Hugo: Chapter 3

The sky was covered a orange glow. The sun danced into the windows of every home that allowed it to enter. Slowly awokethe people of the Veritas. A man Stood just before a large gate that reached high into the sky. This was his former home.

Lin would place his hands on the cold steel gates and gave a push. The area where he'd place his hand would leave a print. Soon, from the print, a line of light would sprew from the base of the gates and swim to the top. With a loud unlocking sound the gate would slowly open. An automated voice would say "Recognized Number 0.2. Welcome Master Hugo"

Lin would smile and continue into The Hugo Manor. His home. Hopefully he could restore it to its original state. That was his plan to let the People of Dusk City to know their protectors have returned. The Hugo family is back.

Lin walked through the courtyards and soon he was at the gate. He knew that the only was to get the manor back on its feet was to repair the gravity rings around the manor. So Lin went inside for a little assistance.

Once inside the house he made his way to the basement of the manor. Much of the damage in the Mess Hall was clear except for the big whole in the ceiling. But he would worry about that later. First he had to give the place life. Lin came to his old lab. The room was engulfed in test tubes and containers of different chemicals. The area looked like a perfect match for the Mentally scientifically mad person. Persay..

He would walk over to a table with what seem like a human on it. He would place his hand on her chest. "KIRA.. Awaken authorization Shojuku."

With a few clicks the girl would arise and greet the Hugo man with a hug. She was happy to see him again it had been so long. " Hello, KIRA I've missed you too. So I wanted to restore the manor. Will you help me?"

The girl would nod in assurance and with that the two of them would begin to work.

As the two worked on their repairs, the machinery that they were using would automatically begin to be hooked up into the Data Realm and allow access for the data of the Veritas to pass into them and begin to automatically assist in repairs, once the machines were functioning well enough to get good reception from the wifi that was naturally ever present. The better things got, eventually bits and streams of data would begin to pour in from all around, both collecting around the house and forming the Veritas online system, Tabrynth, right before Linomaru's eyes. It looked like his old friend Khrona, except with deep indigo colored hair. This disembodied digital head, which Lino may or may not have remembered as 'Tabrith' back on Vescrutia, would not assemble beyond his neck, which trailed off like a wispy ghost tail of streaming data that merely drifted back out into the aether of the Veritas until the energy here could fully sustain his presence. "Lino?" The floating head of indigo hair inquired passively, "Is that you?" Reception was bad here with the manor as it was, meaning that on his end, there was static as well both visually and verbally until it was fully established.

The two of them, Lin and KIRA, put the panels and screens back up. They work quickly remembering what they could. Palcing wires and cords back in place. Soon the buttons would glow. But it was obvious, the manor still needed the other mechanisms working outsidr the house. IIf he had restored the manor back to its full power it would float again and let the people of Dusk city know their Light has returned. The man and woman worked eith the mechanical arms that aid with little power they had. But soon it all paid off. "Phew.." whipped the Brown haired man as he rubbed his hand across his cheeck to catch the sweat droplet that ran down his forehead. *"The manor is at minimum power Linomaru. Reconstruct has begun and..."* the Android was interrupted by a buzz and stack sound that came from the screen in front of them.

The man looked to the scr3n and saw his friend Khrona but he looked abit different. Lin remembered back before the crystallization of the Veritas. He tried to save as many as he could in thr end. But he failed. So he wanted to redeem himself somehow.. He looked to the screen nonetheless and came to realize the figure on the screen was Tabrynith. A network a.i. that assited with most things digitally in the veritas. If lin could increase the signal of the internal network to his computer then maybe He could activate the SR-7 robot to help out with repairs. " Yes it's me Tabrynith. .. Im going to try and increase the power here. Can You send a bit of power my way?" He asked as he walked closer to the large fifty feet tall screen. He would thrus his hands out forward and out would pop small holographic screens all different colors. This was Linomaru's network signal. He would began moving the screns around and out of postion, hopefully, TAbrynith was catching the destortions Lin was making to help aid the network errors. The thing about Lin was he was able to contain information much like a computer. He stufy the Veritas online system, learning how to connect it to the manor to help it run.

"Can you you see th em Tabby?" HE said jokingly. He thought the name fitted him and always wanted to call him that.

The longer the two of them worked on the manor, the more stable its connection would begin to be. From there on, Tabrynth would be able to hear Lino more clearly, and damages would be repaired much more swiftly, the more focus of Tabrynth's consciousness got to it. "There we go," he said, now being able to see and hear and speak without any static. "You said what? You want us to hook you up?" The disembodied digital head would disperse into fine, thin streams of data that spread all across the room, leaving only the eyes intact and glowing a deep violet. Each of the screens flickered in the glowing eyes, whilst the room around them would flicker with distortions that matched Linomaru's own, thus allowing for synchonization with the wifi once both connections were made clear. "Connection Complete." Soon after, more of the 'Hugo Manor' would be complete, and Tabrynth would be standing before Linomaru Hugo in his deep violet jacket and jeans. A casual attire. "Yeah, I can see now. I also updated the servers so that you can get a full body image of me instead of just a head when you call me." Tabrynth kickd his lg to the side relatively casually. "So, what's up?"

Linomaru began to walk the room after Tabby's announcement of the connection between the two of them was stronger. A sigh of relief, as he thought for a second he was going to have to do a lot of work. He came to face the hologram silhouette. He'd raise a brow, He noticed how shockingly he resembles Khrona b7t he had to move forward with his plan.

"I need you to explain what happened four years ago.. But we have to start here at the manor... Where did Tabitha come from exactly?"

The man only knew so little but he knew the girl who claimed to be his second daughter had a much bigger role that day. So he intended to find out. His voice was calm and collected. The tone he took carried in the room but it was Stern. The man's stance alone set the level of seriousness of his question.

The girl behind him would stop working on the computer. She turned and faced the two men before her. The tension in the room went from being a friendly greeting into a dead zone. It was like with Lin's question came a stillness that quiets the room. But somehow she knew it would have to come to that.

Tabrynth looked coldly to Linomaru, staring blankly and without emotion, droning monotonously; "Why don't you ask her yourself?" That seemed like the most logical option. Suddenly, the room started to buzz with static, and Tabrynth's image would begin to distort heavily in violent discord.

At that moment, 'Hugo Manor' would be updated to 'Manor Malfortuna,' which was Tabritha's own personal house. She stood at the front gate with Linomaru in place of where Tabrynth was once standing, staring blankly at him. "Thanks for giving me this house to haunt, Foster Father." She blinked. "What happened four years ago is that Vescrutia fucked up, got wrapped up in horrible evil and killed itself after the Tensei escaped and lived happily ever after." She blinked again, keeping the stalest, palest and most serious icy expression on her face. In her eyes gleamed a sliver of silver. "Anything else?"

Lin would be caught off guard by the sudden transformation of the Manor. He stood at the gates and wondered how did he get there. Why was he denied access to his home? His mind would settle once he heard Tabrita. But he was still puzzled. He took a few moments to collect himself as she gave a very blunt response. But that didn't answer his question. He hadn't asked about the random planet that was lost in the battle of Insanity. "I want to know. Where did you come from? And what was your true purpose of coming to the many all those years ago. Why did Khrona create you?" The man's voice was still in the same tone. He had to find out what was the motive of it all. Maybe then he could find out what he needed to do.

The man personally was in distort. He had been doing this his whole life and still hee had questions. Things that needed to be answered. He had a family now and things were just starting to go well. But he had to find this out in order to continue. It's how he has always been. HD never wants to leave things unanswered."What do you mean by 'to hunt'? This isn't the Manor is it?"

Finally, Tabritha blinked. Her pitch black eyes quivered, being asked these questions, believing it to be common and logical sense as to why these things were happening. Then again, Linomaru and the Hugos have only recently been thawed, despite all the time that had elapsed, so the mental stability from coming out of stasis from what happened all that time ago was a bit more strenuous than perhaps Tabritha figured it would be. She was silent for a while.

"I came from my biological father, obviously, just like any child." She furrowed her brow, but the rest of her face remained expressionless. "My purpose in coming to you all those years ago was specifically to preserve my life and my mind, because I would have died and my memory would have never been restored if it hadn't." Everything that happened within the Blue Moon was for Tabitha, and Tabritha was a byproduct of the fusion between the minds herself and her father as one."He HAD me because he LOVES me," she said with a bit of a hint of frustration, that being the only break in her emotionless tone. "That's why he's gone through such lengths to preserve my life, specifically. Just like you and your real children. Correct?" It seemed like Linomaru only thought of her as some sort of object, showing that he truly knew very little to nothing about the true Tabritha, of which she was already very much aware of before the two of them interacted. How could he, when all he'd ever talked to was an amnesiac all before the realization of whose real daughter she was?

"When the Hugo Manor was destroyed on the day that I got my memory back from my Father, himself, and the Tensei were lifted up from the earth, I claimed it as my own and rooted my spirit to it, as spirits do once they Possess something." Her eyes furrowed more deeply into her otherwise blank face. "That's why I came to you now. To thank you in person." As an incorporeal entity, Tabritha, in her many ways, had already arranged for the two of them to meet in person so that she could thank him properly before she went about her business. There were a few more people rooted to her that she hovered around sometimes, but they were irrelevant until it was necessary for her to bring them directly to her face for other finalizing decrements, such as this. "Does that suffice?"

Lin would listen to the girl speak. Her tone dull emotionless, he took in the words. But the girl was wrong this was his family's home and he knew one day someone would attempt something like this. A soul is to always protect its home. So Lin had a series of seals around the great gates and it's massive walls. The Alchemist would walk to the center of the gate. He would thrust his arms forward, soon a transmutation circle would appear on the gate. Putting his hands to his chest, he began to draw power from him self.

"I'm sorry I can't let you take this away from me. I earned this place after Kira died. I put so much work in this place no way. This is The Hugo Manor..My home.. So yeah I do got a problem.

Release the seal. Heaven's Gate!

This is my plan. Once my Home had went down. This was my gift to Kira and our children. This was to be our home for ever so I am projecting it as so. I created this seal to protect my home from acts by spirit's like yourselves. My home is that where the first saint sleeps. The tensei don't know what I been up to in this Manor over my years. "

Lin would slam his hands on the ground and a circle would appear under his feet. The moment that happened four more seals would appear on the gate then two more bits one on the walls of gate.  A light would shine from under the manor as if the power was being drawn out of the land. It would impale all what was behind the gate.  Swallowing it all into a infinite black whole. The heaven's Gate is much like vacuum. But this takes some time like has only begun his assault. " Now I see.. this whole time you where after the manor. I will not allow it. If I can't get it neither will you. being a Alchemist you learn an important Law. You must give something of equal value for the use of this power. I'm going to transmute a new home by give up this one to the demons."

Lin had gave the manor up all of it. To get a better one. Slowly the manor ripped apart. The ground and trees and all the like being transferred into what Lin had envisioned so many years ago.

"Manor Malfortuna :: Set," Tabritha commanded, all of the loose streaming Data that buzzed around the distortions all coming together and compacting in a solid reality, "... There's loose data all around the entire Veritas that establishes the reality. If you destroy the inside of something, the outside can rebuild it from the outside in." What Linomaru would see before his eyes would be Manor Malfortuna, completely restored, to the finest extent of the current data that was registered for it. "You can make a new Hugo Manor. You may have abandoned this one, but I still kept the data." The Tensei did not erase data haphazardly. It was all useful; even the trashy bits, which were used for scraps and spare parts in the Industrial District. "So, what are you going to sacrifice to me to restore the data you just destroyed? I may have already restored it, but you did speak of Law and Equivalent Exchange. Everything you see here belongs to the Tensei, down to the very air breathed. So, now that you've been allowed to destroy something, maybe you should pay for the damages." Tabritha's eyebrow twitched. "You break, you buy."

Closing her eyes and realizing that this wasn't going to work out in a manner that was actually productive, she would immediately just throw out a suggestion before Linomaru went around trying to corrupt some more data haphazardly and become an enemy. "You have a few options. One, you can side with me and I negate the obvious treason to give you a new house." Things like that could be overlooked in certain instances, but normally only under key circumstances. "Two, you can live outside the Veritas in Valparaiso, the Lawless Land, where you can do whatever the hell you want to and nobody cares." He might find that suitable if he didn't want to stay in the Veritas. "Three, give me all that energy that came from inside of you and however much of my stuff you destroyed is how much of your life energy gets drained out of you into me," since that was also a method of payment through draining life via physical labor or time consumption. "Four, you use your own energy to acquire everything within the Veritas on your own without any help, including your house..." Granted, the parts of the Veritas that would naturally be functioning around Linomaru would always be available to him in order for him to acquire everything he ever wanted on his own, but he would be considered a normal resident and receive no form of special treatment, which was a privilege and not a right, which it seemed like perhaps he didn't understand. "Or, five, get out." Linomaru seemed to think that this was his property, when literally nothing belonged to him. Though the Veritas was free and open land, it was also still owned and governed by a functioning system that allowed it to be open and free land. "You can also fight me if you like, and if you win, I'll do what you like. You've got a lot of options, but some of them are not good. Select your choice carefully." Tabritha's tone was cold and harsh, but straight to the point and completely concise. "No matter what you've done, I'll grant you the selection of your choice."