.hack/Revenge and Twilight rewrite

Chapter 2

Fujio had had a series of all nighters through all his time in researching the history of Magi's problem. The source of the email had been legidemate, but the problem was realizing what the character had been. The email had been vaguely written in description, and like most feilds, many names were already on there. "Well...how exactly do I put this down?" He pulled his cup of coffee to him, drinking it's contents. He had barely noticed how cold the coffee had turned. His series of all nighters had left him with more work than he had started with. Saito was the reason he was doing this, and if someone was in his way...

"Fujio." His body shifted to the shape in the doorframe, it was Balmung. Balmung rarely made all nighters a habit, but maybe he was worried about something.

"Yes, Balmung sir?"

"You should go home."

"I haven't finished my work yet."

"I'll finish it." This was a surprise. Balmung usually never made it a point that he go home. However, it had become strange to see Balmung being so worried about him lately.

"I'll finish it." He simply stated, moving towards the door. He then turned and put his computer on a lock mode. Balmung's form still followed him as he refilled his coffee cup.

"Fujio, I don't know what is so important that you go home at one in the morning anymore. These past few days, you've worked faster than usual. Something must be wrong." His eyes turned to meet his boss' eyes, but then turned towards the barely left office. One thing was for sure, Balmung was really worried about him. "You also look rather sick."

"Silly. I am just fine." He turned towards his office again, feeling a hand against his slightly raised dress shirted body. It felt so good, and he didn't turn away for a few moments. "See?" Everything began to get blurry, but it had not been Balmung's doing either. Adminastrator lackies often never knew when they were sick anymore, it was a simple fact. He had once had the flu and worked the entire time without knowing it. Saito had even had a stomach bug, and came in working without really knowing it. You just got used to getting sick and never knowing it.

"Go home, you don't look or even act well. You're already falling asleep." However, Balmung's words didn't stop him from heading into his office again. The adminastrator sighed slightly, vowing to do what he could when his helper came out of his office.

Mac Anu

Helb sighed slightly, Elk was late. He had promised to be logged on late to talk to her about something. The woman sighed again, her body leaning into the corner of the enclosed area. The chaos gate seemed rather bright, or maybe it was just that it was really late. She took a deep breath, yawning as if it was almost as if the normal thing to do at two in the morning. "Huh?" Her eyes took a deep look around, it didn't seem like anything was there. Most of the time, she had to be watched carefully. Most of her problems had been small, and mostly within the world. Still, she didn't know if Helba was still logged into her terminal conciously. She stood up, hearing more movement. "Hello?"

"Hello." It was a long arm, long fire designs wove in circles around his clothes. The hair seemed to match the fire with ice blue wind, while making a drastic change in moods. He was smiling, almost as if something was on his mind.

"Oh, sorry. Thought you were someone else." DOS wasn't actually evil anymore, but she didn't know if it was right to trust long arms. She guessed it was a phobia that would eventually get over her.

"Would it be all right if I stayed with you awhile? I happen to be waiting for a friend here."

"I don't know, it's probably not all right if you're waiting for a girl." She moved from her position, feeling the long arm's vice grip against her arm. "Please let me go."

"I don't know if you're stupid, or simply ignoring your guts. Helb, I was waiting for you." The voice struck at her, and she tried to tug away the grip on her wrist. It was then she realized she had fallen for a trap, one that would be deadly in her own way. The grip hurt, and it was just getting worse. "I was also waiting for innocent Elk." She turned towards the Chaos gate, seeing the person that shouldn't be there when it came down to this.

"Helb! Are you all right?" Her eyes were wide, she knew it was hard to do anything. She had to do something, this was all her fault.

"Run Elk! The long arm's Morganna!" However, her yells and warnings were either never followed or late. The world was turning black around her, and she didn't care. She never did.

CC corporation headquarters

Saito stared at the screen of emails in front of her, players had been locked out of Mac Anu for about half an hour. There had been no planning of events, no real reason for Mac Anu to be locked. Even worse, a data surge above the game perameters had occured subtly without any player noticing. "What's going on? This can't be right..." She stood, going to knock at Fujio's door before going to Kamui's.

"Balmung sir! I won't be going home!" She knew Balmung and Kamui had been sent up to the top brass up five floors an hour ago, so she opened the office door. The office was cluttered slightly at the delta server data files in the cabinet. Theta was also a little messed up as well. "I told you-" The face that turned to her was full of loss of sleep. "Saito! I'm sorry!" He stood up slightly, falling back in his chair again. She knew it, he was working when he had a high fever and didn't know it. She probably didn't know she had a cold, but it was just the same.

"I was wondering if you wanted to check the area that had been affected, you know." He nodded slightly to her, which made her take a spare chair to his computer.

"Aren't you going to go to your own?"

"No, we should be together, just in case something happens." She smiled slightly, a blush taking on her place subconciously. He nodded back, his reaction the same as hers. They then prepared to do their own investigating.

CC corporation top executive office

Shibiyama listened to the statements with more than enough interest, it was Balmung she was worried for. "The Delta server started to recieve the subtle reaction at twelve-thirty am at this headquarters. Several reports were sent from that time to this time, requesting a reason. The connections were all connected well, and no other adminastrator was doing any actions. This shouldn't have happened, we have closed down the server until further notice. All players were redirected to the other four servers according to their player level, and have been told to report if any other servers act this way." The briefing had been going on for about an hour already, not that she cared. All nighters were not that much of a problem anymore.

"What are we adminastrators supposed to do then? The knights can be told to not log in or take action if needed."

"Shibiyama, we are requesting the knights do take action. As for Balmung, he will join forces for the time being. All adminastrators who have been working here for less than six months will take leave for home for the next few hours. Ones who have been working for six to one year will take action to watch the back of the peer adminastrators. All others will investigate with the Cobalt knight brigade, taking a few areas in consideration at a time. Meeting adjourned." Shuffle was heard, and Shibiyama stared at Balmung for a moment.

"Kamui, it isn't good to stare at someone."

"Do you know something about this?"

"I may, I may not. I'll need to see if I do." He stood, walking out with the few remaining that began to leave. She knew that he knew something, she didn't know what just yet.

Omega: Light Filled Darkness

Elk's body reacted, his eyes looking around slightly. The area was just like the safe have that had been used before Kite had saved the coma victims. However, the same vines that Morganna had used lined around distant walls, and Elk knew they had been trapped by Morganna. His next reaction was to find Helb. Just as he was moving to find her, his foot struck a body. "Helb!" He picked the body half from the floor, and her eyes were halfway open.

"Elk, don't yell so loud. I can hear you." Her body shifted, but didn't leave his arms at all. "I know we've been trapped. That's why I was yelling for you to run."

"Well, how do we get out?"

"I wouldn't know, it wouldn't be any real abduction without the mystery." Elk nodded slightly, hugging the elder wavemaster tightly to him. He wouldn't let her get hurt, not this time. There was no sign of keywords either. They had to wing it for now.

Mac Anu

Reki and Magi had been looking around for about half an hour. Their minds had given up, nothing looked wrong with Mac Anu, maybe it was just an occurance of inbalance. "Reki, maybe we should just leave this to the other adminastrators."

"I guess, but we should check one more area before going off." She followed him to the chaos gate, and she then saw something even she hadn't expected. Data was still being subtly done with way above game perameter waves.

"Something really is going on here, the question is...what?" Her eyes looked at his, when footsteps were heard. Had the meeting already adjourned? It probably had, but planning was probably what was going on.

"You two system adminastrators?" The same long arm looked at the two, and Magi's look changed to fear. This left him to do the work, he had finally found him. The one that was stalking Magi.

"Yes, who are you?"

"Sudden Urge, I happen to be unable to leave here."

"Then log out."

"I can't do that either, you see...I happen to be..." The long arm smiled sickly at the two, causing his hands to drop the spear and grasp the two lackies' wrists. "the game."