Disclaimer: I do not own Rahxephon

To be honest I almost thought Rahxephon would be an anime I wouldn't write a fanfiction for. Although the first episodes were entertaining once you get over the boring giant machines called Rahxephon it was no different from a lot of other mecha anime until I found out I was wrong who the love interest really was for the main protagonist and that terrain agent was really born the same year as the protagonist. I shall trust the internet more when they recommend a series. Thank you.

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Edward Jay Sellac was born in 1994 and yet in the year 2017 he was twenty-five years old. The reason his age was three years older than it should be was a ripple in time that sent himself into the future to see a war—it was all to end in a genocide unless he did something about it which is why he worked hard to go back to his own time after three years.

He was looking for only one person in the whole world who could pilot a Rahxephon.

Edward always knew there would be a day he would have to trust someone else more than himself. It took a long time before the time he would get to find someone who would take over his journey and save the world. Edward's days consisted of his father leaving his golf bag and carrier in the back of a van filling it with dirt and grass, filling empty ice containers left outside the refrigerator by none other than his father, and all of the tasty groceries he was saving being eaten by his father. Edward's father was a man who was retired from the military after he served for them for thirty years. He and military friends liked to make people feel like they were becoming psychotic. First, they listen to the man who goes on a diet and they steal all his pants so they can replace them with bigger and smaller pants. Sometimes he would easily fit in one giving him the illusion he was losing wait or make it tighter to make him think he was gaining weight.

Edward was in the military not for his father, that would show he lacked ambition to try anything for himself and would eventually get bored of it. He became a soldier because they treated him like a dog working to at least get treatment a person would give a dog. Over his years, he's lost friends from Rahxephon's of unbelievable power such as a leviathan Rahxephon that destroyed two of their battleships.

On that day, Edward was looking at the moon while cleaning the deck with a bucket and a broom. The sun was set on Earth but the light of the sun was on the moon. It was one of those days everyone wanted to look at the sky because they could see the moon in a reflection that was just a great spectacle to look at. Edward didn't know he and everyone on the ship were in danger; he was suppose to help with the cooking in ten minutes before the leviathan Rahxephon showed up.

The first sign that danger approached were the birds. Two birds flew over the battleship very fast trying to get away from something they were afraid of. Edward knew nothing about birds and they both looked like shadows to him. It was one minute later that more birds flew over the battleship like a colony of ants trying to escape a flood.

Things went from bizarre to terrifying when the whole ship was hit from the bottom by the spine of something gargantuan. Edward grabbed onto the railings before falling and looked down into the transparent surface of the water showing a ridge of something big and scary. He was already afraid of the dark depths of the water and the things that dwelled inside it but seeing the Rahxephon up close was heart throbbing and nerve wrecking.

The leviathan tried taking the ship down by poking its big nose into the bottom of the ship. It felt like an earthquake that could level an entire city on the deck while the leviathan was playing with the ship that became its target. It lashed its tail out of the water before slamming it into a member of the battleships room.

Just when Edward was sure no one was in that room because they were in a safer area the leviathan's tail carried him into the air while he was crying for his life. His name was Lenny Biggle's and he was a very quiet terrain soldier. Not once had Edward ever seen him spoke a word until he said the two words that made Edward weep.

"Help me!"

All Edward wanted was for the leviathan Rahxephon to leave him alone, have something like a heart because it was more than metal inside that gargantuan body there, but he was shoved into the leviathan's mouth while being slowly devoured by its teeth. The most sickening thing about the leviathan was the sick satisfaction on its face when it chewed on a human being.

"I may not be your size but I will take you down!" Edward shouted hoping he had what it took to fight a monster with a bloodcurdling image.

The leviathan pummeled into the ship with its tail over and over again. Edward did the best thing he could do and that was grab the bucket of water so he could spin it around and throw it at the Rahxephon's face. The Rahxephon laughed at such a measly excuse of an attack.

The Rahxephon had every opportune moment to pick Edward up and eat him like he did with Lenny but it smacked the bottom of the battleship where all the other members were sleeping. Maybe it was because Edward made the giant laugh that it decided to destroy everything else before eating him.

"You wouldn't be laughing if I had my gun with me!" Edward shouted strangely taking insult with the leviathan leaving him alone.

In the front of the battleship where a mast would be if this was a pirate ship the leviathan coiled its giant tail around the battleship and squeezed it with everything it had. Edward witnessed destruction after destruction knowing it wouldn't end until this vessel was underwater.

Hope was all he wanted. He seemed to be getting it when fighter planes showed up.