.HACK//DETERIORATION
VOLUME.2.
After the intense showdown with BLACK DEATHRESS, Reaper discovers his girlfriend, Shay, or in 'THE WORLD' Harley has just been data drained and never seen again in the game. Reaper then, after brutally injuring BLACK DEATHRESS, gates out to escape his 'friends' and 'himself'
It has been a month since Reaper gated out and was never heard from again. Why he has not been found is a mystery to all but Helba, Haseo, Pi, and Kuhn; his so-called 'friends' they search far and wide for Reaper to simply talk and cheer him up.
In this one month, AIDA has been rapidly expanding and multiplying. TRI-EDGE is still at large and has not been seen since Reaper encountered him...
This month though, now will bring upon 'THE WORLD's inhabitants a new caliber of fear, loyalty, and the most important of all, TRUST...
Setting the controller down on my desk and taking off my FMD, I vorociously inhale the 'clean' fresh air of my dorm room.
"Thanks Helba." I happily stick a thumbs up in the air
"Helba?" a female's voice rings
"HUH?!" I shout, nearly falling out of my tilted office chair. I Turn around and in my sights stands this tall, skinny, blue-eyed female of sixteen with medium-heighth burgandy wavy hair who had on a short mini-skirt which was red in color and had tigers all around it. Her shirt was nothing more than a tubetop which was red with a picture of a heart sewed into the left side of the material
"Who's Helba, Lan?" she asks
"Oh. No one important, just the name of a player on this game." I answer, lying
She just nods her head in agreement(I could tell she was being sarcastic by the way she shook it)
"Why? what've you been up to, Felicia?" I ask
"Nothing important" she rephrases, mocking me enthusiastically
"Ha-ha-ha, Felicia, you're real funny. Ser, what've I missed?"
"Nothing. Except for summer break!" she happily screams
I just sit there, blank; no expression on my face, not a word coming out of my mouth, just air
B-DING!
"Hmm?" I wonder, looking at my computer seeing the message,
YOU HAVE THREE NEW! IMPORTANT MESSAGES
"Wonder who." I say, putting back on my FMD
"Three new important messages?" I open the first one
Subject: You okay? From: Kuhn
HEY! just checking up on you, Reaper. You were depressed after that fight with BlackDeathress, and what happened to Harley. I'm sorry :( hope you're feeling better, also Pi was wondering when you'd be returning. She wants to go on more adventures! well, when you get the time SM me and Pi. We will all go have some fun, k? PEACE:)
"Kuhn really cares?"
"Sure..." I open the second e-mail,
Subject: What're you so depressed about? From: Haseo
What happened back there?! you go berserk and brutally kill her after she data drains your 'girlfriend' then you act all emo and, "I'm sorry." then you gate out and become completely invisible; as if you never existed. You have no idea how pissed off I am, Reaper. When you get time, you and me need to talk
"Me depressed? he says, he was as depressed as I am now when he watched Atoli get infected with AIDA and he says I'm depressed? i thought he was a friend. Guess I was worng. Who's this last e-mail from?" I open up the final e-mail to discover,
Subject: Got a while? From: UNAVALIABLE
"Unavaliable?" I spoke before reading on
Sorry to see that event with both eyes. Anyways, there's been a new developement and I need to see you again. When you have a while, come see me at LAMBDA- FOREVER AGING LOVER. I reccommend you come as soon as you read this, it is VERY IMPORTANT.
P.S. This time you and only you are to come and will know what will be told.
"Important? who's this person kidding? who is this?" I ask myself in confusion
"Better log in. I've got nothing better to do."
---Mac Anu, chaos gate---
Better get to LAMBDA." I re-enter the chaos gate being sucked to the next server, LAMBDA, Warring City, Luminous Cloth.
"Now, to go to--"
"REAPER!!" yells a young girl
"Hm?" I turn around to see a girl, about my height, wearing nothing but what looked like an armored bra-type thing(you know who:) had short, white hair, had two white lines start under her eyes and drag horizontally to her ears; also, had white lines down her whole body vertically like a tiger. Wore cuff-like gloves, tight black pants with red thorn-like designs on them, and wore white, knee-high boots. Also had red eyes, and a happy smile on
"REAPER!!" she calls out again
"Blackrose?" I ask
She then runs up to me and gives me a big, tight hug
"No silly," she replied with a little girl's(maybe eight or nine years old) voice
"It's me, Reina, Blackrose's little sister!" she releases her grip and I am finally able to breath
"Oh. She told me she had a little sister. Nice to meet you, Reina. You already know me so...um...yeah." (I'll admit right now, I HATE nine year olds)
"Where've you been? you promised to take me to an area of my choosing, remember?"
'She is a VERY persistant girl' I think to myself, flustrated already
"No. I don't remember, when did I--"
"You promised my sister, remember." she pushed on
Thinking back, I envision any encounter I had with Blackrose before she left
FLASHBACK
"Reaper, since I'll be leaving and you won't see me again for a while, could you do me a favor?"
"Anything, Rose, anything for you." I answer, holding her in my arms tight
"Promise me that, in, three years, you'll watch over my little sister, okay?"
"Your LITTLE sister?" I ask
"Yes, she has already bugged me to create her a character and level it for her."
"Why hasn't she played yet?"
"She's only seven and our mother made me play when I was ten so I told her when she is ten I'd give her, her character to her. She'll come of age while I'm gone. You understand now?"
"Yes."
"Do you promise?"
"I promise, Rose, you take care of yourself, and if you return I want you to have this." I hand to her, a necklace with a blue wave jewel hanging from it to her
"You ser?"
"Yes. Good-bye, Rose." I say before disappearing
END FLASHBACK
"Hello,"
I snap out of my trance
"Yeah. Yeah, where to?" I ask, pushing back the thought of going to FOREVER AGING LOVER
'Maybe I'll get too attracted to Reina here, but I did promise Blackrose I'd 'play' with her
"So where are we going again?" I ask
"We're going to, LAMBDA-LITTLE SORROWING HEART. My own created word." she says proudly, smiling happily
"What's the level of this area, Reina?"
"Level? oh! it is a level twenty-eight area with an eight level dungeon and twenty monsters on it. It is day; blue sky, water, trees, hills, bridges, that stuff. It also has ten platforms that make a big square and a smaller one inside."
"You've been here before?" I ask, admired by her intelligence
"Yup!"
"Lets go then." I say smiling
'Fun'