Burgessa - Where have you been?
Kasi Karra - do I have to answer?
Goth-Odd - duh!
Sombersongwolf - you were missing for at least a month!
Linkmasta - over a year. Burgessa posted the first chapter April 4 like 2 years ago.
Kasi Karra - wow has it really been that long?
Kioshie - yes it has.
Kasi Karra - *shrugs* oh well
everyone - oh well?
Kasi Karra - yeah. I've got the next chapter right here.
*everyone dog piles Kasi*
Burgessa - got it *evil laugh*
Ryrin moaned as she came to her senses. She found herself lying on the floor of the abandoned factory, but it didn't look so old anymore. She pushed herself up off the floor and looked around. The place wasn't new, but the dust and the cobwebs that had been everywhere were gone.
She cautiously walked to the computer where the screen was already active.
"What happened?" she asked herself as her eyes searched the screen for answers. Her eyes landed on the date displayed on one of the small open windows. It was about 20 years before she had been born.
"This can't be right," she whispered her heart starting to race as another screen popped up.
"Dearest Ryrin," the letter began.
Ryrin jumped back. "Who is it that can possibly know my name?" she thought. "Wait," she whispered most of her imagination and random thoughts coming to a stop in her brain. "When we were recreating the program our names kept popping up . . . and we never figured out who wrote that program." She put her hand on the mouse and skipped the letter and scrolling to the bottom of the screen.
"Your father, Xyirean" the last line read.
"Father?" Ryrin asked as she scrolled back to the beginning to start reading the letter for real. "'Maybe he's the one that wrote the program and can explain everything."
"Dearest Ryrin, I know that know your memories are gone as I made sure to conceal the truth and rewrite the past so that you could live the life I could never give you, but in my attempt to rewrite the past and make a future for you my calculations were off and Sadai is free again. You don't have much time as I assume that by the time you completle this program half of the world's population will be missing, erased from history. I'm running out of time. Search your memories and remember I love you. Your father, Xyirean."
"Search my memories?" Ryrin asked as a sudden intense head ache hit her. Ryrin screamed in pain as all sorts of memories suddenly flooded in.
Memories of when the scifizoa attacked her in the library, memories of hanging out with her friends on Lyoddstal, a memory of a crazy lady sending people to a white dimension, memories of a man fighting Lita and the demon inside of him.
But it was one of the last memories that she remembered most vividly before blacking out.
She was standing in a room that looked vaugely familiar. Interfaces lined the walls and there was the dimmest of blue glows coming from them, but what drew her attention in was the swirling whirlpool of data in the middle of the room that was very very slowly growing bigger. Ryrin saw herself standing in the middle of the whirlpool her data slowly unraveling as she gave herself up as a sacrafice to make the world right again.
A spark and blast of data came from a little distance away and she saw a crazy woman fighting a bunch of warriors. She couldn't make out any faces, but she could make out what looked like wings of fire, a cat's tail, a few funny shaped staffs and a bow and arrow.
"You ruin everything we've ever stood for," the lady in the middle yelled.
"We must do it this way," a voice yelled back.
"But my daughter, my only daughter," the lady yelled before a sword appeared through her heart.
"We have to seal it away and reconstruct the past," her father said to the devirtualizing woman.
"Father?" Ryrin wondered as she fell to the floor unconsciene.
Lita groaned as she sat up. She was lying right outside the school, her friends were around her just starting to stir, but there were other eyes watching.
"Are you all right?" a voice asked behine her.
Lita nodded. "I think so," she said taking Aelita helping hand and standing up. "I'm Lita," she said.
"My name is Aelita."
"Aelita. That's a pretty name."
"Thank you," Aelita said with a smile.
"It sounds so familiar . . ." Lita thought looking down at Adrian who was sitting up. "Doesn't it, Adrian?" Adrian nodded.
"Are you the new transfer students?" Jeremy asked offering Adrian a hand up.
"Transfer students?" Margret asked standing up on her own.
"Yeah the principal said that there were a bunch of transfer students coming today," Ulrich said.
"I don't know," Kaito said offering Simone a hand up.
Charlotte sighed. "I can't remember anything."
"Anything?" Crystal asked pulling Charlotte to her feet.
"Just our names and that we're friends," Xana said taking Odd's hand as he offered to help her up.
"And we're missing a friend," Lita whispered aloud. "But I can't remember who."
"You're missing a friend?" Ulrich asked.
"We can help look for them," Yumi replied.
Adrian shook his head. "I haven't the faintest idea who it is."
Xana gave a sad smile as she shook her head as she laughed to herself. "We just know that we're missing a friend."
Sapphire looked off into the distance and sighed. "Heres it comes agains," she said holding William's hand.
"Here comes what?" Charlotte asked.
Odd shrugged as they were all engulfed in white light.
"Return to the Past," and evil almost familiar voice whispered.
Lita groaned as she sat up. "Weren't there more of you earlier?" she asked.
"More of us?" Aelita asked as Lita took her hand and she pulled Lita up.
"Where's Sapphire and William?" Ulrich asked looking at their smaller group.
Crystal sighed. "It's claimed another victim."
"Another?" Simone asked.
Crystal nodded. "It claimed Burgessa and Alex a few times ago."
"And Olivia and Nick the first time around," Jeremy replied.
"We've been living in complete fear of the light now," Yumi said.
"But I'm glad to see we aren't the only ones who remember," Ulrich said with a small smile.
"Do you know what it is?" Adrian asked.
"The light?" Odd asked.
"I know this may sound strange and completly improbable," Xana said remaining where she was on the ground. She made a few symbols in the dirt. "It appears that everytime the white light shines over time goes back to the past."
"But that's completly impossible!" Jeremy exclaimed.
"Explain what has been happening in another way then," Xana replied continuing to draw symbols.
Jeremy speechlessly shook his head. "I . . . I can't," he said frusterated.
"Time travel doesn't seem like a likely explanation," Crystal began. "But even if it is, who's behind it and how do we stop it?"
"And why are we here?" Charlotte asked.
"What do you mean?" Aelita asked.
"We told you earlier that we don't remember a lot about ourselves," Lita began.
"Just our names and that we're all friends," Adrian said finishing her sentence.
"I could've told you that we aren't in the right time," Margret muttered popping a bubble gum bubble.
"So you're from the past!" Odd exclaimed. 'You can help me with my history homework!"
"No they'ld be from the future, because things are be sent back to the past," Ulrich replied rolling his eyes.
"What is going on?" Xana asked shaking her head.
"Seal the beast and fulfil your duty," the evil voice whispered before disappearing.
"Seal the beast and fulfil your duty," Ryrin echoed as she sat up. She turned to the computer screen, but the letter from her father was gone. Ryrin looked around almost waiting for someone to find her. Finally after a minute of complete silence she looked back at the computer and nodded. "Yes father," she whispered standing up and walking over to the computer. "I'll do as you asked. I'm the only one that can do this," she whispered starting the virtualization program that had been open in another window. "and I have to do it alone."
Ryrin slowly walked to the elevator and traveled down to the scanners. She stepped into a room where the only light source came from the only open scanner. She took another calming breath before stepping into the scanner. She let her breath out as the doors closed. Ryrin closed her eyes and remembered back to her past, but something stopped her thoughts from going far.
"I know that there are others out there. Others that think they know me, but they'll never know what I really am," she thought as she virtualized.
Ryrin landed on the green expanse of the garden sector. She looked around making sure she was alone before she started to experiment.
Ryrin looked down at her hand and wWith a thought her hand and arm exploded into fragments of data that sat in the air around her almost like time had stopped. She sighed and with another thought her arm was completly reconcstructed and back to normal.
"Nothing, but a program," she whispered clenching her fist. "Nothing more," she whispered as she turned and walked off.
Burgessa - you promised me this by Monday!
Kasi Karra - I did get it to you by Monday!
Burgessa - did not! The email says it was sent Tuesday!
Kasi Karra - I sent it to you by Monday! Just not Monday in your time zone.
Linkmasta - nice loop hole . . .
Kasi Karra - *creativity dying* . . .
Sombersongwolf and Goth-Odd have a flamthrower faceoff with an over entergetic Kioshie as the referee. Burgessa crashes the contest with a bigger flamthrower, Linkmasta laughs at the whole thing.