https://i.imgur.com/eYYYoeI.jpg<br/><br/>An arrow flew through the air suddenly a scream was heard from an elk falling to the ground. A lone figure stood from an outcropping outlooking the scene. The young woman brushed some hair out of her eyes as she never put it up during her hunting missions. A rumbling came from her jacket giving a soft sigh she pulled out her smartphone bringing it to her ear. "Yes?", she asked as the voice was frantic and excited which she recognized right away: it was her bestie though unlike some of her crowds which were outside huntsman this one was more like the opposite. This girl was a nerd, and a basement dweller as she would hear some of her crowd go on about. "Julia! Where are you!?", She asked as Julia let out another tired sigh despite going outside a lot of her time and being pretty fit her best friend often tired her out just with the amount of information alone. "...hunting, you know how I am Sera!", Julia said with an exasperated sigh. The girl on the other side just let out a giggle, "yeah I know you love to hunt and all that but remember you<em>promised</em>to try out this new MMO that I am doing right now! You said this weekend and guess what? It is the weekend!" The girl let out an excited squeal which made Julia sigh even harder as she picked up her bow and then finally spoke into her phone as she headed toward her prize. "Look, Sera, I need to take care of my kill, I will call you when I am about to go log into the damn game! You sent me the link and all that right? By the way, my parents weren't too happy to help me with the equipment costs!" She said angrily as Sera had been bothering her for months to figure out how to afford the super immersive game that it was being broadcasted like. Julia never really gave it much thought and often went to her hunting shows and other things dealing with the outdoors so when she had become with great friends with her unlikely one that suddenly became a priority.<br/><br/>Sure they didn't really mind all<em>that much</em>but it was the thought of them spending to help out was what bothered her. "Girl chill! I know it seems like a lot of cash, and honestly, it was! But it is so<strong>WORTH</strong>it! Just get home and try out the headset and the game! I heard it was supposed to arrive today right? You told me you got it a week ago or something like that right?!" Sera continued on furthering irritating her best friend. "Yeah, it supposed to come in today and I swore I saw a text from my mom telling me that it has arrived," Julia confirmed with Sera which continued to squeal though unable to handle her friend's constant fangirling she finally hung up on her after saying a hasty goodbye. When Julia stow the phone away in her pocket she dragged/picked up her game to her pickup throwing it in the back she headed back to her family's large house that was nestled in the forest. Sure, not the best place if you wanna use wifi or the internet but her father had paid out the ass to have great internet access. Plus he knew that Julia was planning on doing one of those fancy online courses to get her degree in what she wanted to do. Which dealt with something nature specific at the moment Julia didn't have a major in mind but it was the thought that count at least what her father said to her.<br/><br/>After stowing away her kill, turning the engine on her pickup she drove down a dirt path toward her parent's house. It was a decent trip as she often wanted to go further into the Montana wilderness to kill better and bigger animals, skin them, and then have them for dinner. She was that kind of outdoorsman that she prefers to eat and use her kills rather than just kill for sport. Her father was incredibly proud of her while her mother wasn't so hot with the idea of her only daughter going out into the muck to hunt random animals. So Julia's activities were often not spoken of until this whole deal with the headset and the VRMMO that was now sweeping the world. Her mother was all over that cause at least her daughter would be in the house and away from all of the dirty hunting she was becoming known for. When Julia pulled up into the driveway she opened the garage and quickly moved her kill into it. Her father turned the garage into a slaughterhouse for anything they hunted and prepared most of the meat and skin as he had a huge deep freeze right next to the workstation. Julia worked quick but it wasn't quick enough as her mother awkwardly stepped into the garage noticing her daughter work on the animal made her insides crawl. She was a spitting image of her daughter or more like her daughter was basically her but with animal guts on her hands. "Uh, so...dear...are you going to try out that new game that just came in? I know you must be tired but I did hear your friend was eager for you to get on that." She commented staying behind Julia so she was shielded from the gorey image of an elk being torn apart and skinned. "Ah, yeah mom, I was just preparing this for the house, I know that you and dad are pretty self-sufficient so I thought to add to our stores. I know dad will have some use for this elk meat that I am taking off the bone." Julia explained as her mother cringed at the conversation. Yes, they did pretty much live off the land aside from gallons of milk from a nearby small town but that was mainly her husband and Julia's father that did all of the same things her daughter did.<br/><br/>"Ah, thanks dear, I appreciate that you go out to get us more food, but I just wanted to come out here and let you know that it had come in the mail this morning while you were out." Her mother commented pulling a strand of brown hair from her face though eager to leave the garage. "Ah, thanks mom, again, I will get to it in a bit after a shower cause I need to wash this blood off of my body and then get a change of clothes," Julia announced as her mother made a quick exit unable to handle it anymore Julia knew her mother didn't approve of her lifestyle and she understood why typical girls didn't find this kind of thing enjoyable. Well, she had always been something of a tomboy and this was right up her alley. After a while, a shower later, she walked into her spacious bedroom. It was spartan though it had a nice sized tv and a few consoles here and there. They were influences by her friend Sera as she had bought them cause of some "new game" that Sera thought Julia might be into and it was good for the time being but eventually the outdoors girl just stopped playing to go do what she enjoyed: hunt. Though the box with the strange title "Magic Arts Online" it was something that was truly bizarre and something she wondered if she should play...<br/><br/><br/><em>Current day...</em><br/><br/>"Hey, Julia your father would like-..." her mother was cut off by Julia as she was slipping on the headset. "Not right now mom, I am getting onto Magic Arts Online! I promised a friend that I was getting on tonight!" Julia answered back but her mother just smiled to herself. It had been a long time since Julia had gotten the headset and she noticed her daughter was going out less and less. It was stressing her father out but honestly, she was quite happy with Julia locking herself in her room for long lengths of time at end. Julia did what the instructions did when she put on the headset<em>link start!</em>suddenly the connection was mystical and instant. Though there was a constant tingle in her mind and even her soul? She couldn't understand it but what she did know is that her best friend had suggested she play some kind of sorceress and she had a lot of success in that field. Almost like she had an innate talent for it, but Julia didn't really think about that. Nah, she wasn't some kind of magic slinger in real life, when she had time she hunted deer and any kind of game with her father with bows, rifles, etc. She didn't use magic and her mother or father didn't mention anything magical hell thinking that made her blink a few times in the fantasy world as it was a crazy notion. "Alright, where are you at Raikon...I better send him a message," she said to herself as she opened up the interface seeing his name she sent him an invite, and a message telling him she had gotten on. A guy that helped her play the game along with her bestie but then continued on past the time when her friend apparently gotten bored with it. Said something about the game not really being for her and then left it at that where Julia found it more and more enticing to keep playing.<br/><br/>https://i.imgur.com/y6GUkvm.png<br/><br/>Julia had glanced at her appearance in the game from her home that Raiken had helped her get after they had done a lot of quests and built up some money. She adored her appearance in-game as she wasn't as tomboyish as she was in real life. Julia didn't hate herself in real life but she often did wonder how it would be if she was some kind of sorceress girl that looked adorable and actually quite short: 5'3" something that she wasn't in real life which she was around 5'9" a little taller than average but compared to the game appearance she was taller. She kept glancing at her images waiting for him to respond then a message came in, "<em>Hey, just got on myself. Meet you at Eadell Square in Mathena.</em>" Julia or more like<em>Aria</em>nodded to his message then sent one back, "Mathena? Alright, I will go ahead and hit a teleport so I can get to you quicker, I got some big quests that I would like to party with you on." She wrote and sent him a message back, the words and terminology she was using was something alien to her or they were but now they seemed all too familiar. Gripping her tome she headed to a local teleport in the town she was in that she had chosen to live in and often came back to when she logged out, it was normally a teleport away to get to her friend on here. So it wasn't inconvenient to do what she did and then just meet up with him.