.hack/FRAGMENT
Saya
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version 23.0
Memories of Aura
new topic posted 8.11.06
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I'm sorry for the shortness of this update. There's a reason for this, you see, and it has nothing to do with laziness. I am not lazy. I saw that! Some of you rolled your eyes, some of you chuckled. I'm being serious, I'm not lazy…I'm just unmotivated. And I'm not a procrastinator, because I know that you're all thinking it. I plan for the fact that I'll be doing everything last minute, procrastinators do not plan.
Anyway, back to the miniscule update. Like I said, there is a non-Koto related reason for this. It's actually very Erika-related. I wasn't there, so I can't say anything about first-hand experience. Erika won't tell me much about what happened and I'm not about to ask the Neo-Dot-Hackers. They'd murder me in my sleep. No, they wouldn't, they'd just mortally wound me in my sleep.
Point being, I don't really know much of what happened. Obviously, there was something that they didn't want to share with me. Though that hurts, I think I understand. Memories are what make a person who they are, otherwise it's almost as if they didn't exist. Erika lived her entire life without memories and when she suddenly got them back, they were nothing like the kind she wanted to have.
I'd have wanted to keep them secret, too.
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The group of four was swept away into the darkness. They lost their sense of self; they all became one being, wrapped together though they managed to still exist as separate consciousnesses. They were in a strange place, and though they were looking up at the sky, they somehow knew the appearance of their surroundings.
A few feet below them lay a bed draped in white with large golden bedposts that glimmered in the colored light the group was radiating. Stuffed animals floated through the air and a young boy, a Wave Master, sat hugging his knees to his chest and burying his head in them. He was right beside them, but they couldn't say anything. Erika wanted to cry out to him, to wake up and do something but she could not move. The boy looked up and said something, but it sounded like a blur to them.
The only thing the four players heard was Balmung's somewhat breathless comment: "Tsukasa." Before the others had the time to ask anything more, the scene faded out of focus and another one took its place.
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Now, they were gliding along the ground, running from something. Everything depended on getting away from that something. Erika cried out, she was the only one, but no one heard her but the three other characters around her. Balmung's eyes widened when they caught sight of the two players watching in the distance: a twin blade that looked exactly like Shugo and a large Heavy Blade.
Whatever it was that had been chasing them caught up and Erika felt the life drain out of her. The others stared, they felt nothing as the white-haired girl screamed silently, apparently also unheard by the other spectators. "Orca and Kite?" the winged Blade Master asked, reaching out a hand and taking a step toward the by-standers. Before he could reach them, this scene faded as well.
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The group was once again in a different scene, this time they were surrounded by the familiar darkness that had at least once enveloped everyone in the game. They swam through the darkness toward a single figure, falling down into the nothingness: it was a Twin Blade clad in orange that accentuated teal hair.
They neared and Erika bent over him to kiss him lightly, her hands were wrapped around his wrist and as she moved away to see if he would awaken, a golden bracelet appeared on his arm. "Shugo! Isn't this—?" Rena started.
The Shugo in front of them slowly opened his eyes and just as he did so, the world around them faded away again.