Hello everyone, I'm back~ I hope you all have been well and enjoyed the long weekend (if you had one that is!) I probably should have put this up sooner, but I'm a very bad procrastinator. If it was possible, I'd probably end up procrastinating my death. XD I would like to give a huge thank you to one of my best friends for helping me out so much with some decisions and advices for this story! This brings me to my question I wanted to ask anyone who reads this story- do you want me to add romance later on in this story? Please leave a review or pm me if you have an opinion! No matter what though, it will only be light of course. Also I would like to apologize for the formatting mistakes on the previous chapter! I will keep to mind to fix formatting (owo)v Also, in case anyone did not know, I am adding my oc into this story! Alright, thank you to the people who reviewed last chapter!
Guest: Thank you! I will do my best to fix formatting from now on! I hope you will continue to read it!
MaouSama00: Yes thank you for advices! Ehehe~ She kind of does seem like some kind of pokemons lol and once you find out more about her she seems more like one if I think about it . . . (ovo);
Anyways I hope you all enjoy these chapter and I apologize for grammar mistakes or spelling mistakes or other!
Somewhere in a rather desolate place was a lone building, taking a closer look would reveal that this was no ordinary building, in the fact that it was probably near ten times as big as any normal building, and it was an elliptical shape. An even closer inspection would show that the center of the building was indeed hollowed out and in it's place was a beautiful garden. Cherry blossoms bloomed on the perimeter of the garden and various flowers and bushes were scattered in clusters around the lush, green grass. A large white and gold veranda sat in the center of the garden. Roses adorned the outside of the veranda and the sides were covered in a sheer golden cloth. Inside of the veranda was a pretty glass table with various cakes and cookies along with a teacup half filled with tea. Sitting at the table was a (rather short) emotionless girl. Her short black hair blew in a nonexistent wind, and her marble-like eyes were empty as she stared at the food resting on the table in front of her. The girl stood immediately at the softest sound (a click, she knew.) that a human shouldn't have been able to hear. But she couldn't have been human, not with cat ears that is. A man that was a good foot taller than her walked into the peaceful garden and stopped five meters or so short of the veranda. When the girl did not move, he nodded to her and turned to leave. This time, the girl followed him slowly into the building. Most people wouldn't have given any of this a second thought. But per chance that someone had, they would've seen something enter her eyes as she walked from the garden. Fear?
That night Aisha fell into a long night of nightmares where a gold-clad girl kept chasing her. Every time, this girl would catch her and she would be about to kill her when Aisha would wake up screaming. But every time, Aisha would still drift off to sleep only to have the same nightmare . . . Needless to say, no one got much sleep that night. Well, except Elsword, who could probably sleep through the apocalypse. Aisha was relieved when the morning finally came. She hurriedly got out of bed and dressed, heading downstairs to breakfast. As routine, Rena had already cooked breakfast, and Elsword was not even awake.
"Bad night?" Rena asked her quietly as Aisha sat down to breakfast.
"Yes." Aisha said.
She didn't feel much like talking and Rena noticed that she seemed paler than normal. Finally Elsword woke up and came downstairs to eat. He seemed to notice that something was not right with Aisha, who was lost in thought. Deciding that it was okay to talk about her and she wouldn't kill him, he looked at Rena.
"What's up with her?" He gestured towards the spaced out Aisha through a mouthful of food .
Rena waved her hand, "Nightmares."
He nodded, even though Rena knew he didn't understand. After they finished eating, Lowe came to tell them about the next step of their mission.
"Our team has received information that a bandit has been stealing lots of valuable items from homes in elder. WE think this could be related to Banthus' disappearance and would like you three to go and check it out at once." He said.
"Lowe," Aisha addressed him suddenly, taking him by surprise. "Around here, is there any legend about a girl clad in gold?"
"Hmm, I believe there is something of he sort . . ." He trailed of trying to remember.
"Please tell me about it!" Aisha said eagerly.
"I think it was something like thousands of years ago, a single girl managed to almost destroy Elrios. She defied many beliefs of this country and the only thing that's remembered about her today is that she had gold hair and skin." He told her.
She simply nodded and headed upstairs to get ready to go on their mission. Rena and Elsword shrugged, and Lowe was off to a meeting with other of the Red Knights.
The sharp clicking of heels on marble flooring filled the empty, white hallways. A girl ran through the empty hallway, desperately looking for a way to escape. Unfortunately her search was in vain, and all she could do was run. "What are you doing?! She's running away! Get her!" A gruff voice yelled. Men came from doors all along the hallway. This place was nearly impossible to escape, as the subject now realized. The subject was starting to run out of places to go. The bulding's corridors were similar to a labyrinth, if you went the wrong way, you were guaranteed to perish. The subject turned into a left hall, which was a mistake. Dead end. The men were right on her heals and she didn't have time to escape any longer. Frantically she looked around for anything, a door, window, something. But whoever had built this place had clearly designed it for this purpose as there were no way to get out. Now she was cornered, and in desperation the subject begged for mercy, to let her go. Really, it was impossible though. The girl sank to the floor, sobbing. "Please! I beg you! Let me go!" she cried. A man armed with a gun moves to the front of the group. He simply laughed at the sorry mess of a human in front of him and took aim. Bang. The subject screamed in pain fell limp. The men left her to bleed to death as they knew no better. The subject was left sobbing, watching the last minutes of her life pass in front of her, and staining the pure white hallway with sin . . .
As the three fighters made their way through the forest it was uncomfortably quiet. Elsword was perplexed by the uncharacteristically quiet Aisha. He almost wished she'd go back to normal, even though that would mean he'd get hurt. Rena seemed to sense something but she wouldn't tell him, which frustrated him. Finally they arrived to where Lowe had told them to go. Seeing lots of phoru and a few bandits, they quickly got ready for a fight. Taking out the bandits one after another, still no one talked. When they had finished fighting and were advancing to the next place, Rena and Elsword held small talk but Aisha trailed behind them silently. Meeting a few more groups of phoru and bandits, hey quickly took care of it. Entering a ruins of some sort, they saw a larger phoru.
He looked at them and grinned."I am the thief William! You cannot defeat me!"
The thief called William laughed at the three fighters. Elsword loosened up a bit at the sight of the phoru.
"Well, we can relax, since it's not Banthus," he chuckled.
"I suppose you're right," Rena agreed, and Aisha just nodded.
William look very offended.
"How dare you ignore the great thief William!" He cried in anger.
Everyone attacked at once, Elsword cut and slashed, Aisha loosed fireballs, and Rena fired a rain of arrows. After hardly any time at all William was on his knees begging for his life.
"I'm sorry, I promise that I won't steal anymore, just please don't kill me!" he sqeaked.
"I suppose if you promise not to steal anymore we can let you go," Rena told him. Elsword looked skeptical.
Finally Aisha spoke. "I don't know. What if he breaks his promise?" She asks.
"Lighten up a bit," Rena said to her.
"If we ever find out that you broke your promise, we won't hesitate to kill you." Aisha glares at the phoru.
"Thank you!" William stands and runs away.
As they were walking home to tell Lowe about William, Aisha talked loudly as normal, like nothing had happened at all. Elsword was confused, Girls are so weird. he thought. But after all, he supposed this Aisha was better than the other.
Well, that was kind of short. Anyways, Please give me feedback and I hope it was good!