.hack//SIGN
In Darkness: Counsel
Written by: Spike Jarel Spiccardo (don't own .hack)
A/N: The story makes more sense once you read the poems in My Dream, which is my other .hack fanfiction. Remember, I know nothing of the four .hack games (Infection, Mutation, Outbreak, and Quarrantine) so all of this picks up three years after the end of .hack//SIGN. Also, as I'd not like to mess with real names, the story takes place entirely in The World (though I may describe what's going on in the real world at the time of certain events). And now, without further ado, the first part in a three-part .hack series - In Darkness: Counsel.
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Chapter: False Beginning
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Such is the nature of Time that it passes so quickly for our minds not to conceive it. It has been three years yet since The Awakening, and Time presents itself so cleverly to the intervals of power. Since this said event, the heros and heroines of that divine event have together bonded strongly against the Will of the Administrators, and created the Counsel.
The Counsel, derivated from the players controlling the Truth, is the source of all information in The World. As it is seen, each of the players has traveled to worlds not even Bahamaut knows of, and each has an outlook of decisions that makes them so versatile in their search for ancient Truths. But even as they themselves govern the people through Knowledge and History, a deeping voice continues to haunt their dreams.
One Counsel member in particular is affected. The ever-brave Tsukasa, free now of his Central bonds to the Server, now faces a daunting new task: keeping as sane as possible while dodging inane moments of the woman's voice. She reeks into his brain, seeping him of deprived resignation and forging a new sense of Self in him. It is the undying voice of Morganna... raging his skin, fearing his energy and raping him of all gripping thoughts. The young girl who has taken his avatar is unable to sleep even now, waiting for the voice to just go away. But she will never go away, and the girl will never live freely again.
But each of the other Members are savaged by her soothing tones, as well. B.L.T. has begun to lose her senses, beginning with feeling and then smell. If the doctors are unable to find a cure soon, she will soon lose her eyesight. The character, in the game, is in turn forgetting important spells. Her usefulness in battle has been erased completely, and she sits among Counsel now as a partner in the government. But this avatar, as well, is being decroyed by Morganna. She is to herself a poison, seeping into your lips and out of your ears until you fall off the edge and never get up again.
Lightning still strikes here in the plains. The Red Lightning is out and about, doing rounds of Duty for the masses both in Town and among the mid-level dungeons. He's become somewhat of a guardian angel, passing a smile for the helpless as he challenges unimaginable fears. No one would ever guess that this character, too, was taken by Morganna. Where they go now, it is not for them to decide.
One character, however, has not lost herself to the veritable dangers of the woman in white. The avatar familiarized as Mimiru remains unchanged despite all she's seen. Her course of job is to continue playing the game as if she'd done nothing incredible. But the Counsel calls on her so often. Subaru, absolutely stunning in robes of pink and white, is reliant on her youthful thoughts so that she may make proper decisions for the Counsel. It is this reliance that makes Mimiru so invaluable.
And so it was as is, The World continuing as if nothing had ever happened. But everyone knows the Counsel keeps a deadly secret. Everyone, even the newest players, know of the dangerous designation residing beneath the Counsel's walls. And all of them want the chance to peak at it - at the child whom they awoke, who sought to revive The World as her own.
Morganna still seeks it. And she will not be alone. However, I will not be deterred by her orders. Hold tight, hold steady, and slice her down at the sound of her voice. Damn her for all she's done to me. Damn her and her petty insults that do nothing but mislead me.
She'll be mine... all mine... soon enough.
In Darkness: Counsel
Written by: Spike Jarel Spiccardo (don't own .hack)
A/N: The story makes more sense once you read the poems in My Dream, which is my other .hack fanfiction. Remember, I know nothing of the four .hack games (Infection, Mutation, Outbreak, and Quarrantine) so all of this picks up three years after the end of .hack//SIGN. Also, as I'd not like to mess with real names, the story takes place entirely in The World (though I may describe what's going on in the real world at the time of certain events). And now, without further ado, the first part in a three-part .hack series - In Darkness: Counsel.
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Chapter: False Beginning
========================
Such is the nature of Time that it passes so quickly for our minds not to conceive it. It has been three years yet since The Awakening, and Time presents itself so cleverly to the intervals of power. Since this said event, the heros and heroines of that divine event have together bonded strongly against the Will of the Administrators, and created the Counsel.
The Counsel, derivated from the players controlling the Truth, is the source of all information in The World. As it is seen, each of the players has traveled to worlds not even Bahamaut knows of, and each has an outlook of decisions that makes them so versatile in their search for ancient Truths. But even as they themselves govern the people through Knowledge and History, a deeping voice continues to haunt their dreams.
One Counsel member in particular is affected. The ever-brave Tsukasa, free now of his Central bonds to the Server, now faces a daunting new task: keeping as sane as possible while dodging inane moments of the woman's voice. She reeks into his brain, seeping him of deprived resignation and forging a new sense of Self in him. It is the undying voice of Morganna... raging his skin, fearing his energy and raping him of all gripping thoughts. The young girl who has taken his avatar is unable to sleep even now, waiting for the voice to just go away. But she will never go away, and the girl will never live freely again.
But each of the other Members are savaged by her soothing tones, as well. B.L.T. has begun to lose her senses, beginning with feeling and then smell. If the doctors are unable to find a cure soon, she will soon lose her eyesight. The character, in the game, is in turn forgetting important spells. Her usefulness in battle has been erased completely, and she sits among Counsel now as a partner in the government. But this avatar, as well, is being decroyed by Morganna. She is to herself a poison, seeping into your lips and out of your ears until you fall off the edge and never get up again.
Lightning still strikes here in the plains. The Red Lightning is out and about, doing rounds of Duty for the masses both in Town and among the mid-level dungeons. He's become somewhat of a guardian angel, passing a smile for the helpless as he challenges unimaginable fears. No one would ever guess that this character, too, was taken by Morganna. Where they go now, it is not for them to decide.
One character, however, has not lost herself to the veritable dangers of the woman in white. The avatar familiarized as Mimiru remains unchanged despite all she's seen. Her course of job is to continue playing the game as if she'd done nothing incredible. But the Counsel calls on her so often. Subaru, absolutely stunning in robes of pink and white, is reliant on her youthful thoughts so that she may make proper decisions for the Counsel. It is this reliance that makes Mimiru so invaluable.
And so it was as is, The World continuing as if nothing had ever happened. But everyone knows the Counsel keeps a deadly secret. Everyone, even the newest players, know of the dangerous designation residing beneath the Counsel's walls. And all of them want the chance to peak at it - at the child whom they awoke, who sought to revive The World as her own.
Morganna still seeks it. And she will not be alone. However, I will not be deterred by her orders. Hold tight, hold steady, and slice her down at the sound of her voice. Damn her for all she's done to me. Damn her and her petty insults that do nothing but mislead me.
She'll be mine... all mine... soon enough.