Alright! I do not own Yuuno but I do own the Axels. I am proud to say I own practically all the Axels except for the original ones created by my brother.
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The first part is from Hayate's point of veiw and her reactions to seeing Yuuno
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The Axel Siblings
My eyes widened in disbelief and horror.
"Yuu…no?"
He looked down at the scarlet blossoming across his chest, looked up again and smiled. Half his face a bloody mess I could still see his pleased smile as he closed his remaining eye. Like a marionette whose strings had been cut he plummeted suddenly, accelerating to his certain death. Terror pushed me to a lightning dive as I dove after his falling body.
With a rush of relief my arms hugged him tight and stopped his fall. He was heavy but I refused to drop him. Crimson was staining my armour but I didn't care.
The gadgets turned unconcerned, their job done. Something in my normally logical mind snapped. A fierce rage took over me. They hurt him. They were going to pay.
Still hugging my childhood friend I raised a single hand. The Tome of the Night Sky appeared before me flipping to my requested page. A purple aria blazed to life before my palm.
"Bloody Dagger."
With a slicing sweep of my palm, the projectiles shot forward, homing instantly onto the deadly machines. Explosions shook the sky, annihilating the ones who had hurt my friend. As quickly as It appeared my anger faded.
"Yuuno-kun! Yuuno-kun! Please wake up!"
His body remained limp as I shook him frantically.
Hayate! My knights clamored my head. What's going on? What happened?
They must have felt my rage. Tears dripped onto my fallen friend. How could I put into words this hole that was gaping in my heart? After I had pulled him up from the depths of the Chasm some fool had wrested the choice from both our hands and shoved him over. I had just saved him, for this to happen?!
Sh-shamal…he's…Yuuno's…
I couldn't bring myself to say the word.
I'm coming. The knight of the Lake echoed reassuringly.
I hugged his body close to me. When I had come after him he was in terrible shape.
A few minutes after the alarm had gone off I was flying down the street searching for Yuuno anxiously. He was in no shape to defend himself I had thought. He must still be exhausted. What I failed to realize at this time was that someone like him, who had been following the same sleepless pattern for nearly a decade, a regular full night's sleep was enough to fully recharge him. I could hear the sound of fighting. Gadgets littered the street. Buildings bore massive craters. I turned the corner and froze.
Standing alone in the sky amidst the steel holocaust was Yuuno. His coat in tatters and stained with blood. Flames of destruction raged around him giving him a hellish appearance. He had a handful of dark, forbidding looking chains in each hand.
I had never seen those before. With a yank, he sent the lengths of chains screaming through the machines. The sheer devastation from the attack was something I had never seen Yuuno do before.
He dropped the chains with a grimace and raised an arm. A pentagramic magic circle appeared instead of his usual one, to my surprise. More chains burst from the aria to entangle three more units and send them to their fiery doom. One approached from behind, seeking to ram the Librarian. I opened my mouth to shout a warning. Without turning, he casually backhanded the machine, sending it careening into a building.
I could briefly make out interlocking green runes encasing his arm before they faded. I was nearly there...
"Yuuno!"
"NO, Hayate! Get out of here!" He turned with a look of desperation.
I inhaled sharply. Blood coated the right side of his face, dripping onto his sweat stained shirt. Bloody lines from bullet grazes crossed across his bare forearms, his sleeves torn.
Some of the gadgets deviated from attacking him and went after me. A ferocious snarl came from my normally peaceful friend.
"DON'T TOUCH HER!"
And brought his hand down like an executioner's scythe. More of the strange dark green chains rose up, tearing away the machines.
I saw his hand clench on his chest and he wobbled in the air, fear filled me. What was wrong with him?
For a brief moment I saw pain on his face, then it was gone. But his clenched hand never moved from over his heart.
"Hayate!"
I raised my head and was greeted by the comforting sight of The Knight of The Lake. She rushed to me concern and worry etched in her face at my bloodstained armor. Her eyes widened at the body in my arms.
"Shamal…Is he…"
She gave him a quick look over.
"He's alive for now but needs treatment urgently."
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Shamal pov…
I rested down the ravaged body of the Head Librarian and glanced at the door. Hayate was sitting outside, nearly in tears. Honestly, I was confused, I didn't think Yuuno was this close to her to make her so upset. That was not the problem though.
That intense wave of anger she had emitted shook all the Wolkenritter.
It scared us more than we would care to admit. It was like having a brutal and unpleasant flashback to the Book of Darkness. I turned my eyes to the bloodstained body in the hospital bed and listed the major injuries to distract myself.
His eye was mangled beyond repair. A cybernetic would be needed to replace that.
A shot directly in the back at high power with no barrier jacket. It was amazing he was still alive. His internal organs had suffered damage from the shot, mainly his heart. It was still fighting valiantly but might give out any second
Linker core. Severely drained. He might never walk again, much less be able to cast magic. His life as the Librarian of the Infinity Library would be over.
With a sigh I rolled up my sleeves and set to work, preparing myself for several grueling hours of surgery just to stabilize the unlucky mage.
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Many dimensions away a black haired man jerked with shock.
A long dark overcoat was belted closed to protect his chest. Tied stylishly around his neck to accent his barrier jacket was a pristine white neck cloth. His fingerless gloves were dusted with a fine layer of sand as he ran it through his black hair with a distracted air. The desert area he was currently occupying was NOT to his liking.
His sister a young girl, no older than eighteen, eyed him quizzically with an innocent amber gaze.
Her barrier jacket was a lot more complex. Unlike most girls she preferred long faded jeans for ease of movement. To protect her left hand a long white glove, scuffed with use, was belted snugly around her wrist. Guarding her preferred hand for spellcasting was a short fingerless ebony glove stained with burn marks.
A short, half skirt was belted around her waist with attached armour to offer some protection to her legs but not hinder speed. A long scarlet scarf trailed from her neck.
In response, her elder brother held out a black tome in his dark gloved hand. Inlaid into the cover was a single gold rune that resembled an 'A' on top of a 'V'.
"He returned the page."
"Yuuno?" She asked, just to make sure. After all, they had never really lent anyone else a page.
He nodded then grimaced but another unseen voice spoke up "Someone tried to assassinate him."
"Wha-?"
"He used the page and he's badly hurt."
"Let's go help him then!" The girl declared. "He saved our life from that stasis, and then he stopped me from dying again!"
"True." The Master of the Hades admitted, mind drifting back to that horrible memory…
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Master of Hades' Pov (Axel)…
Axel… The ghostly voice echoed hauntingly through my semi conscious mind.
mm…? I mumbled drowsily in response.
AXEL! Hades roared.
Woah! Yeah, I'm awake!
An Intruder woke me up. I'm activating Alexa's Inferno.
Without any instruction on my part, I felt a warm fire light around me, warming my frozen limbs.
"Expanding. Utilizing Inferno."
I could hear Hades now. That was good. The sudden warmth blossomed into a fierce explosion, returning control to my imprisoned body. I staggered free of the ice, relishing the deep breaths of oxygen.
A sudden thud caused me to whirl around in panic, memory finally registering the danger. Alexa was curled in a fetal position, clutching her stomach as blood once more began to flow from the deep gash. I have never felt fear so keenly as that moment when I looked down and saw my only sibling lying in a pool of her own blood.
I knelt quickly, my stomach queasy at the sight of so much blood. I had never been a warrior before I took up the Tome.
"Alexa!" I called, hoping she was still able to respond.
To my relief, she rolled over, her dimming eyes fixed on my face. I squeezed her shoulder with as much encouragement as I could manage, assessing the extent of the injury.
"Come on, stay with me…!"
It was deep and bloody and possibly fatal. The guardian of this page had been particularly fierce, taking the form of a deadly tiger. The swipe had been ill timed, a frantic swing as it began to fade.
"Hades, please!" I practically begged to the floating Dark Tome. "Page fifty three!"
"But, Axel we-"
"JUST DO IT!" I roared desperately.
The Tome flipped open, pages fluttering in an invisible breeze. It stopped on a page.
"I'm sorry," The sentient Device stated in a choked voice. "…The page…the one she…we…fought for…It isn't…"
The Device took the equivalent of a deep breath. "Its not a healing spell Axel."
All my hope shattered. We hadn't retrieved any of Hades' medical spells yet. The latest page had been nothing but a powerful ice spell. I punched the ground.
"This can't be happening!" I howled.
An unsure voice quavered in the silence. "E-excuse me?"
My head whipped around instantly targeting the new threat. To be honest, he looked pretty wimpy, but I know better than to judge people on physical appearance.
A scuffed green overcoat was draped over his shoulders. Honestly, by that coat alone he was good in my books. Someone with that good taste couldn't be evil! His green eyes were lit with an uneasy determination.
"I'm a trained medic." He enunciated clearly, approaching in cautious steps.
I gave him a quick nod of assent and he rushed to kneel by his patient. With a swift glance, he began muttering, adjusting his glasses with one hand. Brushing his ridiculously long blond hair out of his face, a comforting green glow surrounded Alexa's failing body.
The wound closed up, repairing itself as best as it could manage. Alexa's eyes opened, finally clear of pain and I let out a breath I hadn't even known I was holding. She was all right. She'd live…
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Present...
Yuuno of course, being a healing mage, instantly took charge. Working whatever healing spells he had at his disposal he had managed to repair the fatal damage to a fairly manageable level.
We had introduced ourselves and even I could see his rabid curiosity about who we were and what we were doing imbedded in six feet of ice. Making one of my famous snap decisions that usually made everybody involved feel like killing me, I loaned him page one hundred and eleven in thanks.
Alexa argued of course. After all, that page had developed a guardian, which was quite troublesome. She nearly lost and arm and leg to the thing in order to retrieve the page.
"Alright." I nodded decisively. "I want you to back me up from afar, I'll sneak in. Have a teleport ready because the amount of magic I'm going to have to use will definitely set off alarms."
"You can't go by yourself!" She protested.
"We'll be fine." The Hades Tome assured her. "I'm with him after all."
"BEEP."
The white staff held loosely in Alexa's grip made another noise, the gold belkan cross head flashing to draw attention.
"Pardon me, but page two hundred and twenty six is approaching." The device announced in a polite feminine voice.
"Alright CrossFyre," Alexa grinned shouldering the staff. She tightened her grip around the bandages wrapped around the shaft and tapped the blue end against her hand. "What type?"
"Ear-"
The ground shuddered violently, nearly knocking the us off our feet. I caught Alexa's arm to prevent her faceplanting. With a heave, I catapulted her into the air.
"Get airborne!" Hades roared as the sand beneath us gave way.
With a final kick to the ground I dashed away, shedding the cumbersome sand from my greatcoat, the black book that was my companion easily keeping up.
A monstrous circular maw with rows of deadly shark teeth rose from the earth followed by a long sinuous body. Rippling brown lengths on the massive snakelike worm rose up from the sand, easily plowing through the ground.
"Holy Hades!" Alexa yelped. "A Thresher Worm?!"
"Less talking more blowing things up!" I yelled.
"Take your own advice!" She tossed back, a scarlet and gold belkan triangle blooming to life beneath her feet.
"Yeah, yeah..." I grumbled under my breath, motioning to Hades.
The dark book flipped open to a certain page. I glanced at the spell before doing a double take.
"Hades!" I whined. "You can't be serious!"
"What? You haven't touched this one yet!"
"Its an ice spell!"
"Think of it as target practice."
"A LITTLE HELP PLEASE!" Alexa roared.
I turned back to see dozens of scarlet shots exploding on the worm's thick hide. Her staff pointed firmly towards its target as more glowing bullets rushed at the beast. Multitudes more lined up behind her, awaiting their turn.
The thing screamed a high pitched feral scream, coils lashing about in its pain.
My eyebrow rose. The thing apparently did not like being shot at. The Thresher lunged at her without warning, recovering surprisingly fast. I let out a startled yell at the deceptively quick Page guardian, hoping to give her some warning.
My worries were not needed as a well placed set of her Fyre shots down the worm's gaping mouth gave her enough time to dart out of the way.
"Alright then." I conceded grudgingly to Hades, keeping a watchful eye on my younger sibling's movements.
Calling my ever volatile magic to bare, the massive pentagonal array of my particular magic style spun into existence without much trouble. The black and gold flashed a brief ice blue as I began to chant.
The page guardian swiveled its head, feeling the familiar buildup of energy from the book it had once been a part of. Taking calming deep breaths to prevent the spell going wild I allowed Hades to fine tune the potentially deadly casting.
One missed word, one botched syllable and I would be a black smear on the landscape. Lovely, isn't it?
The massive snakelike beast rushed towards me in an attempt to devour us before the casting was done.
I gave a mental whoop, eying the approaching beast with a feral grin. I'm playing chicken with a Thresher!
Now let's see who's the chicken, hmm?
A race to see who would falter in their charge first. I wasn't going to lose. The pressure building in my head signaled the tremendous buildup of magic. With a maniac grin I pointed a single finger at the unstoppable behemoth mere meters away.
"Chicken."
Having no need of chanting, A wide blast of ice blue energy almost as wide as the vile worm itself exploded from the array. Despite being the caster, the sheer force of the beam threw me violently backwards. Only Hades extended barrier spell prevented me from flying further. As it was, the impact jarred my bones painfully.
I experienced a few agonizing minutes of being between a rock and a hard place. The force of the spell ground me backwards into Hades ruthless shield. Despite the pain of being crushed, I was grateful for his barrier. If he had not halted my unstable plunge I might have lost control over the spell's aiming.
...and Hade- er- God knows WHERE it could have ended up.
But it still hurt like a BIT-
Ow.
"Now Axel," Hades scolded smugly. "You promised you wouldn't curse when Alexa was around."
"I can't even swear in my own HEAD anymore?!" I growled.
"I can still hear you you know."
"But SHE can't!"
"Touche."
I clenched my fist, abruptly halting the beam. The thrumming of magic in my blood roared furiously. It wanted more destruction, to channel more earth rending power.
Rip, tear, shred...destroy them destroydestroydestroydestroy des-
I clenched my eyes firmly shut, concentrating on bringing up my mental defenses. Slowly the demonic impulse to kill everything in sight began to quiet. Simply put, El Hazardian magic was not meant for regular human bodies and despite my compatibility with it...
It did not appreciate my overusing of its godlike power.
Think of it like an entity. A large shapeless entity with slightly murderous tendencies and a wish to fight even the worlds themselves to return back to its homeland. Something had tainted it when Hades had fallen from El Hazard but without the former Knight's memories we were at a loss as to what it was.
The dark tome only vaguely recalled twin glowing scarlet eyes gone insane with loss and a deep eternal hatred.
That was it.
Then all he felt was darkness until he finally opened his eyes to an innocent young girl who had touched his cover by accident. Surprisingly enough it was Alexa, not I who woke him from his millennium of slumber.
We had come quite far since then.
I opened my eyes to see a large worm iceberg halted uncomfortably close to my nose.
"Oh, look." Hades snorted dryly. "A wormsicle."
"Do you want that page or not?" Alexa snapped irritably at the tome, giving me a searching glance.
"Are you alright? You overloaded again, didn't you?"
I nodded. Lying was pointless. While the corrupt magic could not reach her, she could still tell when it struck with uncanny accuracy.
"I'll seal this one then. Ribbons of binding!"
Tendrils of scarlet ribbons burst from her array and began to wrap the large beast. The thing was quite large so it took some time before she could get the whole thing wrapped.
"Mistress, Sealing is complete. Purifying page two hundred and twenty seven."
There was a flash of light and a harmless page floated innocently where the monstrous guardian had been. Without prompting, Hades opened himself and the page slotted neatly in. The book flashed a dark purple and let out a satisfied sigh.
"Oh, that feels better..."
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Introducing the resident Axel siblings! Please reveiw! Tell me if you like them! I think I did quite a lot of their backstory. Plz inform me If I need to add more for It to make sense.