Meisters
Chapter 7: PKers
[ONLINE]
Tsubaki was royally pissed. She had texted me five in the morning where I was and wanted to go home. Of course, I was already home and sleeping soundly. She practically blew up my phone before she said she was going to sleep over at Black*Star's place. I can only guess what they did the entire night; making out.
Since Tsubaki wasn't up yet, or home, I was temporary alone in Meisters. Kilik would be logging in at any moment now.
Kilik's icon turns green and I look up in the sky seeing him falling down to the ground. As skillful as the other players I had seen falling from the sky, Kilik made a front flip and landed expertly on his feet. They must be used to falling off the sky to manage to pull those things off. I can barely keep my balance when I land on the ground, let alone finding the timing and control to do a stunt like that in the air.
Kilik smirks wide toward me and nods. "Man! I thought I would be first!"
I give him a proud smirk. "Early night mixed with an early morning, the secret recipe of being the first one online you know."
"I thought I was fast. As soon as I woke up I got the Rift Gear on." Kilik shrugs his shoulders. "I will be the first next time then."
"We will just have to see." I grab Kilik's wrist. "So where are we going? What do you have in mind?"
Kilik gives me a large smirk while he pulls his wrist from my hand. "We are going to visit a special place. The monsters there are strong but with my help we should be able to kill them." Kilik says proudly. "I can kill one myself but I'm going to let you get some training in."
I raise my eyebrow. "You do realize I'm plenty levels behind you? Those monsters could kill me in one hit! Heck! I bet they could take out half of my life if they just scratched me!"
"Aw come on." Kilik says and pats my back hard. "It will be fun and your will earn plenty of experience. I bet when we have played an hour you will have gained two levels."
Two levels. That is very good. That means I could raise my Gravity and then buy another scythe. It is a lot at risk by going and fighting those types of enemies. I haven't done anything but fighting high level enemies, enemies that are far powerful and if I was alone with one of those, I would be dead. This shouldn't be something to overthink, Kilik says he can take them on by himself so I am safe with him if something happens.
"Fine! But you better make sure I won't die."
"Yes ma'am!" Kilik salutes.
We have to go pretty far to reach the area, even further than Black*Star, I and Camellia go. We walk into a new area and immediately I start mapping the area. I don't want to spend my precious gold on a new map so mapping my own will have to do for now.
"We are here." Kilik says.
The area we have reached is a desert. I can only see cactuses sprouting from the ground along and sand. Where are all the monsters? Is Kilik sure he took us to the right place+
I take a step forward and Kilik is quick to put his hand on my shoulder. "Don't. The monsters attack from the ground. You stay here. They won't attack you unless you move. Let me activate a monster."
Without any response from me, Kilik's hand slides down my shoulder and slowly he starts walking forward. His heavy boots hit the ground for every step he takes. The sun laughs at us loudly while the sun burns my skin. The tension is seriously killing me. For every step Kilik takes, the more separate we are. If this keeps on, the tension will slice me in half because this is absolutely torture.
BAM! When Kilik puts down his right foot a large centipede rushes up from the ground in front of him. Instead of legs the centipede has blades and the yellow skin looks like golden armor. How are we supposed to break through that?
"Maka!" Kilik screams and spreads his legs, gets into a fighting stance. "Get ready!"
I nods and immediately runs up to Kilik's side. I grab my scythe from my back and gets into a fighting stance as well.
The Kishin screech loudly spits out a ball of fire. I gasp loudly as the massive ball of fire rushes toward us. Kilik grabs my wrist and pulls me out of the way before he uses his glove and surprisingly, it gloves up with electricity. The static noise of his glove mixed with the constant changing energy coursing over his glove make him look powerful. Very powerful. Kilik releases the energy and the electricity hits the Kishin and it screeches loudly. Left on the Kishin's armor-like skin is a wound filled with soot all around it.
"Your turn!" Kilik hollers. "Aim for the wound!"
"Right!" I jump up toward it and swing my scythe before I sink it in the Kishin's wound.
The Kishin screeches loudly while I take out my scythe from the wound. The Kishin turns around and its blades are aimed at me. I gasp loudly. There is no way I'm going to make it out in time.
"Maka!" I cover my face and squeeze my eyes shut and waits for Kishin to strike me. Instead I feel Kilik's arm being wrapped around my shoulder and he fires away another lighting charge at it. The blades stop coming toward us and Kilik puts me down on the ground. "You okay?"
I quickly nod. "Yeah, just shocked."
"Are you able to fight?"
I nod again and immediately Kilik is up and at the Kishin again. He fires another charge and it hits the head of the Kishin. The Kishin squirms while it shrieks in pain. Kilik keeps sending charges of electricity at the monster while dodging the Kishin's balls of fire and blades. The HP bar sinks down close to a zero and Kilik jumps up and punches the Kishin straight in the face.
"Take it out!" Kilik screams and I'm more than ready.
The Kishin seems to have forgotten all about me and its focus stays on Kilik.
Slowly I make the gravity around me as little as possible and I feel myself and my scythe growing lighter. I kick off from the ground and I float fast in the air with the Kishin's head as my target. I swing my scythe in my hands, around my waist and around my whole body to gain as much kinetic as possible. My scythe sinks deeply into the Kishin's head and it roars loudly before it turns into light blue dust.
I let the gravity take me down to the ground and I just lay there on the ground. This fight went on far too long. It was far too dangerous to be fighting them but the experience is good along with the gold. Surprisingly, it gave me enough to by another scythe.
"Kilik." I say. "Can we go back to the town? I think we need to regroup and come up with a different solution to this situation. We can't go after those Kishins, I can't take them!"
Unexpectedly, Kilik nods agreeing. "Yes. You are right. It didn't go as well as I hoped it would go. Let's go back."
We both start to walk back to Death City, but as soon as we reach the edge of the desert, screams fills the air.
"Help!" Kilik and I look behind us and we see a two players running for their life. "Help! PKers!" PKers are after us!" PKers are not just the only thing after them, plenty of the centipede Kishins are also after them.
Kilik extends his arm in front of me. "Run Maka!" He starts pushing me away. "If PKers are here, you won't stand a chance against them."
"But what about you?" I ask concern.
"I will be fine!" He yells in my face and gives me one last push. "Run!"
Without thinking, I started running away from the desert and away from Kilik. I wanted to stand by him and help him fight the PKers and save those players, but as he said, I would be an easy catch for them. There is no way I would be able to survive going up against PKers in that area.
I breathe heavily while I run away. Soon I come to the forest we ran through before we arrived at the desert. My legs are growing tired and I want to rest but I don't dare to. The only time I can rest is when I'm inside of Death City.
A branch breaks and my breath hitch, I wipe toward the direction of the sound and I see a PKer. I gasp loudly and I try to run faster but the person is faster than me. He pushes me to the ground and I go tumbling around before I'm lying on the ground.
"It is what I was expecting." The man says with a very horse and husky tone. "A little low level to be around the desert and the forest, aren't you?"
I breathe heavily and get up on my legs before I take out my scythe and holds in tightly. If I run now he is going to knock me down to the ground again. My only chance of surviving is by getting an opening to escape or delay him so Kilik can come to my rescue.
He raises his eyebrow while he stares at my weapon. "A scythe?" He barks a laugh. "You truly are a rookie! You are going to get yourself killed! Everybody who wields a scythe get themselves killed." Killed? Does that mean the man in black is in danger? He wields a scythe too.
"What do you mean?" I hold my scythe tightly to me. "The guide never said anything about not wielding a scythe."
The man snorts and pulls out a heavy blade. "The guide doesn't know a shit. There are more to Meisters than what the guide says. This game has plenty unwritten rules. It is the strongest players who rule, not some guide book." He smirks wide and moves closer to me. "I'm going to take that pretty scythe of yours and sell it. I'm going to take all of your things. You better change your weapon then or else―"
"Or else what?"
The man quickly turns around and up in a tree I see the man in black. He yawns loudly while he jumps down from the tree. Was he here all the time and I didn't notice him? The man in black pulls out his scythe and it isn't like the one I saw him wield inside of the event area. This scythe is black with red zigzag pattern, it almost remind me of the Kishin's fur inside of the event area. The pole is so long; it is easily almost double of the man in black's height!
The man shrieks loudly and he backs away from me. "Spare me! Take her! She wields a scythe! Look at it!"
The man in black smirks wide, showing off his razor sharp teeth and his red eyes looks sinister. "Don't you think I have already seen it?" He grips his scythe. "It is I who judge who is going to die here." The man in black's smile widens even more. He doesn't look kind as he did when I first met him. He looks evil, even more evil than Arachne did! My eyes widen when I see the man in black's name. It is Eater, all written in red. He is a PKer?! How?! If he was a PKer then why did he save me? Why didn't he kill me and steal my stuff?! Why?!
The man in black― also named Eater, he raises his scythe. "You are going to die. Say bye bye to your character." The other PKer screams in horror and Eater's scythe makes contact with the other player's sword and it breaks. Eater's scythe goes right through the man and instead of the man lying paralyzed on the ground, he turns into black dust. What did Eater do?!
My whole body is trembling. This person, Eater, I thought he was one of the good guys, I thought he was a good person, but, but he cold-bloodedly killed him. He is crazy.
My hands are shaking. I can't let down my guard, if I do, he is going to kill me and turn me into soot as well!
Eater's eyes slowly wander to me. As his eyes meet mine I feel like a hundred bricks hit me. Just by him looking at me, I feel weaker and my knees are shaking badly. I can barely stand on my own legs.
"Stay away from me." I say frightfully. "Don't you come any closer! What did you do to him?"
Eater doesn't heed my words. He lets his scythe hang limply in his hand while he slowly walks toward me. "You are that rookie I met, the one who manage to give me my scythe." He states to himself. "Look at you, you have leveled up some levels, but I see you are as naïve as back then. You don't seem to get it, do you? I told you to never be alone. PKers are everywhere. It is very stupid for such a low levelled little scythe meister to be alone in such a dangerous area." He keeps getting closer to me. "Maybe I should delete your character as I did with that guy." He nods toward the pile of black dust.
Something got over me, I don't know what it really was, but as soon as he finished his sentence I swung my scythe through him and left a glowing red wound. His HP bar didn't even drop down the slightest!
He chuckles loudly. "My, my, I did not expect that." He takes another step toward me and I immediately take three backwards. In my fear I accidentally drop my scythe. I gasp but I don't go after it in fear of him striking me. I keep backing until suddenly a tree captures my back, prevents me from going any further backwards. "Please don't hurt me." I plea but I know it is useless.
Slowly he bends down and picks up my scythe and to my surprise, he puts his own scythe on his back. Is he going to kill me with my own weapon?!
He closes the last space between us and holds out my scythe toward me. "Next time, don't walk alone. Go to your area and hunt. The Kishins here are too strong for you."
Slowly I meet his eyes and they look as soft as they did when I first met him. He smiles gently toward me while I hesitantly take my scythe from his hand. "T-Thank you."
Eater slowly starts walking away from me and I don't feel as afraid of him anymore. "Eater!" I yell and he looks over his shoulder at me, his eyes looks just as red and kind they did on that day. "Can I ask you something?"
Uncertainly he nods at me. "Sure."
"That guy said something about killing me because of me wielding a scythe? Why didn't you kill me?"
Eater chuckles a little while he turns fully toward me. "I might kill people for wielding scythes, I won't deny it." He looks into my eyes. His eyes are so red it's unbelievable. "But I changed my mind when it comes to you. It would be uncool to kill you for wielding a scythe. I'm going to make an exception today." He says and fully turns away from me and starts walking away, this time, I let him walk away.
Eater. So you aren't as good as I thought you were, but you still have some kindness inside of you. A little smile spreads on my face. I'm glad.