• Knock, knock, knock. Vann walked out of the bathroom tightening his belt and throwing his towel over his shoulders and walked down the hall to the door, unlatching it, Vann opened the door and saw Mychel, Alex, and Kyle, "Hey Vann." "Hey, what are you all doing over here?" Alex pushed his way through the door, "We decided to get together, but the girls couldn't have anyone over, and my grandparents are in town." Mychel and Kyle followed Alex, "My mom's sick..." Mychel replied, "My dad's got some friends over." Kyle said scratching his head, Alex walked to Vann and put his arm around his shoulder, "So we decided to meet here, your parents are always at work and you always watch your house during the day..." Mychel looked at Alex and said, "We have something we all need to talk about." "...Alright, but you could have called first I just got out of the shower." Vann called out to the guys down the hall, Kyle leaned out Vann's bedroom door, "Oh yea, the girls are going to be here soon."
    By girls, I hope he only means Tabi, Jamie, and Lacy. he ducked in the room and closed the door when another set of knocking started. Once again Vann opened the door. Jamie stood back as Emily tried to reach out for Vann. Lacy and Tabi were holding her back, "Hey Vann, are the guys here yet?... and why don’t you have a shirt on?", Vann looked back down the hall saw Alex's head floating outside his door, turning back, "Their here, and I just got out of the shower when they knocked.", Jamie looked confused, "Alex said he was going to call you...", Vann laughed, "If him calling is knocking on the door, then he did.", Jamie frowned, "Don’t be mad at him, his intentions were good... or so I think." as Vann stepped to the side and opened the door Jamie, Lacy, Tabi and Emily walked into the house and down the hall.
    Vann closed the door and followed them back Why did Emily have to come. It would have been quiter if she didn't... Jamie stopped before the door, while Tabi and Lacy pushed Emily inside, "I’m sorry about Emily being here, it's just she was with me when Alex called me, just saying your name once and she wouldn't leave my side for a second." then she walked inside. Vann entered his room and walked across it and picked up a shirt, as he turned he pulled the shirt on, "Ok what is this thing you wanted to talk about." "Vann, have you heard about the new ragnarok game?” Mychel asked, "Ya I've heard of it, so what?" "Well we all started last week, but were stuck. Can..." "...I help you?" "Yea, how did you know?" Tabi started to laugh, "Mychel, you always ask him to help when ever we start a new server or game." everyone started to laugh. Vann looked at everyone, “Lets meet up on the first, it’s next Saturday.” everyone nodded.




    ***One week later***



    Beep, beep, beep. Beep, beep, beep. Vann pulled his cell from his pocket, the screen displayed 10:45 P.M., he sat up and pulled on a shirt, "It's time already?!" he scratched the back of his head I need to head out before it's time to meet everyone. Vann opened his window and jumped out, feeling the warm night breeze on his face. "Psst, Vann over here." he turned his head and saw Kyle, he walked to the fence and jumped over, "You know MY head will roll if I get caught." Vann said, "Don't worry, everyone will be in their beds before 3:00 A.M.” said Kyle. They were going to play the latest Ragnarok game, Vann first heard about it, about two weeks ago from Alex and Jamie, "It's like you are the character, you want to eat food and drink, you even get tired while playing, you are going to have a blast playing." they looked at each other, Jamie whispered to Vann, "I know you don’t want Emily to go, but since she knows the planes it‘s going to be heard to stop her." Vann was at the meeting place, it was 11:15 P.M., five minutes till they had to meet.
    How much longer are they going to be!? I cant wait all night. Kyle looked at Vann, "What's wrong? You cold?" "How can I be cold when it is seventy-five out, I had only slept for fifteen minutes before we met up." Vann yawned, "Everyone was told to sleep at six but you just couldn't listen..." Vann interrupted Kyle, "Hey it's not my fault that I have insomnia. Everyone knows it, and I had to cook dinner for my family, so give me a break." Vann opened the bottle of water he had and dumped in on his head, from behind he could hear some one calling to him, "Vann!!!" he turned his head and saw Alex, Jamie, and Emily, so, she came along, the only girl that has a crush on me, but I only see her as a little sister. "Hey." Vann said while drying his face. "We only have to wait for three more now, Lacy, Tabi and Mychel." Alex said, "Great, you know how long that is going to take, we might as well go back to our homes and sleep." Kyle remarked, everyone knew that Mychel and Tabi were going out with each other, but didn't want to let on that they knew. Vann's phone went off, This is just great, I just met everyone and I got caught, im screwed now.
    He looked at the screen, it was Mychel, opening the phone, "Hey what's up?" "Tabi and I are already at the shop hurry before they open, I want us to be the first to log in tonight Lacy all ready here, besides you and Emily both have to make accounts. See you all here." before Vann could reply, Mychel hung up. everyone looked at Vann, "It was Mychel, he, Tabi and Lacy are at the shop, lets go." Vann started off towards the shop, Gravity inc. they have been developing a new way to play ragnarok, everyone, besides Emily and myself, have made accounts and were already playing, they only asked me to join because I know the best area's to level at. Alex walked right next to Vann whispering "Hey, tonight could you act as if Emily is not your sister, as if she is just another girl?" "If she would act a little more grown-up, then I wouldn't treat her like a little sister."
    Vann was tired of the same discussion every day, "I might treat her differently depending on how she acts in the game." Alex slowed his pace a bit to talk to Jamie, "He's not agreeing on anything, you might want to advise her not to be childish when they first start, otherwise he wont pay attention to her in the game... just like now." Alex moved his head showing Emily was trying to talk to Vann, but he was ignoring her, "Alright, I'll talk to her." Jamie smiled at Alex, "Emily, can you come here for a second?" Emily looked back and walked to Jamie, "What is it?" "I have a plan for you to get together with Vann, but you can not act like you are right now, when you first start, follow his lead, attack something similar to what he is attacking, but first things first, what class are you going to be?" Jamie looked at Emily who was confused, "What do you mean by class? I thought everyone was the same?" Jamie sighed, "Everyone starts out as a novice, then after you hit job level ten you can change into six different classes, you could be an Acolyte, like Kyle, an Archer, like Tabi, a Mage, like myself, a Merchant, like Mychel, a Swordsman, like Alex, or a Thief, like lacy. I think you would be suited as an Acolyte, because you are always hyper and helping others." Jamie Smiled at Emily who looked confused, "What class thingy do you think Vann will be? I want to be the same as him."
    Emily looked at Jamie hoping she would tell her, "I don’t know, on every server we have played Vann has changed his main class, even his personality changes with his character. It's impossible to tell." Jamie knew the class that Vann would be, he was best suited to be a thief. When ever he had played a thief class he was past everyone else’s level in a matter of minutes, and with everyone's level higher he would catch up and pass them before they left. "Hey everyone! Over here!" Mychel was waving his arms in the air, Tabi was standing next to him, "They just turned on the lights and opened the door, lets go in and play. Lacy is already logged in. She’s waiting in Prontera." Tabi smiled at everyone. Vann walked into the store, "You guys log in first, I'll help Emily make her account." Vann walked to the counter and started to register his account and character name, "My name will be the same in game as in real life." Vann walked to the scanner’s, "Hurry or im going to leave you here." Emily looked at Vann trying to think of a name to use, "What name should I pick?" Vann walked back to the counter and wrote down Rena, "There your name is picked." they both walked to the scanner’s, the operator stood waiting, "Account names and character names please." they both gave the girl their information, "Please enter." Vann walked into the scanner, "Hurry the others are waiting for us." Emily was a little shocked that she would be in such close quarters’ with Vann, she stepped in, as soon as she was it closed and the whole place felt like it was spinning.
    Emily opened her eyes and saw that her clothes were disappearing, so were Vann's, but they were replaced by a white light. Vann was standing in an open field, trees were scattered around the place providing shade to the creatures and humans alike. Emily still had her eyes closed, "Rena open your eyes." She heard Vann's voice and her eyes opened at once, she was amazed at the sight of everything, "Hey Vann, what should we do first?" Emily was as hyper as ever, "First thing we do is kill a few things, follow my lead." Vann slid down the small hill and found a pupa, "First we attack it." with in a few seconds the pupa was no more, Emily looked at Vann, "What stat's should I put if I want to be an acolyte?" Vann laughed, "That class suites you." Emily smiled at the comment, "Jamie said the same thing." "oh did she, well you will need Int and Dex if your going to be an acolyte." With in fifteen minutes Vann and Emily were at job level ten, "Vann, over here." Vann turned and saw Alex running over to them, "Where have you two been? We have been looking for you both for the past fifteen minutes." "She is ready to change class, take her to the church, I'll go become my class." "Wait Vann, where do you think your going, you don’t even know where we are to meet..." "We should meet at Anthell, it will be good training for Rena."
    Before Alex could stop Vann, he vanished, "Damn it Vann, I was going to ask what class he would be." Alex let out a heavy sigh, "Oh well, lets go to the church." "But where did Vann go? I want him to be there when I change." Emily looked like she was going to cry, "It's ok Well go to Anthell after you change class, to tell you the truth, we all just change jobs, I'll send a message to everyone to meet at Anthell." :Hey guys change in plans, Vann went off on his own, he wants us to meet him in Anthell. He's gonna send a message once he has changed.: "Alright lets go." Alex and Emily started off towards Prontera.

    Vann was walking through the city of Morroc. He reached the northwest exit, he looked out over the desert, If I want to change before night fall, im gonna have to run. he started to sprint out into the desert, keeping an eye on the pyramid rising over the horizon. When Vann reached the pyramid the sun was setting behind his back, Guess I wont see the sky for a while.

    To be continued.