A/N: Hey people. It's Xmas and for all my beloved readers, I give you another chapter to read. Enjoy.

Chapter 2: The Life of a Hero

As I floated through cyberspace toward the delta root town I felt like I was in a sea. The ride only lasted about a few seconds before I found myself standing infront of the Mac Anu chaos gate. I looked at my hands and body and remembered this was how I looked in the game. The tattoo on my left wrist had faded and retracted into a single hexagon shape, and I figured I still had the bacelet's power inside me. I ran to window in town and noticed that my face and smiled a bit as I saw the spiked up platinum blue hair on my head. I reached behind and unsheathed my sword that had gotten me through this game four years ago and I would need it again. I sheathed it on my back and started to walk into the town square. As I reached the recorder, he spoke to me and as I turned to him, he looked like he was in shock that he saw me, and went into his back room. He reemerged hold what seemed to be a small ball of light in one hand, and a plastic card in the other. He held them out and told me to take them from him.

"What are you giving me," I said as I grabbed both of the items and stashed them away.

"That ball of light is the sword you created, which still needs to be named, and that is your Altimit passcard that will allow you into field you desire," he held out his hand and asked for the ball of light back, "What did you want to name your new sword anyway?"

Forgetting that I even made the other sword, I had a name picked out for it since I made it, "I'm calling it the Raikiri."

"Alright," he seemed to be writing something into the small orb and gave it back to me after a minute, "I don't see how you can use it though."

As I equiped my new Raikiri, the ball vanished from sight. I held out my hand as lightning formed around it, and as I gripped my hand, the lightning formmed into a sword the same size as my Tidal Sword and solidified into steel, "Thanks for the sword and card. Save my game too. Name's Enigma."

He quickly punched in a few keys and then turned back to me, "Your game's been saved, come by again Enigma," the recorder shouted as I noticed a couple of players turn their heads toward me as they heard the name and started walking off. I hoped to get through one day without anyone noticing I was back but it seems that was now out of the question. I thought I would leave Mac Anu for a little while and get some practice by going to a couple fields and brush up on my fighting skills, being I hadn't used them in years. I ran to the chaos gate and pondered what field I should go to and then thought of the perfect place, I pulled out the card I was handed and held it up in the air as I called out the field name, "Frozen Silent Swordman," the card glew a bit the faded as I was warped to my homemade field. It was as I left it, a constant blizzard setting which how I prefered the weather to be and thanks to equipment I was using, it felt like it had all those years ago. I usually battled all the monsters here so that I never had to worry about dying while I slept, but I noticed that the field was littered with portals. I grinned as I ran to the first portal and started destroying all monsters that got in my way. I decided to hold back on using my Raikiri and stick to my prefered Tidal Sword. After finishing off all the portals, I sat in the snow and laughed at myself for being so strong that I hadn't recieved a scratch. I walked around the field a little and noticed something that looked vaguely familiar, and as I got closer, I noticed it was my old campsite and I began to reminice about the times I would lay here and sleep. After staring for a couple minutes I returned to Mac Anu only to find that it was nearly abandoned which kind of freaked me out. The shops still looked opened but there were not a lot of players running around, that is until I reached the bridge. There were many players on the oppisite side of the bridge and they all seemed to be waiting for me.

Their 'leader' I guess stepped in front of the rest of them, "Are you the fabled player "Ice Demon Enigma" that defeated Lord Balmung," he asked arrogantly.

"I might be, but who wants to know," I questioned back to him.

"If you are then we all want to challange the player who was able to best Lord Balmung in a fair fight," thee alllooked moreexcited, "We want to see how you could beat him."

"If any of you morons saw how I beat him then you better step get away from the rest," I pulled out my sword and took a step back as wind started to swirl around me and the wind started to wrap around my sword.

"Get him before he can launch an attack," one of the other players in the crowd said causing everyone to start stampeding across the bridge but I held my ground cause I knew what was about to happen to them.

"Don't say I didn't warn any of you, BLIZZARD STORM," I swung my sword so that I nearly lost my balance as I got it around in a circle and throwing the wind at the horde of players. Some ice was thrown into the wind thanks to my sword and after passing by all the players, the storm rose into the air and became a large ball of swirling ice. I pointed my finger at it and acted like I shot it, and at that moment, the ball exploded causing a thick layer of snow to cover Mac Anu, and the players bodies began to fall all around Mac Anu, most of them in the river, "Maybe that was a bit too much."

"You there, stop," I heard a voice above me and I turned to see a black figure staring to desend to my position. As the figure landed, I could tell the person was a female, from what I could tell a blademaster. She looked like a girl version of Balmung and she had black armor all over her body except her head, which had periciing black eyes to her cute, but serious face. She had sleak, ebony feathers petruding from her back and figured then she was that angelic knight class I saw in the expansion set, "I, DarkAngel, on behalf of CCcorp. am putting you under arrest for assualting numerous players in the safety of the root towns."

"Hey you saw me launch my attack, you must have seen I was acting in self defence," her words suddenly hit me, "Did you say your name was DarkAngel?"

"Yes it is, and regardless if it was self defence or not you shouldn't have done such a large attack," she eyed me suspicously which I didn't find surprising, "Who are you anyway, your character model seems familiar."

"Come on Jas, can't you tell one of your old friends when you see him," I laughed at her, but she wasn't laughing back, I shrugged my sword onto my shoulders, "Maybe this will help, LATES," I started to walk away, but felt her grab my shoulder and spin me around, then punched me hard across the face causing me to fall to the floor.

"There's no way that you're him," she scowled at me, and I couldn't blame her scepticism, "He swore of this game years ago, and there is only one way to tell if you're who I think you are," she quickly grabbed my wrist and began inspecting it then she must have found what she was looking for cause she backed away looking like she had seen a ghost.

"Hey, don't look so surprised Jas, it's only me," I shook her out of her hallucination, "Geez, I didn't think you of all people would freeze up like that."

"Angel," a bold voice voice came from the sky and I looked upward to see blue and white figure looking for someone. He turned and saw me staring right back at me, "YOU," he botled from where he was and unsheated his sword. Both our swords met with a deafening clang as he got in front of me, "Enigma," he growled.

"Nice to see you too, Lord Balmung."

Chapter 2 End

A/N: I know it's mostly story progression and filler, but oh well. I haven't been able to write much for the last month so the next chap may take a while. Have faith in me and I'll provide another chap as soon as I can. LATES people.