Chapter 17: Common cold
[Hello guys, hope everyone is doing good today/tonight. And I wanna do a few chapters of the real world and some ALO and soon some GGO battles and stuff before getting into any real big events in the story. Remember if you like the story then favorite and follow it. Link Start!]
Eric and Sinon walked into Kirito and Asuna's house. "Ya'll are in ALO kinda early." Kirito said.
"Yeah well I was up early and Sinon got up so we thought we would see if anyone else was on." Eric explained.
"Yeah me and Asuna just got on not to long ago." Kirito said.
"Hey Sinon, can you help me in the kitchen?" Asuna asked.
"Sure." Sinon replied. Asuna and Sinon walked into the kitchen, Eric sat on a chair next to the couch Kirito was sitting on.
"You look tired, everything alright?" Kirito asked.
"Yeah, just didn't get back home till late last night." Eric replied with a yawn.
"Oh yeah I forgot, how'd the date at the park last night go?" Kirito asked.
"It was great." Eric replied turning red.
"Anything happen?" Kirito asked with a smirk.
"Nothing that concerns you." Eric answered with his own smirk.
"Fair enough." Kirito said with a laugh. "Say, when the girls get done in the kitchen wanna see about hitting a boss or two?" Kirito asked.
"Sure, I'm always up for a good battle." Eric replied. After a few minutes Asuna and Sinon came out of the kitchen and agreed to go do a few battles. Soon they arrived at a barren desert.
"There should be a giant worm boss here." Kirito said. They all stood on top of a rock.
"I'm gonna hop down and look for a spawner or something." Eric said as he jumped off the rock. Eric only got a few feet away before the ground started to shake and a boss bar for Terramor the deadly appeared.
"Eric get over here quick!" Sinon yelled. Eric turned and ran back towards the rock.
"Look out!" Kirito yelled as the ground behind Eric started to break. A message appeared on their screens; Wings are disabled for this fight, to leave simply win/lose or walk out of the desert.
"Sh-" Eric was cut off by a giant worm-like monster breaking the ground beneath his feet causing him to drop underground. Suddenly Terramor headbutted Eric and it sent him into the air and crashing onto the surface of the ground. Terramor was gone, but his boss bar was still active. Eric stood up and started to run towards the rock again. But just like last time the ground behind Eric shook and Terramor jumped out and hit Eric with it's side and sent him crashing into a different rock a few feet away. Terramor disappeared back underground. Kirito started to get off the rock but stopped when he noticed Eric slowly shaking his head.
"Vibrations in the ground attract it." Eric whispered. But the whisper was just loud enough for Terramor to pin point his location. Terramor burst out the ground and opened his mouth and went to go eat Eric. "Nice try!" Eric yelled as he slammed his demon blood into the ground, the signature blood chains came out and trapped Terramor. Kirito and Asuna rushed off the rock and started trying to slash Terramor while Sinon shot arrow after arrow at him. But Terramor's scales was to hard and none of the attacks did anything. "G-Guy's I'm almost out of MP, get back to the rock fast." Eric said as his MP was nearing 0. Kirito and Asuna was able to get back onto the rock time Eric's MP hit 0, Terramor rushed back underground as Eric ran to the rock and got helped up onto it by Kirito and Sinon.
"How do we fight this thing?" Asuna asked.
"It's belly. That's the only thing I can think of." Eric replied.
"Here." Sinon said as she handed Eric a MP restore potion.
"Thanks." Eric said before drinking it. "I can stand on this rock and active the demon blood sword while ya'll go and attack him." Eric said.
"No, let me do it since I have more MP in total than you do." Sinon said.
"Alright." Eric said as he handed Sinon his sword. Eric pulled out his Cardinals rage sword. "I'll lure him out, time he breaks the surface activate the chains." Eric said. Sinon nodded. Eric hopped onto the ground and started running away from the rock. Soon Terramor jumped out of the ground and into the air, time she saw this Sinon stabbed the demon blood sword into the rock and blood chains came out and trapped Terramor. Kirito and Asuna was next to Eric within a few seconds. The chains had caught Terramor just right and his belly was exposed.
"You were right Eric; the belly has no scales." Asuna said.
"Nice thinking." Kirito said.
"Thanks, now let's end this quickly." Eric said. Eric, Kirito, and Asuna started stabbing and slashing Terramor's belly quickly. After a minute of none stop attacking Terramor was in the red on his last health bar, and Sinon still had a little MP left.
'I have enough MP to give them time to finish th-' Sinon was brought out of her thoughts by the urge to sneeze really bad. Sinon tried fighting it but sneezed and broke into a mini coughing fit, causing her to accidently release her hold on the sword meaning the chains broke. Eric didn't know if it was possible but he could have sworn that he saw Terramor's weird mouth brake into a wicked smile, that "You're so dead." Smile. Eric, Kirito, and Asuna tried to dodge but were to close, Terramor was able to wiggle all around and hit all of them with it's hard scales on his sides. Asuna and Kirito hopped onto different rocks but Eric stood on the ground.
"Eric move!" Kirito shouted.
"I got it." Eric said as he equipped his orange blade sword and duel wielded it with his Cardinals rage. Eric stomped his foot on the ground causing Terramor to leap out and try to eat him again. Eric swiftly dodged and dragged both his swords from the underside of Terramor's mouth all the way down to it's tail tip. Terramor let out an otherworldly scream and shattered into triangles.
"And you didn't think to do that sooner?" Kirito asked as him and Asuna got off the rocks.
"Sorry." Eric said with a nervous laugh. Eric remembered Sinon and quickly ran to her. "You alright?" Eric asked.
"Y-Yeah, my throat just started acting up. I'm sorry I let go." Sinon said.
"It's ok, what matters is you're ok and we won." Eric said as he picked up his Demon blood sword and unequipped all his swords. Sinon coughed. "We should get to a hotel and log off." Eric said.
"I'm fine really." Sinon said. Eric just stared at her. "Fine I can see you don't want to budge." Sinon said giving in. Eric smiled.
"Good." Eric said. Eric and Sinon said their goodbyes to Kirito and Asuna and went to a hotel and logged off. Sinon took off her Amusphere just in time to here knocking at her door.
"Come in." Sinon said fighting a cough. Eric walked in.
"how are you feeling?" Eric asked.
"Just peachy." Sinon replied with strain in her voice. Eric walked over to her and put his hand on her forehead.
"Um yeah then why does your forehead feel hot? And why does your voice sound strained?" Eric asked. Sinon coughed. "We must have stay out to late tonight and the cool air must have caused you to get a mild cold." Eric said. "Sorry, I should have had us come back sooner." Eric said.
"It's ok, last night was fun." Sinon said flashing him a smile.
"I'm gonna go fix you some soup and come sit with you to make sure you get better quick." Eric said as he walked out. Eric went downstairs and made some soup and took it to Sinon. Eric handed her a food tray with a soup bowl and a glass of water. Eric sat down on the floor next to her bed.
"Thanks for the soup and drink, but you should go. I don't want you getting sick because of me." Sinon said.
"I don't mind getting sick if it means making you feel better; besides I have a good immune system." Eric said.
"But still I wouldn't feel right if you get sick because you wanted to take care of me." Sinon said.
"And I already told you I don't care about getting sick." Eric said. Sinon went to go try to talk Eric out of it but he stood up and bent over to her. Eric quickly and softy kissed Sinon. Eric stood back up. "There, now if I get sick it's my fault." Eric said with a smile.
"Y-You find a loop hole alright." Sinon said with a blush.
"Yes I did, not eat up. I'm gonna go grab a chair and my phone." Eric said as he walked out. After a few minutes Eric brought a fold out chair in and put it next to Sinon's bed. Eric sat down and started looking at videos on his phone while Sinon looked over his shoulder and watched with him. After about an hour of them watching videos Eric stood up. "You should try to get some sleep, I'm gonna go to the store and pick up some cold medicine and cough drops." Eric said. Sinon nodded and rolled over to try and sleep. Eric drove to a shopping center and walked to the pharmacy. Eric looked around but in the end had to ask the employs where the cold medicine and cough drops were. Eric bumped into Hunter while shopping for a few quick supply's. "Oh Hey." Eric said.
"Hi, what you doing?" Hunter asked.
"Just coming for some cold stuff for Sinon. And figured I would pick up a few things I've been needing." Eric replied.
"Ah, well tell her I said get better soon." Hunter said.
"Will do, I'll try to call you later." Eric said.
"Alright man, see Ya." Hunter said as he resumed his shopping. Eric payed for the stuff he bought and drove back home to find Sinon sitting on the couch drinking OJ.
"What are you doing up?" Eric asked as he set the bags down.
"I was only asleep for a few minutes before my throat started hurting." Sinon said hoarsely.
"Sorry, I would have gotten back sooner but I ran into Hunter and we chatted for a second. Try to not talk to much." Eric said as he handed Sinon a cough drop. Sinon put it in her mouth and watched Eric as he took out a box of cold medicine and put it on the coffee table. "You need to take that when you get up and when you go to sleep." Eric said. Sinon nodded, Eric walked into the kitchen and put up a few things he bought. Eric sat down next to Sinon. "I'll put some TV on so you can relax." Eric said. Sinon smiled and snuggled close to Eric. After a few hours of TV Sinon was asleep on the couch. Eric carefully got up and walked outside. Eric took out his phone and called Jason. "Hey." Eric said.
"Sup." Jason said.
"I think it's time for some recon, you feel like having a steak out?" Eric asked.
"Is there gonna be internet?" Jason asked.
"Yup." Eric said.
"You can come pick me up." Jason said.
"On my way." Eric said as he ended the phone call. Eric picked up his keys and left a note for Sinon saying he was going to be out for a few. Eric pulled up int front of the hotel that his uncles were staying at. Jason was already waiting for him, he got in. Eric started driving through the town.
"In a hurry?" Jason asked as he noticed Eric was going slightly faster than the speed limit.
"I'm not worried, you know I'm a good driver. I can Tokyo drift blindfolded and still nail it perfectly. And we do need to get there while he's there." Eric replied.
"You do have some driving skill. He?" Jason asked.
"Since I stabbed Laughing coffin's leader in the eye I figured he must need an eye patch for a while. So I posted a flyer online looking for shady people with eye patches." Eric said.
"For real?" Jason asked.
"Of course not, I've kept my ear to the ground and heard that laughing coffin goes to a coffee shop for the free WIFI." Eric replied. "And stake out was a bit over kill, cause really only thing I need you to do is hack the WIFI and copy all laptop info and sift through it and find laughing coffin." Eric explained.
"Then just drop me off, I need to do a few things in town anyway." Jason said.
"Got it." Eric said. Eric dropped Jason off at the coffee shop and drove back to the house to find Sinon still asleep on the couch. Eric walked upstairs and grabbed his pillow and some covers and made a make-shift bed on the floor and passed out. Eric woke up to the sound of loud thunder. Eric yawned and heard that it was raining super hard and it was beginning to storm really bad. Sinon tapped Eric on his shoulder. "Oh it woke you up too?" Eric asked. Sinon nodded. "Well if there was anything I could do to make it stop I would. But I can't control the weather." Eric said. Sinon nodded. "Just try to get more rest, I'll be up for a bit now so let me know if you need anything." Eric said. Sinon grabbed his arm and pulled him softly. Eric laid on the couch next to Sinon. "Better?" Eric asked. Sinon nodded and closed her eyes. Eric smiled and felt himself getting tired. Before he knew it Eric was out cold. In the morning Eric woke up to gentle poking on his arm. "Need something?" Eric asked and he opened his eyes to see Sinon trying to wake him. Sinon pointed to her belly. "Want more soup?" Eric asked with a yawn. Sinon nodded. Eric stood up and walked into the kitchen and threw a big pot of soup on the stove. After about 30 minutes the soup was done and Eric fixed two bowls of soup and gave one to Sinon. They sat on the couching eating soup and watching anime together. After they finished eating Eric laid on the floor and grabbed his Amusphere. "I'm gonna dive and do a few things, just message me if you need anything." Eric said. Sinon smiled and waved at him. Eric smiled back and dove into ALO. Time Eric spawned in his hotel room he noticed it, a shadow hiding in the closet. "Who's there?" Eric asked as he stood in front of the closet while holding his demon blood sword. A werewolf burst out the closet and started attacking Eric. "Whoa!" Eric said as he easily dodged and slashed the werewolf repeatedly. Eric ran his blade through the werewolf's chest and brought it's health to 0. Eric stabbed it a few more times but it was still alive. "This must be an NPC with a mandatory quest." Eric said as he unequipped his sword. "Meaning If I can beat it than I'm not supposed to beat it." Eric said as the werewolf bit him on the arm. "Well this is w-" Eric was cut off by the werewolf tossing him out the window. Eric crashed onto the ground. "W-Well." Eric said as he felt himself blacking out.