/FILE OPEN...TILL DEATH DO US PART...1/
"Ol' Repth!"
"Thanks! Hiya!"
"Rargh!"
"C'mon sis, you can do it!"
"Hiya! Twin Moons!"
"Rargh!"
"Yeah! nice job, Rena! you did it!"
"I couldn't have done it without you, Reaper, or you, sis."
"Wow."
"Is that all you can say, Rose? is wow?" I joke
"Shut up." she replies back
I just hold her hand in mine and look at her then Rena
"Reaper?" Rena asks
"Yes, Rena?"
"Are you and sis...er uh...dating?"
Blackrose and me just look at each other smiling then we look back at Rena and nod our heads yes
"You are?"
"Yes, Rena, we are." Blackrose points out
"For how long?"
"Uh..." she stops
"For as long as we've known each other, Rena." I answer
"Now come on. We've got a rare treasure to acquire." I spoke
Rena nods her head in joy
"Okay! lets get that treasure!"
She then runs off toward the temple and I just stare at Blackrose
"You know, Reaper, I'm going to tell you the same thing I once told a close friend,"
"What's that?"
"It's impolite to stare." she says, looking at me with that care-free, joyus expression
"You know Rose, your sister Rena, has improved quite a bit. She's what? level fifty now and we came to a level sixty five area with her?" I smart
"Yeah. She has but only because she looks up to someone she really cares for." she exclaims, smiling at me before leaning her head onto my shoulder and dragging me into the temple
'Yeah, someone she really looks up to.' I thought
After five minutes, BlackRose and me arrive to meet up with Rena- who was standing there; arms crossed and foot tapping. On her face, a sly, laughing and oh my god facial expression on; staring at us
"Sorry." I laugh
"It's okay, Reaper, really, it is," she laughs before walking up to me and handing me two blades
"What's this?"
"This is for you, Reaper." she smiles
I stare at these two long, curved blades which were sarrated toward the blade tip. Had blood-red handles, glew with an emerald-ruby shine and were just plain outright rare
"Th...thank you, Rena, but I--"
"Shhh." she tells me, holding her finger to her mouth, laughing
"And for you, sis, this."
She holds up in the air a steel-grey blade with a bluish-ash stained handle which, toward the tip, was also sarrated but with a weird marking running from tip to handle
"Thank you, Rena, but why are you giving us such rare and strong weapons?" Blackrose asks
"Sis," she started
"I'm doing this because you guys helped me win a battle that I would not have won by myself and plus, you both taught me strategy which I needed to learn, badly." she answered
"Well, we've got our treasure and looking at the time, I say we all log off and go to bed." I gospeled
"Yeah, sure." Rena spoke
"Night y'all." I say, kissing Blackrose on the lips and Rena on the forehead
"Tomorrow we'll meet in theta server and go somewhere else, k?"
Both just shake their heads and then we all use a sprite ocarina and go to the portal outside the temple, reappear in town and log off for the night
---Lan's dorm---
Taking off my FMD and setting beside my controller next to my keyboard I let out a big, long sigh of relief and happiness
"Wow. Girls--those girls in particular can really drain a man--game or not. But I gotta say, they did have a lot of fun tonight and really," I stop and let my thoughts run through
'Will I actually go THAT far? will I? I can't, Shay...but Rose...Yes or no?'
"Screw it. I'm going to bed."
With that, I shutdown my computer and walk over to my bed. I get beneath the covers and quickly fall asleep; lost in pools of dreams
Lan?
I'm sorry, Shay, but I love her more, I'm really sorry--
"Ahhh!"
I jump, awake in a cold sweat I try to piece together my dream
"Did I really?--I did, but I don't even know the real Blackrose--let alone what she looks like."
---Warring City, Luminous Cloth; Chaos Gate---
"Reaper."
"Rose! thank you for coming." I greet, hugging and kissing her lips
"Yeah, well, you know how it is." she replies
"Yeah. When's Rena gonna be on?"
"She had to stay at a friends house last nigh."
"Why?"
"Our parents got into a fight, but, you know, when your father goes out with friends and comes home wasted--"
"Shhh. I know, that's why I'm in a dorm room at a college right now." I answer
"Oh really? where?"
"In Tokyo, the Yukimashima College and Institution."
"Wow. What're you studying to be?"
"I don't really know yet, really. I mainly just got in to get away from my father." I smile
"Ah."
"Anyways, I wanted to ask you something, Rose, it's important."
"Like what?"
"I was wondering if you maybe wanted to meet--in real life."
"Where?"
"Tokyo."
"That's not very far fromwhere I live, Reaper."
"Would that be a problem?"
"No no, oh no! no problem at all."
"Where do you live?" I asked
"I'm actually three miles from your college, I live on Yin road."
"Nice."
"Yeah, well if you wanna meet up, then we'll meet tomorrow at the cafe in-between." she started
"I know which one that is, okay, well until then, lets go level up or something."
"Okay, you lead." she spoke, happily
'Wow, guess it's over between me and Shay.'
"Sis! Reaper!"
"Rena?" we both shriek
"Sister, I thought you were--"
"I still am but you see, it's like this, Mara here, has the game also and two computers so we're both online." she explains
"So where's Mara?" I ask, looking around
"She's off with friends so I'm here with you guys, is that alright?"
"Yeah. That's fine actually, we were just talking about you." I quote
BING!
"Hello, I've got mail, hold on a sec." I said, checking the mail
Subject: Meet right now, alone From: Helba
Reaper. This is urgent, something's happened and I need to talk with you immediately, no questions asked! and if you don't show up, then all will go to Hell and back. Meet me at the Net Slums, hurry!
'Wow, must be something good happening for once.' I think
"Rose,"
"Yeah?"
I whisper in her ear,
'Helba needs to talk with me now, something's up. Head with Rena to wherever she wants, I'll e-mail you as soon as I know what's wrong. I love you.'
I then kiss her lips and vanish with gold rings circling around me
"Where'd he go?" Rena questioned
"Important, Rena. Come on, you and me will go and have some fun, guy free." she smiles
"Okay!"
NET SLUMS
"Helba! I"m here, where are you?!" I call, walking around this filthy, data infested piece of land
"Good. You've showed up for once. I'm proud of you, Reaper."
"What is it this time, Helba? Hmmm? can't you see I've got other matters to attend to--"
"Like what, Reaper? hanging out with two girls?" she yells
'Argh! what a bitch.'
"Listen. Something has gone haywire and I can't fix it--"
"And you think I can? Helba, I sacrificed my bracelet for another chance in this game. I killed Kuma because of it and now, with no bracelet and no avatar, I'm just another player. Get Haseo to help you. I'm useless now."
I told her with fury in my voice and turned around about to walk away
"So then, you're just going to walk away from it all? the pain and suffering, the problems, even Tri-Edge?"
That stopped me in my tracks
'Tri-Edge?! what about him?' I think. I turn back around and stare Helba dead in the eye
"What do you mean, Helba?"
"Exactly what I just said, Reaper. Tri-Edge has been very, what's the word, fussy. I've been able to follow him oh so far and came to a conclusion."
"Like what?" I ask, now interested and a little worried
"He's been going to and fro the area that you saw him kill Aura."
"So? what's the problem there?"
"The problem, Reaper, is that he thinks Aura is alive."
'Alive?'
"He thinks that vagrent AI, Zefie, may have come into contact with her momma."
"Zefie? whats she got to do with--"
"That I don't even know. Telling you, she may cause us problems."
"Lemme guess, you want me to track down Zefie and protect her from Tri-Edge?"
"Not exactly the word I'd use but yes. Don't let Tri-Edge get to her Reaper, or The World may fall."
"Still, Helba, I can't do a damn thing! I'm useless and worthless! yes, I admit, when I had an avatar and the bracelet I thought I was invincible and could protect anyone but now...now I can't even live peacefully." by this time, I was trying to hide my tears
"Reaper, only a select few have come into contact with Aura and Zefie. Those few were you and...Tri-Edge."
"You mean Kite, don't you?" I kick back
"Yes, Kite before that corruption overwelmed him. Listen, I need--"
"Helba, ha, I just can't do anything anymore so just go and get Haseo to do it, I mean look at him, he's got a vendetta against Tri-Edge also. He took Atoli from him and--"
"Are you saying that you do not have a vendetta against him? that, my dear Reaper, is a lie itself."
"Shut up!" I scream with bloodlust
"I admit, I do! but not like Haseo does okay. He has an avatar, he can terminate Tri-Edge easily, all he needs to do is believe in himself. I've overstayed my visit, good-bye...sister."
I then vanish from the Net Slums
"Fine. Dear brother, if that is how you will play this ace. Then I have no other choice but to force your hand. mwa ha ha ha."