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Adam148 · #3 (**permalink**) [ ] 03-01-2009, 01:50 PM

Here's Chapter Three... come on people! I'd like people to read this, give me some feedback etcetera.

Chapter Three

“So, now what? We just going to turn this thing on, and hang out in the game world?” Pete asked, as he and Adam carried the doorframe (including door and electrical equipment) to a stand Alexis had put on the floor,

“Yeah, pretty much, we can stay in the game for about half an hour in the real world, as that’s when dinner’ll be ready, and a day in the game world is roughly ten minutes, so we’ll stay for three days, however, the length of these days are entirely dependant on how our minds translate them on the way in,” Adam told him, as they lowered the door frame into the stand,

Adam grabbed a USB cable, and plugged it into a waiting computer, then plugged the door into an open socket,

“Have you ever done this before?” Luke asked,

“What? Go into the game world? No, we haven’t, in fact, what we’re going to do now will either work perfectly, not work at all, or seriously injure us, so the fact that we’re going in now is because we’re bored out of our minds,” Adam told them once he had finished setting the door up, “Ready to go?”

Pete and Alexis murmured in agreement, while Luke looked like he was about to burst with excitement, “Yeah!”

“Then here goes,” Adam said dramatically, before pushing the power button on the door.

•

Nothing seemingly happened, and Adam looked crestfallen, “Why does nothing I build ever work?”

He moved over to the door, and opened it, in a hopeless effort to see if it had worked. However, instead of seeing the room on the other side of the door, there was the image of the game world from a birds-eye view.

The keyboard that had been built into the door swung through the image (seemingly unaffected), and words appeared in the door, ‘Enter username and password’.

Pete ran around the back of the door, and looked through it, all he could see was Adam on the other side, “How-?”

Adam shrugged, “Who cares? Let’s see if it’ll work though,” he started typing into the keyboard,

The door briefly flashed a bright white light, before the clearing again, and the word ‘Enter’ appeared,

Adam took this as his cue to step forwards, and for the other three it was like watching their friend step into the door and disappear.

•

For Adam, as soon as he stepped through the doorway he felt himself plummeting, a bit queasy from the sudden shift in gravity.

As he fell, he knew he was going to die, but, as one often does when one is about to die, time seemed to slow down as he noticed something seemingly unimportant. From this height, everything looked like it had on his computer screen, with the camera above his character, however, his character wasn’t there. Soon, time sped up again, and Adam closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, he found himself standing at the spot that had been devoid of his character up until seconds ago. He also wasn’t dead, which is a good thing.

Suddenly a tremendous pain ripped up his spine.

•

“What should we do? I mean, how do we know he hasn’t been killed?” Pete asked, “Should we follow him or not?”

Alexis examined Adam’s computer screen, which still had Adam’s character on it, however, it seemed to be moving independently, “Well, assuming that’s him, he’s fine,” she looked at the other two, “I’ll go next if you like,”

With that she keyed in her username and password onto the door’s keyboard and jumped through the door,

Pete and Luke looked at each other with looks that said, “Who’s going next?” as both were considering the negatives of what was on the other side of the door,

Of course, like all big decisions in the universe, this was decided in the most logical way possible. Rock, paper, scissors. Yeah.
“Scissors beats paper!” Pete exclaimed,

“Best two out of three?” Luke attempted, but no dice, Pete marched him over to the door,

Luke reluctantly keyed in his username and password, and glumly walked through the door, to what he thought was certain doom,

Pete, after much deliberation and thought, had come to a decision between running away and forgetting the other three had ever existed, or going in after them. Then he considered how boring his life would be if he never took risks, and he entered his username and password, and dived through the door.

•

Alexis too felt the sensation of falling, before realising she was still running, and in the same place her character had been moments before, she looked at Adam to see him in intense pain while growths pushed themselves out of his armpits and his back. Suddenly, she felt a strange feeling all over her body, as changes began to affect her as well.

Luke had kept his eyes closed the whole trip, and when he opened his eyes he felt his ears elongating to a point.

Pete hit the floor face first.

•

Adam’s shirt ripped and two large, and two small, reptilian wings folded out, and grew. Where the wings met the skin they were of a similar colour and texture, but as they got further away you could see scales, and the tone was that of a light gold, the wing flaps being leathery and yellow. Several inches below his armpits, a new pair of arms had punched their way through the skin. Muscles had appeared where there hadn’t been before. Not overly large, body-builder-type muscles, but enough to defend oneself in a fight. The seat of his trousers tore as his spine extended, until it became a long, reptilian (of the same hue as the wings) tail.

Suddenly his trousers readjusted themselves to compensate for the tail, and re-designed themselves to resemble those of his characters, which were basically three-quarter length shorts.

His school shoes changed and moulded into more suitable adventuring boots, and large metal shin guards appeared, actually built onto the boots themselves. His ripped shirt remapped itself to compensate for the extra arms and wings, before then changing colour until it was a red t-shirt with short black sleeves. His bare hands were suddenly made un-bare with adventuring gloves (basically black, fingerless gloves).

His belt suddenly readjusted itself so it could hold a sword and its scabbard, which soon appeared. Then two sword-belts wound their way across his torso, followed by their accompanying swords and sheaths.

A black and red baseball cap appeared on his head, and then twisted itself so it was facing backwards. The tuft of hair that now stuck out at the front suddenly burst out of it, so Adam had a large, spiked tuft of brown hair sticking out of his cap.

The impossibility, and possibly the amount of energy needed for such a transformation, caused him to fall over, semi-conscious.

•

The sensation Alexis had felt upon arriving began to consume her, short, tawny brown fur marked with black spots spread across her skin. She cried out in pain as her DNA was rewritten, combining her regular human DNA with those of an ocelot. Her shoulder-length platinum blonde hair, lengthened until it was waist-length, with light-brown streaks appearing.

Her canines sharpened, and her clothes reshaped themselves to avoid tearing. As her tail lengthened out of the back of the new whole in her trousers, the two legs of the trousers fused together to become a skirt, which then shortened until it was knee-length.

Her blouse had reformed to a regular white t-shirt. Her new clothes allowed for more cat-like manoeuvrability as well as human manoeuvrability.

The pain of the transformation caused her to black out.

Although she was unconscious, the changes didn’t stop. She shrunk several inches, and her feet gained pads and her toes became clawed. Her hands were mostly unaffected, mainly because animal hybrids are human enough in this area for there not to be a problem in the opposable thumb department, although her fingers and thumbs did gain claws.

•

Luke was mostly unaffected, his ears lengthened to points, and he grew several inches, so there were no extra-growths, but he was conscious of all the other changes.

A dark-blue cape had formed, and his garb became that of a wizard. His long, greasy hair became short and spiked. At his belt was a gnarled staff, which whispered of forgotten magicks and spells.

•

Pete pulled his face out of the dirt and gaped at the transformations affecting his friends, completely unaware of his own.

His clothes had changed to a camouflage green, and at his belt was a knife.

As he watched, his mind began to consider things he had never considered before, such as, ‘How much would that staff sell for? I wonder…’ He caught himself, he had never considered thievery before in his life, too scared he might get caught, and now he wasn’t just considering it, he’d almost done it. He pulled his arm back down from where it had been reaching for Luke’s belt.

Now the fun could truly begin.