• zOMG 3000
    Episode 4: The Mansion of Fantamio


    “…so as I was saying,” Prince Kazuhiko says, walking with 101KiriUchiha on a path. “Wouldn’t it just be easier for players if there were rings that could heal you?”
    “What?!” 101KiriUchiha stops and shouts. “You don’t even KNOW about healing rings?!?”
    “Eh?!” Prince Kazuhiko stops, looking a 101KiriUchiha without turning his head, with his right leg still in midair in front of him.
    “Didn’t you get one at the beginning of the game?” 101KiriUchiha asks.
    “Oooooh…” Prince Kazuhiko says, moving his right leg back to the ground. “I think I may have sold it…” Prince Kazuhiko says really quietly.
    “For what?!”
    “This Hunter’s Bow Ring!”
    “You are reeeeaaallly stupid…”
    “Well, I can’t do anything about it now!”
    “Whatever… let’s just go.”
    The sky grew dark and the sun fell below the horizon, and it was night.
    “Hey…” Prince Kazuhiko stops walking again.
    “What is it now?” 101KiriUchiha turns to him angrily.
    “Where did that come from?” he points at a huge, black mansion that has no windows.
    “Whatever it is, it’s creeping me out! Let’s get out of here!” 101KiriUchiha grabs Prince Kazuhiko’s arm and turns around, but Prince Kazuhiko pulls her back.
    “Come on! This may be a super rare quest! Let’s go!” Prince Kazuhiko runs towards the mansion.
    “Do I have to…?” 101KiriUchiha slunks her head down in disappointment.

    “Wow!” Prince Kazuhiko says in amazement, looking all around the big room in the mansion.
    “Come on!” 101KiriUchiha tiptoes by him. “When can we leave?”
    “When I’m done checking the place! Now let’s go!” Prince Kazuhiko grabs her arm and excitedly drags her along. “There has to be a quest somewhere here!”
    Suddenly, a moan echoed throughout the mansion. “What was that?!?” 101KiriUchiha looks around nervously.
    “Well,” Prince Kazuhiko puts a finger to a chin and answers. “I think it’s a ghost!”
    “Aaaaiiiiiieeeee!!!!” 101KiriUchiha screams down the corridor with Prince Kazuhiko, who was still holding her arm, is dragged along.
    “I was joking! Stop running away!” But Prince Kazuhiko’s cries were in vain, for 101KiriUchiha was still running toward the open door. But right before they got out, the door slammed and they slammed against it. “See? I told you to stop running…” Prince Kazuhiko says dizzily.
    “But… now… we…can’t… get out!” 101KiriUchiha screams with a scared look on her face.
    “It’s only a game! Get a hold of yourself!” Prince Kazuhiko grabs her and starts shaking her.
    “Oh, yeah…” 101KiriUchiha says while Prince Kazuhiko is still shaking her.
    “Now let’s get going! This has to be something that has to do with the quest.” They walked through many halls, but, alas, they found nothing.
    “Now can we leave?” 101KiriUchiha asks again.
    “I thought you were over that!” Prince Kazuhiko turns around and says. And right after, they hear another moan. “There it is again! We’re closer!” Prince Kazuhiko runs toward the direction the moaning came from.
    “Wait for me!” 101KiriUchiha screams, running after him.

    Prince Kazuhiko runs up to a big, two-part door. “This is it!” He says and walks backwards, preparing to smash through it.
    “Kazuhiko! Wait!” 101KiriUchiha just turned the corner to see him running at the door.
    “Yaaaah!” he smashes through it.
    101KiriUchiha runs over to the doorway and looks at him lying on the ground. “There’s such a thing as doorknobs, you know!”
    “Oh… hi, Kiri… when did you start calling me Kazuhiko?” Prince Kazuhiko asks dizzily. 101KiriUchiha helps him up, and they both look at the source of the moaning. It was a man in black pants, and black jacket, practically everything was black(except his skin)! And he had dreary eyes and a 5’o’clock shadow.
    “Oh, shoot!” the man says, putting his hands on his hips and looking down. “Guess you guys found me!”
    “Wait…” Prince Kazuhiko says deep in thought. “Are you an NPC?”
    “No… guess again!” the man says jollily.
    “Are you a ghost…?” 101KiriUchiha asks frightened.
    “No!” the man has a stern look on his face. “I’m an illusion!”
    “What?” Prince Kazuhiko steps forward, asking. “You can’t be! You look solid!”
    “Well, this isn’t the real me.” the man says to him. “This is done by one thing… you know what it is?”
    “A projector?”
    “A hologram?”
    “No!” the man says angrily. “You guys stink at guessing games! It’s done by a ring!”
    “Then you’re a player?” Prince Kazuhiko asks.
    “Sort of.” the man answers. “Try to find the real me… before I KILL YOU!” All of a sudden, Prince Kazuhiko is swarmed by ghosts and phantoms. “By the way, my name is Fantamio! And I will be your killer tonight!”
    “Get these things away from me!” Prince Kazuhiko yells, swatting at them, while 101KiriUchiha cowers in a corner. “That’s it! V-Mantis!” Prince Kazuhiko jumps at Fantamio, preparing to slice him, but he goes right through. “What?!?”
    “I told you! I’m an illusion, made by the Illusionary Copy Ring!” Fantamio says in a creepy tone.
    “Darn it…” Prince Kazuhiko looks down at the ground and thinks.
    “Wait…” 101KiriUchiha thinks. “Kazuhiko! That ring can only make illusions in the wielders sight! He’s somewhere here!” Then she turns back into the corner.
    “Or watching from someplace else!” Prince Kazuhiko turns toward a potted plant on a table in the room. “Mantis!” He breaks the pot, revealing the camera broken by him.
    “No…” Fantamio disappeared.
    “It worked!” Prince Kazuhiko takes a breather. “Kiri! You can look now!”
    “Really?” 101KiriUchiha gets up and walks over to Prince Kazuhiko. “Whew! Finally! Now we can leave, right?” she asks desperately.
    “Not yet!” Prince Kazuhiko says. “We have to take him down, which means you have to work too! We’ll split up and go to each room, and if it isn’t the right room, destroy the camera! We can leave after we defeat him.”
    “Fine…”101KiriUchiha responds quietly. “But we have to leave right after!”
    “Right!”

    Both Prince Kazuhiko and 101KiriUchiha(amazingly) did their share of breaking cameras.
    “Oh, darn.” Fantamio says in his secret room. “Looks like I have to unleash my secret weapons!”
    Meanwhile, Prince Kazuhiko was running down a hall. “There can’t be too many rooms!” He just turned the corner to see that 101KiriUchiha was cornered by many Animated. “Kiri!”
    “Kazuhiko?!” she looks back. “Yeah, we’ve got a problem.”
    “Shoot!” Prince Kazuhiko looked around the room. “Aha! Hunter’s Bow!” He shot a hidden camera in a corner, but the Animated were still there. “What?! Kiri, they might not be illusions!”
    “I think I know that by now!” she responds.
    “RUN!” Prince Kazuhiko commands, and they both start running. But they didn’t get very far before they got cornered again. “Darn it!”
    “What should we do?” 101KiriUchiha asks desperately.
    “Huh…?” Prince Kazuhiko squints. “Heh heh, that stupid man…” He walks down the corridor with a confident face. The Animated attacked him, but nothing happened. “V-Bow!” He pulled back an arrow and shot it straight and true. It struck a magician-like Animated and killed, and all the Animated in front of them disappeared.
    “Nice!” 101KiriUchiha complimented. Then Prince Kazuhiko turned and kicked the wall and it opened. “Huh?! What… where… how’d you do that?”
    “Why else would there be one of those magician guys here in an empty hallway?” Prince Kazuhiko and 101KiriUchiha walk in and find Fantamio sitting at a desk with tons of screens on the wall next to it.
    “Oh, darn…” he says.
    “Fantamio!” Prince Kazuhiko yells. “How’d you get the Animated to help you?”
    “Let’s just say… I signed the contract with the devil.” Fantamio says, but that was a big mistake. Prince Kazuhiko shot an arrow from the V-Bow at him.
    “What the hell did you do to get with them?!?” Prince Kazuhiko seemed very pissed now.
    “I’ll only tell you that I was just a forerunner of the real thing…” And with that, Fantamio fainted.
    “What a weakling!” 101KiriUchiha says, rolling her eyes. “Hey, look! He has a Meat Ring!”
    “Seriously?” Prince Kazuhiko excitedly asks.
    “Yep! Here you go!” 101KiriUchiha gives him the ring.
    “Sweet I’m going to go put this ring on right away!”
    “I just hope the front door is unlocked…”
    They both happily left the mansion, not know what faced them in the future…