.Hack// Shadows of Rebirth
Welcome people to the final chapter of my first fic. I like to give thanks to all those who review nd like my story. I feel proud to have finish it, not many finish they first long fic. This is my story and I'm sticking to it. .Hack characters do not belong to me, and for those who read you know what I really own. Please enjoy the final chapter to this story.
( The end of a struggle)
( Temple of New Beginnings )
Kite and the others watch the scene unfold, not too sure of what to think of it. Ash slowly began to pull himself up and wiped the tears that still fell from his face, Sora watching him closely. Suddenly the whole temple began to shake violently, dark energy began to run around the place rapidly. The group struggled to stay up, some fell on the floor. A few seconds later it stopped.
" What the hell was that?!!" Kite asked still shaken by the whole ordeal.
Sora was the one to speak " Alvatros must had already began with his plan to wipe out 'The World'."
" Already?! This is not good." Yata said, not liking where this was heading.
" But guys, I felt it in the real world too!" Atoli said while the rest agreed with her statement.
" What is going on?!" said the leader in panic.
They heard a chuckle coming from behind but it was an empty one, they turned to see Dark looking at the ground " Didn't you hear what the dragon of twilight said? Anything that happens in this world yours will be affected as well." he said while he kept his head down.
" What do we do?!"
Ash, now calmed, look at Kite and his party " You will go and fight him off."
Both group were stunned " Are you fucking kidding me? That thing just annihilated Morganna like she was nothing!! And you expect us to go and fight him?!!" Tsukasa said in a disbelieving voice.
Ash glared at the mage " That 'thing' happened to be my brother, as well as Sora's. And that was nothing compared to now. He probably transformed into his dragon form making him even more dangerous than before." at this the group paled " However....this is the perfect opportunity to stop him. You see that earth shake probably meant that he is gathering power to destroy 'The World' as we speak."
" But we don't know were he is. How are we to find him?" Ovan asked.
Sora spoke " Easy human....the best place to get a perfect shot to destroy a planet with a single shot would be at the very heart of 'The World'. To get there you need to be transported there." as he said this he raised his hand and focus. A white portal began to open, the energy of light flow gently through it. " This portal shall take you directly to the center of 'The World'. As he gather energy to attack it will also leave him open to attacks. Remember time is of the essence." he finished.
" But what will you two do?" Orca said out of nowhere.
" There is a chance to save our brother. We're going to give some of our energy to the sphere of new beginnings and use it to return our brother to the way he was. Hopefully we'll have it ready before he takes out this world and yours." Ash told the group. As soon as he finished saying this another earth shake began and this time it lasted more than the last and was more rougher. " Hurry! You must go now!"
" Right!" Kite said, his team right beside him.
" We'll go with you too." Dark said. Kite looked at the black wavemaster with doubt " Morganna had all of us fooled....it's time we set things right. Shadow may hate humans, but he loves this place...it's what he would've done." he finish looking on the ground.
" Very well. Let's go!" Kite and the rest enter the portal that led them to the very heart of 'The World'.
( Heart of 'The World')
The heart of the world was a vast space with boulders and rocks floating around aimlessly. The hole place was surrounded by an aurora type veil making it look like a holy place, and the center of the place were some mountains surrounding a huge crystal like sphere. But what caught their attention was the huge serpentine like dragon curled around the mountains and seemingly drawing energy from the crystal. It was huge and his skin was as black as the darkened nights, it had four pair of black angel like wings, his eyes were glowing in with an eerie yellow, and his whole body was emitting a dark aura making him look even more darker and powerful.
The black dragon turned to see the intruders " So....you come to try and stop me? How amusing! Humans and the residents of this world working together to try to save their pitiful worlds. See this..." he said while pointing at the crystal in his grasp "....this is the heart of 'The World', what gives energy to 'The World' to sustain life. As I draw near to my full power thanks to this crystal, so it's the end of your worlds." he said without remorse.
" That's as far as you go Alvatros! We are not going to let you destroy our worlds! People of both worlds are counting on us to stop you! Alright guys let's show him the power we have...the power to protect the one's we love!" At this his body began to glow.
Soon following was Tsukasa, Atoli, Ovan, Yata, Cubia, Dark, Elk, A. Kite, and SakuBo. Once the flash was done a whole group of avatars and beast avatars stood ready to face the giant dragon god of darkness. Those who didn't have avatars mounted one to help from the side lines. Alvatros eyed them with amusement " As much as I would love to tear you apart myself, I have no time for a child's play." As he said this a horde of black dragons appeared from every direction " My pets will deal with you annoyance as I prepare to deliver the final blow."
" Your not the only one that can summon creatures!" Kousetsu, aka Dark, shouted. As he said this snow birds, felines, and every other monsters the Shadow Knights had previously summoned appeared by the whole group side.
Alvatros merely smirked " How amusing. Annihilate them!" at his command the black dragons attack the group. At the same time the other beast launch at the dragons and soon both side collided creating a mass pile of beast and dragons ripping each others apart. The avatars dodge as many of the raging beast to get to were the black dragon was. Alvatros was not happy with their fast pace, he summoned black spheres the surrounded him completely and began to fire beams of darkness at the incoming party.
" Look out!" Kite shouted at the party as he dodge multiple beams. ' You know brat you're going to owe me for letting you use my body after this.' Cubia O. told the twinblade. ' That is if we get out of this alive, you ass!' Kite replied irritatedly in his mind. As he approach the beams began to fire more rapidly and they began to widen their range. Kite flapped his huge dragonic wings to avoid another attack, he even spined multiple times to doge many incoming beams.
The rest of the group was faring well. Tsukasa had a shield surrounding his wolf form but doge as many beams as he could to avoid wasting to much of his magic. Dark, as his bird form, follow behind him to cover him and the others behind him. Atoli and Yata teleported from side to side avoiding the attacks, as if they were hitting mirages instead of the real one. Azure Flame God, Corbenik, and Gorre follow behind Leviathan as he provided the perfect shield, Orca was once again ridding the white avatar and Mistral and Shino were on the sea behemoth to supply him with energy and magic in case he ran out. Also riding on Cubia were Piros and Natsume since the beast was huge, they provided the back up for the sea serpent. Macha was dodging the beam with ease since his physical form aloud it and on his ( her?) shoulders was Mia.
They were approaching the giant dragon at a very reasonable pace, Kite turned to his team " Keep going guys, we're almost there!". However he failed to notice a dragon flying straight toward him. When he look to the front the black wyvern was almost at his reach. Before that, vines suddenly appeared and binded the dragons wings and render his entire body useless, but his body kept moving in his direction, falling but still at his course. Kite moved quickly to the side and avoided a nasty bite from the beast. The dragon fell into the nothingness that was bellow roaring the whole way down.
Tsukasa appeared beside him with a smirk " You better pay more attention, next time I might not be there to save your ass.".
Kite launch a fire ball from his mouth right above Tsukasa hitting another dragon that was stalking the wolf. Tsukasa stared at the falling beast screeching in pain. He chuckled as Kite smirked right back at him " You owe me nothing." was all he said as he and Kite continue on their course getting closer to the serpentine dragon.
The black dragon concentrated on gathering his strengths to wipe out the existence of both world. 'Not much time now. Soon I will have my full power and blast this place into nothingness along with the human world. Then my new world shall be born and it shall be perfect. Let's hope my host's body can withstand this so I can use his body later. But just in case.....' he felt, dare he say it, giddy just thinking about it. However his moment was interrupted when a fireball connected with one of his many wings. Alvatros grunted in pain " The hell?".
" Not so fast Alvatros! You still have us to deal with!" Kite shouted as everyone surrounded the enormous serpent. " NOW!!" at his command every avatar, and character, launch a barrage of attacks at the same time, all heading for the same target.
Alvatros was not liking this one bit " Fuck." he said as the attacks connected at their target. All the others awaited to see if they succeeded in stalling the black dragon. As the smoke cleared a barrier of dark energy was at full view, surrounding the dark beast. They had succeeded in stopping the god from gathering anymore energy, now came the hard part. " You have my attention now." Alvatros said as he glared at the group.
( Temple of New Beginnings)
Ash and Sora stood in opposites sides of the sphere feeding the empty orb with some power they could spare. They both were concentrating hard on the task at hand. " How much longer until this thing is done?" Ash spoke.
" Not much now. We better hurry thou, Alvatros has stopped gathering energy. So that can mean only one thing, he's going to fight Kite and his group." replied Sora with a worry look.
" Then we better finish this before they become his next meal or something" .
Both continue to concentrate at the task at hand.
( Heart of ' The World')
The space surrounding the center of 'The World' was filled with bodies as far as the eye could see. Remains of monsters summoned by the Avatars and the god of darkness floated lifelessly around the place. All in all, it looked like a graveyard. In the distance of said place sparks could be seen, clearly of a battle taking place.
Every avatar of the Twilight Knights and Shadow Knights lay unconscious in the empty space and the players that accompanied them also lay unconscious. They were bruised, burned, slam, and beaten by the same reason as they lay floating almost lifelessly. However not all avatars were out of commission, a little into the distance the sparks continue to fly.
Kite dodge another set of black fireballs and gain a little distance. He fire his own set of attacks only to for the other to be unaffected by them and grab Kite by his body and slam him into one of the mountains that surrounded the place. Said player grunted in pain and exhaustion.
" Can't you see I'm doing you vermin's a favor. With this world gone and the human world destroyed I can begging life a new. Think about it a world without war, violence, or misbehaving brats to ruin it. The perfect world where only peace reign supreme with me ruling it to make sure it stays that way. Isn't it the a perfect world?" Alvatros said as he leaned down to look down at his already exhausted opponent.
Kite, with bruises and blood sipping from his wounds, struggle to look at his oppressor. " What's perfect about a world where emotionless people live to serve you?" he cough some blood " That would be a nightmare. True peace come from different beings accepting each other, sharing, and growing stronger together. A world where they can all live in harmony."
Alvatros laughed before he replied " Perhaps, but such world will never exist, and do you know why? The answer is simple, this imperfect beings will never get along, never will live in harmony. They're vermins who only seek pleasure with mindless violence and they all distrust each other. Such is their nature, and you humans are probably the worse of the bunch. On top of that their stupid. You all, even Zelkova, thought this place was the internet. Zelkova escaped the fire catalysm by crossing dimensions, not through the net like he thinks. He's a unique brat, I'll have to open him up to see what makes him special. " he chuckle again " Get of the topic aren't I. Anyways you're not worth to keep alive."
" That's not true!" he grunted from the effort " We learned with time and get along with each other. I even befriended Mia, a denizen of this world with no problem. We can change!"
Alvatros shook his head " Let me give you a review of your life. When you were little you always dream of such world and you love playing soccer a lot. However since that accident occurred many years ago you legs were left useless by a drunk. You could never walk again."
Kite's eyes grew wide " How did you know?! I never told anyone!"
The black serpent dragon simply continue " Your so called friend seeing you in pain gave you an alternative to forget your little problem. The World. As you played you felt like you could walk again and you felt alive again. But Skeith showed up one day and your little adventure began and finish it by saving this place from Morganna." Alvatros smirked downed at Kite's silence " However, things never really were the same. Although you recover from your handicap by a miracle, your parents beat you up daily and they constantly put you down, so much to the point were you became bitter and selfish, and not to forget you almost committed suicide. And if I'm correct you drove Elk to join the other side because you thought he was useless, am I right?"
The silence was the answer he received. He began to laugh " Face it! Your just as heartless as everyone else. Hell, everyone is! Every little vermin in here hides their own dark secret and I know each and every one of them. But I will change that." he said as he tighten his hold on the other dragon in his claw. " But don't fret. Soon it will be all over and you and the others can rest in eternal darkness." his hold tighten on the other dragon making him grunt, yet gain, in pain.
A lighting strike and a blue fireball made impact on the black dragon's back making him flinch and loosen his grip, cortesy of Cubia and Azure Kite. Kite took the opportunity to get some distance between him and the dark god. Alvtros turned to look with an annoyed look at the ones responsible for this act. " So, you roaches are all conscious again.". True to his word the other avatars and players that were knocked out were already up and ready for round two. " It won't matter for long. You are at your peek, your bodies have reach their limits. While I, on the other hand, haven't even use my full strength. Your as good as dead."
" It's you who won't get it! As long as there is breath of air in our bodies, we will never give up!" Tsukasa spoke for the entire group. Everyone agreed to that statement.
Alvatros chuckled darkly " Well then, I think its about time I draw that breath that you all cling to." he opened his massive jaws and black energy began to accumulate at the center. " Time for you to experience my true power. Join extinction! Darkness Mega Flame!!" a powerful stream of a black fire beam shot straight from the massive beast.
Kite quickly order " Everyone use your most powerful blast and throw it at him!"
At that every avatar and player used their most power full spell, or attack, and fire at the same time. The multiple attacks then combined into one massive aurora like beam heading straight at the other attack. Before long the two attacks collided head one. The blast were so strong it was making the whole place shake and, in some areas, disintegrating anything near to them. Both sides seemed evenly match until Alvatros's blast began to push back the other beam.
Alvatros was amused " Did you really believed that your pitiful attack would even compare to mine? I draw my powers from the darkness, including the one in your hearts."
" Your the one who doesn't get it! We'll never lose to you because our resolve is greater than your's will ever be! We fight to save our worlds!" Kite responded.
The aurora like beam then began to push the black flames back at a rapid paste, heading straight for the black dragon himself. Alvatros had no time to dodge " Impossible!" was all he mutter before the blast hit him dead on. At a result from the impact Alvatros whole body bursted into flames. The dark leviathan began to fall toward the void down below, looking defeated before his whole body disappeared from view and into the void.
Kite and whole party then reverted back to their normal bodies and fell from the air. Luckily they were right on top of a rocky platform when they hit ground. To say they were exhausted would be an understatement, they were dead tire. No one seemed to be getting up from the position, but every single one had a smile on their faces, well mot of them.
" W-We did it. We defeated Alvatros himself." he said with a grin on his face even with his body bruised and pained. Everyone began to mumble their agreement.
" Too bad he was possessing Shadow at the moment. He would've been smiling with us right now." Dark spoke as he got up, bangs covering his eyes. The Shadow Knights and the Twilight Knights kept a moment of silence.
" We'll find a way to bring him back." Tsukasa tried to comfort the raven.
" No he won't. Once one of us dies, that's it." Dark spoke again " But, it'll pass. Shadow wouldn't had have it any other way."
A chuckle echo through the place " Well that was fun."
The whole party quickly stood from their position after the voice was heard. " No......it can't...be." Kite said in a low tone.
From the edge a serpentine beast rose fro the dark depth looking smugly at the entire group. Alvatros looked un-scratch. " Did you all really believe I had been defeated? I was only using 20 percent of my power." The entire group paled at this " And the bad news keeps on coming, you see that crystal at the center?" He pointed at the crystal orb surrounded by the mountains. " I knew you would come and interrupt me from gathering energy, so I've been feeding it negative energy all this time as well draw power from it. Soon it will overload and this world and the other will pass to history." as he said this the orb began to emit more heat and began to flash and the place began to shake. " Ah, it's going into critical overload right now." He then turned toward the party " Now it's time I took you out. Think of this as my mercy, a reward for putting such a good fight. Farewell."
" Hey Alvatros!" a voice boomed from the black dragon's back.
Said beast turned to look. Hovering over him was Ash and Sora with their wings and tail now showing, in between them was the sphere of new beginnings. Alvatros eyes widen " Take this!!" Ash shouted and the orb let out an energy wave heading straight for him.
" Damn y......." he tried to say but the blast engulf him and the dragon god of darkness let out a deafening roar as he struggle to shake it off, but to no avail. Before long his body became calm and stopped its trashing. When it died down, all eyes were set on him. He slowly open his eyes and looked at his surroundings confused " W-Where.....am I?"
" Alvatros.....are you ok?" Sora asked.
" Yeah.....are you, you?" Ash added.
Alvatros gave them an annoyed look " Of course I'm me you idiots!! Who did you expect? Santa Clause?.....Wait, who the hell is Santa Clause?"
Everyone sweat dropped. Sora and Ash rushed toward the black dragon " Alvatros your back to normal!!" Ash said as he hugged Alvatro's forehead, or as much as he could, while wagging his tail like a puppy. Sora joined in on the reunion.
Alavtros was confused for a moment before all the memories of the recent events and past flooded back to him " Oh...." he said sadly " Guys......it's really good to see you. Even after all I done."
" Good, now that your back to your old self help us evacuate this place and the earth before they blow up!" Ash shouted.
" We have to leave our planet? But......" Atoli began.
" Don't worry we'll find you a more suitable one. It'll be like...." Sora began but was cut off.
" No....their right. They all grew up here and on earth. It wouldn't be the same." the black dragon said looking at the crystal that now took a vivid red color and emanated even more heat " I will set things right and cool down the heart down."
" What?!! You can't!!" Ash screamed.
" Even you wouldn't last too long under that intense heat. Right now if a human tried to get near it, he would disintegrate. Think this out!" Sora tried to reason.
Alvatros chuckle sadly " Well then, I would make amends for my crimes."
" But what about Shadow!! Your using him as a host!!" Dark shouted.
" I already talk to him and he says that he's ok with it." Alvatros replied. Dark look pained as well as many others. Alvatros then turned to Kite " Oh and Kite.....Shadow says you suck." a grin plasted on his face.
" Why that son of a......!!" his stream of cursing was stop by Tsukasa who placed his hand over Kite's mouth.
Alvatros then looked serious" I won't guarantee I, we, come out of this alive.....but at least you will all live. That's all that matter to us. Sora, Ash look out for this world for me if I don't make it." before they could protest he transported them out of the area. He then grabbed the sphere of new beginnings and headed for the overloaded crystal.
As he approached he could feel the intense heat beginning to burn his skin, but since he was regenerating at a quick paste he was able to keep going on. As he reached his destination point he the heat became unbearable and painful, using all the power available to him and transfer it into the orb in his claws. The orb began to glow as Alvatros became weak and his sight began to get blurry. The orb unleash an intense flash before said dragon closed his eyes loosing itself. Memories of his past flooded his mind making him see the times he spend with his brothers and the recent events, how he felt and all. The only thing he regretted was not coming to his senses in time, that and he wished he had spent more time with his brothers. However, a small smile could be seen on its feature before darkness took him, the orb covered his body in a radiant flash and became invisible to anyone who would've been in the area. Seconds later the place began cooled down and the tremors stopped.
The World was save at last.
Thanks to all who had stick to this story, review, or added as a fave. Sorry it took so long, but school work have been hectic. Now comes the sad part......farewell ( for now. :) ).