There was some kind of problem with the original Chapter 17 I cut out of the story, but I went back into the main one and pulled this out, I apologize in advance if anything is messed up, I'm just kind confused at the moment, I checked it over so it should be fine. None the less, enjoy.

Jugatsu took the potion and magic scrolls, as he handed the NPC the money. He was stocking up on supplies, plus he had nothing else to spend his money on. It would be awhile before anyone would get on and he was leaning on the bridge railing.

"Hi Ju-kun!"he heard a voice coming from behind.

He turned around and saw Momiri standing there hold her staff. He smiled and did his peace sign.

"Aren't you on kind of early? Or is it later then I think it is?"Jugatsu asked, as him and Momiri began to walk around town.

"It is kind of early where I'm at,"Momiri answered,"I thought you might be kind of lonely since everyone else has to log out."

Jugatsu began to laugh at the comment and Momiri began to blush.

"Sorry, I just find it funny when people feel pity for me,"Jugatsu apologized afterwards.

"So what do you want to do?"Momiri asked.

Jugatsu looked up he had no idea what he could do today, he figured he'd be training again.

"What level are you now? I haven't seen you in a few days,"Jugatsu replied finally.

Momiri smiled.

"I've been leveling with Venus I'm a lot stronger then before. I also got new equipment."

Jugatsu realized he had the wavemaster staff from the floating dungeon. He pulled it out. The staff was black and the rigid at the end it led up where it bent out into two horns in the middle where the tip of the horns met was a golden cat like bell.

"Umm I found this when in a dungeon it's supposed to be a really rare,"Jugatsu said.

Her eyes got wide.

"That's the Black Cat Staff! There's no way I could accept something this rare,"Momiri began to argue.

"Not like I can use it and it sounds like you want it,"Jugatsu said.

She took the staff and put it on in her equipment. She then smiled and jumped on Jugatsu. His glasses fell off and he instinctively covered his eyes so no one would see. He reached over and picked them back up and put them on. Momiri was finally got done thanking and hugging him so they managed to get up.

"Let's go try it out,"Jugatsu said as they walked towards the Chaos Gate.

They decided to try a weaker dungeon since they were just testing it.

"Umm, Delta...Bursting Organ Aqua Field?"Momiri said.

She checked the stats of the dungeon, it was a newbie level so that decided to go for it. They warped into a field that was like a huge desert. The skeletons of gigantic fish littered the ground. Jugatsu pointed over at one of the portals and they ran over. The portal faded and three moth-like monsters came out. She began to cast a spell which caused a tempest of darkness to damage the moths. The monsters were completely overkilled.

"Wow, this is so powerful,"Momiri said with a big smile on her face towards Jugatsu.

She jumped on him hugging again.

"You're welcome,"Jugatsu said gasping for air.
"Thank you, Ju-kun,"she replied.

Afterwards they got up and warped to town. Jugatsu kept rubbing in neck.

"You get excited easily,"Jugatsu said as they came up on the secret spot.

Jugatsu paused for a second he was getting another message. It had no sender but it's contents said that there was little time left and to check out Delta Ravaging Dog Sea of Sand.

"Hmm, I just received a message asking us to go somewhere. You up for it Momiri?"Jugatsu asked, trying not to drag her into his problems more then she wanted to.

She nodded and they walked back to the Chaos Gate with out even stopping for a break. He approached the Chaos Gate and saw Zero leaning on the wall.

"You sent the message?"Jugatsu asked immediately.

"Huh? No I got a message saying to come here and wait for you,"Zero replied.

Jugatsu didn't know what was going on so he invited Zero to the party. Momiri was surprised when she saw his stats.

"Your stats are unbelievable,"Momiri said astonished. Zero put his hand on his head.

"It's because I know more about this game then any player, I can get anything I want with-out breaking the rules,"Zero replied.

Jugatsu could tell by his face he wasn't joking. He looked over at Momiri who seemed to feel uncomfortable around him.

"Don't worry Momiri, he's not a bad guy,"Jugatsu said, trying to comfort her.

"Okay lets go now,"Zero said walking up to the Chaos Gate,"Delta Ravaging Dog Sea of Sand!"

They warped onto the field expecting to be in a desert of some sort but they found it the opposite.

"It's a forest,"Jugatsu said looking up.

The field was more like a path here, the trees were so tall and when you looked up you would see nothing but a roof of branches. It was to thick too get far off the path either. There was no path behind him and in front was like a cave which would be the dungeon. There were two pedestal with designs running up to the sides of the entrance. The path was made of dirt. Hardly any light my managed to escape through the roof of branches so it was dark on this field.

"We're wasting time here let's go in,"Zero said.

Jugatsu and Momiri looked at each other then followed. They walked inside the dungeon which looked more like a mining shaft.

"Since it's no use to me, use these Fairy Orbs, Momiri,"Jugatsu said, giving her about 10 Fairy Orbs.

"Okay Ju-kun," she replied.

She used a Fairy Orb and uncovered the map. The dungeon only had two portals between here and the next level. They walked room to room in the huge dungeon. They came up to the first portal. As it faded two monster appeared. They resembled half human half tiger and wore metal armor. One was wielding a big sword and the other used a spear. Jugatsu ran in front of Momiri and pulled out his daggers. Zero ran up to the one using the spear. He pulled out his weapons. He had two swords instead of the katars he had when they first met, but he still fought with them like Jugatsu did. The swords both had golden skulls on a pyramid for the handle. There was another smaller skull on the pummel of the swords. The blade of the sword was bright and looked like a light silver color. There was an after light from the swords whenever he moved him. The light was white and almost transparent. The sword wielding monster ran up to Jugatsu, he crossed his daggers and braced for impact. The next thing he saw was the monster falling backwards. After it faded he saw Zero standing behind it. The last tiger demi-human ran up and on stabbing Zero with the tip of it's spear. When the spear started to come down Zero ran into the monster and slashed at it's stomach. The armor was cut open like it was paper. It flew back a few feet and landed fading away afterwards.

"You just took out both monsters in one hit each,"Jugatsu said amazed.

"Yeah this place is high level, but I can handle most places easily,"Zero replied, trying to sound like it was no big deal.

They put away their weapons and continued going throughout the next few rooms until they got to the next portal. The portal faded and it was merely a trap chest. They used a fortune wire and found another spell scroll inside. They continued and went down to the next level. Momiri went ahead and used another Fairy Orb. The next room right after you come down is the end of the dungeon. They entered the last room.

"It's only a Gott Statue room,"Jugatsu said as he approached the chest.

Momiri stayed closely behind Jugatsu as him and Zero opened it up. Zero lifted up what looked like a type of ribbon. Jugatsu and Momiri were completely confused.

"You see, they'll have random items like these in the dungeons. These items are supposed to be really rare an finding one will give you a bonus to your stats. This is the sixth one found so far,"Zero said.

"Six? What are the other five?"Jugatsu asked.

"You're joking right? The other five are a golden grunty statue, a cooking set, a phoenix stuffed animal, a Kite plushie, and your sunglasses,"Zero answered. Jugatsu never really thought about the glasses after he had them so long. He remember when he first started playing the world he found them in a newbie dungeon. Since his character had a good appearance for it he decided to wear them. He then came back to the present.

"I found these when I first started and had no idea. I guess that I got so used to them as became better at playing I never stopped to question it, although I never found another item like it,"Jugatsu said.

They began to walk out when the door out of the Gott Statue room disappeared. The walls, roof, and floor began to fade into darkness. They then began to float in the darkness. They could see each other but everything else was pitch black. They heard a voice began to speak. Jugatsu looked back and forth. Momiri who was now holding onto Jugatsu's arm, but Zero didn't look the least bit alarmed, he actually had a grin on his face.

"Your time is running out too fast. The bracelet you hold is meant to clean the "The World" of it's impending doom, use it when the time comes. If Dusk obtains twilight then all hope is lost. Dusk never stays long. So you must find a way to stay with it. That his the only way you can fight him,"the voice faded away.

The three found themselves standing back outside the dungeon. They warped back to town and found AnakinseZ, Skyld, and Erica waiting. Everyone exchanged greeting except Zero was leaning against the wall waiting for it to finish.

"Hope you guys have fun with this task, you'll want to ask someone you know from the inside for help if you want to break off a map,"Zero said then logged off.

Jugatsu filled the other in the events leading up to the return to town.

"So that's why he said to break off the map,"Erica said,"He means we need to cut off the connection to a map so Dusk can't run away."

"We should wait 'til everyones here, I'll send e-mails and we'll meet here again later tonight to plan this out. We can't make any mistakes,"AnakinseZ replied.

"Everyone, log out until then. Get rest or whatever you need, this is gonna be big so we can't have anyone leaving mid way,"Jugatsu said.

Everyone logged out except and Momiri, and Jugatsu who of course couldn't log out.

"Are you sure you'll be okay here alone, Ju-kun?"Momiri asked before she left.

Jugatsu nodded. Her face so showed sadness as she logged out. Jugatsu headed to the spot and decided to get some early planning in, before everyone came so he might have an idea what would work.

Okay so per usual, reviews welcome.
Part 2 Info:As I said in the last chapter I'm going to start adding information from the second part here. AIC will take place in both the real world and in "The World". It's based a few years after what takes place in this story. The cast is a lot larger than this story, most of the characters coming over to part two play a pretty big role as well, but not the main role.