Chaotic Hangouts

Takius, Keough, and Iruga: Alive in Link VRAINS?!

Chaotic Hangouts

Chapter 7: Takius, Keough, and Iruga: Alive in Link VRAINS?!

Date: December 2nd, 2022

A teardrop falling onto the page of a book. A poisonous arrow that failed to hit it's target in an ancient temple. The sweet smell of fresh cinnamon bread. The clinks and clanks of a sword against wood as a knight swings their sword while training. A fall into the depths of Glast Heim. A strange portal opening up in the middle of a Data Storm during a rematch between Go and Playmaker. The love story of a swordsman turned crusader and an acolyte turned priestess. A drive for taking technology to a new height. The willingness to give the violence hungry crowd what they want. To dueltain to make people smile. To duel for revenge against the Hanoi. A loss of innocence and a gain of deep resentment towards society. A possession that devastated Ant Hell. The bugs clogging the Culvert sewers. A friend turned foe through so much pain and suffering. The twisting of someone who watched their best friend get killed thanks to a manipulative old creep. An adventurer tricked by the enemy to speed up a revival of a demon lord. People being turned into cards. The societal neglect of a young mii who went on to cast his face away. What do all of these have in common? For starters, they all have or will take place in existence but at different locations. Next, each is connected together somehow, stringing the lives of many on the same thread in the process. Several of these have had ripple effects that have altered so much. Their effects can be seen and felt among those who came together due to the Lost Incident, the Dark Lord's manipulations, or whatever else. In the ancient city of Glast Heim, an abandoned former capital of Rune-Midgarts that was left untouched for 500 years after so much suffering under the reign of a tyrant, something happened. Well, some things happened. But what we're focused on is what happened regarding the revival of the Dark Lord.

This was some time after the seal on the city of Glast Heim was lifted by Royal Exorcist Bonnie and Lord Knight Swiftdrawer and the final Sigil Assassin deactivated permanently. A great battle waged between the Dark Lord and his pawns against a sage, hunter, merchant, poring, assassin, crusader, and priestess. It was fierce. Several lives were lost and the survivors thought that this was the end of their friends Takius, Keough, and Iruga. They were forced to move on, knowing that they'd never see them again. Little did they know that they were going to see them again. But it was going to be under extremely complicated and unusual circumstances that would play out over time. And it would follow an attack by 2 Ignis in Prontera that failed. In Link VRAINS, things have mostly calmed down following Al's sacrifice, the defeat of the UMC employee who kept defeating duelists, and the return of the Ignis. The Knights Of Hanoi had everything under control. However, even they couldn't foresee the yelling about meaningless things and resurrections that were going to land on their figurative virtual doorsteps nor the trouble in another world at the same time. Sol Technologies had finally announced something never before seen in Link VRAINS, a fully fledged tournament. Many entered but only one could win. The duels got more intense by the duel as more and more players lost and were forced to watch where and how they landed. Finally, the final duel began. Soulburner, Blue Maiden, Revolver, and Spectre were on the sidelines, just watching the duel. Revolver and Spectre talked about some unidentified new users but decided to wait on investigating until the final duel was over. By some luck, it was down to Playmaker and Go. They fought amazingly. Goukis Vs Cyberses. A duel for the ages. A 2nd rematch of a lifetime.

Just when Playmaker reduces Go's life points to 0 after retrieving a new monster from the Data Storm called Chaos Firewall Xyz Dragon and using them to beat Go's best monster, something happened. In the middle of the data storm generated for the speed duel that just ended, a strange portal appeared out of nowhere. If one were to examine it, they would find it to have no code whatsoever and only magical energy. The souls of Keough, Iruga, and Takius should have passed on or been trapped in Glast Heim forever. Keough. A knight who was seemingly killed because Roan and Yufa wanted to come with Glast Heim with him and Iruga as the two had to investigate it for signs of the revival of the Dark Lord. Back then, Roan and Yufa were naive. Iruga should have never agreed to let them come after they begged to instead of going back to Prontera. Once in there, Roan and Yufa who were still a swordsman and acolyte respectively were terrified of all the monsters but the mission was going well until they tried to leave. Glast Heim is full of powerful and dangerous monsters that would kill the majority of adventurers who have ever lived in Midgard. As the party of 4 started to leave Glast Heim, the Abysmal Knight stood in their way. Think of them as a undead dark attribute knight on a undead horse colored black mostly. Keough had Iruga focus on getting Roan and Yufa out of there while he tried to fight the undead knight on horseback. As the gates of the city were closed, they watched as Keough was attacked and seemingly died. In reality, he was placed into a ritual circle all tied up, unable to move as his body burned with pain but wasn't harmed any further. The wound from the attack went all the way through his stomach area or so and well, the Dark Lord used its pain to get him to embrace hatred.