Sheol Calamity Chapter 1

Revelation on New Year's Day

It was a beautiful spring day in Orient town Kagutsuchi (although because of the climate armagus, it's ALWAYS spring). The sun was shining, birds were singing, Tao was napping, and Nu was walking around in a bright blue dress.

"Ah..." Nu whispered, enjoying the crisp spring air, wandering around town with no particular purpose in mind, it being an off day for her.

Walking by a group of people in a hushed debate, Nu couldn't help but overhear part of their softly whispered conversation, "Did you hear about what happened yesterday?"

"Yeah, there was a gigantic beam of light that got blocked by some shield! It totally freaked my family out!"

"I wonder what happened..." Nu muttered to herself, walking by a certain restaurant just as a certain white haired individual wearing a red overcoat and carrying a gigantic sword emerged from said restaurant, having just finished lunch.

"Wh-what the hell!" Ragna yelled out loud, covering his mouth in time to avoid attracting much attention, his camouflage ars not active during meal times making him very vulnerable to the wayward vigilante or soldier of fortune, "What the hell's Nu doing here!"

Grabbing his sword in preparation for an attack, Ragna quickly ducked into a nearby alley to spy on the white haired loli as she continued on her path down the street, totally oblivious to her quarry staring at her like a spy on a mission.

"Tch, thank god she didn't notice me." Ragna whispered as he turned to escape down the alley.

"Who's notice are you trying to escape exactly?" A voice called out from the alley behind him.

"Ahhh? Rachel!" Ragna snarled, glaring at the vampire and her two minions.

"My my Ragna, apparently manners do seem to elude you still." Rachel drawled, as she floated down, using Nago as a parachute.

"What the hell do you want rabbit! Or are you here just to taunt me again?" Ragna growled, a hand placed firmly on his sword.

"If you're looking for a fight I'm more than happy to oblige. But my original purpose merely to give you a warning."

"What warning." Ragna snapped, wanting to get away from this leech as soon as possible.

"The world as you see it, is not the same world that you were in 24 hours ago. There's been a major Continuum Shift. Things that shouldn't have happened, have happened. Watch yourself Ragna."

"Like hell I need you to tell me that? Go away!"

"I say this dog needs to be punished for its insolence Rachel-sama!" Nago whispered, glaring at Ragna with contempt.

"Not this time Nago, at this rate the tea Valkenhyn has prepared for me will grow cold." Rachel replied, disappearing on the spot leaving nothing but petals.

Leaving before someone else found him, Ragna quickly made himself scarce, fast enough to not be noticed by Nu who traced her steps back to the alley, "That's strange, Nu could have sworn she heard Ragna's voice here..."

Returning home and preparing to go to bed, Nu redid her braid while pondering what to do when she actually met Ragna, surely she couldn't just jump into his arms, and considering what she did to him, how would he react? Finishing her braid in almost no time, Nu mentally shrugged as she tucked herself in, ready to dream about the silver haired man that she loved. ***

The next day for Nu was pretty uneventful, uneventful in the sense that she was not able to see Ragna for the whole day. Discounting that fact, a lot of other things had happened in that time, the nearby restaurant had a drunk patron whose Peking duck had been trodden on by someone from the Zero Squadron, the two were not heard of again shortly after the incident, though the Zero Squadron member from the library was seen several hours later shouting herself hoarse, looking for a new Peking duck.

Clocking off for the day, Nu headed out of the restaurant and decided to take a stroll around the shops for anything interesting, (interesting in the fact that it has white hair, wears a red top, black bottom, carries a large sword and has the Azure Grimoire on his right hand). She was actually in luck as her quarry was heading through Orient Town, having just fed a ravenous Taokaka and was grumbling to himself when he spotted the object of utmost terror heading down the next street.

Ducking into a nearby alley and checking around the corner to be sure that it was indeed the girl whom he had left to die in the cauldron, "She's alive!" Ragna mentally screamed, silently debating with himself on what he should do in this particular situation.

Run out and confront her? No, he might get stabbed for that, God knows she has some kind of sword summoning fetish.

Run away? She'd track him down and lovingly run him through with every sharp object imaginable.

In the end, Ragna decided to calmly act as if nothing had happened, and walk to the street on the other side of the alley, incidently where Nu herself was heading.

Casually walking and looking around, Nu spotted Ragna leaving an alleyway, looking around cautiously before simply joining the crowd and trying to blend in, "Maybe he's trying to avoid the NOL?" Nu though to herself as she started to follow him, her task relatively simple by the fact that Ragna was the only person on the street with white hair.

With the inescapable sensation that he was being followed, Ragna attempted a casual look over his shoulder, only to see Nu catch his eye and wave happily at him.

"Holy SHIT!" Ragna yelled, attracting quite a few glances as he bolted into a run.

Taking off after Ragna, Nu paid little attention to the bystanders as she ran after him.

"Isn't that... Ragna the Bloodedge?"

"Who's the girl chasing him? Is she a vigilante?"

"A little young to be a vigilante don't you think?"

"Don't think like that, I've seen a vigilante with a doll bigger than him, he's no pushover."

Running out of town, Ragna stopped at the edge of the plate that Orient Town was built on, panting heavily.

"Ragna! Why are you running?" Nu asked, stopping to catch her breath as well.

"You, you're supposed to be dead! What are you, a ghost or something?"

"Hmm, if Nu was a ghost, Nu would be able to stay by Ragna's side forever right?" Nu said happily, slowly walking to Ragna with dainty steps.

"Ahhh! Stay back! Stay back! Don't come any closer! If you do, I'll... I'll..."

"Ragna? Why are you scared?"

"That's it, I'm out of here!" Ragna yelled, bracing himself before leaping off the plate to the sewers below.

"Ragna... Why must you run away...?" Nu whispered, as she looked over the railings sadly.

Landing and rolling to reduce the impact, Ragna stopped in a crouched position as he did a quick sweep of his surroundings, Ragna noticed a shadow shift in the left corner of his vision.

"Who's there! Show yourself!" he yelled, his left hand already on his Blood Scythe's handle, ready to draw.

Without any warning whatsoever, a large black mass suddenly hurtled towards Ragna, aiming for his face. Swinging his sword out in a large arc, Ragna yelled, "Carnage... SCISSOR!"

Stepping forward and cutting the blob, Ragna sent it flying backwards with a burst of seithr from his sword as the mass reassembled itself to Ragna's horror. Arakune.

"Az...e... A...re...A...u.e... W..nt...it...ust...H..ve...It...A...RE! AZ...E! A...U...E!" Arakune screamed, a facial mask with three holes prominently shown as its face.

"Tch, again? I already promised a certain someone I won't kill you. So why don't you go ahead and beat it?" Ragna yelled, his sword held at the ready anyway.

"A...U...R...E...!" It screamed, flying at Ragna once again.

-The Wheel of Fate is Turning-

-Rebel One-

-ACTION!-

"Dammit, guess I've gotta make my point clear huh?" Ragna growled, sidestepping Arakune giving him a nasty kick only to find that his foot getting absorbed into the goo that was part of Arakune.

"Shit! What the hell is this?"

"Keeheeheeheeehee! A..re! Az...e!" Arakune giggled, summoning an insect out of nowhere onto Ragna, crawling over him until he shook it off.

Glaring at Arakune, Ragna was forced to leap sideways again as Arakune shot towards him like a wave before leaping into the air.

Leaping at Arakune, Ragna kicked him savagely, coating his leg with seithr with the second hit, "Gauntlet HADES!"

His foot stuck yet again into this muntinous mass of unidentifiable material that Ragna did not want to identify, Ragna frantically shook his foot free before pointing his blade down at a spinning Arakune, "Belial Edge!"

Slamming Arakune into the ground, he merely bounced off the floor into the air again, summoning a sudden eruption of insects below Ragna!

"Shit! You bastard..." Ragna muttered as he tried to escape from the encroaching swarm to no avail, Arakune now flying around summoning a relentless torrent of insects.

"Get outta my way! Inferno Divider!" Ragna yelled, swinging his blade in a trademark uppercut, dodging the bees and scoring a direct hit on Arakune.

"It's over! Hells Fang!" Ragna yelled, dashing forwards and slamming his fist into Arakune's mask before engulfing him with another blast of seithr causing it to scuttle away into the darkness.

-Finish!-

End of Chapter 1

Ragna finds out that Nu's alive. Read, Favourite the story (and the author) I'll get on to Chapter 2 if this story becomes popular enough!