Disclamer: I do not in any way shape or form own .hack or its characters.
Notes: Ages-Tsukasa, Mimiru, Kite, Black Rose, Mistral, Mireille, Subaru-around 16 or 17.
Sora, Crim, Silver Knight, Ouka, Gardenia- late 20's
BT, Sanjuro, Helba, Moonstone, Nuke, Rachel, Bear- Late 30's
Hotaru, Reki, A-20, Ryoko Terajima- around 7 or 8
Macha- ? Unknown
This is my first fan fic ever written, so review with constructive criticism. FYI, constructive criticism is when you tell the person what they are doing wrong and how to fix it; not just telling a person that they suck and have make a bunch of mistakes.
I'm sorry for making you wait so long, I have a couple of good excuses. 1) I've been busy with school and other stuff lately. 2) I wanted to take my time with this chapter and make it really good because I felt that the last chapter was horrible. Please forgive me and enjoy.
Summary: An alternate universe where the game characters from dothack are not game characters, but real people. It is not part of a game, but reality itself. Tsukasa is a parentless child living in the city of Dun Loireag. After having an unusual field adventure will his classmates, his boring life starts to change, but will it be for better or worse?
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When the finger points to the yonder moon, the fool will not look at the fingertip.
"Epitaph of Twilight" (Fragment)
DotHack: Reality ch. 8
By: TsukasaTheFominian
Tsukasa's and Crim's group met up with each other at the central bridge of Mac Anu, where Lady Subaru would make her appearance and giver her speech, after Tsukasa had a chance to apologies to her he hoped. All of the Crim's group were surprised to see a new girl with holding hands with Reki, a grunty in her arms, and a dog trailing behind her. Ryoko and Bear both explained the show Hotaru had put on and how Reki had invited her to eat with them. They were all glad to have a new friend with them, and they all settled down on the sidewalk on one side of the bridge to eat food they had brought with them or purchased at a stand. They ate and talked for about ten minutes, everyone telling everyone else about the things they had seen or bought.
Reki told Crim about his new charm, and the Silver Knight leader examined it with great care. After he was done, he told the boy that he had made a good choice in items, since that charm had really powerful spells on it.
"I never would have known which shops to go to if Tsukasa hadn't given me a map with the best places to go to."
"He gave you a map?"
"Yep" Reki then pulls out his map and shows Crim the details Tsukasa had made in which shops to go to for good spells, and which had the best jewelry in general. That didn't surprise Crim too much since that info could be gotten with ease, but then he noticed things like places to hid if he got in trouble, back alleys that were short cuts, but weren't well known or weren't talked about a lot. Things that only someone who had been to Mac Anu before would know. Crim had liked Tsukasa before, but now grew extremely suspicious about the fact that the Wave Master had lied to him to his face without breaking a sweat and was able to fool the Red Thunder himself. Tsukasa had his back turned to them, so he saw none of this nor herd any of it because he was listening to a conversation between Hotaru, Kite, and Mimiru. Crim now knew how good of a liar Tsukasa really was, and wondered about everything he had ever seen him do or say. He decided to just let everything proceed normally, but he would watch the teen Wave Master more closely then he had in the past.
As they were finishing eating lunch, the clock struck three and Crim got up to leave. He had to escort Subaru to the bridge for her speech, but he had another hour before that happened. He wanted to take Tsukasa to see his lady since it was something that he had promised. Though he knew that the boy was a good liar, he was also sure that Tsukasa like Subaru, and wouldn't do anything to harm her. Tsukasa hadn't really harmed anyone with his lies, but he was hiding something with them and Crim had a feeling that it was a big something.
"It's time for you to see Subaru again Tsukasa"
"Why does he have to see Subaru again?" Black Rose asked.
"There was something that happened on the day we were attacked that I need to discuss with her." This wasn't a lie because he had been rude, but he made it sound like it wasn't personal, but something about the attack. Crim could understand a lone wolf not wanting people knowing he has a crush, but he was still amazed by the way he could lie so easily and convince people he was actually telling the truth. As they headed off to the meeting place, two sets of eyes were watching the duo, one belonging to an outlawed human mutant, and one belonged to a monster lurking in the shadows, waiting for it's chance to strike it's prey. Both hidden so not to draw attention of the crowds.
Tsukasa and Crim arrived at the Crimson Knights HQ and headed for Subaru's room. The Wave Master was attacked by Mistral along the way, wanting to say hello. When Tsukasa said, "Hello Mistral" she only giggled non stop until Crim asked if there was something wrong.
A voice behind them then said, "To bad MY name is Mistral"
Both men looked behind them and saw a Mistral copy, also giggling. Tsukasa then looked down at the girl hugging her. "Then you must be Mireille,. right?" Mireille said yes while nodding her head enthusiastically.
"I'm here in town for the day and wanted to spend it with my lovely sister. I didn't know I'd get you meet you today though." She glanced at Mistral for a second before looking deep into Tsukasa's eyes. "Your just as cute and sexy as Mistral told me."
Tsukasa gulps and sweat drops at this while trying to get out of Mireille's grasp, but she holds on tight. Mistral breaks out laughing as does her sister at Tsukasa's predicament, until Tsukasa finally yells, "What is so funny?!"
"Just that you're not really my sister's type my little Wave Master."
"What is your type then?"
"Long hair, great eyes, strong, gentle, breasts..."
Tsukasa only stares at the two after the last description, then actually gives a slight smile finally realizing that he isn't Mireille's type because she doesn't like any guys that way.
"I find it fun to just do that to random guys and see how much they'll play along until I finally tell them that I'm gay. The looks on their faces are always priceless." Mireille, being the rare hunter that she is, can't help but be attracted to anything rare, valuable, or priceless.
"Come on little one, we've gotta see Subaru so you can get back to you little friends. I don't trust them to stay out of trouble, even with Gardenia there..." Crim was cut off by Mireille grabbing him and pulling him down to her level with a dangerous glint in her eyes.
"Gardenia's here? WHERE!!"
"On a side walk near the main bridge." the male Wave Master answers.
"YAHOO, MY GARDENIA IS HERE. Let me at her, LET ME AT HER." She smiled like she had found the rarest thing in the world and, after saying a quick good bye to her sister, ran off faster then the wind.
The other three only stood there sweat dropping until Tsukasa finally asked Crim, "Is Gardenia gay as well?"
"No, but just because you can't have something, doesn't mean you can't dream about it. She's just chasing a dream, so don't worry about anything." The two proceeded to say good bye to Mistral then head to Subaru's room. Once there, Tsukasa could only stand outside of Subaru's door, too afraid to face her after how rude he had been. Crim could see his nervousness and went in to announce him to the Lady, then came out a moment later saying it was ok to enter. The Crimson Knight was a little amused by the fact that Tsukasa was so nervous that he was actually showing it and watched as he entered the room, knowing for certain that the Wave Master would never harm Subaru. He didn't know that something had followed both of them, and was waiting to attack Tsukasa while there was no one strong around to help him, and had snuck into the room while Crim had held the door open for Tsukasa to go in.
Inside the room, both Tsukasa and Subaru stood to greet one another in silence, since neither knew how to begin. The Wave Master had never had good people skills, so he was at a loss, while the Heavy Axe Woman didn't know how to greet someone in a situation like the one they were in. After about ten seconds of silence, the boy was finally able to start things off by simply saying, "I'm sorry.
"I was wrong to be so rude to you. I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry... I've never really been good with words, but I do like you Subaru, and wondered if I could get to know you..." Tsukasa felt like a rambling idiot, and was, for once in his life, regretful that he never really learned how to interact with another person.
Subaru walked up to Tsukasa and took his hand and looked him in the eyes. "I'd like that too, I would like to get to know you as well Tsukasa, and thank you for apologizing, it means a lot to me."
The boy only looked at Subaru and smiled wondering what to do next. He didn't get a chance to even consider, because a new voice spoke up, a voice of darkness and evil, "How touching, to bad you won't be alive long enough to enjoy each other's company."
(Bridge Sidewalk)
The group had gotten done eating and was just enjoying talking to one another when there was a loud yell headed their direction. "GARDENIAAAAAA.... WHERE ARE YOU MY GARDENIAAAAAA!"
Everyone looked up to see a young female Wave Master heading straight for their group. The teens had all seen her sister at the Crimson Knight HQ, but couldn't tell the difference. The only one there who was able to distinguish was Gardenia, because she knew that only Mireille would be this happy to see her. The children backed away from the screaming teen heading straight for them, while Bear only looked on in amusement. Hotaru was the only child still sitting on the ground because she had met Mireille before and knew about her sexual preferences because she had hit on Ouka a few times when they had met. The werewolf sweat dropped on the inside knowing how over enthusiastic this Wave Master could become when it came to things that she loved. As Mireille got closer, (and this was quickly since she's still going faster then the wind) the Long Arm rose to meet her, but was quickly knocked onto her back as the young girl tackled her into an unbreakable hug. Mireille gave out deadly hugs, and cried tears of joy while saying, "I can't believe its been so long since I've last seen you my precious Gardenia, my lovely love, my heart and soul."
"It's only been a week"
"A week without seeing you is like centuries to me! I haven't been happy all the time I've been away from you."
"Even though you threw a party on Thursday from finding another extremely rare item. According to a few friends of mine, you were smiling like there was no tomorrow and had been happy throughout the entire adventure."
"Well... can't be wallowing in sorrow all the time." Mireille knew that Gardenia didn't like her that way, but couldn't help but love the Long Arm. She finally let go and helped her friend up, then turned to a group of stunned children, teens, and an adult. "It's nice to see you again Hotaru, how've you been?"
"Very good."
"And how's Ouka been" The Wave Master bent down to pet the dog, knowing fully well what she really was. She also knew the werewolf didn't want to draw attention to herself, and wouldn't transform then and there to beat the girl senseless for the disrespect she was getting.
"I want you to meet a few friends of mine, this is Reki, A-20, Ryoko, Kite, Black Rose, Mimiru, and Bear."
After saying a quick hello to the children and to Bear, she stared closely at the teens, wondering if they were really the ones who she had been told about. "So, you're the ones who were attacked by Sora, my sister told me about you. I am Mireille, The Rare Item Hunter of Love and Courage."
Kite is the first to speak, "Oh, so you're Mireille, I thought you were Mistral when you first ran up. You two look exactly alike."
"We are twins. I can't believe Sora would attack some teens like you." She gives an evil glint in her eyes, one of want and possession. "The item you had must have been really rare, tell me what it was; PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IT WAS!"
While the teens had been talking, the children had moved over to there new caretaker and was asking her questions about why Mireille had been saying that she lover her. "Because she likes women that way. Some women aren't attracted to men that way, but are attracted to other women. The same is for some men, they aren't attracted to women, but to other men. It's called homosexuality."
"Do you like that girl in that way?" asks A-20
"No, but that doesn't mean she can't still be in love with me."
Black Rose was about to answer Mireille's question when they heard more screaming, this time not of happiness, but of terror and fear. Everyone rushed to see where this yelling was coming from, and found a group of people being attacked by a group of Wasp monsters. Another group was being threatened by Goblins, Witches were causing fires, Mimics biting people, and Shogan monsters terrorized civilians with their blades. Everyone looked at the ensuing chaos and wondered how this many monsters had gotten into the city undetected, and were thankful that to have all the Crimson Knights, even Crim, out on the streets protecting the civilians. Nobody could see that this was all a diversion to make one person unprotected, all set up by one monster with the intelligence to know when to strike his prey, and that without Crim to help them, Tsukasa and Subaru were at that monster's mercy.
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A/N: How evil of me to leave it here. I guess I'll have to split this up into even more stories, but it's getting good.
And if you don't like homosexual relationships in a story, I'm not forcing you to read this fan fic, so stop reading if you don't like it because I'm not changing anything. There will be no Lemony goodness in this story, but that doesn't stop me from putting in gay or lesbian characters into this thing. It's actually better this way since it gives me a hell-of-a-lot more plot twists I can put into my story. hehehehehe.
Blackheart Syaoran- Macha will be helpful in the next chapter, and thanks for continually reviewing.
Vampwriter- I wasn't sure how to write out the little kid crush part, I hope I did good. And I would never leave that bitch Ninni in charge of kids in my story for too long. Thank you for your support.