.hack/Morganna's End rewrite
Chapter 7
Fun and games had their day yesterday, but the needed goal was to be finished. Everyone had a day to let their fancies be met. Now they sat in a meeting room, all except Tania and whoever was guarding her. A few could not make the meeting, and it would be summarized to everyone who it was concerned with the matter. She was sitting down, her meeting room full of people that were either there through the need to be there, or concerned with the current state of the game. "Helba, what is our next move?" Mariko said in an almost subtle tone. The heavy axeman's player looked almost different, considering the blue hair was not the only thing familiar with her character model. She was moving from her wheelchair to a comfortable chair.
"I'm still quite hesitant on what our next move will be. As far as I know, Morganna will keep this up. That leaves the option of killing her, which would kill the game and fracture the original code, or..." Her eyes looked to the data files that she had not allowed them to see. The incidents they didn't really know about, the ones she never needed them to see. "Disabling."
"What is disabling? I do not believe I've heard of this." Wiseman's player nodded, the teen nodded for an answer. His eyes looked at Helba expectantly.
"It would take away her will. This would require Tania's power. However, this has only managed to work for a few years. This has not cut down on the incidents."
"Would there be another way to supposedly get a desired result?"
"There is...the possibility of actually capturing Morganna while her will is disabled."
"You sound hesitant."
"All these options contain Tania in the equation. She is the one with the Twilight Amulet, the only one who can do any of this plan." Kureno turned towards Helba's worried face, he could see some sort of doubt in the hackers mind. The woman's face was almost not at all like her avatar's at this moment.
"Is she going to go along with it?" The teen asked, almost as if afraid to say anything to her.
"I do not know, with what she has been through, she would choose death."
"I could help her go through with it."
"It's not that I doubt that Kureno, it's just been so long. Four comas, incidents and abductions in the thousands...I do not know if she will allow that chance." The meeting continued, allowing the information that had not been known to be revealed.
Tania's Apartment
Eyes stared at the book in front of her, in it contained the poem that contained her role. The second Epitaph of Twilight.
The Epitaph of Twilight 2
This cursed wave was no more,
At last, at last,
And the shadowed one's powers were dwarfed,
A signature of light was doth forged into this world,
But sadly,
The sky blackens,
The Temple of Arche Kolen burns,
The wife, subdued many times,
Doth rose again,
The chosen one fights on,
Dark prince, did break the barrier,
Two worlds intertwined,
One fate, one sky,
All light fades,
And with the coming of the Apocalypse,
The darkness within doth grow stronger,
Queen of Dark and King of Light unite,
Only to fail in the wife's presence,
Two world's forever intertwined,
Three heroes of it,
One fate.
The wife brews her evil poison,
To call on the darkness within,
The dark prince fades for the chosen one,
Sacrifices his life for another,
The wife,
Now enraged, creates a monster,
One with one duty only,
She takes the darkness from the fallen one,
And with this darkness spins a beast,
The fortune teller speaks of a catastrophy,
One that will leave this world in ruins,
And cast a shadow upon its people forever,
Three heroes shall doth rise,
One will recite these words,
One sky, one fate,
The monster prepares,
At dawn it strikes.
Cursed, this monster was,
With the one who lied within it,
Close eyes,
Pure heart,
Unfair, it was,
The torture bestowed on the dark prince,
Once the hero,
Now fading in the dark,
Did not wish to attack the prince,
The chosen girl thought,
Two worlds entwined,
One's life left behind,
The light doth fought,
But in the end was caught,
The only way,
The light was given,
To recite these words.
Quiet world,
A world without light,
Without hope,
Why must this catastrophe occur?
The people ponder in silence,
Then the beast,
The beast will rise,
Bearing fresh in it's mind,
The mission is to be known,
Awaited for the daybreak,
Those warriors did,
When the sun rises,
They strike,
Let it be known,
Oh, let it be known,
We, are the key to the world's salvation,
She is the one,
The only one,
The beast knows its task,
The fulfill the darkness within,
She must...
She must chant these words,
To stop the beast.
In the end,
The light will die,
But the darkness will reawaken it,
Balance shall be restored,
The chosen one chants the words:
Will I suffer for eternity?
Balance comes,
Yet the task is not finished.