Notes: Ages-Tsukasa, Mimiru, Kite, Black Rose, Mistral, Mireille, Subaru, Elk-around 16 or 17.
Sora, Crim, Silver Knight, Ouka, Gardenia, Kamui, Balmung- 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
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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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DotHack: Reality ch. 14
By: TsukasaTheFominian
'Its not possible. He can't be here, the Guardian got rid of him long ago.' Tsukasa was terrified. The man who had stood above him for so long, the man who had made his first 10 years of life a living hell, he couldn't be here.
Everyone's reactions were different.
"What do you mean, Tsukasa killed you?" Subaru demanded. "He would never kill anyone."
"You mean he never told you? About how he used that slime monster to kill me all those years ago?" Tomo-yuki just laughed evilly. "I guess nobody would want to admit killing a hero."
Everyone watched as Tsukasa exploded on the man. "What hero!? What father!? You were never anything like that! A father would love his son, you just wanted a fighter to follow in your footsteps. A hero would have been humble about his accomplishments, you boasted every chance you got. You're nothing to me!"
Tsukasa used his magic to summon his Guardian to the field, exposing it to everyone there, including the Admins. He ordered it to attack, but it did nothing. "What…?"
"Did you really think you could kill a ghost my boy?" The man just walked forward, drawing his sword. "You always were an idiot. A worthless idiot. Imagine, a great swordsman like me fathering a Wave Master."
Everyone in the area could hear the man talking, and everyone caught the tone in his voice when he said Wave Master. It was a tone of disgust, like being a Wave Master was the lowest of the low.
Mimiru remembered her talk with Tsukasa, where he had described this man. "I knew Tomo before he died, and he wasn't kind at all. He was rude, self centered, and a stuck-up jerk, but everyone thinks of him as some sort of god." She could see that Tsukasa had been right, and that he'd even held back a little when describing his real personality.
Everyone could see it, this man thought he was god, and that everyone should worship him. To this so-called "hero", everyone else was beneath him, and everyone who didn't fight with swords was even lower. Crim didn't know how the child had grown up as normal as he was with a father like that (True, Tsukasa was still weird, but not completely warped) 'If I'd had someone like that as a father, I would have probably died.'
"In any event, there's only one reason I came back Tsukasa. To return the favor." He made a swipe with his sword, but Subaru pulled him back out of the ghosts reach. Mimiru, Black Rose, Kite, and the adults placed themselves in between the spirit and his son, ready to defend him.
"You don't really think you can win, do you?"
Ouka was the one to answer him, "We won't know till we try. And frankly, I don't like you. So I'll never let you have what you want." Ouka rushed the man and tried punching with her fists, but they simply went through the apparition. He struck out with his sword, but she jumped back as quick as she could. Not before the sword made a light cut on her arm though.
Crim couldn't hide his shock. "How the…?"
"It can harm us, but we can't harm him?" Black Rose shouted what everyone else was thinking.
Balmung launched in with his sword, using a fire based attack. His efforts got the same results and the same fruits.
All except Tsukasa, he was too busy remembering what his father had done to him and his mother, and what had led to the old man's death.
Everyone had thought that Tomo-Yuki's son had gone out to a field one day, that his worried mother had followed him, and that in trying to protect both of them, Yuki had died. The truth was that the man had been fed up with disappointments. That his son was a lowly Wave Master, that his wife couldn't give him any more children, that the legacy as a swordsman he'd spent his life crafting wouldn't be passed on to his child. He had decided to get rid of his problems in one fell swoop.
Tsukasa remembered feeling joy that his father had taken him and his mother out to a field, that maybe he'd become happy. He remembered that joy turning to terror as his father had kicked his mother into a magic portal and how the cruel man laughed as the woman was killed.
The boy's hatred for his father had been too much, and that hatred had summoned the Guardian for the first time. The dumbbell had made quick work of the monster, and then proceeded to slowly kill Tomo-Yuki at Tsukasa's command.
Outside of the Wave Master's mind, the fight wasn't going good. Everyone had taken small wounds, and not even Kite's Bracelet was having any effect. Nothing seemed to work on the ghost; spells, arrows, elemental attacks, everything was useless against the creature.
Not even Lios and the other Admin could figure out what was happening. They'd never herd of a ghost coming back to haunt people. They'd never even seen a Gate just disappear either.
Subaru was finally able to get Tsukasa to focus on the battle after a while, but that still didn't solve any of their problems. They only watched in horror as their friends tried to fight the apparition, and watched as they all got more and more wounds.
"This is so strange." said Subaru. "I've never herd of a Chaos Gate disappearing, or of people being transported to a field without a Gate."
'Subaru's got a point. Not even my powers could do all of that. I'm sure that not even the Admin or Helba could do anything like this.' After a while something else occurred to the teen Wave Master, 'This isn't like Yuki at all. None of this seems real.' Then a thought struck Tsukasa, and he wondered how they could all be so dense. He rushed out of Subaru's arms and ran up to the ghost of his father.
"Come to accept your punishment boy?" The spirit sneered.
"No, my father deserved what he got. Even if you were him, I wouldn't just accept death."
"If I'm not your father, then who am I?"
"I don't know, but you're not Tomo-Yuki." Tsukasa looked the spirit right in the eyes and watched as the image waver. Then he knew he was right. "Tomo-Yuki loved his reputation more then anything else in this world. He would never sully it by coming now and exposing his true nature to a group of people." Everyone watched as the ghost started to loose substance, and become unfocussed. "Also, Yuki never waited for anything. If he wanted something, money, power, revenge, he took it without hesitation. He would never wait this long to get revenge. Nothing about what's happened to us seems real. The Gate, this Field, you, none of it is real is it." Everything around them began to become blurry. "That's it, right? This is nothing more then a mirage, an illusion!"
The illusions that had been created disappeared and revealed they had been in a normal field all along. The Chaos Gate still worked, there were exits, and floating above the ground was a monster which looked like a jigsaw puzzle.
Everyone, stared at the field. Sora noticed something odd, "Why do we still have wounds if it was all just an illusion?"
The others looked around and saw the thief was right, but Tsukasa still seemed to have all the answers. "Its because we believed in the illusions. Our belief gave the that monster its powers. Once we challenged the images and revealed them for the fakes they were, they lost all of their powers."
The monster seemed determined to finish the job it had started. It collected a sphere of energy in front of it and sent a shock wave at Kite. It was so sudden that if Balmung hadn't intercepted the blast with his sword, the Twin Blade would surely have died. Even the Descendant of Fianna had trouble handling that blast. They also learned that their new enemy was also extremely quick after it zoomed off to the right and tried another blast, this time at Mimiru.
Mimiru was able to dodge the strike and distract the creature while Sora dashed up to it from behind, blades glowing purple with his Instant Death attack. They'd hoped that would be the end of the confrontation, but they watched in horror as the wounds on the monster's back simply healed itself.
"Its just like that other one." remarked Black Rose.
Kite just stepped forward, his bracelet glowing. "Well, if its just like that other thing, then this should weaken it." He fired off his bracelet at the monster, but watched as the creature dodged his attack and tried to strike out at Crim. The Red Thunder was able to dodge easily, and was easily able to counter attack, but the results were the same as when Sora wounded it. Kite tried weakening it with his bracelet while the monster was healing, but it simply dodged again.
"Damn it! How are we suppose to beat this thing." Ouka had just tried attacking, but the creature avoided her assault and struck out at her. Only a shield constructed by Tsukasa saved her from a direct hit.
The administrators were just confused and scared. Nothing had ever been outside of their control, but here were a group of people who defied their powers, broke their seals, and were fighting a monster they couldn't get rid of. Only Lios was remaining calm, thinking about what the boy had said, and reflecting that with what was happening. 'If the Cursed Wave really wasn't destroyed, then is this one of the creatures of the Wave?'
"Crap!!" Kite was getting angry. That was the third time the monster had dodged his bracelet. Nothing seemed to be working. No spell seemed to affect that thing. Just like nothing could stop Skeith. 'Nothing accept the bracelet, and…' The red twin blade looked over at Tsukasa and remembered the last incident. "Tsukasa! Use that twilight power! Call the dragon." The monster seemed to hear Kite and began attacking him, completely ignoring the others.
"What does he mean?" Tsukasa couldn't remember summoning a dragon, and he didn't remember any twilight power. Subaru was still with him, so she was the one to answer.
"When you blacked out those last few times, your body became enveloped in some strange rainbow colored aura. And the first time, you summoned some sort of dragon which paralyzed that last creature. It might have a the same affect with this creature too."
"But…" Tsukasa couldn't remember anything from those times, only feeling drained. And if what Subaru said was true, he also seemed to loose control of his body to something else.
Before them, the monster still decimate their group. Nothing any of them did seemed to work, and the creature was beginning to hit its mark. Balmung's arm was grazed, and while Tsukasa watched, Mimiru was hit on the leg. It wasn't a fatal wound but it sparked something in the Wavemaster. For a brief moment, he didn't care what happened to himself. Even if he was completely lost in his powers, the only thing he cared about was saving his friends. Once again that day, he reached down and grasped the twilight power.
He felt the euphoria, the peace, the light, but he tried not to loose himself to it. He fought to remain in control. He was only half successful. He didn't black out this time, but he wasn't in control either. The teen didn't know what was worse, blacking out and being controlled, or being awake and helpless to be controlled. 'This really sucks.' thought the Wave Master. But his thoughts were interrupted by another voice. 'I am sorry, but you aren't strong enough to defeat Innus. You will soon though. The fact that you don't fall unconscious anymore proves that.' Tsukasa's body had regained the rainbow aura, and had begun speaking the summoning spell again. Like the last time, the white pillar appeared and Kite watched on as the rainbow dragon came forth.
Everyone had regained the calming feeling again, and like last time, the monster became frozen before it. Kite "herd" someone in his mind again, 'Quickly warrior, Tsukasa is weak and cannot sustain me for long. Use your bracelet on this creature.'
Kite didn't need telling twice. He raised his arm, activated his power, and the frozen monster was hit dead on by the bracelet. Sora, Ouka, Crim, Balmung, and the others watched in awe as the monster began deteriorating, becoming a group of floating stones like the last ones. When the drain was over, Kite was holding a small sphere again, this one in an orange color. Soon after, the dragon disappeared as well. Everyone took that as a signal to rush the monster. It did try to run from them, but the quicker group members like Crim and Sora cut the monster off jabbing at it while the stronger members like Blackrose and Ouka pounded away on it. Soon the monster shattered into pieces and crumbled into nothing.
After that fight, nobody had any strength left. Everyone sank to the ground completely exhausted in every way. Emotionally from the trial and escape, physically from the two fights. They were all surprised when the Administrators walked over and Lios asked, "What did you just do?"
Nobody there answered, but a strange voice did. One that some of the people there knew very well. "They just saved your life."
And someone warped in. A woman dressed in white, wearing a strange helmet, and wielding a strange white staff. Lios knew her all too well. "Helba!"
"Its nice to see you again Lios old friend." Helba was smiling and gave a gesture of greeting. "I hope that you understand now Lios. That there is something else in this world and it is malicious."
One of the men standing next to their leader shouted, "How do we know that you just didn't create that thing and send it after us."
"If I had created that thing and was sending it after you, then it would have attacked you. It did no such thing, it went after my own allies." Sora tried to stand and speak with his leader, but found he was too tired and injured for that. "Easy my friend, you just need to relax and let me get you back home."
"Do you really think we'll just let you get away so easily Helba?" Lios asked.
"I don't think you let me do anything. I do it on my own." She raised her hands and summoned her power. "Good luck to you administrators." She warped out, and was followed by all of the people who had fought. With the web gone, Helba could come and go as she pleased. Something that made all of the admins very angry.
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A/N: Hello all. I'm back. Again. You may hate me, but I just can't work on a story when I don't feel like it. I may update after a couple of months, or next week depending on my mood. I don't know why I'm so fickle, I just am.
Thank you for reviews, and sorry for my spelling errors. I try to use a word document to fix it, but it doesn't always work.
With the whole .hack//GU and .hack//Roots thing going on, I'll probably add some more characters in. The beast class of those games would be great for the whole mutant thing I have going (it just works out so well), so Gaspard and Tabby will probably show up in NetSlum as minor characters. I plan on having Haseo be part of the Admin's side as well.
Haseo: What!! I'm the hero of G.U. and of Roots, why do I get the part of a bad guy?!
Me: Don't worry. It'll just be for a few chapters. You'll have a big fight sceen with Kite, get your ass kicked, get some sense knocked into you (or maybe Kite will drain some insainity off with the Bracelet) and then you'll join up with everyone else.
Haseo: (smirking) and how is shrimpy little Kite gonna beat me?
Me: Simple. I'll transform him into Azure Flame Kite (Tri-Edge Kite) from the G.U. games. You could only really beat him with your Avatar. Saddly, there will be no Avatars in this Fic.
Haseo: YOU CAN'T!!! You can't do that to me! And how are you gonna explain that transformation away Mr. Bigshot?
Me: His bracelet. It has the Power of Twilight in it. When Tsukasa the Wavemaster uses his Power of Twilight, he gains superhuman magical power and kinda looses his mind. When Kite the Warrior fully uses the Bracelet's power, he'll loose himself to Twilight, gain superhman strength and speed, and kinda loose his mind (I consider Azure Flame Kite from G.U. to be superhuman and insain).
Haseo: (Gulps) Umm... Is there anyway out of this?
Me: Nope. Also, since this fic is based on the old Character Classes, I have to adapt the G.U. characters to fit that. Example: Gaspard and Atoli will become Wavemasters, but Atoli (Harvest Clerics in general) will focas more on healing and protection, while Gaspard (or any Shadow Warlock) will focas on attack spells. Haseo will still have the whole Adept Rouge thing going on, but his wepons will be of the oldschool variety.
Haseo: You mean I don't get my Avatar, my scythe, or my chainsaw sword?
Me: (smile) Nope. (turns to readers) I hope you enjoy. By the way, do you think the whole transforming Kite thing is too over the top?
Haseo: Yes!! Yes it is! Please say yes!
Me: (whacks Haseo with a paper fan) Quiet you. You don't get a say in the matter.
Haseo: That hurt dammit.
Me: Wimp. (turns to readers) Later.