Chapter 6: Dreams

And we're back! Have I ever mentioned I like Absol? If you don't like Pokemon, I do not care. Absol is my bro. Wait, I'm off topic. On to chapter 6, before I rant about Absol.

Xertic shakes his head, causing his hair to fall back down on his head.

"Why did my hair stick to the helmet..." he mumbles, putting the Nerve Gear back in his bag. Asuna puts her helmet on a shelf.

"I don't see why you won't cut your hair." She says, putting her hands on her hips. Xertic licks his teeth.

"I'll cut mine if you cut yours. Anyways, I need the messed up hair so that a demonic guard doesn't recognize my face. Do you want me going back to prison?" He tilts his head innocently. Asuna rolls her eyes.

"You shouldn't have stolen Satan's dagger, you know."

"He was asking for it. Besides, I mostly did it to get my father in trouble," Xertic stands up and takes out the disk from his bag. "Anyways, here, this was your disk." Asuna waves her hands.

"No, you keep it. Then you can join in ALO more often. Besides, your character is saved in the file, so I don't want to login as you." She blushes at the thoguht. Xertic smirks and picks up his bag.

"If I log into your account, that would be a lot worse," he winks and says a command in daemon to Drake, waking the snake up from his nap. The snake morphs into a hellhound, bobs its head at Asuna, and Xertic mounts it, the black chain forming in his hands. "Oh, and Asuna?" she looks at him and he puts a hand behind his head nervously. "Thanks, for helping me get over it. I'll make it up to you soon." Asuna smiles.

"If you ever feel bad, come to me." He nods and the hellhound barks a complaint in daemon, probably "Can we go now?" Xertic rolls his eyes and responds in the language.

"Quiet, Drake, but yes, we can. Remember, she can't understand this." Drake growls slightly. Xertic smiles evilly and snaps the chains, making Drake run through the open window and down the road. Asuna falls back on the bed.

"He also knew him..." she clenches her teeth. "That parasite..."

Later that night, Asuna was feeling tired at the moment, so she put o nher night gown and fell asleep. In the dream that she had, she was sitting at a table with a white tablecloth. A snake was pouring tea into a cup, which looked cold. It pushes the tea towards Asuna.

"I don't want cold tea," She says pouting. The snake sighs and wraps its tail around the handle. the snake slithers to the end, dumps the tea to the floor, and slithers back. It purs another cup, but this one was boiling.

"That's too hot. Could you please cool it off a bit?" Asuna says, trying her best to be polite. The snake's nostrils flare in frustration, dump the tea cup over the side of the table. It pours one mor cup of tea, this one steaming but not boiling. Asuna smiles and takes it.

"Don't drink that." She gasps and puts the tea down. On the other side of the table, Lucifer sat, his boots up on the table. He snatches the snake and glares at it. "Stop trying to kill her." Asuna closes her eyes as Lucifer drains the soul from the snake.

"Why are you here?" sheasks, containing her fear. Lucifer puts his feet down and leans forward.

"I'm here because my son will not speak to me, so I figured I would get a bit more luck with you." His purple eyes flick over to the snake as it weakly lifts its head, then drops down. "All I want is to know about progress. Are you willing to share information with me?" Lucifer takes the teapot and pours a red liquid from it.

"Why should I? All you do is hurt Xertic!" Asuna yells at the demon "It's no wonder he won't speak to you!"

"Is that what lies he tells you, girl? You do know who I am, correct? One false word and I can kill you in an instant." Lucifer snaps his fingers and he sips the red drink. "Your blood tastes terrible. I see what you mean," he says, looking over at the dead snake.

"So are you just going to sit there and lie to me?" Lucifer spreads his hands out and smiles.

"It is what we demons do-" the sound of a gun fire is heard and Lucifer sprawls on the floor. Asuna looks over at the snake and sees it replaced by a small boy holding a revolver. He pushes his glasses back up on his face and stands up, growling.

"That's enough, Dad." Gamelus clicks the revolver as Lucifer laughs.

"Ah, so you broke out of your cell? You're welcome by the way, I dropped my key near your door." Gamelus sighs and pockets the gun.

"Asuna, please don't take what my father says seriosuly. He doesn't know what he's saying." Gamelus stares at her and she opens her mouth.

"So it's true? You're dead?" He nods.

"Sugou, the man that is currently deep in prison, tortured me, just as Xertic said. Speaking of him, is he still trying to get me free?"

"I don't know, but I'm guessing that he and Drake are trying to find a away."

"Please tell Xertic to stop. It's impossible on that side. Only I can escape, and in order to do that, I need Satan's permission. And how likely is that?" Gamelus shrugs and opens a portal, which Lucifer falls through. "Now, I think you've slept for long enough. Bye, Asuna." before she could respond, Asuna wakes up in her bedroom.

"Congratulations, you woke up on time," says a voice coming from her window. Asuna looks to her window as Xertic climbs up and sits on her windowsill.

"Thank you. Now get out, I have to change." Xertic rolls his eyes and his body turns into a shadow, striking towards the ground. After getting herself ready, Asuna walks out the door and Xertic pops out half of his body from her shadow.

"Pretty soon I won't be able to shadow travel. Winter is coming in a few weeks." Asuna nods and he climbs out and stands up.

"I know, I can't wait until it's warmer..." Xertic sighs and looks up at the sky, staring at the gray cloud above them.

"So, not to sound slightly perverted, but I sensed you having a nightmare. What happened?" Asuna looks at the ground.

"Well, don't watch me sleep, it's weird..." Xertic smirks and she continues "I talked with Lucifer, your father. He told me that you were lying about him being bad. I said that he was wrong, and we began arguing. Then, Gamelus showed up and shot hi-"

"Gamelus was there?!" Xertic suddenly snapped towards her and grabs her hand.

"Yeah, but he told me to tell you to stop looking for him. You apparently can't free him on this side. He can only leave if Satan gives him permission to leave the underworld." Asuna looks away and his grip loosens.

"I guess he's right." Xertic lets go of her hand and looks back at the school, which they had arrived at. "Well, I'll see you online I'm assuming? I'll be trying to get to a reasonable level." Asuna giggles and Xertic turns to leave.

"Xertic, hold on," He looks back as Asuna kisses his cheek. "I'm sorry about your brother." She turns and walks inside. Xertic stared at the door, then touched his cheek. It burnt.

"Affection...? Towards a monster like me...?" He shakes his head and walks about towards his house. I'm talking to Drake about this.

There we go. The romance has begun. Thank you for reading! ...Yep, not much else to say. Why are you still here? I said thanks for reading! LEAVE! AGH! *turns off computer*