-Prologue-
The fourth envelope
"Boring…"
He said expressing his deepest feeling. He only found the scene of the delinquents and the boy running ironic. He did not get any real enjoyment out of it. He laughed loudly, but it was just for show. Sakamaki Izayoi let his feeling of emptiness go with a deep sigh, and turned his back on the riverside.
"…Hm?"
Woosh. At the same time he started to move, a strong sideway win started blowing. A black sealed letter was dancing in the wind and – after following a very unnatural trajectory – delivered itself into Izayoi's bag.
"…What the hell was that?"
He took out the mysterious letter.
The recipient's name was written neatly on the envelope: "To Sakamaki Izayoi-dono."
"…Ludicrous, even against that Ojii-sama, this is all it took. It is really laughable."
Kudou Asuka grasped the bedsheet tightly, lying face down. Relationships where the only answer you hear is "Yes" are plain and without substance. To put it simply, she could only build meaningless relationships, and she was really tired of those meaningless relationships.
Asuka's eyes wandered around the room, suddenly fixated on a suspicious sealed envelope that was left on the desk.
"…?"
Asuka titled her head.
She immediately glanced at all the possible entrances, the door, the window, the emergency escape route, but they were all locked and none showed any signs of entry.
"…Fufu. I don't know who you are, but a 'sealed room letter' instead of a 'sealed room murder'. I like your style."
She even forgot about the blazing heat, and for the first time in a very long time, a smile appeared on her face. She joyfully broke the seal on the envelope.
"So-something very strange happened, Yo-ojou-chan! A letter addressed to you fell from the sky!"
"From the sky?"
For your information, the cat was just a normal calico cat. The one special in some way was not the cat but the girl, Kasukabe Yo. The calico pushed the letter into Yo hands while trying to climb up to her shoulder.
"Don't misunderstand, Ojou! I am not kidding at all! This letter really fell from the sky!"
The calico cat sounded like he was making excuses, so she gently patted his head and lifted him up.
"I believe you. You're telling the truth."
Her tone was calm and soothing so the calico cat calmed down for a moment, but then became very interested at the content of the envelope, so he looked at her pleadingly.
"Ojou, please open it already! I will lose all my fur from anticipation!"
The scenery was of a vast, autumn forest. Trees with red, yellow and green leaves as far as the eyes can see. The sun shining above and an orchestra of the wind and the sound of rustling foliage composed by Mother nature. Truly a scene to be admired.
At the center of the forest, was the biggest and oldest tree, boasting an even more beautiful costume of red, yellow and green leaves.
On one of its giant branch, was a sleeping figure. His dark purple hair rustled with the gentle wind. Using one arm as pillow, the other one resting on his stomach. Then suddenly, his free arm reached out toward the sky, and in his hand was a black sealed envelope.
Opening one of his eye, he closely examined the suspicious thing. It looks just like any other envelope, minus being black. But the strange thing was, the recipient part was left empty. No, more like it was blurred and the name was incomprehensible.
"An envelope in this kind of place, at this exact spot. Too much for just mere coincidence."
Seemingly interested, the man sat right up. Sitting cross-legged, he broke the seal to read the content inside.
"Boys and girls with wondrous talent and much distress,
I address thee!
If you strive to test your Gifts, cast aside your friends and family, your possession, your world,
and come to our Little Garden!"
"Wha-?"
"Kya-!"
The scenery changed before their eyes without any transition. Suddenly, they found themselves 4000 meters up in the air. Even while suffering from the pressure of falling, they all had the similar thoughts about the situation and said mostly the same words.
"Where the hell is this?!"
An entirely foreign scenery unfolded before their eyes. At the horizon, a steep fall could be seen presenting an abrupt ending to the world. Under them was an unknown fully covered city, so huge that it confused their sense of scale.
The world before their eyes was an entirely different world.
"Did the summoning go well, Kuro Usagi?"
"Yes, it seems so, Jin-bocchan."
"Well, we will have to wait and see how it turns out. Nothing good comes from being pessimistic. We just have to emphasize how fun this place looks on the surface. It would be easiest to confess in the first meeting that 'Our Community is on the brink of total destruction!' but that will only cause them to be wary about joining us."
"Sorry to leave everything to you, but can I ask you to go pick them up?"
"Leave it to me!"
When the girl, Kuro Usagi touched the Workshop's door, the young boy name Jin spoke to her with concern in his voice.
"Will their arrival…save our Community…I wonder?"
"Who knows…but the Host side promised one thing," she said while quickly turning to face him again, sending her skirt aflutter as she smiled at him mischievously.
"The Gifts they possess are of highest class in humanity!"
"Although she did say there was a slight irregularity during the summon ritual…" Kura Usagi said in a small tone almost like a whisper.
"Did you say something?" the boy Jin asked back.
"Ah! No, nothing! I'll be going now!" she said and quickly jolted off.
"Ginyaaaaaa! O-Ojou-!"
Falling from 4000m in the air, the five of them passed through multiple membranes of water that were prepared above the landing point, then fell into a small lake.
"Kya!-"
"Wa!-"
They landed in the water with a loud splash. As the water membranes slowed their fall, the four of them landed safely, but the calico cat that fell with Yo didn't have it easy.
In the mean that Yo was pulling the calico cat to the surface, the other three quickly reached the shore while spouting curses.
"Kuh, quite a way to wake someone up after a sleep."
"I-I cannot believe it! To think they would pull me out without saying a word and on top of that, drop me from the sky!"
"Same here, dammit! Depending on the situation, it could have been Game Over on the spot. It would have been better if they summoned us inside a rock or something at least."
"…But then you wouldn't be able to move."
"No problem for me."
"That, is but a child play."
"I see. Quite selfish of you two."
Sakamaki Izayoi and Kudou Asuka turned their back against each other with a "Hmpf!", and started wringing the water out of their clothes. The man with the dark purple hair also did the same while titling his head to one side as some water got into his ear. Behind them, Kasukabe Yo climbed out of the lake to the shore. Following the other's example, she started squeezing the water out of her clothes. Next to her, calico cat shook his body spraying water everywhere.
Yo then asked while drying her clothes.
"Where…could this be?"
"No idea. Well, there was something that looked like the end of the world, so maybe we're on the back of some huge turtle?"
Answered Izayoi to Yo's question.
One thing for sure, it was a place they knew nothing about. After the boy deemed his clothes dry enough, he brushed a stubborn lock of his hair aside and asked.
"There is probably no mistake, but just to make sure, I'll ask anyway. Did you guys also get a strange letter?"
"That is right, but first of all, do not address me that way. My name is Kudou Asuka. Pay attention to that from now on. Moving on; you there holding that cat, your name is?"
"Kasukabe Yo. Same situation as you."
"I see. Let us get along now Kasukabe-san. Finally, you with the uncivilized and savage looking appearance and you with the nontraditional kimono with even more savage looking appearance over there?"
"Wow, thanks for that pompous self-introduction. I'm, just as the appearance suggests – uncivilized and savage, Sakamaki Izayoi. Vulgar, brutal and hedonistic, all that I need to be a hopeless person. So please follow the Rules of Usage and Dosage Guidelines when interacting with me, Ojou-sama."
"Hahahaha! Calling someone savage on first meeting, now that's a first, Ojou-chan. Not that I'm complaining. The name Burai Kudoku."
"I see, Burai-san and Izayoi-kun. If you give me Handling Instruction, I'll think about it."
"Hahaha, I'll make one so you better be ready for it, Ojou-sama."
Sakamaki Izayoi laughing cheerfully.
Kudou Asuka turning away haughtily.
Kasukabe Yo watching indifferently.
And Burai Kudoku.
Watching from the shadow Kuro Usagi was thinking.
"Uwaa! All of them seem like problem children! But why is there one more?"
Watching from the shadow, Kuro Usagi was panicking as to how to deal with the four problem children that were summoned to this world, the world of Little Garden.
And that, was how it all started.
Shiraga: first attempt at other series beside Elsword so do spare me if anything seems off. The character I'm using is one of my OC for Elsword if you're wondering. Although he's an OC for a different world, but since he haven't made any formal debut yet in said world and I wanna try my skill at something rather than Elsword so I chose him as the test subject and this will not count as a crossover. Sorry if my OC may seems too OP later on, but, let's face it, literally everyone in the Mondaiji world is OP as heck.
This fanfic will be taking place from the start of the original story til end, but with my OC joining the cast, so I will try to make it not a copy-pasta with slight modification from the original story.
So, there you have it for the Prologue. Do read and drop a review, much appreciated.