Kai heard someone calling his name. It was unintelligible at first however as he slowly regained his consciousness, he could slowly hear the other party.
“GOD DAMMIT KAI! How long are you gonna play possum!?”
A hard hand slapped his left cheek causing Kai to reflectively look at the direction of where it came from. When he looked at who hit him, Kai let out a sigh.
“You know, you could’ve like gave me a pinch in the cheek instead. But you settled for a slap didn’t cha? Cheri?”
Cheri who had been Kai’s gaming buddy for five years looked at him with a displeased expression and scoffed.
“Well if it makes you feel better, I was going to shoot you in the knee next.”
As Cheri retorted, she placed both her hands on her hips and leaned forward looking down at Kai.
“So, are you gonna get up? Or are you gonna be carried out by those knights over there?”
Cheri pointed behind her as there were three knights making their approaching.
“I don’t know what the hell happened when that lag hit but the next thing I know, we were in some crazed dimensional space along with a few other folks. I think there were about ten of us there and some lady in Greek attire came outta nowhere started talking about us being dead and a hero ritual or something.”
Cheri waved to the first knight that arrived next to her.
“Alright man. You hold his left arm and I’ll take his right. On three we life him up aight?”
The knight gave Cheri a nod and just as she began the count, she tightened her grip on Kai’s right armpit.
“One, two and Three! HUP!”
On three, Cheri and the Knight lifted Kai up from the floor.
“Ow. I think I pulled a muscle.”
Kai let out a quick pain of agony noise out from his mouth.
“Oh yea... ow… my right arm.”
“I could request a healer to aide you if you needed.”
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The knight inspected Kai and asked him if he needed a healer.
“Nah I’m ok. It’ll heal in no time so don’t worry about it.”
Kai politely turned down the knights offer and faced Cheri. The first thing that struck Kai was that Cheri is still in her gaming avatar. Cheri’s avatar consisted of a sci-fi high-tech digital camo combat helmet with a built-in vid-cam on the left side that allows players in the same squad to see what they are seeing through a screen share mechanic that is passively on. To match the helmet, she has on a grey flak vest which covered her entire upper torso and a grey leg armor that entirely cover the front part of her legs. An Assault backpack is worn on her back which contains her gadgets and other important equipment’s for her Assault class. On her waist there were four ammunitions pouches held together by a belt that came with the vest and her footwear consist of a grey all terrain combat boot. To finish the badassery look, Cheri have on a combat goggle which enhances the player Heads up Display capabilities. All her features are well hidden behind all that gear which makes it hard for people to see what she really looks like without them.
Kai sighed as he long knew that Cheri never have a thing for cute cosmetics. Nothing can change her mind. He decided to quickly inspected himself and as it turns out, he too is in his gaming avatar. The only difference aside from being similar to Cheri’s, is that his helmet has a prebuilt visor and his backpack is the Engineer backpack which holds gadgets and equipment exclusively for his Support class. At first glance no one can tell Kai’s feature since it is heavily covered by the combat helmet.
As both Cheri and Kai looked at each other and gave a thumbs up, the knight that was still holding his left arm politely interrupted their silent communication.
“Excuse me heroes. It would be bad manners to keep the royal family and the other heroes wait any longer. Please follow me.”
The knight waved with his free hand to the two knights that was standing next to the door and the opened it as the trio arrived. A couple hallways later, the knight along with Cheri and Kai made it to the chambers that the dinner is held. The door opened and everyone that was on the other side stopped their activity and stared at the newcomers that had just arrived. Cheri and Kai let out a wry chuckle knowing that they were beyond late, and the important matter were already discussed.
A short girl wearing a dark gothic Lolita outfit who was talking to one of the royal family’s children shot a quick glance at the newcomers and when she saw the person being assisted, she knew he was probably injured. She politely excused herself and made her way towards Kai. Kai on the other hand was sweating balls as he noticed a loli approaching him, however it was the giant scythe weapon behind her that caused him to sweat profusely. Cheri placed her hand on her leg holster in preparation to draw her P33 Pereira revolver.
Both Cheri and Kai expected the goth girl to draw her scythe, instead she chanted something which later a dark particle of sort entered Kai’s body. Kai noticing the pain fading away realized the goth girl casted a healing spell on him. Before she departed, the goth girl leaned close to his ear and whispered.
“That’s some sweet looking high-tech gear. I would love to hear the tales if you are comfortable talking about it.”
The goth girl gave Kai a wink and went back towards the royal children. Cheri pouted as her face grew red and she delivered a rock-hard fist punch at Kai’s hip.
“WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?”
Cheri in return gave Kai a silent treatment while turning her head facing the other way.