.Hack// Shadow of Rebirth
A. Link: Hey people! How are you good? Well.....good for you. Here is the next chapter of the story. I hope you like it.
Dark T.: Well I don't!
A. Link : Your fire wood!
Dark T. paled before running like a maniac.
( Union)
( Mac Anu)
Kite was nervous, very very nervous. Today he was going to see Aura for the first time in a while. It felt ages for him since he last saw her, and he wasn't happy for what happened the last time. For reasons he doesn't know the girl got stab by him instead of Corbenik and he blame himself for that because he thought he had kill Aura. What he didn't tell Tsukasa in addition to that was that his life wasn't as people expect them to be. He lived with abusive parents and everyone in school tend to ignore him or make fun of him. His life was similar to Tsukasa but he still lived it, thus making his happy go lucky personality disappeared in time.
" Alright then! Time to go see Aura." said Kite to no one in particular.
He repeated the words that Azure Balmung has told him and he log to (Delta) Celestial Gates of the White Maiden. The gates activated and send him to the destination written.
((Delta) Celestial Gates of the White Maiden)
Kite was amaze at the site. It was a field cover in nothing but white flowers and aromatic grass. ' Elk would've love this place' Kite thought sadly. He started to explore the field when suddenly he thought of something 'Wait! How am I suppose to gate hack with no gates? ARGH! That stupid no good...' he thought where put on a hold as he saw something in the center of the field. It looked like an old gate cover in mold and such. It was obvious it was out of service. Kite examined it for a few seconds before he got the idea. He summoned his bracelet and preform gate hack on the old gate. The gate immediately became to life and teleported Kite once more to his destination.
( Between the realms of the world)
Kite arrived at a white place. It looked like a room with a bed and such. Theres where two doors in the room. Kite was curious and open one of them and revealed to be another room. Then he opened the other one and it was the same, another room.
" Great! How am I going to find Aura in this maze! Its gonna take forever" Kite said getting frustrated. On one of the doors suddenly appear a symbol. It was the infinity symbol, the one that look to the symbol Aura had. " Well looks like Aura is going to guide me. Better not keep her waiting!" with that he went through the door and any other door with the infinity symbol.
Not too far away the smallest of the Azure knights notice the new presence in the area and gritted his teeth. He was shacking with anger once again and his hands where fisted.
"He's here" Was all he said before heading out of his room.
( New Moon Castle)
Shadow and Dark where watching from the goth looking mirror. They were monitoring Kite the whole time. Shadow notice A. Kite presence moving close to Kite. Dark also notice this and looked at Shadow.
" Do you think the kid is really going to eliminate Kite?"
Shadow shrugged " Maybe in the past, but now that Kite has Cubia Omega's powers I really don't know which one is going to be victor".
" Hm......They're both strong. I guess you have a point."
Shadow opened his book and look at Dark " It really doesn't matter. We are now getting stronger than they ever could"
" Yeah but still, don't you wish to be able to fight with our others just to proved them that we are better than they could ever dream? To be out of their shadows?" Dark asked.
" More times than you could ever imagine" Shadow said while reading his book.
" So?! Why don't we? Its only going to take like what?! a second!!"
" As tempting as it sound, we can't. We have other and more importants things to do. Their pummeling can wait a little longer. " Shadow stated.
" Awww.....Your no fun. But, I guess your right." Dark sighted before focusing on the mirror again " Lets see what their encounter is going to be like." there was a silence before " Twenty bucks Azure will beat Kite." Dark said smirking.
Shadow looked at him and smirk " Your on."
( Between the realms of " The World": White Room)
Kite wonder for a while before he came upon a strait passage. He started walking forward when Cubia Omega interrupted his thought ' Heads up kid. We got company'. It was then that Kite notice a figure leaning on a wall side in the middle of the passage. He didn't look happy to see him. Kite stop and look at the figure waiting in his path. He remember him all to well. It was A. Kite right in front of him, glaring at him. Kite didn't like that look and notice things were about to get ugly. He notice that A. Kite was about the same hight as his older P.C., which means he was shorter than him, and it look like a zombie, a mean one at that. And his eyes were neon green and glaring directly at him.
" A. Kite" Kite said in a monotone voice.
" Kite" came the equally reply from the other " So! Might you tell me why are you here?" he said still glaring but kept it cool.
" I came here to see Aura." Kite glared back.
A. Kite chuckle " I'm afraid I can't let you do that" he summoned his weapons as he said this.
Kite did the same " I know is a waste of time asking you why. I guess this can't be avoided, huh?"
" Nope, I guess not." with that said both figures charge at each other.
There weapon clash against the other and stay like that for a while, both testing the others strength. Moments later they both jump back and charge at each other again exchanging blows after blows. Kite was able to punch him in the guts. Azure, thou in pain, was able to kick Kite side before both began to exchange blows with their weapons. A. Kite summoned two giant balls of blue fire and throw them at Kite. Kite tighten his grip on his weapons and slash at the direction of the blue balls of flames sending fiery energy slash colliding with the other attack canceling each other out. Both charge and cross weapon to the other side. Kite was slash at one of his sides drawing blood while Azure was slash at one of his arms also drawing blood. They looked at each other panting.
' I don't understand! Last time he wasn't able to damage me. Heck! He barely posed a challenge. Now hes matching me blow to blow?! I must kill him now before he gets even stronger!' A. Kite thought while barging his teeth.
" I won't......... let you leave this place alive......... you know." he said panting.
" Yeah.....says the guy....who is also...... tired. Man!......that punch in the face .....hurt!" Kite panted " But I know the kick on your stomach must have hurt you, too. .......Right?" he said smiling.
A. Kite growled. It did hurt. He didn't expect Kite to be this good. Then again he was created in his image. " It doesn't matter. Now your dead!"
But before they both launch at each other a voice stop them " Stop at once!". The two warrior stop on their tracks at the sound of the voice and A. Kite paled. ' No! Not now! Not her! She can't see me like this!' He wasn't referring to how mess up he look, but the way he acted. " Both of you come through my door immediately" . Silently the made their way to the door with out glancing at each other. The door open and both made their way in. Kite notice the young knight was very nervous. Inside was none other than Aura sitting in a field of flowers. She glance at the two and stood up.
" Lady Aura I can explain..............!" A. Kite started to say but Aura simply halted his speech with her hand.
" I don't want to hear it. Wait in the other room until I'm done speaking with Kite" she replied.
"But...." the young knight tried to say but he was cut off again.
" No buts and go!" Aura said raising her voice a little
A. Kite hung his head and left. Inside Kite's head a chibi version of him was doing a happy dance. Don't get him wrong he felt bad for the brat but he was happy to see Aura defending him.
' Now thats just playing creepy. A happy dance?! You make me sick!' Cubia Omega said inside his head. However, Kite was too happy at the moment to pay attention to what he said.
Aura look at Kite and smiled " Its been a while hero of the bracelet."
" Yeah. It has been!" Kite smiled back at her shyly. He just didn't know how to act around her.
" And your looking like you had a fight with a land mower and lost!" she giggle. " Putting aside that, I know that theres been something bothering you. Want to talk about it?"
Kite smiled faded and was replace with a look of sadness and pain. He told Aura everything about his life and such, how he parents abuse him and everyone ignore him and make fun of him and among others. Aura was speechless, but kept it hidden. Who knew that a happy face like Kite's could hide so much pain.
" Thats awful. I don't know how you can take that?" she said with concern.
" Yeah, I wonder that too. But another thing thats been bugging me is you. Why did you get in the way of my attack and got stab in place of Corbenik. I've been having nightmares telling me it was my fault that you died and some of them you are the one that tell me its my fault. The guilt is driving me nuts. So, why? Why did you do that?!" Kite wasn't looking at Aura at this point.
" Oh Kite! I'm so sorry! I didn't know I was hurting you because of that. But it had to be done" Kite looked at her wanting an explanation. " You see by stabbing me you could destroy Corbenik with out activating his special ability."
" Special ability?" Kite asked.
" Yes you see if you would've stab Corbenik then he would've activated the rebirth. Normally it would just clean the data and restore everything to what it once was. But since Morganna had fuse with him then it would've crash the system destroying the world and it would've spread to your world creating havoc and chaos." Aura explained.
Kite had wide eyes " So stabbing you was a good thing? But I hurt you! I....." he was cut off by Aura.
" It was the only way and it didn't hurt at all. Trust me." she said smiling.
" I'm sorry." Kite whisper.
" There is nothing to be sorry about because theres nothing to forgive. Be at ease knowing that we are still friends"
Some of Kite's weight was lifted and he felt better than he had in years. " Thank you."
" Your welcome. Oh and Kite" she was serious at this point " Don't let your lookalike and his team get the treasures. I feel that if they do 'The World' wold be in peril." Kite nodded determined to stop his looalike. " Now go! Your team needs you!"
Kite nodded and left. Aura then summoned her youngest knight. He enters the room and see Aura waiting for him. " Lady Aura.....I....." he started to say but was cut off.
" A. Kite I am very disappointed at you. You attack Kite without a reason and try to eliminate him from " The World" knowing that he his needed. Do you know that by doing that you could've jeopardize 'The World'?" Aura said looking sternly at him.
' I could've taken his place! Heck! That's why you created me in the first place! Because he wasn't there! It's not fair I get the blame!' he thought " But .....Lady Aura....I......"
Aura sighted sadly "Sometimes I wish I never created you" Aura felt bad for saying this as she left her knight there staring into nothingness.
' No......NO! How could this had happen. She even told me that she wish I wouldn't exist. He was right! He was right from the fucking start! He knew something like this would happen, but I ignored him! I only wanted her to look at me! It's all my fault!' he thought ' No! This is all his fault. If he hadn't come back then none of this would've happen. Kite's going to pay!' he then left the room.
( Mac Anu: Raven at Home)
Everyone had once again gather minus Haseo, Pi, and Kuhn who were still looking for Zelkova and Kite. Balmung had finally overcome the uneasiness of seeing a double, as did Orca although he haven't met his yet. Balmung has gather everyone for an important meeting.
" Ok so everyone minus the party looking for Zelkova and Kite himself is, so lets begin. So as you may know..." Balmung started but was cut of by the door beigh open.
" Wait! Don't start!" Shugo enter through the doors and quickly took a place next to Rena, who had her face in her palm to hide her shame ' I can't believe we are related.'. " Ok you can continue now!" Shugo said with a huge grin.
" You shouldn't grin so much. Those grins of your's are contagious." Rena told him.
" No there not" came the reply.
" Ok then as you know...." once again he was interrupted by the door busting open.
" Hey people! Did I miss anything!" this time it was a cheerful Kite and he had a huge grin on his face, like Shugo. Everyone in the room was set of course. Subaru was speechless, Tsukasa's eyes twitch, Black Rose thought that she had cross an alternate dimension, and everyone else was stupefied.
" Wow, Rena was right. My grins are contagious." Shugo said still eying there leader.
" Told you so".
The room was silent. Kite was confuse as to everyones reaction " What?" he said indignefied.
Everyone just reply that everything was just fine or nothing and among other answers. Kite walk and took a sit next to Black Rose. Balmung took this as a sign to continue. " As I was saying. You may know....." out of no where many cube pieces appeared out of nowhere and gather in a single place and then they disappeared revealing a player. " AW....Come on! Why won't you let me finish my information! It took me all night to get them and form them into a speech dammit!" Balmung said to no one in specific.
Player stared nervously at the group before he started to talk " Hello. My name is Geist and I am a member of ........Shicksal" When he finish saying these he was surrounded by weapons from everyone in the room pointing very close to him. Geist was sweating pullets " W-wait! I-I'm here to tell you something!........... Please don't kill me!"
" Why should we believe you! Your a member of Shicksal for goodness sake." Black Rose said still pointing her weapon at him, or more specifically his neck.
" Yeah well I'm also a fourteen year old risking my skin to try a negotiate with you" he replied, still frighten.
Balmung lower his sword " Negotiate? Why would Shicksal try to make a deal with their rivals?"
" So, will you hear me out then? Because I'm about to faint here." He said and indeed he looked like he was about to faint. Balmung told everyone to lower their weapons. Atoli came and calmed the poor boy down before he fainted. After a while he gather his composure and began his message " Ok here goes. By now you must have notice Tsukasa and Kite's lookalikes and our recent encounter with them, right?" everyone nodded " Well we already lost two of our members and who knows how long its gonna be before one of your own is sent into a coma by one of them. So our leader, Fluegel, has ask if Shicksal and The Twilight Knights join forces against these foes. We even agree to share every information we have on them with you if you agree. He also said that we could discuss the treasure thing after this whole ordeal is over."
" I don't know if we can trust them. What do you think Kite?" Orca asked his friend.
" I think we should team up with them." Kite said.
" What?! Kite do you know what you are saying?! Teaming up with our enemy? What gives?" Black Rose asked Kite not believing his answer.
" Black Rose I understand how you feel but it can't be help. Some of you only heard what these lookalikes could do from the ones that actually saw them. Even with my new powers I don't think we're a match for them. Teaming up could actually raise those odds." Kite explained.
" I agree with Kite. He is right after all. I, like him, have seen with my own eyes what this guys were able to do. And I still not sure what their true power is. So I say lets give it a shot." Tsukasa said agreeing with Kite.
" Alright. I guess, but we're keeping an eye on them." Black Rose said.
" So if decide then! Go and tell Fluegel that its a deal and that we will meet here. Since you got inside just fine, they could do the same. But remember we're keeping an eye on you guys." Kite said the last part seriously.
" Sure! I'll head toward our hideout and tell him the news. We'll be here as soon as we can. And thanks for not kicking the shit out of me" Geist said.
" Your Welcome!" Shugo said earning some looks from their teammates making Rena even more embarrass ' Why God? WHY?!' Rena thought.
Geist headed to their team's headquarters to inform the rest of the group the news. The Twilight Knights and Shicksal had join forces.
A. Link: Well, well. The former enemies unite against a common foe.
Shadow K: It doesn't matter. They'll still fall.
Dark T.: Yeah! Bad guys rule!
A. Link : We'll see. Review if you want and flames are not welcome.
Shadow K. : That reminds me. Dark hand over the twenty bucks you owe me!
Dark T.: Damn! I thought you forgot!