Disclaimer: I do not own any of the anime characters listed in the story. However, I do own Douglas Kreig (Father), Terry McCormick (Alchemist), Ivan Gredenko (Knight), Rina Kisungji and Vespin Otonashi (Queen).
When she woke up, she found herself in a dark, creepy dungeon. It was all wet and smelly in the dungeon. She looked around, and she saw two stickmen heading towards her cell.
"Where am I?" asked Rina. None of the stickmen replied. They just threw a piece of bread in to her cell, turned around and walked away.
"Eat it, that's your dinner," said one of the stickmen before both of them burst into laughter. Rina didn't know how she ended up here, but for certain she was treated like trash.
"Hey, you. What's your name?" said a voice from the next cell. Rina crawled to the wall dividing the cells.
"I'm Rina, and how did I get in here?" asked Rina, in a state of confusion.
"You were carried in by guards unconscious," replied the voice.
"May I know who I'm speaking to?" asked Rina. Then there was a short pause.
"You may have known me from some anime, but they called me Rushuna," said the voice. Rina thought for a while.
"You're Rushuna Tendo from Grenadier, right?" asked Rina
"Yes," replied Rushuna.
"Why are you here?" asked Rina.
"I was relaxing at a hot spring when stickmen guards like just now appeared from nowhere. I tried to make a peaceful resolution to them, but they forced me to come out. Then my friend, Yajiro Kojima, sliced off a few stickmen and asked me to run. He quickly told me that they're out to imprison all anime characters of the world before he got stabbed by one of them. I drew out my revolver and shot a few and took off. Then a sniper shot me through my back and I lost consciousness. Then the next thing I knew when I woke up is that I found myself in this dungeon," said Rushuna, sadly.
"Oh, that's terrible. How long did you get stuck here?" asked Rina, feeling sorry for Rushuna's loss.
"It has been a month now. It has been so peaceful before. Until when I heard from an anime character last week who was on death row. He said he was Emiya Shirou...." Rina interrupted.
"You mean Emiya Shirou from Fate/Stay Night?"
"Yes, he told me last time there were three guardians of the anime world," said Rushuna.
"Three guardians?" asked Rina.
"Yes, and they are the ones who protect the Pencil of Eternity and the Pen of Sovereignty. These two tools are the ones that can control the entire anime world," said Rushuna.
"To control the entire anime world? I thought nobody except artists and authors can," said Rina.
"The guardians are humans. They are the only ones worthy of the two tools. But on one day, someone breached the castle where the tools were kept. He took the Pencil of Eternity and the guardians fought with him to get the tool back. The guy instead drew three warp portals and trapped the guardians in each portal, each a different anime world. When the evil guy managed to rid of the guardians, he turned to lay his hands on the Pen of Sovereignity, but the anime characters of Full Metal Panic took the tool away. They managed to hand it to the characters of Fate/Stay Night before they were caught and slaughtered. Shirou was one of them and he got caught. They tried to force the information out of him but he won't tell. And that was the last time I heard from him. He was executed on the day after he told me the story," explained Rushuna.
"So he got the Pencil of Eternity. Why can't he control the world with just that tool?" asked Rina, as she started to understand the current situation.
"It is because the Pencil only allows you to draw. The Pen allows the user to determine the characters created by the Pencil to have a role as good or bad character. And if you had the Pen but no Pencil, you will have a story but no characters to fill the spaces," explained Rushuna.
"And what if he possesses both?" asked Rina.
"Then the whole anime world will be doomed for. He may make me his wife and rewrite my memory, or he could wipe out all the anime characters and make his own," said Rushuna.
"Oh crap, we gotta get outta here and stop him," said Rina.
Then a sudden explosion shook the dungeon. An anime character with green, spiky hair, wears a dark blue school uniform and around the age of 15 sprinted through the cells.
"Get down! I'll get these bars out!" shouted the green-haired boy.
"Ranma!" he shouted and a huge knife appeared on his right arm and he swung it across the dungeon bars. It sliced through the bars with ease, making a big enough gap for Rushuna and Rina to crawl out.
"Hurry! We haven't got much time! The guards are coming!" shouted the green-haired boy. He led the two captives outside the dungeon where 20 or so stickmen guards were waiting outside.
"Masshu!" shouted the green-haired boy. Then a big, red, square block with eyes and teeth appeared in front of the boy and it chomped down the guards.
"Tenko, I need you now!" shouted the green-haired boy. Then a big, yellow beast with goat horns, big claws and 10 eyes, 2 big and 8 small, all the 8 small ones glow red, swooped down and landed before the boy. The boy got up the beast's back, followed by Rushuna and then Rina, then the beast opened its wings and began to fly out of the dungeon area. The stickmen guards opened fire at the beast, but missed its target and they flew away safely.
During the flight, Rina tried to remember which anime where all the terminologies the boy said came from. Then she remembered.
"You must be Ueki Kosuke from The Law of Ueki," said Rina. The boy turned his head and smiled.
"You must be the human in the prophecy that will help defeat the evil Nick Owen," replied Ueki.
"Me? Prophecy? I think you got it all wrong....," said Rina.
"Is it a coincidence that you fell into this anime world? This is no coincidence. You are brought here for a purpose," replied Ueki.
"Why me? Why not all the other anime characters?....." asked Rina, in a state of confusion.
"Because the Pen of Sovereignity needs a human user. The Pen won't let us anime characters to use it......" replied Ueki. The she remembered something else.
"Where's Mori? In the anime she always follows you around, even in dangerous situations," asked Rina.
"She fell sick after the guardians were trapped in the alternate anime world. It appears that she should have died long ago when she was murdered by a human messing around in the anime world, and one of the guardians, we call him Knight, made her his blood sister and resurrected her. Now she's at life support in the Anime Resistance Army camp hidden from Nick's view," said Ueki.
"Oh, I'm so sorry....." replied Rina. Ueki looked at her and smile.
"Don't worry. With you, we can release the guardians and they will do the rest," said Ueki, trying to conceal his sadness. But Rina can see through his emotions. She remained quiet until they reached the camp.
The camp is well hidden inside a forest far from any known territory by Nick. There, a huge assembly of anime characters from different animes came together to form the Anime Resistance Army. There were the surviving anime characters from Tales of Saiunkoku, Blood +, Fate/Stay Night, Black Lagoon and others. Some of them were training to prepare for battle; some were recruiting other anime characters from other stories, all in a desperate war to get the Pencil of Eternity back. There were big, brown tents where the anime characters stayed for the time being, and there were weapon stashes with rifles, swords, spears, grenade launchers, machine guns and the biggest weapon they've ever owned are rocket launchers, compared to Nick Owen's evil army of infantry, tanks, helicopters, battleships and aircraft. Tenko landed down at a clearing not far from the camp. They saw a purple-haired girl with glasses running towards them.
"Ueki! It's Mori. She's dying!" exclaimed the girl. Rina remembers the anime character came from The Law of Ueki, but she had forgotten the name.
"What?! No way, we couldn't be too late.....," said Ueki as he jumped down from Tenko. He ran towards the medic tent. Rina and Rushuna followed suit. Ueki entered the tent and saw a doctor who just sighed in relief. The doctor had a black hair on the left and white hair on the right. Rina recognizes him as Dr Black Jack, the miracle surgeon.
"Doctor, how is she? Is she dying?" asked Ueki.
"She's in a very critical condition. Her heart stopped twice today. In a week or two she will die," replied Dr Black Jack. Ueki turned to Rina.
"You have to possess the Pen of Sovereignity to open the portal to save Knight. That's the only way to save Mori. Rina couldn't help but agree. She wants to help save Mori. But she had a problem. She didn't know how to use it, or even know how it looks like. They all head to the main tent, where the main characters of the anime stories plan their attacks against Nick Owen's evil army.
"Ueki, Rushuna, you came back," said an anime character. With just one look, Rina recognizes the anime character as Kou Shuurei from Tales of Saiunkoku.
"My fellow anime characters, I have brought you our savior, said Ueki as he bowed out to let Rina into the circle.
"This anime character? I've never seen you before. Are you new?" asked another anime character. Rina recognizes him as Kai from Blood+.
"Of course you don't know her at all. She's a human," replied Ueki. The other anime characters stared at Rina before staring at each other, as though they couldn't believe their luck. They all later bowed respectfully at Rina.
"You have come to save us from the evil Nick Owen," said Shuurei.
"Kai, please lead her to the sorcerer's tent," commanded Shuurei.
"My pleasure," replied Kai.
"This way," said Kai to Rina as he led her to the sorcerer's tent. Rushuna and Ueki followed. They walked to the tent not far from the main tent and entered. There Rina saw a girl with black hair, wearing a red blouse that has a cross at the middle and short black skirt, kneeling down on the floor, meditating some command spell to maintain something in a vase with a cap on it in front of her and three glass coffins containing three anime characters fast asleep behind her. Donned in her armor is Saber from Fate/Stay Night, in a red trench coat is Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist and in a maroon dress is Saya from Blood+. The girl stopped meditating and looked up at Rina.
"Looks like the prophecy is true. A girl will release the three guardians if they were to be trapped by the forces of darkness," said the girl. Rina looked in confusion.
"By the way, I'm Rin Tosaka," said the girl as she stood up.
"I'm in a prophecy? But how? I mean, who wrote it?" asked Rina, very confused on what's going on.
"The guardians predicted your arrival in these dark times," said Rin. Rin looked behind her to the three glass coffins.
"Ever since the guardians have been trapped by Nick Owen, these three characters are dying slowly each day," said Rin. Then she turned back and faced Rina.
"I've been trying to support them for the past month by supplying them mana. Sakura Mato would have unlimited supply, but she's been controlled by the dark lord himself. There were also other anime characters under control by the dark lord. I don't how much longer I can give them mana because by doing that I'll be dying as well," said Rin. Rina looked in shock. She couldn't believe that Rin is willing to give her life for the three anime characters in the absence of the guardians. Rina then had the feeling of saving the guardians to help these anime characters.
"Give me the Pen. I can't bear seeing you characters dying on the hands of Nick Owen," said Rina. Rin looked at Rina for a few moments before opening her mouth.
"Very well," said Rin. She took the vase and then handed it to Rina.
"During the battle, Sousuke Sagara of Full Metal Panic had to remove the Pen from its vessel to prevent Nick Owen from taking it. He sacrificed his body as a vessel to the Pen before trying to hand the Pen to me. After I transferred the Pen to this vase, he died. The power of the Pen was so great that it sucked his life out. The others that covered him while he tried to deliver the Pen to me, all killed by the evil lord's henchmen," said Rin. Rina took the vase from her. Rin then collapsed to the ground. Kai rushed to pick her up.
"It's okay. She's just worn out," said Kai. Then Rin opened her eyes and pointed at Rina.
"I'm so sleepy....You have to......save the guardians. If you don't.....I'll never forgive you," said Rin before she closed her eyes. She slept soundly soon after. Rina opened the top of the vase and suddenly a bright light filled the tent. When the light dimmed, Rina looked on her hand and found something on her hand that is shaped as a pen, emitting a golden light. Then the substance seeped through her skin. Rina felt a painful sensation in her chest before she lost consciousness. It all went dark.
Author's note: Second chapter's up. Hope you like it