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Chapter 3: The strange room

"So, clearly, what just happened?" Xao asked a second time.

"I will try to explain it as clear as I can but I can't promise anything since I don't know all the details myself," Cathie answered, sitting on the ground. "There is a threat against TheWorld. The two players you saw in the room are part of it. I don't know their goal, no more than I know how they plan to achieve it. What I know is, whatever they are after, it can't be good. I don't know if it's their fault or the fault of someone other in their group, but Aura have been beaten so she can't protect TheWorld anymore."

"Aura? Who is she?" Kratos asked.

"The Goodness of TheWorld, the protector of his players. I never met her. To tell the truth, I awaked only few days ago, knowing I had to find players to help me to prevent TheWorld to be destroyed, with his players. This is where you come in. I need you to find Kite, since he disappeared one week ago."

When she pronounced the name of Kite, they all saw a picture of a turquoise-haired TwinBlade dressed in red.

"He his the one who took care about the last incident like that in TheWorld," she continued, "so maybe he'll be able to help you. The other thing you can do is to find what really happened to Aura, and retrieve her as soon as possible."

She made a pause, to let everyone assimilate their new duty and role. Every one was astounded by what they just heard.

"About what happened a few moments ago, "she said after several minutes, breaking the silence, "You received powers to help you in those tasks. I checked in you hearts to see which kind of power would suit you the best. But now, there are in a latent state. You'll masterize them with time and practice. But, the more important power is the one contained in Xao's new bracelet. It contains the power of Data Drain which allows you to rewrite data of nearly everything in the game. You can, and you should, use it to defeat the Data Bugs, like the creature you fought some minutes ago."

"A bug? I think he was looking more like a dragon than a bug" Redlighther adds, causing everyone to sigh.

Nobody found something to reply to that and, anyway, it wasn't necessary, so Cathie so continued with her explanation, choosing to ignore the comment.

"Data Bugs look like normal monsters, instead they are surrounded by a green aura-like thing. You need to Data Drain them in order to kill them because they are invincible. Oppositely to Kite's bracelet, Xao's one can be took off and given to another member of your party, except the fact that, right now, only Xao can use it to Data Drain. Maybe some of you will acquire the power later, we never know. But always remember, the bracelet can bring either salvation or destruction, it all depends of the use the user make of it," she paused a moment, thinking, "Well, I think it's all. Do you have any questions?"

"Yes, only one. Why us?" Xao immediately asked.

"Because you are the ones I managed to save from the dragon. I was intending of asking Mimiru and Tsukassa since they already faced similar things, but fate seems to have decided otherwise."

"How could we contact you?" Lilu asked, timidly.

"Oh, thank you, I nearly forgot about that. I will give you my member address. Well, it's not REALLY a member address like yourw, since I belong to the system."

"Belongs to the system?" Kain asked, his curiosity made him talk, "You mean you're not a player"

"Exactly, I'm not a player at all, but I'm not an NPC either. Well, this is details that you don't need to bother with hehe. My "member address" is 00000000 so use it to contact me. Of course, you can't invite me in a party hehe. Well, good luck all."

And with that, the black room disappeared.

The next thing they know, they were back in MacAnu, just in front of the Chaos Gate. Everyone was feeling weird, not knowing what to think of what happened. Presea looked at the big MacAnu's clock. There was clock like that in every root town of the game. They have been implemented in a previous update to help players keeping track of time because, it's a fact everyone knows, time pass quickly when you play an online game and players often forget to keep track of it. That's why in front of each Chaos Gate of each town, there was now a gigantic clock designed to show the player's system time and date. Of course, it means that everyone sees a different hour on the clock.

"Its late guys, I have school tomorrow," she announces, "See you again tomorrow for other adventures!" she said happily. "Don't level too much without me or I'll be very angry," she adds with a false warning face before smiling and waving to the others. "Come on brother."

"Huh? But I don't have school tomorrow," Redlighther replied, "In fact, I never have school"

"Yeah, but you need to sleep anyway," his sister said, pulling him to the Chaos Gate.

"Ok, ok, I coming, goodbye all"

On that they log out.

"Think I'll do the same thing, nothing much else to do tonight. I have school tomorrow to but it's not like I really care. I suggest you all to think of what we saw tonight." On that, Kain logged out.

"Well, if everyone going, I'll too. I have an essay to write for tomorrow and I haven't started it. Better going. Goodbye Xao, goodnight Lilu." He disappeared like the three other before him.

"So I think we could call it a day. Would really like to stay with you but school's homeworks are calling me too. Goodnight beauty." With that he kissed her on the forehead and log out.

Taking of his game headgear, Joris goes to TheBoard of TheWorld. What happened tonight was bringing lot of question and Joris was the kind of person that liked answers. TheBoard was the ideal place to seek for them.

Subject: Nekogirl and Kite

Poster: Xao

Text: We encountered a girl with cat features. Who is she? She's askig us to find a guy named Kite, someone know who it is?

He didn't know why, but he felt it wouldn't be a good thing to talk about Aura. "Anyways," he thought, "if they don't know about these two, they won't know about Aura either"

Lilu was still standing in front of the Chaos Gate where her newly friends just disappeared. They have talked about "school", a word that wasn't remembering her anything. And as for "logging out", she had no clue how to do it. While she was wondering what to do, she heard Cathie's voice in her head.

"Come in Quiet-Corrupted-New Truth"

Having nothing better to do, she walked to MacAnu's Chaos Gate and told the keywords to the gate.

She headed right to the dungeon like her instinct was telling her. In it, she felt attracted to one room in particular. Unfortunately, it was deep in the dungeon, near the end.

"Don't worry," Cathie's voice was back in her head, "Since you're the room new master, the monsters here won't attack you."

She didn't really understood was she meant by "room master" but she decided to go through the dungeon. She reached the room without any harm because, surprisingly, all the monster portals remained closed when she pass near them. The room she felt attracted by was like all the others in the dungeon, except the feeling. After some time, she noticed that the feeling wasn't coming from the room, but from a brick in the wall. Touching it, she felt sucked by it and closed her eyes.

When she opens them, she was in a whole new place. It was like a room, but in open air. Well, more like a plain with bedroom's furnishing in it. There was a bed and a desk with a computer on it. The sky was clear and the grass was of an healthy green. Cathie was sitting on the bed.

Looking at her, she said: "Aura had slept in this bed for a long time. But now she's gone, I think you could use it."

"Where are we?" Lilu asked, not really understanding what was happening.

"In your private room, from today. Since you can't log out like the others, you need a place to live. Since now, you can teleport here from anywhere in TheWorld. If you want to bring other people in it, they will have to pass by the dungeon first, like you've done. The computer is connected to Internet, so you can check TheBoard, even if you can't log out. Goodnight." On that, she disappeared.

"Guess I could use a little sleep then. I'm really tired" Lilu falls asleep on the bed.

Sorry, this chapter was a lot of explanation, but we had to pass by it sorry. Next chapter will be lighter on this side I promise.

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Chapter 4: The weird email coming soon