A/N Sorry but my internet was down for 4 months! My stupid brother put magnets on the compter...if you want to hear more about the data bug hunting then check out dot hack: RELIEF, (also written by me) it hasn't gotten many reviews but i keep my fingers crossed. Warning this chapter contain spoilers. Since I updated on Easter you should know...I BEAT MUTATION!!! I'm halfway through the series but I don't have enough money for Outbreak...:(

Ezkiou typed madly on the board hoping someone would give her answers. |Does anyone know about the previous owner of the charater Aura? Who is Skeith? and why is everyone falling into comatose?| Almost as soon as she hit enter there was an immediate reply from someone named Wiseman.

|Aura was a NPC who is also known as the key of twilight. Skeith is in the Epitaph of Twilight and "rides the wave" As to why people have fallen in a coma no one knows.|

She wrote back almost in a fever. |I received Aura's character design through mail. Why would I have it if she was an NPC.|

|The World works in mysterious ways.|

She waited for more of an answer but when she didn't receive one she decided to quit. She read in the news columns about the coma incidents and noted that all the people who fell into comas were players of The World. Ezkiou looked up to see she had new mail. The letter was from the CCCorp saying: |New expansion pack for the world:Different careers, New Weapons, and better character designs!|

"Wow! I want it!" Ezkiou jumped out of her chair and grabbed her backpack and sped out the door. She rode her bike downtown to Sora Game World. Sora grinned when she burst in and already had the expansion pack sitting on the counter. "Wow, your a mind reader!"

"I thought you'd run down here to buy it." He said.

Ezkiou paid for the game and suddenly a thought popped into her head. "Hey Sora, what do you do on The World?"

"Not much...the usual killing and fun things. I like to collect member address's though. You can never have too many friends!" He laughed.

Ezkiou laughed too though a bit nervously. Sora always seemed kind of strange and self-centered. She always assumed his jokes were to be taken seriously and now she figured she was right.

*five weeks, and three days later*

Ezkiou played ceaslessly. Dark rings formed under her eyes and she became thinner and paler due to the lack of being outdoors and eating. She hadn't been in school for month calling in sick. None of this affected her performance in The World. Since Hiiragi was still in comatose she had no reason to leave her room. "New Events...goblin tag...treasure hunt...and rare....rare item hun..." Ezkiou wobbled slightly and fell to the floor.

Ezkiou opened her eyes slowly. "I'm awake..." She sat up and realized she was floating above a bed in an all white room. "What the hell is this?" Teddy bears lay scattered across the floor. She tried standing and was instantly brought to the floor. Looking down she saw she was wearing a white dress and she touched it with her hand and realized her hand was small like a child's. "I'm Aura again? Log Out!" She waited. Last time it had worked but why not now? "LOG OUT!" Then it dawned on her. She couldn't log out. But it was worth a shot..."Gate Out?" The next place she saw was Carmina Gadelica in the Lambda Server. "Well how bout that. Now, Log Out." Nothing. Ezkiou even tried changing servers but still nothing. She almost felt like crying but then reassured herself. "I'll get my friends to come." She check but not a single friend of hers was online. Even the Root Town was creepily empty. "Well I'll just wait for anyone...even if only shadows come." She sat with her back to the wall, staring at the Chaos Gate, waiting.

The daughter that waited for the shadows repeated, "For sure... For sure I can go home." But the girl did not know... The truth that waited at the end of the journey The eternal mourning of her land.