The Woman
A PSO/.HACK fanfic
By:
Chison
"Hey Omega…" Adrian breathed, "are you still alive?" looking over the room, trying to find his friend, "Yep, I'm alive and well…that was some room…its been a long time since we have been here…"Adrian walked closer Omega, using his sword as a crutch, "Adrian, your slowed down by the first room?" He looked at him, "hey…it's been a while since I last played…" Omega gave a hearty laugh, "all right, hold on," with that, he lifted his hands into the air, and a brilliant light pulsed from him, recovering Adrian. Putting away his Dragon Slayer, he looked to his friend, "that was just a warm-up room…" rolling his shoulders, they wandered towards the door, opening with a hiss, Adrian felt someone watching him, and he quickly turned around, seeing a woman with red hair and a turquoise streak, running from the top of her head to the ends of her bangs, wearing rimless glasses, hiding a pair of red eyes.
"Omega…" Adrian spoke to himself, watching the woman walk through the solid wall, "what Adrian?" He turned around, pointing at the wall, "there was a woman…and she just walked through the wall…" Omega looked at the wall, back to Adrian, and to the wall, "did you get hit on the head? I put a password on our game, so it's just the two of us…" Adrian stared at the wall, "that…looked like Red Ring Rico…" he thought, "Hey Adrian! Dark Flaz wont be killing himself anytime soon!" Omega shouted down the corridor, breaking him out of his trance, and he ran to catch up with his friend. Passing through the corridor, they came to another room, but no monsters appeared. "Whoa…I've never seen a room without monsters…" Omega spoke aloud, hearing his voice echo in the large room, Adrian wandered past him, pointing to the door on the other side, "look, I bet they will ambush us when we get to the door." He nodded and walked past Adrian towards the door, but nothing happened. "What…" Adrian looked around the room again, expecting monsters to come charging from all directions. Looking to Omega, he simply shrugged his shoulders, "maybe they are all taking a nap!" he jokingly shouted across the room, when suddenly the door behind Adrian suddenly opened.
"…Maybe it's a glitch or something," Omega walked towards Arian, who was still looking around, "or…maybe its Rico…" Adrian thought to himself as they left the room, down another corridor, and into a large, circular room. "Maybe this is where they all are…" Omega said with a smile and started to wander into the room, which became pitch black, "Adrian, you still by the door?" he called out to him, "yea," a low groan filled the room, Omega looked around for the source, but could not find one, "Adrian, get to the switches quick, I don't think we are alone in here!" Within in instant, he was running through the darkness, finding a faint glow of green in the far corner, he started towards it, only to bump into something hard. "Omega? Is that you?" Adrian called out, "no, I'm on the other side of the room!" A pair of green eyes suddenly flashed in the darkness, revealing its humanoid build, however its forearms were sharp blades.
Adrian dodged the first few swings, and brought the Dragon Slayer to block one blow, neither could gain the upper hand, when he smirked, the eye on the sword glowed, giving him the strength to throw the arms away from the monster, leaving him wide open. With a swift swing, Adrian cut the monster in two, and it simply disappeared, he rushed towards the button, and slammed on it with his right foot, flooding the room with light. "Well that wasn't too bad right?" Omega's voice echoed across the room, but Adrian didn't pay attention; he was focused on the woman, standing in front of the door. "Yo, Adrian, what are you look…" Omega fell silent when he saw the woman standing at the door. "You're…You're Rico? What are you doing here?" She simply smiled and turned to the door, waving her hand across it, and passed through as though she were ghost. "…Now do you believe me Omega?" Adrian said, making him nod in agreement, "I wonder what she did to the door?" Both of them walked to the door, and it slid open, revealing the teleporter to Dark Flaz. They looked at each other, then back to the room, and Omega was the first to walk inside, "come on Adrian, there is nothing wrong see?" waving his hands back and forth, Adrian slowly followed his friend towards the portal.
Coming to the teleporter, Omega turned to Adrian, "all right…this leads right to Flaz…are you ready?" He nodded, "all right, then we should make a tele-pipe directly from here, incase we die…" Adrian closed his eyes, and stretched out his arms, and swirled them in front of him, with his right hand slamming against the ground, a burst of white light came upon impact, and a moment later, there was a column of light, with different color swirling around inside. "Ok, we are all set…I've got plenty of items for us both, how about you?" Omega said, causing Adrian to nod, and they stepped onto the teleporter and suddenly vanished…