going to be easy, that’s why we stick together as a team”
“Right”
Royal says
“We’re hacked character which means we’ll need to stay low profile until this is over”
“He’s right”
Royal agrees after Vector, Riku looks over at Zero
“Riku, Come on!”
Zero sighs and walks over suddenly there’s a blue spark between the team and Zero, Zero steps back, Royal ejects his blades from his wrists and takes stance. Normal nearby characters run off
“It can’t be him”
Vector says in a low breath, the spark bursts causing blue fire that covers the area, everyone avoids it while Royal cuts through the fire, and standing in the middle is a 6’1 wearing dark brown coat that past his knees, underneath that a silver shield that fit to his chest, two swords in their holster on each hip, his hair was black, spiky and was combed back. He stared down at the floor
“Who are you?”
He looked over at Vector, who spoke. Eyes are emerald green; he pulled a sword out in a flash, in a split second the sword was underneath Vector’s chin, the tip of the sword gently touching Vector’s neck giving the team no time to react
“I’ll ask all the questions here”
He spoke, his voice was young no older than a 20 year old, Vector’s eyes narrowed while Zero opens his palm, getting ready to activate his scythe when in another flash, he has his other sword at Zero
“I wouldn’t move Zero”
Zero smiles
“You know my name”
Zero says in a calm voice, hiding the angry behind it.
“Zero, Echo, Riku, Royal and…Vector”
He looks over at Vector and smiles
“All Noro’s of this game, I don’t believe anything is ironic but in this case…wow! The old man was right”
“Who are you?”
Zero asked, he looks over at Zero, Vector hits the sword out of the way, cutting his throat slightly as Vector activates a small blade and puts it to his neck
“Drop your weapons”
He smiles and drops them; Echo heals Vector, causing Vector to glow for a split second
“Who are you?”
Vector forces the word out, angry.
“You take a sword out, you better be ready to use it”
The character hits Vector in the chest and hits his leg, dropping him to the ground; He looks down at Vector with a smile
“Names Frenchie and I too...Am a Noro”
[glow=navy,2,300]Legends[/glow]
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Post by Nickpick on Jan 25, 2010 10:26:09 GMT -6
Legends
Episode 1, Chapter 2: Set The Fire
Frenchie offers Vector his hand, Vector hits it out of his way and pulls himself up and looks over at Frenchie
“What’s your real name?”
“Brandon French, Why?”
“You’re real then?”
Royal asks, putting his blades back into his wrists, Frenchie smiles
“Of course I am. You think I’m fictional?”
“You’re not with that coma guy?”
“Coma guy? Oh Voyager! No, oh god no!”
“Voyager?”
Vector asks, Frenchie nods
“Guy covered in black, like walking death”
“That’s him”
Vector replies, Royal makes a fist, the evil now had a name, a name now burned into his head
“Who are you then?”
“You called us and yourself a Noro? What is that?”
Riku brought up, Zero smiled
“Before you answer that question”
Frenchie looks over at Zero, Zero punches Frenchie in the face, dropping him on the floor, Zero kicks Frenchie in the chest and kicks him in the face
“Next time you aim a sword at me, you better be prepared for battle”
“Fair enough”
Vector offers Frenchie a hand, Frenchie takes it and Vector pulls Frenchie up
“Your obviously here for a reason, what is it?”
Royal said in a tone that hinted at anger
“The old man sent me to watch over his heroes, to make sure you guys don’t do anything he wouldn’t”
Frenchie said as he straightened his coat
“Old man?”
Vector questioned. Royal looks up as he sees a black crack make its way though out the sky, turning the beautiful blue into a dark blackness.
“Guys, Look!”
Everyone looks up as the sky breaks open and turns black. Zero’s nose starts to bleed, he feels it and suddenly he drops to his knees as a great pain runs through out his spine.
“ZERO!”
Riku gets on one knees and puts his hands on Zero’s shoulders
“Zero, are you alright? Speak to me!”
“I’m fine...”
The pain calms down, Zero takes slower breathes
“I’m okay”
Zero gets up
“What happened?”
Vector asks Zero, Zero wipes his nose
“Nothing, just a headache”
Frenchie narrows his eyes at the sky
“Looks like it’s heading toward Aloro”
As soon as Frenchie finishes the sentence, Royal starts running, He snaps his fingers and a white portal opens and he runs through it, Vector gets angry and opens a team portal
“Stay together”
Everyone walks through it and on the other side they catch up with Royal who watches as Aloro is covered in darkness, everyone looks at the sky, all the character player stare at the sky, confused. Royal runs from everyone
“He’s going to the arena…wait!”
Frenchie notices something about Royal, he noticed a red ribbon wrapped around his wrist, he looks at everyone else and notice they have it too.
“You’re all hacked”
Frenchie takes his sword from the holsters; Zero tackles Frenchie on the ground. Zero holds Frenchie down, Vector walks up
“What’s going on Frenchie? You know more”
“I know a lot more boy, more than you’ll ever know”
“THEN WHAT’S HAPPENING?”
Vector yells back
“THE WAR!”
There’s a silence, Zero looks up at Vector, Vector’s face is in shock and he steps back. Riku steps up
“This is it huh? We bring the fight, you bring the frakkin war?”
Riku points his sword toward Frenchie, Frenchie laughs
“I didn’t bring hell, you did”
Frenchie is badly beaten, Zero snaps shut glowing blue restraints around Frenchie’s wrists; Vector grabs him by his arm and gets in his face
“We didn’t start this nightmare, you and your team of Noro’s. You brought Voyager into this game and he’s judging the hackers and cheaters of this game. So if he wants a hacker, we’ll give him one”
“Don’t you see…this isn’t how it’s this is suppose to be, this is the future we shaped, we created this monster, the sins of the father created voyager and we must be punished. Don’t you realize…this isn’t the nightmare I wanted…this is just the shape of things to come the beginning in fact”
---Present---
Vector’s wound is healed, He has his weapon in hands and he’s panicking
“VECTOR HURRY UP!”
Royal and Voyager clash weapon in the white abyss.
“I can’t the gates locked”
Vector touches his ear
“Zero! Royal and I are stuck in Voyager’s level. We need help”
“It’s hardly impossible to hack you guys out but I have an idea”
Zero’s voice appeared in Vector’s head through the microphone.
“What are you going to do?”
Suddenly the whole team appears in a navy blue light, Voyager looks over at them all. Royal takes his shot and uses both wrist blades and stabs Voyager in the chest. Zero looked over at Echo, Echo stared at Zero
“Destroy him!”
Zero says to Echo, Echo winks and runs over with Riku and Frenchie. Zero walks up to Vector
“There’s such thing as an emergency escape but the only problem that it involves…well a Phoenix Bomb item. Those are only required when you beat an Aloro Tournament”
“Damn…Then let’s focus on destroying Voyager”
Vector runs off, Zero turns around and watches them fight. Voyager stands still as Royal digs the blades in and yelling as he does so, Voyager smiles. Royal stares at him when his face is suddenly stricken with shock, Royal looks down and sees Voyager’s blade through Royal’s chest. Voyager pushes Royal back, Voyager’s wound quickly heal as Riku runs at Voyager.
“NO!”
Zero yells, Voyager grabs Riku by the throat and stabs him and throws him aside, Riku and Royal become pixilated. Frenchie takes his coat off reveal full body armor. Voyager smiles and in a quick motion stabs right through it, Echo gets stabbed with another blade that Voyager held. Vector saw his chance, he ran at Voyager and jumped at him, Vector somehow survived Voyager’s attack but Voyager in a simple motion removed his blade from Frenchie and stabbed Vector in the chest before he could attack him. Voyager drops his blade and takes out a new one. The team becomes pixilated.
“This can’t be happening…this can’t be…”
Zero holds his head and falls to his knees
“No...No...No…NO!!!!”
There’s a burst of fire from Zero, a wave of fire throws Voyager back. Zero’s heavy breathing soon becomes a monstrous noise. It heavy and louder yet it’s soft, from within the fire a form is shaped. The fire starts to fall off from the form; the fire turns purple as it covers the floor. Standing on the fire is an 8 foot tall beast. A black cloak that looked fresh, wearing the cloak was a creature that was sin itself. Teeth were all sharp, the skin was pale white and the face couldn’t be seen only the eyes pierced through the darkness from the hoodie draped over the head, two glowing red eyes with cold smoke every time the creature exhaled. Voyager smiled and opened his mouth to speak
“Noro”
The beast yelled with a growl that sounded like a lion but mixed with the sound of raging fire. He stared at Voyager with an incredible hate toward him, Voyager aimed his weapon at the beast, and the beast held his huge palm open as a large scythe appeared.
“VOYAGER!”
The beast screamed, it was dark and heavy but Zero’s voice was faded in it as well. It started to run at Voyager, Voyager stood there, waiting patiently
[glow=navy,2,100]Legends[/glow]
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Post by Nickpick on Jan 26, 2010 15:35:51 GMT -6
Legends
Episode 1, Chapter 3: Diaspora
I was fading away, I felt the shock from the computer travel from the VRG's into my body. Bolts of electricity traveled through my body, slowly killing me. I knew in moments I would be dead. But I still felt hopeful, I knew there was a second chance and feeling hope is a beautiful feeling...when facing death
Zero's Noro clashes with Voyager, sparks fly everywhere as the two stare at each other, face to face. The creature throws himself back, he breathes heavy and an icy chill exits his mouth with each breath. Voyager grips his sword tighter as the length and width of the sword begins to grow
"VOYAGER!"
Zero's voice is heard from within the beast as a mighty growl finishes the scream from Zero. Voyager stops the sword as it grows, the sword suddenly disappears within his grasp, Voyager just stands there as Zero's Noro stands there, waiting and breathing heavy. Voyager reaches for the metal piece that holds his cape, tugs it and it drops to the ground, he tugs on another piece of metal and removes his armor, revealing a strange symbol on his chest. The creature smiles, Voyager lets the blade begin to reappear in his hand.
"Found you"
Zero's voice speaks from within the great beast, He swings his scythe around his body, and he grips it tight, throws his arm back and lets his arm push forward with the right amount of speed he releases his weapon. Like a boomerang it spins around, Voyager watches while a smile grows, the beast stands in the last position he was when he threw it. The scythe stabs Voyager right threw the chest. Voyager stand still, a dark glow brightens up from where the symbol is located. Suddenly Zero's Noro begins to shake, not physically but his image does, like a glitch image. He begins to shrink back to a normal 5'8 and the image of the creature fades way until he's gone and Zero is on his knees, Weak.
"Die slow, you son of a b*tch"
Zero gets up and walks over to Voyager as the light gets brighter and brighter. Zero stares down at him, He reaches toward Zero
"POWER...WILL BE YOURS...I CAN GIVE IT...TO YOU"
Voyager's voice was aged, old. It was the character he choose, not his own. Zero smiles
"You see, I'm stubborn and I rather achieve power on my own so that one day...the people of this game will fear me. If I let you do it then I'd feel real dirty. So it's game over for you"
Zero's scythe appears in his hand in a flash; He raises it up and lets it come down on Voyager, stabbing him in the chest. Voyager lets out a yell that causes a black wave to be sent out through out the level, breaking the white area and revealing Aloro's streets. The wave hits all the characters and continues to go. It travels to other servers and other levels. Fixing the glitching character, each one looks around like they've just woken up. Everyone stops pixelating and reappear. Vector stands up and looks over at Zero both nod at each other. Royal gets up and Echo and Riku are celebrating as Frenchie grabs his coat and puts it back on with a smile on his face.
The pain stopped, I was happy...I smiled in game and in real life. I liked it, being happy was nice. I looked for Royal but he was gone, Out of the Aloro...I knew where he was.
Nick logs out and throws the VRG's off; He grabs the motorcycle keys as he runs out the door, slamming it shut and towards the elevator. Moments pass and he runs into the hospital, Straight up to the Nurse at the desk
"Shawn and Jacoby Thomson, What room?"
Her fingers are a blur on the keyboard, she looks up at Nick
"Room 104, Here"
Before she had time to peel the visitor sticker off, Nick ran off. She looked up to see him gone.
"Um...Sir?"
Nick runs up the steps and gets to the second floor, He runs down the hall and tackles into Room 104 where he sees Jacoby hugging Shawn, a brotherly hug, Nick smiles
-4 Months Later-
All was finally good...Shawn had his brother, Alex and Zane continued to play the game, Zane eventually won 100 matches in Aloro becoming Leader of the tournament. Alex was on 89, Once he reached 100 he would have to battle Zane, it wasn't some I-want-to-be-leader kinda thing. It was friends, being friends. Owen sorta disappeared; I haven't heard from him in 4 months, I wonder what he's up to. I met Frenchie in real life; He explained to me what a Noro was. A creature living inside our characters in the game, Noro's could be activated through emotions, Great anger or great sadness. He also told me that there had been some mysterious things in the game and if I'd like to help him figure out the remaining secrets of the game. I declined; I couldn't go back into that game. It almost put me in a coma so I was done for good. but looks like the future doesn't go as you planned.
Zane, carries his bowl of cereal into his room, He puts it on the desk next to his bed, glaring over at the clock which reads ‘7:00 AM' He sighs and grabs the television remote. First thing he sees is Good Morning America but instead of usually changing it, he watched. Grabbing his bowl and starts taking bites out of it.
"Legends, The largest MMORPG video game reaching over 20 millions users in little over 5 months, also winning several awards. The video game will see some major changes next months as DLC will be released for the game and the first one is called ‘The War' Which will involve every user in the game finally giving the game a story and there's more..."
Zane watches with his spoon to his chin, in a shocked state with as his listens to the anchorman
"It'll include a villain by the name of Diaspora will be included in the DLC. This is expected to sell over 10 million dollars on its first day. Wow, that's some fun information for the kids out there."
Zane quickly puts his bowl down, getting milk everywhere. He stands up and grabs the remote and rewinds it and suddenly pauses. He falls back on his bed, he stares at the drawings of the villain at the television, On the cape of the villain is the same symbol Voyager had. his face shows concern and he's worried. He grabs his phone and pulls it off the charger. He scrolls through the name and calls Nick, putting the phone to his ear. Nick is face down in his pillow; his phone goes off playing a loud rock melody. He reaches over and grabs it, answering it
"Hello"
He speaks into the pillow with the phone to his ear
"Nick, its Zane...You need to wake up"
"I thought I told you guys never to call me"
Nick says getting up from his bed, eyes still closed
"I know the rules but listen...I think we're in trouble"
[glow=navy,2,300]-Legends-[/glow]
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Post by Nickpick on Jan 29, 2010 17:26:32 GMT -6
Legends
Episode 2, Chapter 1: Crisis Amongst Us
Nick is fully awake now, Eyes are curious as he focuses on the conversation
“DLC? Diaspora? You sure you didn’t have some crazy dream Zane?”
Zane pulled his pants up, buttoning them; he’s shirtless and has the phone to his ear
“No, my dreams usually involve myself, a hot chick and NR rated situations. I woke up like 30 minutes ago, got some breakfast and decided to watch TV. I left it on the news when I hear Legend is coming out with downloadable content. A new villain with the same symbol that Voyager had”
Zane spoke fast; he was in a state of panic
“Zane, you need to calm down. Take a few deep breaths and meet me at Joe’s Breakfast, We’ll talk there”
“Okay”
They hang up at the same time; Nick throws the blankets off him and gets dressed
-Moments Later-
Zane waits outside the diner, wearing a black coat with a scarf around his neck; his hands were in his pocket. He’s mind was so worried, he was in panic that he didn’t feel the cold weather He watches several TV’s inside another building through the window.
“The latest winter reports show it’s going below 0 Degrees. Since scientist made a mistake about Global Warming. When all the glaciers melted the earth cooled down causing winter to become colder. I’m Blake Valentine with Channel 6…”
“Zane”
Zane looks over at the street and sees Nick walking toward him, leather jacket with a hoodie underneath it. Nick jerks his head toward the diner, Zane nods and they walk in. the door closes behind Zane and heater quickly hits Nick and Zane. They find a seat when the waitress walks up. She’s 17; her hair is red, almost like fire. Eyes are ivory and skin is pale but she has a beautiful smile with dimples. Zane had always had a crush on her and she liked him but neither told each other. She wore a white t-shirt with an apron around her waists; she holds a notepad in her right hand with a pen in the other.
“Hey Zane”
“Yeah”
Zane didn’t really answer her, she looked at Nick
“It’s not everyday a celebrity walks in”
Nick smiles
“Hello Sarah, How are you?”
She smiles and nods
“I’m fine, what’s with Zane?”
Zane is still panicking inside; Nick knew the two had crushes on each other. Nick smiles
“He’s heard some terrible news lately; he’s just caught up in his head. Try snapping him out”
She smiles and looks at Zane, she places her hand on his shoulder and Zane quickly looks at her. Suddenly all the stress, panic and fear went away, He stared at her face, He smiled
“Oh ah…Hi Sarah”
“You okay?”
“I’m fine”
Nick smiled
“Good, so what can I get you guys?”
She looked at Nick
“Coffee, thanks”
She nods then looks at Zane
“I um…Sprite”
“Okay, coming right up”
She walks off, Nick smiles as at Zane as he takes the salt and pours some on the table and drags his fingers through it.
“Why don’t you ask her out?”
“What? I…I don’t know what your talking about”
“You like her; it’s clear on your face”
“Shut up”
He forces out of his mouth but keep his voice low
“If you don’t, I will”
“You wouldn’t!”
Nick smiles, a cocky smile, he sits back and puts his arms behind his head
“You have until we leave today to ask her out, if you don’t then I’m going to”
“Shut up, Can we focus on Legend please?”
Nick puts his arms down and nods
“Okay, let’s talk”
Moments pass, they talk for an hour, then two hours go back and finally three, cups and plates pile up.
“Zane, what you’re not getting is that I swore off Legend. I don’t want to play that game anymore. It was just a stall to my life. I was confused 4 months ago but now I’m embracing the lifestyle I was given. Legend isn’t me anymore, that’s why I told everyone to never talk to me. It’s not because we weren’t friends it’s because I’ve grown up. I’m 18 now and I have a lot on my plate. So new content comes to the game…big deal, it’s not my problem anymore”
Zane rolls his eyes and looks away
“So what we’re going to deal with this?”
Zane says as he continues to look away
“I’m sorry but I’m not coming back”
“Wow, you guys murdered those eggs and sausages, here I’ll take those”
Sarah interrupts and takes the plates, Nick gets up from his seat and takes out a couple of dollars from his pocket and throws it on the table, He takes out 20 bucks and hands it to Sarah
“Good service”
“Thanks”
Sarah smiles as she puts it in her pocket, Nick looks over at Zane then back at Sarah
“Listen Sarah, I was wondering if you’d like to...”
That second Zane stands up and punches Nick in the face; He looks over at Sarah and kisses her on the lips. She’s caught off guard as he releases her from his lips
“Friday, Dinner at 7”
Zane walks off; Nick holds his cheek and smiles
-2 Days Later-
Zero and Riku are walking through Painful Forest, no monsters jump out which is odd yet they don’t notice
“So I popped him in the face and kissed Sarah and asked her out”
Both characters look the same, no real changes
“That’s awesome; maybe I should ask Stacy from my class out?”
Riku replies suddenly the ground begins to shake, it cracks open and there’s a bolt of electricity so loud it would cause your ears to bleed and eyes to burn. Riku looks away while Zero studies what’s in front of them. He hears energy starting to building up. A zipping noise that gets louder and louder. The smoke clears and sees someone standing there. He pushes Riku aside and the blast hits Zero, Zero yells in pain as his armor is destroyed, clothes are ripped off his body. His scythe melts and his bones get weak. The blast stops and there’s another bolt of electricity. Riku stands up and looks around, the area looks normal like nothing happened. He looks over at Zero and runs up to him; He holds him and shakes him
“Zero...Zero answer me! ZERO!”
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