.Hack//Ancestry –The beginning

The long awaited sequel to Jyotaro's RA

Disclaimer – none of this junk is mine. Or ever has a chance of becoming mine. So don't think I got any big ideas about making it mine.

This is the main fic for Jyotaro's RA. This will focus on Jyotaro's eight epitaphs but will include the GU characters, especially Ovan. Ovan will do a lot here. Also the other eight epitaphs will be featured constantly in serious parts with the main, main character. The secondary main character will be with GU characters, non epitaph largely, on a more comedic/not so serious basis. Also ancestry occurs during Roots, so what happens here will be roots related. Involving roots time events, hopefully from all canon GU media. Well here goes!

Oh and for time, this starts the day after Jyotaro's RA part two the dialogue between seraph and Ovan. IE episode one of roots, the very, very beginning of rebirth.

Credit goes to m00tzman for beta reading the junk I send him.

Note – Italics thought

-Begin-

A character walked around the field. Muttering things to himself, "Stupid Ovan, tells me to start up the largest guild in the game the next day, this may take months to do!" The player wore green pants, with a yellow vest like shirt. He had darker skin with scars criss-crossing it. His body showed a muscular build. He also wore a headband of an off white color. And he had two gold bracelets on his arms with unrecognizable patterns.

He kept on walking, finally running into a group of enemies. They were some level one goblins, but since the player was also level 1 and he was outnumbered three to one the player had a problem. But he took out his weapon, a drill like lance, and prepared to fight anyway.

"Die you stupid goblin bastards!" He shouted as he smashed in one's face. That goblin fell over. The other two ran over to it checking to see if it was okay. "Ha, you may have superior numbers, but I'm the better fighter." Then the injured goblin got back up. "What the hell! That bastard ought to stay down!" Then the three goblins surrounded the level one player.

"Great you guys form a triangle. Well time for the skill trigger. Take this! He said shouting at the injured goblin, "Air raid!" The player stuck the goblin on his lance and shot him in the air. Before the goblin hit the ground the player lanced him once again. The goblin faded away in red. The player then turned to face the other two goblins, which were already dead. "Thanks you guys," The player started to say when the two players, another lance wielder and a flick reaper, armed with a scythe moved to attack the solo player. The harvest cleric of the group just stood to the side and watched ready to heal. The player about to be attacked just prepared to use his lance tensing up, when three shots were heard. Then the three Pk'ers fell to the ground. No HP left to speak of.

"Gunshots. A steam gunner, probably a high level one too." The player looked up to a hill where a man with blue hair, orange glasses, and a strange left arm was standing bearing a weapon that could be called a gun blade. "Ovan. I figured. Well he's accompanying me the rest of the way to the beast temple; I do not want to deal with more Pk'ers. Hey Ovan!" The last part was directed directly towards the character on the hill. "Get over here, I'm supposed to meet the person you want today in this field right?" The player grinned when Ovan showed a sign of shock at the revelation that someone knew what he was doing but then shook his head in some realization. In a small amount of time Ovan was by the player.

"Ah, so you chose a new player model."

"Still an adept rogue, but looks different."

"So what do I call you?"

"You can call me benitora."

"Ah. Well then benitora, come I want you to see the player I wanted to show you, then I want you to see who I want you to follow." The two walked a ways ahead, when they encountered a black adept rogue with a blade brandier and edge punisher with him. "The black one is the one I am interested in."

"Haseo." Muttered benitora. "I'll watch him especially hard if you are interested in him."

Ovan chuckled. He knew just what benitora was thinking. "Oh come now, do you think what Jun told you was accurate?"

"It was close enough to count. Well now I know what your pet looks like, I would like to see mine."

"Ah yes, he should be arriving in Mac anu soon. You should go finish this field and meet him."

Benitora looked at him. "Meet him. You seem like the type to make grander plans than that."

"Well train him, make him strong. I'll tell you if I want more. You can use him to your hearts content though if you want to get a head start on your guild."

Benitora nodded. Well fair enough, I'll go to the chaos gate and meet this kid. And when I meet you and Arche Koelyn falls I'll report to you what matters." Benitora and Ovan walked to the blue orb surrounded by gold rings. "Well good luck in your ventures, may I crush them one day." Benitora bowed. And turned around. Ovan walked into the beast temple, two shots were heard. Benitora had a blue light come over him and he popped into the blue orb and was gone.

-In Mac anu-

Benitora appeared in the central area of Mac anu. He walked over to the save counter and saved. Then he sat down on a raised platform and waited. He waited for about three minutes when someone appeared. He had red hair tied back in a ponytail. He wore a plaid kimono of green and black, and a blue shirt. Benitora did not like how he looked but he looked that way. Also his face had a cross shaped scar on his left cheek. Benitora was not surprised at this. He stepped up to the obvious n00b.

"Greetings!" Someone said, it wasn't benitora. It was a random player who had appeared. "I'm tomoe. Are you new?" Tomoe wore a long purple kimono and had long hair. Also she had an absurd round hat on in the same color as her clothes. "I am, I was wondering if you wanted to form a party with me."

Benitora knew it would be easiest to do this early on so he would intervene now! "Ah greetings, Tomoe, Kenshin. Are you both new?" Both of them nodded. "Ah good, because I am an experienced player. Would you like me to show you the ropes?" Again both of them nodded. "Good why don't we try going to an area. Do you know how?" Yet another nod. "Well then here's bookmark I happen to have, for a low level area good for the three of us." Benitora input the area words. I hope Ovan didn't set us up to be caught by Pk'ers. If he did so help me god, either he Haseo or his guild will be caught in a living hell. Was his thought.

Upon arrival at the field kenshin spoke. "Um excuse me, but why are you helping me?"

"Because, I believe that everyone in this game who wants help deserves it."

"And you Tomoe?"

"Well because I need it almost as much as you, I'm a low level harvest cleric. I won't be able to solo very well for a while yet. Besides staying in a group is the best way to avoid Pk's."

"P what's?" Kenshin asked.

"Player killers, players who attack other players." Tomoe elaborated.

"Oh. God why did I pick this game."

"Because all the rest are worse." Benitora laughed. "Trust me, Pk's will be a small matter with me in your party. Which reminds me, you need my member address!" Benitora gave kenshin his member address. "Anytime I'm on send me a message and I'll see if I can do anything."

Kenshin looked at benitora. And stared for a few minutes. The nodded to himself. "Alright let's go."

The trio wandered around the field for a while, and then they encountered a monster, rather a trio of goblins. "Alright kenshin, if you get near them without them seeing you, and press the attack button, you can do a sneak attack, which will do a lot more damage than a regular attack." There was a moment of pause, "Well go!"

Kenshin glared at benitora. Benitora just went to tomoe and explained how to cast repth, and when. Then kenshin finally did a sneak attack. The goblin fell over, dead. Benitora gaped openly at this, tomoe looked glad and kenshin barely noticed. Kenshin landed several, much closer to normal, hits on the goblins and then they were surrounded by rings. Kenshin prepared a charge attack to take out the goblin when benitora intervened with an air raid. "You took my kill, you jerk!"

Benitora looked at kenshin. "Kills only matter against PK's it's more important to land rengeki's for the dual damage and experience bonuses."

While kenshin opened the treasure box with the symbol fragment tomoe asked benitora a question. "Why were so surprised when kenshin killed the goblin in one hit? I mean it was a sneak attack against a level 1 monster."

"Yeah, but he's a level one player, in this game players should not be able to take out monsters of their level in one hit. Unless it's an awakening. Especially a divine awakening that I can see. But this was just a sneak attack. I'm really interested in this player." Benitora grinned a knowing grin. "I know someone else who should be interested to." He said more to himself than anyone else, but Tomoe still heard. Tomoe heard and remembered.

The party ventured along, all the while attacking whatever enemies came their way, letting tomoe learn how a harvest cleric operates, kenshin knew how to fight already, so only some reminders based on game physics were thrown his way. And then they reached the beast temple. They opened the door and walked in, one the way they started talking about how to divide the treasure. "If its light armor or a staff tomoe gets it, if it's medium armor or a blade kenshin gets it, heavy armor or a lance I get it. Any scrolls will be given to Tomoe; otherwise you guys can divide up what you find."

"Why do you get heavy armor or lances?" Kenshin asked with a suspicious glare.

"Because only I use those. You would have no use for them." Benitora grinned back.

Tomoe was smarter with her questions, "Why are you letting us have this stuff?"

"Because, this character is only a temporary character to me, I have another one who will become my main character." But you know it's good to know what stuff is in what areas. So I can plan ahead."

"What do you mean by plan ahead; don't people usually have high level character then make a new one?" That was kenshins last question when static appeared.

-Brzzt-brzzt-

"What was that!?!" Tomoe said, sounding scared.

"What the hell is going on here!?!" Kenshin shouted at Benitora.

"How do I think I would know that!?!" Benitora shouted back.

-Brzzt-brzzt-

"It's still here, now's not the time to argue guys!" Tomoe shouted. Then black dots appeared right in front of the three. Out of which came a strange thing. It looked like a massive amoeboid.

"I'll take it on!" Shouted kenshin. Benitora pulled out his lance and stopped him. "Come one the two of us doing what we did before, we could beat it. Even if it's a PK'er."

"I had no idea how dumb you are." Kenshin raged at benitora. "That's no near possibly standard character model. For that matter it's not even hacked, if it was it would never have attacked us. It would be gone by now, players would have reported it to the admins. and it would have been deleted. This is here; it's not a normal bug." Jun, I'll join you soon. But this thing is going down before that happens. "So I'll take it on." Benitora turned to face the two players, and then a blue orb appeared in front of his head. His turned at a greater than forty five degree angle head. He didn't see it fully, but he heard a note. "A note. What was that, I should know with what musical talent I have." Benitora turned to face the monster. When he saw a strange figure in front of him.

The figure was tall and lanky. He wore red clothes that looked in a state of general disrepair. His eyes, or rather eye, looked cold and soulless. And most unique were the blue flames that surrounded him. The black amoeboid retreated back from it slightly. Then the figures right arm glowed gold. An eye shot out of the glowing arm and hit the black blob. Streams of data shot back to the glowing arm. The black blob writhed and shrank until it finally turned into nothing.

A few moments passed, kenshin and tomoe were on their knees in fear. Benitora was ready to fight whoever it was that had appeared. Although he seemed reluctant to do so. The red figure was floating, and that was all he was doing.

After a few minutes benitora balanced his lance on his shoulder. "Thanks a lot, um, um, whoever you are." He extended a hand and looked back at his party. Kenshin and tomoe leant back. Kenshin backed into tomoe after a few seconds. Tomoe fell on her back and she lay there looking at the enigmatic figure. "Okay. Wimps." Benitora muttered. He stared at the flaming blue fellow. He hadn't moved, but his arm had stopped glowing. Then the player rounded on the Benitora, who still had his lance out, while he was bearing his twin blades. Benitora had seemed to flicker when his lance met the blades. "Now that's not nice." He said, now at a full lance length.

The enigmatic figure stared at him, as if pondering what to do. Benitora grinned; kenshin and tomoe were recovering at last, and seemed to be ready to fight, or at least more so. Then the figure turned into a blue ball and floated away.

"Who was that?" Asked tomoe.

"I'm not certain." Replied benitora as he put away his lance and proceeded to the chest.

"Are you nuts, whatever that blob was we know it was there, how can you say the item wasn't changed!" Kenshin shouted.

Benitora kicked the chest open a little more forcefully than necessary. "Well if it was then it looks like I'll be the only one to take it then. Hey, it's heavy armor, I'll take it anyway."

"Have you forgotten about the blob that attacked us!?!" Tomoe shouted.

"Fine then, you can leave if you want, I showed you how to play, and we got through this temple. We survived the blob, and the lanky one, the far worse one. Just when you go, tell no-one what happened."

"Are you nuts, I'm telling and Admin!"

"And then what, you will be dissected until they get the information they want, and odds are your character will be no good, your account a danger to the network. Don't tell anyone, not even other players. Only tell those who I allow to be brought into our confidence. And don't worry I'll tell the admins, I have connections with CC corp."

"WHAT!" Kenshin flared. "Are you mad, tell no-one! Something like this should be told to everyone to keep them safe!"

Benitora sighed, "Or it could send them into panic. Trust me; you'll get your chance to spread your tale. And I'll make sure it comes out the right way at the right speed so the internet doesn't fall apart." Damn you Ovan, damn you to hell you bastard. How much of this did you lay your heavy hand in? "I'll make sure that our characters weren't affected through the bug in some way. I'm a programmer so don't worry."

Finally when the trio warped back to Mac anu kenshin had something to say to benitora, "Are you Japanese?"

"No, why?"

"That explains why your Japanese sucks so much."

"WHAT, YOU LITTLE PUNK, I'LL KILL YOU!!!"

-End-