((Continuation of the recap (fair warning. this is a long one). I claim no rights to any of the stories or story pieces i post in the recaps (except the portions that i originally posted myself). I would also like to add these are not only my words but the text from the posts as well. Please keep this in mind when reading. Thank you))
RECAP PART 2:
2:47 PM..
Jot had just gotten home from school and the first thing he did was log in..
"I'm still in these clothes, what happened yesterday!?" said Jot not surprised. 'I'll have to get used to them now... Great, now no one knows who I am now!"
Jot noticed that there was no pain in his wrist. He walked towards the Chaos Gate.
" Delta [Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground]!" yelled Jot.
Jot was warped to a beautiful cathedral that veryone one knows well, the Hulle Grahz. Jot ran towards the door and when he got there, he saw a character screaming.
"What's wrong?" asked Jot, but it was too late, the character had warped before he could finish. "What was that about a god?"
Jot walked over to the front of the cathedral, but only to notice that somethign was wrong.
"Where' the statue of Aura?!" said Jot to himself. The gitr he saw the dya before seeped into his mind. "Could that have been, Aura? Wait, no way! Things like this never happen to me, but, could that have really been Aura? And does that mean the what happened yesterday is connected to the missing statue? Is that what the guy was refering to, Aura is missing!"
Jot hough to hismself what were the consequences of [The Wolrd] without Aura.
"I wonder if
he knows? said Jot before he wapred out of the area. When Jot got to Mac Anu, he stared running to the heart of Mac Anu, the CC Corp Hq in the World...
Dark Blade had been in Hulle Granz for a long while after his episode of discovering Aura was missing. Another player had disturbed his contemplations while he was there and gated back to Mac Anu. While in Mac Anu Dark Blade had steadied his resolve and decided to break the seal he asked Aura to place on the bracelet she had given him. Upon the unsealing Dark Blade endured unspeakable pain while the 2 halves of the bracelet remerged. After the bracelet had become one piece again he discovered his character's design had become altered. He spent as much time as he dared to waste looking at his new form. Soon after his inspecion he went to Wailing Capital Wald Uberlisterin to begin his search for Aura.
(Nemfora) - Dark Blade searched underneath him but Nemfora had hacked himself up into the sky with Lenae. He stood on his created platform. It was streaming with binary, he never really got the hang of graphic design.
"Why.....why..... why are you doing this to me?" He could hide it no longer. The proud hacker was crying and his voice revealed it.
"I don't hate the AI's and I only used them once. It was a mistake, but WHY are you bringing me back to the pain?" Nemfora trembeled. They were back, the memories. They flowed through him like poison. He could see the news headline "Ten CC Corp Men Comotose". His M2D was blurry in the real world and online. That's when Lenae slapped him.
The struck was sudden but meaningful.
"Don't you get it?" she snapped.
"This is an oppertunity for forgiveness! You can be saved!" she looked at him, almost staring at his real eyes.
"It won't be easy I promise, but the bracelet will help!" she looked so determined.
"But..." he sobbed, "that's half the problem! You turned on the light... and when there's light....."
"There's shadows..." she must've already considered this.
"I know, but I prevented it by sealing the Dusk bracelet. As long as it remains sealed we are safe." She eased the discomfort. Then they heard Dark Blade call.
"Lenae! I know you're here. I activated the bracelet! Now we can find her!" Dark Blade looked around for Lenae, but high above both faces were full of terror.
"Oh, no...." Lenae said
The ground began rumbling and Wailing Capital Wald Uberlisterin the land of the dead, resurrected it. From the shining light of the bracelet came shadows, and from the shadows......came. Nemfora couldn't stand to speak the monsters name. From the shadows came....
The White Knight returned from another successful trip into the dungeons. At this rate she'd make her job extension in no time. Still, she couldn't get the image of the girl out of her mind. With no where else to turn, she logged out and jumped on to the message boards. She wrote up a quick message and posted it.
(Posted by rkishi[White Knight])Glitch Character:
Has anyone else witnessed a glitch character that looks like a girl near the bottom of Delta Hidden Protected Fallen Angel?
Rika sat back in her chair, with her M2D off to her side. She had some homework to get done, but decided to keep the forum window open in case someone else saw the girl too.
"What do you mean " That's not of your concern!", I now him, now let me in so I can tlak to him!" requested Jot.
'Sorry sir but-"
"Let him in, I was expecting him.."
"Lios!" said Jot surprised. " I need to speak with you, its very important that you shoould know!"
"Let us go soewhere private, follow me" said Lios. As they walked, there was an akward silence and Jot felt like he was bieng watched or something. The Silence broke when Jot asked:
"Do you know about what happend to Aura?"
"Why do you ask?" asked Lios
"Somewthign happened, cant you tell, look at me!?" said Jot.
"He does seem different, wait, whats that on his right wrist!?" said Lios in his mind. As soon as Jot saw Lios looking at the transparent bracelet that always seemd to be invicible to Jot, he cover in with his left hand.
"Jot, tell me everything that happed.."
Jot explained everything..
Ryoichi gated in, and he remembered almost immediately after the strange bracelet he had around his left arm. What is this... thing? he asked himself in his mind, as he gated out to delta hidden forbidden holy ground.
"Cubia..." Said Dark Blade solomley as the beast slowly ascended in front of him.
So what he had been told was true. But something wasnt quite right with the creature. From rumors and what parts of information he could put together, wasnt Cubia supposed to be some kind of purple color?
This ... Thing ... Was so dark, it was almost black.
"Maybe ... Maybe its not complete yet! Maybe i can stop it before it goes too far!" Dark Blade quickly ran over his list of skills and found what he was looking for. A new scythe skill, which, he assumed was given to him with the unsealing of the bracelet.
"NIGHT'S EMBRACE!" He yelled as he brought out the blackest scythe he had ever seen. The thing appeared to absorb the light itself. There was no mistaking the dark aura resonating off the weapon.
'Where did I get this thing?!' Was all he thought before ...
An enormous line of darkness issued forth from the scythe as it passed in front of Dark Blade. Slicing through the random pieces of stone in front of him like they were nothing the attacked continued to grow in size.
Sadly the sttack had no effect. The Beast countered with it's own attack. Dark Blade was overwheled and thrown back. Dark blade was knocked out but Cubia brought its attention from him.
After a thorough seach of the area again Darshe found nothing. "Man...I guess it really wasn't an event character.....maybe I should check the board again.."
Deciding to do just that he logged out and soon spotted the new post about the girl in white. "So someone else actually saw her too?"
(posted by Darshe)RE: Glitch Character:
I saw a girl like that...but it was at Delta Hidden Solitary Maiden... do you think it's some kind of event character?
Rika finished up the last of her math homework, and looked back at the forums. Lo and behold, there was a reply. She looked it over.
Wow, so I'm not going crazy...
She grabbed her M2D, and posted up a response before logging back into the game.
(Posted by rkishi[White Knight])Event Character?:
You really think she's some kind of event character? She could be, but wouldn't she be in a single location? Maybe she only appears in fields that begin with Hidden, or maybe she's some kind of random monster. She looks familiar though, I don't know how, she just does. I'm going to go look around town, maybe someone else has some insight into this character.
Rika slipped her M2D back on, and logged back in. When she finished logging back in, the White Knight began asking players passing by if they've seen the girl.
Darshe having been free the wholse day had nothing better to than than spend his time trying to solve the mystery. Though with no leads he was getting frustrated. To relax he decided to go to a lost ground the first one that came to mind was Hulle Granz which seemed to be an almost famous lost ground these days but seeing as the sorts of players who gathered in lost grounds usually had more information than others that was probably for the best... He gated in and noted something was off...but what? That he wasn't sure..but it just felt wrong he stepped inside the cathedral only to see the very familiar statue was missing "What the....?"
White Knight gated into /\ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground, after everyone in town told her about the Statue of Aura inside the cathedral. She thought that this would give an answer to the mysterious glitch event character. She looked around the local as she headed for the giant door.
Nice place. Wiseman wasn't kidding. Wonder where he is now...
She opened the doors up, and went inside. She saw Darshe there, but noticed the statue wasn't.
Oh, what a rip off... came to see the statue, and it's not even here anymore...
She waved at Darshe
Hey, I remember you from the boards, you saw the girl too, right?
"NO!" Lenae screamed. She felt terror going towards Dark Blade.
"LENAE GET BACK!" Nemfora screamed! She turned to face him.
"Nemfora you do care," she looked relieved.
"NOW'S NOT THE TIME, MOVE!" Nemfora was to late. The shot was fired and he jumped in the way. Purple rings surrounded him streaming with data. He felt a terrible pain.
"NO!" Lenae screamed.
"Lenae," sighed Nemfora as he fell to the ground. "I will stay calm. I know I do not have long before I fall into a coma. Please I need you to get out of here now!" Lenae was struck with grief but she knew he was right.
"Goodbye Nemfora, I promise to bring you back!" Lenae stuttered crying.
She vanished in a white light just as a man named Renjishi Kenasaki
hit the floor of his bedroom. A solitary tear of blood went down from his M2D.
Darshe turned instinctively defensive but when he realised she wasn't a threat he relaxed. "Yeah. I finally remembered where I'd seen her before...but the statues gone...It was right there...on the altar covered in chains. Something like that doesn't just get up and move!"
" Who does he think he is relling me " Are you on halluciogans?" Seriously, the nerve of the guy, Im just gald Dad doesnt fire the creep!" said Jot pissed off. "I need to do my own investigation. TO HULLE GRANHZ!!!" said Jot excited for his new adventure.
Just as Jot warpd to the area, he felt thre burst of pain in his right wrist agian, but this time, it was terribly hurtful. " Why does this keep happening!" said Jot when he got to the area."I'd better go check it out!" Jot ran towrds the cathedral, but only to encounter two players. He approached them and said " Hello there, my name is Jot and I was just wondering, do you know anything about the missing statue?! Sorry to be direct, but Im kindda in a hurry?!" One of the player glanced at his wrist with the same eyes as Lios'. "Excuse me, why are you atraing at my wrist?" asked Jot uncertain of what he had now done.
Dark Blade had passed out but he did not sleep calmly.
"Where ... Am I?
'Hello? Excuse me. Miss? Do you mind if I sit with you?'
"Thats ... Me?"
'I'm Dark Blade. Dont let the name fool you though. I'm a pretty nice guy. So whats your name?'
'Aura? Thats an interesting name. So how'd you come up with it?'
"Aura? Whats going on?"
'Sooo ... You didnt come up with it?'
'Your father gave it to you? You mean you couldnt come up with a character name and asked him to think of it?'
"Thats right ..."
Dark Blade dreampt of how he had come to know the goddess of "The World"
"The day came when I heard an incredible story from Aura. At the time I just assumed it was her background story that she role-played to."
"But one day I saw her do something I had not seen even an admin do. She created an NPC on the spot. After this I grew scarred, and tried to stay away from her."
"I filled my days with soloing and anything i could think of to keep my mind off of her. I even stayed completly off the delta server to distance myself from the Hulle Granz."
'DIE YOU USELESS FOOLS!'
"In my mad attempts to stay away from her I started to become violent and slautered countless players."
"Once I had finally calmed down and realized what I had done. I found that there was no excusing it. That there was no way I could go back to her without seeing shame and disappointment in her eyes."
"But as it turned out. She found me. Not surprising when I really thought about it. She probably knew where I was and what I was doing the whole time."
'Do you feel better now?'
"I had expected something different from that tone, that smile. I was prepared for anger. Not understanding."
'I'm ... I'm ...'
"I couldnt help it ... I just started crying."
"She hugged me. Not my character but me. I could feel her arms around my shoulders. I had never felt so comforted in my life. I vowed to protect her. I swore never to raise my hand to someone other than in defense of myself or another."
'Thank you ... My friend'
"Some friend I turned out to be. When she needed me most. I was not there. When I promised to never raise my hand in anger again. I did."
'Remember no matter what happenes. I will be here for you when you want to cry.'
"I had forgotten. The real reason why I called her friend. The real reason I made all those promises."
'I will be there for you too ...'
"It is time."
'It is time.'
"To make good on those oaths!"
"I will temper my mind, use my pain as my weapon. I will not let it control me ever again! I will forge my resolve, using it as my armor. No attacks shall get through!"
"Now Aura. I will find you. I will rescue you. I will not be afraid to cry. Aura, I WILL see you smile again."
Ryoichi walked through the doors, quietly, so as to not alert the other two of his presence, he walked behind them, seeing as how they were at the altar. "I suppose this is about that event character?" he asked, spooking the two.
Somewhat surprised by the sudden crowd Darshe looks from one to the other "My my....quite a crowd. You're all here about that? I didn't realise it would draw so much attention.I don't suppose anyone knows what happened to the statue here?"
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was just removed, since it was speculated that the girl left, however... it could've been the girl who removed it." Ryoichi said plainly.
RykkuAlsheid looked around, then back at the empty pedestal.
The statue of Aura, right? My cousin told me everything about it... how does something that's chained to the walls get up and walk away?
She ran her hand along the rail, and looked at the inscriptions
Skeith... Innis... Magus... so this is where it started...
She seemed to be in some kind of peaceful state.
((And thats about all I need to recap. If your too lazy to look back one page then foo to you
... Also it should be noted that these are to be considered the course of the story (there are a few inconsistencies further along ATM but they are being sorted)))