To Twist Fate 4
Chapter 4: Split? No?
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Rena sighed as she sat down beside Raven and buried her head in her hands.
"I don't know what to do..." She murmured.
"I'm sure it'll be okay." Raven adjusted the rack atop the fire.
"How can you be so sure?" Rena said dejectedly, "Is it really impossible for us to get along?"
"Not everyone gets along Rena, you should know this especially well."
"Well, of course, except—"
"Rena," Raven cut her off, "she needs time. We were all once like this, correct?"
Rena paused before nodding slowly.
Elsword's sister disappeared from his life, only to appear a few years later, reappear for a night, and leave the next day.
Aisha lost all her magic.
Rena left her world behind.
Raven lost so much from being a knight to a cursed presence.
"Yes. You're right." Rena looked up from her hands. "But she looked—"
"We all had that look at one point." Raven pointed out.
Rena fell silent.
"All we can do is wait."
The elf tilted her head and leaned on Raven's non-Nasod arm.
"She doesn't have to watch my back... I just want to watch hers." she said.
Deol essentially kicked the tent down and collected all the dissembled pieces. Isn't that a wonderful plan?
'I'm just so focused on finding my brother now... What Glave said... My sanity will run out?' Her eyes glanced over to the El Search Party.
'Impossible.' she spat in her head, 'Besides, why do I care with what will happen to them if I do go crazy?'
'They are your description of family.' her own voice resounded in her head.
'Lies.' Okay, maybe she was going a tad-bit insane. Deol was talking to herself, maybe she needed to go talk to Glave about the sanity he was taking.
She turned away to finish putting away the tent into the case provided before snapping her fingers and transporting the tent away to a mana-sealed place. Thank Glave for that.
Standing up, Aisha walked over to her.
"Hey, how'd you learn to use mana to transport items?"
"Is it really unusual for a thief to learn to use mana?" Deol was given a deadpan by the mage, "Okay, lemme fix that, a time-travelling thief." The black-haired girl corrected.
"Fair enough." Aisha shrugged. "It's a mana-generated location, right?"
"More of mana-sealed." Deol said emotionlessly, "I think I transport it to a real space."
"Might learn a thing or two from you." Aisha noted.
"Might learn how to not act like a brat from me." She waved her hand dismissively in the purple-haired girl's face.
Aisha didn't bat an eye.
"We might get along."
"Okay." Deol said, voice empty, "So, a few things I want to clarify. You four are clearly stronger than me, so I just want to go on my own and train a bit. If you're going to make some obscene objection and say that I'll learn more if I tag along with you, I kindly," she said the word in a drawl, "reject your offer. You guys didn't clear off the Altera Core, and it'll be good practice for me, no?"
"Uhm..." Aisha hesitated, "We cleared it out from Black Crows... Except we haven't investigated further. It's unsafe for you to go alone."
"Don't care." The thief replied.
Rena looked at Raven, who looked at Elsword.
"Well... you could go by yourself..." The magic knight said slowly, ultimately rewarded with glares from everyone else in the El Search Party.
"B-but we aren't sure if you're going to keep your word and stay clean of murder!" Elsword quickly refuted.
"I swear on my life." Deol said.
"Empty promises won't do much." Raven replied, "That's what everyone told me."
"What about her magic?" Deol pointed at Aisha.
"What about my magic?"
"Can you conjure a magical entity to follow me around?"
Aisha first slapped Elsword's mouth closed before continuing, "Sadly, no. But it seems we'll have to trust you on your own."
"You'll let me leave for the Altera Core?" Deol tilted her head.
"We all probably go against the idea," Rena sighed, "But this may be the best chance to earn your trust."
"So you understand how I work." Deol faked a smile.
"We'll go our separate ways for now." Elsword said, "But meet back in Altera Village within 10 days, okay?"
"Deal, Rune-child."
Add peeked out from behind a tree as he saw the five dispersing. The signal clearly came from the girl... but he felt like stayed as far away from her as possible.
She reminded him of his mother looks-wise. The form of her hair, the way she moved. Except... his mother had white hair, she had black. And his mother would never be so cold and direct.
The other half was searching for him however... So... the girl it was then.
He really knew nothing about her, heck, he didn't even know her name. So all he could refer to her as was 'Subtract'.
Add could only wait for the perfect chance to appear.
Elsword stopped abruptly in his tracks before turning to look back.
"We shouldn't go to Elder." he said.
"What?" Aisha asked.
"A chill just ran down my spine." Elsword shivered.
"We can't let Deol alone in that place."
"Finally, smart one!" Aisha groaned, "Maybe you'll use logic more from now on!"
"You indirectly supported that idea—"
"Because I thought you would object."
"Please stop arguing..." Rena held up both her hands, "Besides, Elsword, we need to find that other boy, Add."
"Do you think Add and Deol have some sort of connection?" Raven asked suddenly.
"Those two? Impossible!" Elsword declared.
"Well..." Aisha looked at Elsword, "Compare those two. Deol, black hair. Add, white hair. Deol, green eyes. Add, magenta eyes. Completely related." she noted sarcastically.
"Their knowledge or usage of Nasods?" Rena offered.
That shut the teen up.
"Well, we shouldn't go around assuming things." Elsword shrugged, "But what we should do, is go and find Deol."
"And Add?" Aisha asked.
"That can wait." The magic knight ran back to where they came from, the other three following closely behind him.
Deol kicked the broken parts of a Nasod out of her path.
"Tch. Stupid robots." She muttered.
They provided much more challenge than those back at Elder, for sure.
It's been two days already. If the El Search Party wanted to track her and tail her, she would definitely have sensed their presence already. But she didn't, or maybe she was got brain damage from staying with Elsword.
Deol looked behind her once again. Walked forward quite a bit, before checking behind her again.
It wasn't the El Search Gang's presence. It was just a familiar one.
She dismissed it.
After walking for a few minutes, she came to her destination. The centre of Altera Island.
'Location of the Altera Core.' Deol stated in her head.
. . .
Add glanced at the entrance of a hidden structure once the coast was clear.
'That girl isn't completely useless.' He thought, grinning.
'The Altera Core... Perfect, perfect, perfect! Staying with that moron, Wally, would have never gotten me anywhere!' He hopped on his dynamos to continue tailing Deol.
The El Search Party stood at the entrance, seeming skeptical of the chances of Deol being here.
"Are you sure?" Aisha asked.
"We asked locals around for a girl dressed in black and teal, we got this location." Rena replied, "Seems like the best choice, considering we checked many places already."
"Well I say we go!" Elsword declared, "We can't leave her alone here."
Meanwhile, in the heart of Altera Core, a female model Nasod laid curled up in a cyrotube-esque system.
"Commence: Queen Awakening."
A larger Nasod loomed over the scene.
((A/N: HELLO EVERYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOONEEEEEEE
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I wanted to upload this with the cover I was drawing... too bad my laziness got the better of me qwq orz
Me before writing this: Alright let's make Deol go off on her own and release Eve because I love screwing up canon storylines
Me mid-way through writing this: oh shit, Elsword is supposed to break the Altera Core and piss Add off, better go add a plot-twist.
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