.Hacksign
System Shutdown

Summary: Players trying to log out of 'the world' have been found dead or barly alive, and the game is quickly becoming more dangerous then anybody could ever imagine. Will Bear,Mimiru,BT,Sora,and Crim figure out the problem before the system shuts down?With everybody trapped inside of it?

DragonMaster 3000: HEY PEOPLE!!!!! Hope you like the story and I hope you review!!!! This is my first .Hacksign fan fic so go easy on me okay?

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Chapter One: The Veils of Illusion

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WHAM!! The sound of something crashing echoed throughout the hallway of the dungeon. "YEAH! Another monster goes down!!" Mimiru shouted happily putting her huge sword back on her back. "I wouldn't start getting to confident....it took you a couple of hits to finally get that one down" Bear said with a smile. "Oh sure you can say that because you just stood there against the wall doing nothing" she said rolling her eyes at him. "Well it's better then getting my butt kick by a low-level monster" he replies with a smirk. Mimiru growled angrily at him before returning her sword to it's resting place on her back.

"All you've done is stand their watching me, aren't you going to accually do something old man?" she asked as they walked along down the dugeons hallway. After walking in silence for a few minutes. They heard the sound of a battle going on, they ran ahead and around a corner and saw.... "Whoa! What kind of monster is that?!" Bear said in surprise. A party of 3 was fighting a monster that looked more like a dinosaur then anything else.

It looked like a velociraptor but it had 4 curving spines on the back of it's head and smaller ones running down it's back and to the tip of it's tail. It's scales were brownish red and it was wearing a violet vest with black pants. Both of it's feet had huge sickle shaped claws on them, which the monster was using to attack the people fighting it. It also had a long staff with intricate blue carvings on it.

The people fighting it were losing VERY badly. The staff in the monsters hands glowed as it jammed the staff in the ground, sending out a gigantic shockwave that cracked the walls and ceilings. The people fighting it fell to the ground because of the shockwave, giving the monster the chance to attack. But all 3 of the people quickly got up and ran down one of the hallways. The monster stopped and sat down at the top of a small set of stairs, it's metal staff resting safely on it's back. It then turned and looked at them. It stood up and got into a deffensive stance.

"Alright! This should be fun" Mimiru said holding her sword in front of her. "Fun? Hold on Mimiru! If 3 players couldn't bring that monster down what makes you think that you can?" Bear asked crossing his arms. She glared at him and then sighed, "Yeah I guess you do have a point....." she mumbled watching as the monster put it's staff back as well. "But if we can't beat it then how are we going to finish the dungeon? Did you think of that old man?" she asked him."Well I uh...." Bear said sheepishly.

"Are you here to fight or are you just going to stand there talking all day?" a female voice said interrupting them. They looked over and saw the monster staring at them with it's arms crossed. "Is it just me or did that monster just talk?" Mimiru asked eyes wide. "It's not just you" Bear said amazed. The monster rolled her eyes shook her head. "My name is Nayru and I'm not a monster....i'm here because I had something to do" she said glaring at them.

"But.....you can't be a player...not with a character like that" Bear said looking at her. "Your right, i'm not a character but i'm not a player either" she said with a sly smirk. Bear and Mimiru looked at each other for a seconed before looking back at Nayru. "But if you not a player and your not an average monster...then what are you?" Miiru questioned. Nayru just smiled and took out her staff. "If you want to know the answer to that question then you'll have to hit me 3 times in a battle" she replied before charging at Mimiru. "In a battle?! Hey wait!" she said before jumping back in order to avoid being hit.

Mimiru growled angrily and whipped her sword around and caught Nayru's staff just in time. Nayru smirked before jumping back and hitting Mimiru in the stomach with her staff. "A good warrior can predict their opponents movements" Nayru said before slamming Mimiru with her tail. She flew back a couple of feet before hitting a stone pillar. She looked up just in time to avoid getting Nayru's foot in her face. But with incredible agility Nayru spun around and knocked Mimiru's sword out of her hand. Mimiru tripped and made a grab for her sword but Nayru kicked it out of her reach. "Never give the enemy a chance to retaliate" Nayru said with her toe claw at Mimiru's throat.

"Thats enough" Bear said taking his own sword out, Nayru glanced his way before laughing at him. "You couldn't hit me if your life depended on it....and maybe it does" she said her claw moving a bit closer to Mimiru's throat. "Why are you doing this to us?" Bear asked her. She smiled and shrugged her shoulders, "Because I can that's why, now if you answer my question correctly then i'll let you both leave here with your lives....but if you don't get it right then your both dead deal?" Nayru said pointing her staff at him. "If you kill us then we'll just go back to the last place that we saved our game...i'm sure you know that right?" Bear said watching her carefully.

Nayru narrowed her eyes and her voice took on a hard edge, "Oh i'm afraid this has become more then a game....much, much more, and you just happen to be at the wrong place.....at the wrong time" she said seriously.

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As BT stood near the Chaos Gate in Mac Anu she thought about the message Crim had sent her. It told her to come to Mac Anu as soon as possible but it hadn't said anything else. But now that she was here he was nowhere in sight. She tapped her foot impatiantly, she had better things to do then to wait around all day for someone...even if that someone happend to be Crim. She heard the sound of footsteps behind her and she turned around to see Crim coming towards her. "About time you showed up; i've been waiting for 15 minutes, and I was just about to leave too" BT said annoyed.

"Well somebody's in a bad mood today" Crim said with a smile, "I haven't had the best day today....so tell me what you called me here for" she said with a sigh. Crim looked around to make sure nobody was listening before saying, "Weird things have been happening to the system lately.....players having trouble getting in and out of the game....messed up monsters...players have also mentioned that they're starting to feel things,like when they get hit or when the touch something....and it's on the message boards that many players have been seeing 2 strange characters, they aren't players, but their not part of the system either" Crim told her.

"Not players...but not apart of the system either? Is that even possible?" BT asked him. He shrugged his shoulders and stared at the water for a few more minutes before turning back to her. "If you think about it Tsukasa falls under that catagory....he surpasses the system....yet unlike the other players he's not sitting in front of a terminal and he can't log out of the world" Crim replied. They didn't say anything for a few minutes.

"So your thinking that the 2 characters the people have been sighting have something to do with the problems going on? And if so what can I do about it?" BT asked raising and eyebrow. Crim smirked and said, "I need your help gathering infomation, and I think that the 2 characters may have been created years ago when the game first came out, but instead of being deleted like a lot of stuff was I think that they were updated and updated every time the game was updated as well" he told her.

"Wait a minute.... you don't think that these 2 characters are....no it's not possible those two don't even exist any more, after the shutdown 7 years ago all record of them was erased for good" BT said shaking her head. "But what if it wasn't? Think about this BT there's only one explanation for what's happening right now, and if those 2 are who I think they are....then everybody here, every player in the entire game is in danger" Crim said seriously. BT shook her head, thinking about what Crim had told her, "So you think that the system might shut down again? But if it does what will happen to the people who are here? The people inside the game when it happends?" BT asked almost afraid of what the answer would be.

Crim just looked down at the ground and shook his head, "I don't know...and I don't think I want to know either" he said sadly. "Then it's true......Nayru and Pyro are back....and this time for good" BT whispered thinking about everything that Crim had just said.

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DragonMaster 3000: Sorry if the chapter is a bit short but if it's to long then sentances get cut out of it, sometimes paragraphs do as well.....

Shadow Dragon: The seconed chapter is almost finished and should be up in a few days.....that's all, PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!