Yumi: Alright, here is the fourth chapter of our collab. Thanks for reading!
Chung's P.O.V
The other Chung charged at me, but I quickly dodged. "I like guys more than girls…" The shadow form laughed as it as it continued attacking me. I was out of breath. 'Did I like guys? No, it couldn't be true!' My train of thought was interrupted when the cannon came crashing into my side. My eyes widened before I slammed into the ground. I just lay there, shutting my eyes. 'I'll just wait for it all to end.' Then the image of that boy I met the other day popped into my head. 'I want to see him again….' I slowly got up while my other self walked up to me.
"You're right; I do like guys, along with girls." I whispered, as I slowly wrapped my arms around my other self. My other self-stiffened, and dropped his cannon to the ground. "But what I'm really afraid of is being rejected by anyone, boy or girl…" I continued. My other self's armor began to dissolve, I looked at his face to see that he was smiling. He began to fade away. In my other self's place is a blue crystal, I felt the need to pick up the crystal, and crush it. Then it turned into a giant cannon. I also noticed that I was now wearing blue armor (Shelling Guardian promotional outfit.)
"I am Fretunir, the canon capable of using Disfrozen." A voice said inside of my head. I saw Elsword staring at me in awe.
"Whoa Chung, you got your weapon too!" Add smirked in approval.
Elsword's P.O.V
After the fight Chung and I were both exhausted and we decided that it was time to go back to our world.
"I'll make sure to protect her if anything happens to Rena." Add reassured us. After saying bye to Add we went back inside the TV screen and teleported back into Chung's dad's shop.
"Are we forgetting something?" I asked Chung.
"I don't think so." Chung replied.
Ara's P.O.V
"So they forgot about me huh?" I growled to myself. "Well, what did I expect nobody pays any attention to me anyway. Not even my own parents." I laughed dryly. I was sitting under a desk in Add's lab. I suddenly heard footsteps, oh no, Add was coming back! I didn't want to see his insanely attractive face or smirk, or I would make a fool out of myself! 'Oh who am I kidding? He would never go for someone like me.' I thought. Just as the footsteps got closer I dashed from under the desk and jumped into the other TV screen.I sighed in relief as I got back to the real world. I smiled knowing that I could go back there any time. Add seemed like a nice guy, though arrogant, he could be vulnerable, as she saw when he demonstrated when Rena was captured. I exited Helputt Mart and went back to my house.
Elsword's P.O.V
The next day I was walking to class before being stopped by Chung. "What is it?" I asked him.
"Uh, thanks for saving me." Chung chuckled sheepishly. "Um, so the thing was, I was thinking, if we work together and confront our other selves like I did yesterday, we might be able to stop the murder." He said. "So what do you say, partnership?" He smiled goofily, extending his arm to me. I grinned as I grasped his hand firmly.
"Partnership." And that's when the team and I were both walking to class when we saw the same small pale boy with snow white hair and golden eyes from yesterday. The boy smiled brightly before skipping over towards us.
"Hi, my name is Eve Xeon and I'll be your classmate for a year." Eve told us.
"Nice to meet you Eve." I smiled at him. Chung just stared dumfounded at the boy. Eve noticed Chung's intent gaze before grinning.
"You certainly are intriguing. I think that makes me attracted to you…" Chung began to stutter as Eve turned to skip into the classroom.I blinked as I looked at Eve skip away.
'Could it be? He has a certain aura, look, and grace like that of a girl.' I shook off the feeling and turned back to Chung. Who was still staring to where Eve had gone.
"A guy finds me intriguing." He muttered. "After confronting my other self, I might actually have a small crush on Eve. Ara than snuck up behind him, saying "Boo!"Chung jumped back, clearly startled.
"Aw, Chung do you have a crush? You're growing up so fast!" She squealed, glomping him and tugging on his Pikachu ears.
"Ah! Stop that big sis Ara!" I chuckled at the two, before the three of us headed into class.
-Time Elapse-
It was after school, and Chung and I were getting ready to head over to Helputt mart and attempt to save Rena. As we were getting ready, Ara stopped us.
"Wait! I want to help too!" She yelled. Chung waved his hands frantically.
"No big sis, I don't want you to get hurt!" I nodded in agreement.
"I don't want to be useless like last time. Rena is my best friend and she's done so much for me, now it's my turn to return it." She said, her eyes beginning to water.I sighed before handing her a tissue.
"Okay Ara, I won't stop you from doing what you feel is right." Ara's eyes widened, before she wrapped her arms around us both.
"Thank you so much you guys!" Chung patted her on the back.
"So, shall we go now?" I asked. Chung and Ara nodded as the three of us continued to make our way to the store. We got there, made sure that nobody was watching us, and then the three of us jumped into the big TV. Add was already standing there waiting for us. When Ara made eyes contact with him her face heated up once again and she squealed.
Add smirked before casually waving, "Hello guys. Shall we continue our rescue?" We all headed out into the wild. We were all following Add. He was using a strange black device. "This should lead us to Rena, it is tracking her El Aura, which is nature type element." I nodded, before the device started beeping. In front of us, was a huge Japanese style castle. However, it had trees everywhere, and vines covering it. I shrugged and we walked through it. The four of us went inside and we saw a pair of marble stairs. Just as we began to walk up them, huge shadow monsters came out of nowhere to attack us. "I should've prepared for this!" Add growled, shielding Ara from the formless beasts. Chung and I summoned our crystals. Our weapons appeared in our hands, and our armor from last time appeared too.
" I'll call this Sword Knight Armor." I said to Chung.
"Mines will be Shelling Guardian armor" He replied to me. One of the beasts charged at me. I kicked it in the stomach, before slashing it across the chest. As it was stunned, I slashed again, this time launching it into the air. As it fell back to the ground, I did a dash attack through it, and it dispersed into black flames. I turned to see Chung swinging his cannon into another monster. He then threw a grenade at it, causing it to explode. We turned to face the other monsters. Chung launched a signal flare into the air, summoning two waves of airstrikes to kill most of the enemies. The ones that were still alive started to get up, until I paralyzed them with a crescent slash. Then I charged up energy, and finished them off with a meteor slash.
"Where did you learn sword skills like that dude?" Chung asked.
"My old neighbor Raven taught me, he was really good." I replied smiling back. Now that I moved away, I wondered how Raven was doing.
"At this rate we'll find her in no time." Add smirked while Ara hugged the two boys. As we moved up the marble staircase, we finally reached the top. We saw her, Rena. She was standing next to a girl who looked similar to her, but had her hair in a ponytail.
"That's her other self…" I whispered to Chung.
Rena's P.O.V.
"Ara is nothing without you. Why don't you just ditch that little mouse? She just hides behind you anyway." My shadow self chuckled fiendishly. My eyes filled with rage.
"How dare you talk about Ara like that!" I yelled. My other self smirked sadistically.
"What? You're just using her anyway. Just like you use Elsword, Chung, and all your other friends." My eyes widened as a few stray tears slipped out.
'Was that true? Did I only use my friends as tools?'
Ara's P.O.V.
"You don't need Rena anyway." My other self chided me. She had the sides of her hair into two orange scrunches, and the rest flowed behind her back.
"Yes I do, she's my best friend!" I yelled back. My other self held one finger up to silence me.
"You do need her don't you? After all you're just too needy. In fact, you're so needy that nobody needs you." I gasped in shock.
"N-no, that's not true…" I stuttered, more to convince myself than her.
"I can tell you're beginning to realize it." My other self giggled. "Just kill yourself and do the world a favor!" I slowly began to give in.
"No one would care if I died anyway…" I whispered.
"Exactly!" My other self grinned. She then took out a spear. "So that's why I'll do you a favor and kill you myself!" Both of the other selves started to laugh insanely and glow a bright red. They had turned into their shadow forms.
"This is getting messy." Elsword growled.
Yumi: Okay, once again thanks for reading. By the way, I will start adding fanservice for certain couples if it is requested. Please review! Nightail works really hard on this story.