Hello my dearest readers :)

first i'd like to thank you for even bothering to click on this story, and taking to the time to read it :)

I don't own Casshern Sins, all I own is Rya (the OC) but I wish i owned Casshern :3

Alright, to start things off, I'm just going to get you guys introduced to the OC and her story, and then from there out I'll do my best not to totally Mary-Sue bomb the story, though I'm still a noobish noob of noobishness at this fanfic stuff, so i hope i don't make anyone form a mob of angry people weilding pitchforks and torches seeking out to kill me! xD

And also, please know that this story will go into after the last episode, so if you haven't seen it yet, stop reading, turn around, go watch the rest of the episodes and come back. I just don't want to spoil it for you people, cuz i care about ya'll and don't want to ruin it for you guys :) thanks

Awakening

Huddled in the corner like a cowering mutt. Unable to understand who or what I was. Unable to comprehend what was happening or why I existed. Was this reality? I had been asleep. But the weird thing was, I was never awake to begin with. There was only a subconsciousness, and then there was the rush of energy, and the opening of my eyes.

Then there was this feeling of loneliness and longing. I longed for a person I couldn't remember. There was only a slight understanding of a person that used to be there and the feelings of warmth that were driven into my being from their presence.

The world I was now cowering in was so confusing. So big and detailed. More vivid than I had ever imagined reality to be. It was intruguing, yet frightening.

Now, there was this. Another creature had approached me. How was I supposed to react? What was this creature? What was going on?

"There, there," it said, crouching down to my level gently. "Don't be afraid."

For some odd reason I understood it. No, it wasn't an it. The creature was female. She wasn't a creature either. Now intelligence and thoughts were flowing into my head. She was a human. I also now knew how I was supposed to register my feelings and thoughts back.

Liquid was coming from my eyes and running down the sides of my face. I blinked in confusion, and in utmost puzzlement and fear, I croaked out, "Who...where...am I?"

The woman held out her hand in what I understood as friendliness. "Here, I'll help you up."

I took her hand, and she aided me onto my feet. I wasn't quite used to walking yet, but I figured it out. I was now able to stand and face her.

"What's your name, sweetheart?" she asked me.

The question confused me. Name? What was that. "What's name?"

"Like what do you call yourself? What are you known as?"

I realized what she meant. However, I did not have the answer. What was my name? Did I even have one?

"I...I don't know..." I furrowed my eyebrows and looked down at my feet.

The woman smiled kindly. "That's okay. You probably lost your memory, that, or you are a robot who just had a bad bonk to the head." She brushed the dust off of her ragged, brown jacket. "Anyways, you can call me Laina."

"Laina." I repeated. I liked the sound of the name and how it felt when I said it.

Laina put her hand up to her chin and thought. "Now what should we call you...hmm well there's a big 'R' on that shredded suit you're wearing, so you're name probably starts with an R...oh I know a name that is perfect for you!"

"Really?"

The woman's eyes shimmered with happiness. "I think your name should be Rya!"

"Rya?" I thought about the name.

"Yes. You see, I've always wanted to have a baby girl and name her Rya, but I am unable to produce a child." She answered. She seemed sad when she ended her sentence. I understood that the matter was sad, but I wasn't sure why.

"So...would I be like your child then?"

Laina smiled. "If you want."

I returned her smile.

"I'll take that as a yes." Her smile grew even bigger and she guided me out of the decomposing building.

The cold.

It was there again as I opened my eyes, coming out of a distant memory. It had been a while since I had thought of that day. The day I had "awakened" and began my life.

The cave I was in was silent and still, and offered no comfort to the feelings that were erupting from inside. I fought them back, and sat up. No. I couldn't afford to be distracted by things of the past. All I needed to concentrate on right now was the present, and the future.

Pulling myself into a crouching position, and tended to the fire that had gone out in my sleep. Seeing that the charred pile of wood was no longer smoking, I gathered my things and prepared to leave. My body was feeling a little strange, and I knew that I needed to find food, or else my body would eventually fail on me.

Leaving the cave behind, I set out in search of food. If I could just find something, just one morsel of food, I could sustain myself. Finding food lately had gotten so hard. Normally I could've just planted something, but I was in the middle of nowhere. Besides, I couldn't settle down here, not with all of the insane robots seeking the one called "Luna". I'd ran into far too many of them, and gotten into way too many fights.

Into the barren nightmare I went. It was such a bother for a being like me to have to find food. Being more like the other robots sounded so much more simple. But, I guess I'd rather search for food and stay alive was much better than being affected by the Ruin. I saw what it did to the robots that I saw every once in a while. It was horrible, watching them suffer. Well, watching the non-crazy ones anyways. I could care less about the bandits. I hated them, and they deserved to suffer.

Up ahead, I spotted a something small wriggling in the sand. I narrowed my eyes to see what it was, and found that it was a desert lizard. Man, I had eaten so many of those in my life I wasn't sure if I could handle another one. I cast the most ungrateful thought away in an instant. When you're trying to survive in the desert, you take what you can get.

I had the creature within an instant. I didn't even think about what I was doing when I had the lizard squirming in my hand. I felt sorry for the animal, I really did. But I was desperate. To end its suffering quickly, I swiftly broke its neck, a death so fast that the lizard wouldn't have felt anything before its life ended.

As soon as I found a good spot, I set my catch down along with my backpack. I had a fire flaming within no time at all. I cleaned the lizard and had it roasting over the fire when another memory rooted itself into my thoughts.

Sitting by this fire and cooking the lizard made me remember the first time I had ever eaten anything. When Laina and the others had brought me to their make-shift camp, deep in the hills...

"Now that she's had something to eat, why don't we have the Doc take a look at her?" One man, whom I had come to know as Freed said. "See if she's human or robot, since she doesn't know."

"Hey Freed," said another girl. She had dark brown hair and an eye patch over her right eye. "I'll bet you our rations tomorrow that she's a robot."

Freed scoffed. "Psh! Yeah right, we don't even have enough food to spare for a stupid bet like that. Besides, she's gotta be a human. Did you see her eyes? And did you fail to notice she ate?"

"Oh, so it's on then?"

"No, I was just saying that she's gotta be a human..."

Laina interrupted the quarrel by yelling at them. "Enough! Can't you see how confused she is? Don't make it worse by erupting into one of your pointless arguments in front of her."

I laughed a little, amused by the two humans. Laina lead me towards a little tunnel that had been crudely carved into the man-made cave.

*An hour later*

"Well she certainly is not a human," the blonde haired doctor sighed, taking a step back from the examination table. "She's got too many artificial parts for that."

"So she's a robot?" Laina asked.

The doctor shook her head. "I'm not sure. She probably is, but the interesting thing is the organic parts that have been built into her body. She has some sort of system within her that breaks down basic elements in order to regenerate cells and metallic parts of her body. That is why she eats. If she didn't, her body would ware out, kind of like how we would starve to death." Laina's eyes were wide, "Wow...I've never heard of a robot like that. I guess that explains why she isn't showing any signs of the Ruin. So, will she ever die or is she immortal?"

"So long as she keeps consuming things, she could live forever. If she doesn't, then she could die." The doctor answered. "I've also noticed that she has some human parts too, like her eyes. They're human. And her hair is organic too, she also has a normal tongue."

"So, were the parts taken from another human or something?" Laina asked, tilting her head to the side.

"It looks like they are custom to her body. They connect into her head circuitry naturally, so no. It looks as if they were somehow created, or grown into her head."

"Amazing!"

"Yes, and there's even more to her. This is something I have never seen in a robot before, and when I first saw it, I didn't believe it."

Laina and I both had our attention completely on the doctor. What could this be?

"She has a reproductive system."

At first Laina just looked shocked, but after a few silent moments, she asked, "So...she could bear a child?"

"Yes. But the mate would have to be one of her own kind. Her systems are specially made for only her kind. But unfortunately I haven't ever heard of any others like her. Perhaps she was the only one of her type ever created before her creator abandoned the project or died."

"Holy crap. She definitely isn't like any other robot I've ever seen. Ever since the Ruin started, I never thought I'd ever see an immortal robot again." Laina said. "You hear that Rya? You're one of a kind, you're special."

"Hmm..." The doctor turned away, deep in thought.

"What is it?" Laina asked.

"I'm not sure if she's the only immortal one. The only one with human parts and a system like hers yes, but not immortal."

"What do you mean?" I asked. This was beginning to peak my interest.

The doctor replied, "There is one, whom the Ruining robots seek...I can't remember the name though..."

"Another you say?"

"Yes. Oh!" the doctor snapped her finger. "It's name is Casshern...I think."

Casshern? For some reason, I felt as if the name was familiar. But it couldn't be...I had only begun my existence a day ago. Could I have known this name without even realizing it?

My body replenished, I set out yet again. I knew that I needed to keep going, for I heard bandits in the distance. If I ended up in another brawl, I could lose my whole forearm. A piece of my metallic structure had been broken last time, and now it strayed from the main base of my arm, and I couldn't fix it. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't like my arm looked all disgusting or anything and I couldn't figure it out, in fact my arm looked perfectly normal, except for the small but distinguishable bump on the side of my arm. I had tried pressing it in to fix it, but it didn't work. I at least needed somebody else to push it in for me, but my problem was that there wasn't anyone I could get to help me, and I certainly wasn't going to stroll up to some stranger and ask them to push it back in. Trust me, I already tried that, and it didn't end well...I ended up having to kill that robot in self defense.

The humans that had pretty much raised me taught me one thing; Never get into more trouble than you already are. So my main objective now was just to avoid the robots that seemed to be heading in the same direction as me, who seemed to turn every way I turned. Funny thing, because I was doing everything I could just to get out of their path. Perhaps they had just picked up the fact that I was there, and now they were following me. If that was the case, I was dead meat because all that was ahead of me were mountains. And then once I got past the mountains, there was the sea.

I looked down at my pretty much useless arm with the metal piece hanging off the base of my robotic skeleton. How was I even supposed to get up the mountains with a bad arm? Because of it, I couldn't move my fingers, which is kind of a no-derp that I would be needing that to get up the mountains.

Just then, my eyes spotted five distinct figures standing just a couple hundered yards in the distance. How the hell did they get there so fast? I swear I was at least a couple miles ahead of them!

"Oh shi—AH!" I yelped as I tripped over a rock and face-planted in the sand.

"What's this, a little brat trying to get to Luna?" One of them jeered. They ran closer to me. They were unusually fast, much to my disadvantage.

"Hey guys, I think she's a human!" One of the robots yelled. I noticed that all of them were huge, and their parts looked rusted and warped. This group was obviously looking for the one called "Luna". I still didn't get the whole freak-out panic attack deal every robot made about her.

"No she must be a robot. Look at her body, it's too tough looking to be a human."

"Well, if she is a robot, those are some good parts she's got on her. I could sure use something on her to patch up my leg."

One pulled me out of the sand by my blonde hair. I did my best not to screech when I felt my hair pulling on the skin on my head, which was a most unpleasant feeling.

"Hey! Ouch! Please put me down!" I hissed.

"Hmm." One copper colored robot said. "I guess there is only one way to find out if she's a human or not." Before I knew what was happening, he came up and poked me in the eye with a thin finger.

"Uh, ow!" I yelled, my face expressing extreme annoyance. "What the hell did you do that for? You don't just go poke a person in the eye!"

"She's a human alright," the robot concluded. "What should we do with her?"

"Uh, first of all, I'm not a robot, and second of all, you should put me down!" I demanded, irritated.

"Don't tell us what to do, brat!" A big black robot with a missing hand bellowed.

"Well sor-ry!" I growled sarcastically. I figured these things were going to kill me anyways, so I didn't bother about sucking up to them or any of that nonsense in hopes that they would let me go with my life.

"Let's kill her. It's been a while since I've enjoyed killing a human." Another robot suggested. "Especially one as pathetic and little as her."

Okay, that was the last straw.

I had no more buttons to push. No more.

Out of pure rage, I quickly lifted my body up and brought up my feet to the robotic hand that was grasping my hair. With one swift use of my strength, I crushed the hand and I was set free. I think all I did was piss off the robot super bad, because immediately I was trapped under his other fist. However, I managed to wriggle out of there, jumped on the back of the same robot, and I crushed his head as easily as I had done to his hand. Knowing that with my broken forearm, I was no match for the five of them together, I decided to high-tail it out of there.

"Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap!" I cursed as I ran for my dear little life. The extremely, freaking pissed robots chased behind me, seeking revenge.

Where was I even going to run? To the mountains? That was like committing suicide. There was no way I could climb those steep looking nightmares faster than those robots.

I soon made it to the mountains, much to my demise. I would have preferred to keep running from the robots around the desert like an idiot, because then I would have lasted longer. But no, things were going to end quicker to me, simply because there was no other way to run from these monsters. But, I was not going to give up. I was sure going to give them some wounds to remember before they killed me.

"Heh, yeah. Just my luck," I scoffed once I stopped in front of a great, rocky wall. "of course the first part of this mountain is impossible to travel up!" All the way to the left and right sides, as far as the eye could see was all wall. I could have tried jumping up it, but my body was quite low on some important elements at the time, therefore I didn't have the energy and my leg had been severely damaged from when I tripped, now that I could feel the sharp stabbing pain there.

The four robots left had a half circle formed around me. Great. Now there really wasn't a way out.

"Yeah, well...I'm gonna die." I sighed to myself. I figured that as soon as my arm got broken, this was probably the way my life was going to end. Normally I'm a great fighter when I have two working arms, but when I'm without the one, my fighting power is down quite a bit. Heck, if I had two working arms at that point, I could have taken down the five of them easy.

The big black one lunged himself at me, and I jumped out of the way as he missed. He crashed into the mountain, and another one, which was a faded red color caught me off guard as I tried to get away. Its arm smacked into my neck and flung me away like a rag doll. The air was knocked out of me and for a while I couldn't move.

Everything about this situation sucked. I couldn't get away from these robots, my arm was broken and my leg was not liking me at all, and not to mention that I now couldn't move. The four of them tromped over everything in their path in order to get to me. I would have loved to get up and run away, except my body was in too much shock and I was too busy trying to breathe. I had no other choice but just accept I was going to die.

Keeping my eyes looking straight ahead of me, I waited for the end. All I hoped was that it came quickly.

The robots were now only yards away.

Out of my dizzied vision, I watched as they all raised their arms, preparing to crush me.

I squeezed my eyes shut.

ooh cliff hanger! D:

yeah so sorry this chapter is all about the OC and stuff. I just wanted to get you guys info'd up about her (heh...grammar fail) BUT! no worries! the next chapter will have our favorite robot/umm...i really am not sure what Casshern is even though i've seen all of the anime episodes...*double fail* i hate being stupid :(

and again, sorry if she's a mary-sue, that's why i published this with two chapters so that i wouldn't get shot with the mary sue assassination rifle :3

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