By Zelloss (Dreamer)
Cybersystem Interactive RPG is now re-available at groups.msn.com/cybersystemgaiden
Author's Note: Well, here's a continuing part to our everlasting story... ^^ Oh, and... Cybersystem Gaiden is up - It's a 'side-story' to Cybersystem, but I'm no doubt going to be adding some stuff between the two of them. EG: Amethyst replaced Miyuu, Tsuki changed (Once AGAIN) to Violet... But that'll come later!
WARNING: Violence Level - Medium-High
Storyline 2 - Reaction
Storyline By - Dreamer Grausherra
Author - Dreamer Grausherra
Chapter 4 - Aim of the Game
Dreamer looked down at the others from the stands. There was something like a smile on his face, although it was cruel and twisted. He looked so much older... Like he had aged ten years since they had last seen him. His previously short hair had grown long and fine.
"Do you see him up there too...?" Miyuu looked up at Dreamer.
"Hai..." Ryuu walked over to stand beside her.
Then, suddenly, Dreamer was down there with them.
"ACK!" Joseph shouted. "Do NOT do that!"
Dreamer smiled. "Something the matter, Joseph?"
"Yeah, just a bit..." Joseph looked at Dreamer like as if the latter was crazy. "Don't just suddenly appear out of nowhere! It's freaky!"
"Whatever" Dreamer muttered, looking at the others. "Seeing you guys... ah, the memories..."
"Who's this?" Manic walked over to the group, looking at Dreamer.
"My name is Dreamer Grausherra..." Dreamer smiled politely.
If Manic had any shock from recognition, he held it well. "My name is..."
"Manic Grave. I know. I've been watching" Dreamer smiled. "My eye, though, turns to another direction..."
Dreamer's left eye shifted to look to the left, the other one was still covered by his bangs.
Everybody looked to the left.
Aim and Sirius were Netbattling.
*****
Seinjaii looked at his brother, who was lying on the ground, on a soft sheet over stones right next to a fountain, water dripping on Marius' body.
"To think that we're brothers..." Seinjaii laughed a bit. "I can see it, though..."
Marius nodded. "I always thought Tenka was dad... But I never knew mother..."
"Dad never speaks of her, no..." Seinjaii muttered. "Not a word except her name. Some witch named Actrise."
Marius laughed a bit, catching a bit of water on his tounge. "It's so peacefull up here... And yet, all the viri, and everything that goes on at the top of this place..."
Seinjaii shrugged. "Something dad set up. No hostile forces are supposed to be able to enter."
"Right" Marius smiled.
Seinjaii looked around for a moment. "At least, that's what I've always been told. But most of the time, dad is around... He's not usually gone this long..."
Marius sat up. There was an innocent smile on his face. "Ah, don't worry about it!"
Seinjaii thought, seeing a truly innocent young child in Marius' heart. "Yeah... don't worry about it... You're right..."
*****
Aim and Sirius locked swords. In a quick move, Sirius slammed his boot down across Aim's chest, sending him backwards.
Aim stumbled a bit, before standing tall, still holding the sword. "You know, Sirius, there are many ways to win a battle..."
"I doubt you know them" Sirius smiled.
"Have you ever heard of Virusite?" Aim asked.
"Heard of what?" Sirius asked back.
"Virusite. Net Poison. Deadly stuff, able to destroy a person's cyberbody. It's only found on the highest levels of the Undernet, really. As it would happen, you're already infected..."
Sirius looked at his hands. His right finger flickered for a moment.
"Interesting game you're playing here..." Sirius smiled.
"No game" Aim grinned. "Sirius, you fool... You simple, simple fool. With your condition, I'd be logging out right now, or else you might just lose something important permanently!"
"Oh?" Sirius grinned. "If I logged out before doing this..."
Sirius teleported behind Aim, grabbing the Paladin Sword and slicing through Aim, and following up with a shocking grab attack. As Aim was paralyzed, Sirius smiled. "Holy Strike!" he grinned, sending a bolt of light into Aim's back. Aim logged out.
"I'd lose my honor" Sirius quickly followed suit, logging out as well.
*****
"Do you see that man?" Dreamer asked.
"Sirius?" Kinzoku asked.
"No. Aim" Dreamer responded.
"The professor?" Ryuu asked. "Why?"
"That man is a source of evil..." Dreamer's eyes narrowed. "Now that he has been eliminated, he will go to take the final action while the others are busy..."
"The final action?" Miyuu asked.
"Stop being so confuzling..." Gregario's eyes spun.
"Listen. In the cyberworld right now, just behind Netopia Castle, is a brick that is red, unlike the others. It's not easy to spot though. Go there, and hit the brick. It'll open up a passage to the Undernet. Make your way to the Power Source."
"But the tournament..." Miyuu cried out.
"You have to do it" Dreamer responded. "Just trust me on this."
The group looked at each other.
"Dreamer, you haven't explained a thing. There's no reason for us to trust..." Joseph began.
But Dreamer was already gone.
"Well, now what?" Tsuki looked at the others.
"I have no idea..." Manic shrugged.
"Well, we could always..." Kinzoku began.
*****
Seinjaii fell backwards, looking up at Marius. "Alright, you win..."
Marius smiled. "Told you I'm faster!"
The two laughed.
Seinjaii's head rolled to the side, looking at the trees at the edge of the shrine.
His eyes froze.
"Marius, get inside, quickly..." Seinjaii muttered.
"What?" Marius looked around. "Dream Bits?"
"No..." Seinjaii stood up quickly, grabbing Marius' collar and pulling him inside the shrine quickly.
"So they know we're here..." Renon grinned. "Umar, Lian, Hoy! The three of you, get ready!"
Three voices rang back in unison in Renon's headset. "We are, sir."
"Excellent."
*****
Aim ran through the Undernet, taking giant leaps and crossing quickly to the top floor.
He looked around. The shrine... and past that... was the source...
Aim rolled the globe containing Dynast's data in his hand.
"I know how to unlock your real power..." Aim grinned. "After all, being so close, I think we'd be able to do this with ease..."
Dynast's voice was harsh. "Zel would never have let you do this..."
"But Zel isn't alive anymore, now, is he?" Aim laughed.
"When judgement falls upon your head, he'll be watching and laughing" Dynast smiled back. "I assure you."
"I doubt that" Aim took off running.
*****
A young teenager with short, spiky black hair walked along the edge of the Pagoda. "Sir..." he said.
Renon's voice came back over. "What?"
"Something is watching me..."
"Nonsense, Lian!"
"No. Something..." the teenager looked up at the trees, seeing apples...
There were no apples in the net... were there?
The apples jumped down suddenly, growing wings and fangs.
"WHAT THE!?" Lian shouted, as they grabbed his limbs, and began to fly him away.
*****
Seinjaii and Marius huddled inside of a small room in the shrine. Paintings of ancient creatures surrounded the walls.
Seinjaii smiled. "The shrine's defenses... Don't move..." Seinjaii stood up, a small card slipping out of his pocket. He walked forward, keeping his eye on each of the pictures.
Marius picked up the card. He looked at it. On it was a beautiful scene, like nothing he had ever seen before. Trees, a huge pond, a light peaking over the mountains... but he had never seen such things in such beauty! That light...? What was it?
"What is this?" Marius asked.
Seinjaii turned, then caught himself. "Oh, hell..."
The dragon on the far wall began to animate.
The golden paper-thin dragon slithered off of the wall and moved along the ground. The two stood frozen, before Seinjaii remembered something.
"Stop!" Seinjaii commanded.
"Who are you...?" the serpent slithered.
"Seinjaii, son of Dreamer, the owner of this shrine..." Seinjaii said.
"The owner of this shrine was defeated by Dreamer. So that does make him the owner..." the dragon's tounge flicked out. "Can I help you young children?"
"There are enemies around the shrine. They wish to destroy it" Seinjaii muttered. "Get the defenders online."
"The attackers have already been ejected" the dragon smiled. "If you are referring to the one man who has torn our defenses up, he is going towards the Power Center..."
"The... The Power Center!?" Seinjaii looked at the dragon. "Marius, we have to get out of here! That must be the one dad..."
"What's going on!?" Marius cried out. Seinjaii grabbed his collar and dragged him through a hidden passageway, quickly reaching one of the roofs of the pagoda-like shrine and dropping down to ground level.
"Wait..." Marius muttered. "What was that picture? It was so beautiful..." he smiled as he ran alongside Seinjaii.
"It's the real world" Seinjaii replied. "But... if you are my brother... I don't think we'll ever really see it..."
"What?" Marius asked.
"We're born of data" Seinjaii explained. "We have no human soul, we never existed as humans. And since being able to go from Cyberworld to Human World requires those two things... We can't..."
"I see..." Marius looked at him, understanding, somehow.
*****
Miyuu, Kinzoku, Joseph, Manic, Enkou, Gregario, Ryuu, and Tsuki raced into the top floor of the Undernet.
"I told you it would be worth it..." Kinzoku smiled.
"Just look at all of this..." Tsuki looked around, licking her lips. "It's beautiful... Violet would love this place..."
Gregario laughed a bit nervously. "Listen... Let's get moving... Before... Before..."
"Before?" Ryuu asked.
"Before something pops out of nowhere at us" Joseph answered.
Dreamer appeared in front of them. "Like this?"
Joseph screamed and jumped up five feet. "Do NOT do that!"
Dreamer smiled, meekly. "Listen, you'd better get going... I need to make sure things are going okay..."
The group ran off. One stayed behind. Dreamer's left eye focused on Enkou.
"So what do you want?" Dreamer asked.
Enkou's face was covered in shadow. "Dreamer... It's nice to be in such a place, isn't it? Unlike the rest of the net, here I can use my full powers..."
Dreamer smiled a bit. "What nonsense are you thinking of right now?"
Enkou raised his head, the shadow mostly dissapearing. His face had sharpened, turning to something like that of an eagle. The one eye that could be seen was black, the pupil shaped like a crescent moon.
Indeed, Enkou had changed in total. His body was becoming sleeker, and in a flurry of black feathers, wings shot out of his back.
"I intend to finish vengeance for what was done to me and my father... I will finish you all off with the same curse you finished my father off with... Dreamer, you will be the first... Consider yourself lucky. You won't have to see the others suffer, as I regain the lost honor of my family!" Enkou grinned, diving suddenly for Dreamer.
Dreamer raised a hand. "Ninjato!" he smiled, the sword forming. "Do you dare come closer?"
Enkou seemed to pause in mid-air. Then, suddenly, his wings flapped, creating a burst of dark air.
Dreamer was pushed backwards, slamming into a Data Cube, bruising his back and almost breaking it with that level of force.
"I don't need to come close..." Enkou's mouth, now almost a beak, licked it's lips.
"Well, then..." Dreamer smiled. He held the Ninjato in one hand and a Shuko Glove wrapping the other, the virusite long gone from it's claws.
"It'll be fun chewing you apart..." Enkou grinned. Many scars were across his body, some only weak hints of battle, some large scars. One in particular was in a gap in his chest, perhaps the freshest one, where a knife had been plunged.
"The scars..." Dreamer smiled.
"The mark of my fathers to my ancestors..." Enkou's eyes thinned. "Why do you ask?"
"Prepare to add a few to that collection..." Dreamer ran forwards towards the hawk-Enkou. Dreamer's hair flew up, turning darker. And his own eyes turned black as night.
*****
The group ran to the Power Core. It was a large antennae, standing at the center of the Undernet.
"Oh my god..." Ryuu looked up. "It's so big..."
"It's the source of all the power in the undernet..." Miyuu looked around. There was a huge field between here and the base...
Her eyes fell upon two bodies.
"Oh!" Miyuu ran over to the two bodies, everybody else following suit.
As Miyuu approached, one of them, who had black-purple hair and a white headband which was now soaked with blood, pushed himself off of the ground and looked up.
Miyuu gaped, freezing.
The boy's face was covered in blood, his white shirt and sash, and black pants stained with red blood. Kunais and shuriken stuck from his skin, some pulled out, others still inside. One was even sticking deep into the boy's cheek.
But that wasn't what got her most.
The child's left arm was seemingly torn off. Strips of fabric covered a heavily bleeding stump, although it was healing fast. There wasn't even a shoulder.
"Oh my god..." Tsuki ran over. The others followed suit.
Miyuu ran over first, though, reaching the kid, and helping lift him up.
"What happened to you?" Miyuu asked.
The boy looked up at Miyuu. "Oh... are you... the angel to take me away...?" the boy asked. "Are you here to bring me and my brother to rest?"
"Don't speak like that!" Ryuu said. "You're quite alive!"
"Am I...?" the boy looked at Miyuu. "Then that is what this pain is..." he tried to lift himself onto one knee. As he did, a shuriken dug farther into his knee, making him scream out. The end of the kunai could be seen clearly in the boy's mouth, just over his tounge.
"Oh, my god, don't move a muscle..." Miyuu stopped the boy. "Listen, we're going to heal you up."
"What about what Dreamer said? We have to get to the core..." Manic said.
"And let two children die?" Joseph looked at Manic. "That's... quite rude!"
"Listen, you guys stay behind if you want. I have to go on ahead..." Manic took off running.
"W... Wait up..." Kinzoku followed after Manic.
"I'm going too..." Gregario took off after those two.
Tsuki, Joseph, Ryuu, and Miyuu stayed behind. Tsuki walked over to the other one.
The other boy had short, messy blue hair, and looked to be the same age. In fact, the two, it seemed, looked almost similar enough to be twins, once you got past the colors.
This boy had taken less of a beating. His body showed many scars, but he would probably be okay. If he got medical attention, anyway. A steady, slow flow of blood was coming from his lips even now, as his head was rolled to the side. Lots of cuts... Obviously, the same technique had not been used on the person.
"What's your name?" Miyuu looked hard at the other child.
"S... Seinjaii..." Seinjaii breathed out. "And... I have to stop... for father... stop... Core... stop power... for father... stop the man..."
"Who? What man?" Ryuu asked, kneeling down.
Seinjaii looked up. "I have... I have to stop... Aim..." Seinjaii collapsed forward, unconcious.
Tsuki and Miyuu looked at each other. "Listen, you two. Go on, get out of here. Get up there." Tsuki commanded. "We'll watch these two..."
"Are you sure?" Ryuu looked at them.
"We'll be fine, Ryuu-san" Miyuu responded. "Just go..."
"Right" Ryuu and Joseph turned to run off.
"And Ryuu..." Miyuu looked up at Ryuu.
Ryuu looked at Miyuu, stopping. "What?"
Ryuu smiled inwardly. If this was the kind of situation he had thought it was, the girl would say 'Good Luck', but she'd be meaning something else...
"Don't let our friends get beaten up!" Miyuu smiled.
Ryuu tried to smile. "Sure... Yeah, sure..." he turned and ran off.
"What is it with men?" Tsuki wondered.
"What is it with women?" Ryuu wondered.
Cybersystem Interactive RPG is now re-available at groups.msn.com/cybersystemgaiden
Author's Note: Well, here's a continuing part to our everlasting story... ^^ Oh, and... Cybersystem Gaiden is up - It's a 'side-story' to Cybersystem, but I'm no doubt going to be adding some stuff between the two of them. EG: Amethyst replaced Miyuu, Tsuki changed (Once AGAIN) to Violet... But that'll come later!
WARNING: Violence Level - Medium-High
Storyline 2 - Reaction
Storyline By - Dreamer Grausherra
Author - Dreamer Grausherra
Chapter 4 - Aim of the Game
Dreamer looked down at the others from the stands. There was something like a smile on his face, although it was cruel and twisted. He looked so much older... Like he had aged ten years since they had last seen him. His previously short hair had grown long and fine.
"Do you see him up there too...?" Miyuu looked up at Dreamer.
"Hai..." Ryuu walked over to stand beside her.
Then, suddenly, Dreamer was down there with them.
"ACK!" Joseph shouted. "Do NOT do that!"
Dreamer smiled. "Something the matter, Joseph?"
"Yeah, just a bit..." Joseph looked at Dreamer like as if the latter was crazy. "Don't just suddenly appear out of nowhere! It's freaky!"
"Whatever" Dreamer muttered, looking at the others. "Seeing you guys... ah, the memories..."
"Who's this?" Manic walked over to the group, looking at Dreamer.
"My name is Dreamer Grausherra..." Dreamer smiled politely.
If Manic had any shock from recognition, he held it well. "My name is..."
"Manic Grave. I know. I've been watching" Dreamer smiled. "My eye, though, turns to another direction..."
Dreamer's left eye shifted to look to the left, the other one was still covered by his bangs.
Everybody looked to the left.
Aim and Sirius were Netbattling.
*****
Seinjaii looked at his brother, who was lying on the ground, on a soft sheet over stones right next to a fountain, water dripping on Marius' body.
"To think that we're brothers..." Seinjaii laughed a bit. "I can see it, though..."
Marius nodded. "I always thought Tenka was dad... But I never knew mother..."
"Dad never speaks of her, no..." Seinjaii muttered. "Not a word except her name. Some witch named Actrise."
Marius laughed a bit, catching a bit of water on his tounge. "It's so peacefull up here... And yet, all the viri, and everything that goes on at the top of this place..."
Seinjaii shrugged. "Something dad set up. No hostile forces are supposed to be able to enter."
"Right" Marius smiled.
Seinjaii looked around for a moment. "At least, that's what I've always been told. But most of the time, dad is around... He's not usually gone this long..."
Marius sat up. There was an innocent smile on his face. "Ah, don't worry about it!"
Seinjaii thought, seeing a truly innocent young child in Marius' heart. "Yeah... don't worry about it... You're right..."
*****
Aim and Sirius locked swords. In a quick move, Sirius slammed his boot down across Aim's chest, sending him backwards.
Aim stumbled a bit, before standing tall, still holding the sword. "You know, Sirius, there are many ways to win a battle..."
"I doubt you know them" Sirius smiled.
"Have you ever heard of Virusite?" Aim asked.
"Heard of what?" Sirius asked back.
"Virusite. Net Poison. Deadly stuff, able to destroy a person's cyberbody. It's only found on the highest levels of the Undernet, really. As it would happen, you're already infected..."
Sirius looked at his hands. His right finger flickered for a moment.
"Interesting game you're playing here..." Sirius smiled.
"No game" Aim grinned. "Sirius, you fool... You simple, simple fool. With your condition, I'd be logging out right now, or else you might just lose something important permanently!"
"Oh?" Sirius grinned. "If I logged out before doing this..."
Sirius teleported behind Aim, grabbing the Paladin Sword and slicing through Aim, and following up with a shocking grab attack. As Aim was paralyzed, Sirius smiled. "Holy Strike!" he grinned, sending a bolt of light into Aim's back. Aim logged out.
"I'd lose my honor" Sirius quickly followed suit, logging out as well.
*****
"Do you see that man?" Dreamer asked.
"Sirius?" Kinzoku asked.
"No. Aim" Dreamer responded.
"The professor?" Ryuu asked. "Why?"
"That man is a source of evil..." Dreamer's eyes narrowed. "Now that he has been eliminated, he will go to take the final action while the others are busy..."
"The final action?" Miyuu asked.
"Stop being so confuzling..." Gregario's eyes spun.
"Listen. In the cyberworld right now, just behind Netopia Castle, is a brick that is red, unlike the others. It's not easy to spot though. Go there, and hit the brick. It'll open up a passage to the Undernet. Make your way to the Power Source."
"But the tournament..." Miyuu cried out.
"You have to do it" Dreamer responded. "Just trust me on this."
The group looked at each other.
"Dreamer, you haven't explained a thing. There's no reason for us to trust..." Joseph began.
But Dreamer was already gone.
"Well, now what?" Tsuki looked at the others.
"I have no idea..." Manic shrugged.
"Well, we could always..." Kinzoku began.
*****
Seinjaii fell backwards, looking up at Marius. "Alright, you win..."
Marius smiled. "Told you I'm faster!"
The two laughed.
Seinjaii's head rolled to the side, looking at the trees at the edge of the shrine.
His eyes froze.
"Marius, get inside, quickly..." Seinjaii muttered.
"What?" Marius looked around. "Dream Bits?"
"No..." Seinjaii stood up quickly, grabbing Marius' collar and pulling him inside the shrine quickly.
"So they know we're here..." Renon grinned. "Umar, Lian, Hoy! The three of you, get ready!"
Three voices rang back in unison in Renon's headset. "We are, sir."
"Excellent."
*****
Aim ran through the Undernet, taking giant leaps and crossing quickly to the top floor.
He looked around. The shrine... and past that... was the source...
Aim rolled the globe containing Dynast's data in his hand.
"I know how to unlock your real power..." Aim grinned. "After all, being so close, I think we'd be able to do this with ease..."
Dynast's voice was harsh. "Zel would never have let you do this..."
"But Zel isn't alive anymore, now, is he?" Aim laughed.
"When judgement falls upon your head, he'll be watching and laughing" Dynast smiled back. "I assure you."
"I doubt that" Aim took off running.
*****
A young teenager with short, spiky black hair walked along the edge of the Pagoda. "Sir..." he said.
Renon's voice came back over. "What?"
"Something is watching me..."
"Nonsense, Lian!"
"No. Something..." the teenager looked up at the trees, seeing apples...
There were no apples in the net... were there?
The apples jumped down suddenly, growing wings and fangs.
"WHAT THE!?" Lian shouted, as they grabbed his limbs, and began to fly him away.
*****
Seinjaii and Marius huddled inside of a small room in the shrine. Paintings of ancient creatures surrounded the walls.
Seinjaii smiled. "The shrine's defenses... Don't move..." Seinjaii stood up, a small card slipping out of his pocket. He walked forward, keeping his eye on each of the pictures.
Marius picked up the card. He looked at it. On it was a beautiful scene, like nothing he had ever seen before. Trees, a huge pond, a light peaking over the mountains... but he had never seen such things in such beauty! That light...? What was it?
"What is this?" Marius asked.
Seinjaii turned, then caught himself. "Oh, hell..."
The dragon on the far wall began to animate.
The golden paper-thin dragon slithered off of the wall and moved along the ground. The two stood frozen, before Seinjaii remembered something.
"Stop!" Seinjaii commanded.
"Who are you...?" the serpent slithered.
"Seinjaii, son of Dreamer, the owner of this shrine..." Seinjaii said.
"The owner of this shrine was defeated by Dreamer. So that does make him the owner..." the dragon's tounge flicked out. "Can I help you young children?"
"There are enemies around the shrine. They wish to destroy it" Seinjaii muttered. "Get the defenders online."
"The attackers have already been ejected" the dragon smiled. "If you are referring to the one man who has torn our defenses up, he is going towards the Power Center..."
"The... The Power Center!?" Seinjaii looked at the dragon. "Marius, we have to get out of here! That must be the one dad..."
"What's going on!?" Marius cried out. Seinjaii grabbed his collar and dragged him through a hidden passageway, quickly reaching one of the roofs of the pagoda-like shrine and dropping down to ground level.
"Wait..." Marius muttered. "What was that picture? It was so beautiful..." he smiled as he ran alongside Seinjaii.
"It's the real world" Seinjaii replied. "But... if you are my brother... I don't think we'll ever really see it..."
"What?" Marius asked.
"We're born of data" Seinjaii explained. "We have no human soul, we never existed as humans. And since being able to go from Cyberworld to Human World requires those two things... We can't..."
"I see..." Marius looked at him, understanding, somehow.
*****
Miyuu, Kinzoku, Joseph, Manic, Enkou, Gregario, Ryuu, and Tsuki raced into the top floor of the Undernet.
"I told you it would be worth it..." Kinzoku smiled.
"Just look at all of this..." Tsuki looked around, licking her lips. "It's beautiful... Violet would love this place..."
Gregario laughed a bit nervously. "Listen... Let's get moving... Before... Before..."
"Before?" Ryuu asked.
"Before something pops out of nowhere at us" Joseph answered.
Dreamer appeared in front of them. "Like this?"
Joseph screamed and jumped up five feet. "Do NOT do that!"
Dreamer smiled, meekly. "Listen, you'd better get going... I need to make sure things are going okay..."
The group ran off. One stayed behind. Dreamer's left eye focused on Enkou.
"So what do you want?" Dreamer asked.
Enkou's face was covered in shadow. "Dreamer... It's nice to be in such a place, isn't it? Unlike the rest of the net, here I can use my full powers..."
Dreamer smiled a bit. "What nonsense are you thinking of right now?"
Enkou raised his head, the shadow mostly dissapearing. His face had sharpened, turning to something like that of an eagle. The one eye that could be seen was black, the pupil shaped like a crescent moon.
Indeed, Enkou had changed in total. His body was becoming sleeker, and in a flurry of black feathers, wings shot out of his back.
"I intend to finish vengeance for what was done to me and my father... I will finish you all off with the same curse you finished my father off with... Dreamer, you will be the first... Consider yourself lucky. You won't have to see the others suffer, as I regain the lost honor of my family!" Enkou grinned, diving suddenly for Dreamer.
Dreamer raised a hand. "Ninjato!" he smiled, the sword forming. "Do you dare come closer?"
Enkou seemed to pause in mid-air. Then, suddenly, his wings flapped, creating a burst of dark air.
Dreamer was pushed backwards, slamming into a Data Cube, bruising his back and almost breaking it with that level of force.
"I don't need to come close..." Enkou's mouth, now almost a beak, licked it's lips.
"Well, then..." Dreamer smiled. He held the Ninjato in one hand and a Shuko Glove wrapping the other, the virusite long gone from it's claws.
"It'll be fun chewing you apart..." Enkou grinned. Many scars were across his body, some only weak hints of battle, some large scars. One in particular was in a gap in his chest, perhaps the freshest one, where a knife had been plunged.
"The scars..." Dreamer smiled.
"The mark of my fathers to my ancestors..." Enkou's eyes thinned. "Why do you ask?"
"Prepare to add a few to that collection..." Dreamer ran forwards towards the hawk-Enkou. Dreamer's hair flew up, turning darker. And his own eyes turned black as night.
*****
The group ran to the Power Core. It was a large antennae, standing at the center of the Undernet.
"Oh my god..." Ryuu looked up. "It's so big..."
"It's the source of all the power in the undernet..." Miyuu looked around. There was a huge field between here and the base...
Her eyes fell upon two bodies.
"Oh!" Miyuu ran over to the two bodies, everybody else following suit.
As Miyuu approached, one of them, who had black-purple hair and a white headband which was now soaked with blood, pushed himself off of the ground and looked up.
Miyuu gaped, freezing.
The boy's face was covered in blood, his white shirt and sash, and black pants stained with red blood. Kunais and shuriken stuck from his skin, some pulled out, others still inside. One was even sticking deep into the boy's cheek.
But that wasn't what got her most.
The child's left arm was seemingly torn off. Strips of fabric covered a heavily bleeding stump, although it was healing fast. There wasn't even a shoulder.
"Oh my god..." Tsuki ran over. The others followed suit.
Miyuu ran over first, though, reaching the kid, and helping lift him up.
"What happened to you?" Miyuu asked.
The boy looked up at Miyuu. "Oh... are you... the angel to take me away...?" the boy asked. "Are you here to bring me and my brother to rest?"
"Don't speak like that!" Ryuu said. "You're quite alive!"
"Am I...?" the boy looked at Miyuu. "Then that is what this pain is..." he tried to lift himself onto one knee. As he did, a shuriken dug farther into his knee, making him scream out. The end of the kunai could be seen clearly in the boy's mouth, just over his tounge.
"Oh, my god, don't move a muscle..." Miyuu stopped the boy. "Listen, we're going to heal you up."
"What about what Dreamer said? We have to get to the core..." Manic said.
"And let two children die?" Joseph looked at Manic. "That's... quite rude!"
"Listen, you guys stay behind if you want. I have to go on ahead..." Manic took off running.
"W... Wait up..." Kinzoku followed after Manic.
"I'm going too..." Gregario took off after those two.
Tsuki, Joseph, Ryuu, and Miyuu stayed behind. Tsuki walked over to the other one.
The other boy had short, messy blue hair, and looked to be the same age. In fact, the two, it seemed, looked almost similar enough to be twins, once you got past the colors.
This boy had taken less of a beating. His body showed many scars, but he would probably be okay. If he got medical attention, anyway. A steady, slow flow of blood was coming from his lips even now, as his head was rolled to the side. Lots of cuts... Obviously, the same technique had not been used on the person.
"What's your name?" Miyuu looked hard at the other child.
"S... Seinjaii..." Seinjaii breathed out. "And... I have to stop... for father... stop... Core... stop power... for father... stop the man..."
"Who? What man?" Ryuu asked, kneeling down.
Seinjaii looked up. "I have... I have to stop... Aim..." Seinjaii collapsed forward, unconcious.
Tsuki and Miyuu looked at each other. "Listen, you two. Go on, get out of here. Get up there." Tsuki commanded. "We'll watch these two..."
"Are you sure?" Ryuu looked at them.
"We'll be fine, Ryuu-san" Miyuu responded. "Just go..."
"Right" Ryuu and Joseph turned to run off.
"And Ryuu..." Miyuu looked up at Ryuu.
Ryuu looked at Miyuu, stopping. "What?"
Ryuu smiled inwardly. If this was the kind of situation he had thought it was, the girl would say 'Good Luck', but she'd be meaning something else...
"Don't let our friends get beaten up!" Miyuu smiled.
Ryuu tried to smile. "Sure... Yeah, sure..." he turned and ran off.
"What is it with men?" Tsuki wondered.
"What is it with women?" Ryuu wondered.