Disclaimer: I don't own Highschool Dxd, Elsword, and I Alone level up. I have just borrowed the ideas of each of them to put together this story. In addition to these three, there will be mentions of other anime, manga, and game concepts.
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"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
*Slap*
After slapping him, the girl tried to stand up but fell back down with a groan.
Raven who was still stunned from the slap came out of his stupor and once again looked at the girl, only for her to level him with a glare.
He quickly bought some clothes from the store and ignoring the shocked gasp from the girl, passed her the clothes, and turned around to think about the current situation.
Raven was pretty sure that the girl behind him was Elesis, although she looks a lot less gloomy and more... approachable than before.
'Hm, she won't say something like 'take responsibility for me', right? Although he couldn't rule out that possibility, what with anime girls shouting about getting pregnant from kissing and everything.'
Sanzu who was silently amused at her host's predicament started laughing openly at his thoughts.
'Hahahaha! You certainly think about the oddest things sometimes my host.
As Raven was explaining anime cliches to Sanzu, he heard a cough coming from behind.
'I guess, she finished dressing up.'
He turned around to look at Elesis, she was wearing a loose white t-shirt and denim shorts.
While he was observing her, she was doing the same. He could tell that the earlier hostility had lessened considerably, although he could see a hint a familiarity and confusion in her eyes.
'Huh, wonder what that's about? Though she does have some nice legs.'
After a few more looks,
"Not bad, not bad at all.", he commented while giving her a thumbs up.
Her face gained a slight red hue, "Thank you."
"So... Elesis, right?", he began.
"Yes, I am Elesis Sieghart. I thank you for saving me from the influence of the Dark El."
'Bingo! So she IS the Elesis from Elsword. Though what the hell is she doing here?'
"Well, the names Raven, Raven Hyuodou. Nice to meetcha!", He said with a smile.
Her eyes widened when he said my name.
'Oh, yeah! there was a Raven in her world.'
"A-are you-" I cut her off before she could continue.
"No, I'm not related to the Raven you know."
Her eyes dimmed as she started clenching her fists. Suddenly, she looked up and asked,
"How did you know that I knew someone called Raven?"
Oh... how was he supposed to answer that? He can't exactly tell her that her world was a video game, right?
"Well, let's just say that I'm a big fan of your group."
She was silent for a few seconds before asking,
"So, you know who I am?"
"Yeah. Of course, I know the famous 'Captain of the Red Knights'."
She smirked at the mention of the Red Knights.
After a few moments, Raven asked the question that had been bugging his mind.
"So, what were you doing here?"
She gained a thoughtful expression at that tilting her head, before answering,
"Well, I don't remember how I got here. I recall falling into some sort of hole and that I landed in someplace where a lot of monsters kept coming at me. So, I was forced to absorb the power of the Dark El to survive, and... most of my memories after that aren't clear."
Raven could feel his eyebrows twitching,
"You... fell into a... hole?"
'The fuck!? Did she fall into a freaking wormhole or something?'
"Anyways, are you aware that you're not in Elrios anymore?" He asked her. He was confused because of her somewhat nonchalant behavior.
Hearing my question Elesis just sighed as she sat down," Well, the moment that I fell into that place, I knew I wouldn't be in Elrios anymore. You see before me some else fell into it as well." Here she looked at me, before saying something which shocked him to his core.
"His name was Raven Cronwell. After it happened we searched for him everywhere in Elrios. We looked for him even in the Demon Realm. But we never found him... You look a lot like him. Even the way you fight..."
'... What hell!? Now that I think about it. I am similar to him. Even my sacred gear looks like his nasod arm. This just got really confusing.'
'Personally, I think that he might have been one of your ancestors. There are too many similarities for this to be a mere coincidence.'
'What!? But that's -'
'It is not impossible. Remember that he might have fallen through a dimensional portal. The destination of an Unstable portal is unpredictable. They might send you to a different world, or it might even send you to the past or future.'
'So... you're saying that there is a possibility that I might be related to him.', Raven questioned her after a few minutes.
'Well maybe the reason you look like him is that the system is awakening dormant genes.'
'Wait, how does that work?'
'Why do you think that some people are born more gifted than others, it's because they were born with better genes. This is something true for all species. Look at the devils, you talked about that Gremory girl having the Power of Destruction, while that Bael kid didn't have it. So, what I'm saying is maybe his genes were more combat-oriented than your current ones, and that the system is awakening or changing your already existing ones for better survival. Think about it how else do you think your stats work. It's not like you just gain strength out of nowhere.'
'That... actually makes sense. I can't believe I never thought of that.'
'For now, I suggest you stop thinking about it. What I just said is all speculation even if it seems possible we don't have enough information to confirm whether you're related to him. Also, you've been staring into space for the past few minutes.'
'Oh shit!', Raven looked towards Elesis to see her looking at him puzzled.
"Ah, sorry about that. I was just talking with Sanzu about whether I was related to your Raven."
She tilted her head in confusion, "Who?"
"That would be me." Came Sanzu's voice from my left arm.
Elesis widened her eyes in surprise, she hadn't missed that the voice came from my arm. Her response garnered amused laughter from Sanzu.
"I-Is that a talking weapon?"
"I am what you call a Sacred Gear. Sacred Gears which are also known as God's Artifacts are items with powerful abilities bestowed upon humans by God of the Bible."
"Amazing. So this 'God of the Bible' gives humans sentient weapons." She asked in awe.
"Not exactly. There is a varied amount of sacred gears but not all of them are sentient, in fact, they are unique, and there only exists one of them. They are called Sealed Sacred Gears. The reason for this is that a powerful being is sealed inside them."
"Wait, so you're trapped inside that! Why!?" She asked bewildered.
"Let's just say that I was not very friendly before I was sealed. And this was a... sort of punishment."
Elesis somewhat calmed down at that. "So, who are you?" She asked after a few seconds.
"I am the Golden Crow. One of the Three Supreme Fire Beasts." Sanzu said happily.
"Well, it's nice to meet you.", said Elesis after a moment of surprise.
"You as well."
There was an awkward silence as neither knew what else to say.
"Ahem, so do you want to know the theory we came up with?" He asked her.
Elesis seemed to perk up at that, so both Raven and Sanzu started explaining while conveniently leaving out the parts regarding the system.
A Few minutes later.
"So, what you're saying is that you might be related to him, but that you don't have any way to check it."
"Yeah, that's about it." He nodded.
She was about to say something when suddenly a loud growl came from her stomach.
Raven raised his eyebrows amusedly at her.
She blushed in embarrassment and said while looking to the side, " I-it's been a while since I've eaten anything. I've been surviving because of the Dark El energy."
Raven immediately felt bad about his reaction, "Well, why don't we go get something to eat first. We can talk later." He said while getting up.
She got up to follow him, as he opened the portal to exit the dungeon. They ended up back at the clearing in the forest.
Raven could tell it was late afternoon, around 6 or 7 hours after he went to the dungeon.
"Well, come on." He started walking away after calling to the curious red-head who was looking around.
*Nom...Nom*
Currently, in a restaurant, the staff and the customers were looking bewildered at a young red-headed girl eating away dish after dish furiously, while a young boy was sitting in front of her watching her amusedly.
"Slow down, the foods not going anywhere." He said after watching the girl almost choke.
The girl looked at him before nodding and started eating again albeit a tad more slowly. Raven just shook his head at this.
After Elesis finished eating, they left the restaurant, Elesis with a full stomach, Raven with a near-empty purse.
'... That was over half my money.' He sighed.
"So, what now?" Elesis asked as they walked.
"I don't know to be honest. Maybe I can convince my parents to let you stay over before finding you some kind of job." Raven said after some thought.
"Job?" She asked tilting her head.
"Yes, a job. You don't plan on just freeloading do you?" Raven asked her with a pointed look. Elesis had the decency to blush at that.
"Oh, yeah how old are you again?" Elesis became upset at that for some reason before answering with a quiet "19".
It became quiet after that as they walked towards Raven's house.
"I'm home.", Raven said as he opened the door.
"Oh, welcome back, Karasu.", said his mother as she came to greet him before suddenly stopping to look at Elesis.
The two stared at each other before Elesis greeted with a sheepish "Hello".
Mama Hyoudou just kept looking back and forth between Raven and Elesis, before running away squealing "Tou-san, Karasu brought a girl home."
""What!"" shouted two male voices before there was a rush downstairs.
Papa Hyoudou was the first one down, he just looked at Raven who had a resigned expression, and at the confused red-head before giving him a thumbs-up, before he started shouting how proud he is.
Issei was the second one down, he also looked at Raven and then at the beautiful red-headed girl. His face went through a range of emotions before settling on a strange mix of pride, jealousy.
Raven just ignored the bewildered look Elesis was giving him as he tried to ignore the antics of his family.
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And, that's another chapter that's finally done. YIPPIEEEEEEEEEE!
Anyhow, I know it's been a long time since I updated and well I don't really have any excuses except that I was kind of lazy and was having a bit of trouble in actually writing the chapter.
You see I rewrote this chapter a total of 3 times and considering my firm membership in the lazy ass category that's a lot of work.
Well, the problem was that I had a hard time implementing my story and making the story kind of flow. Like I had a lot of time to plan and I have the general plot of the whole story written down. But the problem comes when I try to write it. I don't know whether you guys understand what I'm saying, but simply I'm having a hard time writing down the things that I'm visualizing the way I want them to.
So, to remedy this problem I was thinking of writing a story that follows canon. I'm sure by now you guys can tell that the story will be very different. I can assure you that by the 3rd arc there will be a total divergence from the Dxd canon story.
Anyway, I had a hard time choosing which story to write since there are a lot of options. I did consider naruto and bleach since they are the stuff I know the best, but then after some consideration, I thought they wouldn't work since I have a lot to work with Dxd already and those 2 universes are also pretty big and they were also pretty long. Fairy tail was also too long, I'm not even gonna talk about one piece. So the only one left which I knew the best was Harry potter. It's not terribly long, and I can also follow canon while making changes without having to think my ass off like the ones above Since the stories focus is mainly on Hogwarts. Now some people might disagree with my opinion, but I can't help it ok.
Also, this doesn't mean I'll stop updating this, I'm still gonna write this story but like I said before I need more experience to make sure I don't butcher the story. Not that it'll make any difference since I always had a slow updating speed with this fic. So expect a chap once a month or so for now.
Anyways, peace out.
