I'm very sorry on the long update…again ! I thank you all for yoru patience. I've been busy with school lately and I haven't had much time to write up the next chapter.

Well, I won't waste anymore time talking. Here it is!

CHAPTER 6: SUNFLOWER's WRATH

"What the hell are you two doing!" Blackrose yelled out to the twinblade and heavyaxe.

"Die…." They both said in unison.

"Huh? C'mon! What is this really all about? Just what are you-" The pink haired heavyblade couldn't finish her sentence as Terajima had just equipped a giant mallet in place of her axe and knocked out Blackrose

"We are not you're friends…" both said in unison again. "We… I am… SUNFLOWER"

"Excellent. We have captured Kite's partner. Now, all we need to do is send him the e-mail." The Giant Present Box said from his dark room.

"I'll send it to him." Gargle said through a communication window.

"By the way, Phase 5.2… tell the other phases that this field-modification plan will be canceled."

"Hm? Why the sudden change of heart?"

"I have another idea. One that won't require different styles of gameplay."

"You know… those fields really didn't have any advantage in them. Regardless of what we did, Kite still data drained the phases. Not to mention Blackrose took on Fidgeter alone and won there."

"You're point?"

"Please excuse me for saying this… but your plan has been pretty pointless so far. Why are we even here? Why did you make the Eight Phases version 2? Are you trying to cause second cursed wa-"

"SILENCE!"

"…………………"

"Hmmm…but perhaps, one more step of my original plan should be put into action…" The box said as it started typing at the virtual terminal in front of it.

"Yawwwwwnnnn….." Kite yawned as he lay on his bed. The moment he heard the mail-chime on his computer, he sprang up and sat infront of the terminal.

Hey Kite, come on down to Sigma: Modern Dismayed Allies. It's full of tough monsters with a really rare item below in the Gott Statue. I'll be waiting for you in the dungeon. -Blackrose 'hmm..wonder what she wants…' Kite wondered as he put on the head set. He logged into the Sigma server and found Tsukasa the moment the root town came into view on the screen. "Hi Tsukasa. Hey, would you mind coming with me to a dungeon? It's full of strong monsters and I can't get a hold of anyone else."

"No. Leave me alone! Leave me be as I bewail over my miserable existence in this stupid virtual world!" The wavemaster said turning around, away from Kite

"uhhh…" 'This must be that wandering A.I. Tsukasa…. Gosh.. the personality seems more angst than before…' Kite thought. Just then the real Tsukasa logged in

"Oh, hello Kite. Hm? Wha?" Tsukasa looked over to the AI Tsukasa.

"Oh yeah… I never did tell you before did I?" Kite asked, sweatdropping. "Tsukasa, this is um… Tsukasa. Apparently a wandering AI of your character."

"Hmmm… I see."

"Hm? What? Now I have people dressing up like me?" the AI said.

"Well, actually this would mean I came before you" Tsukasa said.

"meh" the AI turned around.

"….oh yeah, Tsukasa, I wanted to ask, would you mind heading for a dungeon with me?" Kite asked.

"I told you NO already."

"Um, not you, the real Tsukasa."

"Oh sure, where to?"

"Siiiiiigggghhhhh… people are so selfish… and why won't people leave me alone? Why must I suffer?" the AI said looking down over the edge of the root town.

"Hey! I never acted like that!"

"Shut up. I can act however I want."

"Are you sure you're an AI created from my data…?"

"Are you trying to imply something?"

"No, but the way you're acting…"

"Um.." Kite interrupted "Why don't we just get going?" he said and sweatdropped at the two identical wavemasters.

Later at Sigma: Modern Dismayed Allies

Kite appeared in a grassy field as the three gold rings disappeared.

"Oh give it a rest already! I told you, fine do what you want. You're not actually me." Said the real Tsukasa who had been conversing with the AI all along.

"FINE! I'm glad you see it my way. Now –BEEP- off or something." The AI said. Both Tsukasa and Kite's eyes went wide at the statement

'Hmm…. Seems the wandering AI's personality data is somewhat deteriorating… well, nothing much can be done about that.' Thought Helba, viewing the scene from a distance.

Kite looked around the field and spotted two familiar faces up ahead. He ran up and greeted them. "Hey Natsume, Terajima. What are you two doing here?"

"… Target sighted…" Natsume said in a monotonic voice.

"What?" Kite said bewildered

"Time to finish him…" Ryoko said as she lifted her axe and slashed downward on Kite.

"Whoa!" Kite formed an X with his two daggers to block the incoming attack and pushed it away and jumped back. "What are you two doing?

"Natsume it's time the nuisance be killed and we take away that bracelet." Natsume said.

'I don't want to fight them, but something isn't right here…' Kite thought as he looked at his two allies advancing toward him. Natsume suddenly dashed behind Kite and held him in place before he could react. Ryoko held her axe above her head again and made a cut at Kite's arm. The slash cut at Kite's left elbow joint and the lower half of his digitalized arm fell off. Natsume threw Kite to the side, grabbed the arm and ran off with Ryoko.

"As long as we can't used the bracelet he won't be a problem." She said.

"We'll deal with his life another day." Ryoko said as they both gated out. Kite sat on the ground, dumbfounded at what had just happened to his right limb. There was no blood, but by looking at where his arm was cut, small streams of data and binary digits could be seen flowing around in what would be his avatar. After a few moments of staring, he finally snapped

"GYYYAAAAHH! What the ? How…why..wha just…. My arm!" he shouted, waving his newly formed half arm through the air. "Oh my gosh! I'm missing part of my arm! GWWAAAH!" He ran around in circles a few times before stopping and slapping himself on the head. "huff…huff…. Okay…. I just need to log out and think this over…." With that Kite gated out

"EXCELLENT!" The box yelled. "Now our plans will go by smoothly. Without his bracelet, he can no longer stop us in our quest for World domination! No pun intended."

"What do you plan to do with it?" Natsume asked.

"Hm?" The box looked over to the two female figures. "Hey, sunflower, you can give it a rest now. You don't need those hosts anymore." Upon hearing this, half a sunflower flew out from the two avatar's mouths and fell onto the floor where they collided and became a full sunflower seed. The two avatars disappeared afterward.

"C'mon! Please work…" Natsume said, sitting by her computer. 'my account has been deactivated for a long while now… I hope nothing happened to the…' As if on queue, the computer logged her into the world where she found her green haired twinblade character on the screen "Yeah! It works again." She said joyfully.

"Hmm..how odd. I hope nothing was happening to the network. At least I get to play in the World again." Terajima said sitting in front of her own computer as her computer finally logged her back into the world.

An hour later, Kite re-entered the World. Half his right arm still missing. He received many stares from surrounding players and they looked at the binary digits that were floating around where his arm ended.

"Hey, Kite! What happened to you?" A wavemaster with a book bag strapped around his shoulder ran up to the twinblade

"Long time no see Kazu. Well… it's a very long story…"

"As if! My spells are a lot stronger than yours! I've been upgrading my character lately, and what have you done? Just mope around and act all depressed!" Tsukasa yelled at the AI in which they've been fighting for quite some time now.

"You wanna piece of this? Bring it on son of a –BEEP-!" the AI yelled as the two wave masters released summons spells at one another.

NEXT CHAPTER: BROKEN LIMBS AND WELTED ROSES

Preview: What will Kite do? With part of his arm missing and no bracelet, he'll need to find a way to recover his limb quickly. And what ever happened to Blackrose? Where is she? Find out Next time!

Again, sorry for the very long update! I'll try and work on the next chapter as soon as possible!