Virtual Hell
Chapter II: Data Drain
Noon, and Tai and Sora after practicing their chosen sport each returned to their respected homes. There they both logged into The World and met up Delta Sever.
"I checked the board before I logged in and left a massage about Orca's (Victor) condition. I also heard they were going to be limiting areas to the Delta and Bata serves," Tai said as he put his two swords away into the sheaths at his side.
"That's really going to place some hush limits on us," Sora said friendly.
"It's probably for the best there's less chance of anyone running into that thing that got Orca. Besides we need get to level thirty or high before we can handle anything beyond the Bata sever," Tai said.
"You're right," Sora replied with a smile, "We should head there and train a little,"
"Yeah, but first let's get prepared and try to gather some more information," Tai explained.
They then separated and agreed to meet up with each other later. They walked through the town speaking to other players and some times doing a little trading. Tai got some Spirit Armor and Sora a Unicorn Blade. After buying supplies they regrouped and then headed for the chaos gate while discussing what they found out upon nearing the gate they found a Heavy Blade in a sky blue robe, long purple hair, black boots, brown pants, sheath at side and a katana in his hands.
"Joe.I mean Kaison, what are you doing here?" Tai asked looking at the character.
"Hey Tai-rai," Joe replied in a calm wise voice, "I thought you'd be here. I was looking for you,"
"You were, what for?" Tai replied confusingly
"What for? Your partner remember," Joe replied. He then noticed Sora, "Who's that next you?"
"Huh.oh this is Sora as her character Leena-sue. She'll be coming along with us for awhile," Tai explained.
"Hey Joe.or should I Kaison," Sora laughed as she looked at Joe's face as he gazed at the beauty of Sora's character.
He shaped out of it, "Hello Leena-sue. Tai-rai I got some interesting keywords. I thought we'd check out,"
"Sure we haven't anything batter to do right now anyway," Tai replied.
"We might as while train until we can get some more info," Sora whispered.
"Yeah." Tai replied, "So, Kaison what are these keywords,"
"They're 'Delta, Forbidden Cursed Holy Ground,'" Joe answered, "It's a level seventeen battle level. It shouldn't be to hard,"
"Alright we'll go, but are you ready?" Tai asked.
"As always how about you guys?" Joe asked.
"We restocked on supplies a while go," Tai said.
They then spoke the keywords to the gate and vanished.
They arrived standing in front of a cathedral placed under a bloody red sky. They looked at the broken statues and beaten down road.
"This place is creepy and yet peaceful," Sora said looking around.
"I don't think this the right place for a church to placed," Joe said.
"Let's go inside," Tai said.
They ran towards the church upon entering and found themselves in a sanctuary like room with seats on both sides of a pathway leading to the front. They followed the path to the front with a statue of a young girl in front of it, with chains wrapped around the body. The sound of a chorus echoed thought this place as Tai read the words at the base of the statue.
"Anous, Igus, magus.I can't read the rest it's faded," he said as he glazed at the statues beauty.
"Tai that girl she's the one who." Sora said.
"Yeah she's the one we met before." Tai said stopping think of the same event.
"Before what? Is there something your not telling me?" Joe asked.
"It's kind of hard top explained you see." Tai began when the heroic voice of a knight echoed through out the room!
"HEY! What are you doing here?"
They all looked towards the entrance and found a character with blue armor, white hair and white wings on his arms and back.
"Who are you?" Sora asked.
"No time to explained you must leave immediately it's dangerous here!" He said as a bright flash of light flickered through a few times and a beast of rock appeared! The knight ran forwards jumped into the air and brought his sword down upon the creature! He land near Tai and the others just as the creature began to glow an eerie yellow light!
"This one two." the knight said.
"What! That can't be he's supposed to be dead!" Joe said shockingly, "And why is he glowing like that?"
"A virus has infected this area and has rewritten the data it has HP level that's infinite!" the knight explained worryingly.
"That's the one! That got Jim!" Joe said angrily, "I'll kill you!" he then ran at the beast!
"NO you can't it'll kill you!" the knight cried chasing after him.
"Joe stop!" Sora cried as she followed.
Tai stared at the creature and he too would of attacked if a familiar voice had not echoed throughout his mind!
"The book."
"What." Tai said.
"The book.open it,"
"The book." Tai said, "Hey you're that girl,"
"The book.the power it holds can bring either salvation or distraction at the whim of the user. Quickly open it before it is to late for your friends!"
Tai held out his hands and a large book appeared them he opened it and was engulfed by a bright light! His right arm then raised its self and strange marking began to appear on his cloths! Then bright ring flashed only once around his wrist and then he the screener around him changed to that of a bright white realm where only the beast that was being fought stood in front of him! His right hand aimed outward and streams of light flowed from his arm at the rocky creature and entered its body. They then retraced back to him and as they exited out of the creature looked as if it had shattered!
A bright flash filled the realm and when it cleared Tai found himself back in the sanctuary with his friends and the knight who delivered the final blow to beast in front. Tai stood where he was as he looked at himself and mostly at his right wrist.
"That's the." Tai said fill with fear and disbelief.
The Knight stood as the beast vanished and then spoke in a harsh tone, "That skill.I see you're the same as the virus! To think I was saved by some like you!" Tai just looked at the knight confusingly as he raised his sword at Tai, "Who are you? Are you with the virus? Answer me NOW!"
"No.I.I don't even know what this is," Tai said angrily.
"The virus is a danger to all who play in the world. For their safety I'll SLAY YOU VIRUS!" The knight then took his sword into both hands and charged at Tai.
Tai held his twin swords in both hands and stood ready for battle when Sora and Joe got between them!
"What's a matter with you? Is that anyway to treat someone who just saved your life?" Joe asked coldly.
"Yeah if it wasn't for Tai you'd be dead by now," Sora said harshly.
The knight calmed himself and put his weapon away; "I don't know who you are, or if you're with the virus, but be aware that I will find out the truth!" he then walked away and out the church. He walked down the path when a voice of a light in white dress and cloth appeared on the roof of the church.
"That was so unlike you Balmarye,"
The knight looked up and the turned his head, "I have nothing to say to a hacker,"
The lady laughed a little and vanished and as she did spoke in a cold, but cheerful voice, "That boy he's a friend of your partner,"
"Orca.that boy knows Orca," Balmar said.
Back inside the church Sora and Joe explained everything to Joe and about what happened with Victor (Orca)
"I see.so that skill is the same as the one that put Victor in a coma," Joe said, "How come you didn't E-mail me, Tai-rai (Tai)?"
"We didn't want to get anyone else involved," Tai replied, "We don't know how big this is and right now there only seems to be one other person with the skill Data Drain,"
"Data Drain." Sora said.
"Yeah, that's what the skill's called I just checked my skills list and found out," Tai replied.
"In any case I'm involved now, but don't worry I want tell anyone else about this, but shouldn't we at least inform administration about this?"
"We already did that," Sora said, "We left a massage about Orca's condition on the board. We just have to wait for a reply,"
"Why we don't head back to Delta Sever and see if we can find anything else out about this," Joe suggested.
They agreed and then gated out of the area and back to the Delta Server. There they asked around a bit more about corrupted areas and then later regrouped and discussed what they found out.
So what were you guys able to find? I couldn't get to much info because of the administration's Crimson Knights. They were questioning me about some Cat character and a Wavemaster in blue robes," Tai said. "I wasn't able to find out too much except that someone playing in America ended in a coma for a few weeks and is just now back online. He said when he woke up he didn't remember anything and is just trying to forget about and continue on with his life," Joe explained.
"I heard the administration would be blocking off all corrupted areas. That may be good for some of the other players but not for us," Sora explained, "I also heard a rumor about a that girl being in the area 'Delta, Rejected passed over Holy ground' we should go there and see what we can find out,"
"We didn't really use any items, lets just head to the area and hope the battle level isn't too high," Tai ordered kindly, but cold.
They walked over to the gate and Tai spoke the keywords and they vanished. They appeared in a land covered in snow with a few buildings and broken statues, a bright light flashed every ten or fifteen seconds and digital numbers could be seen in small patches almost everywhere. The area looked as if it were surrounded by a large dome of illness and disease.
"The battle level's only one level above mine so we should fine as long as we don't run into any monsters resistance to physical attacks," Tai said as used a fairy orb to revel the magic portals on the map that hovered in front of them. Tai waved his hand and the map vanished.
"This place looks really massed up," Joe said, "I know some of the areas are a little weird but this is just too weird. If Gomamon saw this he probably be paralyzed with fright,"
"We should be careful we don't know what will find in a place like this," Sora suggested.
"Right let's go," Tai ordered bravely.
They walked around the field opening chests they won from defeating monsters. They used items to heal themselves when needed. When they field was cleared they used a Seed Charm item and raced over to the dungeon. There they stood in front a structure with the teeth of a lion poking outward towards them and giant finger like rocks swaying as they were trying to grab them.
"This is the dungeon. The only place we haven't been yet," Tai said.
"We should be careful, we don't know what the virus has done to it," Joe suggested holding his Katana tightly in hand.
"Well whatever it did, it can't possibly get any uglier then it already is," Sora said smartly.
They entered the dungeon that's inside looked a little like the inside of a sick digimon's stomach. Working together they worked their way down to the bottom fighting monsters and picking up Grundy food and treasure chests. When they reached the last floor after opening every portal. They stood in front of the entrance to the last room as a slight uneasiness came over them. The entrance held strange eerie gas hovering in front of it.
"This is weird," Joe said calmly and bit fearful, "That gas is just sitting there that's not right,"
"Joe has a point but we are in a virtual world," Sora pointed out.
"Let's go, but keep your guard," Tai ordered nobly and bravely.
"Right," Joe and Sora agreed.
They walk through the screen of gas and into the room where one more magic portal stood. They slowly paced themselves towards it and when they got around fifteen feet away a bright light flashed and a Mystery Rock growing a yellow light appeared in front of them with eyes of raging flame! They scattered as Tai ordered them to surround the creature!
Joe made the first assault with a magic item and Sora used a sword skill Revolver followed up by Tai with a skill called Revolving Twin Dragon! The battle continued as they tried to stay alive and avoid becoming ghost. They healed each other when ever their HP reach the red zone and finally after minutes of battling a bright flash broke free from the creatures body and Tai aimed his arm and at the creature and once again the scenery changed to a white realm where only he and the Mystery Rock stood. A bright ring appeared around Tai's wrist and streams of light followed from his hand into the beast's body and as they retraced back to their master the creature's body looked as if it had crushed! The streams along with a strange ball of light followed into his hand and then vanished!
The realm vanished but the battle wasn't over they continued to battle the beast until finally the creature fell as Tai delivered the final blow. The battle mode shut down and Tai and his friends stood breathing one of them holding their left arm.
"Hey Keison (Joe) you ok?" Tai asked evening out his breathing.
"Yeah he just got my arm before he died," Joe replied holding his arm
"Leena-sue Sora how about you, are you alright?" Tai asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine just a little tired," Sora replied, "Let's return to the server,"
They agreed and used a sprite ocarina used get out of the dungeon. They then exited the dungeon and agreed to meet at the park in reality.
Back in reality Tai pulls off his visor and checks the board before shutting down his computer. He clicked on the topic marked coma and found noting but the word DELETED
"WHAT! The massage I placed on the board was deleted!" he cried, "But why." he thought about for a while longer and then shut down his computer and left his room after putting on shoes and, grabbing his coat. His told his mother he would be back soon, and than left.
It was dusk by this time and upon his arrival at the park he found Joe and Sora already there and waiting for. They walked over to the fountain in the center and began their discussion. During the talk Tai mention to his friends about the massage he placed on the board being deleted.
"But why would it be deleted?" Sora asked.
"That's simple the administration is also the company that makes The World. If word got out the game was causing people to go into comas then there's a good chance the government will have it shut down," Joe explained.
"Easy to say that the company doesn't want that," Tai said, "But this can't be ignored,"
"And if and the company isn't going to do anything about it, then it looks like we'll be doing this on our own," Sora said boldly, "I know we agreed to keep the others out of this, but I think we should at least bring Izzy in on it I mean we could use his expertise with computers,"
"I agree with Sora," Joe said, "But I think we should try and get a little more information before bring any.OW!"
"What is it Joe?" Tai asked.
"It's.my arm.it just started.hurting for reason," Joe said holding his left arm. He lifted up his sleeve to his shoulder and reveled a large red burse!
"Where'd you get that?" Sora asked.
"I don't know. I my arm was fine before I got here," Joe pointed.
Tai was silent then, "HEY! Wait Joe wasn't your left arm hit when we were fighting that Data Bug?"
"Yeah, but I.wait don't think?" Joe replied.
"Victor did get placed into a coma after his character was data drained," Tai said.
"But The World is only a game how could." Sora began frighteningly, "Tai if Joe got a burse from the injuries he go in The World, then what will happen if a person were die,"
"I don't even want to think about]," Tai said fearfully,
"I think the injuries might only be revived in the infected areas and can only be given by a Data Bug," Joe explained.
"So as long as no one runs into a Data Bug then they're safe," Sora said.
"But there's no guarantee that will happen and even if the areas are blocked off, we can't say for sure that the virus wont spread any feather then it already has," Tai said, "We don't even know where it came from,"
"If were going to stop this thing then we're going to need a little more information or should I say I lot more information," Joe said.
"Let's meet in the world again tomorrow ten' o' clock am alright," Tai said.
"I'd like to, but I got a test for a scholarship at that time, sorry," Joe said.
"Matt's still too busy rehashing to pay attention to me right now. So you count on me showing up," Sora said calmly.
"Fine then will meet tomorrow in Delta server as always," Tai said, "I just hope we'll be able to find more information on what we need to know about before it's too late,"
They then dispersed and returned to their respected homes, but did not noticing the small glowing bracelet on Tai's arm.
Noon, and Tai and Sora after practicing their chosen sport each returned to their respected homes. There they both logged into The World and met up Delta Sever.
"I checked the board before I logged in and left a massage about Orca's (Victor) condition. I also heard they were going to be limiting areas to the Delta and Bata serves," Tai said as he put his two swords away into the sheaths at his side.
"That's really going to place some hush limits on us," Sora said friendly.
"It's probably for the best there's less chance of anyone running into that thing that got Orca. Besides we need get to level thirty or high before we can handle anything beyond the Bata sever," Tai said.
"You're right," Sora replied with a smile, "We should head there and train a little,"
"Yeah, but first let's get prepared and try to gather some more information," Tai explained.
They then separated and agreed to meet up with each other later. They walked through the town speaking to other players and some times doing a little trading. Tai got some Spirit Armor and Sora a Unicorn Blade. After buying supplies they regrouped and then headed for the chaos gate while discussing what they found out upon nearing the gate they found a Heavy Blade in a sky blue robe, long purple hair, black boots, brown pants, sheath at side and a katana in his hands.
"Joe.I mean Kaison, what are you doing here?" Tai asked looking at the character.
"Hey Tai-rai," Joe replied in a calm wise voice, "I thought you'd be here. I was looking for you,"
"You were, what for?" Tai replied confusingly
"What for? Your partner remember," Joe replied. He then noticed Sora, "Who's that next you?"
"Huh.oh this is Sora as her character Leena-sue. She'll be coming along with us for awhile," Tai explained.
"Hey Joe.or should I Kaison," Sora laughed as she looked at Joe's face as he gazed at the beauty of Sora's character.
He shaped out of it, "Hello Leena-sue. Tai-rai I got some interesting keywords. I thought we'd check out,"
"Sure we haven't anything batter to do right now anyway," Tai replied.
"We might as while train until we can get some more info," Sora whispered.
"Yeah." Tai replied, "So, Kaison what are these keywords,"
"They're 'Delta, Forbidden Cursed Holy Ground,'" Joe answered, "It's a level seventeen battle level. It shouldn't be to hard,"
"Alright we'll go, but are you ready?" Tai asked.
"As always how about you guys?" Joe asked.
"We restocked on supplies a while go," Tai said.
They then spoke the keywords to the gate and vanished.
They arrived standing in front of a cathedral placed under a bloody red sky. They looked at the broken statues and beaten down road.
"This place is creepy and yet peaceful," Sora said looking around.
"I don't think this the right place for a church to placed," Joe said.
"Let's go inside," Tai said.
They ran towards the church upon entering and found themselves in a sanctuary like room with seats on both sides of a pathway leading to the front. They followed the path to the front with a statue of a young girl in front of it, with chains wrapped around the body. The sound of a chorus echoed thought this place as Tai read the words at the base of the statue.
"Anous, Igus, magus.I can't read the rest it's faded," he said as he glazed at the statues beauty.
"Tai that girl she's the one who." Sora said.
"Yeah she's the one we met before." Tai said stopping think of the same event.
"Before what? Is there something your not telling me?" Joe asked.
"It's kind of hard top explained you see." Tai began when the heroic voice of a knight echoed through out the room!
"HEY! What are you doing here?"
They all looked towards the entrance and found a character with blue armor, white hair and white wings on his arms and back.
"Who are you?" Sora asked.
"No time to explained you must leave immediately it's dangerous here!" He said as a bright flash of light flickered through a few times and a beast of rock appeared! The knight ran forwards jumped into the air and brought his sword down upon the creature! He land near Tai and the others just as the creature began to glow an eerie yellow light!
"This one two." the knight said.
"What! That can't be he's supposed to be dead!" Joe said shockingly, "And why is he glowing like that?"
"A virus has infected this area and has rewritten the data it has HP level that's infinite!" the knight explained worryingly.
"That's the one! That got Jim!" Joe said angrily, "I'll kill you!" he then ran at the beast!
"NO you can't it'll kill you!" the knight cried chasing after him.
"Joe stop!" Sora cried as she followed.
Tai stared at the creature and he too would of attacked if a familiar voice had not echoed throughout his mind!
"The book."
"What." Tai said.
"The book.open it,"
"The book." Tai said, "Hey you're that girl,"
"The book.the power it holds can bring either salvation or distraction at the whim of the user. Quickly open it before it is to late for your friends!"
Tai held out his hands and a large book appeared them he opened it and was engulfed by a bright light! His right arm then raised its self and strange marking began to appear on his cloths! Then bright ring flashed only once around his wrist and then he the screener around him changed to that of a bright white realm where only the beast that was being fought stood in front of him! His right hand aimed outward and streams of light flowed from his arm at the rocky creature and entered its body. They then retraced back to him and as they exited out of the creature looked as if it had shattered!
A bright flash filled the realm and when it cleared Tai found himself back in the sanctuary with his friends and the knight who delivered the final blow to beast in front. Tai stood where he was as he looked at himself and mostly at his right wrist.
"That's the." Tai said fill with fear and disbelief.
The Knight stood as the beast vanished and then spoke in a harsh tone, "That skill.I see you're the same as the virus! To think I was saved by some like you!" Tai just looked at the knight confusingly as he raised his sword at Tai, "Who are you? Are you with the virus? Answer me NOW!"
"No.I.I don't even know what this is," Tai said angrily.
"The virus is a danger to all who play in the world. For their safety I'll SLAY YOU VIRUS!" The knight then took his sword into both hands and charged at Tai.
Tai held his twin swords in both hands and stood ready for battle when Sora and Joe got between them!
"What's a matter with you? Is that anyway to treat someone who just saved your life?" Joe asked coldly.
"Yeah if it wasn't for Tai you'd be dead by now," Sora said harshly.
The knight calmed himself and put his weapon away; "I don't know who you are, or if you're with the virus, but be aware that I will find out the truth!" he then walked away and out the church. He walked down the path when a voice of a light in white dress and cloth appeared on the roof of the church.
"That was so unlike you Balmarye,"
The knight looked up and the turned his head, "I have nothing to say to a hacker,"
The lady laughed a little and vanished and as she did spoke in a cold, but cheerful voice, "That boy he's a friend of your partner,"
"Orca.that boy knows Orca," Balmar said.
Back inside the church Sora and Joe explained everything to Joe and about what happened with Victor (Orca)
"I see.so that skill is the same as the one that put Victor in a coma," Joe said, "How come you didn't E-mail me, Tai-rai (Tai)?"
"We didn't want to get anyone else involved," Tai replied, "We don't know how big this is and right now there only seems to be one other person with the skill Data Drain,"
"Data Drain." Sora said.
"Yeah, that's what the skill's called I just checked my skills list and found out," Tai replied.
"In any case I'm involved now, but don't worry I want tell anyone else about this, but shouldn't we at least inform administration about this?"
"We already did that," Sora said, "We left a massage about Orca's condition on the board. We just have to wait for a reply,"
"Why we don't head back to Delta Sever and see if we can find anything else out about this," Joe suggested.
They agreed and then gated out of the area and back to the Delta Server. There they asked around a bit more about corrupted areas and then later regrouped and discussed what they found out.
So what were you guys able to find? I couldn't get to much info because of the administration's Crimson Knights. They were questioning me about some Cat character and a Wavemaster in blue robes," Tai said. "I wasn't able to find out too much except that someone playing in America ended in a coma for a few weeks and is just now back online. He said when he woke up he didn't remember anything and is just trying to forget about and continue on with his life," Joe explained.
"I heard the administration would be blocking off all corrupted areas. That may be good for some of the other players but not for us," Sora explained, "I also heard a rumor about a that girl being in the area 'Delta, Rejected passed over Holy ground' we should go there and see what we can find out,"
"We didn't really use any items, lets just head to the area and hope the battle level isn't too high," Tai ordered kindly, but cold.
They walked over to the gate and Tai spoke the keywords and they vanished. They appeared in a land covered in snow with a few buildings and broken statues, a bright light flashed every ten or fifteen seconds and digital numbers could be seen in small patches almost everywhere. The area looked as if it were surrounded by a large dome of illness and disease.
"The battle level's only one level above mine so we should fine as long as we don't run into any monsters resistance to physical attacks," Tai said as used a fairy orb to revel the magic portals on the map that hovered in front of them. Tai waved his hand and the map vanished.
"This place looks really massed up," Joe said, "I know some of the areas are a little weird but this is just too weird. If Gomamon saw this he probably be paralyzed with fright,"
"We should be careful we don't know what will find in a place like this," Sora suggested.
"Right let's go," Tai ordered bravely.
They walked around the field opening chests they won from defeating monsters. They used items to heal themselves when needed. When they field was cleared they used a Seed Charm item and raced over to the dungeon. There they stood in front a structure with the teeth of a lion poking outward towards them and giant finger like rocks swaying as they were trying to grab them.
"This is the dungeon. The only place we haven't been yet," Tai said.
"We should be careful, we don't know what the virus has done to it," Joe suggested holding his Katana tightly in hand.
"Well whatever it did, it can't possibly get any uglier then it already is," Sora said smartly.
They entered the dungeon that's inside looked a little like the inside of a sick digimon's stomach. Working together they worked their way down to the bottom fighting monsters and picking up Grundy food and treasure chests. When they reached the last floor after opening every portal. They stood in front of the entrance to the last room as a slight uneasiness came over them. The entrance held strange eerie gas hovering in front of it.
"This is weird," Joe said calmly and bit fearful, "That gas is just sitting there that's not right,"
"Joe has a point but we are in a virtual world," Sora pointed out.
"Let's go, but keep your guard," Tai ordered nobly and bravely.
"Right," Joe and Sora agreed.
They walk through the screen of gas and into the room where one more magic portal stood. They slowly paced themselves towards it and when they got around fifteen feet away a bright light flashed and a Mystery Rock growing a yellow light appeared in front of them with eyes of raging flame! They scattered as Tai ordered them to surround the creature!
Joe made the first assault with a magic item and Sora used a sword skill Revolver followed up by Tai with a skill called Revolving Twin Dragon! The battle continued as they tried to stay alive and avoid becoming ghost. They healed each other when ever their HP reach the red zone and finally after minutes of battling a bright flash broke free from the creatures body and Tai aimed his arm and at the creature and once again the scenery changed to a white realm where only he and the Mystery Rock stood. A bright ring appeared around Tai's wrist and streams of light followed from his hand into the beast's body and as they retraced back to their master the creature's body looked as if it had crushed! The streams along with a strange ball of light followed into his hand and then vanished!
The realm vanished but the battle wasn't over they continued to battle the beast until finally the creature fell as Tai delivered the final blow. The battle mode shut down and Tai and his friends stood breathing one of them holding their left arm.
"Hey Keison (Joe) you ok?" Tai asked evening out his breathing.
"Yeah he just got my arm before he died," Joe replied holding his arm
"Leena-sue Sora how about you, are you alright?" Tai asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine just a little tired," Sora replied, "Let's return to the server,"
They agreed and used a sprite ocarina used get out of the dungeon. They then exited the dungeon and agreed to meet at the park in reality.
Back in reality Tai pulls off his visor and checks the board before shutting down his computer. He clicked on the topic marked coma and found noting but the word DELETED
"WHAT! The massage I placed on the board was deleted!" he cried, "But why." he thought about for a while longer and then shut down his computer and left his room after putting on shoes and, grabbing his coat. His told his mother he would be back soon, and than left.
It was dusk by this time and upon his arrival at the park he found Joe and Sora already there and waiting for. They walked over to the fountain in the center and began their discussion. During the talk Tai mention to his friends about the massage he placed on the board being deleted.
"But why would it be deleted?" Sora asked.
"That's simple the administration is also the company that makes The World. If word got out the game was causing people to go into comas then there's a good chance the government will have it shut down," Joe explained.
"Easy to say that the company doesn't want that," Tai said, "But this can't be ignored,"
"And if and the company isn't going to do anything about it, then it looks like we'll be doing this on our own," Sora said boldly, "I know we agreed to keep the others out of this, but I think we should at least bring Izzy in on it I mean we could use his expertise with computers,"
"I agree with Sora," Joe said, "But I think we should try and get a little more information before bring any.OW!"
"What is it Joe?" Tai asked.
"It's.my arm.it just started.hurting for reason," Joe said holding his left arm. He lifted up his sleeve to his shoulder and reveled a large red burse!
"Where'd you get that?" Sora asked.
"I don't know. I my arm was fine before I got here," Joe pointed.
Tai was silent then, "HEY! Wait Joe wasn't your left arm hit when we were fighting that Data Bug?"
"Yeah, but I.wait don't think?" Joe replied.
"Victor did get placed into a coma after his character was data drained," Tai said.
"But The World is only a game how could." Sora began frighteningly, "Tai if Joe got a burse from the injuries he go in The World, then what will happen if a person were die,"
"I don't even want to think about]," Tai said fearfully,
"I think the injuries might only be revived in the infected areas and can only be given by a Data Bug," Joe explained.
"So as long as no one runs into a Data Bug then they're safe," Sora said.
"But there's no guarantee that will happen and even if the areas are blocked off, we can't say for sure that the virus wont spread any feather then it already has," Tai said, "We don't even know where it came from,"
"If were going to stop this thing then we're going to need a little more information or should I say I lot more information," Joe said.
"Let's meet in the world again tomorrow ten' o' clock am alright," Tai said.
"I'd like to, but I got a test for a scholarship at that time, sorry," Joe said.
"Matt's still too busy rehashing to pay attention to me right now. So you count on me showing up," Sora said calmly.
"Fine then will meet tomorrow in Delta server as always," Tai said, "I just hope we'll be able to find more information on what we need to know about before it's too late,"
They then dispersed and returned to their respected homes, but did not noticing the small glowing bracelet on Tai's arm.