Haseo let out a low groan as he slowly came to, his head pounding heavily, making him a bit nauseas and unable to focus on anything. Taking a deep breath, the rogue slowly opened his eyes and found himself face down on a dungeon floor. Lifting his head up, Haseo started to push himself off of the ground, his head still pounding viciously, making it hard for him to really think of anything at the moment. Getting to his feet, a bit dazed, he shut his eyes and put his hands to his throbbing head.

"Urg...Atoli? Kuhn? What happened?" He asked after a couple of seconds. After receiving no response, he opened his eyes, put his hands down, and looked around, he was alone in the beast temple. That wasn't right, where were Atoli and Kuhn? Shaking his head just a bit, Haseo went to rub the bridge of his nose, but, stopped when he got a good look at the glove on his hand. Bringing his other hand up, Haseo looked at that as well and then looked down at his body.

He was no longer in his X-form, his clothes now replaced with his final form, from the claw gloves to the spikey tail on the back. This really wasn't right. Forgetting about his pounding head for a moment, he went to his equipment to see if anything else had changed. It had, everything had changed. He no longer had his dual guns, which didn't seem surprise him, but, he didn't have any of his other equipped weapons either. All were replaced with generic weapons that you could buy at a shop. Swapping to his items, he put his hand to his mouth when he saw that the only items he had were just a couple of healing tonics, noble drops, and a hell raiser.

"What the hell is going on? Where the is all my stuff!? It's like I've been reverted back to level one again, only, I'm my same level as before...I need to message Yata or Pi about this, maybe they can help," Haseo said with a slight sigh, going to his friends list, Haseo felt his heart plummet to his stomach.

He still had friends on this list, but he didn't know anyone in this list. Where are his friends?! What the fuck was going on!? Leaving his party list, Haseo took a deep breath, maybe he should just log out-

Where was his MD2? His controller?

"No...I can't be..." He breathed out as his hands frantically ran around his head, searching for the MD2 that was no longer there, no, he was just grabbing tuft's of his own hair at this point.

"FUCK! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" Haseo screamed out, his eyes widening as he stood there shaking in both rage and fear. Breathing heavily, Haseo looked around the beast temple, empty, completely empty, except, for the lone blue warp gate. Taking several deep breaths to calm down, he walked towards the warp gate. He wasn't going to get any help here, that was a fact, no, he needed to get to a root town he'll get some help there.

Standing there for a few heartbeats, Haseo stared intensely at the warp gate. How exactly was this gonna work? He never warped before and there were no buttons for him to push in order to get back, there was nothing. Reaching out, he gently touched the blue orb, half expecting to receive a message asking him if he wanting to warp. He was met with disappointment as he stood there, awkwardly touching the gate.

"Dammit...how can I get back to the netslum if I have no way of transportation out of here?! Can you do it? Can you take me to the net slum!?" He yelled out in rage, throwing his hands up. Growling darkly, he then proceeded to give the warp gate a good kick in frustration. "C'mon! At least take me to Mac Anu or-"

He was cut off when two rings circled around him followed by an almost blinding blue color, shutting his eyes as tight as he could, Haseo let out a startled cry. What happened next could only be described as being on a rollercoaster, if that rollercoaster was on fire that is. Every part of him turned immensely hot to the point that he thought that his flesh was melting off, though hot, he could feel himself twist and turn in almost every which way imaginable, then all at once, it stopped and he was staring into the dome of Mac Anu.

Dropping to his knees, Haseo let out a loud strangled gasp, this, of course, caused some players to stop what they were doing and stare at the rogue. Breathing heavily, he slowly got to his feet and put his hand on his chest, that was a rather unpleasant experience, one that he didn't want to have again anytime soon.

Calming himself down, he started out of the dome, he ran towards the shopping district, if he was lucky, Gaspard would be at the shop and Haseo could ask him to contact Kuhn or Atoli for help. Sprinting down the stairs leading to the market place, he practically jumped towards were the shop was, only to be met with disappointment, and more confusion.

Gaspard wasn't there, then again, neither was the shop. There was no shop acorn, no little desk that Gaspard would stand behind and call out to people, there was nothing. Gulping a bit, Haseo licked his lips and just looked around the market place, where was the shop? Why is all this happening? where were all of his friends?

Slowly, he started to walk away from the market place, he needed to find someone he knew, this just wasn't right. Starting towards the docks, he noticed that the other players seem to be avoiding him like he was on his steam bike. When someone got within walking distance of the rogue, they seem to either steer off away from him, or, they speed up as quickly as they can trying to make sure that they don't even get noticed by him. He wanted to stop just see what the big fuss was with these players, but, he decided that the docks were more important at the moment.

Haseo was about halfway there when he felt something bump into the back of him, almost knocking him down. Crying out, he quickly regained his balance. Everybody that seemed to go to great lengths to avoid him, stopped what they were doing and stared, ignoring the people, he turned to see who had bumped into him, for some reason that seem to cause a loud murmur to spread across the crowd of players. Haseo's eyes widened happily when he saw Gaspard on the ground.

The pink beast was on his back, squirming his limbs about like a flipped over turtle.

"Gaspard! I am so glad to see you!" Haseo yelled and quickly helped his friend up, it was strange seeing Gaspard without Silabus, but, that didn't matter right. Something rather strange happened as he helping the beast, Gaspard actually snatched his arm out of Haseo's grip, catching the rogue of guard.

"Glad to see me?! Since when is the Terror of death glad to see anybody that isn't part of his little group?! Just screw off!" The beast yelled out and waddled away quickly, a couple of players put their hands to their mouths as they waited for Haseo's response. The only response they were getting was a dropped jaw. Did that really just happen? Standing there in shock and awe, Haseo realized that these people were still staring at him, sneering a bit at them, he decided that the best thing to do at the moment was to go back to Gaspard. Maybe the beast was just having an off day or something.

It wasn't too hard to make his way back to Gaspard, the beast was still a slow walker. Walking beside the beast, Haseo automatically put his hand on Gaspard's shoulder as he spoke,

"Gaspard! Hey! Look, you might be having an off day or something but could you just call Silabus or-"

With a violent shrug, his hand was practically thrown off of Gaspard's shoulder, the beast then gave Haseo a strange look.

"Why the hell do you want to talk to Silabus!?"

Hearing Gaspard cuss made Haseo cringe, what was with Gaspard today? That outburst was also enough to have a new set of players look at them and gasp out, rolling his eyes, Haseo said,

"Well, I don't really want to talk to Silabus, I need to talk to Kuhn-" Once again, he was cut off, not by Gaspard, but by the set of players, they let out yet another gasp and their eyes widened to the size of plates.

"I don't have time for this, just shove off will you?! I don't want to get involved in another petty dick battle between the three of you." Gaspard growled darkly, giving Haseo an equally dark sneer to match.

"Whoa, Whoa, 'Petty dick battle?' What the fuck has gotten into you? Gaspard, since when are you like this?" Haseo demanded as he got in front of Gaspard to look into the beast's green eyes. With an exasperated eye roll, the beast spoke up,

"Ok, Terror of death-"

"That's another thing! Why are you calling me the Terror of death?! I'm not the Terror of death anymore! You know that, Gaspard!"

"HA! Yeah fucking right. Either way, I'm not getting involved in this, if you want to talk to Silabus, then go do it yourself, jackass."

"I would if I knew where he was."

With a loud groan, Gaspard went to walk away, Haseo quickly grabbed his arm once again, earning a quick hand slap from the beast.

"He's where he always is," Gaspard grumbled darkly at Haseo.

"Ok, lets pretend for a minute that I don't know where that is. Tell me!"

What Gaspard said next, made Haseo's jaw drop once again.

"At Kestrel, probably with Kuhn, he is Kuhn right hand man after all, of course you outta know that, you pkk'd him enough times to get a big red target on your back from the two. Now, just leave me alone..." Gaspard started off, this time, Haseo did not give chase, he just stood there, feeling strangely numb, Haseo stood there for a long while, till finally, he could only muster four words.

"Silabus is a PK?"