.hack//SIGN Fan Fiction / .hack//LIMINALITY Fan Fiction / .hack//Legend Of Twilight Bracelet Fan Fiction ❯ Episode Two: .hack//Legacy ❯ Pre- Party Festivities ( Chapter 1 )

Book One: Terror Wave

 

Chapter One- Pre-Party Festivities- The Real World

 

"Hurry up Vanessa! We're going to be late!" Dan yelled from the bottom of the stairs at Vanessa's house. He was tapping his foot, waiting. Jas and Morgan, meanwhile, were invading the fridge.

"Hey Dan? Want a soda?" Morgan half-yelled from the kitchen.

"At the rate we're going, sure." He replied, mainly to Vanessa.

"Oh, SHOVE IT!" Vanessa cried from her room. Jas laughed.

"Jeez, Dan, you HAD to go out with the slow one?" Dan laughed. Morgan threw the soda at Dan, hitting him in the back.

"OUCH!"

"Sorry!" Morgan said, walking out. She had picked out a leprechaun outfit, and it fit. She even braided her hair in order to fit the part. "Sorry," she repeated, "but 'tis the luck of the Irish!" She said as she ducked out of the room with a laugh.

"Almost ready?" Dan called up the stairs.

"Five more minutes!" Jas walked into the room. He had his outfit in a bag, and wasn't going to put it on until they got to the party. He said that it was some sort of surprise. Dan laughed when he heard of that.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave when secrets we do conceive." He said when he regained his composure. He, however, had also made it a surprise on what he was going to wear, but only for Vanessa. For the past couple of weeks, whenever he found the time, he had been sewing together an outfit similar to that of his skin in The World. He had even grown out his hair and dyed it the day before to match that of his character. He was even considering keeping it long. He liked it, regardless of what Jas said. Right before they went over to Vanessa's house, he had Jas paint his face to match that of the game. Their parents formally disproving of the outfit yet trying to accept it, they had thrown Dan the keys and told him to drive safely. This would be the first time he had driven at night with his license, which he had received only two days prior to the party. His parents, although cautious, trusted his driving ability.

He had kept the costume, his hair color, and the fact that he was driving a surprise for Vanessa, a surprise he hoped she liked. Morgan, finally overcome with her impatience, stalked up the stairs and knocked on Vanessa's door.

"I'm coming in."

"Uh, no!" Vanessa cried out. Morgan laughed and opened the door. What met her eyes shocked her.

"OH MY GOSH!"

"SSSH!" Vanessa shrieked before pulling Morgan into the room and closing the door. Jas had his head peeking around the kitchen corner.

"What was that all about?" He asked Dan.

"Who knows? It must be a girl thing." He sighed as he opened his can of soda.

 

"Girl, WHERE did you get that?" Morgan asked Vanessa about her costume. Vanessa smiled.

"I made it myself. What's Dan wearing?" She asked. Morgan bit her lip.

"It's a surprise." Vanessa sighed.

"Oh well, I guess that's his touché for my not telling him what I'm wearing." Morgan squealed.

"I have never seen anyone wearing that make it look so, I dunno, hot!" Vanessa smiled as she applied her lipstick.

"Well, I'm done. It only took me, what, twenty minutes?"

"And two hours." Morgan stated. Vanessa threw a pillow at her, which hit her right in the nose.

"Okay, okay, but I wanted to look just right, you know, for my man." Morgan nodded.

"Well, are you ready to go Vanessa?" Morgan asked.

"Yeah." The two opened the door.

"Final-" Was all that Dan got out of his mouth when Vanessa walked through the door. She was wearing a costume, exactly like that of Raven from Teen Titans. His mouth gaped.

"Well, well, well!" She said, pulling down her hood to reveal shorter, straighter, blue- purple hair.

"Looks like someone else jumped on the hair dye wagon. Still," she stroked his hair, "you look great!"

"Uh, oh, I, uh, you, I," Dan stuttered.

"I'll take that as a 'you look nice too'." Dan smiled.

"WOW!" He finally got out. Vanessa raised her hands.

"He's ALIVE!"

"Hey Dan- WOW! Vanessa, or Raven should I say?" Jas said as he stuck his head around the corner. "I guess we're ready to go?" Vanessa nodded.

"Who's taking us?" Dan smiled as he held the keys between his thumb and middle finger. "Jeez, DAN? Full of surprises tonight, aren't we?" Dan laughed.

"Well, shall we go?" He offered his arm to Vanessa, to which she crossed with her own. The group walked out of the house and to the car.

"Nice ride." Vanessa said of his mother's minivan.

"Shut it!" Dan said, sarcastically. "Hope y'all don't mind the Seatbelts being the music."

"Actually-" Jas started to say. Dan looked directly at him and spoke jovially.

"Good, because if you did I would have to make you walk."

"Never mind." Jas said as he buckled his seatbelt. "Nothing like a little Jupiter Jazz and Tank to get you going for a party."

"I know, right?" Vanessa said. The opening lines of Tank hit the air as they pulled out from the driveway.