Wildkat Salem: Like I said, their names were the biggest pain to find and even then I can't be sure if what I heard was true, but to the extent of my knowledge Tsukasa and Subaru are An and Mariko.
---Lies- A False World---
Kaori walked up the hill to the player she didn't know. Stumbling, she made her way over rocks up to the top of the hill, breathing ragged like she had run been running from a bullet train moments before. Rocks and dirt slipped down behind her as she approached the flat-topped area.
At last Hitoare was alerted of the other girl's presence as the wave master reached the plateau. She spun on her heels to see the braided girl's raw hands grasp a handful of dirt as she pulled herself up. The twin blade character ran over to the other. Gripping both of her hands Hitoare pulled her up. Kaori smiled up in thanks as she pulled her legs up to the giant mushroom covered plateau.
Hitoare stood up and dusted herself off. After this was finished she looked down at the black-haired girl. Obviously she was new to the game with only the basic equipments adorning her character and the fact she hadn't healed up if she had been a battle hard enough to make character that exhausted. She spoke to the girl on the ground, "What's a new player like you doing in this field? The monsters here aren't that strong but they're too strong for a new starter. There are much easier fields I could show you."
Using her staff as support Kaori pulled herself into a standing position, "I didn't end up here on purpose."
One eyebrow was lifted, "Really, that's interesting. You must have used the wrong word combinations."
Kaori replied, "I didn't use any word combinations! I just ended up here." She looked up to see the blue haired twin blade walking off. "Hey," she called out, "Where are you going?"
The other girl kept on walking; she didn't have time to spend with the newbie. Wasn't there a good dungeon on her level she had heard of last week. She had the stage name written down somewhere but she didn't much feel like removing the visor to look through her room.
Kaori ran after her. "I'm Kaori," she yelled as she attempted to catch up.
The twin blade character looked at her with scorn, "Newbie, if you're really that desperate for friends go to one of the beginner towns. They're loaded with people who would love to play big brother to you. Me, I have better things to do than baby-sit. Bye."
Gold ring encircled Hitoare's character and a second later she was gone. Kaori looked at the empty spot where the girl with blue hair had been moments before. She asked aloud to the empty field, "What's her problem?"
--- Truth- Dreams of Reality ---
"Where are you going, otouto?" From the doorway a person in his late teens questioned another boy, this boy younger, in his mid-to-early teens.
The younger teen ignored his older brother. "Go away, onii-san. I'm just going to the library."
Shifting his position in the doorway so that his younger brother couldn't get out the doorway, "Does this perchance have anything to deal with the fact our connection is down? And the fact the library has really nice computers with the Altamit OS?"
"Fuck off, Matthew. It's not any of your business," he said frustrated as he tried to get through the door.
Matthew's hand descended upon the other boy's head in an open-palmed strike. "You can't talk like that here," he hissed, "This is Japan, we've been living here for over a year now, at least talk politely. Chris, they already don't like us because we aren't Japanese; less than one percent of the people in this country are other nationalities, we don't want to stand out anymore than we already do."
Glaring at Matthew from the floor, Chris answered venomously, "No matter how long we've lived here I'm still American. I will cuss when I damned well want to, weren't you the one who would tell me not to give into peer pressure back in the states! Well, I haven't! I continue talking, dressing, and acting like I always have." He stood up and shoved his older brother out of the way, "I'm going to the library to go online. It's not like there is anything else to do in the over-crowded country!"
Matthew sighed as his brother ran out of his view into the mass of people walking through the streets. Chris didn't have to understand his motives, but he should at the least try and cooperate with him for the time being.
--- Borderline- No More Twilight ---
It was no surprise to Yaoshii that he found himself back in the child's domain. Still, it was unknown to him why the girl would want him in the strange warped field, or what she wanted with him in the first place. Last time she had just called him there to torture him.
He reached into his pocket and pulled out the stolen sprite-ocarina. When he was stuck here last time it had worked to let him escape. He'd have to thank Kaori for it sometime when he got his own, but right now it seemed too much of a vital tool to give it back even if it was not his. Yaoshii stood up and held the instrument close to his mouth. As he was about to use it to warp out the sprite ocarina was knocked out of his hands.
"What! Who did that? I need that!" the green-haired heavy spear player shouted. He looked for the person who knocked his item out of his hands. There was no one at his level. His face was turned down and he found a small teddy bear tugging on his calf-length pants.
He bent down to look at the stuffed animal. "Why did you throw my Sprite Ocarina away?" he questioned it, ignoring the fact that normally toys did not answer your questions.
"I'm very sorry Mr. Yaoshii," the bear squeaked in a high-pitched voice, "but Miss Aura doesn't want you to leave. She says you should stay here for a little while. Just until she gets back."
"Aura- so that's the little sadists name," he said and made a mental note to tell Kasei to investigate all he could find about the girl, "And she wants me to stay here until she gets back and then I can go?"
Politely the bear nodded and answered, "Yes, Mr. Yaoshii, you can leave when she arrives."
"Any idea why I have to stay here if I can leave after she arrives, it's not like she's going to see me," he said leaning back against a bedpost.
"Sorry, but I don't know," the bear told him as it sat on the bed, "Miss Aura doesn't tell me these things."
The two sat in silence.
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Somewhere else in the world it was raining. There someone was singing
--- Noise- Whispers on the Wind---
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I think I'm probably managing to piss someone off with this chapter. Almost no developments at all and you had to wait so long for an update.