Dead Ringer
Xi walked into the classroom and put his bag by his desk. He was still eternally grounded. His teacher was mad. He didn't do his homework again. He was made to go to his house. He had to do his homework there and was suspended from school for 3 days straight. On the third day, he could return again, but he was unhappy. He had to wait until PAX Eternal 2081, which was next year. It was held in another bastion city of China. He was waiting to go with his clan. But he was grounded for life. So they, unbeknownst to him, would not let him be going. Even for the chance at over 65 million yuan. He really was irritated over this fact. He was playing really well, but his clan was in a clan war with another clan, the Chinese Authority. They were fighting in the Lower Sand Wastes one day when Zero_Nocturnal appeared and ruined their day! He ganked Otter_44351147 and also Auria and even the Chinese Authority's leader, Xi_Yuan_YouAreDead!, who used a Chinese name scandal to routinely abuse Xi. He had not tried to report the young lad, who he knew in his high school as well as Miryuan Xelechool, but had not known the name meant anything wrong. It was not supposed to be aimed at Xi. But his character, Otter_44351147, laid on the ground with the others. Auria was furious. She called support and they resurrected their characters on the spot. They were given their items back, but not their levels. They died fair and square. These were re-given to them and back to how they had them, emotes and all. Zero_Nocturnal was hacking. But he was logged off. The dev team couldn't ban him outright. They had to find out who he was. And they did not know that. He was a zero_cool player. This meant he was able to appear anywhere, and was not able to fit in with the others. He used a character model you could make. It had a dark scythe and attire like the Reaper. It was totally too spooky to be real. Xi and Auria, whose offline name, Auria's was, not Xi's, because he was using the character Otter_44351147, and her real life name was Mitsuru Abhagasta. She was half-Japanese and half-Chinese, she called herself half-Japanese and half-Chinese Asian. She was Asian by descent only. She was really beautiful and really egged on the class to call her names. She was called Abhagasta-kun in class like they knew what it meant. The -kun suffix in Japan's language meant to be a boy thing. She was not a boy thing. She was a girl's thing. So -san would be better. But this was also just a respectful way to call someone. It meant they were prettier than a boy's thing. So she was also called Ochinchin Classmate and Really Beautiful Girl But From Another Language and stuff like that and boys teased her constantly. In-game, she was Auria, and her name meant she was full of beautiful power. She spoke Chinese only, and didn't understand any other languages, especially not Japanese. She lived in Lower Xuan as well with Xi and his friends. Xi's best friend was Yuan Zi, who was his best friend online as well. He was there at his house only quite often. Yuan Zi was cooler than heck. He used a character with a rock star metal Japanese and Chinese fusion knight look, like he was an honorable warrior dressed to kill. They all fought in the Lower Desert Sands because it was a level 47 area and it had a lot of low level players in it to gank. They ganked lower level players called lowbies and used the areas main PVP gate to hide in. It was bright and you could not seen in to it, not one bit. Auria was there as well. But she was another player, not a ganking victim. She ganked Xi and Yuan and even the other kids in their classroom. They were furious. At school they mocked over her and did odd thing like stand on the windowsill and egg rotten cars outside as if people still do so. They all got detention and Auria went home to play Eve. She was level 99 as well and in the clan Fictitious_Roses. She was not a fictitious rose herself. She was a real human being. Her clan was over 99 players strong. So was Nocturnal's. They were called like Zero_Nocturnal, but it was just a coincidence, wasn't it? They explored Zero_Nocturnal's profile. It looked legit. He could not do that, they decided, just gank stuff. So what was it? Just a glitch in the game? Made him come undone? They wanted to invite him to join. He declined. He was not answering. And he was online sometimes, but they could not find him. One day they saw him idling in the danger zones. He was ganked and made to be displayed on the public display piece, the forums. They asked if they knew, the fanbase, and the devs too if they were watching, if this player was cheating? Most people did not. No one claimed to know him. The devs left the thread up. He was reported countless times, though it was countable, they just did not remember the exact number and did not know it really together, as they flamed in chat that they must ban Zero_Nocturnal for cheating. Some players did not understand. They were also banning him. He was banned not really for today. The chat system did not do this. And they had to suffer with him playing. They saw him sometimes and did not fight him. They did not want to bother with him. He was in the VR game too with them. So could he kill you in the real world? They did not want to try to find that out. Xi said absolutely this was the case.