dogmatix (dogmatix) wrote in no_true_pair, @ 2008-07-05 23:40:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! 2008 twelve characters challenge, author: dogmatix, crossover: ff7/.hack//gu, pairing: cloud/haseo |
Stranded [FFVII/.hack//G.U., Haseo/Cloud, pg-13]
Title: Stranded
Author: dogmatix
Fandom: FFVII/.hack//G.U.
Rating: PG-13 for language
Warnings: none, worksafe
Wordcount: +-750
Prompt: Cloud/Haseo, bondage
Stranded
He managed a strangled groan, trying to think past the crushing, pounding headache. He hurt all over, and there was a confused impression of fighting and then… nothing. What the hell had happened?
“So you’re awake.”
Haseo noticed two pertinent facts past his head attempting to kill him, neither of them good. One, he didn’t know the voice. Two, he was tied down to something large and soft – a bed?
Shit, this was bad. Fear clearing his mind a bit, he blinked his eyes open to a small room and scowled up at the blond man looming over him. “Who the hell are you?”
Haseo scrambled to put it together – he’d been at the park, lured out by the good weather, and he’d been playing The World, Zelkova had invited him and Endrance to some dungeon pounding. So, had this crazy whacked him over the head while he was immersed in The World, insensible to his surroundings? Endrance and Zelkova would know that something was wrong if his avatar suddenly disappeared, but would they be worried enough to check it out?
He didn’t doubt for one minute that Zelkova could track his whereabouts in the real world.
The blond was glaring at him. “Looking for Mother, are you?”
”What?” Oh please don’t let the guy be a nutjob as well as a kidnapper. “No, I am not looking for my mom, let me go!”
Uncertainty drew the blond psycho’s brows together. “You’re not looking for Jenova then?”
“Uhhh…” ‘Jenova? It sounded vaguely religious though he couldn’t place it. “Who?” Forget it. “Look, just let me go, and I promise I won’t-“
“Why do you have white hair?”
Okay now the guy was just fucking with him – he didn’t have… He rolled his eyes to catch a glimpse of his bangs. It was a rather frustrated feeling of ‘not again’ when he saw that the guy was right – his hair was white. The only problem was that his real hair was brown. Seeing as he could feel his body tied to the bedframe and couldn’t feel his visor or controller at all, he was probably stuck in virtual reality. Again.
It was a bit of a mindfuck to switch over from ‘psycho kidnapper’ to ‘trapped in an online game’, but all told he was happier with the situation than he’d been a second ago.
“It just is. Why are you freaking out about my hair?” Was he on some kind of weird alternate server, or had he been flung into another game altogether because this was nothing like he’d seen in The World – for one, it was all too damn real-looking. An experimental advanced VR maybe?
“What can you tell us about the monsters?”
“What monsters?” Haseo barely managed to stay civil, feeling off-balance from the rapid subject jumping, and the pounding headache still hadn’t gone away.
“The ones we killed in the same area we found you. Only more of them keep showing up.”
“If I help you, will you let me up?” Haseo bargained.
The guy was silent for a while, scrutinizing him intently like he was gauging how likely Haseo was to go nuts and kill everyone. Gritting his teeth, Haseo tried to look harmless and trustworthy under the penetrating stare. Finally the guy nodded reluctantly and started untying the knots.
”Was there anyone else with me?” Haseo asked. At least now the vague memory of fighting was starting to make sense, if this was another World-related thing.
“No. Just you and some monsters like nothing we’ve ever seen before.”
Hopefully that meant that Zelkova and Endrance were safe. ”What do these monsters look like?” Haseo flexed a freed hand, getting the circulation going again (and that was freaking him out a bit because even stuck in VR he shouldn’t be feeling his body to this extent. He’d never been hungry the last time, for example, or gotten a headache.)
“Large mechanical seahorses, among others.” The blond – Haseo really had to find out his name – replied flatly, sounding offended. “And we saw something that was… very large, about in the area where we eventually found you. It was gone by the time we reached you.”
Huh? There weren’t any normal monsters that large, except…. Oh.
Except at the end of the Forest of Pain. Which was where the three of them had been. Which meant that there were high-level monsters leaking over from the Forest, and the big end-boss was loose somewhere in an unsuspecting VR game.
That he was stuck in.
This was shaping up to be one of those days.
FIN