Shades of the Blue Flower

The Mysterious White Tower

The three girls stood outside of the white tower that Zekken discussed about with Blue Rose, Zekken had her precious Leomurg back in her hands as they waited for Blue Rose to change into a new form. As Blue Rose ordered Sapphire to help her change forms, a gust of wind blew around Blue Rose, showing her in a shirt and skirt combo the only difference was she had a dark blue cape with a white fur outline, she also had armor boots and gauntlets, she had some armor pieces around her waist and head piece that was placed in her hair. Zekken stayed in her usual but Lumen had changed her form, she had a white kimono with a blue ribbon tying it, she didn't have any shoes but still had her butterfly wings, in her hand she had a black metal fan. At that moment Zekken requested a trade with Blue Rose, she had handed Blue Rose a sword similar to Leomurg but the only difference was that it was a light blue color that shined white. "It doesn't have a name it goes by «Blue Rose Sword»," Zekken stated. "Well this sword does fit with me by the nam-" Blue Rose was cut off when Zekken punched her in the gut so hard that she collapsed on the ground, out cold. "Sorry," Zekken said entering the building with Lumen.

When the twins entered the tower, which was right in front of them, they immediately noticed the firewall which they had believed was how this person knew the location of the high level players. They walked threw the empty halls not hesitating in any way, they weren't afraid because glitch players were not able to be read by any firewalls. When they had turned left, they were met by armored men AI (Artificial Intelligence) to be exact. There were two types of them, one of them wore red armor while others wore white, it seemed the red armor AI's were flame archers and the the ones in white were swordsmen but there was a person in between the two teams of AI's. They couldn't see her face, she was wearing a gold and navy armor set, her sword was a vivid gold as well.

Zekken and Lumen prepared themselves to fight, Zekken brought Leomurg in front of her and Lumen brought her fan right in front of her face. The AI's that were swordsmen went against Zekken while the archers went against Lumen. Zekken bashed and sliced the AI's but she didn't realize that every time she killed one, they respond and her health was being drained and she had no idea why. Lumen on the other hand was doing fine creating a gust of wind to stop the arrows and whenever they came close she would defeat them with her metal fan. The cloaked swordsmen behind them wasn't doing anything but smirking then she slowly walked away, snapping her finger and the AI's were no longer responding.

Zekken and Lumen were able to kill of the rest of the AI's, when they had noticed the cloaked swordsmen was gone. After all the AI's were defeated, Zekken collapsed to the ground exhausted and numb, Lumen had lost her ability to fly and became numb as well, she had to use the wall to support herself. It was like they could feel all of the slashes on their bodies, they wondered if it was possible that these attacks were affecting their real bodies. After resting for a bit, they had gathered themselves up again and continued onwards. They followed the path that the cloaked swordsmen had taken. What they didn't expect was a large white room, the way they entered through was sealed off behind them. They walked to the center of the room, looking around, just to hear a deep laugh. Zekken screamed, "Who's there!" No one responded to her cry but what had happened was unexpected, the small gap between Zekken and Lumen was covered by transparent glass, separating the two.

On the side Lumen was on, two people came out, the cloaked swordsmen and a man that had red markings underneath his eyes with a black necklace that held a blue gem, he wore a jacket that had black raven feathers that were placed on the shoulders, also his hair was silvery grey and his eyes were silver. "Never thought someone would be so stupid enough to come here," the man spoke. Zekken's eyes were bloodshot as she screamed, "Who are you!" "I am Silver Sea, also I should thank you for bring back what was mine," Silver Sea smirked as he left, "Swordsmen kill Lumen," he slowly laughed as he watched the swordsmen who brought her sword to Lumen's neck.

As the cloaked swordsmen nearly pierced Lumen's neck, you could have seen the anger in Zekken's eyes, who started using Leomurg to try to break the glass. She screamed, "Don't do anything to her, I don't care what you do to me, just don't hurt her!" As Zekken continued to strike the glass, it seemed that something clicked in Silver Sea's eyes, "Fine," as he snapped his fingers, Lumen disappeared. Zekken had let her guard down for a moment but it was regretted fast as the cloaked swordsmen sliced her in half, with her body dropping to the ground, disappearing. Silver Sea said one last thing to the swordsmen, " Grab her body, before the sister logs off." "What about the lady in blue," the cloaked swordsmen said in a monotone voice. "I will see Milady later," he slowly smiled as he saw the swordsmen disappear.

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Lady Blue Rose was completely knocked out, where Sapphire had to log her out of the game, the hit from Zekken was powerful enough to knock her out cold in the game and in the real world. "Manami, Manami," she started to hear screams of the others that echoed throughout her head. "Manami, please wake up," she slowly felt tears falling down on her as she felt something warming her hands. 'Whats going on,' Manami or Blue Rose was in a state where she was stuck in between the two worlds and her body was trying recover but it wasn't listening. "Manami, wake up please," she was able to recognize the voice, it was Mitsuo, "Come on, we need you here," he kept calling out to her but it wasn't like the screaming voice she heard in the background. Manami slowly struggled to move her eyes to open but when she tried, she began to scream in pain that was able to be heard to anybody around her. "Someone put a virus on her, we have to remove Sapphire to get the virus out," it was Haru's voice that was strong enough to hear over her screams. "She will go into the game coma without Sapphire helping her," then Aikko's voice was there along with tears dripping down her friends face. "We have to do it, if we want to save her," it was the last words she was able to make out before everything went silent, she only felt the warmth of someone's touch.