A/N: I got in a chap before my 8/25 deadline (pats self on back). I'm only happy for that bc I have work and I've been a little too tired to write at times. Here's another chap of my work so enjoy.
Chapter 16: Revolt
As Jon carried Jasmine back into the Theta server root town, he gave her a healing potion for her wounds. The item did it's work and completely healed the damage that Balmung had done, but Jon had not figured out why for one Jasmine had protected Balmung and two why did she these strange black wings. He transported both of them to his new home Delta Frozen Silent Swordman and waited for her to wake up.
After about another ten mintues she awoke, "Balmung don't...," she sat straight up and felt the cold snowy wind hit her.
"He's not here, and don't worry about it. Nothing happened between me and him after you were injured. All I did was carry you out of the dungeon, patched you up, and brought you here," he sat by a fire he had made with his back to her. They sat there in silence for what seemed like hours when Jon broke the silence, "I need you to clarify some things for me, Jas."
"Like what," taking a defesive.
"For one, what's with the wings," Jasmine now noticed her sleek black wings shown, "and two why spare Balmung? On any normal day you would have helped me finish off that punk, but instead you told me to spare him. I was so exhausted from the fight, I couldn't do anything else but do what you said."
Realizing she had been caught she confessed, "About the wings, Balmung gave them to me. About sparing him, that's because...," she couldn't say the words.
"Because of what Jasmine," he turned to her infuriated, "Had you not stopped him, that fucker would have my head on his sword right now, and you tell me to spare his life!!? Unlike me, he would come back good as new after a short while, as to where I have no idea what will happen if I die here!!"
"It's because, it's because," she tried to log out but found herself unable to, "what's going on?"
"I'm not letting you leave until you answer me. Tell me why Balmung for some reason, gave you those wings, and why you made me let him live!"
"Because I," she couldn't bare to tell him the truth, "owed him for saving my life while searching for you a while back."
"BULL!! Tell me the truth now!!"
She figured no excuse she could make up would appease him so she admitted it, "Becuase we're both in love with each other.
He stood silent at what she said. His anger was still shown on his face, but after a few moment, he turned his back and a white portal appeared behind Jasmine, "Go, the portal is behind you. Leave, and know that if your little 'boyfriend comes after me again, I won't hold this sword back again. This is between us by the way, no one else will here a word of it, including my fight with Balmung, got it?"
"Yes, not a word," she said with tears in her eyes as she passed through the portal.
Balmung went to his meeting place where Lios was waiting with a sour face, "You failed horribly in you mission Balmung. How could you have not been able to kill one lowly player who is many levels below your own?"
Balmung lowered his head in shame, "There were complications. He had much more strength than what I was told and his sword has to be the strongest thing I've ever seen. Why was I mis-informed?!"
"You were on a need to know basis, and you should have been able to deal with it anyway, being who you are."
"He is no ordinary AI that your Cobalt Knight deal with every day."
"Don't blame your mistake on them Balmung."
Balmung thought of what Enigma had told him before he had left, "Lios answer me a few questions, was Helba involved in this operation, and why not send the Cobalt Knights to deal with this problem?"
Balmung's words struck a cord but he regained his composure, "No, that hacker was not involved in any way."
Balmung saw through his lie, "And why not send out the Cobalt Knights?"
"You said yourself that this AI is different, so CCcorp. took a different approach to this."
"I wonder what would happen if I told Kamui about this," he began to write the email when his mail was deleted before he could send it.
"I don't think we need you to go involving anyone else in this Balmung," Helba appeared with wand in hand.
"So you were in on this after all, vile hacker," Balmung shouted at the wavemaster.
"Of course, how else could have I have gotten you and Enigma together. Enigma would surely refuse to do anything with you unless it involved Skieth and you follow orders regardless of what they are," Helba laughed at Balmung, "You really are just a stupid boy for listening to this pig-head's orders."
"I told you to let me deal with this Helba," Lios infuriated with her falshy entrance, "Now that Enigma knows that we're both after him, there's no way we can attack and get rid of him."
"That's where you're wrong Lios. I don't intend to delete or kill Enigma like you, I intend to study him and figure out why he is in his current condition."
"To think I was used by you both so easily," Balmung unsheathed his sword, "I told you if she had anything to do with this, to make sure I don't come back," he bolted straight for Lios with the intent to kill.
Jon sat by his fire and thought over what had happened in the dungeon again. After Balmung and his attack's collided , they were both left in a near-death condition and unable to move for minutes. He then thought about his condition and wondered how he could possibly be where he was now and not dead like the other coma victims. Could the bracelet have protected him and if so then why. Since he knew next to nothing about the bracelet, he had to ask someone else for the answers he sought. Helba came to mind first but after the last two days, he save her as a last resort. None of friends knew more about the bracelet than he did so the only one left was Kite. He sent a flash mail to the twin blade and told him to meet in Dun Loireag.
As Jon entered the city, he turned his attention to the recorder and thought he should save being that he hadn't since his incident with Skieth. He saw that Kite was there also along with a blademaster that looked a lot like a cat, and a wavemaster that Jon could have sworn was David except for the cap he wore.
"Yo Kite, I had a few questions to ask you, but first, who're these people," Jon said as he ran to them.
"Wow, what a familiar looking bracelet you have there," the cat said to him, inspecting Jon wrist.
"That's Mia, and this is Elk," Kite motioned to the wavemaster, "He looks like your friend ChaosB1ade."
"Yeah I thought that it was him when I saw him," he took another look at the shy wavemaster before turning to the cat player, "Can I ask what your looking at miss Mia was it?"
She spoke to him without turning from his wrist for even a second, "Just looking at your bracelet. Wondering why it looks so similar to Kite but yet different in ways."
"In what kind of ways Mia," Jon worried at what she could mean.
"It's only that your bracelet for one seems a bit darker than Kite's. Another thing is that yours is much colder than his."
They all went to a small alley where no one was could see them then Kite and Jon showed their bracelets for Mia to inspect further. She constantly looked back and forth, with slight nods and acting like a doctor, "Well I've been in blizzard type field for about the past week, so that explains the cold, but slightly darker, wonder why that is," Jon explained.
"Has it been damaged recently, like been attacked or suffered a sudden impact?"
"If you count a data drain attack then yeah."
They all looked at him in shock like they were looking at a ghost. Kite was the first to say anything, "You ran into Skieth again? Was Aura being chased by him," he was grabbing at Jon's shirt and shaking him slightly.
"I didn't see Aura at all."
"What do you mean a data drain hit the bracelet though," Mia pondered.
"Well, my friends and I went down into a dungeon where we ran into Skieth, and in the battle, Sakura was about to be hit with it when I got in the way of the attack," he crossed in front of his face and showed how he blocked the attack.
"But didn't the attack make you disappear and go into a coma," Kite touching him and sort of inspecting him.
"Hey cut it out," Jon pushed him off, being careful not to say too much, "Yeah I blocked the attack, but the bracelet shined extremely brightly, and I passed out from the attack."
"D..did you log out right after that happened," Elk shyly asked.
"No big, no one was hurt and we all got of there unharmed, Jon forced himself to say that with a straight face, "But I wouldn't recomend doing something like that."
"I never would have thought it would protect anyone from the powers of data drain," Mia said aloud, "Just be gald that your not in a coma right now, Enigma. Well I have some buisness to attend to so if you'll excuse me, ELK!"
Elk ran after her and stayed a few steps behind her tail. Kite turned to Jon and explained he had some mail to read and send and logged off. Jon inspected his bracelet once more and couldn't find what Mia said she saw. To him, it looked the same as it always had, but to his surprise though, when the bracelet faded away, it seemed to be absorbed by his wrist leaving a blue tattoo. The tattoo was light blue hexagons connected together around his wrist. He wondered what the hell had happened now that it seemed that the bracelet was now a part of him. He quickly returned to his home field and mailed Lan to come see him.
Jasmine logged into Dun Loireag and wondered where Balmung was waiting for her. He had written her he had gone, since she hadn't seen him since the dungeon incident. After searching the town for a while she got mail telling her to meet them in their normal spot. She went and found bloody feathers scattered around the area. She gasped in horror of what could have happen to Balmung and found him by the lake. At the sight of his destroyed state, she nearly fainted and rushed to his aid.
"Balmung what the hell happened to you," she brushed his hair away from his face to see it was scratched and bloody.
"You..are...all in...danger," he struggled to say his word.
"Who is in danger and why?"
"Enigma and anyone who comes into contact with him will be deleted," Lios appeared behind her and stared straight at her with furious eyes.
She laid Balmung gently back down on the ground and turned to the administrator, "Did you do this to him!?"
"And what if I did? What can a lowly twin blade like yourself do?"
Her face instantly burned with fire as her whole body became comsumed by the darkness of her wings, and became a living shadow, "You will die!!"
The entire field went from a afternoon setting to the dead of night, making it impossible for Lios to see anything except the bloody angel. He felt something graze his shoulder but as he turned, he saw that no one was there. Another gust of air came at him and beads of sweat started to flow from his forehead. He saw a quick flash from off one of her blades and as he turned to it, he felt his back suddenly crack. As Lios fell to his knees, his sight was still a pitch black field as he heard storm clouds blow in from overhead.
"RAI ROM"
Sparks lit at Lios' feet and the sparks started swirling up his body providing the necessary light to see his attacker. He could only see swiling darkness in the shape of a woman with one black and one white dagger in her hands. He couldn't see any kind of expression on her face, but he could tell she was in a complete rage that wouldn't end unless one of them was dead. She used her RAI ROM attack again only for the fact that she could show herself to him, "Leave Enigma, my friends, and everyone alone and get back to your job, pig! If you don't I can make this MUCH worse," as the attack faded he shot an energy ball at her but saw that he had missed.
Balmung rose to his feet and yelled out to her, "Angel, you've got your message across. Stop this before now before he does something drastic," at his words the storm stopped and light slowly returned to the field and the shadow known as DarkAngel was back with Balmung helpping him walk towards Lios.
"You've got my message," she slashed his hat and as it fell to the floor, "Be sure you heed my warning," she lead Balmung away and gated out, "I have a know a place where you can stay but please forget the keywords that you see," she typed in Delta Frozen Silent Swordman.
Chapter 16 End
A/N: Great special feature to my Wings of Darkness, huh? I will have another chap done by 8/25 bc that's my bday and it wouldn't be complete without me submitting a chap. Review so I know how you people like my work. LATES people.
