Shugo logged into the world immediantly after reading the message from Aura. He was in a hurry to get there, tapping the monitor inhopes that it would speed up the process. Of course it didn't work, but something did keep his mind busy while the monitor began to spring for life. Why is it that I'm not crying... Rena, she's in a coma because of me... Does this make me heartless?

"Stop it Shugo! If you keep up like this, its only gona drag you down!" He began to hit himself until finally he put on the HUB and logged into the world.

The music played the simple Mac Anu theme, and he felt himself calm down. It was hopeless to feel bad so he began to phych himslef out by telling himself that He could save Rena, that is with the help of Aura. Crowds passed on by like he was a nobody, which was true. A magic portal appeared in front of him and his movement halted.

"Arukasa?" The young girl bowed to him, and replied.

"Good afternoon Shugo-san." She clicked smile and Shugo couldn't help but blush. It wass just a game, but something about Arukasa seemed so real.

"Whatcha doing?"

"Waiting for you to log in." It sounded rather creepy but Shugo knew that she was just trying to be nice.

"So... I'll be seeing you around." Shugo started to walk pass her towards the portal so that he could reach Aura. An unbalanced tapping of foot prints followed him. "You need something?" Shugo was trying to be nice, no less to the fact that this person was a girl.

"Will you form a party with me?" She started to wave her wand around, and despite its huge size didn't seem to strain her avatar or anything.

"Uh, I'm kinda busy at the moment." She frowned at Shugo. "But will you wait here for me then? I just wana meet with some freinds and they told me to come alone." Her expression changed again, as if she were in disgust. "Hey, hey now, I'm not a hacker! And I'm not doing anything odd."

"Fine... I'll wait for you here." She walked off probably towards the center of the city to get something. Shortly after he recieved a members adress from the person.

"Finally." Shugo walked to the portal and pronounced a new password. Aura would ocasionally change the passcode to her domain in order to prevent any hostilities between the players. She always barred the area with a "A virus core". Shugo's screen changed into the gate hacking options. He placed a virus core into the monument. His stock was running thin and he would soon have to collect more. It was a difficult chore.

Shugo began to warp, the bright white lights and the colorful streams of data made him squint. When he rached his destination, there was usually a white light before he emerged, however, this time it took the color of brown and green. It was familiar.

Shugo looked around at the dry land. Some choice for scenery Shugo thought. Maybe Aura's not in a good mood?

Blasts of light flew from the sky and Shugo knew where his next destination would be. He pulled through the item commands revealing the grunty flute and executed. He blew the flute to summon a Rocker grunty, jumped off and raced to the directionof the lights.

It was distant but came closer real quickly. To Shugo's horror, the area that he had reached was filled with monsters. The lights he had seen were monster portals raining from the heavens.

"AURA!" Shugo screamed frantically and dimounted the grunty. He looked around noticing something familiar it was Rena! "Rena your alright!" Shugo ran the heavy blades side, but the voice that greeted him wasn't what he had expected.

"What the hell are you blabling about Kite?" Kite?

"Blackrose?"

"Shugo?" A radiating light flashed towards them abd it was too late to dodge. they took the full hit and Shugo's health bar began to flash frantically. The music that played slowly in the background made him feel a sense of fear rush all over his body. Before he could acess a health potion, light surrounded him rejuvinating all his hit points. "Thanks Mistral."

"Focus! Or your gona get hit again! 0" An avatar that resembled Mirrelle(Sorry if its spelled wrong!) appeared dispatching some invisibles.

"Mistral! Where is Kite?" They completly ignored the fact that he was there. shugo still didn't have a clue on what was going on.

"I think he's up there nya!" There was an island pointing towards the North, and a familiar figure stood there tall. It was the stone menace that he had encountered earlier. And near it was Kite; Shugo had met with him before, only very few but the guy was great to be around with, not to mention that he was ike a god at the game. They had a sparring match once and the fight that he had with Balmung was nothing compared to the fight with him. Shugo watched for a moment keping in mind that there was a battle going on around him.

"Shugo! Go up there and help Kite! Its not safe to take Skeith alone!"

"You guys know what that thing is?" Shugo just got engaged by another Invisible and he tried to time the buttons so that he could parry it away. It seemed that everything here was Lv. 99. And one good hit could send him to the plane of hell. "Did you hear me?"

Shugo hardly knew these people, from his past experience with Blackrose, she was always, imaptient. He was also but she made the word impatient taken to an entirely newlevel. "I'm going I'm going!" Shugo ran off watching as Mistral somehow casted numerous support spells on him. Its not like they would help becuase his health was like in the 800s. These guys would hit a devastating 3000 and up. A sheet of white cloth ran up to Shugo and it started to stay by his side, its skin was pale but its hair was blonde.

"Oni-chan! something is happening, abd I can't find my mommy anymore." She was crying, and it started to make Shugo panick.

"Zefie, can these things hit you?" He was getting worried. He didn't want to have her deleted.

"I don't know! But they can hurt my mommy! Thats all I know!"

"Stay behind me then! We're gona find Aura!" He was going to look for her, but he couldn't help but feel guilty that he was leaving Kite behind. He was super high leveled and he was... It wasn't going to help at all.

"Shugo! I think he's up there on that island!"

"With Kite?" Her avatar let go of my hand to point towards the island and quickly came back to reclaim its space. It seemed that he was going to meet face to face with that thing again. Willow wisps continued to strike at shugo but something happened. A strange barrier appeared nulling all the damage. Zefie had been capable to produce a temporary shield. Something bleeped on his screen and Zefie's face appeared stating that she wanted to be invited to his party. He quickly agreed and was suprised that she was able to render such an action. Her face appeared to the bottom of the 3rd person view, revealing her face. Her hit points were 10... max. But her SP ranged into 999. And was recovering from the spell that she had just casted. "Thanks Zefie."

"No problem oni-chan." They ran across the hoard of enemies, and Zefie waould cast the shield to give Shugo's hands some rest time after parrying so many mosters. It seemed that if you could parry, you could probably take down these kinda mosters.

"How are we gona get up there? They expect me to jump?" Zefie tapped the bracelet and they were surrounded by a glyph. And it slowly rose taking them to hell. Shugo looked down. The map was filled with monsters and he could see Blackrose in the distance fighting along side Mistral. There were others with them now, including Balmung and Orca. Ouka was fighting with Kaz, and they were able to hold off the crazy number of opponents. And sadly there was a steady stream of portals falling to replace the felled beasts.

"Oni-chan, get ready this is it." Zefie went behind Shugo as they were nearing the base of the island. There was sounds of what seemed to be lasers exploding from the top... Shugo gulped. There was about 30 seconds before combat so he tried to remove the HUB to wipe the sweat from his face. But he couldn't. It was like before but now he was glued into it and there was no turning back.

They reached the top-"SHUGO!" Zefie raised the barrier and deflected the red beam that had been aimed precisely at them. He would have died, and there had been time to get away from it, realinzing that he was becoming careless.

Kite was there Aura, floating behind him just as Zefie held to Shugo. Aura was supporting him also with a similar method. As the waves shot towards Kite she refelcted by countering with spells nulling the effects. She was more of an offnesive than Zefie. "Kite! Watch out. When it starts to glow watch out for that wave."

"So you have come back mortal... Thanks for allowing me to finish the job... I can rid of you and the original father." Shugo hesitated to move as he realized that he was scared beyond his imagination. The scenery changed and the sky turned into a velvet blue. The wind died down and the area around them vanished. The floor was gone, so Shugo couldn't tell what would happen to the others. Zefie clung closer to him as it began to amass at the center of the stadium. He toggled an invite to Kite who agreed to it rather swiftly, Shugo had forgotten to prepare for the event. His inventory was slim but he held a nifty amout of recovery scrolls.

Shugo regrouped with Kite and they were quiet. "Don't get near it Shugo... It'll acess the skill judgement. And whatever you do, don't let your health don't drop below half. Otherwise he'll be able to data drain you." He knows a lot about this thing.

"Do you know this thing?" He recovered Zefie SP, it seemed that he she had used a large amount from the last strike. He only had 32 Emperor Souls, and 98 Artisans Souls.

"That is the first of the wave, Skeith. It was the guardian of the World to maintain balance and peace. But The wave hawd altered his judgement rendering to the state right now." His voice was unsure but Shugo believed everything that he was saying. "There is still one thing that relly bothers me though. We had deleted him in the past. Destroyed all of them and prevented the death of all the people." So they did fight this thing.

"Oni-chan... Get ready." She braced herself, as if she knew that something was about to happen. Shugo could hear Kite's gruff breaths, he was tired.

"How long have you uys been here?"He personally had just stumbled into the battle.

"I've been here for about 30 minutes. Aura, called me on my cell phone." She can do that?

"Shall I end this now then?" The rock figure was coveredin thin green plates. It was now impregnable until they could data drain... But the only way to do that was to hit him, a lot. Kite ran infirst and Skeith countered with ablue wave. Arua instantly reacted by releasing ared light causing mist to rise. Kite pounced out and struck Skeith square in the face. Skeith stepped back from the hit and nearly staggered to stay on his feet. Kite was incredible.He never logged in often but he was the least bit rusty. And actually, it seemed that he was just warming up. The blades that he was weilding werea mix of a dark black blade, and one sanctioned with holy light.

Shugo ran towards Skeith, pouncing to the side when rays were fired at him so that he wouldn't consume too much of Zefie's SP. He struck its upper abdomen, and reacting quicky after released a skill.

"Thunder Dance!" Shugo went into a flurry of cominations hitting Skeith constantly, and right when it ended Kite jumped in striking next.

"Fire Wheel!" He spun around his face striking him in a blaze of beauty. The way he fought, it was almost like it was an art.

Skeith vanished appearing before Shugo. He swung an srm and Shugo timed the parry. It was sucessful. He blocked it and Zefie released the barrier sending Skeith back. Shugo started to breath hard. His hands were getting tired but it almost felt as if he were the one swinging the weapon. His arms growing weary from the continuous strikes.

Skeith vanished again this time at Kite who fought back by releasing another Fire Wheel, making Skeith disappear all over again. He as getting tired as the fight pressed on. So many things ran into his head. What of the others? Are they alright? What will happen to them if they die? Aura can call you by phone? He had blanked out from the fight completely... It was a horrible mistake.

"JUDGEMENT!"

"Shugo get outta there!" Zefie started to scream.

"I can't take a hit like that Onic-chan! We must get to safety." She tried to pull him and even though it would have no effect on him. Shugo was petrified. Is this really then end... for me...

It wasn't. Kite ran in taking the full blow. Crimson ice wrapped around his body, and he tried to struggle out of it but to no avail. Arua was encased also and Shugo didn't want to know what would happen next.. Skeith unleashed a flurry of wave and they tore through the ice like paper. Th screen flashed and Kite's health flashed.

"Victim number one." Kite rose and a pillar held him from raising his hands.

"KITE!" Shugo had gotten him into this mess. He ran up to Skeith and kept swinging but it had no damage. He just kept up with what was on his agenda.

"BETA-"

"Shugo tell Black Rose, that I'm sorry I can't make her graduation!"Aura nodded to Zefie.

"Mother! No mommy please." She was cryingand she wouldn't leave Shugo's side.

"Don't worry Zefie. Mother will be alright. As long as Kite is. Shugo, please be careful, its up to you and the bracelet that I have embodied with you. Here." There was a flash and Something left Kite's hand. Shugo looked and the golden bracelet was surrounded by a green light and in turned sea blue. There was a second ring attached on his arm.

"Kite's braclet?"

"Don't worry, where I'm going I won't be needing it..."

"DRAIN." The familiar lights went through Kite draining him of his color... He fell down, like stone, but as for Aura, she diappeared, vanished without a trace. Kite was gone... And it was his fault... He had given up for a moment but got up. There was still infished business. He ran towards Skeith but was utterlu careless. A wave crushed him and Zefie hadn't been able to activate the barrier in time. His health flashed red also... He was about to meet the smae faith as Kite.

A glyph appeared below him... revealing a person dressed in white, her skin very much exposed. "I'm sorry but I can't let you take him away."

"Meddler of the world leave this plane..." Black Rose and Mistral appeared behind her.

"Where Balmung? Orca? Ouka and Kaz." They were quiet.

"I commend you Skeith for attacking us right in the center of our operation, but bear in mind we wil be back."

"WHERE ARE THE OTHERS!" He was enveloped into the glyph and he watched as Skeith turned around... Laughing at their losses.