Author Note: I do not own Senel or any of the other characters. They respectfully belong to Namco. With that out of the way, please enjoy the story.

Prologue

It was a dark and stormy night. The wind roared across the sea. A single ship floated on the sea's surface. A young man around age 17 stood on the ships deck. He had white hair and blue eyes. He wore a white shirt, black gloves, black shorts, grey socks, and white shoes. He also had iron cuffs around his wrists and ankles.

The youth stood still ignoring the cold wind. He was waiting patiently for the enemy to show up. Suddenly something emerged from the water. It was a giant sea serpent.

The youth's fist began to glow bright blue. The serpent roared before lunging towards the ship.

"Take this!" The youth shouted before delivering an uppercut into the sea serpents jaw.

The sea serpent shrieked in agony before sinking back into the water.

"Senel!" A voice called from behind.

Senel turned around and saw a girl around age 15 exit the ships cabin. She had long blond hair and blue eyes. She wore a pink shirt with white sleeves, a purple skirt, and brown boots. A white skirt was wrapped halfway around her purple skirt. In addition, she wore a blue necklace around her neck.

"Shirley, go back inside." Senel ordered. "It's not dead yet."

"But-" Shirley was about to protest when the sea serpent emerged from the water again.

"Quick! Hurry up and hide!" Senel shouted.

Shirley did as she was told and went back into the cabin.

Spotting a harpoon canon at the ships bow, Senel ran towards it.

"Hey ugly!" Senel shouted. "Over here!"

The sea serpent swam towards the ships bow.

Senel carefully aimed the harpoon cannon at the sea serpent.

"Let's see how you like this!" Senel pressed the trigger button.

The harpoon flew through the air and pierced through the sea serpent like a needle impaling a banana. Purple blood leaked from the sea serpents wound.

The sea serpent then swam away from the ship.

Darn! It got away! If only the engines hadn't broken down, they would've been able to chase it down and finish it off.

Just then Shirley exited the cabin.

"Senel, are you alright?" Shirley asked.

"I'm fine, but the monster got away." Senel sighed. "Of all the possible moments, the engine just had to breakdown."

"You shouldn't push yourself so hard Senel." Shirley said. "Ever since the engine broke down, you hardly got any sleep at all this past week."

It was true. Both Senel and Shirley had been stranded at sea for a week. This wasn't a surprise to Senel though. Alliance Marines went out to sea to slay monsters so other ships could travel safely. It was quite normal for them to run into all types of danger. Sometimes Alliance Marines were able to overcome the challenges of the sea and survive, other times Alliance Marines failed and sunk to their deaths.

Senel himself was an Alliance Marine. Normally Senel wouldn't be worried about the engine breaking down, but this time was different. He ended up getting Shirley involved in the mess.

Taking Shirley on this idea was probably the worst idea, but it was necessary. If he had left her back at mainland, the enemy soldiers would've found her by now.

"You should get some rest now." Shirley said.

"I can't go to sleep now." Senel replied. "A ship could come by anytime. I have to launch the distress signal when that happens."

"I can keep watch too." Shirley offered. "You can go to bed and rest up."

"Don't be ridiculous." Senel answered. "You know the sea breeze is like poison to you."

"Don't worry." Shirley said. "I can take a little bit. Really, I can."

"We're stranded in the middle of the sea." Senel replied. "The nearest area with fresh water is located somewhere on mainland. The last thing I need is for you to get sick."

"But…" Shirley was about to protest when she spotted something. "What's that?"

Hovering over the water was a shadowy humanoid figure. It was approaching the ship.

"Stand back Shirley." Senel ordered. "This could get ugly."

The shadowy figure came into view. It was a strange monster. It was dark blue and vaguely humanoid. It had a triangular like body with no head. It had a beak on its chest. It had two thin wiry legs and two thin arms with large claws. On each side of the beak were four eyes that were glowing light blue. On the monsters back were two wings.

The monster landed on the ships deck. It slowly began to advance towards Senel.

Senel ran up to the monster and gave it an uppercut in the beak. The monster was pushed back but it didn't scream out in pain.

The monster swung its arm and tried to scratch Senel with its claws. Senel evaded the attack and landed a few more punches. The monster was forced backwards but didn't show signs of weakening.

"You're a tough one." Senel's fist began to glow light blue. "Perhaps it's time I got serious."

The monster tried slash Senel with it's claws but he got out of the way.

"Demon Fist!" Senel launched a blue burst of energy from his fist. The blast struck the monster head on and knocked it off the ship.

"That monster felt different then the others." Senel mused. "It was almost…human."

"Was that a teriques?" Shirley asked.

Just then the sea began to rage and the ship began to shake.

"Oh no..." Senel groaned. "This just isn't our day."

"Senel look over there." Shirley gasped.

Senel looked into the direction Shirley was looking.

"What the…" Senel trailed off. He was too stunned for words.

A bright light shone through the fog. Senel and Shirley stared at it in awe. A few seconds later their eyes widened in horror as a tidal wave rushed towards the ship.

Crud! Why, oh why, did the engine have to break down.

Senel and Shirley screamed as the wave crashed onto the boat. Senel blacked out a few seconds later.

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Senel wasn't sure how long he had been knocked out. All he knew was that he was wet and soggy. A few minutes later he opened his eyes and got to his feet.

"Shirley are you okay?" Senel asked out loud.

A few seconds later, Senel spotted Shirley sprawled on the deck of the ship. This wasn't good, she was covered in sea water. If he didn't get her to a fresh spring fast, she'd surely die soon.

Just the bright light shone on the ship. When Senel looked up he noticed two things. One, he was ship wrecked on an island. Two, he noticed a giant pillar of light was shining through the center of the island.

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A young youth stood near the shore. He was patiently waiting for the Zephyr, he had sent to scout the coastline, to return. A few minutes later, the dark blue humanoid monster that had attacked Senel's ship approached the shore.

It stood motionless in front of him. After a brief exchange of mental communication, the Zephyr faded away in a purple flash of light.

"So." The mysterious youth muttered. "She's come…"