I own none of the content used in this fanfiction. All rights to the story and all original concepts belong to Atlus and Sting for developing and releasing Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone

"Holy Sword, Answer me!" The blonde haired mortal yelled as the Gran Centurio started to glow. I didn't understand; why did she choose to oppose the Gods, whom did nothing to provoke her. As the light grew brighter I tried to remember why I was even here and how this all began.

I guess this all started millennia ago in my former home of Asgard with my sister, Aymia, and the fallen one, Aries. We were young then, and the closest of friends. Aymia was always so cheerful and she was quite the beauty too. She had the longest red hair stretching down nearly to the fold of her back. Aries was a little shorter than Aymia, with short and scruffy blonde hair and seemed to be more of a thinker than a fighter. He always seemed to have new ideas to make combat easier but he refused to try any of his new ideas himself. We could never figure out what was going on in his head and he never seemed to let anyone in when someone changed the subject to war or combat. He would just shrug it off and drop the subject altogether. We were always worried about him, but he always seemed to get by so we never tried too hard to get him to tell us what he was thinking. Still, the three of us were the closest of the angels within Asgard and if it weren't for that, things might have turned out differently.

*A red haired angel glides through a myriad of brilliant flashes of light, narrowly avoiding two that shot past her left leg*

"Wow your aim is getting better but you need to focus more Marietta! Those last three should have been spot on but you just barely grazed me!" Aymia teased.

"Well my aim would be great if you weren't such a tough target….." I grumbled. Energy training was the worst type of exercise for me but Aymia insisted that if I were to ever pass the Grim Angel exams I would need better control over my powers. It also didn't help that I was a horrible shot and felt more at home with a weapon in my hand rather than firing energy from my palms.

"Hold still already so I can knock you out of the sky!" I screamed as I fired haphazardly at Aymia. It didn't really matter though, she was one of the best fliers in all of Asgard and even when my shots came close she was so nimble in the air that I wondered why she had legs in the first place. As one of my shots grazed her cheek she fired a shot back at me, nailing me square in the leg and knocking me off balance before I could fire another shot.

"Agh! Why…are…you so….good at….this?!"

"Because I practiced when we first got the hang of firing energy instead of flying around slashing targets~ I'll give you this though, if we were using our trainer's you probably would have knocked me out of the sky a long time ago. Come on already Marietta, you should have landed one shot by now, its been three hours~"

"SHUT UP!" I screamed as I turned the brightest shade of crimson I've ever seen. As I raised my hand to fire off another shot I didn't notice my bracelet wasn't glowing anymore. As the last bolt flew from my hand it fizzled out before it even managed to get 3 feet away. I was too surprised at that last shot to even notice Aymia land behind me and fire another shot, but this one hit me in the back and knocked me out.

I guess I should explain the whole bracelet thing. The bracelets are standard issue to all of the angels of Asgard. They act as restraints on our powers until we have a firm grasp on how to use them without blowing each other up. The only time an angel gets to remove their bracelet is if they pass the Grim Angel exams, a special set of tests made to push your body and mind to their absolute limits to see if you qualify to become a Grim Angel, or if you reach adulthood and prove that you can control your powers. Back to the Grim Angels, the Grim Angels were the elite set of angels that protected Asgard and only answered to the Seven Magi, Asgard's elite judges and the advisors on all of Asgard's most important matters. It was their idea to come up with the bracelets after more and more cases of angels losing control of their powers popped up. If it weren't for that Asgard would probably be in ruins from all of the young angels experimenting with their abilities.

The next thing I knew I was waking up in our house. I could hear Aymia in the living room singing. I was too beat up to even think about getting her back for that last cheap shot because my entire body felt like it had been pounded into a mountain. I had enough energy to get out of my bed and I was feeling a bit hungry so I headed into the kitchen. I had the weirdest craving for something sour but all we had left was a little shaved ice and some sea bream.

"Aymia! Where did all the food go?!"

"'Bout time you woke up~ You were supposed to go get some groceries before practice remember? You walked out with a list and everything."

"Oops" I thought. I did walk out to the store to get some food but I sorta got sidetracked when I got to the Academy. I've always wanted to be a Grim Angel and defend Asgard against demons and whatever else might threaten our home but I've never passed the exams even once. The closest I ever got was the shooting range and I blew up half of the stadium trying to hit my target. It's a little embarrassing to think that if my sister hadn't knocked me out I might have blow up the entire stadium and part of the Academy just trying to hit a small bull's eye.

"Just remember if we starve to death it's all your fault~ I already gave you the money and it's your turn to go out and get food this week."

"Oh shut it. If we didn't live so close to the Academy I wouldn't even have to pass it just to get to the store! Who even thought to build a building that important in the middle of Asgard anyways?!"

"Because then it's easier to find, and it makes sense. Why are you getting so worked up anyways? No one said that you had to yell your head off over forgetting to go grocery shopping" a snide voice echoed from upstairs.

Please read and review, this is my first fanfiction so I would really love it if I could get some criticism. Thank you and have a wonderful afternoon/night/day/what ever time of day it is for you :D