A/N: Sorry of the lateness of the second chapter. Writer's block are a pain in the butt. Really. Not much interaction between Add and Elsword though this time and this chapter is mostly focusing on their reaction to the previous chapter. I hope I get Aisha's personality correct or at least not too OOC (well, I mostly read other Elsword fanfic and I just decided to follow theirs a little orz).
ZephryZ I was hoping to get a beta one day but to be honest, I'm a bit reluctant about it due to the fact I may not update for quite some time. Thank you for the advice though. It's really appreciated. I was thinking of using LP too but...I guess I like MM more? (I'm so cruel but LP is also awesome but still-). I will be delighted to hear more advices from you. ^^
Guest Thank you! Never thought I'll get reviews. X'D
Elsword - Lord Knight (LK)
Add - Mastermind (MM)
Aisha - Elemental Mage (EM)
Raven - Blade Master (BM)
Rena - Wind Seeker (WS)
Elesis - Grand Master (GM)
Eve - Code Empress (CE)
Chung - Iron Paladin (IP)
Lu/Ciel - Dreadlord (DL)
By the way, I don't own the MMORPG game, Elsword. Everything belongs to it's rightful owner except, I do own this fanfic tho-/whacked
INTO THE ROSARIUM
Knock
"Add, c'mon! Open this door!"
Knock knock knock
"You're acting weird today and now I'm feeling weird"
Knock knock knock
"Add!", Elsword stops knocking the door harshly and let out a deep sigh as he ends it with a hard punch to the door. Of course, any sane person knows that those doors ain't gonna crumble and fall any soon and it just ends up with your hands hurt.
The redheaded male leans onto the door of Add's room, clearly devastated and somehow sorrowful. Elsword shut his eyes close, his eyelashes fluttering as his red orbs disappears from the world's sight.
"Add, if there's-" Elsword paused as he pursed his lips, for once thinking twice of the words he needs to say to the albino male hidden inside his room, doing whatever the things Elsword himself doesn't want to know "-anything I can do to help, I'm all ears just so you know about your...err...problem"
There was still no answer and Elsword finally gives up as his body slouched at the lack of voice and only silence. He pull his head away and gave the door one more glance as he took a step back from it; hand rubbing his arms out of nervousness.
"So, um, see you around then" the knight said and takes his leave. Unbeknownst to him, Add heard everything that Elsword has said as he was just standing behind of the other side of the door.
Elsword was what you can say a bit of an idiot if you could describe him as such. Or an airhead, oblivious to everything or maybe like Add always called him, a 'muscle brained' with the need only to train and get stronger and nothing more. But today was slightly different and by slightly means really different. And weird. And tipsy somewhat. The red haired knight blanked out the entire day ever since his previous encounter with Add, who is and without a doubt the person who's making him in such way. Aisha was the first one to notice, surprisingly, and she was the first one to approached the Elsword in daze.
It was rare to see him in such state, a voice inside the purple haired girl commented and Aisha couldn't help but agreed with the voice. Something was up and she wants to know what. Something that makes Elsword to become in such state, it must be something big. And possibly bad too. She wasn't so sure.
Slowly, she tiptoed towards the dazed knight and claps both her hands in front of his face; thankfully, it managed to land some impact and snapped the red haired male out of his daze. Elsword just halfheartedly glare at the magic user, his blank expression turn a bit foul and it just doesn't fit in his handsome face.
"What the hell, Aisha?!", the male snapped angrily and Aisha snicker as if not affected by Elsword's harsh tone. Instead of cowering away, she just taunted back at him, "You look like a lovestruck high school girl, that's what".
"Do not"
"Do too"
"I do not, Aisha!"
"Do too, Elbaka!"
Teeth clenched, Aisha was ready to headbutt either with the other in another round of their childish arguments but Aisha knew that this wasn't the reason why she came to Elsword in the first place. She came here to squeeze some (possibly) juicy info that had put Elsword in such...vulnerable state and she will go by any means to get those information. Quickly, Aisha pulls back and crosses her arms together as she huff (quite) arrogantly in a girly manner to which she only gets Elsword looking at her with like she'd grown a second head.
The purple haired girl really hates him for his obliviousness. Sighing softly, her frown instantly disappears and was replaced with a cheeky smile. Elsword just blink his eyes multiple times, probably wondering what's going on in Aisha's mind and what she's hinting. See when she meant by oblivious? This guy could be the personification of all the airheads in the world, it was ridiculous.
"Spill it out, now"
It was a simple and very straightforward statement with no such things as hints or beating around the bushes. However, Elsword didn't seemed to get it either because Aisha could see a large invincible question mark appearing on top of the boy's head pathetically.
"Spill what out?", Elsword asked curiously, obviously didn't get what's the question about and the threatening situation he's currently in and Aisha just wanted to grab a handful of her hair and pulls it frustratedly. She was grateful that she had enough patience to not be head to head with the redheaded knight who's too bright for his own good.
"What you're thinking of before, duh", Aisha said idly, her arms now uncrossed and was put around her waist giving her an impression of an annoyed mother. That sent the message she wanted it appears when Elsword looked nothing but flustered, his face was burning up and dusted with colours that could rival the redness of his hair.
'Jackpot', Aisha thought with glee and tired very hard to hide a grin from appearing on her face but it redeems impossible to hide it as her lips were already starting to curved into one.
"I w-wasn't thinking about anything. Nope. Not at all", Elsword replied back frantically and Aisha found it hard to follow him with his words almost stumbled on his own words a little but that what makes it even more interesting. She rarely see Elsword in such...hectic state while she still lives or around. Leaning forward, Aisha jabbed the knight with both her index fingers to his chest; poking the poor male into an even more worsen state.
"Oh~? What's this? Are you thinking about dirty things, hmm?", Aisha teased and lightly mused on the reaction that she will received by her companion. It was funny when the red haired knight started spluttering at the word 'dirty' and the Mage knew that all her sort of friend wants to do is just run away and cower into some miserable hole some phoru dug up during hibernation.
"I DID NOT THINK OF SUCH THINGS. I JUST MET ADD THIS MORNING AND-", at the moment Add's name was mentioned, Elsword quickly realised what he just said and covered both hands to his mouth; looking at Aisha in disbelief. Aisha too was in a state of shock at the psycho's name mentioned in the sentence and was dumbfounded for a second. There was only silence between the two and their surroundings before Aisha clasped Elsword's hands with a serious look implanted on her face.
"Elbaka. Tell me everything that happened between the two of you"
When Add enters his room, he immediately hit the wall next to him once the door shut by itself. He felt angry, both at himself and at the red haired brat from before. The albino was enraged, to put it simple, and he doesn't gets why.
Add could only growl at his conflicting feelings for a certain redheaded knight.
He didn't like the fact he's acting like this; he didn't like the idea of these emotions are being a hindrance to his life and goals he strives. Even when he's investigating the Nasods, he'd never felt such bizarre emotions like this.
It was as if magic and the albino doubts even magic could make him developed emotions as weird as this. Maybe he should go to someone and talk like any sane person will do but Add isn't fond of people's presence. Or maybe he could just distract himself with continuing his research further of Nasods. That sounds much more better than the first option, he wouldn't lie on that one.
But it was odd that he only felt these heart thumping moment only when the brat's around. Which is annoying yet at the same time peculiar. Very strange. Putting a hand to his chest where his heart lies, the Mastermind look up at the dark ceiling of his room; wondering about these strange occurrence he's been lately feeling.
What will he do now that he can't even act like himself outside?
The others, the remaining Elgang, will most probably started to get suspicious of his weird antics around Elsword. Although they wouldn't admit it out aloud, the albino doubts that they can just sit around and watch.
Elesis, the brat's sister will mostly be enraged if she ever finds out he'd touched her precious baby brother. Nasod-arm (Raven) and the elf woman will be overprotective of the smaller, redhead male and while he wasn't sure of the others, he doubt they will let this slipped by without some mean, nasty interrogation. And by interrogation meant spending more time with the redhead brat and the rest of the Elgang.
Ew.
Add just shuddered at the thought; just thinking of it already gives him the goosebumps.
Well, at least, he thinks it's goosebumps.
"Oh Els", Aisha sighed as she leaned backwards on the chair, making soft and multiplied 'chet' sounds as the knight airing next to her just looked down with an embarrassed expression. The purple haired mage had somehow manhandled the situation smoothly and seeing how Elsword isn't the best liar amongst them all, it wasn't hard to crack his eggshell.
In fact, Aisha had gained some juicy details of their encounter too.
To which she was both satisfied and dissatisfied at the explained scene. She batted her eyelashes as she glance at her blushing companion, wondering what the hell does Add sees in him that they don't see.
She would admit, she used to have the slightest crush on Elsword before; he was a cute fella if you can ignored the fact he was rather hotheaded and his love to taunt his enemies once they fell to the ground. If she could described Elsowrd perfectly, he'll be a tempest. Swirling around causing both excitement and havoc to everyone yet he was also the reason why most of them are here now.
His determination and charisma attracts people like a bee to honey. It was one of the most alluring traits of his and Aisha will agree if one were to point that out too. It's still unbelievable that Add will act in such daring ways (she always thought the Mastermind was a preserved person) and thus, it was a surprise when Elsword retold his tale.
Nevertheless, it was a juicy surprise.
"Have you done something to make him like that, Els?", Aisha asked curiously and it seemed to have caught the knight's attention as said knight snapped his head at her before tilting it a little to the side. "Huh?" was of course his regular, very original answer and Aisha rolled her eyes before repeating the same question again.
"I said, have you done something to make Add act like that?" Elsword blank face morphed into an unsure one, his eyes flickering as he gave her a long trail of 'hmm' sound. There was a long silence (minus Elsowrd hmm'ed sound) before the redhead gave the mage the answer to her question.
"When you put it that way..." Elsword paused before continuing "Add, to start with, never really liked me so I don't see why he suddenly act different".
Aisha raised an eyebrow and crosses her arms together, listening carefully so she won't missed a single thing Elsword said for once. "And it isn't like him to touch a person he does not even like. For an instant, I thought he'll prefer something that related to Nasods even more due to his...obsession" by the time Elsword finished his sentence, he had this conflicted look completely apparent on his face; showing all the not-supposed-to-be-there wrinkles.
As he scrunched his nose, Aisha was brought back to her mind as she thinks of why Add suddenly did that. True, everything Elsword said is the truth. In Angkor's name she's willing to swear that Add will even make out with Raven's Nasod arm if it weren't for Rena spending time around the older male.
"Maybe it's an act of revenge...?" Aisha muttered under her breath but it didn't go unheard by her companion though.
"Revenge?" Elsword repeated the word he had heard and his eyebrows furrowed together "In whatever Elstone would he want to revenge on me?". Aisha gave him a deadpanned expression before sighing heavily. "It could relate to something you've done in the past" the purple haired girl stated the obvious although she herself isn't too sure if that's true.
However, Elsword seemed to think it is.
"I thought we were over that incident! It's not my fault that the Phorus-" he was quickly cut by Aisha sharp comment; the girl herself not wanting to listen to his rambles, "I said it maybe. It's a possibility only. Don't get too work up on it, Elbaka".
"Stop calling me that. I'm not that stupid"
"I can't help it. You act like one"
"Do not"
"Do too"
"Nuuh!"
"Huuh!"
And so their argument goes on until Chung comes by and becomes their mediator, ending the battle of insults and declines and provocation before violence takes it's place in heated argument.
A/N: A bit slow build, this chapter I supposed. I'm trying not to make everything lovey doves and too straight forward. What's the point of relationship building if acquaintances just fall in love randomly like that and go at it like a bunch of animals in hear, no? :D
