Author's Notes: Welcome to Broken Memories- Rekindling Souls (BMRS). This will be a remake of my former fanfic from GCBoards(PH). You don't necessarily need to read the original one to understand this...

Original fanfic link can be found on my profile.

Summary: The Grand Chase failed to defeat Thanatos 500 years ago. They have succeeded in sealing him inside a dimensional door, but it has been weakening over the centuries. The God of Origins, Zen, and the immortal Sieghart chose to bring back the Grand Chase's souls and take up arms for the incoming war...

Changes: Well~ There will be changes in some pairings, specially the main one. Some of my readers voted for the pairing, and I went with what they voted. This remake will also include the new characters (that came after the release of Mari). I would list more changes, but that would spoil you guys.

PS. I've changed the character names too. Those that read the original fanfic know who is who already. I'm using new names for this one.

Updates will come every Saturday.

(Author's Note: Aerknard is the supposed first name of the character Sieghart from Grand Chase.)

Prologue

Aerknard Sieghart, a Kanavan knight given the title of Royal Knight status at the age of 14, knelt in front of his Queen. "Your will shall be done, Your Majesty," he said.

"Do be careful in this journey, Royal Knight Sieghart," intoned an old man who stood beside the Queen's throne. This was the Queen's adviser. "We do not wish to lose a fine knight such as you."

"Yes, sir. I will be careful," the knight said as he continued to bow down.

The Queen smiled at her knight. "You may rise. May the Gods watch over you in your quest."

- Time skip. Some years later -

A cough resounded as Aerknard clutched his injured side. He didn't know when everything the situation spiraled downward so quickly.

He had followed a rumor which led to his discovery of the Kingdom of Kounat. After getting some disturbing rumors, Aerknard decided to stop in said Kingdom and pray that this supposed war would not happen.

However, the war was really meant to be.

The Asmodian, who had called himself Dio, had thought he was part of the Asmodian faction bent on burning the Kingdom to the ground. Dio had fought him and injured him severely. To finish the work, he raised his Scythe and struck down Aerknard's already damaged body. Dio left Aerknard to die and resumed battle against the other Asmodians.

Another round of coughing sounded as Aerknard lay on the ground. 'So this is it? The youngest Royal Knight falls in a war where he isn't even supposed to be in... So pathetic...' Aerknard thought to himself as he continued to bleed out of his wounds.

"Do you wish to live, child?"

"Who are you...?" Aerknard asked as his vision began to fade.

"It doesn't matter at the moment," the voice intoned. "Do you wish to live?"

"Yes... yes I do..." It wasn't really much of a choice. He still had a lot of unfinished business.

"May the power of the Highlanders guide you onwards. Young Sieghart, we have deemed you to be worthy of our gift of immortality. One day, a terrible fate will befall this world. We are in need of assistance."

- Time skip. Decades after the war -

Several years have passed and Aerknard traveled along the world. He had given up his status as Royal Knight of Kanavan when the Highlanders expressed their interest in him. He noticed the fact that he didn't age after the Kounat War. The not-so-young Sieghart had been forced to accept that he would not die by conventional means. He viewed his immortality as a curse… not a gift as the Highlanders had presented it to him.

Aerknard often wondered what reasons the Highlanders had for choosing him among others.

His battle-ready senses picked up something as he walked along a dirt path. Normally, he would deal with problems like this quickly, but he was getting bored with everything that has happened to his life.

An object flew towards Aerknard rapidly. He heaved a sigh before unsheathing his sword to block the object. A loud clang resounded as metal hit metal. Aerknard turned around to face a group of bandits that, he assumed, wanted to steal his possessions.

Aerknard sighed again. He's been doing that a lot lately.

- Time skip. Several centuries later -

A scream of anguish filled the crumbling room as another Grand Chase member fell. "Lire! Lass! No! This isn't true!" Elesis wailed in protest and denial.

"Stop it Elesis! It's already too late!" Aerknard stopped the girl from running towards Thanatos, the God of Domination.

The blue-haired knight smiled sadly at Elesis then turned to Aerknard. "Aerknard... please protect Elesis..."

Elesis sank to her knees, crying her heart out as Ronan charged towards the God. The demented God merely laughed at the futile attempt. He killed off Ronan with one of this powerful magic attacks... leaving the knight lifeless on the cold platform.

Thanatos turned towards the two. "That knight was foolish enough to interfere with my plans of killing you girl. Now... you are the only ones left." Thanatos laughed maliciously. "Who should I kill first~"

Elesis glared hard against the God, tears still pouring down her eyes. "I will not stand for this anymore!" she screamed in outrage. Her dual swords were engulfed in flames. She ignored the cries of Aerknard to stop. She charged at the God who killed her beloved.

- Time skip. Some moments/years later -
[A/N: This section involves several scenes coming from random years after the 'defeat' of Thanatos]

Aerknard felt his blood run cold as he saw a figure drop from the platform above them. His red eye seemed to shine momentarily in the darkness of the castle. Two golden guns gleamed as one pointed to Mari's head, and the other pointed at Aerknard.

"The Keeper of the Nether World..." muttered Aerknard.

~o~o~o~o~

"This place... is not Kounat..." 'Mari' turned to Aerknard who was still kneeling, his head bowed. "Highlander, why have I been awakened?"

Aerknard's hair hid his expression as he answered, "It... There was no other choice."

"You know the consequences of this action," stated 'Mari', who held out a hand and a blue orb came to. "Wake me at Kounat next time, Highlander."

~o~o~o~o~

"What is your name?" asked Zen.

He did not answer, however Zen and Aerknard continued to question him. After repeated interrogation, he reluctantly answered, "Zero."

"Is that your name?" inquired Zen to make sure. Zero merely nodded. "Why did you attack us?"

"...Soluna," said Zero.

Aerknard , intimidated by this, got enraged as it was not the first time someone wanted his Soluna. He went forward to raise Zero's head near his and asked threateningly, "What do you want from me?"