Hey guys :D Name is Ever and this is my first Elsword fanfiction. Also, this chapter was created for own my entertainment WAY before I realized there was a site for fanfictions. Although this may seem similar to other people's works, don't hurt me ]: Because I truly didn't copy anything off other than the characters, their histories, the places, etc. (from the game) And it's not even mine then...but this story is. If you're wondering why it's called This World, it's because of a movie I recently watched in Social Studies... xD As it is my first fanfic and the fact I'm not thirty years old...I think I know it's extremely...no cussing for me in my precious writing, let's just say "horrible." I have the ghost of the plot for this fanfiction though :D Also, if you've any questions, ask them! I'll try to answer all of them. Hope you enjoy this~!

Edit: Revamping this chapter sometime later when I have the spare minutes to. I still think this is a horrible chapter, so I'll be editing it later to hopefully make it even better. :) Kay, thanks for being here! Continue on! ^-^

Disclaimer - I do not own any content that was created by KOG and Kill3rCombo when Elsword was brought in...to NA :D So don't sue me. Please.

Chapter 1


~ Living in this World ~


Her eyes, dipped in amber and golden, fluttered open hesitantly. She was encased in a mountain of rubble. Reaching out a dusty-gloved hand, she weakly pushed the rocks off of her. Eventually reaching the light at the other end, she blinked once. The remains of the Nasod King were strewn across the battlefield. Her own capsule lay in dull orange shards, broken beyond repair. The Nasods under the King's reign were prone on the floor, battered, burnt, and cut open.

A red-haired boy who had caused all this mess was standing next to the fallen Nasod King, his sword strapped onto his back. He was wearing red on top paired with black and white pants and a brown belt. She dimly remembered that, under all the chaos, he had used that same sword to hack through the fires that the rampaging Nasods has created.

Rampaging Nasods. The Nasod King. They wouldn't listen to her, even after her attempts to revive them with her remaining energy. They had turned on her and attacked the humans that had wandered into the core. This was not what she had revived them for and programmed them to do...

She felt no fear stir within her when she stood up, not even bothering to brush off the dirt from her clothes. The little Queen of Nasods had no feelings, after all. She was not living. Elsewise, she would not have survived these thousands of years in her capsule after the War. The blond long-haired elf's dark golden eyes flickered over to her. She was dressed in a green and blue top with a couple of black straps connecting from the top to her neck. The white skirt she wore reached to her thighs. Her white boots shifted as she leaned over and said something to a purple short-haired girl holding a staff. In a misty navy purple dress trimmed in white with spiky ends and a red tie, the girl jabbed the red-haired boy with the staff and whispered loudly to him. He turned from her and walked over to the remaining Nasod.
She stood squarely and her drones, Moby and Reby, floated shakily over to her. She would be ready to fight if she had to. She would defend her race, as their Queen. Her eyes seemed to bore a hole through the boy.

Instead of unsheathing his sword, the boy just said, "I'm sorry we killed him," then nodded towards the King.

The purple-haired girl snickered. The elf just slapped her palm to her face, and a black spiky-haired man with a Nasod arm just turned his back to him, shaking his head. The red-haired boy shut his eyes and snapped back at them, "Can you do any better?!"

"Sure I can," the girl with the staff said smoothly. "Watch and learn, Elsword."

She walked up to her and said, "Scat."

"Aisha!" the elf cried. "That's not a good way to say that!"

"What!" she exclaimed. "How else can you say it? 'Ooh, pleeeease, forgive us for killing that hunk of junk that tried to murder us!'"

Eve was slightly baffled, even though she denied the very emotion she was feeling right now. There must've been something wrong with her reactor.

"I-let me try." She stomped up to the girl supposedly named Aisha and shoved her aside. She swung her long blond hair and said, "I'm sorry we killed him. He-"

"That's your way, huh?" Aisha cut in as she reclaimed her spot next to the boy with the Nasod arm. "You said exactly what Elsword just said! Raven, how about you try?"

"No," the boy said. "I'm not going to."

"Scared of her?" Aisha taunted. "Afraid of girls?"

"Shut it," Raven muttered, taking a few paces away from her. Shirtless with his chest revealing long, thin scars, he was dressed only in a pair of black pants. His eyes were the same color as hers. He moved his Nasod fingers, all pointing at Aisha. They looked sharp. Who had made that Nasod arm? It certainly looked nothing like hers. She inspected her own gloved hand. It was intact, and when she moved her fingers, there was no pain in them. And it almost looked human.

"You're no use," said Elsword. He looked at her, then walked towards her again. She stiffened. Moby and Reby were still floating, but not for long. The black drone was tilting off axis and the white drone was dipping lower towards the ground. The most damage both could do was land a few hits and get her away.

A hand entered her field of vision while she was looking at Moby and Reby. It was Elsword's hand. "Want to be my friend?" he asked.

Her reactor malfunctioned.

She slapped him.


The small group of five people traipsed across the plains. The plains let in a stray, bitter and frosty wind in to buffet them. The grass was dry, the earth was cracked, both thirsting for water. The storm clouds above them looked as if they were to break loose gallons of liquid on them any moment. As much as Eve wanted to stop by the broken and corrupted Nasods that lay on the ground, she restrained herself and kept on walking.

"What's your name?" the elf questioned in her cheery way.

"Eve," she replied simply.

"What do you like to eat?"

"I eat whatever I must."

"Um...what's your favorite hobby?" she asked, her face still in her straight and happy way.

"Killing," she said.

The elf stopped while Eve continued walking. She left Rena to do that. She had to get to the town that Elsword was leading them to and tend to her drones.

"You like killing?" Aisha said, wrinkling her nose. "Who does that?"

"You would have killed if you were caught up with the War," she said. She was defensive of her race and their history.

The group reached the trees after climbing out of the fleetingly cold mountains. The forest seemed to loom in on her, the roots trying to creep up her legs, the leaves trying to whip them. A tree stood apart from the others, its leafy branches waving in an unfelt wind. Eve kept on walking.

Elsword stopped.

She didn't look back. There was something very wrong in the air, yes, but it wasn't anything fatally dangerous. That was what her calaculations told her anyway. Eve glanced around. The tree; wasn't it a few meters away from where it had been before? A walking tree?
She switched her sensory lenses on. All around her, the lenses would sense heat from moving organisms by differentiating them with red and blue; red for active, blue for inactive. Other than humans, most active beings were called mobs. To put it in a more correct term, perhaps enemies. Just because they weren't human didn't mean they weren't dangerous. The tree disappeared again. It was definitely an enemy, but she needed to know where it was.

A red walking figure was among the taller oaks. She brought up her hand and pointed at the tree. Moby and Reby responded to her command and dove forward to strike the mob eight times. "Illusion Strike," she said in a monotone voice. It fell down and faded from her radar.

"Eve!" Rena's voice called from within the misty forest. "What are you doing?"

"I am doing my favorite hobby."

"Killing?" she shouted.

"Yes." She had already spotted the stranded group that had stopped walking. "What is the matter?" she asked Elsword, who looked like he was about to leap at her and continue standing at the same time.

"He's trying to listen to Rena's advice and attempting to not jump after every enemy that appears," Raven said, speaking for the second time. The first time was when he had told Aisha to shut it. He gave her an odd look, one she could define as uncertainty and hatred.

"Why is that so? These creatures weak. The mobs here are weak." Eve turned around. Was something watching them? The fog that was settling over them thickened. Moisture hung from the air. She felt miniscule droplets on her face.

"I have a great idea!" Aisha announced.

"Like last time?" Elsword inquired. Rena's face showed a shadow of amusement.

Aisha's mouth twitched in annoyance. "Shut up, Eldork."

"What'd you say?" he asked, prodding the back of her neck with the hilt of his sword.

"Eeyaaa!" Aisha shrieked. Eve's vision flashed DANGER! Aisha's staff clattered onto the forest floor as a tornado of fire spun out of it. "You dolt!" she screamed at Elsword. "That was all of my mana and now-now-"

"The forest will burn down," Eve finished calmly for her. "We must get out."

"Okay, Ms. Obvious," the mage snapped. "You lead us out then." She was clearly losing her nerves. Her purple eyes were clouding over as she saw the flames. The first tree had already started blackening. The leaves instantly caught on fire and the blazing magic raced down the branches like it was gasoline. The tree gave a massive groan; Elsword was shouting, "Run!"

The forest was bathed in red and orange now. Heat got through Eve's white clothes and turned them black with soot and ash. Her vision flashed another DANGER! sign before zipping out of sight. The fallen leaves from the trees above darkened from the fire. She spread her arms behind her, and floated off of her boots. She couldn't fly; just float for a few inches off the ground and glide for higher heights. Rena was sprinting ahead at Elsword's speed; Raven was dragging Aisha on the ground, shouting something at her. The group was not an elegant sight. Eve pushed off from the air and kicked the air again to reach a higher elevation before gliding down to the earth. She was ahead of the land-locked humans when something metallic clanged audibly against a root. The Nasod spun around and found Reby on the ground. "Reby!" she whispered. Eve stopped gliding and bent down to pick up the white drone. It was severely scratched on one side. Moby gave a faint whir; it was weak and it was a sign of fatigue. They must've been exhausted beyond my calculations, she thought. But they went on for me. She stacked Moby on top of Reby and ran on the damp earth. She couldn't float with her hands full. Eve was catching up to Raven, who had Aisha stumbling on her brown shoes, by the time they reached the end of the shadowy forest. Her foot hit a stray branch from the fire and Elsword caught her. Instead of thanking him, she pushed Moby into his hands. "Hold him," she gasped. The fire's heat had been bad for her Nasod body. She sat down on the ground and clutched at Reby. She truly treasured her companions. Eve told herself firmly that she would revive her race when she had accepted Elsword's hand back at the site. Now she would revive the drones.

"System check - Complete. Data files 289106, 36920, and 11478 are damaged. History data - undamaged. File 0001 - Lost." Eve ran another check and got the same results. That was certainly a relief. No history data had been damaged by the raging fire. "Where is the nearest town?" she breathed.

"H..." Raven faltered. "...Hamel, I think..." Rena glanced at him. Was there something about Hamel that had to do with him? Eve thought for a moment. Then she banished it.

"We must get there," she said, taking Moby from Elsword's grasp. "To get my drones back up."

"It should be right down the hill," Rena said, reappearing with leaves stuck all over her hair. She had been climbing a remaining tree to get a good view. Raven paled.

"Situation over," the Nasod Queen whispered to herself. "Eve, battle mode switch off. Now, we must go."

She took a step when Elsword said, "Waaaait."

"What is it?" she asked sharply. She didn't have time for this nonsense. Humans must be truly unintelligent if they did not see the direness of the situation as it was standing.

"Elsword, we gotta go," Aisha said worriedly.

"I'm gonna ask for you to explain something for me," he continued, ignoring the purple-haired mage. "So...How..." He shook his head and balanced his sword on his foot before attempting again. "I went from Ruben, met Rena and Aisha, we hit into the forest that's right behind us-" Elsword stopped abruptly and cranked his neck around to look behind.

No forest. No trees. Just endless crystal blue waves.

"The hell," he muttered. "And then we wind up on a ship, literally tie Raven up, land in Nasod World, hit the forest AGAIN, pop back on some plains, and meet you. Just now...freaking forest...and now we're, where, in HAMEL!"

"Please wait a moment." Eve ran through her copied files of information and came up with nothing. Her golden eyes held a faint imprint of a blue axis plane as she searched for the answer to Elsword's complaint. Flipping her lenses on, she tapped the air, letting it ripple with cyan waves. The menu appeared, giving her a list to choose from. She tapped "Search" and an empty dark blue bar popped up along with a light blue keyboard. Eve placed both of her hands on the keyboard and typed out "Shadow Forest." Within a few moments, the plane faded from her eyes and she spoke again. "According to the information my system has gathered from tapping into other sources, the Shadow Forest is constantly moving."

Raven frowned, his eyes darkening as he thought. "Constantly moving?"

"Yes. It is a place that is similar to an illusion, a mirage, a trick on the eyes. It is like a forest covered in mist...it IS a forest covered in mist...and one may wander within it for eternity if they do not have something to accomplish within their minds."

"Let's just hope we don't encounter it again," Rena said with not a hint of concern in her voice. "That way, we won't be stuck in there~"

Elsword picked up his sword again and sheathed it, strapping it onto his back.

The group pattered down the hill as the looming city of Hamel appeared. It was grand, much more grand than when the Nasods had built their kingdom using their technology. Even though all the houses and shops were outside, all of the shops were closed and the houses were dark. A dry wind blew through the silent city. It felt like there was a coming darkness. Even Elsword, who, according to her observations, was unshaken of almost nothing, glanced at the dark and cloudy sky, as if hesitant.

So, how was that :D I haven't really got SUPERB vocabulary, but I intend to start reading the dictionary starting tomorrow, if I can remember to lug it around with me. I know I'm missing crucial thoughts from characters and I'm lacking in-depth descriptions of the locations they were in and what the characters look like.

To answer some questions you MIGHT have, Eve's lenses are part of her system. Looking through it, Eve can see the world kind of like the way your screen looks if you've ever dungeoned in Elsword, or PvPed for that matter. She can view the blue bar as her mana, her red bar as her health, and can see the labels of each enemy/mob. With her lenses on, if she spared a glance at Elsword or Aisha or Raven, she could see their names under them XD Next, further explanation of Shadow Forest. The Shadow Forest is usually located near Elder, but the absence of El has caused it to move. No, the trees (I MEAN TREES NOT ENTS XD ) do not grow legs and walk. I mean it as like...it kind of teleports to where El was at. Like Eve said, you can get stuck in there forever if you don't have something important to hold on to. I'm really bad at explaining, so if you still don't get it, feel free to ask me xD

Tell me if I missed anything. Three reviews = will be working on next chapter~ Three's the lucky number! :D (For me, anyway) Please give me your opinions on whether I should continue or not ^_^ R and R~ (PLUS++ Tell me your opinions on pairings :D I already have some on mind, but no spoilers~ No promises either! And I'll take it nice and slow :3 )