Chapter 1: Prisoned

Elsword didn't need to hesitate as he entered the underground lab.

Nasods built by Wally detected his arrival. They became automatically active and surrounded the Lord Knight. Wally's henchmen came to the scene as well. Fighters cracking their fists. Archers stood somewhere far from the battlefield but they held their bows and guns all locked on the red head. And big armored swordsmen unsheathed their swords.

"You dare to enter this lair alone?" One swordman smirked under his helm. "Don't make us laugh."

Elsword gritted his teeth. "I don't have time to deal with you!"

"Neither Lord Wally have time to deal with a punk like you." The swordman pointed him with his sword. "And for intruding here you must die!"

Their attacks had broke loose and all were targeted on Elsword.

But Elsword countered them with Windmill as all attacks were deflected and the attackers got caught up by his spinning tornado. His sword shredded their hard metal suits into pieces and as he stopped spinning, his enemies' parts were sent flying and crashed to various areas of the lab.

He dodged an arrow when the first archer started shooting and the rest followed.

Rain of arrows along with mirage of bullets sped towards him.

He evade every single one of them but only got an arrow stab on his shoulder and two bullets each on his abdomen and on his right leg.

His teeth clenched. He had his one knee kneel on the floor with blood spilling out of his leg and abdomen.

He looked up and saw his enemies began to fire again but were only disturbed when bombs landed on their spots and exploded with blue smoke.

"Need a hand?"

Elsword immediately knew who it was. He turned around to see a certain cerulean eyed boy with a cream-colored hair with two tips of dark brown spots resembling of an animal's ears.

"Chung!?" The red head was surprised to see him. Had he followed him all the way here?

Chung took out his hand as he helped his friend get on to his feet after Elsword accepted it.

"Did you follow me?" Elsword asked.

"Less talking and more fighting." Chung reloaded his Destroyer. His eyes narrowed. "More of Wally's pawns are coming."

Elsword turned to see a mob of Nasods and Wally's henchmen. Behind them was one of Wally's high rank Nasods. Wally No. 3.

He smirked. "Guess I wasn't fighting alone, huh?"

"Well, I'm not letting you fight to death by yourself." Chung then shouted. "Dread Chase!"

Several missiles were fired from the Destroyer as they blasted most of the low rank Nasods and the henchmen, causing to create an explosion.

But Wally No.3 only earned a single scratch as it ran towards the two ready to struck at them with its sharp claws.

"Elsword!"

"Got it!"

The Lord Knight ran to the robot with a furious cry, "Unlimited Blade!"

His sword glowed in red and as he swung it on the Nasod, it found itself being torn in half.

With that, its one red eye stopped glowing and the legs of the Nasod fell onto its knees and fell as its half crashed on the ground.

After their fight, Elsword and Chung walked on to the chamber of where Wally should be located. And it wasn't just Wally there.

He has her. Elsword gripped the hilt of his sword. I must save her.

Then he noticed Chung was still here. He forgot he was walking with him and began to wonder why he didn't drag him back to the others due to the fact that both of them had injuries, which were minor but he knew that wasn't the case.

Before he could speak, Chung got there first, "If you're wondering why I didn't plan on taking you back to Ruben you should at least think of my main intentions on helping you."

"And it wasn't just because I wanted to help you. Surely Raven said that go on all attack to Wally's lair was reckless but I know how you feel about her. Besides,"

He could see the determination in those cerulean eyes as he finished. "It wasn't just her who got captured. If you want to rescue Aisha then let me help you save her and Eve."

That last statement only made Elsword shock.

Aisha was first captured by Wally two weeks ago after he broke her heart unknowingly. He forgot about Eve kept captive three days later because of his blind rage and desire to save Aisha and make things right between them. This only made him feel guilty for not thinking of rescuing both Aisha and Eve, for the Nasod Queen is his friend too.

But why was Chung so serious on rescuing Eve?

He thought deeply until he spoke, "Do you have an affair with Eve?"

Chung flinched with his animal like ears raised. The word 'affair' took him by surprise as his paled face was tainted in red.

"W-what?" He stammered. "Affair? Elsword, never in my life time adventures would ever hear a word like that from you other than Rena."

Like he said, Rena was the matchmaker of the group after she observed the gang's actions. She was the first one who noticed his and Aisha's feelings towards each other. He swore himself not to irritate the elf for she was too scary to both him and Aisha.

Elsword rolled his eyes. "Is it yes or no?"

Chung didn't know what to say of this until he sighed in defeat.

"Yeah," he replied. "I had a crush on her."

Elsword grinned. "Great! You can help me with the rescue!"

"You're not mad about it?" Chung asked.

"What? Why would I be angry if a young friend of mine would be in love towards my friend such as Eve?"

Chung scartched his creamed hair nervously, "Well, I seem to notice that she had feelings for you."

Really? Instead of saying that he said, "And...?"

"And I thought you had feelings for her too."

He looked at him as if he was an idiot. Apparently, he was.

"Dude," Elsword began, "what happen to I-know-how-you-feel-about-her quote earlier?"

"Hey I didn't know you actually had a crush on Aisha!" Chung defended himself. "I'm not some matchmaking expert like Rena!"

The first statement made Elsword blush in the same color as his hair and the second statement was a bit of a coincidence due to the fact that the elegant elf was an excellent expert.

"Let's drop this conversation and get over wih it." He didn't notice he was stammering after he said those words.

Chung nodded. "R-Right."

Just as they were close to the final stage, Elsword put a hand on his friend's shoulder.

Chung felt the weight of his hand as he turned to him. Only to see him grinning and giving him a thumbs up.

"Don't doubt yourself, Chung. I'm sure Eve would feel the same way as you."

Chung smiled. "You think so?"

"Yeah."

"Thanks Els-"

Elsword opened his eyes. He wasn't looking at Chung nor he was in the lair anymore.

He was in a dark room. A dank cell to be exact. It was empty and there was nothing but himself standing in the shadows.

He looked at his hands. His right hand still in his Lord Knight's glove but his left hand was bandaged. From his left hand up to his shoulder were bandages covering whole of his left arm and didn't leave a skin exposed within the rippled cloths.

He solemnly whispered. "I'm sorry, Chung..."

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