Miralover: Yay! My first .Hack Fan Fic. Sorry if I don't get the characters right it has been a while since I have played the games.
Disclaimer: I don't own .Hack//GU.
The bright blue sky in Dol Dona showered above many players as they made their way through the busy marketplace. A certain blade brandier was left to sigh under a booth as he watched many players pass by. He wore a green vest, with green pants that went down to meet brown boots on his feet. He tapped his hand that had brown glove on it against the counter. The brown belts that adorned his pants and his light green undershirt jingled as he shifted from one foot to the other. His light brown hair that stopped at his shoulders and went into a long ponytail that stopped at his waist swayed a bit as he turned his head to look for more possible customers.
Ever since the news of kids who have been coming up with the epidemic of Doll syndrome, has left the honey brown eyed Silabus nervous. Not nervous for himself, but for Haseo and Gaspard. He wouldn't know what to do if they came down with it. He knew he shouldn't be thinking about this right now since he was supposed to be taking care of the guild shop. Gaspard had trusted him in this small task since it appeared that Gaspard had to go meet another player called Piros the Third or something like that. Being the nice person that he was he happily accepted without much of a thought. Now he wished that he hadn't, but it wasn't in his nature to turn someone down.
He flashed his usual smile as other players walked by. Before he knew it he was greeted by a familiar face, Atoli. The harvest cleric in question looked like she was searching for something or someone.
"Hello, Silabus." She greeted with a little bow. As she stood back up she straightened the end of her green dress and made sure that her white hat was still in place.
"Hello, Atoli. What brings you here?" Silabus asked in wonder.
"O-oh, nothing. I was just wondering if you have seen Haseo by any chance?" She asked as a glimmer of hope gleamed in her eyes as she gave him a warm smile.
Silabus looked away in thought. He hadn't seen Haseo in quite some time now. It always seemed like he was busy doing other things now. He had always wondered what the silver-haired boy was up to now. After Haseo joined in the tournament without him, he had felt a bit envious of Atoli and Alkaid. He knew that he had been overreacting though, and quickly brushed the thought aside.
"S-silabus? Are you okay?" Atoli questioned him as she peered closer to his face.
"Oh! Sorry about that. I haven't seen Haseo in quite sometime now. I guess I got caught up in my thoughts." He replied sheepishly as he backed a bit away from Atoli.
"I see. Well, if you see him could you tell him that I was looking for him?" she asked was she tilted her head in a cute manner.
"Sure. I'll let him know if I happen to run into him." Silabus replied with a nod.
Just as quickly as she had come, she left. Silabus sighed with relief as he watched the last traces of Atoli leave his sight. It wasn't that he disliked her or anything, but he really wanted to be alone to gather his thoughts. Lately, everything had been pointing back to Haseo in his mind. Why couldn't he get the black adept rouge out of his head?
"Silabus!!!!!!!" yelled a very excited Gaspard as he hobbled over to the booth. Gaspard's ears flopped around as he hobbled his way over through the thick crowd. It sure did seem to be a bit more crowed than normal, but Gaspard only concentrated on making it over to Silabus before he tripped over something.
Silabus smiled as Gaspard safely reached him. "Hey, Gaspard." He replied cheerfully to his beast like friend. "How did it go with your friend?"
"It went great! I found some more items that we can sell too. Look!" Gaspard replied with a smile as he laid out some items on the booth. Most of the items consisted of healing potions and scrolls.
"That's great Gaspard. Our inventory was starting to run a bit low." He replied as he pointed to back that held only a few items left.
"Woah! You sold almost everything that fast?" Gaspard questioned in awe. Only twenty minutes ago the back had been piled up with a bunch of stuff that Haseo gave to them to sell off.
"I guess I did." He replied as he also looked at the back himself. "But there sure are a lot of people here today. I wonder what is going on."
"The first match in the tournament will start in two days. I bet everyone is stocking up on weapons and potions for the occasion." Gaspard replied with glee. "I can't wait to see Haseo fight. It's going to be awesome."
Silabus nearly frowned at hearing Haseo's name, but caught himself in time. He put on his best smile that he could gather at the moment and nodded in agreement with Gaspard. Whether Silabus knew it or not, Gaspard had caught him nearly frowning. As Gaspard was just about to voice his question on it, a customer came up to the booth requesting to purchase some scrolls.
"I'll be right with you." Gaspard called to the player. He quickly turned to Silabus and smiled. "You can go do something now, Silabus. I'll handle the booth. Thank you for covering for me." He replied as he quickly ushered Silabus out of the booth. Gaspard would have to question Silabus later on the subject when they were alone.
Silabus was a bit taken aback by Gaspard's sudden push out of the booth. "Okay. No problem the pleasure was all mine." He managed to get out before he was lost in a crowd of people. Now was the perfect opportunity for him to gather his thoughts. He calmly walked past most of the other guild shops until one caught is attention. There were plants that were being put on display. Before he knew it, he had already approached the booth to take a closer look at the plants. He crouched down till his face was leveled with one of the plants. He took a hold of one of the leaves to look at.
"Hey! I see you have taken an interest in these plants here!" boomed a loud voice above Silabus's head. He backed away in surprise and stood up straight to see who was talking to him. This player had long green hair that went to their waist in ponytail. He wore similar clothing to what Silabus wore but only in the color of maroon.
"Oh, yes. I was just looking." Silabus replied with a nod as he didn't want to lead the player into thinking that he was going to pay for it. Said player looked to the left and then to right before scurrying right next to Silabus.
"You can take it for free. No one seems interesting in it and frankly I don't like it." The player whispered in his ear before grabbing the plant and handing to Silabus. The player began to look over his shoulder before pushing Silabus along.
Silabus was a bit shocked at his luck as he got lost in the crowd holding a plant. He wondered where he should put it though. "Hmmm….The guild could always use a plant." He replied cheerfully to himself as he bounded to the guild. He had always wanted to try out one of these plants before, but he had never thought of where he could put it though. He looked through the crowd hoping to find a warp platform so he didn't have to go through a long walk to the guild. He was in luck as he spotted one not to far away. The only probably was getting through the crowd with a plant in his arms.
"Excuse me." Silabus replied for the tenth time as he squeezed his way between two people as he finally reached the warping platform. He stood next to it and selected the warp closest to the guild. He sighed as blue beams of light surrounded him and warped him to his next destination. He was glad that there weren't many people in this area.
He quickly approached two large doors and opened them to enter Canard. He took in the view of the guild for a quick moment. He still couldn't get over how much nicer it looked like compared to the older one. Death Grunty appeared to be sitting on the red cushioned bench with its arms crossed deep in thought. 'That's odd. Death Grunty doesn't normally do that.' Silabus thought as he walked up the two flights of steps and set the plant down by the railing. He wasn't sure where to place it for the moment so this spot would be okay till he could find a suitable one. He kneeled by the plant and inspected it. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary with the plant, but Silabus had his suspicions. After all, it was rare to get something free from someone who was not it your party.
After five minutes of searching for any defects or anything of the like, Silabus gave up. He couldn't find anything that was wrong it at all. Just as he turns around, Death Grunty is right beside him peering at the plant. Silabus gave Death Grunty an odd look as it nearly had given him a heart attack. Death Grunty didn't seem to notice though as it continued to peer at the plant with curiosity. Now Silabus knew that something was definitely wrong. He watched as Death Grunty poked at one of the leaves and turned around with its arms crossed.
"I don't like it. Get rid of it. Oink." Death Grunty grumbled as it walked down the stairs to its red cushioned bench.
Even though Death Grunty looked like Haseo and acted like Haseo, it still made Silabus wonder what was really going on. He had heard and read in my forums that the guild grunties tended to act exactly like the guild master, but Death Grunty hadn't been around Haseo that long. Or…at least that is what he thought. Silabus stood up and walked down the stairs to stand in front of Death Grunty. He really wanted to question the grunty about it, but he figured it had something to do with Haseo and not the grunty.
He took a seat next Death Grunty, before fishing for his manual at his desk. He knew it had to be somewhere where. Ah! He had now just remembered that he had placed it in the bottom drawer of his desk. He quickly pulled the book out and began flipping through the pages. He had wanted to look up the plant in the manual and see what he had to do for it. While he was doing so he had left his character to just sit while staring ahead at the front door. Death Grunty took the opportunity to wiggle his way onto Silabus's lap and get himself comfortable.
Once Silabus was done reading, he placed the manual back in its right place and turned his attention to the screen. He was surprised when he found Death Grunty in his lap. Not only that, but Death Grunty appeared to be asleep. Silabus peered at the sleeping grunty and placed a hand on its head. He had to admit that Death Grunty looked cute, though. Now he didn't have the heart to wake the grunty up like he had planned to. After all, it has rare to even touch Death Grunty let alone hug with him. 'Just like Haseo.' Silabus thought with smile.
Miralover: Woot! The next chapter should be up soon so stay tuned.