.Hack Arcadia
( The Unknown )
In a vast and empty realm a lone figure stood gazing at a screen with amused eyes. The place was empty and only he, the giant monitor and a piano was in the room with a closed door closed in the distance. The male figure had an eerie grin plastered on his face, clearly happy for some reason or another. He was waiting for the return of his other two subordinates with the price he sense earlier today. No longer than five minutes the door to this chamber opened and his grin widen even more. Two beings enter the room and bow before him.
" We have return from that field M.S." the female of the two spoke.
M.S. smiled at them " Now, now Vanity no need to be so formal around me. But do tell how everything went there."
The two remained quiet for a moment before Vanity spoke once more " We...we arrived at the scene were the Neo crystal appeared...but we were too late. Two brats had defeated the monster the crystal infected and took the crystal away." she bowed even further while the other remained quiet.
The smiled never left the man's face but the air around him shifted signaling he was not pleased " Taken away by two brats? Tell me, who were those two brats of which you speak of?"
This time the male being spoke " The two of them looks almost alike. They wore a funny looking hat and one worn orange clothing while the other the same type of clothing and a cloak, only black. One had teal hair and two triangles on each cheek while the other had black hair and two creepy looking triangles. And they both did this attack that shoots arrows like thingys that absorbed the monster!"
M.S. looked curious " An attack that shoots arrow like thingys that absorbed the monster? Did you hear what they called it, Death?"
Death made a face like he was thinking. Vanity sighed " Be careful not to think too much or else your brain might burst into flames."
" Shut up Vanity!! I am very capable of thinking!" he shouted before he resume his thinking.
-5 Hours later-
Death was still frowning in thought while the other two had a face of pure exhaustion and boredom. It seemed like Death was going to go on thinking until Vanity had enough " Oh, for evil's sake! They called it Data Drain!!"
The man instantly perked up " Yeah, that's it!! The called it the Data Drain! See, I told you I could do it!"
M.S. frowned " Data Drain? So, we're dealing with the Twilight Knights. The god's chosen ones." he then grinned " I never thought we would cross path so early, it must be fate." he then turned toward the other two " You two go look for more crystal and continue causing havoc. If one of those brats shows up then just disposed of them. Understood?"
" Yes M.S.!!" Vanity answered.
" You don't have to tell me twice!" Death grinned maniacally before both disappeared from the room.
The man then resume to look at the monitor with a smile on his face " Well, well. Things has just gotten a lot more interesting, no?" he he said to himself amused.
( Mac Anu )
Once again the entire Twilight knights had gather together to share their findings, but because Yata was in a meeting with people who works in CCORP at Raven's they had to gather on an empty corner of the great city.
Balmung began to calm everyone until he had everyones attention " Alright everyone, has anyone found anything out of the ordinary while searching the fields?"
Atoli shook her head " Aside from the berserk monsters on the field Me, Subaru, and Shino found nothing."
" Same story with Dark and me." Tsukasa replied while the others nodded in agreement.
Balmung sighed " Nothing at all? At this rate we won't find anything in time to save this world and ours."
At that moment Kite came arguing with his look alike, who looked bored out of his mind. The two approach the group where everyone was now staring at them. Kite stopped his rain of curses to look at everyone " What?!" he snapped at everyone.
The Twilight Knights began to look at every direction except in the direction of their leader's gaze. Balmung cough to draw the teal hair blader attention " Before you came here bringing your rain of curses with you..." he got a glare for that comment while the raven chuckled " ...we were wondering if you, by any chance, found something weird on the field you two were exploring."
" As a matter of fact there was." Shadow Kite replied calmly.
Dark rolled his eyes " Figures. Things always happen when You do the searching." at the end of the comment a book hit him square on the face.
The raven twin blade cough " As I was saying before my annoying best friend interrupted, upon inspecting a field a strange phenomenon occurred. One of the berserk monster went to attack us when out of nowhere..." he pulled out the crystal from earlier "...this thing appeared and fused with the beast, mutating it and giving it an immense amount of power as well as resistance to the data drain. It was stronger than any infected monster I ever seen."
Ovan frowned in though " A beast that can withstand the data drain? That gem there must be something powerful in order to grant an ordinary monster with such strength."
Kite nodded " Yeah, we think that this crystal has something to do with what's been going on and maybe the sudden state of the monsters." he then looked around the group. " Where is Zelkova? Maybe he can tell us what this thing is."
Everyone was looking at each other, as if asking the other if they knew. Haseo groaned " I think I saw the little twerp heading for the main gate to head for a field, hang on I'll send him a message." he said as he stood still for a while, then his face turned to an annoyed look. " He says he got lost on one of the temple like dungeons...again."
Everyone sighed " Well someone better go get him here so he can tell us what the hell this thing is." Cubia said, but he was already looking at the white haired rouge and pretty soon everyone else was too.
Haseo looked from one side to the other " Oh hell no, you can't expect me to get the brat here."
" But Haseo, Zelkova looks up to you. So you're the best candidate to do it." Atoli told the white hair boy.
" More like he has a freaking crush on me! Have you seen how that kid looks at me!?" he said as he had some flashback about said moments making him shiver.
Shadow sighed " Haseo, there comes a time were a boy becomes a man by..."
" Stop right there." Haseo said cutting the black hair Kite " I'll go since it's obvious you are trying to make me say something stupid and force the female portion of our group to kill me if I don't go. Come on Shugo, Cubia, we're heading to find the little goat kid."
" Why do we have to go!?" they both shouted.
Haseo turned to them and smiled " Because if you don't then I'll simply show these pictures of you two cuddling in your sleep with each other to the entire guild." he whispered to them taking out some pictures and showing it to them.
Both cursed the white hair boy as they left to follow him and his quest to find Zelkova. Shadow looked at them and smirk " I'm very impressed. He figure out what I was doing before I even had the chance to do it."
" That's because you used it on that stupid brat Azure." Kite replied before he looked around " Speaking of which, hasn't he return from his search for Aura yet?"
They Twilight Knights were about to shake their heads when out of nowhere a blue ball entered the town and floated down to the empty corner where they were currently talking before the sphere expanded and there was Azure Kite staring at the group. " Hey, I'm back. I talk to Aura about the whole incident thing and she agreed to help us finding these guys."
Everyone was cheering for his success while Kite grinned evilly at him " So, care to tell me what sort of torture she gave you before agreeing to help us. Did she slapped you or something worse?"
The blue version of Kite averted his eyes " Not exactly."
Flashback
Azure K. took a deep breath before the huge door with the infinity symbol in front of him. It was easy enough to find where Aura was, now the hard parts begins. Once more he took a breath of air before he opened the doors. The woman with the white hair turned to look at who had decided to disturb her and her eyes widen. " Um, hi Aura." the young knight said in a timid voice and waited for the onslaught he was sure to come.
Aura moved rapidly toward him, making her look like a blur, and embrace the knight with all her might " Oh, Azure Kite, my baby! You had me so worry, with the going berserk and then evil and then leaving us to live with Kite! What where you thinking worrying your creator like that!" her eyes suddenly narrowed and grabbed the knight by the collar and began to slap him multiple times " How dare you worry me like that!!! Do you know, how many days has gone by since I last saw you!! At least give me a call!!" she then put him down and gave him a death hug " I was so worry!!" she began to cry.
Azure was turning even more blue than possible " I... missed you....too..." he try to say while trying to breath.
The ultimate A.I. let him go " I'm glad to see that you're alright. Now..." she said as she put on her best smile "...what can I do for you?"
" Well...." the young knight started explaining the entire situation to his creator and what was at stake if they were to fail.
" Ah, I see. Yes, I have been sensing their presence ever since they got here. But it's difficult to tell were exactly it's coming from. It may take some time, but I think I can find where they are if a work at it." she replied.
" Really!? Thank Aura!!" A. Kite shouted happily.
Aura smiled " Well then, you better go to the rest of the Twilight Knights and tell them that I'm going to do my best to find these intruders as quickly as possible."
The young knight nodded " Alright." he said as he turned to leave.
" Just, remember to visit from time to time, ok?" she added with a soft smile.
" Ok, I promise." he smiled at that before he left.
End of Flashback
Azure Kite shrugged at the other Kite " It went better than I thought it would."
Kite raised a brow " That's it? No threats, no I'm going to kill you you little bastard, no prepare to die? Darn, and I thought I could get a good laugh out of this."
" Well that means your luck is running out from aging too much!" Azure snapped.
Kite's eye twitch " Why you little...!!"
" Alright that's enough from you two." Shadow intervene before things got out of hand...again.
" But..." Kite started to say because he didn't even had a chance to insult the blue hair clone.
" No buts. Let's head out and do one final search on the fields and see if we can find another one of those crystals." he then turned to the smaller knight " Azure, you'll be coming with us too."
The knight huffed " Fine."
" Good. The rest of you go and search as well while Haseo and the others find Zelkova. If you find one of those monster infected with the crystal, contact us instead of facing it. We'll take it down together." Everyone nodded at Shadow's order before he left.
Kite growled " Who died and made you leader of my team!!"
" I simply gave them order since their fearless leader was having a whining attack." Shadow smirked as he dodge a blow from Kite.
The entire guild moved quickly and headed to different fields to investigate one more time before calling it off for the day.
( Random field )
The Kite triplets walked aimlessly through the dungeon trying to find anything they could use to help them in their quest to save the world. But so far nothing had come out and quite frankly the original Kite was getting pissed off by the circumstance.
" Why the hell haven't we found anything yet!!" the taller twin blade shouted, clearly showing his frustration.
Shadow shook his head, he was tired himself from all the searching " You can't expect to know what we're up against like the case with Shicksal. We're not that lucky."
" In which you were the mastermind behind the whole ordeal." Kite said eying the other, only to realize his mistake. Shadow didn't like one bit to be reminded of what he did in the past. " Shadow...I-I'm..."
" Just drop it!" the raven cut him off with irritation but let it go before turning to the younger Kite " Did you find anything at all Azure?"
The young knight had his hands on the wall sending blue waves through it " Hm...I'm picking something weird. It's like there is someone here, but I can't pick his exact location."
Shadow was in a thinking pose now, his eye frowning at what he was just told " It might be something weird or a bug is interfering with your scan." he then let out a sigh " Either way this place has no clues to offer. Let's head back so Kite can log off and save any progress he had."
They began to walk out of the dungeon, Kite was now frowning in though " You know...it's weird. How I have to save and all that crud when this world is not a game, yet similar to one."
" Isn't it?" a voice echoed.
The three stopped and pull out there weapons out, looking at in every direction " Something's not right here guys. The atmosphere around us suddenly turned heavy." Azure said holding his blades tight.
" Show yourself!" Kite demanded.
Footsteps could be heard from behind them, making them turned around quickly a face what ever it was. From out of the shadows walked out a woman with short violet hair that reach to her shoulders. She wore a goth looking dark blue dress that seem capable of withstanding sudden movement. Her eyes were the most shocking of all for the were silver with a spiral acting as her pupil.
She slowly stopped in front of with a neutral face and bowed " Greetings leader of the Twilight Knights, leader of the Shadow Knights, and leader of the Azure Knights. It is an honor to finally meet you all face to face."
Shadow eyed this woman carefully while Azure Kite spoke " Who are you?"
The woman neutral face never left her " I am known as Vanity."
The raven was the one to speak now " Are you one of the beings going around destroying worlds?"
Kite's eyes narrowed dangerously, waiting for the answer the woman would give. Vanity sighed before crossing her arms " Yes. I am."
" You bastard! I'm going to..." he was about to run toward the woman but was stopped by Shadow standing in his way. " Move." he growled lowly.
The raven ignored this " Who are you working for. It's obvious you aren't the one giving the orders here, are you?"
The woman smirked " Very clever. Yes I am just one of the two lackeys that followed a superior being in his conquest for power." she chuckled " But of course I shouldn't be surprised at all, you yourself are smart enough to know the feeling of gaining power in order to get something, don't you Shadow Kite?"
" He's not that Shadow anymore! He no longer wishes to harm anyone in the world, he wants to protect them!" Azure shouted, now he was getting angry at this woman.
The woman chuckled again " Oh, I'm not talking about him wanting to destroy 'The World' to create a seemingly peaceful world. No, I'm talking about something from before any of that happened, on that fateful day, right Shadow?"
Shadow's eyes darkened as he glared viciously at the woman but said nothing. He silently dared her to continue talking while making the atmosphere around him deep and heavy. Kite and Azure notice the change and backed away from the raven teen. " S-Shadow...?"
" Relax oh dark one, a being of your deadly abilities and determination shouldn't get work up about the past. I just came here to warn you. Back off while we're giving you the chance to do so champions of the gods. This will be the only chance you'll get to leave safely out of this world, you won't get another." Vanity told them with her smirk growing.
" Forget it! You invade 'The World' and now you expect us to just leave you to your twisted games? Screw you!!" Kite shouted.
Vanity scowled " Fine then! Just remember I gave you the chance to walk away." with that she vanished.
The area's atmosphere turned back to normal as the three put away their weapons. Azure turned to look at Shadow with curiosity " Hey, what did she meant by all those things she said about you?"
Shadow kept quiet, his bang hiding his eyes " It means nothing. Let's get out of here and tell the others what we found here." he walked away leaving to twin blades with many questions behind.