State: Chapter 04: The Right from the will

Concerned Characters: Kite, Tsukasa, Sora, Bear, Mimiru...

Pairing: non pairing(?)

Disclamer: Chapter 01 for it.

A/N: Well, here is chapter four. I'm starting to take some scenes from the serie but most events will still be centered on Kite anyway. It's more to fix everything into a possible timeline, though I think there is going to be some changes about the time periods because I dont really feel like filing the story with too much pointless event.

Also, I'm going to be busy for a while, so I probably wont update before a week or so. Again, sorry for the grammar and all...

Enjoy!

Chapter 04: The Right from the Will

The white-haired Wavemaster pushed the grand door and looked inside with displeasure. He was trying to find tranquility and peace. It seemed he couldn't just sleep and forget so he was looking for a deserted field to spend his time. He knew the cathedral didn't have any monsters in it. It was bothersome someone was already here. He recalled having seen the player at the Chaos Gate.

The other player stood up as Tsukasa opened the door. What was he doing here anyway? Without much then a glance in his direction, the red-claded boy stormed past him to the exit. The Wavemaster had the impression he heard the other mutter "sorry", but it could have been his imagination.

Tsukasa stepped in the cathedral and sat on a bench, closing his eyes for a while. At least the other guy didn't bother him. After a while, he was relaxed enough to let his eyes wander in the church, from the nice vitrals to the reflecting floor. A glips of light on it made him look more attentively. Water was on the floor, in front of the pedestral, shimering with beauty. The boy gazed at it in amazement and wonder. He didn't remember seeing this last time he came here.

The sun of the Theta server was high as always. Bear the player sat on a fence near the Grunty Ranch, apparently in deep thought. This morning, the blue tatooed warrior had check the BBS again to read the responses. He had been surprised to see messages of worried players on the thread. The mention of the Wavemaster didn't go unnoticed either. He also recieved a mail from his partner Mimiru telling him to wait at Dun Loireag for her. Apparently, she had important things to tell him about this. As he waited, he saw the white-haired Wavemaster going to the Grunty Ranch and decided to wait for him outside. There was nothing better than hearing the truth from the source.

The boy came out of the ranch and Bear called him.

"Yo!" The boy stopped, looking at him in annoyance. Bear continued."Have you read the board recently?"

The Wavemaster went stiff, holding his breath, apparently displeased with his enconter with the Blademaster.

"This is not my problem!"

"That's fine then." Finaly answered Bear. He didn't needed to press further.

The boy quickly parted with him. Bear didn't mind. He could see his female compagnon comming to him from afar. Maybe some of the strange things which were happening could be explained then.

Of course, he didn't know yet how far from his definition of "strange" those events were.

Bursting, Passed Over, Aqua Field was a very low level area. Actualy, it was made for the fresh beginers. Its estimated level was of 1. One could wonder what was the strong Twin Blade doing in such a field. He was clutched near the dungeon. Its nauseous atmosphere was making his nostril flinch, but he still wasn't moving. The last scenery of the cathedral was still in his head. His eyes were dry from crying and his nose was stuffed. He hated this. It was like a reminiscence of his own illusionnal life.

Still, he couldn't stand this. this feeling of despair, he felt powerless and far from any hope. When Carmina Gadelica was corrupted, when Mia disapeared, when he lost the Bracelet... he had never felt so down. He could still count on the others then. Everyone was fighting to do something. He had been wrong in thinking he was alone. At this time he had everyone. At this time he had BlackRose.

BlackRose...

It was painful to think of Orca. He felt like he forgot him the most of all. The others, Elk, Mia... It was hard to even remind himself of them without causing his tears to flow again. But somehow, it was different with BlackRose. When he thought of her, he heard her yelling, strong and determined voice. Telling him how much of an idiot he was by mopping around, pushing him forward like she always did.

She wasn't here anymore

She wouldn't push him again. It was then that he realised what it was he felt when he thought of her. It was guilt. She wouldn't push him anymore and he was acting in complete contradiction with what she encouraged him to.

"I wouln't have gone this far without you"

Neither would I have, BlackRose.

"So...what am I supposed to do when you start doubting yourself!"

Doubting my own existence...

"How am I supposed to cope? Does a big sister have to be happy?"

Of course not...

"I... I want to..."

please don't cry...

"Wha?... I'm not crying! You can't even see me so dont make any assumption!"

She never shown her tears... she tried to hide them even from me...

That's right.

Muscles twiched, soon he was on his feet, confidence replacing all his worries. Yes, he couldn't fall them. He wouln't fall them all... He had to find some answers. He had to find them. He had to find Aura... no matter where she was now. His throat was sore from emotion and the smile on his face looked more like a forced smirk, but his resolution was high again. He started running on the field, preparing himself to leave. The wind which wistled in his ears revived him. For the first time since his awakening, he was starting to appreciate his feelings.

He left the field in three circles of light.

Dun Loireag had its natural peaceful impression on players. Bear was feeling it and it was calming him down. All this situation, All this was starting to lose all its senses. But at the same time... He couldn't reflect well on this. Mimiru just left him to his thoughts. He really wasn't sure anymore.

According to her, the Wavemaster was a boy named Tsukasa who had somehow been involved with the Crimson Knights by hanging around a strange edited cat character. What was appealing his perplexity in all this was the fact the Wavemaster assured Mimiru he couldn't log out. Was this even possible? Did this mean he somehow couldn't reach his terminal anymore? Was his main body lost?

He shivered at this thought. But all those ideas were pure fictions right? There was no way someone could still be in the game if this someone's main body was lost! ...was there?

But then, why could he perfectly imagine it?...

Maybe he was getting ahead of himself. If the boy was as rude as Mimiru seemt to think, then there were chances he wasn't completely honest with her. And he barely knew the boy himself, he'll probably have to wait and see.

A quick beeping echoed in his visor. It was signaling the arrival of the flashmail he was waiting from his partner B.T.. He did a double take at what was written. Apparently, his Wavemaster compagnon was pissed. As she was leveling alone, she was PKed by some Twin Blade. Bear sighed, it was to be expected, leveling alone was dangerous for a Wavemaster. She had tipped she would join him soon, so he waited. He was also going to have to explain his dilema to her later, tomorow with Mimiru.

As Kite arrived in Mac Anu, He direcly looked in his flashmail option to try and contact his newest ally. He didn't knew what time it was but he assumed it was day since the town was crowded. Upon looking to his adresses list, he noted there was only Sora's. He wasn't really surprised at this, considering everything which happened. He checked to see if anything else was missing, but didn't found anything peculiar about his items or his keywords lits. He tried to type a quick message, however, he wasn't sure how to proceed. It looked like some flat screen had appeared before his eyes which he tried to reach with his bare hand. With most difficulties, he managed to put a short text in and sent it.

Tired from his hard work, he was looking around grogily, apparently still exausted from his lack of sleep, when the sight of a very familiar person caught his gaze. His breath was cut short, his eyes were wide, he just couldn't believe it. A mixture of feelings he could barely comprehend made his heart beat faster. All his common senses disappeared as he rushed wildly toward the figure. Slowly, what he could understand as intense relieves, joy and fondness made their way to his face. He was smiling nearly insanly as he runned to the female Heavy Blade. BlackRose! BlackRose was here! She whas here! She is here! She is...

" Are you looking for something?"

The Twin Blade had stopped dead in his track, all his previous emotions had fadded in an instant and were replaced by preplexity. Before him stood a lightly dressed Heavy Blade whose avatar was the same as his partner, but was different in any other aspect. Instead of light pink hair, hers was brown, she didn't had wine colored eyes either, hers were green, and, although she was tanned around the same shade, she didn't have BlackRose's yellow markings. Hers were different on her skin. Her armor was also red-brown contrary to BlackRose's which was red-pinkish.

He actualy remembered her.

"Mimiru?" He slipped without thinking.

"Huh? do we know each other?" asked the girl, apparently surprised; "Or is this some kind of messages for me?"

Kite was at a loss. He didn't knew what to reply anymore. He had been stupid. How could he had even thought she could have been BlackRose? Now, he could clearly see all the differences. There were a lot of similar avatars in the game. He even remembered the Wavemaster in the church had Elk's avatar. Come to think of it, he looked familiar too...

Again, he felt a rush of sadness at the thought of Elk and shook his head to erase it. The girl saw this and frowned.

"It's nothing then? Suit yourself if you don't wanna talk, but it's very rude to not answer to one's question!"

This simple sentence made him remember his first encounter with BlackRose. Through painful efforts, he answered.

"I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else, nevermind, sorry for bothering you."

With this, he left the very perplexed Heavy Bade and proceeded in going further in the town. He was going to wait for Sora's reply.

'What was that all about?' questioned herself Mimiru as the boy left. It was really strange, first he was rushing toward her like she was Santa Claus, the next second he looked like all the weight of the Earth had fallen on his shoulers. In a way, she felt a little outraged at this. What was she, a monster? But she guessed such mistakes could happen... and at least he was polite enough to excuse himself, contrary to a certain Wavemaster she met. Her thought darkened at this. Was it really possible that... but it couldn't be, could it?

She had never heard of a player who couldn't log out before. And if what she heard from the knights were true, then he was involved with Hackers... no it couldn't be true! He might have been a noisy brat but he certainly couldn't be in such black buisness. And his eyes... his expression when she said he jut had to shut his terminal...

It was pure terror...

As if he realised... he wasn't where he was supposed to be...

Mimiru's head was boiling from all those thoughts. She really wasn't good with those stuff! She usualy left all the thinking to Bear. He was 'the old man' after all, he could manage the thinking. She was good at pushing buttons to move a sword and that's what she did! There was no need to ad others problems! This is why she was a solo character! The others always have a tendency to drag you down!

But then...

Tsukasa's name came to her mind again. She might not like hanging around party, but it didn't mean she could walk away when someone was in trouble. And Tsukasa was in trouble. She was starting to regret having slapped him, he may never contact her again. What would become of him then?

She stepped to the Chaos Gate and logged out. She had to check the Board again.

Sora was more astonished than Mimiru once he came out of the dungeon. It was a low level dugeon from Delta server. He had been here in search of a prey and hadn't been disappointed when he saw the white-haired Wavemaster coming here. What had rendered him speachless however, was the fact that his prey escaped him by going through a wall. There wasn't much doubt for this one, he must have been a Hacker. Come to think of it, wasn't there talks of it in the board? About some Wavemaster who was seeked by the knights? He'll have to check this.

He was ready to return to town when a beeping noise came to his ears. A flashmail? If he had been surprised before by the boy's disapperance, it was nothing compared to what he felt now. What the hell happened nowadays? Was this a time for 'meeting of all weirdnesses'? First, the sleeping red guy, then the vanishing Wavemaster, then...What the hell was this rubbish? His confusion was big as he finished reading.

[K+#2 ('d ]}^ t0 f°4m § p^`ty, m++[ m& at Mac A"u]

Did this even mean anything? And who was "K+#2" anyway? The only thing the PK could try to decipher was "Mac A"u" which was probably Mac Anu. It still wasn't helping him knowing who sent him this. Was it the Wavemaster? There was no way he could have noticed he was being followed, the Twin Blade was sure of this. How would he have got his member address? He didn't even gave it yet! But who could it be then?

There was only one way to find out. Sora selected the option to warp out of the field, and let himself get teleported to the aquatic city of Mac Anu.

Kite was a little farther from the gate than he wanted to be. Those knights were actualy quite impressive, especialy in number. Their presence was annoying him, tough it wasn't just because they didn't let him go nearer to the gate: Those people were completely new to him. It was the first time since he came here he saw something so utterly different from what he was used to from the players. It was something to not be remembered by anyone, it was something else to see an organisation which was no more from where he was from. He had his own ideas on all this, but he refused to acknowledge them just yet. He needed further proofs.

Luckily, he was distracted by the arrival of the green-haired player. He sure took his time! The knights inspected him and he gave them one of his nastiest smile before proceeding to the town. Kite called him.

"Hey! You came!"

Sora turned and looked at him suspiciously. Kite felt heat going to his cheeks. Did he do something wrong?

"So, it was you." reasoned the PK.

"Me what?" questioned kite."What did I do?"

"Who sent me that weird flashmail."

"Huh? Yes I flashmailed you but... I don't really see what's so weird about that."

"Flashmailing isn't the problem, it's the contents! What kind of idiot would send a garbage message like this?" he seemed angered for some reason.

"Garbage?" now, this was strange...

"Here, take a look." the Twin Blade said while sending a copy of his message to Kite. He looked at it in amazement. Was it even possible? He remembered typing it right, why was it looking like this? It looked like Aura's... but it couldn't be...

"So, care to explain?" edged the other.

"I, I, don't understand..." he had to find some explanation, or else he'll have to confide everything. " I must've... There must be... some... problem in the speech translating program in the message! That's it! It must be that!" he laughed awkwardly at this. Who would believe that?

"Hum... " Sora looked at him, unbelieving, Kite gulped." I suppose it could be related to some problems on your software due to, oh, I don't know..." the boy felt sweats on his back while the other was inspecting him, a triumphant look on his face" an outdated version working under a newer update of the game!"

'Huh???' " Err, Yes! That must be it! You're right! hehe, I gotta change my version fast." Kite was laughing in relief this time. It was a good thing the other Twin Blade considered him as an old player, or else he wouldn't have much choice than including him completely in his problems. And he didn't wanted to do this unless it was necessay. He didn't really trusted him yet either.

"Well, anyway, why did you called me again? Your messages was butchered." remembered Sora.

"It was to form a party with you. I intended to go exploring some places and..." Kite sopped when he noticed Sora's face was unreadable.

"Sheesh...well," The PK seemed to regain his previous attitude. " You're lucky, I'm in the mood to play today" He grinned cunningly.

Kite smiled back. He was starting to get used to his manners. "Shall we proceed then?" he joked. He sent him an invitation to a party. The other seemed to ponder for a while before accepting.

"Your name is really 'K something' then?" He asked.

"It's Kite. Don't you have it on your list?" Kite wondered.

"No, it's as unreadable as your mail."

"Really?" Kite was surprised. " Why didn't you say so when I gave it to you?"

"I don't read the names people give me. Actualy I don't even display them on the screen. It's way funnier!" he clamed.

Kite raised an eyebrow at this but made no comment. This was bad. If what Sora said was true, then he had been wandering around with a corrupted name and aroused suspicion of people already! Well, this wasn't really so bad, since in the net, there were quite some varied names. Being called "K+#2" wasn't as worse as not being able to type a flashmail correctly. It was even more important since it was his only mean of 'far away' comunication. He couldn't even check the Board! Or doing anything else 'RL' related...

He shook off his thoughts. No, he'd better not go into this again.

"So, what are you planing on exploring" Sora holded his knowing smirk "Because if you plan to get the Wavemaster, you're too, late, for, that!" He sang in his dark voice.

"Huh? The Wavemaster?" asked Kite," What Wavemaster?"

"What do you mean what Wavemaster?" Sora was bemused " The one everybody is talking about of course! Haven't you read the Board? Didn't you know this is why the knight guys are camped at the gate? It's to get'im!"

"So they don't do this everyday?" Kite was nearly expecting a positive answer at this. Although actualy, he had wondered what they were doing here himself.

"No they don't, but you're right to assume it." noted Sora with disdain, "Those laws enforcer don't know their place, However, they are fun to play with!" he grinned at this." Anyway, it seems that this guy have beaten their leader to a pulp and that they're out to get him for that. Although, considering what he can do, this'll be fun!"

"What he can do?" Kite was starting to get interested.

"Hehe! This is a Hacker for you! Always out of the rules!"

"A Hacker?"

"You know," started the PK, "when I first saw you, I assumed you were a Hacker" he looked at him with interest.

"I'm not a Hacker!" Kite was ready to deny it even now. His character may be writeprotected against deletion, it didn't mean he had Hacked it. It was all the Bracelet's power anyway! And he didn't have it anymore...

"I figured that" continued the other," After all, you weren't doing anything, the other passed through a wall."

"Really?" A simple hack? But in The World, it wasn't simple... unless you were a wandering AI...

"Indeed, wouldn't it be nice to have him with us?" His face showed his exitement. Kite was taken aback. He didn't though Sora was more than a solo player but he guessed he liked playing with people of his caliber. 'Meaning outlaw Hackers and weird guys like me' thought Kite bitterly, 'oh joy!'.

"Well, fine we'll look for him if you want," agreed Kite, " but before that, wont you come with me in a party? There's some grounds I'd like to check for.... something..." he wanted to look for some clues, and it would be hard to find them alone." we can look for your hacker after if you want."

"Meh, hearing you make me feels like you don't like Hacker." his nasty smile was still on his lip.

'Right now, I dispise anything else than some good rest.' groaned Kite low, but he only said out loud " Of course not! you're seeing things Sora! Lets just go okay?" the smile he made then would scare even Sora had he directly looked at it. Lukily, both of them were turned to the Chaos Gate, ready for another restless day.

A/N2: Here some new indications about Kite's condition. Of course, it's slightly different from Tsukasa's but it is to be expected, they didn't came here by the same way after all.

It's funny Kite mentioned owtlaws hackers and put himself out of the category, since this is how everyone saw him in the game. But I dont really think he see himself as such considering he didn't do really anything to obtain his hacking abilities. Dont go thinking Sora is done with him however, I didn't do much his point of view in his chapter.

RL: real world (unneeded explanation :p)

I'm open if you need explanations or if you have suggestions, critics or anything like always.