Disclamer: I do not in any way shape or form own .hack or its characters.
Me: (starts to cry) Why must I be deprived of the .hack oh lord and master, Why? (squirrel pops up over his shoulder)
Foamy: because you're stupid.
Me: I'm out your cult now squirrel. (see A/N for explanation)
Notes: Ages- Tsukasa, Mimiru, Kite, BlackRose- around 16 or 17.
Sora, Crim, Silver Knight, Ouka- late 20's
BT, Sanjuro, Helba- Late 30's
Hotaru- around 7 or 8
This is my first fan fic ever written, so review with constructive criticism. FYI, constructive criticism is when you tell the person what they are doing wrong and how to fix it; not just telling a person that they suck and have make a bunch of mistakes.
Summary: An alternate universe where the game characters from dothack are not game characters, but real people. It is not part of a game, but reality itself. Tsukasa is a parentless child living in the city of Dun Loireag. After having an unusual field adventure will his classmates, his boring life starts to change, but will it be for better or worse?
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DotHack: Reality ch. 4
By: TsukasaTheFominian
Tsukasa, Kite, BlackRose and Mimiru all walk back through the dungeon not liking what awaits them at the end. The treasure that Sora had ordered them to get was lost, and Tsukasa and Mimiru didn't have the ability to warp back to town. The four of them all walk in deafening silence, each trying to find a way out to beat Sora, but each knowing that they don't stand a chance. The only plan that could work would be for Tsukasa to summon his Guardian, but he didn't want anyone to know about that unless necessary, so he doesn't even talk about that as an option for defeating one of the most powerful people in "The World."
They all finally reach the dungeon exit, but each one does not move one step forward, each too afraid of what will happen to the non-warping party members. After about three minutes of silence, Mimiru is finally able to choke out,
"W... well, we'd better just go and face what's coming to us."
She takes one step forward and everyone else follows slowly. The only plan that Tsukasa can come up with is just to talk to Sora and try to reason with him, but he seriously doubts that Sora would ever listen to a bunch of teens that lost his precious book.
As they all get outside, nobody appears and everything is silent. Tsukasa and Kite both scan the grassy field and look at the ruins, but there is nothing to be seen.
BlackRose is the first one to speak, "Did Sora just go away?"
"Not quite," Sora jumps from the dungeon entrance and lands in front of them. "So kiddies, were is my new treasure?"
Everyone simply stands rooted to the ground staring at anything but the threatening Twin Blade. Sora quickly gets impatient and asks again more forcefully, "Where Is It?!"
Tsukasa is the first one to get his voice back and tells the green haired Twin Blade the point blank truth. "It disappeared when we opened the chest, we have no clue what happened to it."
Sora stairs at the party for a minute and begins to laugh uncontrollably. The others stare at him as if he had gone mad while Sora regained his composure and was finally able to say, "That was a good joke, trying to trick me into believing you didn't get the item just so I'll let you go and let you take the item for yourself, right?" Sora finds everyone looking away from him unable to answer his question and quickly realizes that they were telling the truth.
"You mean to tell me that you LOST MY Got Statue Item?!"
"We didn't mean to lose it," Kite squeaks out. "It just disappeared in a flash of light and..."
Sora interrupts Kite with murder in his eyes, "HOW COULD YOU LOSE IT!!"
Everyone gets into a fighting stance seeing the look in Sora's eyes and becoming very afraid of it. Sora brings out his blades and charges while shouting "YOU IDIOTS." Tsukasa casts a speed spell on Kite, since he has the best chance of standing up against Sora because they are both Twin Blades. The two Twin Blades battle clash and Kite is able to withstand the first few blows, but he is quickly over powered by the older man's strength, speed, ability, and experience.
Kite is easily thrown to the ground and Sora moves in for a kill, but becomes distracted by the Heavy Blades as they rush to intercept him. Sora's speed and agility allows him to easily doge the attacks and let him strike at the two girls while they struggle to guard themselves. Mimiru and Black Rose both fall after blocking Sora's attack, but are easy prey to the green haired menace.
While this is going on, Tsukasa is frantically sending messages to every adult he could think of as well as trying to figure out how to defend against Sora. After seeing his party members fall he rushes over to them and immediately puts up a barrier to try and defends his companions. This works for a short while, but not for long since Tsukasa is already weary from the fruitless dungeon adventure. It doesn't take the thief too long to break through Tsukasa's shield, especially with a few high powered attacks, and the party is at his mercy. Sora seizes Tsukasa by the shirt and asks one again, "Where is my treasure?"
Tsukasa simply stairs into Sora's eyes, hating him for bringing the "unbeatable" Wave Master to his knees and ready to take his life. Like every thing else in his life, Tsukasa tells himself that he doesn't care about anything, including his own life. Arguing to himself that nothing good had ever happened in his life and nothing ever would be good. A crappy orphanage for a home, memories of his father that made his current life almost seem like paradise, powers that he would be kill for if the rulers of the world ever found out about, nothing every seemed to go his way.
"I have no clue where your treasure went, so just kill me and get it over with" he states in a lost and hopeless voice. Death seemed almost inviting compared to the life he currently lives. Almost. Some basic instinct within him still wanted to live, and that was enough incentive for the Guardian to appear.
Tears start to for in Mimiru's eyes when she hears Tsukasa ask for death, and shouts out as Sora moves in for the kill. She, along with everyone else in the field, are mystified when Sora is thrown back from Tsukasa and a huge, slimy, barbell like monster appears between them. Mimiru quickly gets up and runs to Tsukasa to see if he is ok, and is pleased to discover that there isn't as much as a cut on him.
"Does anyone know what that thing is? Black Rose asks. "I've never heard of a monster like this before in my life."
Tsukasa replies, "It's my Guardian..."
Everyone looks at him and tries to ask Tsukasa what he knows, but are interrupted when Sora charges for another attack. Sora was used to being the strongest in the land, and was only rivaled by Crim the Red Lightning, so he had no doubt he could defeat this new monster. To his dismay, he learned that such a task was not easy to accomplish. The monster was made of slime, and his attacks went right through the monster's body while it regenerated itself. The monster also was immune to any elemental abilities as well as power downs.
All but one of the onlookers were amazed by the fact that Sora was having a difficult time standing up to the strange beast. While Sora fought, Mimiru couldn't help but remember how the monster had come only when Tsukasa was in danger, and how the Wave Master had call it, "His Guardian." Mimiru easily put two and two together and was suddenly became extremely piss off at her friend.
"You could have summoned that thing at any time and yet we had to face that entire dungeon by ourselves?!!! Where you waiting for us to all die before you decided to play that handy little trump card or yours?!!!"
Tsukasa knew he had to explain himself and that he'd better do it quick before everyone surrounding him got angry enough to kill him. "I was hoping to keep it a secret so the Admins. would never find out and have grounds to get rid of me. I was going to summon it on the last level of the dungeon when it was just the two of us, but then Kite and Black Rose arrived and we didn't need the trump any more."
Black Rose was about to give him a piece of her mind when they heard the sounds of someone rushing toward them and found Sora charging them. He had finally gotten away from the Guardian long enough to make an advance on Tsukasa. Killing the summoner was just as good as killing the monster itself, so that was his best bet for getting out of the battle alive. He was about to take out Tsukasa when he learned that in addition to being invincible, the Guardian could also teleport to anywhere it wanted. It appeared in front of him sent out a tentacle strike to kill the threat to it's master, when it suddenly stopped for no reason, and mysteriously disappeared.
Everyone in the field stared at the empty space where the Guardian once was and the teens realized that there was now nothing between them and the thief. They stair at Sora while he still stares at nothing with a look on his face as if he is the one who is in trouble, fear dominating his eyes. He only says one word while he is detached, "Helba..."
Immediately after saying that one word a dozen swordsmen warp in at once, all wearing red, all armored, all wearing identical skull helmets, all with swords, and all ready to attack. Only two of the twelve were different, one wearing a horned helmet, and one wearing red pants, a red vest over chain mail and carried a spear instead of a sword. The horned leader steps forward and announces to all in the area, "I Silver Knight of the Crimson Knights, here by place the outlaw know as Sora, under arrest."
Tsukasa was slightly worried about the fact that the Knights were here, not because they had protection from Sora, but because if they had arrived just a minute earlier they would have seen the Guardian and would have been able to trace it's connection back to him. Then he would have been found out and he would have been in the same situation as Sora. 'It was a good thing that the Guardian had left when it did... but the Guardian has never left by itself in the past, I wonder why it happened now.' Tsukasa then remembered what Sora had last said, "Helba" sounded like a name. 'Maybe it wasn't luck that it left at all...'
While Tsukasa thought, the others cheered as the Knights fought against Sora. The second leader of the Knights, Crim, had stayed to watch over them as the his companions tried to deal with Sora. The Knights were having a difficult time detaining the criminal since he was so quick and powerful. Normally, Sora could easily have taken out these Knights without breaking a sweat, but his bout with the Guardian had taken a lot out of him and he knew when to cut his loses. He dodged a few more attacks from his opponents and jumped onto a large boulder and pulled out a special Spite Ocarina, one pained red instead of the normal white. He then gave Crim a small smirk before warping out of the barrier that the Knights had set up around the field.
Everyone stared at the spot where Sora had stood, only two were not surprised by the fact that Sora had gotten away; Crim, who knew Sora could escape from a sealed field, and Tsukasa who had toyed with modifying Sprite Ocarinas and had discovered that they could be advanced in such a way, and all his Super Ocarinas had turned a red color as well.
While Silver Knight started barking orders to look in the surrounding area for the bandit, Crim looked after the children. "Are any of you seriously hurt?"
Kite was the first one to give him an answer, "Mimiru is the one who needs a healer right away, the rest of us only have some bumps and scrapes."
"That's good, I'll take you back to town, see about a healer, and then you'll have to answer a few questions.
(Elsewhere)
Sora walked down the streets of a very run down neighborhood, a place where there were no trees, the ground was red, and everything seemed broken or fragmented. Many of the buildings were made up of what seemed to be pieces of other buildings or even items. Children played in the streets while parents and adults watched them or went about their daily chores to keep the paradise alive and thriving. Many on the outside would wonder why someone would call a ghetto like town a paradise, but Net Slum was the only safe haven for those with un-natural abilities, un-natural powers, or were mutants. Everyone was accepted there as long as they were open minded and willing to work for a living. Sora quickly proceeded to the largest house in Net Slum, and entered and was immediately tackled by a small girl carrying a baby Grunty. "I'm so glad that your back Papa!"
Sora only smiled gently and hugs the girl back, "I'm happy to see you too Hotaru, is your mentor in?"
Another voice answers his question, "She is upstairs waiting for you. I can't believe you failed at just retreating a simple item from a Got Statue."
"I don't need you telling me what I didn't do Ouka" Sora growls back at the werewolf.
Sora
sets Hotaru down and sends her off to play while he goes up to face
Helba, the
Queen of the Dark. He finds her sitting in the middle
of a room with her eyes closed. "I'm truly sorry that I have
failed you my Queen, I was not able to retrieve the item from those
children. I promise you I will get it back."
"If you had gone in to get the item yourself, this would not have happened. Do not trouble yourself over this, you can not regain the item now."
"What!?"
Helba only looks at the lazy thief with a small amount of amusement before continuing. "I was monitoring you during everything that happened. Kite is now in possession of the item, but he doesn't even realize this yet. It is now bonded to him and will not leave him. One good thing that came out of this is that we found another powerful Wave Master who may be willing to join us one day. We will most likely need both Kite and Tsukasa to face the danger that is approaching 'The World.'"
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A/N: First off, the whole squirrel thing is from my favorite online cartoon at It is about a small talking squirrel with a bad temper and a foul mouth. He is the self proclamed Lord and Master of his cult and loved by many. Watch if you want. (A Fominian is one who is a minion of Foamy... hits himself several times I cant believe I even misspelled my own Pen Name!! crys I SUCK AT WRITING!I really did just realize I misspelled my own pen name by writing "minian")
Second, No Hotaru is not really Sora's daughter. She was adopted by Sora. I plan on explaining all the adoption stuff in one or two chapters, so just wait until then. I actually didn't plan on adding any .hackLegend characters (i dont like that one as much as i do .hacksign) but I think Ouka is kool and Hotaru is cute.
Special thanks to the-dragon-of-darkness-17 for constant reviews and suggestions. (hugs the-dragon-of-darkness-17) THANK YOU!!
