Hey everyone, I'm back and with a new story. Sorry if I haven't post anything in a long while, classes were brutal to me. But I'm on here now, been working a new story as well with my Ninjago-Hero stories as well. My other story is in the process at the moment so this is here for the time being. Anyway, I won't delay you all, enjoy my new story.

Chapter 1: The New World

Far into technological creations, many of the best, experienced dare advance into unknown territory. It all starts off into a familiar, large, historical city. Many feel safe within the towering walls that surround the borders. But beyond the walls, marks the unknown. Many dare venture within the unknown, to find more civilization for those to cross the fields, forests, mountains to join and spread. And yet, when venturing to the unknown, comes a price.

Known to all, beasts, monsters, enemies too spread across the lands. For those that walk into the land must be equipped to protect themselves. For the defense of yourself, it'll be your fate on the enemy's blade or the belly of a beast if you fail to that. Many are successful to clear the dungeons or caves in the unknown territory, finding new villages or towns to provide safe access for those to cross. But few aren't successful when walking carelessly to find shelter. That's when the life of one is spent in this land.

This land, known throughout the outside, to all and is safe. But inside, it is the opposite of safe. A world like anything of life or death. From into the plains and fields to the darkest dungeon or cavern of pure darkness. One must be ready to defend for themselves or for the sake of others. Armed with a sword or any weapons, only they can decide which one survives or not in this new world...

NINJAGO ONLINE

Emerald green eyes stared into the personal message that appeared holographically in front of him. A small breath escaped from his nose, but his "body" never required oxygen. In the inside world, he had no need for air. But out of the unknown world, his real body needed it to survive. How he has miss the breeze on his face. Virtual avatar fingers raised themselves by his control to scroll on the personal message to snap his head to the sound of a large growl in the dark cavern next to him that loomed an eerie feeling. In the bright, white room, it was safe for him to stay. But outside, it wasn't safe.

Inhaling a deep breath as he would outside, he closed the personal message of his to let the hologram disappear from his sight and pulled himself to his feet to stand at the doorway. He brushed a bit of golden blond hair from his eyes to reach behind his back to draw out a long sword and gripped it tightly in his right hand. Darkness surrounded him as he stepped out to venture in the unknown territory.

A Couple Months Ago. . .

"Gah!"

A loud groaned escaped from a teen with orange hair as he laid on the ground to wallow in pain. He clutched his abdomen tightly to try and prevent tears escaping from his eyes. He took a deep breath to peek an eye to stare in the face of a animal with tusks protruding from the sides of its mouth; a wild boar. The animal snorted in his face and turned to leave the teen in pain to have him sigh in defeat. He turned his body to the sounds of giggles escaping from his company to glare at them.

"Wow, who knew you could be defeated from a simple pig barreling into you?" a teen with golden blonde hair remarked.

"Seriously, Gene, you've got to work on that!" another with unkempt black hair laughed.

The ginger glared at the two more to push himself to his knees and brushed the dust off his shirt, a simple blue shirt with a light breastplate armor. He scanned around the grassy ground and grabbed his sword and pulled himself to his feet. His friends continued to laugh a bit as they watched the boar turned to Gene to snort and charged. This time, the teen readied himself to properly stance and positioned his blade. The blade glowed a warm red color as he channeled his energy and focus on the weapon and he gave out a battle cry to charge and swiped his blade through the animal and stopped. The boar shimmered and disintergrated into fragmants to vanish into thin air.

Gene smiled to himself and sheathed his sword into the scabbard attached to his hip and turned to face his friends. Their jaws dropped as their laughter was cut off. "You two need to learn about shutting up then." he smirked and gingerly tapped their jaws closed. "I may not have been a beta player like you two, but I'm a quick learner. That's why I'm the smart one."

The blonde haired teen shook himself awake to the comment to snort. "Whatever, beginners luck." he said.

"Relax, Lloyd," the raven haired teen said. "After all, you and I were the same way during the beta testing. So give him some slack. He does learn quicker than both of us combined."

"Thank you, Brad," Gene commended.

"Yeah, yeah," Lloyd said to smile. "Still nice work then." He turned his gaze to the setting sun to sigh deeply to the warm sunset as it dipped in the horizon. His friends joined him watching the sky slowly turn to warm colors. "Man, what a beautiful sunset. Sometimes I wish I can see these more than what I see from my window in my parent's apartment. Up close."

"Yeah," Brad agreed. "But afterall you live in the big city, so you don't get to see these much. However, you have the penthouse suite so you probably get a better view than we do. Living in the suburbs and all."

A sigh escaped from his throat to look away on that comment. His parents, aunt and uncle may be the owners of a huge company outside of the game they were in. But it didn't mean he, his sister, and cousin enjoy the high lifestyle. He shook the thoughts away to not think about it at the moment and turned back to watch the sun slowly leave. "I wonder what time it is?" he asked to raise his hand.

He swiped it down in front of him, a holographic display screen appeared in front of him. It showed him a display model of his body with stats along the arms, legs, and torso of his. And it also showed options for apparel, weapons, and health along the side. His emerald green moved to the top right corner of the display menu to read the time. It was half past five. He stood a bit shocked to the time to receive glances from his friends.

"Whoops, I guess we skipped supper." Brad said, guilty with a smile. He felt his stomach rumble to laugh innocently with the sound of two more stomachs from the others. "I guess we're all hungry then. Hey, I say we log off and grab some pizza at Buddy's Pizza."

"You would pick that kid arcade of a joke for pizza." Gene commented.

"What? I like their pizza."

Lloyd had to roll his eyes to shake his head with a smile. But he couldn't argue with his friend, he was hungry for pizza. "Alright, alright, we can argue about it later." he said to stand between the two. "We're all hungry, so let's get the pizza and we can fight about it another time. I'm buying."

"Okay, I'm fine with that." Brad agreed.

All three took a step back to pull down their display screens and tapped on the screen to find the menus. But something looked odd to have Lloyd raise a brow. On the menu, he couldn't see the log off option to enable him to leave the game. He glanced up to noticed his friend's screens that they too didn't have the log out icon as well. He tried tapping where the button would be, but nothing was happening.

Something wasn't right.