I am Dron

An Aftermath

 We all fell silent. Naki cleaned up the shadow frost so it wouldn't infect anyone else. We all crowded around the fireplace area. Starra put Phina to bed. We could here her as the little girl asked, "Is Crystal going to be alright?"

"Yes. She just needs some time by herself. You can understand that, can't you?"

"Yes. Do you think she will come back."

"Yes." Starra looked at me and back at Phina. "I think so."

Starra sat back down.

"So...that went well." Phil teased.

"Be quiet." Dain said, obviously not in the best of a mood.

"That's what she meant." Naki thought aloud. We looked at her. "At the meeting she basically said that whoever was infected might be embarrassed to reveal who they were. And she was right-she was super embarrassed."

"So...how did she get infected in the first place?" Phil asked.

"When I was out choosing flowers with Phina, a shadow monster attacked." Starra explained. "Crys-ce had come to bring us home, and when she saw the monster she went into fighting mode. The shadow monster struck her, and so she...she became infected."

"So you knew?"

"It was for the best. We kind of were both embarrassed by the experience, me not being ready to protect the girl I pretty much adopted, and for her to be infected, well, we thought it might be best not to bring it up."

"Seems legit to me." Phil said. He stood up and stretched. "Now, I'm going to bed. Anyone else up for sleep?"

"Dude, it is not even time for-" Dain checked the time. "Guys, we got to go, it is meeting time!"

"I'm passing." Phil said. Starra and Phina also said they were going to stay behind. I decided to come. It kind of was my responsibility, since I was the guild leader and all. Phil briefly taught me the teleportation spell that Elementals could use, so we didn't have to walk. Soon, I could teleport anywhere, with anyone. I put my hand out, and Dain took mine. Well...this is awkward. Dain waited.

"Um...You ready?"

"You do realize that if I get this wrong, we could potentially get into a really messed up situation, right?" Dain shrugged.

"So? I'm a stinking Dreno knight. I think I will be fine." He said.

"Okay. Here it goes" I used the spell and we teleported at the dome. It looked smaller, and so I'm going to assume Ren remade it to fit only three guilds instead of four. Inside, there were floating lanterns. It looked cool, with everything lit by the blue light. The other two guilds were here, with only two of their members present. The entire meeting was resting on me, Dain, Luna, a girl who I don't think I have met in the game yet, Ren, and Shito.

"I see we aren't the only ones who don't want all of their members here." Ren commented.

"We had more of a family problem." I answered. "How come we are always last?"

"Don't have a watch?"

"Or bad at remembering." Dain offered.

"Any information you can give us?"

"A dead person is in the game." I told the guild representatives, while Dain and I took a seat. "Naki's brother is here."

"How is that possible?" Ren said. "Didn't he die a few years back?"

"Yes. He did. But more importantly, there is a chip that activates when a person in the Silver Raven dies. Then they appear here as their character. At least, that's what I got from what he told me."

"Wait, he TOLD you about that?" Luna asked, for personal clarification, or maybe just to make sure everyone heard me correctly.

"Yes."

"How?"

"Simple, I've met him."

"Who was he in the company?"

"A janitor. But that's not the point. The point is, we should expect that anyone who died in Ancient Conquest can appear in the game. Soon, we might just find a better answer than we can even come up with on how to beat Zaros."

"But we shouldn't base it on that." Ren said.

"True. Which is why it's just a tip and not an actual direction." Luna and the others agreed. "Also, none of our members got to go shopping. Does anyone have supplies we could use?"

"We got supplies we can share." the Starbow Kajet perked up. "We bought a lot."

"So did we." Ren said. "Couldn't find a lot on the information topics though. But I did find out that Meran might be your mother, Dron."

"Wait, what?" Ren knew something. "What do you mean?"

"I saw a picture, and she looks like you. I have it at our guild house. I'll show it to you tomorrow."

"Yes, please. Thanks." We all fell into silence. "So...anything else we need to talk about?"

We all looked around to each other. Dain messaged me.

'Crystal.'

'No. Not now. We don't know how they will react.'

'Ok.' Since we had nothing to do, Ren and I set up a time for the next day. The rest of us decided we would keep up with information search. And with that, we were off.