Chapter 27: Heading back
[Hey everyone, sorry for the long break in chapters, I've had to readjust to school again and was just not feeling like writing as much. But I've been doing a few creative projects lately and I figured it was about time I got back to posting, now this will probably be the last romantic-ish chapter for a bit since the next chapter or so will be based on the next B.O.B. and it will be a while before the next chapter since I will condense the B.O.B into one or two big chapters, there will be some cute moments, but the romance will pick up again for February around Valentine's day. Link Start!]
Asada was running down a dark hallway. She was chasing after Eric who was being dragged away by Dulk. "Eric!" Asada screamed as she ran as fast as she could. She was freezing cold and was so tired she couldn't run very fast. Dulk and Eric always seemed several feet ahead of her. Asada screamed and screamed while going as fast as she could. But it was no use. Suddenly Asada felt herself warm up and the hallway lit up with light. Eric broke free of Dulk's hold, Eric landed one solid blow and Dulk just vanished. "Eric!" Asada yelled as she ran towards him.
"Asada… no matter what I'll always be next to you. Even if I have to defeat another evil group to do it." Eric said as he vanished. Asada looked around and suddenly the hallway disappeared and she was left in nothing but blank. Asada woke up gasping for air. "It's ok, you were just having a nightmare." Eric said in a comforting voice as he hugged Asada.
"Eric…" Asada said as she gripped him tight. "What time is it?" Asada asked as she loosened her grip slightly, but still held on to him.
"6:50 in the morning." Eric replied. "You should try to go back to sleep." Eric suggested. Asada shook her head no. "Wanna talk about it?" Eric asked.
"Not really." Asada said.
"Ok, well we have a flight to catch today so we both need our rest." Eric said as he laid back down and pulled Asada to his side, she buried her head against his chest. "If you need me just wake me up." Eric said.
"Ok." Asada said as she felt herself becoming tired again. Before she knew it she was waking up in the morning. Asada saw that Eric was still asleep. 'I best let him sleep.' Asada thought as she went to move, but she quickly realized she had her arms locked around Eric and he had his arms locked around her. Asada just smiled as she looked at him. Eric started to wake up.
"Good morning." Eric mumbled as he opened his eyes and saw Asada.
"Good morning." Asada said. "Sorry I woke you up, I just went to go move and I guess I shook you." Asada said.
"It's fine." Eric said with a yawn. Eric's phone started ringing, Eric sighed. Asada rolled over and grabbed his phone and handed it to him. "Yello?" Eric asked as he answered.
"Hey man, you just getting up?" Kirito asked.
"Yeah." Eric replied as he sat up. Asada got up and left the room.
"Well sorry to catch you are just getting up I just wanted to ask when is your flight?" Kirito asked.
"Um we leave at 2:00pm so we should be there roughly 1:00am." Eric replied.
"Dang, well I'll drop Cody off at your house tomorrow after noon then for you." Kirito said.
"Thanks." Eric said.
"No problem, I'll let you go." Kirito said.
"Alright bye." Eric said before hanging up. Eric got up and stretched.
"Breakfast is ready." Asada said as she poked her head into the room.
"Got it." Eric said as he made his way to the kitchen. Asada had heated up some instant noodle cups. After a few minutes they both finished eating. "So if we leave now we can go to a few stores on the way to the airport if you want." Eric said.
"Yeah, that sounds nice." Asada said. Eric and Asada said their farewells to Eric's parents, his uncles, and his grandma then they headed off towards town. Eric and Asada walked into a huge anime/game merch store. Asada laughed at how Eric could geek out over all the anime action figures.
"Yo the details on that Vegito." Eric said. "That Ichigo bankai figure has incredible accuracy even with the chains on the sword." Eric said flipping out at all the toys.
"Are you a teenager or a little boy?" Asada asked with a laugh.
"Both." Eric replied as he looked at more figures.
"Well I'm gonna go look at the games, find me when you finish here." Asada said.
"Ok." Eric replied. After looking around for a bit both of them headed to the airport and boarded their flight.
"Are you gonna pass out almost straight away?" Asada asked.
"Nah, I wanna do some work." Eric said as he took out his game character sketchpad. Eric stayed up most of the flight working while talking to Asada, but after a while they both fell asleep. Once they landed they grabbed their bags and hailed a cab and headed to the house. They both passed out shortly after getting home. It was the afternoon when Asada woke up. She wandered the house till she found Eric giving Cody a bath.
"Hey." Asada said.
"Hey." Eric said as he washed his hands and told Cody to sit. "I've got to let the suds sit on him for a bit before I finish his bath.
"Ok, want me to start unpacking?" Asada asked.
"Nah I already did it." Eric replied.
'He must have been up for a bit then.' Asada thought. She noticed Eric looked extremely tired. "How much sleep did you get?" Asada asked.
"Not much." Eric replied with a chuckle.
"Let me finish washing Cody, you should take it easy." Asada said.
"It's fine, I can function fine without lots of sleep." Eric stated.
"Still, I wanna do something since you went and unpacked everything." Asada said.
"Ok." Eric said.
"Go take it easy." Asada said.
"I'll probably log into ALO." Eric said.
"Do that." Asada said. Eric went into his room and laid on his bed with his Amusphere, he logged into ALO.
"Hey." Hunter said.
"Hunter." Eric said as he turned to face him.
"I just logged on." Hunter said.
"Same." Eric said. Eric thought for a minute then decided to speak up. "Instead of waiting want to battle right here right now?" Eric asked.
"I do, but I can tell you have jetlag. So if we battle it won't count as our real battle." Hunter said.
"Ok then let's think of this as a practice run to see how much we need to improve." Eric said.
"Agreed." Hunter said as him and Eric activated their wings and flew off to a good area to battle.
"Shall we begin the practice battle?" Eric asked as he clutched his Demon blood and Cardinal Rage swords in his hands.
"Yeah." Hunter replied as he gripped a single gold katana.
"Then let the battle and smack talk begin." Eric said as he charged at Hunter.
"Can't wait." Hunter said with a smirk as he ran at Eric.
"This won't be a battle, it'll be a kill-fest." Eric said as he moved behind Hunter. Eric got the first hit by slashing Hunter's back. Hunter moved forward and spun around quickly. Eric dragged his sword along the ground and slashed it upwards towards Hunter, Hunter blocked it. But with the force Eric put into the slash it sent Hunter's katana into the air, Eric jumped into the air and kicked Hunter back.
"I hope you don't get over cocky just cause you got a few hits in." Hunter said.
"Ah man you know it's already gone to my head." Eric said as he started walking towards Hunter. Hunter ran at Eric and started trying to punch and kick him. Eric was dodging with ease. Eric yawned and lost focus for a second allowing Hunter to land a barrage of punches. Eric swiftly regained his focus and was able to knock Hunter back with a knee thrust.
"You sure you can fight with that jetlag of yours?" Hunter asked as he threw a punch at Eric. Eric dodged with ease .
"Yeah man, I'm just getting started." Eric said as he backed up. Hunter grabbed his katana. Eric mumbled a spell and gained a mask like the one he had when he fought Faiadrodo.
"You do love anime references don't you?" Hunter asked with a chuckle.
"Yeah." Eric said now using a deep tone.
"But turning into the skull reaper would have given you a better advantage!" Hunter yelled as he rushed at Eric. Eric ran at Hunter then suddenly started disappearing and reappearing all around Hunter. It started happening so much Hunter could count at least 5 Eric's at all times while disappearing and reappearing. "What! There's no way you can move that fast!" Hunter yelled.
"Oh yeah?" Eric asked as he appeared in front of Hunter and landed a solid blow to the chest. Hunter went to go counter but Eric disappeared from in front of him and went back to appearing and disappearing everywhere around him.
"Oh I get it you really are doing that Ichigo crap, the mask and the moving all around. Although that still doesn't explain how you're moving all over the place so quick." Hunter said. Eric appeared behind Hunter and thrusted both of his swords through Hunter's back.
"Who said I was moving really fast?" Eric asked as he kicked Hunter and ripped his blades out.
"That's it!" Hunter shouted as he understood what was happening. "When you did that spell I thought It was to put on that mask and change your voice, but in fact it created illusions of you so the real you can get some sneak attacks." Hunter deducted.
"Smart, however still to late." Eric said as he reappeared to the side of Hunter. Eric slammed the hilt of his demon blood sword against Hunter's head, Eric quickly slashed Hunter with his cardinal's rage sword. Hunter's hp dropped into the red as he fell to the ground. Eric backed up and laughed. "Just surrender so I don't have to waste a revive on you." Eric said.
"I will not give up!" Hunter yelled as he jumped up and ran at Eric.
"This is why I love our battles, no matter what we keep fighting till someone dies." Eric said as he blocked Hunter's katana. Hunter used his katana to force Eric's blades up, Hunter used all his power and jumped off the ground and did a full on tackle. Eric fell to the ground and quickly rolled away and mumbled something before hopping up.
"DIE!" Hunter yelled as he thrusted his katana into Eric's chest. Eric stumbled back.
'Damn he was fast about getting over here to attack me.' Eric thought as he put up his cardinal's rage sword. Eric gripped his demon blood sword with both hands.
"Let's put everything into this last attack since we both have low HP." Hunter said.
"Agreed." Eric said. They charged at each other.
'His jetlag must finally be catching up to him.' Hunter thought as Eric slowed and got wobbly. Hunter was able to dodge Eric's attack and turned around and stabbed Eric in the back dropping his HP to 0, he burst into triangles. "I beat him, but where's his soul orb so I can revive him?" Hunter asked as he looked around. Suddenly Hunter felt a shooting pain in his chest, his HP dropped to 0.
"Being a Spriggan means I got some illusion spells; some people think that would be useless in battle. However anything can be useful if you know how to use it." Eric said as he appeared behind Hunter.
"When you was rolling away you did a spell didn't you?" Hunter asked.
"Yeah." Eric replied as Hunter burst into triangles. Eric revived Hunter.
"Seems like I need to be careful of those spells in our real battle." Hunter said.
"Yeah." Eric said. "Well I'm logging off for now." Eric said.
"Ok, bye." Hunter said.
"Bye." Eric said as he logged off. Eric laid in his bed. 'dang I'm really tired. The fourth bullet of bullets is coming up.' Eric thought.
"How was ALO?" Asada asked from the doorway.
"It was good, I'm really tired now though." Eric replied.
"Yeah, tomorrow shall we practice in GGO for a bit to get ready for the B.O.B?" Asada asked.
"Yeah." Eric replied.
"Cool." Asada said. Eric and Asada cleaned the house a little bit and relaxed until night came.
"Well I'm really tired so I think I'll head to bed." Eric said.
"Yeah I'll head to bed shortly myself, good night." Asada said.
"Good night." Eric said as he went to his room. Eric laid on his bed but just couldn't sleep. 'I'm mega tired, but why can't I sleep? Something just feels off.' Eric thought. Eric laid there for serval minutes till Asada knocked on his door.
"You awake?" Asada asked in a whisper.
"Yeah." Eric replied as he got up and opened the door.
"I'm sorry to bother you but.." Asada trialed off.
"but?" Eric asked.
"After being on that trip and everything I've kinda gotten used to someone next to me when I sleep." Asada replied.
"You want to come sleep next to me?" Eric asked.
"Yeah." Asada replied.
"Ok, just grab your cover so we each have one." Eric said as he went back to bed. Asada went and grabbed her cover and a pillow and came and laid next to Eric.
"Good night." Asada said.
"Good night." Eric said as they laid back to back. Eric yawned. 'Now I'm starting to pass out… I think I've gotten used to having her next to me.' Eric thought as he fell asleep.