omnious: I think I should finish Prelude first… so there is the chapter!
Prelude Final
The Return
"Yeah, I want, but I can't fight like you. I don't have any attacking capability!" Quis protested to Ziel loudly. He attracted Grand Chase's attentions.
"What did you mean by that?" Dio questioned Quis out loud.
"He was only jo-" Ziel tried to cover Quis, but Quis said, "I don't have any power to help you in battle." with all of his might. He hates to lie to the others. But his action made The Chase looked down at him. Several of them even hated him.
At the mansion,
Everyone had gone to their own rooms. No one wanted to show their new member unused room. Ziel took that chance to drag Quis to his room, the one which had used to treat him. He quickly pulled Quis inside and locked the door.
"What did you mean by saying like that!" Ziel asked.
"Sorry… my bad habit." Quis answered with low voice.
"If you can't help in battle, you'll drag everyone down. You should have known that and lied to them." Ziel stated while staring at Quis. Quis was down and sat on a chair. "I know, but…" He said, looking at Ziel with teary eyes. "Stop it! I know, I know! I'll help you!" Ziel exclaimed and he persuaded Quis to follow him to Training Ground.
On the way, they met Ronan and Ryan who delivered death glares to Quis. He knew that, but his only focus was to follow Ziel and to do something about the situation.
Training Ground, several weapons had been in there. Ziel walked to them and picked one of them. He grabbed a spear. That spear was given to Quis. At first, Quis rejected to wield it. But Ziel forced him to take the spear and he took a sword.
"What we will do is to train you, at least the basic of using weapon." Ziel told Quis.
"You know that I am bad at P.E." Quis tried to make excuse.
"No excuses! You'll be executed if you have proven that you're useless!" Ziel explained straightforwardly with harsh statement. Quis was angry hearing that, especially the word useless. That word was taboo to be said in front of him.
"Okay then… You have asked for it! I hope you won't regret you have said like that!" He shouted.
"That's the spirit!" Ziel replied, followed with smile.
Quis gritted his teeth and he charged forward with that spear in front of him. Ziel side stepped to evade him, making his attack hit the air and continued until hit the wall. Quis's head also befriend with that wall. In that condition, he faced to Ziel again and once again charged to him. This time, Ziel side stepped again and grabbed the spear from side. He stopped Quis from advancing to the opposite wall. Being stopped, Quis forced to break free and slashed with the spear mindlessly. Ziel was either blocking or evading Quis's attack easily and kept going until Quis had lost all of his stamina, lying on the floor.
"You have a great ability using that spear. You need more training and you can be a spear master." Ziel said lightly. Quis heard that and he saw at Ziel. Ziel knew he had been seen and showed a thumb up. Quis replied with a thumb up and resting his body a little; still on the floor. They smiled and then laughed together. Ziel helped Quis to get up.
The following day, Ziel trained Quis to hold and to do basic attacks with spear. He had chosen a spear because it made possible to attack at the safe range. It could also help when the enemy had been near us with swinging its handle. They practiced for several hours for a week. Most of The Chase had seen them training and they had seen that Quis's movements became better day after day. Mari ever came to stop their training session to get Ziel to her training. Ziel would say sorry to Quis when he was being called and he trained under this ex-Gunslinger.
And there was a day, when The Prime Knight was coming to Training Ground, he found something caught his interest. He was watching at two youngster training with full of spirit. He walked to visit them.
"Hi there!" Sieghart greeted Ziel and Quis.
"Oh, Master SIeghart, hi!" Ziel replied.
"Master? Anyway, what are you doing here?" Quis asked which was not answered by him.
Sieghart went to near Ziel, smiling and saw at Quis which he changed his expression like he saw an unused thing. He asked to Ziel, "How is he?" "You can see if you try it." Ziel answered indirectly. Then the former Gladiator readied his Warlord's weapon, a sword spear. He positioned himself to be ready for attacks.
"I'll test you, Quis!" he shouted with a hint of anger.
"What the hell! What is he talking about?" Quis responded with a shout and asked to Ziel.
"Just try him. Show him you can help Grand Chase." Ziel answered lightly. He went to weapons' stock and picked another spear for him. He faced Sieghart and told him, "I'll also try." which made Sieghart smiled brightly and responded, "Come on you two! I'll try you both!"
Quis charged at Sieghart while Ziel was examining him. Sieghart was using his sword to repel all of Quis's attacks. No one got through. Quis was struggling to get at least one of his attacks got in, but no avail, instead of succeeded in his goal, he was being kicked by Sieghart on his stomach. As the result, Quis was thrown away and got a hard crash on the ground.
"Hey… Are you not too hard to him, Master Sieghart?" Ziel was asking jokingly to the Warlord.
"It's better than I sliced him down. Now it is your turn." he answered semi-serious.
"Okay then." Ziel said while readying his spear and told Quis, "Watch me, I'll show you several tricks!"
Ziel walked until he was near Sieghart. He gave him a powerful thrust. In response, Sieghart placed his sword to block the incoming attack. Ziel smirked, he pulled his spear and thrust again to evade the block Sieghart had set. That attack made this Living Legend flinched a little. He stepped back to make gap between them. He was not even moving one step against Quis.
"You're good. I'll enjoy this." Sieghart said.
Ziel smiled and saw at the corner which he found most of The Chase were watching them now. He thought that this was the chance he was waiting for Quis to show his worth. But now, it was still his turn, so he delivered some attacks to Sieghart. Sieghart was blocking and evading Ziel's attacks. He was even countering him. They kept on doing it until 10 minutes. Ziel was worn down, lying on the floor.
"I'm beat!" he shouted. He saw at Quis and told him, "Quis, your turn now!"
"Okay! I won't careless like before." he responded and charged at SIeghart quickly.
As like before, Sieghart's face changed to unpleasant. He let loose his tension a little thought that his opponent won't last too long. But, his prediction was not true. He almost got a hole on his shoulder. Quis was serious and his attacks were not useless like before. His attacks became sharper and accurate. He was also copying several of Ziel's tricks and forced SIeghart to go serious. Sieghart smiled while 'playing' with him. Quis could last for 7 minutes before he followed Ziel to rest on the floor.
"I'm beat!" he shouted near Ziel.
"AW, shut up! You could break my eardrums!" Ziel protested. They saw at each other then laughed.
All The Chase who were watching Quis's ability in using spear blinked their eyes. They looked at one another. Sieghart walked away from that Training Ground. He got all eyes on him. "He has a bright future." Sieghart stated with satisfied face. The Chase knew what he meant and quickly helped their worn out members.
A day after that event, Knight Master was summoning out Grand Chase. She explained the situation. The captured Orc said that in Orc Temple there was a competition to become future Orc Lord. There were 2 competing sides and they fought with each other. Several Orcs had gone to Kyrie Beach which Grand Chase had slained. They went there because they want to avoid internal fights. Knight Master wanted them to examine this mater and if possible they should clear up the problem there. Grand Chase was deployed soon. They prepared them-selves in their rooms and got ready to go to Orc Temple.
At Orc Temple,
"What is this!" Elesis shouted. She was shocked because the place was obliterated.
"So… the information from that Orc is true." Lire said. Her face showed uneasiness.
"The nature has been destroyed." Ryan stated. He was examining one of the fallen trees.
"There should be something there, we must check it fast." Elesis told the rest and led them away.
They directed to Orc Lord's throne. On the way, they saw several wounded Orcs. Most of them saw at The Chase with hostile looks while the rest saw at them with hope.
"What's with them?" Amy asked while holding Jin's arm.
"Don't worry! If anything happen, I will protect you." Jin replied, blushing a little with happy face.
They continued to walk with caution. Then an Orc came to them without weapon readied.
"Are you Grand Chase?" The Orc asked.
"Yes, we are Grand Chase. What do you want?" Dio answered with harsh tone.
"Dio, don't be too harsh with him." Arme told him and then she continued, "Can you tell us what is happening here?"
"Yes, we need to know the situation." Ronan said with respect.
"… then, let me explain while walking to the source of all things." that Orc said while leading them.
There were two sides that fought for their respective leaders. One leader was a good natured Orc. He wanted to focus on their own habitat not to attack neighboring lands. The other leader was former leader of Orc Warriors. He wanted to conquer Bermesiah for himself. He wouldn't even think about how many Orc would be sacrificed for his ego based goal.
"I, no, we want the one with good nature wins, but the remnants of Orc Warriors want the other wins." that Orc said ending his explanation. As he ended, they saw mass havoc near Orc Lord's Throne, Orcs versus Orcs. They couldn't believe that this kind of mess could be seen in Orc Temple.
"As if I saw two neighboring countries had a war…" Sieghart commented, sweat dropping.
"I don't think we should idling here! We must help the good side." Ziel concluded while rushing forward. Then a hand pulled his collar and made him fell. "What the hell are you doing!" he protested to Quis. Quis sighed and asked him, "Did you know which Orcs who are in good side?" "Of course!" Ziel shouted and looked at the mess. "Or maybe not…" he continued and his face became red due to shame.
The Orc who led them was starring at Ziel when Arme came near him to ask. "Could you please tell us which one in good side?" she asked and got a reply, "Those with white scarf are." "Then we must hack down those without scarf." Elesis ordered. "Those without white scarf you mean? The opposing ones also wearing scarf, but the color is red." Lass corrected. "Anyway, now we know our target." Lire exclaimed. "I'll go first!" Dio said while jumped forward. "Not so fast! I'll go too!" Sieghart shouted in front of him, running faster than him. "Oh well, we should get going also." Jin said while preparing his Vajra and run towards the scene along with the rest of that group.
"I won't let you be the next Lord!" good natured Orc exclaimed. Then, one of his men informed him about Grand Chase coming to their side. "Are you sure? It's great! Grand Chase will help us!" he shouted happily.
"You're a disgrace for Orc race! Not only avoiding battle, but you also hoping our nemesis to help you!" the opposite leader mocked. "I'll beat you, weak minded Orc! I'll be the next Orc Lord!" he continued.
The chase arrived at the scene and they started to hack every Orcs in their way. "Hey, Sieghart! Dio! Remember that our target only those with red scarf!" Ronan shouted, but it seemed they ignored him. Arme and Mari quickly healed those with white scarf who got wounded be it from the opposite Orcs or from Dio and Sieghart. "Oh please! Don't pile up victims on the good side!" Ryan shouted while hacking down the opposite force. "Yeah! Stop it you two! Mostly you attack the one with white scarf!" Ley shouted and she successfully stopping them, with her Garouile. They were hung in the air. Their collars were being caught by Ley's Gargoyle. "Don't spill meaningless blood. We must get their leader down fast." Zero said as he went to his Offensive Stance with Increase to buff himself.
Ziel and Quis were fighting near Lire and Ronan. They could open the way toward Throne thanks to Ziel's Soul Buster with full power and Arme's support of Air Blast that bulldozed off those Orcs in their way. They successfully got to the bad leader. They fought hard until Ronan had worn out and Lire had been forced to hold off a lot of Orc while defending Ronan. Ziel helped Lire and Quis faced the leader. Ziel did some Soul Takes and used Soul Buster several times to clear a line of Orcs. Lire kept on showering the Orcs with her arrows as well as using her skills. Ronan, even he was exhausted, gave them Holy Bless to boost their powers. Quis attacked that Orc with his spear, but no major damage could be dealt. At a time, that Orc raised his hammer and was pounding it to Quis. Quis couldn't evade it and he tried to block it with his spear's handle. That attack still got through, delivering major injury to Quis while his spear was broken in pieces.
Ziel took a peek at Quis and he was shocked to know Quis was in danger. He quickly went to Quis's side after he collected 3 Soul Orbs. He jumped and delivered a full power Soul Buster followed by reckless firing with his Soul Gun. After that Orc died, he went to Quis.
"Quis! Are you alright?" he shouted and kneeled beside him.
"Dumb question *cough* In this condition… how can I be alright? *cough*" Quis replied.
Ziel was looking at his surrounding looking for healer nearby. Arme was still healing good Orcs together with Mari while Amy was fainted because she forced herself to cheer on the others. No healer could help. Quis condition became worst by the time. Ziel only knew one thing, his other ability as Soul Gunner. The ultimate of his job can do, giving his life force to the other.
Ziel quickly gathered some mana and he pointed Soul Gun to the sky. His weapon was absorbing mana and his own life force. After enough mana gathered and his life force was focused in his gun, he pointed it to Quis.
"Ziel… stop it… I don't want-" Quis tried to talk, but Ziel cut his sentence, "I won't let any of my friends dying in front of me and do nothing!" and without talking even more, he used his skill "Soul Transfer!" he shouted as his life force got fired entering Quis's body. Quis got healed extremely fast and Ziel was collapsed. Quis caught Ziel's body before he hit the ground.
"Why did you do thing like this?" Quis protested.
"I can't go back… while you can… I don't want to…" Ziel answered but got cut because his body disappeared into particles of light. Quis was shock but with his Soul Tracker ability, he knew where Ziel's soul went to.
Quis went back to The Chase after seeing Ziel's soul went back to his body in Human World. He got several questions from The Chase, but he could answer them with no problems.
"Now, my mission here has been fulfilled. I must go back too." Quis said.
"No! You can't go back now!" Elesis stated. She glared at Quis. "Why?" he asked. "Simple, because we need more man power. We won't let you go back. You should have known that!" she answered seriously.
Then Quis's arms got bent by Sieghart and Ronan. He was being forced to live there, in Grand Chase World. But, deep inside him, he personally didn't want to go back. He felt there was still something for him to do as well as Ziel.
In Human World, hospital, Ziel's room,
Ziel was opening his eyes. He saw his mother and Aposta stood near him. He wanted to say something but, his body felt too weak, forcing him to close his eyes and went to dream world.
Several days after, Ziel was at the school. He changed. He took the lessons seriously, but he forgot what had happened before, about the event of meeting Kaze'aze and also about Quis's existence. He felt something missing, but he couldn't remember it. He didn't even clicking at Grand Chase Icon at his PC. But he still punished some bad boys.
omnious: Prelude ended here. But this story is still at the start. Just wait for the true beginning of this story! Review please!
