And so begins chapter two, breaking off with some action who those who were waiting on it. Near the middle to end will be some explaining on how some of the characters look. That part can drag so skip if you really want ;)

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Chapter Two: Getting Started

The three of us stand here, me with a mischievous smile and them with serious expressions. "Oh, lighten up. It's only a spar!" I say as I rush at both of them. They ready their sword and block once I slash at them both. "You'll give the others the impression that we're actually trying to kill each other." I slash at them again but they both jump away. "It's alright though. Go for it." They both look at each other and nod before rushing at me.

The crimson head, Elsword, is the first to attack. He goes for two frontal slashes, which I dodge with ease, and then dives forward with the third. I jump into the air and kick off his head, making him fall over, and slam my swords down on the bird's head. He clenches his teeth as he fends off my swords before swatting me away with his Nasod claw. I manage to barely block and notice him pass by me with immense speed. I then notice what he really did: pass by me while slashing multiple times. If I had noticed from the start, it's more than possible I could've easily blocked it. The six slashes he done within that slide manage to cause me to flinch and I turn around to see Elsword back on his feet. "Sandstorm!" he shouts as he does a quick spin and whips up a mini sand tornado in front of me. Sand and wind together, making a tornado that'll do quite a number on someone.

I swing my swords down, dispersing the tornado and noticing Raven in the air. "Wolf Fang!" he shouts. Judging by the timing he decided to use this, it'll more than likely set me up for something I'd rather not be in. I roll out of the way and he lands behind me, making us be back to back now. We both slowly stand up while readying our blades. Once fully up, we turn and swing, getting into a deadlock. "I suppose I should do some more attacking as well." With a strong push, I manage to break the deadlock and stagger him a bit. I then run toward him, planting my left sword into the ground just steps away from him, and get behind him while slashing his back which makes him move closer to my planted sword. With the snap of my finger, my sword comes back to me while setting off a small explosion. As I thought, Raven stays on his feet but is also still staggered. I quickly get up and kick him in the back which knocks him over. It's then that I notice Elsword, in the air, coming at me while as a ball and with his sword out. That's… quite a skill. I slash upward as his sword comes into my space and it ends up sending him the other way. He lands and tries those dash attacks again. You're making it too easy, Elboy. As he goes for the third slash, my swords disappear and I grab his right arm, flipping him over and then backing up. If I wasn't trying to join them, I could've easily broken his arm.

"Doesn't look like taking him on alone is helping us much. We should try attacking simultaneously" Elsword suggests. Depending on your attacks, it could work, or possibly fail.

"Follow my lead" Raven says as he pursues me. Once he gets in range, we go straight into a deadlock. This guy is really persistent… After an upward slash by him to break the lock, he begins slashing at such a high speed, it's hard to keep blocking. He ends with another upward slash which manages to break my guard. Damn, didn't expect that one. "Now Elsword!" I then feel my body get knocked into the air and notice Elsword did it. Looks like I underestimated these two. They've passed my expectations.

"Let's finish this now!" Trying to finish me while I'm unable to move huh? Dirty, but well thought out.

"Agreed." I see Raven also in the air. "Shockwave!" With a slash at the air, he then sends a wave of energy which should hit me by time I reach the ground. With a quick glance, I see Elsword stab the ground and a trail of molten rocks come my way. This'll hurt if it hits me. I speed up my momentum, reaching the ground before the attacks were expected to hit me. I then summon my scythe which goes toward my title back in the Demon world, the Reaper. A black snath with a long silver chain wrapped around it, a black blade and a smaller one on the other side with small red runes passing by the middle of them.

"Shatter" I say as I stab the ground with the scythe and purple energy shoots out, surrounding me. Once it clears, the energy from Raven's slash and rocks from Elsword disperse. Both of them look at me with looks of disbelief. "Didn't think I'd have to switch to this." I swing my scythe around before resting it on my shoulder. "Well now, shall we continue?"

"Actually, I think that's enough. You're keeping up better than we expected." Looks like that impressed them even more. I nod as my scythe disappears.

"You two have also passed by expectations, though that's to be expected by a group as strong as you guys. Now, not to be hasty or anything, but how about my position on the team?" Elsword and Raven walk over to the group and begin talking amongst themselves. Majority vote it seems. After a few seconds pass, they all turn back to me.

"We've decided to let you join. With more members, we have a better chance at fending off evil" Elsword says. A fake, but realistic smile, appears on my face. "Go ahead and introduce yourselves everyone." I walk toward them as they walk toward me.

The first is the purple-eyed small purple head, wearing a white coat, purple undershirt with a ribbon in the middle, brown gloves, a purple skirt, and white shoes accompanied by black leggings with crosses at the top. Her hair is put into two tails that rest upon her shoulders. Her weapon of choice is the wand that was in her hand. "I'm Aisha, the one you helped yesterday when the two demons attacks. Nice to meet you" Aisha introduces herself. Meh.

Next up is a green-eyed blond elf, two wing-like accessories sitting in her hair. She's wearing a green and white dress with a revealing chest. I cough as she walks up to me. The weapon she uses is a bow that she's holding. "Hiya~ I'm Rena!" she tells me in a cheerful voice. Too happy, not pleasant.

Following after is the elegant-looking Nasod accompanied by two drones; one black and the other white which I'm guessing is also her weapons. Her white dress is one that cut off a bit from the top and has black, yellow and pink mixed into it. At the bottom is her slightly armored leggings that mixes in with her shoes. Her golden eyes seems to contain no emotion as the blue jewel sits on her forehead, slightly covered by her hair. "Eve. Nice to make your acquaintance" she replies. So this is the Nasod queen that was discussed that day. I'll have to see what she's capable of.

After was a blue-eyed, long blond hair girl near my height. She's wearing a white suit of armor, which has ribbons and a blue belt, and heels. "My name is Chung. Nice to meet you" the voice turning out to be that of a males. I take another good look, figuring out this she is a he. …Dirty trick. Her, I mean his, weapon is a giant… cannon that he's holding onto.

Up next is an actual girl, I hope, with long black hair that has a white fox hairpin in it, and golden eyes. Her outfit looks like a giant white coat with a simple design that stops at her waist which was then her tan leggings that met with her white sandal-like shoes. On her back rested a red and gold spear. "Nice to meet you. I'm Ara!" she tells me. There's some type of spirit in this girl. A fox?

The next to come is another crimson head, cept this one is a girl. Her red hair flows down to the back of her knees while her red eyes seem to be filled with a lot of determination and battle experience. Her outfit is an armored red dress that, like Eve's, had the top part cut off. Her sleeves have armor on it as well while she too had slightly armored leggings that mixed in with her heels. In her hand that just got stabbed into the ground is a giant claymore, her weapon. And here we have the one who beat the unfortunate Scar up back in the day. This is also the one who set out to demolish us demons. I've had my sights on you for quite a bit. "My name is Elesis. Pleased to meet you" she says with a smile on her face.

After her is an elegant pale male about my height with white hair put into a ponytail. His eyes are purple with the left one having a weird purple line pass through it. His trench coat, gloves, shoes, and pants are all white with a bit of yellow outlining parts of it while his undershirt is purple. Floating around him is six purple crystals. "Hello. I'm Add" he says. So white and clean. It'd be a shame if someone just randomly decided to throw dirt at him.

Last happens to be the two demons; the blue-haired guy with the dual gunblades and a small, more princess-looking, girl with white hair. Blue demon is wearing a butler-like outfit while the other is wearing some type of white and blue dress which really exposes the lower half of her. Oh, she also has a light blue tail. Lovely. "I'm Lu, and this is my servant Ciel!" the white haired demon tells me. Ciel nods with a bow. The proper butler and his loud-mouthed queen Luciela R. Sourcream. So this is where she ran off to. Hard to really tell who she is with how she turned out after being overthrown and stripped of her powers.

"Nice to meet you all. My name is Vincent and I plan on cleansing this world of such darkness. With your help, I think this plan can actually become a reality. Thank you so much" I tell them with a fake, cheerful face. Man, talking like this and thanking them is really sickening!

"Of course. We're glad you have such a drive" Elsword says. "Now I have a question before we start our journey together." I raise an eyebrow. "Where were you going before meeting with us?" Huh, didn't really think much of this question. What's a good lie…?

"I was coming from Velder because I felt a strong presence coming from the Alter. When I got there though, there was only a faint trace of demon energy." Will they buy it?

"That faint trace was was most likely Berthe. We were about to finish him, but he fled into the Demon gate. Fortunately, it was closed off" the trap, Chung, says. Don't you speak you dirty trap!

"So it was you guys, huh? I figured as much. Anyways, where's our next destination?" Rena walks over to me and unravels a map in front of my face.

"Our original plan was to head to Lanox, but we got side-tracked with helping out Feita with this little invasion." I nod as I stare at the map and all the markings on it. Moments later, she rolls it back up and hands it to Ciel. "We should get moving. Velder will be our next stop." I see everyone nod as they begin walking in the direction of the forest. I start to follow, but stop once I feel a weird presence in the distance. I turn around, staring in the direction of Bethma village. …There's a demon there. Judging by the force it's giving off, must be one of those high ranking ones Scar spoke of. I'll have to convince them to go there soon.

"Vincent!" I hear the fox girl call out. I turn and see her and the others waiting for me to move. I shake my head of the thoughts and walk over to them, continuing our journey shortly after. "What were you looking at?"

"Just felt some strange energy. I'm surprised you or your fox didn't feel it either" I say. Her expression changes into a surprised one. "What?"

"You just joined, yet you already know about Eun. How did you…?"

"Can't hunt down demons if I can't sense a simple spirit. Took a sec for me to realize it was a fox spirit though. It's located in your hairpin, right?" She nods. "I see."

"You're better than I thought when it comes to sensing spirits." I shrug my shoulders as I see the gates to the suburbs of Velder coming up.

"It's you guys again" I hear some voice say. Walking toward us is a green-haired guy with his eyes closed. "Vanessa was looking for you guys, but y'all had already left for Feita. She's at the capital right now so pay her a visit." Elsword nods and the green guy walks away.

"To Vanessa it is then" Rena says as she takes the lead with the rest of us following.

~Velder Capital~

I yawn as we continue walking with Vanessa. She had something to show us which is why we're in this situation now. This walk is so boring. I should be collecting demon souls! "And here we are" the blue-haired herself says. It was then that I notice they turned a corner. I hurry and see them looking at a red mansion with a black roof. A mansion huh? Man these guys are good. "A mansion as a thanks for saving Velder. We're really grateful for the things you did and decided to build this for you all. Has all the things you'll need for normal living as well as a training room. We'd thought you'd need a place to stay, so here you go."

I see Lu, Aisha, and Rena rush in while Eve, Add, and Ciel walk in like normal people. "You guys really outdid yourselves with this one. Thanks so much for the mansion!" Elsword says and then looks back at the rest of us still here. "Looks like we'll have to stop in Velder more often." I decide to take a look inside, coming in contact with a very royal and elegant scenery. A completely white room with small lights on the walls and a gold chandelier hanging from the ceiling. The red rug starting at the door leads you to the silver fountain under the chandelier. Two stairways lead you to a door which is probably where the rooms are located. Doorways to the left and right of your entry. Gotta admit, this place is really nice.

"It's so great inside!" Lu says as she goes through the door at the top of the stairways. Aisha speeds past me to the door on my right. Eve's… servants, I'm guessing, begin walking around freely. I stretch my arms out as I look around once more. Guess it's time to get used to this.

And there you have it, chapter two. The trail for Vincent's journey just warmed up and now the search is on!