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Fireheart449

Fireheart449

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“You’ve been playing for hours. It’s time to go home,” she whines.

“Where am I?”

“Mom made me bring you to the Runescape Convention. You were trying out the virtual reality mode.” She points out the headgear and goggles that I had been wearing.

“Is your brother okay?” A guy, not much younger than me, is smiling at us. There’s something very familiar about him. Then the guy asks, “Are you Freak449?”

That name means something to me. Well, duh. My username. “Yep. And you are…”

“Redseed.”

Yep, this guy had the same assurance as the Redseed in the game. I want to squeeze him to death, but I’m pretty sure that would have been weird. Warriors don’t hug each other no matter how much they want to. Either way, I’m not sure what to say.

“Yo.” A girl bounces up to Redseed. She looks slightly older than him. Even so, she narrows her eyes at me like I’m a sort of bug. Then I realize, she might just be slightly nearsighted. “Who’s he?"

"This is Freak.”

"Oh.”

I don’t know if that’s a bad “oh” or a good “oh.” By the way, my sis is sniggering, I’m guessing it’s a bad one. “Are you Fireheart?”

“Dawn,” she snaps. Talk about an awkward silence. Even Redseed (I should probably ask him his real name) looks a bit uneasy.

I’m desperate. So I say the first thing that comes to mind. “You want some ice cream? I’ll buy for all of us.” Cheesecracker and his ice cream…I wonder if Cheesecracker and Hamlet are here too.

“What?” Dawn raises an eyebrow. The expression is both terrifying and somehow adorable.

“Ice cream,” I repeat stupidly.

My sister gives me a pitying look. “I could use some ice cream. Since you’re my brother’s buddies…” She pauses and gives me a look as if she couldn’t even fathom me having buddies. Real nice character, my sis. "You guys should come along too.”

27-Aug-2010 00:42:22 - Last edited on 19-Nov-2010 16:58:35 by Fireheart449

Fireheart449

Fireheart449

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We’re on our way to ice cream (there’s a truck right outside, says a sign), about to exchange our real names, when someone runs into me. I yelp as the sharp edge of a table, which had once been filled with Jagex paraphernalia, pokes me in the shin. Oh, my dignity. And my shin…

“I’m sorry,” says the creepiest voice I’ve ever heard. He doesn’t sound very sorry. Jerk.

“Dad, leave him alone!”

There’s a teenage guy with his hand around the tail of some crazy man’s shirt. The dude’s eyes are bloodshot. He looks as if he hasn’t shaved for days and dresses like a hobo (no offense to hobos). He pulls his ragged red plaid shirt from his son’s grip and leers at me with yellow teeth.

“Let me guess who you are.” His voice has a very familiar purr to it though he doesn’t resemble a kitten in the least. “You’re Freak. You have the same clueless air.”

Behind the scary man, his son smiles at me fondly. No way…Bluestar! And so this must be…

“Luxon.” I sprint away for my life. Forget ice cream. The man who called himself Luxon is mad as heck, and he pursues to strangle the life out of me.

“Who is that lunatic?” I hear Dawn say. The rest of the conversation floats away as I flee. There are people in cubicles everywhere, generally if unintentionally hindering my escape. Wearing a fancy helmet and cool-looking goggles, they’re all conked out, their heads against the tables. Still playing the game, probably.

“Holy cow!”

Luxon is suddenly in front of me. “You made me lose my character!” he hisses.

"You were a jerk,” I reply. “I’m very sorry to say you deserved it!” There’s more bravado in my words than in my knees; they’re shaking like mad. After all, if I remember correctly, in this world, if you die, you definitely don’t come back. At least, not to this world.

27-Aug-2010 00:43:48 - Last edited on 27-Aug-2010 00:47:37 by Fireheart449

Fireheart449

Fireheart449

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“I could have been ruler of all of Runescape,” he breathes. Thank goodness villains always have to rant before killing off the hero. “I practically was. I had the power to change all the rules thanks to Zamorak. He chose me, and then you come along. A noob comes along…and…”

“Dude, it’s just a game,” I remind him.

Luxon suddenly looks like I’ve insulted his mother. “A game. You think I devoted my entire life to…just a game?”

Uh. How to answer without offending this dangerous man? “You’re a game designer then? That’s pretty cool. I wish I could be, but computers are too complicated for me.”

Luxon laughs. “You’re an idiot. I was defeated by an idiot.”

“And his friends.” Maybe it’ll make him feel better. After all, it wasn’t just me. Wait…I’m not a COMPLETE idiot.

He gives a strangled cry and lunges for me. Of course, I have no way out of this one. Goodbye, world. I close my eyes and wait for the end. Then, when no hands wrap around my throat, I dare to open my eyes and peer around for the man who is on the verge of killing me. Had been, I should say, since the guy has been KO’d.

“I said I wouldn’t let anyone kill you,” Bluestar says. His knuckles are red, and so is the side of Luxon’s face. “Especially this stupid drunkard.”

“So, he’s a jerkaholic.”

Bluestar seems amused. “A jerk and an alcoholic. Well, he‘s my old man, so I’m stuck with him.” He casually looks over his shoulder (and then I realize that he’s as good-looking as his avatar in the game was!) when Dawn, Redseed and my sister appear. I smile sheepishly.

“Where were we?” I ask. The encounter with the real Luxon probably has destroyed a thousand brain cells; I was definitely scared out of my wits.

“Ice cream,” Dawn prompts me, crossing her arms crossly.

“Let’s go then. Bluestar, you should come too.”

“Let’s find Fireheart first,” Redseed puts in. “She’ll kill us if we leave her out.”

27-Aug-2010 00:44:37

Fireheart449

Fireheart449

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Bluestar is grinning at his fingers now. His ears have turned a bit red too. I wonder what that means…Heck, I know what that means. He’ll be making cow eyes at her as soon as we find her.

“Kill us in the game or out of the game?” Dawn asks.

“Both,” Redseed replies with a laugh. Oh my. I’m worried for about thirty seconds before I realize they’re joking. We gingerly pull Luxon to lie in the corner of the convention for the moment, or maybe for an hour or two. And then, flanked by Redseed, my sister, Bluestar and Dawn, I head off into the crowd to find our leader.

I trip. Yes, that’s right! I trip. I would have fallen on my face if a not-so-gentle someone hadn’t caught my arm and jerked me back. Dawn is shaking her head at me, but her arm never leaves the loop of mine as we continue our search for Fireheart.

Bluestar winks at me. I blush. Redseed gives me a nod. As for my sister, even she’s smiling. I feel all supported and whatnot. Then, we find three people waiting for us near the ice cream truck. Fireheart. Cheesecracker. Hamlet. Okay, so Runescape’s a game, but at that moment, friendship had never felt more real to me.

~THE END~

27-Aug-2010 00:45:17

The Flood456
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The Flood456

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amazing endng, lol and who would of guessed lord luxon was a fat nerd who spent all his life on runescape? Like zezima, but with less of a life lmao. So sad it ended >.< Now that we know its real life I dont think the sequal will be as good... but i think fireheart and dawn will find a way :D

27-Aug-2010 00:50:45

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