GEOSphere

The Prolouge

We’ve been here too long. My memories of how we got here are fading, and it almost feels like this is reality. I know that’s wrong though, this could never be reality. Not with angels, demons, vampires and werewolves all stuck in one place trying to survive. We arrived in this place over a year ago and during that time, I discovered a very grim truth indeed. Once you enter the GEOSphere, the only way out is when your character dies…and as I found out quickly is that any pain dealt to your character you felt physically, which to be simple means that the only way out of this game is to die. I hadn’t told my sister, Nautica, of this yet, because I didn’t need her to panic of all people. My beloved Troy doesn’t know either though, and to that point I am debating on changing.
My sister, Troy, and I are part of the angels’ team, thanks to my sister. The day we joined this horrible ‘game’, the administrator told us to pick teams and we were drug away before we even knew what that meant. Now, our cousin Drake was on the demon team and her boyfriend, Edward, was on the vampire team. Both enemies of our kind, but I don’t think that we were going to be following the rules much longer. My normally naïve sister seemed to be catching on that following the rules was getting her nowhere near where she wanted to be: with Edward, naturally. I was wondering if the other angels that were there would agree with us. Arthur, Leviticus, Malachi, and Noah were the other real angels in our group. The rest were computer generated and our group only summed up to 20 people.
Today, Dr. White, our administrator, and Troy went out on a scouting trip to make sure no threats were in the immediate area, but they were taking a long time and that worried me.
“Nautica, shall we go for a walk? I think we both need it,” I laughed nervously, taking her hand and headed out of the wide double doors of the Angels head quarters.
“Where are we to go?” She asked me, raising her chestnut brows, causing wrinkles to spread along her light peach toned forehead.
“Nowhere in particular, just need air,” I mumbled, dragging her pretty much. I didn’t tell her where we were going because she would end up asking me why we were going there and that was another question I couldn’t answer. Troy had shown me the boundary lines not too long ago and the vampire line stuck out the most to me because that’s where my younger sister’s love was, and that was where I was taking her now. She asked no further questions, just followed me.
In real world time, which I was beginning to wonder if that was what we were going off of, the trip was about two days, so we rested a couple of times along the way, but Nautica seemed to sense that we were heading somewhere good, because the closer we got, the faster her pace.
“We’re in their territory…it smells like dead bodies and blood,” she muttered when she realized we’d passed into the vampire territory. I just nodded vaguely before pulling her over to a tree, “He’s here isn’t he?” she whispered and, again, I merely nodded. She held her breath then looked around eagerly to see if she could spot him.
It almost seemed too easy. Edward, my dear sister’s love, was on patrol. He heard our whispering and had come to see what it was all about. He came up to where we were and froze seeing us, “Nautica?” of course I was invisible, but that didn’t matter to me. I had Troy for that. Nautica latched onto him, hugging onto him with the force to choke a normal person. He held her close to him as if letting go would kill them both. I sighed and turned away to respect the moment they were having. As they were rejoicing I had a feeling that the end of this day would end with blood and death...at least someone would be getting out of this game.
“Rhysln, are you alright?” Edward asked me, still holding onto Nautica, who had her head buried into his chest.
“Yea, I was just thinking, don’t worry about me,” I assured him, smiling tersely.
After a few more moments of the suffocatingly passionate reunion, we started away from the vampire territory, “We’ll have to run away…,” Nautica said quietly, “Does that mean we can’t been seen together, Rhysln?”
“What are you mumbling about? I’m going with you!” I looked at her like she’d lost her marbles, “I’ll just grab Troy and we can be on our way,” I smirked at her to lighten the sound of my words and look.
“But then the game will be harder for you than it has to be!” she shook her head.
“This game is hard for everyone, Nautica,” and I was telling her before I could stop myself, “The only way out of here is when your character dies.”
“What?” She turned on me now, eyes wide. I turned away, pursing my lips. Well this was going to be fun that was for sure. For the rest of the time we traveling, she found something to nag at me for. I ignored her mostly.
I stopped when we came to one of the towns we’d passed through on the way to where we’d met up with Edward. The town was literally nothing more the ash and cinder. I stared in shock and I realized that Nautica had silenced to remorse the sight before her.
“Who could do such a thing?” I murmured, looking around me, still in shock at the horror before me.
“I see nothing wrong with what I’ve done here, they were simply in the way and all simulations,” a deep, husky voice said and a man decked from head to toe in black and crimson armor stepped out from the only house left standing.
“Who are you then if these are mere simulations?” Edward asked, moving in front of Nautica in defense.
“My name is Leveran. I was originally on the demon team, but here’s the thing. I’ve been here with the Admins for…oh I don’t know…about 5 years now,” he said, nodding.
“5 years!! We’ve only been here for one! But wait! We talked to the Admins the day we all joined!” Nautica shook her head
“Wrong. You talked to holograms. The Admins have been here all along, which is why they’re not so nice and friendly as the people you saw in the room where you signed that waiver,” Leveran explained. Nautica paled and suddenly Leveran was looking at me intensely, “You there. Show me that ability you have.”
“What ability?” I had no idea what this freak show was talking about.
“A hidden ability then?” he was talking to himself, “Well, then. The game just got more interesting,” he sneered and yanked a spear from the ground beside him, “I take her and you two are going to die,” he stated like it were inevitable.
“Excuse me?!” I looked at him like he was insane but before anything else could be said, my hands were shackled and I was yanked to the floor as if by gravity. Leveran struck out, nailed Edward’s side and threw him off, planning on taking out Nautica first, “No!” I screamed as he jabbed the spear towards my sister, but all three of us were flabbergasted when a white energy burst up around her, destroying Leveran’s spear instantly. He made an interested face but Nautica fell to the ground, unconscious. I breathed a sigh of relief, because it seemed Leveran thought she was dead, but unfortunately so did Edward, because he took off, his face extremely dark, the spark for revenge hidden in the deep blue pools.
Leveran yanked me up, “Now, let us be going then, and we’re going to figure out how to unlock that ability of yours,” he said as he threw me over his shoulder and walked away. I looked to my sisters unconscious body and prayed she’d be alright.