.hack//SIGN Fan Fiction / .hack//LIMINALITY Fan Fiction / .hack//Legend Of Twilight Bracelet Fan Fiction ❯ Episode Two: .hack//Legacy ❯ Comatic Nightmare ( Chapter 16 )

Chapter Sixteen- Comatic Nightmare- The Real World/ The World

 

Dan rushed into Morgan, Lisa and Amanda's room. The doctor glared at him, Vanessa, and Jas before speaking.

“Visiting Hours are-“

“Screw that!” Dan said. “What's the matter with them?” The doctor sighed.

“Okay. If I tell you, you will leave?”

“Yes.” Dan promised.

“Sign the visitor's log, please.” The three did so.

“WELL?” Jas demanded. The doctor sighed.

“They are having what is called a Comatic Nightmare. It is a dangerous situation because they can't awaken from it, thus their mind is in constant terror. It could damage them. Permanently.”

“So, what would happen if, say, their conscious minds were drifting on, say, an Astral Plane?” Jas posed.

“Then this would mean that they would be fighting something. I am unsure of that, because there isn't an answer to that question, because it is INVALID! Conscious minds can't leave the body.”

“You have a lot to learn.” Vanessa said to the doctor before wheeling around and walking out of the room.

“Ditto.” Jas said as he left.

“Take care of them. Or else.” Dan said. He glared at the doctor.

“Who, who are you?”

“We are Dothackers.” Dan said as he bowed and left the room.
“Dothackers?” The doctor said, slowly. “It can't be.”

 

Dan drove Vanessa home, got some take-out for him and Jas, and went home. He sighed.

“Jas?”

“Yeah?”

“Don't log in to The World tonight. I have some things to do, and I don't want anyone here getting hurt.”

“I see. If you need anything, call?”

“Will do.” Dan said as he put on his visor.

 

The doctor, Dr. Sunsi, looked at his medical records.

“The Dothackers have risen again?” He laughed as he dialed a number.

“Yes, CC Corps? Could I speak with your threat management supervisor? Sure, I'll hold.” He waited for a minute or so. “Yes, this is Billy Sunsi, a doctor here at Hodenheim Medical Center. I had a group of kids come in here, claiming to be Dothackers. Yes, I heard them correctly. They were here to see some of their friends. Yes, they're in a comatose state. What? You want the names of the Dothackers?” He looked at the log. “Okay, here they are.”

 

“Helba!” Sircosgi called out on Net Slum.

“Yes?” She replied from behind him.

“Three have entered into Comatic Nightmare State. You know what this means.”

“Injustice has risen. But HOW?” She asked, perplexed. “It's only been one day since you felled Chaos.” She thought. “What do you propose?” Sircosgi smiled.

“Glad you asked. Find for me the player known as Shinjitsu. If he is off, find me Tamia. It is vital I speak to one of them, preferable the first.” Helba nodded.

“You look like you are going to kill someone.” She commented.

“Sorry. It's just I am sick and tired of all of this. Innocents getting hurt, my friends on the brink of death.”

“You read Goodkind.” She commented.

“Yes. I am NOT going to ask how you know that.”

“Wizard's Third Rule.” She said as she went off to find Shinjitsu.

“Wizard's Third Rule,” Sircosgi quoted, “Passion Rules Reason.”

 

Twenty minutes later Helba returned with Shinjitsu.

“What do you want with me?” He asked.

“Simple.” Sircosgi said. “A, I need an explanation of the Epitaph of Ragnarok. B, I need to get some information. C, You have some `splainin to do!” Shinjitsu sighed.

“Morgan told you?”

“Not quite. She has fallen.” Shinjitsu looked up in surprise. “She left me information that YOU gave her. Information that led to her doom. Explain.”

“I would much rather do this in the presence of all the Listen-“

“YOU HAVE NO SUCH OPTION.” Sircosgi was the utmost figure of doom. He calmed down, sighed, and spoke calmly and clearly. “If you don't do as I tell, I will put you through so much pain, it will scare you. Then I will make you fall comatose, and I will torture your conscious mind until it tells me what I want to know. I will then kill you. Are we clear?” Shinjitsu had turned VERY pale. Helba merely smiled.

“Very well.”

“Start out with a few pieces of information. However, understand this: the entire conversation is being recorded. We will check it to be true or not. If it isn't, what I just threatened will seem like Paradise. Heard of the Medieval Pear?” Shinjitsu gulped. “Okay then. A: Who are you?”

“I am Shinjitsu, second in command of the Listeners, the information mercenaries of The World.”

“Have you, or any of your institution, leaked information concerning our endeavors to the Maroon Knights?”

“Nothing too specific. We did tell them of Conquest's demise. That's all.”

“Have you done any dealings with the Enemy?”

“No.”

“Very good. Now, where did you get the Epitaph of Ragnarok?”

“It was handed to me VIA one of my agents.”

“Which one?”

“Tamia.”

“I see. Now, I am going to read it. I want an explanation.”

“We have yet to understand half of what it says!” Shinjitsu protested.

“Yet you told Joker that she was going to fall.”

“That is one of the few parts we have.”

“Well, tell me what you have, and I might be able to piece it together to get a decent idea.”

Sircosgi began to read.