Raven: Blader master

Rena: Grand Archer

Aisha: Elemental master

"So you see here, due to an unknown negative energy source; aging has stopped, monsters have grown stronger, El is slowly becoming weaker, and people are starting to turn negative, as in bad emotions, anger, hate, humiliating." The Elf man pointed at the map, "Feita has so far been overrun by angry demons. That is where we must send back up support, we have lost too many of our tribe members already."

Rena sat in the meeting room at the end of the round table; several elders were seated around the table listening to the important discussion. No one had aged a day.

"But so far our research has shown that the unknown source has been coming from Altera." One elder spoke up, "Wouldn't it be a much more wise choice to investigate?"

"No, there have been too many lives being wasted in Feita, it'd be best to divide the tribe into two groups, we shall investigate in Altera and send the rest to help in Feita. Now if anyone has any better ideas please do say so now."

There was silence for a moment.

"Allow me to bring the Elgang back together." Rena had finally said, her voice firm and demanding.

"Rena! We will not be going back that path! We cannot allow anyone to discover El once again. This is OUR job, not the humans."

I bit my lip, "Elder… We've saved El once, we can do it again!"

"I still cannot allow it. Forget that we ever spoke of this."

Rena went silent. "Very well."

"Anymore suggestions?" The man said.

Everyone shook their heads. I was going through with my plan, no matter what.

"Rena may I speak with you in private?"

"Yes, Elder." I was annoyed, but hid my inner emotions.

"About your friends."

"I thought we were going to forget we ever spoke of them."

"This is important."

"Then tell me do I forget about it or not?"

"Rena! Listen! Your friends are dead!"

My heart stopped, it felt as though someone had stabbed me. "D-Dead? H-how? W-why?"

"Anyone who touched El can never forget everything about El, we had to destroy them."

I trembled, "Elder! T-that is too cruel! How could you!?"

She shook her head, "It had to be done."

"I don't believe you!" I ran out of there, I ran and ran, running out of the forest, shooting a few arrows at angry demons.

I fell face down on the ground and sobbed into my hands. It can't be true! It can't be! I stood up wiping the tears from my face, grabbed my bow, and set of for my adventure.

. . . . .

Where would they be? I must find them. I walked into Velder, there was poverty everywhere, people begging for money and eating off of the ground. What happened?

There was Vanessa, she was counting money from a bag, "Vanessa!"

"Huh?" She looked up at me, "Who are you?"

"Don't you remember me? I'm Rena!"

"Rena?... No don't know any Rena."

I remembered, if everyone had their memories clean then they wouldn't remember me. "Anyway, do you know what happened here?"

"People went corrupt, demons killed off our hunters, animals have been attacking us, food easily spoils, animal meat is made of ash and nobody is giving any jobs anymore." She counted her coins, "Oh… And high taxes, lots of taxes." She smirked.

I was shocked.

"Also some mafia has been stealing all of our things."

"Mafia?"

"The leader is in the bar at the moment, but there are no police in the world anymore."

"Let me talk to him!"

She held up a hand, "Do I look like I'm going to stop you?"

Vanessa doesn't care? That's not the Vanessa I know. When I had met her she was so protective of Velder, now she doesn't care anymore.

I walked into the bar, things went silent, there were people laughing and getting drunk. I never knew Velder had a bar… It must've been made by a corrupt person. Many men looked at me with a seductive smile to their face.

"Where's the mafia leader?" I snapped at them.

"Me?"

I flinched, I know that voice. That voice! Raven!? I looked towards the giant round glass booth table with red velvet seats. I gulped as I began walking towards him; people tried to flip my skirt as I walked, but I grabbed their hands and broke their fingers.

I took a seat across from him, he was alone, clearly drunk, his blade master jacket on his lap. He hadn't aged a day after those ten years.

"Raven?"

"Huh, who're you? How're you know my name?"

"What happened to you?"

"Haha! I know yo… You're Rena're the traitooor~"

"Traitor?"

"Yeah, you're the one who order for our… Execute."

"Execution?"

He laid his arm out across the booth seat, taking a swig at his bottle of liquor. "What'd you want?"

"I need your help!"

He burst out laughing, "Ah that's funny! That's funny!" he stopped laughing with a serious expression towards his face. "Never."

"What? I never ordered for your execution! I swear!"

"That's a lie. I saw you look at us when we were cut up and thrown out to be eaten by animals."

I realized there were several more scars on him; one of his eyes was closed.

"Tell me everything!" I pleaded, what have I done?

"Everything? Okay… Lemme see if I can remember EVERYTHING. Oh wait… I can, I always remember it, that's why I do what I do. Started from a betrayal, joined a gang, joined your group, was betrayed again and made a mafia. HA~!"

"Raven…" What a horrible life to have lived.

"Yeah I remembered what happened. You said good bye and left us. We went home and were abducted by several of your mother f***ing friends, we were to be executed… Elsword died."

"DIED!?"

"He died a hero for us. He was a distraction, but oh… OH when I saw him bleeding to death on the ground, I destroyed all of those guards with my rage. HA~ It was hellfire. We were stabbed and cut up, then left for dead, since we deserved to die that way. But we never died. I saw you walk up to us and mock me."

"Raven! I never-"

"Even if you didn't, how could you let them kill us?"

"I didn't know they were going to kill you!"

"Whatever… Well anyway after that Eve had decided to Deactivate herself from this world. She said nasods were the cause for our problems, but she let me live making me promise that I would never give my arm up to anyone or lose a battle. Chung… Oh ho you should've seen the look on his face when we told him of what Eve did. He blew up an entire city. Aisha told me she was going to find her brother and join his secret organization. We all basically split apart. No more Elgang."

"Organization?"

He gulped down the whole bottle of liquor, threw it at the bartender who ducked just in time, and smashed the bottle cork right off the next bottle, starting his next drink, "Yeah, but they wouldn't let her in… This is the sad part, they decided to kill her, because she was a so called NUISANCE. So they took her powers away for good and bled her out in the middle of a forest that was the SECOND time she had been through that."

"How do you know that?"

He grinned and continued, "I found her dying, and she was almost to her last breath. It was so sad to see her like that. It reminded me of how I was left before I got this arm. So I saved her life and since then we've stuck together."

"Where is she now?"

Raven burst out laughing, "Wow you little slut… I was right about you…"

"What?"

"You only see what you wanna see. You only act so lovey and kindly to get what you want."

"What do you mean?"

"Ah, Rena, acting so innocent and pure, when all along you were just using us to become a full-fledged elf. You never noticed Aisha was right here because the only person you wanted to see was handsome me."

"She is?"

Raven lifted Aisha up a bit, she was sleeping and underneath Raven coat. "She's gone completely mute. No, not coma mute, but she hasn't slept in two days since I had some BUISNESS to take care of. She can only sleep, eat, and do anything when I'm around."

I trembled, poor Aisha, she had lost all ability to trust? Now the only person she could trust was Raven; who was in charge of a mafia!

"I guess us outcasts gotta stick together." He let her rest her head on his shoulder now, she hadn't moved a muscle, and her eyes were still closed. Several bandages wrapped around her head and worked as an eye patch for her left eye, she had scars on her face just like Raven. "Poor thing, she makes my sob story seem like a happy ending in a fairy tale." He sighed and pat her head. "Now she's the only one I have left. I never do these things in front of her; getting drunk and such It's how I hide my anger. She sleeps like a baby. Isn't it cute?"

"I am so sorry Raven…"

"Humph, save your sorry, I've learned to never trust you again. You should apologize to the others first. Good luck apologizing to Elsword or Eve while they're in heaven or hell." He burst out laughing.

"What happened to Eve?"

"Wow, you little ho… Did you not hear what I said?" He growled causing me to shake in fear. "D-E-A-C-T-I-V-A-T-E-D!"