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, Lios- 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. 15
By: TsukasaTheFominian
The teens weren't sure what to make of the Net Slums. Everything seemed weird, but also safe. "Paradise" seemed like a strange name at first, but everyone soon found that the city fit its nickname. How could it not, being the last safe haven for illegals and mutants. Helba had warped them all there and had healed their wounds, a fact that everyone was thankful for. The White Wavemaster could tell they were all tired (anyone could from their blank stares, sagging shoulders, and half closed eyes) and was leading them to her home so they could rest. They were all getting strange stairs from the people in the town, traveling with their leader can do that. They were half way there when someone called interrupted them.
"Helbaaa! You have a message." There was a short monster running up to them. At least that's what Tsukasa first thought, but he saw that whatever it was had human features as well. Then the teen remembered Net Slum was a home to both illegals and mutants, the pinkish doglike person was the later.
"Gaspard, what did you need?" Helba gave her young friend a smile. He seemed out of breath like usual.
"Some of the Wave Masters I've been training over did it and their powers went out of control. Philo's been trying to contain them, but its really getting out of hand. Do you think you can get over there and reign them in?"
"I'll leave immediately. Could you escort these people to my home? They've been thorough a terrible fight and need some time to rest." She turned to her group. "I'll be back as soon as I'm able. Please rest and try to relax, you are my guests and no one here will harm you. Farewell." She turned and gated out.
Mimiru, Tsukasa, Kite, Black Rose, Subaru and Crim all looked surprised. "Is the training grounds in another area or something?" The twin blade asked.
"No." Answered Ouka. "It's in another part of the city. But that's one of Helba's abilities. She can gate to anywhere she wants to, even within an area."
"She can even gate into a dungeon." Sora added.
"That's incredible!" said Mimiru. "I'd herd Helba was powerful, but I didn't know just how powerful."
Crim looked startled too. "I had some contact with her, but not even I knew about that little ability. It really shows how much even Subaru and I don't know about her."
"Not even we know all of Helba's powers," explained Balmung. "I doubt anyone knows the full extent of her abilities."
"It's probably best that way," Gaspard voiced. "If we who are closest to her don't know what she can do, then there's know way that people like the Administrators could find out either. The unknown can be a powerful ally."
They continued walking for a while. After about 5 more minutes, they reached the largest house in the area. One that Sora and Ouka had entered many times. One where the Queen of the Dark lived One where two hyper children ran out of upon seeing the group enter the area. They were both blurs, one which attacked Sora and the other that went after Tsukasa. Neither was able to resist the attack and both ended up on the ground as Hotaru and Reki clung to them.
"PapaPapaPapa. Yourhomeyourhomeyourhome." Hotaru was a little too excited for her own good.
"Its good to see you too Hotaru."
"I'm so glad that you're here Tsu-cha!" Everyone turned to stare at Reki (and Tsukasa).
The older teen darkened at the nickname and glared at the younger boy. "Reki, do you remember the talk I gave to everyone at the orphanage last year."
"Talk?"
"Yes. The one where I told everybody to never call me Tsu-chan under any circumstances?"
"Tus-chan..." That one came from Mimiru, who looked like she was about to burst out laughing. She wasn't the only one. Kite, Blackrose, Sora and Crim had similar expressions. The others weren't about to laugh, but they were either smiling or had smiles pulling at their lips.
Reki seemed to have the biggest smile of them all and Tsukasa had a feeling of what would happen next. He hated said feeling with every fiber of his being.
"But its sooo much fun to call you that, Tsu-Chan."
Everyone from Group A broke out laughing, while Group B now looked like they were about to loose it. The fact that Tsukasa was blushing like crazy did help matters in the slightest. The Wave Master pried Reki off himself and stocked into the house while loudly saying he was going to get some rest.
The laughter died down after a while and everyone headed inside the building. Balmung and Sora wanted to know what was going on in the city, so Gaspard filled them in. "Nothing much really. Orca was really worried about you Balmung, but Helba didn't let him go after you. Other then you guys getting captured and returning was that Ovan and Kuhn said the new weapon was ready."
Kite gave the small Wave Master a look. "New weapon?"
"Ovan heads a weapons development section," explained Ouka. "He and his assistant Kuhn have been making a new type of range weapon called a Steam Gun. They've been working on it for over a year and have just been working the kinks out of their invention."
"A new weapon..." Subaru and Crim didn't seemed as surprised as the others. "I'd heard of something being in the works. Does it seem useful?"
Gaspard took the initiative. "Very. Right now the only long ranged attacks we have are from Wave Masters. With this Steam Gun we can have powerful ranged attacks that are physical. They're kinda useless in close combat though."
Only the adults and Subaru seemed interested in the discussion. The teen's were a little too tired to really care about anything, much less a new type of weapon. They all were lead by the children into a back room where they found Tsukasa asleep in a bed. Quietly sleeping away.
"This sure has been one strange day." Kite was completely tired emotionally and physically. Mimiru felt the same.
"Its been a strange few days. Two fights with unbeatable monsters, being in prison, facing the Admin. Nothing seems to be normal anymore."
"Normal is kinda overrated," said Blackrose. "But you guys are right, this is way to far gone for anybody's good."
They all climbed into any bed they could find, not really caring who it belonged to, and quickly fell asleep.
In the other room, Balmung, Sora, and Ouka were making sure of things with their newest allies. "After everything we just pulled, the Admin are going to tighten security in the cities even more." Crim had a feeling that everyone already knew that, but he felt obliged to voice the concern.
"Knowing those idiots, they'll just put Kamui in charge of everything and go on trying to hunt us down." Sora added.
Subaru felt slightly different though. "I think they might change in some way. After everything they witnesses at the trial, I can't think otherwise. The powerful illusion, the dragon Tsukasa summoned, the unbeatable monster, they're bound to do something different." She voiced her darker opinion as well. "But I don't know if it'll be for better or worse."
A new voice spoke from the doorway. "I've got a feeling that now they'll want to kill us all instead of just capturing." A man walked in carrying a sword and in full body armor. Half of his face was painted green, the green paint went down half his body too. "They'll just skip the jury and go straight for the execution." Orca looked around the table, glad to see his old friend after so long.
His eyes met Balmung's and they both smirked at each other.
"Nice to have you back my winged partner. Helba said she'll be awhile. She wanted to let everyone rest before she talks to everyone."
Nobody seemed very surprised. "Those kids went right to sleep. They'll need to hear what Helba has to say as well." Stated Sora.
The adults went to their rooms. The room the kids had zonked out was made just for that. Guests who didn't have anywhere else to go. The others all had rooms on the second floor of the house, but there was a little bit of a dilemma. It was unanimously decided that Subaru should bunk with Ouka, but Crim only found Sora willing to share his room. This was after he begged both Balmung and Orca to share with him only to get knowing glances from the Blademasters and a quick refusal.
"Where is Hotaru by the way?" The two little squirts had disappeared when everyone had gone inside and Sora had been wondering what had happened.
Gaspard was the one with that answer. "We had an agreement that she would go back to classes once you came back." A glare from the thief brought about an explanation. "She refused to go to school while you were captured, so we agreed that she'd go back as soon as she saw you again."
Crim, who'd been nervous about being alone with his old friend, seemed to see a little light of hope in the smaller mutant. "Say Gaspard, I'm not that tired so maybe you can show me the/" The light faded when Sora hit him hard in the back of the head, cutting off his sentence. Mr. Green Hair had put enough force into it to stun the man for a short amount of time.
The smaller Wave Master could only look on confused. "Are you sure that was necessary?"
"Of course. The man just doesn't know his limits too well. Just leave him to me and he'll be just fine." Sora proceeded to drag Crim into his room. Orca and Balmung could only look on and hope their red coated friend wouldn't be too traumatized after Sora was through with him.
The chamber was dark, the local light sources shined down on the only occupants. The Admins were trying to discuss how to deal with the current developments, but their talks weren't going anywhere.
"It's all that Helba's fault!"
"But she didn't send that monster, it attacked her own people."
Lios was the only one making much sense. "I'm concerned about what that Wave Master spoke of. That the Dark Wave wasn't destroyed like we thought."
Another man cut in. "That's absurd, everyone knows that Herald destroyed the Wave."
But Lios wouldn't be bought in by simple ideas. "All anyone knows is that the fighting ended with Herald's death. Perhaps he only found a way to contain the Abominable Wave. Do any of us really know the truth?"
None of the others could answer his questions, everyone knew that he could easily be right. No records existed that told of what happened to the Wave; if it had been destroyed, or, like Lios said, if it was merely contained.
Another seemed to agree, their head Admin, Yata. "What you say is a possibility, Lios. I want a team to look through the history and try to find just what happened to the Cursed Wave, whether or not it truly was destroyed. Those two monsters that appeared, the one with the staff in Mac Anu, and the Jigsaw monster at our sentencing area, were unlike anything I had seen before.
"However, I also dislike Helba and her group. They undermine all of our power. Two underage teens were able to destroy our most powerful protection spells like it was nothing. They need to be taken care of. Which is why I have summoned you..." Yata turned to the young man standing behind him. A man in his early twenties, with white hair and black spiked armor.
"You have their descriptions and the information we had on them. Find and eliminate them."
The man gave a dark smile. "Yes sir," he said before gating out.
Lios only glared at Yata, something that the Head Admin had been expecting. "Something bothering you Lios?"
"You know perfectly well what I think of what you've had done to that person."
"And you know that we need strong people working under us. Above all else, we need them to obey our commands."
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The dark clad warrior was wondering how to go about his new assignment. He had just warped into Mac Anu to try and find some leads, but found something else. A confrontation he wasn't looking for. A female Wave Master wearing all white was standing there. "Haseo!"
"Atoli, now's not a good time I've" but he didn't get a chance to finish his sentence, his friend got in his face and started yelling.
"Got an assignment, right? Or you're just tired? Perhaps your just 'busy' this time?" The Warrior couldn't look her in the eyes. Was he really getting so predictable?
"Haseo, I'm worried about you." Atoli looked almost too sad for words, but her words only confused the man.
"You know I'm the strongest person in our year, do you really think I could get hurt that easily?"
"That not what I meant and you know it!" Atoli looked angry that her old friend wasn't taking her seriously. "Ever since you started working for the Admins, you never do anything with anyone. You haven't even talked to any of the old group. Matsu, Alkaid, Sakisaka, you haven't talked to any of them. Even more important, you never smile anymore. Not even a little."
Haseo didn't know what to say to her, he couldn't deny anything she was saying.
"Haseo, what is the Admins are making you do? Why don't you smile anymore?"
He didn't know what to tell Atoli, so he just walked past her. Or he tried to at least. She grabbed onto his arm as he tried to get past.
"Don't ignore me, and don't try to run away! I'm your friend Haseo, I want to help you. But I can't do that if you don't tell me what's going on.'
"Just leave me alone Atoli." He pulled his arm out of her grip and just walked on. Too afraid of seeing the hurt look in Atoli's eyes after being brushed off like that.
The young woman could only look on as her friend left her like it was nothing. She couldn't figure out what to do after that, so she warped somewhere she could think quietly.
TBC
All right, new chapter. And I've finally added GU characters into this. I'll fit a fight scene into this the next or second next chapter.