NAA: Hello, it is I: Not-Alone-Anymore! You may know me from the SSB, Legend of Zelda, and various other archives I have written for~!
Elsword: Hello...?
NAA: WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?! THIS IS MY SPECIAL ALONE-TIME!
Elsword: Except your "Special Alone-Time" has entered the Elsword archive.
NAA: SO?!
Elsword: So now you must suffer the nagging of the Elgang.
NAA: Oh dear. Anyways, I don't own Elsword, any of it's characters, or anything related to it! I only own the writing on the page- er, screen.
Chapter One:
Elisium
Elsword's PoV
It had been a completely normal day. I Woke up, got dressed, was reprimanded by Elsa. Almost forgot breakfast too. When I entered Velder High, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Just a few rumors flouting around about a new transfer student. I had casually walked into class, taking a seat, and immediately propping my feet onto my desk.
People slowly paced in, one at a time with intervals that seemed to last an eternity. But slowly, the room started to fill up with teens. A good friend of mine, Chung, waved at me with a bright smile on his face. I only nodded in response before closing my eyes. Our Teacher followed soon after, jabbering on about school assemblies, and how there was some stupid test coming up.
"Elsword, feet off the table!" Stella exclaimed, tossing a clipboard my way. I managed to duck in time, removing my feet from the desk in the process.
"That's better." She smiled in self satisfaction, her arms crossing over her chest. I scowled, setting my elbows onto the desk and placing my chin in my hands. I was not lucky enough to get a window seat, so I could only gaze longingly at the many scratches, and doodles on the hard wooden surface under my elbows, and imagine that it was a portal to the outside world.
"Um, excuse me?" A voice intruded my thoughts, and I, along with the rest of the class, glanced up at the door. There, a girl who kept her purple hair up in childish, curly twin-tails, and smiling eyes that matched, stood. Her hands were clasped behind her back as she rocked from her heels to the balls of her feet.
"You the transfer?" Stella, blunt and rude as ever, questioned.
"Yes, my name is Aisha, it's very nice to meet you." The purplette smiled at our cynical homeroom teacher.
"Alright, just sit down, the window over there's open." Stella gestured vaguely to the seat Eve used to populate before having to move due to her father's job change. It was behind the seat next to mine.
"Thank you." Aisha skipped on over to that seat, but before she actually sat down, she wondered:
"Do you believe in magic, Miss Stella?" A moment passed before half the class burst into chuckles. That didn't seem to faze the grape-head, she just continued smiling. Her eyes seemed to pierce Stella's with surprising hardness that contradicted her smile. Stella frowned.
"Please sit down, Aisha." Aisha obeyed, smiling so much that it began to feel creepy. What a weird girl.
An account of the happenings of the past several months...
(Third PoV)
There was something wrong in the Third of the Triangle. Known as Os, the Third dimension within the Triangle was losing something precious. It took Aisha only a few days to realize this; As Keeper of the Gate to Elisium.
The meeting place of dimensions, Elisium, where they intersect, and thus connect. She had gone through the Gate many times herself, but resided in the dimension of Ri.
Elisium has had many names; Paradise, The Edge of Dreams, some even think of it as the afterlife, or Heaven. Aisha is one of the very few who know what it really is, and so she was charged with the protection of the town of Lanitoris.
Lanitoris was built for one singular purpose, to hide the Gate. It has been fulfilling it's job for three centuries-ever since the Gate was discovered. None have known the Gate quite as well as Aisha though. She being the first to begin exploration of Elisium.
She was the first to discover that there was more then just the dimension of Ri. That there was actually three, they fell into the shape of a Triangle, so, that's what she named it. Elrios, the Triangle, made up of the three dimensions, Eli, Ri, and Os.
Eli thrived by far the most. It was abundant in crystallized drops of the water of Elisium, rightly called El shards. The dimension of Ri, her own dimension, had quite a bit of El itself, though nothing compared to Eli.
As for Os, it had enough to live on(Well, used to), either that, or the inhabitants of Os had not discovered a way to harness El's power. Perhaps they did not know what El was at all? She only ever sensed a few tiny wisps of magical energy emitting from Os.
That meant that just about no one knew anything about it. They probably didn't even know about mana. It had been a day while she was pondering this when she sensed a magical presence intruding Elisium from Os.
'That's odd,' She had thought, wondering whether she should investigate, or just leave it be. She concluded that she should indeed enter through the Gate, and, well, check it out.
Once she set her mind, planned out a small strategy in case it was an enemy, gathered several mana potions, and summoned her staff, she descended the stairs to her cellar. It was dark, and dank, and every other thing a cellar must be.
Well, everything, plus the addition of the rather large rune carved into the wall. Aisha ignited a small flame on the tip of her staff, and strode over to the rune. She placed a gloved hand onto the engraving, and muttered a quick chant.
The rune glowed, as a rune should, and a plethora of swirling, euphoric colors appeared, twirling around each other in a graceful dance. Her hand, still in contact with the small portal, was swallowed within the twisting rainbow.
Her arm disappeared next, then her left leg, and her torso, she dipped her head in, and lifted her foot from the cold stone. With that, that colors went around in one more whirl, and then it closed in on itself.
Aisha's conscious was engulfed by a million flashing pictures, before they gathered together in one whole. It was the image of a large set of doors. The wood appeared to painted a forest green, and characters of another language were engraved into shimmering, golden trim.
The doors opened of their own accord, and Aisha's mind was pulled in. She closed her mind's eye, and opened her physical, amethyst orbs. The world she was in now was very different from her own.
Though the place she was in could not be called a world, but rather, a slice of three dimensions, conjoined together. Elisium. It appeared cosmic, where the sky was always filled with stars, and the ground glowing with seemingly freshly trimmed grass. A path of illuminated turquoise wove it's way through the valley.
Trees of dark umber, and emerald, holding fruit of every kind, dotted the valley sparsely. Aisha smiled lightly, and stepped forwards. She could see the edge of Elisium if she glanced back, where it dropped off. She hopped over a trickling creek, paused to follow it with her eyes. She could see it drop over the opposite side, creating a never-ending waterfall.
You see, Elisium is shaped like a square. A square in the middle of a Triangle. Queer. Tranquility soon settled as she turned her head slowly, examining the landscape in a relaxed fashion.
The contented smile never left her face, not even when she spotted someone lingering near a sapphire colored door, similar to the one she had just entered. That was the Gate to Os. If Aisha were to turn around, and walk the way she came, she would come to Ri's door. They were parallel to each other, though oddly enough, there was no door to Eli.
Aisha took a deep breath, and strolled over to the someone she had spotted. To her surprise, it was a girl with purple hair, and purple eyes like her own. This girl also wore her hair in twin-tails.
"Ahem?" Aisha coughed, attracting the girls attention which was previously riveted on the path below them.
"Yes?" She asked.
"Who are you?" Aisha wondered to the girl, leaning forward a bit.
"I'm Aisha Ostrum." She replied.
"And I am just Aisha."
"No surname?"
"Correct."
"Are we the same person then?"
"I suppose. You appear to have come from Os."
"Where is Os?" And so, Aisha gave an explanation of the Triangle, and of Elrios, and everything that I have explained to you. The other Aisha, Aisha Ostrum, took this all with a stride, nodding occasionally, and then asking a question or two at times.
"So we are the same person, just of different dimensions?" She inquired, amethyst gazing into amethyst.
"I believe so." The two Aisha's went on to speak of other things. Though after a time(or what felt like a time), they decided to part; for time may not move in Elisium, they knew that if they stayed longer, they would never want to leave.
And, for the next few weeks, they visited daily. Aisha learned that her other self was also a magician, though she dabbled more in dark magic. Aisha Ostrum had even dubbed herself a "Void Princess". Aisha had spoken of her dimensional magic, where she could control time and space.
It seemed that Aisha Ostrum had stumbled upon the Gate to Elisium. She had been inspecting her new school, when she decided to explore the basement floor. There, she found a large rune carved into the brick, which she then touched and before she knew it, she was here.
Though apparently, Aisha Ostrum didn't start school until another two months.
"Why would you explore a place you would not be staying in until two months?"
"I don't want to get lost on the first day!" Aisha Ostrum had laughed rambunctiously, which had been contagious, so Aisha joined in too. After a week of visiting each other daily, Aisha had finally spoken of the catastrophe that was happening to Os.
"I think the El of Os is fading." She had said, her eyes cast downwards.
"The El? As in the life source to Elrios you talked about?" Aisha Ostrum questioned, adjusting one of the dark bows keeping her hair into twin-tails.
"Yes, and if it disappears, the dimension of Os will... Die." Aisha Ostrum's eyes widened.
"We need to do something!" She exclaimed, almost shattering the calm atmosphere of Elisium.
"But how?" Aisha asked, her shoulders slumping.
"Perhaps we could transfer some El from Ri, or Eli to Os?"
"I'm not sure if El would go through the Gate, and even if it could, it would take years to find a shard large enough to sustain an entire planet in an entirely different dimension! Not to mention that I haven't seen a Gate to Eli." Aisha disagreed harshly.
"Then, maybe we could create some ourselves with the water here..." Aisha Ostrum's sentence trailed off, drifting away with the breeze.
"That might work, but I think there is a simpler solution."
"What is it, then?" Aisha Ostrum perked up.
"I think we just need to find the El in Os, and then regenerate it somehow. Maybe it was never even activated to begin with."
"Activated?"
"Yes, we simply need to find the El shard, and then imbue an enchantment, or at least some form of magic into it's physical form."
"That sounds almost too easy."
"Well, it isn't."
"How so?"
"I still have the duty of protecting the Gate in Ri, what if something happens?"
"Well... What if we switch places then?" Aisha was confused. Why would they need to do that?
"But, why?"
"You're clearly more experienced at this then I am. Plus, I only specialize in offensive, dark magic. You know much more about this then I do."
"That is true, perhaps we should temporarily switch places."
"The only thing would be..." Aisha Ostrum began.
"What now?" The other Aisha asked irritably.
"You would have to go to my new school, since we would have to pose as each other."
"Is there something wrong with that?"
"Well, sort of. You see, in my world, er, Ri, people are a bit more cruel. And you have never been to any kind of school, have you?"
"No, I was educated by my grandfather."
"But that's much different then public school. You'll be learning differently, with so many people." Aisha Ostrum spoke with experience, and a bit of discomfort when sayng "So many people". So Aisha pondered over this for a moment.
"But I'm sure I could adapt. Not to mention that this is for the survival of an entire dimension, I don't think my own personal comfort is necessary."
"I guess..." Aisha Ostrum did not look very convinced, but at that moment, Aisha didn't care. The next few weeks were filled with planning. And so, Aisha was to go to Os, and Aisha Ostrum to Ri. They taught each other about their own dimensions every day before talking of their own personal exploits.
Aisha had figured out that they had over four months before the El of Os would die out completely. And so, two more weeks passed, and the day finally came. They met up in Elisium one more time, deciding that a week from then, they would return to Elisium for a report.
The Dimension Witch Aisha walked straight up to the sapphire door leading to Os. She took a deep breath, though anxiety and nervousness could not break through Elisium's barrier of peace. Her gloved hand reached out, and her fingers brushed against the door. This time, however, she was not returning to Ri, or entering Elisium.
The colors were not euphoric, nor were they dancing. They were darkened, faded, dimmed, and sad. They silently painted, smudging together to create a new world as she passed through the gate.
Her journey began.
NAA: Hello(again)! I am somewhat new to Elsword *has been playing the game for 2-3 months* and I have been wanting to write a fanfic for awhile now. I had a couple ideas, but decided to be spontaneous and do this one. I hope my writing is adequate enough for all you people of this fandom, andpleasereview.
Aisha: What was the last part?
NAA: Nothing~~~ But yeah, all those crazy names like Elisium and Lanitoris are Latin. You can just use google translate them if you want(even VP's surname is latin(and very unoriginal)). OH, and the classes are:
Elsword-Infinity Sword
Aisha-Dimension Witch
(Not that it'll matter since I don't think he'll be in here much but)Chung-Deadly Chaser
Aisha: Are we done here then?
NAA: Yup, soooo...
Toodle-loodles,
~Not-Alone-Anymore