Having been chased out of yet another field by PKers, Silabus sighed, head hung low. Gaspard waddled slowly behind him, becoming more and more clingy towards Silabus; as if he were afraid that Silabus, too, would leave him. But Silabus wouldn't do that to Gaspard. He couldn't. Not if he could help it, anyway.
"Hey, Silabus?" Gaspard said, voice low and shaky. Probably trying to not to cry - that had been one of the things the PKers had made fun of him for.
"What's up, Gaspard?" Silabus asked, as if everything were normal. As if Gaspard was trying not to cry, as if Kuhn hadn't left, as if Alkaid were still the Arena Emperor, as if Silabus wasn't a guildmaster...
"I... I miss Kuhn," Gaspard admitted, voice small. Shyly, he looked up at Silabus; no doubt he was thinking Silabus would take offense to that, as if Silabus was going to think that Gaspard was implying Silabus was doing a bad job. And maybe Silabus was, but he was trying! He really was! He hosted seminars and did his best to recruit and...
"Me too," Silabus said softly, "I really miss him."
"Things are different now," murmured Gaspard. "I don't know if I like it.."
"It'll get better, Gaspard!" Silabus said, slipping into the 'encourager' role easily. "Don't give up yet!"
"I'm not! It's just.. it's so h-hard..." Gaspard hiccuped, sniffling. "W-we can't even go into a normal field anymore without som-someone trying to PK us, a-and how are we ever going to ge-"
Gaspard continued crying, but a flash of blue had caught Silabus' eye.
It couldn't be... could it?
"Kuhn..?" Silabus said quietly, brow furrowed. To Gaspard, he exclaimed, "I'll be right back!" and ran off towards where he had seen the blue-haired character go.
Just as he was about to round a corner, he heard Gaspard crash into someone. Pausing for a moment, Yuuichi tightened his grip on the controller. Did he go after Kuhn (or someone that looked like him), or did he help out Gaspard..? He was a guildmaster now, and.. he couldn't stay in the past. Not anymore!
Turning around, Silabus ran back to Gaspard, only to see a teenage boy with silver hair dressed in black leather.
Haseo.
Note: It's been a LONG time since I've played the first //GU game, so I apologize for the OOCness and inaccurate-ness of this chapter. We'll go with the "This is AU, and thus I can bend the original storyline a bit" excuse.