The Lost Vampire System Chapter 45 - Damion's Resolve
The duo raced into the next room of the house, followed by incoming debris. They got behind a wall as debris flew through the doorway.
"What do we do?" Jareth asked.
"I don't know," Madison said in a panic. "Last time I just blended into a crowd."
Jareth shook his head, as there was no crowd around.
"What are you two?" CyberGirl's voice rang out. "Both of you are either hackers, which I know you're not because I've lost sleep trying, or the other option is that you're something else. Something the game can't track because you're not human."
The pair looked at each other as they heard the last part. Jareth mouthed, how does she know, and Madison just shrugged, her eyes widened.
"I mean, CopyLord is similar to you, but I let him go, thinking it was a one-time occurrence. But now you two… it's too much of a coincidence!"
As she shouted the last part, Jareth's senses went off as he grabbed Madison, and they both crashed to the floor just as the wall above them exploded with green energy.
The two of them pulled each other up and tried to run out of the house, but when they opened the door, CyberGirl was standing right there.
"Going somewhere?" she asked as her body glowed with power.
Madison quickly slammed the door, but the creator of NYXIS blasted it to pieces. CyberGirl reached in, grabbed Jareth's leg, and yanked him back. Madison rushed in to attack, but the creator's arm extended and grabbed her by the neck.
Her mask morphed as it scanned Madison. The green scan shifted to blue, and CyberGirl tilted her head.
"Oh," her voice sounded confused. "You're normal. Weird. I'll send some compensation into your vault for your troubles. Unfortunately, you did waste my time."
CyberGirl flung Madison to the side, and she smashed into the wall.
"Unfortunately for you, CrimsonDawn," CyberGirl's robotic voice said as she scanned Jareth, and instead of turning blue, it went red. "You've been caught."
Her energy cannon arm began to change into something different as energy gathered from five points in the middle, which Jareth recognized well, as it had been used on him when he escaped last time. As it charged, she dragged him at an inhuman speed to the middle of the courtyard. Jareth tried to resist, but even his strength wasn't enough—she or her suit was stronger.
If I can find out who he is, she thought, then he can help me get out of my situation. I know he may be weak now or not like what I am doing, but that can be explained. It's my only chance to escape from the system.
"Let's see who you are, CrimsonDawn."
As she was about to release the attack on him, something fell from the sky and slammed into the ground in front of them, kicking up dust. CyberGirl immediately retracted the artifact, which integrated back into her suit, changing it into an energy weapon.
The dust began to settle, revealing a very light orange set of armor. His wings were spread wide, as if trying to take up space. His eyes glowed a light yellowish-orange as he stared at the two of them.
"Well, well, well," CopyLord chuckled at the two of them. "Why are you so obsessed with who CrimsonDawn is?"
Dang it, she thought. The other abnormality besides CrimsonDawn. Though, he hates the strong regardless of their circumstances, not like what I hope CrimsonDawn to be.
"CopyLord," CyberGirl growled, sounding like someone starting a lawnmower. "What are you doing here?"
"Me?" Damion chuckled. "Using this event to see who this CrimsonDawn is. What, is he a hacker or something?"
"You're not in the loop," CyberGirl snarled through her mask as she let go of Jareth, who started to slowly scoot away. "Now, you will leave. This is only for the creator, which is me, and partners' problem."
"Leave?" Damion asked, sounding personally insulted. "See, that's what's wrong with you people. Just because you think you're strong, you can bully others. You haven't seen power."
Damion shifted from a calm stance into a fighting one as he retracted his wings. CyberGirl adjusted from a half-ready posture into a full fighting stance.
"I'll give you compensation," CyberGirl offered. "I just need CrimsonDawn."
"I don't need money," Damion growled, laughing in a way that sent a chill down both of their spines, as neither of them knew CopyLord's true identity. "I need you to let him go, or I will eliminate you."
Lightning began to flicker around his body, and from the sheer intensity of it, she knew Damion had either copied a level 10 ability or found a way to combine strengths, putting him above her.
"So," Damion said in a warning tone. "What's it going to—"
He paused as he noticed another individual coming out of the house, and the lightning around him completely disappeared. Unlike everyone else, Madison hadn't changed her features, so what she looked like in the real world was what she looked like in the game.
Is that Madison? Damion thought as he looked at the three of them. Isn't Jareth with her? But I only see CyberGirl and CrimsonDawn.
Madison had just stepped out of the building. She wasn't looking at her surroundings, as she was about to attack CyberGirl when she noticed the familiar angelic armor set of CopyLord.
"Sh*t, it's CopyLord," she muttered, as CopyLord had a disguise on so he didn't look like Damion. "What are both of them doing here?"
Damion's gears were working overtime as he tried to figure out where Jareth was, what CyberGirl was doing with CrimsonDawn, and why Madison was looking frantically at CrimsonDawn's state as CyberGirl gently pulled Jareth closer to her.
Why would Madison have a connection to CrimsonDawn? Damion thought as he looked back and forth. CrimsonDawn has a sun-type power, while Jareth doesn't have any Evolved power. That can't work, because he has a weakness to the sun. CrimsonDawn appeared when Madison took Jareth into the game and reappeared when she… took him into… this event.
His gears started connecting the not-so-obvious dots as a theory formed.
If Jareth does indeed have sun powers, does he have a downside? Does he carry sun energy that physically weakens him? If I'm not crazy… I think Jareth is CrimsonDawn.
At that very moment, the three of them saw CopyLord's face shift from confusion to anger in an instant.
Why does he look like his family was just murdered in front of him? All three of them had the same thought as they looked at CopyLord's expression while his wings spread out.
I like Jareth's beliefs, Damion thought. He wants to change the system for the better, and CyberGirl, who is at the top of the system, wants to take him from me. She is going to kill him.
To Damion, it looked like she was about to kill CrimsonDawn, who he now strongly suspected was Jareth. His anger at the system, combined with seeing Jareth as someone who wanted to change it for the better, mixed with the fact that he had completely forgotten that dying in the game doesn't kill you in real life, set him off.
"Oh, crap," CyberGirl muttered as her suit began to morph, shifting into a faster form.
What was about to unfold in NYXIS was going to change the gaming world, for better or for worse. Only time would tell.
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