Oh wow, not only did the useless ninja update all the stories yesterday (cept for ATB (At the Beginning) but that's based on songs so its okie) but now updating two days in a row? The world must be coming to an end. Lol I jk, so here's the next chapter, I'll go and finish the TOE chapter I'm working on and then get started on JD so by tonight or tomorrow? (i hope again).

Anyhoos, Enjoy!

Flashback

Once she was ready she headed to Ralof who was waiting at the other end of the room gesturing to the closed door. Misaki used the key and it slid open smoothly.

"Alright, let's go and find the others" Ralof said while leading the way down the hallway. Ahead there was a right turn and at the junction there was a door. Just as she and Ralof were about to take a step into the hallway ahead there was the loud roar of the dragon and the ground began to shake and crumble.

"Get back lass!" Ralof yelled. Just in time too as huge pieces of the structure fall down. Misaki looked up to see a huge piece of the ceiling fall towards her. She caught a glimpse of gaping jaws through the cracks breathing out more fire.

She stumbled backwards hoping beyond hope that she made it. Her vision clouded as she tripped and began to fall slowly backwards

End Flashback

Misaki fell back against the floor scraping her elbows roughly against the floor as they weren't covered by armour. Thankfully she had avoided the large pieces of debris, though some smaller pieces had scraped her face and her arms.

She coughed up dust as Ralof helped lift her up. "You alright there? That was a close one, that damned dragon almost did us in."

Misaki gained her breath back and stood up straight thanks to Ralof's help. "Thanks" she said to him.

Ralof just smiled and nodded at her in return. "Now let's see where this leads us." He opened the door and stepped in carefully in case there was someone else in there.

Misaki followed behind him but stopped against his back when he paused to the sound of voices. "Get ready to fight" he whispered to Misaki. She pulled out both her swords. The sound of unsheathing swords caught the attention of the few imperial guards in the room and they dropped what they were holding rushing up instead to engage Misaki and Ralof in combat.

Misaki charged forward as Ralof growled viciously and charged forward with his two-handed battle axe. The weapon was large and long with a vicious curved blade at the other end. He lifted it up and brought it down strongly against the small steel sword that the imperial soldier had pulled out. The blow was so strong it caused his enemy to stumble and Ralof took this chance to lift up his axe and rain down another blow on the off balance soldier.

Misaki on the other hand took turns attacking with both swords. The soldier she was facing had a shield and the same steel sword as she did in his hand. Misaki used the sword in her right hand to attack with a straight thrust while spinning her left one around for a lower cut to his leg.

The solider managed to block both attacks, her right thrust by pushing her shield forward and changing the course of her attack, and her left by using the sword in his right hand. Misaki took this chance to kick the man in the chest, sending him off balance, before bringing both her swords across the man's chest. He fell backwards and Misaki turned to face the last man in the room. Before she could get to him Ralof felled him with a critical attack.

"Alright, now that that's taken care of, find any potions you can and let's keep moving. I'll be at the end of the room. Now that the fight was taken care of, Misaki was able to look around and notice that this room was more like two connected together with half the wall covered between them and half uncovered to lead to the next room. While Ralof waited for her, Misaki scanned the room searching for items. She picked up anything that had some worth to it, be it food, potions, armour or weapons.

Later she could sell these items at a store to start saving up money. Once she was done her perusal of the room Misaki headed towards Ralof and he pushed the door open and she followed behind.

The two of them continued down the hallway and headed down a flight of stairs. "Hang on, I can hear fighting up ahead" said Ralof as he slowed down and began to creep down the stairs. As he reached the bottom he saw other Stormcloak soldiers fighting against the imperial guards. "FOR SOVANGARDE!" he yelled as he continued into the fray.

Misaki followed suit and jumped into the fight alongside him. Ralof's back was to her as he faced an imperial soldier as she also fought against one. Misaki stared curiously at the soldier as she had no weapons but her hands glowed ominously. She was brought out of her thought when a stinging pain was felt on her arm as the soldier attacked her with an electric shock.

"Argh!" Misaki cried in pain before she lifted her right arm and slashed downwards. Feeling was slowly coming back to her left arm and as before the mage could attack again she lifted her left arm to turn the attack away from her before using her right to slash diagonally across the mages chest. The mage stumbled and Misaki took that as an advantage to jump forward and slash downward across the mages shoulder with her sword bringing the mage down.

The sword had gotten stuck in the mages shoulder and as Misaki pulled it out blood gushed out spraying some over her arms and legs. She made a face as she realized that the game was more realistic than she had given it credit for. Though her health was regenerating from the magic attack she still felt sore where the electricity had hit and it would probably continue to sting until she soothed it in water or drank a potion. She filed that away for later and turned around to see Ralof battling two Imperials and she ran up and blocked one of the soldier's attacks from hitting Ralof. Even though it was a game, Misaki didn't want to attack from the back in the middle of a battle. It just felt wrong.

As the imperial turned to face her instead she blocked his attack from his sword but was then rammed back and off balance by his shield. The soldier took the chance to try and stab at Misaki but she dived to the left and the sword barely grazed off her armour. She stood up and blocked the attack from the war axe with both her swords, one crossed below the other so she had more leverage against the attack. The soldier tried to push her back but due to the positioning of her swords she had no trouble resisting him.

She balanced her weight onto her back leg before leaning back slightly and kicking the soldier in the knee to get him off balance. As he fell back she used her right arm to break his grip on his axe then used her left to thrust deeply into his chest with her sword. Once skewered he gaped at her before collapsing as she pulled her sword out.

Trying not to gag Misaki moved back and noticed that the rest of the Stormcloaks had neutralized their enemies as well. She wondered if it was possible to lower the graphics settings, this gore was a bit much, especially when you played it up close. She'd get make sure to check when she was done with this test of the game. She'd also have to mention it to Usui the head programmer before she went ahead with the fix.

She stored that information in her mind and focussed on the game again. There was a particular sequence she wanted to test since that was the part she had made a change too.

"You alright lass?" Ralof asked coming up to her and placing a hand on her shoulder. Misaki nodded and he swivelled his head to the cages on their right. "Poor devil" he said gesturing to the dead mage in the cage. With that he turned to the rest of the group "Alright, thankfully most of us have made it out alive. Gather all the supplies you can before we head out."

He turned to Misaki again "Here are some lockpicks, see if you can get that gold from the cage, the man won't be needing it no more."

Misaki received the lockpicks and headed to the cage slightly nervous. There had been a bug in the difficulty of this lock even though it was a novice lock. She had made a fix and it had passed most of her tests, but she needed to check how it would react in the sequence of the game itself. Misaki took a breath before leaning down and pulling out the lockpicks and getting to work. Her first pic broke but she had figured out where the lock would open and she moved her pick to that point before turning the lock. The lock slid open smoothly and she grinned happily at her success.

Her code had worked and had fixed the bug that stopped this lock from being at the difficulty it should have been. She stood up and quickly saved her game before logging out. She opened her eyes to the inside of her helmet and she could see a head with blonde hair leaning over her as she looked up.

K its not really a cliff hanger, sort of but not realllyy... right?

Oh whatever it is I'd better get the next one ready for tomorrow. Hope you guys liked it. No worries Misaki is mainly gonna be staying in the game world only when she needs to interact with Takumi will she be in the real world.

Dunno how exactly I want this to end but its probably gonna be pretty long. If anyone of you have played Skyrim, there's a lot to it, and I'm moving pretty slow. So I'll see how I progress through it and mix it up a bit so its not just following her movement throughout the map, which can be really tedious, trust me I've played skyrim 4 times, i know.

Either way, hope you liked it.

Peace Out.

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