Resha Valentine was given the title of Duchess by the King of Synphonia because of her incredible power that allowed her kingdom to win the war against The country of Raregroove. Almost Fifty years have passed since then and The Valentine Family has been in charge of New Elie State in the name of Symphonia ever since. Things have been peaceful for the kingdom, until recently. A new conspiracy has threatened not only the kingdom, but every world involved. The key to everyone's salvation or destruction is the young duchess of the Valentine family, who was hidden in another world for her own safety for six years. When the duchess gets discovered by the powerful new enemy, her only hope, and the hope for everyone, lays with her motley crew of odd friends, who may not have enough maturity or enough in common with each other to do anything. Can anyone be saved? Or will they be able to rise to the challenge?

I don't own Rave Master.

Prologue

Elie laid curled up in her large, cozy queen sized bed listening to the howling wind that whipped all around outside her bedroom window. There was a nasty blizzard blowing outside the castle, and she was very grateful to be where she was right now, especially at this late hour, but she just couldn't bring herself to fall asleep.

She peered around her beautifully decorated room, which seemed much more eerie than it normally did. Shadows from across her large room, big enough to be a normal sized house's living room, cast the most monstrous shapes. Her furniture, her toys, everything seemed to be making the most hideous of face, all staring into her.

She pulled her covers closer to her small form before she finally mentally slapped herself. "What am I doing?" She said to herself. "I am a ten year old girl! I am too old to be afraid of dumb shadows! Grr! Why can't I just go to sleep?!" She kicked her out legs in a very frustrated motion under her covers until she was finally able to settle down.

She let out an aggravated sigh, as she repositioned herself in her bed. She knew the real reason she was up this late and it wasn't because of anything spooky. She recalled her parents conversation all to well. She knew eavesdropping was wrong, but it was just one of those little things she just couldn't help herself to, like those cookies that she was told would spoil her dinner.

First all the weird stuff that's been happening lately, and now this? Something in her just couldn't brush it off any longer. "Why are they leaving?" She thought worriedly to herself. Her parents were going to be summoned to the capitol to meet the king. Considering what her parents did for a living it wasn't an odd occurrence, but it was the way the were informed of it. When they got that call to go see him, their voices were so anxious. Not to mention that this summon just came out of the blue and it was such an odd time of year for the king to be asking- No! he was demanding their presences.

Could they be in trouble? No if the king was angry with them, he would have sent for them, not making them go to him. Still, why was this happening?

She asked her parents about his before they tucked her- I mean said good night to her that evening. She was far to old to be tucked in by her parents. At first they scolded her for listening in on their conversations, as expected. Then their demeanors softened and they explained to her that there was nothing to worry about.

Well, if her parents assured her it would be just fine, then she trusted them. They never steered her wrong before, right?

Elie turned over in her bed for what seemed like the thousandth time that night. She looked at the clock, 11:47 P.M. She shouldn't be up this late if she was going to see her parents off before their journey to the capitol early tomorrow morning. So she pushed her troubles to the back of her mind the best she could.

She let out one last sigh and shut her eyes. Minutes past in silence, even the wind outside seemed to die down a little. The little girl was finally beginning to drift off into a peaceful, good night's sleep.

"AHHHH!!!" BAMM!!!! BAMM!!!! BAMM!!!!

The noise caused the girl to shoot up from her bed, completely startled. What in the world was that awful, deafening blast? It was unlike anything she had ever heard before. The closest thing to it was thunder. But there was no thundering, or lightening out side, it was snowing!

The first sound she could understand right away however. Some one was screaming for their life.

"M-momma? Dad?" She horrifyingly assumed.

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Seig panted heavily as he bolted up the stairs. "No! No! No! No! This can't be happening!" he thought franticly. "They can't be gone! I'm supposed to protect them! How could I let this happen?! I- No! I can't think about that now! I have to keep a level head! The girl is my only priority now!" He ran through the corridors of the castle like a flash. With the help of adrenalin and his fear of what had and might happen rushing through his head, He made it to the room he was looking for in no time.

At first he banged on the door and yelled "Your grace it's Seig Hart! Let me enter!" only a second later before the person on the other side could respond, he realized that it was too big of an emergency to be using his usual formalities with her and he bust through the door.

Thankfully, the ten year old girl he that he came for was sitting in her bed just as he prayed for, and that he had gotten to her before anyone else did. The child was a little shaken up- looking, but fortunately unharmed.

He immediately went to her side. "Milady, we need to go, it's not safe here!"

Elie's eyes were wide and fearfully. A thousand things were going through her head too fast for her to process them. She could only stare up at the man fearfully as she attempted to get her words out. "W-What's going-"

"There's no time to explain! Take this, and put your shoes on, quickly!" Seig tossed her a coat. It was the only one he was able to get his hands on during his frantic hurrying.

Seig quickly went to the window and looked outside to inspect if anyone was there while Elie slipped on her boots. As Elie tried to slipped into the coat she realized something. This was her mothers coat, not her's. She had seen her mother wear it plenty of times before, and it was much too big for Elie. The sleeves went past her finger tips, and it almost dragged to the floor.

She didn't understand. If they were leaving right now, wouldn't mom need her coat? She barely got one arm in the sleeve before Sieg took it and ran so fast out of the room, he was practically dragging her.

As they whizzed through the corridors of the large castle (Elie fumbling with the coat along the way) searching for an exit, only more and more questions kept popping into the girl's head. Where were her parents? Why was it so important to leave, that she didn't have time to pack, or even change out of her nightgown? And above all, WHAT WAS HAPPENING?!

Finally they made it out of the castle and outside. The snow was blowing wildly all around them and it was piled up to her shins. With only her boots , her 'not-as-think-as-she-originally-thought' nightgown , and her mother's coat protecting her, her legs froze a little more with each step and stung her skin like needles.

She could barely see two inches in front of her face because of this blizzard. Apart of her was very grateful that Seig was still holding tightly to her hand, but his pace barely slackened at all outside and she was constantly tripping, causing him to harshly drag her. It came to the point where Sieg just picked her up and carried her under one of his arms.

After what seemed like forever, even though it was only a few minutes, they had finally reached their destination. One of Elie's family's carriages. It took Elie a minute to figure this out. She was barely able to make out the outline of the vehicle in the storm even when she was right in front of it, let alone what type of animals were going to pull it.

All she knew was that Seig had just shoved her into what felt like either a large box, or a small room and shut the door behind him as he entered. She felt the snow whipping around her stop as she slowly focused her eyes. It was definitely one of her family's rides. It was the small one, big enough for only two, maybe three depending on how big the passengers were, and if they were willing to squeeze in.

The interior had quite the cozy design to it, but it was difficult for Elie to feel cozy at all after whatever had just happened. She sat on the floor as she looked upon Seig who gave the driver, some sort of order. Then they were moving.

Seig slumped against his seat trying to catch his breath. He had the most haunted look on his face. He just stared ahead, lost in his own thoughts for a few minutes as he got his breathing under control.

Then his head snapped down to look at the child he had just rescued. She was sitting on the floor of the carriage, soaking wet from the snow. She looked back up at the man with large round eyes as she silently shivered.

"Y-your grace! You shouldn't sit on the floor, please come here."

He coaxed her next to him. As he looked upon he haunted child, he could tell that she was in just as worse shape mentally as him. He wanted to put his arm around her, to hug her to let her know they were safe now, but he knew he mustn't. He had his place and he had already crossed the line too much already with her tonight trying to save her. So he did the next best thing. The took off his own coat and gently wrapped it around her. She was obviously cold.

"We are safe now Grand Duchess."

Elie looked at him bewildered by what he had just said. Grand Duchess? No she was just the regular Duchess from the State of New Elie. She wouldn't become the 'Grand Duchess' of the Symphonian state until she inherited the title once her parents…

Elie wouldn't Finnish that thought. She refused. If she was called the Grand Duchess, than that would mean her parents must be… Soft tears came to her eyes…Oh God, was that what that thunder sound was?

She needed to know if it was true. She need the answers to a lot of questions, but for some reason she couldn't find her voice. She didn't have the strength to even move her head to look at the man she sat next to. Her mind was moving at a mile a minute, but the rest of her body just wouldn't budge.

Was this what it meant to be in shock?

"Sigh. Try to get some rest Grand Duchess. We have a long journey ahead of us." Seig told her as his eyes drooped. It was clear he was exhausted.

Elie could only think to herself sarcastically, "Oh yeah, like I'm really gonna sleep after this."

I know you probubly have a lot of questions right now, but I can't answer them witout giveing away any spoilers. But don't worry everything will be answered.

I've decided to update this story every week (At least for now) So I'll see you next Weekend!