DOT HACK REPAIRATIONS
CHAPTER 6
BEHOLD THE GODDESS
Unknown: Kind Goddess's Haven
A winged Blade Brandier floated in white space.
Dumb, that was dumb... is this what a coma feels like? Wait, am I in a coma at all?
Take heart.
What?
Take heart great martyr, for you have displayed unparalleled kindness.
Um...how?
By giving up your life without hesitation to save another.
Well, it's only a game.
Not quite, you must know what you have faced.
Uh, no. What was that? And who are you?
I...I am known as Aura.
Ok, that doesn't really answer my- Wait! Aura. Aura the Goddess? His eyes widened.
I am no deity, merely an AI that exists in THE WORLD.
Nice to meet you, I guess... but what was that big white and gray thing?
The Terror of Death
Haseo?
The sky in the East doth darken and air doth fill with mourning. From the chosen land beyond the forest, a sign of the wave comes. Riding the Wave is Skeith, the Shadow of Death, to drown all that stands.
Wait...Isn't that the Epitaph of Twilight?
Yes, you know the Epitaph?
Yeah...something like:
Yet to return, the shadowed one. Who quests for the Twilight Dragon
Rumbles the Dark Hearth,
And Helba, Queen of the Dark, has raised finally her army.
Apeiron, King of Light beckons.
At the base of the rainbow they meet
Against the abominable Wave, together they fight.
Alba's lake boils.
Light's great tree doth fall.
Power- now all to droplets turned in the temple of Arche Koeln.
Returns to nothing, this world of shadowless ones.
Never to return, the shadowed one,
Who quests for the Twilight Dragon.
And I know there has to be more...
Yes.
Well?
The Cursed Wave.
Unknown where the Cursed Wave was born┘ After the stars doth cross the heavens, The sky in the East doth darken and air doth fill with mourning. From the chosen land beyond the forest, a sign of the wave comes. Riding the Wave is Skeith, the Shadow of Death, to drown all that stands. Mirage of Deceit, Innis, Betray all with the flawed image, and did aid the Wave. And by the Power of Magus, a drop from the Wave doth reach the heavens, and creates a new Wave. With the Wave, Fidchell, the power to tell the dark future, hope darkens, sadness and despair rule. Gorre schemes when swallowed by the Cursed Wave. Macha seduces with the sweet trap. Wave reaches the Pinnacle, and escape none can. Tarvos still remains with more cruelty to punish and destroy. And with the turbulent destruction after the Wave. Only a void remains. From deep within the void arrives Corbenik. Perhaps then the Wave is just a beginning as well.
So the eight monsters of the Cursed wave really exist?
Yes.
And Haseo is Skeith?
No, his player's body houses Skeith, but he is not the true Terror of Death.
Wait- stop, back to the subject, what's going to happen to me?
Your sacrifice will be rewarded, I shall protect you from harm, but you will shed your old existance and shall be born anew. Aura murmured as she turned and faded away.
What? Hey-wait!...Ado struggled as his body shone like starlight, then darkness enveloped him.
Ado looked around him in shock. He was back in Moon Tree's HQ, and people were gasping and jumping back.
"Wow Atoli!" a kid's voice exclaimed "Your healing skills really payed off, he's waking up!"
"How are you?" The green-clad Harvest Cleric asked Ado as he lay on the ground.
"Fine" He said, and Atoli gasped as Ado forced himself to his feet.
"Um, we don't know how... but your, um, your character ch-changed." Atoli stammered.
"What?!" Ado looked down at his body, and noticed that it was true: it had changed.
Black cloth armor, streaked with purple and green, a red headband and...
"No wings?" Ado gasped as he twisted his head around.
"No" Atoli said sadly, "Your wings dissappeared along with your old character model."
Ado fumed in rage as he opened his menu and began sorting through his new character model's data.
Level 107 Blade Brandier reformatted to Level 1 Karma Sage?! What's that? Weapon: Genji Anid Talismans?! What the heck happened to my character?
"Whatever" He grumbled to himself as he stomped over to the Warp Platform and disappeared in a swirl of blue-white rings.
DELTA ETERNAL CITY MAC ANU
What the heck happened to my character?! Ado screamed in his head.
You've been born anew.
"What?!" He shouted, drawing startled glances from nearby players.
Your character was too damaged to save, so I made you a new one.
"Who are you?! Get out of my head!!" Ado screamed aloud, now people were starting to edge away from him, even turning and running out of the Chaos Gate complex.
There was no further response from the voice.
"Whatever, at least you're gone for now..." Ado wheeled around towards the Chaos Gate
He glared murderously at the cowering players.
"What are YOU looking at?!"
"N-Nothing!" came the general reply.
"Yeah, I thought so..." He muttered darkly as he selected area words and warped out.
DELTA GATHERING REMNANT SOULS Level 1
Well now, let's see what I can do, Ado mentally grated as he approached a lone goblin mage.
As the battle began Ado flicked to his skill menu.
WHAT?! Only ONE skill? He moaned in his head, then took another look, Wait a sec, I've never seen this one before: Fyr Karma?
Whatever let's try it out... "Fyr Karma!" He shouted.
A talisman appeared before his hand, then flew from his hand and hovered in front of the goblin mage, the talisman abruptly glowed red and flew back to Ado.
Obtained skill: Vak Don
AWESOME! He thought, A skill copier! Let's see what else I can do!
THREE HOURS LATER
DELTA VENGEFUL FORGOTTEN LEGIONS Level 49
Gemino screamed in pain as she hit the battle fence again.
"What's your problem?!" She screamed at Cross-Hairs and an unknown Blade Brandier, who had hunted her down in an area for the FIFTH time that day. Seriously, were they stalkers?
"Oh, I'm just doing what I've been meaning to do for a while now!" Cross-Hairs laughed, then sneered nastily "Why don't you call for that winged wierdo to come save you?"
"Because I'm already here!" a voice said in a bored tone from behind the PKers.
"Ado! Help me!" Gemino cried.
"Oh damn" Cross-hairs hissed as he turned.
The Blade Brandier leaped at Ado, and shouted "DEVIL SWORD!"
"Fyr Karma!" Ado shouted, and a talisman flew out, striking the Blade-wielding character in the head.
"ow" he said sarcastically as he lost 3 HP, then he began laughing hysterically.
Because he was laughing he didn't notice the talisman fly back to Ado's hand and begin to glow. Nor did he notice when it transformed into a wickedly curved Blade Sword and began to crackle with energy.
He only noticed when Ado shouted his newly acquired skill.
"DEVIL SWORD!!"
The blade brandier had time to say "what?" before he was cut down.
Cross-hairs looked at Ado in disbelief.
"How did you do that?"
Ado grinned ferally, "that's for me to know and for you to suffer by."
Cross-hairs gulped nervously as Ado rapidly positioned six talismans in a hexagon before himself...
Ado closed his eyes and began chanting in a voice that rang with power.
"來...天...堂...的...火..."
"What are you doing?!" Cross-hairs gasped as the talismans glowed red.
"燒...傷...您...的...仇...敵..."
Ado's eyes snapped open as he shouted, "來的...火神...VULCAN!!!"
Red energy patterns coursed across Ado's body. Then crimson lasers were violently emitted from the talismans and speared through the air until they struck their target.
Cross-hairs was blasted up into the air, and could only watch helplessly as, from the darkening clouds soared a Ruby-colored dragon of terrible beauty. Wine red wings spread from a glittering body as scales reflected the glow of the now-present sun.
With a roar Vulcan opened its mouth, and from it spewed forth Blue-white flames in great plumes. The flames roared across the sky and struck the terrified PKer, consuming him in an instant.
Gemino gasped as Ado's spell came to an end and the dragon faded.
"What was that?" She squeaked in fright.
"A secret" Ado said frantically, "Please don't tell anyone about this, the skill's too dangerous to be widely used."
"Okay" Gemino agreed readily.
"Thanks!" Ado gasped, then turned and staggered away.
DELTA ETERNAL CITY MAC ANU
What was the deal with that skill? Ado asked himself as he leaned against the wall of the Chaos Gate complex It's like it drained my own energy, my real energy to use it.
It did.
Oh no, not again...
You have been given power over the Karma of the Elemental Dragons, you may summon them in battle, but at a cost of some of your own energy. I wouldn't presume to tell you haw to use this gift, but, exercise caution...
A.N. Ok, how was that? And befor anyone asks, NO Ado isn't an Epitaph User. His skills can be seen by all players, and require actual SP as well as his own life energy. Read and Review :-)