His name was Rex. He had light brown hair, golden eyes and wore a blue diving suit. He had a weirdly-shaped birthmark on the front of his chest.
He was a salvager, and he loved the smell of savage. He had a Titan companion whose name was Azurda, but he usually called him as "Gramps", and Rex lived on him.
Everyday, he dived into the deep Cloud Sea to find anything savagable, and sold them to get money. He casually sent money back to his hometown as well.
He had a believe.
Believe in Elysium.
Believe in a place where everyone could live happily together, where no one had to get hurt anymore.
But, his life began to change when he agreed to accept the quest to come with Torna, a group consisted of 3 Drivers: Jin, Nia and Malos.
They went to the abandoned ship, and Rex found the legendary Aegis. Unfortunately, he had been backstabbed by Jin, and left for death. Fortunately, he had already touched the sword.
That's where his fate began to change.
He woke up in a grassy field with buildings afar. He saw a lone girl, standing by a tree.
She had red hair, wore a red armor with neon green lines, with scarfs like feature flowing through the air.
He ran to her place.
He tried to approach her.
Ringing bell was heard from afar.
She spoke about the sound of the bell.
He and she had a conversation, and he realised two things, that one, he's in Elysium (well memories of it) and two, he's already dead, killed by Jin.
The girl, who revealed her name to be Pyra and she was a Blade, offered half her life force to Rex, in exchange for him being her Driver.
He agreed, noticing that her Core has the same shape as his birthmark, but bore no mind to it.
Pyra also took notice of this, and asked Rex one question: "You don't know what you trully are?"
He didn't understand the question, said that "I'm Rex, and I'm myself."
She chuckled, then told Rex to put his hand on her Core. The green light erupted from the Core.
He then felt an incredible amount of power erupted inside of him.
At the place where he was killed, his body began to move and stood up on itself. His chest, where the birthmark be, then had an X-shaped crystal in the middle of it. It glowed brightly. The shattered fragments of what used to be a sword began regrouping, flying around the boy's body, forming something around him.
On the main board of the abandoned ship, the Torna was on their way back, carrying a case containing what seemed to be Pyra herself. The case then started to catch fire. They threw the case away, and it exploded into a burst of flame, Pyra jumped out from it. Then, the floor near the group started to melt, and then, coming from the underground up, bursting through the floor was non other than Rex himself, seemingly using nothing but his bare fist.
His eyes now glow a bright red. The fragments continued to flew around him. Pyra landed next to him, her eyes also glowed a bright green.
Then, something happened.
Pyra's body started to fade away, also turning into fragments.
The fragments formed around Rex's body.
The crystal on his chest became full.
Armors started to appear.
The helmet formed around his face, then it closed up,hiding his face, his entire armored body glowing a green light that shone brightly through the night.
The armor looked similar to Pyra's, but looked more complex, and completely cover his entire body.
"What the…!?" The black-haired leader of the Torna, Malos, was surprised by the turn of event.
Rex raised his hand to the sky, the remaining fragments formed a sword. He swung the sword once, and the sword opened up, green flame burst out of it.
He was a warrior clad in red.
He was… the Lost Core.
Stir Drem here. This story won't be continued until I have finished my other fics, so it would be a long time. But please stay tuned for more.