hack//Morganna's Revenge
By: Helbaworshipper
Chapter 5
S Server Zone: Trapped Betrayed Nothingness (Inside Cubia)
Kite's arm began to move, almost as if by reflex. Propping himself up from the flesh-like floor, he gazed around. He recalled the beast consuming them in his flesh. "Where is everyone?" Kite said, but couldn't see anyone else. Wherever he was, he was seperated from his team.He then noticed that he was in a square-like room, made with area templates. A trap of some sort. Maybe the others were all seperated like this. But just as he decided to look around, to find an exit, a mirror appeared out of contaminated blank space. It was the only other thing besides him that existed here now. "What the- Possibly a task to complete? Well, here goes nothing." Kite pulled himself up, and stood before the looking glass. Within the mirror, his reflection began to take a different shape, other than his own. This new form was very familiar to him. White wings sprouted from the figure's back. Azure-colored accents covered his body. "Balmung! What are you doing here!? Why are you in that mirror? Get out! You do not know how dangerous it could be!" It truly was Balmung of the Azure sky, but why him?
"I couldn't rest until I killed you. Now, draw your sword. Prepare to die, hacker." Balmung withdrew his blade from the glittering sheath, pointing it straight at the twinblade. He charged to strike, but Kite activated a Speed Charm and lept out of the way. Quick to act, this Balmung immediatly glided to his new mark and sturk hard. Kite had resoted to shielding himself with his daggers. It was all he could do, or her would die.
"Balmung! What's wrong with you? We promised to save our friends! Don't you remember!?" The onslaught wouldn't end. He then thought he may have to murder his beloved ally.
"I can save Orca without the use of that illegal item. You are just making the situation worse!" Kite began to recall him saying something very similar to that long ago. Wasn't that at the cathedral?
"What about what Orca said when he saw that room?" Kite retorted, jumping back and trying to intertwine his offense with defense.
"What are you talking about? There is no such room!" After this, Kite stopped defending himself. He was stuck to the floor by Balmung's blade.
"I get it now. These mirrors, they reflect memories." Kite smiled, hearing the shattering of glass behind his dark reflection. Balmung followed suit, breaking like a china vase, in which the shards vaporized in the air. The mirror, it seemed, had hidden the doorway to the next room. He walked through the door, hoping that it might be leading in the right direction.
D Server Zone: Sleeping Child's Fate
"So this is what you meant by 'more in store,' isn't it?" Tsukasa watched, in disbelief, at the window more intensely now. this plan might work. He thought.
"It seems your dear Subaru is next. What will you wager that she does not discover the way as that boy has?" Tsukasa didn't know what to do. He glared at the raging sky. It was futile to fight The World, so he was placed with nothing else to do but sit, watch and pray. His patience would run dry soon, and he knew it. Morganna would soon realize that he had no intention of joining her again, but he kept the mask of deceit on, just a little longer...
S Server Zone: Trapped Betrayed Nothingness (Inside Cubia)
Subaru gazed at the man kneeling in front of her. It was Silver knight. She knew it was him, just by the way he had dropped to one knee was obvious. "Silver knight..."
"Lady Subaru, the wavemaster Tsukasa escaped us, but we will find him again."
"Silver Knight. The crimson knights are no longer. How many times must I reinform you. Didn't you get the memo? And by the way, we were never after Tsukasa. We were investigating the area for him."
"How can you say that? Are you telling lies so that Tsukasa will stay in this game? He is an illegal character, and he must be deleted." Subaru didn't know what to say. How did Silver knight end up here? Why was he in this room with her? More footsteps echoed around the room. Who was it now?
"Subaru! Don't fall for it! This is just a memory. A memory that you still haven't resolved yet." It was that twinblade. Wasn't his name Kite?
"What do you mean?" She sat down before the kneeling knight and looked at him very close.
"Think about it. Why do you think you are being told of things that occured in the past? I had heard you were the leader of the Proud and Great Crimson knights. They aren't around anymore, so how can this really be the Silver Knight that you knew? He wasn't with us when you came along to meet Tsukasa in this area..." Subaru's mind began to click.
"Silver Knight, I am no longer leader of the crimson knights. They were an ideal that lost its way a long time ago. I do not regret my actions, for the knights were a burden that I could no longer handle." Her eyes gazed, watching the figure fall down into glass shards. She nodded to the twinblade in front of her and walked with him to the next room. Mimiru was there, jumping up and down on the broken pieces left behind from the mirror. She joined the two as they walked to the next room, where a conversation was being held to the point there could have been yelling.
"I need a favor from you, five thousand."
"What do you need that for?" Bear was talking with a wavemaster, who looked as if edited to look a lot older.
"A car."
"Your mother didn't approve of that car, you know that. I told you once before."
"I'll follow up on it." Bear's mind was clicking before anyone could say anything to him, and the glass shattered at that same moment. A short calm took over, but not before a scream reflected from the next room.
"BT!" Bear yelled, looking at the wavemaster who was being cornered by two characters, a wavemaster and blademaster. She looked terrified of them.
"So, are you powerful? Like the crimson knights?"
"You idiot! If she was, she wouldn't have come with us." She kept stepping back, but there was no way out of the room. Her eyes widened at the thought of what was going on.
"Are you ready to die now?"
"Are you?" The figures shattered into glass, and a smile rose on her face. She had remembered that day, it was the day she began to really appreciate Tsukasa's existence. She joined the party, relieved to know that the rest of the allies were okay, and in separate situations ahead of her own door.
D Server Zone: Sleeping Child's Fate
Tsukasa was fed up. They had all foiled the plans Morganna had ingeniously devised. Elk was in for some torture by now. Tsukasa stood up, taking apprehensive steps towards the bed. He began to pull as hard as he could on the vines. He pulled as hard as he could. Elk's screamed bloody-murder. He had to get Elk out of here, now. There was o telling what The World would do to him now. "Tsukasa! Stop!" Tsukasa didn't cease though, his efforts beginning to succeed. He began tugging harder, at least until he could pull Elk free. Morganna was not about to let him out of her grasp, so she summoned a dagger, and fired it into the core of Elk's spine, causing the semi-concious Elk to fall out cold again. Just as she was about to summon another, time stopped. Tsukasa's eyes shut, holding Elk close to him. Out of a ripple, the shining daughter, Aura appeared. She floated over to the two wavemasters, gating them out with her warping power. She also took a look around the domain and disappeared herself.