Well, I bet you can't guess what this is about. But I couldn't think of anything else to call it. What, do you want me to call it "Chpater 5: What happened after Kite went on a dungeon adventure with A-20 and pissed off all his friends by forgetting about them and letting Mimiru leave the dungeon without talking to them"? But I'm not sure if Mimiru or Tsukasa will come back... I guess you'll have to wait and see!
CHAPTER 5
BRACELET
When he got back to Delta Server, he found Akazu, Michoru, Suzaku, and Magora waiting for him by the chaos gate.
"Where have you been?" asked Magora angrily.
"I went to meet my friends from school," said Kite.
"Well, you could have told us!" said Akazu. "Then we could have gone to a dungeon instead of waiting around here for half an hour!"
"Sorry, guys," said Kite. "I meant to email you, but I forgot. Look, let's just go to a dungeon. Then we can level up together and it'll be like nothing ever happened."
"Fine," said Michoru. "But I'm party leader!"
"OK," said Kite. "What type of field do we want to go to?"
"I heard snow fields were nice," said Suzaku.
"Nah, I don't want to go to a cold place," said Magora. "How about a grassland?"
"We've already been to a grassland," said Akazu. "What about a desert? Or a molten?"
"Let's let Michoru decide," said Kite. "She is the Party Leader, after all."
"OK," said Michoru. "I want to go to a leaf mold field. Delta, Quiet, Orange, Melody!"
Delta Quiet Orange Melody
They arrived in a field adorned with autumn leaves and giant mushrooms here and there.
"Whoa, this is beautiful!" said Michoru.
"It's amazing how the programmers created such interesting places," said Akazu.
"Well, let's see more of it!" said Suzaku excitedly.
"I'll use a Fairy's Orb," said Magora, raising a small ball of light into the air. Fairies came out of it and yellow dots appeared all over the field map.
They headed toward the closest portal and two Swordmanoids came out. Michoru didn't give them any chat commands, so they just ran forward to tackle the monsters using normal attacks. Kite and Akazu attacked one, and Magora and Suzaku attacked the other. Michoru hung back, and they expected her to heal them.
The Swordmanoid slashed horizontally at Kite, but he blocked with his staff. Meanwhile, Akazu ran behind the creature and sliced through it's back with his axe. The creature died, and they all received EXP. Magora and Suzaku were having a hard time with their monster, and the creature struck Suzaku in the chest and then hit Magora in the stomach. They both died, and Kite revived them despite Michoru's commands. Magora and Suzaku both attacked the Swordmanoid, and it died.
"Michoru, why didn't you give us any commands?" asked Suzaku.
"Well, I figured that we don't really need to do it," said Michoru."I mean, what people do in battle should just be common sense. The Party Leader shouldn't have to shepherd them.I even left a post about it on the board. Maybe we can start a trend!"
"You know, that's actually really smart," said Akazu.
"Yeah!" said Magora. "From now on, we fight according to what we think ourselves!"
"Cool," said Kite. "Now let's head to the next portal to try out our new strategy!"
They ran to the nearest portal and a large crab creature came out.
"Snip Snap!" said Michoru. "OK, here we go!"
"Vak Kruz!" said Magora, making fireballs crash into the creature. It caused an elemental hit and took out half it's health.
"Axel Pain!" called Akazu, crushing the enemy under his axe. They all leveled up.
"Awesome!" said Michoru excitedly.
They ran forward to tackle the next portal, and they encountered two Deadly Moths and one Snip Snap.
"Triple Doom!" cried Magora, slicing her spear into one of the Deadly Moths.
"Gale Breath!" said Akazu, holding a scroll in the air. It had two symbols on it, one they understood as the game's symbol for Wood, but the other meaningless to them. They glowed green, and several trees suddenly grew underneath the Deadly Moth that Magora attacked earlier, striking out the remainder of it's health.
"Tiger Claws!" called Suzaku, releasing his spinning attack upon the other moth.
"Juk Rom!" cried Kite, raising his staff in the air, while a green tornado with leaves flew up from under the moth, killing it.
"Crack Beat!" said Michoru, jumping into the air and slicing through the Snip Snap. They all gained EXP as it died.
"That was awesome!" said Akazu.
"Yeah!" continued Michoru. "We make a great party!"
"I only see one other portal on the map," said Magora.
"Then let's go clear it!" said Suzaku.
They ran into the portal and two Swordmanoids, Two Deadly Moths, and Two Snip Snaps came out of it.
"OK, let's go!" said Michoru excitedly, running toward a Deadly Moth and slashing at it with her sword.
Kite ran towards a Swordmanoid and clubbed it over the head with his staff, doing some damage. Magora ran to the other Swordmanoid and began attacking with her spear. Akazu stood between a Snip Snap and a Deadly Moth, while Suzaku slashed at a Snip Snap.
They didn't have much SP left over from the last battle, so they didn't use any skills. They eventually killed their attackers, though they all got hit many times and had to be recovered. When the battle was over they gained a lot of EXP, and so they headed into the dungeon.
The inside of the dungeon was like a large tunnel dug out by some kind of giant mole. They walked into the first room, and they saw a large creature that looked like a dog's head with fire forming it's body. It was strange, though, because it hada weird green glow.
"What is that?" asked Akazu.
"I'll check," said Kite. He looked at the enemy information to find that its name was garbled and unreadable, as was it's HP information.
"This is strange," said Magora. "I want to get out of here!"
"I do, too," said Suzaku. "But we can't leave until we beat this monster, so let's try."
Suzaku ran forward and attacked, but nothing happened. The damage numbers rose from the monster, but its HP meter stayed the same. Kite ran forward and started using magic, but with the same result. Magora shoved her spear into its side, but to no avail. Michoru and Akazu both attacked with physical attack skills. But the result was always the same. The monster could not be beaten.
Suddenly, Helba's voice rang out through the room.
"The Book of Twilight!" she said. "Open it!"
"What do you mean, 'the Book of Twilight'?" asked Michoru.
"The book you got from Aura! Use it now!"
"OK," they said.
They held the book out and opened it. Streams of green light shot out and bounced around the room. A light collided with each of them, and they were surrounded by a green essence. A blue and green bracelet appeared around each of their wrists. The bracelets grew bigger and bigger and then snapped forward, releasing dark blue beams which struck the monster. The green glow around the monster disappeared, and they killed it quickly.
"What just happened?" asked Kite.
"I don't know," said Michoru. "But I have a feeling that we aren't just normal players in The World anymore!"
Hmm... are they just normal players in The World? No. But something important and exciting happens in the next chapter, so don't stop reading now!