.Hack/Embracing
(Author's Note: This is being written before playing Quarantine... The main characters belong to the great team behind Project .hack, only the charcters Freiline, and Sophie are mine)
Chapter 2 - An Adventure Ensues
"Please, do not be frightened," Aura called out to the five people in the cathedral. "There is nothing here in my place that will harm you, but there is something you must do, since you are the first ones in quite a while to visit me here.
"She talks?" Tsukasa asked. "All the time I spent with her, she ws asleep for it all. Does all this have to do with the key of the twilight? That so called legend I heard so much about?
"The key of twilight," Kite asked. "But, what about the book of daylight I received after using the book of twilight?
"The twilight only receeded for a short while," Aura explained, "and now it is ever increasingly pushing the boundaries of The World into new areas. It will be up to you two," and she pointed at Freiline and Sophie, "to make sure that the twilight doesn't threaten other players as it has in the past.
"Why us," Sophie and Freiline asked in unison.
"We just started here," Sophie said. "We don't want to have an adventure right now!
"I hate to tell you this," Blackrose motioned towards Freiline and Sophie, "but when Aura asks you to do something, nothing you can say or do can get you out of it. It took Kite, and I, along with several other players a while to clear out the Wave. We became legends in The World. We became the dot Hackers.
"We're scared," Freiline said, in a very quiet voice.
"So were we when we started," Kite told them. "I myself had second thoughts about what we were doing many times. And when one of my friends became part of the wave, both Elk and myself were terrified, but we had to do what we had to do!
"You must embrace both Morganna, and Harold," Aura continued. "Only then will the twilight recede, and then hopefully it will be contained.
"We can't do that," Tsukasa exclaimed. "Morgana wants to destroy me, and Harold, well, I don't think he is going to be embracing anyone, since when he speaks, he repeats everything he says.
"That is why the two new players with you three must embrace them.
"Is there any way we can help them?" Blackrose asked.
"The only help you can give them is to shield them from the darkness within," Aura told them, and then melted in to thin air.
"What did she mean by the darkness within?" Sophie asked.
"She might mean that somebody you meet on your journey might try and hurt you for their own gain," Kite answered, as Blackrose pondered what Aura had said.
"But, who could it be? There are so many people in The World at any time," Tsukasa said.
"I can only think of one person," Blackrose murmered. "Lios!"
"He helped us beat the wave, and he helped make sure the people that dropped into comas returned," Kite retorted. "After all, there's one of the coma victims with us! Kazu came back, so did Orca, and if I remember right, so did Tsukasa!
"Why are you defending that pig head?" Blackrose yelled angrily. "Remember, he tried to delete your character several times, and tried deleting me as well! He also blocked us from helping Orca and Kazu a few times, didn't he?
"I think this is what she meant about the darkness within," Tsukasa said quietly to himself, and then left.