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Elesis – 24 – Grandmaster
Raven – 27 – Blade Master
Chung – 19 – Deadly Chaser
A lush forest in Velder
A red haired women and a black haired man were walking through, as if they were looking for someone.
"Sorry about bringing you here Raven." The red haired women apologized.
"There's no need to apologize Elesis. I want to see Elsword as much as you do, especially since I haven't seen him in a while." Raven replied.
"Speaking about my brother, I wonder where he is. Nobody saw him report back."
"Are you sure he was here?"
"Of course I'm sure. I know these routes like the back of my hand." They continued walking until they came upon a huge horde of demon corpse. They went up to some of them to investigate.
"I'm going to guess that Elsword did this." Raven said.
"Yep," Elesis agreed. "I'd recognize this rough but powerful style of swordplay anywhere." Elesis looked back at Raven, only to find him on one knee, looking at a patch of dirt. Confused, Elesis walked up to him and asked, "What's the matter Raven." Raven simply ignored her, shifting through the dirt with his metal claw until he found a wood chip. He brought it up to his face, examined it, then put it back down before standing up and turning towards Elesis.
"Elesis, send some of your best knights out to search for Elsword." Raven demanded. "I'll do the same with the best of my Crow Mercenary Knights."
"What in El are you talking about Raven!?"
"Elesis, I think Elsword has been captured."
Aisha's Castle
In a small room Elsword was sleeping peacefully on a bed. That is, until he somehow fell out of it to the side.
"Ow," he groaned as he stood up. "I had this weird dream where a girl cursed me to be her servant in the demon rea..." He stopped when he looked out the window, seeing the unnatural purple sky and new moon. "So it wasn't a dream." He then heard knocking on the door.
"Oy, are you awake yet?" It was Rena who was calling from the other side of the door. He looked around and found what he was looking for, his sword. It was in front of a closet, gleaming as if brand new. He attempted to grab it in an attempt to escape, but then he remembered…
"I put a curse on you, now you have to do what I want you to or else."
Aisha's words echoed through his mind a thousand times, and now, instead of grabbing his sword and trying to fight his way out, he answered, "Yea, I'm awake."
"Finally you answered." Rena replied. "I thought I was going to have to kick the door down and drag you out of bed." Elsword sweated when he heard what she was probably about to do. "Get changed, it's time for breakfast. Oh, and bring your sword too, just in case." Elsword was confused at first about what she said, until he looked down and say that he was only in his boxers. He furiously looks around before moving his sword and opening the closet, finding his usual clothes and armor, with the demon blood that once stained it removed as if it were never there. He then put on his clothes, places his sword on his back, and went out, where Rena was still waiting for him.
He followed her to a large dining room. Many demons were sitting on chairs on the sides of the long rectangular dining table. And at the far end, sitting on a large, throne-like chair was Aisha herself. Elsword attempted to take the nearest empty seat before Rena put her hand on his shoulders stopped him. "Actually we're sitting over there." She stated. She then pointed to where Aisha was sitting. Near her were two empty chairs across from each other. Elsword simply sighed and followed her to the two chairs. He sat on one chair while Rena took the other and they started to eat the food in front of them. As Elsword was eating, he was also trying to dodge the slobber and food scraps that flew out of mouth of the glitter next to him.
"Sorry about that." Aisha apologized, causing Elsword to jerk his head towards her. "My Glitters are like that, well… all the time."
"It's alright," Elsword responded. "Besides, their table manners are only slightly worse than that of the knights I eat with so I'm used to this kind of thing." Aisha smiled in response, and then continued to eat. Elsword was instead lost in his thoughts. "Why did I respond so casually? She's supposed to be my captor but why do I feel so calm and relaxed around her?" Elsword then decided to save that thought for later and just eat his food.
After breakfast was done, everybody, save for Elsword, Rena and Aisha, left the dining area. "Rena, give Elsword a tour of the castle. I don't want my personal knight to get lost in my abode." Aisha ordered.
"Alright," Rena replied. "Come on Elsword." She left the table with Elsword following while Aisha left to somewhere else.
In the hallway, as they were walking, Elsword wanted to ask something that's been bothering him for a while. "Hey Rena, why me?"
"Eh," Rena responded, turning her head toward him in confusion.
"Why did Aisha choose me to be her bodyguard?"
"Why don't you ask her yourself?"
"I would but I get the itching feeling that I wouldn't get a straight answer from her."
"Well truthfully, I don't really know. But the way she sounded when she gave me this mission, It just made me want to take this mission right from the start."
"Tch"
"I guess that didn't help much. But I think it's because of your strength. If Ciel didn't come and help, I don't know what would've happened to me."
"Speaking of Ciel, where is he?"
"He's Lu's servant, so he's at her castle. Aisha simply asked Lu to send him out."
"Lu? You mean that short white haired girl."
"Yep, but don't mention her height in front of her. Anyway, we better start this tour."
Later that day
Aisha was simply sitting on her throne when suddenly she heard a loud thump. Confused she looked around for what caused that sound until she found her answer. Suddenly in the middle of the room a huge hole appeared, allowing for a huge, burly man with orange hair to come out of it. Following him was a phoru about half his size.
"Ha ha ha, I, the great thief William, legendary great chief of Phorus, with a tiny bit of help from Banthus here, have infiltrated the castle." The phoru known as William boasted. He then looked at his surroundings. "Hey, this isn't the treasure room." William then took a map out of his shirt and looked at it.
The orange haired man known as Banthus then went up to William. "Gimme that!" Banthus commanded. He then took the map out of William's hand/paw and looked at it. "You read the map sideways!" He yelled at William, shaking his fist in anger, causing William to jump back in defense.
"Soooo…" Aisha interjected, causing both William and Banthus to look at her. "What are you two doing in my humble abode?"
"Stealing your treasures of course," William answered boastfully, causing Banthus to growl at him.
"No matter, I'll just have to go to plan B." Banthus stated.
"Yea… uh, what's plan B?" William asked.
"Taking that girl hostage," Banthus said, pointing at Aisha.
"You and what army," Aisha retorted calmly.
"This one." And then, on Banthus' cue, the hole expanded allowing for a horde of bandits and phorus to come through. "Nobody can stop me now!"
"And here's the throne room. You probably remember this place from when you first came here." All of the bandits and phorus turned towards the hallway where the voice came from and out of it came a green haired elf and a redhead knight.
When they saw the bandits and phorus, both Elsword and Rena were confused about what was happening. Banthus and William, on the other hand, had their mouths wide open, silence filled the room until…
William: "Elsword!"
Banthus: "Elbrat!"
They both yelled out at the same time.
"Elsword, do you know those two?" Rena asked.
"Yea," Elsword answered. "They caused some problems back in Ruben but I managed to deal with them."
"Why are you here El..."
"Ha ha, so you were here Elsword," William interrupted Banthus. "It's finally time to settle things…" William then ran towards Elsword. "My rival! William Slash!" William spun around and slashed at Elsword… or so he thought. Elsword stood in a defensive stance and blocked William's sword easily with his own sword. William then jumped back, surprised that his ultimate technique could be blocked so easily.
"I see you've been practicing to perfect that copy Mega Slash," Elsword said. "However, it's no match for the current me." Elsword then rushed at William and struck at him with his sword. William tried to block him with his own sword but it was futile. William was sent flying, sword broken in two, and landed at the other end of the room. Everyone felt the wind caused by the slicing of his sword and all of the phorus were stunned that William was beaten so easily.
"All of you go after him," Banthus ordered. "He's still one boy. He can't handle this much at once." Upon hearing that, the phorus and thieves took out their weapons and ran towards Elsword at once.
"Sandstorm!" Elsword spun around once then brought his sword upwards, creating a tornado of sand that engulfed some of the thieves and phorus. Elsword then ran towards the thieves and phorus still standing. Rena brought out her bow and sword and prepared to go out to battle until…
"Don't interfere," Aisha commanded. Rena looked confused at her statement. "I want to see his skills for myself." Meanwhile, Elsword was beating down his opponents left and right, disarming and incapacitating (not fatally) both thieves and phorus alike. Both Aisha and Rena watch this with interest. It didn't take long for all of them to be taken out. Elsword sighed in relief after, but then his instincts kicked in, and he turned around to find Banthus over him ready to slash him down with a metal sword. Elsword jump to the side to dodge the attack, then tried to strike Banthus down, but was blocked by Banthus' sword. They continued clashing steel to steel, either not giving an inch until…
"Flame Geyser!" Elsword slammed his sword down, creating a pillar of fire. Banthus jumped back before he was engulfed in the flames. However, once the flames died, Elsword rushed towards him. Banthus blocked with his sword, but he still ended up moving back a couple of feet.
"Just how in world did that brat get so strong," Banthus thought to himself. Both of them then rushed at each other at full power, ending up at opposite ends, facing away from each other. At first it looks even, that is until Elsword dropped down to one knee. "Ha ha ha," Banthus laughed as he turned around to face Elsword. "Looks like I've got you now.
"I don't know about that Banthus," Elsword retorted as he stood up. "you mind checking that Nasod arm of yours."
"Huh," Banthus looked at his right arm and found that there was a cut on it, electricity fizzling around the cut. "What the…" Suddenly smoke started to come out of the cut and the entire arm went limp, causing him to drop his sword. "Impossible."
Suddenly Elsword's sword was pointing at his throat. "Oh, it's possible."
Banthus looked angry but not defeated. "Now William!"
"Huh… oh yea!" William said. He then whistled a loud whistle. Suddenly the hole expanded even further, allowing for a giant black phoru to come out. Everyone was staring at it, allowing Banthus to move out of the way of Elsword's sword. The giant phoru roared a blood curdling roar…
Then it was promptly blasted by a sphere of dark energy. Elsword looked to find that it was Aisha who blasted it. She continued to fire at the giant phoru, causing it to stumble back until it started covering itself. Unbeknownst to the giant phoru, however, was that in between firing, she threw the "bat" that was hovering around her. Once it reached the phoru, it latched onto its head and starting blasting dark energy a point blank range, causing the phoru to stumble back once. Because of that, it let its guard down, allowing for Aisha to fire more dark energy spheres at it. This continued until the giant black phoru finally went down. All of the thieves and phorus were dumbstruck and silence permeated the room.
"RUN AWAY!" William's scream broke the silence and suddenly everybody was running toward the hole and jumping into it. However, when Banthus tried to get away, a twig was shot in his path and exploded, throwing him (and a few others) in the air. He then crashed on to the floor, no longer having the energy to stand up.
"Rena, get the glitters to take the thief with the nasod arm to the dungeon," Aisha commanded.
"If you say so," Rena responded. She then left the room.
"I wonder how these idiots got into the demon realm." Elsword asked to no one in particular.
"Doesn't really matter now, does it," Aisha responded.
"Maybe not, but this does." Elsword then turned to face her. "Why do want me as your bodyguard? I know I'm strong but I know people who are stronger than me and you seem capable of handling yourself."
"Hmmm… let's just say it has something to do with the past."
"I figured I wouldn't get a straight answer from you."
In Velder
Raven was on top of an airship, the Crow Mercenary Knight's airship to be exact, letting the wind breeze through his hair.
"Glad you could make it," Raven said. Suddenly behind him was a young man in white armor, complete with a mask and helmet with a blue and red scarf flowing in the breeze. Raven then turned around to the masked man. "You know you don't have to hide your face from me, Hamel's White Wolf."
"Don't call me that anymore," The mask and helmet suddenly disappeared in white light revealing the man's pale face, his messy light blond hair flowing in breeze and his blue eyes with strange paw print like pupils staring directly at Raven. "I don't deserve the name."
"Sorry about that Chung. Anyway, I need your help."
"What do you need? If you need help from someone who does a lot of dirty work like me, it must be important."
"...Elsword has been captured."
Chung's eyes widened at this revelation. "Elsword! Where is he? Is he alright?"
"I don't know." Raven looked to the side to avoid looking at Chung's worried face.
"If you don't know that, then how do you know he's not…!"
"I know Elsword Sieghart is alive, Chung!" Raven interrupted, angry at Chung's assumption. "I know this because, 1, he's not that weak. And 2, I know who took him."
"You do?" Chung asked, calming down.
"Yes, but she's hired help like you, so he could be anywhere."
"So, what do you want me to do?"
"Simple, find Elsword and bring him back."
"Not my usual line of work, but I'll do it."
"How much do you need?"
"There no need to pay me. Let's just call this a favor between friends for a friend." Chung answered, smiling.
"...Thank you, Chung Seiker."
Chung then turned away. "Don't refer to me by my full name either," he said, looking down at the ground with a solemn look on his face before turning his head towards Raven with a sad smile. "But you're welcome, Raven Corvus." Chung's mask and helmet returned in a flash of light and then he left, leaving Raven alone once more.
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