A/N: I know it has been a while for me to update, but writer's block hit me hard and I couldn't think of ANYTHING until a couple nights ago. That and my internet was down cause it got switched to dsl. Anyway, I have this now so enjoy.
Chapter 13: The Lonely Swordman
Jasmine meet with Kelly soon after she left Balmung to discuss what was so important being that she was with her before going to Balmung. She meet with everyone else by the Elves Haven and saw that Kelly had a piece of paper with her.
"Can we hurry this up," Jasmine said tiredly, "I was up all night leveling and have things to do today."
"This shouldn't take too long," Kelly said nervously, "I just wanted you all to see this note left at the the sword memorial we made and verify something for me."
Each of them read the note over and each showed a bit of shock while reading it, except Jasmine who yawned a lot while reading it. The note read:
To those who defended this memorial/shrine or whatever you call it:
I read the board and noticed that a very powerful sword was there ad decided to check it out. After hearing my name said I knew that it was my sword you were protecting and seeing who the memorial was made for only confrimed this. I left this note as to meet you people and thank you in person. I have created a field that you can meet me at called Delta Frozen Silent Swordman. I hope to meet with you soon. Until then, LATES.
Sincerely,
Enigma
After Kelly got back the note she saved it to file and the note dissintagrated away.
"So you all have a guess as to who wrote this right," she asked matter-of-factly.
"Well yeah," David shouted, "It's either Jon awake and we didn't know it, or it's someone using his character and somehow knows his password."
"It has to be Jon though," Lan said, "He's the only one we could possibly know that uses that lates with all caps."
"Why don't we check out this field he left us and see who the guy is rather than sit here guessing," Jasmine yelled as she ran toward the chaos gate.
The field was heavily protected but the virus cores needed were easy ones to find and they protection quickly. They arrived at a field that was in a complete blizzard. As far as each of them could see was snow and mounds of it. Jasmine called see a faint blur light coming from the north and had everyone follow her to it. as they got closer to the light they could see what they thought was snowman but as they got closer the snow fell away revealing a person who they couldn't see very well because of the storm.
"Nice weather here huh," the man shouted to them, "I'm a little surprised you took as long as you did."
"Who are you," David asked," And what do you want with us and that sword your carrying around?"
"To answer your questions in order, My name is Enigma, I wanted to thank you guys for making sure no one stole it, and this is my sword so I'll use it to survive in this world."
"Come one Jon stop kidding around," Kelly laughed.
"Who are you talking about?"
"Knock off the role-playing Jon," David laughed, "You really suck at it."
"Yeah if your trying to role-play, you should at least lower your voice," Jasmine said.
"I really have no idea what you people are talking about. I don't know anyone by that name," Enigma said puzzled.
"Fine, then what is your real name. What do your friends call you outside of 'The World'?"
The man's face instantly turned from puzzled to depressed, "I have no idea. I only know how the rules of this world work, my name, and I get images in my head of an angel, a woman in white, and some horned beast."
"That would most likely be Balmung, Helba, and Skeith," Jasmine pointed out.
The man ran and grabbed her shoulders, "You know who these people are!?"
Jasmine pushed him away, "Yeah we all know them and...," trying to find the right words, "Let's just say that you don't like any of them very much."
"So none of them would help me," he slumped his shoulders and released Jasmine.
"Helba might, but she's not on anyone's good list right now. Balmung would most likely kill you, and Skeith is the one who made you this way," Kelly explained.
"If everyone I know is untrustworthy, why should I trust you people?"
"What are you talking about Jon," Lan said surprised.
"If I can't trust them, then how can I trust any of you," he stepped back and glared at each of them.
"We're your friends, and we wouldn't lie to you about something like this."
"If your suspicious, then check your member addresses and you'll find each of us there along with other people you used to trust," David trying to reason with him.
After a mintue with Enigma having a dazed look on his face, he looked at each of his former friends and shoke his head as he took a good look at each of their faces. He stood easy which he hadn't done since the group had arrived and smiled at them.
"What's with that grin that sort of makes me uneasy," Lan asked.
"Just thinking about what I should do, and what I could do," Enigma said as he reached for his sword
Kelly started backing upalong with David, "What do you mean by that?"
"I mean I could take your word and ask to pal around with you," relaxing his hand, "take off and make sure you never see me again, or kill you all," gripping the sword again then relaxing," I like to stay away from the last option if I can."
"Man, you never get tired of the tough guy routine do you," David nervouly chuckled.
A chime went off as everyone recieved mail at that same time and Enigma took off after telling them he had something to do. The real reason he left was that the mail was from Helba telling him to meet her in Carmina Gadelica which was closed off. He went to the chaos gate and tried to enter but it wouldn't let him through. He tried it again and was asked his screen name and after putting it in and watching the chaos gate flicker it gave him access to the server. As he entered the city of constant night, he noticed that it was abandoned and no lights were on except the street lights. Walking through the streets, he felt as if he was being watched and feeling someone near him, he grabbed an dagger out of his pack and threw it toward where he thought the person was. The dagger was stopped in mid air in front a woman dressed in white with a strange wand in her hand that was glowing. The wand pulsed as the dagger spun around and flew back at Enigma. He caught it and shoved it into his pocket.
"I didn't think you would come this quickly my little lost boy," Helba said.
"Who are you and how do you know me," Enigma yelled as he unsheathed his sword.
"I'm the one who saved you from being killed, or have you forgotten all I've done for you?"
"Fine then, what do you want with me now?"
"I only want to talk for now. I wish to tell you about who you really are and something I need you to do."
"And to get the info on myself, I need to do your dirty work, right?"
"I'm not that creul, as some people would say. I only wish to give you this information and then ask if you would do me a favor."
A screen appeared in front of Enigma with his picture on it. He tapped the picture and it faded away and revealed information he didn't understand right away:
User: Jon Del Pozo
Screen Name: TheEnigma310
Class: Heavy Blade
Level: 37
"What's your point by giving me this? Any of this "information" could be fake."
"If you want even more proof, I'll send you a video I recorded a while back that proves who you are."
"I don't have time for your games, I'm gone," he started walking back towards the chaos gate.
"It's sad that you can't trust the people who you once called your dearest friends," she said which made him stop, "The people who came and saw you before I called you were the people you cared for enough to sacrifice yourself for."
"I have other things to attend to so you can forward me that video anytime you feel like."
"Don't lie just because you don't trust me about this. What I believe is that you don't trust yourself since you have little memories before your incident with Skieth."
"Just forward me the video and I'll decide what to believe."
"I won't give you anything without hearing what I need you to do."
He turned around with fury in his eyes and sword grasped tightly in hand, "You call me down here, and waste my time. You tell me things I don't really care to hear. I could live with that, but I'll make you pay for insulting me and trying to leave here with me empty-handed," he grabbed the dagger out his pocket and threw it at her.
Ap Vorv," Helba said lightly as a barrier surrounded here and stopped the dagger from touching her. The dagger fell to the ground, "You tried that before. Why did you think it would the second time you tried it?"
Enigma charged at her but proved useless as Helba held out her wand and as it glowed, Enigma was pushed back. He flew into the recorder's station and crashed through the desk. He got up slowly, he tried charging again, but as he got within striking range, she held out the wand again and sent him flying toward the magic shop. He crashed into the shop, knocking over many of the scrolls. He looked at some of the scrolls there and grabbed a few and stood in front of the now destroyed shop. He held his sword looking like he was going to charge her again, but as soon as she held out the wand he reached back and pulled out some of the scrolls he took.
"OrMeAni Kruz," he shotued as he threw out one of the scrolls. Giant claws came out of the ground and grabbed Helba's legs and arms and pulled down on her, making her unable to move while other claws scratched at her. Enigma used the time while she was immobile to run toward her and prepare for a flurry of sword attacks. As he got near the claws started to disappear and he rumaged through his pack quickly for another scroll. He found one that was OrRue Rom and threw it out and made a whilwind of water and ice swirl around Helba. Some of the ice blocks slammed into her arms and made her drop her wand. He ran at her and pulled out his sword destroyed her wand, turned and stabbed her in the middle of her chest. He lifted her up and slammed her down into the ground with the sword still lodged in her chest.
"Now you will listen to me bitch," Jon yelled in her face.
"What are you trying to prove by doing this?"
"Just send me that video and I'll drop it and maybe help you with what you needed. Don't and I'll use this," the bracelet on his wrist flickered into sight.
From what Enigma could tell, Helba showed a sign of fear as soon as the bracelet showed up, "There's no need to use that kind of force."
"Good, then send me the video now," the bracelet started to expand as if preparing a data drain.
They both seemed to be put into a trance for about a minute then Helba being more angry then afraid, "There you have it. Now let me leave so I can get back work."
Enigma pulled his sword out from her chest, "Mail me if you still want me to want me to help you out," he disappeared behind gold rings.
Helba thought to herself that Enigma would pay for this embarassment and that she was losing her touch. It would twice that she has been pinned down and forced to do someone else's wishes. Then she realized that she could remove both of these problems at the same time. She grinned at her idea and signed out.
Enigma returned to Delta Frozen Silent Swordman to see that his earlier visitors were gone, not to his surprise. He pulled out some healing drinks and poured them on the wounds that Helba had inflicted on him. He then accesed the video file that Helba had given him. The video was of very poor quality and not much could be seen really well. The screen shifted downward to show five players and a large human-like creature with horns. Each of the smaller players were attacking the large beast. After a little while into the tape it zoomed in on the beast and Enigma could now tell it was the beast he saw in his nightmares, Skieth. It started firing beams of light at each of the players, and he could tell that the beams were data drain attacks. With the camera zoomed in he could now see each of the players better and noticed that they were himself and the others from before. He could tell that each of them were saying things but the clip must have not had any audio to it. He was covering the two wavemasters while they cast spells on the beast. They had all scattered after Skieth started using data drained. He then saw that the female wavemaster, Sakura had fallen down and was unable to move in time to avoid the data drain. Then he saw the data drain was stopped by him and at that point something inside him triggered, and images started falshing in his head. He saw his friends one at a time, the first time he saw Skieth, and remembered everything that had happened to him. Jon closed the video and instantly called his former friends.
Chapter 13 End
A/N: I think that sums up a lot, but I could be wrong. I'm using a new comp now and this one doesn't have word so I can't spell check, and I apologize in advance for anything that isn't spelled correctly. Next chap up by next 8/8. LATES people.
