Phantasy Star Online: Episode 1
The Memory
"Chihiro... never forget us..."
"Mommy... daddy...! Don't leave me! I need you..."
"We will always be with my, my sweet..."
"We are your guardien angels... trust us..."
"We swear, we will protect you from the darkness."
"...Mommy... daddy... thank you..."
An alarm rung. "Chihiro, time to wake up!" Fei called. Chihiro yawned.
"I know... I'm up!" Chihiro called.
"I made apple pancakes, come get them before I eat them all!" Fei called back.
Chihiro's mouth wattered. She quickly put her clothes on, and ran into the kitchen. Inside the kitchen, Chihiro saw Fei smiling.
"Well, here you go." Fei put the plate down in front of Chihiro, who praticly inhaled them.
"Don't choke!" Fei laughed.
Chihiro made a sound, that sounded like a muffled "I'm not!"
After they finished, Fei asked, "You ok... about yesterday? You mouth was moving durning you attack on the dragon, but we didn't hear anything..."
"Well... my closest childhood friends, Ryudo and Kagato... as well as my family... were on Pioneer 1... When they left, I was all alone. Before the dragon attacked... I saw two ID cards on the ground... but no bodies... I couldn't believe it... I didn't believe it... until... when that Photon Blast came, I heard my parents... they sounded as loving as they always have," Chihiro smiled, "But... I was positive that they died... I don't know by what though... and then... last night... I heard them again..."
"A dream?" Fei asked.
"Yeah... but, it seemed real. I saw my mom and dad... they were hugging me... and protecting me from darkness that was closing in on me... I don't know how... but I think that they were that Photon Blast!"
"Pilla... dreams and memories of those lost... or could it be every Photon Blast? Maybe... the mag just puts it in material form?"
"My strong love, memories, and feelings must of made that Pilla." Chihiro looked down, and whispered, "Mom... dad... Bahn... I miss you all so..." Chihiro sniffed.
"You ok?" Fei asked, suddenly deciding that she needed to take the role of big sister to Chihiro now more seriously, "Me, Angel, and Aphrodite can go to that cave by ourselves... you can stay, and recover."
Chihiro flashed a heart warming smile, "No, it's ok, dont worry. I'll come."
"We... might find something more that... might disturb you down there in that cave." "I understand that."
"Hmm... oh, Chihiro, your parents were high ranking officals to be on Pioneer 1, right?"
"Uh... dad was kindda low, but mom started to soar through the ranks after they left Coral. Why?"
"I've heard that some officals... were murdered by something, an experiment that went ary. The rumor says that it is a giant worm like creature, it's venom mutates animals, but it like acid to humans and numans. It... melts them from the inside out..."
"No way, mom and dad wouldn't let that happen... they could fight... but... why would Pioneer 1 be breeding and mutating monsters??"
"Your guess is as good as mine... I'm guessing that... maybe for protection from Ragol's monsters?"
"Like that old collectable monster craze from a few years back... but in real life... creapy." Chihiro shuddered.
"But it's only a rumor." Fei reminded her.
'Mom and dad.. they were never home... and Bahn was always at collage... he WAS pretty smart... really smart... much smarter then I could ever be... that's why mom and dad chose him to go instead of me... I guess... maybe I should hate them for that, and leaving me all alone... but.. I guess... it helped me grow, and expand my skills... I mean, I would of been a burden to them...' Chihiro thought.
"Hey," Fei tapped Chihiro's shoulder, "We should get going, the others are bound to be waiting for us... hey. Are you sure you want to come?"
Chihiro nodded, and grinned, "Of course, you act like I'll just get in the way... but you forget, who killed the dragon?"
Fei sighed, "You did..."
"I did, didn't I!" Chihiro laughed.
Fei sighed again.
Fei and Chihiro met up with Aphrodite and Angel 2 hours later, and Chihiro explained the dream to them.
"Hmm... your explanation seems logical..." Angel said.
"I completely agree," Aphrodite agreed, "I guess that's why my Photon Blasts are so weak... I remember nothing of my family, or creator."
Chihiro pointed to the teleporter. "C'mon everyone! Let's go!" Chihiro ran though it.
Angel sighed, "You sure she's ok...?"
Fei smiled, "When she says yes, I believe her. You should too, she's very strong."
"Ya, I guess..."
Upon entering the myserious caves, everyone felt a blast of extremely hot air rushing into their faces.
"Wow! That's hot!" Chihiro exclaimed, faning herself off.
"Jeez, it's like a volcano!" Fei said.
"It is 110 degrees farenhite in here." Aphrodite analized.
"I don't care how hot it is... I will find out what happened to my parents!" Chihiro shouted.
Everyone nodded. "Don't worry, we will find out." Fei said. Everyone walked through a door, and found a large room with a lava flow coming from the ceiling.
"Wow..." Chihiro quietly marveled.
"All of a sudden, many lizard-like creatures appeared. They hissed, and ran toward the party. Chihiro drew her Demolition Comet.
"Aphrodite, what are these things?"
"Um... Gil Sharks. Their skeltel structure resembles that of a Booma, with with larger bones and muscles."
"Heh, no problem." Chihiro and Angel rushed the creatures, slicing them down easily, before the things had a chance to know what was going on.
"That was easy." Angel said.
"I agree... we must be getting stronger." Chihiro smiled.
They explored the room, but, seeing no door leading deeper into the cave, Chihiro's hope dwindled on a thin string.
"There's nothing down here..." she said.
"Wait... I sense movement behind this rock." Aphrodite said, "I'll destory it." She drew her Spread Needle, and cut the rock into a multitude of pieces.
Behind it, they saw many mantis-like creatures, and their young.
"Grass Assassins. Basicly large bugs."
Chihiro and Fei shuddered. "I hate bugs..." Fei said.
"As long as we don't touch them or their children, they should ignore us." Aphrodite put extra emphisas on the 'should.'
"I hope... I wouldn't want to have to slaughter all of these excelent specimens!" Angel exclaimed.
They quietly began walking through the room, dodging the bugs.
"Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew." Fei kept quietly saying.
One of the babies walked over to Chihiro, and squeaked cutely.
"Hi there, little fella..." Chihiro said, and bent down to pet the thing, completely forgeting what Aphrodite had said.
"Chihiro! Don't!!" Angel yelled, and surprised Chihiro, who had just tapped it's head. Every Assassin snaped their heads at Chihiro suddenly.
"Eeep." Chihiro quietly squeaked. Chihiro screamed, and ran into the next room as fast as she could, screaming hystericly the whole way, not noticing the door behind her when she started running. The Assassins, completely ignoring the others, were in hot pursuit, with murder on their simple minds. When Chihiro got to the other room, the bugs seemed to forget what she did, or that she even existed, and went back to where they all were. Angel, Fei, and Aphrodite took that chance to join Chihiro.
Fei couldn't stop laughing, "You ok?"
Chihiro was almost crying from fear. "That isn't funny! I could of been killed!!"
Fei was laughing so hard, tears were coming from her eyes. She didn't stop laughing either. Chihiro turned her back to Fei, and sat down on the hot stone floor.
"That was scary... I... honestly thought I was going to die..."
Fei stoped laughing, and said "We wouldn't let that happen."
"Oh..." Chihiro sniffed, "Ya, I guess your right."
"Hey." Aphrodite pointed toward a new opening, leading to a sewer- looking passage, complete with a little mechanic raft. Everyone walked in, and Chihiro steped onto the raft.
"Come on, let's get going."
Everyone steped on it, it rumbled, and started to move.
"But why would this be here...?" Angel wondered.
"Someone knew we were coming?" Fei said.
Behind them, they heard a large spash, and a high pitched scream. "What's that?!" Chihiro gasped.
Fei cast Shifta and Deband on everyone "Be prepared." She said.
A large worm like creature, covered in bone-like armor jumped out of the water, and let loose the high-pitched scream again.
"What is it?!" Chihiro screamed, covering her ears.
"De Rol Le. A mutated... something, that isn't on my records! Be careful of its siphon on it's head, it will inject you with a odd venom that could mutate you if entered in your blood stream!" Aphrodite yelled.
"I was going to dodge it anyway!" Chihiro yelled back.
The worm swam around the raft a few times, and then jumped up onto it. It landing caused a large rumbling, and almost capsized the raft, but in the process of regaining balance, Fei and Angel fell off, and were left behind as the rapidly moving raft continued on.
"Angel! Fei! Damn it!" Chihiro screamed.
"Worry about them later, we have to kill this thing!" Aphrodite drew her Spread Needle.
"But..." Chihiro drew her Demolition Comet, "Well.. ok!"
"Watch out!" Aphrodite jumped in front of Chihiro, and was knocked back, Aphrodite falling on top of Chihiro.
"What did you do..." The large tenticle was mashed into the raft, right where Chihiro was standing, "Oh." Then she got an idea. She swung her Comet at the thing, and cut off its tenticle. The dark blue murky enzyme sprayed all over, Aphrodite, being an android, wasn't affected by the enzyme, so she covered Chihiro.
"Thanks... didn't think it would spray all over..." Chihiro said, stricken.
"Careful there." Aphrodite said.
"Yeah!"
The worm jumped off, and swam around the raft. Meanwhile, Aphrodite was shooting its head as fast as she could. The worm jumped back onto the boat. The shake almost knocked them off, but they held their ground. Chihiro hit the thing many times, breaking its skull-like helmet, and put man gashes into its head.
"We're doing it!" Aphrodite said, excited.
"Yeah!" Chihiro cheered. She kept hitting, and the worm fell off, but this time, it sunk when it hit the sewer water.
"We did it!" Chihiro yelled.
"Alright!!" Aphrodite also cheered, then they remembered.
"Angel, Fei!" They both screamed at once.
"Uh... how do we turn this thing around?" Chihiro asked.
"I dunno... wait... listen."
"...ihiro... Aphrodite..."
Chihiro gasped. "Fei?! Angel?!" Chihiro screamed.
"Chihiro, make a telepipe in the next area, once we are on steady ground. They can come through it."
"Gotcha!"
The raft stoped, and they arived at a large metal door. "I suppose we go in..." Chihiro said. They walked in front of the door, with opened with a loud sound of gears shifting. They walked in.
"Ryuker!" Chihiro cast it. A telepipe appeared, and they went through it.
Back on Pioneer 2, they saw Angel and Fei, soaking wet, and covered in sewer goo.
"Have a nice swim?" Chihiro asked, cracking up.
"Shut up..." Fei said, and sneezed.
---TO BE CONTINUED---
The Memory
"Chihiro... never forget us..."
"Mommy... daddy...! Don't leave me! I need you..."
"We will always be with my, my sweet..."
"We are your guardien angels... trust us..."
"We swear, we will protect you from the darkness."
"...Mommy... daddy... thank you..."
An alarm rung. "Chihiro, time to wake up!" Fei called. Chihiro yawned.
"I know... I'm up!" Chihiro called.
"I made apple pancakes, come get them before I eat them all!" Fei called back.
Chihiro's mouth wattered. She quickly put her clothes on, and ran into the kitchen. Inside the kitchen, Chihiro saw Fei smiling.
"Well, here you go." Fei put the plate down in front of Chihiro, who praticly inhaled them.
"Don't choke!" Fei laughed.
Chihiro made a sound, that sounded like a muffled "I'm not!"
After they finished, Fei asked, "You ok... about yesterday? You mouth was moving durning you attack on the dragon, but we didn't hear anything..."
"Well... my closest childhood friends, Ryudo and Kagato... as well as my family... were on Pioneer 1... When they left, I was all alone. Before the dragon attacked... I saw two ID cards on the ground... but no bodies... I couldn't believe it... I didn't believe it... until... when that Photon Blast came, I heard my parents... they sounded as loving as they always have," Chihiro smiled, "But... I was positive that they died... I don't know by what though... and then... last night... I heard them again..."
"A dream?" Fei asked.
"Yeah... but, it seemed real. I saw my mom and dad... they were hugging me... and protecting me from darkness that was closing in on me... I don't know how... but I think that they were that Photon Blast!"
"Pilla... dreams and memories of those lost... or could it be every Photon Blast? Maybe... the mag just puts it in material form?"
"My strong love, memories, and feelings must of made that Pilla." Chihiro looked down, and whispered, "Mom... dad... Bahn... I miss you all so..." Chihiro sniffed.
"You ok?" Fei asked, suddenly deciding that she needed to take the role of big sister to Chihiro now more seriously, "Me, Angel, and Aphrodite can go to that cave by ourselves... you can stay, and recover."
Chihiro flashed a heart warming smile, "No, it's ok, dont worry. I'll come."
"We... might find something more that... might disturb you down there in that cave." "I understand that."
"Hmm... oh, Chihiro, your parents were high ranking officals to be on Pioneer 1, right?"
"Uh... dad was kindda low, but mom started to soar through the ranks after they left Coral. Why?"
"I've heard that some officals... were murdered by something, an experiment that went ary. The rumor says that it is a giant worm like creature, it's venom mutates animals, but it like acid to humans and numans. It... melts them from the inside out..."
"No way, mom and dad wouldn't let that happen... they could fight... but... why would Pioneer 1 be breeding and mutating monsters??"
"Your guess is as good as mine... I'm guessing that... maybe for protection from Ragol's monsters?"
"Like that old collectable monster craze from a few years back... but in real life... creapy." Chihiro shuddered.
"But it's only a rumor." Fei reminded her.
'Mom and dad.. they were never home... and Bahn was always at collage... he WAS pretty smart... really smart... much smarter then I could ever be... that's why mom and dad chose him to go instead of me... I guess... maybe I should hate them for that, and leaving me all alone... but.. I guess... it helped me grow, and expand my skills... I mean, I would of been a burden to them...' Chihiro thought.
"Hey," Fei tapped Chihiro's shoulder, "We should get going, the others are bound to be waiting for us... hey. Are you sure you want to come?"
Chihiro nodded, and grinned, "Of course, you act like I'll just get in the way... but you forget, who killed the dragon?"
Fei sighed, "You did..."
"I did, didn't I!" Chihiro laughed.
Fei sighed again.
Fei and Chihiro met up with Aphrodite and Angel 2 hours later, and Chihiro explained the dream to them.
"Hmm... your explanation seems logical..." Angel said.
"I completely agree," Aphrodite agreed, "I guess that's why my Photon Blasts are so weak... I remember nothing of my family, or creator."
Chihiro pointed to the teleporter. "C'mon everyone! Let's go!" Chihiro ran though it.
Angel sighed, "You sure she's ok...?"
Fei smiled, "When she says yes, I believe her. You should too, she's very strong."
"Ya, I guess..."
Upon entering the myserious caves, everyone felt a blast of extremely hot air rushing into their faces.
"Wow! That's hot!" Chihiro exclaimed, faning herself off.
"Jeez, it's like a volcano!" Fei said.
"It is 110 degrees farenhite in here." Aphrodite analized.
"I don't care how hot it is... I will find out what happened to my parents!" Chihiro shouted.
Everyone nodded. "Don't worry, we will find out." Fei said. Everyone walked through a door, and found a large room with a lava flow coming from the ceiling.
"Wow..." Chihiro quietly marveled.
"All of a sudden, many lizard-like creatures appeared. They hissed, and ran toward the party. Chihiro drew her Demolition Comet.
"Aphrodite, what are these things?"
"Um... Gil Sharks. Their skeltel structure resembles that of a Booma, with with larger bones and muscles."
"Heh, no problem." Chihiro and Angel rushed the creatures, slicing them down easily, before the things had a chance to know what was going on.
"That was easy." Angel said.
"I agree... we must be getting stronger." Chihiro smiled.
They explored the room, but, seeing no door leading deeper into the cave, Chihiro's hope dwindled on a thin string.
"There's nothing down here..." she said.
"Wait... I sense movement behind this rock." Aphrodite said, "I'll destory it." She drew her Spread Needle, and cut the rock into a multitude of pieces.
Behind it, they saw many mantis-like creatures, and their young.
"Grass Assassins. Basicly large bugs."
Chihiro and Fei shuddered. "I hate bugs..." Fei said.
"As long as we don't touch them or their children, they should ignore us." Aphrodite put extra emphisas on the 'should.'
"I hope... I wouldn't want to have to slaughter all of these excelent specimens!" Angel exclaimed.
They quietly began walking through the room, dodging the bugs.
"Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew." Fei kept quietly saying.
One of the babies walked over to Chihiro, and squeaked cutely.
"Hi there, little fella..." Chihiro said, and bent down to pet the thing, completely forgeting what Aphrodite had said.
"Chihiro! Don't!!" Angel yelled, and surprised Chihiro, who had just tapped it's head. Every Assassin snaped their heads at Chihiro suddenly.
"Eeep." Chihiro quietly squeaked. Chihiro screamed, and ran into the next room as fast as she could, screaming hystericly the whole way, not noticing the door behind her when she started running. The Assassins, completely ignoring the others, were in hot pursuit, with murder on their simple minds. When Chihiro got to the other room, the bugs seemed to forget what she did, or that she even existed, and went back to where they all were. Angel, Fei, and Aphrodite took that chance to join Chihiro.
Fei couldn't stop laughing, "You ok?"
Chihiro was almost crying from fear. "That isn't funny! I could of been killed!!"
Fei was laughing so hard, tears were coming from her eyes. She didn't stop laughing either. Chihiro turned her back to Fei, and sat down on the hot stone floor.
"That was scary... I... honestly thought I was going to die..."
Fei stoped laughing, and said "We wouldn't let that happen."
"Oh..." Chihiro sniffed, "Ya, I guess your right."
"Hey." Aphrodite pointed toward a new opening, leading to a sewer- looking passage, complete with a little mechanic raft. Everyone walked in, and Chihiro steped onto the raft.
"Come on, let's get going."
Everyone steped on it, it rumbled, and started to move.
"But why would this be here...?" Angel wondered.
"Someone knew we were coming?" Fei said.
Behind them, they heard a large spash, and a high pitched scream. "What's that?!" Chihiro gasped.
Fei cast Shifta and Deband on everyone "Be prepared." She said.
A large worm like creature, covered in bone-like armor jumped out of the water, and let loose the high-pitched scream again.
"What is it?!" Chihiro screamed, covering her ears.
"De Rol Le. A mutated... something, that isn't on my records! Be careful of its siphon on it's head, it will inject you with a odd venom that could mutate you if entered in your blood stream!" Aphrodite yelled.
"I was going to dodge it anyway!" Chihiro yelled back.
The worm swam around the raft a few times, and then jumped up onto it. It landing caused a large rumbling, and almost capsized the raft, but in the process of regaining balance, Fei and Angel fell off, and were left behind as the rapidly moving raft continued on.
"Angel! Fei! Damn it!" Chihiro screamed.
"Worry about them later, we have to kill this thing!" Aphrodite drew her Spread Needle.
"But..." Chihiro drew her Demolition Comet, "Well.. ok!"
"Watch out!" Aphrodite jumped in front of Chihiro, and was knocked back, Aphrodite falling on top of Chihiro.
"What did you do..." The large tenticle was mashed into the raft, right where Chihiro was standing, "Oh." Then she got an idea. She swung her Comet at the thing, and cut off its tenticle. The dark blue murky enzyme sprayed all over, Aphrodite, being an android, wasn't affected by the enzyme, so she covered Chihiro.
"Thanks... didn't think it would spray all over..." Chihiro said, stricken.
"Careful there." Aphrodite said.
"Yeah!"
The worm jumped off, and swam around the raft. Meanwhile, Aphrodite was shooting its head as fast as she could. The worm jumped back onto the boat. The shake almost knocked them off, but they held their ground. Chihiro hit the thing many times, breaking its skull-like helmet, and put man gashes into its head.
"We're doing it!" Aphrodite said, excited.
"Yeah!" Chihiro cheered. She kept hitting, and the worm fell off, but this time, it sunk when it hit the sewer water.
"We did it!" Chihiro yelled.
"Alright!!" Aphrodite also cheered, then they remembered.
"Angel, Fei!" They both screamed at once.
"Uh... how do we turn this thing around?" Chihiro asked.
"I dunno... wait... listen."
"...ihiro... Aphrodite..."
Chihiro gasped. "Fei?! Angel?!" Chihiro screamed.
"Chihiro, make a telepipe in the next area, once we are on steady ground. They can come through it."
"Gotcha!"
The raft stoped, and they arived at a large metal door. "I suppose we go in..." Chihiro said. They walked in front of the door, with opened with a loud sound of gears shifting. They walked in.
"Ryuker!" Chihiro cast it. A telepipe appeared, and they went through it.
Back on Pioneer 2, they saw Angel and Fei, soaking wet, and covered in sewer goo.
"Have a nice swim?" Chihiro asked, cracking up.
"Shut up..." Fei said, and sneezed.
---TO BE CONTINUED---