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Really people, I can't just sit here and make this all up… oh wait, yes I can! Evil Laughter

Chapter 10 "Battle Of Good And Evil"

"Saigi! Are you even listening to me?" Sometimes I get annoyed with his attitude.
"Ok, ok… I promise will lock the door before I leave…" he put on his FMD, and logged into The World.

"Hehehe… now I can see his character…" I thought to myself.
The Saigi's hand went flying back, and he spilled his orange juice all over me. "HEY!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Then he took off his FMD.
"What's going on?" He looked at my shirt that was covered with orange pulp.

"Why is your shirt soaked in orange juice?" he poked my stomach.
"I would like to ask YOU the same thing? What are you thinking spilling your stupid juice all over me? I- oh?" Our door was open, and I just saw Enn walk by. Enn was the name of Murakami player.
"Go… tell him you are sorry!" Saigi pushed me, then went back to his computer.

"Umm… Enn?" I followed him down the hall until he stopped and looked at me. "Okimi… why are you covered with orange juice?" He tilted his head in confusion. "Grr" I twitched, "I wanted to tell you that I am sorry about the other day… I hope we are still friends…" I was so embarrassed, because I usually don't apologize that much…
He smiled and nodded.

"Kurumi!" Murakami ran toward me, "Do you want to train a little?"
"No…" he seemed a little confused when I said that, "I am waiting for someone."
"Ok… I understand. See you around!" He walked away.

Balmung walked passed me, and threw me a smile.
"Balmung…" I followed him.
"What?" He seemed happy today.
"Maybe we can teem up and train a little?" I smiled.

"No…" He answered me back, "I have to do something!"

I stopped and looked down. What goes around comes around.
"I see…" The looked up to see him walk away.
"Take care of yourself, Okimi…" He teleported out as he said that.

"Maha? Where have you been?" I was sitting on my 'thinking rock' again.
Maha flew up to me and sat beside me handing me a lycolis. Then he laid back and stared at the sky. It was almost night time, and the stars were out. He pointed at the sky.

I laid down with Maha, and looked to where he was pointing. "That looks like my roommate Saigi…" I said it blushing.
Right as I said that Maha stood up and looked at me weird.
"What?"
Then he pointed at the same group of stars again.
"What about it?" I looked up again, this time closer, "Balmung of Azure Sky?" I jumped down from the rock. All of the sudden everything became clear to me. "He called me Okimi…" I gasped.

"There you are…" Murakami approached me with a strange catlike creature that looked like kind of like Maha.
"Were you looking for me?" I tried to smile.
"Where is Maha?" He sounded demanding all of the sudden.

I looked at the cat, and then back at him, "Why?"
Murakami looked around to see if Maha was around.
"He is using you! Maha is evil… some say that he is Morgana itself…"
"What is Morgana?" My head started to hurt.
"Forget it… Where is he, where is Maha?"
I could tell this wasn't good, "I don't know… I haven't seen him since that time you rescued me from the giant bird.

"Alright… I'll trust you on that, but if you find him, please tell me… I don't want you to disappear like my brother…" he teleported out with a loud sigh.

"Maha…" I flopped down on the grass, "Is it true? Are you really evil?" I didn't know what to think… Maha can't be evil, he is helping me!
But Murakami, he also can't be evil, because he saved me many times. I buried my head in my hands and sat there for a while.

"Weeping in despair I see…"
"B-Balmung?" I looked up at him.
"I had some spear time, thought maybe we could train a little."
I smiled and nodded. He helped me up, and we went off to kick some monster ass!

Kurumi has gained a level: (Level 17)

"I had great time, but I must go now." he put his hand on my head, then started at walk away.
"Alright… I'll see you later, Saigi!" Maha and I teleported out, right as Balmung was about to say something. So what if I knew his secret… I wouldn't tell anyone. I decided to call it a day, and log off to see what Saigi's reaction was. I hit the log off button, but it didn't work.

Maha looked at me with an innocent look as if he was saying "Are you going to leave me here all by myself?". I just thought that it was a little bug in the system, and didn't make a big deal out of it.

I went to the pond again, and dropped in a low-level short sword.
"Did you drop this gold ax, or this silver one?" The giant sweat-drop appeared to me for the second time. I hit neither. "What? Neither? Well just take this in return…"

Item found: Tnemgarf.rom

"Since when did they start having items with an extension code at the end of it?" This day was getting weirder and weirder by the minute.

Then Maha took the item from me and put it around my neck, it seemed to fit perfectly. "It's a magical item found in a quest." Maha spoke in my mind, and then pointed towards two figures that approached us.

"Kurumi… I see you've found Maha…" Murakami took out his katana. It looked like it had some kind of a code on it, "Please step aside… Maho, her ready!" A strange looking cat that looked kind of like Maha summoned a blue Dumbbell monster. I was ready to stop everything that was going on and get some answers, but instead I turned to Maha… by my facial expression he could see that I was very dumbfounded.

Maha flew around me, and settled in front of me, blocking my view.

The cat that stood in beside Murakami dashed towards Maha, aiming a strike. "No!" I ran in front of Maha, blocking the cat from attacking.

A bright flash of light filled the area, and everything became silent. I couldn't hear the wind anymore, nor the rustle of the grass. When everything came into focus again, Murakami stood by himself in amazement.
"The Fragment…" He dazed into the empty space, "Kurumi, you have a piece of the Fragment?"

I remembered the collar that Maha put around my neck. It looked like a normal chain, but it was its name what caught me offhand. "The Fragment…?" I touched the necklace.

Murakami pushed me aside knocking me off my feet, and making his way towards Maha. "You will pay for this, you miscalculated piece of hacker's code" He ran towards Maha with full speed.

"Stop!" Right as I said that, he did. "Is he paralyzed? Did I do this?" I was stunned. I looked in my spell book and saw 'Bind' attack. And a description under it.


Bind
Paralyzes a character or a monster for 30 seconds.


I ran to Maha and asked him to teleport someplace safe, where no one could find us. And before we left the area I turned to Murakami.
"Stay away from me and Maha… I trusted you, you know…" I looked down and left the area with Maha.

I tried logging out again, but it still didn't work. I looked at Maha, "I will go rest for a while… will you be ok here by yourself?" He nodded, and flew around the area to investigating the area, I'm guessing to see if anyone was here and left any marks or pieces of codes behind them. Then he came back and nodded once more telling me that it was ok for me to leave.

I took off my FMD, and walked to my bed. On the other room Saigi was asleep, then out of nowhere I sneezed loudly.
"Okimi…?" Saigi must have awakened when he heard the sneeze, "I wanted to ask you… how did you find out about Balmung?"
I smiled even though he couldn't see me in the dark.
"I somehow, always knew… And also you called me by my name in The World… Good night!" I dived into my bed, and fell asleep right away.

Well, who would have guessed that Saigi is Balmung? Shaney… good job on guessing, you won the first place! And your prize is… (drum roll) ANOTHER CHAPTER TOMORROW! Hehehe I'm so mean…