Tales Of New Chase Part 1 - How it all begun... by Cereza95(also known as Sakura95)

Special Thanks To: Shadowfang3000, FallOfDawn, LordRaeo, Ntreev and other guys from GC Fan Wiki. Most characters belong to them, while I only own Sakura, Samuel and Victory.

I'm not best English-speaker, so forgive me any errors...

Somewhere in the north of continent called Bermesiah , was a pure-white castle with big towers. You can call it a capital of the Kingdom of Kanavan. It's also the place where the Queen of Kanavan lives (that's rather logical, isn't it?). Anyway, there were many wars between Kanavan and Serdin (other great Bermesian kingdom) in the past, but they were stopped because of many new and more dangerous enemies. Their leader was Dark Lady Kaze'aze.

Both of Queens decided to join forces and defeat Kaze'aze. Because of that, Grand Chase was created. However, there were only a few of its members, unable to handle it all by themselves. Queen of Kanavan came up with an idea of creating divisions of New Chase. Sakura was the one of their members, to be exact, one of captains, and he was taking a nap as usual on the one of previously mentioned towers.

Captain Sakura was tall and young mage with messed long green hair tied into a ponytail. It was hard to tell if he (or she) was man or woman – Sakura's called Captain anyway.

He was lying on a pile of elven best pillows and watching a sunset. Some sparks kept shooting randomly from the tip of his staff. He was just about to fall asleep, when he was suddenly pushed out of his inner world by a messenger.

'What's the matter, dude?' Sakura asked and considered that he just ran 100 meters upstairs.

'My greatest apologies, Captain!' messenger panted 'Her Majesty wants to have a conversation with you, Sir!'

Sakura forgot the last time he was asked to "have a conversation". He stood up and yawned.

'Have a rest or you'll faint' he said right before he teleported.

Exhausted and green with envy messenger fell on the pillows and thought out loud:

'Mom... dad... why didn't you let me become a mage like I wanted?'

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Sakura appeared precisely in front of the doors to throne room. That was a piece of cake for someone who spent over 9000 (literally) years in the nothingness - had enough time to practice. One... two... three breaths and he pushed the door. Sakura walked slowly with captain's dignity but also a bit of flippantly. He made a curtsey and asked:

'Did Your Majesty call me?'

'Yes, I called you indeed, Captain Sakura' said Queen with a tone of eminence. 'I believe that the reason of our meeting is known?'

'Honestly... I'm afraid - not...' answered Sakura slowly '... Your Majesty ' he added.

'Weren't you informed?'

'Nah. The last guy who wanted to tell me something important has been eaten by a forest troll'

'A forest troll? Is Captain sure?'

'At first, I thought that it was a harpy, but...'

'E-... enough' Queen interrupted, confused. She waved her hand at one of elven girl to fan her.

'I guess that I have to explain everything myself' she continued 'As you know, we're waging war with Dark Lady Kaze'aze. Her army is way too big even for our New Chase squads. All I want you to do, is to infiltrate her castle and defeat her. The fate of Bermesiah is in yo... CAPTAIN SAKURA! ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION FOR GODS' SAKE?!'

Sakura's body shaked when he was scolded for flirting with one of elven girls.

'Yessir... I mean, Your Majesty, I'll do my best!' Sakura said enthusiastically 'So, who should I take to my party?'

'Isn't that obvious, Captain? Your squad.'

Sakura felt like his body has frozen. Her words ripped his tired mind in pieces. "My squad? No way, I just misheard her..."

'Did... Your M-m-majesty said... MY... squad?'

'Yes.' she answered shortly.

'But... Kyro... Deimos... anyone...?'

'They are all far away right now, busy with their own missions.'

She stood up and was about to leave her throne room, with her servants behind. She walked next to Sakura (still petrified) and said:

'I don't see a reason to worry about. Captain Sakura never failed me.' and she smiled.

Weird expression appeared on Sakura's face (that supposed to immitate a smile) for a moment, and when Queen walked outside, he looked like he's gonna burst in tears. He teleported.

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Sakura crawled (almost literally) slowly to his squad's main room - called "Torture Chamber" by himself. Not because of any horrible torture devices. Being in the same room with them was a torture itself.

Kyro and Deimos were other captains. Most known, to be honest. Their team squaders are ELITE ones! Mages, gunners, healers... Sakura's squad was: himself, Elementalist - captain; Nami Victory, Holy Knight - vice-captain and 3 officers: Raide - Guardian, Ellix Raeo - War Monk and Samuel - Samurai.

Sakura didn't consider them as complete idiots, however these last three guys were source of his whole humilation. Quick example: Ellix "accidently" burnt a hole in his pants. Even Queen saw that. But, he didn't LOATHE them. He just hated 'em.

Victory was his favourite subordinate. Once they had a fight, and when Sakura defeated her, she became his servant (very loyal one, though). She was also very pretty - long light-blond hair, big dark eyes, cute smile... Btw, she was sleeping on the floor next to Torture Chamber's massive door. At first, he thought that it was just one of these knights' armors standing in the corridor - the one she worn seemed so heavy, that it always amazed him how is she able to freely move in that.

'Still sleeping outside?' Sakura asked.

Victory stood at attention within a second, still half-asleep.

'I believe I told you that you ARE allowed to enter our room.'

'My deepest apologies, Master, I disobeyed you aga-'

'Take it easy, I don't blame you. Could you tell me where are these-'

WHAM! Sakura suddenly fell on the ground as the massive door hit him. It was Samuel who just kick-opened the door.

'-punks...?'

'Ow, sorrie aunty, I thought noone's here, so...' he tried to apologise.

'So you thought that you can freely kick everything around?' Sakura asked angrily 'Wait... First of all... don't call me aunty.'

'Huh? Doesn't it suit you?'

'Shut up, okay? Call me as you like, but not like THAT.'

'Like wut?'

'Damare (shut up).' Sakura took a deep breath 'Weren't you foolin' around with Raide and Ellix?'

'Sure, they're inside. Why askin'?'

'Gotta work.' Sakura walked inside dark chamber, which was decorated by many old paintings and huge golden chandelier. Only sources of light were opened door, candles and two small windows. 'LISTEN UP! I'm calling a gathering.'

'Wow, are you gonna make us asleep with your talk? I mean... again?' asked a man with a hat, who was actually Raide.

'Mhm. Last gathering took 2 hours, I thought I'm going to jump through that window' added younger officer, Raeo.

'Minna (guys)... it's a serious thing this time. Our Queen herself ordered Jojishi-no Shippai Squad to infiltrate Kaze'aze's Castle.'

'WOOHOO!' yelled officers, each of them excited.

'However, this mission requires special strategy, otherwise we might...'

'Oh, c'mon!' interrupted Raeo 'You make plans every single time, and none of them actually worked!'

'That's because NONE OF YOU ever listens to this!' he stared at Victory 'With one exception.'

'You're all talk! If I were the Captain, everything would be done better!' declared Raeo. Samuel and Raide clapped.

Sakura thought for a minute. Our missions never were THAT important. It wouldn't be smart to give the leadership to one of them... However... it may teach him something. True, our strategies always failed. So would it be different this time?

'Alright, Mr. 3rd Officer!' he cooled their enthusiasm for a while. 'I make you the Captain of this squad for our infiltrating party's duration.'

'Wha~~... Seriously?' Raeo asked, confused.

'Is that even possible, mate? I mean, are you able to do this?' asked Raide, even more confused.

'Yeah... sure, there's a... a law written in our Codex... (They never read it...).'

And there was a moment of silence. Then all shouted "YYYEAAHHH!" and decided to celebrate it by making a party. Sam grabbed some cake and Raide searched for some booze (he's mature after all...).

'Hey, Cap'n, ain't ya gonna join?' asked Raide, trying to hand him a bottle.

'Nah, gotta sleep. W-wait, where're you goin'?!' Sakura yelled at Raeo.

'Just thought that I can intive some guys and girls...'

'Don't! It's a... a secret mission! Yeah, top secret!'

Raeo mumbled "Okay" and helped Raide forcing Samuel to drink some beer. Sakura was just going to his private bedroom, worrrying about next day when he recalled something.

'Senshou-chan (Victory), don't forget to remind Raeo, that if he messes something up, me or Queen will make him add a new definition of suffering into his dictionary. Oh, and before I forget... come to my room after the party. Ah, these nights are getting colder...'