So I forgot to explain the main cast's classes that you will be seeing most of the time.
Elsword- Lord Knight
Aisha- Elemental Master
Rena- Grand Archer
Raven- Reckless Fist
Eve- Code Empress
Chung- Iron Paladin
Ara- Sakra Devanam
Elesis- Grand Master
Add- Lunatic Psyker
LuCiel- Base for now.
If you're wondering why you saw Rena as a Night Watcher from chapter one, it will be explained in chapter three, when I try to incorporate the rest of the classes in the Calamity Trigger. Rose will not be in this story, maybe Ain, but I haven't decided yet. I want to see if I can break 3,000 words in the next chapter. Sorry for the wait, new job and other life stuff.
NOL Entrance 14:00 12/31/2199
Raven reaches the entrance to the NOL headquarters and finds it empty with no guards in sight. He says to himself to meet Ragna here tomorrow, but who's to say it wouldn't be midnight? He is a wanted criminal so he can't really show his face out in public, so it has to be midnight. There was also his friends to worry about as well, since he didn't see any of them ever since he entered this city.
"Might as well start looking around, at least I saw Rena, but with a sword and part of the NOL. So there's Elsword, Aisha, Eve, Chung, Ara, Add, Lu, and Ciel, and I also heard of the words 'Captain Elesis' so she might also be part of the NOL. So two of us are NOL members and the rest nowhere to be seen. *sigh* I guess there's that other noisy place other than Orient Town, Ronin-Gai."
Raven enters Ronin-Gai immediately greeted with loud noise in the upper floors with people sparring. He checks out the bridge and sees the Iron Paladin himself fighting a ninja with green clothes and a red scarf.
"Artillery Nova!"
"Pulverizing Fists!"
Well, already found Chung so...should I jump in, or wait for him to see me?
None of those choices mattered, because the ninja noticed Raven and told Chung to stop fighting. He stops and looks and he sees Raven.
"Raven? It is you!" Chung picks up his cannon, puts it on his back, and jumps off the bridge landing in front of Raven to give him a handshake. Raven accepts it and begins to tell Chung what happened to him since he arrived in this world.
"And then I met you fighting with this ninja, who is he?"
"Oh, he's Bang Shishigami."
"It is a pleasure to meet you Raven. Chung and I were having a sparring match. Also, I heard around town you're also called the Reckless Fist."
"Yes, it's nothing really. Anyway Chung, have you seen Elesis around?"
"Yeah, I talked to her several days ago. She told me she had a meeting here in Kagutsuchi. She'll be returning from Yabiko soon and I intend to meet her as soon as possible."
"So you only saw Elesis. No one else?"
"Not that I've seen so far."
Chung takes a quick look around before whispering in Raven's ear.
"Raven, she's hiding something from me. I don't know what, but I intend to find out."
"What do you mean?"
"I saw someone that looked like me."
"There are more than one of us." Raven remembers Rena's words.
"Are you sure?"
"I saw the same eyes I had, and he had two pistols."
"That does sound familiar somehow."
"Tonight, I'm heading towards the NOL to find out what's really going on, and to find Elsword."
"What about the others?"
"We could start looking for them before tonight. I'll check the upper levels of the city. You can check the only lower place I haven't checked yet, Lost Town."
15:30
Raven went to the lower areas of Kagutsuchi to try and find the rest of the El Search party and Ragna.
Well there's always that Lost Town that Chung hasn't checked yet, and most likely Add is there because of his obsession of cats, so I'll head there.
Raven heads several areas downward and finds a hole in the ground near an alley. He jumps in the air, somersaults in the air, and quickly descends with his nasodian arm pointing towards the ground. It wasn't much of a fall, so he landed in a matter of seconds. He looks downhill and sees small buildings and around them are orange-hooded cats. He goes deeper into the town when the cats were gathering around a person. They were climbing on to Add and prancing around Ara.
*Sigh* I knew it, and even Ara is there. Well, I found them already, so it would be a waste to leave them there.
Raven went towards the two, but when he was halfway there, a bigger orange-hooded cat jumped right in front of him.
"Oh oh oh! You look like that Rawrgna person on the paper! That means if I fight you, I'll get money!"
Do I really have to fight her?
Taokaka had attempted to slash Raven by using her claw blades but she was parried by his sword in three swipes. Raven then punched the ground sending Tao in the air and jumped at her. Tao recovers and lands on a rooftop adjacent to Raven.
"Don't test me cat."
"Nyahahaha! I will be the one to win the bounty for Rawrgna."
"Out of the way. You really don't want to fight me."
"One! Two!" Tao swipes at Raven again, this time runs past him to bounce off a wall to slash at his back. Raven runs towards Tao to try to punch her, but she was so fast that she was seconds ahead of Raven before he even smashed the wall that Tao was hanging on. She comes back to Raven by swiping him off his feet and
"You're really fast huh." I really don't want to use my awakening on her, but, I'm running out of time. Today is my only shot of getting everyone home. "Fine then, Awakening!"
Raven activated his awakening stance and was instantly powered up all of his strength and speed. It was enough to catch up to Tao as she was ready to use her drive, Dancing Edge. He took a leaping jump at her to use Limit Crusher to stop her at her tracks, stunning her before she could do anything next. He jumped right over her creating Nuclear sparks from his left arm, scorching the cat's hood and punched the ground sending Tao flying only a few meters from the ground. Raven jumps in the air and does two powerful sword slashes that smashes Tao back on the ground, creating a crater twice the shape of her body. Ara and Add had immediately noticed the ground shaking and rushed to the scene.
"Hey, hey Tao!" Raven heard Ara call out to Tao and Add follow suit. He was laughing at the fact that Raven was having trouble fighting a cat.
"What is it, Clumsy Lady?" Tao miraculously got out of her crater like the damage that Raven did felt like nothing. He was surprised until she tripped on the ground because her stomach was growling. "Arm Guy is strong."
"You can't just attack someone that you don't know. That's our friend, Raven. And why did you attack her in the first place, Raven?" questioned Ara.
"She attacked me first, claiming I was some criminal that the town was recently talking about."
"Well, you got the clothes, the arm, and the hair. I'm surprised you're not in jail yet," joked Add.
Raven glares at Add before continuing to talk. "I found Chung and Rena. Elesis might be arriving at the NOL headquarters in a couple of hours. We need to hurry and leave this world."
"What's the rush? Glave said that we only have a week until he find us a way back. We should rest for today," said Ara.
"When did you two arrive in this world?" asked Raven as he came to a sudden realization. I forgot to ask Chung and Rena this question. They could have been here for at least a month. Maybe even more.
"Three days ago," said Ara.
"A week ago," said Add. "I managed to get information from people, but no concrete evidence on anyone else. I was only able to find out about Eve, but she might be in a different city. Some big colossus guy with glasses wanted to talk to me and we exchanged contact information. The problem is that Eve that he was talking about was reported missing. She stands out, so she should have been seen somewhere."
"This is bad. I arrived here today. Who knows how long the others have been here."
Before the three set out to the NOL headquarters, they heard a loud growl and looked down on their feet. It was Tao, latching on Raven feet with her paws.
"Arm Guy made me hungry."
"Let's go to Litchi's clinic and help patch up those scratches."
Orient Town 17:00 12/31/2199
It was a very lively marketplace with people crowding up shop for balloons and fireworks. It's almost New Year's day.
"So where is Litchi's clinic?"Ara looks around for any building that looks like a Clinic.
"You forgot where it was?" Add said. Not like she could blame Ara. He had been in this world longer than her and Raven.
"Oh oh! This way!" Tao walks to a building, opening the door to the supposed clinic.
"Welcome. Is there anything I can help you with?" They were greeted
"Hi booby lady!" Tao said, calling out the nickname that she came up for the nurse.
"It's Litchi, Tao. Who did this to you?" Litchi checks the injuries that Tao had revived. She had burn marks on her hoodie and marks around her body.
"I bought new friends!" Tao gestured to the four people behind her as she walked to Litchi.
"Hi, we are actually looking for our other friends," Raven pointed out.
"Oh? Their names?"
"Well, I made a list for everyone just in case." Ara looked around in her inventory until she found a note of all of the El Search Party names. Add's, Raven's and her own were cross off and a question mark was placed next to Chung and Elesis.
"Hmm, I think Captain Elesis is suppose to come tomorrow for the New Year's speech. She actually quite popular with people, unlike the questionable things the NOL does. As for a person named Chung, he told me to give you a note. Tao! Get down from the table! Those meat buns are for the customers!"
Raven reads the note that Chung left him.
'Raven, I am looking for Rena and Aisha right now. I assume you found someone else and have noticed the problem with this world that Glave told us. There was a distortion near the entrance of the NOL headquarters. I'm not able to use the secret entrance until midnight, so meet me at the main entrance at 18:00. We can't get through until you help me with the distortion.'
-Chung Seiker
"We have to go now," Raven said as he took charge of the group.
NOL Headquarters Entrance 17:57 12/31/2199
Raven, Ara, and Add had arrived at the NOL Entrance that Chung told them to meet them at. True to his words, there is a distortion that illusion that prevented from walking forward.
"So this is the distortion that Glave was talking about. It looks like a crack in space."
"Could it be Henir's Time and Space?
"Maybe, but I have something for this." Raven takes out the Dimensional Cube that was given to him by Glave and uses El Shards that he had in his inventory. The Cube breaks away from Raven and floats towards the space crack. There is a loud noise that emits from the cube and changes shape to match the space crack until it stops. It goes inside the space crack and disappears inside, taking the anomaly with it.
"Nice work, Raven." The group of three heard Glave's voice in their minds.
"Glave!? How are you here?" Add thinks out loud.
"Yes, yes, I've been through this through everyone already. Chung, show your self in front of your friends."
As if on cue, Chung comes from the side of the headquarters building.
"Glave, what was that?" Raven asked.
"That is a space crack. More and more of these anomalies started to appear as soon as the El Search Party defeated the demon general, Scar. They are slowly deteriorating the world which is really bad considering that we are not suppose to be here. Hence me giving Raven the Dimensional Cube to stop them from getting worse."
"We still need to find Elsword though. He IS our leader," Chung called out.
"He might be in the headquarters. If Elesis was going to be here, wouldn't she know where Elsword is?" Ara finally spoke out.
"You're right. Glave,we need another cube."
"That's the only distortion so far in this world. I will notify you of any more show up. Ending the telepathic communication."
There was a sharp dissonance between Add, Ara, Chung, and Raven's mind that quickly went away.
"Is everyone ready? We won't take any breaks once we're in there."
The rest of them nodded in agreement and they walked up the stairs to the front door and in the building, not know that it would be almost unoccupied.
So, it obviously took longer than a few days considering I had other things to do. I'm trying not to take so long in posting chapters like this one and to explain more about the story instead of focusing just on Raven's group. 6/15/2017
