megafan505: Hello everyone! Here is the next chapter of .hack/Chosen! I would have had it up earlier but I didn't start on it right away. I don't really have much to say so I might as well get to the disclaimer already!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything about .hack/ in anyway. The only thing that I actually do own is the storyline of this fic and a certain amount of characters in it. Well, on with the fic! Enjoy!
.hack/ Chosen
By megafan505
Chapter 5: The Forlorn Player Killer
"So did you have any visions?" Akira asked Natsume as he turned his head towards her. They were walking to school together that morning. Taro wasn't with them. They made it a habit to meet him at school since he always seemed to get there before they did. Besides that, he would end up cracking jokes saying how cute the two of them looked together.
Natsume turned her head towards Akira as well and nodded. "There was this boy," she said turning her head forward again, "He was very quiet, even after we tried to talk to him." She shrugged as they turned the corner. "I'm not sure what he has to do with Celestia or 'The World'," she continued, "But so far I've only had visions about those things so he must be important somehow."
Akira turned forward as the entered the school yard. "Well maybe," he started in mid-thought, "Maybe he could be the next chosen one." He saw Taro, who was standing in the doorway and beginning to grin and wave at the two as they kept walking forward. "Let's tell Taro at lunch," Akira continued. He pulled his hand out of his pocket and began to look at his ring. This was still a little bit new to him; it all felt strange. Then a new feeling came over him. He stopped there for a moment.
Natsume began to walk past him, but then she realized that Akira had stopped walking. "What's wrong Akira?" she asked as she turned back around and walked over to him.
Taro ran up to them and put his arms over their shoulders. "Morning you two love birds!" he shouted at the top of his lungs and grinned. He paused for a moment and looked at Akira who had a blank look on his face. "What's up?" he asked turning his head back and forth.
"He isn't one of us," Akira said as the blank look slowly faded away from his face, "But he is important." He put his hand on his face and shook his head. He looked up toward the sky. "That's strange," he said, "Look." Taro and Natsume looked upward. There, in the sky, a crescent moon shape could be seen.
"That's not so strange, I see the moon in the day a lot," Taro said looking back toward Akira. He then remembered what Akira had said before. "Who isn't one of us?" he asked, "Who's important?"
Natsume turned toward Akira, almost as if to ask if in was okay to tell him. He looked toward her as well and nodded in approval. "I had another vision," she said as she turned toward Taro, "There was a boy in it. But if he hasn't been chosen, then how is he important to us?"
Akira shrugged and shook his head at the same time. "Maybe he's part of Iam's group," Taro suggested, "Orizo did say that there were others like them."
"No, if he was then he probably would have been with some of the others, even if it was real life," Natsume pointed out, "Anyway, if their hand guards work the same way as our sings and your bracelet, then they would have them in the real world too."
"Besides," Akira added, "My feeling told me that he wasn't chosen. Iam and the others were chosen by that Prisma girl." He paused for a moment in thought and put his finger to his chin. 'Who is Prisma anyway?' he thought to himself, 'And what does she have to do with us or Celestia.'
Akira opened his mouth to say something, but before he could, the bell rang. "Let's talk about this after school, I just remembered that I have a doctor appointment during lunch today," she said and she began to run off, "See you later!" She waved to them as she made her way into one of the buildings.
Taro and Akira began to walk into the other building to get to class as well. It wasn't really surprising to Akira at all to hear virtually everyone talking about "The World." He thought back to not too long ago, when he couldn't stand those conversations. Now he would have joined in as well, but this time it was just the people that he couldn't stand.
"Alright everyone, settle down," Mr. Kurasume shouted as he hit a ruler up against the chalkboard to get everybody's attention. "We have a new student today," he continued as he began to turn slightly towards the door.
Akira turned his head back slightly and glanced at Taro. 'Another one?' he thought to himself, 'There sure are a lot of new students coming in lately. Oh well, he can't be too bad, could he?' He thought back to when Taro first came and sighed. He better not try to jinx it.
"Please welcome Satoshi Arakawa," said Mr. Kurasume as he waved his hand inward, as if to beckon someone to come in. Almost instantly after he made this gesture, a boy walked in. He wore the normal uniform and had straight black hair with several bangs hanging down in the front. He wore round glasses and his eyes were yellow with a tad bit of a reddish tint to them. Both of his hands were in his pockets and he had an expression on his face as if he just wanted to be left alone. "Now Arakawa-san, please take a seat next to…" Mr. Kurasume began moving his finger over the class, looking for a seat, "You may sit next to Hayabusa-san."
Akira began to clench his fist tightly and slunk down in his seat. He had chosen this seat specifically because it was where nobody was sitting directly next to him. On top of that it was near the corner. Now he had two people sitting near him. He sighed and shook his head as Satoshi began to walk to the seat next to him. Why wouldn't Mr. Kurasume allow new students chose seats by themselves? Akira looked over at Satoshi, who was now sitting down with his hands folded on his desk. On the back of his hand, Akira could see the image of a red and yellow eye.
"That's strange," Taro said as he looked directly at Akira. It was now lunch time and Akira had told him what he saw on Satoshi's hand. Taro was eating a hamburger. Akira didn't see what Taro liked about it; to him they were just a piece of meat and bread, an American lunch. He much preferred the classic shrimp tempura and rice bento, but it was up to Taro what he ate for his lunch. "Maybe it was a birth mark, or a tattoo."
Akira shook his head, "It looked pretty natural to me, almost as if it was part of his skin," he said as he broke apart his chopsticks and picked up a bit of rice. "Besides," he continued, "I got another feeling at the moment I saw it, there's some sort of importance to our mission."
"What does it have to do with our mission?" he asked, not even really sure what their mission was, "I doubt that Celestia will want the guy's hand or something." He closed his eyes and began to take a bite of his hamburger again. "Hey, maybe he's the guy in Natsume's vision."
"I don't really see how we're going to figure that one out," Akira said as he put his chin on the back of his hand, "I can't control the Gift of the Mind completely yet and it's not like we can just go up to him and ask him." He hated to admit that he couldn't control his power, but it was true.
"You may not have control over your power, but I do," Taro said as he began to grin slightly, "I've been practicing as much as I possibly could. I can read people's mind with the Gift of Many Tongues." Akira's eyes grew wider nearing disbelief. Satoshi walked past their table. "Watch this," Taro said as he took out his hand with the bracelet on it. He opened it and aimed it toward the direction of Satoshi. The bracelet began to glow and Satoshi smirked.
Akira's eyes grew wide in interest and he looked in the direction of Satoshi as well. Then all of a sudden, the bracelet stopped glowing. Akira looked over at Taro who was now falling over. "Taro!" Akira shouted as he ran over to the other side of the table. He grabbed Taro's shoulders and began to shake him. His eyes slowly opened, "What happened?"
"I don't know," Taro said, putting his hand to forehead. He sat back up and began to shake his head a bit. "I was getting a faint voice for a moment, but then there was this strange sound. I don't know how to describe it, but after that everything went dark."
Akira opened his mouth to say something, but again the bell rang. It seemed that it was trying to keep him from saying anything at all today. He shook his head and stood up. "Come on, we better get to class," he said as he grabbed his bento. 'What could that have been,' he thought to himself.
"So what was it that you saw exactly?" Nabuko asked as the three of them sat in an alleyway in Mac Anu. They were in "The World," and talking about the day. After school Akira had to go and pick up his Chihiro and Sota from their school and take them home. His mother and father had to go downtown to pick up a crate of curry mix to put in the store. Akira decided that the best time to talk about something at that point would be from inside "The World."
Yamano stood up and began to lean up against the wall. "It was like this figure of an eye," he explained, "Did the guy in your vision have something on his hand?" If he did, then this would definitely be the boy that she had envisioned. After that, they would just have to figure out why he was important.
"Now that you mention it…" Nabuko began as she put her finger to her chin, "Yeah, I think he did have a mark like that. But I'm not sure where we were with him. It could have been in the real world, or here in 'The World'."
Roat stood up now and he began to stretch his arms. "Well there's not much we could actually do just by sitting here, now is there?" he asked as he began to yawn, "Were there any new things on the board? Those hacker guys might be starting to get active again."
Yamano shook his head in response. "There was one thing," he said as he thought back to when he first logged on today, "But it was just something about a guy looking for help on raising a Grunty."
"Well we might as well go out somewhere and train, don't you think?" Roat asked as he turned his head towards Nabuko, "Those hackers could attack at anytime, and right now we still have pretty low levels." It was true, although they had been training as much as they possibly could they didn't get too far. Yamano was at level six while both Roat and Nabuko were level seven. He was the first one that was chosen, but he was behind both of his teammates.
Nabuko stood up and brushed herself off. "Well, you guys know where we should go?" she asked as she began to send invites to join a party to Yamano and Roat. The three of them had just logged in a little while ago so they hadn't formed the party yet.
"There is this one place that we could go to," Roat said as he began to walk out of the alley, "It's a level six area, lightning element. I think that it's called Δ Forlorn Missing River Spirit."
"You know what we need to get?" Nabuko said as she and Yamano began to follow Roat to the Chaos Gate, "We need a hideout or something! But it probably costs a lot to get one though, huh?"
Roat turned his head back towards the two of them and began to walk backwards to the Chaos Gate. "Oh, by the way, I ran into Orizo the other day," he said as the walked past the Recorder, "He said that they have a hideout of their own! It's called Midnight Ring. And from what I heard, it cost them a lot of GP. We should wait for a while before we get our own."
Yamano turned his head towards Roat in interest. "They have their own hideout?" he asked. He was actually surprised by the fact that Roat ran into Orizo. Sure it was possible, but Orizo was much higher than them in level. He thought that he would spend more time in a higher level server. "Well maybe they'll invite us to come over there one day," he said hopefully.
They reached the Chaos Gate and they all faced directly towards it. "Forlorn Missing River Spirit!" they all shouted and thrust their fists upward. The Chaos Gate began to glow and they all jumped in. After they jumped in it began to slow down slightly again and glow less, like how it usually would after someone had just used it.
"Let the hunt begin."
The three of them appeared in the area and the golden rings around them floated to the ground. They all looked around and viewed the area. For a lightning elemental area this
place seemed pretty calm. It was rather cloudy, but other than that nothing much in
weather indicated that this was a lightning elemental. "Hey Roat, what made you choose this area?" Yamano asked, turning to Roat, "There isn't anything special about it is there?"
"No not really," Roat said in response and shrugged, "I heard some guys talking about it the other day. I can't remember what they said about it but I thought it would be cool. Man, was I ever wrong." He was indeed wrong. There wasn't much of anything there. There were no trees or plants. In fact, aside from a few magic portals the only thing in sight was a well. "Well, we might as well get to training," he said as he made his blades come out and rushed towards a magic portal.
When they reached a magic portal and it opened, all that was there was a treasure box. "That's it?" Nabuko asked, a little bit in surprise. This was a level six area. Sure they may have just have gotten there, but they should have seen at least one monster. They went to three more magic portals but they all had the same thing. "Well, maybe there are some monsters in the dungeon or something," Nabuko said as she began to shrug.
"Too bad that you won't make it," a voice from behind her said. Before anyone knew what had happened there was a Twin Blade standing right behind her. He had coarse, read hair and he wore a grey scarf. He had his two weapons held up right to her neck. They were both shaped like discs. Just by their appearance any person who had been playing "The World" for a while would know that those weren't some oridinary Twin Blade weapon. They both were red and had crosses through them. On top of that they were surrounded by a thin layer of flame. The Twin Blade himself wore an outfit that was something like Roat's, except it consisted mostly of grey and red colors. He had a pair of dark blue gloves on and his shirt he had the image of an eye. "Now if you would be so kind, please give me your member address," he said in a somewhat crackled voice. It sounded like he was either really old, really sick, or some kid trying to sound like a really bad villain.
Yamano and Roat pulled out their weapons and braced themselves to attack the person. This was obviously a PKer. But why was he attacking them? "Ah, ah, ah," he said shaking his head and then nodding towards Nabuko, "You wouldn't want this girl to get hurt now would you?" The two of them loosened up a bit. It seemed like he had the advantage here. "Now then, as I was saying, your member… Ouch!" he shouted and picked up his foot. While he hadn't been watching Nabuko she had been clenching her fist. Finally she couldn't take it anymore and stepped on his foot as hard as she could. The flames on the two discs went out and the Twin Blade held them both in one hand. "Ouch, ouch, ouch!" he shouted, the voice sounding quite a bit younger now, "That hurt!" He regained his composure and held the discs in both his hands again. "You caught me off guard, but that won't happen again," he said in his sickly tone of voice again.
"Hey Bozo," Roat said pointing over to Nabuko, who was now standing between him and Yamano, "In case you haven't noticed, your bartering chip isn't exactly in your possession anymore." Nabuko slightly glared at Roat, not enjoying being talked about as an item of some sort. The Twin Blade stood there for a moment then slowly began to walk away. Then he began to run off quickly. "Tarot of the Hanged Man!" Roat shouted as he pulled out a scroll. Apparently, the Twin Blade didn't run off fast enough because he was still in range of the scroll. He was now stuck in that one spot until the scroll wore off.
The three of them walked up to the Twin Blade, who was standing in a position that looked as if he had been frozen in the middle of a step. "So who are you exactly?" Nabuko asked as she crossed her arms. The scroll seemed to slightly ware off, because he was able to move his head. He turned to her and gave her a cold stare.
"Why should I tell you?" he said in a voice which once again made him sound younger. "Don't you know that it's against the rules to ask for a player's name?"
"Not your real name you idiot," Roat said moving up to the Twin Blade. He started to poke him, as if to try and taunt him with the fact that he couldn't move. Roat sighed, "We aren't getting anywhere with this," he said and held out the arm with the bracelet on it, "I'll just read this guys mind." For a little while it began to glow, but then it stopped just as it had during lunch. Roat suddenly just stood there for a moment. His mouth opened slightly.
Yamano realized what was going on, so he ran up to Roat and began to shake him, just as he had during lunch. "Roat! Snap out of it!" he shouted as he shook him. Nabuko stood there behind him, not quite sure what to do.
Soon, Roat came back to normal. "What happened?" he asked, "That sound, I heard it again. It was like a buzzing, but higher pitched. It was like, a drop of water falling into a puddle. No, it was stranger than that." He put his hands to his head and began to shake it again. "I think I may have blacked out," he said looking up again, "In the real world, I mean."
Yamano turned to the Twin Blade again. "Well, you might not tell us your username, but I know your real name," he said crossing his arms. "Exactly who, or what are you?" he continued, "Satoshi Arakawa."
The four of them were now sitting down in a circle with their legs crossed. The character that Satoshi was playing seemed to have surrendered, because he wasn't moving at all. He hung his head in shame and just sat there. The effects of the scroll had already worn off so Roat held another one close by, just in case. "Yes, I am indeed Satoshi Arakawa, but here I'm known as Kesoth" he said sighing, "And I'm sorry for trying to PK you."
Nabuko sat glaring at him. There were two types of people that she hated in "The World." Those two were those who were hackers, and those who were PKers. "Why were you trying to PK us in the first place?" she asked him in an untrusting tone of voice.
"I'm sorry, it's just that," he tried to explain, "That's pretty much what I play the game for." The others began to stare at him in disbelief. Nabuko's and Roat's mouths gaped open slightly.
"That's terrible!" Roat said, holding one fist up in the air, "There's so much more to this game then just PKing. Why not try to make some friends?" He was trying to figure out what it was that made him this way.
"Please, let me explain. I have been playing this game for about five years now," Kesoth said, now looking towards them. This was the first time he actually looked at them in the eyes. "It was about a week after I had started playing," he continued explaining, "I logged on and was in Mac Anu. I began to walk around for a little while, but then there was this strange sound. All of the settings around me began to blur. Even the players began to seem strange. Their voices were kind of messed up."
The other three suddenly became very interested in his story and began to move slightly in closer. "Then the sound grew louder," he continued, "It was like a pin being dropped on the ground or something, it was strange. Then everything around me disappeared and there was this red wand that appeared before me. After that, some weird monster appeared and he charged towards me. I braced myself, but when I opened my eyes, it was gone. In my hands I had these." He now held up the two discs which he had as weapons. "I heard some voice calling out to me," he explained, "It was saying something about being a part of me now. My avatar started to change soon after that. My clothes changed color scheme and I got this eyes on me." He now stood up and pointed to where the image of the eye was.
Kesoth put his hand to his head and began to shake it. "Then everything went black," he said, "When I woke up I was in my room. On my hand I had an image of an eye, just like this one." He sighed and looked up at the three again. "I don't know what happened that day," he explained, "But after that, every time I logged onto 'The World,' or even got near a computer, there was this sudden feeling within me. Something was telling me to kill. There had been a Twin Blade, I think his name was Sora, who went around taking the member addresses of people, and if they didn't give it to him, he would PK them. He had gone missing from 'The World,' so I decided to carry out his legacy. For some reason, I don't feel satisfied in this game until I choose a target, track them down, and PK them."
Yamano looked directly at Kesoth now. He opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by a voice that came out of nowhere. "Oh you poor thing," it said, almost as if it were having pity on him, "Don't worry, we'll make it all better." The four of them looked up. The sky was now turning darker than before and things all around them were changing. Large spikes came up from the ground and began to twist in all sorts of directions. The well changed shape, into what looked like a gate. The doors of the gate opened and a girl who was a Fighter stood in the doorway. There was what looked like a shadow rift behind her. It quickly sealed itself shut. "Like my entrance?" the girl asked with one hand on her hip, "Presenting, the amazing hacker, Zoisius!" She was in a yellow, skin-tight, one piece outfit with went down to her knees and had long sleeves. Her hair was long and blue in a braided ponytail and she wore a black headband. On her waist, she had a pair of light green gloves with silver spikes on them, as those were what Fighters used as their weapons. The girl shrugged and jumped up.
When she jumped she seemed to teleport, as one moment she was there and the next she was behind Kesoth. She wrapped her arms over his shoulders and began to rub her face on his hair. He appeared to be taller than she was, but she was floating in midair. "I'm so sorry you dear thing," she said in a sympathetic tone of voice, "Let me make everything all better for you!"
"Who are you?" Roat shouted, standing up quickly. Yamano and Nabuko also stood up after him. They were prepared to fight to save Satoshi, even though he was a Player Killer. Roat and Nabuko wanted to save him because they knew that he was important somehow. Yamano, on the other hand felt a slight bond with him. It was strange, but he felt like he could somehow trust him.
Zoisius looked up, her arms still wrapped around Kesoth. "Well what do you know," she said grinning, "If it isn't the group of little heroes. Talk about a coincidence. Now I can kill two birds with one stone." She looked around at the three of them who were now bracing themselves for battle. "Well, I would love to have a bit of fun with you," she said turning around slightly and holding one hand out, "But the choice isn't really mine. I'll leave a little friend of mine with you." Out of the palm of her hand a green data stream began to flow out and took shape. When the green light around it faded away there was what seemed to be a treasure chest, but it had spider legs on it. There were the green flakes and 0s and 1s flowing from it. This was a Data Bug. "I call it a Jester, it's an improved version of a Mimic," Zoisius said as she moved her hand over to her left side, "Well, hope you have fun! Come along now dear."
Another shadow rift opened up next to her. "Let go of me!" shouted Kesoth, "I don't want to go with you!" He reached for his two discs and lit them on fire. He spun around and hit her with it sending her to the ground.
"Not bad," she said in response, "But not good enough!" She caught herself from the fall and kicked Kesoth's legs, causing him to fall to the ground and drop his discs, which were now stuck in the ground. She grabbed him by the arm and jumped into the shadow rift. "Bye, bye now!"
The shadow rift closed quickly behind them. "No!" shouted Roat, reaching out his open hand.
Yamano put his hand on Roat's shoulder. "We can't stop them now," he said, "But we have to take care of this Data Bug." The three of them got into a fighting position and began to charge at the monster which was charging at them as well. Several times, it hit them, but Nabuko had some Health Drinks handy. They found out why Zoisius had called this creature a Jester. It opened up a few times and a clown head with sharp teeth popped out and bit them. Finally, after a while, a green orb appeared and broke, "Now!"
"Sun!" shouted Nabuko. "Moon!" shouted Yamano. "Mercury!" shouted Roat. They had the hands which held their items out. Yamano's and Nabuko's rings began to glow and so did Roat's bracelet. "Data Drain!" they all shouted together. A beam of light shot forth from each one of their items and merged into one. It hit the Jester head on, which reverted back to a normal Mimic. The three of them rushed at it and easily struck it down.
"We couldn't save him," Nabuko said standing where Kesoth had dropped his discs, "We couldn't stop her from taking him. We're supposed to be guardians and stop evil. A player just got kidnapped and we couldn't do anything to save him." Roat and Yamano walked up to her and Yamano put his hand on her shoulder.
Then, for seemingly no reason whatsoever, Roat's bracelet and the rings began to glow again. "What the…" Roat began to ask, but he was cut off. The two discs began to float upwards and three beams of light shot forward toward it.
For a moment, nobody knew what it was that was going on exactly. The two discs began to merge together and changed shape. They shrunk into the size of something that looked like it could fit in the palm of someone's hand. Then the light faded. There, in midair, was a little fairy-like creature. She had a long night gown on and had blue wings. She had a large smile draped across her face and looked like a young girl. "Fei! Fei!" the little creature shouted out in a high pitched voice, "They have helped! They have helped! They have woken up Fei!" The three of them stood around the little fairy, which was apparently named Fei.
Nabuko had a huge smile at the fact that this creature was so cute. Roat too couldn't help but have his lips curl upwards slightly. Yamano on the other hand cocked an eyebrow and crossed his arms. "What are you?" he asked looking at Fei in a strange tone of voice.
"Fei is Fei!" she shouted flying around in all sorts of swirling patterns. "Fei is very glad to meet you! Fei has been waiting a very long time to see Yamano, Roat, and Nabuko! Fei can't wait to see what they are like as Akira, Taro, and Natsume!"
"How do you know…?" Yamano began to ask but he was cut off. Before he could say anything more, Fei flew upwards and some sort of shiny dust fell down on them. All three of them felt compelled to close their eyes for some reason. The only thing they could here was Fei shouting out her name.
When Akira opened his eyes he was back in his room. "What happened?" he asked looking around, "Was that all a dream?" He continued to look around the room. He was sitting down in his computer chair. Everything seemed to be as it was before he logged on to "The World." He turned forward and almost jumped back at what he saw. It surprised him so much that his chair fell backwards.
There, on the computer screen, was an image of Fei pressing her face up against what seemed like the inside of the monitor. "Fei! Fei!" she shouted and the computer began to glow. The light from the computer faded and Fei flew out of the computer. "Fei! Fei!" she shouted again, "This is Akira? Fei likes Akira better the way he looks now then how he looks as Yamano!"
If this were in any other situation, Akira would have blushed out of embarrassment. But this was just too strange. "Fei! How did you get on my computer!" he shouted looking up at her, "How did you get into my room!"
"Fei can do that," she explained flying around the room, "Fei is a cyber sprite! Fei can do anything with technological things!" She seemed very happy to be in the real world. "Fei likes your world, even if it is small," she said flying up in front of Akira's face, "Fei wonders where the others are!"
"This is my room, not my world!" Akira shouted at Fei, "If you want to see where the others are, why don't you just go through the computer and find them! I have Natsume's e-mail address! Go and find her!" Apparently Fei didn't know that Akira was angry because she simply grinned and flew off into the computer again. "Good riddance," he said standing back up and picking up his chair. She couldn't be seen on the screen, so she must have been flying around somewhere in the internet.
"Onii-chan," Chihiro put her head through the door.
Akira turned his head towards his little sister who was standing there near the doorway. "Oh, hey kid," he said pushing the chair back under the desk, "What's up?" He walked up to her and opened the door all the way.
"Natsume called for you," she said holding the phone out to him.
"Thanks kiddo," he said giving her a little hug, "Now go along and torment Sota for me." She ran downstairs laughing. "Hey Natsume," he said putting the phone up to his ear, but then he remembered what he had told Fei. "Oh shit!" he cursed under his breath, "Natsume, I am so sorry about Fei being there! That is completely my fault."
"Don't worry about it Akira," she said in a very happy tone, "It's like having a little sister. I'm an only child so this will be fun." Akira could here Fei shouting out her name in the background. "I'll take care of her," she said in the same happy voice, "Say bye Fei!" Akira could here Fei in the background again, but this time she was saying goodbye to him. Natsume hung up the phone.
Akira set down the phone by his computer and went to lie down on his bed. He had a lot to think about. What were those hackers up to? Why did they kidnap Kesoth? Who were the other chosen ones? All of these things went through his mind, but he thought mostly about what happened today. "What are they doing?" he muttered and slowly faded to sleep. The next day, Satoshi wasn't in class.
"Let go of me! What do you want!"
"Don't worry little one. Think of this as a sort of reunion. All will be seen in due time."
.hack/Fei's Corner
Fei! Fei! Welcome to the part of the show where Fei takes over! Fei knows a lot about things going on in "The World," so here we go! Today, Fei will be talking about Kesoth's flaming discs. They're called Pyro Wheels, and they're a special type of Twin Blade weapon. Instead of how the normal Twin Blade fights, these can also be used for throwing. The shape that they are in gives it the ability to be thrown with ease. The user can hold the cross in the middle and use it as a handle for when they are fighting normally. That's it for Fei's Corner! Fei hopes to see you again! Bye-bye!
.hack/Next Time
Natsume Ichiya here! We still don't know what those hackers are up to yet. We have another thing to worry about for now though. We need to try and find more of the chosen ones. Taro! What are you doing? Who's that girl? Well, whoever she is, Fei seems to like her too. Well, here's a little scene from the next chapter of .hack/Chosen!
"Thank you, come again," the girl at the counter said and handed them their bags. She seemed to be a couple of years older than they were. Natsume smiled at her and followed Akira out the door.
"So, when you get home, log on right away," Akira said turning his head to Natsume, "Hopefully Taro will already be… Ah!" His hopes that Taro would be on were proved to be wrong as Akira had just tripped over him. "Taro! Why are you sitting in the middle of the sidewalk!"
"Isn't she beautiful?" Taro asked as if he was in a daze, "She's so nice and graceful too. She's perfect!" He was looking around the corner towards the store that Akira and Natsume had just come out of.
"Who? You mean that cashier?" Akira asked picking up the bag which was full of the blank CDs that they bought, "She seems nice, I guess."
"Fei! Fei!" Fei shouted as she popped out from the inside of Natsume's shirt pocket, "Fei likes her too! Fei wonders who she is though." She flew out of Natsume's pocket and landed on Taro's shoulder.
"I'll tell you something," Taro said turning his head towards the others, "I want to spend the rest of my life with that girl. I want to spend it with Kat Nakama."
mega: Wow! That's the longest chapter I ever wrote. Go figure, I was thinking that it would be one of the shorter ones. Oh well, hope you enjoyed Fei's Corner and the Preview. Remember, you can help influence this fic. Give me any ideas that you may have. See you around!