Hello everyone. This .hack fanfiction his based on a BESM game I've done with my friends. BESM is a table roleplaying game by the way. The setting of the game was in the .hack world, six months after the ends of the .hack games but before .hack/Dusk(Legend of the Twilight Bracelet). Hope you'll like it!

Chapter 1: First Encounters
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"Happy birthday Reiko! Happy birthday Reiko! Happy birthday, happy birthday. Happy birthday Reiko!"

It was a beautiful sunny day outside. A wonderful October 22nd. Even more beautiful for Reiko Combatir since it was her tenth anniversary. All her family was there, well, all her family except her godfather who had to work this day. Nothing new she knew he haven't forgot about her. He will come see her tomorrow or the day after when his job will give him free time. After all, being one of the lead administrator of TheWorld sure was a demanding job.

She looked around the kitchen. Everyone here seemed to enjoy being here, with her, to celebrate this happy day. Even her good-for-nothing brother was doing something today for a change. He was sure a lazy person for Reiko. He was 21, had dumped the school after year eleven and was now living in the house of his parents, playing at mmorpgs. The way he was getting the money to play them was a total mystery since he had no job.

"Hey Reiko, time for the gifts" said the voice of her mother. "After, it will be the cake." The cheers of all the young aged children could be heard after her mother phrase. Lots of toys, books and plushes could be found in most of the packing she opened, until her godfather's gift comes. It was two identical boxes. In the wish card, there was fifty dollars and the message was: "Now, I think you're old enough to appreciate the work that I do". Intrigued, she opened one of the boxes. Her eyes opened as big as dinner plates when she saw what was inside. It was the all-new version of TheWorld, with the headgear and all. There was also a one-year of free play card inside. One the other box, it was written: "Give this to someone you want to play with". "Brother, open this" she said, giving him the box. She spent the rest of the day with her friends and family. Anyway, tomorrow was Sunday, so she'll have all the time to try it.

That next day comes. Getting up at noon she spend two hours to read the instruction booklet with her brother. After that, they start to wonder which class they'll so it was five o'clock when they finally finished to go throw Internet forums and FAQ and started to create their character. Reiko entered all her information until the character summary sheet appears:

Name: Presea
Sex: Female
Class: HeavyAxeman
Appearance: The picture was showing a small girl with pink hair, dressed in a dark blue one piece that finished like a skirt at her knees. She had a brown belt and gray boots and gauntlets of the same color.

Her brother arrived at this result:

Name: Redlighter
Sex: Male
Class: LongArm
Appearance: The picture was showing tall and well built man. He had spiky flashy red hair and his shirt and pants was of a darker red.

With their characters created, they log in the game for the first time.
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In another house, a twelve years old boy finished a work on which he was for a long time. Despite of his young age, he was a genius programmer and hacker, one of the best in the world to be said. He grins, seeing that all was working perfectly. AltLimit was the only operating system on which the game called TheWorld was working. Well, not a big deal since nearly all computers of the planet was running on AltLimit. But, the boy was a militant of the freeware. He was one of the only who was using Linux as an operating system. And now, after two weeks of hard time, he managed to get the game working on Linux. Even better, he had no need to pay for playing. Grinning, he made his character:

Name: Kain
Sex: Male
Class: WaveMaster
Appearance: The picture was displaying a small young man with blond hair. He had a little gray T-shirt with forest shorts.

Simple design, like he liked. But he had something that no other character had. Inside his hacked version of TheWorld, he inserted special abilities he designed itself for his character. Loging in, he saw two totally new characters right next to him. Since they surely created their character only seconds ago, they haven't already moved so their tree character was nearly on over each other's.
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More in the north, where there is always snow and never rain, Joris installed his copy of TheWorld that he just received by the mail. He ordered it three weeks ago, and it was finally here. Knowing what he wanted to do from a long time, his character creation have been quick:

Name: Xao
Sex: Male
Class: EagleEye
Appearance: The picture was displaying a Matrix style character. All dressed in black with sunglasses. Really stylish.

He chose one of the two new classes that came with the new version, EagleEye and WildHand. EagleEye was the ranged class. Specialist in bow and crossbow, they was the ones that attack from the back. WildHand was martial arts specialists that use their hands as weapons. When he logged, he feel his character pushed aside a bit. He look and founded why, there had already three people there. It seem that the four of them have nearly created their character at the same.
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Somewhere else, Yannick enters in his house with his brand new copy of TheWorld. He had save money for some time so he would be able to buy the game and pay it for few months. After it, if he likes it, his mom will pay the cost for him and his sister. But today, it was under the envious regard of his little sister that he created his character:

Name: Katros
Sex: Male
Class: BladeMaster
Appearance: The picture was showing a normal shape man with brown-red hair. His clothes were all of a dark purple and was constituted of a shirt and pants. He had a wrap of the same color and where the collar of the wrap was, two pieces of clothes go down on his shoulders. He had light-purple fingerless gloves and a double belt of the same color.

When he log in the game, he found himself facing the wall of Mac Anu, since there was already a lot of people in the starting area.

"Talk about a way to start the game." He turns around and saw the four people. This had caused the glitch.

Presea looks and saw the four people around her. "Which one of us is my brother?"

"Me", Redlighter answered.

Excited, she looks at the three other guys: "Hey seem we create our character at the same time. Awesome! Whats your name? Whats your name?" she asked energetically.

"Kratos", "Xao", "None of your business"

"Noneofyourbusiness? Pretty weird for a character name no?" she said hearing Kain's answer.

"You could be more polite to my sister since its her birthday" Redlighter said, a bit angry.

"Its your birthday, little lady?" Xao asked to confirm. "What's your name?"

"Presea." She answered happily.

Without warning, Xao starts to sing "Happy birthday Presea". Got by surprise, Redlighter tried to follow, but with some retard on Xao's song. Not really knowing why, Kratos decided to follow the wave and sing to. All this was a bit cacophonic but made Presea really happy. Of course, Kain haven't emitted a sound, except a little sigh when they finished singing.

Xao heard Kain sigh and really doesn't appreciate it.

"Hey, you could put some efforts in having no? By the way, wats is your name".

"That's not of…"

"my business" he cut Kain's sentence. "Well, unfortunately for you, I want to know. This gamme allow PvP fight right? Lets do one. If I win, you'll have to give us your name and if you won…"

"you'll stop harassing me for useless things" he said, cutting the sentence too. "I dunno my character special ability. Lets teach him a lesson", he thought.

Xao ready his bow and jump backward get to a safe distant of Kain. But Kain wasn't planning it that way. He put his hand in front of him and lighting bolt goes out its hand, striking Xao right in the stomach. Xao have been thrown to the wall by the shock, but got back on his feet right away. "This is bad, he doesn't seem to have received any damage. Have I made a mistake?" "Magic Arrow" Xao yelled, using his base weapon special attack. The arrow hit Kain, taking away half of his life point. Xao shot another one. Kain tried to dodge but failed. His life point being reduced to zero, he got back at his last save point. Since he haven't saved, the got sent back at the starting place, next to the others.

"All that because of a little mistake in my program. I should have won. Oh well, guess I'll have to tell them my name finally. Big deal" Kain look at Xao: "My name is Kain. Happy now?"

"Pretty good fight for newbies" an unknown girl voice said. All the five turn around to see from whom the comment comes. It was coming from an HeavyBlade. The girl had a pretty taned skin with yellow mars on it. She had brown hair and was dressed with a red little top and a red and black armoured skirt. She had also gray spiky elbow pads and red armoured arm protection. Behind her, there was a white haired WaveMaster dressed in a very pale yellow and brown outfit.

"Want to come level with us? I'm going to train Tsukassa in a low level field since she's only level three. Want to join us? Since the new patch, I can't be in the same party with you because I'll cut out your experience. But I'll make sure you don't die and will kill the others if they aggro on you. Who will be the leader?" the girl asked. "I'm Mimiru by the way. Lets exchange our member addresses if you accept."

Everyone give his or her member address to everyone, except Kain that refuse to give it, even when Presea asked, jumping around him, saying "Give it please, give it please". Tsukassa haven't spoke a lot during the member address giving, none at all to be more precise. "Kain, you'll have to give it to Xao since he will be the party leader. You wont been able to come if you don't." Mimiru said. He gives his member address to Xao with a sigh. "Lets head to Bursting-Forbidden-Sea of Sand" she said, telling the keywords to the Chaos Gate. When they enters, they saw a circle of then goblin around a unconscious girl player and a guy who really seemed to have no idea how to fight with a sword. "Lets help them" Mimiru said, unsheathing her sword, running to the monsters. That was a pretty easy fight and after the last goblin disappeared, Xao goes to see the girl. Mimiru made a surprised sound. The girl had blue cat ears, something impossible for a player character.
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So, how was it? Liked it? Hated it? Whatever which one, review it hehe.

Chapter 2: Cathie coming soon
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