Hello again! Chapter two is up now, and I hope I get some reviews now -.-;
Again, Bandai owns .hack/ (except my characters - I do own them) and this story cannot be copied or rewritten without my permission.
They came, as I knew they would...
Like mosquitoes to blood...
And mosquitoes must be swatted.
The hand has been dealt...
And it looks like I have all the aces.
"No Rewt! No! ... I said no now c'mon!" Tei was shouting at Rewt, who was running around trying to take up the last person in other people's parties, so he could get more rare items.
"Aw, you're no fun." Rewt sulked back to the group.
In the area, people were separated so you could tell who's in a party and who's still looking. Rewt, somehow, managed to plant himself in between.
Monty examined the area. It looked like a castle courtyard, a very large courtyard. The walls of the castle surrounding them were black, the color of coal. The sky was a red, sunset type of hue.
"Monty! Hey are you def! Let's go! The NPC is explaining it over there!" Tei, Rewt, and Kane were already off to the NPC, leaving Monty to catch up.
Tei now was in wolf form, in anticipation for the event. Rewt was noticing how old and used his rare Hoop staff +1 was getting and thought about putting it in storage in favor of some prize from the event. Kane was picking flowers and wrapping them around his lance. Kane was actually a girl, and took over her brother's old character after he abandoned it for a new one. Monty and Tei met Kane the first day she took on the character.
Monty listened to the NPC's instructions: "Welcome to the Castle Capers event! Here teams of four adventurers will enter the castle behind me, and solve a series of puzzles to reach the goal before other teams. All levels of party members will be restricted to level five. you can also team up with another party to solve some puzzles. The event starts in 4 minutes and 36 seconds. Welcome to the Castle..."
Rewt was daydreaming about what kind of prizes awaited them at the end of the event.
"C'mon guys let's get to the entrance to claim a spot!" Tei was already hopping through the crowd and occasionally bumping people. Monty, Rewt, and Kane quickly followed after her into the crowd.
When they arrived at the castle entrance, there were many groups getting good vantage spots as expected, but most were complaining and moaning and some swearing.
The four friends assembled together and pushed their way through the throng of people to see what was going on. At the front of the entrance sat a large Heavy Axeman in full armor on a grunty, purposefully blocking the entrance to the castle.
Kane asked a person from another group "what's going on? Is this part of the event?" The stranger answered in angry tones "no, some stupid person paid this guy to block the door to the castle, and no one can get a response from him. We can't fight him on account of the grunty he's on. It's strange, all other events I've been to had a system administrator to watch out for exactly this kind of thing..." He went back into his group's conversation.
The rest of the group had asked around or emailed and gotten the same conclusion.
Tei sighed. "What can we do? The person has even got up away from the keyboard to prevent any attempts at bribery..."
Rewt gave a small smile. "We'll just have to find... a different... way into the castle." Everyone look at him. Their expression urged him to explain more. Rewt gave a small chuckle and motioned for them to follow him away from the other groups.
They went to a corner of the courtyard near the castle. Rewt explained "this is THE WORLD right? All kinds of interactive elements? Just look up high at the castle..." Everyone looked to where Rewt was pointing. Higher up, on the second floor, there were three stain glass windows. Monty gave Rewt a defeated look. "There's no way we can get up there, even if they could be broke..."
Rewt giggled to himself. "Actually, I think we can get up there. I have a friend who can help us." Tei gave a frightened look. "You mean a hacker!" "Shhhh! Though he prefers to be called a 'data arranger,' yes." Tei looked around nervously "Do you know what the administration will do if we get caught working with someone like that! They'll delete our characters and band our accounts!" "I'm fully aware of the consequences. But, if you haven't' noticed, there are no admin anywhere here."
Suddenly someone arrived from the chaos gate, but they could not be seen. The familiar gold lines appeared, but no one was there. Everyone ignored it. Except Rewt. As they waited for Rewt to go on, a voice seemingly came out of nowhere, "Hi! Sorry I'm late. Had to again weave around the band they put on me. Heh, they should make those things more sturdy." All of the group but Rewt looked for the owner of the voice, and beside Rewt popped a new person.
What appeared wasn't a regular character though. It looked like a black head with the only feature being two yellow glowing eyes under a hat that resembled a witch's hat. Except the hat was made up of computer boards, chips placed here and there. One cable dangled from under the rim holding a keyboard suspended in the air. The body was a sweeping light green cloak, covered in 0's and 1's. It seemed to float and had no distinguishable feet.
"Guys, this is l33t m493 (Leet Mage). He's going to get us into that castle." Rewt was aglow with the pride of knowing someone of this high caliber. The rest of the group introduced themselves and made sure they weren't drawing anyone else's attention.
Author's Endnote: Sorry for the long wait for those of you reading it -.-; This one is a lot better written I think, and I'm going to eventually rewrite chapter 1 (it's a piece of crap -.-;;;). Please review! Thank you! -/
