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Alternate World Classlist:

Elsword: Lord Knight

Eve: Code: Battle Seraph

Rena: Night Watcher

Raven: Veteran Commander

Chung: Tactical Trooper

Aisha: Elemental Master

Ara: Asura

Elesis: Grand Master

OC Classlist:

Seris: Body of Light

Mira: Code: Future Hope

Alma: Relivu Nightingale

Embracing the Future

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Chapter 9: Hymn of the Field

'Your song protects me...my sword defends you...'

"Seris...Mira..." Alma murmured slowly, not turning away from her alternate.

Her alternate was still laughing, as Eve immediately ordered a full retreat of all of the royal army. Carrying her king, she led Rena, Raven, and Ara away from the scene as quickly as possible. She, like the rest, was severely beaten up as well. Alma could not help but notice that her alternate's hair was pure black, and her eyes were gold. At the same rate, Seris could not help but feel extreme terror that Alma could end up as injured as the El Gang. Mira's eyes were wide as could be.

"W-What...?"

"Mira...please go to the castle. Tell Cedric that I was happy to be his friend. I may not come out of this situation alive, and I want all of you to know that I loved you all very much. Even when I was angry...I wanted nothing more than to be your friends..." Alma sighed, closing her eyes, "Seris...thank you for being a mother to me in these short days...I'm so sorry. Right now I need your help..."

"I will not deliver your death notice!" screamed Mira, "You can't die! You can't!"

"I might..." Alma murmured.

"No you won't," Seris sighed, "-I won't allow it. Tell me what you need of me."

"I need your healing skills...and at some point, I may need your other sword. But that's a different issue," the child explained, "-I also need you to sing a love song. I need a full resource of love to counteract the hatred this demon is exuding. Without it, I may get consumed again. Even if you finish one song, just sing another. That's all I ask...if I die today, I want to die with love. Not hatred and anger. Do not raise your sword...raise your voice...for my sake, please."

Seris bit her lip, but nodded, "I will do that for you then."

Alma nodded, carefully wielding the claymore Seris was allowing her to borrow. She had never looked at it much before, but it was an interesting blade. It amazed the Relivu, with its pink gemstones and smooth, black colored blade. She was also amazed, as beautiful, intricate white lines ran the surface as she gripped it tightly in her hands. Meanwhile, Seris quickly gripped Mira's shoulder and whispered to her, making the small girl's eyes go wide. As Alma screamed and attacked the dangerous enemy with the claymore, the sword locked with the reassembly of The Sword of a Thousand Moons. The demonic Alma quickly overpowered the sword and swung, slicing a deep gash into Alma's hip before said girl stabbed her demonic counterpart through the chest again. Meanwhile, Mira began to panic at Seris' request.

"What...are you sure?"

"I'm sure. Please hurry."

"But Seris! That's not safe!"

"Please just do it Mira."

"Are you..."

"Yes! Now go!"

Just as Mira made to flee from the field at Seris' orders, Alma was slammed hard in the midsection by her alternate. Shrieking in concern, Mira continued her rush as Seris tried hard to think of a love song to sing. Meanwhile, Alma shrieked in pain as her demonic alternate kicked the downed little girl, tossing her even further away from Seris. Panicking, Seris quickly clasped her hands together in prayer stance, a white light exuding from her body immediately. Keeping her hands together and focusing hard, she cringed as Alma screamed, trying hard to fight back. A wicked laugh left the demonic Alma, no longer sentient in any manner. Seris squeezed her eyes shut, unable to bear the severe amount of bloodshed in such short amount of time. Especially since most of the blood was that of the good Alma.

"Angel Cure!"

The light left her, surrounding Alma instead as the young Relivu stabbed her alternate through and tossed the demon from her blade, throwing the black haired abomination across the field. Shrieking in a sudden chest pain, the true Alma hold her chest and glanced over at the blond.

"Seris, I need a song! Please...my body is trying to absorb that emotion!"

"O-Okay! U-Uhm..."

"Just sing...something! Just...sing...sing like you would sing to Raven!"

Seris felt her heart pound and she bit her lip nervously as Alma swung the claymore harshly, screaming as she was suddenly impaled by her alternate. Straight through a nonvital location between the shoulder and ribs. Still, the pain was great as the girl pulled herself off of the blade, jarring the sword through one of the alternate's arms...and cutting said appendage clean off. It was then that Seris suddenly pulled her hair down from it's long, slightly curled ponytail, and cast out another Angel Cure on Alma...on the girl she considered a daughter. Only then did she finally sing her song...

"And I'd give up forever to touch you...
'Cause I know that you feel me somehow...
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be...
And I don't want to go home right now!"

Alma gasped in relief, a sigh coming from her as she felt immediate calm flowing back through her veins. The love exuding from Seris was enough to outdo the severe hatred of the demon, and thus preventing Alma from absorbing such terrible emotions. As the swords locked again, Alma finally leaped into the air, landed gracefully atop her alternate's head, and slashed the girl's back. A demonic shout rose, her longevity only increased by said demon. Even Alma knew that the only reason she hadn't perished yet was due to Seris' amazing healing skills. Still, the blows she was suffering were severe as her alternate turned the blade and hit the girl in the chest with the hilt.

"And all I can taste is this moment...
And all I can breathe is your life...
And sooner or later it's over...
I just don't wanna miss you tonight!"

"You're going to die here, pathetic child..."

"Am I now? Nah...I prefer...to live! I am Philomela, white nightingale of the Relivu family!"

"So was this child...yet she has pathetically fallen victim to me..."

"That's because she didn't have love...she didn't have a Seris in her life! Nor a Raven!"

"Love? Oh how cu-!"

"Die!" screamed Alma, slashing the sword in the demonic Alma's hip, "Perish before me!"

"And I don't want the world to see me!
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand!
When everything's meant to be broken!
I just want you to know who I am!"

Seris' closed her eyes, smiling as she centered herself in her zone. Centered herself in her meditation. Mediated herself in her soul. Raven lay in her heart, her sung words crying out in the wish that he could hear the love they held for him. Yet her Raven was a world away, but she knew his heart would receive them somehow. Love was, after all, a transcendent of time. On her mind lie Alma, whom she kept singing for as she mentally casted Angel Cures. Her mind continued to pray within, temporarily discarding the name Alma had called herself. The situation was far too severe for Seris to trifle herself on Alma's name. She cured the child instead, seeing as Philomela shrieked out in pain upon a harsh knockdown. Leaping to her feet and twisting through the air beside her alternate, Alma tossed herself behind the demon, before twirling on her foot to jam her sword through the demon.

"And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming...
Or the moment of truth in your lies...
When everything feels like the movies...
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive!"

Turning her sword and literally slicing her sword's way out of the demon's back, Philomela accessed the damage to her alternate as irreparable. However, she was still animated due to the demonic influence. The Relivu gasped immediately, then called out to Seris.

"Seris, don't stop singing! Just...listen up for a-ah!"

The Relivu child gasped in pain as the demon turned and yanked into the sword still impaled through it. Shrieking, she pulled from the sword and weakly slid past, regaining her sword as Seris cured her, only for the demonic Alma to turn and grasp her by the neck. Croaking in pain and struggling against the loss of air, the young child dropped her sword whilst trying hard to fight back. Nothing could have prepared Alma for what she heard next as she clawed at her offender.

"And I don't want the world to see me!
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand!
When everything's meant to be broken!
I just want you to know who I am!"

Instead of coming out of Seris, the cry came from a newly arrived Cedric who had taken a few minutes to teach her song the lyric she needed him to sing. Mira, the four year old's escort here, quickly rushed to commit the song lyrics to memory by checking her databases. She called out with her mother and young Cedric once Seris had explained that the next part was the same as the previous lyrics. Their kind voices called out, giving Alma hope...just what she needed to win the perilous war...

"And I don't want the world to see me!
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand!
When everything's meant to be broken!
I just want you to know who I am!"

Alma choked, turning her head to bite down harshly on the hand, yanking herself out of the grasp. She coughed, her neck purple with bruising as she backed away from her alternate while retrieving the claymore. Pushing her arms out to the sides, she twirled the claymore as she quickly uttered a chant under her breath. Panting harshly as Seris cured her again, her chant suddenly rose loudly in her words as a blue aura overtook Seris and Mira's swords, lifting them in the air where they were joined by the claymore. Mira gasped in surprise, but swallowed as she continued to sing with Seris and Cedric gently. She knew Philomela had it well in hand, and had requested to not be given any backup. All she, Cedric, and Seris could do was sing to her, to show her their love with their support.

"And I don't want the world to see me!
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand!
When everything's meant to be broken!
I just want you to know who I am!"

"First Philomela, sever the mind..."

With a wave of her hand, Alma threw the claymore straight through the skull.

"I just want you to know who I am," sang Seris softly.

"Then Philomela, sever the soul..."

Twirling on her right foot, she tossed the cutlass right through the heart.

"I just want you to know who I am," sang Mira after her.

"Finally Philomela, sever the mobility..."

Smiling weakly, Alma snapped her fingers, the glow overtaking The Sword of a Thousand Moons. It yanked the sword out of the screeching demon's hands, before stabbing said sword through a leg, before stabbing Mira's Starshine Future through another. In a bright white flash of light, the demon perished...dropping the alternate's body on the ground.

"I just want you to know who I am," the three sang in unison.

Gasping in relief, Seris smiled as Alma cleansed the four swords. She returned each sword to it's rightful owner, taking The Sword of a Thousand Moons into her left hand as she took herself back towards Seris, Cedric, and Mira while the long-haired blond continued to cast Angel Cures on Alma. The condition improvement was slow, steady, and gentle as they accepted the little six year old girl into their waiting arms. Letting Mira lift her as the exhausted Rellivu fainted, Seris calmly escorted her party back to the castle. She smiled as the wind blew her hair, sighing in relief as the sensation soothed her soul and mind. She took time to pray for the other world's El Gang, hoping she'd be home to her husband soon.

"I just want you to know who I am," Cedric sang lastly, on his own.

Alma smiled softly in her rest, pleased as she rested in Mira's arms.

Meanwhile...

"Thanks for the song dear...I felt it deep down. I hope to hear it when you come home."

"Are you okay Raven?"

"Yeah. I just hope everyone comes home soon."

"So do I..."

The black haired man smiled weakly in nervousness as he looked up at his redhead friend, "What about you? Are you okay?"

"I just need my daughter back. I finally understand how Cedric makes you feel..."

"It's an amazing feeling, isn't it?"

"It really is. I'm so glad Eve made her."

"I'm curious for when Elesis and Chung have kids."

"...that's going to be weird."

"Well. With people like us around it, those children are definitely in for it."

"Before anything though...we need our kids back.."

"And my wife..."

"And your wife. You know Raven, I'm glad you met back up with Seris."

"I am too. I needed her..."

"She needed you too."

"I love her Elsword...I need her home. I need them all home."

"I know Raven...I know."

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The song Seris sings is called Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls!

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