The Onslaught Begins

Upon arriving to the city square, Elesis sees that there is a large crowd standing in one area. She looks around and tries to scamper through the crowd to see what the people were looking at. She struggles to get through the wall of specimens, but when she finally breaks through, she falls forward. She stands up and dusts herself as she looks up. The first thing she could see was the same thing from her dream. Aisha was torn from limb to limb again. Her head was set on a staff once more. Her arms formed a circle and in the circle were the two legs and the pool of blood. This time, she saw something she didn't see from the dream. Aisha's body was torn into long shreds which were laid out in a pattern that formed words. She couldn't understand it from her angle, so she walks around to get the exact view of it. She could now see how the body parts: heart, lungs, intestines, gall bladder, the stomach, the liver, etc; were arranged to form the words that awakened the fear in her.

It has begun.

She falls back after reading the message and understanding it. "Th… this can't be true...No…. This is just a cruel murderous prank someone is pulling…" Elesis thought to herself as she stands up and walks away. Believing that it was just something someone in Elder Village is doing and that the criminal will be caught, Elesis carries on her training to become a Velder Knight. She was going to wield a giant claymore that will bring terror on her enemies. Elsword was there to train with her, since he had no one else besides his sister. Their father was murdered by the infamous bandit, Banthus. Now, his love was decapitated into pieces and into an odd message. He gagged at the thought of it. "I know it's hard on you, Elsword, but you'll get it over with soon enough." She smiles as she pats the boy's back. "Yeah… I guess… It's… Just so hard right now. I don't know what to do anymore. Dad's gone, and now Aisha's gone. There's no one but you for me now." He sighs as he dropped down and begun to weep. Elesis sighs and squats down next to the weeping boy. "I know. But would Aisha want to see you like this? You know how many times she's wacked you on the back of your head with her staff." She looks at the boy, sighing a bit as she knew she shouldn't have said that. Elsword excused himself for the day and headed into his bedroom. Elesis didn't see him anymore.

It is late at night and Elesis was full from the meal she had earlier. She is now lying on her bed. Her arms were on her stomach and steady breaths were taken in by the female. She closes her eyes, not to sleep, but to relax a bit. Fairly enough, she had fallen asleep. Once again, she enters a world full of imaginative things.

Dream Begins

This time, she is not running, but standing in front of the shadow that had consumed her in the previous dream. She was standing face to face with the shadow, both beings not saying a single word. Elesis tries to say something, but her mouth stays shut as if it were stapled together. She felt as if fear was swirling in her, taking up every feeling she could bare to hold. "Do not fear me. I am your only way out." A terrifying scream was heard as now Elesis is no longer in front of the shadow, but in another dark room.

Eerie children's music plays as she started to head forward. She tries to stop, but she kept moving forward, as if the music had some type of musical effect on her. She walked for what seems to be minutes. Her legs grew weary as they fail her, making her stumble forward into a pit. She was falling down a twenty-foot pit and at the end were Blood Eaters. She closes her eyes and held her arms in front of her face in terror of ramming into the Blood Eaters.

Laughter is heard as she opens her eyes and notices that she was now in an air duct. She looks down and sees two figures, talking to each other. "Do you think she knows yet-" The name of the darker being was scrambled out into a disorientated sound, seeming to be a bird crying out its death cry mixed with a squealing of a pig that is being hunted by wolves that howled loudly for their prey. "Oh I know she knows. She just doesn't realize what is going on right now. But soon after-" Another disorientated sound. "Is dead, she will realize what is going on and will try to stop them." The darker figure had said as its body erected, seeming to look around. "Are they talking about me…? And have they noticed me?" Elesis quietly thinks to herself. "Come on down here. I can hear your thoughts." Elesis shakes as she starts to climb out of the air vent. She drops down and looks at the two figures. Their body seemed to be shadowed out. She couldn't get a good grip on what they looked like. "Do not fear. We are trying to help you. We've been trying to contact you to warn you of the terror that is rising. They're back. When you've realized, come look for us. Our name is…"

Elesis stands there, waiting for the name to be revealed. Nothing came out as the shadows melt down into a muddy pile. She stands there, looking as the goop slowly made its way to her feet. She tries to take a step back, but sees that she isn't able to. She looks down, and saw that the goop had hardened into a crystal that wrapped around her leg, both of them. She looks up as she can hear a terrifying scream. She saw a boy with a nasod hand, being beaten to a pulp. She watched the entire scene, as if she could no longer blink. The boy's nasod hand gets ripped from his arm and pierced into his head. The attacker then raises the arm swiftly, tearing the head in half. The boy falls down, face flat as Elesis screams in terror. The attacker turns around and looks at Elesis, now sending the claw at her.

Opening her eyes once more, Elesis can see she was home. Elsword was still in his room weeping. She knocks on his door and told him that dinner is ready. She starts to head down the hallway as Elsword calls out for her. She turns around and looks at Elsword, everything perfectly normal. Elsword held out his hand as he smiles. "I.. I love you sis." He takes a step forward and the floor under him shatters, making him fall down. Elesis screams and runs to the gaping hole. She looks down and gags. Elsword was lying still as there were board pieces piercing through him. His body was bleeding harshly. His arm was torn off due to the board, and his head was torn in half. She turns around and got up to the wall as she starts to cry, hiding her face as the smell of death lingers in the air. She had just witnessed her dear brother collapsing to his death, and she couldn't do anything to save him.

Dream Ends

She jolts up again as she heard the knocking behind her door. Elsword was behind it, telling her to come out to check something out. She stood up and threw on a pair of casual clothing. She swings open the door and stepped out as she then follows Elsword. They were heading to the Nasod Airship, and to her surprise, there was a gaping hole in there. They ran to the side where Rena was standing, seeming to be a little nervous. "Hey Rena. We're here now." She turns around to face Elsword whom had just spoken. She smiles and hugs the both of them. "Raven had gone to this ship yesterday night and said that he will be back. He never came back though. I thought he was having an affair! But then, I came here this morning and saw this. Smoke was blowing out of the funnel, so I got really nervous. I still don't what's in there though… That's why I had Elsword come get you so that you two can help me figure out what's behind it all." She sighs softly as she faces the dark opening of the ship. The two siblings look at each other and nodded as Elesis leads the two into the mouth. She has her claymore ready, Elsword with his great sword, and Rena with her bow.

Creaking sounds grew all over the place as they traveled deeper into the corrupted airship. Electrical wires were split and system boards were bashed in. The lights flicker as they travel cautiously. They couldn't tell where they were going, and an example for that was Elsword repeatedly running into door frames. As they got past a room, the scent of blood flares their nostrils. They all gag and cover their mouths as they continue down the path. A bright light can be seen and the cawing of ravens echoes on the walls that faced the party. The next room was where the horror began. The skulls of dead men were everywhere, shattered into pieces. The blood covers all of the space on the wall, making it a mixture of a red wall with a few holes. Rena covers her eyes as she could see a man still hanging by a few electrical wires. "He…. Help me…." The man cries out. The wires snap under his weight and he went down, shattering his head on the rough surface. Screaming from all three bounces around in the room as the man fell forward, revealing his bashed in skull. Blood leaks from the opened head and the small eyeballs roll out with the pouring blood. They all stepped over the man, cautious of hitting him and scampered away quickly.

They traveled a bit more until they reached the fourth room. The room was dark and the only source of light was the broken motherboard. Electricity buzzed quietly, lighting the path for the three. The smell of death was worse in this room. Everywhere they stepped was blood and bones. Decaying bodies pop out every once in a while, scaring the trio. They continued like this on a path that led to less blood. It seemed to snake forever. Once they finally reach the end of the bloody snake, they come across something so disturbing. Raven was sitting there, yet… it wasn't Raven. They walked up to the chair and spun it around and Rena gave wailing cry. Raven's head was split in half and his body was bruised everywhere they looked. His arm was scratched up badly and his other arm was gushing out blood. The nasod hand was missing, which made Elesis think for a moment. Rena was weeping and Elsword was there trying to calm her down. They couldn't understand. First Aisha is dead, now Raven. They had to report this to Eve. They needed this situation dealt with.

They all started to head back out, holding onto the despairing Rena. She cried out in mourning over her love's death. The two siblings kept quiet as they carefully led Rena out. As they traveled through each room, things started to grow more eerie. The blood seemed to have disappeared, as if someone had came and did a swept through the entire ship, yet the smell of death still stayed behind. "Hey Elesis, what happened to the blood…?" Elsword asked his sister who in returns shrugs. She didn't know either, since this hadn't happened in the dream. The dream! Elesis had just now remembered about the dream. "Elsword, Rena, you two stay back. I need to see if what's ahead is safe." Elesis says as she grabbed her claymore and headed forward. "I'm coming with you!" Elesis turns around and slaps her brother. He fell back and looked up at her, nodding and sitting down next to Rena.

Oddly enough, the smell stayed and grew stronger as the blood started to decrease as well. Elesis knew something was wrong, and that this was abnormal. She could sense it, and she thought that she would meet the person behind this. The splattering of blood interrupted her thoughts as she stopped and looked around. She could then hear a distant growl that started to draw near her. She turned around, but then she turned again as she heard even more growling. She didn't know what it was, but it didn't sound very friendly. The nasod claw was sent flying at her as she deflects it with her claymore. Next she knew, before she could react was something wrapping around her leg and the burying of what seemed to be blood.

She thought at that moment, she was done for. She was pinned down by the bloody forces, not being able to swing her mighty claymore around. The blood creatures started to wrap around her, getting ready to devour her alive. She saw the mouth open; she saw her life slipping away. This was it. This was the dream she first had. The mouth was seeping her life away and she couldn't do anything about it. Suddenly, as if a miracle had happened, the creatures stood up. They looked around and then they were roaring. They were being sucked in by something. Not a vortex, but rather a shadowed figure. Elesis stands up and looks at the shadow. It was the same one from her dream, except this time, it wasn't as provoking. She stood there, looking at the shadow that spoke nothing. They both stared at each other with unblinking eyes and voiceless words. It continued for a moment before the shadow spoke out to her. "Do not fear me. I am your only way out." The shadow spoke first, and Elesis looked at her. "Accept your fate and accept me, Elesis. I will be your only way to ever living in this world. Forget the path you once tried to take, take this path." Elesis stood there, taking in the words as she thought about it.