[I]C'mon....c'mon clock. Tick faster. I want to go home already.[/I] Aoi thought impatiently as she tapped her pencil lightly against her notebook, which was covered in what she called her 'boredom doodles'. It consisted of a few characters that she and her childhood friend, Zarek, had thought of when they were a bit younger. However, she hadn't thought of bringing the characters to life until after he moved from that home that he had practically grown up in. Now, all she had was these doodles and memories to remember him by, along with the occasional phone call, but that was hardly enough for Aoi.

The professor, who was still wearing that same, boring expression from when he started class finally turned around and told the students to have a nice spring break, much to Aoi's relief. She didn't know why she'd even come to class, knowing that they weren't going to do much but that didn't matter now that she was able up go home and stay there for the next few weeks without having to show up a school on time. Quietly, the black haired girl gathered her things before swiftly leaving the room. Aoi weaved through the growing crowd easily and dodged bodies left and right as she made a bee line towards the lobby area of the building. She watched friends happily greet other friends before joyously exciting the building together and Aoi felt a pang of envy.

 [I]If only I could be like that...no, no. I have plenty of friends in Solarie Online.[/I] she quickly reassured herself before she could fall into that dark mood again. Shaking all those thoughts away, she focused on placing one foot in front of the other. The further she got away from the school, the more relaxed Aoi became and she was able to enjoy the scenery around her. She was usually in such a rush to get to school that she never got to really look at beauty that surrounded her. All around, tall trees loomed over her head and shaded her from the afternoon sun that seemed determined to boil her blood. For a spring day, it was actually pretty hot and Aoi found herself slipping out of her sweater to avoid over heating. After doing so, she noticed a bush filled with blooming flowers and immediately walked over to it, silently wishing that she had a camera to take a picture of it. She, instead, leaned over and gently cupped a flower with her hand and inhaled deeply, smiling a bit as she did so. [I]This smells great...[/I] No matter how much she wanted to stay, though, she needed to get home before she was late for the guild meeting.
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With that thought in mind, it didn't take Aoi long to make it back to her small apartment, located about 30 minutes (on foot) away from the school. She climbed up the steps to the second floor before stopping in front of room 205 and pulling out her key. Once the door was unlocked, the girl hurried inside the door and locked it; Aoi then discarded her book bag off to the side before immediately heading to what she referred to as her Relaxing Room, which was the second bedroom of the apartment that she didn't have much use for since she lived alone. Inside was a desk where she kept her computer and all the games and accessories that went along with it. Next to the desk was a worn but comfortable blue couch that her parents gave to her as a house warming gift. 

Across the room sat a tv that was surrounded by various gaming consoles but Aoi seemed to ignore them and headed straight for the computer. It only took the computer a few seconds to boot up and an even shorter time for Aoi to log in. She immediately moved her mouse over to Solarie Online's icon and double clicked. A picture of an animated female dressed in priestly clothing popped onto the screen, telling the user to wait while the game loads. [I]20%....35%.....52%...could this thing possibly go even slower?[/I] Aoi thought as she drummed her fingers impatiently against the desk. Sighing a bit, she glanced over at her phone, wondering if she should let Zarek know what she was out on break now. Maybe they could finally schedule to meet up-- Aoi's thoughts were interrupted as the words: 'Please Connect to Your Head Gear' flashed onto the screen. "I'll just text him when I log out." Aoi mumbled to herself as she reached for her head gear. She placed it onto her head and felt the little sensors connect to her temples before closing her eyes, only to wake up in Solarie Online as Aoina.

[I]Flowers.[/I] Flowers of every shape, size and colors filled Aoi's vision as she opened her eyes. Glancing around, she noticed that she was in a meadow, one that was being overrun with plants. Flowers and weeds stood nearly as tall as she and little clumps of trees were scattered here and there but the path that winded through the meadow managed to stay free from the plants. She reluctantly forced herself to look away from the flowers and up at the very realistic but animated sky. Judging by the amount of light coming from the setting sun, it was nearly evening time in Solarie Online and Aoi swore softly to herself. [I]I'm late...![/I]
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"You're late, Aoina." A deep voice announced as the green haired mage tried to sneak into the room unnoticed. Aoi's cheeks flushed as twenty pairs of eyes turned to look at her and the girl smiled sheepishly. "Uhm, sorry about that. I just got home from school..." She explained and the guild leader (a level 65 ranger) waved away her explanation with his hand. "It's fine. Just sit down so that I can finish up." Nodding, Aoi did as she was told and took a seat around the large conference table that the guild had rented out for today. Unfortunately, Aoi unconsciously tuned the guild leader out almost as soon as he began speaking. She got the main gest of what he wanted to say, though: 

[I]"Do better in your fights against other guilds."[/I]

[I]"Make sure you donate so we can get enough to buy our own building for our guild."[/I]

[I]"Level up as much as you can."[/I]

Aoi is only level 35 now, since she had to take a break from Solarie Online because school was taking up most of her time, but she was ready to make up for all that lost time. Even if it took all night, she would get to level 40 so she could get a job change from a Mage to the next highest job choice. The girl was so engrossed in her fantasy that she almost missed it when the guild leader announced that the meeting was over and Aoi was up and out of the door in a matter of seconds. She did have somewhere to be, after all.
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Aoi had to travel through three different maps and walk through half of the terrain of the Land of Time to get to where she needed to go. Eventually, she made it to a little NPC based town located in the middle of the map. She'd used up quite a bit of her health potions while on the way here to avoid dying but, now, she needed to refill. As she was about to walk over to the Potion Specialist NPC, she spotted a familiar symbol out the corner of her eye and when she turned to get a better look at it, she realized that it was, in fact, someone from one of her guild's 'enemies'. The words of her guild leader echoed in her mind as she walked over to the guy, whose name was Ragnarok_Red, and spoke to him.

"Hey, wanna duel?" She tried to ask it casually and without much emotion. Just because her guild didn't like his did not mean that she had to be rude to the guy.