DOT HACK REPAIRATIONS
CHAPTER 3
UNCAGING THE BIRD
DELTA FALLING MOONBEAM'S MIRROR POOL
Slash!
Yet another party of goblins and Armored Crabs fell to Haseo's blades.
Atoli sighed as she leveled up for the seventh time.
"What's the matter?" Haseo asked as he turned around to observe Atoli moping by the edge of the battle area.
"Well," Atoli reluctantly admitted, "I don't feel as though I'm really leveling up because you're doing all of the fighting."
Haseo mentally cursed, of course he was doing all of the fighting, she was a cleric! But since when has that ever stopped her from trying to become stronger? He thought to himself, mentally smirking.
"Okay, I just thought that you wanted to level up for the sake of it, sorry," Haseo said with a hint of (sincere) apology in his voice.
"I'm sorry!" Atoli exclaimed, "I know I'm not the best fighter and that I'm weak and-"
"Never mind that," Haseo said reasonably as he activated a Halcyon Scroll, bestowing the spell Lei Zas upon Atoli.
"What's that for?" Atoli asked in bewilderment.
"It's your first offensive spell, so you can battle." Haseo explained to a surprised and grateful Atoli.
"Why are you just giving it to me like that?" Atoli asked, usually a player would want payment for any item, no matter how big or small.
"Two reasons" Haseo said "one: I've got 2 more, so it's no big deal. Two: you said you wanted to be able to fight for yourself, you'll be able to 'pay me back' by learning to battle effectively."
Atoli still looked confused, but decided to try out her new skill and promptly ended up failing a suprise attack on a group of goblins. She didn't seem to care though.
"LEI ZAS!" Atoli cried as she aimed the spell at the nearest goblin.
A stream of light rays poured from her staff and blasted the goblin off of its feet, killing it instantly. An interesting, and unintentional, side effect of the spell was that it's penetration effect allowed it to subsequently strike and destroy the other two goblins who, unfortunately for them, had lined up behind the first.
Atoli and Haseo both watched in astonishment as all three monsters collapsed and faded into columns of red light at once. Atoli levelled up again.
"That was amazing Atoli!" Haseo praised, concealing his astonishment at the Harvest Cleric's feat.
"I-I did it!" Atoli squeaked in excitement, "I actually did it! Thanks Haseo!"
"Don't thank me, you're the one who cast the spell." Haseo laughed.
"It killed all three at once!" Atoli observed with delight, "Is it supposed to do that?"
"It can, but you've got to aim well." Haseo informed her, then said with appreciation "It took me two weeks to master that spell!"
"Wow! Thanks Haseo, you're the best!!" Atoli squealed as she threw her arms around the startled Adept Rogue.
"Um..." Haseo gulped in shock.
Atoli suddenly realized what she had done and gasped. She quickly released Haseo and stepped back.
"Ohmygosh!" She desperately cried, "Haseo I'm so sorry, please don't be mad at me!"
Haseo wasn't sure whether he was mad or not, or even if he could act mad, his heart was still beating a 200bpm rhythm in his chest in real life. In THE WORLD Atoli's character's cheeks were beet red.
While Atoli was busy recovering from her almost suffocating embarassment, Haseo took the liberty of looking around, and sweat-dropped when he did so. Running towards them was a dog-like beast character and a green clad Blade Brandier. Oh great Haseo thought with a mental moan, Here comes the Canardians (yes, I KNOW that doesn't spell "Canadians")
10 seconds later the two approaching players approached Haseo and the dog-like character promptly wiped out, tripping over his own feet and whacking Haseo in the head with his grimoire staff as he went down. -1 HP for Haseo, ouch. (NOT!)
"What the hell is your problem!?" Haseo demanded explosively, eager to have them there to possibly distract Atoli from what had just happened.
"Help!" Gaspard, the dog-like character (DUH), begged, "We're being chased by some metallic-bikini-wearing FREAK lady named Bordeaux, AND SHE'S GONNA KILL US!!"
"Bordeaux is here?" Haseo laughed demonically, "Don't worry, I'll take care of her."
Silibus suddenly snapped his fingers and exclaimed, "Wait a second! I know you, I recognize that laugh, you're Haseo, the Terror of Death!"
Haseo sighed, he was starting to get tired of being called "Terror of Death" by everyone.
"yeah, whatever" Haseo said distractedly as he searched the nearby area for Bordeaux and her minions. After about 5 seconds he found them, they were trying to sneak up on them, and failing spectacularly.
"I know you're there!" He called in their direction, and heard several coherent curses.
"I TOLD you we shouldn't have chased those noobs!" Negimaru panted as he jumped up, not bothering to hide now.
"Forget it, just- ACK!" Bordeaux managed to say before a stream of bullets cut her, Grein, and Negimaru down in an instant.
"Tip one for the newbie PKer: Don't get caught arguing with your teammates." Haseo laughed as he holstered the dual guns. "Tip two: don't PK around the Terror of Death."
Atoli, Gaspard, and Silibus all laughed as well. Haseo turned to the latter two.
"well, you obviously know who I am, but I'm afraid I don't know who you are." he said
Gaspard spoke up, "I'm Gaspard and that's Silibus, we're the only members of Canard"
"What's Canard? A Guild?" Haseo asked
"Yep!" Silibus chimed in, "We're dedicated to helping out newbies."
"Interesting," Haseo suddenly had a horrible thought. he quickly removed his M2D and looked at the clock on his desk, "Crap! Atoli, we've been here for 2 hours, and we told Sakaki we'd be back 30 minutes ago!"
Atoli gasped in dismay, "Haseo, we've got to get there NOW!! Sakaki HATEs it when people are late for times they've set."
Haseo turned to Gaspard and Silibus, "sorry, but we've really got to go now, see you later!"
Gaspard watched as the two players warped out, then turned to Silibus and said, "Haseo is so COOL!"
DELTA ETERNAL CITY MAC ANU--- TEN MINUTES EARLIER
A teal-haired twin blade character clad in red warped into the root town via Chaos Gate and caused two players to run out of the Gate Area screaming.
Weird thought Kite, then turned to face the two blade brandiers who had warped in after him.
"Okay Orca, you got us back into the game, now where are we going first?"
"Well, I thought we might go to DELTA HIDDEN FORBIDDEN HOLY GROUND and see how Aura's doing." Orca said.
"Wait, first we recieved an invitation to DELTA SETTING ETERNITY'S NIGHT MOON, that guild- Oh I forget the name- but we should go there first and see what's up!"
"Okay, but if we run into someone who thinks we're admins or something, or if ANYONE recognizes us you've HAD it Balmung!" Orca joked.
A.N. Okay, that's Chapter 3. Yes, Kite and co. are back in the world, and this will make for some hilarious scenarios:-D R&R please!