.hack//SIGN Fan Fiction / .hack//LIMINALITY Fan Fiction / .hack//Legend Of Twilight Bracelet Fan Fiction ❯ Episode Three: .hack//Liberty ❯ Ghostbusters ( Chapter 15 )

Chapter Fifteen- Ghostbusters- The World/The Real World

 

“What the hell?” Sircosgi said. The entire town was filled with the corpses.

“How many people have been affected by this?” Badger said. Sircosgi looked closer at them.
“They aren't what we think they are.” He said.

“What do you mean?” Orca asked. Sircosgi looked at the group.

“I want you to start killing all of the corpses. HELBA, transfer EVERY corpse from every field here.”

“You're killing-“ Helba protested.

“Trust me.” Sircosgi said. Badger looked at Sircosgi.

“You monster.” The town began to fill up with bodies. Orca got what Sircosgi was doing.

“Leave one of each.” He said. The others caught on. Badger was still in confusion.

“This was a carefully planned out attack of Chaos, the Horseman, NOT the hacker, and possible Conquest. They took all the skins of those fallen and duplicated them repeatedly. If we kill all but one of each, we may be able to save them.”

“And if not.”

“I'm not sure. At the least we can trace the data in them and find out where is has been. Helba, I am sending one over to you,” Sircosgi said. “Read its data.” He gated over to Net Slum, holding the skin of Joker. He then gated back over and instructed everyone to start killing every Joker that remained.

 

Casper smiled.

“They're falling right into our trap.” She said.

“You've done well, my child. Go now and observe from a closer distance.” A voice said. She smiled.

“Let's jam.”

 

The group, after three hours of constant work, had managed to delete the skins, just as planned. They looked at the ones remaining.

“Everyone take one and gate over to Net Slum.” Sircosgi instructed as he led the pack. Casper too gated over to Net Slum, yet she did it as to not be seen by the group. She smiled. They might even get the hacker, she thought. They congregated all the corpses into one area. Helba looked at them.

“I am unable to read the data without ripping the skin to shreds. Sorry.” She deposited Joker's corpse with the others. A light flashed. The bodies all melted.

“What's happening?” Sora asked. Casper leapt from the sky.

“Thanks.” A distorted voice said. Suddenly the three conjoined Horsemen formed from the melted skins. Everyone just stared.

It looked like raw meat. It was dripping blood everywhere. It just looked like, well, death. Sircosgi exchanged his staff, put on skirmisher gear and wielded two swords, just to begin with. He looked at Casper.

“How?” He demanded.

“It just is.” She said. “I command you to attack them.” The Horsemen did just that. The part that resembled Conquest, the body, struck out at the group, knocking them everywhere. The two masks of Chaos were found where the breasts would be. They lashed out at those who remained where they were with a beam, knocking several backwards. Injustice was the head, and it glared at people, emitting a ray that lowered their defensive points. Sircosgi looked at everyone.

“Do or die.” He just said before charging at the Horsemen. The others followed suit. The Wavemaster's primary job was health recovery, though they were able to raise defensive points every once in a while. Helba, however, didn't join them. She was in the front lines, casting powerful magic spells that would have obliterated any normal monster. But this was not in any way normal. She got blasted backwards by a spell. Sircosgi ran after her. She looked at him.

“Help me up.” She asked. Sircosgi did so. Helba looked at him.

“I don't know how to beat it.” She said in a moment of rare frailty. Sircosgi thought for a second.

“Divide and conquer.” Sircosgi said. “It is a theme in both Epitaphs. If we can divide them, we may be able to get the upper hand.” Helba nodded and composed herself.

“I will rally the others. What is your plan.”

“I'm gonna kill Casper.” Helba nodded. Sircosgi rushed over to Casper who was watching the events unfold.

“They can't deal any damage because they don't know the secret.” She said in a singsong voice. Sircosgi stopped running about five feet away from Casper.

“Hey!” He shouted. Casper spun around, Valhalberd in hand.

“Prepare to die.” Casper said, moving to an attack stance. Sircosgi whipped his halberd into play.

“Wanna Jack with the Ripper?” He asked, his voice dripping with anger. Casper rushed him, slicing at him. Sircosgi rolled underneath the attack and swung at Casper's legs, who just jumped into the air and stabbed downwards. Sircosgi's right arm was cut from Casper's attack. He growled.

 

“OKAY!” Helba cried out. “Attack the seams.” Everyone centralized their attacks on the seams holding the Horsemen together. Light began to show from where the seams were ripping. “CONTINUE!” Helba cried, adding her magic to the attack. Injustice and Chaos separated from Conquest, giving them three separate entities to fight. Helba charged at Conquest and bashed it on its chest. Everyone then attacked the closest Horseman, finding that they were mortal and had an extremely high HP amount.

 

Sircosgi changed from the halberd to a Twin Blade weapon, one similar to that of Sora. Casper laughed.

“Is that your gift, class jumping? Mighty pathetic.” She said, sarcastically. Sircosgi just charged her and performed a break dance style of attack, hitting her with both his Skirmisher and Twin Blade weapons. The attack knocked her backwards, giving her a moment to look at the remnants of the Horsemen. Chaos was gone, Injustice was laying there unable to attack. Conquest was almost gone. She looked at Sircosgi, who had equipped two swords.

“Damn you.” She said as she charged him, halberd's point ready to skewer him. He laughed as she reached him. When the point was only five feet from him, he used his swords to deflect it upwards, giving him a clear shot at kicking Casper's mid-section. An action that he did. Casper dropped to the ground seven feet from where she had once stood. Her halberd was nowhere in sight. She looked back at the others. Injustice was getting the last strike before death. She felt two cold pieces of steel on her shoulders. She looked back up to see Sircosgi.

“As Bearer of Light, I do hereby delete you.” He brought the swords together-

-And nothing happened. Casper's body was permeable. She looked, first in surprise, then in joy.

“Looks like my boss doesn't want me to die currently. Oh well. Thanks for your help.” She said in joyous jubilation. Sircosgi looked in surprise.

“Help?” He asked himself. There was a cry from the others as they found the two other books. He looked back to see Casper seeping through the ground. He plunged his sword through her midsection, but to no effect. She laughed at his frustration. Sircosgi just walked back to the group.

“Okay, do we have the two books?” He asked. Ouka nodded.

“Yessir.”

“Good. I want them to be placed under Helba's strongest protection. We can't afford for them to be stolen. I want to meet in two days. Until then, everyone is on leave. Don't log in unless you absolutely feel the need to. Except Helba, of course.” Helba smiled at that. “I will see you in forty-eight hours.” He logged out, followed by everyone else. Five seconds later he logged back in. Helba smiled again.

“What seems to be the problem?” She asked. Sircosgi walked closer to her.

“I want the books placed in three separate shields. At no point should they be within ten feet of each other. Apparently we were helping Death's cause. I think it may be related to the books. I will try to figure out what it means. I trust you can ask Chaos?” Helba nodded. “Good. I leave you to your task.” He logged out. Helba's smile faded.

“Just as confused as him.” She placed the books in her strongest shields and left to write Chaos. Aura came out of hiding.

“What's wrong?” She asked Helba.

“Everything.”