Chapter 1

Aisha: Void Princess

Elsword: Lord Knight

The dark cloud covered the sky, blocking the beautiful sunlight and turn day to night. It started as a little, tiny, white drop, then came down more and more. Soon, the ground was covered in white, thick sheet of snow.

A pair of bored looking eyes stared out the glass window, her amethyst eyes observed the sky and her surrounding, taking in every single details as she sucked on a pink lollipop. She was in her Void Princess outfit. It's not like she have a choice, since she chose the path of darkness, she was require to wear this. The world had rejected her, she was abnormal, different from everyone else. Her parent abandoned her, left her dying in the cold, but someone had helped her. It was an old woman, a widow who lived in a mansion far from the other village. She gave Aisha a place to stay and took care of her. But the world had truly rejected her when the widow was attacked by a dangerous disease called cancer. Since then, Aisha only stay on the dark side and avoid any other part of the world. Also, it's not like she have a choice either, there was a barrier around this large part of area that blocked away all access from the outside world, in simpler words, no one was able to see the house, no one can enter or leave the area, and that goes the same for the mage.

It had been 11 years since she live here, suffered in loneliness and hatred against the world. Cause this world is a world of madness. It's not fair. Life isn't fair. Nothing is fair.

"Wake up Aisha!" A voice shrieked in the mage's ear as it produced more noise by flapping its wings around.

"5 more minutes Angkor," the Void Princess whined lazily as she simply waved the bat away.

The bat narrowed his eyes at her before dashed into the bathroom. "Come on, wake up, this is your last warning," the bat warned as he flew on top of her, holding a metal handle between his teeth. Aisha paid him no attention and continued on her peaceful sleep until a giant bucket of water was threw on her head, splashing water everywhere.

"ANGKOR!" Aisha yelped as she jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom, attempt to dry herself.

"Don't say I told you so..." Angkor replied innocently before he went in after her.

"Out! I'm taking a shower!" She snapped angrily before she threw a tower at him, due to the weight, he fell down with a loud thud. He took the tower off before the door slammed shut.

He sighed. "She never learn... Guess I should make breakfast now.." And with that, Angkor flew downstairs.

"Aisha shouldn't you be wearing something warm?" The bat nervously asked as he flew around the girl's head. They were about to go outside and the mage wore nothing except for her Void Princess outfit.

"Why does it even matter?" Aisha mumbled as she pulled the door opened. She shivered slightly as the cold breeze blew in, but made no attempt to get her warm clothes. "It's not much I could do in this world anyway."

"Oi, Aishaa!" Angkor whined but his familiar had already stepped out of their warm, cozy mansion and was running down the hill. He hurried and chased after the girl. Just as he was about to turned the corner, a snowball came flying at him dangerously. He shrieked and ducked. Then another came at him, missing him by an inch. "STOP THAT!" He yelled at her.

Aisha came out from behind the tree and smirked. "It's payback from before."

The bat simply narrowed his eyes at her. "Not my fault, you're the one who can't wake up early, and you know I hate the cold."

Aisha turned and walked down the hill deeper with every steps as Angkor followed behind. "Hm? Then why you came out then?"

"Cause you're out here idiot! And it's my job to take care of you since you had chosen the darkness path," he snorted.

"Oh? So it isn't because you love me?" Aisha teased. That was true, Angkor actually love her, as her familiar of course. But no way he was going to let the girl find out.

"W-what? Of course not! Like I said before, it's my job. Beside, you're a pain in the ass anyway... Hm, think we go a little bit too deep, let's go back Aisha," Angkor said as he looked back at the house, which seem very far away. Hearing no answer, he twirled back around. "Aisha?" Seeing no sight of her, panic raised up inside him as he flew toward the direction he had last saw her. "Aish-" not paying attention to where he was going or the speed he was flying at, he bumped into something cold and hard, knocking him down. "Ow..."

"Angkor..." Aisha mumbled softly as her eyes fixed on something in front of her.

"Don't make me worry like that again!" He yelled at her as he quickly flew up and wiped the cold, white snow off of him.

"Angkor..."

"Who knows what might happened to you without me!"

"Angkor..."

"You need to be careful, as always. Didn't I already taught you that? And what are you mumbling ab-" Angkor stopped in his sentence as he saw what Aisha was looking at. His mouth dropped to the floor. "Aisha let's go back.." However, she made no attempt to show that she heard him and kneeled down next to the guy who had probably collapsed on the cold floor. He wore a scarlet coat over a red and white shirt, a puffy black pant with black boots that reached up to his knees. Black gloves on his hands and an armor belt on his waist. A red beanie lay in the snow next to his hand.

"Angkor.. Let's bring him back.." Aisha mumbled softly before she picked up his hat.

"W-w-what are you talking about!?" Angkor cried in agony. "You can't bring him back! He's a human."

"I'm a human, too. And I can't leave him like this," Aisha summoned her staff before she mumbled a spell. Dark aura surrounded his whole body before she lifted the staff up, commanding for the aura to did the same with his body. With that, she mostly concentrated on the spell before walking back up to the mansion.

Terrified, Angkor quickly flew after her while blurting out different explanations, trying to make her change her mind. "H-he might be a magic user who wanted to kill you, waiting for the right time or he might be a monster in disguise! Maybe-" Angkor's voice was soon slipped out of her mind as she focus her attention on the strange redhead. Wonder what's he doing here... Does he have some business with me? Aisha thought silently as she picked up her speed, walking faster through the snow once she felt her magic was draining. Even though she hated the world, she was still a good person. "-or he might be a ghost, wanting to drain your soul!" Angkor's voice shrieked through her head and broke the thought as she grunted softly.

"Angkor? Really? A ghost? You could do better than that," Aisha rolled her eyes. "You can't change my mind and you should know that."

"B-but... But..."

"No buts."

Her amethyst eyes scanned the boy's face as she tilted her head slightly. Aisha sat on her legs and leaned against the soft, purple mattress of her bed, resting her head on her crossed arms. She hadn't seen a single human being since her caretaker died. So it was strange for her to see a human being especially after those many, many lonely years she had lived in.

"Why do we have to take care of him?" The bat next to her grunted as he handed her a hot and wet tower.

"You don't have to," Aisha accepted the white tower and folded it before she placed it gently on the boy's forehead.

Angkor grumpily flew away before putting out different plans in his head. Maybe I should threw him over a well? So that Aisha could be safe from him. Or I could tricked him and let the darkness eat him? No, the darkness had stopped eating human flesh 200 years ago. Or maybe I should just killed him? Yea that might work. But what if he harm Aisha before I could react? No I couldn't let that happened.

Angkor, stopped that, a voice said calmly in his head.

Oh crap.. I forgot our mind are connected... Angkor cursed at himself for being so careless.

Angkor, relax, I could handled things by myself, Aisha assured him as she stood up and walked toward the bat. She held him in her palm and sat on the chair in front of the mirror. Setting him on her lap as she did so. "I'm not a child anymore you know?"

"Yea I know... But your still too fragile and you have no common sense."

"Hey!" Aisha pouted but she ended up laughing.

"Alright, I trust you, but if anything happen..." Angkor raised an eyebrow at her threatening as she patted his head playfully.

"I won't, I promise."

"Well you better start now, cause he's waking up."

Hearing that, the mage shrieked before a small groan came from the strange boy. She quickly hid herself in the darkness of the room and observed the boy. He lazily sat up and rubbed his head. The white tower fell off his head and landed on his hand.

"Where am I?" He asked before took a look around the room. Suddenly his eyes landed on where the nervous mage was hiding. She clutched Angkor closed to her chest as her heartbeats increased. As she took a small step forward, her foot accidentally tripped over the wooden stick, knocking Aisha off her feet and landed on her face in the open. Angkor flew out of her grab and was able to flapped his wings before she could fell on him. So basically, she was the only one who had came out in a bad position. "Um.. Are you ok?" The redhead asked as he got out of bed and went over to helped her up.

Aisha felt a warm hand wrapped her arm and pulled her up, she was scared at the touch but she didn't pulled away, mostly due to the pain she was having from the fall. Another warm touch came in contact with her skin as it wrapped around her small hand firmly. After the pain started to retreat away from her, she looked up, the first thing she saw was a pair of crimson eyes, staring at her worryingly. Then she brought her gaze down to her hand where his and her were connected. Startled, she jerked back alarmingly away from him.

"W-what's wrong?" He asked before his hand reached out for her. Seeing that, Angkor quickly got in between them before let out a low scowl. Knowing she needed to learn how to deal with these situation someday, Aisha clasped her hands over the bat's mouth as she pulled him toward her.

What are you doing idiot!? Angkor angrily yelled at her in his- their mind as he struggled from her grasp, but failed unsuccessfully.

I-I could take care of this! Hush! She assured him.

BS! I could felt your body are shaking.

Aisha ignore him before looked up at the redhead again. Uncertain what to say, she spoke up softly, "Y-you, I mean, we found you collapsed in the snow near this area s-so I-I brought you b-back." She was shaken for some who-know-what reasons as she struggle to find the right words.

"I see, thank you, I got lost, guess it was careless of me to wander around in the middle of the night," he laugh as his hand reached back to scratched his head. Aisha stared at him unconsciously as her heartbeats sped up, so fast that she could felt it bumping against her ribs as she felt her face heated up. She somehow found him very well looking and cute. "I didn't know someone live here," he said as he leaned closer to the window and looked over the transparent glass. "And I never seen you before, there's a town near here, you should go there sometimes, it's really fun!" He grinned at her.

"F-fun?" Aisha murmured softly, not quiet understand what that term mean.

"Hm? Yes fun..." He stared at her as if she was a strange creature. He frowned slightly as he tilted his head to the side, "Wait.. Don't tell me you had never experience 'fun' before." Aisha shook her head shyly before his eyebrows raised up in surprise, but his expression soon turned into a playful one as he grinned at her. "Well this is your lucky day."