Another chapter of the Fantasy Story, guys! I'm actually shocked at the amount of people that read this, since the idea seemed more like HetaQuest now that I look at it…oh well, let's see what happens!

/=LOADING…=/

/="Rest Day" by Tales of Destiny=/

When Feliciano woke up that morning, someone was knocking on his door.

And knocking.

And knocking.

And-

"Argh, will someone please open the damn door?"

Looks like it's his turn.

Feliciano stretched his limbs as he sat up from his bed. He looked down at himself to make sure that he was adequately dressed. Unbuttoned shirt and boxers…yup, he looked good enough. He slipped on flip flops as he walked down the staircase and slowly approached the door. From the corner of his eye, he saw Lovino sitting there grumbling to himself. He was probably trying to wake up.

"Hello?" He slowly opened it.

"Oh cool! This is where you live, da ze?"

"Eh? Yong Soo?" He rubbed his eyes. "Who told you that we lived here?"

"Kiku! He told me that he swung by this area, so I decided to take a look around." He peeked inside the house. "Nice place, for two guys living alone in the middle of nowhere, da ze!"

"Well, I don't see a problem with that!" Feliciano chirped. "We are brothers, aren't we fratello?"

"For the love of Christ, NO WE'RE NOT!"

"Aww, Lovi-kun…"

"It's LOVINO!"

"Hm…I would wish he can say it out loud…" Feliciano turned to Yong Soo. "What are you doing here?"

"I forgot to tell you that I had our guild HQ up and running!" He chirped, a grin in Lovino's direction. "Now, if you two are ready, I can show you the place!"

"Can't we eat first…" Lovino whined.

"Seyel makes some really good eggs and bacon-"

"I'm in."

/="Shipmeisters' Shanty" by Kingdom Hearts II=/

Yong Soo brought them into the city where they saw a fairly large building (by large, it was a two-story complex that was mainly out of brick). The door slowly opened, revealing what looked like a small lobby desk and two bulletin boards. From the looks of it, Húdié Mei was at the desk, tapping her fingers on the wood.

"Oh, Feliciano! Lovino!" She sat up. "Nice to see you here!"

"I heard there was food." Lovino cut in.

"Of course, of course. Seyel's cooking it in the kitchen, to the left of that bulletin board." She pointed at it. "Everyone's in there already, so-"

Lovino was already gone. Yong Soo and Húdié Mei laughed before following suit. Unfortunately, Feliciano was too busy staring at the bulletin boards to notice that everyone was gone. Once he did realize it, he "ve-d" in shock and proceeded to go through the door on the right…and bumped into someone.

"Ve-!" He shivered. "S-sorry!"

"Oi! Watch where you're going!"

That voice caught him off guard. Looking up, he couldn't help but notice the familiar blond figure standing in front of him, blue eyes penetrating into his. He felt his heart beating faster, chills running up and down his spine just from the sheer contact, and his cheeks felt insanely warm. There was only one explanation for this…

He screamed in panic and threw himself at least five feet from Ludwig, his hands out in a protective stance as if he was going to hurt him.

"Ve~~~~! D-don't hurt me! P-please!"

"Eh?"

"I surrender, I surrender! Don't hurt me!"

"Feliciano…calm down! It's just me."

He knew that, but when Ludwig grabbed his shoulders, his breath stopped. He was forced to stare deep into his eyes, that familiar chill down his spine, his heart beating all the faster. Yet, when Ludwig said his name, he found himself liking it for some reason. It seemed contradicting, but…

"L-Ludwig…" He shivered. "I-I'm sorry…"

"Geez, don't worry about it. I didn't see you either." Ludwig responded, letting him go. "Did you eat yet?"

"Ve~? Uh, n-no…I was just going to head off to the kitchen."

"The kitchen's the other way." He answered. "Didn't someone tell you that?"

"Eh? O-oh! I remember…I-I'll go there then."

"All right." Ludwig answered, sounding a little confused. "Don't be late."

With another sigh, he passed Feliciano and headed toward the cafeteria, leaving the poor boy alone. Slowly, Feliciano lifted his hand toward his chest and felt his heart thumping wildly in his body, slowing down as the blond man vanished from his sight. After that, he held the places where Ludwig had touched him, reminiscing when he had touched him. There was, again, only one explanation for this…

"Ve~~~~! He's scary!"

Uh…not what I was thinking, but…moving on.

He decided that he needed a few more minutes and headed further down the hallway, seeing that it spread into the room at the end of the hallway. In that room was a huge keyboard with at least six huge monitors and one person working around all of them. It didn't take long for him to know who it was.

"Oh! Eduard!"

"Hm?" He turned around. "Feliciano. I didn't see you there."

"I just came in here." He looked in the room. "What is this place?"

"Yong Soo and Kiku helped me set this up. It's a small copy compared to what the Church and TriPenta have, but it basically serves the same purpose." Eduard chuckled, pressing a few more buttons. "It serves as our medical center and information set, so it's very helpful."

"The Church…TriPenta…" Feliciano looked up. "Eduard? Can I ask you a question?"

"Hm? Sure." He turned his chair fully around. "What is it?"

/="Forensics~ Unraveled Truth" by Trauma Team=/

"Lovi-kun told me that the Church and TriPenta had some type of battle a long time ago…" He said. "What was that about?"

"What, you don't know about it?" Eduard looked confused. "That's strange…I thought everyone knew about it."

Feliciano felt a little uneasy, but proceeded to tell Eduard everything. About his memory loss. About waking up in the middle of the ocean with absolutely nothing except the clothes on his back. About how he met up with everyone and slowly forgot that he had that problem. And although he hesitated, he told him about the visions that he had yesterday.

"I see…I guess it does make sense that you wouldn't remember everything that happened, especially since it was that long ago…" Eduard folded his hands.

"Yeah…" Feliciano looked up. "What was the fight about?"

"I think it would make more sense if I explained their sides first." Eduard leaned back on his chair. "The Church, for example, is just an abbreviation of the Angelo-Sceptre Church of Gekozen. They hold the scriptures concerning the Sigillato Attraversa and the Iniquum extremely sacred. They and their followers hold the teachings quite dear to themselves."

"I…I can imagine."

"On the other hand, TriPenta is an abbreviation of Trinity-Pentagram, which is their symbol." He drew it in the air. "Unlike the Church, they believe more of the advancement of the people and the protection from the Gekozen. As you can imagine, it was created recently. I believe yesterday marked its thirtieth anniversary."

"Science and religion don't go well together, do they?" Feliciano asked.

"No, not really. TriPenta had been an idea years before its creation. However…" Eduard lifted his finger. "It only came into fruition when the Church discovered the existence of the Iniquum."

"The Iniquum…the one that will cause the end of the world…"

"So you know that much? At least I don't have to tell you that. Anyway, according to the scriptures, they stated that the Iniquum will be so powerful that no living Gekozen in the world can defeat them. Naturally, that caused a riot between those who still believed in the scriptures and those who never liked the Church in the first place. In the end, the deifiers created TriPenta as a way to combat and even prevent the Iniquum's coming."

"T-that makes sense…but what was the whole controversy about?"

"Hm…I believe that it was about sixteen or seventeen years ago. Someone from TriPenta leaked information to the Church about experiments that they had been doing the time beforehand, and it caused a lot of arguments and explained reasoning." Eduard sighed. "In the end, nothing much happened besides a slap on the wrist and the end of the Creation Project."

"The…Creation Project?"

"Tell me, Feliciano…how are the Gekozen chosen in this world?"

"Oh, uh…t-the scepter chooses them. The Sigillato Attraversa…or the Scettro degli Angeli…one of those two…"

"They're both the same thing, Feliciano. And yes, hypothetically the scepter is the one that grants them Vitula and their powers. Then someone brought up the million dollar question: what if that process could be artificially created? What if the world could create its own Vitula?"

Feliciano gasped.

"TriPenta explored deep into this possibility. What they did was take orphan children off the street, usually around the ages of three or four, young enough to know they were not chosen, and try any means to copy the process." Eduard sighed. "What happened next was…you know what? You should see it for yourself."

He turned toward the computer and started typing something in it. All the monitors whirred to life, and Feliciano saw that each one had at least five news articles with bold headlines on each of them. "TriPenta with sick child experiment", "Over 100,000 children in the course of thirteen years", "No Reported Survivors…"

"No…survivors…out of that many children?" Feliciano's voice was breaking.

"None that lasted a human lifespan. When the media took discovery of this, two children had been reported to have survived the process. They were so young, they were referred to by code names…Pangaea, and Heilrich." Eduard shook his head. "They were both reported dead two months later. All just to fight the Iniquum."

Feliciano felt sick. He couldn't believe that there were people out there who would do something like this…willingly, to small innocent children. Eduard saw that pain in his face and turned off the monitors.

"Everyone still has that same reaction whenever it's brought up, so naturally it's a taboo topic." He stood up. "So let's not talk about it anymore. Knowing the others, they're probably wondering where we are. We should join them."

"…Yes. We should."

/=SAVE YOUR GAME?=/

[YES] [NO]

SAVING…

SAVING COMPLETE. NOW RETRIEVING MESSAGE FROM MITSUKI HORENAKE…

/==/

So yeah…sick, sick experiments! For those of you who want some form of hint of what's going to go on next, Heilrich is Holy Roman Empire. *hint hint hint…if you squint XD*

In other news, Himaruya has posted in a recent blog note potential human names for Hong Kong and Taiwan. Which means [INSERT RANDOM LOVINO SWEAR OF CHOICE HERE], I might have to start replacing names in this. It's on their Wiki pages, I swear.