Ella and Lisa
Ella: [Narrating] I was there, in one of those stands looking at that blood streaming out of the person I admired, my inspiration, and three weeks after that night...It was announced that he died from the lack of blood loss, though, they have no idea how it happened. Even still, no matter if my hero is gone from this world, I never gave up on my dream...Becoming the next Ace.
Three years later, Kyoto year 2310-
A girl named Ella was at a dumpling stand in the large city of Kyoto. "May I have the Wonton Dumplings plate please?" Ella said, smiling.
"Coming right up," the woman chef replied.
Ella-
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• Race: African American
• Description: She's wearing a red jacket with yellow stripes on the sides of her arms with black jogger pants on
• Hairstyle: Braided Bun
• Personality: Joyful all the time
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"Here you go!" the woman handed Ella her to-go box.
"Hm? That was surprisingly fast," Ella said looking at the woman and her food back and fourth, even surprised at how hot her dumplings are.
"Thanks to our newest model, The NanoFryer, simply put the ingredients inside, say what I want and it'll be made in seconds."
"Amazing, another thing I don't have in America, so how do you pay in Kyoto?"
"Oh, it's cash or Digitap."
"Oh cool you Digitap here." The woman reached out a small thin pad with a screen saying pay here. Ella tapped her Digitap on there making the screen on it say transfer complete."Ok, thank you for coming."
Minutes later-
Ella was walking as she looked up at the tall never seem to end buildings, while eating the dumplings from the to-go box. "Never expected Kyoto to be this big; this is nothing like New Orleans." Ella stopped when she spotted a giant screen on a building saying something that caught her attention.
"For all of the people who want to become the next Ace of the world, head to Lemdust Island. The island of many resorts and lovely sights; but also the island where people who want to be one of the chosen four or even the Ace come to learn about the precise gaming genres you'll need at the high school Lemington High. The spot where you can fulfill your goals and one day become the next chosen or soon to become the next adversary who will defeat the Ace we have today, Ty Bailey."
The screen showed a picture of Ty Bailey, making Ella enraged. "He isn't supposed to be up there, Juniper should be there, he didn't even win yet so it was claimed a draw. Guess that was a lie, huh?" Her hunger suddenly decreased, forcing her to throw the half eaten dumplings in the trash beside her.
"Ella!!!"
"Huh?"; Ella looked back spotting her friend giving her a giant grin, "Tanner!!!." Tanner was waving from afar, "What up?!"
Tanner-
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Race: Caucasian
Description: He's wearing a black shirt with a giant white skull in the middle of his shirt and a leather jacket on.
Hairstyle: Scruffy hairstyle
Personality: Always, for some reason, excited about everything
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Tanner raced to her, "It's about time you came."
"About time? Imagine a plane ride from New Orleans to Kyoto, that took hours, days."
"I don't care, now come on, the train already came."
"Wh-What, why didn't you say that in the first place" Ella shouted out as she started grabbing Tanner's arm and running. Ella began to smile with much excitement in her, "Finally, we're going to Lemdust island. Woohoo!!!"
Lemdust island, hotel room-
A woman woke up in her giant bed once the curtains automatically opened. "Wake up? Lisa," a woman's voice suddenly appeared. Lisa stood up, stretching.
Lisa-
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Race: African American
Description: A tall teenaged woman wearing white and blue striped pajamas
Hairstyle: Long hair stretching down to her waist
Personality: Annoyed about almost everything
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"Erena, what time is it?" Lisa asked
"It's four pm in the afternoon."
"Damn, that's late. Hey Erena, cook a veggie omelet for me?"
"Of course, it'll be finished in less than ten minutes."
Seconds later-
Lisa went into her restroom, looking at her green eyes through a bathroom mirror. She then filled her hands with water from the sink that automatically turning on and started splashing it on her face.
Minutes later-
After she finished in the bathroom, she opened her bedroom and walked outside into a giant area. The living room is on the right of her and the small kitchen on the left where the door out to the hotel's hallway is beside it.
The living room was a small area. A futuristic type of couch that was floating by itself, the thin light blue colored cushions was seemingly comfortable then how it looked. On the right was a 60 inch tv stuck tightly inside the wall
Lisa sat on a stool next to her kitchen counter; she started looking irritated as she was staring down at the counter table, she looked up at the ceiling. "You said less than ten--"
"It's already finished," Erena quickly announced. A plate with the veggie omelet came from inside the counter and sat in between Lisa's arms. "You took too long taking a shit, I had to keep the plate heated."
"Oh, right, my bad then, who the hell would ever program a talking room to cuss?" She sliced a piece of the omelet into her mouth
"Hey Erena, turn the Tv on for me?"
"Of course." The Tv turned on.
"Oh, look at this Lisa."
"What is it?" Lisa turned to the tv and saw images of Lemington high. "Oh, let me guess, this is the commercial about the next Gaming tournament coming soon, not interested Erena."
"Yeah, I had a feeling you'll say that, but...Why? I mean, you're very talented--"
"That's my point; I don't think me going to Lemington high, trying to defeat the entire Gaming League, and beating the Ace, Ty Bailey will be my forte. You know I have a lack of patience."
"Yeah, you're right," Erena sighed.
"Hm? Besides, why does a robot want me to join the Gaming league anyway?"
"Because I'm a robot who wants to take care and hopefully bring you on the right path in your life."
"See? Right there, that's the shit they programmed your ass to say--" The counter suddenly stretched out, hitting Lisa's stomach. "Ow!" she screamed while gripping her stomach,
"Craaaaap that was painful."
"Hey, you think they programmed me to do that?" Lisa looked at the ceiling, infuriated, "Shut up!!!"
Ella-
Ella and Tanner finally made it to the train station, just in time before the train to Lemdust island left. They were running as they saw the train in the distance were at the train station. Tanner started running faster than Ella. "Almost there, come on!!!"
"Hey!" Ella shouted, "Don't outrun me!!!"
"And you think that matters!?" The train's doors started to close slowly once they were getting nearer to it. "Waaaaaiiittt!!!" They both screamed. Both of their arms squeezed inside the train's doors before it closed completely. The door started slowly opening back up. They both quickly ran inside before the doors closed again. They both started falling to the floor leaned back on a wall. "I can't believe it," Ella panted. "We're going to Lemdust island."
"Yeah, where I can become the world's best Hotel cook."
"And where I can become the Ace." She said, turning to him.
"Yeah, and who knows, maybe we can both find the perfect person for us there."Ella smiled, "Maybe, after I become the Ace."
"And after I become a chef." They both started chuckling. Then out of nowhere, a voice came crowding the entire train, "Hello, will you all please sit in a seat before we head to Lemdust island? Let me remind you that this train isn't the same you'll see anywhere else. This train will go exceptionally fast while we're heading through the pacific ocean to the island; I'll need everyone to fasten their seat belts before we depart."
Tanner looked up, "Well you heard the conductor." Tanner stood up and gave Ella a hand up before walking to the two nearest seats. The two wrapped themselves in a seat belt resembling a seat belt you'll see in a roller coaster (Which is sort of what they're about to be in).
The train moved slowly as it was coming out of the train station. The train's tracks were stationary on the surface of the water. Once the train was on the tracks on the water, it instantly picked up incredible speed as if they were going hyperspeed into space. Both Ella and Tanner were getting pushed back, hitting their heads on the headrest of their seats. "This is!!". Ella shouted
"Very fast!! Want to hold my hand? What's with the crying?". Tanner spotted tears coming out of Ella's eyes. She smiled as she turned to him, "You know, just trying to process the speed is all; and yes, I'll love if we held hands." She quickly gripped Tanner's hand firmly.
Lisa-
Lisa was in her living room putting on a small gray jacket with a plain black shirt on. Lisa looked up."Hey Erena, I'm going out for a little, alright?"
"Oh, going to school this time?" Lisa stopped trying to stick her arm through the jacket, "No, just going out." Lisa continued putting her jacket on.
"I see," Erena said in a depressing tone, "Alright then, stay safe."
"But you don't mean that," Lisa thought to herself. Lisa walked out of the room into a narrow hallway.
Minutes later-
Lisa was walking close to the hotel's entrance. "Lisa." She stopped and looked towards the hotel's front desk spotting her friend, Scott as one of the guest services. Lisa started walking irascible in his direction.
Scott-
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Race: African American
Description: Young adult man with a guest service shirt that had striped blue and white on it.
Hairstyle: Low fade
Personality: Always friendly to anyone that's annoying him or not
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"Hm? What's wrong with you?" Scott asked Lisa. "Did your Erena ask about you going to school again?"
Lisa sighed, "Yeah, but she also stretched the counter so it can hit my stomach, good God that hurt."
"Well maybe that's what you get."
"Yeah, I sort of did; well, I'm going. If you need me I'll be at that arcade again, ."
"Hmm, well alright." Lisa turned and continued walking to the door as Scott stared, looking worrisome as she left the building. As Lisa walked outside, she felt the sun hit her left eye, making her turn in that direction. "The sun, it always gave me a sudden, unusual feeling inside me. I wish I always had this feeling back then..."
Ella-
Ella and Tanner adapted to the train's speed as it steadied back to its original speeds or the passengers to do whatever they want. Ella looking at the window, couldn't stop grinning. "Tanner, loooooook." She spotted a whale from afar spraying out water out its blowhole."Tanner! Tanner! Tanner! Tanner--"
"Ok Ella," He said while scrolling through his phone. Tanner turned and spotted the whale from a distance. "Cooool, a whale," he said sarcastically.
Ella looked at him, annoyed. "And what's with you?"
"Sorry, just texting Christain, letting her know we close to the island."
A soothing noise surrounded the entire room. "Hello, I am Erena, the Intelligent voice acting system whose goal is only to support and do whatever possible to achieve y'all's satisfactory."
"Erena?" Ella asked as she was staring up confused
"Yeah," Tanner replied. "Never heard of it? Well, make sense; it's barely known in the US; remember the voice Apple had called Siri? Or what Amazon made called Alexa? This is more of the 2.0 of them. The only difference is that each one will have a different personality depending on how their owners act, and they'll try anything possible to influence them to get on the right track of life. That's one way they can be used, but the other way is the owner asking the Erena to give safety tips or some history lesson...Which is what they usually use for museums or what we're on now."
A tv automatically appeared from the ceiling. "As we head towards Lemdust island, it'll be best to tell you all the story of what made it the most prominent place in the world. What you should all know called the Gaming league was first established in 2300 which became worldwide quickly after. The Gaming league is a league that challenges the best people in the world in 4 groups 1. The Diamond group, which specialize in fighting 2.The Heart group, which specializes in Boardgames 3.The Spade group, which specializes in Chess 4.The Club group, who specializes in Rpg games. These four groups were chosen because of their massive status as the world's four most popular gaming genres. Chess is popular as one of the first games humankind ever played. Boardgame being very popular soon after. Fighting, which is still favored by its gaming titles "Super Smash Bros" and "Mortal Kombat". And Rpg, being popular from its games still running now "Dragon Quest", "Final Fantasy", and "Pokemon". The organization, Techcon, which is also who developed the train we are all in, was also a significant part in the Gaming league's development. Techcon developed contacts for gamers participating in the Gaming league to transfer their consciousness to one of four worlds as a different and engaging way to compete in the title known as the Ace, a title that'll make whoever wins very known in the entire world. After the couple of years of this Gaming competition throughout this world, Techcon decided to transfer the main Gaming league stadium from the city Kyoto to a place where it's more suited for players. Players who not only want to compete in the league but also to participate in a school that'll assist kids in knowing the information they'll need before trying to become one of the chosen four or the new Ace."
"Wow, when is this over with?", She asked whispering to Tanner. "I'm pretty sure we all already know this." Ella spotted Tanner, not even paying attention, looking at his phone and looking at food recipe's the hotel resort is going to have. "Guess he's looking at that again," She said to herself as she turned to the window.
Lisa-
Lisa was walking in a city with giant buildings surrounding her and a road on the left of her with hovering cars in traffic. "What's the deal with people turning their cars on hover mode? It's loud as hell for us pedestrians to hear"She heard a louder noise that she knew pretty well. "The train had to come when I finally walk outside my room. This is so annoying...Now I'm thirsty."
Ella-
Ella and Tanner finally made it to the island and got out of the train station, looking up at the large buildings in the distance. "Welp, we made it," Tanner announced while grinning.
Ella couldn't stop staring up at the buildings, "Yeah, we're finally here."
"Yeah, it's best to head to the resort with Christian until we have enough money to--"Tanner saw Ella running fast into the city.
"Hey! The hell are you!!!" Tanner shouted.
Ella turned back as she ran, "I'm heading down to Lemington High so I can start tomorrow morning!!!"
"Uh! Wait! I didn't even tell you where the hotel...And she's gone."
Lisa-
Lisa walked into an area with no buildings around that had a more peaceful sense the minute she stepped on the exterior wooden flooring below her. On her right was a giant fountain spraying out water, forming into a circle in the air; she looked at the many people talking and playing around on the grassy plain in the area. However, she was actually staring at the little kid running and passing flowers to her mother and father with a big joyful face. Lisa started looking more depressed as she usually is, "I really need that drink about now." She spotted a vending machine filled with all kinds of drinks in there. "Finally."
Ella-
Ella ran into an area with wooden flooring. "Come on, where is this school? Maybe I should've looked at the hologram map that was literally beside me before I ran. Stupid me; this is why Tanner always call you stupid. Wait, Where's that noise coming from?" She heard kids making noise and what sounded like a fountain spraying out water. "There!" She began to run in the direction of the noise, "Maybe someone might know where the school is."
Lisa-
Lisa was at the vending machine. "Get me a "Pepsi."
"Of course, coming right up," the vending machine answered. As Lisa was staring at the machine making the drink float down, she suddenly heard someone running. "Huh? Where is that--" From the side of her, Lisa spotted a girl running.
Ella-
Ella ran into a new area where she turned, spotting a tall lady staring at her. Ella stopped as she was panting, staring at the woman ordering what seemed to be a Pepsi out of a vending machine. The two of them stared at each other. Not knowing seeing each other...Will change both of their lives forever.