Disclaimer: Tales of Zestiria is belongs Bandai Namco Entertainment. This is fanfic with OC involved.
Author note: Hello my followers and new readers. I'm Rainbowbutterfly16 you can call me Rain for short here. I finished the game and the ending gave me some thoughts, ideas and feelings that made me to write this. English is not my first language so watch out for errors on the story that I missed to check. So proof reader is welcomed! And I would be grateful to you.
Warning: some foul language, OCs, violence, a bit AU, and grammar mistakes that I make here without knowing. Also, there would be OOC moment. This one contains canon x OC coupling as well. (Sorey x OC –reversible, Mikleo x Edna, Dezel x Rose, etc)
Chapter.1 Secret Room
A ruin was left over that still stood from several chronicles. Many scholars studied the ruins and wondered what kind of life style people had that time period. One could say it was treasure to them. Also some ruins had mechanism like traps so it was not safe trip but considered as adventure as well. But they never stopped to explore ruins even it would cost them their own lives. And here somebodies were trying to wake the ruin with out of curiosity.
Elysia- home of seraphim-was next to old ruin called Mt. Mabinogio ruin. And from that village, two youngsters were exploring the ruin thanks to their love of ruin. One boy with brownish hair looked at the certain area of pattern wall with curiosity look. His brilliant green eyes were sparked as his hands were almost put on that wall.
However, it was stopped by another child with white hair and violet eyes. That boy stopped other by caught hands. The violet eyes were showing worry looks and a bit of warning.
"Sorey, do you remember the last time when you pushed the wall?"
The boy named Sorey twitched a bit as he remembered afterward of that incident. That time when Sorey pushed the button(disguised as patterned bricks on the wall), bunch of stones fell from the ground but not the basement, from the ceiling. White haired boy caught by that happening and he fell along with stones and reappeared next to Sorey.
"But it was kind of interesting right?" Sorey said as he also remembered how they laugh together when they found that interesting mechanism. But still careful looking eyes didn't wavering.
"But we promised we would be careful next time. Gramps worried and really got us that time, remember?"
"Yeah, he did…. Still, Mikleo but look! I can feel breeze from the gaps of this part."
At that moment, the violet eyes wavered and examined that bricks together. Mikleo approached to the wall with his hand but careful to not touch. Indeed. He felt some breeze coming out from gaps. Sorey grinned as Mikleo pouted for missing detail.
"Okay, you beat this time. …? Oh! I think I made up for this one already."
"What?! Already? How…Uff?!"
Sorey surprised that Mikleo mentioned how he made score even so he was going to exclaim to his-explorer-rival. However, this boy was fast enough to close that almost-burst-scream. Mikleo sealed firmly with his both hands by putting them on Sorey's mouth. When Sorey was calmed down, Mikleo hushed him more and made his one hand to cup shape gesture on ears to listen.
As Sorey focused on the listening, he heard some melody was coming out behind the wall. Both youngsters imagined at the same time. A very ancient ruin and there was still playing melody behind the closed wall. Normal people would thought this would be some sort of black magic and run for their lives to avoid curse. However,
""A Secret Room!""
Because of their huge discovering, there was no fear but exciting voices rang throughout hallway. Of course, both of them stopped more scream coming out from their mouth so the source of melody won't stop. Thankfully to them, the melody was still playing. They sighed as they relieved for it. However when they leaned against to the wall, Mikleo was putting his shoulder on that very area where he stopped Sorey to touch.
You know what happen next of course. The brick was pushed like a switch and like how switch worked; the wall was pulled up as another passage to them. One more thing and this was pain to them later. Since they were leaning against to the wall and that wall was pulled up, secret stairway showed right under to them. They rolled down to the stairs while they screamed.
It was not long stairway thankfully and they bumped to the ground already. And there, Sorey and Mikleo found small secret room while lying on the ground and hugging each other dearly.
"Mikleo, we found a secret room that is not recored in the Celestial Record!"
"Yes, Sorey! This is small but we can find the source of melody and find what time of area this room is….okay first, start by letting us go each other." Mikleo found out their situation and giggled that how they tugged them each.
When they stood up, they looked briefly around the area first to see what they could find in this room. And there, they stopped as their eyes looked at a certain object. Some kind of musical instrument was stood there like never played for very long time but the keyboards were still playing to fill melody inside of the room.
However, the young brave explorers still didn't stop but to investigate the instrument they never saw before.
"Do you think this is playing with seraphim arte?"
"Could be. But if it really is, then that seraph must be very powerful to cast the spell on this one."
The melody stopped while the boys were talking but played another song like player chose what next score would play this time. Milkelo was looking at the instrument while investigating it carefully. Sorey found another discovery behind next to the instrument. It was gigantic-sized egg that covered on thick layered of dust. He approached to the egg and blew some dust off the egg. As the dust flew away in the midair, whiter colored surface appeared.
Sore awed by the cleanness of the layer and touched with his palm without realizing. And more surprise to the boy, he could feel warm feeling coming out from the layer. He quickly pulled his hand and brushed off as he couldn't believe what he just experienced. When Mikleo finished that investigation could go no more further because of his lack of knowledge, he checked on his unusually quiet friend. He found out that Sorey was struck in awareness by something huge and quickly approached to still in-wonderland friend.
"What's wrong, Sorey?! Are you hurt?"
"…Mikleo…"
"Yeah, I'm here. What's wrong?"
Sorey turned his head toward to Mikleo but his face was not covered in fear entirely but with excitement as well. "This egg is still alive…!"
"What?! Is that even possible from ancient time?"
"But this one..! This gigantic egg is still warm!"
They argued about how egg is still warm and not, the sound of crack was made briefly. Because of that sound, they froze for a moment while still opening their mouth in argumenta state. So they retreated back for bit as they fixed their gaze on the cracked egg. Several cracks sounds made and the music instrument stopped at some point without Sorey and Milkeo noticed.
When the shells torn apart from still remained part, a hand showed up and reached out to top. Another hand showed up as it pushed more shells to fall apart. A person hatched out from the egg. A very long hair it had while cover in fluid that contained inside of egg. Sorey then saw behind of curtain white hair just for moment. A mix of magenta and cyan colored eyes were looking at the youngsters briefly and the lid closed once more as the person fell on the ground like just lost his or her consciousness.
Sorey and Mikleo could not believe what they just saw by very their own eyes. They could just run for their lives to see their grandfather but could not move their feet for inch. As they looked carefully lied down person, Sorey bravely moved his hand closer to that person. Mikleo, of course, stopped him and thought it was dangerous. However, Sorey still did to reach out to help that person.
Sorey put his hand on the person's shoulder and slowly pulled. "Hey, are you all right?"
"….." The person, now looked closely, was a bit older than they were and a girl.
"Are…you all right?"
Sorey asked once more and hoped she was still alive. A young boy did not want to believe that person died on the moment they saw her coming out from the egg.
Like god responded to his wish, the teen girl coughed few times before opening her eyes. However the color of her eyes denied what Sorey saw before; they were deep emerald color. Aside from that, Sorey and Mikleo relieved to see the teen-aged girl was gaining consciousness.
When she looked directly to their gazes, she titled her head to side in questionable way.
"I'm fine…I think….But who are you kids..?"
Mikleo noticed a certain word from her speaking and pointed out: "Can she see me?"
"Yes…but …why surprised…?"
Sorey looked at Mikleo and the girl exchanged words on see or not see, he remembered another question.
"What's your name?"
"…..Name…. Umm….. Astra…" She murmured a bit clearly said her name to them.
"Well.. I'm Sorey and he is Mikleo."
"Wha…Sorey, I can't believe that you just said to stranger."
"But she also told her name to us."
"…Than's true..but…"
Astra looked at two boys carefully while they were talking each other. And she looked at the musical instrument that stopped playing. The sadness passed briefly on her face but she returned to her normal state.
Sorey and Mikleo didn't know they came back to the village with this girl. They didn't know they scolded harshly from their grandfather but helped them to take care of her. They didn't know this girl would wonder on her thoughts that she cut her finger while peeling the apple. They didn't know she would spare with them as more time passed.
Of course, Sorey and Mikleo didn't know this girl come along with their journey for her purpose. For the Shephard's outcome, she was a tool for it.
Note: Okay thank you for reading this ch.1 and prolog of whole story. The OC character I'm using is here going to be previous fanfic I used. Her traits are same but name is going to different and I might change her attire as well (Although I don't want to since why they have so many belts there…but oh well) Also Tales of Berseria is coming this year as well and some settings from it is included here (just a small amount though) Huge thanks if you like this story. I will update next chapter later on.
