A person alone in their own thoughts is always unique. They think about the past, present, and future.
"Lu, Ciel, now!"
"Lu let's seal the Demon God." "Easy."
"What!? It didn't work!"
"The dark energy is spreading across Elrios."
"Sis!"
"Elsword, wait! The ground…!"
Yeah, that happened already.
Raven could not seem to remember anything after that event. Even so, he only remembers half of the battle. The other half as if wiped clean. He was at the Grand Cathedral with his friends, the El Search Party and during the fight, Elesis was glowing a bright yellow light and sealed the Demon God. The ground collapsed beneath them and all of them fell into.
"Raven. Raven."
Who's calling out to me? A mask? Wait…
"Glave?"
"Yes, I have c-"
"How did you get here?" Raven abruptly cutting off Glave.
"Well, if I can create a dimension that you can train in based on your current AND future memories, then what's to stop me from entering your mind? Granted, out of all of the El Search Party, you had strongest mind. By any chance, did you place mental barriers on yourself?"
"Yes, but only to keep myself from going insane from my arm."
"That is why. Moreover, I have something of a dire situation that needs both of our attention."
"Why can't you handle it yourself?"
"That would depend if you want to return to Elrios."
Raven looked at Glave for a couple of seconds and almost laughs at him.
"Glave."
"Now it's not that bad, I got support from the rest of the El Search Party and they will have to group up once again."
"So you're telling me that I have to explore this world, just to leave it."
"It won't take long as your regular adventures. Just around a week."
"A week could mean anything for you Glave."
"A word of warning, since the displacement of the party, there have been many irregulars that I couldn't fix."
"Like?"
"Use this."
Glave gives Raven a dimensional cube that is constantly expanding and contracting.
"Use El Shards to encounter major abnormalities in this current world. I only found three, but there might be more."
"I don't use El Energy."
"You have El Shards."
Raven checked his 'inventory' and saw he only had Mystery El Shards, and had around 80 of them.
"Why am I here?"
"I can't say for sure. I assume that the El Lady had messed with Time and Space. Her method on doing it is unknown. There was a blue light emitting a powerful force that caused the warp. Until I can fix whatever caused this, you alone would have to find everyone else."
"Now, wake up."
"Hey, wake up."
In the dark woods, there was a man aged 27 that was sleeping on a pile of leaves leaning on a eroded tree. The sky is pale with the grey skies blocking the sunrise. It is morning and the man who was called upon, opens his hazel eyes and looks around and see a red coat man that has a weird-looking sword, or was it a blade shaped as a gun? He gets up with his custom-made sword in his right hand and a Bio-Nasod left arm that looks like it's part of him. He doesn't know where he is and yet he feels at peace. Maybe it's the forest that's making his He speaks to the red coat man.
"Who are you?"
The man with the red coat walked closer to the questioning man and revealed his face. He had two heterochromia eyes, the left being green and right being red. His hair is roughly spiked up and the color, white.
"Name's Ragna and not to be rude, but you're in my way."
The last thing half human, half Nasod remembered was defeating Scar, a powerful demon summoning a Demon God, and something else happened that wasn't supposed to happen. The ground was cracking and a a bright light was showing up. He thought it was the El-Lady's doing but he doesn't see the rest of the El Search party with him.
"Hey, do you know where I am?"
"You're in Kagutsuchi."
There is no place I've heard of that name.
"Kagutsuchi? What's that?"
Ragna's eyes are wide open as to know that this person doesn't know about the Hierarchical cities, much less the most major one. He assess the situation and deals Raven with caution.
"Well first off, can you give me your name? I introduced myself, shouldn't you do the same?"
"Oh, my name is Raven."
"No last name?"
"You didn't tell me yours."
"I don't have one."
"Me neither. Anyways, what's the date?"
"December 31st, 2199."
Raven took a double take because this is about two hundred years after they defeated Scar. He puts his Nasodian arm to his face in frustration as he sighs.
"Really, Glave. Sending us into a future that will never happen."
"Hey what's with that arm of yours? Who made that?"
Raven looked at Ragna with contempt as his arm started to hurt.
"Tch, again?" Raven was holding on to his arm so it doesn't hurt him as much, but it was no good.
"His arm is in pain? That sounds familiar to me. Wait...why is my Azure Grimoire reacting to his arm? What is he?"
Ragna reaches out to touch Raven's arm and the Azure Grimoire forces Ragna to enter Blood Kain, enhancing himself at the cost of his life, if he doesn't drain his opponent's life force fast enough. But it was different this time around as his life wasn't being sucked out of him. Raven's Nasod arm stopped hurting after that, it started to emit steam.
"It's never done that before. Maybe this universe is similar to ours."
"Ok, something is going on here. Who or what the hell are you because from I just saw, you weren't using seithr to affect my Azure Grimoire."
Ragna was really uneasy as this never happened to his arm not even when he was training with Jubei.
"I'm not from this world. And this arm of mine is powered by Nuclear Energy."
Ragna is discouraged at the fact that nuclear energy is involved with Raven's arm, especially after the Dark War when nuclear weapons had made the world uninhabitable, and that no one would dumb enough to put it in their bodies. He would want to talk about this more, but right now he has to get to the Cauldron. Raven started to follow Ragna and immediately wanted to get out of the forest as it brought bad memories to him. Ragna didn't mind the company, as long as he kept his distance. The two were able to get to Kagutsuchi before sunrise. They both stopped at the port when they met a woman with a sword and a bow. It was Rena.
"Rena, it's you!" yelled Raven.
"A friend of yours?" whispered Ragna.
"So it's the Reckless Fist huh? I should have known you were with Ragna the Bloodedge first."
Rena? Wait, I never seen her wear that outfit. And did she just call me by my title?
"Ragna the Bloodedge I am ordered by the NOL to arrest you for the destruction of NOL branches."
"Rena, the NOL? I don't know what your talking about, but Ragna knows where we are. He can help us get back to our world."
"Raven...if you are associated with this man, I will have no choice but to arrest you too."
Ok, something is way off.
"I don't have time for this. Raven, meet me at the NOL's headquarters. I will be there tonight and if you're not there, then don't bother finding me."
"Both of you are not going anywhere," Rena said as she pulls out her sword, Erendil.
"Rena!"
"Raven, please step aside. I don't want to fight you."
Before Ragna speaks, he is teleported by a mysterious portal leaving rose petals on the floor.
"Tch, I knew she would intervene. But this early?"
"Rena, tell me what's going on. I would understand if you just tell me."
"Raven, listen to me, I don't have much time to tell you, all I know is that there more than one of us."
"Huh?"
*beep*beep*
Rena takes out a Ars Magus communicator and talks into it and quickly ends the call.
"Sorry for leaving you like this."
Rena quickly escapes the area leaving the Reckless Fist in confusion.
"More than one of us? Glave, what did you do? Anyways, I should find the NOL's headquarters, but where am I going to start? I'll just have to look around in the city and hopefully I'll find the others." Raven enters Kagutsuchi with more questions springing up in his head.
He looks around for anything that seems out of the ordinary from the rest, but everything he sees looks out of the ordinary. People are very diverse ranging from human to beastkin. They are mostly talking about the NOL and the recent criminal, Ragna the Bloodedge.
"So, Ragna is the villain of this world. It's weird how I just met him an hour ago."
Raven looked around again and noticed that a lot of people were staring at him, maybe because he looked out of place for this new society. Then again, he has been to so many places in peril that they were always welcome for any help. Now he's the one that needs help and it seems no one is willing to greet him.
"Who is that? A foreigner?" "Nah, he looks like that new criminal that's been destroying Cauldrons." "You mean Ragna the Bloodedge?" "Shh! Don't say his name out loud. The NOL would think we're conspiring with him."
Raven overhears the conversation with Ragna and decides he needs to get to the headquarters as soon as possible. He doesn't see any NOL officers around his area, so he continues walking. He ends up in Orient Town, one of the more lively places in Kagutsuchi. He asks multiple people on how to find the NOL officers. He was rather met with ridicule and joking answers that he didn't take well. He was threaten by three thugs that were surrounding him to try and mug him, they didn't stand a chance against the veteran. He walked out the alley he was in with few cuts on his shirt. The sun was still out as it was noon so he had plenty of time to find Ragna. Before he sets off, he sees a person with a blue uniform that looked ready for a battle. She was wearing a blue beret with matching blue jacket that looked like a dress, her eye color green that looks brighter than Rena's, blonde hair, and two red look-alike belts hanging out.
"Maybe she's one of the officers that I can to talk to."
He goes to her but she is talking to a big red guy that looks like a colossus. They are conversing right now but in Raven's eyes, a fight is about to start. He sits down at a nearby restaurant table outside and looks at the scene unfolding.
"You're Sector Seven's Red Devil, Iron Tager."
"And you are Lieutenant Noel Vermillion of the NOL."
"It seems that we already known each other."
"Yes, information gets passed around too carelessly, courtesy to the NOL."
"Ugh…"
"I'm going to ask you to come with me, Noel Vermillion."
Noel pulls out two guns out of thin air, presumably by Ars Magus. Raven was actually interested and he wanted to get a closer look but the waiter stopped him asking if he wanted to order something.
"Just a glass of water, and…" Raven looks at the menu thinking this is the only way those two wouldn't notice him.
"This sandwich over here."
"Great! I will be right with you."
Raven hadn't eaten since he's been in this world. He was used to go days without food and water since his mercenary days, but right now, he needed something in his stomach. He looks back to the conversation.
"And if I refuse?"
"Then I have no choice but to take you by force." Tager collided his hands together and forms electromagnetic energy in his arms and his arms were sparking. The two were about to fight each other as soon as one of them made the first move. Noel initiated the fight by starting to shoot at Tager. Tager immediately back steps away from what it seem nothing at first until he saw gun symbols that exploded upon less than a half second upon appearing. Raven had never seen any weapon like that except a friend, Ciel, but even then, the bullets didn't teleport. He looked on the battle more and sees Tager already countering with a magnetic punch. Noel had blocked it on time but it wasn't just any block, it was a green transparent barrier than absorbed most of the damage except the magnetism surrounding her. It seem that this Tager person fights to bring his opponent as close to him as possible by using magnetism in his arms. And Noel can not only send teleporting bullets, but can also transform her weapon to suit the situation. Raven is taking this in when Noel jumped high in the air and started to shoot heavy bullets at Tager. He blocks all of them with his own green barrier and when she shoots a rocket at him, he uses his magnetism to direct the missile away, which is heading towards Raven and the restaurant behind him. The two fighters looked backed at the missile to see if it was going to hit anyone, innocent lives being involved in their fight was not ok with their superiors. Raven stood up from his chair and walks away from the restaurant so that he can find a way to stop the missile without awakening his anger. He only knew one move that can minimize damage to himself and for the restaurant to be safe. He made a fist in his Nasod arm, pulled it back and instantly drove right through the missile blowing it up on contact. No one could see anything through the smoke the collision created until Raven vented his arm. The smoke cleared instantly with him sustaining only minor burns that will heal in a few minutes. Raven walked back to his table, checked his backpack for any money so he can pay the waiter. He noticed that it wasn't his home currency ED, but this world's currency, Platinum Dollars or P$. He went in the restaurant and asked if he can have the sandwich to go. One person clapping. Two people clapping. Several people clapping. Pretty soon, everyone was clapping for Raven for saving their lives. The manager said the sandwich was on the house and asked for his name.
"It's Raven. The Reckless Fist."
He left the restaurant to deal with the two fighters but they were almost done. Noel has the upper-hand of the fight and Tager is already considering to retreat.
"She's really fast with those two revolvers."
He looks at Noel but something is wrong, her eyes are a darker, duller green color and her face, emotionless like how Eve was when the El Search party met her for the first time.
"Gah! Where did all this strength come from?! Kokonoe, I'm retreating for now."
And just like that, he disappeared from thin air, probably from a teleporter. Raven went towards Noel and she returned back to normal like she wasn't aware that she wasn't emotionless.
"What was that?" Noel questioning herself.
"It looks like she doesn't even know of her own power."
"Um, hello?"
Noel turned around and immediately went apologetic on Raven.
"I-I'm sorry! Please forgive me for that earlier!" She bowed at Raven and him himself was confused. Didn't Tager cause the missile to be directed at him? Anyways, he had a question to ask her.
"It's ok, I just need to ask a question from you. Can show me where the NOL headquarters is at?"
"It's over at your left, just keep walking uphill until you see a very tall building that towers every other building."
"Thanks for that." Raven starts to walk off leaving the girl behind.
AN: So welcome to my first fanfiction, BlazSword. At first, I was going to post my KH fanfic first, until I realized I'm still waiting on major plot points on KHx that I needed clarification from and I needed to get everything together again. Plus, I've been planning BlazSword for over a year now and I just finished the Elsword and Blazblue stories, so now was a good time to post it. BlazSword will be split up in to three different stories and Raven and Ragna will be the general protagonist for this one. The other two will be posted when BlazSword reaches enough chapters. The second chapter might be posted in a couple of days from the time of this update (5/20/2017)
