### Backgound-2 ###

In the hospital Grant and Ruth (Zack/Zero's mom and dad) were waiting anxiously outside the ICU where their daughter Amy was struggling with life, when Zack arrived.

"How's Amy?", Zero asked while comforting his crying mother.

"We dont really know", Grant replied.

"What happened?", asked Zero his habitual mask of impassiveness cracking a little bit.

"We found her lying next to a bottle of sleep medicine and rushed her to the hospital. She has a letter addressed to you which we have not yet opened.", Grant replied shaking his head and handing out a letter.

Zero read the letter out a bit softly just for the benefit of his parents.

'

My Dork of a Brother. I am sorry for leaving you alone but I just can't live with the shame any more.

Mom and dad if you are reading this I love you and I am sorry I just wasn't strong enough.

Always yours,

Amy

'

"WTF is this supposed to be?", shouted Zero.

"I can tell you what happened.", said Celia quitely. Celia was Amy's best friend and had arrived just a couple of minutes earlier.

"We are a group of friends playing a game called Mythica. There we made a mistake of joining one of the leaders of the Drak guild who started hitting on Amy from first glance onwards. When Amy rejected his advances he got together with some of his buddies and they...", and then Celia choked.

Sensing her hesitation Zero took her to the side and whispered "They raped her??? in the game? you can do that?"

Celia took a look at Zero's icy blue eyes and shuddered. She had heard thing from his sister which she discarded as myths but now she could see Amy was not kidding, not even in the slightest. She could do nothing apart from nodding her head in the affirmative.

"Name", Zero whispered.

"King Marco.", came the reply from Celia.

Zero: "Do you know where I can find him?"

Celia: "I dont know!!! real life identities are strictly prohibited in game due to its nature and I could not find it even if I wished to."

And then she started crying. Slowly sobbing till she found Zero's chest and then she completely broke down. She had been keeping it in since the past 2 days when this happened. She did not or could not understand who she could talk to about this. Who should she ask for help weighted her mind but now she could see a glimmer of hope and "hope" is a powerful motivator.

Zero took his phone and dialled a number.

"Thirteen. I need a favour. Anything and everything you can find about a game called Mythica. Also there is a guild called Drak everything about them."

and then he briefed Thirteen on everything he had found out till now. He considered Thirteen as a brother and knew that he would have liked to know what was going on.

"I understand.", came the curt reply.

"Also is it possible to find out anything about this King Marco character?", asked Zero.

"I will find out what I can. Take care of Amy and leave the little shits to me. I will dig out whatever information I can find about them and it will be with you in about 5 seconds after that.", replied Thirteen. Amy was like a sister to him too and the worl will burn before one of their's comes to harm.

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- drago