*Play Elfin Lied: Lilium (extended version)*
Once, long ago, there was a great and powerful civilization that came to Earth from the stars in a great flying ship.
This ship landed on a large island in the middle of the ocean, and it was here that the people of this civilization would build and improve there society for the next thousand years.
Over this millennium, resentment began to arise between the Earthlings and the denizens of the ancient civilization which had taken the name; Atlantis.
After the first hundred years, the Atlantians made first contact with the inhabitants of this world.
At first, they brought some of their knowledge to the ancient civilizations of the world. With this, they were welcomed with open arms.
But, it wasn't long before jealousy and greed started to grow in the hearts of the Earthlings.
While the Atlantians spread a small portion of their knowledge of math and science to civilizations like the ancient Greeks, the Earthlings wanted more.
They were envious of the strange and unique powers that each and every one of the Atlantians had.
Elemental manipulation, teleportation, telekinesis; Abilities like these were mere child's play to the Atlantians.
These abilities frightened and enraged the Earthlings. After the millennia was almost at an end , the greedy Earthlings demanded that the Atlantians share the secrets behind their powers as well as their advanced technology that would go unmatched far into the future.
Seeing the destructive nature of humanity, the Atlantians knew that they couldn't let their technology fall into the hands of the underdeveloped Earthlings.
When the Atlantians refused, the Earthlings became enraged and war broke out. A war that would last for but a few short years but take the lives of millions in the process.
Thanks to their technology and powers, the Atlantians dominated the war in the beginning. But after sometime, the Earth's civilizations began to overwhelm the Atlantians with their much greater numbers.
Eventually after ten long years of fighting, the Earthlings had brought Atlantis to its knees. In a last ditch effort to keep the humans away from their technology, the Atlantians took steps to both ensure their races survival as well protect their technology.
One fully grown adult, four fetuses, and one hundred and three fertilized eggs were cryogenically sealed in a special chamber within the original ship, deep within the inner ring at the heart of Atlantis.
They then sunk the inner ring, putting the chamber and the majority of their technology forever out of reach of the humans.
Or so they thought.
When the humans finally arrived upon the soils of Atlantis, they immediately began to ransack the city. It wasn't long before the once glorious city was left in ruin.
The remaining portion of the Island then followed the inner circle as, it too, sank to the depths, never to see the surface again.
The remaining citizens were rounded up and captured, made into slaves and breeding stock throughout the world.
All, except a small group who had fled the great city during the invasion. This group managed to successfully escape to the lands to the east.
Over time, Atlantis fell into the realm of myth and the band of survivors continued moving from place to place, avoiding the humans as much as possible. This group would often be confused for Gypsies whenever they did come across humans, because of their nomadic lifestyle and physical appearance.
This would continue until they eventually ended up on another small island nation that would later become known as Japan.
It was here that they would remain, away from society, living in peace under a strict code of laws.
Each law was given a very specific punishment, but there was one law that was to be followed absolutely.
That law was to never have any contact with humans. The punishment for breaking this law was death.
This law, above all else, was to never be broken in order to ensure the safety of the whole village. And for many century's this law was upheld.
But one day, a lone male human stumbled into the outer most edge of the village before collapsing from exhaustion and illness.
Before he could be taken by the icy grip of death, he was found by one of the villagers. This villager took pity on the poor soul and brought him back to her home on the outskirts under the cover of night.
Using some of the technology her people had brought with them from Atlantis, she nursed him back to health within a matter of hours.
When the man awoke, the first thing he saw was the worried face of the villager as it changed to relief at seeing him fully recovered and conscious.
He couldn't believe his eyes. He thought for sure that he must be dead and looking at the face of an angel, so was the villager's beauty.
He was mesmerized by her silky, silvery hair that matched her brilliantly shining silver eyes that held a hint of mischief.
This with her heart shaped face and olive skin gave the woman an otherworldly beauty that the man had never seen in any human woman before and left him speechless at first.
Over the next few days, the villager and the outsider would spend the day with the villager going about her daily duties and the human hiding out within her house.
During the night they would swap stories and tales of their different cultures, growing closer as friends. Unfortunately that would not last.
Over time, a spark formed in both of their hearts. As they continued to bond, that spark became a raging inferno that threatened to consume them both until, one fateful night, they both acted upon the feeling.
This union would serve to both seal their fates as well as set events into motion that would ruin the plans of a mad man.
From that one night, a life was born. The villager knew this and also knew of what would happen should the two lovers be found out by the rest of the village.
For the next several months, the villager managed to keep the rest of the village in the dark by only coming in as she needed to, but soon, the first signs of pregnancy began to show.
With these signs, the villager stopped coming into the village at all. If she had been any other villager, her and the human's fate may have taken a different path.
Unfortunately, this particular villager was considered, amongst the other villagers, the most beautiful female in the village.
Every male in the village wanted her for both her beauty and her unique skill. She was born with the unheard of ability to copy any power from the other villagers that she saw. It was because of those two factors that she was so desired.
So, when she simply stopped coming into the village, the others began to look into her mysterious withdrawal.
She managed to keep them at bay for many more months during her pregnancy by feigning illness and having her human love slip through a hidden door and hide under the hut until they left.
This continued on for most of the remainder of her pregnancy, with some of the villagers bringing food and fresh water for her.
It wasn't until her final month of pregnancy that things took a sudden and rapid turn for the worse.
During that time, the human would sneak out at night and hunt for extra food, then dispose of anything they didn't use far off away from the village.
Unfortunately, one of the village's hunting parties stumbled across the one of the cleaned carcasses that the human had disposed of.
Not recognizing the style used to remove the meat, the party immediately returned to the village and informed the village elder.
A search party was immediately formed and the village was scoured.
Finally, the villagers arrived at the hut occupied by the two lovers.
Without warning, they burst in upon the human and the female villager as they were sharing a meal.
Upon seeing the outsider as well as the clearly pregnant female, the male villagers went into a rage and immediately and violently took the life of the outsider while the female villager's restrained the distressed female.
When the males finished, the distraught mother-to-be went into a rage, activating her ability and slaying many villagers using the various abilities that she had gained over the years.
But, the stress she was under eventually caused her to go into labor, ceasing her rampage after she had severely maimed or killed over a dozen villagers.
As she finally gave birth to her new baby son, one of the villagers used her weakened state to attack and kill her.
As he raised his hand to slay the bastard offspring, he was stopped by the ancient voice of the village elder.
The elder was the most revered in the village due to his own highly unique ability to foresee events in the far future.
When the villagers had burst into the hut, he had a vision. In this vision, he saw a silver haired, silver eyed boy as he helped to free the Atlantian's last remnants from a mad man's sick and twisted game.
Upon laying eyes on the boy, the elder immediately knew that he was the one. It was for this reason that the boy was allowed to live.
Knowing the abuse that the boy would suffer at the hands of the other villagers, the elder took it upon himself to raise the boy, alongside his own granddaughter, whose mother had died in child birth and father had been killed on a hunt.
For the next twenty three years the two children where raised as siblings, and treated as such by the elder and, upon his twenty third birthday, he was sent away from the village to follow his fate.
*End Song Present Time*
It's a bright and sunny day as a train slowly makes its way into the capital city of Shinto Teito. Shinto Teito is a large metropolis that, as of recently, has been completely bought out by the most powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate in the entire world: Mid Bio Informatics.
This particular train is carrying a large group of people into the city from the country side. This is not a particularly strange site for the large city.
What is strange about this particular train is the group of people in the rearmost car doing their level best to stay as far away from a single silver, shaggy haired boy currently sleeping in one of the seats.
Aside from the silver hair and the way above average good looks, there wasn't anything particularly off-putting about his physical appearance.
He was wearing a white, skin tight, sleeveless shirt that both hugged and accentuated his well toned muscles while simultaneously leaving several of the females in the car blushing and fantasizing.
Around his neck was a silver choker with a small tear drop pendant attached to it. On his upper right arm was a tattoo of a winged serpent in a circle eating its own tail. On his hands was a pair of fingerless gloves with strange markings covering their entire surface.
He was also wearing a beige pair of shorts that fell just below his knees but were made of some kind of material that seemed be more pliant than the texture would let on and a simple pair of black, flat soled shoes with no socks.
Again, this wasn't the reason for everyone trying to stay away from him. The real reason was two-fold. The first reason was the two forearm length daggers attached to his lower back.
If that wasn't enough, then the young punk currently in an arm lock and begging for the youth to let him go was definitely the clincher.
The young man had gotten on at the very first stop of the train, one that was rarely ever used. Being the only one on the train, the youth decided to take a nap while he waited to arrive in the capital city.
As more stops were made and more people got onto the train, people were wary but tolerant of the boy's unique choice of "attire".
It wasn't until a wanna be thug got on the train at the last stop before Shinto that everyone started giving him a wide birth.
The poor bastard got a look at the daggers and decided they would look better on him instead. He walked up to the sleeping young man before demanding he hand over the daggers.
When the boy didn't wake up or respond, the other youth got angry and grabbed him by his shirt. Without even waking up, the silverette managed to completely incapacitate the other.
Once in the arm lock, he simply sat back down, all without ever opening his eyes or waking up. He then remained like that for the next ten minutes between the last stop and Shinto Teito.
"Attention, Shinto Teito will be the next stop. Everyone who is getting off at Shinto Teito should prepare themselves now," Came a voice over the train P.A. system.
As if one mind, everyone in the train car released a collective sigh of relief. They then instantly sucked that breath back in when the boy finally opened his silver eyes before letting out a long yawn.
"Aughn, finally the capital. I still don't understand why the elder was so insistent on me coming here though," The youth mumbled to himself.
"Come on man, I was just joking, I didn't mean anything by it," The youth heard.
Realizing he was holding onto something, he looked down to see the punks arm bent at a funny angle in his grasp.
"Who the hell are you," he asked the punk in confusion before letting go of his arm. Without replying, the punk ran right out the doors just as they opened up while clutching his arm.
Shrugging, the boy reached under his seat and pulled out a small drawstring rucksack and slung it over his right shoulder by the drawstrings.
He then proceeded to exit the train, completely oblivious to the looks of fear he was receiving from the other passengers.
He walked up to the train circuit map and took a second to memorize the layout before figuring out where the next train he needed to get on was at.
With information in tow, he set off to find his train.
"The train into central Shinto Teito will be leaving in two minutes," An announcer said.
"Oh shit," the boy exclaimed before taking off in a mad dash for his train.
Weaving in and out of people with practice ease, the youth got to his platform and on the train with thirty seconds to spare.
He grabbed onto one of the hanging rails with his free hand and took a look at the other passengers. There weren't many others on the train; several business men and women, a couple elderly citizens and one black haired youth who had the aura of someone who had just realized a great disappointment.
With his observations done, he settled in as he waited to for the train to stop.
The ride was roughly twelve minutes long, but that didn't bother the youth as he just had a carefree look on his face.
As the train came to a stop, the youth got off and exited the train station. He took notice of the fact that the ravenette from the train was following behind him, but paid it no mind since he still seemed to be depressed.
He just passed it off as the two of them heading in the same direction for now.
He continued to walk down the streets for a bit before he looked up at the large MBI tower just off of his left and in the distance.
Even with his attention on the building, he was still seamlessly walking and avoiding the other people in the crowd.
He was broken from his observations when he suddenly heard vigorous rustling from above. He looked up to see a young girl falling from the sky while yelling to watch out.
Just as she was about to collide with him, he stopped and ducked on reflex. This caused the girl to soar harmlessly over his head and into the poor ravenette behind him.
The youth stood back up and turned around to see the girl, with her butt in the flustered boys face as if she had no sense of modesty.
"Ouch, I knew it was to high to jump from," The busty brunette whined to herself. She then perked up slightly before bodily tackling the ravenette out of the way as a large blast of electricity slammed into the ground where the two had just been entangled.
Raising a single eyebrow, the silver haired youth looked to the top of the building in the general direction that the girl had just fallen from.
His eyes then narrowed upon seeing two other girls standing ontop of the building looking down upon the two boys and girl.
As he was looking up at them he realized that they appeared to be identical twins. He looked to their attire and had to supress his now twitching eye as he took note of the bondage-esque outfits the girls were wearing.
His eyes then widened slightly when he heard the crackling of electricity and saw small arcs of electricity coming off of the girls' hands as they fired a bolt of lightning at the girl and ravenette.
'I thought the elder said that humans don't have special powers,' The boy thought to himself.
As he finished this thought, one of the bondage twins, as he now dubbed them, started to speak.
"There is no use in running," the twin with the bigger bust shouted down. "Come on and fight us!"
Thinking that she was talking to him, the silverette tensed his muscles and got ready to fight if need be, one hand slipping to the hilt of one of his daggers, not noticing the brunette girl speaking up behind him.
Suddenly, the two twins jumped from their perch on top of the building and landed on the ground between him and the boy and girl with their backs to him.
Realizing that the twins were not here for him, he relaxed a little bit and decided to wait and see how things played out.
To his surprise, instead of fighting or defending herself, the brunette grabbed the young unsuspecting ravenette's hand before making a mad dash in the opposite direction, dragging the poor boy behind her like a ragdoll.
Raising an eyebrow at the odd site he just witnessed, the young Silverette decided to step in when he heard the girl with the smaller chest mention going after the fleeing girl.
Little did the boy know, there were quite a few eyes on him and the twins at the moment. In an alleyway only a few feet away, a fairly androgynous young man wearing a face mask to cover from his nose down and all black was observing and preparing to step in and chase the twins off.
In similar fashion, upon another roof just across the street, a woman with light gray eyes and hair done up in a long ponytail, black leather top, miniskirt, black leggings and grey hoari was watching with a look of curiosity. In her right hand was a nodachi.
"I'm sorry ladies but it looks like that girl doesn't want to fight you."
Hikari and Hibiki went stiff when they heard someone speak up right between the two of them. Simultaneously, they looked between each other to see a fairly attractive young man with silver hair leaning between them with on arm on each of their shoulders.
They both shrugged his arms of their shoulders as they backed away from him a bit before both leveling a glare at him.
"Who the hell do you think you are," the smaller chested girl said angrily.
"With those daggers on your back, you must be a Sekirei!" The larger chested one exclaimed.
"Where is your Ashikabi?" Both twins demanded.
"Sekirei? Ashikabi? I have no clue what you two are talking about," the boy said, confused.
The twins looked to each other and nodded their heads.
"I am number 11 Hikari," the bustier twin stated.
"And I am number 12 Hibiki," Said the other twin.
"We challenge you!" they exclaimed.
The boy was still confused but grinned none the less.
"I still don't know what all this Sekirei and Ashikabi business is but I'm always up for a good fight. The names Shi."
The twins got ready to move as soon as they heard his declaration but they suddenly felt Shi's hand planted in the center of both their chests.
Under normal circumstances they would have electrocuted the culprit until there was nothing left but ashes.
These weren't normal circumstances. Just as quickly as they could realize what was going on, it suddenly felt like a two ton truck just slammed into their chests sending Hikari slamming into the wall of the building next to them and leaving a small crater.
Hibiki was much less fortunate as she was launched into the street just as a car was coming by. She hit the hood and bounced off before landing on the street and rolling for a bit.
Shi just looked at his hands before putting one down and scratching his head nervously with the other.
"I guess I put a little to much power into it, ha ha," He laughed nervously.
Hearing this the figure in the alley sweat dropped while the one on the roof narrowed her eyes.
'That is definitely no Sekirei, but they aren't a human either. No human could have done that to a Sekirei especially from that distance.
You are definitely not like the other monkeys on this rock," The female on the roof thought to herself.
'It might be interesting to see just what this one can do,' she thought before licking her lips and gripping her nodachi just a little bit tighter in excitement.