Disclaimer: I do not own any characters related or the video game .hack. I own oc characters. Lumir (girl), Memory (girl), Heacura (girl), Sinai (girl), Hanu (girl), Meisa (girl), and Dishoru (boy).

Lumir x Balmung Memory x Kite Sinai x Kazu Hanu x Sanjuro Heacura x Elk Dishoru x Meisa

Login 20: Skeith...

"This is it..." Memory said as they all walked up to the chaos gate. "Yeah, this is going to be a tough battle but we all will get through it." Blackrose said calmly. "Now lets kick some ass!" Heacura jumped in the air. "..Jesus is she like the other Mistral here?" Kite thought. "Okay Heacura calm down." Lumir said pulling out a few virus cores. "Let's see..." Lumir began placing the virus cores in the missing spots until there was an unlocking noise. "Great! Now lets go!" Kite said as his bracelet and Lumir's mark began to glow. "Aura is waiting for us." Lumir said as the background changed appearance.

"Here we go." Kite said as he and Lumir held their hands into the air with the bracelet appearing. Everyone was suddenly transported to the area. It looked like a normal virus infected area but something was strange about it. "Helba can you hear me?" Dishoru asked. "Yes. In this area there are more than one virus here. Be alarmed as I am closing off this area to system administrators, hackers, npcs, and pcs." Helba said as she made the monitor flash twice.

Lumir gave Helba a thumbs up. "Thanks Helba." she said. "Lumir you and Kite must be aware of the possibilities of one of you falling into comatose. This is a hazardous risk to your data and your health." Helba said warning her. Kite nodded. "Yeah we understand." Kite said. "So grunties aren't allowed huh?" Lumir asked Balmung. "Supposedly not." he answered bluntly. "This sucks, well lets start out on foot then." Heacura said as she began walking towards the tower. "Wait-what if there are viruses outside the dungeon? We gotta run quickly." Memory said pulling out a speed charm. Everyone pulled one out and began running towards the dungeon.

Magic portals began to reveal viruses as the players ran past them in the direction of the tower. Right when they went through the enterance there was a split. "Crap. Which way?" Dishoru asked Lumir and Kite. "Hold on." Lumir used a fairy orb and the map showed where there were magic portals. "We got to take a right, that is the safest way but it's a longer path to the next floor." Lumir said. "Okay then. We will take that way." Memory said holding her staff. "This may be dangerous but we can't turn back now." Sinai said. The players then followed the safe way where they were trapped in the room with two magic portals. "Shit..." Kite mumbled. "Okay now we got to take out these monsters." Hanu planned. "And if there is a virus in one of the portals then what?" Dishoru cocked his head to the side."Then Kite and Lumir will handle it." Meisa said confirmed. "Okay so lets do this." Blackrose said approaching the magic portal. The magic portal revealed a hell doverman and three cerberus. Mistral approached the other magic portal. It revealed a golem and a goblin. This battle wouldn't take too long.

"Rue rom!" Mistral and Heacura preformed as water surrounded the hell doverman and three cerberuses. "Elemental hit!" Sinai cheered. "Come on Sinai lets cut these things up!" Hanu said as she attacked the dogs. "Sure!" Sinai grinned as she jumped on top of a cerberus. "I don't think riding these dogs is very helpful Sinai..." Lumir thought as she closed her eyes. "I'm going to connect to Aura you guys so keep the monsters away from me." Lumir said floating into the air. Balmung stayed beside Lumir. Blackrose then jumped in the air and slashed the goblin right down the middle with blood splattering the floor. "Hey this is fun!" Heacura said as she kept attacking the dogs. "As long as we can keep them busy Lumir will be able to reach Aura." Mistral said cheerfully. "Aura...?" Lumir thought.

"Yes...Lumir I am still here..." Aura answered.

"Where are you?"

"On the lowest floor of this dungeon, please hurry I can't keep running away."

"Yes okay we are coming."

Lumir landed on the ground with her feet and opened her eyes, "Aura is in trouble. Hurry this up." "Okay-" Heacura said turning to Lumir. Kite and Memory slashed the dogs until they finally died. Dishoru destroyed the Golem already. "Now lets get through this quickly." Lumir said running ahead. "Hey don't go by yourself Lumir." Balmung said running after her. "Damn..." Dishoru spat out following them with the others. As they left the first floor, the speed charm was wearing off slowly. "Everyone use their magic okay?" Lumir said. "Got it." Blackrose said. The second floor was a breeze with low level monsters being destroyed. There weren't any viruses in the dungeon so that was a relief. The third and fourth floor was a bit of trouble though, Mistral kept stopping for treasure boxes. As they finally reached the fifth floor and the chamber room. Everyone took a break replenishing their health and magic.

"Okay...we got everything full so..." Memory stammered on speaking as Lumir ran on ahead. "Not again!" Dishoru said following her as the rest of them entered the room, it lead to a strange fragmented area. "What the hell is this?" Dishoru asked. Aura then appeared in front of Lumir. "Lumir, you are here...unfortunately it is too late." Aura said with a frown. "What are you talking about? Skeith isn't here right now..." Lumir said. Kite approached Aura slowly. "Aura there is something I want to ask you." he said. Aura fell silent. "What the heck is going on?" Mistral said just when the monitor began to flash off and on. "Skeith has arrived..." Aura answered solemnly. Dishoru's eyes widened. "No way!" He said just when Skeith appeared. The monster pointed its pink scythe looking spear at Lumir and Kite and Aura. Aura began to float higher into the air while Skeith tossed the weapon in front of him with Aura placed on it. "What! Aura is going to get data drained!" Memory said in shock. "No!" Kite ordered as he yelled. Skeith ignored Kite's order and the bracelet appeared and shot beams at Aura. She then was formed into one pink sphere as she floated away until Skeith shot her again with the beams. She then separated into three small sphere and disappeared in different directions.

"She's gone!" Mistral said scared. Lumir collapsed breathing heavily, "Crap...my data is being affected. That bastard of a monster who put these people into a coma and now data drained Aura...I won't forgive him for this...!" Lumir stood up slowly with out anyone trying to help her. Lumir held her arm out to Skeith. "Come and try to kill me you freak!" she said. Skeith grabbed his weapon and pointed it at Lumir again. "Gah! Are you crazy Lumir?" Dishoru freaked. "I don't care-I want this thing dead!" Lumir floated in the air and held her hand out with a purple scythe looking spear placing in her hand. "She copied that monster's data!" Blackrose said amazed. "Yeah but I hope she can weild it." Heacura said cheerfully. Dishoru preformed Rai rom on Skeith causing him to be distracted. "Come on-help me fight it!" Dishoru pleaded just as Meisa preformed Juk rom. Blackrose, Sinai, Hanu, and Kite began fighting the monster with physical attacks but it seemd like that didn't work either. "How the hell is this guy so strong?" Blackrose asked panting. Mistral and Heacura focused on using scrolls.

Skeith then preformed data drained but he aimed at Memory. Memory just froze trying to move but she couldn't. "Memory get out of there!" Kite yelled. "I can't I'm sorry..." Memory thought as she closed her eyes realizing that she was the next victim. Right when Skeith used data drain; Lumir went right behind Memory and placed the tip of her weapon on Memory's back. Memory was only frozen but not deleted or dead. "Balmung you focus on healing." Lumir ordered. Balmung nodded, "Yes." Balmung then used an antidote and a potion-Memory was suddenly healed. "Whoa!" Memory smiled, "I'm not in a coma you guys-we can't fall into one because we are protected!" The others smiled then turned to Skeith everyone fought and healed until Skeith used a move that drained their health and magic. "Skeith!" Lumir said as she threw the spear into the monster's chest. "Now everyone break the barrier!" Lumir ordered. Everyone attacked Skeith once more while Lumir healed their health and magic. Finally the barrier broke, and Lumir landed on the ground, "Kite." "Yeah I know." Kite held out his arm along with Lumir and their bracelets appeared as they aimed it at Skeith. "Data drain!" The two called out which automatically blasted Skeith until he was no more than floating stone tablet pieces. "Okay Skeith isn't strong anymore now just kill it!" Lumir said.

"Yaaah!" Kite slashed Skeith's remains until they fell to the ground making crumbled thuds. Suddenly the screen flashed twice again as Skeith disappeared. A virus core floated in the air hovering above Kite's hat. "Hey is that a virus core?" Memory asked. Kite grabbed the virus core gently and looked at it. "Wow so Skeith was made of viruses too or is every monster like him has a special virus core." Kite said. "Yes, that must be it." Lumir said thinking. "Now that this battle is over what happens next?" Dishoru asked curiously. Mistral and Heacura jumped up in the air in excitement. "Are you kidding me! Come on you guys we still got to solve the mystery and fight monsters and viruses!" Heacura said with a wink. "Yeah, you're right." Meisa agreed. "There is more than that but lets all get started." she said. Lumir looked at the sky trying to reach Aura, "Well at least Aura is not completely gone...hopefully."

End of Vol. 1