Chapter 2 of a story that I hope you like! Well, I thought I might write another chapter!
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Chapter 2 ConnectionThe character Kai entered the server Carmina Gadelica causing the players around to cease from their conversations and stare at him. Kai looked to all the characters that stared at him and narrowed his eyes at them hoping they would look away.
He walked away from the Chaos Gate toward the grunty farm in hopes that no one would bother him there. With each step he took, he swore he heard a pair of footsteps following right behind. He didn't bother to look in hopes of making a fool of himself if no one were to stand right behind him.
He turned right and walked quickly taking a short glance behind him to see no one in sight. He stopped for a moment and heard the footsteps just right behind him. But then, why couldn't he see anyone when he looked?
Kai continued to walk toward his destination and stopped after just a few steps. He looked at the young grunty that wandered around the stable and knelt down to pet it.
"Aren't you such a cute creature?" Kai whispered as he patted its head. "You don't see anyone behind me, do you, huh?"
The grunty upon seeing that Kai had no food for it took a step back and went along with its own business. Kai sat down and looked to the data filled sky.
What are you looking at? a voice said.
Kai looked around to see that the only person there was the grunty farm man. He looked over to the grunty and then looked at the ground he sat on to see that there was a faint shadow over him. When he looked behind him, there was no one.
He was about to say something when out of the blue an arm wrapped around his neck and forced him the opposite direction he was looking. "Kai, I was looking everywhere for you. I had to ask a complete stranger where you were and luckily they knew who I was talking about. Don't you think it's strange that players we've never met know who you are by your name? I mean, players always talk about you on The Board and they never once mention me. I mean, I'm almost always with yo-"
"Don't you ever cease to talk. I bet that stranger you asked about me has gone to therapy by now," Kai smirked as he staggered to his feet. It was hard for him considering he was still pinned by the one who had his arm wrapped around his neck. He struggled to get free and whined, "Let go of me, Milo."
Milo released Kai from his stranglehold and looked around at where they stood. "Why are you in the grunty farm anyway? The last time you were ever here was when that one player persuaded you to take care of her grunty and then it died on you and she blamed you. We had no knowledge on how to raise a grunty and when it was sick we didn't realize it until it was too late. So I ask again, why are you here?"
"You do know that that player gave me a grunty she knew would die if something wasn't done?" Kai sighed, as he looked to the grunty who roamed the little stable. "It wasn't my fault. I didn't know the symptoms for what it had and besides I was busy that entire week."
"True. Finals were coming up and if you didn't study you were most likely going to fail," Milo smirked. "I managed to pass."
"Only because I got stuck tutoring you. And thus you were the reason I was busy, you hopeless goof," Kai smiled. "Anyway, I'm here because I am. When you were walking over here, did you, by any chance, hear a pair of footsteps walk right behind you?"
Milo turned his head to the side and replied, "Now I just think you're hearing things my friend. Have you been sleeping lately? Or is it that you been eating the wrong foods? Maybe it's that you're in love. You still like girls, right?"
Kai tightened his fists tighter and tighter through all that Milo had to say and after the last thing he said he yelled, "Of coarse, I still like girls! What does that have to do with what I asked?"
"Are you sure because I didn't hear any footsteps walking behind me when I came over here. Maybe something's wrong with your goggles. Have you checked to see if maybe it was that? Hmm, it could be that you were just feeling lonely and you thought that hearing someone behind you would bring up your chances for a new friendship. Or maybe more if it was a gu-," Milo said as his mouth was covered up by Kai's hand before he finished what he was about to say.
"Sometimes I just think ever meeting you was the worst thing in my life," Kai said as he lowered his hand from Milo's mouth.
Milo put his finger to his chin and said, "No, I think the first virus we ever came up against was." He froze from saying more after the death glare given to him by Kai. True the virus was the worst thing but it had a bigger impact on Kai then Milo. Milo raised his arms into the air and asked, "So what do you suppose we do now?"
"I don't know," Kai sighed. "I was just trying to have a normal day in The World until you came along."
"So you're saying that I ruined your visit with the grunty over there and what you thought were a pair of footsteps following you?" Milo said. "What a day I ruined for you. Well, if you don't want me around then I'll be off. Maybe Balmung is logged on right now. I'll send him a message. Bye, Kai!"
Milo ran off waving with Kai waving back. The rings formed around Milo as he ran and shot up as he continued to wave farewell.
Kai walked over to the stable where the lonely noble grunty was usually found and took a seat on the fence. He looked to the data filled water and gave out a sigh.
What are you looking at? the voice from before asked once more.
Kai jumped and looked around frantically while making sure that he didn't fall off of the fence. "Who's there? Who keeps talking to me?"
Nothing. Maybe Milo was right for a change and he hadn't gotten enough sleep. He stared at the ground to see the shadow hovering over him once more and asked, "Why are you following me?"
Again there was no reply. He jumped off of the fence and allowed the golden rings to engulf him to take him to a destination that he and only other skilled players who knew of it could go to.
Kai appeared in an almost blank warp area that he had tried to create himself hidden from the eyes of the CC Corp. He looked around and sat down on the only thing there, which happened to be a cliff that allowed you a great view of nothing. He let his legs hang over the edge of the cliff and lay there with his back to the ground. He looked to the pitch-black sky with his arms behind his head for some cushion.
What are you loo- the voice started and was interrupted by Kai who yelled, "Who are you!"
He sat up quickly and looked in the only direction you could be and saw a faint outline of a figure for a split second. Kai stood to his feet and walked to where it once was. "Whoever you are come out or be completely deleted along with this warp area of mine."
Kai's eyes widened suddenly as the faint outline appeared in front of him. It disappeared in a matter of seconds and Kai began looking around to see where it went off to. "What exactly are you? Are you a wondering AI? I've never seen one before but I've heard of them. What do you want with me?"
Kai's eyes widened as a pair of arms wrapped around his neck. A pair of lips pressed against his ear as he heard Can you help me?
…Free me from this pain. the voice said. Kai pushed himself from the figure and was about to gate out when a piercing noise filled the warp area. Kai fell to his knees and covered his ears hoping the noise would be drowned out somewhat.
"AAAHHHH! STOP IT!" Kai screamed. "STOP IT PLEASE!"
The warp area began to disintegrate with the dark nothingness cracking up and breaking as if it were glass. Kai continued to scream as golden rings appeared around him allowing him to gate out of there.
Kai appeared back in Carmina Gadelica with nearly every player there staring at him. Kai just knelt there on the ground covering his ears not realizing at the moment where he was. His eyes looked around as he slowly staggered to his feet.
Other players began talking in whispers of who they thought he might be. The rumor that he might be a hacker. 'The Board' had given a description once and a name but players never knew if it was Kai.
Kai looked around with the players still looking at him. When they caught sight of him when he finally made to his feet, they began turning their gaze from him with a look of terror on it. Kai heard a glimpse of what a wavemaster had to say about him when he looked away. "What happened to him?"
"Kai, I found Balmu-" Milo started as he froze on the spot. His voice began to tremble with fright as he eyes went wide. "What happened to you, Kai?"
"What do you mean?" Kai said as he turned to face Milo. He noticed that Milo's eyes were wide at the sight of him. "Milo?"
"You…you look like…" Milo started unable to finish what he wanted to say.
Kai looked to his hands and saw what Milo and the other players were terrified about. His hands were torn up and in one hand three fingers were broken back making you want to cringe when you saw it. His clothes were torn and he looked to his legs to see that his right leg was broken with one of the bones sticking out.
He looked back at Milo and watched as he walked over to him. Milo grabbed a hold of his arm and led him over to the Chaos Gate choosing a warp area and disappearing from the server.
When the two arrived at the warp area, Kai sat himself down on the ground and just looked at his torn and disfigured body. Milo just stood there and asked, "Kai, what happened?"
"It must have been the cause of that wondering AI," Kai said calmly. "At least, that's what I think it was."
"A wondering AI? You actually came up against one and lived. I thought maybe they kill players sending one of those virus things after you or is that just hackers? I'm not quite sure. Well, I guess it deleted the data that you placed over this look," Milo said. "You should get your old look back right away or other players will keep looking at you. So what did that AI look like?"
"I don't know," Kai said as he watched as monsters came near causing the calm music to turn into battle music. He looked up to the sky and heard What are you looking at?
Kai staggered to his feet and faced the group of monsters that came toward him ready to slaughter him. Milo watched as Kai pulled off one the swords on his back and disappeared for a split second. When Kai appeared where he once stood, the battle music ceased from playing and continued with the calm field music.
"So are you going to remake your look or keep it the way it was before that AI destroyed it?" Milo smiled with his hands behind his head. "If you create a new look, then I'll have to update what "The Board" says about you. Just remember to cover your tracks so those Cerulean Knights don't place you on that wanted list of theirs. That Kamui's been good not to place you on that list. But one of these days, CC Corp will catch on to us. But it's fun nonetheless."
"You talk too much," Kai said as a handheld computer appeared in his hands. The disfigured hand with three fingers broken back held the computer while the other typed. "Green eyes, brown hair, and a sapphire outfit should be all that I need to override this revolting look."
A flash of light blue light shot up around Kai as his torn outfit covered up with a new sapphire blue one and the tears and broken fingers disappeared as if they were never torn or broken. Kai looked to Milo who gave him a smile of approval at the look and watched as his friend walked over to him. Milo placed his hand on Kai's right cheek letting off a flash of light blue light.
"There. Now that gives you one unique look," Milo said as he removed his hand to reveal that a symbol was placed on Kai's right cheek. "What do you think? I actually think it would make it easier for other players to know it was you, but I guess then you would have to hide yourself from CC Corp if I gave away that bit of information. Hmm, what to do?"
Kai walked over to a Spring of Myst and looked in to see the new mark that was now on his face. He looked to Milo and asked, "Why did you put that there? It looks like a bunch of squiggly lines."
"For your information, it is a one of a kind work of art by me," Milo pouted.
"That just proves how awful you are at drawing," Kai smirked as he ran his fingers through the design. "Though, I think your design is a bad imitation of something I've seen before. We better get back to Carmina Gadelica. You were saying that you found Balmung?"
"Yes, and it was really hard because he was trying to avoid me for the day," Milo said as he wrapped an arm around Kai's neck. The gold rings formed around them and shot up into the air. "But no one can escape from the gre-"
The two disappeared from the warp area. A faint silhouette stood there a good distance from where the two once were. A smile filled its face as it said, "…free me from this pain."
END
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