Aura appeared at the Mac Anu root town with a smile. She had gotten her character design through an election. The Chaos Gate swung behind her and two other people logged in. One was a purple cat-like woman with green armor and she called to the person who followed her. "Come on Elk, we're going to meet them in a few minutes." Aura could have sworn the cat lady give her a suprised look but a Heavy Axeman logged in, blocking her view.

Before she was swamped by the users she turned to the Chaos Gate and picked out the area: Delta Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground.

Mia turned around but just as the group cleared, all she could see was a yellow afterglow. "...impossible."

Aura walked into the cathedral and stared up at the statue. Her character was wrapped in chains. She heard someone yelling behind her and looked around for a place to hide. A chain shot from nowhere and pulls Aura inside the statue.

A woman in a red and white outfit and blond hair followed another girl with silver hair and a black hooded cape. The short, silver-haired one spoke first. "I don't know why you helped him Helba. You should of taken his bracelet so we could of had some fun."

The one named Helba spoke, she had a smug voice, like she knew what she was talking about. "Well he got rid of Skeith." She looked straight at the statue in which Aura was hiding. "Kite turned out to be more powerful than I expected but that's just the way things go huh?"

The girl pulled of her hood to reveal silver fox-like ears with deep crimson stripes. "So why'd we come here?"

"Well, sightings of Aura came back recently. Tolf, you know Mia."

"Yeah?"

` "She said she saw the girl just minutes ago but she used the Chaos Gate."

Tolf looked around. "Then why are we here? Shouldn't we be out looking for her?"

Helba smiled. "We're hackers, not a search and rescue team. Let the boy look for her, if he's still playing."

Tolf rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Mail me sometime, I gotta split."

Helba nodded. Smiling, she gave the statue one last look. "And I'll see you around as well, Aura." She disappeared.

Aura jumped out of the statue and looked at it bewilderingly. She logged out and went into the forum. She saw a post titled: Is this an event character? She looked at the date and saw it was almost a month old. There was a new message posted by a girl named Natsume:

Hey I saw her too! She was near the Chaos Gate in Mac Anu but she disappeared before I could say hi.

She clicked out and wondered why people were so excited about her character. Was she a legendary player? She decided to log in, hoping no one would care about her appearance. She went to the Theta server Root Town instead. She looked around at the Grunties and saw a girl with short blue hair and was asking where the Delta server was. An obvious newbie.

Aura walked up to the girl. "Hi! I can show you where the data server is."

The girl's eyes lit up. "Really? My name's Torika but my character design is that of an old system moderater named Subaru. She's my older sister."

"Wow cool! My name's Aura. Everyone's acting like I'm a legend or something. I just picked out my character because she looks cool. Oh, and about the Delta server. You'll need to use the Chaos Gate."

Torika smiled and gave Aura her members address. "Now we can be a team and call each other."

Aura gave Torika hers. "Great. Now lets go to Mac Anu." They went through the Chaos Gate to the Delta Root town. "I gotta go. Send me a mail sometime." Ezkiou shut down her computer and stretched. She made a new friend and caused a mystery. What a productive evening...