I'm back with a new chapter! I haven't edited much in the previous chapter, and this one hasn't been edited much, so that's is most likely why I updated sooner than I thought.

Here you go.

Chapter 9 MessageXExperienceXJoystation

'Gon you better get that note I sent. Now since she defeated me, I need you to save me. I couldn't defeat her because I wasn't strong enough. I had my nen just at the moment, but I didn't have time to use it. Its my fault that this happened to me. I should have stopped you before you left, but I had to send the note. You better figure out that I will lose my memory.' Every thought, feeling, and memories started to fade from Killua's head. He just fainted, but he hoped that Gon would get back in and figure out that Killua lost his memory. If he didn't, that would be a problem for both of them.

The first thought that faded away was about what just happened a minute ago. Then it would decrease until two years of his memories were gone. It would only take a few seconds, or a little more, due to how much had to be taken away.

But the problem was, if there was a way to get back Killua's memory, what would happen? What would happen as those two years added? Many things were possible. He could be perfectly fine. He could get a horrible headache. He could get knocked out and not wake up for a long time. His brain could be damaged. He could die! There were so many possibilities that no one would be able to figure out.

There was another question. Since Gon left, was he even able to get back in? What would happen to him because he left? The game was unplugged, so something bad could happen to him. Maybe the game would explode. Maybe he can't get back in. Maybe he would be stuck in some other world. Maybe he would just be forced to return to the game and can't leave. Maybe he could die!

But there was one thing for sure. No matter what happens to them, Gon had to save Killua, and Killua had to get his memory back. There was no stopping now. They couldn't leave each other. They couldn't forget about each other. (Well at least Killua with his loss of memory.) Killua needed Gon and Gon needed Killua.

But there was one last thing. How would they stop Kei? She could do anything. Even force someone out. She could destroy the game, which was something she would only do one time because she would die along with the game. She wasn't a human, and she wasn't someone who could live in the real world. She was also almost impossible to defeat. She couldn't die by getting stabbed in the chest, getting something blown off, a loss of blood, getting a deadly disease, being shot, being crushed, starvation, getting poison, or dying from thirst. It was only being destroyed by the game, which could only destroy her by being destroyed itself. How would they stop her? The only way to destroy the game was to get into the screen only she had access to, and make sure it doesn't get stopped. That would just be committing suicide whoever did it. Who would want to do that? You would have to wait the last second to try to escape. And it would be impossible to escape with that much time without freezing the world, which was impossible.

They had no choice, but to either destroy the game, or somehow leave and never return. What would they do?

As he left the game, the area around him grew darker and darker, until everything was pitch black. Then light came. It was bright, but partly dim. Darkness approached again, but only filled the sides of the room. But then it moved around, and the hotel room appeared. The room was dark, and the window showed a bit of light.

No one but Gon was in the room. He thought Killua was suppose to be there, unless he left the room, but why would he?

He stared around, searching again. "Where's Killua? I thought he was here." Then he thought of checking outside. He walked outside, but the hall was empty. No being in site. Why wasn't anyone outside?

Well, it seemed reasonable, the moon was out, and the clock had said midnight.

"Hmm, maybe I should check the game again?" He turned and walked back in. But as he approached the tv, he had second thoughts. "Or should I check the lobby? Yeah, I should. He could be there now." He ran through the door, and down to the stairs. 'I hope Killua's there. But what if he isn't? I can't just search for him all night, and find out he's not here.' The lobby came. No one, not even the staff or the front desk lady was there. Had they all gone home?

"Why isn't he here? Kei told me he would be here. Why would she lie to me?" He ran back up to the room. He grabbed on to the handle and pulled. The door wouldn't open! He had forgotten the key, and let the door close on him. He sighed and slid to the ground. "Now I'll have to wait all night." He kept his eyes open until three, where he fell asleep. At least he was able to stay by the door. If someone came, he could get help getting back in.

Then morning came. It was only nine o'clock in the morning. He was still asleep. The maid had come by into the hall and noticed him. "That kid, he looks familiar." She went closer to observe his face. "Its that one kid that didn't return two weeks ago, along with that white haired brat that was annoying when I saw him. But why is he here? And why is he not with his friend?" She shook Gon, and woke him up.

"Huh." He was half asleep. But then his eyes opened. "I'm sorry. I came to the lobby last night and no one was here. Then I came back up and couldn't get back in. Then I fell asleep here." He started to laugh a little.

"That's not much of a problem, but why did you show up now? Your a week late. We had to check out for you because we thought you left." She crossed her arms. "Now get up. I'll take you to the front desk now."

Gon immediately jumped up and followed the maid down the stairs. She led him to the front desk where the other lady had been from three weeks ago.

"Who's this?"

"The kid that checked in three weeks ago, along with the white haired brat," was her answer. "He needs to get back in again."

"That was a pain kid. We thought you just left during the night one day. I heard you hadn't showed up for days before we checked you out. Now you need more money to get the room back."

"Oh, uh. I think I have my license in my po-" He reached in his pocket, but his license wasn't there. "I thought I..." He sighed. "I left it in the room."

"Are you sure? We already cleaned out the room two weeks ago. There's a lost and found box. You might find it in there." He looked through it. His license was in there, but also his phone, and Killua's.

"I forgot about these." Then he handed the license to the lady. As he ran to the room, he opened it back up. The room was the same, like yesterday. He searched the room for the joystation, which was not noticeable anymore. He eventually did find it, and tried to plug it back up. "I don't exactly know where these go, but I have to try. If I want to get back in, then I have to at least try it. I did watch Killua do it a little, but not the whole time." He tried plugging each cord in, one by one, taking at least five minutes to figure out where each one went. Then finally he had the three colored ones. He searched for the three spots and found them, but because of how dark it was in the room, it made it hard to find where they went. The light switch was behind him, so why didn't he bother turning it on?

He went through each and every spot. His first attempt he put the yellow in the white, which looked like yellow, and the white in the yellow, which looked like white. Then the red, which was easy to see, due to how dark it was. Then he turned on the tv, but nothing happened. He scratched his head in confusion. Then he bothered to turn on the lights.

"That's why. I put the yellow in white, and white in yellow." He unplugged them, and put all of them in the right spot. But the screen didn't show up. "Why isn't it working? Unless its a trick where I have to put them in different spots." NO! He did put the cords in right, but one black one, which wasn't in. He noticed as he reached his hand for the colored cords. "I forgot this one." He plugged it in. Then the game appeared. He cheered, but it dyed down as the screen went blank. His face changed to disappointment.

Why wasn't it working? The screen came, but disappeared.

He smelled the air. Smoke? Why was there smoke? He turned to see, the game had smoke coming out. It broke! It probably only did that because the game was unplugged and he was forced out. (Actually this happened to a Nintendo I had when I was younger, true)

"Now I'll have to buy a new one before I can even join back in." He sighed. "I guess I'll go now."

He left the hotel room, and the front desk lady yelled to him before he disappeared. "If you don't come back, I won't let you come here again, so be here before we leave." She didn't want the same incident to happen two weeks ago.

"I will." He ran off into the distance.

He came back with a new Joystation, and game. Because of what happened to the Joystation, the game also broke. Luckily this was something you just had to log in. Only certain data was lost.

He plugged almost everything back in, until the colored cords came. This time he plugged them back in, but the tv screeched and hurt his ears. He took them out quickly, then put them in without the noise showing up. The game did appear and he cheered again. This time it didn't turn off.

As he logged himself on, he searched for the start button, but before he pressed it, a note popped up on the screen.

The message was from Killua. "Gon, you may think I left the game, but I'm still inside. I know you don't want to hear this, but I know Kei is trying to separate us. I saw you leave, and sent you this note before going to her. She knew I was watching. I also watched you in that room. I heard her lie to you, but I couldn't get myself to show up. She took away your memory of what happened to you. That cut, was from Kei. She lied to you to make you trust her, and she took away your memory of getting stabbed. Right now I am about to face her, but because my nen isn't back yet, I don't know if I can beat her. Chances are low. So I need you to listen this time. Trust me, and come back in. You'll find me somewhere, and don't listen to anything that she says about me." It was long, but true. Killua found out everything. The message continued. "I found out she has the ability to take away memories, so I might not remember this note. If you find out, try to stop her." Then it ended.

Gon read the note over and over again. "I can't just not believe him. This could all be true. But I don't know if he is lying. But why would Killua lie? My chances of knowing this is true, is if he does forget something. If he doesn't know something that happened in the past, I will believe this note."

He had to try now. He had to believe him. There wasn't anything that was a lie. It was all up to Gon now to figure it out.

Thanks for reading! The next chapter will be the last one for this arc, so the third arc will start. I will give info on it in the author's note for the next chapter.