A.K: Yeah at last chapter 6 is here.
Alkaid: that's great so anything new we must need to know before the chapter begins?
A.K: Umm yeah (points at the corner where Haseo is in fetal position)
Alkaid: Hey why is he like that?
A.K: Well you know, now that he is in a coma and you taking his role...
Alkaid: I see…
A.K: anyway, here our legendary hero and friend Kite will do the disclaimer
Kite: AK doesn't own any characters of .hack but would like to own me.
Chapter 6
A free day
"So everything is going well Wiseman?" Asked Kite with a cheerful voice, as he and Alkaid entered the Serpent of Lore.
"I'm glad you have arrived Kite, Alkaid; just wait some seconds please…" He seemed to be doing something in that big machine of his, both waited some seconds and then Yata (or Wiseman whatever you like to call him) turned back to see both of them.
"So you needed to talk to us Yata?" Asked Alkaid
"Yes, it is about Moon Tree" This of course bring up the attention of both of them, and waited to know more about this news.
"Apparently there are problems with their groups, and one of the most important, the one that is under command of Sakaki"
"Wait a second, isn't that the group in which Atoli is?" Asked Alkaid a bit worry
"Yes she is there along with many other followers of Sakaki, apparently they aren't obeying to some orders or missions to be more specific, that Zelkova has asked them to do"
"So what do they need from us?" Kite asked curiously.
"They wanted to ask for help, especially to those close to Atoli since there haven't been any reports coming form her, and Zelkova is worry for her, so in two days we will meet them"
"Alright, but if he is worry for Atoli shouldn't he have prepare the meeting for today?" Alkaid asked a little confused about the fact of not going immediately to help their friend.
"He didn't told me why but we should wait, now that's all I wanted to inform you" He finished and turned to work again,
"Ok, so anything else we need to know Yata?" Asked Kite
"No that is everything for now, oh wait, Kite I do need to talk to you. Alkaid if you won't mind leave us alone, please"
"Fine… I will see you outside Kite" She waved her hand at Kite and he responded the same but adding a smile to that.
(Man, seriously how come all of them can resist that guy, I mean he talks like if he is all wise…) Alkaid thought to herself, she was outside of the room when she stopped and thought that probably they would talk about something important and if that was the case maybe it would be about that man that pked Haseo.
"So what do you need Wiseman?" Asked Kite a little curious and anxious to know what would be.
Yata moved to the orb that was at the end of the room and it looked like he typed something, then some images started to appear, most of them were of Ovan while others were about Azure Kite.
"Hey… wait a second… that image over there, it looks like me!"
He was obviously shocked to see himself there, but the most surprising thing was that there looked something different than his normal self; it looked like It was a bizarre version of himself.
"I thought you would be surprised, and it surprises it me more not knowing who that character might be" He simply said.
"Is there anyone trying to being a copycat?" Asked a worried Kite; for he being famous around The World was something he didn't liked a lot, in fact he sometimes dislike it a lot considering the adventure he had.
"We still don't know, but right now the most important thing is about the other man…" Yata said, and pointed towards one of the many images of Ovan.
"Who is he? A friend of yours?"
"Let's leave it like old acquaintance… But this man is a problem…"
"Problem you say… What kind of problem?" He raises an eyebrow.
"Remember what happened to Haseo?"
He just sighed and remembered that what happened to Haseo, them same did happen to Yasuhiko and old friend of his, he just quickly remembered when his friend was taken into a coma but then again everything returned to normal of course with a lot of effort.
"Yeah… So this guy… Ovan, right?"
Yata simply nodded and turned to see Kite.
"He is responsible for what happened to him and to many others… And that's why I wanted you to only known this…" Yata stood quiet, thinking the most correct form to say the next thing.
"Apparently he, is still on move, his purpose? We don't know yet what he is looking for but from the recent observations he is searching for the Terror of Death"
This obviously shocked Kite as well Alkaid who was hiding at the back of the entrance.
"You mean that he would look for… Alkaid too?"
"I do not think he knows that Alkaid is the new Terror of Death, but as far as I know, the epitaphs can transfer to another user so he will probably search for the new –user-"
"Is there a way to stop him?"
"I… truly don't know that… If he is using AIDA then is PC would possibly be triple the strong than a normal one so what I ant you to do is, to watch out yourself and take care of Alkaid…"
This made her to be a little mad at his commentary; did he think that she was weak or something like that? She wanted to go and gave a punch to the dam Yata but remembered that she was hiding, although she couldn't evade making a stomp which obviously attracted the attention of Yata.
"Is someone there?" It really didn't sound like a question but more like a warning, though Kite thought it would probably be Alkaid he intervened.
"It was me, look" He did the same stomp with his foot and oddly as it sounded Yata did believe him.
-Phew… I'm in your debt Kite- Alkaid thought as she took another posture to hear more about their conversation.
"In any case that would be everything for the moment, just take care as well with AIDA"
"Alright, so I presume we can have the rest of the day free?"
"Yes… if that's how you like to call it"
Kite just laughed a bit, he knew that Yata is a serious person but when he first met him in the world, he thought that he was like and old man or something like that but what surprise he have when he met him in the real world.
"You know, sometimes you should take a free day, it could help with you serious expression my friend" He grinned at him and then turned back to the exit.
"I suppose I could try…" Yata said more like a whisper.
When Kite was now at the in the room outside of the Serpent of Lore, he knew that Alkaid was there hearing their conversation, although that didn't mattered to him more than that it would be better to let her know that everyone would be in danger. He then met her outside of the guild apparently she did quickly made her way out and was waiting for him.
"I suppose I don't need to tell you what we were talking or I am wrong?" He said and smiled at her.
"Wha… What are you talking about?" She said rather nervously.
"Hey no need to worry, really I would have preferred that Yata would allowed you to know all of that, but you know how is he"
She giggled about his commentary, even his own friend made kind of jokes, "You are pretty confident he won't hear you huh?"
"Heh of course, and I have told him many times to take a day or two for free, I mean he does need some free time, don't you think?" He grinned again.
"Yeah you are right about that" She smiled at him and then nodded in acceptation to that.
"Talking about free day, wanna do something?"
"Well if you don't have anything else to do, I did thought of some exploration around certain areas or doing some quests, but I don't know probably it would get you bored down…"
"Hey there is no problem, good thing is that I am in holidays so I do have lots of free time, so wherever you want to go really" He then grabbed her by the shoulder and stroked it.
She grinned and took the hand of Kite; this made Kite to follow her till the platform outside Raven.
"Then be prepared Mr. Legendary Hero, because we have a tiring day ahead of us"
Saying that, both of them were transported near the quest shop.
After some hours of doing quests, and apparently and event that was held the same day, both returned to Mac Anu quite tired. They decided to rest by the port, to se the beautiful sunset that is always waiting for those who want to see it.
Both were sitting down, just looking towards the sunset, this bring up memories for both of them; to Alkaid it was like yesterday when she shared this beautiful sight with Haseo and for Kite a long time has passed since he enjoyed a view like this with Black Rose and the other Dot Hackers.
There was a brief silence for some seconds until Kite talk up first.
"So do you come here often?"
"Not really, but the times I do come, I enjoy watching the scenery" She said that and turned to see Kite who was still looking directly at the sea, he looked so calm and without any worries, something she would really like to have.
"You know… Thanks for today…" She simply said now looking to the floor.
This caught up Kite's attention, wondering what she was thanking about.
"But… amm what are you thanking about, I really didn't make anything… or did I? He said laughing a little and now putting all of his attention to Alkaid.
Alkaid stood up from her spot and gave another look to the sunset before turning to see Kite, but there was something different on her, she was now smiling.
"Your dork, it's because thanks to you now I have enough confidence to continue my own path and to find the whole truth about this" She then giggled at the surprised expression of Kite, apparently he didn't expected to be called dork but in a way it made this funny, and it did, he soon joined her and started to laugh.
"Yeah you right, well at least I did my good action of the day didn't I?" He grinned at this and she answered with a low giggle as well with a nod. After that she stretched and stood there after some minutes, meanwhile her real self checked the hour.
"Well it looks this was a long day, I need to log out for today"
"Alright, I suppose we will see tomorrow then?"
"Yep, so thanks again Kite, have a good night" Saying that, she waved her hand at Kite and her character started to fade confirming that she was now logged off.
In the world most of the places you are in there, always looks the same except maybe for any event could happen that would change the environment but right now in Mac Anu everything looked like it was afternoon whereas in the Tokyo was 11pm.
"Good thing I still have another free week" Kite said to himself, he wasn't really tired or anything so he just simply decided to go around and see something or probably go and level up in a field or dungeon. He waited some minutes, and finally decided to go and get some items; he reached the Chaos Gate by walking and not using a platform, he still wasn't used to go to other place of the server in those things.
He typed the words: Δ Dreaming Honor Old World, which was a 35lvl dungeon, he wasn't really going to level up instead; he would search for some items and things like that.
After he was transported, he appeared in a field, full of grass and in the distant you could see some mountains, also some trees were in the view and around the huge field was a vast lake, all around of it.
He started by walking an admiring the view, he felt calm and relaxed without any worries; he did got some items, by simply getting the chests or if any enemies appeared he would deal with them, thing that was quite easy for him because he wasn't a low level player.
After various minutes of trying to evade the enemies and reaching the temple were normally a rare item was held, he went outside of the temple and decided to rest somewhere around the field; he was walking to find out a perfecto spot when he noticed a figure sitting down at the lake, it looked like a player so there wasn't any trouble with it, the only problem was that apparently the player didn't noticed was that two PK's were approaching him/her from behind, both were ready to attacked the player but this wasn't successful as Kite stroke both of them thus disposing of them.
The player did notice this and turned to see its savior; Kite then knew it was a –she-; when she turned around Kite was impressed by the look of her, she was quite attractive, her clothes were quite unique as it looked like Japanese ones with red color, the color of her eyes were black as well her hair, she also a bit taller than him.
Both of them were staring at each other, Kite was attracted to her, she was beautiful which caused Kite to blush a little this helped to go out of that trance and quickly began a conversation.
"So… sorry for being staring at you like that… Are you ok?" He asked a little nervous with the fact of trying to hide his blush.
"Yes… yes I am fine, thank you sir" She stammered a little saying this; she also found out quite attractive Kite, although he was a little smaller than her but not so much but the thing that attracted her more was his blue azure eyes.
"Hey… you don't need to call me sir… It's kind of… well how to explain it…" He was embarrassed to being call Sir; he wasn't used to being called by any formalities and also the polite way to talk, he used to talk like that only with Balmung but with no one else.
"Is… something wrong sir?" She asked now tilting her head a little.
"No… nothing wrong" He said that rather quickly as he was blushing a bit more.
"Umm… I think I haven't introduced myself, I am Kite" he said now with some confidence as he smiled.
"Is an honor to meet you master Kite, my name is Keade from Moon Tree" The crimson blade brandier replied.
Well hope you liked this chapter, and let's see what the next one might bring.
By the way I'm thinking to pair up Kite with Kaede don't know how in the name of God did that idea came from, anyway hope I don't get any flames because of that. Thanks for reading it and for the reviews. n.n