Having just finished a run, a shower, a healthy smoothie, and finally making sure to stretch out really well on her yoga mat, Chiharu had received a final text from Ren. [colour=#04BDE6]"Guess it is finally time to do this."[/colour] she said to herself. She looked around her room one final time before taking the plunge. [colour=#04BDE6]"Bed made, check. Floor clear other than myself and the mat, check. School work done, check. Yep, mom can't complain about me playing games!"[/colour] She looked over to her desk once more and looked at a picture of her and her sister after the swim competition. They were both wearing the medals they'd won smiling back at their mom who took the picture. 

She laid out on her yoga mat stretching one final time before putting the device she'd got the very same day on her wrist. She was nervous but excited to try this out after all this time of not bothering with these types of things. It would be a new experience and a way to spend more time with her friend.

[colour=#04BDE6]"Connect: Digital Monsters."[/colour]

Chiharu felt a bit disoriented at being shifted nearly instantaneously. The next thing she knew she was floating in the sky with a black ball floating in front of her. She wasn't familiar with how this was supposed to work, but knew that games did some weird things from what she heard at school. Then words started popping up.

[colour=gray]Running protocol: Avatar.
Welcome, Nakano Chiharu.[/colour]

The black ball turned into her and the game wanted her to change her appearance. [colour=#04BDE6]"Hm. I didn't think there would be so many options."[/colour] Chiharu blinked a couple times looking at all the various options. She spent a bit of time trying out different ideas and then kept hitting the reset option. [colour=#04BDE6]"I need to stop over thinking this. Okay, keep the blue hair, match the eyes. Choose something sporty still. Morph the face a bit mcolourore to still be cute, but not recognizable. Ummm. I guess that will do, yeah!"[/colour] She finalized her appearance easily spending a good ten minutes or more after starting the process. 

[colour=gray]Running protocol: Eraser.
Please enter a custom name different from the one before you.[/colour]

[colour=#04BDE6]"Oh. I really didn't think this through...Sparkle? No. Crystal? No."[/colour] This went on for several more minutes before finally she figured out a name. [colour=#04BDE6]"Yeah! Luna will work!"[/colour] With that the game finally moved on.

[colour=gray]Eraser protocol complete.
Running protocol: Root.
Welcome to Digital Monsters, Luna.[/colour]

Then with that finally over with twenty-five minutes after starting up the game Chiharu was brought into the starting carriage along with more beginning players. Granted she was too busy looking at her hands, shoes, playing with her hair, and feeling the material of her new clothing to fully pay attention to the guide. She was fascinated with the level of detail and textures. The only thing that she really caught out of the whole thing was that she was headed ot a place called Radix. 

When she got to the town finally she saw a guy approaching every girl that was arriving at the city. At first she thought he was just some weirdo until she got close enough to realize that the person kept asking if the girls were Chiharu which caused her to giggle for a moment before going over to him. [colour=#04BDE6]"I'm over here Ren!"[/colour] she waved and called out as she approached. 

Once she had got to him she paused looked around a bit and then smiled looking at him. [colour=#04BDE6]"Okay so far not too bad. The creation step was a bit more than I expected so it took me a little longer to make my character, and I hadn't really thought of a name either, but I made it! Also I have to admit it looks a lot more real than I expected it too! So um...Yeah, I kinda missed the intro part while looking around. What's the plan? How does all this work?"[/colour] She was smiling actually excited to learn more about the game.