.hack//SIGN
My Dream
Written by: Spike Spiccardo (Don't own .hack)

My Dream (various POV's)

Tsukasa
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I want to live in a dream, where I can be free...
Free from pain, or death... free from oppression, even...
I wonder what it's like not having to worry about an enemy...
But I wonder... is shifting from one dream to another
A good idea?
I wonder, am I just imagining what I see before me?
Just another illusion of my mind?
I wonder...

Bear
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I didn't see it coming.
No sirree, I didn't see it coming.
I figured she'd be typical. I knew she'd be lost.
But I hadn't expected this to happen.
I lost something today... something very important to me...
It was the one thing I loved more than anything...
Myself. Herself. Just a lonely shell of myself.

Subaru
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If I move, it breathes. If I breathe, it strikes.
It's a dangerous game, playing with death.
But I must... for their sake.
I haven't come this far just to lose it all by chance.
If falter I must, then I shall do with pride.
If I sway, it steadies. If I decay, it prays.

Krim
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The dream is nothing more than the subconcious
Becoming the active concious mind.
It is nothing more than an illusion designed to
Entertain your mind and collapse your soul's eternal rest.
It's the thing that keeps you alive when you sleep.
It's the eternal graveyard of a thousand restless nights
That result in permanent insomnia.
So why do you ask me to fix it?
I can't do anything about it... Nothing at all.
No, sir... nothing.
Maybe...

Tsukasa
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If dream is really all I do...
Then what's it really good for?
Nothing I do works out, nothing I say conflicts
With the matters that matter.
It's an barrier I can't break.
It's an emptiness I can't shake.
What do I do...? Am I really out of control, like they say?
Have I lost all sense of self?
Or am I just losing it all over again?
Am I just turning into the thing I fear most...?
A dream...?

Bear
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You can't bring yourself to believe in something that isn't real.
The subconcious forbids it.
But if your subconcious is not your own, then it can accept it.
But does that really work?
Because no matter whose subconcious you currently own, it shouln't matter.
It will still reject a lie.

Krim
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I did not come here to argue. I came here to believe.
And here I see no beliefs. All I see are deaths...
Deaths that we, ourselves, were the cause of.
Dammit to hell...! What did we do wrong
That wasn't able to work?
Did I... no... It can't be!
I don't betray my fellows.
I can't even betray myself.

Subaru
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I won't fail now. Dancing with death...
I stare into his eyes, and follow his cold heart
Into the bowels of my head.
Where are your dreams now, Tsukasa?
Are your dreams and prayers now with me?
Or are they wishing against a vengeful faithlessness of me?
Save me, someone... I can't feel my heartbeat anymore.
It's all over... I've lost myself again...

Tsukasa
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But where...? Where should I go?
What should I start from? The beginning? The end?
Is it my decision to choose, or is it hers?
I don't know what to do anymore.

B.T.
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Stop complaining. You yourself know the truth.
A person's fate can be changed by the choices they make.
I don't want you to live a dream anymore... I don't want you to
Suffer a fate that belongs only to me!
Hand me my path back, or I won't forget myself again...
And I can't live with that fact anymore...
I just wish I could die, right here...
And stay here forever... 'til the ends of time...

Tsukasa
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But you can't. You can't possibly want this!
This is my home, the dreams of my life!
It's all mine! And I believe them, too!
I know now what I should've done so long ago,
So far away from here.
It's a bad day I just can't forget.
It's a horrid nightmare I can't wake up from.
It's tears swimming through my eyes.
It's all I have left, though.
So what would you have me do...?
Abandon myself again...?
I don't want to be left alone again.
I don't want... to suffer the pains of fate...
Anymore.

-Spike