Chapter 18: The system can talk
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Eric woke up on the ground outside the hotel. "Oh my head." Eric said as he rubbed his head. The werewolf was standing above him, it put out it's hand. Eric grabbed it and the werewolf helped him up. "So you bite me and toss me out a window than decide to help me?" Eric asked. The werewolf nodded. "Great I'm dealing with a Bipolar Werewolf." Eric said with a sigh.
"I'm the cardinal system." Cardinal said. Eric's jaw dropped.
"Than I'm dealing with a Bipolar Cardinal. Just great." Eric said with a chuckle.
"You want to defeat laughing coffin. Am I correct?" Cardinal asked.
"Yeah." Eric replied getting serious.
"Because they infected me with a virus I now know the location of their base in the real world." Cardinal said.
"Tell me." Eric said.
"I'll get the exact location and message it to your account. But be careful." Cardinal said. Cardinal disappeared.
Eric went back into the hotel and logged out. Eric lay on the floor thinking. 'Thank you so much cardinal. With the location I can get the guys together to attack laughing coffin.' Eric thought. 'I can end this forever.' Eric thought as he sat up.
"Back already?" Sinon asked. She was sitting on the couch looking at him.
"Yeah, throat feeling better?" Eric asked as he stood up.
"Much better." Sinon replied with a smile.
"Good, well you can talk some but I don't want you to overdo it ok?" Eric asked. Sinon smiled and nodded. 'I'm going to end it to make sure that her and everyone else is safe.' Eric thought.
"What's wrong?" Sinon asked as she noticed Eric was more serious and slightly more worried than normal.
"Oh nothing." Eric replied trying to fake a smile. Sinon stood up and stared into his eyes.
"What's wrong?" Sinon asked again. Eric gulped.
'I can't tell her the truth because either she would talk me out of it or she would want to come. And I can't risk either.' Eric thought. Sinon hugged him.
"It's ok if you don't want to talk about it. Just know that I'm here if you want to talk about anything big or small." Sinon said as she hugged him tightly. Eric smiled.
"Thank you. I want to tell you, but I think it's best if I don't." Eric said.
"I trust your judgement." Sinon said as she backed up.
'That makes one of us.' Eric thought. "Anyway I'm gonna head out to meet up with Kirito and stuff. Need or want anything?" Eric asked.
"Something good to eat tonight would be nice." Sinon answered.
"Homemade cooking or take out?" Eric asked.
"Either." Sinon replied.
"I'll stop by the store on the way home to pick up something to cook." Eric said. Sinon smiled. "Call me if you need anything." Eric said as he started to leave.
"Bye, be safe." Sinon said.
"Bye." Eric said giving her a thumbs up. Eric walked outside and got into his firebird and took out his phone, he dialed Kirito.
"Hello?" Kirito asked as he picked up.
"Yo, you busy?" Eric asked.
"No." Kirito replied.
"Than meet me at the hotel my uncles are staying at." Eric said
"text me the address, and why?" Kirito asked.
"It's about laughing coffin." Eric answered.
"….. I'll be there as soon as I can." Kirito said before hanging up.
Eric dialed Hunter. "dude you busy?" Eric asked as Hunter picked up.
"Nope, why?" Hunter asked.
"How would you like to help me, Kirito, Jimmy, and Jason take out laughing coffin?" Eric asked.
"I wanna hear more about this." Hunter replied.
"Meet me at the hotel that our uncles are staying at." Eric said before hanging up. Eric started to drive off towards the hotel. After driving for a while Eric pulled into the parking lot of the hotel. Eric stepped out and waited by the entrance.
"I'm here." Kirito said as he walked up to Eric.
"Good, now we're just waiting for Hunter." Eric said.
"And that will be a short wait." Hunter said as he walked up to them.
"Then let's go." Eric said. Eric lead they way with Kirito and Hunter following him. They took the elevator up to the 4th floor and walked over to the room that Jimmy and Jason were staying in. Eric knocked on the door. Jimmy opened it.
"From the serious looks on ya'lls faces I'd say you're here about laughing coffin." Jimmy said. They nodded. "Then come right on in." Jimmy said as he stepped aside to let them in. They walked in and Kirito and Hunter sat on the couch. Jason was sitting in a chair next to the couch.
"Eric, I couldn't find out much from that café." Jason said as Eric stood in the center of the room. Jimmy say on the couch.
"That doesn't matter anymore." Eric said. Eric cut on his phone and lifted it into the air. "Thanks to the cardinal system inside ALO I have the exact address of laughing coffins real world base." Eric announced. Everyone stared in shock. "I don't know about ya'll but I for one don't want to wait any longer. I want to end this now." Eric said.
"What's our plan of attack?" Hunter asked.
"Jason I need you to hack into laughing coffins network from the inside to get proof of their evil deeds, Jimmy you will go with him to make sure he gets there and there is no interruptions, I'm gonna call Klein and together with Hunter they will watch over Sinon, Asuna, Silica, and Lisbeth." Eric explained.
"What about us?" Kirito asked.
"Kirito I need you to keep the guys off me while I go for the leader." Eric replied.
"What are you going to do?" Kirito asked even though he already had an idea of what Eric would say.
"I'm gonna kill that bastard for everything he has done." Eric answered.
"… I don't think death is the answer, but I will go along with your plan as long as I don't have to kill anyone." Kirito said.
"If it goes right the only person that will die is the leader, and that will be at my hands. You guys may need to beat some guys up but whether or not you kill them is up to you." Eric stated.
"That works for me." Hunter said. Jimmy and Kirito nodded.
"So we need weapons." Jason said.
"Use whatever works best for ya'll. I need a sword and a Glock 9." Eric said.
"I'll use some training swords since I don't want to kill." Kirito said.
"Well text me a list of stuff and give it to ya'll when it goes down." Eric said.
"Oh yeah, when is it going down?" Jimmy asked.
"2 days from now, 10:00pm near the entrance to the base." Eric replied.
"So soon?" Hunter asked.
"I want to end this before they try to hurt anyone else." Eric answered.
"That makes since." Kirito said.
"Alright well everyone text me the weapons needed and we shall meet again at the spot I text ya'll." Eric said before walking out. Kirito and Hunter followed. Eric was driving back home till he remembered he need to stop at the store, he pulled into a parking lot of a store. Eric walked in and started looking around. Eric's phone started ringing. "Yello?" Eric asked as his picked up.
"E-Eric it's me." Sinon replied in a stressed tone.
"What is it?" Eric asked. Eric waited but didn't hear anything. "Hello?" Eric asked.
"Sorry, Asada can't come to the phone right now." A deep voice said.
"Where is she?" Eric asked with anger in his eyes as he recognized the voice, the leader of laughing coffin.
"She's ok for now." The leader replied.
"I'll get you and you will be sorry." Eric said.
"How? You don't even know where I am." The leader said.
"I'll find you somehow." Eric said.
"I doubt that, I'll call you back when I decide I want. I just figured I would call and rub in the fact I kidnapped her. Bye." The leader said in a mocking tone as he hung up.
Eric clenched his phone in his hand. "I'm gonna slaughter him." Eric said with pure rage. An old man coughed nearby and looked at Eric with worry. "What you staring at?!" Eric snapped. The old man walked off. Eric texted everyone the news and the address and told them to meet at his house. Eric rushed back to his house to find his door broken and his house trashed. Eric whistled and Cody came running from under the couch, he had busies, and blood dripping from his teeth. "You did your best bro, you at least bit one of them." Eric said as he petted Cody's head. It took a few hours but Eric was able to get all the weapons the team wanted.
"My swords." Kirito said as he picked up hard dull training swords.
"You got the axe." Jason said as he held a large duel side battle axe.
"Why do you want an axe?" Hunter asked as he held a metal baseball bat.
"Because it's cool and unnormal." Jason said.
"Nice." Jimmy said as he held a traditional Japanese sword.
"Hunter go meet Klein and the girls at Kirito's house, keep them safe." Eric said as he slid the Glock 9 into the back of his pants and pulled his shirt down a bit to help conceal it.
"Why are you trying to hide the gun, they're gonna see your sword?" Hunter asked.
"Cause I want them to know I have a sword, but they'll be more careful if they're aware I have a gun." Eric replied.
"Makes since I guess, good luck." Hunter said as he left.
"Let's head out." Eric said. Everyone piled into Eric's firebird. After about 30 minutes of driving they arrived at the laughing coffin base. They all got out and started walking towards the door of an old abandoned looking apartment building. "Remember I don't care who ya'll kill but the leader is mine, and Kirito we're going to save Asada before doing anything else." Eric said.
"Got it." Kirito said.
"Than it's war time baby." Eric said as he took out a grenade and pulled the pin and threw it through the window. It exploded and created a huge hole that they used to walk in. "Since this place is in the middle of nowhere and there is hardly anything around if the police are even on the way we have 15 minutes at least." Eric said.
"Ok so let's not waste any time." Kirito said. Eric saw a security camera and walked towards it and looked into it.
"Guess who." Eric said as he slashed the camera.