.hack/Morganna's Revenge rewrite

Chapter 10

The voice from the sky, Morganna's angry voice made a reconnicanse around the area. "All my plans have been ruined! Damn you all to death! Corbenik, destory them all!" The parties were scared slightly, but anger had not fueled them, but simple justice was becoming their goal.

"Operation Wonder Battle!" Kite yelled as everyone had begun to decide in a single second on their roles. BT and most of the other wavemasters began to either heal or cast offensive or support spells. Physical attackers were either attacking the peanut shaped phase that had attacked them, or given support with healing items and SP restoring items.

Meanwhile...

Helbaworshipper touched the screen, feeling nothing could keep her from watching the end of this one decisive battle. "I did the right thing...I gave him the chance to help his friends..." Her body was begging her to cry, but she was holding them back. She could not cry, not when a battle that could kill the person that had helped her was in danger. "Elk...please don't die...please..." She thought this at the same time as she had said it, it felt almost as if time would stop if she did not. The peanut they had been fighting, had transformed into a leaf, a leaf that wasn't taking any damage! "No...I..."

"You shouldn't be here."

"Au-Aura?" She was scared, it was her that seemed to be the link to what happened to her. "Don't come near me!"

"Don't be afraid, I am here to help you."

"How?"

"Come with me." The ultimate AI's hand lay out in the open, the other hand inside or holding her robes slightly from whatever you looked at it from.

"What are you going to do?"

"You can help Elk, you can save him from dying."

"I..."

"You can help Elk save you." Her eyes began to let out the unshed tears, could this really be happening? Her hands covered her face, she didn't want to show her weakness. Crying was a weakness, she had been taught it was...but when he was... "Come with me, and I will help you."

"Okay."

Meanwhile...

Elk stared at the sheild, nothing was harming it. Had his promise ended up being broken? "No! I'm going to keep that promise!" He yelled, tears leaving his eyes as he looked at the leaf in determination. "I will help you wake up Helb! I will!" He quickly pulled out another artisan's soul, fueling himself as time seemed to have stopped. Everyone looked at the child AI's form, her eyes looking on at Corbenik's form with a look of calm.

"Mother, it is time that you died...time that you truly let your purpose finish." Lights fell from her body, taking the forms of familiar people. Orca's form came first, smiling as if he had outdone the great bearer of the bracelet.

"Can't let you have all the fun!" His light went, and another light shaped a form that BT and most of the original Aura quest knew.

"Boinnnng!" Sora's form launched, his twinblades out as if he was ready to find another member address by force. The next light revealed someone only Balmung had really known, and his face showed it.

"Balmung of the Azure Sky, Orca of the Azure Sea, I will not lose to you!" The form launched itself at the leaf, leaving another familiar form to go. Blackrose's eyes widened at the form.

"You're Blackrose, right?" Kazu's form launched itself at the leaf, wavemaster wand with it's sharpest point up. CC corp employees, including Shana and Terra said a few words to a slightly humoured Lios. The next form made Elk react.

"Elk, thank you so much. I promise I'll see you in the real world." Her form launched at Corbenik's stem, rather than the center of the leaf. Her smile was one that Elk had only dreamed would reach her face. A crack appeared in the sheild, no...many cracks. Just as the sheild shattered, a huge surge of data caused a surge within the area.

2 minutes later...

Kite looked around, everyone got up slightly from their positions. Eyes were everywhere, not just in the one area that seemed to be Corbenik's third form. "Helba, what happened?" He turned towards her, her eyes shifting towards his.

"Well, to bluntly say...my server crashed. I believe this was deliberatly done...but I didn't expect the servers to take such a hit."

"They can be recovered, as long as this fight ends." Lios looked at Helba, he was annoyed, but didn't show any sign of anything else. Everyone resumed their positions, fighting the pesky bombs around them quickly. The eye was being targeted by offensive spells mostly, but healing was made a first priority. Morganna was annoyed, and this time she was more than just furious, the fact they had even...

"Corbenik! destroy them all!" Her voice yelled possessed, and the attacks just got worse. Some were knocked down, but recovered just as fast, this was one battle they would win. They had to win it, no matter what. Their efforts finally took down the HP, but something was wrong...

"It's not..." Elk looked toward Tsukasa, looking for an answer, but finding it up above.

"Corbenik! I told you to destory them!" A set of data drain blades were raised, and Kite's eyes widened before his next line.

"It's...drain heart." Screams were heard, Bear's and Balmungs were first. He could hear Tsukasa and Subaru's. Crim and Blackrose were struck with drain heart, would it be so hopeless. Just as Kite was about to feel the pain as well, something took it for him. "Elk!" The wavemaster smiled at him slightly, glad to see that the twinblade had not gotten data drained.

"I'm sorry...that I...got you involved in something so...pointless. I didn't know what had happened...I..." His voice stopped as the form that Kite had held up with his arm broke into fractal code. He was mad, very angry. This time he had to do it, and now! He ran, dodging blades of the drain heart, hearing screams from the party individuals who had not yet been hit. He jumped, ready to strike at the phase, hearing a soft entrance. He looked up, hoping to see Corbenik had been struck. The ultimate AI looked at him with a smile, he let go of the twinblade within Aura, shocked. Her form raised, the lights that had attacked Corbenik falling from her body.

"Mother..." Her body dissapeared, Kite's eyes widened. He had killed Aura, the ultimate AI...she was supposed to be alive. He was killing Morganna...he had...

"NOOOOOO!"

Omega Server town: Lia Fail (mirror server.)

Kite stood there, what had he done? He had done the stupidest thing anyone could have done! He had killed Aura! His self criticism didn't last long, because everyone was coming back to the server. Lights were landing, Orca was right there! "Yasuhiko!"

"I told you to call me Orca!" Kite laughed, looking over at the others. Blackrose was rejoicing with Kazu, who looked as if he was going to be strangled by her love. Tsukasa looked at him with a slight smile, pointing to something to watch. Everyone who was not too busy with an emotional reunion looked on. Elk had been telling Tsukasa to look from the beginning. Two forms were in the small area that contained the chaos gate.

"Helb, I'm...so glad that you're back." Helba's face was in emotion, something many rarely had the chance to see.

"I'm not." Her face looked as if she knew something would happen, this was the worst thing she had thought of.

"Helb...you're going to wake up, isn't that good?"

"Wake up to a world that will always be full of something worry about. I don't think that even you can comprehend what may happen. I just wish this could be the end of my worries."Helb's face slightly nodded, golden rings sorrounding her, meaning she was going to wake up, and soon. Kite then tugged everyone's attention to the sky, smiling as he told of a quote he had heard from an echo. "The book of twilight, was really the book of daybreak. As the creator of the world once said, it is always darkest before the dawn."

TBC...