A/N: Hey guys/girls StarKnight07 here with the second chapter for this story! Like in the first chapter I want to say thank you to , Shonenblume, SilverWingedPhoenix, RustyRuby and also Author Heart- Ance for following my story! And about your questions, Ance… those questions are great! I'll answer each of them right now without giving any big spoilers: (1) About the mysterious Grimoire, well in my mind right now she is a fairy, just like Histoire and Croire, but with a little twist… (2) Hikaru doesn't live in ZeroDimension in the past, and that's because I will not use the MegaDimension story, sorry XD (3) I'll add the "Dimensional Corruption" idea in my inventory for now, I have LOTS of plans in my head about this story of mine XD And so without further ado, let's start the second chapter! (And thanks to my… senior in writing for pointing out my wall-of-text mistake XD)

Hyperdimension Neptunia is owned by Idea Factory and Compile Heart. I only own my story and my OC.

Chapter two: "Dark side, revealed memory."

"Stop dodging my attacks!"

"Woah!"

forty-five minutes had passed, and it's just me dodging Uzume's attacks, was she this good in fighting in the past? I couldn't even see any chance to counterattack!

"Hikaru, calm down. I can see that sometimes she will slow down for a bit. I'll tell you when there's a chance to attack. Just keep dodging."

Grimoire said to me in a rather serious tone, shocking. I followed her tips and keep dodging Uzume's punches, but gawd it's hard to keep dodging.

"Hikaru, now!" Grimoire said, and she's right, Uzume kinda slowed down for a while, using that little opportunity, I attack her with my dagger.

*Slash!*

Her left cheek lets out a little blood after my attack, Uzume touched her left cheek in surprise and I made a distance from her, preparing for another strike, well if I can.

"Heh, not bad. But this pointless match of ours was longer than I expected…" she chuckled darkly after she said that, man I think I'm gonna piss my pants.

"And I forgot my megaphone at home… what to do, what to do?" She acted like she thought about something, and then she smiled creepily afterwards.

"I have an idea…" She picked a futuristic purple-and-black katana that was laying on the ground, it must be one of the tied up girl's weapons.

"I'm not the type to use her enemy's weapon, but this will do." I can see dark energy coming out from the katana, OH NO NO NO NO NO!

"HIKARU! MOVE NOW!" 'I CAN'T!'

CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP SHE DASHED INTO MY DIRECTION!

*"*BZZT!* Please don't die!..."*

"HIKARU!" Grimoire's shout woke me up from my trance. I quickly move to the right as far as possible, but maybe it's a stupid move.

"Oh, I forgot that I'm a liar…" Uzume smirked, wait WHAT?!

"Delusion Slash: Wave Impact" She slashed the air, creating a crescent moon shaped energy towards me.

*BOOM!*

"GAAAHHH!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Apparently that wave attack made me hit a giant rock. Great.

"Kh… My arms… my legs… kh!" I can taste my blood, must be from my head.

"Any last words, dear foolish challenger of mine?" Uzume asked still with an evil smirk on her face.

"P-please… just… let them go…" I said to her with a weak voice.

"You want me to let those two go? Heh, a difficult wish to grant, unless…" She looked straight into my eyes. "You will be my… 'assistant', sounds good?"

"Hikaru! Don't accept that, you will do the same mistake that you already did in the past!"

'I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ELSE THAT I COULD DO SO F#CK IT!' I shouted back at Grimoire, and I can feel that she's shocked from my outburst.

"F-fine… do what you want, just… let them go, please…"

"Well, of course, see for yourself."

I looked at them, and just like what Uzume said, she released them from the Purple energy chains.

"Well, contract complete… now then." Uzume gestured her right hand as if she's grabbing something, and I can feel that I'm floating in midair.

"Oh come on, she knows how to use The F*rce too?!" Grimoire asked in frustration.

"Well then, good night… 'assistant'." After Uzume said that to me, I lost my consciousness once again.

*BZZT!*

"Hey, Uzume… remember the promise we made when we were kids? Well when I said 'kid' when you were still a half Goddess…"

"Oh, oh! I remember it! Wait, don't tell me you're gonna break that?!"

"No, of course not! But, we will still be friends, right?"

"Of course, all *five* of us!"

I looked at her bright orange eyes, and I know that I'll, no, we'll live with ease…

"Well, let's do the last quest then!"

"Hey, *BZZT!* wait up!"

…Or so I've thought…

*BZZT!*

"Ugh… where am I?"

"Wake up, doofus." I looked at the source of the voice. Uzume.

"Hey, Uzu-" I couldn't finish my sentence because she glared at me menacingly.

"Stop calling me that, You'll call me Lady Kurome, name's Kurome Ankokuboshi by the way. And what's your name?"

"Psst hey Hikaru, don't tell her your name, she thought that she brainwashed you, but nope because I'm here in your head." Grimoire told me.

'So what name should I use?' "Up to you."

"Well? What's your name?" Uzume -or Kurome- asked me again.

"My name is Nuit."

"Really?! Of all the creative names you choose Nuit? FRENCH?!"

'HEY I DON'T HAVE SOME CLICHÉ SKILLS AT NAMING, OKAY?!'

"Nuit, huh? Well then, I need you to do something for me."

"Okay, what should I do?" I asked her.

"Go to the steampunky nation… what's the name again?"

"Land of Black Regality, Lastation." Grimoire told me.

"Land of Black Regality, Lastation?" I asked. "Yeah, that's the name. So I need you to go there and recruit someone for me." She explains.

"Okay, who's the guy?" "He goes around by the name Steamax. A ninja in Purple suit, should be easy." She told me more about this 'Steamax' guy.

"huh, well I'm going now." "Yeah, good luck."

I went out from the abandoned building.

"Hey, Hikaru."

"Hm? What is it?" Grimoire started a conversation while I'm walking to the Planeptune-Lastation border.

"I just wanna say… I'm sorry."

"What? Why? You helped me until now, even though I don't remember you, I-"

"But still I'm sorry! I'm sorry for the time when you fought Uzume, now I know why you chose to do that, and it's because of my mistakes! Ugh, I'm so stupid!"
Grimoire yelled in frustration.

"Woah, your mistakes? I don't remember you giving me false informations or something…"

"The truth is, the [her] person that I spoke of is not Uzume, I don't know why she was there instead of [her]…"

"So Uzume, or Kurome, is not this [her] character?"

"Yeah… HIkaru, I'm really sorry, because of that stupid mistake now you're working under Kurome now…"

"Don't say 'I'm sorry', you're the one who prevented Kurome from brainwashing me, right? Wait, did you get hurt in the process?"
I asked her, I don't want her to get hurt, somehow…

"Well, my 'weapon form' is now tainted by Kurome's negative energy, but other than that I'm fine."

"Weapon form? What are you exactly?" I'm a rather curious guy, after all.

"Well… uh… I'll tell you later, hey! There's the border!" I looked at the Planeptune-Lastation border, pretty cool. I waited until the gates are open.

"You can now Terraport to Lastation!" One of the operators said via the speaker. I terraported? to Lastation to meet the purple ninja.

"Well, we're here. *cough* the air's not that fresh though."

"Yeah Lastation's got some environment issues because of the factories. But Hikaru, welcome to the land of Black Regality!."

"Thanks." I walked at the sidewalk of Lastation.

"Where should I look for this Steamax guy? Got any ideas Grimoire?" I asked her since she probably knows about Lastation too.

"Of course I know about this land! Well, from my… 'data' I think we should go to some comic stores or something."

"Comic store? Why would a ninja went into some comic store?"

"Hey, don't judge people's taste, okay!" sigh, I can't say no to that.

"Okay, we'll go to each stores around, I guess." I went into a book store to start my searching quest.

'Okay, this is ridiculous… WE'VE BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHERE AND THERE'S NO NINJAS!' I sat on one of the chairs in the store to rest up for awhile.

"Hoho, this is one beautiful doujin! I better buy this and go to him later, hehehe…" There's this suspicious looking guy wearing a purple shirt, purple jeans and also a purple scarf walking with a creepy smile towards the cashier with a… IS THAT A R*: Z*RO DOUJINSHI?!

"Hey, Hikaru… purple shirt, jeans and scarf… ninjas use scarfs to kinda hide their identity, right?"

'Now that you mention it… IS THAT REALLY STEAMAX?!'

"Go to him, Hikaru!" I stand up and walked to the cashier, and lucky me, he just finished the paying process.

"Yahoo! Another fun time material get! Well, it's time to go home now!" I pat his shoulder.

"Hm? Oh hey, is there anything I can help you, dude?" He asked.

"Well, yeah… I need you to come with me… Steamax." His eyes glared at me for a moment, and after that he just laughed.

"Steamax? My name is Koji, dude~ you must be-"

"Don't shit with me, Lady Kurome wants to speak with you." I cut his sentence by whispering to his ear.

"So it's time, huh? Fine, lead the way, Mr.?"

"Nuit. That's my name."

"Mr. Nuit. Okay then."

We walked into the exit. Guess it's time to go back to Planeptune. Mission accomplished.

We've arrived in Planeptune once again.

"So, Mr. Nuit, how did you know about my disguise in the first place?" I looked at him, now he wears a purple robotic ninja suit.

"Instinct. That's how."

"Fair enough." We walked into Virtua Forest.

"Say, where is the hideout?"

"Near the edge of this forest. It's an old building."

"Hikaru, stop."

'What is it?' I stopped for a moment and Steamax did the same thing.

"There's something watching us."

"Mr. Nuit, what is the matter?"

"Don't talk." I answered Steamax's question. Not long after that, I felt something stung me on my neck.

"Guh!" I fall to my knees.

"Mr. Nuit! Are you okay?!" Steamax asked with a concerned tone.

"Kh… Paralyze shot and I'm losing my consciousness, nice. Just walk until you see a purple building, and can you carry me or somethin-"

"Mr. Nuit!" Steamax's call rings in my head as I once again fainted. This will be a regular thing, I guess.

*BZZT!*

"Where am I?" I'm currently standing on a large area, and it's all white in color. It kinda feels like I'm standing in the blank space, where I listened to Grimoire's voice for the first time.

"You are in the light side of your heart." I hear a voice answering my question, and is that flapping sounds I hear?
When I looked up, I can see a dragon. A BIG. DRAGON.

"AHHHH! Please don't eat me!" I pleaded to the dragon as the dragon flew to my direction.

"Heh, if I can do that, I would certainly do it." The dragon landed in front of me and casually rests his body on the ground.

"So… you won't eat me?"

"Hah, of course not. Anyways, greetings Hikaru, it's been awhile since I saw you in this area."

"Wait, you know me?"

"Of course, I am your 'power' after all." Wait, power? "Power? What do you mean?"

"So my guess is correct. You have been revived. Well, my name is The Dragon's Soul, as what my name implies, I am simply a soul of a certain dragon that took the Gamindustri's sky in its care." Gamindustri's sky? A certain dragon?

"Oh, um… since I don't have any memories of my past… can you help me remember them? You're my power, right?"

"Well, yeah. But because I'm a part of your 'soul', I don't remember much, because you've been revived." Well that sucks.

"Then, can you at least tell me a bit about my past?" The soul chuckled.

"Yeah, I can do that. Well, centuries ago, Gamindustri has only one nation, the Land of Purple Progress, Planeptune is the name for the nation, even though the name was created after the crisis called 'The Fall'."

"And then?"

"But don't worry about the crisis, either way, years before the crisis Gamindustri has no Goddess yet at the time, only monsters, and the dragon."

"Wait, no Goddess?" That's new.

"Right. But one day the land of Gamindustri shined brightly, creating a new being, a human. Her name is Grimoire. With the power of her tome, she created other human beings with the help of Gamindustri's blessings. And you are one of the first humans being created." WAIT WHAT?! Grimoire is the first human being? And she created other human beings?!

"Uh… so Grimoire is a human?"

"Wait until I'm finished. The 250.000 new humans created a nation with no name under Grimoire's guidance and education." Okay so Grimoire was a human in the past, no goddess for Gamindustri and the first nation in history is the currently named Planeptune. I'm trying to connect all the informations, but I got nothing.

"It seems that you're interested into finding out more about your past. I can let you see some of them, if you want." The soul offered something interesting to me.

"Well, I'd like that, but hang on a sec."

"Hm? What is it?"

"If you're a dragon's soul, then your body should be transparent, right? Well how can your head, claws and wings are not transparent?"

"Oh, so you've noticed? Well if you got a big part of your memories back you'll know the answer. Now, I ask you again, do you want to know?"

I stare at its crimson eyes, its eyes shines every time it spoke. "….yeah, I want to know."

"Well then, take a deep breath, and then stare into my eyes." I did what the soul said, and its eyes stared back at me.

"Have a nice nostalgia ride… 'Soul'."

My vision became blurry for a moment. I rubbed my eyes with my left arm, how did my arms and legs healed in the first place? Must be Lady Kurome's doing.

"Hey, chief, you okay?" huh? I look at my right and I saw a teenager smirking at me. He wears a red sweater and white jeans, and a pair of blue fingerless gloves.

"Hm? Yeah, I'm good."

"Well let's get going, Histoire's gonna be mad if we're late… again." He started to walk into a meeting room.

"Hey, wait!" I follow him into the meeting room.

"Hikaru-san, Leo-kun! You two were late… AGAIN!" Not long after we entered the room, a fairy yelled at us.

"I'm sorry, Histoire!" the teenager named Leo quickly apologized. So she is Histoire?

"I'm sorry too, Histoire." Histoire lets out a sigh while massaging her temples.

"*Sigh* well please take a seat, you two. That way we can start discussing our new problems." I sat on a red sofa while Leo sat on a red chair.

"Ah, Hikachii! Leochii! You guys were late again!"

I looked to the door, four people walked to this meeting room. There's two teenagers that are maybe older or younger than Leo, a woman in her late 20s bringing an old book, and lastly is a girl that, by her looks, is 18 years old. She has a pair of bright orange eyes and her long, sanguine hair is worn in pigtails located near the bottom of her head, held by hair that has been knotted. She wears a very small black tube top under an opened white jacket with a bright orange, black, and white tie. She also wears a pair of pleated shorts worn with a pair of thin black suspenders, and it was opened to reveal her orange underwear, and also black fingerless gloves over a pair of orange and black sleeves, matching socks, black shoes and a pair of black leg warmers with buttons on them. But why did she looked almost like Lady Kurome?

"Hmm? What's the matter, Hikachii? Is there something on Uzume's face?" she asked in a third-person style. Wait, 'Uzume'?

"There's nothing on your face… Uzume." I answered her question.

"Oh, 'kay then!" she sat beside me, and the other three followed suit.

"Now that Hikaru-san and Leo-kun has arrived, let us start our meeting." Histoire said.

So this is one of my lost memories? And does the girl beside me looked like Lady Kurome? And her name is Uzume? I'll have a long talk with Grimoire when I woke up, and I also need to say thanks to that soul, but something feels… off, well I'll think about it later. My little adventure continues as me and the rest of them discussed about what Histoire called 'new problems'. I might enjoy this moment, yeah, maybe.

{END OF CHAPTER TWO. SAVE THE PROGRESS?}

{YES} / {NO}

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A/N: And that is Chapter two for this story, and guys I'm really sorry if you guys thought the fight scene are lame or something like that, I actually finished my final test for the first semester of my school, and it's not a pleasant experience, so yeah I'll do my best to make the fight scenes more better in the future… anyway, lots of secrets have been revealed… or not? Did the Dragon's soul lied to Hikaru? Or is it the truth? Well I'll write chapter four and upload it next week… if I can XD Reviews are appreciated, be it critics, suggestions or helpful tips! StarKnight07, signing out!

*I killed them… huh?*