Midnight: … Hello there. It is very nice of you to continue reading our fanfiction.
BH: Hi again! Did anyone actually notice how the last chapter was literally a cliff hanger?
Midnight: … I'm feeling quite bored so I'm just going to drag El, Sayomi and Yuki in with us for fun.
El: Yo!
Sayomi: … It is a pleasure to know that you are reading my Mistress's fanfiction… Collab fanfiction with her… Friend…
Yuki: Seriously Sayomi? Mistress?! And why are you talking so s-l-o-w-l-y?
Midnight: … I do not mind formalities. And she is talking slowly because she is my dear Yuki.
El: Dear?...
BH: Well Midnight likes calling people dear, dearie, darling and ect. Don't mind her.
El: Okay?...
Yuki: Hey BH! Could ya introduce me to some book or fanfiction that's interesting?!
BH: Uhhh… Sure?
Yuki: See ya guys at the end of the chapter! *Waves and drags BH somewhere*
Sayomi: … My Lady, Midnight does not own Elsword… Nor does her friend BH own Elsword either… Please do enjoy the chapter!…
El: Hey how come I hardly say anything! Have fun reading about me being awesome!
El's POV, Cliff, Nearing Dawn
'No. No, no, no, no, NO! I couldn't even protect a couple of girls and I call myself a man?!' This really couldn't be happening to me. To release my anger, I yelled out a deafening "NOOOOOO!" which then returned to me as ear-piercing echos.
Now really. I laughed maniacally as a single tear rolled down my cheek. I should just fall and die with them. I don't really have any choice besides dying right now. After all, I can't possibly live with myself knowing that I just let two innocent and harmless girls die like that even though I said I would protect them...
I should go to Hell for killing them… I… I shouldn't deserve to live after what I just did… Why do I even get to live longer than them…
"What… What have I done?..." I whispered to myself, both my voice and my body were trembling as the full realization of what I just did hit me. My shaking hands slowly slipped away, bit by bit as I then closed my eyes to let darkness take over both my body and soul, to let death shatter another life, this one deserving to die. I fell from the branch, as I faced downwards, spreading my arms and legs out as if to embrace the death that had awaited me for so long.
The wind whipped around me as I fell. It swirled around me and made me spin around and around. Unknowingly, it had turned me upside down as I plummeted into the shadowed depths of the abyss. My jaw smashed into something hard and uneven. My pitch-black vision faded into a bloody crimson as I started to no longer feel the pain that had taken over my body a mere moment ago. I couldn't taste the blood in my mouth anymore either as I unhurriedly lost my grasp on consciousness and reality, my sight became an angelic white...
Yuki's POV, Ledge under the Cliff, First Light
As instructed before, Sayomi told me to jump down from the cliff's ledge, getting El to hold onto the branch coming out from the side of the cliff and then jump down to the ledge underneath the cloudy mist. She didn't wanted me to tell him all the details so she could enjoy watching him in pain and sadness, after she pretended to fall and die while faking a realistic scream that faded off in the end.
I jumped down, following her, as she forged another scream, this time, in my voice. We landed safely on the solid granite that was below and heard El screaming a resounding "NOOOOOO!" loud and clear.
After some time, El landed face-first into the rock, bleeding from his forehead and more blood coming from the corner of his mouth. I heard Sayomi snickering from behind me as she then muttered, "... Stupid boy. Giving up all hope so quickly."
I whined to Sayomi, saying that he might have died when she just laughed a bit and made an extremely sarcastic expression while bending over a bit, placing her left hand on her hip and the other hand in front of her, palm upwards. Her blood red eyes shot right at me and her hair was all over her shoulders.
"Died? He'll be in a coma for exactly three days, and it will go all according to my calculations. If he didn't give up so easily, he would be fine and kicking. Just be glad he has such a thick skull and that I didn't let him die or killed him!" Why do I even care about El so much anyways?...
I let out a loud sigh as she walked to the side of the ridge and pushed open a hidden door, " … Let's go. What are you waiting for? Bring him along if you want." she flicked her hair and walked inside.
I dragged El along with me as I walked towards Sayomi, his legs getting covered with dirt. I wonder how Sayomi knew about the secret passageway... 'El is sooo heavy… If Sayomi were to carry him, it would be such an easy task for her!...'
Sayomi was kind enough to wait for me and we strolled inside as the door was closed itself behind us with a thunderous pound, making me feel uneasy. Torches were lighted and Sayomi led the way for me, walking steadily at a rather slow pace as to let me catch up while looking over her shoulder every now and then to see how I was coming along.
We eventually reached the end of the aisle as there was nothing there but a wall. Before doing anything else, Sayomi grabbed a lot of dirt to cover herself and made some cuts with a small knife that she took out of her pocket. When or where she got the knife, I had no idea. She then went over to me and started applying the same things on me as I wondered what she was doing. Afterwards, Sayomi let her fingers dart across something on the right side of the hall in a peculiar pattern and the wall in front of us slid to the side.
Sayomi kind of blocked my view of the inside but after she went in, she then invited me in too, as I saw a large room holding a town's worth of people chatting with each other merrily when, all of a sudden, all of their eyes were staring and their attention were focused on us.
From how I saw it, everyone was glaring at us when Sayomi then broke the silence. They were mostly staring at out strange features. Sayomi one noticeable scarlet eye as the other one was covered, as always, with her smooth hair that' all left down, my deep sky blue hair thats in a high ponytail, although I may had forgotten to fix it so it could be a bit messy and El's flame red spiky hair. I nevered really cared about his red hair though. Where Sayomi and I came from, many people has red hair, whether they dyed it or either they were born with it.
From just before when El and I went in, Sayomi went into her sweet acting mode as she pretended to look tired and weak, as well as a bit of a ditz.
"Excuse us for barging in like this kind sirs and ladies, but would you be so kind as to offer us a place to rest and for our friend to recover? We were cornered by many glitters and had fallen from the cliff and landed on the ledge outside…" Sayomi spoke in a realistic, drained sounding voice. So polite that I must say though.
A man that looked like he was in his early 30's and wore clothes that looked of those who were poor, stepped up as the others remained silent and still, although now most had people had fixated their eyes towards Sayomi than me and El.
"You may have fallen from the cliff and found the ledge but how did you find the passageway here and how did you open the lock to get in here?!" The man boomed as the ringing sounds bouncing off the walls brought pain my ears.
Sayomi didn't flinch at all but instead kept up her act, "We leaned against the walls and the gateway had opened up sir. And I had opened this door by pushing the wall over here as I saw it looked as if it was touched a great deal of many times sir" Sayomi pointed to the place where she had scurried her fingers over before and explained to the people on how she noticed it.
The people began whispering on whether or not to let us stay and even trust us as the man from before laughed aloud noisily "HAHAHAHA!... This is the first that anyone has ever stumbled into here accidentally and so easily! Do please come on in!" he wiped a tear from his eye and made a gesture with his hand as to tell her to follow him.
Sayomi went after the man while I followed her, dragging El along when some other people came up and carried him on a stretcher as they told me that they are going to give him medical treatment and also asked me whether I was coming with them, or with the guy from before, who seems to be their leader of some sort.
I believed that Sayomi could handle things with their leader so I went with El to watch over him. I followed the people to another spacious room as they lay down El on one of the many worn-out beds. The room was filled with herbs, books, although most were medical ones, and many others objects that looked highly unfamiliar.
Nobody's POV, The Leader's Office, Early Morning (Sayomi)
Sayomi followed the leader as he entered an office-like place. He gestured for her to sit down as she then sat down on a wooden chair nearby. There were many paintings on the walls, their subjects ranged from machinery to forests and everything inbetween. There were so many that the walls seemed to be made of them.
The brown-haired man went and sat on a chair opposite of Sayomi, with a table in between the two of them. "May I ask to why was the boy had so much filth and scrapes, cuts and even blood bleeding from his forehead while you two girls seems just fine besides the dirt and a few scratches?" The man asked in a suspicious behavior, narrowing his dirt-brown eyes and looking as if he would decide what were to happen to the group depending on the answer Sayomi was to give.
"He fell while protecting us. We had only met, maybe a couple of hours before yet he had gotten all hurt just for the sake of protecting us…" she started sniffing her nose a bit and let down a few seemingly real tears, as if she really was upset but after a while, she 'had mostly calmed' down and stopped the 'crying'.
"Well, then he is a very noble man don't you think?" the man said with a smile as Sayomi smiled back with a tear in her eye.
"Yes, yes he is… I must thank you for letting us stay. I am Edenel. The girl from before is called Rika and the boy was Elyos. And you are sir?..." Sayomi gave the group false identities from her memory of Grand Chase, a game that Elsword was known to be a combination of, along with Maplestory. Edenel from Edel Frost, Rika from Rin and Elyos from Zero Zephyrum's home continent.
"I am Bradley. Pleasure to meet you." He gave out his hand to Sayomi as she gave a soft, handshake in return as a sign that she's 'weak'.
Bradley stared at Sayomi, or should I say Edenel, as she asked what might be wrong since he was staring at her face so fiercely.
"Nothing.. It's just that your eyes… are such a beautiful and rare crimson red… But why do you cover up your right eye? Also could I ask what may a girl like you would be doing with a sword?" Bradley asked out of curiosity as Sayomi looked downwards and began to tell her story.
"Why thank but ummm… I do not really wish to tell about my eye but this sword… It's my last and only memory of my older brother… He died due to a fatal illness..." She then looked into Bradley's eyes as she made a 'painful' smile while Bradley said a sorrowful sorry to hear what had happened. If Yuki or El saw her like this, they would definitely tell that Sayomi was clearly making everything up off the top of her head or that she had already planned and calculated everything right from the beginning.
Suddenly, the ground began to rumble. The feeling of fear in the screams of the cave dwellers was evident. A loud cracking sound came from the direction of the entrance, prior a low, thunderous grumble as something large fell...
Midnight: … Yes, Sayomi's eyes are a beautiful, marvellous red…
BH: You're crazy…
Midnight: … Beautiful… Pretty… Blood… and blood coloured eyes… Red… Pretty...
BH: Am I seriously the only one who's getting creeped out here?...
Sayomi: … No I think. That you are. The only one. Getting creeped.
Yuki: Don't worry BH. I think I'm getting creeped out as well… *Hides behind El*
El: … I am definitely creeped out. And Yuki… What are you doing behind my back? *Smirking*
Yuki: I… Um… Nothing~... *Hides behind Sayomi instead*
Sayomi: … Miss Midnight… You are still going on about the blood and red…
Midnight: BECAUSE THEY ARE PRETTY! But… I'll stop.
BH: And to think that you were watching One Piece as we wrote this…
Midnight: … GUNS! SWORDS! BLOOD! YAYAYYAYAY!
BH: Shut the Hell up already!
Sayomi: *Slaps BH's face* HPMH! Rudeness! Miss Midnight, it seems that you should leave or they might criticize you my lady...
BH: *Holds face* The Hell… Did Sayomi really just pull a Eve?... I thought she was the Rena in this…
Midnight: … No not really. I think she just slapped you for me. She is unique. Now Sayomi, lets leave shall we now? We can talk about swords, and and and guns, and and and BLOOD AND AND AND… Stuff!
Sayomi: … This way then my lady *Curtsies* I shall say the farewell for Miss Midnight and for myself. Farewell and please look forward to our next chapter.
BH: I don't understand otakus…
Sayomi: *Runs back just to slap BH and runs back to Midnight* Miss Midnight created me so she also spoils me. Meaning I can do whatever I want, as long as it's all good to my lady, and she would protect me if something happens.
BH: … Oww… That hurt… This is gonna leave a bruise… I just know it… And that is so unfair...
El: Ouch! Boy that hurt just looking at it!
BH: Do yah wanna to know what it actually feels like?!
El: *Runs away* No thank you!
BH: *Cant be bothered running* COMEBACK HERE YOU COWARD!
Yuki: … Bye~
Midnight: *Shouts from afar* WAIT! Don't leave yet. I just need to tell you readers that the next chapter is the character profiles. Thank you and now good bye.