Sakura++-++Amy,+Kelsey

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//Ugh here we go again,// I thought as I walked to bring my annoying little sister Susan to the beach for the millionth time this summer. With my top of the line HP Pavilion laptop in one hand, and my little sister’s hand in the other, I was reluctantly dragged to the beach.

When we arrived, I let my sister go, and turned my attention towards hooking up my wireless internet so that I could start playing “City of Warcraft,” where I could fly, fight, and chat with other people from around the world online. The best part was that you could role-play and build a completely different reputation for every different character that you created.

I pushed the power button on my HP Pavilion and waited for it to boot up. Rather quickly, the laptop came to the start up screen. I double clicked on the little icon that symbolized “City of Warcraft.” The pop up window came up asking me whether of not to start the game. I clicked yes thinking, “//Why would I open the game if I didn’t want to play it?”//

The server screen came up and I clicked Swordwielder, my favorite server. I had a level 60 Elfen Mage named Textarea. Level 60 was the highest level in “City of Warcraft”, so I logged on to that character thinking that I wanted to do some harder, more difficult missions.

“//I wonder if any of my friends are online?”// I thought. I clicked the icon for friends, and I noticed that Ryuken, a level 60 Hunter was online. He’s the easiest friend to hunt with, so I clicked his name and then clicked "**tell"** to send him a message.

//Hey what’s up?// I typed. The answer came back a millisecond later.

//Not much, how bout u?//

//Same. Wanna go pwn some newbies?// I typed (pwn means power own).

//Sure, just finishing up a mission now. What city do u want to go to?//

//Freeport. For a challenge,// I replied.

//Sure, I’m up for it, if you are.//

//Of course! As long as you do the tanking, cuz mages are horrible//

//Okay, I’m ready. Meet ya at the front gate.//

//I’m here already. Nobody suspects anything…yet.//

//I SEE YOU!!!//

//..k//

I clicked on his character and then his name immediately showed up in the target window. I typed **"/invite"** to invite him to a group. When we were in a group, we shared experience and loot. (Loot is money taken from a corpse).

We walked around until we found some low level newbies that we could kill. Since the server Swordwielder was PvP (player versus player) we could kill anyone we wanted without their consent. So the massacre began...

Just think about it, two awesome level 60s against a bunch of level 1-5s. Needless to say, they didn't last very long. I looked at the city freeport and saw all of the newbie corpses disappearing as Ryuken and I looted them.

//lolz,// I typed into group chat.

//heh, that was fun,// Ryuken replied.

//yup. wanna K.O. another city?

sure, how about Talos Isle? then lets quest in Dragonblight

ok,// I typed as I opened the portal to Talos Isle. Mages are the only class that can port, so I opened a group portal that allowed any group members that wanted to port to do so.

A message flashed across the loading screen saying that Talos Isle was closed for updates. Apparently the zone was glitching, so when the loading screen turned back into Freeport I opened the group port to Dragonblight. As we made our way through the snowy mountains, I saw a purple exclamation point on my map signaling that a high-level mish (mission) was being given out there. I asked Ryuken if he saw the exclamation point because you can't do a mission twice unless it's a daily, which is signaled by a navy blue exclamation point.

Ryuken said that he did have the ability to do the mission, so we both accepted it. We walked the 536 feet to the door where the mission was located (We knew it was 536 ft. to the door because of the locator addon that we both had installed). I then right clicked on the door and the screen turned into the mish load screen. Then the load screen merged into the desktop of my laptop.

"Darn it!" I yelled, a little louder than I wanted to.

A tall blonde girl ran up to me and yelled, "OMG what's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing, I just d/c'ed," I replied, meaning I had disconnected, and went back to my game.

"What?" She asked.

//Sheesh,// I thought, //would she stop bothering me and let me get back to playing City of Warcraft?//

Instead of saying what was on my mind, I just said, "...never mind."

I turned back to my laptop. Again. I double clicked on the icon that represented City of Warcraft. Again. I sighed when it took a while to load the character selection screen.

//It always does this,// I thought.

I hurried to log on, hoping Ryuken didn't think I ditched him and decided to log off. I started typing.

//Sorry, got d/c'ed.

Hehe, thought so. Want a re-invite?

Yes please, can't enter the mish without a group.//

A small popup came up on my screen saying, "**Ryuken has invited you to a group"** I clicked accept and went into the mission. This time it loaded fine and Ryuken was right behind me.

The mission objectives consisted of saving a person and escaping with them alive. The people we had to fight were a few levels higher than us so the mission would be more challenging. We made our way through the dark tunnels of the deadmines (abbreviated DM) to the person we had to save. We came across a mob of giant zombie bumblebees. Just as they swooped in to attack us and the person we had to save, a random dude came up to me (In real life).

"Uhhh...I just saved your sister," he said, just as Susan ran up to me and gave me a hug.

I didn't want to die, and I wasn't paying attention to real life, so I replied, "Yeah, whatever," and went back to City of Warcraft. As he was walking away I quickly realized what happened and shouted a quick "thanks."

I returned my sister's hug and typed to Ryuken that I had to leave because of a family emergency. He'd understand.

Then my sister and I walked home. She wasn't so bad after all.

Of course, it might've just been the fact that she had almost died just now that made me feel that way...