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A Sushi Girl has no place in LINK VRAINS
Chapter 2: A Lone Hero emerges against the Monstrous ReaveArk!
"I do not tolerate cowards in the Knights of Hanoi." A figure would say to himself as he re-watched the video of ReaveArk logging off before the exploding Knight of Hanoi could spill his organization's secrets. Content that he had to personally eliminate the lowly grunt to silence him from this mysterious hunter.
"Revolver." The man would hear, catching him slightly off-guard. The man would turn around to see a young woman with red hair that spikes and tinted with orange highlights. The woman was wearing a lesser-ranked version of the man's outfit. A white coat and mini-skirt with purple trims with long white boots.
"Baira, what do you want?" The man known as Revolver would ask, his plain yellow eyes staring her down like a pair of spotlights. His patience already running thin from their failed first attempt of cyber espionage.
"Instead of having a lowly grunt serve as a scout for our project. How about someone with a bit more...Credibility to their name" She would trail off before giving her boss a look.
"You're right. Baira. Enter into LINK VRAINS. Report your findings to me and try to figure out this monster's motive. Don't fail me. Or else you will meet the same fate as the one who failed before you" The young woman would nod her head in affirmation,
"It shall be done." She would say with a light bow. leaving Revolver to his devices in the dark room he resided in.
Kisumi would wake up from her nightly slumber with blades of morning sunlight blazing against her eyes through her shaded window. She didn't seem too peeved by the bright awakening as she would rise from her bed with a stretch and a blissfully loud yawn. Accidentally knocking down her unprepared alarm clock as she did so.
"Today is a new day to sell more of Yuu Family Sushi!" She would announce with a loud voice, happy to take this new day by storm, undoubtedly waking up her next-door neighbors with her early-bird chirpiness.
She would get out of her bed with a slight stumble, thankfully regaining her footing before she could trip over a fallen pillow.
The young girl would come out of her bathroom after some time getting ready for the day. More energetic than before with her hair wet from a shower and her smile shining a bit more brighter from a overly-covered tooth brush.
"Oh wait...I got to log in to LINK VRAINS before I go!" She would suddenly realize as she got dressed in her traditional hakama and long-sleeve white robe of black cherry blossoms. She would attempt to grab the duel disk on her disk while putting on her long white dual-toed socks, only to drop on the floor in a klutzy thud.
"Owie..." She said to herself with a frown as she pulled herself up, finally grabbing her diamond-shaped duel disk. Kisumi would take a deep breath as she knew what's going to happen to her well-being when she logs into the virtual world.
"Before I let ReaveArk take over..." The girl would start to scramble on the interface of her duel disk, displaying a screen filled with various applications and tools that the duel disk could use. She would be confused for a moment before remembering the usual app she uses before logging in to the virtual world.
"Please listen to me this time ReaveArk." The girl would say in a whisper. Her previous views on the other half being slightly tainted by yesterday's news.
"All done... Here we go!" Kisumi would declare as she stood up straight, getting in to a composed pose. She would press a couple of buttons on her duel disk before it started to glow in a red and yellow hue.
"Into the VRAINS!" She declared as she would be enveloped in a blue sphere of codes, sequences, and lights.
Kisumi would take a deep, heavy breath before one of her fears would soon come.
The girl would grit her teeth and wince as she felt a surge of pain course through her head. Enduring the onslaught until it would slowly mute, her consciousness going along with it.
Her vision would go blurry as she took another heavy breath, this time hurt and weakened. A circling collection of programs of digital cyberspace were the last remnants of her fleeting memory as she unconsciously drift into an uncertain darkness.
"Riding to the END!" ReaveArk would complete Kisumi's words as he entered into the digital world of LINK VRAINS Through a rip in the cyber sky. His body blanketed in a black cloud of smog as the monster duelist would land top of a building in an explosive slam. The smoke and gas began to dissipate as he would take a deep heavy breath. Fully revealing the metal duelist in all of his bladed and sharp glory.
"Time to continue my hunt..." ReaveArk would check upon his duel disk to find out his current whereabouts in the Virtual City. But instead of getting a world map; he would instead be shown a simple little note written by a certain red and silver-haired girl.
'Please don't hurt anyone ReaveArk,'
The note would be rewarded with an uncaring, bile-ridden scoff from the metal duelist. Immediately deleting the note without a second thought.
"Of course I won't hurt anyone Kisumi...Unless they're a Knight of Hanoi of course!" ReaveArk would declare before letting out a cruel laugh. Happy to find loopholes in the girl's desperate plea.
"And speaking of Knights of Hanoi!" He would swipe his duel disk to an overview of LINK VRAINS, the beast would smile to himself deviously after some examinations.
"Looks like I found another one! Its time to continue our hunt!" The beast would laugh as he shoved his claws into the building floor, ripping out a large chunk of concrete with little effort. ReaveArk's shroud of metal blades would stretch out like a torrent of tentacles, slashing and chipping away the hunk of stone before it was shaped into a large arrowhead.
"Look out world...ReaveArk is here to hunt again!" The monster duelist would announce before jumping onto his makeshift duel board, flying off to his next destination in an unrefined blast of smoke. Letting out a crooked howl of laughter as he flew away.
Trevor would wake up early as he spent his morning looking over the pair of news reporters Pidgeon and Frog on his computer.
The two virtual animal reporters would talk over each other stressfully as they were broadcasting a recently popularized live stream. Covering the latest happenings in LINK VRAINS despite the intensity involved. The olive green-haired boy would put his hands close to his lips as he watched the stream with attentive and observant eyes.
"This's just in! The mysterious VRAINS user known as ReaveArk has appeared again in LINK VRAINS! Here he's chasing down a random citizen of LINK VRAINS! Instead of the mysterious 'Knights of Hanoi' he touted about yesterday!" Pidgeon would report as he followed a polluting stream of toxic haze, no doubt burning out from the Metal Duelist's duel-board as he would chase down another target.
"Please no! I didn't do anything wrong!" The fleeing citizen would scream as she would try to escape from ReaveArk's sights. The Metal Duelist would laugh in response, not caring for the young woman's begging.
"Don't think your disguise will fool me! Knight of Hanoi!" The beast yelled back in reply as he would crash into the rider. The young woman would fall off of her duel board and plummet down to the ground floor from the clash, screaming in agony as she writhed in pain.
"This is inhuman! SOL Technologies made an announcement yesterday that they would be hiring bounty hunters to take down this monster! But where are they!? WHERE ARE THEY?!" Frog would add his flavor of commentary to spice up Pidgeon's more unbiased reports.
Trevor let out an angered scoff as he had enough of watching the stream. Enough of being a bystander while a crazed monster was near in claiming an innocent human being's life.
"I knew this...ReaveArk would hurt innocents sooner or later." Trevor would hear from his duel disk. The green-haired boy looked at the machine with affirmative blue eyes. The duel disk slotted into the boy's right wrist. It would let out a scoff as a single big blue eye would materialize through the purple sphere on top of the duel disk. It would look at its owner with a calm and collected gaze.
"We need to put a stop to this before anyone else gets hurt," Trevor said to the machine. It let out an approving scoff in response, agreeing to the boy's words.
"Are you ready...Earth?" The boy would ask to his duel disk; holding his deck in his hands.
"I always am! Let's go into the VRAINS! And put this ReaveArk in his place!" The duel disk answered.
"Deck Set! Into the VRAINS!" Trevor announced in a shout as he slammed his deck into the slot. Instantly Trevor would be engulfed in a sphere of blue programs and codes. Transporting the user's consciousness into the digital bridge between the real world and LINK VRAINS.
Trevor's appearance would begin to alter and morph. His short olive green hair would change into a head of short and spiky blue hair with red roots. His soft blue eyes now tinted into a shade of olive green. His generic navy blue school uniform changed into a black and blue high-collar jacket coupled with a pair of long trailing coat-tails.
"Goodbye, Trevor Nakamura..." The boy would declare as his transformation was almost complete. His VRAINS avatar appearance finalized with a small cape of white gems encrusted on his coat's right shoulder.
"And say hello to Soul Silver!" He announced as he entered into the world of VRAINS through a ripple in the sky. A white and blue d-board being materialized right before the transformed Trevor Heely could start to descend. Catching the boy on his feet before he could drop to the ground.
"Let's go!" Soul Silver said to his companion as his d-board would speed through the sky. Determined to stop ReaveArk's rampage.
Civilians nearby would hide behind nearby benches and poles as they watched the torture scene unfold; too afraid to intervene as the beast would continue to play with its meal.
"Screaming won't stop the pain! Answers will!" The beast complained as he applied even more force to his foot as if he was just leaning on a barstool, uncaring and apathetic to the woman's pain. The young woman would continue with her denial as her visual avatar would start to flicker and flash; a sign that she couldn't endure further punishment any longer.
"I'm not a Knight of Hanoi! Just please stop!" She pleaded as she tried in vain to lift the foot off of her chest. A wail of agony came out of the young woman's mouth as she felt her ribcage crushed underneath ReaveArk's weight. The Metal Duelist would young as he placed his arms on the knee that was breaking the woman's body.
"That's what they all say, if you don't want to end up as a daikon, I suggest you uplift your disguise...But since you're defiant to the end..." A thin metal blade would sputter out of ReaveArk's metal body. The Blade would come slowly near up to the young woman's neck like a booster shot. Ready to inject a dose of death into the victim.
"I can just find another Knight of Hanoi to break...Hahaha!" The beast would gleefully say as the people watching would suddenly gasp.
"Stop right there!" ReaveArk would hear up above. The beast would only look up to see the newly-arrived Soul Silver; the metal duelist would just let out a sigh of indifference as he turned to the terrified, almost murdered young woman.
"You're VERY fortunate..." The beast would say to the girl as the metal blade would retract back into the beast's flesh; screeching and screaming as it would seep back into its owner like a worm digging into the ground.
"I have to say sayonara to you because I have to deal with someone who shouldn't be poking in someone else's business." The Beast would finally uplift his foot, freeing the young woman. She let out several loud gagging coughs as she grasped her chest in pain.
"Your cruelty ends here monster!" The man would shout out heroically as nearby civilians would start to cheer at the sight of an unlikely hero.
"You got to catch me if you want to fight me, boy!" ReaveArk would cackle as he quickly jumped on to his crude d-board and flew away from the scene, treating the boy's threats like an invitation to a game.
"Damn it...You're not getting away with this!" Soul Silver would growl under his breath as he followed the Metal Duelist high up in the cyber sky in a chase. The purplish gales of the data storm would accelerate their d-boards into a blazing dash.
"That Knight of Hanoi was going to reveal herself before ReaveArk before you showed up! Do you know how that they're going to attack LINK VRAINS!? I'm just doing my part in exterminating before they fully infect this cyberworld!" The Metal duelist would defend his actions as he glanced at the chasing Soul Silver.
"What kind of nonsense are you blathering about? From the looks of it, you were just going to murder that woman in cold blood! Dooming her to a comatose fate in the real world!" Soul Silver would say his version of what played out. Suddenly, the blue eye from his duel disk would suddenly form into a small orange creature.
"I don't care! Because she's a Knight of Hanoi! I'm not the villain here! I'm this World's savior!" ReaveArk would continue to shout as bile would spittle out of his clenching maw.
The figure would fold his arms and scoff loudly. Disgusted from the sight of the Metal Monster "No 'Savior' would go out of their way to destroy, you are a wicked abomination and nothing more!" It would declare with a loud voice; Soul Silver would nod to his partner in agreement.
"You said it best Earth, with you by my side. This monster's rampage will end before it begins!" Soul Silver's old duel disk would glow up with light as he raised it high in the sky, creating a black blade with blue square-like outlines.
"We'll see about that...WORM! I'll end you and your stupid little orange thing and then get back to what I was doing earlier!" ReaveArk's diamond-shaped duel disk would light up as well as the duel would start.
"Speed Duel Mode Activated..."
ReaveArk's duel disk would announce in a pained croak.
Meanwhile, back at the ground floor of the city. The freed young woman would finally regain a steady breath as she struggled to stand up.
"Thank god he came in and distracted that thing...Almost died trying not to blow my cover..." She whispered to herself as she would blend in with the crowd, continuing her mission.
"SPEED DUEL!"
Author's Note: And done for this chapter! This used to be a single chapter but it was to long for my liking. Also, Trevor has the Earth Ignis but Spectre will still be EARTH's origin point.
