Hello, there. Welcome to my first fanfiction. I decided to mix up two of my gaming passions of the present and the past: Elsword and Little Fighter. Hope you like it. Don't forget to review. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Elsword Classes:

Elsword: Lord Knight
Aisha: Elemental Master
Rena: Grand Archer
Raven: Blade Master
Eve: Code Empress
Chung: Tactical Trooper
Ara: Sakra Devanam

Disclaimer: Elsword belongs to K.O.G. and Kill3rCombo. Little Fighter belongs to Marti and Starsky Wong.

"This is normal speech."
'This is thought.'
"This is speech for Julian and for special circumstances."

Location: Unknown.

?'s POV

"Where on Earth did he go!?"

"Over there! I see him!"

"Deep, don't let him escape! We might not have another chance!"

"Come back, you coward!"

"Stop him! Don't let him go through the po-"

Those were the last words I heard before the purple light engulfed me. I had always kept that portal functioning, so I could use it as a last resort to escape. I knew it was a matter of time before they came looking for me. The following battle was fierce, but despite being superior in numbers, we could not stop them. So I had to escape. While the others were holding them off, I ran through the portal, in hopes that it would take me somewhere safe. Some place where I could start everything over.

When the purple light started to fade, I opened my eyes again. I was standing in the middle of an unknown forest, surrounded by nothing but trees and bushes. The full moon was high in the sky, but the night was still as dark as it could possibly be. I quickly checked myself. My purple clothes were completely torn apart, barely covering my grey skin. My cape was stained with blood, but it was barely noticeable, since it was already crimson red. My mask was probably the least damaged item, though, it's surface as smooth as it had always been. Luckily, I wasn't very injured, just a couple of cuts across my arm, but I would have to take care of that later. I had to keep moving. There was no way to be sure that the portal was deactivated after I went in, and I couldn't possibly take care of them alone. So I chose a random direction and started walking.

After some time, I overheard a couple of voices talking. They belonged to a couple of what seemed to be bandits. Just two small, average-looking bandits.

"Are you sure it was around this area?" I heard one of them say.

"Completely. The flash was somewhere near here. Light means people, and people means gold." The other one replied.

"They better have something very valuable. The boss doesn't like it when we waste his time."

"If they don't, we can always ask for ransom."

The two of them laughed as they set off the way they came from. I decided to follow them. I figured it was a nice place to begin.

Location: Forbidden Tower

Deep's POV

"Goddamnit!" I punched one of the walls in frustration, after sheathing my sword.

He was so close… we almost had him… but of course, he had to escape. And while we were sitting around thinking about how to get to him, he was probably on the move again. We could not use the portal because it was deactivated the moment after he stepped inside, and we had no idea how to activate it again.

"Calm down, Deep. John is trying to track him down. We will find him." I turned towards the grey-haired boy who talked to me, his green clothes covered in blood.

"How are you so certain of that, Dennis?" I asked, more out of sheer annoyance than actual curiosity.

But of course, he had to reply. "He always does. He did it before, and he'll do it again."

I turned around away from him. His annoying positive attitude was still there. Not even after facing death he would stop looking at the bright side of everything. "Your attitude is starting to get on my nerves, you know."

"Meh, you've been in worse moods." He replied.

Some metres away, Louis was checking on his armor, Davis and Woody were helping each other with the bandages, Freeze was helping everyone reduce any inflammation, Firen was cauterizing wounds, Rudolf told his ninja clones to aid the other survivors, and Henry was just playing his flute yet again. However, there were no signs of Jan or Bat anywhere.

"Henry, why don't you stop being so goddamn lazy and look around for Jan?" I asked.

The young archer stopped playing, stared at me for a few seconds, then looked around back to me. "I would be more concerned about our other friends. They seemed to be injured."

"I know that, genius. That's why I'm asking you to go find her." I retorted, trying to not show how annoyed I was by his answer.

Henry sighed and stood up. "Fine. Whatever you say, oh Lord Deep, Sovereign of the Room." And with that, he left.

"Any luck yet, John?" Dennis asked, heading towards the mage.

"I picked something, but the trail is quite weak. I can open a portal and follow it, but there's no guarantee it'll lead us to his location." John replied.

"What are you waiting for, then?" Firen intervened "Open it up! Trail's not getting any stronger."

"Stop rushing things, firefly." Freeze replied. "After all, we have to rest and recover."

"Speak for yourself, snowman!" Snapped Firen. "Maybe you need to rest, but I'm as good as ever!"

"You are always as good as ever." Louis intervened. "You repeat it so many times it's starting to bug me."

"John... just open the stupid portal." I said.

Location: Banthus' Hideout.

Bandit's POV

It wasn't long before we reached the hideout. However, as we were about to enter, I heard a noise behind us.

I immediately turned around, looking for the cause of that noise. "Who's there?" I yelled. But there was no answer.

"What happened?" My partner asked, confused.

"I heard something." I replied.

"I didn't hear anything. Are you sure you heard something?"

"Yes. It was like... something made of metal hitting a branch or something like that."

"You are imagining things. Besides, why do you ask 'Who's there?' if you know no one is going to answer, ever? Now come on. We have to inform the boss about our findings."

"I swear I heard something. It was over there." I pointed at some bushes in front of us.

"Alright, you big baby. You go talk to Banthus. I'll go check that 'noise' out." With that, we parted ways. He left towards the wilderness of the forest, and I entered our hideout.

It was unusually dark in there. However, I knew this place by heart, and it didn't take long until I arrived at the treasure room.

"What do you want, twerp?" A familiar voice greeted me.

"Sorry to disturb you, boss. We saw a purple light in the forest. We think there might be people wandering in there." I replied to Banthus. He didn't seem very pleased by that explanation.

"That's it? You came here to bother me because you saw a purple light? Go away!" I turned around and headed towards the door, but then Banthus added "Wait. Gather a group and go investigate. If there's something interesting, you come and tell me."

"Sure thing, boss." I replied, and left the room, headed to the rooms.

When I arrived, I stared speechless at the scene I had in front of me. The door that was supposed to stand in front of me was completely destroyed and the floor and walls of the room were completely covered in blood. On the floor I saw a single person, trying hard to breathe.

"What the hell happened here? Where is everybody?" I asked him, as I rushed next to him.

"We... we-were at-attacked." His voice was barely audible, weaker than the most silent whisper. "It k-killed them... all of th-them..."

"Who did this? Who died? What is going on!?"

Then I noticed he had stopped looking at me, and stared at something behind me. So I turned around, and I could feel my eyes widen while I reeled back in horror.

In front of me was a monster even taller than Banthus. With its gray skin barely covered by dark purple rags and a red cape soaked in blood, it stood in front of me, its glowing red eyes staring at me through a blue metallic mask.

The second after that, he grabbed my by the neck and lifted me up with no effort. I could smell the blood in its hands as it pulled me towards his masked face, while I tried in vain to loosen his grip on me.

"What did you do? What... are you?" I managed to say, struggling more to breathe with each word I said.

The thing stared at me, its glowing eyes sending chills through my body, before finally replying with a deep, thunderous voice.

"Julian."

Immediately after that, I felt a sharp pain in my chest. I could not see what happened, but I noticed a faint purple glow flowing through his other arm. After that, my body went numb and my senses started failing. I did no longer feel it's grip on my neck, or the smell of blood in his hand. The only thing left was the bright glow of those red eyes, slowly being engulfed by darkness too.

And then... nothing.

Location: Forbidden Tower.

Henry's POV

After a while, I returned to the main room of the Forbidden Tower, where everyone was waiting for me.

"Nothing." I said.

Rudolf took a step forward. "Are you sure you looked around? You didn't just take a nap on the stairs, right?"

"You sent one of your clones to spy on me, didn't you?"

"Probably." Rudolf shrugged.

"Goddamnit, Henry!" Deep snapped "You only had one job. Look for Jan. You have to walk and look around! It's not that difficult!"

Davis stepped in front of the angry swordsman "Deep, calm down. We don't have time for this. We have to get moving."

"Jan will have to stay here. If we lose track of him, we might never be able to find him. And who knows what he might do." Woody added.

"They are right. The sooner we put an end to this, the better." Louis finished.

"Portal is ready. Let's go, people." John called.

"I'll go first." Deep stated, but before he could even step forward, Firen had already jumped inside. "Goddamnit. Why does no one listen to me?"

One after one, the other eight went through the portal too, leaving me alone in the room.

'This is going to be a long journey' I thought to myself as I walked into the portal. 'But in the end, we will find you... Julian'

Katarsus: Well, that's it for the prologue. I was expecting it to be a little less... gory. Anyways, next chapter I will-

Elsword: Where are we? When do we appear? Why didn't you include us yet? Say something!

Katarsus: Shut up, or I swear you will be introduced and killed in the last chapter. And your death will be a lot worse than the bandit's.

Bandit: *curled up in a corner, mumbling to himself*

Elsword: ...forget I said anything.

Katarsus: That's better. Anyways, feel free to review my story. Any feedback is more than welcome. But please be gentle. It's my first time.

Elsword: Gentle like you were with the bandit?

Katarsus: Trust me. To my standards, I was being very gentle.