Chapter 4: Planeptune

The next morning…

My eyes slowly opened up, still feeling a little groggy from yesterday and that same dream. I sighed in relief as I then tried to get up like I did a million times before realizing that Venus was still sleeping right next to me, trying to hold me down since her arms were wrapped around me.

I just giggled as I gently ruffled my sister's hair. "Hey, Venus. It's time to get up." I softly said, giving the sleeping girl a smile before gently shaking her awake.

Venus slowly began to open her eyes, still wrapping her around me. "Sis…?" She groggily said before she started to yawn.

I giggled again while looking at her. 'She looks really cute…' I thought before shaking those thoughts off. "Morning Venus." I said, giving her a smile before ruffling her hair again. She, however, just gave me a sleepy look as she let me ruffle her hair. "Are you excited for today?"

"Today…?" Venus asked, blinking a few times with confusion before looking like she was able to recall what happened yesterday. She then nodded excitedly before letting me go.

"Venus! Wai—!" I was about to say before she immediately ran out of my room at seemingly normal speed. I sighed before standing up from my bed. "At least let me say something else first… I just wanted to apologize about yesterday…"

I then changed out of my pajamas, dropping them on the floor, before changing into my usual attire. Stepping out of my room, I headed to the bathroom to wash my face before noticing that it was locked and that Filyn was standing outside, already changed into her normal clothes and had her usual hairstyle.

"Is Venus inside there?" I asked as I pointed at the bathroom door. Filyn gave me a nod. "What is she even doing in there?"

"Actually, she came into the bathroom while I was still in there." Filyn explained to me, while crossing her arms. "She then asked me to go outside so that she could change into the clothes I bought yesterday." She quietly said before immediately walking off to the living room. "Either way, I'm going to let you figure this out… Okay?"

"Okay…" I muttered before knocking on the door. I didn't hear a response so we waited a little bit for an answer from her. What I did hear was a little shuffling behind the door, probably from struggling to put her clothes on or something like that.

"Sorry Filyn. I need a moment, please?" I heard Venus replied, probably thinking it was Filyn who was knocking on the door. "I'm having a little trouble and…"

"Um… this is your sister, Sapphire." I quickly answered back, confirming my identity for her. I heard a lot more shuffling before I saw Venus peering out the door.

"Oh! Sorry, sis." Venus apologized to me before opening the door for me. "Please come in."

When I stepped into the bathroom, The first thing I noticed was that the shopping bags were placed near the bathtub and next to the blue hamper we put there so that we don't have to walk to the laundry room to put our dirty clothes in. I then noticed that she had already changed into her outfit. And observing her a little closely, Venus wore a black sleeveless, collared, undershirt with a red short tie. Her undershirt, from what I've seen from yesterday, had a zipper on the back and has a dip low at her back. And over her undershirt, she wore a short blue mantle with yellow lining. Red ribbons with triangular steel tips were hung from the collar over the shoulder, pinned to her cloak with straps outside of her arms. She also wore a black belt with a golden buckle and silver accents over a pleated, blue mini-skirt with a yellow hem. And she also wore short white fingerless gloves, blue thigh-high socks, and blue and black heeled boots that bear a small golden zipper in the front. However, her hair that was tied with small black ribbons were lopsided on both sides of her head and might have been the problem that is causing her to be in distress.

"Ummm…" Venus spoke up, breaking me out of my observation of her. She then gave me a weak yet nervous smile. "… A little help. Please, sis?" She asked me.

"Ah! Yeah, sure!" I quickly respond before walking up to her. "Um… could you turn around to face the mirror?" I asked, which she nodded before turning around. "So… what kind of hairstyle do you want?"

"Um… I don't know." Venus replied as she just lightly shrugged. "Maybe you can style something that I would like?"

"O-Oh… Okay… Let's see what I can do." I said as I quickly untied both of her ribbons. "Don't move, okay?" I then moved my hands to her left side of her hair and tried to tie it up. "Um… by the way… I'm sorry about yesterday…" I awkwardly chuckled. Sometimes I follow the lines of 'make mistakes yesterday, apologize for it today.' It's not the best, but it can be better. Then I shook those thoughts away before speaking very solemnly. "Guess I overacted a little… didn't I…"

"No, it's okay, sis." Venus said sincerely to me, trying hard not to move. "I… understand."

Then there was an awkward silence as I finished tying the small bit of the left side before moving to her right side. Noticing the silence, I forced myself to speak up again. "By the way, I got this hairstyle from someone I met a few years back… she was very cool too…" I told her as I finished up with the right side. "And now, you look just as cool as her!" I looked down very nervously. "Even though it's not exactly like it…"

Now, Venus's hair was styled in a twin tailed side-updo. My sister just checked her hair that I just tied with the ribbons with great interest. Then she turned towards me and smiled. "Thanks, sis!"

"You're welcome…" I said before I immediately turned the sink on, splashing my face with water, turning the water off, before wiping my hands. Then I noticed that the white dress that I gave her was on the ground. Remembering that it was musty, so I unconsciously grabbed it and tossed it in the hamper nearby. "Okay… and about that thing I said from earlier…" I turned to Venus with a small smile on my face. "So, let me make a promise… I promise to not get mad at you, okay?"

"Okay, sis." Venus said as she then smiled at me.

"Then let's head off to breakfast, okay? Don't want to keep Filyn waiting." I said as Venus nodded again before we both walked into the dining table where Filyn just placed the last plate of food on the table. All of them were just cereal with a side of toast and a carton of milk, which I'm pretty sure was almost out, in the center of the table.

"You're really impatient." I commented as I looked at the bowl of cereal before sitting myself down. "You should have just waited for us so I made something for you both."

"Yeah but, I just want to make something quick." Filyn said as she sat herself on a chair opposite of me before turning to Venus. "You know Venus, you should have just waited for me to come out instead of forcing me out." She just giggled as she poured the milk in her cereal. "We're not in a rush, you know."

"Sorry Filyn." Venus said, rubbing her head before sitting down on a chair and fixing her breakfast. "I just got… really excited."

"Nah, it's okay. I was about to come out either way." Filyn said before passing the milk to Venus, who then poured it into her cereal. "So Sapphire, where do we go first?"

"I don't know… maybe the candy store first?" I responded as I then shrugged before Venus passed the carton to me. "Thanks, Venus." I then emptied out the carton into mines before placing it back into the middle. "What?" I said as I saw Filyn just stared at me.

"Are you sure the first place you want Venus to visit is the candy store?" Filyn asked as she scooped up a huge mound of cereal before eating it. In contrast, I only ate little by little of each. Then, she abruptly said, "Because I want to go to the arcade!"

I groaned as I felt like I just stepped into another argument. This always happens when me and Filyn disagree on something. "Let's not go there." I said, violently shaking my head as I stopped eating for a little bit. "It's too noisy and there's going to be a lot of people there."

"But it's going to be fun!" Filyn exclaimed, trying to convince me into going. "Plus, there's plenty of 2D games there so it won't be boring at all!"

"But the candy store… there are so many sweets there…" I muttered before eating my toast and my cereal. "It tastes so good too…" My voice trailed off before I picked it up again. "And I'm sure Venus would like it too."

"You know what. Let's have Venus decide this." Filyn said as she turned her head towards Venus, who was just listening while eating her food. "Where do you want to go? The arcade or the candy store?"

"Filyn! We shouldn't pressure her so much!" I exclaimed worryingly as I looked at my sister who was confused on what to do before looking back to Filyn. "I don't think she knows what to pick!"

"I see…"Filyn looked like she was in thought for a moment. "Then how about we decide it by a single game of rock, paper, scissors?" She said as she stood up from her chair. "The loser has to go along with the winner's pick first!"

"O-Okay…" I said as I also stood up from the chair, knowing I might lose this one. We both got one of our hands ready, shaping them into a fist, then shaking them to a certain rhythm.

"Rock! Paper! Scissors! Shoot!"

As we 'threw' our hands, I shaped my hand to form paper while Filyn formed hand into scissors. I look at both our hands then look at Filyn, who was smiling with glee. "O-Oh…" I said as I gave her a very neutral yet somber look.

"Yay! I won!" Filyn said as she made a victory sign with her fingers. Venus, who was watching with interest, gave a small cheer. "Now it's decided! We're going to the arcade!" She then noticed my somber look. "I mean if you don't want to then…"

I sighed before smiling in acceptance of defeat. "No, it's okay, but…" I then pointed at our food, which had become a little too soggy. "I think we should eat up first."

"Oh, right!" Venus said before then we all then started to eat our food again. When we're all finally finished, I was about to grab the dishes before Filyn then walked towards me and grabbed my hand. Then I peered into her face, seeing her only eye glow before knowing who this was.

"Hey, let me do this." Filyn said, sounding rather mature instead of her normal speech pattern as she then leaned close to my face. "Let's just enjoy what comes up today, not overworking ourselves, okay?" She then gave me a teasing smile.

I grumbled as I tried to look away but Filyn suddenly grabbed my cheeks and forced me to look her in her only eye. And this was the other thing that I knew about this Filyn. "I hate it when your personality swaps so randomly…" I then saw her keep staring at me with her single glowing eye, making me feel light-headed. "Alright! Fine! You win!"

Filyn just giggled as she then let go of me and leaned away before carrying away all the dishes and then hearing the water turned on. And after calming down, I looked towards Venus, who just looked really confused about what was going on. So I just said, "P-Please… just forget what you just saw…" To which she just nodded and sat there for a little bit.

After the water turned off, Filyn came back with the same glowing eye. "So… how are we going to get down?" She asked as she looked me in the eye. I didn't say anything so she crossed her arms and narrowed her only eye. "Well? How are we going to get down?"

"Um… let me see here…" I then looked towards Venus. I knew it was only a matter of time when I had to show her 'that' so I decided to just get over with showing her. "I was actually going to just fly down there with Venus…" I looked at Venus who just looked at me with confusion yet in great interest.

"I see… Figure you have to show her that anyway…" Filyn said, looking down while scratching her chin in thought. "I'll just have to use the stairs again…" She then walked off before turning to me. "Oh and please don't drop her… like how you accidentally dropped me that one time… okay?" After that, she immediately walked to the front door and heard the door shut.

I just stared at the front door, letting time pass up by. 'That was very unnerving…' I thought to myself, letting my thoughts run wild. 'Her other self is strangely cold and really… forceful… about a certain thing today…' I shake that thought away before immediately going back to it. 'And they both shared the same memories… So, why…? Does she…?"

"Sis?" Venus spoke up, sort of snapping me out of my thoughts. I then turned my attention towards her and she looked at me with curiosity. "What did you mean by 'flying?'"

"Huh…? Oh!" I then awkwardly, but rather quickly, stood up from my chair. "I guess I have to show you what I mean. But first…" I then slowly walked away from the dining table. "Could you wait here? I'm just going to grab something" Venus then nodded before I quickly rushed to my office, grabbed my diary and my phone, put them inside my jacket pockets, and walked back. "Okay then, please follow me."

Venus nodded again as she then stood up from her chair and then I led her to the balcony. She looked over it, probably feeling a little nervous. "Sis. We're so high up…"

"Yeah… I sort of said that when I first saw it…" I said as I scratched the back of my head. Then, I tapped her shoulder, making her turn to my attention before taking a huge breath. "Please… pay attention to me…" I then closed my eyes and then felt my Shares flow through me before opening my eyes. "Access!"

Then a bright light envelopes me before dissipating a few seconds later. And there I stood, a short, petite young lady with really long dark blue hair. My processor consists white tight one piece with a small touch of blue lining with a white and grey shoulder armor on my left shoulder. Unattached sleeves that are half white and half blue with gray gauntlet. And with a matching color is knee length low heeled boots.

'Wait…' I thought as I looked at the screen. '…Why did I describe myself in a very dramatic way…?' I then shook that thought off before looking back at the screen. 'Oh and by the way, reader, the reason why I transformed is because I hate stairs! Not because of… You know what? Forget what I just said and continue reading!'

Venus was very surprised at my HDD form, in contrast to her nervousness from earlier. Then she walked towards me. "Sis…? Is that you…?" She asked me with amazement.

I then turned my head towards her and grinned as I crossed my arms. "Of course I am! Who else should I be?" I said as I kept tapping my foot over and over. "Is it because I'm short like you or something?"

"No! That's not it!" Venus said rather panicky while waving her hands side to side. "You just look really amazing!"

"Really…?" I then looked off to the side with a light blush on my face. "I-I mean… of course I am!" I then shake the blush away before looking back at my sister. Now I'm feeling really impatient just standing on the balcony. "Venus? Could you turn around and put your hands up for me?"

"Um… Okay…?" Venus turned around and put her hands up. Then, I activate my wing processor which is diamond shaped with the outside being white and the middle part being blue, fly upwards until I'm at least able to grab her hands before grabbing them, and lifting her up to the sky. "W-What…? S-Sis!?" She looked around nervously, moving around as seeing that she's unable to find her footing since we were in the sky. "W-What are you…!?"

"Stop moving around too much, okay?" I groaned as I tried to keep a hold of her. "I can barely hold on to you!" When I finally got a good grip of her, I flew towards my destination which is the place I always go to whenever I'm transformed.

"O-Oh… Okay…" Venus said as she stopped moving for a little bit as she slowly calmed down. After a few minutes of flying, she slowly looked up to me with rather cute eyes. "Um… Sis…?"

"Yeah…? What is it…?" I asked as I felt the wind blowing against my face. She had this really curious look. "Are you enjoying your flight?"

"Yeah… It's just that…" Venus's voice trailed off as she looked up at me with grinning admiration. "You just look really cool!"

I chuckled to myself when I heard that. "You know… you're just inflating my ego." I told her while smiling back before looking down. Down below was a nation full of technology. Even when I couldn't see it while we were lowering ourselves down, I knew what was there. A bunch of stores and buildings had this white with glowing blue shining platforms flowing around it. Venus was turning her head left and right with awe as she saw this for the first time. "Okay! This is the last stop!" I said rather cheerfully I slowly flew down to an empty alleyway in Planeptune. When I was at ground level, I then let go of Venus and suddenly we both heard my own voice somewhere.

"Hey Gamindustri! It is me! The CPU of Planeptune, Cyan Heart!" I heard myself say very cheerfully as we both looked towards the gigantic pure white blimp that was flying over the city with a huge screen on it. And on the screen was myself in HDD form. "All of our teams have been working very hard these past couple of years and want to show you some of our newest games." Then it showed many game trailers and me explaining them about each game and what they have to offer. "So that's all for now! Bye-Bye!"

As the blimp flew away, Venus tapped on my shoulder. "Um, Sis?" She asked, catching my attention. "Was that you on up there?" She pointed to the blimp that was flying away.

"Yep. That was me." I said as I scratched the back of my head. "It's one of the promos I had to do to promote my games." I then landed on the ground before crossing my arms across my chest. "I had a lot of old promos, if you want to see them." I then grinned at her. "Sounds pretty cool, right?"

That got Venus very interested, which she then nodded excitedly. I smiled, seeing my sister being interested in something like that and felt like today was going to be a good day. However, when I was about to disengage my transformation, we both heard two voices.

"H-Hey! Please don't hurt my friend!"

"Or what? Is she going to send me to the Gate of Hell?" A very malicious voice answered back as I heard what sounded like a kick and later a groan.

Our eyes trailed across the street to where the two voices we heard. There was a girl who had coral hair with a headband, wore a tan-white sweater top with matching hand warmers and boots, red plaid skirt, black-brown knee socks. She had a worried look on her face which was justified by the man who was stepping on the girl's friend. The girl that was being stepped on around thirteen or fourteen that had brown hair tied in a leafy bow and wore a blue oversized jacket. She looked like she was half beaten from some bruises littered on her body. And despite that, no one was able to come and help them since the streets here are less busy.

My eyes suddenly widened with surprise. 'Isn't that…? Heh. They really grew up, didn't they…' I then shake that thought off. 'Guess I have to save them again…' I then turned to Venus. "Venus, stay…"

And before I even say anything, Venus suddenly rushed across the street at normal speeds. When she got there, she hit the man with her fist "Hey! Leave her alone!" She exclaimed angrily as she kept hitting the man over, having no effect whatsoever.

Then he turned his head towards Venus. "Get off! You brat!" The man then pushed Venus away, making her tripped. Venus yelped as she fell back, hitting her head on the ground. My eyes then widened with shock seeing Venus rubbing her head while trying to hold back tears before training my eyes towards the man while glowering with anger.

So without disengaging my transformation, I immediately flew at the man and tackled him to the ground. Using my arm, I kept him in a hold while on the ground while holding back the urge to punch him. And immediately, my anger boiled down to a point that I was completely calm. "You, Mister NPC Man, are under arrest for harming an unarmed person and pushing a kid to the ground." I jokingly said, mimicking a police officer's voice while seeing his face turned from that malicious look from earlier to shock and then to complete fear when he saw me.

"Y-You're the…" He sputtered as he looked at me while panicking as tried to get up. "Y-You're the C-CPU of…!"

"Oh… you're just a random NPC that's just there to interrupt the plot…" I muttered as I then smirked at him. "Welp. Time to knock you out!" I exclaimed as I abruptly punched the man in the face, knocking him out. And looking at his face gave me a brilliant idea. "Hehe. Let me see here…" I then summoned out a permanent marker before uncapping it and then drawing something on his face. After I was done, I stood up to see my handiwork which was just something written with huge letter plastered all over his face that said:

'HAHA! I'M EVIL OR WHATEVER!'

I giggled before deactivating my processor wings and walked back to Venus and the two other girls. There I saw the coral-haired girl laid my sister's head on her lap while nursing it. "Are you okay?" She asked Venus.

"Y-Yeah… I'm fine." Venus said, sniffling a little from the small pain she got. She didn't even try to get back up. "It just sting a little…"

"Okay. If it just stings, then let me see what's wrong." The girl then searched for and lightly pressed behind Venus's head which made her wince in pain. "Hmm… it's only just a small bump so let it heal up for a few days and um…" She turned toward me with a rather surprised look. "Ah! Lady Cyan Heart! What are you doing here?"

"Don't know… Just around… y'know… patrolling stuff…" I then kneel down to Venus before patting her head. "Venus? Think you can get up?" I asked, immediately forgetting that the girl was there in the first place. Then I internally kicked myself for saying my sister's name in front of someone when I'm still transformed.

Venus nodded before slowly getting up from the girl's lap and then turned to look at her. "Thank you…"

"No worries… um… Venus, correct?" She said before turning to me curiously while I was internally panicking. "So… how do you know this girl?"

"Well… um…" I quickly looked to Venus, who was very much worried. So without saying anything, I then reactivated my processor wings, picked up Venus by the armpits, and, without zero warning, flew away from the girl while carrying my sister away, letting out a small yelp. She then looked up to me with a bit of concern, but I didn't really care right now. And after finding another empty back alley to land to, I then let her go, checked my surroundings for a little bit to see if anyone's around before I disengaged my transformation.

'That was a close one!' I thought as I then looked at the writer with a very annoyed look on my face. 'Oh come on author! I wasn't supposed to meet them until at least a few chapters later! I kept on grumbling as I crossed my arms. 'And what's with you making NPC hitting others!? What sort of improv is this!?' I sighed as I shook my head. 'Actually, don't answer that. Just continue on with the story…'

"Um… Sis?" Venus spoke up, snapping out of my thoughts. She was looking down with a very remorseful look on her face. "I'm sorry… for what happened…"

"Huh? What are you apologizing for?" I asked her, tilting my head with a bit of confusion. Of course, I get why she was apologizing right now but I also knew that I shouldn't get mad at her for this which really wasn't her fault.

"It's just… with those people… I mean… I didn't mean to…" Her voice trailed off as Venus started to tear up. "I-I just wanted to h-help."

"Venus… look…" I then kneel down to her level to wipe her tears with my fingers. "I'm not mad at you, okay? Like I said, I promise not to get mad at you… So, I know you genuinely wanted to help… And…" I pulled her into a hug as I comforted her. "I was about to do the same thing as you… so… um…" I sighed as I then pulled away from her to look her in the eyes. "Let's just forget about it, okay? Filyn is waiting for us." I then took my hand out to her. "Here… take my hand and stay close to me

Venus nodded as she slowly calmed down, taking my hand before going close to me to the point that she looked like she was trying to hide behind me. I giggled before we both walked away from the alleyway and was immediately hit with the busiest street I think Venus has ever seen.

In contrast from earlier, being that there were a lot less people, this was much more life than I usually expect. This is because my nation is separated into two different districts. The first district, the one that had a lot less people and a lot more closer to Planeptune Tower, is more of a living area for the nation's people. A lot less shops and more of a 'peaceful' life for those who live there which does include a lot of apartments there and a park. This district, which is farther away from Planeptune Tower and surrounds the living district, is more of a shopping or tourist district than anything. Shops at every corner, hotels for people that come from different nations, and even restaurants for people to eat at. And this also means a lot of diversity between the people.

As we started touring around the district, Iooked back down to see Venus still trying to hide behind me."Hey… Venus?" I spoke up before she looked back up to me with a curious look on her face. "So… what's your first impression of Planeptune so far?" Of course, I knew what she might say, seeing that she had a really bad first impression of my nation, but I didn't have too much to talk about and I just wanted to talk. Plus, my stupidity forced me to ask this sort of question.

"Oh. Um… I think it looks good, sis! But um…" Venus said as she then looked down before she leaned a bit closer to me. "I honestly don't really know anymore…" Her voice trailed off as she noticed something out of the ordinary before staring at it with complete bewilderment. "Um, sis? What's that?"

I looked to where Venus was looking before regretting that I even looked at it in the first place. We both saw a man, and I'm not even joking, dancing in his underwear. "Gah! V-Venus! Don't look!" I exclaimed before immediately covering her eyes and leading Venus away from that scene, not caring that we bumped into a few people. But after a few seconds of running, someone suddenly stopped us.

"I've been looking all over for you two." A familiar voice said as I looked to see Filyn with a hand on my shoulder, which made me feel relieved. Even though she still has that glowing yellow eye, this made me feel somewhat better. "Where have you been?"

"A-Ah! Filyn!" I then noticed her stern look on her face. "Um… I-I'm sorry…" I said which sort of came off rather timid before immediately getting pulled into a hug by Filyn. I panicked as I looked around to see people were staring at us a little bit before going back to their normal routine. "H-Huh…? W-What are you…? There's people—!"

"Quiet… and follow me…" Filyn said to me quietly as she then grabbed my other hand and quickly pulled me as I tried to keep a hold on Venus, who was still really confused in general. After at least twenty minutes of running, we're finally at the arcade. She then let go of my hand before stepping forward and then turning towards us. "Well, we're here. So…" She noticed Venus was still very much confused. "Huh? Venus, why are you looking at me like that? Did something happen?"

"Oh. I'll tell you tomorrow…" I quickly interrupted Venus as I awkwardly scratched the back of my head. I didn't really want to remind Venus about that from earlier. So I whispered something into Venus's ear. "Sorry if your first impression of my nation was a little weird… sometimes it's like this…" To which Venus nodded with some sort of understanding. "Either way! So Filyn, what do we start with first?"

"Well… I know there's a fighting game, a shooter game and some racing games, but…" Filyn thought for a little while before giving both of us a small smile. "How about we show Venus around the place first? To see what she would like." She then looked at Venus. "Sounds interesting, right?"

Venus then nodded, probably forgetting about what happened earlier. She then smiled at Filyn as well as looked at her with a bit of excitement. "Okay! All of them sound very cool!" She said before her eyes started to sparkle with excitement before looking at me. "Come on, sis! I want to go see them!"

"Yeah, let's go see…" I said, though I felt like I just didn't want to go in the arcade at all. I mean, it wasn't that I didn't like them at all but more like I felt rather sick going into them because it had way too many people crowded in one place. Luckily, there weren't that many people which was rather surprising. One other thing that was surprising is that this was the exact same arcade where I took Filyn when we first went out together. "Filyn…? Is this…?"

"Huh? Is this what?" Filyn asked, playing completely dumb though I knew that she did remembered that time. Then her only eye stopped glowing before she then gave me a teasing grin. "What? Didn't think I forgot about this place?" She asked which made Venus look at both of us with confusion. And noticing this, Filyn just smiled at her. "Hehe. Well, this place is actually where your sister first took me long ago… So this actually holds a special place in my heart." She explained as she then turned to the arcade. "Come on! I'll show you around!"

Venus nodded as we finally stepped inside the arcade. Filyn started to show about each arcade game, like for example there was an actual racing game where you actually race on a motorcycle. Of course, it wasn't really a real motorcycle but the way Venus looked at it was like she really wanted to try it out.

The next game Filyn showed was a fighting game that had 3D style of gameplay on it. It's designed to have a seat placed in front of it so a person could sit down and feel comfortable. It was one of the types of games that I wasn't particularly good at. However it was something that Filyn was the best at playing which really frustrates me. And unfortunately, that's when she started boasting about it in front of both of us.

"You know Venus, this was one of the few games that Sapphire is very terrible at." Filyn said, grinning very proudly as I started to groan. "And I actually beat her more than once the first time we came here!" And immediately after hearing that last part, this easily made me feel dejected.

"Really!? That sounds so… amazing! I mean… It's really amazing that you're able to beat Sis!" Venus exclaimed while expressing her amazement before noticing mines. "Oh. Sorry! I didn't mean it like that!"

"N-No… it's okay… It's just that…" My voice trailed off before trying to shake off that feeling before giving Venus a small smile. "Well… we can be bad at some things right?"

"Oh! Okay!" Venus piped up as she then scanned the entire place before noticing something that piqued her interest. "Huh…? What's that?"

"Huh? Do you mean the machine right there?" I asked as I then pointed at the thing Venus was looking at. "Do you want to look at it?" I asked which Venus nodded excitedly.

So we then walked to what Venus was talking about, to which Filyn explained it to her. It was a bunch of claw machines put side by side. Inside them were a bunch of stuffed toys inside of it. One of them had characters that were icons with Planeptune like the Blue Hedgehog. And other ones had these anime statues inside them. And I remember seeing different characters that came from different nations. So as Filyn was explaining, Venus was pressing her face against the glass.

"Woah! I know that one! It's the Blue Hedgehog! And um…" Venus then looked towards the other claw machines that had some characters she didn't recognize. "Who are the other ones?"

"Oh… those are the characters that either showed up in an anime or have at least some sort of importance in this nation… But this one…" I said as I pointed to the pink cute blob that was lying on a star. I then remembered I didn't tell her about the other nations. "So you know there's this nation… Planeptune, right?" Venus nodded with understanding before I then continued to explain. "Actually, there are four…"

"Five."

"Huh?" I looked at Filyn with complete bewilderment like she just said something completely unbelievable. I know there's only four which are, including my own, Lastation, Lowee, and Leanbox. I have never heard about a fifth one. "What do you mean by five?"

"I meant what I said I meant." Filyn said before groaning as she shook her head. "Seriously, I thought you wrote this down so you didn't forget it… And we met her three years ago…" She muttered this to herself, but I could definitely hear her.

"H-Hey! It's not my fault that that is happening to me! And three years! That's definitely way too long!" I exclaimed, pouting at my red-headed friend. I do not believe what she said was real or at least I think it isn't the case.

"Either way~! There's actually five nations, if you're counting this one." Filyn said, completely ignoring my outburst as she then turned her attention towards Venus. "There's Lowee, which does snow a lot, and Lastation, which I'm pretty sure it's more technologically advanced than Planeptune." Hearing that from her made me scoff. "Leanbox, which has four states, and Eden, which is also very advanced… at least, I think it is…"

"Filyn… That's a… very terrible description of what the nations are supposed to be… But at least she made it seem interesting…" I muttered to myself while thinking to myself. 'Honestly, I don't know what Eden is all about… I guess I have to review my old notes about the CPUs… again…'

But unfortunately, Filyn heard my comment, which made her pout. "Hey! I thought I had a perfect description for each nation!"

I just let out an exasperated sigh before giving my attention to Venus. "Either way, each nation has their own separate quirks to them and their very own CPU. So this character actually came from Lowee." I kept explaining to her. "Also, each nation has their own console, which is the heart of the nation. Well… except Planeptune…" My voice trailed off as I then looked down.

"Really!? That sounds amazing!" Venus exclaimed before immediately noticing the last part. "Huh? What do you mean? Do we not have a console?"

"No, there's not even a console here in Planeptune… Never had one for a long time… except for an old one. All this nation does is to make video games…" I answered while looking down before looking back up. "So, what do you think about them, Venus?"

"They all sound really interesting, but I love our home! Even if it's a little weird!" Venus said with a rather huge grin. "So it's definitely pretty cool!"

I just let out an awkward chuckle. "O-Oh… I see… I'm glad at least now you like it." I said before going into deep thought. And now that I'm thinking about it, why is she so unpredictable? I always expect at least an insult or two about Planeptune but she is very different. And whenever she does be at least critical about it, it's whenever something bad happens. Not wanting to ask anything else, I just shook those thoughts away. "So, shall we continue on?"

Venus nodded before we continued on with the tour. However, there wasn't anything that could be of interest, but her eyes were still sparkling with curiosity so it didn't matter too much. So while we were touring around, I took out my diary and started write down some stuff like:

New Diary Entry #2:

Hey Diary, it's me again. So somehow I got a sister! Yay! Either way, her name is Venus and surprisingly, she seems pretty nice too! Though I'm unsure that she can fight… But Venus really, yet very terrifyingly, unpredictable! And Filyn did that personality swap again! Yay again! Anywho, she's a rather weird case by having two different personalities sharing the same memories. While her other personality is rather laid-back and can barely pronounce long words; this personality, although still laid back, is more mature and really direct to um… certain things. That's something I can't understand about her! Why does she keep doing that!? And this is in both of her personalities! Does she…? Actually, nevermind. Oh! And, it turns out that we have another CPU that I somehow forgot about! I think it was Eden or something… Anyway! Met with a few people and I think the arcade seems pretty cool, I guess… But, I don't think we're going to the candy store so…

I then stopped writing before looking back up to see Venus was chatting with Filyn. So, I just close the book and put it into my jacket pocket. I then let out a sharp whistle to get both of their attention.

Venus then, in response, looked over to me. "Yeah? What's up, Sis?" She asked with a rather quizzical expression.

"Well… after a little bit of thinking about something… I kind of want to spend time here for a little bit…" I said while crossing my arms in a very well-mannered way. I then noticed Filyn's eye sparkled with excitement. "Which game did you want to play first?"

"Oh… um… There's so many to choose from… um…" Venus then looked around, trying to find which one she wanted to play first. "How about… this one!" She then pointed at one of the arcade cabinets.

"That one?" I asked, looking at the game that was displayed there. It was, and I'm pretty sure, a 2D platformer game. "Oh… I see… It looks nice…" I then looked at Filyn. "By the way, did you buy any tokens before we got here?"

"Yep!" Filyn then held up a pack full of tokens for both of us to see. "Hehe… I've been saving up some credits until the day I can spend some time with you! Surprised, right?"

"Huh… so the real reason why we're here…" I muttered very quietly so no one could hear me. "Either way, let's just have fun for a little while." I said, to which Venus nodded before we all started to play some games.

Of course, when Venus started playing, the 2D platformer was still something that she had a hard time on. It was very different to when she first played this kind of genre. However, she seemed to improve a little bit when we started to give her some pointers on it. And after a while, Venus started to figure it out and was able to pass a few levels. But we decided to stop her for now so that we can play another one. And of course she pouted in response before I told her that she shouldn't stick with one genre of games and Filyn said there are more exciting games than just platforming games, so she just moved on to the next one.

So there were a few notable games we had her play. One of which was a fighting game which Filyn decided to play against Venus. Of course, the redhead tried to hold back on her while teaching a few things but Venus kept losing over and over. I then noticed that my sister looked a bit more determined than when they first started and seemed to listen to Filyn's advice. And after a few hours of playing…

"Player One Wins!"

"Oh. I won again…" Filyn muttered to herself frowning before freezing when seeing my cold and menacing stare. That last match, from the looks of it, felt way too quick in comparison to the other ones. She then turned to 'Player Two' with a pity smile. "Haha… Sorry Venus… I accidentally went all out on you."

"Nah, it's fine!" Venus said with a huge grin, looking like she's taking things in stride. "Guess I have more to learn!"

"Yeah! You have so much to learn from a pro like me!" Filyn exclaimed before looking at me, smiled, then stood up from her seat and came very close to my ear. "You know, your sister is really kind… and very cute. Don't you agree?" She whispered to me very softly so that no one could hear.

"H-Huh…? What are you…?" I looked at Filyn's teasing smile before looking away. I knew that even if I tried to deny it, she would probably tease me more for denying it even more. "I mean… Of course she is… Why are you asking me that?"

"Well…" Filyn said as she kept her teasing smile before she whispered into my ear again. "I guess I know where she got her looks from since you're such a cutie."

After hearing that, I started blushing beet red before immediately covering my own face. "W-W-Wha—!?" I sputtered, unable to form a single word from my own mouth. 'W-Wha—!? Why does she say awkward… dumb things like this almost every day!? T-This… idiot…" I thought, slowly peeking through my fingers to see Filyn's teasing look. Somehow, this made me blush even more. And since I didn't want Venus to see my face, I then covered it up which completely blocked my vision. "W-Wh…? Hu…? Wha…? I… I…"

Filyn just giggled a little bit before ruffling my hair. "Heehee. You're so cute when you blush." She whispered to me before turning towards Venus. "Okay, Venus. Let's head off to the next game." She said as she then forcefully removed one of my hands off my face and dragged me by the same hand.

"Um… okay?" Venus said with visible confusion in her tone. As I was being dragged, I even caught a small glimpse of her face, which also wore a state of confusion, before following closely behind both of us.

After a while of walking to the next game, I slowly stopped blushing, so I removed my own hands off my face. I immediately instructed Venus to not ask anything from earlier, to which she nodded with understanding. She's really that understanding, isn't she…

Either way, the next game we played was shooter-style that Filyn explained before though it wasn't anything too special about it. Venus also wasn't very good at it, even when we gave her some advice on what to do. After letting her play for a little bit, we decided to finally move on to the next one. After playing a few games, me and Filyn both collectively decided to play one last game since it was getting late. So when we told Venus about it, she understood our decision. So we were walking around, trying to find a good game to play.

So while Filyn was deciding what to do, I suddenly noticed something about Venus everytime I turned around. I wasn't so sure at first, but now I'm very sure about this. Every time we passed by the crane machine, she would alway look at those anime statues inside them. Maybe it's because she's very interested in it earlier. I had no idea so I wanted to try to take a shot in the dark since it might be the last one. So, I stopped right where the machine was.

"Hey, Filyn! Venus! Can you two wait for a little bit?" I spoke up, catching the attention of both of them. "Could we try this for the last one?" I asked while pointing at a specific claw machine. "Because I think there's a certain person who's interested in what's in there." I then looked at my sister before cracking a slight smile. "Am I right, Venus?"

Venus rubbed her head before slowly nodding. She just chuckled rather awkwardly. "Am I really that obvious?" She asked me with a rather sheepish grin.

"Ehhh… Just took a small guess… but…" I let my voice trailed off, still giving a small smile. "You should have just said something. Instead of just saying nothing."

"Hehe… Sorry, sis." Venus said, chuckling really awkwardly as she rubbed her head. "It's just that… I didn't want to bother both of you."

"It's okay, really. Just stop worrying about it. You can just say anything that is on your mind, okay,?" I told her as I then patted her head before turning to Filyn. "Hey, Filyn! Do you have any more tokens?"

"Yeah… Just a few left." Filyn answered as she held up the pack of coins but it shrunken a bit from the few times we saw it. "But I'm not doing that for you." She pointed at the claw machine. "You know that I'm terrible at it… so you do it."

"Okay… fine…" I groaned as I stopped patting Venus's head and took the pack from Filyn before walking over to the machine. "So which one would you like?" I said before pointing at the one with long black hair that wore a pink kimono. "Do you want that one or…" I then pointed at the one with cyan hair which wore twintails that wore what seemed to be a pop star idol outfit. "That one?" To which Venus also pointed at the one with cyan hair. "Alright… let's see here…" I then insert the first token in the slot before I start 'playing' it. 'Remember those techniques my old friend taught me and it will all be good!'

Of course, I didn't get it the first time but after a few more tries I finally got it. And if I remember correctly, there was a bag next to it so I took it out of the huge compartment and put it in the bag before giving it to Venus. "Here you go. Take good care of it, okay?"

Venus nodded, taking the bag from my hand. "I will and…" She let her voice trailed off as she then immediately hugged my legs. "Thanks, sis."

"Ah. Um…" I stuttered before giving her a small smile and then patting her head again. "Your welcome… So then… How about we go home? I'll cook you something really good." I said to her, to which she looked up and nodded.

Of course, I forced Filyn to take the stairs again because I'm not taking them at all or even letting my sister take the stairs. So, me and Venus walked back to an abandoned alleyway, transformed, carefully picked her up, and slowly flew away with her. I had to be careful so that she doesn't drop the bag by accident. And since it was now nighttime, all of the nation's lights had been turned on.

"Woah! Sis! Look!" Venus exclaimed as she looked around to see the many lights the city has. "It looks… so pretty."

"Yeah… it really is…" I looked at the nation with a very nostalgic smile. 'Yeah… I remember when Histoire showed me this for the first time…'

Flashback.

I remembered when Histoire first took me to the balcony. I was just born so I didn't know what was going on at the time. So when she asked me randomly at nighttime, I thought she wanted me to do something but…

"H-Histy… W-Why did y-you…?" I shyly asked before looking over the balcony. "W-Woah…! I-It looks a-amazing…" I then looked back to Histoire. "U-Um… W-What is this?"

"It's Planeptune, Lady Sapphire. It's the one I was talking to you about." Histoire told me in a very polite tone. "It's the nation you're going to rule for a very long time…"

"S-So… t-this is P-Planeptune…" I looked back at the view with a small shy smile. I was practically enamored by it. "I-It's… so pretty… I-I…" I fumbled with my own words. I turned back to Histoire again. "I-Is… P-Planeptune… always this p-pretty?"

I remembered Histoire was stunned into complete silence. At the time, I didn't understand why she didn't answer back. And back then, I didn't know what Planeptune really was. What really happened with this nation. All that I know, that she was protecting me from something…

Flashback End.

"Um, sis? You're slipping…" Venus spoke up, snapping me out of my thoughts. So, I restrengthened my hold on her. "Are you okay?" She asked me again.

"It's nuthin', okay?" I said as I smiled at her. Then my smile started to fade away as I looked towards Planeptune Tower. "I just remembered something from a long time, y'know?"

Venus looked up to me with curiosity before staying silent while going back to holding her bag. And when we finally got to the balcony, I lightly put her down, landed right next to her, and finally disengaged my transformation. Then, we both walked back inside to where the living room is. Filyn wasn't here yet; probably because she was still climbing the stairs.

"Hey, Venus." I spoke up, catching her attention as I looked at her. She just put down her bag near where the couch is. "Go ahead and take a bath, okay? I'll get your clothes prepared for tonight." I told her. "And… um… wait a second…" I then rushed to the laundry room, grabbed a towel before rushing back to hand it to her. "This is yours for now on"

"Okay, sis." Venus said before taking it and started to walk to the bathroom. She then turned towards me and smiled. "And thanks for today. It was really fun." She said before walking away.

After I heard the bathroom door closed, I immediately went into my room and checked my closet to search for more clothes. And after digging through it, I found yet another white dress for some odd reason. However, I just went with it and placed it on my bed and pull out my diary and wrote:

If you've already noticed, I gave you another dress. I seemed to have an unlimited amount of dress, huh… And again, sorry about earlier today!

Then I carefully tore the page out of my book and placed it on the dress. Then I walked out then to the bathroom door and heard the water running. So I knocked on the door twice to get her attention.

"Yes?" I heard Venus calling out from the bathroom door. I heard the water turn off, probably because she probably wants to hear me.

"Venus, this is your sister. I put your clothes on my bed!" I exclaimed, trying to be a bit loud so that she could hear me. "And make sure you read my note! Oh and we might be having the same food as yesterday." I tried to think of more stuff to say. "And please throw your clothes in the hamper, okay?"

"Okay! Thanks, sis!" Venus called back before hearing the water turn back on. I then walked away, but instead of going straight to the kitchen, I lied face first onto the couch and let my body go limp. Tiredness immediately hit me from everything that happened today. Transforming does take a toll on me. But little did I know, there were footsteps walking towards me.

"Sheesh. I didn't know that hair was a part of this couch!" I slightly shifted my head to at least try to look up. As I suspected, Filyn was looking down at me with a rather huge grin. I groaned before looking away. "Tired again?" She asked me.

I nodded rather slowly before I felt her fingers running through my hair before I felt her stopping. "Makes sense since you've transformed two times already." Filyn said to me, feeling that she just sat right next to my head and ruffled my hair. "Just let me handle dinner for tonight."

"O-Okay…" I said, though the words were very muffled from how my face was covered. "Heat up the soup from yesterday…"

I heard a giggle before I felt that my head was lifted up from the couch and placed on something that felt like skin. I then realized that it was Filyn's lap, which made my face completely red. I tried to get up but I was way too tired to even move or even speak up.

"But you know, I feel reeeally tired as well so let's just stay like this for now." Filyn told me while patting my head. "Hehe. I guess you're blushing now. You're acting like a tired cat, you know."

So unfortunately, we stayed like that for a few minutes without caring about our surroundings. However, I didn't mind it as much as before since back then I would deny letting anyone including Filyn do this to me.

"Oh and by the way…" I heard Filyn said as she kept petting my head. "Venus just came in here for a little bit. I think she went back into your room or something."

"O-Oh… I see…" I muttered under my breath. 'Wait… Venus…? Does that mean…?' I thought before realizing that she saw us. I then immediately jumped away from Filyn's lap and stormed towards my room. "Wait! Venus! It's not what it looks like! It's absolutely not what it looks like!" My storming mind and blushing face made it really apparent that I was way too embarrassed. "We're just friends! We're really just friends! Please believe me!"

And after trying to clear it up, which honestly took a while, I again asked Venus to forget whatever she just saw. We silently ate our dinner, then me and Filyn took our bath separately. And of course, we all got ready for bed.


Somewhere in the Lowee's Basilicom…

Just like what happened back in Planeptune, Lowee's Sharicite that glows rather brightly with red and pink. It glowed brighter and brighter until it immediately faded.

Sitting on the ground was a young girl with short red and pink hair and grey-colored eyes. Of course, she wasn't wearing anything so she looked around for a little bit, trying to find something before hearing footsteps.

A light-blue haired woman with red-rimmed glasses, Mina, walked into the room while rubbing her eyes. "W-Why did I wake up early… I mean… I-I could barely sleep after…" Mina's voice trailed off as she noticed the girl. "Who…?"

"KYAAAAAAAAH!" The girl suddenly screamed rather loudly, immediately covering herself. "W-Who the hell are you!? Pervert! Lolicon! Monster!" She then frantically looked around to find something.

"W-Wait ! Hold on! I'm not—!" She was about to deny that she wasn't before that something was immediately thrown at her face. And that something was a rather huge jar.


Corrupted Form Watch Day 1: It really has been three months since I recorded something like this. Of course, I'm in the arcade (it's really noisy by the way). Either way, Nothing has been happening since I accidentally activated it two times. Though, I did get mad at someone today but I'm not sure if that activated it. Because strong negative emotions can cause it to activate like sadness and anger. That's all I have to report for now.


And that's all for this long prologue, sort of, the next chapter is going to be about Lowee. Wondering about that new character… And honestly I don't know why I made this as long as I did.

Of course, I had to look at my video sources for the arcade and the references. Some of them were Yakuza references, one of them were Miku references, and one anime reference.

I have plans for both Sapphire's and Filyn's story and I think you might enjoy them. Also their characters and relationship was something I actually had plans for when I was creating the original version.

Either way, Please Review and Stay Safe!

Edit: Thanks again to decode9 for helping me with the dialogue!