Author's Note: I AM ALIVE! Whew, senior year of high school bring quite the trouble. But I shall prevail against this. So I bring you the next installment. Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Elsword... or anyone else... even the characters that I play.

Chapter 3: Ethan

Raven was pissed.

And he refused to acknowledge why.

So he ended up being even more pissed.

He sat at the dining table glaring at the wood surface. The rest of the ElGang (minus Chung and Eve) were scattered about the room. That morning Chung had said they would see their Nasod friend again; though the warrior seemed worried about something as he spoke to them.

The whole thing made Raven uneasy. What where they doing up there anyway?

As they waited a commotion up stairs began to filter down into the room. Loud bangs and yelling could be heard; these caused the dark haired male to look up just in time to see something white shoot down the stairs and knock him to the floor. The movement was so unexpected that he just lay there, almost gaping at the person on top of him.

It was a young male, seemingly in his late teens. He had shaggy silvery hair that framed his face, a few strands falling into his luminescent golden eyes. The teen was dressed only in a simple white shirt and shorts, which revealed quite a bit of pale skin. But the thing that Raven stared at the most was the blue gem set in a gold ring on the boy' forehead and the blue markings under the boys eyes. Also the black and gold horn like things on the sides of his head only stretched his shock.

When the boy spoke his voice, though rather childish in tone, had the same mechanical sound in it as Eve's did when she was adjusting from either damage or a reboot. "Raven! Are you well?!" he almost yelled. "When Chung told me you were awake I had to make sure that you were feeling better! I could not live with myself if-" that was when Chung came down and started pulling the teen (who was a bit taller than the blonde) back up the stairs.

"Eve! What's gotten into you?! Something's wrong you're not-" he tried to say but was cut off.

"I feel fine, Chung! Better than fine; my system is running at a capacity that is just astounding! Please let me go."

"No! You are most certainly not fine!"

"I do not require any more assistance from you! Please set me down!"

"WILL SOME ONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT'S GOING ON!" a voice bellowed. Everyone froze. Chung had his hands wrapped around the strangers chest and was trying to pull him back up the stairs. Raven as still frozen on the floor, Elsword had fallen out of his chair with shock at the yell, and Aisha had her hands clapped over her ears. Rena was standing up and panting heavily, her eyes boring into Chung's. "Where is Eve?" she said, her voice was low and deadly.

Chung gulped and said in a small voice, "S-she's right here." At this the teen gave a small wave.

Rena looked at the odd boy carefully, "Eve? That's not really you is it."

The boy grinned and squirmed out of Chung's grip. Then he proceeded to tackle Rena, "Rena! It is so good to see you again!"

Rena managed to get some form of order back into the room after some pushing and shoving. She sat Eve and Chung on the floor with the rest of the group standing in a sem-circle looking down at them. "Alright," Rena said, "Explain it to us one more time." She crossed her arms as she spoke.

The Trooper gave a sigh and said, "Eve came to me and asked for help with something. She wanted to transfer her hard drives and stuff into a male unit. She wouldn't really give a good answer as to why, but it didn't seem dangerous and it's what she wanted so I helped her. But something seems to be wrong, I put everything from her old unit into the new one and it all seemed to go in just fine. Eve built the thing herself so I didn't expect any problems. But she must have gotten some sort of bug in her system during the reboot, she's acting all…" he trailed off looking over at the male Eve who was rocking back and forth humming to himself, his eyes were flickering over everything in the room, as if he was seeing them for the first time. When the Nasod saw Chung looking at him the teen beamed at him and waved. "Well, I think you can tell." Chung finished.

"Soooo…." Aisha began, "Eve's a guy now; a happy, energetic guy who is slightly childish to boot."

"Seems like it." Elsword said.

Rena turned to Eve, "Eve, are you okay with this. Maybe we should put you back."

Eve's face grew panicked, "No! I want to stay like this. At least for a little while; I wanted to get stronger and my data inputs show that a male unit would offer more storage room for El. Like the King, I am stronger now. If I had to fight him again I have a better chance of beating him, even if I lose my servants. Also…" The Nasod trailed off. There seemed to be something else, but he didn't seem to want to share that reason. So he just smiled, shook his head and said cheerfully, "And that is it."

There were a few beats of silence. Then Aisha got stars in her eyes, "So how did you do it, Eve? Build a brand new unit from scratch. It's so cool!" she asked.

Eve grinned, got to his feet, and hooked his arm in with Aisha's, "Well it certainly was not easy. Especially because I did not want anyone to see what I was doing until I was ready…."

The two walked away, leaving the rest in the living room still slightly dumbfounded and marveling at the oddities of Nasods.