The Cosplayers of Ratatosk

Hey everyone! Welcome to another fic. First things first: this is based on of tales of Cosplay by nightfoot. The story is absolutely amazing, and I'm sure you'll love it. This story is based off of it and ToS dawn of the new world. The oc's involved are not self inserts, and I will not be using any SI's. This story will only take place a couple of weeks on earth after ToC, but it'll be before the blood purge in dotnw. Naturally, there will be spoilers, and if you want to avoid them you should stop right now.

important! For those who are impatient, this story will most likely have a very long update time. I've got a very busy life, and don't write that often. And while reviews are nice, this will probably be a story that will take a long time to complete.

Also, I don't own tos or tos dotnw, and the idea for this story came from nightfoot.

Enjoy!

Chapter one: another start, another story

Lauren Alreid was tired of waiting. I swear, she ranted to herself, if he takes any longer I'm gonna smack him so hard he'll be wishing he never even thought of this stupid idea. I can't believe he roped me into this! Argh, I've gotta stop listening to all of his dumb plans. Why do I keep listening to him? Not to mention, no one here even cares where I go! Her mom and dad were in the living room, doing what they always did on a saturday night: playing Monopoly. They were nice people, just she couldn't help but feel that they were a bit loopy sometimes.

A honk of a car horn could be heard outside the door. Still grumbling to herself, she grabbed her coat and gloves and pulled on her tall combat boots. She was wearing a short white dress with a brown underskirt, and had a small brown scarf around her neck. Her long maple coloured hair was tied into pigtails and she was wearing two white clips in her hair. Running out to the car, she hopped in and slammed the door.

"Geeze, lighten up! It was only a couple minutes!"

"Shut it Aaron, I'm still angry. And you're always late. Would it kill you to be on time for once?" She glared at her black-haired companion. As angry as she was, she had to admit he looked good. He looked almost too well dressed(which was an unexpected change), looking good in his purple trimmed black suit, black gloves, and black pants and shoes.

"Anyways, where are we going this time? And this better not be a dead lead, or I'll make you regret it..." Lauren was getting fed up with his wild goose chases on so-called crop circles and ghost sightings. All she wanted was a good, solid story for the school paper, even if the column they wrote for didn't make much sense. The school had a strange reason for wanting an out of this world!(ootw) column in their paper, and seeing as they were the only two who even cared enough to even try out for it, it wasn't that big of a hit. The last big story was when those two students disappeared from the local anime convention. Ellie and Will, she remembered. Aaron was a huge nerd, and he loved anything out of the ordinary. This was the last straw for her though. Anymore failed stories and she was done with the paper, and by association, him.

"So anyways, gimme the rundown"

"Do you remember the case about Will and Ellie?"

"Of course. Why?"

"I've gotten a tip from someone around the area about then. apparently, on the night before Ellie was filed in as missing, there was some pretty crazy stuff sighted in the orchard owned by Mr. Reedley,"

"That old guy? Isn't he the one that went on some ridiculous contemporary art kick and made a bunch of really weird statue things?"

"Yup. The one and only. Anyways, apparently, on the night people saw angels, and a bunch of people flew up and there were flashing lights and everything! Just like in a video game. And you know what? apparently, the looked like they were straight from Tales of Symphonia."

" Aaron, why the hell do you actually think this is true? they could've just been cosplayers, what with the convention going on." 'And besides,just how high would your informants have to be, anyways?' Lauren sighed.

"Because Laur, think of the opportunities! If this is right, just imagine the possibilities! Who knows, maybe we'll even get to meet someone from the game! Ah man, that would rock!"

Lauren sighed. She knew no amount of reasoning would get through Aaron's head when he got like this.

"I knew that I never should've bought you that game for your birthday."

"Hey, I bought the first one. And we both know you were the one who wanted to get the second game just because Johnny Young Bosch voiced the main character.

"Don't dis JYB. He knows karate. He wasn't the black power ranger for nothing. Or Vash the stampede. Or Guy. Or Lelouch. Or-"

Cutting her off before she could continue on, Aaron simply said "look, we both know you fangirl over anyone with a good VA, but it was you who wanted the game."

"You can be quiet now,Aaron James Brighton, or I'll make sure you never have kids."

Unfazed despite the impending beating from his friend(?), Aaron continued on. "Anyways, we're gonna sneak into the orchard and find the area of those sightings."

"Aaron, first off, you're completely insane. Second, we're gonna get arrested!"

"Oh, suck it up. We're here." getting out of the car, Lauren finally realized something.

"Wait a minute. Why did we get all dressed up if we're just going to sneak around an orchard?" Not missing a beat, Aaron responded "well, you know how I asked you to come to that convention with me and you were all like, 'no way! I'm not going there!'" He mimicked," So this is my master revenge plan! You're now on an unofficial date with me!"

"WHAT!?"

"Seeing as I'm wearing what I was going to wear to the convention, I'm actually rather surprised that you didn't guess."

"I'm. Going. To. Kill. You."

"Shh. I think we're close."

Aaron darted behind a tree. Following after him, Lauren whispered,

"look. Over there. Whats that?"

Drawing closer, they saw some a rune like structure. It consisted of three big stone pillars, and it looked just like something vaguely familiar from a certain game...

"the otherworldly gate!" Aaron gasped "It's remarkable-It looks just like it! This must be what that story was about!" Rushing forwards, he ran around the 'ruins' spouting so much nonsense that if Raine could've heard him, she would have been proud. Rambling on, he inspected every inch of the structure, fascinated by its similarities to the game. Ignoring her growing feelings of doubt, Lauren walked forwards into the circle.

"Look, we should get out of here. I'm getting a bad feeling about thi-" suddenly cut of by a large shaking, she looked around desperately. Aaron was right in the middle of the circle, seemingly unaware of what was happening. She tried to get him to come over to the side of the little clearing,but he wouldn't listen. A strange look had come over him, his eyes blank as though possessed. Lauren tried to run over to him, but it was as if her feet were cemented into the ground. It was all she could do to stumble over to him. After what seemed like hours, she finally caught up, but they were out of luck. The shaking stopped, there was a flash of light,and a giant black hole opened up right underneath them. As they fell, all Lauren could think to do was let out one last call when falling to what was apparently going to be her death, "Why meeeeeeeee!", yelling loudly while falling into an endless abyss, Aaron in a daze behind her.

There we go, the first chapter all right and done! Also, I know It's really short. I'll try to make them longer. Sorry if I got any facts wrong from the ToC storyline wrong, i'm not perfect ;P Also, I know I have terrible spelling, so if you find something spelled so atrociously it makes your eyes bleed, please let me know. I would like to be able to keep the eye-bleeding to a minimum.^-^ Anyways, the real story's gonna start soon. Hooray, this is probably gonna get confusing :'l .

I'm also going to do a shameless plug for one of my favourite stories. It's in a slight AU a format, and it's called Everlasting hope: spirits and demons by UK-underworld king. It's a really good story, but unfortunately it's not completed yet. However, it is being updated. Oh yeah, and about that illusion magic the wonder chef cast, it only kept people from entering, but they could still see the stuff going on. At least that's how I understood it. Also, I'm pretty sure he took it down after the fact. And if not, let me know. I probably won't change it,because then I'd have to re-write this chapter, but at least I'll know for next time. :)

So, please review and constructive criticism is always helpful! I have free internet cookies for anyone who reviews.

See ya later!