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Chapter Three- The Calm- The World

 

Sircosgi was the first to be back at Mac Anu. He stepped away from the Chaos Gate, and waited for the other two to come.

`This, this Casper girl. She seems to be, I don't know, a little unappreciative. But, really can't trust my first impression.' Casper and Pai both gated in at the same relative time. Sircosgi walked forward and

waved. The two followed suit.

The three saved their game at the recorders and then started to walk along the Mac Anu river. They came to a calm spot and sat down. The three just sat there, enjoying the peace. Suddenly, Pai stood up. Sircosgi looked over.

“Pai, what is the matter?” Pai looked down at Sircosgi.

“Practice.” Sircosgi nodded. In the real world, his brother had to go to sport practice year-round. Today it was soccer. Sircosgi and Casper watched Pai leave, then faced each other.

“So, do you two know each other in the real world?” Casper asked.

“Well, kinda. We are brothers.” Casper nodded.

“Must be nice to play with a sibling. Me, I am an only child. Adopted.” Sircosgi nodded, and bit his tongue.

`Not yet!' Instead, he came up with something else to say.

“Yeah, it is kinda nice, but it is better to meet new people. I think.” Casper nodded.

“True. True. Well, I have to go as well. See you later!” She stood, turned and left. Sircosgi remained on the ground, just watching the river flow.

He closed his eyes and smiled. Opening them, he saw a figure in front of him. The man wore a black robe, carried a black halberd, and had a stoic expression on his face. Sircosgi instinctively reached for his staff, even though he knew it would be for naught.

“Don't worry, young one,” the man called in a deep voice, “there is nothing to fear. I am Pope Boragia, but people call me Boragia. Nice to meet you,” He stopped, expecting a name.

“Sircosgi. Sircosgi Ardiwin. Pleasure.” He extended a hand, which was shaken. Boragia sat down next to Sircosgi and set his halberd down, a sign of friendliness. Sircosgi sighed in relief.

“So, why did you decided to be a long-arm, especially with that type of halberd. Must be extremely rare!”

“Well,” Boragia began, “it is kinda rare. My favorite weapon in the game, the Valhalberd!” Sircosgi's mouth gaped.

“I thought the Valhalberd was different.” Boragia smiled eerily.

“Well, I have made some,” he paused, “modifications.” The speech paused from the two for a second, Sircosgi being at a loss for words, and Boragia looking at Sircosgi with a smirk.

“So, you must be a newer player Sircosgi, only being at level five. You know, if we were to fight in a party, I could boost your level with every fight.” Sircosgi nodded. They would have to do that sometime.

“So, what level are YOU?”

“The sky, it is interesting,” Boragia said, either ignoring or changing the subject. “Look at all of the detail. The clouds? They make the wind blow.”

“No they don't!” Boragia snorted at Sircosgi's response.

“They don't? They DON'T? Well, that is about as much foolishness as Jabberwocky! In this World, everything is different. Nothing you see is what it is. Everything isn't just yes or no, white or black. Here, the wind is blown by clouds, and snow comes up, not down!” Sircosgi shook his head, and smiled.

`Obviously this man is off of his rocker' He thought.

“So, Boragia, that is an interesting name.” Sircosgi said, changing the subject. “Where did you get it from?” Boragia opened his mouth, then closed it.

“It is almost as interesting as yours. What does it mean?”

“I asked you first.”

“Well, I won't answer unless YOU tell me!” Boragia said that like it was final. Sircosgi stood.

“I see. Well, I think I should go now. I hope you have a good day, and that I have helped you in some way.” He left, giving Boragia his member address, remembering what had been said before.

Boragia sat there and smiled before he picked up his halberd.

“You've been helpful in ways not even I can begin to imagine.” He stood up, and walked to a secluded side road. He leaned against a wall, and talked, as if to no one.

“I think we have found it.”

 

Sircosgi stood in front of the chaos gate, ready to log out. He turned and saw that Boragia had disappeared.

`Good thing, too. He is kinda creepy!'

“Sircosgi!” He whipped his head back and saw Casper logging in.

“My plans changed, and I can stay!” Sircosgi nodded.

“So, Casper, what SHALL we do?” Casper smiled.

“I don't want to fight, so why don't we just walk along the river here?” Sircosgi nodded. The two started for the river, joking as if they had known each other for a long time. The two figured they were relatively the same age, so they knew most of the stuff the other was talking about, but then there was-

“EEEWW! So THAT'S why girls are weird every once in a while. My gosh, I thought it was something that girls do to pick on boys, but oh my gosh that is just sooooooooo weird! It gives me chills just thinking about it. Don`t you all hate it?” Sircosgi said, shuddering.

“Yep, but, hey we give birth. You get used to it after a while.” Sircosgi nodded. He looked back, and smiled.

“So, Sircosgi, anything weird about being a boy?” Sircosgi laughed.

“Besides having two brains?” He laughed, but Casper didn't understand. “Right. Well, sometimes, whe- oh crap! I have to go! You remember Pai? Well he got tripped up at practice, the fool. Well, I'll e-mail you what I was about to say!” He got up, and waving at Casper, ran to the chaos gate.

There, he stopped. He just watched the thing swing around for a second or two, as if in a trance. He shook his head and raised his staff towards the heavens. With a flash and three ascending

rings, he logged out.