.hack/Morganna's End rewrite

Chapter 3

Eyes opened slightly, pain almost immidiatly following the first movement. "You're finally awake." A voice...it wasn't Morganna's.

"Helb!" Everything flooded back to Renny, the whole procedure of finding her, being caught by Morganna...

"I knew this would happen. It always happens like this." Renny's body moved towards the other wavemaster's climbing on the bed that was there. What area was this? He recognized it somehow. "It's my net slum, she trapped us here. However, comatose states aren't her style. To others you will look peacefully asleep. I was already found, I'm probably asleep with my neuro goggles and controller in my hands on soft bed that's in my office terminal."

"I'm sorry...I wasn't..."

"It wasn't your fault."

"I could have protected you better-" A hand slapped him across the face.

"We probably won't be here much longer, she has a plan already in action. You should rest."

"We should get out of here."

"There's no point of struggling at the beginning." She padded the bed slightly, offering him a side of it. "If you want to be saved, you have to wait until it is the right time."

Helba's Net Slum

Kite looked at the site of Net Slum, there wasn't anything there. Everything looked blotched and unorganized. This wasn't like Helba, or at least the Helba he knew. "You two are late." Grunty's face appeared, his long arm body almost as serious as he was. "Everyone else is waiting in that building in front of you." It was the only building that existed that looked organized, walking in revealed a nice round table. A few people were already sitting there, most of the faces familiar. Subaru and Tsukasa were beside Bear and BT. DA was joined by Grunty, who was sitting by Mizuru, Miho, and DOS. Shugo and Rena sat beside Ouka and Mireille. Blackrose was in one of the seats, looking rather annoyed.

"About time you two got here." They sat beside her and looked at Helba, who looked even less like herself. Her hair was messed up, and the staff in her hands was held sideways. A true hacker in distress. Something her rank had never been known to do.

"What happened to Reki and Magi?"

"They had work to do, and we knew we couldn't trouble them for now."

"Well, it's best they don't get involved. Well, shall I read the details?" The ones seemingly used to this situation nodded. The others nodded rather afraid to find out what was going on. "Well, during her short work period, it was confirmed Renny had contact with Helb. However, about an hour after this rendez-vous, Morganna appeared. There is no log to where they dissapeared to."

Omega: Death's Eternal Flame

Her eyes opened slightly, she knew it had worked. Well, from what she could tell, she was chained to a bed with fine silk. She never learned to like silk. "So, I assume you woke before me Renny?" She turned her head, looking at where Renny was restrained. A bedpost was much thicker than the others, and his hands were around the pole. Restrained together in tightly built titanium.

"Yeah." He looked frustrated, he had already tried to escape a few times already. He eventually lost his energy, and let everything around him go. "I wish I knew what was going on."

"You do?" The more feminine long arm smiled in response. She moved to the bed, placing her spear close to the male's throat. "Well, I wouldn't want to kill you. No real use in that. I plan on luring your so called friends to this area. There will be a few surprises." She removed the spear from close to the male's throat, staring at the calm faced female.

"What do I care?"

Helba's Net Slum

Even after hearing the details of the incident, they were no closer to finding the female wavemaster than at first. Grunty turned towards the watery area carelessly made by accident, by a distressed Helba. He sat, looking at the water with no real need to look up. He knew the more Helb was being in this situation, the more the situation just got worse. "Hey."

"Oh, DA."

"What are you trying to do? Going out like that. Were those questions that bad?"

"They wanted to know everything, I don't believe Helb would like them to know everything."

"Well, she'll have to tell them eventually. Well, at least Elk." The blademaster chuckled at the thought, his red hair swaying in a stale breeze.

Omega: Death's Eternal Flame

Renny's body tried it's best to adjust against the metal bedpost he was attached to. He wished her were on the bed, no matter how much more uncomfortable it may have been. He turned to where Helb's head was, she was asleep again. However, he accounted she had done so because she was sick of the databugs that now lived in the room. Morganna's form was nowhere to be found. "Helb?"

"Yes?" Her eyes opened halfway, indicating she was half asleep.

"Do you think we'll get out of here alive?"

"Yes."

"How?"

"He always makes sure of it, no matter what. By the way, silk and chains is bad." Her eyes closed again, indicating she was really sleeping this time.

Helba's Net Slum

The meeting still remained going, however, it was just talking amongst themselves now. No leads were yet decided on where to go. Grunty returned with DA a few minutes ago, indicating the talk had gone well between them. However, none of them expected answers this soon. Their attention was grabbed by the appearance of a silver clasp, one that symboled infinity. The appearance of purple and white robes grabbed attention, and then the appearance of white hair with a pale face. "Aura?" Helba's face turned to the mother.

"I know where the two you seek are. I know the area, but it is not in my power to even be able to get there. The area I was able to get before getting spotted was Omega: Death's Eternal Flame." The people in the room looked grateful, but the mother was not yet finished. "I have a request. One that will help one of the two you seek have hope." A sword was in the mother's hands, she turned to Elk with a pleading look. "Please give this to her, it will give her the hope she seeks." Elk took the sword within his hands, feeling trhe blue energy from the sword. The mother then dissapeared.

TBC...