Disclaimer: You already know what this says. I'm too lazy to write it again.

Puzzles and More Puzzles

Tsukasa arrived in the Lambda server, expecting to be trampled by people. Events in The World went on everyday every hour. He breathed a sigh of relief when he discovered that the event had not begun yet. Maybe they'refinally running out of ideas, Tsukasa grinned. When he began to look around, he understood why there were no events. The server looked completely different. It was a lot darker; the sun was not visible through the enormous grey clouds. Not only that, but the lambda server looked as if a tornado had taken it's time making sure everything was broken. The Chaos gate stopped levitating in the air and fell to the ground with a clash behind him. Tsukasa jumped, turning around to see that it had turned a grey color in the center. It was no longer accessible to players. He walked over to it, bent down and touched the center, the place where characters came out of when they were done with the area they were in. How would they escape the area? Either get killed by a monster, or hope that a system admin fixes it. He responded to himself. The World will be getting lots of complaints. Tsukasa got up and decided that he wanted to look around some more. Though something powerful must have came through the server, the buildings will still standing. Probably all just by luck.

"Who are you and what are you doing here!"

Tsukasa turned around, thinking the questions were being addressed to him when they were actually being addressed to someone else. He hurried around the corner to find an alley where the voice was coming from. Tsukasa found a man that looked like one of the shopkeepers and two other characters. Well, he thought, at least I'm not alone here. Both of the characters were wearing big cloaks that hid their faces. The three looked at Tsukasa, then continued their argument.

"I told you, sir, we just ended up here!" one of the characters continued in a deep voice.

"Just let us log out, please?" The other asked in a much higher voice. For some strange unknown reason, this character kept on staring at Tsukasa. Tsukasa was too worried about what was going on and did not worry about it. The shopkeeper, Tsukasa realized. He must be an admin. What is going on?

"Excuse me sir, but what---" Tsukasa began only to be interrupted by the admin, who did not even turn around to face him.

"Be quiet and I'll deal with you next," the admin growled. Then he continued what he was doing. "Hmmm . . . ." the administrator thought, looking at the characters suspiciously. "Do I know you from somewhere?" The character that was staring at Tsukasa snapped their attention back to the conversation, but not after whispering something in the other characters ear.

"Why would you say that? I've never seen a system admin before." the character that was whispered to answered.

"Me neither. We've NEVER gotten into trouble before. We actually just joined a few days ago." The other character replied.

"I don't know . . . " the admin mumbled. "You guys look awfully familiar . . ." He walked up to the characters and tried to get a look at their faces. This just made that characters pull down their hoods even more. Finally, he gave up. "Ah, just log out before anyone else sees." The two characters smiled at each other and began walking towards the entrance of the alley when the admin stopped. "GET BACK HERE NOW!" he screamed, running after the characters. Still confused about what was happening, he chased the admin. The two characters saw that the admin was coming, and began to jog at a fast pace. They had both now removed their cloaks. One was a female heavy blade with light colored hair and the other was a twin blade with an unusual red outfit.

"YOU'RE THOSE TWO CRIMINALS ON THE RUN!" the admin screamed. "STOP!"

The character in the red outfit screamed something to the heavy blade, and he stopped while the girl continued running for the chaos gate. Surprised, the admin skidded to a halt, staring at the character. Tsukasa almost bumped into him. The heavy blade took one last look at Tsukasa before logging out. "Okay, so what do you want?" the twin blade asked the admin, sighing.

'You are under arrest, Kite, for corrupting areas in the world and killing other characters! Turn yourself in at once!" the admin answered in a serious voice.

"Let me ask you a question, ya stupid admin." Kite replied simply.

"Okay . . . but I'm not stupid!" The admin said.

"In the shows you watch on television, do the criminals turn themselves in?"

"Uh . . . . . .no."

"Then what makes you so sure I'll turn myself in? Answer that." Kite walked closer to the admin. Suddenly, he put the admin in a headlock.

"What are you doing!" the admin screamed. "I'm calling backup!" He fumbled with a device in his left hand.

Kite turned to Tsukasa. "Hurry! Get out of here before the other admins come and take you in for questioning!" Obviously, Tsukasa had been captured before, and he had no pleasure of being captured again. Grateful for his chance to avoid repeating his past in The World, he logged out. Kite then let go of the admin and logged out as well.

"Dammit! He got away again!" the admin cursed, logging out.

When Tsukasa logged out and got to the home screen, he had new mail. I wonder who it's from, he asked himself. After all, he had must stated playing The World again, and no one knew he was back. The mail did not say who the sender was. Tsukasa read the letter.

T$-k4$4,

Mimir\-\ + ∑ (\-\rs3d #4ll0ws F0r3s7. 12:00. Midnig#7.

A\-\ra

It was from Aura.

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END OF CHAPTER 2

Mandarin; Okay, if anyone did not know, I put some of the letter in l33t (leet) because in the .hack video games, Aura writes in l337. For the people who don't know, the letter says:

Tsukasa,

Mimiru at ∑ Cursed Hallows Forest. 12:00. Midnight.

-Aura

Hope ya enjoyed the second chapter: )

And yes if you haven't noticed by now, the dialouge in italics are thoughts.