Adria felt her heart in the real world race as she laid eyes on her cyber crush. Cato the boy she's liked, admired, and most likely cyber stalked for years was right here in front of her. However she didn't have a single thing to say to him at all.

"Hey! You gonna reply to me or something? The muting settings are off here so you can communicate with me all you want," Cato snapped.

"M-Muting?" Adria asked only capable of saying one thing.

"Yeah why do you think no one talks to me? I have everyone on mute, have you never noticed that? Seriously, what kind of dreamland are you in when you look at me?" Cato asked sarcastically.

"Y-You've n-noticed me s-staring?!" Adria asked flustered by Catos words and slightly embarrassed.

"Yes I'm a very observant gamer so yeah I've noticed," Cato replied in an annoyed tone.

"O-Oh well that's a good t-trait to have," Adria replied, her voice trembling.

"Thanks, but answer my question. How did you manage to beat Aamon? Not to mention you won the third race! I've been working my ass off for two damn WEEKS! I've raced in a million different games! I'm starting to see race cars in my sleep!! AGH! So how the hell did YOU do it?" Cato questioned, annoyed with his lack of his own progress.

"W-Well I have a lot of free time after school so I've played lots of racing games. I did get really good on all of the settings, especially the hard ones," Adria replied.

"What about the third race? Neither you nor Aamon are fast enough and when you die on the tracks it doesn't matter if you have more or less, or even tied it counts as a loss and you'll need to try again the next day!" Cato explained while crossing his arms.

"Huh? Well I saw a star inside the tracks that had a fast forward icon on it. I picked it up and it allowed me to cross the finish line," Adria explained.

"... REALLY! THERE WAS A SECRET IN THE TRACKS THIS ENTER TIME!!" Cato screamed so loud making Adria jump back a bit. Upon seeing Adria jump and the fear written on her avatar's face he took some deep breaths to relax himself. "I'm sorry, this challenge has just been annoying me for so long. Noha had made this as hard as she could manage. Like I said I've been at this for a long time and you finished on your first try," Cato reminded, now in a more relaxed manner.

"I guess that could get annoying... hey um before I leave can we swap contact?" Adria asked internally, praying that he'd say yes.

"Not sure, I prefer being alone and I don't share my contact details that often," Cato defined.

"Well I'll give you mine first, here," Adria said as she pulled out an action figurine of her avatar.

Contact details such as calls, or text in the .F.S.I.G are made to be whatever the player wants it to be. It would either be a number like a phone, a plushy made to look like anything, an action figure, anything a player desired. Cato looked at the action figure for a moment, it looked just like Adria's avatar with a sword and a shield in each of her hands. A second passed before he decided to take it; he then pulled out his own contact details, which was a plush of his avatar and handed it to Adria.

"OMG! Thanks! This is so cute!" Adria cried out as she squeezed the plush.

"T-Thanks, now please let me take on this challenge. And I feel like you've got some fans blowing up your message's and accounts email," Cato stated.

"Huh? Why do you say that?" Adria asked.

"Du, the crown icon up in all the avatars screens, it now has the emerald on it. Not to mention your avatar's name is on there with the emerald gem next to it or did you forget about that?" Cato questioned.

Adria blushed immediately as she had indeed forgotten about that image on the avatars screen. She looked at her own image of the crown and indeed the emerald was there and below it was her avatar's name. Adria was now in first place with the emerald gem right next to her name, along with the other empty slots for the remaining gems and gold. With this knowledge Adria realized that Penavie most likely had already blown up her whole calls and messages by now. However calls, text, and recordings were all turned off the moment Adria entered the dungeon so she had to leave if she wanted to answer anything at all.

"I-I got to go now! Good luck and hope you'll be able to get the emerald as well!" Adria cried out before racing past Cato.

Cato smiled and watched as Adria left the area to head out, he couldn't help but think that she was a little cute. Even though he rarely looks at girls, guys or anyone of any gender identity Adria seemed to be someone he could get along with. While he didnt know who she was in real life, after seeing her win the emerald on her first try, she could be a valuable ally in this competition. Currently Adria had made it out of the dungeon and just as she thought she now had millions if not more messages from some companies, news networks, and from Penavie. Adria couldn't believe how popular she has gotten in such little time, it was utterly unbelievable. However she shook the shock right out of her system and went on to answer the calls that Penavie had been sending her.

"Hey Pen, what's up?" Adria asked in the best casual tone she could muster.

"DON'T YOU START THAT WITH ME YOU LITTLE BITCH! AHHA! YOU'RE SO GOD FUCKING DAM LUCKY!!!" Penavie screamed a mix of joy and jealousy present in her voice.

"W-What do you mean?" Adria asked, now playing the dump game with her.

"THE FUCKING EMERALD! YOU GOT THE FUCKING EMERALD!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! HOW!! WHERE WAS IT?!?!" Penavie asks demandingly.

"Oh that, I honestly forgot about that," Adria said, trying her best to hold back the wave of laughter she was holding right now.

"YOU ME IN THE TREE HOUSE NOW! WE NEED TO TALK IN PRIVATE!!" Penavie declared before ending their call.

After she hung up Adria bursted out in laughter as she just loved playing around with Penavie like that so much it was just so good. Adria started wondering if she should tell her best friend about where the emerald was located and how to get to it. "Hmm... why not tell her everything, I'll just give her the details she'll need to figure the rest out on her own. Hehe and she'll totally owe me for it afterwards so hey why not," Adria said to herself out loud.

She smiled as she thought of how this could be a benefit to her on telling Penavie. Adria pulled up the map however she quickly swiped it to an inbox with her online friends chat rooms. She selected the one that was for Penavie, which was designed to look like a chat room. Selecting it Adria was teleported out of the school and to the entrance of the private chat room. When her avatar finished materializing Adria looked around the chat room for a bit. The place was designed to look like a forest, even though it was really a small box that no one without Penavie's permission couldn't enter. Right in front of her was a ladder nailed up to a tree trunk that led up to the tree house itself. Adria grinned as she began climbing up the ladder and soon pulled herself up into the tree house.

"Hey you wanna talk to me now and not just play dump?" Penavie's voice asked. Adria looked and saw Penavie's avatar standing just a foot away from her own.

"Where would you like to start?" Adria asked as she stood up off the floor.

"Um how about, oh I dont know, HOW FUCKING LONG DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS?!" Penavie screamed while waving her arms around.

"Hehe I kinda found out during school. A line in a book I was reading had caught my attention. And I figured out where the emerald was being hidden," Adria said and went on to tell Penavie everything she needed to know while leaving out certain details.

"Wow! Okay Noha knew what they were doing when they installed this treasure. I gotta say I'm impressed," Penavie commented.

"Yeah me too, it was a lot of fun, but I'm exhausted, I think I'm gonna crash and call in sick tomorrow. Once I'm able to, I'll be looking through all the emails and messages I got from the news lines and companies," Adria explained as she felt super tired in real life.

"Okay, but word of advice doesn't answer anything from T.B.G.I alright?" Penavie asked.

"Huh? What's that?" Adria asked, confused.

"Right you don't buy stuff from them, well their another big video game corporation their name stands for Technological Big Games Industry. They've been rivals with .F.S.I.G for a long time and their CEO Andrew Icon has been trying to take it over for years. While they say they'll make it even better their ways of doing so are awful," Penavie explained while crossing her arms.

"Really? What do they plan on doing to the system?" Adria asked.

"Adding a monthly payment fee on your account to keep playing, having to pay real money for items instead of in-game currency, and so much more where you need to pay real! FUCKIGN MONEY!!! Not everyone is rich and Noha made the .F.S.I.G like this because he was broke as a kid!!!" Penavie screamed angrily.

"Bleh If they do win this I'm just gonna put myself out of my misery as this place is the only thing that makes me happy. Not to mention that I will win this no matter what I have to do in the game, I need the money for my mom and for us to get a better place!" Adria claimed.

"Hehehe, well it's good to know your heart is in the right place for this. I'm unsure of what I will do with all the money but I know I will implement my own game ideas here," Penavie said as she went into deep thought.

"Hehe yeah and you've got fantastic ideas Penavie, and hey whichever one of us wins why don't we make the other our second in command?" Adria suggested.

"Ohh that's a great idea! I'm so in!" Penavie exclaimed.

"Alright! So we're both into this and whichever one of us wins will make the other their second!" Adria declared.

The two girls grabbed each other's hand while looking one another in the eye, thus sealing their internal deal. Just then a new name appeared under Adria's, indicating that someone else had gotten the emerald. Adria looked and saw that the name was Cato, which meant he now had the emerald just like her.

"Hey isn't that the guy you have a cyber crush on?" Penavie asked as she saw the new username.

"Um yeah, I forgot to tell you, but um... Cato had figured out where the emerald was before me and he's been at it for a while. However it was hard for him so when he saw that I won on my first try he was pretty pissed. But I'm not certain if it was at me or with himself, didn't really ask him," Adria explained.

"Wow okay he's smart but doesn't seem that good at playing some games," Penavie stated.

"He is there's just something about the challenge he struggled to get through but thanks to a little secret I found and told him about he was able to win at last," Adria stated defensively.

"Hmm... well okay can't wait to see what it is! But for now let's log out and go to sleep, neither of us have school tomorrow so we'll sleep in. After that I plan to train up as much as I can and practice the needed parts for when I go into the challenge myself! Prepare yourself Adria! Cause soon I'm gonna be on that board!" Penavie declared triumphantly.

"Hehe well as long as you don't share this info with anyone else," Adria requested.

"Well... maybe I'll mention something to our Korean pails Minmin and Valador," Penavie uttered out loud.

"Eh these two I'm alright with, But NO ONE ELSE!" Adria screamed in a stern tone.

Penavie nodded and the two friends bid their goodbyes to one another before logging out for the night. Vivienne pulled her headset, gloves, and holder off allowing the body parts they were on to breath. Vivienne yawned before deciding to sleep in her hideout as she was too tired to go home. So she got off the treadmill and pulled out a sleeping bag under a little desk she had. Vivienne rolled it out, took her shoes off, and shimmied her way into the sleeping bag. Tiered Vivienne closed her eyes and soon passed out into a wonderful dream.

Meanwhile in the CEO office of T.B.G.I the CEO and his secretary were examining the scoreboard for the crown progress. The CEO glared at the name in first place, not happy with what he saw on the scoreboard.

"Sir this is bad, whoever this Adria player is they need to be eliminated at all costs! We can't allow anyone outside of our company to win this contest!" The secretary declared.

"No Eva, we must play it cool, I'll have our resources to find out who Adria is in reality and once we do, I'll meet them in the game world. I'll try to arrange an agreement with them and if they dont take it... well then they shall be eliminated in reality! After all this is billions of dollars on the line not to mention Noha's greatest creation! She was a fool to fire me when she did. Now with her gone I can finally create her company into my own vision! I will do whatever it takes in both the game and reality to win this! No matter what I have to do! Or who I have to kill! To get what is rightfully mine!" The CEO declared in a sinister tone alongside a devilish grin creeping onto his face.