Well I see some people were buckin me up to tell more about the Kingdom Hearts Reality site so…New chap! I guess this chap’s pretty much around this and that, so….I’ll try to finish Wonderland in the next chap. Sorry for the sudden twist though (^ ^), hope you like the chap!
Chapter 8
Kaito put his hands together behind his head. “Now…where were we?” he asked playfully. Yuta took an angry look at him before he muttered, “Sora, can’t you act a bit more serious? Coz Kairi’s right, this is NO game.” Kaito’s smile vanished and he lowered his hands. “What? Even Ken disagreed with her…what ails you two? This is a game…look, everything here is not real…even our bodies aren’t…do you take that “ERASED” quote seriously? And I know Kairi better than you two…she’s a freak if it’s getting around this kind of situation…I—“
However, he felt his heart throbbed painfully as he talked, and it cut his speech. Both Shiro and Yuta didn’t realize it. “Well, Kairi’s not a free agent now…” grumbled Shiro, “But if she was, I know, yeah Sora, I know, coz I’ve heard much about her from yourself…that she would remind you time and again, that this is not just a game. Though you like her, you even don’t know that Kairi…” “…was taken away because of you, right?” said Yuta.
These words stabbed Kaito like sharp needles. He couldn’t say a thing.
“But…I disagree with you, Donald!” said Yuta cheerfully.
Kaito quickly looked up at him.
“Kairi knew Sora better than his other friends in his town!” he said, “So she won’t mind of Sora’s attitude, Sora’s Sora!”
“Wait a sec…!” said Shiro, but then he sighed, “Well…just don’t get off the limit…”
Kaito smiled as his spirit came back to him.
“So let’s go now! Shall we?” he asked.
The trio walked into the hole leading to the Lotus Forest without any more ado.
They saw a huge forest, with tall trees, tall lotus-leaves-out-of-the-water grew high above them, tall thatchgrass as around them like fences, and a yellow flower sprouted out from the grass-like fences, or fences-like grass, Kaito could not decide which, before they something completely peculiar, right in front of them.
Yuta rubbed his eyes and blinked one two times.
“Er…was I just dreaming or I really saw a cat’s head floating in the air??” he asked.
“No, you weren’t dreaming, it’s the Ceshire Cat, “said Shiro.
All of them turned to come across a purple and striped cat appeared on the large trunk beside them out of nowhere.
“Oh for heaven’s sake, not you again, skip the introductions, skip the speech, I’m tired and confused of your entire lecture, “said Kaito, affecting to close his ears.
“You’re the Ceshire Cat right?” asked Yuta, “Have you known about Alice and the Queen?”
“Oh yes…” he replied, though he was smiling almost gleefully.
“And who’s the adder’s tongue?”
“The Queen herself…” he said, still smiling widely, “...doesn’t know who the real culprit is…Poor Alice was not caught in the very act…but she still had you to take action for her…so she is lucky after all…”
“Quit babbling; just tell us what we should do for her, “said Kaito, closing his ears.
“There are four tracks left from the culprit, right?“ said Shiro, “What we need to do is to look for them.”
“Correct…but the last one is tricky, make sure you find all four of them,“ said the Ceshire Cat, “…However, I sure the shadows aren’t here just for Alice…”
“What?” said Kaito, finally opened his ears, but the Ceshire Cat had vanished.
“He’s just talking about you…”said Shiro, “Now look alive! We have four to give a damn for…”
“Oh, I know that!” said Yuta, “Footprints, Antenna, Stench, and Claw Marks. Footprints’s around there, Antenna’s back over there, Stench’s on the fireplace in the Bizarre Room, and Claw Marks’s on the little cabinet beside the tap, right?”
“………………………………………….What in the devil you need to memorize that for???!” asked Shiro rather anxiously.
“Hmmm…Ahyuk, it was just popped out in my mind!”
“You’re not supposed to remember such things right?” asked Kaito, “Goofy’s kinda a shocking fella.”
“For all that, we shouldn’t waste out time…”
“Yeah my internet’s on…”
“Shuddup.”
“Let’s split up!”
“Great idea, I’ll take the Footprints and you just take the rest, “said Kaito.
“You cheater!!”
“Okay okay, I’ll take the last…”said Kaito, “And you two take the rest right?”
“Okay, let’s take the Footprints first…and then—WAK!”
Without any warnings, a few Heartless appeared before them, raised an alarm like naughty little boys.
“These little bastards again!!!” said Kaito.
“Crush them all!!!”
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<THE OUTSIDE WORLD, JAPAN >
In a gloomy room inside a beautiful mansion close to the beach, there was a man sitting in front of the radiant monitor of a computer, his right hand was busy moving the mouse, and he looked furious as he bit his lip. A young man walked in. He approached the first man and observed the monitor for a while.
“How is it?”
“Scum!” the man threw his fist onto the table, “This should be a secret project, how did this boy access the half-ready website?”
“A boy browsed your site?” asked the young man, looked astonished, “But how?”
“There’s an error occurring when this boy used his Google search, “said the man, “Though I’ve protected the site with triple password. I shouldn’t make it a site, but I have no alternative, the internet’s the only media that could contain all these data.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know, all the other games are alright, except this one you suggested to me…”
“I’ve told you I know this good game from a friend and that the game’s real-time combat action RPG…” said the young man, “What’s wrong with that? Is it Virus or Bug?”
“No, neither of them…” said the man seriously, “The “Reality” I made has never gone out this far…This boy is now controlling the story and all…”
“What??” said the panicked young man, “He can’t do that! The “Reality” you made is a GAME! Though you never tell anyone but me about this modern technology!”
“You don’t understand eh?” said the man, “Noone can play the game without my own special gadgets, but this boy can. In other words, the “Reality” I made has made its own mechanism in the internet, but it still brought along its own personality I gave before, for example, the “Reality” label.”
“And then…?”
“So it tried to make the game as real as it could. Some of them are dangerous and not supposed to be really happening on the User, like death, Trinities, and Magics, but the data read it wrongly. The data in that site collected millions of information from the internet, and it processed it into a real person’s personality, so the characters can move and talk almost as the real one, let alone the usual quotes.”
“What’s dangerous with that?”
“The data collected more than a person’s personality, “explained the man, “It made a world in its belly, and it became the conqueror of whatever is inside. That is the biggest mistake. The “Reality” I made is just a ‘normal’ and save virtual one, but for this one, it brought whoever its User into its world. That is almost the same as a suicide. And this boy…”
The man clicked the mouse.
“…Is an internet maniac, but he wasn’t online for a week, maybe that’s the one which triggered the data…and that’s how the site knew much about him…”
“But that’s clearly impossible!!” said the young man, “Nobody will ever trust a website which can lurk into another site through the internet all by itself!!”
“Are you talking that I’m lying to you?? The data is even telling around people in the video game!!!” snapped the man angrily, “Something’s wrong with that CD you gave to me!”
“What are you talking about, that’s the pure, original one…nothing’s wrong with that…”
“Then there’s something hidden in this game! It’s the only one acting abnormally!”
“No, it can’t be, thousands of people have played it, someone must have realized if something’s unusual inside…”
“Fool, they will never notice, it acted very strangely with MY program!”
“So what will you do?”
“I must search what affected the data this bad…” said the man tiredly, “Or these boys will never get out of there forever…”
“I thought you said it isn’t ready yet?”
“It is…” said the man, “So we’ll never know…what this site will do next…”
Author Note!: Sorry for the wait! And I tell ya…Kaito’s absolutely NOT a person who likes shooting-simulation games! (^ ^)