Fist of all, I want to thanks all my reviewers. They aren't a lot I know, but they are there, that's what it counts hehe.

By the way, if anyone wants to read an awesome fanfic of .hack, read Log On, written by Magical Girl Pretty Sammy-Chan.

Now with the Chapter 2!

Chapter 2: Cathie

They were all looking at the cat-eared girl.

"So what you saying, Mimiru, is that girl have an un-normal character design?" Xao said.

"Exactly," Mimiru replied. "Of course it's possible to have animal features in the game, but I'm positively sure that blue cat ears aren't part of them"

"And who are you by the way?" Xao asked to the guy who was awkwardly trying to protect the girl from the goblins.

"My name is Zack and I'm a level one BladeMaster," he answered.

He was telling the truth, but it wasn't really what his character design was saying. The character was build like a total geek. Little frame, big glasses and a computer addict face. Really not the kind of design a normal player would like to do, even for a WaveMaster. But well, if this geek likes being a geek...

"Thanks for helping me defeating those monsters," he continued. "I saw that girl and rushed to protect her"

But nobody listened to what he was saying because the girl in question had opened her eyes and breathed weakly.

"So…hot…here," she managed to say.

"Hot?" Kain said in a mocking tone. "I know we're in a desert type area, but it's only a game. We don't feel hot and cold. The same way we aren't hurt when we're attacked. If it was the case, nobody would play"

"So hot…thirsty…" she said in a really low voice. She was about fainting again.

"Ok then, take this," Xao said, un-bottling one of his five starting healing potion.

The girl accepted the potion with a smile of gratitude. She drinks it and seems to regain some colors. The potion gave her some energy back, but not the same way tiredness goes away by a health point replenish, but more like someone who had a great thirst that is finally filled up. It was odd since the food consumed in TheWorld doesn't have any effects in the real world. This girl was definitely weird.

"Thanks a lot mister…?" she said, asking Xao for his name.

"Xao," he said smiling. "And yours, pretty lady?"

"My name?" Surprisingly, even for her, her name hasn't come naturally. She had to think about it a few seconds. "Lilu," she finally replied.

"So Lilu, can you tell us what happened? We found you unconscious, surrounded by an army of monsters," Kratos asked, obviously curious about the situation.

"I… I don't really remember to tell you the truth. I don't remember anything before I awaked some minutes ago. Don't even know where I am right now, so imagine remembering how I got there…"

"Well, we're in Bursting-Forbidden-Sea of Sand right now," Kratos informed her.

"Bursting-Forbidden-Sea of Sand… Oh yeah the Chaos Gate. Those are the keywords. Don't remember how I get here, but at least I'm remembering the principal transportation device." She gets up, happier than before: "I guess my memories will come back little by little then"

"Mind to come with us then?" Xao offered, obviously wanting to be with the girl all the time he could.

"Oh yeah! Come with us, come with us," Presea said, dancing on place.

"Ok, ok, I will come with you," she said, half laughing. "I'll give you my member address so you'll be able to invite me.

"Yeah"", a new member address!" Presea said over joyfully as always.

"You seem to remember the game pretty well," Kratos noticed. "It's true that your memory coming back"

"Yeah, soon, I'll be able to ask you you're real life address and phone and preciously write them on a paper," Xao said, winking at Lilu.

"Ye…yeah" She said a bit perturbed.

But it wasn't Xao's flirt that was perturbing her that way. It was more the words like "game" and "real life". For her, the place they was right, the towns and the Chaos Gate was her living place. She wasn't remembering anything like another world. Well, she wasn't remembering a lot, it was true. Maybe that could be information she hasn't retrieved yet. But still… She really wasn't feeling like there was another world.

"Miss Lilu?"

She gets out of her thoughts and see Presea, looking at her.

"Y…yes?"

"You haven't gave us your member address"

"Oh its true, sorry. I had the head in the clouds for a moment."

She gave her member address to everyone in the group, and received everyone's member address, with the exception of Kain of course. When she looked at Tsukassa, she can't help but glare at him for some seconds. She was feeling there was something different around this guy, something not normal. He looked at her, his eyes saying he was feeling the same thing toward her. It was an intense and weird moment, until they both decided to break the eyes contact.

"So gang, are we going to move to the next portal or what?" Mimiru asked, starting to get bored, "I thought you were here to level up."

"Portals?" Lilu asked, "Aren't monster will come out of them?"

Mimiru sighs. "It's pretty much the idea you see. Fighting monsters in order to gain experience and level up"

"B…but isn't its dangerous? If we got beat, aren't we dying?"

"Yeah, and you going back to your last save point with your saved data," Mimiru explained. "You know, it's the base of the game hehe. You don't remember the game that good finally lol"

"That word, "game", again. Why can't I persuade myself this is only a game, like everyone else seem to think..."

Swooooooooosssshhhhhhhhh!

The sound of a portal opening near her broke he flow of thoughts. Redlighter, bored of waiting, have run by himself to a portal and was now fighting the monsters in it.

"Triple Doom," he yelled, giving his opponent, a goblin, three quick spear strikes.

"Don't steal all the fun brother!" Presea yelled, running to fight, spinning her gigantic axe over her head.

Soon, everyone was in the fight, beating up goblins.

It have been a similar story for the next ten portals they done. Everything was going smoothly, except when a communication problem caused Kratos to open a portal at the same time Redlighter was opening another. Like if it's wasn't enough, a wandering monster run into them. Strong of his pride, Redlighter told Mimiru not to help, that everything was in control. More of one time they passed near death during this fight, but with Tsukassa and Lilu healing, combined with healing potion use, they managed to emerge victorious of this fight, panting.

"At least, no WaveMaster have been hit during all the fight. Guess you've done a good job as fighters," Mimiru said, grinning. "But, if you want my opinion, you should…"

She stopped her sentence. Tsukassa and Lilu had both quickly turned their head to the dungeon. Then, Tsukassa starts running to the dungeon entrance, not really caring about the portals he opened during his run.

"Quick Mimiru, there his something bad happening in the dungeon," he yelled

It was useless to do it since she was already following him, destroying the monsters that were on her way by a single blow of her over-sized sword. The seven other people (Kratos, Kain, Presea, Redlighther. Xao, Lilu and Zack) runs after them, Lilu in front.

"What's happening in there? Tsukassa sensed the same thing as me it's obvious. But why only him and me? Don't know why, but I've got a bad feeling about this."

They lost sigh of Mimiru and Tsukassa when they entered in the dungeon.

"Hurry, we'll lose them," Kratos yelled at the others, even more at Zack that was now at a great distance from them, not able to keep up.

"Don't worry with that," Xao replied, "we'll only have to follow the destruction caused by Mimiru to find them."

Even if it was a stupid, it was true. All the room they pass in was totally cleared. Listened to the battle sound, they manage to catch up with Mimiru at the end of the first floor.

"Its…closer," Lilu murmured.

Tsukassa gave a small nod at her remark. "We should keep going"

It was a three-floor dungeon. But with Mimiru slaying every enemies, they was in the room before the Goth Statue in five minutes.

"We're next to it, " Tsukassa, supported by a nod of Lilu

"Let's burst in then!" Mimuru said, entering in the room, her blade ready for the fight.

As soon as they all entered the room, except Zack who seem to never made it to the dungeon, the door transformed in a brick wall, like the walls of room. In front of them there was two guys and two girls. The two guys were turning their back to them. One had an athletic silhouette. He was wearing white pants and was wearing a pale jacket over his shirt. His hairs were of a very light lavender color. He was holding a double sword in his left hand. The guy was of the same built than Kain's character. He was wearing blue pants and a light yellow jacket. Even from the back, his glasses were visible. He was holding a white staff, from which a green of light was flowing to the girl in front of him. The girl was a WaveMaster all dressed in white with sky blue patterns. The girl seems to be imprisoned in the light since she wasn't moving at all. The other girl was unconscious on the ground. She was really alike Mimiru, but with pink hair.

"This staff… isn't normal," Lilu said in a low voice, like if she was thinking aloud.

"Exactly, this staff doesn't belong to TheWorld," Tsukassa adds.

"Mistra, Blackrose!" Mimiru said as she recognizes the girls.

At her words, the double sword guy turns around. "We've got company"

"That's ok," the other guy said, "I've finished with her"

The green ray of light disappears and Mistral falls on the ground, visibly unconscious.

"I see. It's Mimiru and Tsukassa. We won't have to hunt them. It will be a great day," the staff holder said.

He put his staff in the air and a big dragon appears. The dragon was surrounded by a green aura. Lilu instantly felt that the dragon wasn't normal.

"Backout," Mimiru yelled while running to the dragon with Tsukassa, "It's not something you can beat."

Unfortunately, the wall was always there. Kratos, Xao and Redlighther do all what they can, but it won't budge. The dragon turned his head to them, since Mimiru was now dealing with the double-sword guy. The dragon unleashes a breath of green fire to them. At this moment, just before the fire hit them, a black hole appears in the wall. A possible threat being better than a sure threat, Kratos, Xao, Kain, Lilu, Redlighther and Presea jumped in together. Then, everything became black.

"Wake up!" said a voice, "Wake up!" There was a little pause. "Hey wake up already! I won't stay here all the day, looking at unanimated bodies," in a playful voice.

Lilu open her eyes, slowly getting in a sitting position. "Second time I awake for unconsciousness in the same day…" She looked around the room. It was completely dark. Even under her was a bottomless dark, but she was sitting on something rigid, that was sure. All her companions slowly emerge from their sleep and do the same thing as her. A soft light was illuminating a part of the room, coming from above. Rising her head, she saw the girl whom the voice was coming from. She was dressed in a pure white dress. She had deep blue eyes and emerald green hair. Like her, the girl had cat-ears, but white, not blue. But it was her only animalistic features. She had a tail, and fur was covering her hands to her wrist and from her feet to halfway to her knee. She was levitating over them.

"Who…who are you?" Xao asked.

"My name is Cathie. I'm here to ask you something. Aura has been beaten. Kite has disappeared. And there is evil forces that rise again. TheWorld is in danger. You need to save it."

"What? I don't really understand," Kratos started, "What do you mean by…" but he wasn't able to finish his sentence.

Like everyone, he felt a great stream of energy flowing throw him. Everyone felt they have changed in some ways, but some was more evident than others. Kratos now had transparent colored wings and Xao's weapon had changed, looking more powerful. But the big change was on his wrist, there was now a golden bracelet.

"What just happened…?" he asked.

"I'll tell you," Cathie answered.

End of the chapter. Have to make you wanting to read the 3rd hehe.

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Chapter 3: The strange room coming soon don't worry.