It's dark… Really dark. But I can hear something coming towards me.

"Is he alive?"

"Why are you asking me? I'm a mage, not a healer."

"Aren't those the same thing?"

"No, you dunce."

"Aisha, lay off. Elsword probably doesn't know better. After all, all he really knows about magic is Conwell works because of magic."

"Hey, I take offence to that Raven."

"Aisha, try to be nicer to Elsword. While what Raven was saying was a little blunt, he has a point. He doesn't really know anything about magic."

"S-SHUT UP Sis!"

What are these sounds I'm hearing? They sound like voices. But who's? It's not mine, or at least I don't think it's mine.

"Elsword, you should respect your family."

"Yeah, Ara is right. Do as she says Elsword."

These voices… I hear 3 girls… and 2 guys. But… I think there are more people around. I'm not sure how to rationally explain it to myself, but I guess I could say that I just sense they are there.

"A-anyways… we should bring him to Elder to see Echo. She might know what to do."

"Good Idea Chung. But the only one strong enough to carry him is Sis. The rest of us aren't burly like her."

"HEY!"

Then I heard the sound of a metallic clang, and something hitting the ground.

"Raven, why did you stop my claymore?"

"If I hadn't, you would have cut his head off. You need to control the Dark El inside of you better."

"Nice save Raven. You even knocked Elsword unconscious to make sure nothing else bad happened."

"Rena, maybe instead of just congratulating Raven you could use Airelinna to heal Elsword? Who knows, it might also wake up this dude."

"Add, are you saying that because you want to see if you can experiment on a dead body, or are you actually hoping for him to be alive?"

"That hurts Eve. Of course I want him to be alive. Who knows where he came from if he is just lying here. For all we know he could be a demon commander."

"Fine. I'll use Airelinna."

Maybe I should open my eyes. This Add guy scares me. Especially considering someone said the dead body part.

As I go to open my eyes, the light that shines through gives me a massive headache. It almost feels like I was thrown up into the air and then smacked into the ground head first by God's hand. I let out a moan and everyone that was around me jumped back in surprise, or at least I think they did. I heard jumping sounds.

"MY GOD! IT'S ALIVE!"

"Of course I'm alive… You people where making too much noise to let me pass on."

As I sit up a girl with red hair comes and stands in front of me. She also then leaned down and put her face right in front of mine.

"Can I... help you?"

"Yes. Start by telling me who you are and where you are from. Otherwise you lose your head."

As if almost on cue, a guy with a metal arm, this girl, and a girl with a spear all had my head in a sharp edge triangle. Oh boy.

"My name is… My… name is…"

"Spit it out."

"I… don't know what my name is."

"Losing your head has been chosen then."

Just as the girl with red hair brought her sword up to cut my head off, the guy with a metal arm stopped her.

"Hold on." He said "I have a weird feeling about this."

"Weird feeling!? He is trying to pull the wool over our eyes by looking human! Only demons don't know what their names are, unless it's Ran or Karis! Even Berthe didn't know his own name!"

"Normally that is true, but remember when I was being controlled? I didn't remember much about who I was at the time. Had it not been for you guys already knowing my name when you broke the control over me, I doubt I would have remembered for a long time. If I am wrong about this feeling, then I will kill him myself."

I don't know who this guy is, but I'm pretty sure I now owe him my life. But I honestly couldn't remember my name, or how I got here. The soonest I can remember is hearing these people walking up to me. Speaking of here, WHERE AM I!?

As I looked around, I could see a town in the distance but nothing I could really make out. Near the town's gates, I could see a forest. This forest looked rather dark though, and instead of green leaves the leaves were purple. In the far distance, I could see a castle although it looks like it had recently been attacked. But where we were now was a grassland of sorts. Eventually, it seems like these people where having a picnic up until a short time ago. I could still see their spread a short distance behind the now unconscious red haired male.

"Where am I?" I asked.

Hopefully they knew. Im sure they knew. This question might also make them believe I don't know my name.

The man with a metal arm turn and looked me dead in the eye. "Do you really not know where you are?"

"Yes. I mean no. I mean sure."

"You are in Elrios. Just over there," As he lifts a hand to point to the town "Is Elder."

"Elder of what?"

"That's the town's name. Elder."

"Oh. What about that forest? And that Castle? Do those have names?"

"The forest is called Nachtwald. The Castle belonged to someone called Wally."

"Belonged?"

"He betrayed the people of Elder all for the power of El."

I don't know what this guy's name is, but I like him. I can see in the eyes of the girl with red hair that she wants me dead. A girl with purple hair in twin tails was watching me like I might suddenly try to kill everyone there. The red haired boy was still on the ground. A girl with green hair was already heading back to the picnic spot. She doesn't seem to think I'm even worth paying attention to. I think that hurts the most so far.

Then I looked towards another girl. This one was sitting on a throne and seemed to be sizing me up. I do hope she doesn't think fighting me would be fun. Im pretty sure I'd die in seconds. A girl with long hair in some heavy looking white armor was looking at me apologetically. Did I see paw-like shapes in his eyes? Must be my imagination. The girl who pointed the spear at me earlier had a black and white clothing style, but her eyes were gentle. Despite being ready to kill me not even 2 minutes ago. Looking around, I saw the last person in the group. He had a light purple hair tied into a ponytail and seemed rather bored. He was looking at the castle more than me.

When I finally turn my gaze back to the man with a metal arm, he has already sat down completely and looked like he was ready to tell a long story.

"Do you know what El is?"

"No. I don't."

This seemed to catch the attention of the girl sitting in the throne. She got up and walked towards me. As she did so, her throne deconstructed into two small things. One was black, and the other white.

"How can you not know what El is? The only possible solution is if you somehow had your memory banks wiped."

I looked to the man with a metal arm with confusion brewing on my face.

"Basically means you would have had to forgotten a lot of stuff to not know what El is."

"Let's assume I did. What is El?"

"El is the life energy of this world. As legend has it, El literally hit the world. It came from outer space. Before El came, the world was dead. After it came, the world lived again. Don't ask me how we know that, we just somehow do. El is also the name sake of this place, Elrios. Elrios is this little island where we are now. The rest of Elrios is a small floating island to the east, and south of us across the ocean is the rest of Elrios and home to Chung and Ara. The rest of us call this island of Elrios home, excluding Add."

"Shortly after people began to show up, technology started to follow. This gave birth to robots known as Nasods. Eve," He pointed to the girl standing to his left "is one such being. As the Nasods increased in number, the power of El waned because Nasods ran off the power of El. Eventually Elrios sunk into the ground and water poured over a part of it. This made the original supercontinent split into two. Both are still called Elrios though, as we are still technically one continent."

"When the power of El was fading, someone known as the El Lady somehow brought it back, saving the land. After this had happened though, the first El Lady disappeared. This has led some of us to think she sacrificed her life to bring back the power of El."

"Woah." I said "For such a cool source of life, that's a pretty dark way to revitalize it."

The person called Eve finally spoke more words "Which brings more people to speculate that Dark El came from that first, which lead to the birth of demons. Demons are currently amass on the bigger part of the continent and produce Dark El constantly, but I'm sure you know that much at least."

Didn't want to say it out loud, but no. No I didn't. I didn't even know Demons existed till now. Then again, I don't remember much anyways. Not my name, not why I am here. Nothing. But I'll save those questions for after Metal Arm is finished.

"After that, the people chose masters of El. People to harness certain aspects of El's power. The master of Fire is Rosso. The power of fire is the power of passion, and there is joy to prevent the strength of the fire from overflowing. The master of Earth is 'Gaia.' He possesses the warmth and richness of the land and protects the continent of Elrios. The master of Water is 'Denif.' A combination of coolness and intelligence controls the sea so that it does not overflow onto the land. The master of Wind is 'Ventus.' The power of the wind energy keeps the universe in motion. The master of the Sun is 'Solace.' Elrios was revived due to the power of life and the birth of the sun's power. The master of the Moon is 'Ebalon.' The power of the moon gives the people of Elrios comfort and security."

That's a lot of important stuff to remember. How does he remember it all? More importantly, if this is so important how did I forget it? Something doesn't make sense here…

"These masters searched for a new El Lady, and found one. In due time, the El's power was almost back to full strength. However, this had made the El Lady almost a slave to the El, never leaving the El tower. However, something about this caused Solace to turn into a turncoat."

"A what?" I asked, cutting him off

"Means traitor. Anyways, Solace attacked the El tower on the most important day of the year – the Harmony Festival. He 'saved' the El Lady and took her away. No one has seen either since. However, during the Festival there is one problem that arises. The El is completely unstable. So with them leaving, the El's power went out of control and destroyed the main gem. Now many shards of El exist all around the continent. We are the El Search Party, and it is our job to try to recover stolen shards."

"People are stealing the shards? Why would they do that?"

"Simple. El is extremely powerful. Put into the correct machine, and it will function amazingly. We are currently searching for the most recent El thief's hidden lab."

"Who was the most recent one?"

"Lord Wally, now just called Wally."

I don't know why, but something in my mind just clicked and I knew where it was. But why?

"I… I know what you're looking for. I know where to find the Underground Lab."

The red haired girl immediately turned and looked at me in surprise. Metal Arm looked shocked, the girl to his left was smiling… no smirking fits what she is doing better. The green haired girl dropped a sandwich that she had been walking back with.

Everybody in the group, except for the unconscious red head, all shouted the same thing at the same time "YOU DO!?"

"Y-yeah. I'm not sure how… but when the guy with a metal arm said Wally and hidden lab, something just… clicked. I know where the lab is, but I don't know how."

Metal Arm regained his composure the quickest and spoke to me again "Oh, right. You don't know our names. But that can wait. Did you say underground?"

"Yeah. It's underground."

The red haired girl looked away from me and had a pained look on her face. "Tch. Of all places. No wonder we couldn't find it – we were looking above ground for it. YOU!" she points to me "Your taking us there, whether you like it or not."

Great. I think I just told them how Im going to die. This is going to be so fun – not.