.hack//SIGN Fan Fiction / .hack//LIMINALITY Fan Fiction / .hack//Legend Of Twilight Bracelet Fan Fiction ❯ Episode Three: .hack//Liberty ❯ Kill ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter Three- Kill- The Real World

 

Dan and Vanessa had been running for ten minutes when they entered into the torture room. There Dan saw three new individuals: an older man with short, brown hair; a girl their age with long, brown hair; and another girl with blond-brown hair. They looked at the two.

“Sircosgi and Badger?”

“Present.” Vanessa said.

“President.” Dan said, his head reeling slightly from loss of blood.

“Tokuoka. Junichiro Tokuoka. I'm here to help.”

“Mai Minase, helping hand.”

“It's Tsukasa. I'm here to hinder.” The other girl said.

“I thought you were a boy!” Dan said.

“In The World I am. Here, I am not.”

“What's your real name?”

“Just call me Tsukasa.” An alarm went off.

“Okay, folks. It looks like they found you two missing.” Junichiro said. “Here.” He handed Dan a gun and a sword, with a belt that went across the chest and back. “Use these in an emergency.” He handed Vanessa a knife. “Same to you.” Vanessa took out the switchblade and whipped out the blade.

“I already know.” Junichiro looked at her.

“Is there anything you two need?”

“They have our CPUs and Laptops.” Vanessa said. “We need those. They have incriminating evidence on the dothackers.”

“Done.”

“I need medical attention.” Dan said. Junichiro laughed.

“Among other things.” The torturer rushed into the room.

“Here you-“ Dan pointed the gun at him.

“Say goodbye.” He fired it, hitting the man in the knee. The man fell dropped into a kneeling position.

“WAS THAT NECESSARY?” Junichiro asked. Dan merely walked over to the man.

“You raped me, you burnt me, you zapped me. Well, mister, welcome to hell.” The man laughed and flicked his hand, bringing out another knife. He stabbed Dan on his flank. Dan cried out in pain. “I'll show you how I take my pain and make it power!” His eyes rolled into the back of his head.

The torturer had a sudden look of fear on his face. Dan's fists clinched together. He began to yell, gathering all his pain and focusing it into power.

Something in his mind clicked. He could feel the power emanating around him, giving him an aura of purity and of evil, of power and innocence, of might and frailty.

He was truly on the brink of insanity; the edge of hell; the gates of heaven.

He looked at the man; both eyes blood shot with anger.

Dan gathered all the force and brought it together in a kick directly in the man's groin. The man's eyes rolled into the back of his head, and he passed out. Dan, for good measure, then kicked him in the head, with less force than the first kick, yet with enough to potentially kill. Dan walked away, limping, slightly distant, and his eyes still red. He still felt the power flowing through him. Blood was flowing down his side and front freely. When he spoke, he sounded distant.

“Let's go. If anyone sees a man named Hagarensi, show him to me. He gets the same.” He walked to Tokuoka.

“Computers are this way.” Tokuoka said. He led them down a hallway. Dan strapped the sword's belt diagonally across his back, putting the sword on his back. He carried the gun in his right hand, ready to shoot anything.

“We don't have much longer.” Mai said. “Remember last time?”

“Oh. Yeah.” Tokuoka said. “We run” They ran down the hallway, made a right, and turned again.

They walked inside a room. There they saw their computers. Their laptops remained in their carriers. Dan and Vanessa took a Laptop, Tokuoka and Tsukasa a CPU. Mai and Dan held the front, Vanessa guarded the back. A man ran in front of them.

“What do you think you're-“ Dan took Mai's weapon, a bat, and slammed it against his head, knocking him out.

“Get out of our way” Dan said when Mai protested his doing that. He handed the bat back.

“Make a right here.” Tokuoka said. They did and found themselves at the front entrance. Mai hit a button as they walked out.

“We left a few surprises along the way.” She said, a smirk on her face. An explosion was heard. Several screams were heard momentarily, but the explosions masked the voices.

“Hope they're not dead.” Junichiro said. “We don't need the police after us.”

“They won't know it's us. Besides, if they say they're after those two, we'll release this tape that shows them being tortured, imprisoned, and all that rot.” Tsukasa said, a smile on her face. A man ran towards them.

“STOP!” Vanessa threw one of the knives at him.

It stuck, surprisingly. The man fell to the ground, clutching his stomach. He pulled the knife out.

“YOU BITCH!” He shouted. Vanessa walked over to the man.

“Ah, ah, ah!” She said. “Bad language!” She kicked him in his wound. The man vomited.

“Harpy.” Vanessa smiled.

“That's better.” She said venomously. Dan limped over to him and kicked the man in the head, breaking his nose and knocking him out. He gasped, as he suddenly felt weak.

Dan felt the power that was holding him up disappear. His eyes plunged backwards as he jumped off the brink of insanity.

A van stopped in front of them just as Dan collapsed to the floor.

“Damn.” Junichiro said. He picked Dan up. “Blood loss.”

“GET IN!” The driver shouted. The five got inside the van. They put Dan in so that he could lie down in the back due to his serious wounds.

“To the hotel Ryo. Drop us off, get a doctor and return.”

“It's so late!” The driver protested.

“This kid's about to die. We can't allow that. Go to a doctor's office, hospital, whatever. Get a doctor who can suture. We also need AB type blood.” Ryo, the driver, nodded.

“Who are you?” Vanessa, who sat in the middle with the two other girls asked.

“I am Ryo, but in The World I am known as Bear.”

“You ARE an old man, just like Mimiru said!”

“Hey, anything past forty is considered old to your generation.” Vanessa laughed then looked at Dan. They had draped a blanket over his lower half for decency. He was unconscious, yet his eyes were open. They were still red, yet they were glazed over. His breathing was very slow and infrequent. He had a smile on his face.

“This kid's pretty rare.” She heard Tokuoka say.

“Why so?”

“He entered into a state of meditation so deep he only had three objectives in his mind: protect us, get the computers and get out alive, and take out anyone who got in the way of meeting the first two goals.”

“His eyes-“ Ryo started.

“Are a side effect. It is a state of mind known as the blood-wrath. It makes the world appear to you through a red haze. This thing could have killed him.”

“How so?” Mai asked.

“Hemorrhaging. Or, if he was left in this state for more than four days, he would die from exhaustion.” Junichiro said.

“This isn't the case, thank the fates.” Tsukasa said. “Um, Bear?”

“Yeah?” Ryo asked.

“What's the plan after he heals?”

“Well, let's wait until he is functional. There is some news that he needs to hear. But, it will have to wait.” Ryo pulled into an upscale hotel. He walked inside and got a wheelchair.

“You girls, go and set up a place on the floor, then go into the other room. Help Vanessa however she needs. We need privacy in the other room. Okay?” The three girls nodded and left. The two guys lifted Dan from the seat and into the wheelchair. They then wheeled him into the room, where the girls had just finished setting the cot up on the floor. Ryo sighed.

“I hope there isn't too much blood that gets onto the floor. I would hate to have to pay to get it cleaned.” Junichiro placed a card on the table.

“He doesn't have much blood left. Besides, CC Corps is taking the bill for this one.”

“YOU swiped one of their cards?” Ryo asked in shock.

“Eye for an eye.” Junichiro replied. “Doctor. Now.”

“Right.”