Chapter 16 of 26. Only ten more chapters left. I didn't try making it possibly to create into an anime with the twenty six chapters, it just kind of happened. Enjoy.
Jugatsu jumped up dodging the other twinblade's futile attempt at killing him. Jugatsu felt sorry for this PKer, since he was so weak, but at the same time he was getting bored. He stepped back dodging the next wave attacks. After five minutes of effortlessly dodging the PKer, Skyld and AnakinseZ were beginning to get tired from laughing so much. Jugatsu ducked under the next attack and drew out his daggers. The PKer twinblade paused, and Jugatsu crossed his daggers pushing himself into the twinblade's neck. The PKer fell to the ground and faded away.
"That was less then a challenge,"Jugatsu said feeling insulted about how such a weak PKer was trying to kill him. Jugatsu put away his daggers and the group walked into the next room of the dungeon still thinking of a way to fight Dusk. At the moment they could only think to train. Jugatsu walked into the next room, and found damaged data. Except for a few places where the floor remained, the room was almost completely just a vortex of corrupted data. The three stared down as the various 1s and 0s flew around. They knew Dusk was here.
"Why would Dusk want to attack here?"Skyld asked shortly coming into the room.
Jugatsu was so caught up in analyzing the room, he was ignoring the others. AnakinseZ just shrugged since he couldn't say.
"If he wants our swords, to escape out of "The World", then attacking this dungeon wouldn't do anything," AnakinseZ replied.
Jugatsu was still looking around. There was a small platform by the entrance which is where they were standing now. A bit to the left of the center was a small section of floor, just big enough for someone to stand on. Then the other door, or doors, Jugatsu couldn't tell, weren't even there. The walls and roof were completely gone. It was like the darkness was pulling away in every direction. Jugatsu stood up feeling uneasy.
"If Dusk does escape into the real world, then everyone on the planet would be endangered,"Skyld said.
"Yeah, I feel better about having the sword now,"AnakinseZ replied sarcastically.
He pulled out his sword and began to look up and down it. Jugatsu stood up finished with looking around the damage.
"If Dawn is supposed to fix what Dusk does, then she should be here, shouldn't she?"Jugatsu asked.
"Austin!"They heard a voice shout coming the next room.
Skyld didn't like to be called by his real name so much while in "The World". Erica walked into the room and didn't even notice the damage, only Skyld. She smiled and waved.
"You invite her?"Jugatsu asked.
AnakinseZ was sitting against the wall, sword still out.
"Well I haven't really gotten to spend much time with her in the last few days,"Skyld replied.
"If only we could find out more information about Dawn and Dusk. We don't know where they came from, why they do what they do, why Dusk wants to escape to the real world,"Jugatsu began listing the questions.
"If only we had some way of calling Dawn, like we know we can with Dusk,"AnakinseZ responded, rubbing the side of the sword.
Skyld would fill in Venus, Momiri, and Erica with e-mails from time to time, to save the time of explaining it in to them here in "The World".
"Well maybe we do. We only know that when Austin fights, it attracts Dusk. Maybe Anakin's works the other way and attracts Dawn,"Erica said. Jugatsu looked at AnakinseZ's sword.
"We wouldn't even know how to activate it, and it's battling with our items that attracts Dusk, not really Skyld's sword,"Jugatsu cut off.
There was a pause. His face then showed some surprise and there was an approving look afterwards.
"What is it?"Skyld asked.
Jugatsu chuckled as he read a message from Zero.
"Hey, one of you want be helpful?"Jugatsu asked looking at the others.
"Umm, you okay?"AnakinseZ asked, getting creeped out by how Jugatsu was asking.
"I received a message from Zero. He found a site full of a legend that is supposed to seem related, but since I can't log out, can one of you go and check it out?"Jugatsu asked, ignoring AnakinseZ's question.
Erica waved, to show she would. The four now used a Sprite Ocarina to warp out to the field, then they warped to town. After they arrived in town the four of them walked to the spot by the river. Erica then proceeded to log out and check this site Zero found. Jugatsu walked over and sat inside the boat, AnakinseZ and Skyld followed.
"For being such a high level why do we always hang out in the Delta server?"AnakinseZ asked while waiting.
Jugatsu was letting his hand drop in the water. He smiled, he was getting used to being able to call "The World" his world. The cold water gently flowed around Jugatsu's fingers. It felt relaxing.
"Delta has some good dungeons, in the midst of all of those weaker ones,"Jugatsu answered.
"She has the info she's telling me right now, umm one second,"Skyld said shortly afterwards, he continued reciting the info Erica was giving him,"Okay, listen up. It seems there was a tribe long ago who believed in the two gods. The first is a goddess, she was believed to be a good goddess, who granted humans the gift of daylight, this goddess was called Dawn. Then there was a second god, this one was supposed to be evil and spiteful of humans.
"They say he looked down on the humans and thought them to be a waste of time, being so needy. The legend says that Dawn and Dusk would fight constantly. Then the legend continues to say that a young boy ventured on a journey and found these two gods. The boy was wise and thought of a way to stop the fighting. He told the two gods they should race. The winner of the race would be allowed to rule as he or she pleased. The two gods decided it would work.
"A few days before the race Dusk created weapons planning to kill the goddess preventing her from racing, allowing Dusk to rule freely. Dawn foresaw this though and stole the weapons which he planned to use. The next day before they began the race, Dusk began to look for his swords, but to no avail. The race began and Dawn started in first. Dusk managed to past her, like she planned. After she was far enough behind she withdrew the weapons from the place she hid them. She thanked the boy who kept the swords. The two gods were supposed to keep running for eternity, while Dusk would look for his swords, Dawn would follow keeping the swords hidden right behind him."
As Skyld finished the story, AnakinseZ and Jugatsu came out of the trance they were in.
"So then does this mean that Dusk is only out for the swords to kill Dawn?"AnakinseZ asked.
Erica re-logged back in shortly, and joined them on the boat.
"This would explain things better,"Jugatsu said,"If we think of it and convert it to here,"Say the two AIs are in fact based from the gods in the legend. While you two have the swords, which would be like the boy keeping them hidden. If Dusk does get the swords he may go after Dawn. If he kills Dawn and can escape into the real world...then that would mean he'd be out to take out the sun, thusly plunging the entire galaxy into eternal darkness. This would wipe out any life at all."
"That doesn't answer everything though,"Erica replied,"What role do you and that bracelet play in this? And while it explains there motives, and attitudes, why is it that in the legend the boy stopped them with out killing anything, while here Jugatsu has to kill a god."
Jugatsu realized she had point.
"The only thing I can come to is that we're supposed to be the ones who'll end this legend,"Jugatsu replied.
It was getting late so the others had to log out. Jugatsu laid down in the boat and stared into the sky. It was changing towards nighttime anyways, although the time varied from the real world. He took a deep breath and began to wonder if they could actually kill a god.
Kay since I usually have nothing down here to say besides 'reviews are welcome', I'm going to give info about part two in the remaining ten chapters. For the first chapter I'm doing this with, let's start with the title. It's .hack/Artificial Intelligence Catasrophe (AIC for short) and as the name implies it has to do with AIs again. That's all for now, reviews welcome.