Upload date: 5/14/2018 [M/D/Y]
Re: Life in a fantasy world ~ Arc 1: Fated Encounter
Prologue: A past that's never to change
Warning: This fanfiction spoils Rezero past the anime, so if you're either waiting for season 2 (whenever the hell that's coming out), or are planning on reading the web novel/light novel, then I'd advise doing that first if you don't want spoilers.
My name is Natsuki Subaru. No one special, just your average traveling passerby, I don't have any specific job, but I can survive on my own, that much, I'm sure of. There's a past that I don't really like recalling, but it's a past that I hold deep in my heart, not because I cherish it, the opposite in fact. I keep it close so that I don't forget about what happened, so that I don't forget what I had promised to myself. What is it exactly, you ask? Well then, why don't I tell you about it…
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[Eight years ago]
I was around the age of twelve, a family of three, me, my mom, and my dad, in a village near the east part of Kararagi. Things were going well for me, for us I guess, we had a pretty friendly community, but we're not too fond of the outside world, not that we despise it or anything, it's just that our views on the so-called 'calamity' that happened four hundred years ago were a tad bit different than the others.
You see, we are what were what remains of the Witch of Pride's followers, well we were less of followers and more of apostles or supporters, the witch herself was only a little girl after all. I've heard of other 'tribes' scattered around the world, there were ones for Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Gluttony, Lust, and the most known of all of them, Envy.
Now, the tribe that supports Envy would be better known as, "The Witch's Cult", or that's what the outside world calls them. You see, before, our tribes or communities would pay visits to one another, Envy's group being the most active out of the seven, but then something happened a hundred years ago, around after the Elior Forest was frozen over, the supposed home base for Envy and Sloth's group. Envy's group started to disappear and people from the other six tribes reportedly went missing as well.
The chief of our community, which was my grandfather at the time, had a blessing called the "Divine Protection of Calamity Foresight" which was a power that let him see in the near future, and as the name suggests, only works when a calamity was to happen. So one day, he decided to migrate to another area, though many protested, we ended up doing it, and what do you know, the day after we left, the whole village was destroyed, if we left just a day later, I doubt any of us would survive.
We stayed in our new village for roughly around two years, I'd turn fourteen at the time and had earned myself the title of 'Heir'. But after that fateful night, the night where I learned to hate, to despise, and to kill, that was the night where my life, which was for the first fourteen years, very peaceful.
"Naoko, get Subaru and take the 'box' somewhere safe, if we fail to protect either…"
"No! I'm not leaving you!"
"We have no choice! If either gets taken, our lives, everything in this world would be meaningless!"
"But!"
"No, there's no time, just go and do it!"
It was the night when our village got burned, the night where it got slaughtered, the night where my whole world was painted red, that was the past I hated, but kept remembering till this day.
"M-Mom! Where are we going, what about dad!"
"Your dad is strong, he can take care of himself, just please follow me!"
Exactly two years after the day we moved, also known as my birthday, the village was attacked, my Grandfather had already passed away so we had no clue that such a thing would happen, regardless, my dad and most of the villagers stayed to fight while my mom took me away with a mysterious box in her hand.
We ran through the forests and plains on her Riger, her name Lyra. Shortening the distance quite quickly, we then went to a halt, there was a hut on the side of a river, though it was a bit large to be called one. She hopped off her Riger and ushered me into the hut, inside was a door that lead to a stairway down, she told me there was a tunnel there and that I had to take it to the other side and wait for her there. She gave me a sac of what seemed to be coins, and she wrapped the mysterious box onto my neck, like a necklace.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to check on your father, Subaru, listen to me, whatever you, never give this box to anyway, you can open it if you want, you can use it as a ball and kick it all you want, just, no matter what, don't give it to anyone, this is something special…"
"O… Okay…"
Before she could say anything else, we heard a loud explosion come from behind the forest and my mom sprang into action, she shoved the door on me and I heard a lock sound, she then shouted, "GO!" and I listened, I opened up the door to the staircase and started to take a few steps, but then I heard my mom scream, a pain-filled scream, a scream I couldn't ignore. Neglecting her orders, I rushed back up the stairs but before I could reach the top, someone blew off the door, in came two hooded men, daggers on their blood-covered hands. Behind them, I could see my mom, bloodied on the floor, struggling to get up, I tried to call her name but the hooded men started coming for me, I was enraptured in fear so I could do nothing, I just closed my eyes and suddenly heard my mom's voice.
"DON'T TOUCH MY SON!"
A sharp whistle in the air and the two hooded men stopped in their tracks, I looked up and there was a line of light that kind of choked them on the throat, I looked over to where my mom was, her on her knees, grabbing the two with her magic light streak of sorts, she looks to me and says, "Remember that we always loved you Subaru, now please… go…"
Before I could say another word, Lyra, who was on the ground just a second ago, leaped over and grabbed me by the collar. She skillfully threw me on her back and dashed straight for the staircase, I could hear the hooded men scream in utter pain but it was all washed up by a sudden, "AL-JIWALD!" and the whole world went white.
At that time I had lost consciousness but it already knew what had happened, mom had already died, dad probably died too, the whole village was probably died, only I and Lyra was left.
"Me…"
I heard a voice call in my head, my eyes were closed, I couldn't hear anything, I couldn't feel anything, I could only hear the voice, it was a soothing yet ominous voice, a withered voice that tried to talk through sand as it fell from one's hands.
"Kill me…"
The voice said, all I could do was listen, I couldn't reply, I felt my mouth refusing to move, my whole body refused to move, it was as if I was stuck between the realm of consciousness and unconsciousness, the voice being the only thing keeping me company.
"Please, kill me…"
Before I knew it, I had woken up from the bizarre dream, I was going crazy for sure, was that mom talking to me? Dad? Maybe I was just imagining things, that's what I thought at first, and that's what I thought after.
I looked around and saw that I was in an unfamiliar place, probably still in the forest, just a place I've never ventured to. Lyra was a sit next to me, licking her paw, only now noticing that I was awake. She walked up to me and shot a face that screamed, "Are you okay?"
"Mom… and Dad… everyone is dead aren't they…" I whisper to myself, Lyra only lowered her head down, understanding how painful it was for me right now, she closed in on me and I lunged onto her, crying, non-stop, it was the only thing I could do and it was natural, I was now alone in this world, well, except for Lyra I guess, she was with me.
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After spending the whole night sleeping next to Lyra, I set out the next morning to return back to my village. Luckily, Lyra knew the way and was able to lead me there quite easily, and when I reached there, I was right, nothing is left, every single building burnt down to ashes, all the corpses charred black like coal, daggers littered everywhere.
I already knew who was responsible for this, my grandfather had told me about the dagger. It was seen whenever someone went missing, he described it as, "The sign of a future you have to fight" I never really understood that part, but I'd come to understand what he'd been explaining to me as I went on with life. The one thing that I did understand was that the daggers were weapons used by the Witch's Cult or Envy's group which is what I like to call it.
"I'll kill them all" is what I swore on that day, every last one of those cultists, none of them will be let to live, but that would have to wait for another time, a time when I'm ready to face them, a time that's a decade in the future, in other words, the present time.
"Yo, Kadomon! One appa!"
After Three years of endless traveling, I had made my way to Lugnica, and around that time, was the time Lyra had passed away, Riger's don't have an amazing lifespan, and she was already on the verge of hers when she helped me run away that time, so it's understandable, but it still stung of course.
"Nii-chan, your back already?! Here ya go"
[Nii-chan, in this context means bro]
I tossed Kadomon, a green-haired merchant I'm very familiar with, five copper coins, "Keep the change!" I yelled, and so I was on my way, seeking vengeance while trying to survive in this harsh world, that's my circumstances anyway. But after a fateful encounter, it all changed…
A/N
Alrighty then, a new day a new story is what I say, this ain't gonna go for long, gonna end at Arc 3 so it's a little time pass to stall Warlock a bit so things could catch up…
So basically this is Arc 1 - 3 with Subaru being born in the Rezero verse instead of plain old earth, this does mean that many things, most notably the way he calls people and reacts to situations will be different. If he gets OOC, it's natural, but if it gets too much do tell me in a review, so, yeah now's the time for...
Character sheet anyone?
1.)Natsuki Kenichi
Age:- 32 (Deceased)
Likes:- Mayo, Messing with Subaru, Wrestling
Dislikes:- Peas
Magic:- Wind and Yin
Weapon of choice:- Broadsword
2.)Natsuki Naoko
Age:- 29 (Deceased)
Likes:- Mayo, Sewing, Watering the garden
Dislikes:- Peas
Magic:- Water and Yang
Weapon of choice:- Light whips
3.)Natsuki Subaru
Age:- 20 (Alive)
Likes:- Mayo, Reading books, Sewing, Practicing magic
Dislikes:- Peas, Witch cultists, Prejudice
Magic:- Yin
Weapon of choice:- Daggers and Knives
Authority:- Timelapse & Return by Death