Lyn's POV: "Asuna…Asuna!" opening my eyes, I take note of my surroundings. Though they are unfamiliar, I hear voices and quickly hide myself under a bough of a giant tree. Unfortunately, I chose the exact spot directly below a girl in her early teens, who through some miracle has not noticed my sudden appearance.
Hearing footsteps, I retreat farther behind the tree in a measly attempt to keep myself hidden. At this point I for the first time noted that the girl was sobbing quietly. "Oh there you are, Asuna, the whole class was wondering where you had gone." So the girl's name was Asuna, odd, it sounded strangely familiar.
The rustle of leaves, caused me to look up to see that a small boy wearing a gray blazer, dress pants and carrying a staff had taken a seat next to the girl on a branch, causing it to bend down precariously. "Negi you are the first person I've known who has…" followed by the crack of the branch breaking overhead. Horrified, I watch Asuna plummet over the lip of the ravine into darkness. As she fell, she briefly turned toward me, and at that moment I saw her eyes. Her eyes were dull and glassy, the eyes of a corpse, she was already dead before she had fallen.
Reaching out in an attempt to catch the body, I am almost knocked into the ravine, by the boy who is somehow able to fly. Peering over the ridge, I watch as the boy dives toward the body and snatches it out of freefall. What I see next, nearly made my heart stop.
Climbing out of the abyss is a monstrous dark figure that is all too familiar. Cursing in a newfound rage, I launch myself of the ridge. "Rettahs eht enots-gnigrup semalf!" The wall of the ravine shattered into a million fragments, pummeling the Demon King with shrapnel. Searing white flames soon followed, bathing the ravine in a blazing white light.
"Esir dna emoc htrof, dniw!" manipulating the air currents, I landed safely on the ridge. "Gnirb eht egam ereh" brought the boy and his passenger onto the ridge beside me. "The girl's soul is mine, Guardian. Until we meet again" spat the Demon King as he slithered back into the abyss.
Beside me the boy was sobbing loudly. Turning to him, "there's no point in crying, it won't bring her back you know" facing me, he shouted back with defiance etched across his tear stained face, "I DON"T CARE, JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!!" Turning on his heel he jumped back onto his staff a zoomed of still carrying Asuna's lifeless body. "Hey wait up!" I called as I ran after him.