Chapter 1: The custodians Appears
"This...this must be a vision right?"
A teen with a undercut and black swept back hair orange eyes .around his left eye he has a large ash grey colored spot on the left side of his face, which reaches from his hairline to halfway down his cheek with a small twisting grey horn and sharp almost vampires like fang on the top and bottom row height 6ft he's wearing black pants with orange knee pads on them with black and orange hiking boots a black shirt and a black and orange leather jacket with a backpack and goggles around his neck
Natsuki Subaru, raised from the day he could walk to be a powerful custodian, is now somewhere he doesn't know, somewhere that he has never been before. He looked around to see as he seems to be in a market place of some sort.
All he remembers is that he was playing video game in his room on the ship with Simon and john Rachel was a sore loser so she decided to pilot the ship even though we have auto pilot , The backpack on his back already loaded with the supplies that would be necessary to survive . They had just finished a big mission. while they were relaxing the ship was swallowed by shadows
Then after being engulfed shadows him self he was standing up on the side of the road he watched carriages pass on by. "This is strange, why am I here, I don't remember anything-" He heard a scream of what sounded like a small child, He turned and saw a little girl that had fallen onto the road in front of the oncoming path roving carriages loaded with heavy cargo.
On instinct of seeing someone in danger he whispered "Psi push . The little girl he targeted was pushed onto the sidewalk to her mother who grabbed her and hugged her tightly. He looked down upon his hand and grinned with glee. "I still can us psi ." He started strolling around the city heading into a dark alley way on the side of the highway and pulled his goggles up to his face and got a brown cloak out of his bag . As he pushed the buttons to turn it on Subaru started to configure the controls on it to see where he was.
/Unknown Location/
"What do you mean unknown location?" He pushed a few more buttons and held the device in the air.
/interference Detected/
"This isn't a vision, I don't know where I am, and I have no connection or communication with anyone." Subaru started breathing steadily keeping his emotions in check . "What exactly is going on? "
Hand over whatever you have and we won't kill you." Came a voice from the end of the alley.
There were three thugs, the one on the left was really short and looked like he was both 7 and 50 years old. The middle one was taller and slim, he hunched his back giving his body an almost curled position. The one on the right was big and tough, a scar on his right eye made gave him 10 more intimidation points in Subaru's mind.
We're not fucking around! Hand us your stuff or we'll kill you!" One of them spat, he equipped two knives and took a rather weird stance. Suggesting that this thug has never actually taken any knife-fight training.
"Get out of my way! Coming through!"
Subaru looked at the end of the alley again, to see a blonde girl. She was skinny and she seemed to be running really fast for a normal person
she ran past him and then vaulted over a wall
Would that happen to make you suddenly no longer want to mug me and leave me alone? He asked out loud
"No, it rained on our parade and made it worst."The big one replied.
The biggest one came forward his hulking muscles showing as he got ready to swing his giant fist at the small teenager. With a punch Subaru hit the man with a right hook to the face and watched as he stumbled and moved back in front of his two teammates, he groaned but was still conscious to see what was going on. "AHHH" The skinny one with the knife yelled as he charged with his blade with a frontal stabbing motion intending to kill. With a powerful outburst Subaru launched him at the wall hitting it so hard a small crack formed, the frail man fell to the ground clearly unconscious from the impact. The smallest one, the little boy with the bowl hair cut started stuttering and fidgeting from watching his two friends fall so easily.
"That's enough from all of you."
The custodian and the small boy looked behind them to see a girl in a beautiful white dress holding out her hand. "you thugs leave this boy alone."
Subaru could only stare at her. She was beautiful, her voice demanding and pierced everyone's ears.
The buff man got up from the ground holding his cheek as it was pulsating with pain. "Ugh... what now? It's some bitch huh?" He got up ready for another impending fight that was going to happen.
The silver haired girl waved out her hand in front of her. "Leave or I'll be forced to use violence to get you three to leave." Her words being said a small gray cat appeared on her shoulder with a sly smile on it's face.
"Damn it it's a spirit user, pick up Skinny and lets get out of here this fight is done." The two men walked towards their friend's unconscious body picking him up.
"Forget that you ever saw me being a spirit user and that none of this ever happened now go." The buff man looked at Subaru and the girl with an angry face and he hoisted his skinny friend over his shoulder leaving at the end of the alleyway with his other short friend.
Subaru dusted the dirt off of his face and clothes and picked up his backpack off of the ground hoisted it on his back again. "Thank you for that , I wasn't sure what to do about the little boy when he was the last one standing he looked too small to use force on him."
"Your welcome. Besides, I have some questions I need to ask you anyway. And because I got you out of that mess you were just in please answer them."
'Great another person that wants something from me.' Subaru thought.
"Have you seen a stolen emblem anywhere? While I was walking through the market street and some thief came running through the crowd and stolen right from me."
"An emblem? No I didn't see any emblems around here, I can help you find it if you want. Pretty sure you can use the extra assistance if it's okay with you. Besides I need some assistance too, I don't know where I am and how I got here so I'll like some assistance to know where I am and how to get around."
She blushed at his offer to help and she hesitantly accepted. "Sure I wouldn't mind some help to track it down. But what do you mean don't know where you are? Your in the Kingdom of Lugnica, do you mean where you are in the city? And what do you mean by "not knowing how you got here?" "
"You see I was in my room where I lived but after some bright flash of light I just ended up here in this marketplace, I don't remember much but that's what I know.
"After walking around for a little there wasn't and tech steam or anything thing that means there no ports or any thing now that I think about it there's weird energy in the air probably should try not to show any tech" he thought
Subaru Stood silent as his mind drifted off . He now understood what type of situation he was in. The lack of technology, He was in some sort of parallel world? The work of some sort of pk ? But whatever it was he was now trapped here with no known to get back home.
"Hello? Hello? Is something wrong mister? You seemed to drift off for a minute. Is something wrong?"
"Sorry, sorry. I was thinking about something real fast, I'll figure out my situation myself to see what's going on."
The two of them we'll technically three, left the streets of the city and walked into an area that wasn't densely populated. The grey floating cat that she summoned floated over his shoulder as the young woman walked over to an open area and started holding her together in front of her face like she praying to something.
"What is she doing? Is she meditating? Praying?"
"Ah!" The great spirit mused "Not many people get to see something like this. She is communicating with lesser and ethereal spirits, before they become plain spirits, they are ancient beings of wisdom."
The young man looked on in amazement. "Ancient beings of wisdom? All those little floating things are spirits? That's amazing." He moved in closer on her to get an up-close look on the spirits and what she was doing exactly. They all disappeared instantly as he approached.
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"Hey! What was that for?! They're all gone now because of you!"
"OH I'M SORRY MISS! I just never seen something like that before and I was amazed! Not even that far and I've already burdened you by doing that I'm Sorry miss…?"
The grey cat spoke up from the awkwardness that was happening between the two. "Oh yes now that I think about it we've never properly introduced ourselves haven't we?"
Subaru nodded and held his right fist to his chest and bowed at the both of them. "My name is Natsuki Subaru., , lost from his home and crew trying to find a way back, but now I'm currently helping you."
The girl in front of slightly blushed and turned from him. The cat floating up to his face and started to shake his hand. "Hello! My name is Puck! It's really nice to meet you! I may be a small spirit now but do not let your eyes deceive you, I can vaporize you in less than a second."
Subaru giggled. "Well it's nice to meet you too."
He turned to the girl I front of him and held out his hand. "So um, what's your name miss?"
She looked up at him but not facing him directly as she looked away from him. "I don't have a last name like you do, but you can call me Satella, that's my name. Come on let's get going." She turned away from him and she kept walking forward on the search for her emblem.
He knew deep down that she was lying.
"Hey Subaru that little girl over there is crying, we should go and help her." He looked over to see a little girl on the side of the street crying. People walking all over the busy street ignoring her existence. How sad. Satella slowly walked over to her and crouched down to see her face to face. "Did you lose your parents little girl? Don't worry I won't do anything to you."
The little girl sniffled and let out a small amount of tears that traveled down her face. Subaru walked up to her and crouched beside Satella to loom at the little girl too. "It's okay little girl we'll help you find your way home." He lifted up his hand and gently wiped the tears off her face. "Come on, I bet you don't want to walk all the way back home, here let me carry you there." The little girl nearly jumped as Subaru softly used psi to lift her in the air and let her piggyback ride his back.
Satella looked on him with a gentle smiled as his kind and caring gesture for he small child. "Your use of your mana is really unique and it's something I've never seen. I have never seen an ability like that before."
The custodian smirked and tried to play himself cool. "Yeah it is unique huh? Come on let's take this kid home." The little one on his back held tight and locked her arms around his collarbone to stay tight.
On their way to find the little girl's parents Subaru brought up something on his mind. "You know the two of us walking together with a small child makes us look like were in some sort of relationship right?"
The young woman blushed and looked away from him for a second. "Don't say that, not with someone like me."
Subaru had a quizzical look on his face. "What do you mean with someone like you? You look fine to me, you seem to be a good person at heart for the short time I've known you."
"I said with someone like me because I'm a half elf."
He turned his head in confusion. "Is that a bad thing in this land? There basing you off how you look? That's stupid, but I can understand somewhat how that feels I guess."
"Your saying you know how it feels to be discriminated based off how you look?" She questioned.
"Like I said in way I can probably understand. Where I come from there are places where your accepted or shunned or kicked out or lynched
Satella looked frightened and the very last part he said. "they would just kill you guys for being different? That sounds awful."
"Trust me when I say were used to it."
She looked saddened at the fact this boy she barely knows is used to people trying to kill him for being different. 'I don't have people making attempts on my life because Puck will protect me, but he knows the pain of being ostracized because he stands out. Maybe me and him aren't so different.'
"Ah! Ah!" The little girl suddenly yelped as she rode on Subaru's back. A little ways across from them stood two people an adult man and woman walking around together. Subaru lifted her off his back and put her on the ground and watched as she immediately bolted off and jumped into her parents warm embrace. "Mama! Papa!" She cried as she hugged them back.
"Oh thank goodness we found you!" The older man said, "Me and your mother have been looking all over for you."
The man jolted over to Subaru and Satella holding his daughter. "Thank you two for bringing my baby girl back to me! I am forever in your debt to you! If there's anything that you need or want just ask!"
Subaru was the first one to reply to the man's deceleration. "Actually there is something I would like to ask of you."
"Sure, ask right away young man."
"This young woman right here had something of value stolen right off of her earlier by what we assumed to be a thief. She ran off to some location probably, Do you know anything about thieves and were they might hide their stolen stuff If that's even a possibility?"
"I see your trying to get something back that's stolen from you, a difficult task but it's possible. I don't know much about it but there is a place in the slums outside the city called "The stolen goods warehouse" there is a chance that you can find whatever what was taken from you there. By wary though the slums can be dangerous and there is a man at the warehouse that runs it and guards it"
Subaru reached out to shake his hand. "Thank you, your a real help have a terrific afternoon."
The man smiled and hugged his daughter, "No thank you for bringing my daughter back to me, be welcome to come by appa stand anytime you want."
As Subaru and Satella walked off to find the insignia the little girl ran up to them to give them something. "Here I'm giving this to you." The little girl handed Satella a small flower head.
The mother stepped forward and spoke up, "Please take it, my daughter wants to thank you for bringing her home to us."
The half elf beamed, "Thank you! I'll make sure to treasure this!"
"I think this is the slums he was talking about." The place looked like an abandoned part of the gigantic city. Worn and torn buildings, a few stragglers walking around with messy and ripped clothing.
"Subaru how are we going to find the warehouse? I don't really feel comfortable being in places like this, especially with the nice clothing I'm wearing. I feel like a target."
Subaru turned around and faced her with a determined look on his face. "Don't worry, I will protect you and I'm sure Puck will too."
At that exact moment Puck appeared out of the crystal necklace on Satella's neck. "I'm sorry you two but I'm at my limit today. I can't really protect you in this state but if the situation is extremely dire then you can overuse me and summon me."
The girl sighed. "Please rest then Puck I'm sorry for pushing you at your limit like this, please forgive me." The small grey cat disappeared back into the green crystal.
"it's okay Satella I'll still be here for you."
She smiled softly for his caring nature and desire to protect her. "Well let's hurry then Subaru the sun is starting to set and their won't be much time left for daylight we find that place as fast as possible."
"I'm willing to take the risk to ask someone around here." The girl looked like she was about to question his decision to ask a random stranger in a place like this but he already walked off to some random man. She watched from a distance as he chatted and had a conversation with the random stranger. She watched they shared a laugh and shook hands. He walked back over to her with a bright smile on his face. "The guy was pretty nice despite how things look around here, and I felt no danger from him and he answered my question. I now know the location of the of the warehouse."
"I think it's because those rags your wearing so you blended in and looked like one of them. They were all giving me cold looks thinking I won't notice."
"Hey, I'm wearing nice clothes under these "rags " you know!" He lightly lifted his robes to reveal some clean clothes underneath.
She giggled as they both walked on the path to the warehouse. "Your pretty goofy at times aren't you Subaru?" She mused.
The both of them saw the building the kind man described to them earlier. it looked just like the man told them, just a warehouse. The sun was still out not quite the evening but still around in the afternoon they weren't too late. As the duo walked towards the entrance Subaru immediately froze in place. Satella turned and looked at him concerned. The smile he just had on his face just disappeared and a stern look appeared instead.
"Subaru why did you stop? is something wrong?"
"Emilia I've been in situations like this before I can tell somethings off here. reading his weapon before he prepared to go inside.
"What do you mean Subaru? What's wrong exactly?"
"Were in danger."
The girl in front of him looked a little scared. "Listen to me, stand behind me when I go inside I'm going to take care of everything from here on out."
The half elf smiled and held her hands at her chest. "I trust you Subaru, may the spirits guide you."
He turned around to face her getting ready for the impending encounter, his face showing his seriousness, his focus on the situation. "Get ready Satella, I have a bad feeling about this." He sensed three life forces through the front door, it's only one that gives off the most concern and the most danger. He lifted his hand and opened the front entrance slowly.
He saw a dimly lit bar with a really tall muscular old man standing at the counter, a small girl with a skimpy outfit, and finally an older looking woman with a somewhat revealing outfit and a devious smile on her face. That woman was the one giving off the alarming sense of danger.
"Am I interrupting something?" Subaru said with a little sarcasm in his voice.
The little blond girl looked at him in anger "Hey what are you doing in here?! Get out we have important business going on here!"
" I am indeed incredibly sorry for intruding on your business venture but I am here to retrieve some stolen property from a friend of mine."
The old man behind the bar finally spoke up. "Oh yeah? Who is this friend of yours? Answer now or get out of my bar."
Almost immediately on queue Satella appeared behind him and pointed at the blond girl. "Hey! Your the one that stole my insignia! Please give it back now." She reached out her hand as a signal for her to give it back to her.
"I'm afraid I cannot allow that to happen." Everyone turned to see the older woman standing up from her chair and stretch out her arms. "My employer wouldn't be pleased to see that I can't complete my task in retrieving that insignia. Especially now with the girl standing right there" She drew out both of the daggers that she kept hidden in her clothing. "I'm afraid now that all of you cannot leave here alive, now that this negotiation has been compromised." She turned to face Subaru first for intruding on her deal his danger sense on max alert now. "But first i'll deal with you." With the swift of her hand she swung one of the daggers in her disposal at a lighting speed to hit him.
With a flash of light the dagger was parried . The robed boy stood their his face determined, his guard up. In his hand a black metal baseball bat with spikes coming out and going back in . dead silence that now filled the room. "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I cannot let that happen." Elsa's face contorted with a demented smile mixed with anger. Everyone else stood in shock at what he just did and the weapon he was holding.
"Maybe you prove a worthy match for me, Elsa, The bowle hunter." The blond girl and the old man stood in shock after hearing her name. The dread realizing that they were dealing with one of the most wanted criminals in the country, a vampire that kills people and slices them at the abdomen to see their guts spill out. The old man standing behind the counter grabbed a giant wooden club and charged towards the woman intending to kill her.
Subaru pushed him back at the right time with the force for him to dodge a life ending blow from the dagger Elsa held in her hand. "Oh this is going to be fun!" She said loudly. She jumped into the air and started running all around the walls trying to throw everyone off.
Subaru got into a defensive stance with his bat and got ready for the impending attacks that he was going to deal with. The woman jumped off the wall intending to make a blow before Subaru swung his bat forming a axe blade for a killing blow before she changed direction to dodge his attack. 'This woman is going to be a pain to deal with.' Subaru felt a cold chill run down his back as he saw Satella form a few spikes of ice surrounding her to help.
"Don't worry Subaru, I'll help you stop her." Subaru smirked ready to fight.
She started shooting ice attacks at the woman trying to hit and stop her. Subaru reached out his hand to try and grab her with the use of the force but she was just too fast for him to grab. 'Dammit I can't stop her just standing here! She's too fast! I have to be just as fast as her to have a chance!'
"Satella stay here! and keep doing your thing I'm going to stop her my way." The half elf watched as Subaru shouts psi quicken and bounced off the floor and starts running almost as fast as Elsa .
'Subaru, how strong are you?'
Elsa panicked as she saw that boy chase her as she sped and bounced through the house they were in. She has now gone on the defensive as he was striking at her almost hitting her each time. Subaru finally manged to catch up with her and grabbed her by the wrist and held her down. Before Subaru could swing and finish her off she took her dagger and did a quick slice on stomach through his armor causing him to drop his bat it disappearing and he loudly groaned in pain. Subaru began to shout pk roc
Elsa before he could finish pk fire omega his first day stuffed out