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Hello everyone, this is my first fanfic on this site so I'm kind of nervous, but I'm willing to take any constructive criticism on how to make my story better. With that said, I hope you all enjoy the prologue!
Prologue: Departure to a New Adventure
There was a white haired man wearing a red long sleeved jacket which covered his black long sleeved shirt with a white trim along with black hakama pants. His name was Ragna the Bloodedge and he was the new Guardian of The Azure. After his fight with Terumi and destroying the chains that stopped the world from moving forward, he had been given the role of becoming the Guardian of the Azure, which consisted of guarding the Azure, doing whatever he felt like when nothing was happening, and occasionally doing certain missions that the Azure required him to do. Ragna was walking in the middle of crowd as it appeared he didn't want to be followed.
"So this is so called, Quantum Ruby." thought the Guardian of the Azure as he started to look at the ruby-sized silver crystal in his hand. The Guardian of The Azure had been sent on a job to steal Quantum Ruby and that's it. No order to dispose of it or give to some important person. When the Guardian asked the Azure to clarify what he was supposed to do after he had obtained it. The Azure left him with a vary vague message.
"You will know what to do with it, once the time comes." Ragna said as he continued looking at the mysterious crystal. "You know when I became the Guardian of the Azure, I thought that I would be the one in the know and not have to deal with the cryptic bullcrap."
Something about this feels off. This job feels like it's too easy.
Ragna then noticed that there was someone following him and proceeded to turn to his right to shake until he realized that the crowd of people that were beside him were mysteriously gone.
"Damn, just as I was going to leave." Ragna said as he then heard footsteps coming from the right and turned to see a familiar blue haired girl wearing a nun outfit and wielding several Black Keys. Her name is Ciel, she has followed Ragna's trail for the past three days, as the Quantum Ruby he stole belongs to the church.
"Oh it's you Ciel. This has been the sixth time in past two days, isn't it your bedtime or something. Lemme guess this is something of sealed field that you made to make sure I couldn't get away."
"Grim Reaper, this is your last chance, give up Quantum Ruby at once."
"And if I say no?"
"Then we'll have to take it."
"We?" Ragna said in confusion until he heard footsteps coming from behind him and to his left. Behind him was a blond haired woman with red eyes and to the left of him was a black haired boy with glasses on holding a knife.
"You went to get help, huh? Tch, this might be more annoying than I thought." Ragna said.
"You still want to act brave, when you're outnumbered 3vs1." Arcueid said.
"I'm a man who likes to go against the odds so... . On."
Ciel threw several Black Keys at Ragna, who jumped in the air to dodge it, not wanting to deal with what happened last time. Ragna landed on the side of the building that was behind him. Before he could even look at Ciel's direction, he saw Arcueid was right in front of him and attempted to send a kick directly to his gut. Luckily Ragna was able to react in time and managed to block it, but the kick still managed to sending him crashing through the building. Ragna landed to the ground, but before he could do anything, he felt a knife get very close to his neck.
"Not bad, kid. In fact you remind me of a certain few brats I met."
"Put your hands up slowly."
"Alright, alright, sheesh."
Ragna sighed before he started putting up his hands with Ciel and Arcueid walk towards the two.
"And with that, our little game of cat and mouse is over, Reaper." Ciel said a smug grin on her face.
"Could you cut it out with the smug look on your face plus isn't getting help kinda cheating, since it's supposed to be cat and mouse, not cat and mice."
"Why would a theif care about rules, I'm only doing what's necessary to keep the order in this town."
"Keep the order in this town? Says the person who literally chased me around town, destroying property in the middle of broad daylight. Actually that reminds me, how the heck did you manage to clean up the mess you caused yesterday?"
"Ahem, can we please just get this over with." Arcueid said.
"You're right." Ciel said as she walked over to Ragna until Ragna said.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you unless you like the feeling of Flash Grenades right in your face."
"What are you talking abou-" Ciel said
Ciel eyes widened open as she saw that Ragna's ring finger had a black string attached to it. Before she could say anything, Ragna's finger twitched and out of his jacket came a flash grenade which blinded the three, allowing Ragna to escape from Shiki's grasp.
"Before you brag about your victory, you should really make sure that you make sure that your opponent is in checkmate." Ragna said. "See ya!"
After a short period, the flash grenade had finally simmered down and the three were able to see again.
"Let's split up, he couldn't have gone that far." Ciel suggested.
"Alright, sounds like a good plan to me." Shiki said.
Ciel was the first one out of the three to split up with Arcueid following afterwards, leaving Shiki by himself. Shiki was about to head out, he felt a chop on his neck which ended up knocking him to the floor, unconscious.
"Sorry about this, kid. I just needed the three of you to split up a bit." Ragna said as he started using ars magus to restrain Shiki so he wouldn't be able to move once he regained consciousness.
"This whole entire crystal thing seems fishy and I'm going to find out what's really going here by asking the 'princess' a few questions."
Arcueid was on the rooftop of one of the buildings, trying to find Ragna by a bird's eye view until she was interrupted by a familiar voice.
"Oi, down here!"
Arcueid looked down to find Ragna, waving at her to come down. Arcueid jumped down from the building and landed right in front of Ragna. As Arcueid was about to charge towards Ragna, he put his hand up, signaling her to stop. Arcueid stopped in tracks with a confused look on her face.
"If my source of info is right, then you must be who they call Arcueid Brunestud."
"Yeah and from what gramps told me, you must be the new Azure Guardian, Ragna the Bloodedge."
"That's surprising I didn't think I made a name for myself in other worlds this fast." Ragna said. "Well, since we know each other that makes what I'm about to ask more easier. Doesn't something seem off to you?"
"That a person from another world came to steal a valuable treasure from another world?"
"Besides that. I'm going to guess that your gramps or whatever most have told you to take this away from me, but did he ever tell you why."
Arcueid stayed silent.
"I'm gonna take that silence as a no. These sources are telling us to get this damn ruby without telling us why." Ragna said as the shell in his right arm started to open.
"I don't know about you, but there is probably a good reason to why Gramps didn't tell me." Arcueid said not noticing Ragna activating his Azure Grimoire.
"Are you 100% sure of that, I'm just saying before you go out and start picking fights atleast know why you are doing it." Ragna said as he reached into his pocket and grabbed the crystal.
"What are you doing?" Arcueid said noticing that Ragna was planning on doing something.
"Just testing something that's all." Ragna put the crystal onto his right hand and the a purple aura started to surround it and the his right arm as Ragna yelled. "Quantum Ruby, Activate!"
Arcueid and Ragna waited for a moment, but nothing appeared to be happening which caused Ragna in to sigh in disappointment.
"Ummm, nothing happened?"
"No shit, sherlock." Ragna said. "This usually works but I guess I'll have to figure out whatever this ruby stuff does later."
"Now that you are done blabbering, can you just give up the crystal."
"Tsk. Didn't want to have to fight you, but it seems like I'll have no choice." Ragna said as he brought out his sword.
"Alright, fine by me, this might a bit of workout for the both of us." Arcueid said until she started to see a silver colored portal appear behind Ragna. "Huh? What is a portal doing here in this bounded field."
"What the?!" Ragna said as he suddenly felt a force dragging him, he turned around to see the silver colored portal.
I don't know what the hell that portal is, but I really don't think I want to find out!
Ragna tried to go against the force dragging him towards the portal, but as he tried to push against it the force seemed to be only growing stronger. Ragna tried grabbing something to keep himself from getting sucked in but was too far away and was almost fully consumed by the portal until he saw Arcueid grab his hand, trying her hardest to pull him out of the portal.
"Let go! At this rate, we'll both be pulled in!"
"No way, I still need to get the Quant-whatchamacallit for Gramps!"
"You're still worrying about that damn crystal in this situation?!"
As Arcueid tried harder to pull Ragna, Ragna could feel the force dragging him inside to only grow stronger. Ragna was about to pull out his left arm and energy blast created by ars magus towards one of the buildings creating a large explosion which had gotten the attention of Ciel.
"Hopefully that gets her attention." Ragna said.
As Arcueid tried to pull Ragna out of the portal, the force eventually became to strong for her and the two ended up falling into the portal. The portal then suddenly closed, as Ciel was where Arcueid and Ragna used to be.
"Isn't this where Arcueid was supposed to be?" Ciel said as she looked for the blond haired woman, but couldn't seem to find her anywhere. "I can't even sense her presence it's just like she disappeared. I have a bad feeling about this."
Ragna opened his eyes and got himself from the grass to be greeted by to be a gate to a cemetery.
"How in the hell did I end up here?" Ragna said as he began to enter the cemetery, looking around to see if he can find anyone that he can talk to get some answers until he stops right a large statue which had very familar faces and some not-so familar.
"Ummm, why the hell is there a statue of me, Yu, Hyde, Ruby, Arceuid, and some other people?"
He then looked down and saw that there was a tombstone with names on then. Ragna skimmed through it, but stopped when he read.
Here Lies, The Legendary Heroes
..., Ragna the Bloodedge, ...
May he rest in peace
"..." Ragna stayed silent as he tried to process the information that he had just read and come up with a reaction. However only three words came into Ragna's mind during this moment which were.
What the f*ck?!
And that's the prologue! The pacing might have a bit fast, but I felt that doing the prologue like this would better in the long run. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and continue to support this story. Until next time, see ya!