Midnight: … Hello there.
BH: Hi! Nice to see you wonderful readers again!
Midnight: … You don't see them. They see our work.
BH: IDC, ok?
Midnight: … Me either, okay? Okay. Done.
BH: I don't care that you don't care that I don't care that you don't care that I don't care that you don't care that I don't care that you don't care. Another… 'few' to go...
Midnight: … I am very sorry about BH's behaviour. I am also very sorry that I didn't take enough care for the last chapter. I forgot to get them to shower and stuff but who cares so right now they are still wearing their school uniform and I am very sorry.
BH: It's cause she was listening to vocaloid and possibly watching anime too, at some point...
Midnight: … I'm not telling you at all what I did. Also, I am very sorry that I didn't describe the boy's clothes in this chapter. You'll see him soon enough. Do please enjoy reading this fanfiction.
BH: See you at the end of the chapter!
Nobody's POV, Past Midnight, Unknown Land
The skies were covered in a sickening mist of grey as the poor girls awoke from their slumber. Sayomi awoke prior to Yuki while the the two then noticed they were no longer inside Sayomi's rather cozy apartment but on a barren battlefield. It seemed like another World War had just begun yet again. Strange creatures were running wild, attacking all that's in sight, even their own kind. To Sayomi and Yuki, they looked strangely familiar but neither could figure what they were due to their abrupt shock from the sudden change of location and the haze blurring their vision.
The two stood up and were caught in the eyes of the creatures as they then ran towards them. In fear, the two girls dashed with all their might and thanks to their athletic abilities, they managed to hide from the beings' prying eyes. They hid behind a wall of a ruble close by, between some large wooden crates.
Without warning, the already suffering girls were abruptly pulled away from the walls and with instinct, the two bit onto the flesh covered arms of the 'attacker' who was actually what seemed to be a 16 year old boy.
"OW-opmm!" cried the boy as he then bit his lower lip but still continued pulling the girls with him, "I would prefer it, as I think you would too, to come along with me quietly."
Sayomi stared at the boy, observing him from head to toe "... Very well."
As boy was sort of shocked seeing her coming along with him so well and quickly, especially after she just bit his arm, Yuki complained about why Sayomi went along with him so easily.
"... He seems like a good person," Sayomi stated, not telling why and continued walking without a care, following the boy as Yuki walked behind her slowly with caution.
The boy led them to a thick, sturdy and old tree, that gave off a mystical aura.
Yuki looked up to the almost elegant-looking tree, that was the only one from miles around, in awe, "It's… Beautiful!..."
The boy grinned as he looked up to the lush green foliage and agreed to Yuki's statement, "Indeed, it is isn't it? It's sort of a miracle that this very tree is still alive despite all that's been happening recently.
"Uh huh…" Yuki then looked over to Sayomi, whose attention wasn't on the tree but on the boy, "Sayomi?"
Sayomi turned to Yuki as she then saw Yuki's worry about her written all over her face and replied with a soft smile "... Yes Yuki? What's wrong?"
"Nothing…" Yuki answered, returning Sayomi's smile.
As the boy's gaze went towards Sayomi and Yuki, he spoke, "Now then… Who in this world would go into the glitters' hunting grounds?! Be thankful that I was there to save you!"
Yuki's face turned evidentally angry as Sayomi kept her poker face on.
"... Thank you for helping us," Sayomi bowed down with her hands in front of her in the Japanese traditional way, "But may I ask where we are?"
"How don't you even know where you are?! We're in Elrios! Now please answer my question. Why did you go in the glitters' hunter grounds?"
"... Glitters… Is that what they're called…" Sayomi acquired a distant look in her eyes as Yuki took over the conversation because Sayomi would no longer continue.
"We got a reward from completing KOG Studios' survey. The rew-" Yuki started, ending up only to be cut off by the boy that had taken her and her only friend, Sayomi, to this tree
"What kind of a name is KOG and since when do people have Studios as a last name?" the boy inquired, cutting off Yuki's talking.
"Don't you know it's rude to cut someone off mid-sentence, let alone mid-word?! Now, as I was sa-" As Yuki got cut off once more by the boy, she stared bluntly at the boy.
"No I don't. I'm an uneducated kid, Okay? Okay, I heard a yes. Now before continuing, shall we introduce ourselves like educated people?" the boy cutted in once again while firmly stressing on the word 'educated'.
"Sure, Mr. Educated!~," Yuki stated rather bluntly, rolling her eyes.
"Thank you, Miss… um… um... I give up! I'm El and you are?..." El asked in a seemingly apathetic tone.
Sayomi kept muttering strange words in the background while Yuki began to introduce herself.
"I'm Tsukiya, Tsukiya Yuki. And if you're so educated and intelligent, then you should know that Yuki is the first name," Yuki introduced while clearly bugging El. She nudged Sayomi, who was still nonchalant, in the elbow but Sayomi took no notice what-so-ever.
Yuki sighed before starting, "Well, she is Kuroi Sayomi. You may call us by our first names as our thanks to you for saving us" Yuki announced in an official tone.
In the background, Sayomi's ridiculous babbling became louder and louder and as Yuki and El placed one hand each on either one of her shoulders, she jumped up and yelled "AH!", surprising the two of them.
Yuki and El thought at the same time in their heads 'Uhhh… Did she snap?'
As Sayomi turned towards El and Yuki's puzzled faces, she crooked her head to the side in a confused way. "... What?" she asked before the two replied with, "Nothing…"
The conversation immediately became an awkward silence with Sayomi's absurd blabbering being muttered at a barely audible volume.
"So… Yuki… Could you continue telling me about, this, KOG person?" El asked, desperate to break the awkward silence.
Yuki then opened her mouth to speak when Sayomi again jumped and clicked her fingers, bewildering them but then said sorry and then told them to continue. The two of them suppressed a laugh but Sayomi again took no notice.
"Firstly, KOG Studios is not a person, it's a company. So, as I was saying earlier, the reward was two crystals that were placed inside a box with an instruction sheet, telling us to hold the crystal in the moonlight and say 'Zeliportu', telling us something magical would happen. Strange mist covered us and we kind of blacked out and woke up in those… um… hunting grounds, was that what you said it was?…" Yuki explained, unsure of the last part.
"Glitters' hunting grounds, yes. What were the crystals like?" El asked in an 'educated' manner as Yuki explained about the crystals.
Sayomi suddenly appeared behind the two, pulling the two of them together with her arms while keeping an innocent but the devilish look in her eyes ruining everything, shocking the two but mostly El because for the whole time, she only kept on a poker face.
"... Yuki~ You do remember something about a creature that looks like those black, shelled creatures that we saw earlier tonight in Elsword, right?~ And El~ You did said that did place was Elrios right?~" Sayomi asked in a sweet voice with a demonic hint and poison coming off of the words she spoke.
"Y-Yes!?..." The two replied in unison, scared half to death as Sayomi continued "Well Yuki~ Do you remember where Elsword was set?~"
"...Eli… ros?…" Yuki's eyes widened as she realised what she had just said and as Sayomi still kept that smiling face on scared her even more. "
"I been thinking the whole time but all I ended up with was this~ We are most likely in the world where Elsword was based~" Sayomi said in a tone as sweet as honey, if not sweeter.
All was silent as Sayomi's smile faded and her face became as emotionless as before. El kept asking what happened and each time Sayomi would smile sweetly and say nothing had happened.
The silence was broken this time not by El but by Sayomi. She asked for a sword if there was one or daggers, as she said that they'd also be fine with her.
"Um… Can I have a… Um…." Yuki thought of the many weapons that she could use when Sayomi interrupted her thinking
"...Yuki. You are not using a weapon. You have no use for a weapon. None at all." Sayomi stated, quite clearly forbidding Yuki to have a weapon, "You are using magic so El~ Be a darling and fetch her a wand or staff and book of spells she can use for now please~"
"Yes Ma'am!" El scurried off as quickly as possible, seeing that Sayomi's sweet talking came back.
After a while, El returned from somewhere unknown across all the miasma that was surrounding the tree with a brown thick, dusty old leather book, a stick-like wand and an unique sword sheathed in some kind of glowing wood.
Sayomi went up to El and thanked him for the sword, wand and book. She gave the wand and book to Yuki and unsheathed her sword from the wood. The sword's cross-guard held a very interesting, silver shape that twisted around the grip but leaving space for the hand, granting slightly more protection for the user's hand on his/her sword arm. The golden pommel had the figure of snake wrapped around a sphere. Its blade wasn't damaged in any way and was entirely black. The wavy line in the centre of the blade emitted a chartreuse radiance. It had only one sharp edge and it hooked upwards at the tip.
Sayomi held up the sword to the luminescent full moon as its pale silver light reflected off the blade. It felt nice holding a well-weighted sword in her hand, although, in her opinion, it was a bit heavy. She gave it a few swings, getting used to its weight and the feel of the cutlass as it sliced through the thin air, craving the chartreuse after-images from centre lining.
Yuki flipped through the pages and scanned the detailed text of the leather-bound book titled, 'Basic Magic'. After she scanned it once, she began to read it in more detail, making sure not to miss a word. The book housed multiple complex terms but she understood it just fine. She held the wand as the book instructed and, lost in in book's hand-written, inky words, she tried to gain some mana. She soon felt the magic coursing through her veins but stopped because it felt so overwhelming.
The three sat down by the grand tree as Yuki asked El about his weapon to fight the glitters. El replied that he had a good old weapon that he uses so there was no need to worry about him at all. He then went to get his weapon from behind the tree and showed it to them.
The double-edged sword was quite large and wide, so it must've also be heavy. Its red hilt held a simple design and the sword was to be placed on El's back, slotted into a leather belt holding the sword in place when he walks around to avoid having to hold it.
"El, are we going to sleep here?" Yuki asks in a tired and sleepy manner as El replied with a yes.
"With those things roaming around the place, someone'll have to guard, so you two go to sleep and I'll stay awake for now," Sayomi stated in an almost matter-of-factly tone.
"No! Absolutely not!" El started to protest. He stood up in front of Sayomi, casting a large, intimidating shadow.
"What do you mean 'no'?~" Sayomi questioned, reverting back to that sweet, devilish voice of hers from previously during that night. She stood up, as not to be looked down upon by El.
"You ladies are to sleep and I'll keep watch. You are a girl after all." El continued, so determined to prove that he could protect a couple of girls all by himself that he didn't realize that Sayomi was using 'that' tone again.
"I said that I'm gu-" Sayomi began, only to stop herself as El placed his thumb and index finger on her chin. He slowly lifted her chin so that that she meet his gaze directly. He glared into Sayomi's blood red eyes and even she began to tremble at such a stare. He smirked at her trembling and asked, "What was that?"
"N-n-n-nothing," Sayomi stuttered, her voice shaking along with her body. "Y-y-you may guard." She looked terrified by El as his eyes were filled with triumph.
El smiled a rather princely smile at this and let go with a simple "Good night" as he then struck his sword into the hard, dirt ground, standing up and sat down, resting his back on his sword with one outstretched leg and the other close by him.
Sayomi went and lay down beside Yuki in a way so that they faced each other. Sayomi then started shivering, most likely due to the cold, accompanied by Yuki, who also started to shiver as soon as Sayomi winked at her. El then looked back at the girls, as to check on them when he saw them shivering. He briefly left to go get a blanket from somewhere nearby and returned soon enough. He knelt down and placed the blanket over the shivering girls, saying, "Must be cold wearing a skirt and such a thin shirt…" The girls then thanked him and he then went back to his post.
The girls giggled mischieviously, but not loud enough for El's ears to hear the sound as more than background noise like the occasional scream from the direction of the glitters. Soon the girls were seemingly asleep as El was watching the moon, high above his head when a blackened leaf fell down from the tree, onto El's head.
Miasma soon clouded El's vision of the full moon in the sky, along with the girls and the tree. El rushed over to where he remembered the girls were, but they seemed to be gone already. El then began to panic, no longer seeing the girls there but only the blanket that he gave them.
Two hands from behind reached onto his shoulders as he swung around just to see Sayomi and Yuki's smiling faces as they jokingly said "Miss us?" but soon later, they faces turned serious.
"... Where's your sword?" Sayomi asked as El yelled "Shit!" and ran back to where he left sword, leaving the girls alone in the miasma…
Midnight: Thank you, our dear readers, for reading this weird fanfiction. Just saying but El and the glitters are real characters and the name Elrios is also real.
BH: And El can also be spelt as L, but Midnight doesn't like it that way 'cause it reminds her otaku brain of L from Death Note.
Midnight: Also, this is what we planned since the last chapter but who cares, we plan to make a chapter solely on the characters and the fanfiction plot and such in case you got confused.
BH: She means that there'll be character profiles and other miscellaneous stuff.
Midnight: Thank you for translating.
BH: Well, it's not like they understand your constant blabbering.
Midnight: … Lets say bye now. Again, I thank you for reading this and also I thank you for even reading the author's note part. Now I hope you'll enjoy the next chapter as much or more than this one and the previous one. Good bye~
BH: Ya, thanks for bothering to read this fanfic, and the author's notes if you can be bothered. But seriously, less than 50 views and not a single review? Why don't you people review?
Midnight: … I also forgot! There's an avatar picture of Sayomi and Yuki on the cover picture. Do please check it out when you have time. It would help your imagination when thinking about the girls. Also, El is like Elsword. Now once more, bye.
BH: Elsword is El's reincarnation in case you didn't know. And if you want a larger version of the cover picture, just click on it. Or if you still can't see well, ask us for the picture of the cover or the girls by themselves and we'll give to you via email or something. Bye!