Well a few days later than originally planned. Luckily everything returned to normal for me just in time because I'm going to be gone for roughly three days which would've meant three weeks between this chapter and the last. I suppose it's not really a big deal, but, whatever. With this chapter, I'm proud to say the plot will now be moving towards the end, which considering the story will be about 40 chapters long, it's about time. Enjoy.
"Ryo, we have to go,"Code said suddenly, waking Ryo up one morning.
Ryo opened his eyes and looked around, finding Code standing in the doorway.
"What happened?" Ryo asked, sitting up.
"I recieved a call from Kaiyen. It seems Twilight was spotted in a few fields."
"Since when?"Ryo asked, jumping out of bed.
Code closed his eyes and calmly turned around.
"I'll explain it on the way to Sakura's house. I really don't want to see you in your boxers,"Code said walking downstairs.
Ryo grabbed some clothes and headed downstairs.
"Make it quick,"Code ordered, as Ryo stepped around the base of the stairs.
Ryo rushed his shower, and was back out in a few minutes. Code was already waiting by the door when Ryo got out, so they wasted no time in getting in the car with Kaiyen.
"Suddenly, rumors started appearing on the BBS about an odd character. The description was similar to Twilight's, so we contacted some of the people posting the topics. Of course we used a fake character to contact them, but that's not important. From the looks of things Twilight has started attacking some of the players. From what we've gathered, the earliest spotting was late last night. Apparently Twilight has been busy. The rumors have already started spreading like wildfire and it seems that everyone is talking about it. We won't be able to keep this low key anymore, and we'll have to stop Twilight sooner than later,"Kaiyen explained to Ryo.
"The big difference between now and before, is that before, the rumors, for the most part, were ignored and few people bought into it, but Twilight's doing a number on every field she visits and it's impossible to cover up the evidence. People as a mass usually follow eachother blindly, and with people talking about the rumors so much, you know people are going to be idiots and actually chase after Twilight just to see her. It'll be like protecting a blind man feeling his way around a room full of sharp weapons without him knowing we're there,"Code stated in addition to Kaiyen's explanation.
"If I recall, you said before you wanted to make Twilight pay for all the trouble she's caused. It looks she'll have even more to answer for at this point,"Kaiyen said, parking in front of Sakura's house.
Code jumped out, heading towards Sakura's front door.
"If I remember correctly, the raid on the Deletion Zone took place like two weeks ago. Does that mean Twilight recovered just from that raid or do you think she's completely recovered?"Ryo asked.
"If these two weeks were spent just recovering just from the raid, then I'd feel relieved because her healing capabilities would be slow. I think in this case, it's probably niether of those situations. She's probably recovered enough to use her powers with little to no effect on herself anymore."
"Now that you mention it, didn't someone say something about Twilight saying that her powers used up a lot of her energy?"Ryo asked.
Before Kaiyen could respond, Code stepped inside the passenger seat. Sakura was getting in the back seat with Ryo at this point, and before they were even in, Code ordered Kaiyen to drive. As soon as the doors closed, Kaiyen took off, explaining the situation once more to Sakura. Kaiyen drove as fast as possible, while avoiding police. They soon reached the institute. The three got out of the vehicle at the front entrance and Kaiyen took the car to the garage.
"You changed back to your blue dress,"Ryo mentioned as they stepped inside the front doors.
"So does that mean Ryo's been checking out my body?"Sakura said, grabbing Ryo by the arm,"I decided to stay with this, because it's still kinda cold out."
"You two will report with me to the computer room. I'll see if we can get anymore back-up, but we need to at least stop Twilight from wandering around like this. I guess this was my mistake, just because she went into hiding I decided to take it easy,"Code said, his back at the two the whole time.
There was a silence after that order as the two just followed Code. Once in the computer room, Code once again ordered the two to their computers. Thanks to Kaiyen, everyone else was already in position for Code to take command. And although he didn't say it, Ryo could tell Code was grateful for the convinience of everything being set.
"I guess, he made a good choice, picking Kaiyen as his apprentice,"Ryo commented, logging into "The World" for the first time in awhile.
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Coinchii appeared in Mac Anu, shortly before Miryo.
"Stay there until I give you further orders,"Code replied to the two as soon as their golden rings disappeared.
"He seems kind of upset,"Miryo whispered to Coinchii.
"I don't know why, but he's blaming himself for this,"Coinchii responded.
The two sat their in silence, waiting for Code to say something.
"I can't be sure yet, but a new topic was just posted on the BBS about witnessing the 'Devil Girl'. He said his friend was killed in-game and when he didn't answer his phone in real life, the player quickly left. The area is Theta Flying Apple Merchant Hometown,"Code said quickly.
Miryo and Coinchii quickly formed a party and went to Theta via the Chaos Gate. Before their golden rings even vanished, they shouted the area keywords and vanished again. Once materializing they were greeted by a large explosion. The field was in horrible condition. Every few feet there was hole, revealing the data stream in an otherwise normal looking desert themed area. Shouts were heard following the explosion so the two ran to where it came from.
"Help!"a twinblade shouted franticly, running away from an incredibly pissed off looking Twilight.
"Twilight really is here, but why?"Coinchii asked, pulling his weapon out.
The twinblade spotted Coinchii and Miryo and turned suddenly to run towards them.
"Stop!"Coinchii shouted at the twinblade.
The twinblade however was too frightened to listen and ended up running straight into a data hole. He fell and not even a scream was heard as his player was suddenly shot back out. The character was physically torn into piece with the lines of data that made up his character slowly dissolving into the air. What remained of his character slowly began to dissolve as well
"Damned worthless players want to disturb my recovery,"Twilight shouted, watching the character dissolve into the air with an expression of pure fear pasted onto the player's face.
"Rai Don!"Miryo shouted.
A lightning bolt struck Twilight, but did little, if any, damage to her. Twilight slowly turned towards the two, surprised at their presence.
"Coinchii was it? I'll tear you to pieces and take Jugatsu from you. When I return to my former glory, you'll be the first person I kill,"Twilight said, a ball of white energy appearing in front of her.
"Dusk...No matter how you look at it, you're still Dusk. Do you really think you can beat Jugatsu? You looked pretty pitiful in that fight, you know,"Coinchii taunted.
"What do you know?"Twilight replied coldly, unleashing her beam across the field towards the two.
The two managed to get out of the way thanks to their distance from Twilight.
"Miryo, just focus on healing. From what I saw in Jugatsu's memories, if you're healed in game it seems to help even with the real body,"Coinchii shouted to her across the large strip of data hole that was freshly created by Twilight.
Twilight let out a scream and teleported closer, a smaller beam already flying at Coinchii. The beam hit dead on, too quick for Coinchii to block. Ryo stood back up, Twilight's attack was fast but didn't pack as much power. While it was painful, it was relatively easy to ignore.
"This pain is nothing compared what Jugatsu endured. There's no way I'm staying down from such a weak attack,"Coinchii shouted, jumping forward and slashing at Twilight.
Twilight quickly spun around using her two swords as a shield against Coinchii's attacks. She followed up her defense with a psychic hold and Coinchii found himself unable to move.
"You want a bigger attack?"Twilight asked.
Coinchii's body began moving on its own. The first thing his body did was drop his sword, afterwards he put his arms out wide against his will, leaving himself exposed to any attack. White energy soon began seeping out of Twilight's body, rising into the air. Twilight closed her eyes, preparing for her attack.
Dammit, get away, Sakura. Coinchii thought, unable to speak, as Miryo was trying to pull him away.
The attack was unleashed, two small beams shot out past Coinchii, a good way across the field, but the explosion was unbelievable. The beam almost reached the horizon of their sight, but the explosion fell only a few yards of making contact with Coinchii and Miryo. Coinchii picked up his sword, but his hands were shaking after witnessing such an attack. Coinchii had to force himself to look at Twilight.
"I made it,"AnakinseZ said, panting, sword drawn and next to Twilight who had a gash in her side.
His attack threw Twilight's aim off it seemed. There was a white glow around the wound and it was quickly healed.
"Don't interfere,"Twilight shouted, unleashing a wave of psychic power towards AnakinseZ.
He managed to hold his ground for a few seconds before the wave of psychic power picked him off the ground and threw him back at least fifty feet. Luckily, he managed to avoid any data holes.
"Zero, get out here,"Twilight said suddenly.
"Zero?"Coinchii asked, recieving yet another surprise as Zero appeared next to Twilight from golden rings.
"Stop that guy from intefering again, I almost had Coinchii,"Twilight ordered.
"Zero, are you-"Coinchii began to ask.
Zero took one glance at Coinchii before his weapons appeared from his bracer. In the blink of the an eye Zero was charging towards AnakinseZ, who was in a defensive stance.
"Why would Zero be working for Twilight?"Miryo asked, standing behind Coinchii who hadn't moved since grabbing his weapon.
A ball of light suddenly hit Miryo sending her flying.
"Sakura!"Coinchii shouted, turning towards Miryo.
Miryo slid to the edge of a data hole. It was easy to see she was in pain.
"Now it's just me and you,"Twilight said, floating closer to Coinchii.
Coinchii let out a shout and charged at Twilight, slashing twice, but missing both times. Twilight's hand came out from her sleeve and threw a ball of energy at Coinchii. Coinchii figured by this point that beam attacks required charging while merely throwing the energy balls was quick and required no charging beyond summoning the energy. Coinchii slashed through the first ball of energy, making it explode right in front of him. Thanks to it, Twilight missed him as a larger ball of energy appeared from the smoke. Coinchii slashed through the smoke, creating a small line to look though. Twilight was just on the other side, waiting for Coinchii.
"So it's true. Momiri had her suspicions, but there wasn't any real evidence until now,"AnakinseZ said, blocking attacks by Zero.
Zero continued attacking, not responding to anything AnakinseZ spoke of. Despite AnakinseZ's experience and skill in playing, Zero still had him topped and was slowly, but surely pushing AnakinseZ backwards.
"Why are you working for Twilight?"AnakinseZ asked.
The question only seemed to aggitate Zero as he suddenly began attacking faster, but also with less aim. AnakinseZ took advantage of the situation and spun his sword around 360 degrees in front of him. It knocked back any of Zero's attacks, and gave AnakinseZ a good opportunity to get in an attack. AnakinseZ decided to take it, and thrusted his sword towards Zero who leaped back. AnakinseZ got back in his battle stance, waiting for Zero to approach, but instead Zero just pointed his hand towards AnakinseZ. AnankinseZ remained motionless, wondering if it was possible for him to have powers similar to Twilight. He barely had time to react, it wasn't an energy or psychic attack, but the blade from Zero's weapon shot out towards AnakinseZ. It skimmed by, but still managed to cut AnakinseZ's arm. Since the area was in the influence of the AI however, an attack like that still had a physical effect, causing AnakinseZ to feel a sting from it. The weapon retreated back via a chain pully within Zero's weapon.
"Damn event weapons,"AnakinseZ muttered, repositioning his sword for better defense reaction.
Coinchii managed to get up to Twilight and slashed at her three times, but no matter what Coinchii did he couldn't land a hit on Twilight who continued to defy gravity, hovering backwards whenever Coinchii attacked.
"I'll have to try something else then, but what?"Coinchii said to himself.
Twilight's hands emerged from her sleeves once again, meaning she was throwing more energy balls. Coinchii's body tried to react by itself, but Coinchii held it back. He was surrounded on the sides and back by data holes and if he dodged liked he normally would, he would've ended up jumping into it. Instead Ryo tried to imitate Jugatsu's move from the fight with Azara and charged towards the energy balls. When the energy balls got close, Ryo threw his wieght back, making himself fall backwards, avoiding both energy balls. Before actually landing on the ground though, he caught himself with his free hand and pushed himself up, spinning around in a slash aimed at Twilight. Once again however, Twilight merely hovered backwards, this time she was above a data hole.
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"I know I'm an apprentice, Code, but you can't just send them in like that. You're thinking is clouded when your angry, I'm telling you to let me take command for now,"Kaiyen shouted to Code who sat helplessly in front of his computer, unable to tell what was happening due to Twilight's presence scrambling the data.
"It's my mistake, I'll fix it myself,"Code said, typing at the computer in an attempt to accomplish something.
"We can't contact them and the only person who we could find to help them was AnakinseZ. Sakura fell unconsious and was taken to the infirmary. It's because you're angry and you put no thought into what to do after finding Twilight!"Kaiyen shouted.
Code looked down at the keyboard, knowing it was true. All of the surrounding data phases, looked away, not wanting to get involved with the arguement.
"Fine. I have no choice but to take your point. I'll leave you in charge,"Code said, taking his headset off and tossing it in the chair, walking away.
"Even while angry his abilities are still better than most people's, but when he gets angry he doesn't think ahead,"Kaiyen said to himself, putting the headset on and sitting down,"Now how do I get them out of there?"
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AnakinseZ cursed under his breath. When Zero began his long range attacking, AnakinseZ found it even harder to keep up with the blocking. The direct attacks were easy enough, but when AnakinseZ tried advancing, Zero began using his long range blade attack in other ways. By moving his wrists the right way or taking advantage of gravity, AnakinseZ found himself getting attacked from everywhere except his back. It was only a matter of time before Zero used another trick to attack him from behind though.
Coinchii wasn't doing any better though. Once again to three sides of him, there was nothing but data holes. This time however, it was to the front, left, and back. He had no choice and got ready to run for it as soon as he destroyed the next energy ball Twilight would throw.
"You think I'm that stupid?"Twilight said.
The next attack was so quick Coinchii didn't even notice Twilight threw another energy ball until he heard the explosion to his right. Coinchii stabbed the ground with his weapon. All he had left was a five foot wide circular-esk piece of land. He was now surrounded on all sounds by the abyss of the data stream, and he wasn't about to try jumping since he'd would have to clear atleast 20 feet, something out his ability. The stage was too damaged. Coinchii finally realized this as he looked around. It was in bad shape before they entered and now most of the land in the area belonged to the data abyss.
The angle of Zero's next attack was impossible to block. After gaurding to his left, the other blade arched around and was already heading at AnakinseZ's back. Still trying to fight, AnakinseZ turned, swinging his sword, but he was too slow and the blade stabbed into AnakinseZ's shoulder before withdrawing and pulling blood with it.
"Even...if this is...in a game...the blood...really makes me uncomfortable,"AnakinseZ grunted, his arm twitching before falling to his side.
"Just be grateful that in the real world it can be fixed. Technology has progressed that far, right?"Zero replied, slashing at the air, sending the blood from his weapons.
His weapons disappeared in his bracers and Zero turned towards Twilight. AnakinseZ realized it at this point. Even though Zero did betray them he didn't seem to want to kill them. It wasn't against Zero's will, he willingly chose to ally with Twilight, but why? That was still beyond AnakinseZ. AnakinseZ gave into his defeat, and put his weapon away on his back, holding his right shoulder in an attempt to ease the pain. He looked over at Twilight and was wide-eyed. He saw Coinchii on his small remnants of land and Twilight's arm stretched out towards him.
"I have nothing else I can do, dammit. Even after Miryo was injured I couldn't do anything,"Coinchii said angrily, punching the ground repeatedly.
He couldn't hear anything from Twilight even after he stopped talking and continued punching the ground. Coinchii finally stopped and looked at Twilight.
"Aren't you going to do something now? Kill Jugatsu whose in me? Absorb me so you can get access to his data?"Coinchii asked spitefully.
"I'm merely enjoying your defeat. You whose caused me so much trouble, and the bastard inside of you who put me through this needless ordeal in an attempt to gain freedom from this mere game,"Twilight said, her words leading into a laugh.
"Freedom?"Coinchii asked, still angry about his loss.
"These swords on my back will allow me to leave this game and enter the real world. However, due to the fact this body is partially that witch Dawn's, I'm unable to use them. However if I can get access to Jugatsu's bracelet I can use it's immense power to reconfigure my body. I can remove the damn limiter Dawn placed on her own body, adjust my appearance, and anything else. If you can imagine it, that bracelet can accomplish it. And like the fool players who held these swords, Jugatsu was ignorant to the power he could access through that bracelet. When I finish up with the bracelet, I couldn't care less what happens because I'll use these swords to create a hole, allowing me escape into the real world."
"What then?"Coinchii asked.
"Then? I'll do whatever I want. Conquor the world, destroy it, start an empire, if I find the world entertaining I could live normally in it for some laughs, I could do whatever I want. Nothing would be able to stop me,"Twilight replied, an evil happiness in her voice.
"I never would've figured losing in here would have such a drastic consequence. I suppose in the back of my mind I always figured that if worse came to worse we would be able to just shut down "The World". Sure we would be sacrificing Jugatsu, but he'd probably be willing to make that sacrifice...Long story short, if it's come to this, I still have one option left,"Coinchii said, now standing up.
"It seems I no longer have enjoyment from your defeat. I'll move to the next step,"Twilight said, her hand glowing.
"I'm not going to give you that chance,"Coinchii shouted, grabbing his sword and jumping at Twilight who merely hovered back to dodge it.
Perfect, she dodged what she thought was an attack but was really me just jumping into the data abyss. This way she can't get to Jugatsu. I didn't think I'd end up doing something this extreme though. Coinchii thought, staring into the data abyss. He resigned himself to his fate and closed his eyes, awaiting for his character's data destruction. However when it didn't come Coinchii slowly opened his eyes.
"If you want to die that badly commit suicide after I'm through with you,"Twilight shouted, using her powers to slam Coinchii back onto island.
Coinchii opened his mouth to shout in pain, but the land from beneath him covered his mouth and limbs. It was Kiiro's power, Twilight was warping the land in order to keep Coinchii from moving without having to make use of her psychic powers. Coinchii wondered if it was because there was a limit on her powers, or if she wasn't sure how much energy her next action would consume.
Her hand began glowing once again and this time instead of a circle appearing in front of herself the circle appeared on the ground next to Coinchii. There was an immense amount of pain following as a single rope of light came out from the middle of it. It shot straight up before doing a U-turn and impaling Coinchii's stomach. Due to the land covering his mouth he was unable to scream, and unable to move. It felt as if he would die, unable to react to the pain which for him was unendurable. Originally a rope of white light, after it began to absorb Coinchii's data it turned into a black light, and the circle was slowly turning black as well.
"What's she doing?"AnakinseZ asked, slowly standing up.
"She's bringing Jugatsu out of Coinchii,"Zero answered, facing the scene.
"Bringing Jugatsu...out of Coinchii?"AnakinseZ asked, standing up for the most part, albiet hunched over due to pain.
"Just like how Twilight has been slowly recovering since what you guys decided to call the Twilight Swords Incident, so has Jugatsu. The reason Twilight waited to start persueing Jugatsu was because Twilight already came to that conclusion. So Twilight waited until she could completely sense Jugatsu within Coinchii. Obviously extracting his data from Coinchii before he recovered enough would prove to be troublesome if his physical form wasn't at least ready. Even now, Twilight hasn't completely recovered, but if she can get access to Jugatsu's bracelet, then it won't matter how recovered she currently is because of all the power she'll be able to access via the bracelet."
"How will she get Jugatsu's bracelet from him?"AnakinseZ asked, curious.
"All she needs to do is attack Jugatsu until he's too weak to even move. At such a point he can't use the bracelet's power and Twilight will have ample time to use her powers to access it. After she's done with it she'll use her new powers to take the bracelet. Or at least she believes she'll be able to."
"How do you know all this?"AnakinseZ asked, knowing beyond a doubt at this point Zero joined her of his own will.
"When Twilight is finally ready to leave, I'm going with her. As you know, I had an accident in the real world and unable to cope with the pain of reality, I escaped into "The World". But after so many years of being in here I grew tired of this place. Twilight has promised me that I'll be able to escape with her. In exchange she needed three things. My loyalty to her, for me to listen to her commands, and to work as a spy and provide with her information were the three things she needed. The best part is when I escape to the real world I'll have this body so not only will I not have to cope with the previous problems, I'll have the body of a super human,"Zero replied, more serious than AnakinseZ had ever seen him.
"You endangered everyone in this world, the real world, and betrayed your friends in order to make yourself happy!? You belong with Twilight,"AnakinseZ replied, angry.
"How would you know how it feels? Besides as you already know you can't stop me even when you're at your best, you can't even land one attack,"Zero said, provoking AnakinseZ to attempt another strike.
AnakinseZ cursed himself, knowing it was true, and since his right arm was useless at this point he'd be at even more of a disadvantage.
The white circle by this point was almost completely black and Coinchii had no energy left to even react to the pain. As soon as this finished, Coinchii knew he wouldn't be able to move. AnakinseZ had vanished from his sight since he protected Coinchii from Twilight's attack at the start. Same with Zero. Coinchii wasn't sure who would be stronger if they were fighting, perhaps they were still fighting now. If so, it didn't look like anyone would be able to save him.
The rope of black light finally left Coinchii, vanishing in the circle which was now completely black. Coinchii could here Twilight's laugh. Without any energy, he found it hard to even keep his eyes open, so he was unable to see anything except the blue sky that covered the field. Unlike everything that was happening beneath it, the sky still looked so calm. Virtual or not, the sky was something that didn't have to worry about what happened, because it wasn't something that could be affected by anything. It was unfair that it could get by without worry. Coinchii closed his eyes, jealous, defeated, useless, and awaited for Twilight to finish him off, knowing that the only thing saving his life was just taken by force from him.
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"Kaiyen, Ryo's eyes!"someone shouted suddenly.
"What about them?"Kaiyen asked, thinking at first Jugatsu had taken over.
"His red eye returned to normal. They're closed now, but before he closed his eyes the camera in his helmet picked up footage of his red eye slowly changing blue, like his other one."
"Code put that camera in the helmet because Ryo's eyes turned red when Jugatsu took over, since they both turned blue...what does that mean?"Kaiyen asked, unable tell what was occuring within that map.
That was when he made a decision that seemed blantenly obvious, and at the same time useless, but as for now needed. Kaiyen removed the head set and walked over to his old computer in the room. He put on the helmet and began to sign in as the Long Arm, Orion.
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"It's,"AnakinseZ replied, astounded at what he was seeing.
"I told you,"Zero stated, watching it as well.
"Finally, after all this time,"Twilight said, revealing her hand and getting a large ball of energy ready.
The circle next to the now unconscience Coinchii had vanished. Kneeling where it was once positioned was a twinblade with spiky, blond hair. He wore a tight, black shirt underneath a black leather vest. Over a good portion of his chest and almost completely covering his arms were bandages that disappeared beneath his black, leather gauntlet. He had black, large pants on that covered the top of his black shoes. His large black cloak moved when he stood up and covered everything from the neck down. He pushed it to the side with his right hand pointed at Coinchii. On his wrist his blocky, golden bracelet began to glow. In a flash of light Coinchii vanished.
"Now that he's back in town, I have to get off of this island,"Jugatsu stated, pulling his daggers out.
They looked normal, but his bracelet began to glow once more and the two daggers turned into swords that were completely black with the exception of a golden tip that ran down the blade and into the black handle.
"Let's see how used to this bracelet I still am,"Jugatsu said once more, the bracelet shining with a golden light yet again.
Jugatsu disappeared in a golden light and appeared on a larger mass of land. He still felt slightly nervous about the fact the data abyss took up most of the level.
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Orion appeared in Dun Lorieg, before teleporting to Theta Flying Apple Merchant Hometown, he paused. There was a large crowd circled around someone. Orion forced his way through and found Coinchii laying on the ground.
"He's probably just another player that fell asleep while playing, it's pretty common."
"Some people actually find places to sleep in "The World" just so they don't have to log off."
"Why would someone sleep in the middle of the walkway to the Chaos Gate though?"
Orion stepped in at this point, and picked up Coinchii.
"I'll move him, everyone's blocking the path to the Chaos Gate by surrounding this guy,"Orion stated, pretending to be a normal player.
Orion took off his headset for a moment to order someone to get Ryo. Afterwards he moved Coinchii's body to the side of a building and laid him down until someone logged him off. He returned to the Chaos Gate and, after making sure no one was around to follow him, said the area word and vanished.
He appeared in Theta Flying Apple Merchant Hometown to find most of the level of ruined. He appeared in an area that was by the edge of the land and almost fell into the data abyss, just by warping in. He looked around, spotting AnakinseZ standing by Zero. Off a fair distance he saw another character he almost didn't recognize staring at Twilight. Orion ran to AnakinseZ and Zero who were closer to confirm whether or not that was the whole Jugatsu.
"Someone else has come,"AnakinseZ said, looking at Orion as he jumped and ran on all the remaining pieces of land.
Zero didn't hesitate and launched a long range blade attack as soon as Orion landed, however Orion used his spear and twisted the chain around the body of his spear. Zero merely grinned and used his other blade to launch another attack while pulling in his blade, Orion's spear with it.
"No way,"AnakinseZ responded, upon Orion's action.
Orion continued to hold onto his spear and twisted it around in order to do same thing he did with the first chain, to Zero's second.
"Impressive, even while he was being pulled in he held onto his spear and used it to tie up both chains. Now Zero will have to drag Orion into close range, where he'll have the advantage due to his spear being able to attack at a longer distance while not being far away enough for Zero to his long range attack
"I think it's about time we stop talking and just fight,"Jugatsu said casually to Twilight who looked angry at the fact Jugatsu was able to use the bracelet's power without becoming as tired as when Twilight used her powers.
"Maybe another time. You should be grateful you have your own body back. Also I'm not about to lie, I know I'm in no shape to fight after performing such an advanced skill as dividing your data from that boy's,"Twilight responded.
"I probably would be grateful if it wasn't for the fact you were just after this,"Jugatsu replied, raising his wrist towards Twilight.
Twilight merely frowned and teleported to Zero.
"Twilight,"Orion shouted, still being pulled in slowly by Zero.
"We're retreating for now,"Twilight stated.
Zero nodded and vanished along with Twilight's white light. His chains vanished, leaving Orion and his spear free. There was a golden light and Jugatsu appeared near AnakinseZ and Orion.
"You're Jugatsu, right? What happened? You have your body back,"Orion replied, surprised.
AnakinseZ retold the events from his entrance to the point where Orion appeared. Afterwards, he excused himself. He wanted to call someone to transport him to the hospital. His left shoulder still stung from Zero's first long range attack and his right arm wasn't responding from the other attack.
"If what Zero said was true, about the swords and Twilight's plans. Then you'll have to stay somewhere safe. Do you know any places where you can remain hidden? Everyone whose trying to stop Twilight will know about you soon enough, but I'd prefer if you avoid interaction with normal players for the time being,"Orion asked.
"No problem, I know just the place if no one else is there. It's in Mac Anu. Just ask Skyld or AnakinseZ if they're on, they should know where the place is,"Jugatsu replied.
His daggers returned to normal and he put them away. The two warped back out to town.
"Let me know when Ryo gets better. When I was in his head I was aware what happening to him, but not to anything around him. When I finally returned to being myself and inside my body, I found him unconscience. I used the bracelet to send him to town, but I don't know what happened afterwards,"Jugatsu said low enough for Orion alone to hear.
"Of course. He'll probably be back on as soon as he hears about you anyways,"Orion replied.
Jugatsu nodded and warped to Mac Anu as Orion logged out.
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Kaiyen removed his helmet and gave out orders to the data phases.
I'll have to tell Code what I was told. What happens next is a decision that can only be made by his authority. I would've liked to ask Jugatsu more, but at the moment it's best to take what we had to take since it's a good amount of information and with such a drastic turn of events, anything Code might have planned will most likely be altered now. Kaiyen thought as he gave out orders.
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Jugatsu sat against the wall of his old hang out spot. He enjoyed the view and it seemed nobody else knew about it still.
"Everything will probably end quickly, now,"Jugatsu said aloud to himself.
Hope everyone liked the chapter. Reviews and such welcome. I've made some progress on chapter 37, but I can't really estimate a release time at the moment due to the fact I'll be unable to work on it for at least the next three days, and following that I'm unsure of what I'll be doing and whether or not I'll have any chances to work on 37.