The Red Crystal

By: remixofdestiny

AN: Wow… Laziness… Sorry but I lost some of my motivation for writing.

Colette: Aww… That's not good…

?: Indeed.

Me: … My apologies…

Colette: It's no problem.

?: Remixofdestiny doesn't own anything but the plot. Everything belongs to their respective owners.

Chapter 2: Realizations

Sammy groans as he looks up at the dark sky. He hears a girl's scream that sounds very familiar to him.

'Ami!' Sammy thinks as he leans up and looks the side.

He sees a man with burning flames for hair, black armor and deep crimson eyes above Ami's dead body with blood pooling around her. Sammy's eyes widen with shock before he could feel rage course throughout his body. Sam would've charged at the man but he feels a firm grip on his left shoulder. He turns to see the man who gave him the stone and crest!

'This is only a dream.' He said.

The dreamscape around them turned white as Sammy stands up. He looks at the man with a questioning look.

"What is your name?" Sammy asks, wondering why he never asked when he first met him.

'My name is Yggdrasill." The man said simply, his piercing green eyes staring into him, 'You overused your mana. But it will be recovered in due time. You lost it due to my angelic skill; Judgment. You were not ready for that spell consumption yet…"

Sammy feels his head aching from the massive influx of information. Angelic Skills? Yggdrasill? Judgment?

"What the hell is going on here?" Sammy mutters.

'Angelic Skills are only used by angelic beings such as I, and now you, can use. Judgment is one of the highest class Angel Skill up to date.' Yggdrasill said calmly.

"Well if me fainting is going to happen often, then I won't use these Angelic Skills as often…" Sammy said, rubbing the back of his head.

'But you need a way to defend yourself and your little girlfriend correct?'

Sammy blushes heavily as the image of Ami appears in his head. He quickly turns his head away from Yggdrasill's cold smirk and fought the blush off with little success.

"Sh-Shut up! She's not my girlfriend!" Sammy shouts in denial.

'An unrequited love then?' Yggdrasill said, his smirk growing larger.

"You… could say that." Sammy said frowning slightly.

'But now you have the power, the strength to protect her now. You MUST use these abilities, if not then you lose your life and her.'

Sammy growls as he remembers his nightmare. He never EVER wants that to happen in real life. He needs to get stronger, but how?

'If you train yourself in some type of weaponplay or martial arts, you can use the mana for Special Attacks.'

"Weaponplay…" Sammy said, thinking.

He is playing a MMORPG called 'The World R:2' so he could use that as a basis for his Special Attacks… but what type of weapons could he use? Maybe…

"Can I form weapons with Angelic Mana?" Sammy asks the man in front of him.

'Yes you can. What weapons do you want me to make when the time comes?' Yggdrasill asks with a slight curious look in his cold, green eyes.

"Twin Daggers would help." Sammy said.

'Then it will be done.' Yggdrasill said, 'Wake up now. It's about 6:10 AM now; you are at your sister's friend's Temple I think… They brought you there and your sister called your mother and lied to them so you could stay there.'

"How do you know that?" Sammy asks with a raised eyebrow.

'I can see through the Crystal you have equipped to your hand. I can see through your gloves and bandages.'

"That's… a little creepy…" Sammy said with a sweatdrop appearing on his head.

Yggdrasill has a vein on his head and it's twitching.

'I better shut up now…' Sammy thought to himself.

'Shut up and wake up.' Yggdrasill orders, 'As soon as you wake up, acquire two knives so you can train outside the temple.'

Sammy was about to reply when a bright light appears around him.

"GAHHHH!" Sammy shouts in surprise.

Sammy sits up from his futon [A type of Japanese bed] quickly with cold sweat pouring down his face. Sammy puts his hands on his face but realizes his gloves are off… He quickly looks at his hands but is relieved to see that his hand is still wrapped in the white bandage. Sammy quietly gets off the bed and walks to the door to the room. He opens it to see an old man in a Shinto Priest uniform.

"Ah, you're awake." The old man said, "My name is Seikari Hino. You're sister and Ami brought you here."

"Gomen*." Sammy apologizes, "I didn't mean to sleep here all night."

"It's no trouble at all." The old man said, "It's good to see new faces every now and then Sammy Tsukino."

Deciding to trust the old man Sammy decides to ask him where is two knives that he can use.

"Why would you need weapons my boy?" Seikari asks.

"You see… I train with twin blades, but I haven't done it in about a week, so I'm afraid I may have gotten rusty…" Sammy lies.

The old man nods with understanding. He leads Sammy throughout the hallway and guides him to a room. He opens the door to for Sammy to peer inside. Inside on an alter is a pair of daggers. Their hilts are grey with a silver orb on the end of them. The handguards are pointed downwards, like upside down horns.

"Take these and I will witness if you're telling the truth or not." Seikari cryptically says.

Sammy walks to the alter and picks up the daggers. Copying his character on The World, he puts the daggers on the back of his pants and he clips them there. Sammy looks at the old Shinto Priest and follows him to the courtyard of the temple. Sammy looks around the temple in awe.

"You may begin." Seikari said to Sammy, when Sammy was finished looking at the temple.

Sammy draws the twin daggers in a flash of steel. He twirls the daggers so he can hold them backhanded, the way Twin Blades and beginner Adept Rouges use their daggers. Sammy begins copying his slashes that his character uses. After the fourth slash Sammy knelt down concentrating on an invisible enemy. After half a second passes Sammy slashes through the air at high speeds, using Yggdrasill's instruction to enforce his legs with mana, so he could move faster. According to his theory, he could hit enemies multiple times with that slash. Sammy grins in happiness. He could fight and he could fight like his character. It felt… odd that he could use those kinds of attacks with the daggers in his first attempt, but it also felt right, like he done it before… Well he did do it before, but that was in the game…

"You use those daggers well." Seikari said with a knowing look, "I take up secret training as well…"

"Are these your daggers?" Sammy asks with a surprised look, sheathing the daggers.

"Yes they are." The Shinto Priest said, "They needed a new owner and when I saw you used them, they were almost flawlessly used."

"I-I'm not that good…" Sammy said humbly.

"How modest." The Seikari said.

Sammy blushes as he hears people walking outside the Temple. She has raven black hair and amethyst colored eyes. She is wearing a Shinto Priestess outfit and is with Ami, who is with her, wearing her pajamas.

"Grandfather, have you seen Sammy?" asks Rei Hino, loyal friend to Serena.

"He's right here." Said Seikari, "He's practicing his rusty dagger skills he said. He's very graceful with my old daggers too."

"Stop it…" Sammy said, blushing even harder, "You're embarrassing me…"

'Sammy knows how to use daggers?' Ami thought, 'I never knew that…'

"That's dangerous Grandpa!" Rei exclaims, "He might've hurt himself!"

"He had that look in his eyes as soon as he laid eyes on, now his, daggers." Seikari said with a happy look on his face, "I am glad to give the daggers to a person with capable hands."

Sammy blushes again at the praise. Rei shakes her head but understands her Grandfather's intentions. Sammy walks towards the girls and smiled at Ami.

"Thank you for bringing me here." Sammy said to Ami, "I feel… safe here for some reason…"

"Y-You're welcome." Ami stutters, blushing slightly. 'When did Sammy start having this effect on me?'

Sammy smiles at her, making her blush more before he walks inside to prepare his things to go home. Good thing it was a Saturday… Sammy sees Luna yawning and mewing at him. Sammy used to hate the cat, but he now tolerates it, heck even likes it a little now. Sammy pets the cat behind her ears and he smiles a little at her happy, mewing face. Sammy looks around the room to see if anyone was around. After he finishes he concludes there is no one here, well except for the cat, but cats can't talk. [So he believes…]

"Yggdrasill, how do I hide these daggers?" Sammy whispers, to avoid someone hearing him accidently.

Unfortunately for him, Luna can hear everything.

'Listen carefully.' Yggdrasill said from Sammy's head.

Sammy listens carefully to Yggdrasill's instructions on how to hide his weapons with his mana. Yggdrasill said he had to do this with a lot of his items when he was alive. Sammy unbelts the daggers and holds them in his hands, backhanded. They vanish in a flash of golden light, making Luna's eyes widen.

'What did Sammy just do?' Luna exclaims in her head, 'I have to tell Serena about this!'

Luna quietly walks out of the room; not alerting Sammy, then runs off to find Serena.

End Chapter

AN: Wow… It's been a month and a half since I updated this story… My apologies everyone…

Colette: It's all right Sam!

Yggdrasill: No it isn't, he has to learn not to be lazy, especially now that he has reviewers!

Me: Yes Yggdrasill…

Yggdrasill: If you flame this author you inferior beings, I will Judgment you so hard, it would make Kratos' look like a kitten.

Me: B-but constructive criticism is nice!