Oh my goodness! I'm on a roll! This probably the last chapter of the day, but who knows? Enjoy the rapid update!
Hello everyone! This is a sequel to my Elsword story series. The series is currently two full stories and a companion short story series.
The stories the series consists of are Relearning the Seraph, Finding the Blazing Heart, and Anecdotes of a Small Child.
Relearning the Seraph is story one of the series, mainly an ElsEve. It gives the main premise that the series is founded on, as well as why Seris is alive.
Yes, Seris is alive. Relearning the Seraph explains why, but this story gives an inklet of a hint too.
Finding the Blazing Heart is the second story in the series and is a relationship developments between Chung and Elesis. It also contains a Pichu.
I do not own Elsword or its characters. But I ship Elsword and Eve, Raven and Seris, and Chung with Elesis.
I own my conceptual format of Seris; including her class I made called Body of Light. My boyfriend and I share joint ownership of Cedric.
My boyfriend and I also own the "mystery child" that appeared last chapter, and is finally discussed in this chapter.
Speaking of my boyfriend, check out his stories! He is called The Lost Son of Gaia on here, and would definitely appreciate readers!
(His Elsword stories are a treat, please don't miss out.)
Please enjoy and review!
Classes:
Elsword: Rune Slayer
Eve: Code Nemesis
Rena: Wind Sneaker
Raven: Blade Master
Chung: Deadly Chaser
Aisha: Dimensional Witch
Ara: Sakra Devanam
Elesis: Blazing Heart
Embracing the Future
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Chapter 5: Internal Eternal War
"Forever, I believed I could not be saved. But if I, with all my sins, can be saved...then..."
"Seris! Seris, answer me! We have an emergency!"
From Raven...
"It's no use! Why is she just staring at the wall so blankly?"
To Elsword...
"I don't know! She fainted yesterday, and now she won't snap out of this stare..."
Back to the first...
"We just had her talking to use five minutes ago, what is going on?"
Off to Elesis...
"It's bad enough the kids won't wake up..."
Over to Chung...
"Has Aisha figured anything out?"
An inquiry from Ara...
"No, but apparently Alma started glowing black and white a moment ago."
Response from Elsword...
"What!"
Cry of panic from the child's guardian...
"Yeah...and Mira made a pain face a moment ago."
Distress of the redhaired male...
"Something is torturing them, I can't do anything about it, and it makes me angry!"
Frustration of the Blade Master...
"Calm down Raven! My daughter is like that right now too, you know!"
Reasoning from the Rune Slayer...
"Panic will get us nowhere...Rena can't get her brother to wake up either..."
Utterance of the Nemesis...
"I would just like to hug my son and get my wife away from staring at this wall..."
Pondering of the man again...
"Do you think she might be reacting to something? You said she has healing abilities right?"
Thought of the parents with the built child...
"...could she be reacting with Alma?"
Question of the clumsy martial artist...
"Maybe. That might be why Alma is glowing..."
Nod of thought from the queen of nasods...
"But why the black gl...oh right. The darkness in Alma..."
Further intellect from the White Knight of Hamel...
"The darkness in Alma..."
From the knight and his sister...
"So my wife is basically purifying...me?"
Surprise of Raven again...
"You?"
Confusion from all...
"Well, I have a theory..."
The beginning of the explanation...
'...You cannot save me now...Set an inferno tonight...Torch me to oblivion...'
"Mira, please!"
And back to the middle of nowhere...in the furthest reaches of unconsciousness...
"Miss Alma...please hold on! Please don't give up!"
"I'm trying, just hold on a little longer!"
"I can't...I can't just fight myself forever!"
"You have to! Because that's not you, Alma! You are better than it! Fight it! Please!"
"Miss Mira, you're really hurt now!"
"I know that Cedric, but I have to fight! I have to, or this thing will kill us all!"
A scream erupted from Mira as the golem threw her into the wall once again. While Tyrell wailed on, Alma only held he and Cedric closer to her. She was not much in stature, but she was enough to completely protect the two while Mira fought on. The young one had already suffered, her fingertips aching at the pressure it took to hold the children still, as well as the debris hitting her back from the catastrophic fight between the built child and the large golem creature that had just broke in without warning. Her back was already soaked in blood, much like Mira's was from her single stab wound. Alma's was torn by wood, rocks, and glass from the window that the creature had tossed his opposition into. A few of the same shards were embedded in various areas of the nasod-human hybrid as well, although both girls were hellbent on protecting the youngest ones of the group. As Mira launched herself back from the wall, Alma winced as the pain in her head grew worse by the ticking seconds. All these conflicting emotions...her love, hate, anger, panic, determination...her need to protect these kids paired with a desire to kill them both. She couldn't take it much longer! The war against herself was ongoing for nearing an hour now, and it was a bitter one. Unfortunately, her inner war was interrupted with Mira getting thrown into her, slamming the girl head over heels into a wall. Mira tried to recover, while Alma screamed the severe pain of the shards getting pressed in further. With Cedric crying out to both and Tyrell beginning to fall asleep, the golem headed right for the boys in a rush. Realizing he meant to trample the pair, the purple haired child fought one final time against the cruelty in her heart. She rushed for them, throwing the boys out of the way, and accepting the blow as she was, once again, clattered into the wall.
"Miss Alma...! Miss Mira...!"
"Ugh..." Mira grumbled, fighting to reach her feet.
"Cedric..." groaned Alma, "-if I don't get back...tell your parents that I'm sorry..."
"No, that's not okay! That's not okay! Miss Alma...! Miss Mira...!"
"Defending those I care about is honorable. I can be repaired...you cannot..."
"I am too dark within to protect, Cedric...please don't cry for me..."
"I will cry for whoever I want to! Don't tell me what to do!"
At the golem's next roar, Alma began to glow white, a familiar cry shouting into her head.
"Alma hear me! I'll help you three turn the tables!"
"Seris...? Why are you in my head too...? Why does that voice want me to murder them?"
"Don't ask questions, little one. We have work to do."
The wish I had begged for all my life
It was too much to ask for
I understood then
That this war within me would never end
I pleaded for better ends
I got no aid
I screamed til my throat was raw
But my reward was pain
In my end, remember me...
"Back when I was destroying Velder, during my days out of my mind...I murdered Alma's parents..." Raven sighed.
"What?" gasped Chung, "You..."
"So that's why she hates us," Eve realized, "-we're both nasod related, and that technology was involved in taking away her family."
Raven nodded, exhaling, "Yes. I recognized her features and connected it with some of my faint memories of the time."
"That's so cruel...she hates you for something you didn't mean to do..." Ara frowned.
"She has every right to hate me, but she doesn't," the man replied.
"What? But she said..." Elsword tried.
"She said, but she didn't. It wasn't Alma, but rather what took Alma over..."
"What took Alma over...?" Elesis questioned.
"I theorize that my anger in those days was so strong that it manifested into a spirited form. This wrathful spirit, this fragment of myself...it took Alma. It took Alma at her weakest point, when she was grieving over the parents I took from her," Raven sighed.
"So...what caused them all to get stuck asleep?" asked Chung.
"I don't know. Whatever it is though, my wife is resonating herself with Alma; that's my suspicion anyway. She's using her light abilities to manifest her will, to contradict the anger that swallowed Alma; light against darkness. In other words, she's reusing the cause that placed my anger in Alma to begin with; I guess Seris' Body of Light powers were more advanced than even I knew. With them, I think she is out to save them all."
"Can I really be saved?"
"Of course you can Alma. I saved Raven...I'll save you too..."
"But why?"
"Because I want to."
"Why?"
"Because you're important to Raven, Cedric, and me. We love you, Alma."
"But I..."
"You are forgiven Alma. Be still. I will heal everyone..."
Cedric marveled at the white light that bathed the entire room, originating from his mother's resonance with Alma; the resonance of light and darkness, the plea for a mother to save a beautiful child. He had to close his eyes, listening to the defeated roar of the golem while gasping a bit as he felt someone wrap arms around him and Tyrell. Pondering for a moment, he was able to realize it was Mira, who whispered comforting words to sooth the tearful boy. But the light was much to bright for him to face yet, as he felt Alma wrap her arms around all of them. The warmth that embrace held...it was important to him. These two girls...this baby boy...everyone, they were all special to him. They were all special to Mira. And they were becoming extremely special to Alma, who was being set free. She felt the pain in her head cease at the utterance of a spell from Seris in her mind.
"Be still, Cedric...Mira...Tyrell..." The voice was Alma, Seris, and Raven...all three voices, speaking into one sentence from a single mouth, "-we're going home now."
"It's going to be alright everyone," Mira chimed softly, "-we're all going to protect each other."
"Thank you Miss Mira...thank you Miss Alma...I'll protect you too. One day, I'll be older and stronger. Strong enough to protect what I hold dear too..."
"I'll help you..." vowed Mira, "-I must strengthen as well."
"Me too..." murmured Alma, "-me too."
The war against yourself is neither won nor lost...it is unending...
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