There are hundreds of baby web creatures in the field! I was shaking so badly I could hardly stand up. I haven't gotten over my phobia of them. Casio hardly noticed.

"To win the competition," he said, "you have to round up all the web creatures and harnesses all of them. I will be trying to scatter them. But watch out for the meanest one. That one has to be harnessed carefully. It will also try to scatter the others. Are you ready?"

I don't think I will ever be ready. I nodded yes anyways.

"Then let the competitions begin!!!"

Casio ran at the herd yelling to scare the creatures. Tidbit shoved me towards the herd. "The bag of harnesses is in the center," he whispered. "Don't waste any time!"

I ran into the herd climbing over the web creatures until I saw the bag. There are hundreds of small, thin harnesses in the bag and one large metal harness, probably for the mean one.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw several sprites shoving a cage beside the herd. There was a big, bad-tempered web creature inside, looking like it's gone random.

Suddenly a web creature ran into me. It was too small to knock me over but its bellowing is enough to make a sprite random. But I had to deal with it. Trust me, you don't ever want to be in the middle of a herd of screeching web creatures. Well at least someone went random. The mean web creature's eyes turned red and he burst out of his cage. He bellowed even louder then the whole herd.

I needed a plan. That sounded familiar and abnormal to me at the same time. I harnessed the creatures as I worked my way out towards the big web creature. He was too busy chasing the smaller web creatures to notice me. I sneaked up behind him. I jumped on the big creature and tried to harness him. He bucked and twisted trying to get me off him. When I finished harnessing him, he was surprisingly calm and tame.

The herd was becoming too scattered. I had no choice. I rode the web creature. From the faces of the sprites watching, I can tell that this hasn't happened before. To my surprise, he wasn't trying to get me off him any more. I controlled him easily. I rode him around the herd and gathered them back together again. After that, it was easy. I just took my time harnessing the creatures and if they got too scattered, I used the big one to round them up again.

Casio tried to scatter the herd but the big creature was too fast for him. When all the creatures were harnessed, Casio accepted defeat and I took the title of leader.

After that, I got along pretty well. The Web Riders offered me a personal web creature to ride. I refused because I was still afraid of them. Instead, I used a zipboard I found on my belt. I don't know how it got there and at first it didn't work. I modified it to run on its own power. I assigned Casio to War leader since he was better at handeling web creatures.

I still cannot remember my past. Tidbit said I was a Guardian because of my icon colors. If I am a Guardian, then my function would be to mend and defend. From now on, I will defend the Web Riders from any dangers of the Web until we find a way to get into the Net. I will defend them until I get my memory back.

One of the worst things of being in the Web was the food. There are those little black slugs that you have to swallow whole and alive. I don't think I will ever get used to them.

Once there was a feast in the honor of Zoet, a Web Rider who just discovered a new species of Web creature. At the party, there were three women that I noticed. Two of them were just sitting and eating as if no one else existed. The third was screaming and shouting and stuffing food at her face. She was also missing an eye. I asked Tidbit about them.

"Oh, them?" he said. "Those are the Five Eyes sisters. Their names are Eyes1, Eyes2 and Eyes5. They have a strange past. They were found in the Web when they were just childern. Two of them can't remember anything from their pasts. Eyes5 probably remembers but she lost an eye on the way here. She went random because of it. But some people say she can see things we can't. Sometimes the things she shouts are important to our future. They even say she can talk with the User!"

I thought a lot about Eyes5 that night. What if she can tell me something about my past? I can learn about me, who I am. Not the sprite that is the leader of the Web Riders. I will know who is the sprite that is a Guardian and came into the Web by mistake.

But do I want to know? Maybe I was evil. Maybe I came into the Web to escape something terrible. Perhaps it's better if I don't know. But that's silly, if I did something wrong, I'll start a new life here. I slept thinking about it.

I woke to a knocking at my door. Casio was there.

"Come Leader, you should come see this. I know Tidbit told you about Eyes5. Her sisters say that she is screaming a name that might be yours."

My eyes became wide and I immediately went to the Five Eyes sisters' hut. Eyes5 was screaming a name alright. But I cannot make sense out of it. It was in the language that I used to speak. I have been speaking modem too long and I forgot what my native language was.

I took off the mask I now have and tried my best to understand her. I think she is shouting something like "Bob". I went into the hut.

When Eyes5 saw me she suddenly became quiet. Eyes1 and Eyes3 left. She closed both eyelids including the one which has no eye in it. When she opened her eyelids, the pupil of one eye was red and the other eye socket was glowing with light. " I s.. s.. see..." she whispered,"F.. friends.. ss come to.. to rrrrrrescue youu. But y.. y.. you rescuuuuuue t.. them...." She stopped and looked at me. "You w... wwilllllllllllll reemember yourssssssself if... if... if you re.. rem.. remember D... D... ooooooooooo......" Her voice faded and she drifted to sleep. I tried to shake her awake but when I touched her, she woke and started laughing like a maniac.

Her two sisters came in. "You can go now." One of them said to me.

I left their hut thinking about all she said. Nothing that she said was familiar to me. That is probably because I don't know who this Do... person is. I kept thinking about it until I fell asleep.

I dreamed. Of one and many evils. One evil spreading and making once friendly faces into evil ones. I can see the people but I cannot think of any faces that go with them. The evils were blue and green. Hundreds, hundreds of evil, green and blue faceless faces all linked to one extreme evil. I saw something else. A young, green face I cannot put shape to but there was no evil from it. No, not one, but two green faces. I imagined the other in a background.

A resturant. Words on top. "Dot's Diner". Dot! I remembered her face. She is saying something. "Bob." Bob...That's ME!

Names and faces started to appear. I saw Enzo and AndrAIa playing a game. I saw Dot and Cecil working in the diner. I saw Mouse trying to hack into the Super Computer. Hundreds, thousands of images from my past came back to me. The last picture appeared. Of Megabyte, the virus and the heart of his evil army, smiling evilly at me. And I re-lived the terror of being shot into the Web.

I screamed.

I woke.

And I remembered.

I told the Web Riders my real name and my past. I said I had to go back.

They didn't let me go because thet didn't want their leader to be deleted trying to get back. I decided to wait.

Eyes5 said something about rescuing my friend who have come to rescue me. I practiced speaking in my old language before I forgot it completly. I waited and waited.

And finally, my friends came.

TO BE CONTINUED...