//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Games // Story: Love in a War-Zone // by MidnightBlaze16 //------------------------------// Midnight Blaze's POV As I walked home all I could think about was Sunset Shimmer. I mean, come on! She's the perfect girl! She's beautiful, she gets my jokes, she loves video games, and she's just plain awesome! I was so lost in thought I didn't realise I had gotten home until I crashed into the door. I live on a dead end street. On each side are townhouses and at the dead end, a set of apartments. I live in one of those apartments, on the 9th level (there are 12 altogether) with my brother Buster Flame and my friend Candy Bullet. Anyway, I walked through the glass double doors and took the stairs up to my apartment, since the elevator was busted. It had been for a couple days now-Candy couldn't care less though. She's a sports fanatic. Unlike me. I'm more into gaming, books and of course music. I am such and egghead… Moving on, I eventually reached my apartment, room 101. I opened the door and shut it quietly behind me, knowing Candy would've sent Buster to bed by now. He's 14, so we let him stay up, he has to be in bed by 11:00, and lights out at 11:30. Our apartment is simple enough. The front door leads to a living room with a bar-style kitchen to the right side. We have a big couch so we decided to save money and eat there instead of buying a proper table. Opposite the kitchen are two doors, one to the toilet and one to the bathroom. Opposite the entrance is a hall way, with 3 doors, each leading to a bedroom. Candy was chillin' on the couch watching TV. "Hey Midnight. How was your date?" she asked. I suddenly started blushing. "I-it wasn't a date! We didn't even go anywhere romantic!" I yell. "Though I kinda wish it was a date…" I muttered. "What was that? "Nothing…Kato?" "Sure." 5 minutes later, we were sitting in beanbags in front of the TV, headphones plugged in and heading to our favourite server. Basically this is one of those team battle servers, where when you first log on you join or form a clan, and go into one of the games. Each game as 5 teams, once you kill everyone from each team, they're out. Everyone has 1 lives, once you lose it you go into spectator mode. One day me, Candy and a few friends we met online formed a clan called the Blue Scorpions, making me leader since I'm the most experienced. When you win a round you get 15 coins, 2nd place 10 coins and 3rd place 5 coins. Candy and I logged on as 'Shadow-Knight' and 'L1ghtn1ng' I checked the roster and saw that 2 of our clan-mates, 'Flame1234' and 'DragonTamer12' were online. I highlighted them both as well as Candy so then when I speak into the mic, they hear me and no-one else. "Hey Flame, hey Dragon," I say. There as pause, probably them highlighting me and Candy. "Sup." "Hey!" They responded. 'Hang on a sec…I recognise that voice… "Sunset Shimmer? Is that you?" "Midnight?" Flame1234 asked. "Hey man!" "Ha-ha! Sup?" I said, ecstatic that she was online. "Candy there with you?" "Yep!" Candy responded. "Uh, Shadow, Flame, Light, WHAT'S GOING ON!" Dragon yelled through the mic. "Oh sorry man, it's just that at me and Candy's new job, we met this awesome girl called Sunset Shimmer. Turns out we already knew her from here!" I explained. "I'm not that awesome…" she said. "Don't be so modest!" "Make me!" "You two are liked a married old couple," Candy said "WHAT!?" Sunset and I yelled at the same time. "No." I start "It's not like that!" she adds "We're just friends!" I add "Yeah." She adds again…you get the idea! "Stop shipping us already!" "No!" Candy said. "Can we start playing already?" "Good idea Dragon. And let's keep calling each-other by our usernames so Dragon doesn't feel left out," I said, all too happy to change the subject. "Sure." "K" 3 2 1 GO! "Alright guys split up, Light, head towards the forest, sneak attack anyone you see from above." "OK!" "Dragon, go to the mine, hide in the shadows. Make sure you're not using a weapon that emits light!" "Affirmative!" "Flame, stick with me towards the village." "Right behind ya, captain!" We all headed in our designated directions. Candy's POV I equipped my crossbow and slid in some flaming arrows. The bow can hold multiple arrows at once allowing for a rapid-fire feature. I soon reached the forest and leap into the high branches. I have a high agility skill so I can jump really high and far. My attack and strength aren't that good, hence the crossbow. I found my way to a clearing where I could see a lot. Before long a player in a red suit arrived in the clearing. I aimed by bow and fired. They player was shocked at first, but started to run away. I followed. I soon got close enough to see the nametag. WolfBane6 "Guys, this is Lightning, I have found a member of the red team over!" I say. "Nice work Light. Try to kill them, if you can't then follow. They might lead you to a base" I hear Midnight say next to me. "On it!" I kept on shooting. I eventually managed to KO the player, only to find myself surrounded by 3 teammates. I smirked. "Bring it on!" Dragon's POV I soon made it to the mine and went in. I went deeper into the cave, staying in the shadows like a ninja, equipped with a shotgun. I soon saw a player called 'GreenSpider' walked around. I snuck up on him and shot him straight in the chest. He stood up and whipped around but I was too quick. I switched to a knife and repeatedly stabbed him until he died. I smiled victoriously before being shot forwards. "Whoa!" "Are you OK?" Flame asked. "Yeah, fine, just got surprised," I answer as I turn to see a yellow player attacking me with a machine gun. I soon joined in. Sunset's POV I smiled as I headed towards the town alongside Midnight. We ran in to see some purple players and orange players battling it out. "You kill off the purples. I'll take out the orange!" Midnight says. "OK!" I respond before sneaking up to the purple players. I take out a poison knife and begin stabbing the players one by one as they take damage. I see Midnight equip his Electro Blade-a black sword with glowing blue lines of energy that electrocutes whoever it touches- and go for the same strategy as me. Before long we had taken them out and went out to see who else we could KO. Midnight's POV About half an hour later the game ended, with us coming in a close second. It was Sunset verses a green team member and they won by 1 health point. I yawned. "Good job guys. We did well. There was some heavy competition out there today," I said "You could say that again!" "Yeah." "Well, I'm gonna hit the hay," Sunset said. "Yeah, I'm really tired too. Hey Sunset, you wanna meet up at that park near work tomorrow?" I ask "Yeah sure! Night guys!" Sunset said before disconnecting. Candy and I disconnected too and went to bed. And done! Man this took me long time to write. Sorry if the ending is rushed, but Midnight's not the only one who's tired!