Regrouping
October 29, 2009
My Girlfriend has finally let me log in today, I understand she's worried, but why, it's just a game, the doctors said that it may take some time for all my memories to come back to me. Maybe I'll understand why she's so upset when it all comes back to me, I told Dractaros in my last email that I'd like to talk to him today. He said he was setting up a meeting, for what reason I don't know, at Delta Hidden Forbidden Holy Grounds. I know that I'm still missing some of my memory, but I fell that I have to go no matter what.
When I logged it, I zoned into the Delta server, the city Mac Anu was familiar, but it seemed like I hadn't been here for months. It was somewhat dark as it was dusk, and the sunlight was hiding behind the towering buildings behind me, I turned around and saw a spinning ring with golden magical ruins spinning around it.
"What's that?" I stood there thinking for a minute and then said, "Oh ya, a Chaos Gate, the gate between fields and cities."
I walked over to it and without thinking, I entered the keywords for the meeting place, guess my body didn't forget.
I finished the keyword and was warped to the field, the church of Delta hidden forbidden Holy Grounds, I remember this place the most, so many times have I come here, and all of those times talking, memories of this place where flooding me for a moment.
"Holy bloody hell, look what the dog dragged in, it's my old pal, my homey, my best friend, Broco"
"BROCO, WTF, YOU DAMN ASS!"
"Hahahahahahahaha, yep, that's my old friend for sure, no doubt about that:-). Sorry about that, had to make sure"
"Har de har har, ):-( you ever call me that again and I'll kick your ass""I've heard this line somewhere before, where"
"A tale of an end, a story of the end of a race of sprites who are about to be destroyed by what they called the cursed wave"
"Arcanis, you know something about the text?"
"Yes, that is a single passage in a story from a time ago; it's called The Epitaph of Twilight, a story that disappeared long ago."
"Hiro said that the location was Lambda Pulsating Worst Core, although I feel like it's a setup, Skain may have told him if he failed to tell him a field to ambush us."
"I don't think so, I checked the floor today and it is as he said, anywhere I went, I was sent back to the same room, once in a while, I would make it to the next room, but, it is a maze, I don't know how to transverse it"
"There is always a way a through a maze, if Helba uses this place to get to Paradise as most seem to call it"
I wish I could fully remember what happened, why did I get amnesia, what's going on.
"Drako, glad to see you" Someone behind me said in a soft yet cold voice.
I turned around as saw a guy wearing a blue kimono, his hair was dark and tied into a ponytail, his eyes cold looking.
"Wow" I shouted and backed off as he was right in my face, "Who the hell are you?"
"So, you did forget, at least for now, friend"
"If you wanted a friend, all you have to do is ask, Friends?" "Friends""Oh, ya, Hiro right?"
"Right, come on then, they've already started"
He walked past me towards the churches doors, I decided to follow, when he opened the door, the interior was revealed. A large open space with benches against the walls greeted my eyes, leading towards a statue of a girl with chains restraining her on a large altar. To the right of the statue was a group of people, two guys and a girl, the girl was sitting on a bench and had large purple wings folded up under her long silver hair, one of the guys was leaning next to the bench looking at the other guy, some of his face hidden behind a red cloth wrapped around his mouth. The other guy was leaning against the altar, his hair blue, armor blue also, with silver chain mail, blue wings folded behind his back, he was the most familiar of the three, but vaguely.
"You think I'll let my best friend do this alone"
"Thank you Drako, yet again you help me out"Hey, no one to worry about, just a little lost friend" Hiro said to the others, they turned their heads and looked at me.
"Drako!" the Girl said getting up and running towards me.
"Drako, good to see you again" The guy with the wraps said to me.
The girl gave me a hug, I stood there dazed about what happened.
"Ok, I have a feeling that I do know you, but who are you?"
She looked a little hurt at that remark, but before I could say anything, the blue haired guy said something.
"He must have amnesia still, but I would say that it's fragmented, he remembers something's, but other things he's still trying to remember"
It then hit me who he was, "Drac? Dractaros?"
"I'm glad to see you again pal"
"Ya, and I remember your names to, Draconair?" I pointed at the girl.
"Yes but my names Drakanair now, but I'll explain later"
"And Squall?" I pointed at the other guy.
"No, Onmipotent One, but you best remember that I go by Arcanis"
Oh right, sorry" I replied.
"Still good that your back" he said back to me.
I looked at Dractaros, funny, I recall he was different looking, must be in my lost memory.
"Ok, I know you want to know what happened Drako, but lets first finish the meeting, k?"
I nodded. We walked back to the benches, I sat at the end of the bench closes to the altar, Hiro decided to stand behind me, everyone else took the same spot as when I entered.
Ok then, so Hiro as I was saying, have you seen or heard anything about the girl?"
"Fraid I haven't, there hasn't been a lot of chatter in the underworld"
"Well, plz keep looking"
"Fine"
Dractaros turned to Omnipotent one and asked, "How about the epitaph?"
"Same, there just isn't any record that it even existed, I've been trying to look around "The World" for it, but no one seems to know a thing about it, most haven't even heard of it." He replied back to Dractaros.
This stinks a little, I have no idea what they're talking about, I looked at the statue and suddenly remembered something. It was several months ago, Drac sent me images of a girl in the data he retrieved looked like, the pictures were garbled, he wanted me to try and fix them up.
"It would be easier to find here if we had more then a bunch of fragmented images to find her. The single clear image is of her back side, how can you be sure she's a girl!" Hiro said in a cold and harsh tone.
"Well sorry Hiro, it's the only clear image I was able to retrieve, I'm not a good artist, so it's hard to restore an image for me, I've restored most of the data, but not the images." Dractaros glared back at him.
"She looks like that statue," I said out loud.
I wasn't looking, but I knew everyone turned there head around and looked at me.
"Drako, what did you say?" Drakanair asked.
"I remember, Drac wanted me to fix up those images as best I could, I remember I completed one that showed her face, but I couldn't find you, and The World's mail system was down. I remember that she looked like this statue, except for the chains"
Dractaros came over and looked me in the face and asked, "Are you sure Drako?"
"Ya, I'm sure, I think I still have the image in my computer"
"Then send it to Hiro and the rest of us when you log out"
"Ok"
"Well then, that's all for today, lets hope we have a real lead now, oh and I got a little something for you Arcanis, and you to Hiro, a little thank you for helping so far"
Drac handed two Metal claws to Hiro and a sword that was shaped like a bolt of lightning at the base of the blade to Omnipotent.
"Wow, nice high lvl weapon, thanks" Omnipotent said.
"Sufficient" Hiro said looking at it.
Both logged out afterwards, Dractaros Turned towards me, I wanted to ask him so many questions, but he was first to say something.
"Drako, I'm sorry"
"Sorry for what?"
"I'm not sure if you remember, but, well, the incident leading to your coma, well,"
He looked like he was having trouble coming to say it, but remembered it, just at that moment. It came to me in fragments but enough for me to figure it out.
"Oh, now who's mad little shortly?"
"Why not look in a mirror, you'll see an ugly ass with the name Skain""Oh shit, it's a data bug, Skain, we'll have to settle this some other time we have to gate, NOW!"
I can't get out, Dractaros, Angel, I'm sorry, but it looks like I'm finished.
"There's no need to apologize, I don't remember fully how it happened, but I know that it won't happen again cause we'll be together facing it."
He looked at me with a surprised look for a moment, then said, "Thanks"
I gave him a thumbs up, then he said, "Well, I'm going to get some sleep, Night then"
He gated out, I looked a little surprised, sleep, but it's still early, oh but he lives in Japan, but it should still be early there?
Drakanair came over to me, she must have know I was confused because she said, "Don't worry, he's had trouble sleeping since the incident, though, I think he'll sleep better tonight"
"Well, I guess that I shouldn't be surprised, from what I remember, he's always been like that, I think I'll log to"
"Going somewhere?"
"No, I know that I have a girlfriend, but I can't remember why, I think I should try to find out before she gets mad"
":-)"
"I'll be back on again, hopefully, when I fully remember everything"
"K, take it easy for a bit, ok"
"K" I waved good-bye to Drakanair and logged out"
Logging in today was a good idea, I remember a lot more about what happened, I just hope that nothing worse is ahead of us.