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Disclaimer: I don't own anything K.A.Applegate owns, everything else is mine.

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My full name is Marine Level, three spar, Main Brach, Right-messenger, twenty nine.

My Chosen name is Mirage.

My game name is Dryhad.

I am Ketran. Or I was, I don't know what I am anymore. Maybe the most powerful being in the universe. I really don't know.

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I couldn't watch it, he was allowing the human child die, after all she had done. She was one of the few that saved humankind in itself. And she was to die.

Maybe it was a deal, that one would give a life and the war would end, and she was chosen. Nonetheless, even if he did want to stop her dying, he couldn't. It was not allowed by the rules. He couldn't.

But I could. I could stop it. And I would.

Without the knowing of the Ellimist, I changed time, reversed it. She would live. I would make sure of that.

I shimmered and appeared next to the Ellimist. He was surprised. I guess he would be, I was in my Ketran form. And his face held a questioning look.

`My name is Dryhad....'

`The gamer Dryhad?'

`The same to you,' I replied without a touch of expression, `The one you refused so very long ago. But. But I prefer you call me Mirage. The games we played as youths mean nothing anymore.'

`Dryhad, Mirage. You are not....'

`Dead? How then am I speaking to you? I am all but dead. The creature that called himself father, he made you belive me dead, vague memories of a gamer, no expectation of a survival. I was dead....in your fake...your unbelieving imagination.'

`Yes. But. But this does not explain the happening with the child.'

`She shall live.' I said again.

`It is against the rules of engagement.'

`The rules are for you and Crayak, not me, I am entitled to do what I please. I can destroy planets and whole solar systems, but I choose not to, I choose to help them.'

`But,' his face was hard, `you yourself will fall under these rules by changing time. Would you sacrifice your freedom for the life of a mere child?'

I glanced quickly at the female, her face was that of anger, she had not lost her way of tolerating. Quickly I spoke to him again.

`Yes, I am.'

And so it was that moment I fell under the rules of engagement. The rules that would control almost all my being and freedom. For what? For the chance of saving humanity. The chance of a meeting, a meeting that will ultimatly change the future itself.

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Ok, I know it's short, but what can you do?

Thanx for the reviews, I didn't expect so many, cause after all, I basically copied the epilouge of `The Ellimist Chronicles.' (don't sue me!)

But next chapter's should be up soon.