-Heartland Warehouse-
Lunar made sure to carry a flashlight with her whenever she went. Despite the fact that they had magic, the people at the warehouse might be able to sense the magical energy it was releasing. A flashlight was normal, plus they had wore costumes to prevent any outsider or enemy soldier to recognize who they are.
Instead of the typical Black Star uniform, Lunar was wearing a white polo shirt and a red jacket with golden buttons. Instead of wearing some skin-tight spandex pants, she was wearing a black skirt with white frills, black and white stockings, and black boots. According to Aristtea, it made her look more normal than a soldier. But just in case, she had a gun underneath her skirt, as her left hand carried the flashlight, her right hand carried her scythe. Siri decided to wear something casual as well. She was wearing a yellow, button-up shirt, royal blue pants, brown boots, and a black cap to hide her own face. On her hands wielded her spear, ready to stab anything that was deemed a threat to their mission.
Ethan went along with Aristtea's plan of pretending to be casual people. He was wearing a lime-green shirt, black trench-coat, a yellow scarf, black gloves, black pants, brown boots, and still wore his red-framed glasses. He was carrying his bow, and was readying an arrow, following Siri's plan of being ready to strike at the moment something tries to attack them. His emerald eyes gazed over to some of the wooden crates wearily, before he slowly moved to another direction. As for Dark, he was wearing the same clothes he wore when he was free; a gray shirt, black suspenders, black pants, black shoes, and a black scarf. He was also wearing his uniform's gloves, claiming he doesn't want his hands to get dirtied by blood. His right hand wielded his axe, as it was slung behind him. His left hand was clenched, preparing some magic.
On the top of the wooden crates was Azulon, chuckling to himself. "Huh. What pitiful little humans. Too bad it's not the original's team, and Mikey's not here to watch me burn them to ashes." He sighed. Raising his hand, a sphere of light formed. "Whatever. Final Countdown." The light then divided into multiple balls of light, until it already formed twenty spheres.
Lunar, hearing the creepy chuckling from Azulon, turned around with a wide-eyed expression. "Siri-san! Look out!" Five spheres had been directed to Lunar, but Dark used his axe to protect her. With a blush, Lunar readied her scythe, her stance defensive. "Thank you, Daruku-san.."
"Watch out!" Siri warned. "Dark! You and Lunar-chan team up!"
As three spheres attempted to knock down the eldest soldier, she barely managed to dodge them as her spear blocked them off. With a growl, she leaped up to the wooden crate Azulon was standing on. "Is Drage!" She addressed her spear. "Magic Cylinder!" Jars suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and started spitting out green beams at Azulon, who had dodged it without any effort.
"Myrjnevolt!" A wooden staff appeared in his hand. "Perfect timing, my beautiful weapon! Now, Swords of Revealing Light! Stab the enemy with your holy blades!" He shouted. Green swords materialized out of the spheres, and straight up stabbed Siri in the arm, who yelped.
Ethan gritted his teeth. "What the heck?! That was beyond fast! I didn't even see him dodge Siri-san's attacks!"
Dark readied his axe, but stopped as he stared at Azulon. He looked.. kinda like Astral. "Who.. are you?!"
With a grin, Azulon pointed the wooden staff at Dark's face, his look threatening. "If you must know, I am Azulon, one of the Shadow Guardians. We protect what is ours, and your brother seems to be the unluckiest!~" He raised on of his hands. "Final Countdown. Resume the ending of this horrible, tainted world. Wipe those who are impure."
Before anymore of the spheres of light could hit the soldiers, Azulon's hand was suddenly grabbed. "You idiot."
-White Moon, Floor 99: The Leader's Office-
"That does not explain shit." Rinko snapped. "Your name is Chaos? With all the bull I've seen today, that's the only tame thing I've experienced for the last ten hours. What the hell is your purpose, and how did you get here, Chaos?"
Chaos' appearance surprised the soldiers and the trainer, sure. He looked a bit like Astral, except his hair was light blue with black tints, and it was more wild than Dark's. His eyes were both gold, and his attire was the strangest. His shirt was black, but he was wearing a white vest with a weird symbol. He also wore black pants and boots, and was wearing black-framed glasses, like Horus. However, what stood out most was the marks on his face and arms. The fact that he wore dangling earrings doesn't make it any less odd, either. "My purpose is to guide the wielder of Numeron. I am a Shadow Guardian, a guardian of darkness, who takes those who belong to the light. Astral Mist, or as my people know him as, Prince of Numeron, is a being of light. However, he has possessed Numeron the moment he was born, and thus, must be brought to the darkness. The problem is.. he's too pure. I need to train him to be a proper king before bringing him to my world."
Astral was at Sei's lap, breathing harshly as Selena tended to the younger boy's wounds. With a glare, Sei tried to smack the mysterious entity without hurting Astral. "You think we can let that happen?! White Moon is after Astral, and we had no idea until Horus screamed! Just because we're part of White Moon, doesn't mean we want to stick with their sadistic plans! We want to get out of here, but we're not sacrificing any of our friends!" She growled, holding Astral's head close to her chest.
Alan decided to calm the furious girls. "Ladies, please. Calm down, especially you Rin-Rin." He turned to Chaos. "We don't quite understand much of how your world seems to work, Chaos-kun. The most interesting things about your short information is that you refer to Numeron's wielder as "Prince of Numeron". In the world you are from, it seems that you consider Asu-chan a member of royalty. From what I've heard, Astral is a normal human, with a human brother, who used to live in a normal house. No mentions of being part of royalty." Alan pointed out.
Chaos shook his head. "Numeron is a power that moves from an individual to another, once the person loses their pureness or dies." He explained. "The previous wielder had lost his pureness, because of his dark desire for power. Thus, passing the power on to Astral. In the world I am from, we devote ourselves into making a world without any malice. Astral was born for the sake of containing half of Numeron's power, to search for the relic where the remaining power of Numeron rests. He is nothing more than a doll with Numeron for a soul-"
Rinko didn't even realize her own fist had come in contact with Chaos' face. "You little punk, Astral is not just a doll that was born to satisfy your needs for a perfect world, you ass!" Chaos landed to the ground, holding his cheek. However, he showed no signs of fear. Rinko's eyes seemed to be burning with hatred. "You are implying that Astral's existence, up 'til now, was nothing more than being a pawn to your world's godly power?! Are you saying anything else he's done in his life is absolutely useless?!"
"In a way, yes." Chaos replied bluntly.
Alan immediately tore Rinko away from Chaos. "Rinko Yutora! Stop your barbaric behavior right now! Chaos! Listen to yourself!" He scolded, shocking the Arclight twins. Did the gray-haired actually scold the two of them as if they were children? He looked more serious than he was at training too. He then fixed Rinko's jacket with a frown. "That is not how a lady should act, nor is this how a lady should look. Chaos, that was downright rude. Your statement is obviously wrong!"
Selena seemed to wonder about Alan's current attitude. He seemed normal earlier, but now he was acting as if he was superior to both teens. "Alan-kun seems to have a point.." Selena spoke up. "If he was nothing more than a doll, all you have to do is extract Numeron out of his body. Then again, to govern your world, you need someone pure, like Asu-kun. Why can't you simply pick someone from your world who can properly lead yours?" Selena asked. "I mean, don't you have anyone in your world that actually sends you to grab Asu-kun? Or do you guys think that's your purpose in life?"
"If you agree to the latter, that world and it's inhabitants are stupid. If you guys materialize out of light or something, you immediately think your purpose is to kidnap humans? That is beyond stupid." Rinko snarled at Chaos. "And this world is no better. People in this world judge people if they are different, even by just a bit. I'd be glad to watch you burn this world into ashes, buuuuuut.. I'm not gonna let you do so."
"Our world was created by the numbers, see." Chaos explained, ignoring the stinging pain on his cheek. "Our leaders were previous wielders of Numeron, who managed to create perfect worlds, before they were inhabited by malice. In other words, humans. Our leaders are called Zexals, and are referred to as Zexals I, II, III, and Dark Zexal. Although, we recently started referring to them as Izeru, Nizeru, Sazeru, and Yazeru*. Anyhow, the previous wielder, Sazeru, has some unfinished plans, considering he created this world, the one with humans."
"So, Sazeru's basically a god?" Asked Alan.
Chaos nodded. "Yes. But Numeron had already picked a new wielder by the time he was turned into a Zexal. However, due to the humans being smart enough to be aware of the existence of numbers, Numeron has been split into two parts; Creation and Destruction. With the power of creation, the wielder is able to morph the world into their liking, revive those who have died, and even fix certain landscapes. With the power of destruction, one is able to destroy everything and murder people they wish to be erased from the world." He looked at Astral, who was starting to show signs of consciousness. "Numeron's powers have been separated from each other. The power to create is within the Numeron Code, a relic created by the numbers. The power to destroy is within him, the current Prince of Numeron." He pointed to the blue-haired.
"Are you saying that you're practically born to do this?" Asked Selena. Again, Chaos nodded.
Rinko made a huff. "Your life sucks beyond comprehension."
-White Moon Clinic: Room 1F-
When Eliphas awoke in his building's clinic area, he saw one of the trainers, Alit Lionheart, staring at him with a pout, angry eyes, crossed arms and legs, and an aura with the urge to kill. He brushed it off. He could murder this little twit any time he wanted, but Alit was a good trainer for the soldiers, particularly the weaker ones. Alexander (Although the kid bugged him to call him Alan instead) was the trainer for stronger soldiers. Alexander and Alit could have made good soldiers, but Ena didn't want them to, for some reason.
Alit stood up from his chair. "..Sir Eliphas, the other leaders are still unconscious. Do you require anything?" He asked, trying to maintain a polite tone. After hearing from Horus what they did to their friend, he had been trying not to murder their so-called leader in his sleep. Eliphas shook his head, returning back to his deep slumber. In which caused Alit to attempt to grab the same knife they used to cut Astral's arm with.
Alit left the room, encountering Yuma who looked pissed off and conflicted. "Hey, dude. What's the matter? Besides the whole "our-leaders-attempted-to-experiment-on-our-friend" thing. Y'know, just ignore my question." He sat beside the ruby-eyed teen, swinging his legs, and thinking of a way to lighten up the mood a little. Alit and Yuma were usually the optimistic ones, but due to Astral's "assault", Yuma wasn't feeling any respect towards any of the leaders. Not that he had any respect to the leaders of a company that kidnapped them, Ena was the only leader Yuma respected as far as Alit was concerned.
Astral was their best friend. Of course Yuma would be angry at the fact Ena had joined the four leaders in attempting to experiment on the frail boy. Thank goodness, Horus had explained to them the current situation; a power called Numeron, Astral has it, and the leaders try to find out how to extract it. But a power that was able to create and destory? "Hoooooo-boy.. Astral has a ton'a weight on his shoulders. Hopefully, Rinko can help him with that. She's always treating him like a little brother."
"Has one of them awoken?" Haruki entered the room with five bags of potato chips. He then gave the two bags to the younger soldiers, who were not grinning and being as optimistic as usual. "Rinko and the rest are still at the ruined office. Taimi-chan and Chris-kun are with Kotori-chan and Horus-kun, just to check if the little dragon has suffered any injuries. None, which was good, but they still have to check on any injuries, just to see if he ended up mentally.. retarded."
Alit opened his bag of chips, and munched on them. "Eliphas has woke up, but decided to go back to dreamland or whatever.. not that I care, look what he's done to Astral. Those guys still haven't come down yet, but I can practically hear Rinko's current use of profanity. And hear her summoning fireballs or something. Hey, don't forget to leave a bag of chips for her, she'll throw a tantrum if you don't share some."
*- "Zeru" is from the word "Zearu", which means "Zexal" in english. "I" from "Izeru", is from the word "Ichi", which means "one". Likewise, "Ni" means "two", "sa" is from "san" which means "three", and "ya" is from "yami", which means "darkness". They are just words mixed with the name "zeru".
Next chapter will be a special chapter! It'll be about the past of one of the characters. Try to guess who.~
The chapter after that will have something to do with what the hell happened to the Black Star soldiers.
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