[colour=#04BDE6]"I'm over here Ren!"[/colour]

Rubbing the cheek he just got slapped on, Ren heard his real name being called. He turned his head in the direction of the voice, blinked a few times and said aloud: [color=#EF581A]"Mmm? How do you know my name?"[/color]

After a few seconds of silence, the gears in Ren's head started to turn. [color=#EF581A]"...Chiharu! Why didn't you call me sooner?"[/color] Ren said to her, blissfully unaware that he, too, forgot to settle on a name to give her before starting the game. Chiharu explained how she took a while on the character creation process. [color=#EF581A]"Oh, right, I guess I should call you Luna then huh... maybe I should've names myself Solar or something..."[/color] he mused to himself, slowly drifting back into the random and inane fantasies ever-present in his head. Before Ren completely lost himself in the soup of thought, though, Chiharu made sure to remind him that she had [i]no[/i] idea what to do.

[color=#EF581A]"Right, well, first thing would probably be to start a duel and..."[/color] Ren said to her, pulling up his arm to press buttons on his duel disk which... wasn't actually on his arm. [color=#EF581A]"Eh?"[/color] he voiced, looking all over his body. [color=#EF581A]"Duel diiiisk? Duel diiiiiisk?"[/color] he tried calling out, but nothing seemed to appear or be found. One of the people in the area- ostensibly one of the staff, judging from the large GM next to their name- came over to Ren to explain the problem.

"Our apologies, but in order to keep the starting zone from being too crowded, we have temporarily disabled dueling in the spawning areas. You will find your duel disk..." the staff member explained and droned on. Ren stopped listening about halfway through.

[color=#EF581A]"Oh I see,"[/color] he cut the staff member off and took Chiharu's hand. [color=#EF581A]"Let's go look somewhere else, Chi- Luna. Luna-chi."[/color]

The events unfolding after were a display of Ren's magical ability to get lost even with an in-game map feature telling him which way is where. He and Chiharu spent a good fifteen minutes going around in circles, ending up seeing the same alley about ten different times, before finally managing to arrive at the town square. In there, it seems, dueling [i]had[/i] been enabled. Several pairs of duelists were already going at it. Ren tried again futilely to magick his duel disk into existence, but he was repeatedly met with a "Duel cap limit for area reached. Please wait for duels in progress to end." message.

[color=#EF581A]"Eeeeh? Why are so many people dueling in this area?"[/color] Ren asked, completely oblivious to the reality of an MMO-style game's first hub area often being its most crowded. He looked around the town square again and noticed something quite spectacular you'd have to have tried to miss- an imposing statue of a dragon right in the middle of the square's fountain. It looked like it had its eyes closed, even though it stood in a dynamic pose ready to swoop down.

[color=#EF581A]"...That dragon... looks familiar..."[/color] Ren muttered, being unable to place his finger on what monster it was meant to be.