Here's chapter two! Thank you for the help my editor/beta Kisara B.!
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See. I promised that my chapters would get longer. Enjoy!
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'Italics'- Thinking
Chapter Two
Sam looked on in awe. He was here. He was actually on the Grid! With a gasp he yelled, "Woo Hoo! I'm here! I'm actually here! I can't believe it!" Sam starts to jump and run around. In the distance he saw something and started to run off towards it, forgetting his promise to his dad in his excitement.
Kevin, seeing as his son was no longer next to him saw him running away he yelled, "Hey! Kid you just promised to stay next to me and what is the first thing you do? You run away from me!"
Coming to a complete stop Sam looked back at his dad, with a sheepish look on his face. "Sorry dad. I just forgot." Sam said.
Kevin came up to where his son was, with a stern look in his eyes. Sam looked down at his feet feeling really bad for what he did. He's not going to send me back is he? Sam thought.
Seeing the dejected look on his son's face Kevin's eyes soften and he sighed, "It's alright. Just don't do it again ok?" He said gently.
Sam looked up with a relieved smile and said, "Ok."
After a minute of staring at each other Kevin said, "Alright kiddo, first thing we need to do is get you a disk like mine." Kevin turned around and showed his son his light disk on his back.
"A disk?" Sam asked confused. "What do I need a disk for dad?"
Oh man. How do I explain this? Kevin thought, turning back around, while scratching his head. "It's like a computer disk that saves all your data of the things you do here. Does that make sense kiddo?"
Scrunching up his face in confusion Sam shook his head and said, "No."
"Well you'll see what I mean when you get one." Kevin said.
Taking his son's hand again Kevin started to go in the direction where he knew where he could get a disk for his son.
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This is so cool! Sam thought as he looked left and right, while his dad led them down what looked like a street. Everything's lit up like the city at home during nighttime, but waaay cooler.
Coming to a stop Kevin said, "Ok kiddo we're here."
Sam looked up and saw a bluish black building with a huge neon white sign saying, "Crystal Disks? What's that?"
"This is where we're gonna get your disk kiddo." said Kevin.
Sam just stared at the building, shrugged, and said, "Ok."
Both walked up to the building and Kevin open the door letting Sam go in before him. Looking around Sam said, "I thought this was a shop or something. There's nothing here. It's completely empty."
"Patients Sam." Kevin answered.
Sam watched as his dad move up to a grey wall and put his hand on it. All of a sudden the whole room lit up white.
"Whoa!" exclaimed Sam, jumping a little.
All the lights ended up meeting in the middle of the room where a platform started to rise up. The platform itself was only two stairs high, easy for anyone to get on.
Kevin came back to his son and said, "Ok kiddo, get up on the platform and we'll put the disk on you."
We? wondered Sam, but did as he was told. Once he was on the platform the wall on the left from him opened up revealing a woman all in white, with white neon lights on her, white hair that was up in a bun, white skin, and by the look of it even her eyes were white.
While she came up to Sam all he could think was Wow. She's pretty. "You're pretty." Sam said without thinking, blushing and looking away when he realized what he said.
The woman smiled at the complement, eyes sparkling with warmth and amusement. Kevin just laughed with warmth and affection.
With laughter still in his voice Kevin tried to introduce the two, "Sam, this is Gem the Siren. Gem, this is my son Sam."
"Hello Sam." Gem said in gentle voice.
Looking back at Gem Sam said in a hushed voice, "Hi." still a little embarrassed about earlier.
Remember what his dad just said earlier about Gem he asked, "Um Miss Gem…can I ask you a question?"
"Yes Sam you may." said Gem.
Gathering up his courage he asked, "Why did my dad call you a siren?"
Gem just smiled and said, "That is just my job description. I put on the armor and disks for Programs. And on rare occasions Users as well."
"Users?" Sam said in confusion.
"That's what we are kiddo. We're called Users here." chimed in Kevin, who had been watching the exchange between Gem and his son with amusement. I'm glad that went well. thought Kevin.
"Alright. You ready for your disk Sam?" asked Kevin.
"It won't hurt right?" asked Sam, a little nervous about having something put into his back.
"Not at all Sam." said Gem, walking over to the back wall and opening up an in the wall cabinet and pulling out a light disk. Once she had one Gem closed the cabinet and walked back over to Sam and Kevin.
Gem walked around Sam to get to his back. When she got to her destination she saw there was a little problem.
"Hmm. Well this is a problem." said Gem.
"What?" said Kevin, coming around to see what the problem was.
"The light disk is too big." commented Gem, showing the size of the light disk to Kevin.
"Oh." said Kevin. After a second of just staring at the disk he exclaimed, "Oh! Duh! I can fix that!"
Taking the light disk out of Gem's hands Kevin held in both hands and stared at it for a second. All of a sudden the disk started to glow and shrink in his hands. And just like that it stopped glowing and shrinking.
"There! Perfect!" smiled Kevin, handing it backed to Gem who looked at him in awe.
"Wow! Dad! That was so cool!" exclaimed Sam, who had watched the whole thing with his head turned to his dad.
"Heh. Thanks kiddo. Now turn back around so we can put this on." said Kevin, feeling proud about impressing his son. Oh yeah. I'm awesome!
Sam nodded and turned back around waiting for his disk to be installed into his back.
After a second Sam felt a little pressure on his back and then a click was heard.
"There! It's in. You can move now Sam." Kevin said.
Sam got off the platform and tried to look at his disk. "I can't see it." Sam said, pouting a little.
"Over here Sam." said Gem, who was standing by a full length mirror. Where did that come from? wondered Sam, but just shrugged it off and walked over to it.
Turning around Sam saw his light disk for the first time.
Following his son over to the mirror Kevin asked, "Well Sam what do you think?"
"Whoa! So cool! Hey! It looks just like the one that you have dad!" Sam smiled, looking up at his dad. Then looking over at Gem he smiled at her and said, "Thank you Miss Gem for my disk."
Gem smiled back and said, "You're quite welcome Sam. I'm glad you like it."
Such manners. He gets it from his mother. Kevin thought with a sad little smile on his face.
Seeing the look on his dad's face Sam asked, "Dad? Are you ok?"
Snapping out of his thoughts Kevin replied, "Yeah. I'm fine kiddo. Just thinking about some things. Well we should probably get going. I still have more to show you." Turning to Gem he said, "Thank you again for the disk."
Gem just nodded at Kevin, as Sam came up to his dad's side. Taking his son's hand both father and son started to leave. As they reached the door Sam looked back at Gem and said, "Bye Miss Gem! I hope I see you again!"
Gem just smiled and waved thinking, What a sweet User.
Walking out the door Kevin saw something and just smiled a big smile. Nudging his son he said, "Hey Sam. Look in front of you."
Sam turned his head around and gasped.
Cliffy! What could it be? What could make Sam react like that? I guess you'll just have to wait for chapter three to find out!
Working on chapter three, but please be patient.
Review Please! Or you'll make young Sam cry.
AN- mini disk for Sam :)