A young, pink haired girl flipped through the pages of a thick grimoire, one that was about elemental magic. For you see, this young girl was learning elemental magic. It was quite amazing for a girl as young as her.
Her magic instructor was skilled, very skilled, in the magic of the elements. For you see, Aisha had saved Elrios with the el gang, but this story isn't about Aisha the elemental master, it's the story of Strawberry, the magician.
Strawberry sighed and placed down her grimoire, she at times, got tired of reading about elemental magic and couldn't understand why she couldn't dabble in the magic Add uses.
He had offered to teach her this magic, but being the protective mentors they are, both Aisha and Elsword declined for Strawberry. Both of them.
Add hadn t softened over the years of him being in the el gang, no, Strawberry was just really good friends with the maniac.
Standing up, Strawberry received the attention of Aisha who was also reading."Where are you going?" Aisha asked, with a friendly atmosphere.
Strawberry sighed and looked at her mentor. She signed 'To help Add or Eve with something. I don t know, maybe help Ara with training?' Aisha looked at her with annoyance, Strawberry was mute and often had Eve, Add, Rena or Raven with her to translate.
"You know I don t understand sign language, but whatever. Go do whatever you re going to do..." said Aisha. Strawberry giggled and waved to her mentor as she left Aisha's tent.
"Berry~" Strawberry immediately stiffened at the voice. Turning around she waved hi to the too-friendly elf.
Rena smiled at her and asked, "What are you going to do now that your time with Aisha is up?" Strawberry thought for a moment, then pointed to Ara's tent.
"Ah I see...so you have no time for training with me and Raven then That s too bad..." Rena pouted with a disappointed tone, knowing Strawberry could never decline getting a chance to fight against her fourth and fifth favorite people in the gang.
Strawberry immediately brightened up and signed 'Let me go get my weapons.' Then took off to her tent.
Strawberry's tent was shared by her favorite nasod. Whom she waved to when she entered. Eve looked over her shoulder at the passing magician and gave the smallest smile. "Why hello, Berry." said Eve.
Strawberry laughed a little and signed to the nasod. 'Rena already calls me that, don t you start too!'
Eve turned back to her work with the smile still fixed on her face. Strawberry quickly gathered her main weapon, a pink staff. Add had given it to her for her birthday, it was made from a cool metal that allowed Strawberry to utilized her magic to it's fullest potential.
She then grabbed the thin blade that Ara had given her. Strawberry knew where it came from. It was Ran's, who the El Gang had defeated in battle.
To respect Ara's fallen brother, Strawberry often used it as her sword.
She attached the sword to her waist and handled the staff with care in her hands.
She waved a quick goodbye to Eve as she rushed to the training area which was, in all truth, just a piece of forest with no trees.
The trees flew past her as she jumped the rocks with ease. Agility was something that she had learned from Raven. The only reason she wasn't teleporting was because of the after feeling. She always felt horribly nauseous. It did not at all feel delightful.
Strawberry pushed back a branch and made her way in to the training area, in which Raven and Rena were already crossing blades.
It was always amazing, to watch a 'blade dance' as Rena and Strawberry called it.
Strawberry put her fingers in her mouth and whistled, loudly. This caught both Raven and Rena's attention.
"So she didn't lie about training with someone According to Chung, that's new." Raven said and Rena elbowed him in the stomach.
Strawberry rolled her eyes 'I just don t like training with the trap thank you very much.' she told the two adults. They both chuckled at the 17 year old girl.
Rena then stepped out of the battle circle, only to push Strawberry in to the circle. Strawberry blinked and signed 'I've never had to fight Raven before, something new in this camp.'
Rena smiled and said "Ready? On your marks. Go!"
Strawberry used the move she always used first, meditation. Raven shadow stepped right to her and she jumped to the left of him and used lightning shower, stunning him. The stun didn't last long though and Raven used Shockwave, which Strawberry avoided with ease.
This shocked the Blade Master, he didn't know just how agile the young mage was.
She jumped over his head and used the blunt end of her sword to hit the back of Raven's neck which knocked him down.
Strawberry landed on the ground next to Rena,who was also surprised at the outcome of the heated battle.
Strawberry smiled at Raven as he got up rubbing the back of his neck groaning.
"Now that was surprising, good work kid." Said Raven as he pat Strawberry's head.
"I agree. Now who wants to go back to camp and get some lu-"
Rena was cut off by a loud siren. The second good thing about being in this spot, was that it was near Velder so the gang knew when trouble was near. And right now, trouble was near. Strawberry looked at Rena and Rena looked at Raven.
They all nodded and headed back to camp. Raven went to Elsword and Aisha who said that demons were invading the city, again. The whole el gang gathered their weapons and rushed towards Velder.
Strawberry was hot on their tail, when she reached the end of the forest she saw a open field with beautiful, golden wheat and the El Gang fighting the demons. The sounds of battle rung out through the valley and the afternoon sun brought brightness to the dark field.
Strawberry's eyes went wide with fear, for this scene reminded her of her nightmare.
Strawberry stood in a field that looked exactly like the one the battle was in. But the Strawberry in the fields was not Strawberry. She looked older, with two pigtails hanging from her head, otherwise her hair was all down.
Her eyes were hidden by her thick bangs, she was visibly shuttering and shaking, shivering from an unknown fear. Strawberry heard her name being called from behind her, and she turned around, the dream Strawberry turned around and Strawberry almost threw up.
She visibly had black and red blood splattered all over her. Her cheeks, her clothes, her hair, everywhere.
Tears leaked from her eyes under her bangs, just as she is about to lift her head, Strawberry wakes up. It infuriated Strawberry to no end.
Strawberry gripped her staff, so tight she was afraid it might break on her. Strawberry hid her eye s behind her bangs and cried, she cried so hard.
Strawberry turned around and bolted in to the forest, as fast as she could. Her face hidden behind her arm. Which was trying to stop her from crying.
All of the sudden, Strawberry felt like she was falling, she took her arm away from her eye's to look around her.
The space around her was blue and it looked like it was pulsing, there were navy blue cubes with light teal lining in them. Everything was so new to her.
Strawberry painfully hit a cube, then another, then another, she was falling deeper in to where ever she was. This continued until Strawberry hit the bottom.
It hurt, it hurt so much that Strawberry wished that she had died instead of suffering through this.
Finally, finally to Strawberry's relief, she blacked out from the pain.
/Forty Minutes Later/
Strawberry flinched up from the place she was laying down. She was still in the new place. Strawberry carefully got up, careful not to injure herself anymore then she already had.
Looking around she saw that there were two door like things, deciding her situation couldn't get any worse, she started towards the door thing to right.
The door broke apart to a billion pieces and she was transported to Velder?
It looked like the palace entrance, but different there were many demons here.
Strawberry went weak in the knees. 'W-what is this place?'
Just her luck that the demons noticed her. Standing up she readied her staff, she had her blade with her, but she didn't think about using it. She was too terrified.
She grit her teeth and used meditation. Good, her mana was up to 300. She used meteor call, a move she hadn't used much since learning it. It did amazing damage to the demons but that didn't stop them.
They advanced on her like bullies advance on to a nerd. The biggest one picked her up by the collar of her shirt.
She just gave up and knew she was going to die, they disappeared in a flash of blue sparkles and so did the dungeon stage.
"Now what is a child doing in Henirs?" said a voice. Strawberry turned her body towards the voice behind her.
Standing there was a man in a black robe that had a few golden chains and locks,he had spiky white hair and a gray mask that only showed one yellow eye.
She looked at him and signed 'I myself, don't know...'
The man looked at Strawberry and then spread his arm over the open space he called Henirs . "Do you, know who you are?" He asked and Strawberry quickly shook her head no, "You, Child, are in Henirs or as your friend, I think he calls himself Add, calls this world, Time and Space."
Strawberry's eyes widened considerably and Glave chuckled. "You want to learn about dimensional magic correct?" Strawberry nodded, she knew different types of magic existed! He chuckled again. "I suppose I ll take you under my wing and teach you this magic, help you grow stronger."
Strawberry tried to jump in happiness but she fell down instead. She groaned and Glave said "We will need to get you healed first of course. And because you must know my name, I d like to know yours. Child won't fit for you in a few years."
/And So, Strawberry Trained With Glave For Eight-Teen Years, Her Age Stayed The Same Because In Henirs Time Stops. Nine Years In, She Earned The Honor Of The Title Dimension Witch. Eleven Years In, She Saw People Practicing Attacks In Henirs, She Wanted To Join Them But She Couldn t . Soon, Strawberry Had Completed Her Training And Deciding That She Could Learn No More, She Snuck Out Of Henir, In To Elrios, A Different Elrois From The One Before. One She Knew Nothing About./
Strawberry kept her head down, looking towards the dirt. She had left Henirs, Glave wouldn't be mad, he would understand.
Strawberry looked up at the signs and decided to go the way she thought most appropriate, she went to Elder.
The normal hustle bustle of the tiny town always excited the witch as it did so now.
And it felt so good, to see Elder instead of just Elder's bosses, who she had defeated many times.
She walked down one of the back alleys, which was less crowded and discarded her hood.
She turned to walk deeper in to the alley and suddenly a black haired boy crashed in to her. She fell backward and so did the boy.
"Ugghhh. That ones gonna leave a mark." He said as he rubbed his back. He looked up at Strawberry and froze."Umm." He said awkwardly. "Get back here you little brat!" Was heard from one of the other alleys.
"Oh crap!" He then proceeded to grab Strawberry's wrist and started running. "Come on! Don't let em' catch us!" he yelled over to her while running.
Strawberry's amazed expression disappeared and she smirked. Then she proceeded to teleport them to the outskirts of Elder. Oh no. There is was, that nauseous feeling. Strawberry had to grab on to the tree for support.
"That. Was. AWESOME!" Yelled the boy as he turned back to Strawberry,"Hi there! I m Midnight! An expert swordsman!" He said sticking his hand out for her to shake.
Strawberry could now see who she'd teleported. He had messed up black hair with ruby red eyes and wore a black and white knight s uniform. On his back was a silver blade, much like the one Raven used. Strawberry shook his hand and signed 'I'm Strawberry' His face brightened considerably, and he said "You can use sign language Strawberry?! That's awesome, it took me, around a year to learn it!"
Strawberry smiled brightly at Midnight and signed 'Do you know where the El Gang is? Like Elsword, Aisha, Add, Eve, Rena, Raven, Ara and Chung? Oh, and Lu and Ciel.' Midnight looked at her like she was crazy. "First off," he said quietly, "That El Gang died more than a hundred years ago."
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Rabbit : End of chapter one! Also, do you like my new name? Hehe, I like it. Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter. I've wanted to write a Elsword Story for awhile. So here it is! Oh yeah what else oh yeah, Ocs are needed! Oh yeah and if cha want to friend meh on Els I'm SimonPlays09. I'm saying this because I want more friends online, there is normally only 1 or 2 online at a time. D:
