PSOCecilJake
Aug 23, 2004, 01:30 PM
This is one I've been working on lately... I have 4 parts, one for each Area of Episode 1, and 2 parts for Episode 2... and 1 part for Ep3... (more of 2.5...) I'm not done with 3 yet. Uh.. the characters are based on me and my friends characters, and this is also hosted at Fanfiction.net (username: PSOCecilJake) so... without further adu...
Phantasy Star Online: Episode 1: Chapter 1: The Lost
Chihiro smiled. "Stupid creature... you don't stand a chance against me." The Sil Dragon roared, furious that someone had invaded its territory. "Yeah, yeah, you would just love to kill me wouldn't you?" she smirked, "Sorry. That will not happen, by you, or anything else." It roared again, and blew a blast of ice at her, lowering its head as it did so. "Perfect!" Chihiro jumped over the ice, and onto its head. She drew her favorite weapon, the Demolition Comet, and shoved it directly into the creatures skull, shattering bone and brain matter.
Then it disapeared. She was standing all alone, on Pioneer 2. "Ahhh... that was fun!" Chihiro said, and smiled. She put her weapon away, and headed back to her dorm.
Pioneer 2, a transportation ship, taken off from the planet Coral many years ago, had been orbiting their proposed future home, Ragol, for about 7 years now. But when the scout ship, the first ship to arive at Ragol, Pioneer 1, mysteriously exploded by some dark force, the Pioneer 2 government hid it all. For all the people knew, Pioneer 1 was busy creating new homes, for them to live in.
But, hunter's knew the truth. Hunters knew about that 'dark force.' The hunters were trained, and hired, to destory that force.
"Did you hear?" Chihiro heard a man say to another man, "Another hunter was killed on Ragol! They say the animals did it!"
"Must be some animal if it can kill a fully trained hunter!" The other man replied.
'I wonder... what's going on down there... I hope Bahn's ok...' Chihiro thought. She stopped to get some food, and saw her roommate, Fei-Yen, a female human force. Her long blue hair shone like a light, and Chihiro could of sworn she used it as a light once. She was reading a book, on techs. She seemed to be checking out Gibarta...
"Chihiro, please stop looking over my shoulder. It's annoying."
"Oh! Sorry. Just curious to see what you were reading." Chihiro smiled, "So, what 'ya up to?"
"Ah, nothing really. You?"
Chihiro smirked, "5th Sil Dragon today. Pretty good, eh?"
Fei frowned, "No."
"Huh.. oh no.. not that lecture again!"
"Chihiro! You know what that VR system does to you! Think, with all the random occurances that happen, and the way it's on Pioneer 2 a lot, don't you think that it will do something to you? To the way you see real life? It's known to make people paranoid..."
"Jeez, I'm fine!" Chihiro started back to the VR machine, but was watching Fei, afraid she might try something, "See you later."
"Chihiro! Don't walk away from me! See how your watching me? That's the effects!" Fei yelled.
"Shut up! Leave me alone!" Chihiro ran back down the hallway, away from Fei.
"Hmph," she pouted, "some friend... 'looking out for me,' ha! She's just afraid... that I will surpass her! I will follow my orders, and find out what happened on Ragol! But to do that, I must be strong! Fei doesn't understand... I have other motives.... but..." Chihiro saw a man being pulled from the machine, by guards.
"Why don't you understand?! Pioneer 2 is covered in monsters! LISTEN TO ME!!" he bellowed.
"Shut up! You are coming with us, and be quiet." the guard said.
"You're with them!! You can see them!" The man rambled, "YOU!! Tell them!! Monsters, everywhere!!"
"Um.. me?" Chihiro squeaked, "There are no monsters here..."
"Oh, don't worry about him. He's been in the training machine a little too long... jeez, we need to get that thing outlawed... we lose more hunters day by day..."
"Is it still on?" Chihiro asked, looking at the broken machine.
"Of course not, that one is off for good. And soon, they will all be off... you'd best say away from them, just look at this guy." The guard glanced at the man, who was still screaming, only to be tranqalized. "Jeez, noisy one." The guards continued on.
"Oh... maybe... I should stay off it... Fei says I act like that sometimes... no more! No longer will be use it! I'm strong enough as I am!" Chihiro laughed, "I can take on the world!!" she yelled, holding her arm up in victory.
"Chihiro! What are you doing??" Fei asked. People were staring at Chihiro.
"Oh! I'm done with that machine, it screws with your mind." Chihiro pointed to her head, and swirled her finger. "Oh, Fei... I'm... sorry, 'bout how I acted... it was uncalled for..."
Fei smiled. "It's ok, I'm just glad to hear that your off that machine. C'mon, let's go home, I'll make you lunch."
"Oh, thanks." Chihiro smiled.
They returned to their dorm, Chihiro happily, and admiringly looking at Fei. Fei was like a big sister to Chihiro. She exceled at almost everything that she tried, unlike Chihiro, who barely passed her Hunter's Licence exam.
'I hope... she stays off that thing...' Fei thought.
Chihiro had cleaned her plate, a smiled at Fei. "Thanks, that was great!"
Fei was just finishing her's. "Oh, thanks. I boiled some Booma meat, in Rappy broth, everything who tried mine seems to love it!" Fei grinned. "Your the only person."
Chihiro stood up. "Alright, isn't it almost time for work?"
Fei stood up, shortly after that. "Oh... your right. C'mon."
Fei and Chihiro worked together in clearing Ragol of its wild animals that mean harm to hunters, as well as secretly discover what that dark force was. Recently, in a large forest, a enterance to a cave was found. Only a few hunters are allowed inside. The monsters inside vagely resembled those found in the forest, but only physically. Current genetics test show very little connecting the genes.
They arrived at the Principle's Office. "Hunter Chihiro-Sen and Force Fei Yen, you are assigned to the forest at cordinates 075.75, 123.47." Principle Tyrell, the ships commander, said as he handed them their assignment documents.
"But that's the weird forest, with that newly discovered cave! Why us?" Fei gasped.
"We have confidence that you two will be fine. We are sending you into that cave, if you can make it, we are also giving you 10 telepipes, 5 each, for escaping in case it gets too rough in there. I'm positive you know how to use it? Just break off the tip, ad place it face down on the ground, and slowly pull it up." He handed them both 5 tiny tubes. "If you encounter resistance, human or otherwise, eradicate it. No other hunter is offically cleared for that area. When you finish, I want a full report. Questions, ask my secretary, Irene."
Chihiro turned to the woman. "Are we allowed companions on this quest?"
"Yes, 4 people are allowed in a Hunter Party."
Chihiro smiled. "I know just who to call..." Fei and Chihiro bowed, and left.
"I'm planning on asking Angel to help." Chihiro said.
"My brother? Sure you can contact him?" Fei asked.
"I hope so. He would really help." Chihiro said, and walked to her visiphone.
"Insert Hunter ID." The machine's automatic voice said.
"Fallen Angel. ID Number 9745692." Chihiro said.
"Connecting....................... connnected. Transfering........."
"YES!! Finally!" Chihiro cheered, "Fei!! It's transfering!"
"Really?!" Fei ran over to Chihiro, almost tripping over everything in the room on her way there.
"Hello?" a man with long black hair, Angel, asked.
"Angel! Long time no see! How have you been?" Chihiro asked, excited.
"Busy... you?" He asked.
"We need you to--" Chihiro was cut off, because Fei praticly through her out of her chair.
"Angel!!" Fei pratically screamed.
"Fei! Heh, did you throw Chihiro off?"
"Hey, I haven't seen you, or talked to you, in sooooo long!! Why haven't you called?!"
"Well... I've been busy... and..."
"Surrrrrrrrre you were..." Fei looked away, but then looked back, with a smirk.
"Well, we would like you to help us, we are to explore the newly discovered cave, and the surrounding forest."
"THAT forest... well, sure. I'll see you guys at.. is 8 AM ok?"
"Yup! We will see ya then!" Angel hung up, as did Fei.
"You completely threw me off...." Chihiro whimpered.
Fei giggled. "Sorry, I hadn't seem him for sooooo long!"
"Hehe, well, it's alright. Well, who else should we recruit?"
"Hmm... how bout Aphrodite? She could really help."
"Right, I'll call--" Chihiro was cut off by small lights flashing.
"Oh! I completely forgot!! We're on call for guard duty!" Fei quickly said. "C'mon!"
Fei and Chihiro ran though countless hallways, as fast as they could, to get to the main teleporter. "I completely forgot we were call call, too!!" Chihiro yelled.
They ran though at least 10 different hallways, and arived at the town center, were guards had surrounded.. something, they couldn't see it. But the guards had their guns out, and ready.
"Let us through! We are the hunters! What came..." Chihiro was pushing her way through the guards, until she saw what they were pointing their guns at. She stopped, amazed at what she saw.
"...Bahn?! I thought... you were... well, I didn't know WHAT to think, after you just disapeared..." Chihiro quietly said.
"Angel, why are you here? Why are all these guards here? What's going on...?" Fei quietly asked the same thing, whom she thought was Angel.
One guard scanned it, "That isn't my wife! That thing has the same sort of power in it as the thing that caused the Pioneer 1 incident!!"
"Bahn..." Chihiro echoed, and walked into his open arms. Bahn is Chihiro's brother, whom she, like any sibbling would, loved very much, but they were seperated, along with Chihiro's parents, when they left on Pioneer 1. "I... missed you... so much..." Chihiro hugged him tightly, almost in a sleep-like state. When she felt a sharp pain in her right arm! She was stabbed by something! It put some sort of black thick liquid in her body, and she felt it travel though her veins. She looked at him, her eyes clouding up, but in his, she saw nothing.
"Chihiro!! It's ano illusion! Chihiro!!" Fei screamed. That whole time, Fei was screaming, but she never heard her.
Surprised to be found out, the creature tried to back into the teleporter, but it was quickly torn apart from bullets from the guards. Seeing this happen to her brother, Chihiro fell to the ground. and started crying, the creature's black blood coating Chihiro. "Stop it!! You're killing him!! Stop...." she screamed.
Fei walked over to her friend, and gave her a soft hug. "That wasn't Bahn... or Angel. It was some sort of evil creature, Chihiro."
Chihiro looked at Fei, confused, and tired, and quietly said, "They killed Bahn..." and fainted.
"Chihiro?" Fei asked. "Chihiro?!" Fei asked again, gently shaking her. "Oh god, someone get a medic!! She's been stabed by something!!" Fei screamed, and some nurses ran to Chihiro, loaded her up on a strecher, and ran her to the ER.
"Chihiro...." Fei quietly said, lowering her head.
It was 7 hours later... Chihiro was still out, and Angel had arrived. He looked at her. "This odd change in her blood stream... it's darkening her blood..." He observed, "Fei, I'm not supposed to tell you this... but I must. Those 'mysterious' caves... they arn't mysterious at all. A few select hunters, myself included, have been exploring those caves for a while. We arn't positive what that creature was, but we are hoping to find out soon.
"Ok, ok, but do you have any idea when she will wake up? And if anything will be wrong with her?"
"Well, she should wake up in 5 weeks or so... but it won't be Chihiro... it will be a mindless monster...
Fei gasped. "No... we must help her!"
"I don't know how..." Angel sighed, "For now... she's lost."
Chihiro screamed, in pain it seemed. Fei, who was still at her friend's side, softly weeped. "I can't give up... I refuse to!" she placed her hands above Chihiro's heart. "Anti!" she said, and cast it.
Nothing happened. Fei cast it over and over again, but to the same effect. After many tries, she had exhausted all of her strength. Chihiro still had a look of constant pain on her face, and it hurt Fei to see her friend in such a sad state. From outside the doorway, Angel too was watching, and it hurt him even more...
After a while longer, Angel left back to study the blood sample from Chihiro. "It corrupts any cell it touches... Chihiro may already be gone..." He sighed, and returned to Chihiro's room, to give Fei the bad news.
When he arrived, he saw a doctor talking to Fei, who quickly got excited. "That's right... I got it!" The doctor exclaimed.
"Have what?" Angel asked, his hope suddenly renewed.
"An antidote!" Fei said, excited.
"We arn't positive it will work forever, but it should reawaken Chihiro to her old self. Just inject this," he held up a needle, "into her blood stream. It will freeze the darkness cells, and leave her regular cells alone. We arn't sure how long this 'freeze' state will occur, but... she can take it again, to help her." The doctor walked to Chihiro limp body. He slowly injected it into her neck.
"Please work..." Fei whispered.
They saw the color return to her face, and she stirred a bit, but after a while of that, she opened her eyes.
"Wha... where... am I?" she asked in a daze.
"Your alive!" Fei hugged her friend, and Angel stood there, and wiped his eyes.
"Yeah... AH! A needle!" Chihiro screamed and pointed at the needle.
"Don't worry, it's empty, we don't need to use that anymore." Fei said.
"Use it anymore? Who did you use it on in the first place?" Chihiro asked.
"You! After that darkness creature injected its blood into you, you fainted!"
The doctor cleared his throat. "Chihiro, you must be careful to not let ANYTHING with a darkness cell remotely involved with it anywhere near the inside of your body. If you do, we may not be able to help you then. You will need to give yourself one of these shots every month, to insure that you stay alive."
"Stay... alive... I'm alive because of..." Chihiro sighed, "Jeez.... well, lets go to that forest!" Chihiro exclaimed, and hopped up. "C'mon! We don't have time to dilly-dally!" Chihiro was pointing toward the door.
"Be careful! Don't over do it!" Angel said, and as if on cue, Chihiro started to stagger, and fell. Just in time, Angel grabbed her, and she supported herself on him.
"Thanks... I guess I'm not ready yet..." Chihiro said, looking at Angel, and smiled.
"I guess not... you should rest, then we can leave tommarow. I already contacted Aphrodite on our mission. She will be ready tommarow."
"Wow... you think of everything..." Chihiro said, and fell asleep.
"She won't be herself for some time..." Fei quietly said to Angel.
Angel just looked at Chihiro, and sighed.
Later that night, Fei took Chihiro to their dorm. Chihiro was fast asleep, and some of her color had returned. Fei was checking the Pioneer 2 Network for another cure, but the problem wasn't even listed in the directory.
"It's like... nothing else can help her..." Fei sighed.
"Maybe destroying the source of the problem. The darkness itself."
Fei laughed, "Destory darkness entirely? That is impossible."
"No, the creator of the darkness cells in Chihiro's body."
"Hmm.. nice idea... wait... who--" Fei turned around, and saw Aphrodite standing in the door way. A tall HUcasel, dark yellow in color. "Oh, hello." Fei smiled.
"What are you still doing up? You need your rest tommarow."
"But... I'm--"
"Don't be worried. the doctors said that she would be fine. Let it be. Go to bed."
"...... alright." Fei finally said. She went into her room, but before she did, Aphrodite heard, "Why didn't I attack sooner... because of me Chihiro..."
"No, you couldn't of known. Don't blame anyone, just live off that mistake. It may happen again."
Fei wiped her cheek. "I'm sure... Chihiro hates me now..."
"That's foolish! Fei, Chihiro thinks of you like a sister, and she knows that you did your best to help her! Don't beat yourself up over this."
"... Your right." Fei smiled, "That was a stupid thought. Good night." Fei opened her door to her room, when she heard a scream!
"AHHHH! IT'S BACK!!!" They then heard sobbing screams. Fei and Aphrodite hurried to Chihiro's room.
"What... is it?" Fei stood there, and looked at Chihiro, who was screaming, wide awake, but at nothing.
"It's here!! Can't you see it?!!" Chihiro screamed.
Fei walked slowly to Chihiro, and patted her shoulder. "There's nothing there." And as if a veil was lifted from Chihiro's eyes, she settled down.
"There... is nothing there... but..."
"Your just delerious. Settle down... go back to bed."
"Oh... ok... sorry... but... I don't want to die..."
"You won't die.. I will protect you. We will all protect you. Don't worry."
Chihiro started to cry, softly. "I go from being a problem... to a burden..." Fei gave Chihiro a hug.
"Your not a problem, or a burden... now stop worring, and go to sleep."
Chihiro obeyed, and fell asleep. Fei went to her room, and did the same.
It was the day of the mission, and Chihiro had settled down. Fei her prepaired herself with tech practice, Aphrodite had adjusted her guns... and Angel hadn't arived. They were waiting in front of the teleporter. Chihiro was so bored, she was watching the lasers go from bottom to top of the machine, and over again. "Come on, Angel... where are you?!" she asked, to no one in particular.
"Sorry I'm late." Angel said, walking out of the Hunter's Guild.
Fei ran up to Angel and hudded him. "I was thinking that you forgot." She smiled.
"Na, you know me. I don't forget, and I'm probably more prepaired then you are." He smiled back. He looked to Chihiro, "Feeling better?"
"Much. Thanks..." she shyly said.
"Um... alright, Aphrodite? Ready?" Angel asked.
"Of course." She responded.
"Right!" Chihiro said, getting excited.
Everyone walked into the teleporter... and suddenly, before them stood a lush forest. Fei cast Shifta and Deband on everyone, and the regular round of 'thank you's were passed around.
Chihiro looked around. It was calm. She heard many birds, but could not see where they were. There also seemed to be a path, leading them. 'Maybe Pioneer 1 made it.' she thought. She motioned for everyone to follow and went on. They came to many blue lasers, going vertically up 2 long metal bars. There was no way around them. So, being the brave adventurer 'Yeah, right.' Chihiro thought with a smirk, she walked through them, and was greeted by 3 large mole looking things that burrowed out of the ground.
"Boomas... 3 of them. They are just native creatures, not much trouble there." Aprodite analized.
"That one's mine!" Chihiro yelled, and ran to one, and cut it across the face, killing it instantly. Fei followed up with a large Foie blast to the chest of another one, also killing it. They looked at each other, and smiled., but forgot about the 3rd...
"Fei! Chihiro!" Angel called, "Look ou---" But he was cut off, as Chihiro cut it in the face, and Fei blasted Foie at it, simutaniusly. "Ok... I see that you have that under control..."
Chihiro smirked. "We make a good team! It's been a while since we have fough together!"
"Yup!"
They continued on, killing more boomas, and the occasional rag rappy. So far, just a regular report. Until...
"Oh god!" Chihiro gasped.
"Pioneer 1's central dome!" Aphrodite exclaimed.
"I wonder... if anyone survived?" Angel grimly asked.
"I hope so... if anything could take out all of Pioneer 1..." Fei shuddered. She knew she didn't need to finish.
"The central door is broken, but the emergency teleporter is active." Aphrodite said.
"Let's go inside!" Chihiro said. She ran toward the teleporter, but stoped right in front of it, "Come on!" She called to everyone.
"There's no stopping this..." Angel quietly said.
"That's Chihiro." Fei responded. They followed.
"Let's go!" Chihiro excitedly siad, raising her arm in a cheer. And before they knew it, they stood in a devistatingly empty Central Dome.
"Wha... WHAT IS THIS?!" Chiriro cried.
"My... god... everything, everyone is gone!" Angel said.
"No... Ryudo... Kagato... you guys too..." Chihiro whimpered.
"Who?" Aphrodite asked.
"They were Chihiro's old friends... they were on Pioneer 1..." Fei explained, and Chihiro wailed louder.
"And... mom and dad!" Chihiro cried harder.
"Hey... you..." Angel sniffed, "you smell... something..?"
"I... ya, I do... smoke!" Fei gasped.
They felt a rumbling. "Chihiro!" Angel tried calling to Chihiro, who was in the middle of the wreckage. "CHIHIRO!" But it seemed that she couldn't hear him.
Everyone looked up, and a large red dragon flew in through a hole in the ceiling.
Chihiro glared at the dragon. "YOU! YOU DID THIS!!" She screamed.
Face covered in a blanket of tears, Chihiro charged the dragon, screaming. It roared, but Chihiro didn't flinch. She kept running, and took a hard upward swing with her Demolition Comet at the creature's throat. Upon cutting it, the blood sprayed all over Chihiro, who didn't even care. It roared in pain, but didn't die.
"Chihiro! It didn't cut through the throat! It just angered it!" Aphrodite yelled. Chihiro looked back. She saw Fei motioning to come back. Chihiro looked at the dragon again. It was regaining it posture.
'They are wasting my time...' she thought.
"Chihiro! Think! We need to be together, and near a wall, so the fire will have less area to spread, and less wreckage around us!" Fei yelled, but Chihiro ignored her.
She glared at the dragon, and screamed, "Shut up! I know what I'm doing! And I'l do it alone too!"
The dragon blew fire, but Chihiro jumped out of the way.
"Chihiro!" Angel called, "Chihiro!! Damnit!" Angel yelled, and ran to help her, Fei and Aphrodite following.
The dragon turned to Chihiro, and roared. It looked directly at her, and Chihiro felt bound. She couldn't move. It roared again, and slammed it foot down on her. She screamed, horrified. It opened it's mouth, ready for a snack.
"Chihiro!" Fei screamed.
Chihiro stopped crying, and closed her eyes. 'So... this is how my story ends...' she laughed, 'Pretty short for a 'great adventurer...' she laughed again, 'Who am I kidding... great adventurer my ass! Mother.. Father... I will join you .. soon... wait for me...' she thought. All of a sudden, a large round figure appeared beneath her, on the ground.
"What the??" Chihiro asked.
"A Photon Blast!" Angel marveled.
Chihiro's small mag was spinning around and around and around, and a giant creature, with shining skin, and large sharp pillers at the end of its body appeared, and fired a multitude of lasers, all of which dodged Chihiro, and crashed into the dragon.
"Pilla... I didn't think it existed..." Angel slowly said.
The Pilla disapeared, leaving only the four, and the dying dragon.
"Thank you..." Chihiro whispered. "Everyone..." She drew her Demolition Comet, faced the dragon, which was now lying on the ground, and shoved it in between its eyes. All the way through. The dragon roared, blood gushing from the wound.
"Rest in peace, everyone..." Chihiro whispered.
Aphrodite, Fei, and Angel stood bac, watching Chihiro slowly turn to face them, and she said, "Let's go." She said. She pointed at a new opening. "Further in."
Fei ran to Chihiro, and hugged her, "Oh, I'm glad your alright!"
"That was amazing! I've never seen a mag work so hard to protect it's master before!" Aphrodite exclaimed.
Chihiro chuckled. "C'mon. I don't want to force you."
"Yeah... but we should return to Pioneer 2 first. Fei?"
"Ya, absolutely."
"Alrighty." Chihiro opened the telepipe, and they returned to Pioneer 2.
Back on Pioneer 2, the four returned, standing in front of the Principle.
"Good... nice report. Now, what did you want to talk to me personally about?" he said.
"Sir... a large dragon attacked us... the kind that we thought were extinct. It was in in Pioneer 1's former Central Dome." Chihiro said.
"You found the central dome?!" the Principle exclaimed.
"Well, yes, but... everyone... was dead..."
Oh.... oh... I'm sorry...... well... please, continue with the investigation... oh, Rico..."
"Yes sir."
As they were leaving, Chihiro turned to Fei, "Rico?"
"Rico Tyrell, the Principle's daughter, who was on Pioneer 1... everyone called her Red Ring Rico for her red rings she wore... she's the reason that they are so popular now..." Fei explained.
"Oh..."
To Be Continued...
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Phantasy Star Online: Episode 1: Chapter 1: The Lost
Chihiro smiled. "Stupid creature... you don't stand a chance against me." The Sil Dragon roared, furious that someone had invaded its territory. "Yeah, yeah, you would just love to kill me wouldn't you?" she smirked, "Sorry. That will not happen, by you, or anything else." It roared again, and blew a blast of ice at her, lowering its head as it did so. "Perfect!" Chihiro jumped over the ice, and onto its head. She drew her favorite weapon, the Demolition Comet, and shoved it directly into the creatures skull, shattering bone and brain matter.
Then it disapeared. She was standing all alone, on Pioneer 2. "Ahhh... that was fun!" Chihiro said, and smiled. She put her weapon away, and headed back to her dorm.
Pioneer 2, a transportation ship, taken off from the planet Coral many years ago, had been orbiting their proposed future home, Ragol, for about 7 years now. But when the scout ship, the first ship to arive at Ragol, Pioneer 1, mysteriously exploded by some dark force, the Pioneer 2 government hid it all. For all the people knew, Pioneer 1 was busy creating new homes, for them to live in.
But, hunter's knew the truth. Hunters knew about that 'dark force.' The hunters were trained, and hired, to destory that force.
"Did you hear?" Chihiro heard a man say to another man, "Another hunter was killed on Ragol! They say the animals did it!"
"Must be some animal if it can kill a fully trained hunter!" The other man replied.
'I wonder... what's going on down there... I hope Bahn's ok...' Chihiro thought. She stopped to get some food, and saw her roommate, Fei-Yen, a female human force. Her long blue hair shone like a light, and Chihiro could of sworn she used it as a light once. She was reading a book, on techs. She seemed to be checking out Gibarta...
"Chihiro, please stop looking over my shoulder. It's annoying."
"Oh! Sorry. Just curious to see what you were reading." Chihiro smiled, "So, what 'ya up to?"
"Ah, nothing really. You?"
Chihiro smirked, "5th Sil Dragon today. Pretty good, eh?"
Fei frowned, "No."
"Huh.. oh no.. not that lecture again!"
"Chihiro! You know what that VR system does to you! Think, with all the random occurances that happen, and the way it's on Pioneer 2 a lot, don't you think that it will do something to you? To the way you see real life? It's known to make people paranoid..."
"Jeez, I'm fine!" Chihiro started back to the VR machine, but was watching Fei, afraid she might try something, "See you later."
"Chihiro! Don't walk away from me! See how your watching me? That's the effects!" Fei yelled.
"Shut up! Leave me alone!" Chihiro ran back down the hallway, away from Fei.
"Hmph," she pouted, "some friend... 'looking out for me,' ha! She's just afraid... that I will surpass her! I will follow my orders, and find out what happened on Ragol! But to do that, I must be strong! Fei doesn't understand... I have other motives.... but..." Chihiro saw a man being pulled from the machine, by guards.
"Why don't you understand?! Pioneer 2 is covered in monsters! LISTEN TO ME!!" he bellowed.
"Shut up! You are coming with us, and be quiet." the guard said.
"You're with them!! You can see them!" The man rambled, "YOU!! Tell them!! Monsters, everywhere!!"
"Um.. me?" Chihiro squeaked, "There are no monsters here..."
"Oh, don't worry about him. He's been in the training machine a little too long... jeez, we need to get that thing outlawed... we lose more hunters day by day..."
"Is it still on?" Chihiro asked, looking at the broken machine.
"Of course not, that one is off for good. And soon, they will all be off... you'd best say away from them, just look at this guy." The guard glanced at the man, who was still screaming, only to be tranqalized. "Jeez, noisy one." The guards continued on.
"Oh... maybe... I should stay off it... Fei says I act like that sometimes... no more! No longer will be use it! I'm strong enough as I am!" Chihiro laughed, "I can take on the world!!" she yelled, holding her arm up in victory.
"Chihiro! What are you doing??" Fei asked. People were staring at Chihiro.
"Oh! I'm done with that machine, it screws with your mind." Chihiro pointed to her head, and swirled her finger. "Oh, Fei... I'm... sorry, 'bout how I acted... it was uncalled for..."
Fei smiled. "It's ok, I'm just glad to hear that your off that machine. C'mon, let's go home, I'll make you lunch."
"Oh, thanks." Chihiro smiled.
They returned to their dorm, Chihiro happily, and admiringly looking at Fei. Fei was like a big sister to Chihiro. She exceled at almost everything that she tried, unlike Chihiro, who barely passed her Hunter's Licence exam.
'I hope... she stays off that thing...' Fei thought.
Chihiro had cleaned her plate, a smiled at Fei. "Thanks, that was great!"
Fei was just finishing her's. "Oh, thanks. I boiled some Booma meat, in Rappy broth, everything who tried mine seems to love it!" Fei grinned. "Your the only person."
Chihiro stood up. "Alright, isn't it almost time for work?"
Fei stood up, shortly after that. "Oh... your right. C'mon."
Fei and Chihiro worked together in clearing Ragol of its wild animals that mean harm to hunters, as well as secretly discover what that dark force was. Recently, in a large forest, a enterance to a cave was found. Only a few hunters are allowed inside. The monsters inside vagely resembled those found in the forest, but only physically. Current genetics test show very little connecting the genes.
They arrived at the Principle's Office. "Hunter Chihiro-Sen and Force Fei Yen, you are assigned to the forest at cordinates 075.75, 123.47." Principle Tyrell, the ships commander, said as he handed them their assignment documents.
"But that's the weird forest, with that newly discovered cave! Why us?" Fei gasped.
"We have confidence that you two will be fine. We are sending you into that cave, if you can make it, we are also giving you 10 telepipes, 5 each, for escaping in case it gets too rough in there. I'm positive you know how to use it? Just break off the tip, ad place it face down on the ground, and slowly pull it up." He handed them both 5 tiny tubes. "If you encounter resistance, human or otherwise, eradicate it. No other hunter is offically cleared for that area. When you finish, I want a full report. Questions, ask my secretary, Irene."
Chihiro turned to the woman. "Are we allowed companions on this quest?"
"Yes, 4 people are allowed in a Hunter Party."
Chihiro smiled. "I know just who to call..." Fei and Chihiro bowed, and left.
"I'm planning on asking Angel to help." Chihiro said.
"My brother? Sure you can contact him?" Fei asked.
"I hope so. He would really help." Chihiro said, and walked to her visiphone.
"Insert Hunter ID." The machine's automatic voice said.
"Fallen Angel. ID Number 9745692." Chihiro said.
"Connecting....................... connnected. Transfering........."
"YES!! Finally!" Chihiro cheered, "Fei!! It's transfering!"
"Really?!" Fei ran over to Chihiro, almost tripping over everything in the room on her way there.
"Hello?" a man with long black hair, Angel, asked.
"Angel! Long time no see! How have you been?" Chihiro asked, excited.
"Busy... you?" He asked.
"We need you to--" Chihiro was cut off, because Fei praticly through her out of her chair.
"Angel!!" Fei pratically screamed.
"Fei! Heh, did you throw Chihiro off?"
"Hey, I haven't seen you, or talked to you, in sooooo long!! Why haven't you called?!"
"Well... I've been busy... and..."
"Surrrrrrrrre you were..." Fei looked away, but then looked back, with a smirk.
"Well, we would like you to help us, we are to explore the newly discovered cave, and the surrounding forest."
"THAT forest... well, sure. I'll see you guys at.. is 8 AM ok?"
"Yup! We will see ya then!" Angel hung up, as did Fei.
"You completely threw me off...." Chihiro whimpered.
Fei giggled. "Sorry, I hadn't seem him for sooooo long!"
"Hehe, well, it's alright. Well, who else should we recruit?"
"Hmm... how bout Aphrodite? She could really help."
"Right, I'll call--" Chihiro was cut off by small lights flashing.
"Oh! I completely forgot!! We're on call for guard duty!" Fei quickly said. "C'mon!"
Fei and Chihiro ran though countless hallways, as fast as they could, to get to the main teleporter. "I completely forgot we were call call, too!!" Chihiro yelled.
They ran though at least 10 different hallways, and arived at the town center, were guards had surrounded.. something, they couldn't see it. But the guards had their guns out, and ready.
"Let us through! We are the hunters! What came..." Chihiro was pushing her way through the guards, until she saw what they were pointing their guns at. She stopped, amazed at what she saw.
"...Bahn?! I thought... you were... well, I didn't know WHAT to think, after you just disapeared..." Chihiro quietly said.
"Angel, why are you here? Why are all these guards here? What's going on...?" Fei quietly asked the same thing, whom she thought was Angel.
One guard scanned it, "That isn't my wife! That thing has the same sort of power in it as the thing that caused the Pioneer 1 incident!!"
"Bahn..." Chihiro echoed, and walked into his open arms. Bahn is Chihiro's brother, whom she, like any sibbling would, loved very much, but they were seperated, along with Chihiro's parents, when they left on Pioneer 1. "I... missed you... so much..." Chihiro hugged him tightly, almost in a sleep-like state. When she felt a sharp pain in her right arm! She was stabbed by something! It put some sort of black thick liquid in her body, and she felt it travel though her veins. She looked at him, her eyes clouding up, but in his, she saw nothing.
"Chihiro!! It's ano illusion! Chihiro!!" Fei screamed. That whole time, Fei was screaming, but she never heard her.
Surprised to be found out, the creature tried to back into the teleporter, but it was quickly torn apart from bullets from the guards. Seeing this happen to her brother, Chihiro fell to the ground. and started crying, the creature's black blood coating Chihiro. "Stop it!! You're killing him!! Stop...." she screamed.
Fei walked over to her friend, and gave her a soft hug. "That wasn't Bahn... or Angel. It was some sort of evil creature, Chihiro."
Chihiro looked at Fei, confused, and tired, and quietly said, "They killed Bahn..." and fainted.
"Chihiro?" Fei asked. "Chihiro?!" Fei asked again, gently shaking her. "Oh god, someone get a medic!! She's been stabed by something!!" Fei screamed, and some nurses ran to Chihiro, loaded her up on a strecher, and ran her to the ER.
"Chihiro...." Fei quietly said, lowering her head.
It was 7 hours later... Chihiro was still out, and Angel had arrived. He looked at her. "This odd change in her blood stream... it's darkening her blood..." He observed, "Fei, I'm not supposed to tell you this... but I must. Those 'mysterious' caves... they arn't mysterious at all. A few select hunters, myself included, have been exploring those caves for a while. We arn't positive what that creature was, but we are hoping to find out soon.
"Ok, ok, but do you have any idea when she will wake up? And if anything will be wrong with her?"
"Well, she should wake up in 5 weeks or so... but it won't be Chihiro... it will be a mindless monster...
Fei gasped. "No... we must help her!"
"I don't know how..." Angel sighed, "For now... she's lost."
Chihiro screamed, in pain it seemed. Fei, who was still at her friend's side, softly weeped. "I can't give up... I refuse to!" she placed her hands above Chihiro's heart. "Anti!" she said, and cast it.
Nothing happened. Fei cast it over and over again, but to the same effect. After many tries, she had exhausted all of her strength. Chihiro still had a look of constant pain on her face, and it hurt Fei to see her friend in such a sad state. From outside the doorway, Angel too was watching, and it hurt him even more...
After a while longer, Angel left back to study the blood sample from Chihiro. "It corrupts any cell it touches... Chihiro may already be gone..." He sighed, and returned to Chihiro's room, to give Fei the bad news.
When he arrived, he saw a doctor talking to Fei, who quickly got excited. "That's right... I got it!" The doctor exclaimed.
"Have what?" Angel asked, his hope suddenly renewed.
"An antidote!" Fei said, excited.
"We arn't positive it will work forever, but it should reawaken Chihiro to her old self. Just inject this," he held up a needle, "into her blood stream. It will freeze the darkness cells, and leave her regular cells alone. We arn't sure how long this 'freeze' state will occur, but... she can take it again, to help her." The doctor walked to Chihiro limp body. He slowly injected it into her neck.
"Please work..." Fei whispered.
They saw the color return to her face, and she stirred a bit, but after a while of that, she opened her eyes.
"Wha... where... am I?" she asked in a daze.
"Your alive!" Fei hugged her friend, and Angel stood there, and wiped his eyes.
"Yeah... AH! A needle!" Chihiro screamed and pointed at the needle.
"Don't worry, it's empty, we don't need to use that anymore." Fei said.
"Use it anymore? Who did you use it on in the first place?" Chihiro asked.
"You! After that darkness creature injected its blood into you, you fainted!"
The doctor cleared his throat. "Chihiro, you must be careful to not let ANYTHING with a darkness cell remotely involved with it anywhere near the inside of your body. If you do, we may not be able to help you then. You will need to give yourself one of these shots every month, to insure that you stay alive."
"Stay... alive... I'm alive because of..." Chihiro sighed, "Jeez.... well, lets go to that forest!" Chihiro exclaimed, and hopped up. "C'mon! We don't have time to dilly-dally!" Chihiro was pointing toward the door.
"Be careful! Don't over do it!" Angel said, and as if on cue, Chihiro started to stagger, and fell. Just in time, Angel grabbed her, and she supported herself on him.
"Thanks... I guess I'm not ready yet..." Chihiro said, looking at Angel, and smiled.
"I guess not... you should rest, then we can leave tommarow. I already contacted Aphrodite on our mission. She will be ready tommarow."
"Wow... you think of everything..." Chihiro said, and fell asleep.
"She won't be herself for some time..." Fei quietly said to Angel.
Angel just looked at Chihiro, and sighed.
Later that night, Fei took Chihiro to their dorm. Chihiro was fast asleep, and some of her color had returned. Fei was checking the Pioneer 2 Network for another cure, but the problem wasn't even listed in the directory.
"It's like... nothing else can help her..." Fei sighed.
"Maybe destroying the source of the problem. The darkness itself."
Fei laughed, "Destory darkness entirely? That is impossible."
"No, the creator of the darkness cells in Chihiro's body."
"Hmm.. nice idea... wait... who--" Fei turned around, and saw Aphrodite standing in the door way. A tall HUcasel, dark yellow in color. "Oh, hello." Fei smiled.
"What are you still doing up? You need your rest tommarow."
"But... I'm--"
"Don't be worried. the doctors said that she would be fine. Let it be. Go to bed."
"...... alright." Fei finally said. She went into her room, but before she did, Aphrodite heard, "Why didn't I attack sooner... because of me Chihiro..."
"No, you couldn't of known. Don't blame anyone, just live off that mistake. It may happen again."
Fei wiped her cheek. "I'm sure... Chihiro hates me now..."
"That's foolish! Fei, Chihiro thinks of you like a sister, and she knows that you did your best to help her! Don't beat yourself up over this."
"... Your right." Fei smiled, "That was a stupid thought. Good night." Fei opened her door to her room, when she heard a scream!
"AHHHH! IT'S BACK!!!" They then heard sobbing screams. Fei and Aphrodite hurried to Chihiro's room.
"What... is it?" Fei stood there, and looked at Chihiro, who was screaming, wide awake, but at nothing.
"It's here!! Can't you see it?!!" Chihiro screamed.
Fei walked slowly to Chihiro, and patted her shoulder. "There's nothing there." And as if a veil was lifted from Chihiro's eyes, she settled down.
"There... is nothing there... but..."
"Your just delerious. Settle down... go back to bed."
"Oh... ok... sorry... but... I don't want to die..."
"You won't die.. I will protect you. We will all protect you. Don't worry."
Chihiro started to cry, softly. "I go from being a problem... to a burden..." Fei gave Chihiro a hug.
"Your not a problem, or a burden... now stop worring, and go to sleep."
Chihiro obeyed, and fell asleep. Fei went to her room, and did the same.
It was the day of the mission, and Chihiro had settled down. Fei her prepaired herself with tech practice, Aphrodite had adjusted her guns... and Angel hadn't arived. They were waiting in front of the teleporter. Chihiro was so bored, she was watching the lasers go from bottom to top of the machine, and over again. "Come on, Angel... where are you?!" she asked, to no one in particular.
"Sorry I'm late." Angel said, walking out of the Hunter's Guild.
Fei ran up to Angel and hudded him. "I was thinking that you forgot." She smiled.
"Na, you know me. I don't forget, and I'm probably more prepaired then you are." He smiled back. He looked to Chihiro, "Feeling better?"
"Much. Thanks..." she shyly said.
"Um... alright, Aphrodite? Ready?" Angel asked.
"Of course." She responded.
"Right!" Chihiro said, getting excited.
Everyone walked into the teleporter... and suddenly, before them stood a lush forest. Fei cast Shifta and Deband on everyone, and the regular round of 'thank you's were passed around.
Chihiro looked around. It was calm. She heard many birds, but could not see where they were. There also seemed to be a path, leading them. 'Maybe Pioneer 1 made it.' she thought. She motioned for everyone to follow and went on. They came to many blue lasers, going vertically up 2 long metal bars. There was no way around them. So, being the brave adventurer 'Yeah, right.' Chihiro thought with a smirk, she walked through them, and was greeted by 3 large mole looking things that burrowed out of the ground.
"Boomas... 3 of them. They are just native creatures, not much trouble there." Aprodite analized.
"That one's mine!" Chihiro yelled, and ran to one, and cut it across the face, killing it instantly. Fei followed up with a large Foie blast to the chest of another one, also killing it. They looked at each other, and smiled., but forgot about the 3rd...
"Fei! Chihiro!" Angel called, "Look ou---" But he was cut off, as Chihiro cut it in the face, and Fei blasted Foie at it, simutaniusly. "Ok... I see that you have that under control..."
Chihiro smirked. "We make a good team! It's been a while since we have fough together!"
"Yup!"
They continued on, killing more boomas, and the occasional rag rappy. So far, just a regular report. Until...
"Oh god!" Chihiro gasped.
"Pioneer 1's central dome!" Aphrodite exclaimed.
"I wonder... if anyone survived?" Angel grimly asked.
"I hope so... if anything could take out all of Pioneer 1..." Fei shuddered. She knew she didn't need to finish.
"The central door is broken, but the emergency teleporter is active." Aphrodite said.
"Let's go inside!" Chihiro said. She ran toward the teleporter, but stoped right in front of it, "Come on!" She called to everyone.
"There's no stopping this..." Angel quietly said.
"That's Chihiro." Fei responded. They followed.
"Let's go!" Chihiro excitedly siad, raising her arm in a cheer. And before they knew it, they stood in a devistatingly empty Central Dome.
"Wha... WHAT IS THIS?!" Chiriro cried.
"My... god... everything, everyone is gone!" Angel said.
"No... Ryudo... Kagato... you guys too..." Chihiro whimpered.
"Who?" Aphrodite asked.
"They were Chihiro's old friends... they were on Pioneer 1..." Fei explained, and Chihiro wailed louder.
"And... mom and dad!" Chihiro cried harder.
"Hey... you..." Angel sniffed, "you smell... something..?"
"I... ya, I do... smoke!" Fei gasped.
They felt a rumbling. "Chihiro!" Angel tried calling to Chihiro, who was in the middle of the wreckage. "CHIHIRO!" But it seemed that she couldn't hear him.
Everyone looked up, and a large red dragon flew in through a hole in the ceiling.
Chihiro glared at the dragon. "YOU! YOU DID THIS!!" She screamed.
Face covered in a blanket of tears, Chihiro charged the dragon, screaming. It roared, but Chihiro didn't flinch. She kept running, and took a hard upward swing with her Demolition Comet at the creature's throat. Upon cutting it, the blood sprayed all over Chihiro, who didn't even care. It roared in pain, but didn't die.
"Chihiro! It didn't cut through the throat! It just angered it!" Aphrodite yelled. Chihiro looked back. She saw Fei motioning to come back. Chihiro looked at the dragon again. It was regaining it posture.
'They are wasting my time...' she thought.
"Chihiro! Think! We need to be together, and near a wall, so the fire will have less area to spread, and less wreckage around us!" Fei yelled, but Chihiro ignored her.
She glared at the dragon, and screamed, "Shut up! I know what I'm doing! And I'l do it alone too!"
The dragon blew fire, but Chihiro jumped out of the way.
"Chihiro!" Angel called, "Chihiro!! Damnit!" Angel yelled, and ran to help her, Fei and Aphrodite following.
The dragon turned to Chihiro, and roared. It looked directly at her, and Chihiro felt bound. She couldn't move. It roared again, and slammed it foot down on her. She screamed, horrified. It opened it's mouth, ready for a snack.
"Chihiro!" Fei screamed.
Chihiro stopped crying, and closed her eyes. 'So... this is how my story ends...' she laughed, 'Pretty short for a 'great adventurer...' she laughed again, 'Who am I kidding... great adventurer my ass! Mother.. Father... I will join you .. soon... wait for me...' she thought. All of a sudden, a large round figure appeared beneath her, on the ground.
"What the??" Chihiro asked.
"A Photon Blast!" Angel marveled.
Chihiro's small mag was spinning around and around and around, and a giant creature, with shining skin, and large sharp pillers at the end of its body appeared, and fired a multitude of lasers, all of which dodged Chihiro, and crashed into the dragon.
"Pilla... I didn't think it existed..." Angel slowly said.
The Pilla disapeared, leaving only the four, and the dying dragon.
"Thank you..." Chihiro whispered. "Everyone..." She drew her Demolition Comet, faced the dragon, which was now lying on the ground, and shoved it in between its eyes. All the way through. The dragon roared, blood gushing from the wound.
"Rest in peace, everyone..." Chihiro whispered.
Aphrodite, Fei, and Angel stood bac, watching Chihiro slowly turn to face them, and she said, "Let's go." She said. She pointed at a new opening. "Further in."
Fei ran to Chihiro, and hugged her, "Oh, I'm glad your alright!"
"That was amazing! I've never seen a mag work so hard to protect it's master before!" Aphrodite exclaimed.
Chihiro chuckled. "C'mon. I don't want to force you."
"Yeah... but we should return to Pioneer 2 first. Fei?"
"Ya, absolutely."
"Alrighty." Chihiro opened the telepipe, and they returned to Pioneer 2.
Back on Pioneer 2, the four returned, standing in front of the Principle.
"Good... nice report. Now, what did you want to talk to me personally about?" he said.
"Sir... a large dragon attacked us... the kind that we thought were extinct. It was in in Pioneer 1's former Central Dome." Chihiro said.
"You found the central dome?!" the Principle exclaimed.
"Well, yes, but... everyone... was dead..."
Oh.... oh... I'm sorry...... well... please, continue with the investigation... oh, Rico..."
"Yes sir."
As they were leaving, Chihiro turned to Fei, "Rico?"
"Rico Tyrell, the Principle's daughter, who was on Pioneer 1... everyone called her Red Ring Rico for her red rings she wore... she's the reason that they are so popular now..." Fei explained.
"Oh..."
To Be Continued...
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