Chapter Eleven

Hope renewed

September 12, 2009

I think I finally found a lead to what happened to my brother, however I've had to ask Draconair for help in the matter. Everything that happens to a character is recorded under a file that is saved with the character data, so there might be information in Draco's character file that tells what happened. I'm going to spend most of the afternoon studying the data, I've told Drako and Draconair of plans for a meeting at Delta Hidden Forbidden Holy Grounds around evening later. With any luck, we'll have the answers soon.

When I loaded up for the meeting, the Delta sever was looking dark, like dusk had just ended, this sever seems to reflect the time in Japan very closely.

"You're running late man"

Iturned around and saw Drako waiting next to the Chaos gate, "Ya sorry, but I think I finally have a lead to start searching for".

"I hope so" He replied.

"Just how long is this going to take?" someone else asked.

"Who said that?" I asked.

"Sorry, I guess I should have asked if it was alright for someone else to join us Dractaros" Drako said calmly.

"Who?"

"My name's Hiro" he walked out of the shadow, his blue kimono and dark eyes shook me, "Drako thought that I could help out in a search, as I get around a lot"

"Hiro, but, you, and Drako? … Ok, your going to have to tell me later, lets get this started"

"Ok" Drako replied back to me.

When we entered the cathedral, Draconair was sitting down on a bench waiting for us, "What kept you?" she asked.

"Sorry, the data took longer to analyze then I thought" I said back.

"Oh"

"Can we get started already?" Hiro asked impatiently.

"Yes, lets get started then" I said.

Everyone took a seat, except Hiro who decided to stand where he was, "Well first, thanks to Draconair, I got some data that might haves something, the data recorder picked up a lot of strange activity at Theta Chosen Hopeless Altar. The data says that the dungeon was being rewrote, monster data and dungeon floor data was in a state of flux"

"Meaning?" Drako asked.

"Meaning that someone was altering the field and dungeon while someone was there" Draconair broke in.

"What do you mean?"

"Think of it like this, your playing a game with your friends, like say hide and seek, and suddenly, someone starts construction while your playing"

"So, was it an authorized reprogramming?" Hiro asked.

"I don't think so," Draconair continued, "If I recall, March 25th of last year, there was nothing planed except for the introduction of an event, which was put on hold after the incident"

"How would you remember that?" Hiro asked.

"Because I was on the team to put it in"

"May I continue?" I interrupted.

"Ya, sorry" Draconair replied.

"As I was saying, from what I could piece together from the data, an unregistered data anomaly was in the area and might be the reason for what happened"

"Wait wait, first off, what do you mean, from what you could piece together, and second what kind a anomaly?" Drako interrupted.

"For your first question, ask Draconair" I then let Draconair continue.

"The data when I retrieved it was broken up, deleted, I had to search for the fragments, but I have a question, who would have deleted the data, I don't think CC Corp. would have"

"As for your second question Drako," I continued, "The anomaly appeared to be unregistered data, closes it resembled was character data, but even then, if was far from it"

"How did it affect the field then?" Hiro asked.

"I'm not sure, but there was visual data with it, I don't know how, but there is"

"And" Drako asked.

"It seemed like a little girl, a little girl with long white hair, and a long flowing white dress."

"A girl with white hair and a white dress?" Hiro said puzzled.

"The strange this is, that there isn't any ID code for the character, and, she was floating"

"Floating!" Drako responded surprised.

"I'm afraid that that's all that I got from the data, the damage was to great for anything else, I'm going to work on a reconstructive program to hopefully reconstruct the data" I said hopeful.

"I'm worried about something else, as I'm sure goes for Dractaros as well" Drako said grimly.

"What" Draconair asked?

"How long before someone at CC Corp get smart as to what your doing?"

"Ya, I've been worried too, with everything you do for me, people will begin to suspect you," I said to Draconair.

"Don't worry about me, all that matters is finding out what happened" she replied back to me.

"Maybe you should do as Helba said and lay low for a while, don't do anything to draw attention to yourself" Drako recommended to her.

"I'm ok, what's more important here, my job or Dractaros' brother?"

"I don't want you to risk your job over my family matters" I said to her.

"If I'm ok with it, what's the real problem?"

"Please Draconair, I don't want you to ruin your life because of me"

"I can take care of myself, thank you" she said in a raised tone.

"…" I didn't know what to say, for I didn't want to make her mad.

"I'm sorry," she said, " I don't want you to worry about it is all"

"Well, like it or not, I am, and since I can't talk you out of it, … I'm sending you a special program, if something happens that's urgent, I want you to use it, it will send an incepted message to me"

"I don't think I'll need it"

"Please, I don't want anything to happen to you"

"…"

She remained silent for a moment, then said, "Ok, I'll do it"

"Thanks Draconair" I said back to her thankfully.

"I'd better go, don't want to be late for work"

"K, take care" I replied.

"Look out for yourself" Drako said to her.

With that she logged out, and the three of us returned to the matter at hand, "So what do we do know?" Drako asked.

"We start looking for this mystery character, I hope this will lead us in the right direction" I said hopeful.

"I'll see what I can learn in the shadows," Hiro said.

"Thanks Hiro, Drako, I hope you'll inform everyone else like Squall and Arcanis"

"Ya sure, as soon as I'm off work"

"Thanks, I guess this meeting is adjured"

I logged off after gating out to try and get the program up and running.

I'm hopeful that this new lead will lead us to the answers that we're looking for, but I can't help but feel that something is going to happen. Draconair is risking her job for me, I just hope that she will be ok, for the last thing I want is for something bad to happen to one of my friends for helping me.