Disclaimer: Shin Megami Tensei IV and BlazBlue are properties of Atlus and Arc System Works respectively. Please support the official releases.
Prologue
Reincarnation
"The result is the same, no matter the circumstances..." Rachel Alucard pondered as Jin Kisaragi laid beside her. "What are you going to do now, Mr.Hero?"
Jin could not answer. It has happened for the 298th time and it all felt familiar, yet different.
As Ragna prepared to deal the final blow unto Nu, his body suddenly stopped moving. This gave Nu the chance to impale him with her giant sword.
"GAH! You...crazy whore..." Ragna screamed in pain.
"Now... Let's become one...Ragna..." Nu said with a creepy and psychotic smile on her face.
Nu then pulled themselves up with the blade still impaling them both, and with a swift motion, diving into the Cauldron, thus repeating the endless cycle of destruction and tragedy over the course of 100 years... Or so we thought.
"Hm? It looks like we have a time-space anomaly at hand." Rachel was intrigued by the thought, but smiled. "Now things should get interesting."
*Self - Ryota Kozuka
"What...How am I alive?"
When Ragna came to, he was floating in a gray sky while voices echoed in the distance,as if it was some sort of dream.
Soon enough, one of the voices echoed, "Who are you? State your name!"
"Ragna...My name is Ragna."
The voice then continued. "Hahaha...He has spoken! Your life is now irrevocably changed."
A bright light shone upon Ragna, and when it disappeared, he was now wearing a blue outfit reminiscent to that of Jin's, but much more simple save for a gauntlet in Ragna's left arm.
"Wait, what are you even talking about?!" He asked in confusion.
"The choices you make will no longer bear only on you. What you do... Will create a world..."
And as if to send Ragna to his new journey, a black vortex suddenly formed beneath him.
"Wait! I still have a lot of questions-"
He was interrupted by the vortex dragging him down, screaming like a girl all the while.
When Ragna woke up, he found himself in the middle of a post-apocalyptic city, reduced to flames and rubble as if some great war happened here.
"Ugh...Damn, what the hell is going on?" He snapped himself out of his confusion.
"Oh,so there you are." A new voice suddenly rang out. "Hey,over here."
Right in front of Ragna,he could see a light amidst the destroyed city, and seeing as he didn't have much of a choice, he decided to take a closer look.
In the light was the shape of a human, and he looked like he was waiting for Ragna.
"You finally made it. Now I can take shape too..." The voice said before a bright light enveloped him.
Ragna could barely figure out the man's face, but it was clear that he wore the same outfit that Ragna did.
"I was fighting damn hard when I waited for you to show up. You do remember me, right, Ragna?"
"Hold on, how the hell do you know my name?" Ragna asked in surprise.
"That's right... I'm Walter." The man introduced himself. "Whatever happens after this, you better not forget me. Because you and me are going to make a world where anything can be changed if you have the will..." He finished as a bright light enveloped Ragna again.
Ragna then saw himself in a vast desert full of sand with a large head of a statue sticking out from the sand in the distance, as well as another figure of light.
"Thank goodness you're here... Please,come quick." Another voice called to him.
"Is this even a dream anymore? What the hell is even going on here?" Ragna asked in his thoughts as he approached the figure of light.
"Good,you've come. Now I can take shape too..." the new voice spoke as another bright light shone upon the figure. Ragna was confused as the man also wore the same outfit he had, but this was undoubtedly a different person from Walter.
"I prayed and waited... longing for the day you'd come. You remember who I am, right, Ragna?"
"Tch,no way. Never heard of ya." Was all Ragna could say as a reply.
"That's right... My name is Jonathan." The man introduced himself. "You musn't forget that my future is with you. The two of us are going to make a world where the peace we know today lasts forever..." He finished as another blinding light enveloped the area.
Near the end of his dream, Ragna saw an empty room with a chair and table with several voices echoing from all around him. At the center of the room was a young girl with black hair wearing a white dress.
He could barely hear her words, as all he could gather for her first sentence being "I...revive...every...sake..."
"Sorry? I couldn't hear you..." Ragna gestured to her to speak more clearly.
"Please Ragna, won't you revive me?" It was clear now, but another flash of light soon enveloped the room.
A/N: Wow! I had been on an INSANE writer's block due to school and exams, but I finally got another story idea for all of you to enjoy! Just started playing both Shin Megami Tensei IV games and I have to say, they're among the best JRPGs on 3DS!
For this story, Ragna will take the Neutral path in the end alongside Isabeau, so make sure to stick around for this and BlazBlue Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse for Noel's point of view!
This has been Scifi73, and I'll see you next time! Peace!