Chapter 1- The Crimson Red Edged Ruby

The city of Geffen was in chaos...

Corpses of many innocent Geffenians laid on the floor motionless as pools of blood spread all over the city of Geffen. No survivors could be seen around Chiva... All were dead, including the guards that he had always feared. Being a weak boy, Chiva started to tear...

He was afraid of death, looking at all these dead people on the floor...terror striked his heart, as he feared that Mary would have died from this horrible event too. Controlling his fear just to search for Mary, he looked around the corpses...

"Mary is not around here...She might not have died!" Chiva said to him as he tried to cool down but found himself unable to.

Chiva then realize that there was footsteps imprinted with blood, by the look of it, a tall and strong man's, following up to towards the Geffen Tower. Seeing that Mary is not here.. Chiva thought he might have a chance to find Mary if he trailed these footsteps.

"...Mary! Where are you !" Chiva shouted as loud as he could along the way... but no reply could be heard. The silence of the atmosphere creeped Chiva out.

The further he got by following the trails, the more sorrow and depression he felt. All had died, the old uncle who used to gave him apples as he had no zenny, the wizard who was 50 olds year but looks only 20, the lady who used to let him in for a bath once in a while...all had died. Chiva felt like giving up as he cried while he got nearer to Geffen Tower.

If not for Mary, he would have stopped and run away from Geffen and never come back. But... due to the horror around, he did not realize that the ruby in his pocket was actually glowing brightly...as bright as the sun rising down to earth in red lights.

Geffen Tower Entrance

"Gu...Guild members! Attack him with all the spells and skills you have! Do not let him get near "Meteor Assault" leader's dead body!" said an old high wizard who seemed to be the leader of the wizard's Association as he point his staff at a man with full skull and bone armor and his lower part of the face covered by a mask, holding each a blade held on the hand which was filled with blood.

"Lightning's Rain, Flooded Storm... Icicle of the Frozen Garm.. Lend us your power ! " more then five wizards were gather in a group and held their staffs on top.

"Storm Gust!" all of the wizards shouted as they point their staffs at the man. A thunderstorm formed on top of him, as water shaped out from the air and frozen the thunderstorm. An ice tornado formed from the mixture and charged into the man as the temperate of the surrounding went down below -100 degree Celsius inside the area.

The man was frozen immediately by the impact.

A few minutes later, the wizards and the guards cheered and let their guards down as they thought they had defeated that man and avenged all the people that he had killed along the way here.

However, the old high wizard was the only one not letting his guard down...he seemed to sense that the man was not dead.

" Look out !" the old man shouted towards his people, as the ice broke into pieces when a purple wave sliced through all wizards and the guards. It was too late. The wizards and the guards had been torn to pieces like the rest of the Geffenians. The old man was the only one surviving till now.

"Now...If you would lead me to the way where the Edged Ruby is...I might consider letting you live..." The man spoke up in a deadly manner, his voice was cold yet piercing in the heart.

Suddenly, Mary walked out of the entrance of the Geffen tower. She had survived through this tragic by luck as when the man came, she was inside the tower looking at the corpse whom Chiva and her had stolen the Edged Ruby from, the day before.

That day, both of them overheard greedy merchants having a conversation on a famous guild leader who died when he got hold of one of the legendary rubies which will choose its owner and grant it ultimate power and was priceless being right there in Geffen.However, the guild leader seemed to have been rejected as its owner, hence his death. Being unable to succumb to temptation, Chiva and Mary stole the ruby...

"What in the name of god... You're the girl who stole the Ruby together with the other boy yesterday...! Why are you here. RUN AWAY NOW!" the old high wizard exclaimed as he cast a safety wall on her. Mary was stunned suddenly by the overwhelming aura of death around the man and the surrounding filled with blood.

"hmm...I have gaven you warning, and you seemed to not have replied to me.." the man disappeared and appeared behind the high wizard suddenly and sliced his head off. Blood gushed out profusely...

"Now...young girl..You shall be useful..Where is that ruby?" the man then appeared in front of Mary and point his katar at her.

Mary mumbled and mumbled but no word came out as she cried in fear.

Meanwhile

Chiva finally reached Geffen Tower and his heart was pumping like crazy, almost like it was going to explode.

however, he did not realize that the closer he was to the tower, the brighter his ruby glowed.

Chiva then saw the man which the katar point his blade at Mary... Having lost everyone, he did not want to lose her.

"Mar..Mary !" Chiva shouted and ran like he was being chased by Dark Lord towards the man...

The man turned his head at Chiva and sensed the crimson red Edged Ruby in his pocket.

"Hmm...So, you hold the ruby... You must be it's owner, eh..? Since you did not die by holding it for more than a day.." the man said again. He then turned at Mary and got ready to slice her head off.

"You are no longer needed...I have found him.." Just right before the blade reached Mary's neck.. Chiva shouted out loud as his brain went berserk.

The Crimson Red Edged Ruby stopped glowing and broke into pieces as it reformed back on Chiva's chest.

A helm with red wings at each side formed on Chiva's head, his tattered clothes turned into an armor of pure crimson red colour as ancient words were in the back on his armor, his sandals turned into shining boots made out of the exact material the ruby was, wings of pure red and black grew out of Chiva as he groaned in pain and a spear with its edge shaped like a ruby and the side with another wing like- blade with an ancient language saying "Crimson Red- Lord Legend". The ground around him shook due to the tremendous power as Mary stared at him.

"Chiva...! You're here..." Mary whispered to herself before fainting from the pressure.

Chiva went berserk and saw everything in red and not coloured. He felt himself growing stronger and stronger every second as he could not grasped what exactly happened. All he knew was to save Mary.

"SO THE RUBY HAS CHOSEN YOU... THEN IT'S DECIDED... I SHALL KILL YOU AND CLAIM THE RUBY MINE!" The man shouted, which was very unlike him as he was cool and quiet a while ago.

A dark purple Edged Ruby reformed on his chest as he took the ruby out..

" I..! Death-Legend, Challenge you! Lord-Legend!"

End

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(please note that in this story, the "meteor assault" is a famous guild which won the crimson red ruby through a war, but the leader died suddenly after that)