This fanfic is of the Blue Dragon trilogy of games.
Blue Dragon is owned by Akira Toriyama and all of its characters and settings are not my own.
I only own 1 OC in the form of Anya, owner of the Mermaid Shadow
With this out of the way, let us begin

Anya POV:

It had been a long and arduous decade since I had been created by my master. Well, created is only half-true. I knew who I was prior to him kidnapping me all those years ago and no amount of programming my body could make me forget. My name was Anya, but my master always called me Android Model A, or AM-A for short. I kept playing the acting game while he started to try and find different suitors for his soul to gain power. But there was one factor he hadn't taken into account. I had power just as much as he did, only he didn't know it yet. And I knew my chance would come soon, as he had gotten some new prisoners in the form of three teenage children from Talta Village, where he sent one of his Stone Fish Robos to once a month to antagonize the villagers. They trio apparently sent the robot into a ravine and then hitched a ride on it to Nene's flying airship, which is where he, I, and his robot servant Szabo resided.

I waited for my chance to escape, and soon found it when he had called for Szabo to bring the prisoners to his throne. I asked him what I should do, and he simply responded to me, "I don't care what you do, just steer clear of my throne room for awhile," he said, his voice still incredibly raspy from the disease that riddled his depraved body.

"Of course, Master Nene," I said as he then warped himself to his throne room and I took the opportunity to escape. "Okay, time to use my powers... invisibility..." I said as I summoned my source of magical power, the Mystic Mermaid, from within me. The source of this magic? In my shadow, as it was for Nene and anyone he wished to build up his soul's power. I immediately went to the Mechat Loading docks, not stopping until I sensed that the trio had been sent plummeting to the waters below by Nene! "Oh no he doesn't," I frowned as I focused my magic once more on the trio and sent their bodies up back to the flying fortress and to the area that I was in, them soon emerging from one of the escape capsules in the same room I resided in.

"What the?! W-Who are you?" one of them asked, me seeing that she was a young adult woman of around 16 years with brown hair that partially covered her right eye, was held into a ponytail in the back by a ribbon, and she wore a long, black dress with black slip-on shoes and a yellow sash around her waist to hold the dress in place.

"I am not an enemy, if that is what you are thinking," I said with honesty as I bowed politely, much like I was taught to do back in my old life. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Anya Sinda, and I wish to assist you escape from this place," I said to them as I looked to the left and saw that there were three light spheres. They were Nene's, sure, but given enough time and enough persistence, these three could very well use these light spheres to develop their own shadows. "In order for us all to escape this place, we'll need to use one of these flying Mechats. But they are useless without a power supply of magic. These light spheres will provide your group with that magic. All you must do is swallow them and you will gain unfathomable power," I explained to them.

"Why should we trust you? You obviously work for Nene, right?" asked what looked to be an 17 year old boy with wild brown hair on his head, wore a black shirt, red sash on his waist, yellow shorts, blue socks, and brown sheepskin boots on his feet.

"I don't expect you to trust me, nor do I care. I just want to go back home to my family. Nene abducted me a decade ago and forced me into becoming part robotic, much like his unlimited supply of robot servants. But he can't possibly destroy my memory, nor my powers. If you wish to see the power of these spheres, allow me to show you what they can grant you," I said as I stepped back and summoned my shadow, the group in awe as the mermaid appeared from my shadow and stood overtop of the group and myself.

"Oh my god! Y-Your shadow's a mermaid!" the wild kid exclaimed.

"These spheres will grant your shadows with incredible magic that can be augmented from experience using them. All you have to do is swallow them. We must hurry, though. Once Nene realizes I'm missing, he will set off the alarms," I said, the group then looking at each other and simply nodding their heads.

"If anything happens to us, prepare to be kicked in the shin," the wild kid said.

"Of course," I said as the trio then went to the spheres of light and swallowed them down. The process of the spheres entering their bodies making them enter a bit of pain before their powers exploded all at once. The wild child got the Blue Dragon, the female got the Fiery Phoenix and the final of the trio received the Guardian Minotaur. In terms of appearances, the third of the group looked to be the most tidy of the trio with a long suit of green and black on his body and neat, brown hair atop his head. He also had a pen and notebook on his side, kept in place with a satchel.

"Oh my god... you were right! Our shadows!" the female said with astonishment when her shadow then screeched loudly. Sadly, that screeching set off the alarms all over the place.

"Shit! We gotta go, now!" the wild kid exclaimed as I led them over to the Mechat and I took the steering part of it. "Do you know how to fly this thing?" the tidy one asked in worry.

"No clue. But then again, none of us do. Let's just hope I can land safely," I said with honesty as I then pushed the lever forward and the Mechat then flew off and out of the place in a flash, our group having escape Nene's clutches as I then saw that we were over the seas to the southwest of the western continent. And I soon gasped as I found that the thing didn't really have a brake feature, me panicking as I approached the ground rather too close for comfort, until, finally, we all crashed into the ground and the bottom of the Mechat started to skid heavily across the dirt and rocks until we finally stopped, right at the beginning of a canyon area called the Lot Wilderness.

Shu POV:

"You could've made the landing a bit softer, couldn't you?" I asked the woman named Anya after we left the flying device she called a Mechat and had our feet meet the ground once more.

"Apologies, but my Shadow's magic isn't really suited for soft landings. It's more for high defenses and protecting others from sudden death. My shadow, the Mystic Mermaid, is able to guard foes from being hurt and boasts high defense and power to match," Anya explained.

"I see... wait, we haven't even introduced ourselves yet, have we?" Kluke asked her with a smile.

"Not that I recall, no. What are your names? I only know that you are of Talta Village, but nothing other than that," Anya said.

"My name is Shu," I said with a smile.

"I'm Jiro," my smarter friend said with a bow.

"And I'm Kluke," said my female friend... damn, she was so cute... but I didn't really want to tell her that to her face. It'd just be rude.

"I can sense some conflicting feelings in your mind, Shu. Something about Kluke, correct?" Anya said, me gasping at that and Kluke looking at me with a smile.

"Um... n-no, i-it's nothing, hehe," I said anxiously, trying to back out of any kind of explanation.

"Trust me, Shu. I can sense emotions and I can see that you have nothing but warmth in your heart towards Kluke," Anya said, me blushing heavily at that as Kluke giggled at that.

"C-Can you just... ugh!" I groaned at that.

"Don't worry, Shu. We can sort it out after we get back to the village... but where are we anyways?" Kluke asked, me wondering that as well.

"We are currently in the Lot Wilderness, which is to the west of the mountains separating us from Talta Village. I say we start moving out through the Wilderness effective immediately before Nene gets wise to our location. He's not going to be pleased to see me teaming up with people that are against him," Anya said as she proceeded to walk down the road to the southeast and I looked at her before Jiro asked a question to her.

"Where do you live if you say you had been with Nene for 10 years?" Jiro asked, Anya stopping in place and looking at us with a frown.

"I used to live in a peaceful villa called Noluta Village. It's in the exact opposite of the area we are in, far to the northeast in the eastern continent. Nene, when he abducted me, prevented me from knowing what he intended to do to the village... I have no idea what went on there during my absence, but your village is not the only one that he has caused problems for. Numerous other civilizations are under siege of Nene's madness... the nearest place for us to travel to is a wandering sheep tribe camp. We should prepare to venture out there while also using our Shadows to attack the numerous monsters out here. The more monsters we defeat, the stronger our magic will become," Anya explained to us.

"Understood. Let's move out," Kluke said as she rushed after her and Jiro and I followed suit. Though I had to wonder who this woman was... and if she really was converted into part machine by Nene, why was she so against him?