Chapter of today!

No worries, there will be more POV changes to flesh out her character so do not despair, this is only a slight insight :P.

Enjoy!

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Chapter 33: The Path We Choose

Ouroboros, the company behind Azalon had one problem at the final stage of their Boss design.

Their programmers had succeeded in creating some of the most advanced and unique Boss AI's in existence, but in the end they were still code, predictable, easy to lead to a trap or to trick.

Most of the time a Boss is given a special ability to counter these facts but just because you made the body strong does not mean that its mind gets faster or better.

Stuck between a rock and a hard place the developers were furious, how could they bring out a game with so much realism and potential but fail to give the Bosses in Azalon their own character and personality?

No matter how good they programmed an AI, certain Skills would just override these aspects, like a tanks aggro pull for example.

Unwilling to make major changes to all classes just for the sake of giving some of the strongest Bosses inside Azalon a helping hand, a new idea appeared, a truly interesting concept.

A player would not fall for simple tricks like pulling aggro or attacking the one closest instead of the Healer in the back, even something like waiting until he was low to use some of the more dangerous Abilities, the well known 'Phases' of a boss did not apply to a player, so what if you gave a player control over a boss then?

The idea was simple, 100 Bosses inside Azalon would be truly unique, hidden form both the world and any records inside the lore or game itself.

Players would be payed to stay inside the game for at least 12 hours, 7 days of the week, no holidays included.

Naturally, telling anyone that they were actually players was strictly frobidden, as it was meant to be a secret even from the real world.

If they felt like it, those players could go explore the world, catch up on sleep or simply surf the web, that was the main reason why internet access inside Azalon even existed, for these 100 employees.

Whenever a foreign player discovered and entered their respective 'area' they would be teleported to their own 'Boss Room' and had to fight there.

All employees started with level 65, they had the option to level and improve their own character or to just stay lazy and stay inside for the money but not 1 of the 100 did that, after all it was the first Virtual Reality game in history and there was a whole world to explore.

Every time their Avatars left the 'Boss Room' their level would be cut in half and they would be stuck with a humanoid form.

Naturally their progress was monitored and tabs were kept on all of them to make sure they really stayed inside the game for the agreed upon time.

When the players were offline, the areas leading to the hidden Bosses inside the game became unavailable, making the discovery of these completely unique player Bosses even harder.

Many people predicted that the first hidden Boss would not be discovered until half a year had passed but surprisingly, that was not accurate, one Player Boss could vouch for that.

Sharon was not your average girl.

Blessed with a beautiful body and sharp mind she soon enough discovered that she could bend people to her will, if she chose to do so.

Her beauty opened her many doors put once she stepped through, many others closed behind her.

It was a certain kind of power that started to scare her in middle school when she gained a stalker that sent her constant death threats in the mail, written in red ink or at least she hoped to this day that it was ink.

Nearly getting sexually assaulted by the boy, the police finally took action, imprisoning him for quite some time.

After that event, she stopped going to school and spent most of her days locked inside her room, save from the harm that could befall her in the outside world.

During all of this she discovered her fascination with fantasy games, MMO's especially and spent most of her time either exploring dungeons or grinding mobs.

Time went by quickly and her stalker was released, only this time he came to visit Sharon right away.

Not even having the courtesy to knock he straight up kicked the door in.

She could still remember her screams, her pleading and begging to this day as he unzipped his pants and how he threw her on the bed.

And then she got a grip on the vase and smashed it over his head.

Well aware of what he would do to her if she stopped now, she grabbed one of the shards from the destroyed object and stabbed him, again and again until he stopped moving.

The police naturally did not press any charges, it was an act of self defense after all but Sharon was not the same anymore, gone was her fear of the outside world even if the occasional nightmares still haunted her.

She started to go outside again from time to time but her real hobby was indoors and before her computer where she broke many records in over a dozen online games.

One could easily imagine her glee and excitement when Ouroboros approached her with the option of being payed to play a game.

Instead of a character creation she was thrown into her new body right away and it took her quite a while to move around fluidly, it was not every day that you gained the senses of a snake body after all.

Thankfully she still carried over her looks even though she was unable to wear any clothes in her Lamia form.

The developers even allowed her to choose her own class so after contemplating for a while she decided to go with a ranged archetype.

Her actual Class turned out be 'Huntress' which she quite liked as it came together with a few unique Skills.

Sharon spent most of her time exploring the Capital City of Elisante and then went north, crossing the border many times and seeing all kinds of wonders and mysteries that existed inside the game.

After about two real life weeks she was able to increase her overall level to 75.

Finishing up on a good day's work she decided to rest in the nearby Inn to catch up on some sleep that had been missed a few days ago.

She remembered closing her eyes and then suddenly woke up again to a loud bang.

Confused, it took her a while to realize that she was no longer inside the Inn.

Seeing herself back inside her own Boss Room and a player with crimson red eyes standing before her explained many things.

She was very pissed off that she would now have to travel all the way back north so she decided to vent some of her anger on the man before her by crushing his legs and hip.

Seeing him squirm beneath her grip was enough payback for being teleported back and she actually looked at the fellow for the first time.

Everything about him seemed pretty average, he had a lot of gear but except that nothing really stuck out except his Asian heritage and his crimson red eyes.

Nocking an arrow and asking him for any last words she expected curses, heroic words or even actions but not what he did.

The smile was what really threw her off.

Not the hand that caressed her face but the smile that seemed to be both happy and sad at the same time.

Unable to shoot him anymore without satisfying her curiosity, she first asked his name and was about to ask him why he looked so incredibly sad when he put another hand on her cheek and just straight up kissed her.

Sharon had naturally kissed before, she also had experience with sex but she could not remember for the life of her anything that ever felt as intense and incredible as this one kiss she shared with Makoto.

Only with this much she still would have pushed him away, no matter how good it felt it was still something you would only do with someone you knew or loved so Sharon was very close to using her actual strength when she felt it.

The stream of Makoto's tears and the trembling lips that pressed against her own.

It reminded her of that night, how she had trembled after realizing that her former stalker had now stopped moving and all the blood that drenched hands.

That was the moment she noticed the incredible emotions that coursed through the man before her.

The anger she could feel as he clenched his fists so hard that they shook, the mix between sadness and despair with his trembling shoulders and lips, the desire to be with someone from the way he pressed himself against her own body.

This was what stopped her from lashing out or pushing him away, seeing his bare and naked feelings and experiencing them through this kiss was enough to melt the ice that encased her own heart, enough for her to take a certain interest in him.

Sharon started kissing him back, showing him again and again that she was there, that he was not alone anymore just like she wanted him to stay with her, so that she would not be alone anymore.

Dragging him somewhat greedily between her thighs she could clearly feel his manhood press against her naked body, desire now overtook her too and she could not wait for him to satisfy them both.

The sex was an experience that was burned into her mind as something so incredibly wild and intense that she felt like a part of her broke during the entire session, but it was a good kind of breaking...

Even after exiting the game as Makoto left, she could still vividly remember his movements, the way he had kissed and bit her at multiple places...

There was enough fresh memories and excitement left for Sharon that she had to change her underwear before going to bed...

Putting one hand between her chest where her heart was beating quite fast, she remembered his crimson red eyes and the smile he had shown her.

For the first time in years, Sharon was able to fall asleep without any bad memories or worries haunting her.

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Makoto stared through the glass window.

Many machines were there, beeping and booping all the time, it was kind of funny.

The only thing that made it not funny was seeing Patrick.

He didn't like Patrick normally but seeing all of those tubes going from him to those strange beeping machines was enough to make him worried.

He had no idea how it happened, even now.

All he remembered was that Patrick was making fun and being mean to him like always and then together with the usual anger there was this scary darkness.

Then there was nothing for a while and the next thing he remembered was seeing Patrick lying on the ground with a lot of red all over him, Makoto had learned that it was called Blood a week ago and he also knew that it was dangerous to be bleeding too much for some reason.

After calling Patrick by his name a few times he went to get one of the adults that took care of them.

Clarissa was his favorite so he went to get her, that was a bad decision because she started screaming really loud for some reason after seeing Patrick instead of making sure that he was ok.

After that, they put Makoto in a room and told him to wait there for his Mommy to come, which he did.

He was a good boy after all.

Mommy was not happy at all when she met with him, he could see that but for some reason she never hit him and instead went to the hospital with him.

Makoto really hated hospitals, nearly as much as he hated medicine.

After waiting for ages a few doctors talked with his Mommy and then a few other adults that Makoto knew as Patrick's parents talked with her.

It didn't really interest him much, he was watching television while the adults talked like always, that was a lot more fun than listening to their boring conversations.

After some more time his Mommy took his hand and allowed him to stand on a chair so he could look at Patrick like he was doing right now.

Makoto was wondering if Patrick was going to be ok and maybe after he left the hospital they could finally be friends.

That would be nice, he didn't like to be called names.

After losing interest in looking at the sleeping Patrick, Makoto jumped down from the chair.

"Can we go now Mommy, I'm hungry."

She looked at him, still unhappy he noticed but he didn't know why.

"No sweetheart, we are going to see some more doctors now."

"Why would we see more of the doctors?"

He asked, unable to understand why they would want to visit doctors.

"To get you some medicine sweetheart."

His Mommy said while pulling on his hand and he struggled quite a bit while screaming his lungs out.

"But I hate medicine!"

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Makoto woke up with a terrible headache.

Whatever recollections he had of his dream quickly dispersed as he slowly stood up to get ready for College.

Just remembering what happened the day before was enough to nearly make him puke.

He could still feel some pain naturally but more than that he felt a deep rooted hatred for Veronica, for this biased bitch that played him like he was some kind of toy.

Already in a foul mood, he went to the bathroom and opened a cabinet, pulling forth a bunch of prescribed pills that had already started to gather dust.

His face twisted into an ugly expression as he swallowed them one after another with a gulp of water.

He really hated medicine.

Sighing deeply he put on some new clothes and his eyes fell on the capsule that stood beside his bed.

Naturally he remembered clearly what happened the day before with his rather unique encounter and... actions he took.

He really had quite enjoyed his first time with a somewhat humanoid woman, it was really something else but the big problem was that she was not real.

He would never be able to sit with her in his real bed or spend a nice evening together because Saracesse was just a Computer program.

At the same time he remembered how real women acted and all desire to go to College went down the toilet.

Makoto decided to just skip for today.

Feeling a bit uncomfortable in going back and encountering Saracesse again after practically fleeing the bed the day before, Makoto stood before the capsule for quite a while, hesitating.

Well aware that the conversation why he left so suddenly would be rather unpleasant, he decided to man up and stepped inside the capsule to enter a world that had not abandoned him yet.

The one world he truly loved, Azalon.

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Big shout out to 'LovelyLover' for completely seeing through what I planned with the Lamia Sharon!

Reading how you practically revealed my entire plan for how and why she is a player in the comment section made me cringe pretty hard XD.

Another thing!

Would you guys be interested in a short Bio about me, the author?

Hope you enjoyed as always and see you tomorrow, Double Chapter on Saturday like always so no worries :D