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Chapter 5: The 7-Swords

IS Academy Cafeteria

It was lunchtime and Setsuna was sitting alone in one of the tables away from the others. Due to his stunt earlier, Most of his classmates distanced themselves from him not out of fear, but of concern. When he read their minds, the majority of the thoughts was that the transfer student's mock declaration of war put him on edge. They were right, however he too did not know why he went to such an action. As he closed his eyes to calm down, he felt two presences approaching him. And when he opened them at their direction, He saw Ichika and Rin, but the girl was nervous as she was very close to Ichika's back. Ichika then spoke.

"Setsuna-san, can we sit over here? Also, we might want to talk about what happened earlier." Setsuna then looked behind Ichika to see Rin shrinking to his back. He then spoke.

"Fine."

"Thanks. C'mon Rin. He already allowed us."

She then looked at Setsuna whose face is in its default poker one, clearly different from what his looked earlier. She nods and the two of them sat in front of Setsuna.

The atmosphere in their location was chilling. Almost all of the students looked at them as to see the development of the situation. Among them, Cecilia and Houki were also watching, although they have questions at Ichika as what is his relationship to the girl, but this is more important.

Rin is nervous. Very nervous. The man in front of her is clearly strong and have issues regarding war. Although she don't know what he is thinking right now, she can feel that it was still at her display earlier.

Well, she was half correct.

Ichika on the other hand, is thinking to how he could dispel this problem. He knows that Setsuna was friendly enough if you do not anger him, but what he did that time felt unnatural, it's as if a dark chapter of his life suddenly appeared. He also nearly released the charged shot at her but not before he pointed it down and reasoned with him and mentally told Rin to go away for now. Although Rin may be annoying to other people at times, she is still a great friend. He started the conversation.

"S-Setsuna-san, let me introduce her again to you. Her name is Lingyin Huang." He then looked at her.

"Come on Rin, introduce yourself to him." Said girl was thinking of what she would say, clearly nervous. She then spoke.

"Y-yes. I'm Lingyin Huang, representative of China a-and" she stood up and lowered her head at him. "I-I'm sorry for what happened earlier."

Eveyone who saw that was suprised. Not only that Rin, a representative bowed to Setsuna, said man only raised his eyebrow while chewing on his lunch as if he didn't care. When Rin raised her head, she saw that he looks right at her. But when he blinked, she saw something unnatural.

His eyes flashed a golden glow.

And as quickly as it surfaced, it also disappeared. While she processed what happened, he said.

"Fine." Now everyone was shocked again. Not only that he is quick to accept the apology, he said it in a simple way, as if he knew the truth. But unknown to them, there was an addition to that, though he did not say it aloud. Ichika then cleared his throat and said to Rin.

"See Rin? He already accepted it. So could you please sit down? Everyone is…" he then looked around, prompting her to do the same. And a few seconds later, her cheeks got a slight tinge of red and sat down.

Seeing that the mood had lightened, Ichika asked Rin of what happened to her while Setsuna only listens. Rin then asked Ichika how did he arrived here. That also piqued Setsuna's interest as he don't know when Ichika can use an "IS".

He recalled that when he was attending a High school entrance exam in the big multi-purpose hall when he got lost due to the size of the place. And when he turned on a corner and opened a door, he was surprised that there is an IS there. He then walked to it and he touched it, it suddenly glowed and moved. Suddenly, three teachers arrived and was about to tell him to get out when they saw it. Never in their life that a man can activate an IS. He then told Rin that a lot happened after that and in the end, he is here now.

Setsuna was intruiged at his story. Was it fate that he can control an IS or something did? He might investigate it if given a chance.

"Huh, that's weird." Rin said. Then Cecilia and Houki stood up, went to the trio's location and slammed their hands on the table. Setsuna could only sigh.

"Ichika, I think you must explain yourself."Houki said, too focused on them that she didn't notice that Setsuna looks at them with his usual look.

"That's right. You must explain yourself and your relationship with that girl. Don't tell me that you are actually dating her now." Cecilia followed.

"N-no, it's not like that at all I swear." She said in defense.

"It's true." Rin then looked at Ichika.

"We're just childhood friends that's all." Rin then lightly furrowed her eyebrows and mentally said 'Just childhood friends huh'. This did not go unnoticed as Setsuna heard it. He then stood up, getting the attention of the four.

"Excuse me." Picking up the dishes, he left. They looked at him as he left, then Rin whispered to Ichika.

"Is he always like that?"

"Sometimes, he prefers to be alone but he do socialize." He replied. They then heard Houki clearing her throat and turned back to them again.

"G-getting back on track, what do you mean childhood friend?"

He then explained the year after her departure and her arrival and thus created a new rivalry between Houki and Rin with Cecilia butting in.

After School - IS Academy Arena 6

The trio of Ichika, Houki and Cecilia age going to the hangar to prepare him for the Class league match. But they did not expect that there is someone here already.

Setsuna, who gave the countermeasure Chifuyu need as part of their deal and was scolded for his actions in the morning, was training here. Clad in his Gundam, he was testing right now the 7-Sword/G package configuration of the 00 as it was only available. As he was focusing, Cecilia asked.

"What is senpai doing?" Houki replied.

"That's what we're trying to know as well, so keep quiet." They then looked back at him as Setsuna said.

"00 Gundam, 7-Sword/G package, activate!" after he said that, he started glowing. The trio focused on what's happening. After it died down, what they saw surprised them.

While the IS itself did not change, its current armaments were. On his legs were medium-sized katars with green edges. On his waist were two swords of different lengths. And the most surprising was the large sword connected to the left cone while at the other side is something akin to a sniper rifle, also with a green edge underneath it. While Setsuna was checking for any abnormalities after its transformation, he sensed the trio watching so he called them.

"What are you doing here?" They were surprised that he quickly knew their location, and so they walked from their hiding place and went to him.

"We were helping Ichika here train for the match. We merely stumbled upon you here." Houki said

"So senpai, what are you doing here?" Cecilia asked.

"I'm testing the new weapons of my Gundam." He simply said.

'Gundam? Did he mean IS?' the trio thought, but the girls got an idea.

"If you're testing them, can you help us train him?" the girls asked pointing at Ichika.

"W-what?!" Ichika shouted. He think that sparring with Setsuna right now may not be the best idea. But-

"This only lasts for five minutes, but fine." Setsuna replied.

"EEHHH?!" Ichika shouted again. The girls' eyes widened. They did not expect him to answer that fast, but quickly shaken the thoughts as they looked at Ichika.

"He already said yes so come on." Houki said as they walked towards him.

"B-but" he tried to reply but was cut off by Cecilia.

"He also said that it will last for 5 minutes so you must haste!" They then dragged him to Setsuna who was patiently waiting. In truth, he was merely reading their thoughts. Cecilia was happy, Houki, while serious, was also happy that another trainer that she can trust, as she is still in bad grounds with the other female. As for Ichika, he's somewhat nervous as this is their first time training. Although he can understand that, it was for his sake so he kept it in his stoic face.

After Ichika activated his IS, the boys went to their starting points and gets ready for the signal. Houki then said.

"Are you ready?"

"Yes."

"Y-yes."

Both of them replied before locking their eyes with each other. She then raised her hand, and after double checking, swung it down with a following...

"GO!"

Both of them charged at each other, Ichika wielding his Yukihira Type-2 while Setsuna uses his GN Sword II Long. When their swords clashed, Setsuna made the first hit by kicking Ichika in the gut and then flying higher into the sky.

"Hey! That's the move he used on me!" exclaimed Cecilia, remembering their duel last time. Houki could only smirk as she remembered it as well. After recovering, Ichika tried to follow Setsuna but was met with incoming fire from Setsuna who now dual-wield his Long Sword and GN Sword II Blaster. While the time between shots are long, one hit from the blaster could make the Byakushiki enter its Absolute Barrier State as Setsuna set it to full power.

"I bet that is more powerful than my Blue Pierce!" exclaimed Cecilia as she watched in awe at the Blaster's beams.

"Let's hope Ichika's suit could withstand all that. He's still have to train with us." Houki followed.

At the same time, Ichika is still trying to formulate a plan on how he could get close.

'Damn, I really need to get close. Or else he might finish me here right now.'

Then a hit from the long sword removed him of his thoughts. That however gave him time to close in on Setsuna. He however noticed that he is holstering the Blaster and is reaching the short sword. But right now, he need to get a weak spot that he could attack. He then circled him to find it. He didn't notice however that Setsuna is aiming the short sword before him and without warning, the tip launched.

"Ichika watch out!" the girls shouted.

"Huh?!"

And in good timing, the tip and the connecting wire looped at his right leg. After seeing the hit, Setsuna dragged Ichika towards him in full force.

'Such strength!' the girls and Ichika thought. When Ichika saw that he is readying the long sword, he intercepted it with his own and the collision of the swords were bright. At Setsuna, he merely grunted as the timer of the 7-Sword/G is nearly up.

'I need to end this.' He thought so he broke up the clash, holstering the sword and reaching out the blaster one last time. As he entered a stance, he waits Ichika to take the bait. And the kid did. While he prefer not to use the blaster as a melee weapon, it could be used as a distraction. As the two clashed for the last time, the distraction was enough to ready his final arsenal. Activating the Buster sword, he quicly reached for it and did a downward slash, effectively activating Byakushiki's Absolute Barrier.

As the training session finally ended, the combatants landed and Ichika deactivated his IS. As for Setsuna, the package disappeared as soon as the session ended. He then walked towards the kid who is holding his head with his left hand. He then spoke to him.

"Are you alright?" he responded.

"I know that it is too early to spar with you, but this? This way more difficult than I expected." He followed with a chuckle. "Oh, by the way, thanks for training me. And please do me a favor not to be your test dummy?" Ichika received a nod.

The girls then approached the two.

"That was so cool, the both of you! I can't wait to train with the two of you!" Cecilia said.

"Are you okay Ichika? Your system activated its A.B."

"Yeah. I'm alright." He replied and then noticed that Setsuna is still wearing his IS.

"Setsuna, why have you not deactivated yet?" said person replied.

"I'm reading the status in my suit."

"Oh."

"Hey Ichika, we need to recharge your suit so follow me." Houki said.

"What?"

"Don't forget that you are still training with us. That spar was just a warm-up." She followed.

"EEEHHH?!" Ichika could not believe it. That was already exhausting, but she already called for more!

"Hey! Are you coming?"

"Y-yes!" he could on sigh as he followed her. Seeing that Ichika is leaving, Cecilia called out to Setsuna.

"Hey should we follow them?"

"Perhaps." He replied and then the two followed them. Cecilia asked.

"Hey, can we spar next time? Just the two of us?"

"No." he replied in his cold tone.

"Awww." She said in a childish voice and attempted various persuasion techniques which results in the same answer.

An hour later…

After recharging, the trio quickly went to the arena to complete their original purpose here, leaving behind Setsuna in the hangar. As he was computing the data, he sensed someone. When he looked at the door, it opened revealing Chifuyu. As she looked around, she spotted him and asked.

"Have you seen my brother? And what are you doing here?" then she walked towards him.

"Ichika Orimura is being trained by Houki Shinonono and Cecilia Alcott. As to why I am here, I am checking my Gundam's data after activating its 7-sword pack."

She nodded and she looks at Setsuna for a while. After a few minutes, she asked again.

"Why did you point your IS's weapon at Miss Huang?"

He stopped at his work and looked sharply at her.

"Something that I wish neither of them experience." He said and he went back at his work. Chifuyu thought about it.

'Hmmm. Perhaps it is the wars at his home. He shouldn't be a simple war orphan. He also couldn't be a soldier, based on the data we've seen. Could it be?'

"You're a child soldier?"

BANG!

Setsuna's fist met the terminal and frowned at Chifuyu. She on the other hand, only sighed. She remembered that he can read minds.

"I'm sorry about that. It's just that what you did earlier may affect what people thought about you. Besides, I myself felt it too when I was abandoned by my parents."

"I killed them." What came from his mouth shocked her. She responded.

"What?! Why?!"

"Due to my former blind faith to God and a true terrorist." He said while not leaving the screen. His eyes softened a little at this point. Chifuyu grimaced at what he said.

'Terrorists and their poisoning of children's minds.' "What happened to him then?" she asked.

"He was in a battle with my fellow meister and a victim of his group. He was killed by him." He answered. He then unplugged his device from the terminal and shut it down.

"Excuse me." He said as he walked to the door and left. Now alone, and out of range, Chifuyu thought.

'That really shed a lot of light on his past. Who would've thought he suffered so much.'

"Setsuna F. Seiei." She said as she looked at the door one last time before walking out to the arena.

'I think I should teach Ichika "that" move.'

With Setsuna

He was really confused as to what happened earlier. What happened to him that he let her hear his past? As he thought about that, he didn't notice Rin walking and nearly hit her. Fortunately, she moved out of the way, but didn't retort as she saw that he was thinking and had that frown on his face.

'What happened to him?' she thought as she went to the changing room to wait for Ichika.

And done. I'm sorry if the chapter is short and you did not like the spar and his sudden reveal of the past. I'm out of ideas for the moment due to multiple crossovers and fanfics forming in my mind.

About those ideas, I will give you previews of them.

PV#1

Note: OC is the same as my first fanfic.

Anime involved: Gundam SEED

As I left the GN portal, I quickly looked at my surroundings.

I'm in space.

Big deal.

As I moved the Exodus Quanta (AN: Yes, I took some ideas from 00, U.C. AND Wing. I will show them after I finalized it.) to search for civilization, I noted that it was no easy task. When I looked at my Galaxy array, I noticed that the alignments of the stars were different, and that multiple space colonies were present at the solar system. Deciding that it would be best to see for myself, I called out.

"Zero, set a course to Earth, wake me if there is something wrong." The screen in front shone, acknowledging my orders. As I activated my armor's comms., it only showed static. What the hell's its problem?

'Perhaps it's due to the portal, CB's engineers should calibrate more of Setsuna's Quantum Gate. Oh well.' And then I slept, armor giving me the things I need for a while.

…

…

…

The screen flashed, waking me up. I checked the date. 3 days have passed.

'Wow. That much.' I thought. I then called out to Zero System 3.0

"What happened?" I said with a yawn.

Then the screen showed me a space colony.

A damaged space colony. And that colony is…

"The… HELL! HELIOPOLIS?!" I shouted, a sudden realization quickly came.

I'm thrown into Jesus Yamato's world.

Alright NEXT!

PV#2

Anime involved: Madan no Ou to Vanadis

Note: I may need help on this one. You see, I still don't have any name for this OC who is a member of John's group. So could you kindly give names and a casual name that might fit for this story? PM it to me. Thank you for your support.

I'm Tigrevormund Vorn, or simply Tigre. I am now on route by horse to Zion's camp in Molsheim Plains. Following me are soldiers from Leitmeritz who followed me to Alsace to defend it from Zion who got the opportunity to burn my territory. Among them was a man who walk only. Whom my father, Titta, my maid and I met four years ago.

He has white hair, pinkish white skin, have a strong build and nearly about 2 alsin (meters) tall. He has been my father's helper ever since he arrived at home, and has become a brother figure to Titta and me, as well as my mentor in small weapons. Although he considers himself as a mercenary, he supports me and sometimes follow me at my hunts.

But right now, both soldiers of Alsace and Ellen are stiff, not because of the next battle, but of his presence right now.

He wears what could be considered an archer's garment, except that he doesn't have a bow or arrows at his disposal. The one that gave the soldiers uneasy or sometimes (happy?) expressions is what his true armor is now.

He is covered in something that could be called TITANIC armor. While its dominant colors are black and gray, the "Cracks" all around it show green lines. Its legs study, torso tough, and arms broad, one might think that he acquired a magical armor in some ruins. But I know that it isn't the case. As he once told me and my father about it, it was created by humans which shocked us both. Father thought that he merely jests, but after his conversation with him after I was told to leave, he seemed, satisfied. I don't know what it was, but I think I might know after some time.

His head is covered in a black helmet that I find bizarre. There is a large horn in its forehead that made him look like a unicorn (AN: Yes, I based it on Unicorn Gundam with a few additions.) and a green thing where the eyes should be. Curiously, his "bag" have these tubes underneath and a white V starting from the top until nearly at the end. All of that made him look like a golem than a human.

The weapons he carried were both amazing and mysterious. In his hand was a crossbow with a unique design. Most crossbows I have seen are made of wood, but this one is made of metal, from the string up to the very body itself. It is also quite longer than the others, and have a "scope", as he told me, that aid in the accuracy of the user. I was surprised when he shot a deer straight to the head while in cover but that is a story in another time. In his waist are quivers of bolts the size of a bow's, but some of them are what he called "Explosive rounds". I don't know what that means, but based on one word, I don't want in its path.

The other one was very mysterious. It was a great sword, horizontally placed behind his waist. I didn't know what it looks, but it seems leaking its powers everywhere. Sometimes, even the black bow follows it as well.

All of a sudden, he called out to me.

"Think that she will be okay?" he asked me in a deep voice.

"Who?" I asked.

"Ellen and by extension, Lim." He clarified.

"I don't know _, but the general expression would be shocked, I say." I replied.

"Hehehe, you're right. So, are you ready?" he asked again.

"Maybe. But he will pay for this."

"Damn right. When I first saw him, my instinct is to strangle him to death. And his attitude only put oil to the fire."

As we rode/walked, we saw our camp. I hardened my resolve. We will win this battle.

Wow, that is long. NEXT!

PV#3

Anime involved: Highschool DxD

"Will. You. Die. For. Me?"

I, Issei Hyoudo, was told by Yuuma-chan that. A death threat. Normally I would laugh at that statement, but her tone was serious and a light spear appeared in her hand. I went serious. She then thrust it at me. If I was a human, I will die, but I'm no human. Quickly dodging it, I rolled to the side and entered a stance. She then said.

"My, aren't you fast for a human. But it won't matter. You will die this day." She then released her wings.

A fallen angel.

A good description.

"Hate to say this, but I'm not a human, Raynare the fallen." I said, shocking her.

"How did you know that?!" she demanded. My answer is to snap my finger and used a spell specific for this task.

"Dress Break!" and then she was naked. Her jugs made me blush and my nose is bleeding. Her eyes went wide and covered her P. parts. She then looked menacingly at me.

"Nice Body." I said in English followed by a thumbs up, smiling all the way.

"You'll pay for this, SCUM!" she charged at me.

I sighed, then teleported right behind her and did a technique that made its targets unconscious. The last thing she saw, in my opinion, were my jet black and pure white wings. As I looked at her body, something inside of me spoke.

{Really, of all the spells you could use first, it had to be Dress Break, partner.} He said.

"Sheesh, you're no fun, Ddraig." I replied to my partner, Ddraig, the Welsh Dragon.

{No fun my ass, if he knows it, you'll be in trouble, including me.} He replied.

"Yes, you will." A voice said. Looking behind me, my face went pale. Standing there was a woman who looks like at my age group. With a beautiful face, silver hair, and a lady-like expression, she wears the female version of the school, Kuoh Academy. And she has quite large breasts, hehehe. But her definite trait is the six pairs of wings similar to my own. She is currently my superior, Sasha Anderson.

Apparently, she is looking at the body of the fallen angel who I defeated earlier. Letting out a sigh, she spoke.

"Looks like a lot will be written to my report." She then looked at me. My body stiffened.

"Go home for now, I got this." I let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank you Sasha-san." As I was facing the opposite direction and about to leave…

WHAM!

A hammer slammed into me. As I looked at the suspect, I saw her wielding a hammer ten times the size of her. She then spoke with a smile.

"That is your punishment for now." Her power radiating, I know she's pissed. And I ran.

{Told you.} Ddraig said with a smirk.

"Oh, shut up." I replied.

This has been my life in the shadows.

A supernatural being.

An unknown.

A Nephalem.

Well that's it for now. I will post either this or next week the next chapter of my first fanfic. So, hope you enjoy! R&R please! NO FLAMES! HELPFUL COMMENTS IS APPRECIATED.