Shiraga: chapter 10, finally, longest chapter ever, anyway, enjoy, now I need some more coffee for game grinding
Chapter 10: The Elf of Resurrection
"Ho? So you know my name? But I don't think I've met you before."—Joaquin asked back after examining Add for a while. "So you dared to forget about me? After you killed my whole village and my family in front of my eyes?"—Add yelled back while gritting his teeth. "Tell me something boy, do you recall every information file that you discarded when they are no longer useful to you? Do you recall every single ant that you stepped on every day?"—Joaquin mocked back with a smirk. Add remained silent for a while, then took off his eye patch with a maniac grin. "I've never recalled those things, to bothersome and time consuming. But I'll make sure to recall a demon that I ripped apart today."Then in a blink of eye, Add opened a space portal and kicked Joaquin inside. But the demon showed no confusion, but instead, interest. "Hoho! So this is the crack between time and space huh? Very interesting indeed. Now I remember you."—Joaquin said when looking into Add's eyes with it sclera turned black.
"You are that kid from the City in the Sky. Yes, now I remembered. Your village is the descendants of the nasod creator. That place held a massive amount of data on the nasod, and your father is the village best scientist. But because he was so persistent and refused to join force with us demons, I've no choice but to take the information by force. 14 years had it been, and your eyes are still the same as back then-full of vengeance and hatred."—then Joaquin took out a bottle and slammed it to the ground, smoke started to cover his body, when the smoke have faded, the demon is no longer there. Add looked around to find the demon where about, but no sign of him, but he can still hear his voice. "Maybe next time boy. When the time has come, I'll make sure to welcome you properly, hahaha!"—Add stepped outside his space portal and ended up in the bush where the other spies are still stalking the couple, with an angry expression. The others let out a small scream when Add suddenly appear out of nowhere.
"What the heck Add? / Where have you been? You missed all the romantic scenes! / Shhhhh! Keep it low! They might hear us…"—but before Lime could finish her warning, the spies turned around to see Rena standing there, with murderous intention and dark aura covering her body. "May I ask what are you all doing in the bush?"—the spies sweat dropped while trying to find an excuse, unfortunately, the redhead was the first one to find an excuse. "We are definitely not spying on your date with Raven!"—the other face palmed hard at Elsword worst excuse for the current situation, then they all gave him a beat up. "Rena, we are not spying on your date, why should we? We are…..uh….TRAINING! Yeah, training our ambush skill, you know what they said, 'practice make perfect', and general Add is here too!"—Lime excuse seemed to be perfect and might save their lives, but when they turned around, Add is already gone with Ara using his space portal. "Enough excuse, I'll have to teach you all a lesson then, fufufu."—Rena said while moving toward the spies slowly with a devilish smile on her lips, causing them to scream internally.
After the horrible lesson, they all return to the hot spring. Add and Ara were having their meal, Add then pretended to be innocent and asked. "Oh, back so soon? Why the face? Something scare your guts out?"—Add mocked while looking at the spies soulless expression. After finishing their meals and bath, everyone moved back to their room to pack their stuffs. Hour later, everyone is already asleep, except for a silver hair figure sitting beside the window, deep in his own thought.
Then the morning came, everyone is at the door of the Hamel hot spring. They gave the twin hostess sister their final goodbye then climb on the back the Drabaki to return to the 'Guardian' HQ as their vacation had ended. 30 minutes later, the 9th Sky Division had returned to the HQ. Their ships have been repaired and good as new. Then Add was summoned to the special meeting hall because the other teams have found the last 2 Els, the Water and Wind El. Add then ordered Elesis to come along as they will need all the 6 Els to present. The duo then proceeded to the meeting hall. Still the same familiar faces and still the same dagger glares like a week ago, but this time, there were 4 unfamiliar faces standing beside Ignia. But Add don't mind about those details and took his seat, Elesis standing next to him. Then Add, Elesis, Lime, Noah and Edan placed the Els on the sensor. "So we have gathered all the 6 Els, this HQ will soon be the demons biggest target, if they attack this base full force, casualties are unavoidable. So today meeting purpose is to find a new place to hide the Els."—the other then started to whisper with each other. Many places were recommended, but none of them seemed to be a good place to hide the Els. After a while, Luto sighed and announced to dismiss the meeting. "This meeting is getting nowhere. We will send investigation team to look for a good place. Now, dismiss."—Add then take back his dark El, fire El and exited the meeting hall. After a while, Add heard Ignia calling for him. When he turned around, he saw Ignia running toward him along with 2 more girls, one with black costume while the other wear mostly white. They are the Dark and Light priestess.
"You are general Add?"—Gloria, the light priestess asked. "Ignia have told me a lot about you when she was staying with your division. Thank you for bringing back the light El." "It my job. And you are?"—Add said then turned to the dark priestess. "I am Darkmoon. It's a pleasure to meet you, Ebalon Chosen One. It pretty rare to see someone managed to pull out the full potential of the dark El."—right when Darkmoon just finished her greeting, the alarm bell rang and red light started to go flashing. "Alert! Enemies detected! Alert! Enemies detected!" "I knew that they will come, but didn't expect to be this soon. Ignia, take the other priestesses to the commander deck, you will be safe there. We will deal with these pathetic demons."—Add then ran off back to his team along with Elesis.
"Where did the enemies come from?"—Glave asked while entering the commander deck. "Sir, it seemed that they came here through some kind of portal. And not only that, the radar detected multiple 'Knowledge Hunter' signature among them." "So those hunters have managed to create a massive transporting portal huh? What is their number?"—Glave asked still with his monotone voice while playing with his dice. "They are everywhere, the number go straight through the roof sir. We had been surrounded."—Allergo, the navigator replied with a panicked and shaky voice. "Kukuku, worry not. This base might not have Elrios strongest weapon system, but it have Elrios most combative soldiers. And we also have those things."—Glave thought on the last part while looking at Drabaki and Eltrion through the monitor screen.
After a while, Add returned to where the 9th Sky Division ships are currently station then he ran to the observatory to check the enemies formation. The 'Guardian' HQ is completely surrounded with waves after waves of demons coming out from many portals. Add was shocked a bit, then the shock turned into a maniac laugh. "Kehahahaha! Look like I owned you demons a thank you. Thank you for coming straight right to me, now I won't have to waste my time trying to figure out how to open a portal to your realm to kick your pathetic asses."—then he jumped down from the observatory to where the other of his division is. "Chung, how is the nasod scorpions?" "Perfect condition"—Chung replied after checking their nasod scorpions and Personal Mobile though the hologram screen. "Good, guess some workout after a vacation is not bad."—Add took off his eyepatch then cracked his knuckles together, while the nasod scorpions and Personal Mobile along with all the other units are forming the attack formation. Then Glave announced though the megaphones. "Normally, this would be the time where I give a heroic speech and tell you all to protect the base at all cost. Well, screw the traditional, we don't need to defend the base. Kill them all is a faster and better way."—all the soldiers then let out an intense war cry in union then charged toward the waves of demons.
"Hahaha! This brought back so many memories!"—Helputt, the White Colossus laughed while using his cannon as a shield and charged forward the demons. His 'Vanguard' is currently the tip of the spear. But leading the attack formation is Add and Edan. The 2 cleared their path forward while punching, slashing every single demons that dare to come close, creating a red line of blood stained ground behind them. And both of them have their own happy expression on their face, Add with his maniac grin while Edan with his sadistic frown.
"Quake Buster! / Hyper Sonic Stab!"
"Moonlight Rhapsody! / Shockwave-Divider!"
"Conqueror! / Giga Drive-Seismic Tremor!"
"Wow, those 2 sure love to fight. Good! We are not going to lose either! Storm Blade"—Elsword encouraged the other then summoned his spell blades. "Hah! Let see if you can beat me Elsword! Armageddon Blade!"—Lowe mocked back while stabbing the demons with his sword after creating an aura blade. "Hey count me in! Sword of Victory!"—Elesis also joined the competition. After a while, the numbers of demons have decreased greatly, but when they thought that everything will over soon, stepped out from the portals are many colossal figures with great number. "Just what in the name of El?" "I see you are back, and you brought your friend along with you."—Helputt said while staring at the hoard of giants. A lot of Victor the Big along with Uno Hound and Waldo, stepped out of the portals.
"There is no way we can beat these things! Fall back to reform formation!"—Noah ordered while creating a giant wall of ice to cover for the soldiers to retreat. Chung contacted Add through his communicate device. "General, I have a plan, buy me sometime so I can prepare the necessities." "Good, you got 10 minutes." "Then look like I got 4 minutes to spare."—Chung joked then turned off his communicate device. "So all we need to do is to buy them 6 minutes, think you are up for another round?"—Add asked Edan who is licking some blood on his sword. "As long as there is blood to drink, I'll fight until they gone dry."—Edan responded with his sadistic smile. "Don't you dare starting a fight with these things without me."—Helputt then joined the conversation along with Elsword. "Heh, doesn't matter if it 6 or 10 minutes, I'll just slice and dice these guys." "Until Chung give the signal, stop them from getting any further toward the base."
"Lunar Blade! / Stasis Field! / Caladbolg Pain! / Flying Impact!/"—after a while of stopping the giants, Chung have done with his preparation and gave Add a a marking device via the communicate device. "Place this on the ground to mark the location, and prepare for another firework show."—Add then stabbed the device on one of the Uno Hound, then create a black hole to hold them in one place. "Neutron Bomb! Now Chung!"—Chung then fired a cluster flare into the sky. A portal opened right where the flare disappeared. From the portal, many missiles started to rain down on the giants. Add, Edan, Elsword and Helputt managed to retreat to a safe distance and now they are enjoying the firework show. "What do you think about my 'Satellite Rain' ?"—Add just smirked back. "8 out of 10."
The waves of missile finally end. The ground is filled with the corpses of demons. But when they are about to celebrate their victory, the ground trembled and another hoard of demons appeared from underground where the other soldiers are taking cover behind the ice wall. "What the ? The things that we have been fighting are just a diversion?"—then a Uno Hound got behind Rena, knocked her out and take her away through the tunnel that they used to ambush while the other causing a ruckus. When the demon that got Rena returned to the gate, the other demons then changed from defensive to offensive state. "Raven! What is the situation over there?" "The waves of demons just now are just a diversion, they used an underground tunnel to ambush on us. And I don't see Rena anywhere."—Add eyes then widened after hearing that Rena is missing. Then he looked at the portal to see an Uno Hound carrying a lime hair figure. "Edan, Elsword, helputt, get back there to help the other."—Add ordered then rushed toward the portal. "Add, what wrong?" "They got Rena, I'll go and get her."
"I'll go with you." "No, it will take time for you to break through the line of demons to get here and those portals ain't gonna wait for it, and it too dangerous for you to go alone even with your skill. I'll try and get Rena back, in the mean time, you have to keep the 9th Sky Division and the HQ safe. That an order from the general, got it?"—Add said while beating down the demons to clear his path to the portal. "If you don't get her back in one piece, then I'll give you a punch hard in the face." "Hey, I'm Add, not the knucklehead ok." "Hey I heard that!"—Elsword yelled into Raven communicate device. "Tch, the portals are about to close. Get your pathetic asses out of my way!"—Add then shot his Quake Buster toward the Uno Hound that is carrying Rena, causing it to fall down and dropped Rena. Add dashed toward and managed to catch Rena on time. But when he was about to return, the portal started to close and sucked him along with Rena inside.
"Um…..why is it so dark here?"—Rena though to herself while looking around the dark empty space.
"Oh yeah, I was battling with the demons and got knocked out. I must wake up, but….the surface is so soft and I felt so sleepy."
"…ter!...Moonlight…Strike!….." / "Hmm? This voice…it sound familiar, sound like the general Add. Sound like he is fighting someone….wait, fighting?"—Rena finally woke up. In front of her eyes is not the Continent of Elrios, but a dark sky with dark background, dark surface with some red glowing line of lava flowing. Then she looked down and saw Add was fighting with a hoard of demons. He was too busy dealing with those in front of him so he didn't see there is one hiding at a cliff nearby sniping on him with it bow. "Guide Arrow!"—Rena shot 4 homing around forward the demon, killing it immediately. Add then finished the hoard of demons in front of him with a final blow. "Gravity Buster!"—when the smoke have faded, the hoard of demons are now lying on the floor, unmoving. "Tch! Pathetic scum, gah!"—Add then collapsed to one knee while covering the wound on his left shoulder. "General!"—Rena then rushed toward Add to check on his wound. "Oh, you are awake, any injuries?"—Add asked Rena under his breath. "Don't say anything! I'll call the earth spirit to heal you."—Rena summoned a green glowing orb in her palm and tried to heal Add wounds. But the healing was very slow or rather nothing happened. Rena tried again and again but to no avail. Then Add pushed her hands away. "This is the demon realm, look like your spirits don't have power to reach another dimension."—then Add stood up and sent his dynamos to investigate the surrounding area while tending his wounds with his first aid kit. Rena looked at his heavily wounded figure worriedly. After a while, his dynamos return with a holographic map. "Those scum just now is only the scout, soon their main army will come. This place is filled with demonic aura so my dynamos cannot create a space portal. We need to get away far enough for it to function."—Rena then picked up Add coat that he had spread on the ground for her to rest and folded it neatly, then putted it into her bag. The 2 started to move away from the demonic aura according to Add map.
After a while, they have encountered several demons on their way, but those were no threat to them, so they took the demons out rather easily. The silent atmosphere is in the air, then Rena decided to start a conversation. "Lime told me that you and Raven knew each other a long time even before you 2 joined the 'Guardian', so how did you 2 know each other?"—Add remained silent for a bit, then sit down on a rock to rest and started to recall the story. "It was a long time ago, 2 years after the Great war broke out. I lived in a village on the City in the Sky. My village is the descendant of the nasod creator. Because of that, demon started to invade my village. At first, they negotiated with my dad, the village chief and best scientist. But my dad refused to join force with them, so they slaughtered my whole village right in front of my eyes."—Rena startled at the story then apologized Add for making him to remember his painful past.
"It ok, the past is behind now. The demons then sold me to slavery. I managed to escape and run, run as fast as I could, without knowing my destination. Until I reach a camping site."
"Please! Someone, help!"—Add screamed for help when reaching the camping site. A man with blond braided hair then approached him. "What's wrong?"—Add then pointed at the direction where he had been running away from. "Human trafficking…..there is a group of human trafficking 10 miles away from here…."—another group of men appeared with weapon in their hand. "Thank kid, we will deal with those guys for you."—Add vision then faded to black as he fell unconscious. Many days later, he woke up. The man who he first met days ago was sitting on a chair near the bed where he is resting, reading a book. "Oh, you are awake."—the man then introduced his name was Alex, and this place is the camping site of a group of spontaneous mercenaries named the Black Crow, but they still take mission from the goverment. When Add asked about the group of human trafficking, Alex said that they have rescued all the prisoners. "Thanks to you kid, they were about to leave when we came. If you come just a minute later, we would have lost their track. We have been hunting for those guys for a long time."—then another man with black hair and a woman with long green hair stepped inside the tent. "Feeling better?"—the man with black hair, name Raven asked. Add then nodded, then the woman with long green hair approached him. "That a relief. We were worried that you might not make it. My name is Seris, and you are?" "…Add…just…Add."—then 2 days later, Add had completely recovered. So he went outside to explore the camp. Most of the soldiers of the Black Crow are orphan or were rescued from slavery like him, so he get along with them pretty fast.
For 2 years, Add spent his time with the Black Crow, wandering from place to place to help those in need. When they have no mission to do, they will return to Alex house and rest until new missions arrive. Add got attracted by Alex library, it held a lot of information about both human world and nasod race. Alex said that the library belonged to the former owner of this house, and those books were too complicated for him to understand so he rarely went inside the library. Combined with Add knowledge that he got from his father and the books from the library, Add managed to create his weapon, the dynamos. As thought that this new life will last forever, until one day…
The demons started to make their move on invading Velder. The Black Crow mercenaries also joined in force with Velder army. But on a mission, they got ambushed. The entire group was slaughtered, Raven left arm got ripped while battling the demons. Then, only Alex, Seris, Add and Raven still standing. But Raven body soon reach it limit, and he collapsed to the ground, Add is also in no better shape, he was on one knee. Back then when he first created his dynamos, Alex was the first one that he showed his creation, and told him a lot about the dynamos, so Alex knew a little bit about how they work. "Alex, what are you doing?"—Add asked while Alex is inputting some commands into his dynamos. The 6 objects then turned to Add and Raven, picked their body up. "We might not make it out of this, but at least, you 2 can live."—the dynamos then took Add and Raven away while Alex and Seris stayed and trying to stop the demons. Add screamed at the top of his lungs while reaching his hand out at Alex and Seris, tears started to slid down his cheek. After a while, the dynamos finally stopped and drop the 2 on the ground, Raven is still unconscious, Add kneeled and punch the ground. "Why? Just why these things always happen to me? I've lost my family, just when I thought that I've found a new, those demons just come and took away what belong to me!"—he screamed in agony as it started to rain. "Because of those demons….No, it because I was too weak, I couldn't protect those that important to me! I must get stronger!"—with the thought in mind, Add ordered his dynamos to pick raven body up. Then the 2 went to Altera, the floating island on the sky, the place where the nasod resided. When they reached Altera, Add asked for help from the King Nasod to replace Raven arm. After the King Nasod had agreed, Add the left and returned to the old library to started his research. "That library seemed to connected to other place through a crack of time and space. So it must hold a lot more knowledge than anything in this world. I must obtain those knowledge if I want to get stronger, to revenge those demons!"
"8 years I spent all my time in that endless library, later on I found out that it was a part of Henir Time & Space, explain how I got the power to control Time and Space. Then I come back to Altera to see Raven, then we both went to Velder Military school. The rest of the story you have already heard it from Lime. One more thing, you greatly resembled Seris, Raven dead fiancée, that maybe the reason why Raven chose you. But don't get the wrong idea that he chose you as a replacement for Seris, I know him a lot more than anyone here, so what he love is the you inside, not because you look like Seris."—right when Add just finished his story, his dynamos warned him that there are a lot of demons coming at them. "Tch! Those things have managed to catch up with us, we must keep moving!"—then 2 continued to run. After a while, the dynamos reported that the demonic aura had started to fade. "Good, just a little bit longer and we can get out of this aura so I can open a portal."—when they have ran far enough, the dynamos can finally open a space portal. Then a giant figure swung it gigantic arm to hit Add, Rena pushed him aside and took the direct hit, knocking her out.
"Kek! Even if I somehow manage to grab Rena and open a portal in time, these things will just follow through the portal until they have her for their 'Elf of Resurrection'." –Add gritted his teeth while looking at the hoard of demons with a Waldo standing between them. "Let see who will die first, you pathetic bastard or me."
-Meanwhile, back at the 'Guardian' HQ—
"I need 3 more packs of type B blood over here!" / "Give that one over there a shot of painkiller fast!"—the medics were tending the wounded soldiers. They have managed to defeat the ambushed demons, and luckily only a few were injured. Raven then approached Ignia who is healing the soldiers with her spell. "You need something Raven?" "I think there is something that you haven't told us."—Raven expression turned serious while Ignia titled her head to the side with an innocent face. "What do you mean?"—Raven then signaled the priestess to follow him to where the other of the 9th Sky Division is. Then he spoke up his though. "There are 6 Els and 6 priestesses are chosen by the 6 Masters, correct? But here, I only see 5 priestesses. According to their clothes, the priestess of the Nature El is missing, and it have something to do with Rena, correct me if I'm wrong."—Ignia then sighed and closed her eyes. After a while, she opened her eyes again. "Yes, you are right. Rena is the 'Elf of Resurrection', or in other word, the sacrifice to revive the Nature priestess."—the others were shocked at those words. "The Nature priestess was killed by the 'Knowledge Hunter' while she was protecting the Nature El. When she came to the Elf Village and hand over the El to the elder, she passed out right after that. This method was passed down to the priestess by the 6 Master of Els. If one priestess somehow die, we must find another suitable one to use as a sacrifice to replace her, and when I first met Rena, I knew that she was the most suitable. But this was too savage to we decided to seal the scroll showing the way to do this. But the last time we check where the scroll was sealed, at Feita Underground Chapel, it was stolen. The demons must have stole it, and now they need Rena to do the sacrifice."—Raven then punched the wall in anger. "Those demons, there is no way I'm going forgive them about this."
At the outskirt of the forest nearby, a crack of space then opened. Add stepped out from it with Rena in his arms. His uniform is now stained with blood, both from his wounds and the demons. "Don't you even think about dying Rena. You are my underling, and there is no way I'm letting any of you die before I get to do so."—Add said to the unconscious Rena while trying to force his legs to move, his dynamos are now sparking with purple electricity and will soon cease to function. He gritted his teeth while moving forward, blood dripping down from his wounds leaving a trail of blood behind him. "Everyone! General Add is back with Rena!"—Chung ran inside to inform the other. Raven and Ara immediately rushed outside to where Add and Rena are. When Raven came, Add handed Rena over to him and said under his breath. "Take…..care of her…"—then he cough out some blood and collapsed to the ground, completely unmoving, only what left is a scream of a black hair girl. "ADD!'
Shiraga: yup, cliffhanger, I know, but dont worry, there is no way im letting Add die, he is my love child in this story