Author's Note: This is a product of my semi-warped mind where my friends
and I are sucked into the video game Legend of Dragoon. I hope
FanFiction.net will let me keep this fic...I think I read something in that
thing I hadta agree to bout writing bout real people....but my fic is
harmless, plus it's featuring me and my friends so they don't mind (I told
them bout my plans, so they were warned). Anyways, I tried to post this in
2002 but it didn't really work so I'm trying again with some revisions.
The names have been changed (except mine) and the personalities have been
exagerated (including mine). ( ) is narration, [ ] are my own personal
thoughts for clarity or what not, and everyone knows that *words like this*
are actions. Blah blah blah here's the fic
Disclaimer: I don't own Sony or LoD including its characters and plot
Prologue: One Fateful Summer Day.
(The scene: It's August of 2002, the summer between ninth and tenth grade. My family and I had just moved into a new house a month before and my friends would come over frequently and bother me.)
Me (Tina): *over the phone* Hello?
Ania: Hey we're coming over to bug ya, okay?
Me: Whatever. *Click*
(So my friends came over. The usual group came to visit me -- Ania [my best friend -- sometimes], Wesley [the evil ex-boyfriend], Nikole [best friend since kindergarten], Boberto, Timoty, and Leroy [friends from school] We got bored so we immediately went to my room where Nikole and Ania sat down to read our yearbook, Boberto and Timoty read my sister's manga comics, Leroy and I battled it out on Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, and Wesley sat in the corner being very quiet.)
Ania: I'm bored let's go do something
Me: I'm sorry you feel that way. *Curses Bob Burnquist for not landing his trick*
Wesley: *laughs*
Me: *death glare*
Ania: Let's go get something to eat.
(Half of us shook our head "no" because we're all poor. I grabbed the basket full of our video games and hand them back to Nikole without taking my eyes off the screen)
Me: Here. Pick out a game to play.
Ania: But I hate Playstation!
(Ania kept whining, but we ignored her. Nikole thumbed through the games and finally came to everyone's favorite game)
Nikole: How bout this? *Holds up the LoD case*
Me: Nah, it's only one player plus the plot is reeaally long and complicated. You guys wouldn't like it.
Boberto: Why doncha show us?
(I shrugged my shoulders in agreement. Ania rolled her eyes while I placed the first disk into the Playstation console. Before I could even sit back into my beanbag chair, a huge flash of light fulled the room. The next second, all seven of us vanished from the room! Hearing our screams of terror, my little sister pushed open the bedroom door to spy on us.)
Lisa: Tina?! What are you and your stupid friends doing now?
(She looked at the TV screen and saw the theme song for LoD playing on it. Cautiously, she sat down in the beanbag chair and took ahold of the vibrating controller. She moved the cursor down and hit the X button to begin a new game....)
~ ~ ~
(After the flash of white light disappears, the seven of us land painfully on our asses in a medieval-like inn, which I later realized to be the inn in Bale. It was empty except for a large group of strange-looking people playing cards at a table smack in the middle of the room and two old men drinking at the bar, laughing uncontrollably and scheming on a plantinum- haired girl with a hammer. My friends are confused beyond their minds yet I am intrigued. My friends groaned and rubbed their butts in pain while I stood up and walked closer to the table.)
Me: Oh my god, this is...[unfinished sentence -- classic LoD]
(I was interuppted by a high-pitched squeal of joy, which scarred the crap outta us)
Shana: HAH! Royal flush -- that beats your full house! Yeess!! Now gimme back my Dragoon Spirit, bitch!!
Miranda: *slaps the table* No! You musta cheated, you couldn't get a hand that good if your life depended on it! Dart, make her play fair!
Dart: It's not my problem.
Shana: Yeah, plus I'm not the one with magic -- well, not for long since I WON!! WHOOO!!! *Victory dance*
Miranda: Grrr...fine! *reluctantly gives Shana a silver orb and pouts*
Albert: Damn, I didn't know Shana could get like that.
Lavitz: Rose musta corrupted her
Rose: *smiles proudly*
Meru: Dart! You mind getting your daddy and granddad offa me and away from the liquor? *Inches further and further away from the drunk old men*
Hashel:*slurred speech* You can call me daddy *takes another shot*
Meru: *smacks his hand away from her...um...I'll let you use your imagination for that*
Dart: Not my problem either
(Now I'm about five feet away from the table starring at the poker players, facing Shana [still doing her victory dance], Miranda [still pouting and now muttering a string of profanities], and Dart [holding his head in his hands]. Albert turns his eyes towards me and gesters to Lavitz, sitting across the table from him. Lavitz smacks Dart's hand, forcing Dart to look up at me and my friends, who are still sitting dumbfounded on the ground.)
Dart: Can I....help you?
(I held my breath while Rose, Lloyd, and Kongol turned in their chairs to face us. Even Meru and the two drunkards [who I now recongize as Haschel and Zieg] stop to hear our response)
Me: Umm....I...well, I'm Tina and I...
Leroy: *boldly stands up and marches up next to me* Yeah, you can help us by telling us where the hell we are and how we can get the hell home!
(Leroy continued to stare angrily at the odd bunch while I nervously smiled at them. Dart rose from his seat and walked over toward the two of us. As he walked over, we could hear the metal of his sword clank against the metal of his armor. Leroy's glare and my smile quickly faded when Dart came face-to-face to us)
Dart: You're in the game of Legend of Dragoon, on the continent of Endiness.
Leroy: That doesn't tell me a thing!
Dart: Look kid, I don't even know how you got here, how am I supposed to know how to get you out? Obviously, we can't get out so what makes you think you can get out?
Ania: What do you mean we might not get out?!
Lloyd: *from the table* So they do talk...
Me: You know, you don't seem that threatening in the game *nervous chuckle*
(Dart whipped his head to face mine. He looked at me in a way that is hard to explain)
Dart: You've played this game before?
Me: Yeeaah....
(Suddenly Rose, Lavitz, Shana, Albert, Lloyd, Miranda, Kongol, and Meru stood up and walked slowly to where I was standing. Zieg and Hashel, however, are so hammered that they passed out on the bar about two minutes ago)
Dart: You're the one who plays this game the most, right?
Me: Maybe, this is actually my sister's game...
Ania: Hey!! What do you mean we can't get out?!
(Dart raised his hand to silence Ania and he was about to make a comment, but he was interuppted by a flashing, red light reminscent of a fire alarm)
All LoD characters (minus Zieg and Hashel): *groan*
(Zieg and Hashel finally come back to life and Rose snorts in disgust)
Lloyd: Dammit! I hate dying!!
Lavitz: *nods in agreement*
Zieg: I don't want that damn Melbu Frahma comin' inside me again *puts arm around Rose* but you can...
Rose: Tsk *pushes his arm offa her, causing Zieg to fall on the floor, passed out*
Hashel: Homo
Meru: What is this, the thousandth time we've had to do this damn game?!
Kongol: Strange children do it.
Timoty: What's up with your grammar, dude?
Dart: *strokes his chin, thinking* You know, that sounds like a good idea. I mean, this one is the principle user of the Playstation....
(My friends look at me strangely when Dart jerked his thumb in my direction)
Shana: But then she'd know the secrets of the game
Dart: No she won't, it'll work just like with us!
Lavitz: What about the rest of them? I bet they don't know a thing about this game -- or do you?
(That last question was directed to the group of five still sitting on the floor. They nodded at Lavitz and he turned back to Dart)
Rose: Plus there's only seven of them -- what about the rest of the cast? They don't like doing this either.
Lloyd: Yeah, and I'm not gunna do the game without you all!!
Zieg: *on the floor* Yeah!! Me *hiccup* neither! What are we talkin bout?
Lloyd: I thought you passed out
Zieg: hehehehe...
Dart: Well, we'll work it out.
Leroy: Are you gunna answer me or just talk about us?
Dart: I'll make you a deal. *Ignores Leroy and turns to me* If you seven play our parts in the game then we'll get you outta here.
Nikole: If we do that, will we end up like you guys? *clinkles nose in disgust, especially at Hashel and Zieg* Please say no...
Me: Is that the only way we can get out?
Dart: *nods*
Me: How can I trust you? What if you decide to keep us here so you guys don't hafta play the game ever again?
Dart: You just gotta trust us.
(I finally had enough courage to stand up to the computer-generated characters)
Me: Nuh, uh. I need more than that. I need a magical spell or what have you that'll insure our escape from the game. *Death glare*
Lavitz: Damn, she's just like Rose!!
Rose: There's nothing wrong with that. *Death glare*
Lavitz: Gaah!! *Clutches his chest and falls down on the floor, laughing*
Rose: *kicks him* That's not funny.
Dart: Alright. Dragoons, c'mere.
My friends: Dragoons?....
(The seven who possesed Dragoon Spirits crowded around Dart and me. Meru pulled Hashel's hung-over body to the rest of the group while Lloyd, Lavitz, Miranda, and Zieg stood behind them, facing the five on the floor. Well, actually Zieg had finally gotten offa the floor and was frantically searching for more liquor; Miranda was cursing slightly louder at the gloating Shana; and Lavitz was drying his eyes from laughing so hard.)
Dart: *to me* Stick out your hand.
(I obeyed with caution. Dart immediately placed his hand on top of mine and the rest followed his lead. Kongol actually had to place his hand under mine, since his is strong and big enough to support the rest of our hands. They closed their eyes, even the hammered Hashel, and I felt a warm, tingly feeling go through my body. They then took their hands away)
Dart: There. You have a little of all the Dragoons' powers. You can't use it during the game but once you reach the end of the game, you can use it to escape from the game. Now I think it's time for you kids to go.
(He slapped my shoulder and immediately my six friends and I vanished in another flash of white light. Making sure that we were gone, the Dragoons plus Lloyd, Lavitz, Miranda, and Zieg returned to their business.)
Miranda: I'm gunna win back my Dragoon Spirit!!
Shana: Sorry honey, the DS's vanished with the kids *nan nan*
Miranda: Dammit!! *Muttering more profanties*
Albert: So what do we play now?
Hashel: *jumping on Rose's lap* Strip poker!!
Rose: *smacks Hashel onto the ground* Bastard
Disclaimer: I don't own Sony or LoD including its characters and plot
Prologue: One Fateful Summer Day.
(The scene: It's August of 2002, the summer between ninth and tenth grade. My family and I had just moved into a new house a month before and my friends would come over frequently and bother me.)
Me (Tina): *over the phone* Hello?
Ania: Hey we're coming over to bug ya, okay?
Me: Whatever. *Click*
(So my friends came over. The usual group came to visit me -- Ania [my best friend -- sometimes], Wesley [the evil ex-boyfriend], Nikole [best friend since kindergarten], Boberto, Timoty, and Leroy [friends from school] We got bored so we immediately went to my room where Nikole and Ania sat down to read our yearbook, Boberto and Timoty read my sister's manga comics, Leroy and I battled it out on Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, and Wesley sat in the corner being very quiet.)
Ania: I'm bored let's go do something
Me: I'm sorry you feel that way. *Curses Bob Burnquist for not landing his trick*
Wesley: *laughs*
Me: *death glare*
Ania: Let's go get something to eat.
(Half of us shook our head "no" because we're all poor. I grabbed the basket full of our video games and hand them back to Nikole without taking my eyes off the screen)
Me: Here. Pick out a game to play.
Ania: But I hate Playstation!
(Ania kept whining, but we ignored her. Nikole thumbed through the games and finally came to everyone's favorite game)
Nikole: How bout this? *Holds up the LoD case*
Me: Nah, it's only one player plus the plot is reeaally long and complicated. You guys wouldn't like it.
Boberto: Why doncha show us?
(I shrugged my shoulders in agreement. Ania rolled her eyes while I placed the first disk into the Playstation console. Before I could even sit back into my beanbag chair, a huge flash of light fulled the room. The next second, all seven of us vanished from the room! Hearing our screams of terror, my little sister pushed open the bedroom door to spy on us.)
Lisa: Tina?! What are you and your stupid friends doing now?
(She looked at the TV screen and saw the theme song for LoD playing on it. Cautiously, she sat down in the beanbag chair and took ahold of the vibrating controller. She moved the cursor down and hit the X button to begin a new game....)
~ ~ ~
(After the flash of white light disappears, the seven of us land painfully on our asses in a medieval-like inn, which I later realized to be the inn in Bale. It was empty except for a large group of strange-looking people playing cards at a table smack in the middle of the room and two old men drinking at the bar, laughing uncontrollably and scheming on a plantinum- haired girl with a hammer. My friends are confused beyond their minds yet I am intrigued. My friends groaned and rubbed their butts in pain while I stood up and walked closer to the table.)
Me: Oh my god, this is...[unfinished sentence -- classic LoD]
(I was interuppted by a high-pitched squeal of joy, which scarred the crap outta us)
Shana: HAH! Royal flush -- that beats your full house! Yeess!! Now gimme back my Dragoon Spirit, bitch!!
Miranda: *slaps the table* No! You musta cheated, you couldn't get a hand that good if your life depended on it! Dart, make her play fair!
Dart: It's not my problem.
Shana: Yeah, plus I'm not the one with magic -- well, not for long since I WON!! WHOOO!!! *Victory dance*
Miranda: Grrr...fine! *reluctantly gives Shana a silver orb and pouts*
Albert: Damn, I didn't know Shana could get like that.
Lavitz: Rose musta corrupted her
Rose: *smiles proudly*
Meru: Dart! You mind getting your daddy and granddad offa me and away from the liquor? *Inches further and further away from the drunk old men*
Hashel:*slurred speech* You can call me daddy *takes another shot*
Meru: *smacks his hand away from her...um...I'll let you use your imagination for that*
Dart: Not my problem either
(Now I'm about five feet away from the table starring at the poker players, facing Shana [still doing her victory dance], Miranda [still pouting and now muttering a string of profanities], and Dart [holding his head in his hands]. Albert turns his eyes towards me and gesters to Lavitz, sitting across the table from him. Lavitz smacks Dart's hand, forcing Dart to look up at me and my friends, who are still sitting dumbfounded on the ground.)
Dart: Can I....help you?
(I held my breath while Rose, Lloyd, and Kongol turned in their chairs to face us. Even Meru and the two drunkards [who I now recongize as Haschel and Zieg] stop to hear our response)
Me: Umm....I...well, I'm Tina and I...
Leroy: *boldly stands up and marches up next to me* Yeah, you can help us by telling us where the hell we are and how we can get the hell home!
(Leroy continued to stare angrily at the odd bunch while I nervously smiled at them. Dart rose from his seat and walked over toward the two of us. As he walked over, we could hear the metal of his sword clank against the metal of his armor. Leroy's glare and my smile quickly faded when Dart came face-to-face to us)
Dart: You're in the game of Legend of Dragoon, on the continent of Endiness.
Leroy: That doesn't tell me a thing!
Dart: Look kid, I don't even know how you got here, how am I supposed to know how to get you out? Obviously, we can't get out so what makes you think you can get out?
Ania: What do you mean we might not get out?!
Lloyd: *from the table* So they do talk...
Me: You know, you don't seem that threatening in the game *nervous chuckle*
(Dart whipped his head to face mine. He looked at me in a way that is hard to explain)
Dart: You've played this game before?
Me: Yeeaah....
(Suddenly Rose, Lavitz, Shana, Albert, Lloyd, Miranda, Kongol, and Meru stood up and walked slowly to where I was standing. Zieg and Hashel, however, are so hammered that they passed out on the bar about two minutes ago)
Dart: You're the one who plays this game the most, right?
Me: Maybe, this is actually my sister's game...
Ania: Hey!! What do you mean we can't get out?!
(Dart raised his hand to silence Ania and he was about to make a comment, but he was interuppted by a flashing, red light reminscent of a fire alarm)
All LoD characters (minus Zieg and Hashel): *groan*
(Zieg and Hashel finally come back to life and Rose snorts in disgust)
Lloyd: Dammit! I hate dying!!
Lavitz: *nods in agreement*
Zieg: I don't want that damn Melbu Frahma comin' inside me again *puts arm around Rose* but you can...
Rose: Tsk *pushes his arm offa her, causing Zieg to fall on the floor, passed out*
Hashel: Homo
Meru: What is this, the thousandth time we've had to do this damn game?!
Kongol: Strange children do it.
Timoty: What's up with your grammar, dude?
Dart: *strokes his chin, thinking* You know, that sounds like a good idea. I mean, this one is the principle user of the Playstation....
(My friends look at me strangely when Dart jerked his thumb in my direction)
Shana: But then she'd know the secrets of the game
Dart: No she won't, it'll work just like with us!
Lavitz: What about the rest of them? I bet they don't know a thing about this game -- or do you?
(That last question was directed to the group of five still sitting on the floor. They nodded at Lavitz and he turned back to Dart)
Rose: Plus there's only seven of them -- what about the rest of the cast? They don't like doing this either.
Lloyd: Yeah, and I'm not gunna do the game without you all!!
Zieg: *on the floor* Yeah!! Me *hiccup* neither! What are we talkin bout?
Lloyd: I thought you passed out
Zieg: hehehehe...
Dart: Well, we'll work it out.
Leroy: Are you gunna answer me or just talk about us?
Dart: I'll make you a deal. *Ignores Leroy and turns to me* If you seven play our parts in the game then we'll get you outta here.
Nikole: If we do that, will we end up like you guys? *clinkles nose in disgust, especially at Hashel and Zieg* Please say no...
Me: Is that the only way we can get out?
Dart: *nods*
Me: How can I trust you? What if you decide to keep us here so you guys don't hafta play the game ever again?
Dart: You just gotta trust us.
(I finally had enough courage to stand up to the computer-generated characters)
Me: Nuh, uh. I need more than that. I need a magical spell or what have you that'll insure our escape from the game. *Death glare*
Lavitz: Damn, she's just like Rose!!
Rose: There's nothing wrong with that. *Death glare*
Lavitz: Gaah!! *Clutches his chest and falls down on the floor, laughing*
Rose: *kicks him* That's not funny.
Dart: Alright. Dragoons, c'mere.
My friends: Dragoons?....
(The seven who possesed Dragoon Spirits crowded around Dart and me. Meru pulled Hashel's hung-over body to the rest of the group while Lloyd, Lavitz, Miranda, and Zieg stood behind them, facing the five on the floor. Well, actually Zieg had finally gotten offa the floor and was frantically searching for more liquor; Miranda was cursing slightly louder at the gloating Shana; and Lavitz was drying his eyes from laughing so hard.)
Dart: *to me* Stick out your hand.
(I obeyed with caution. Dart immediately placed his hand on top of mine and the rest followed his lead. Kongol actually had to place his hand under mine, since his is strong and big enough to support the rest of our hands. They closed their eyes, even the hammered Hashel, and I felt a warm, tingly feeling go through my body. They then took their hands away)
Dart: There. You have a little of all the Dragoons' powers. You can't use it during the game but once you reach the end of the game, you can use it to escape from the game. Now I think it's time for you kids to go.
(He slapped my shoulder and immediately my six friends and I vanished in another flash of white light. Making sure that we were gone, the Dragoons plus Lloyd, Lavitz, Miranda, and Zieg returned to their business.)
Miranda: I'm gunna win back my Dragoon Spirit!!
Shana: Sorry honey, the DS's vanished with the kids *nan nan*
Miranda: Dammit!! *Muttering more profanties*
Albert: So what do we play now?
Hashel: *jumping on Rose's lap* Strip poker!!
Rose: *smacks Hashel onto the ground* Bastard