Jobs for this story:
Add- Lunatic Psyker
Aisha- Elemental Master
Ara- Asura
Chung- Tactical Trooper
Elesis- Blazing Heart
Elsword- Lord Knight
Eve- Code: Empress
Lu/Ciel- Chiliarch/Dread-Lord
Raven- Veteran Commander
Rena- Windsneaker
Rose- Crimson Rose (May not appear much, if at all, but hey! Might as well say it just in case.)
Story is a narration from both Add and Ara's point of view. They are telling the story of their relationship to different people, and, as such, there may be brief interruptions where said characters speak. Italics are for Elsword, Bold Italics are for Aisha, the Underline is for Eve, and Bold is for Eun. Character interruptions will be introduced in chapter 2.
I'm mostly trying to figure out a good way to write this honestly. It's a bit harder than I expected. Doesn't seem like it entirely, you know, works. But hey! It seems interesting, fun, and new! So you know what, I'mma try anyway. If it gets too negative of reviews then I'll probably rewrite the story as just a normal story, and not characters narrating the story to different characters.
It may become clear that it wasn't my original plan to make it a narration that swapped between the two with my first chapter. Heck, it may even be super obvious that I didn't intend for Elsword and Aisha to be a big thing either honestly. It was just an idea that popped into my head that could lead to some fun things. Like I said, if you guys dislike it enough then I'll rewrite the story. That or I'll drop it and move on. Once again, since I am new to really posting these stories, I'd like plenty of feed back from those who read. Please point out my mistakes if you can, and please tell me how to improve my writing.
Add will probably end up being OOC. I'm not the best at writing a fluffy humor romance yet keeping Add's insane personality. So I'm sorry if he is too much OOC for it to really be Add. I'll do my best to alter my writing of him if that becomes the case.
You want to know how Ara and I's relationship started? Eh…Alright, alright, I'll tell you. I guess it would be overall beneficial for me should I start at the beginning. Well, most likely not the true beginning, but just- ugh I'm just gonna start. It all started quite awhile ago, when me and that certain black haired martial artist were sent on a mission.
"Add! W-Wait up!" Said bruntette huffed and puffed on after me, nearly tripping on every damn thing she ran by. I couldn't help but let out a bit of a small chuckle as I continued on, only shooting her a glance over my shoulder.
"For some 'Ultra skilled martial artist' you're a bit of a klutz, aren't ya, Ara?" Even at the time I couldn't help but admire how cute she looked when she pouted. The way she'd puff out her red cheeks was just too cute, and it was also quite funny.
"Y-You're so r-rude!" She stuttered out, obviously quite embarrassed at the little taunt. I couldn't help but let out a full laugh this time, turning to face her while my Dynamos sped me forward. I just had to show off, didn't I?
"Hey, I'm only saying the truth. I thought great warriors were supposed to be quick an-" That's when I felt the sudden slam against the back of my head. Turns out, in all my effort to prove my superiority, I had blindly driven my dynamos right up to a low hanging branch. One that I oh so gracefully slammed into. And, as I slammed face first into the ground, I muttered out the final word I meant to say. "Aware…"
I could hear her ever growing laugh as she got near me. "That's what you get, you bully!" She stuck her tongue out at me in such a childish way. Looking back on it it was another one of her cute gestures, but at the time it just made my blood boil with anger. And I mean boil pretty badly.
"Are you alright?" Her originally joking tone quickly turned to a concerned one as she reached her hand down to me. Of course, being the stubborn ass I am, I declined and slapped her hand from me. I just growled at her, saying.
"Of course I'm fine, you bitch! And I don't need your help u-" Mother nature really hated me that day I'm assuming. As it so happens, the branch I reached up to for support was rather weak, snapping after I grabbed it and I was pulled half way up. Once more I was face first in dirt, and this time my face just flushed in embarrassment.
"What was that about being aware and a klutz?" She taunted rather playfully as she reached her hand out to help me up once more. This time, instead of trusting nature once again, I begrudgingly accepted it. Knowing me I probably also mumbled a few less than kind things, but that's honestly not important, not like I remember every detail anyhow. No, by the way, I won't check if my Dynamos have what I said in their records. That's a waste of my time, and you're rather dumb if you thought of that. Looking at you Elsword.
Anyway, of course she had to be clumsy as she was getting me up though. She had to stand a little to close to me initially to the point she had to step back to fully stand me up, didn't she? For, once again, the moment I was almost up she stumbled back into a root and fell backwards, dragging me on down with her. Well, at least this time I wasn't in the dirt. No, you see, instead I fell face first into her own. You will never understand how much effort I put into preventing myself from headbutting her on the way down, both accidentally and purposefully. Honestly, I was still a little peeved at the taunting earlier, but I was able to suppress that and get over it quickly enough.
As I laid on top of her I ended up getting a nice, good look into her eyes. I never knew Ara had Heterochromia. I never really payed much attention to the woman, initially I had a different one in my sights, but, when I gave up on that endeavor and decided to focus on saving the present rather than the past, I stopped focusing on most of you all together. Of course, not to say I didn't make at least one or two friends, nor to say I didn't became decent acquaintances with most of you guys to the point I'd rescue one of you if you got into trouble, which a good amount of you always did. It's just, the only people I really grew attached to, besides the Nasod Queen, were Raven and Elesis.
I know you two idiots well enough. You want to know more about why I chose to befriend Raven and Elesis instead of you two, or Ara, or Chung, yadda yadda yadda. This story isn't about my friendship choices, nor my companionship with them, so I won't delve too deep. Maybe another time for that, if you're still all that curious. I'll just give the basics.
Raven experienced a loss nigh equivalent to mine, but with a few added problems. He was betrayed by his companion, hunted down by his country, watched the love of his life, Seris, be brutally butchered with his original mercenary squad, who he considered his family. And finally, like me, he ended up being forced into a situation he didn't want to be in, which also seemed to involve Nasods, which are apparently the root of quite a few problems.
We ended up hitting it off once Raven became a little less hostile with me and I became a little less, well, introverted, which honestly I'm grateful for. I don't think I could imagine just a life of sitting and looking at screens all day, not anymore. I did enough of that in my early years for a life time. We realized how much we both were hurt, and we ended up becoming eachother's support should things get too bad. More so for me than him, he had Rena to go to, while it was only him who I trusted with my past, at least at the time.
Now, on to Elesis I guess. It's as simple as she was the one who forced me to get in shape. Remember when I told you guys about my idea for the armor? How most laughed it off? Not that I blame you, mind you. Me wearing some special strength enhancing armor? Maybe I'd actually hit like a pre-teen rather than a toddler now. The only one who took me seriously out of all of you though was, surprisingly enough, Elesis. Remember how she grabbed me dragged me away from the camp fire? Yeah, that was when she told me that she was gonna be my personal trainer, whether I wanted her to or not. And she certainly kept to her word. Next morning she woke me up at five just to start training.
She's a rather, uh, strict trainer by the way, as you know Elbrat, but you don't Aisha. I wouldn't recommend her to another newbie trying to get into fitness, as she can get a little, well, ridiculous. One day she told me to do 600 push ups non stop…It was the second day of training. Yeah. Lucky for me she did listen when I told her what was out of my range and what wasn't. Barely though, for I still had to do quite the ridiculous shit. Seriously, one handed hand stand push ups with no wall support on the second week? But maybe I'll go into that all at a later date, I strayed away from the original story a little too much as is.
Back to the original topic, Ara. As I said, I fell on top of her, got a good look at her eyes and all her other facial features. That's the day I learned I have a staring problem, cause apparently I stared long enough to make her uncomfortable. To be fair though, it was hard to look away. Actually looking up close to her I got to appreciate her beauty a bit more. Her soft, long ebony hair, her different colored eyes, her soft pink lips, and I'm going into too much detail.
Ahem, as I said, apparently I was making her uncomfortable with my staring. It was a little obvious with how she started squirming under me while avoiding my gaze with an ever growing blush on her cheeks. Snapping out of my trance of creepy staring I eventually got in enough of the right mind to stand up and drag her up with me. The rest of the walk was, well, rather awkward.
After that nothing really happened, well, until we finished the mission and were heading back. "H-Hey, Add?" I heard her pipe up rather shyly. I raised an eyebrow and looked over at her, noticing how she was walking in her old manner again, the one she'd walk when she was still shy with the party. That got me a bit curious. "Y-You uh, you were staring at me for a long time." She managed to stutter out once more as she picked up her pace to walk by my side. "W-Why?" She refused too look at me, and I didn't quite understand until I noticed the slight tinge of pink on her ears.
I could feel a mild blush appear on my face. I couldn't let her know the real reason why! I couldn't tell her about how I found her beautiful, at least that's how I thought at the time. So, in all my infinite wisdom, I said something about as damning. I cleared my throat, saying as confidently as I could.
"I-I just uh. I just like to study things that interest me!"
The way she looked at me after I said that. Yeah, her cheeks certainly did grow a brighter shade of red, but what really caught my attention was the way her eyes lit up. She just looked so innocent and happy. I realized my mistake a little too late as she ended up blurting out.
"I-I interest you?!"
I wanted to quickly say no, or to use the excuse I thought up, saying that I never saw someone with heterochromia before so of course she interested me…But…Damn it! I had grown soft and I couldn't bring myself to kick her down like that. So I just nodded a bit in return.
"Eeee! I thought you'd never feel that way about me Add~!" She squealed out as she jumped up and hugged me. Oh,the shade of red my face became at that. She seemed so damn excited about it, and I felt shitty because of it. I didn't mean to hint that I liked her romantically, I was just trying to avoid saying she's beautiful, and instead I ended up saying something that could affect our relationship far worse. I couldn't even bring myself to push her down, or throw her feelings away, cause that might of broken her. Instead, I just kinda took it all in and let her gush about whatever she wanted.
She went on about how she developed feelings for me after our last major mission. I remember that mission quite vivdly, like I'm sure you two do. First time I let myself get injured to rescue someone in the party.
(Flash Back. No Narrator)
"He's too strong!" A young Red-Headed knight screamed out just before one of Ran's clones slammed into him. The boy, Elsword, flew back, but, as he hit the floor, he shifted his body to roll backwards, quickly standing and getting into a defensive stance. The clone rushed to Elsword again, only for Elesis to block the blow for her sibling.
"We need to fall back." Elesis howled out as she pushed the clone back. "We're not strong enough yet!" She quickly held out her arm as she backed up, forcing Elsword back as well. One by one the party began retreating, with the last one being Ara.
"B-Brother! I know you're in there! Come on!" She pleaded out to the demon. She stared up at him with tear filled eyes. He just laughed at her and shook his head.
"Such a naive girl. Aren is no more! I am Ran!" He boomed out proudly. Then, squeezing the hilt of his blade tightly with a mad smile, he rushed at her. Everyone looked back in horror at the scene they were about to see played out.
"Ara!" Elsword cried out. He knew he wouldn't reach there in time, no one was fast enough! That is, except for Add. Taking advantage of his Dynamos he decided it was time to test out the finished product of his new armor. Just how much would it increase his newly gained strength? Well, he decided to test it against Ran.
He dashed in front of Ara and grabbed Ran's blade before it pierced him. Using both of his hands he was able to keep the point at bay. Giving the flabbergasted demon one of his crazy smirks he growled angrily.
"No one hurts my friends."
Ran was too stunned to stop what he did next. His fist was engulfed with violet energy as he pulled his arm back. Then he slammed my fist hard into the demon's face, forcing him to fly backwards and slide against the ground. He tossed Ran's blade far to the side, giving a dark chuckle at seeing how flustered and angry the former martial artist was. However, the mad (in both ways at this point) scientist knew that he was just lucky that he surprised the fiend. They still couldn't win, even with Add's new found abilities. Not yet. He quickly grabbed Ara's hand with one of his rather badly cut ones and ran to the group. "Let's get out of here!" Rena cried out as the group swiftly rushed out of the building.
(End of flashback)
'So that's when she gained a crush on me, huh?' I thought as the memory had flooded back to me. I was certainly surprised at that. It was just a normal thing, protect your comrades. Did she look at me as her hero now? Is that where the feelings come from? I didn't even know at that point. All I knew then was that I just tugged at her feelings and put her heart into my hand. I could shatter it, I could tell her I don't want her, or, I could lie to her and end up playing with it, even without that being my intentions. I could end up harming her even more than if I told her the truth right away.
Well, in a show of my incompetence with social interaction, as well as understanding possible consequences, I let her believe what she wanted, and I went along with it. Looking back on it now I do regret what I did a little. Though, well…You understand why I regret it only a little bit.