A super alternative AU.. oh well...

This might be a very long fic.. and shonen-like.. ahahaha

I hope you didn't mind.. I will give the explanation about the areas and the characters, as well as uniform design and what the area looked like.

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A re-do. Thanks a million for my Beta reader SecretDime

And I'm sorry if it irks you.. knowing that there are a many fanfiction critics and I know this is not good enough.

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36 After Remnant, year 36 AR

After the great nuclear disaster that killed millions globally, followed by an unidentified virus spread across the earth, wiping out a third of the population. Most of technology were lost, resources were lost, and the government was left to try to piece together a chaotic world with a new military regime refered as Protectoral Area System Army (PASA).

A group of humans were discovered in this time with special powers. The existence of these humans, called Equisitarians, was known only by a few. The Equisitarians were used for their powers to control the elements or they were hunted as threats to are either born from normal parents and developed the symptoms of being an Equisitarian as they grow up or born from equisitarian parent and display their symptoms since their birth. Equisitarians lived much longer than normal humans, but there was a price for their powers, slowly their minds would break and as a result many of the elders would choose to 'self-destruct'.

The military attempted to recruit the Equisitarians, but many refused to be used by the military and the government. The military then went against them in force, threatening them to join or brainwashing the youngsters they took from their family. They were placed into a squad called the Black Knight Squad.

Those refused the system soon formed resistance worldwide, there are some whose influence are so strong that they are able to built an independent goverment the army reclutantly but recognized their authority.

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The night was still. A figure of a woman sitting in the middle of the room. Her body didn't tremble but her sweats dripping, although the night was cold. Her lips shivered a soft phrase that was lost in the silence of the night. Sapphire eyes snapped open, blinking rapidly to remind her of where she was. The figure of a man moved silently from the corner. He approached her slowly and rested a hand on her shoulder. He silently calmed her.

"Sara… Sara…It's fine…everything is alright… Ok? What did you see?" He said as he gripped her hands tightly.

The moon's light, which had been hidden by dense clouds, shone again. Her light passed through the room's single window and lit up the features. Sara looked up and found back her focus in the familiar worried face of his, grasping his hand in relief.

"Marco…" She said softly. He smiled and moved his hand to play with her braids. Her hands were still trembling severely so all she could do was mumble her annoyance.

"What did you see?" He asked again. Sara's grip on his hands tightened. He knew it did not bode good news that she saw through her 'Full Square Theatre' cards.

"I'm not a good oracle… But…" She paused and braced herself to continue. "I saw an Ifrit*… He holds a key. A precious key."

Marco raised an eyebrow, Sara seldom had prophecies and they were mostly vague and rather puzzling, but now it told of a specific characteristic, yet an absurd metaphor. If Sara could see it that clearly it meant that it would become something important.

"Ifrit… What key?"

"I don't know…" She shook her head. "The hound chased the Ifrit, the key looked very important.. If they fall to the hounds….." She shuddered.

Marco froze in fear. Ifrit might be quite unusual but Sara's vision always analogised the hounds with one thing… PASA… His eyes widened… What are they after? "What happened?" He exclaimed in panic. "Did they get the Ifrit? What about the key?"

Sara shook her head, and he sighed in relief. She tidied the cards on the table and spoke to Marco in a frank tone. "I can't see that far. But when the hounds almost caught him, I saw something that I never expected to stop the hounds."

"What is it?" He asked in trepidation. Although she had come back to her usual self, he could feel her fear and hear the anxiousness she tried the mask in her voice.

"Black Eques."

Marco's eyes widened in surprise. The last time Sara had seen the black Eques move was more than 60 years ago. He also knew from an outside informant that the black Eques had chosen to hide himself and cut all ties from the movement by disguising himself among normal humans. Marco wasn't sure that someone like the Eques would suddenly decide to get involved, especially with something directly connected with PASA.

Could it be it's another black Eques? A new black Eques?

Marco shoved that idea from his mind. There was no way something as rare as Black Eques occurred twice in a generation without anyone noticing. But to think that person had made a comeback and was up against PASA was just too absurd.

"Is that the same black Eques? As in, our black Eques?" Marco asked with unsure tone.

Sara just shrugged and continued to tidy up her cards. After a few moments of silence she spoke up again. "Most likely. If there's something like a new black eques, even a no good prophet like me must have already seen it. So, yeah, most likely it's our Mr K," she said. She smirked as she saw Marco's jaw drop. He didn't even try to hide his surprise.

"Uh... It's really unexpected… Do you know where Mr. K is hiding right now? Should we tell him about that Ifrit?"

"No!" She yelled. She gave him an apologetic look. "Don't tell anyone Marco! I'm afraid...I'm afraid something might happen to us if we do anything to disrupt the flow… Please…"

She approached him with glossy eyes. He froze at the sight of Sara's pleading look. For more than 150 years he had been with her, not once had he seen her so… Defenseless… He reached out and lightly patted head, looking into her eyes. He smiled to assure her before speaking again.

"I won't tell," he said. "But we have to know what's happening. I don't want us to stay ignorant and for that cause us to be caught in the crossfire…"

Sara sighed and pulled herself upright. "Alright… We will look for the Ifrit... but Ifrits aren't that rare and stand out just like the Black Eques… and I don't have a complete record of our kind…"

"I understand," Marco replied. "We will ask the board watcher."

Capital of Albion
682 AR

I cannot get caught…

"After him!"

"He turned into the alley! Quick!"

I cannot get caught right now…!

"Promise me…" She pleaded. Her eyes had lost it's vitality, but they gleamed with a new light of hope. "Promise me…"

I promised to you…

"Until your flesh turns to ash…"

That's why…

"AAAAARGH!"

"WHAT HAPPENED? WHY ARE THEY SUDDENLY BURNING?"

"Look? His hand! There're flames coming from his hand!"

"Until your bones creaked from the heat of blazing flames..."

"Lieutenant! What is he?"

"Retreat for now! He... He's the one on the secret files! We must call the hunters!"

I will fulfil it...

"I'm sorry… But I…" He narrowed his eyes. His eyes gleamed from the dancing flames of the fire in front of him, dying them a colour of madness. He stared coldly at them moving his burning hands slowly."…Am not going to let you go to report me…"

The soldiers let out a blood curling screams as their body's turned into charcoal trapped within the dancing flames. The man looked at them and for a second something like pity flashed in his eyes, before they hardened once more as he turned his head away.

"Even if this world is turned into an inferno, promise me!"

I promise….

As he ran from the death he had caused eh closed his eyes, trying to forget the pile of burnt bodies he had left behind. He had chosen to not look back or regret anything. He had nowhere to go and no one to go to. In his mind there was only a single goal and he had decided to accomplish it no matter the price. It was all for a single person's sake…all for her sake. He breathed in a sharp and painful gasp of air as he muttered out loud...

Mother…

Sara: Monaco, her main ability is to give someone a power value through the card they pull. basically it's a supportive ability that will work according to your luck also. She also can foresaw some events in the past, present, or future although it's strictly limited and it's not really often, that's why she called herself third rate prophet. Have no offensive power, before she met Marco she reluctantly join a guild to keep herself from being taken by the system.

Marco: Seborga. Acts like her henchman and bodyguard for more than one century. For obvious reason everyone notices that he had a crush on her. His ability involves simple laser like beams that can be adjusted in intensity, heat and diameter. by his own, the maximum power is just so-so rate compared to other equisitarian and most of times Monaco end up amplify it by her power. Unlike Sara who was born with her power, he developed the symptoms at his teenagers.

Ifrit: fire demon. Equisitarians who use fire based powers called Ifrit, though the appliances different each other. the guy being chased seemed like uses the very basic of fire attack, but not like that really…

Black Eques is a calling for quite rare kind of power which is.. ah just see it in the next chapter. it doesn't mean it have to be only one holder in every generations but someone would noticed it if it does happen because it's not really often to be happen.

I'm so sorry I'm so suck

I never wrote this genre before

so please forgive my mistakes