.hack//SIGN Fan Fiction / .hack//LIMINALITY Fan Fiction / .hack//Legend Of Twilight Bracelet Fan Fiction ❯ Episode One- .hack//Destiny ❯ Home Life ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter four- Home Life- Real World

 

Dan took the visor off of his head, and stopped being Sircosgi. He rubbed his eyes, and walked away from the computer. He stretched his neck and legs then walked out of his room, and into his living room. There his dad sat, reading the paper.

"Hey Dan. How do you like your gift?" Dan smiled.

"It's awesome! Better than I thought imaginable! Hey, how's Jas?" His dad grunted.

"Well, it appears there is some stretching of the ligaments in his legs. No more playing on the team for him!" A small chuckle in an inappropriate place. "All he can do is rest until it heals. That's it."

"Where is he?" He father pointed to the kitchen. Dan waved and walked over. As he walked in he passed his mother. She sat down in a chair adjacent to her husband.

"Bill, how do the boys like their gifts?" Bill looked up from his paper.

"I really think they like them. How did you get the discount Peg? Was it a five finger?"

"No, actually I know a man who knows a man." She said cryptically.

"I hate when you do that!"

 

Dan walked into the kitchen and heard a gasp of pain. He looked to the chairs and saw Jas in one trying to stand up. He probably would have succeeded if his foot wasn't stuck into a bucket of ice. Dan rushed over.

"You had better not even try!" He gently pushed Jas back into the chair. "No one's going to hurt you, including yourself!"

"But-"

"NO buts!" Jas started to pout. Dan leaned down closer.

"Now we can play The World more together! How about it?" He smiled. Jas couldn't keep pouting with Dan smiling like that.

"Fine," he giggled, "we'll start tomorrow. Besides, we have something to worry about this evening." Dan slapped his head.

"Oh, crud! I forgot! All the excitement!"

"How could you forget? It is rather important!"

"I'm so used to not celebrating my B-Day, and not my A-Day!" Jas laughed.

"Yeah, I guess we did kinda just start doing that. Oh well. We should be ready by five. Okay?"

"Okay!" Dan walked back up to his room and closed the door. He took off his shoes and checked the clock.

"Only one hour to go!" He logged onto his e-mail account.

"Junk, junk, huh? What's this?" He clicked on an e-mail from someone he didn't know.

"'Keywords - Theta Bitter Mirror Holy Ground. Come soon'. Huh?" He clicked on the reply button.

"'To whom it may concern-

If you could identify yourself, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you-

SA'"

He clicked on 'send'. Finally he opened an e-mail from Casper.

"Hey Sircosgi! Just wanted to drop you a note, asking if you and your bro were going to be on tomorrow. Oh, and what were you saying about the two brains? Thanks! -Casper" Yet another reply.

"'Hey Casper! Just forget about what I said, please? Yes, I will be available tomorrow along with my brother. I got a weird e-mail with a Theta-based keyword. If you want we can go check it out! Sound good? See you tomorrow!- SA'"

Click send again, move on. He pondered over the keywords and its possible sender for the next half-hour or so.

"It could be Boragia. Nah, I think it's just a prank. Or is it? Gah!"

"DAN! GET YOUR BUTT DOWN HERE!" Jas yelled.

"COMING!" He walked down the stairs and went into the living room. There he found some people sitting down in chairs.

'Odd, I expected more.' he thought glumly. Suddenly some of his schoolmates popped up from behind the couch.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" They all yelled in unison. Dan laughed.

"Hey y'all! Thanks for coming!" Decorum from that point on collapsed.

 

The party turned out good at least. As it trickled down to a close, only four people stayed after to 'hang out'. They were his good friends Morgan, Lisa, Vanessa, and Amanda. Including Dan and Jas, those six made up what was called the Gruesome Six, the six smarter kids in the school, the ones who the teachers feared because they would point out every flaw, and also act up. Nonetheless, they were all good friends, and stuck together through thick and thin. Heck, they were the ones who introduced

The World to the two.

The six all hung out in Dan's room. They all were checking out the strange e-mail that he had received.

"Odd," Morgan began, "that it has no sender named." Morgan was the smallest in the group, but not the softest in speaking, at least not all the time. With red hair, green eyes, and freckles to boot, she proudly flaunted her Irish heritage.

"Yeah, it is rather odd. I wonder why you received it. Do you know anyone who has that capability?" Amanda said. She was the next up on the tall scale. She had long, wavy brown hair, hazel eyes, a nose broken from playing soccer, and a retainer; she had just gotten off of braces.

"I think it's called an admin, dipstick!" Lisa said. She played soccer with Amanda, and looked almost like her, except for her eyes. Deep blue. She crossed her arms. "I mean, who else could it be?"

"Maybe God sent it!" Vanessa said jokingly. She had extremely long, curly hair, and wore glasses. She, along with Dan, made up the two 'scary' people of the group, the ones that wore dark more than occasionally.

"Shut up!" The group said. Dan looked at all of them.

"Now, I know this may be impromptu, but would you all agree to meet us three in the root town?"

"Three?" Jas asked.

"Yeah, Casper will be accompanying us possibly."

"Who the heck is that?" Morgan asked.

"A friend," Jas said.

"If you could either write down your character name or send us an e-mail with it, or BOTH, it would be great. Here, let me write ours down." Dan said, grabbing a piece of paper, ripping it into four, and writing down his and Jas's Member Address Names, he handed them to the girls. They in

turn wrote theirs onto two sheets of paper.

"Riddler, Jester, Joker,” He paused. “I see a theme, Batman. Let me guess, your name is,” he looked at the sheet, “BADGER?" Dan read the last one, looking at Vanessa. "You mean the Badger Song?" She applauded Dan.

"YES! One whom I don't need to convert to the Badger Song!" She gave him a hug.

"MMRMFH!" Was all Dan could get out before embracing back. The group just stared at the two. They had all known that the two had liked each other, but this, THIS? Jas's mouth was wide open. The two finally broke and looked at each other, then at the group.

"WHAT?" They both asked at the same time.

"Nothing."

 

As dawn approached, Dan was just getting up. He had so much to do, so little time to do it in. He walked to Jas's room and roused him. The two ate a silent breakfast and made sure the others were up in the group. They then both logged into The World.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, another person was logging into The World, for entirely different purposes.