Nepgear opened her tired eyes only to find herself on a bed. The wounds on her body had gradually healed, which surprised her at first, but chose to ignore it. She found herself lying on a bed inside a tent. Unfamiliar to the area, Nepgear walked out of the tent in curiosity.
"Oh, Gearsy! You're awake!" Nepgear turned to her right where she could see Uzume, Neptune, Umio, and Sieg sitting next to the fire. As she looked around, she was aware of the river that flowed next to the camp, along with monsters sitting along it. Wait monsters?
"W-Why are there monsters here!?" Nepgear asked in shock. Uzume only laughed at her response.
"Relax Gearsy, these little guys are with me. All these guys lost their homes, so they live here now and look after one another." Uzume explained.
"O-Oh, that's okay I guess. Um, where are we actually?" She asked her.
"This is my main base. While you were passed out, Sieg here decided to carry you to my base so we could have you heal up!"
"Sieg? Oh, you mean the guy that saved us from Arfoire!"
"Yup, and boy, he really saved our asses two days ago. It makes me even wonder what other kind of abilities he has. He was able to take out that crazy old hag with no problem!"
"Wait, two days ago? Have I been out for that long?"
"Because you didn't have that much share energy, it took a bit longer to try to wake you up. We all had to explore the area looking for more share crystals and luckily, we hit a huge jackpot!"
"Hey, I helped with my latest and improved NepBull you know!" Neptune overheard their conversation and decided to step in a bit.
"What do you mean that you helped with your NepBull sis-I mean Neptune?" As identical as she looks to her sister, this Neptune was not her sister.
"Oh nothing. All I did was have you drink my latest invention that was still in the works and it so happened to work!"
"And by that, you mean that you shoved that NepBull down her throat right?" Uzume asked bluntly. Neptune only averted her eyes in panic.
"I-I did no such thing!"
"Sure you didn't. Anyway, it's great to have you back Gearsy." Uzume smiled at her. Nepgear nodded at her, and returned the smile.
"Nepgear correct?" Hearing her name called by Sieg, she turned her attention to the homunculus that was sitting down next to Umio.
"Y-Yes, that's me. O-Oh, and thank you for saving me and my friends. We owe a lot to you." During her years in Gamindustri, Nepgear didn't have the chance to speak to men in the world. Well, she spoke to the members at the Basilicom, but they were always so busy with their work. And Umio….well, it's Umio.
"No problem, if you are a friend to my master, then I will do everything in my power to protect you." Sieg said.
"Um, if it's a problem, may I know why you call Neptune 'master'?" Nepgear asked him. Before Sieg could speak, he was interrupted by Neptun jumping into her field of vision.
"I can tell ya! To save us the time, I can give you a basic understanding of it okay!?" Neptune was stoic all of a sudden. Maybe it's because she was the master of Sieg, where she could have many cool abilities. At least, that's what Neptune thinks.
"Okay." Nepgear's words were short, but anyone could tell that it's going to be a lot to take in. Umio, and Uzume had a long time to process this information as well.
"Okay, so blah blah blah blah blah." Neptune started to speak in gibberish, which was strange to Sieg. But no one else was bothered by it, so he chose to go along with it.
"Wow...that's….a lot to take in." Nepgear was understanding every word that she was saying. Not coming that much of a shock to Sieg, he still ignored it as a part of a language that could be said here.
"So you're basically his master, where everything you say, is something that he must do?" Nepgear asked, after she listened to Neptune's explanation.
"Yes, that's how normal command spells work such as mine, but the strange thing is that Neptune's command spell is the exact same one I currently use." Sieg looked back to his own command spell on his hand, to see a striking resemblance of it on Neptune's hand. How was this possible? If she has the same command spell such as his, doesn't that mean….
"So does that mean I can do some cool things that you can do? Like destroy that shield that Arfoire had in a single instant!?" Neptune rushed up to Sieg's face to get a response out of him, but he only chose to continue looking at her command spell.
"...For now, it's best if you didn't do anything reckless with it. Only when we are in emergency situations, you will use the command spells on me. I don't want a human such as yourself to do anything risky."
"Aw, oh well. If you say so, then I guess I'm going to have to listen to you then. You saved us, so it's the least bit of a returning favor I can do for you." Neptune smiled, as she looked back her hand.
"Thank you….and I must know, where on Earth are we? I haven't seen anything like this place while I traveled on Earth." After Sieg said this, everyone looked at him confusion, until Umio spoke up.
"Um, I'm sorry Sieg but what is this Earth that you speak of?" Sieg's eyes widened in shock, as they didn't know what he was talking about.
"Yeah, is it some sort of place that we could go for protection? We might need the space for everyone too." Uzume hadn't heard of the place at all. Especially from the monsters that she saved in the past.
"Is…...is this not Earth?" Sieg looked up to the sky to notice that the atmosphere was extremely different than from Earth. There was not beautiful landscapes, and no sign of humanity besides the rest of them.
"We don't really know what you're talking about Sieg. I'm sorry." Nepgear apologized for the lack of information of what Earth was. She could only look down in sorrow, as she noticed Sieg's upset expression.
"Then….then where am I?" Sieg muttered and continued to look at the sky. He continued to ponder in thought, as he was noticeably confused as to how he got there. Did someone transferred him to another world? No, it couldn't be. No one else could have gotten to the Reverse Side of the World besides him. But if dimension travel was true, then what type of magic brought him here? It didn't make any sense to him in the slightest bit. Yes, there wasn't anybody there when he arrived. All he did, was to wait for…..wait for Ruler to arrive.
"Ruler…" Sieg felt a slight pain in his heart. Ruler was going to arrive in The Reverse Side of the World, and be greeted to nothing. The thought of her heart being broken is what made Sieg saddened.
"Oh, is that a barrel bath!? I wanna try it out!" While everyone was staring at Sieg with saddened eyes, Neptune scouted around the area to find something interesting as they furthered their conversation, and what she found, was a barrel bath.
"It doesn't matter if it's a different Nepsy. Nepsy will always be Nepsy." Umio said, as he chuckled at the starry eyes Neptune.
"Well, she always acts like this at the wrong times, but can you blame her?" Nepgear said. Looking back at Sieg, she saw Uzume begin to walk up to her. Smiling, she left with Umio to go speak with Neptune.
"Hey." Sieg broke out of his trance when he felt Uzume touch his shoulder.
"Forgive me, is there something that you need?" Sieg asked her, trying his best to conceal his emotions.
But he's failing at it.
"Are you going to be okay? I know you got taken away from your home, but are you going to be alright with this?"
"I….I'll try to manage. This is something I'm not familiar with at all. Forgive me, but can you let me have some time alone for now?" Uzume could understand the confusion in his eyes. It reminded her of how she first woken in this world.
"...It must be sad." Uzume said, as she took a seat right next to Sieg.
"Sad?"
"You...have memories of your home, and yet you were taken away from it. And all I have is no memory of my home." Sieg noticed Uzume's eyes become slightly saddened.
"You..don't remember your past?" As he said this, Uzume could only show a small smile to him.
"Yeah, but even then…I have to-no I want to fight for everyone. It doesn't matter if I don't have any memories of my past, if I could save people then hell with my memory! I'll just have to make some more memories! And if I forget those memories, then I'll just keep making more and more of them!" Uzume raised her fist in the air with enthusiasm.
"Is that still okay? Not knowing of the people that helped became what you are...is that okay?" Sieg respects the enthusiasm, as it reminds him of Rider. He wasn't going to see him either huh?
"No…..it's not okay. They would recognize me, and I wouldn't. They would know things about me, and I wouldn't." Uzume's enthusiasm shrunk down as she says this.
"But even so, I want to continue helping others. And you should too." Sieg looked at Uzume, slightly shocked that despite being sad with her memory loss, she still continued to look forward.
"Sieg, you have to look forward. I know that might seem a little harsh, but that's the way life might happen to result in. I'll leave you to your space for now, but if you need to talk, don't be afraid to speak to me." With that, Uzume walked off to speak to with the others, leaving Sieg to himself.
All Sieg could think of, was the memories that he shared with Astolfo and Jeanne that led him to where he is now. He continued to look at the sky with saddened eyes.
(A/N)
Sorry for the lame explanation of the command spells. I'm slightly sick, and I couldn't think of anything that much for this chapter. This chapter was an original idea that I thought of during my break, and I wanted to see if this would do good or not. Also, thanks for all of the support that is being shared to this story. You all are very amazing people for it. Thank you.
