Chapter 3: Alliance.
"Ben...Ben..."
"What? Who's there?" Ben said as he was currently floating in an unknown infinite void. "Ben...owva here!" The tiny voice calling him said as he turned around, only to be met with a little girl around three years of age with blonde hair and green eyes staring straight up at him with a sorrowful expression on her cute little face. Ben almost took a step back in fear as he had a feeling he knew who she was.
"Why...why Big Bwother?" The little girl demanded with tears in her eyes.
"Where were you when mommy and daddy needed you..."
"I'm sorry.."
"...when I needed you!"
"...I'm sorry..."
"And now...now I'll never be able to walk, to talk, to see, to hear...t-to live!"
"I...IM SORRY...SO SORRY!" Ben choked as he began to break down sobbing.
"But,...Even if we never get to meet each other...I'll always love you...Big Bwother Ben!" She finished with a sad smile on her beautiful face.
"I love you too...Annie!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Ben screamed for the ninth time in his grandfather's RV, ever since leaving the gruesome scene of his parents demise, he was plagued with nightmares of possible scenarios for their grisly deaths. It also didn't help when the coroner explained to Ben after showing him the autopsy report that his mother was pregnant with a baby girl, who they were planning to call Annie causing him even more emotional grief. It has been five days since that horrible night and he is now currently living with his grandfather until he was given custody to any one of his relatives who would take him. Bellator, his guardian since birth, protested in leaving his young master alone, but after ordering him in a fit of rage he reluctantly accepted but promise to return to him within five days.
"BEN, Ben snap out of it!" Max said as Ben woke up in a screaming mess. "Oh...,I-im sorry grandpa Max!" He said as he wiped the tears from his eyes. "Ben,I know losing your parents is difficult to endure, I was just like you when I received a call from a highway patrol men informing me that my parents were killed in an accident." Max said glumly while trying to forget his horrific experience. "But that was different grandpa, your parents died in an accident...A ACCIDENT! MY PARENTS WERE MURDERED BY SOME PSYCHOPATHIC KILLER WHO'S PROBABLY STILL OUT THERE AS WE SPEAK!" Ben spouted as his voice was full of malice. "Ben..."but before Max could finish what he was about to say, a knock on the door interrupted their brief conversation as Max proceeded to open the door.
"Oh, hello Maxwell!" Bellator said in his usual calm manner. "I hope I wasn't interrupting anything important!" He continued with Max giving the man a look that clearly said 'of course you did j***!'. "As a matter of fact..."
"No you didn't Bellator, come in!" Ben said in a monotonous tone as Bellator entered the rust bucket 2. "Well actually my young lord, I didn't come to visit. I came here to inform that as of now, I am your new legal guardian!" "WHAT?" both Ben and Max said in synchronization. "But, how did you...why did you.." " as I've said before my lord, I vowed to never leave your side for as long as I'm alive" Bellator proclaimed as he bowed before him. Max did not like this one bit. Ever since his grandson told him that his parents were never really his "parents", and the man before him introduced himself as the sole guardian of Ben since birth, Max didn't trust Bellator thinking him to be an enemy of Ben's just waiting for him to strike when his grandson least expects it! "So my lord, if you wish we can return to your former home and reclaim your possession's before they decide to throw them out!" Bellator suggested, before realizing what he'd just said.
"Oh dear me, forgive me for my ignorance of your situation young master!" He apologizes before Ben stood up from his bed without a care on his facial expression "It's quite alright, well then...thanks for having me around grandpa and putting up with my b***." He said flatly before grabbing a pair of clothes to change into. "Anytime sport, why Don't go take a cold shower while I have an ol' talk with Bellator!" Max told his grandson as Ben shrugged his shoulders entering the tiny bathroom.
"You can cut the act now, Sebastian Michaelis!" Max spouted while the ex-butler only grinned at the old mans direction. "Why, it's been years since we last met Maxwell Tennyson."
"Yeah, back in London while the plumbers were investigating the infamous bloody bell tower incident, which you took part of!" The ex plumber pointed a finger straight at the current Knight. "What did you propose for us to do? Let the Dakuju's run rampant?" "You know damn well there could have been a way to save those people's lives, but you and the rest of Entaku didn't care about anything except completing the mission at hand!" Bellator aka Sebastian refused to look the other way for about a moment before saying "we follow the king and his commands, no one is above him except God himself! And that's only because he is the father of said king, so wake up and smell the coffee Maxwell! Once a dakuju infects a victim, it is physically impossible for said victim to return to their former selves...ever!"
"Sebastian!..."
"My name is not Sebastian...not anymore! I left my life of eating mortal souls behind with that name in London! I am now Eques bellator!, servent to his and her majesty pendragon of the universe, and the guardian of the heir to the throne!" Bellator announced while slamming his Claymore to the ground.
"What are you planning...Bellator?"
"An alliance!"
Max stood silent for a moment before answering "an alliance, what alliance?"
Bellator shifted in his spot before continuing onwards.
"I mean, a new alliance of young warriors who are willing to unite in our time of darkness. As we speak, my fellow Knights in arms are searching for potential candidates that qualify in entering our noble cause against the impending Dakuju threat!"
"And where do you expect to find these so called candidates?"
[STOHESS DISTRICT, WALL SINA]
" I wonder how eren is doing!" Said the voice of a beautiful raven haired girl of Asian descent wearing a red scarf wrapped around her neck while wearing a military regulation uniform of the survey corps. It has been nearly a week since the battle of stohess against Annie leondheart, a Titan shifter who managed to infiltrate the military police and killed two experimental Titan subjects eliminating any evidence that could aid humanity in discovering the secret of the Titans. While attempting to kidnap her adoptive brother Eren Yeager, which ended in a battle between both Titan shifters with eren as the Victor. But before they could arrest her, she encased herself in a crystallized cocoon that was too hard to break.
As Mikasa ackerman continued on her usual duty of guarding the walls, she heard what sounded like grunting not far from her as she turned around...only to be meet by a giant skeletal hand attempting to grab her before she used her 3d maneuver gear to move out of the way in a moments flash.
"TITAN!" someone below shouted as every one down in the streets of wall sina began to run while the unholy monstrosity began gobbling people like candy! "ACKERMAN,GET YOUR A** IN GEAR NOW!" Shouted Mikasa's superior corporal Levi Riviaile as he swooped in for the kill striking the beast in the nape of the neck until his blades broke in pieces.
"Christ, how strong is that b***?" Levi snorted as he replaced his broken swords for new ones." It must be an abhorrent, I mean look at it! It looks similar to that of the armored Titan!"
"Did someone say abhorrent?" A female voice said as a woman with brown hair tied in a ponytail wearing glasses landed next to Levi and Mikasa with a insane smirk plastered on her face. "F*** you four eyes, I Don't have any patience for you mad scientist b*** right now!" Levi said to his fellow survey corps member Zoe hanji. "Oh what a fine specimen he is! I can't imagine the possible secrets he contains..haha!" Hanji in her usual Titan gasm mode said with anticipation. "Tch,whatever! Ackerman your with me!"
"Aye aye general shortass!" Mikasa saluted sarcastically to Levi as they both charged in the direction of the Dakuju's location. But without warning, a quick flash surrounded the area blinding all the walls inhabitants until a few seconds later when it dissolved. Where the Dakuju once stood, was now gone...along with Mikasa!
[BOOK OF EIBON]
"Help, please someone help me!" The sound of one death the Kid said while he was bound to the books clutches." Oh, this is hopeless! How is anyone other than that Noah and gopher b*** going to ever find me! *sigh* I wish Liz and Patty were hear...they would be able draw on the other side of my face making it symmetrical again!" He said with his cheeks puffed in anger. Just then, a dark vortex opened from underneath him as a hand pulled him in."w-wait, who are yoooooooou!" He shouted before being sucked in escaping the book.
[SERETEI, SOUL SOCIETY]
"What's going on?" A young orange haired teenage girl said to her Soul reaper friend Rukia Kuchiki. "That was the hellbutterfly, Ichigo and the other soul reapers are engaged in battle with the Arrancars as we speak!" Rukia somberly said as she went running to the nearest Senkaimon. "Wait rukia, I'm coming!" Orihime inoue told her. "But orihime..." "NO, I'm coming and that's final!" Orihime shouted finally gaining a back bone for once. Reluctantly rukia nodded as they went to the nearest gate to the human world. Little did they know, the portal they went through would be to a completely different mortal world!
[LONDON, FICTIONAL 19 CENTURY ENGLAND]
"I'LL BREAK THAT PUNY SWORD OF YOURS!"
"oh, you'll break Mugen?...TRY IT!" shouted a tall male with black hair fashioned in a long ponytail as he swiped his sword at the ugly demon known as an akuma and slicing it in half without breaking a sweat. The exorcist Yuu kanda then gazed at his fellow exorcist Alan walker slay another similar akuma while another colleagues Miranda lotto, Howard link and two other members of the black order were just about finished securing an artifact called innocence used to make weaponry to combat an evil entity known as the millennium Earl! "We've got the innocence!" Kanda informed the black order via communication "Roger. Stand by gate 28. We'll open it! Your orders are to return to HQ."
"Very well!" Kanda confirmed as they proceeded to head to their designated drop off, when he suddenly forgot one very important thing! "Wait, ah s***! I left Mugen in the cemetery!"
"Seriously kanda? Are you kinda losing it today?"Allen spoke in a smug tone, earning him a slap behind the head by kanda. "Shut it beansprout, I'm going back to get it
I'll be right back!" He said before heading back into the cemetery. "Where the heck is-ahh, there it is!" Kanda spotted his innocence in the same area where he finished off the final akuma at! "Great, now to head to HQQQQQQQ..!" Was the last sound he made before disappearing in a familiar dark vortex.
[CENTRAL CITY,AMESTRIS]
Laying in his bed with a somber expression on his face. Edward Elric couldn't bear to sleep after finding out that the philosopher's stone, the one ticket Into restoring Alphonse's body as well as his old limbs back, had a terrifying secret in perfecting the stone's power: live human beings!
"Uh, can't sleep. This philosophers stone business is really starting to irritate me!' Ed said before deciding to take a walk in the night to calm his nerves. Several minutes later, Edward was just about getting a little Calmer on his late night walk, when suddenly someone rushes past by him at the speed of light.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" He shouted before checking himself for anything missing, and sure enough...
"HEY, GIVE ME BACK MY STATE ALCHEMIST WATCH YOU THEIVING B***! He screamed at the top of his short lungs before being sucked in a vortex."AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
[BELLWOOD]
Bellator had just finished his proposition to Max, who then stood there in shock. "You plan to do what?"
"As I said Maxwell, I'm going to be training a new generation of knights to fight with Entaku against the Dakuju! And my young master...is going to be The one who heads the battle cry!"