Chapter 1 : Promise Of An End
A rusty door creaked open and Dauphins stepped into his room. He threw his bags into the back and let out a small sigh and then heard Frey shout out from across the hall "Yes!! I missed these Musty, Rusty, Old ass beds! Wahoo! We are in the life of luxury!"
Dauphin smirked and walked out of his room. He shut the door behind him and traveled down the hall of the ship.
The hall of the Archeron was small. Along side of it were six doors, for six rooms. Although there would only be five people on this trip, Dauphin left the door open to what would have been Jord's room had she come along for the trip. After he traveled down the hall he came onto a bridge, which had two sets of stairs, both leading down to the ships engines and heating systems. He continued past down this bridge as steam erupted from both of the engines. He walked into the front of the ship, which was where Echo, the operator would work from. She controlled who went into the Matrix and created hacks for in case something was needed. Behind her in a corner was six seats, for the six crew members in case someone new came onto the ship.
"Dauphin!" A female voice shouted from behind him. Dauphin whirled around to see a short woman behind him. She had bleached white hair and was also dressed in white. Her eyes were thin when she smiled. She spoke with a small accent of Chinese descent.
"Dauphin, glad to see you were assigned to this ship also"
"No, personal choice, I heard you were going to be on here and I decided, you know? I have to go so I can work with Bacchus inside the Matrix again"
Bacchus smirked, "Yeah, right "
Frey stepped into the main operation room in the front of the ship and glanced at Dauphin. Dauphin held his hand up as a signal of acknowledgement Frey walked over to the seats by Echo and leaned back.
Dauphin sighed, "Well, time to begin"
Cross got up from where he was lying down and stepped into one of the other seats. Frey smirked, "Training is difficult, don't be too surprised if you get your ass handed to you."
Dauphin stepped over to one of the seats and reclined back into it. "Echo, are you ready to send us in to the training program?"
Echo glanced up, "That reminds me, I've created a hack which connects his brain to what you guys are doing. Which means it's like motion capture, anything you do is captured and he remembers. So training should be particularly easy today for him"
Dauphin and Frey both laughed and then Frey piped up, "I don't remember it being that easy for me".
Dauphin closed his eyes as Frey leaned back into his chair again. Cross closed his eyes also.
"Alright, Jack us in"
Dauphin felt a pressure in the back of his head as a needle was inserted into it. Frey made a small grunt and Cross definitely was not holding back on his emotion with a quote of "Fuck that hurts".
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your pilot Echo. The weather today is non -existent and neither is anything else inside of the system today. We will have a slight bit of turbulence and you have Five, four, three, two…."
"Here we go," Frey sighed.
"ONE".
In a rush of light and green. Frey, Dauphin and Cross were teleported into the Matrix. Dauphin examined his hair to discover it was long and indigo. He had a glove on one hand and was wearing a black shirt and baggy black jeans. He was wearing a white Trench coat that had a red cross on it. It was a gift from Bacchus when he had met her inside Zion while they were training with Frey. He smirked and reached into his pockets to discover two guns, and along side his back was a staff that could be split into two to work like two Kali sticks. He head army boots that were steal toed. He smirked as he examined his shoes to see that Echo had written a hack that scribbled along side his boots "I Own you".
Frey too was amazed by his new look. He also had a set of Army boots which were covered up only by his long black Trenchcoat. He had black baggy Cargo pants and a blood red muscle shirt. He flexed his arms to notice some new muscles, which had green armbands on them.
Dauphin glanced at Frey's face, he was wearing blue sunglasses. "Nice" Dauphin commented.
Frey smirked and jiggled his leg to discover he had a sword and a couple of guns. "I'm starting to like what Echo does for our style".
"THIS IS AWESOME!!" Cross called out. Cross was in all denim. Blue jeans and a blue shirt. He had a blue jacket with an Arrow along the back. However, he did not have a weapon or guns. Cross realized that he would probably have to go through training in order to be allowed to have guns and weapons.
"Okay" Dauphin glanced around, "Frey, you have the phone right?"
"Yep" Frey said.
"Call Echo and tell her we need that Japanese shrine that Mouse created".Dauphin ordered. Cross glanced up, "Japanese shrine?"
"Best place to train my friend," Frey said as he dialed in the number, "Echo? Yes, it's Frey, What did you think I was? No, No. Shut up and listen would you? Look, load up the Japanese shrine please. We're gonna start training Cross. Alright, I'll give you a dollar, just load it up".
Within a second they were inside a Japanese shrine. The walls and floors were all straw matted with a wood frame. There were red drapes along the side.Next to the drapes along side the walls there were swords, poleaxes, knives and ninja stars for anyone who was willing to take the time to master them. There was a second floor on top of the wooden columns alongside the edges.
Cross stood up. "Okay Cross, Ready?" Dauphin asked. Cross nodded. All of a sudden Dauphin threw his foot up. It went flying through the air and slammed into what was now a block. Cross looked at his arm and glanced over at Frey, to see that he had raised his arm in time to block, and Cross had learned it.
"Awesome" Dauphin said. Then he held his hand up and signaled for Cross to kick. Cross mimicked Dauphin's kick and Dauphin caught him by the leg and threw him through the air, causing him to slide along the floor. Cross slammed his hands into the ground and propelled himself so he would land back first into the wall. With a loud THUD, Cross slammed into the wall and fell to the ground. He got up and stood on his feet.
"You do that?" Dauphin asked Frey.
"No" Frey shook his head in amazement.
"Kid learns quick".
Dauphin walked over to Cross. He threw a punch and Cross grabbed his arm. Dauphin quickly reversed it and slammed him into the ground. Cross jumped up and kicked. Dauphin blocked.
This continued for an hour, until finally, Dauphin stopped.
"You've learned the basics, now it's time to get serious".
Cross' eyes opened wide. He rubbed a bruise on his arm. "Get SERIOUS?!" He gasped and his voice squeaked. Frey smiled, "No, no more fighting for you today, now it's between me and Dauphin, you will watch and learn through the hack Echo created."
Dauphin smiled, "Frey, you get to talk with Echo again"
"No, then I'll owe her two bucks, I dom't even know what the hell a dollar is, how do I owe her one?!" Frey asked and tossed Dauphin the phone.
Dauphin dialed in a number and heard Echo's voice come on to the phone, "It's Dauphin, we need the sky scrapers"
"New York style, Chicago?"
"Those are all ancient cities, who cares?"
"New york it is, Sky Scrapers coming right up".
And within another quick flash they were standing on top of a set of Sky Scrapers. All the buildings around them were huge. They were at least 640 feet of of the ground. Frey glanced down. "Perfect" He mumbled.
Dauphin said, "Okay, Frey. We're going to face off now in order to train Cross, understand? Don't get too flashy, we only want things that will help him survive"
"Gotcha. Sure you still want to do this? You could get out before it's over for you Dauphin" Frey asked.
"Frey…." Dauphin sighed, "The moment you beat me, you can control the Archeron."-
"You don't live up to that bet and I'm killing you in real life"
"I expect no reason to live up to the bet"
All went silent. And both Dauphin and Frey prepared themselves for battle. Cross could feel the tension through the air. It was like lightning.
And then…..
Frey made a dive for Dauphin with a kick. Dauphin held his hands up and got his foot. Frey raised his foot over him and threw Dauphin over him. Dauphin landed on his feet and immediately through a punch at Frey. Frey blocked it and attempted to counter, which Dauphin blocked. Dauphin threw another punch and Frey leaned back, Dauphin slammed his elbow into Frey's stomach. Frey fell to the ground and jumped up using his hands. He slammed his foot into Dauphin's chin and backflipped off of the ground. Dauphin flew back and began flipping in the air. He landed on his feet and saw Frey standing on his feet. Frey held up his fingers and blew on them like they were a gun.
"Funny" Dauphin smirked.
He jumped up into the air and Frey leaped too. Both took.up off the ground like rockets. They met about thirty feet in the air, and both Landed a kick on each other. They both flew backwards and traveled past the edges of the sky scraped they were on. They both feel and landed on Sky scrapers across from each other. Cross was standing on the middle one throwing punches and kicks, mimicking what Dauphin and Frey were doing. Dauphin leapt and focused his mind. He felt himself traveling over the gap in the street. Frey followed what he was doing and they met in the middle. Frey did a sweep kick and Dauphin jumped. Dauphin raised his foot in a roundhouse and Frey ducked. Dauphin attempted to knee him and Frey blocked with his knee. Dauphin punched Frey in the chin and Frey flew back. Frey jumped up from the ground and flipped forwards in the air. He slammed the edge of his boot into Dauphin's shoulder. Dauphin jumped up and kicked Frey in the face, both men flew back again. They both got off of the ground and stood up.
"Okay, enough Physical fighting, I think he's learned the basics of it" Dauphin announced, both men were wheezing.
Frey brought out his sword. It was unsheathed with a SHING! Noise. Dauphin brought out his staff.
Dauphin slammed his staff into the ground and cause a small ripple along the roof of the sky scraper. The ripple uprooted tiles as it traveled towards Frey. Frey jumped and ran at Dauphin with his sword. He brought it over his head and brought it down. Dauphin moved to the side and swung his staff. The staff whistled through the air, only to be met with a block from Dauphin. Frey stabbed his sword forward, Dauphin brought his staff down on it, slamming it to the ground. Dauphin kicked at Frey and Frey leaned to the left. Dauphin made another kick attempt and Frey loosed up his sword and rolled to the right with it. Frey made a slash at Dauphin's feet. Dauphin jumped up and he felt Frey's sword whistle under his feet.
Dauphin swung at Frey with his staff like it was a bat. He knocked Frey backwards and into the next sky scraper.
It was quiet again.
Then both men jumped towards each other. And as if time was frozen they swung their weapons at each other. Sweat dripped off of their faces as they met in the middle of the gap between the two sky scrapers. Dauphin slammed his staff into Frey's sword as Frey's sword caught the middle of the staff, breaking it in two. Both men fell towards the ground. They landed and jumped up. They were in the middle of the street. Frey did something weird and propelled himself off of the window of the building into the air. Dauphin followed and both men leaped at each other, Dauphin blocked Frey's sword with his two sticks and continued to the next building where they leapt at each other again. Dauphin leaned back and Frey's sword flew past him. Dauphin slammed his sticks into Frey's side. They continued up. Finally they were back on top of the sky scraper. Frey rolled back on and Dauphin leapt into the air. As he came down Frey raised his sword at Dauphin's body. When Dauphin landed he found Frey's sword at his throat. And Frey found both of Dauphin's sticks read to be slammed into his head.
They were both wheezing when a gunshot went off which broke he tension.
"BOYS!" A female voice called out. Dauphin jumped back put his staff back together and Frey stood up. It was Bacchus. "Boys, you have an incoming transmission from Jord, hurry up and jack out. I'll continue training cross".
"Thanks Bacchus" Dauphin said as he felt the world whistle away from him. He jumped out of his seat and saw Frey sitting up examining his arms.
"Who won?" Frey asked.
"No one" Echo replied.
Dauphin got up and went over to where Echo was. "Do we have Jord on the line?"
"Yeah" And then Jord's face appeared on one of the screens. Dauphin and Frey both leaned over the screen.
Jord smiled, "You have a transmission from someone who helped this council, I highly suggest you don't fuck up with this guy".
Dauphin asked "Who is it?"
Jord, "I have no idea yet, but one of the councellors said for me to patch him through to you".
"Why don't you know?" Dauphin demanded.
"I refuse to become to involved with the council" Jord said, "You know how I am, Leave the politics to madmen"
Frey sighed "We understand". And then Jord disappeared from the screen. But then a new face was on the screen. Both Frey and Dauphin's jaws dropped. This man was bald, but was of huge stature. He looked like he could snap someones neck for breathing.
"Morpheus" Dauphin whispered under his breath.
"Gentlemen" Morpheus said.
"Yes?" Frey asked.
"The end is near, the prophecy is to be fulfilled soon. The One will save us all" Morpheus stopped for a breath, "But we need to free minds from The Matrix. We must show them what is real and what is fake. Will you help us?"
Dauphin smiled and high fived Frey under the screen, "Yes, we will help you. For the good of the human race, we must be free."
"Yes, we must" Morpheus said, "Gentlemen, You have demonstrated that you are capable of freeing human minds, now you can".
And then the screen shut off. It was black again.
Frey summed it up best with an under the breath, "Holy shit".
A rusty door creaked open and Dauphins stepped into his room. He threw his bags into the back and let out a small sigh and then heard Frey shout out from across the hall "Yes!! I missed these Musty, Rusty, Old ass beds! Wahoo! We are in the life of luxury!"
Dauphin smirked and walked out of his room. He shut the door behind him and traveled down the hall of the ship.
The hall of the Archeron was small. Along side of it were six doors, for six rooms. Although there would only be five people on this trip, Dauphin left the door open to what would have been Jord's room had she come along for the trip. After he traveled down the hall he came onto a bridge, which had two sets of stairs, both leading down to the ships engines and heating systems. He continued past down this bridge as steam erupted from both of the engines. He walked into the front of the ship, which was where Echo, the operator would work from. She controlled who went into the Matrix and created hacks for in case something was needed. Behind her in a corner was six seats, for the six crew members in case someone new came onto the ship.
"Dauphin!" A female voice shouted from behind him. Dauphin whirled around to see a short woman behind him. She had bleached white hair and was also dressed in white. Her eyes were thin when she smiled. She spoke with a small accent of Chinese descent.
"Dauphin, glad to see you were assigned to this ship also"
"No, personal choice, I heard you were going to be on here and I decided, you know? I have to go so I can work with Bacchus inside the Matrix again"
Bacchus smirked, "Yeah, right "
Frey stepped into the main operation room in the front of the ship and glanced at Dauphin. Dauphin held his hand up as a signal of acknowledgement Frey walked over to the seats by Echo and leaned back.
Dauphin sighed, "Well, time to begin"
Cross got up from where he was lying down and stepped into one of the other seats. Frey smirked, "Training is difficult, don't be too surprised if you get your ass handed to you."
Dauphin stepped over to one of the seats and reclined back into it. "Echo, are you ready to send us in to the training program?"
Echo glanced up, "That reminds me, I've created a hack which connects his brain to what you guys are doing. Which means it's like motion capture, anything you do is captured and he remembers. So training should be particularly easy today for him"
Dauphin and Frey both laughed and then Frey piped up, "I don't remember it being that easy for me".
Dauphin closed his eyes as Frey leaned back into his chair again. Cross closed his eyes also.
"Alright, Jack us in"
Dauphin felt a pressure in the back of his head as a needle was inserted into it. Frey made a small grunt and Cross definitely was not holding back on his emotion with a quote of "Fuck that hurts".
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your pilot Echo. The weather today is non -existent and neither is anything else inside of the system today. We will have a slight bit of turbulence and you have Five, four, three, two…."
"Here we go," Frey sighed.
"ONE".
In a rush of light and green. Frey, Dauphin and Cross were teleported into the Matrix. Dauphin examined his hair to discover it was long and indigo. He had a glove on one hand and was wearing a black shirt and baggy black jeans. He was wearing a white Trench coat that had a red cross on it. It was a gift from Bacchus when he had met her inside Zion while they were training with Frey. He smirked and reached into his pockets to discover two guns, and along side his back was a staff that could be split into two to work like two Kali sticks. He head army boots that were steal toed. He smirked as he examined his shoes to see that Echo had written a hack that scribbled along side his boots "I Own you".
Frey too was amazed by his new look. He also had a set of Army boots which were covered up only by his long black Trenchcoat. He had black baggy Cargo pants and a blood red muscle shirt. He flexed his arms to notice some new muscles, which had green armbands on them.
Dauphin glanced at Frey's face, he was wearing blue sunglasses. "Nice" Dauphin commented.
Frey smirked and jiggled his leg to discover he had a sword and a couple of guns. "I'm starting to like what Echo does for our style".
"THIS IS AWESOME!!" Cross called out. Cross was in all denim. Blue jeans and a blue shirt. He had a blue jacket with an Arrow along the back. However, he did not have a weapon or guns. Cross realized that he would probably have to go through training in order to be allowed to have guns and weapons.
"Okay" Dauphin glanced around, "Frey, you have the phone right?"
"Yep" Frey said.
"Call Echo and tell her we need that Japanese shrine that Mouse created".Dauphin ordered. Cross glanced up, "Japanese shrine?"
"Best place to train my friend," Frey said as he dialed in the number, "Echo? Yes, it's Frey, What did you think I was? No, No. Shut up and listen would you? Look, load up the Japanese shrine please. We're gonna start training Cross. Alright, I'll give you a dollar, just load it up".
Within a second they were inside a Japanese shrine. The walls and floors were all straw matted with a wood frame. There were red drapes along the side.Next to the drapes along side the walls there were swords, poleaxes, knives and ninja stars for anyone who was willing to take the time to master them. There was a second floor on top of the wooden columns alongside the edges.
Cross stood up. "Okay Cross, Ready?" Dauphin asked. Cross nodded. All of a sudden Dauphin threw his foot up. It went flying through the air and slammed into what was now a block. Cross looked at his arm and glanced over at Frey, to see that he had raised his arm in time to block, and Cross had learned it.
"Awesome" Dauphin said. Then he held his hand up and signaled for Cross to kick. Cross mimicked Dauphin's kick and Dauphin caught him by the leg and threw him through the air, causing him to slide along the floor. Cross slammed his hands into the ground and propelled himself so he would land back first into the wall. With a loud THUD, Cross slammed into the wall and fell to the ground. He got up and stood on his feet.
"You do that?" Dauphin asked Frey.
"No" Frey shook his head in amazement.
"Kid learns quick".
Dauphin walked over to Cross. He threw a punch and Cross grabbed his arm. Dauphin quickly reversed it and slammed him into the ground. Cross jumped up and kicked. Dauphin blocked.
This continued for an hour, until finally, Dauphin stopped.
"You've learned the basics, now it's time to get serious".
Cross' eyes opened wide. He rubbed a bruise on his arm. "Get SERIOUS?!" He gasped and his voice squeaked. Frey smiled, "No, no more fighting for you today, now it's between me and Dauphin, you will watch and learn through the hack Echo created."
Dauphin smiled, "Frey, you get to talk with Echo again"
"No, then I'll owe her two bucks, I dom't even know what the hell a dollar is, how do I owe her one?!" Frey asked and tossed Dauphin the phone.
Dauphin dialed in a number and heard Echo's voice come on to the phone, "It's Dauphin, we need the sky scrapers"
"New York style, Chicago?"
"Those are all ancient cities, who cares?"
"New york it is, Sky Scrapers coming right up".
And within another quick flash they were standing on top of a set of Sky Scrapers. All the buildings around them were huge. They were at least 640 feet of of the ground. Frey glanced down. "Perfect" He mumbled.
Dauphin said, "Okay, Frey. We're going to face off now in order to train Cross, understand? Don't get too flashy, we only want things that will help him survive"
"Gotcha. Sure you still want to do this? You could get out before it's over for you Dauphin" Frey asked.
"Frey…." Dauphin sighed, "The moment you beat me, you can control the Archeron."-
"You don't live up to that bet and I'm killing you in real life"
"I expect no reason to live up to the bet"
All went silent. And both Dauphin and Frey prepared themselves for battle. Cross could feel the tension through the air. It was like lightning.
And then…..
Frey made a dive for Dauphin with a kick. Dauphin held his hands up and got his foot. Frey raised his foot over him and threw Dauphin over him. Dauphin landed on his feet and immediately through a punch at Frey. Frey blocked it and attempted to counter, which Dauphin blocked. Dauphin threw another punch and Frey leaned back, Dauphin slammed his elbow into Frey's stomach. Frey fell to the ground and jumped up using his hands. He slammed his foot into Dauphin's chin and backflipped off of the ground. Dauphin flew back and began flipping in the air. He landed on his feet and saw Frey standing on his feet. Frey held up his fingers and blew on them like they were a gun.
"Funny" Dauphin smirked.
He jumped up into the air and Frey leaped too. Both took.up off the ground like rockets. They met about thirty feet in the air, and both Landed a kick on each other. They both flew backwards and traveled past the edges of the sky scraped they were on. They both feel and landed on Sky scrapers across from each other. Cross was standing on the middle one throwing punches and kicks, mimicking what Dauphin and Frey were doing. Dauphin leapt and focused his mind. He felt himself traveling over the gap in the street. Frey followed what he was doing and they met in the middle. Frey did a sweep kick and Dauphin jumped. Dauphin raised his foot in a roundhouse and Frey ducked. Dauphin attempted to knee him and Frey blocked with his knee. Dauphin punched Frey in the chin and Frey flew back. Frey jumped up from the ground and flipped forwards in the air. He slammed the edge of his boot into Dauphin's shoulder. Dauphin jumped up and kicked Frey in the face, both men flew back again. They both got off of the ground and stood up.
"Okay, enough Physical fighting, I think he's learned the basics of it" Dauphin announced, both men were wheezing.
Frey brought out his sword. It was unsheathed with a SHING! Noise. Dauphin brought out his staff.
Dauphin slammed his staff into the ground and cause a small ripple along the roof of the sky scraper. The ripple uprooted tiles as it traveled towards Frey. Frey jumped and ran at Dauphin with his sword. He brought it over his head and brought it down. Dauphin moved to the side and swung his staff. The staff whistled through the air, only to be met with a block from Dauphin. Frey stabbed his sword forward, Dauphin brought his staff down on it, slamming it to the ground. Dauphin kicked at Frey and Frey leaned to the left. Dauphin made another kick attempt and Frey loosed up his sword and rolled to the right with it. Frey made a slash at Dauphin's feet. Dauphin jumped up and he felt Frey's sword whistle under his feet.
Dauphin swung at Frey with his staff like it was a bat. He knocked Frey backwards and into the next sky scraper.
It was quiet again.
Then both men jumped towards each other. And as if time was frozen they swung their weapons at each other. Sweat dripped off of their faces as they met in the middle of the gap between the two sky scrapers. Dauphin slammed his staff into Frey's sword as Frey's sword caught the middle of the staff, breaking it in two. Both men fell towards the ground. They landed and jumped up. They were in the middle of the street. Frey did something weird and propelled himself off of the window of the building into the air. Dauphin followed and both men leaped at each other, Dauphin blocked Frey's sword with his two sticks and continued to the next building where they leapt at each other again. Dauphin leaned back and Frey's sword flew past him. Dauphin slammed his sticks into Frey's side. They continued up. Finally they were back on top of the sky scraper. Frey rolled back on and Dauphin leapt into the air. As he came down Frey raised his sword at Dauphin's body. When Dauphin landed he found Frey's sword at his throat. And Frey found both of Dauphin's sticks read to be slammed into his head.
They were both wheezing when a gunshot went off which broke he tension.
"BOYS!" A female voice called out. Dauphin jumped back put his staff back together and Frey stood up. It was Bacchus. "Boys, you have an incoming transmission from Jord, hurry up and jack out. I'll continue training cross".
"Thanks Bacchus" Dauphin said as he felt the world whistle away from him. He jumped out of his seat and saw Frey sitting up examining his arms.
"Who won?" Frey asked.
"No one" Echo replied.
Dauphin got up and went over to where Echo was. "Do we have Jord on the line?"
"Yeah" And then Jord's face appeared on one of the screens. Dauphin and Frey both leaned over the screen.
Jord smiled, "You have a transmission from someone who helped this council, I highly suggest you don't fuck up with this guy".
Dauphin asked "Who is it?"
Jord, "I have no idea yet, but one of the councellors said for me to patch him through to you".
"Why don't you know?" Dauphin demanded.
"I refuse to become to involved with the council" Jord said, "You know how I am, Leave the politics to madmen"
Frey sighed "We understand". And then Jord disappeared from the screen. But then a new face was on the screen. Both Frey and Dauphin's jaws dropped. This man was bald, but was of huge stature. He looked like he could snap someones neck for breathing.
"Morpheus" Dauphin whispered under his breath.
"Gentlemen" Morpheus said.
"Yes?" Frey asked.
"The end is near, the prophecy is to be fulfilled soon. The One will save us all" Morpheus stopped for a breath, "But we need to free minds from The Matrix. We must show them what is real and what is fake. Will you help us?"
Dauphin smiled and high fived Frey under the screen, "Yes, we will help you. For the good of the human race, we must be free."
"Yes, we must" Morpheus said, "Gentlemen, You have demonstrated that you are capable of freeing human minds, now you can".
And then the screen shut off. It was black again.
Frey summed it up best with an under the breath, "Holy shit".