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Warning: Since most of my team has left for college/community service, I'm all by myself...I'll try to do my best to write this. (laughs) Can't believe this would be popular!
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Serph was the first to stir. His body felt very numb, his heat felt hot, and there was a queer feeling on his left cheek. Getting himself on a sitting position, he began to look around. Damn, looks like the whole place got bombed or something...
"You okay?" Heat mumbled. Serph looked over to his right and spotted his red-haired friend. Heat didn't seem so well either.
"I'm fine," Serph replied, standing up as well. "Where are the others?"
"Havin' de time of their lives," Cielo groaned. The blue-haired boy kept rubbing his stomach furiously. "I don't feel good, I feel like I ate too much or something."
"How about the smart-ass? He's gotta be around here too." Heat said.
"Smart-ass is here," David said in an amused voice. He walked towards Heat. "And smart-ass has a name. It's Gale now."
"Gale?" Heat snorted. "You really can't think of anything else?"
Serph was about to reply to Heat's comment when a soft glow caught his attention. The light was coming from a small hill nearby the young men.
"Weird..." Cielo said, walking towards the source. "Haven't seen something like dis when we entered."
"When we entered..." David muttered. He began to think. "What happened? Who is this shaman? Those weird lights? Why are we the only ones here?"
Cielo pointed at Serph's face. "Probly has to do with dat."
Serph's hand flew to his cheek. "What..?"
Heat peered at the bewildered silver-haired teen's face also. "You have a tattoo or something on your face."
"You too." David said, pointing at Heat's right arm. The red-haired male stared at his own marking also.
"Cool, looks like a ball of fire with teeth." Heat smirked. "Why do these markings have teeth?"
Instantaneously, flashes of what happened burst into their minds. Lights piercing their bodies, people wailing, strange lights appearing on their bodies...and then darkness.
"Did you guys see what I saw...head-wise?" Heat gulped, rubbing his fore-head. "That was some freaky sh-..."
"In any case, we will have to find out about this in the course of the game," David interrupted. "And I think we should start by checking out that weird light."
"Oh yeah, de light." Cielo nodded, making his way to the strange glow. Serph, Heat, and David followed suit.
"DON'T YOU DARE!!!"
A pink blur sped down the crater and pounced on Cielo, pinning him to the ground.
"What the hell?!?!" Heat yelped, backing away from the maddened being.
"It's just Argilla!" Serph said. "What happened?"
"DON'T...YOU...DARE...GO UP THERE!!" she snarled, still keeping her hold on Cielo. Serph noticed a similar tattoo near her bosom as it rised and fell with increasing speed.
"Is there something forbidden up there?" Heat asked, standing firm on his ground. Argilla snapped her head towards him and glared at him.
"Forbidden to you GUYS." she barked.
"Please let me live!!" Cielo whined, squirming under her. "I didn't do anything!!"
As soon as the pink-haired girl's head bent to Cielo's direction, Serph and Heat immediately sped towards the light. To their amazement, there was a crater. And in the crater, there was...
"A naked chick?" Heat voiced aloud. Serph kept looking. The girl's body was curled up, conveniently hiding her most private areas. Her body seemed to be floating. The light glew strongest near her.
"Wait, she has black hair." Heat whispered. His eyes widened. "That girl is..!"
"AAAARRRRRRRGHHHHH!!!" Argilla roared, fiercely tackling down Heat away from the crated. Before Heat's body touched the ground, she gave the same treatment to Serph. "I TOLD YOU TO STAY AWAY!! PERVERTS!!"
Cielo sped toward his fallen comrades. "I heard you. De girl with black hair...it's Sera, isn't it?"
Serph weakly nodded. The trip down wasn't pretty. "She's naked also..."
David, who was greatly entertained by this show, walked towards the agitated Argilla. "I understand the situation now. You're just protecting your friend."
"Damn straight!" Argilla snapped, turning to glare at the recovering Heat and Serph. David nodded.
"This problem can be easily solved. Heat, can I have your cape?"
"...M'kay." Heat mumbled, stripping his gray cape from his Embryon uniform. He then let his arm lay lim at his side. David took the item and handed it to Argilla.
"Cover Sera up with this. When she is covered, let me or Cielo know so we can carry her somewhere safe."
Argilla gazed at the green-haired teen with awe. "...At least I know who to trust more in this group." She took the proffered cape and headed towards Sera.
"Do we even know where de base is?" Cielo asked. "I don't want to end up in an enemy base or something."
Serph stood up yet again and shrugged. "My guess is as good as yours, bro."
"I've played this a bit, remember?" Heat growled. "I know where the base is."
"She's ready." Argilla said. "David, please..?"
He nodded. "Okay. By the way, the name's Gale now."
As he emerged from the crater with Sera in his arms, he almost swore that he heard Heat mumble "Gale...indeed..."
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A green-haired female awoke from the same blackout Serph and his gang faced. She wiped her mouth, only to find blood on her palms.
"You okay, Jinana?" A purple-haired male asked, his grey eyes staring at his leader. She nodded.
"Knew something like this was supposed to happen. Eva died then, did she?" Jinana said under her breath.
"Everyone has the power in this stage now." Bat reported. "Everyone that was present received it. As to the whereabouts of the new Cyber Shaman...we still don't know."
Jinana nodded yet again. "We lost many, but that means we have to work more to rebuild the Maribel Tribe. Mick and the rest must be doing this as we speak."
She didn't notice an evil glint in Bat's eye. "Of course, Jinana." he replied, his voice silky.
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"Here we are. Home sweet home." Heat yelled. A heavy rainstorm pounded at the new Embryon members and at their environment. Cielo frowned when he saw the run-down base.
"Dis..is what we have?" he groaned. He slouched his way into the large building. Heat nodded.
"This place survived many battles. It's small, but we're working hard to gain more members and more territory."
Placing the sleeping Sera on a spare bed, Serph bowed his head in thought, lightly touching his Tag Ring. "This is going to be one hell of a game."
David looked up. "Why is that, Serph?"
Serph was tapping his tag ring. The tiny logout button that was located opposite of the main part of the ring was missing. "I've read the instructions before we created our characters. The logout button is supposed to be on the ring. It's not."
David's eyes widened. "You're joking."
Cielo stared at his own ring and saw that something was missing too. "Oh hell..."
Heat trembled, something that rarely happened. "So...you mean...we're stuck here?"
Serph's slow nod sent shivers up their spines.
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"Is everything ready now?" a voice asked, looking at several screens in front. They all showed the same thing. Teenagers looking everywhere confused about the discovery, some pointing out their strange tattoos to others, some complaining about stomach-aches...
"Yep." A voice replied. The person shifted a recorder on her hand, attaching it on the computer that monitored the game's inhabitants.
"This is gonna be fun." the previous voice said, and he smiled.
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Authoress' Note: I'm trying to keep to the plot the others created. I'm the one that writes stories, the others make up the ideas and chapters. Forgive me if it seems bad or something!! (begins begging) Please review, and I'll try to update sooner!!