Chapter 4:Tying up loose ends

Three gold circles appeared at the blue chaos gate in Dun Lorieag, Balmung phased into the world and looked at his surroundings. There was a Heavy Blade standing at the entrance to Elves Haven but other than that the server was empty. Balmung began to approach the Heavy Blade to ask him about Godhand when his screen began to quickly flash from negative colors to normal over and over again then a voice could be heard very quietly on his speakers. Most of the words it said were nonsense when finally a sentence could be picked out "The Dragon of twilight will bring destruction to The World…" then his screen cutout and his apartment lost power.

Crossel logged into Mac Anu hoping to see Balmung online but he wasn't so Crossel stepped down the stone steps and went to the item shop. He began talking to the shopkeeper and asked him to see if anyone knew of a player named Godhand. Crossel walked over to the armor shop and opened the "Buy" menu and looked through the list when a particular item caught his eye it was labeled "r3 r0!3e".

"What kind of item is this?" Crossel asked

"Not quite sure, a player sold it to me a few minutes ago." The shopkeeper replied

"Any chance I could buy it?"

"Not a chance kid, I marked it for moderation just before you came over here"

"Well do you remember the name of the player who sold it?"

"Well I think it was a Blade Master by the name of Godhand or something…"

"Thanks that's all I needed to know."

Crossel left the shop and ran across the bridge to the steps when he saw the Moderators. Crossel tried to avoid them but they saw him before he could get away. The two twin blades walked over to Crossel slowly and steadily with both hand on their weapons. Crossel stood still frozen with fear in the middle of the street Balmung's lie was going to get him suspended or worse.

"Where's that Blade master you hang out with Crossel" The male asked

"He hasn't been online for a week. Why do you ask!" Crossel replied

"Well it seems like that area he gave us wasn't the infected one and this caused us to get into trouble with our superiors." The female told Crossel

"Tell us the keywords and you will receive minimal consequences!" The male said

"I will tell you the keywords if you tell me your names!" Crossel yelled back

"My name is Gaia…" The female said

"…And I am Nyx. There now tell us the keywords!" the male said angrily

"Fine the keywords are: Chronicling Despaired Melody" Crossel said quietly

Nyx and Gaia left the scene and walked to the chaos gate and warped to the keywords given by Crossel. Crossel wasn't sure how Balmung would react when he found out that the Moderators knew the keywords of the infected area.

A few days passed and Crossel decided to log into the world hoping to not find himself banned and find Balmung logged on. He entered his password and User name and was brought to Mac Anu he let out a big sigh of relief and saw Balmung just standing at the bottom of the steps. He approached Balmung then he noticed something strange there was a weird green thing on Balmung's arm then Balmung turned around.

"Crossel…" Balmung spoke quietly

"Yeah?" Crossel asked

"Please go to these keywords and meet me on the last floor of the dungeon I have some news about the dragon…"

Balmung flash mailed Crossel the keywords "Cursed Silent New Truth". Crossel walked up to the chaos gat said the keywords and in a flash was whisked off to the field it was a level 1 area so he went through the dungeon in a breeze and waited for Balmung to arrive. Crossel really wanted to hear what Balmung had to say about the dragon and why he hadn't been on in so long. Footsteps could be heard in the hallway ahead of him when a dark figure began to enter the room, A sword could be seen in his left hand then Balmung entered the room…