Shiraga: hi guys, chapter 4 is here. Thing started to get intense, and I included in this chapter a little bit of RenaxRaven. Hope you guys enjoy it. Oh, and please review so I can make the story better.
Chapter 4: Flame of eternity, the awaken of Rosso
It had been 3 weeks since Elsword, Rena and Elesis had joined the 9th Sky Division. After their first ambush mission, they were given a Rank ID. When not doing the mission given by the "Guardian", they can take normal mission to rank up, earn money and learn more experience. It is another normal morning, no mission from HQ, so the 3 rookies were just going to take missions like the pass 3 weeks, until the megaphone call for their name.
"Elsword, Rena and Elesis, please come to the commander deck."
The 3 proceed to the commander deck. When the door is opened, they saw a girl with pink hair holding a spear. "Good, you 3 are here. I would like you to meet Ignia."—the Vice Commander explained. "Hi ~~~ My name is Ignia-the fire priestess!"—the girl introduced herself with an energetic tone. "The HQ sent her here this morning with the result about the flower that we retrieved 3 weeks ago, it was the light El. Also, a mission had been given by the HQ: investigate the Lanox volcano where the fire El is hidden."—while the 3 is still confusing, the general put up his hologram monitor. "According to the scout drones, some of those 'Knowledge Hunter' scum was found near the volcano of Lanox. It appeared that they are looking for the fire El." "But how? The only one whose know the locations of the 6 Els are the Chosen one if the gate open once again or when they awake their full potential!"—the elf lady asked in confusion. "Demon is a very greedy race you know~~they will do anything to get what they want. And the thing that they have been longing for since ancient time is power. And because of their hunger for power, their race had developed a special instict that can smell or sense strong energy source. The 6 Els is the embodiment of the 6 Masters, so their power could be rate as the highest power source of the entire Elrios continent, and those 'Knowledge Hunter' have a lot of information about demon from the Great war, so I'm not surprise if they manage to create some kind of tracking device. "—the priestess explained with her energetic tone.
"So that is the details. You 3 will accompany Ignia to the volcano and prevent those scums from laying their hand on the fire El. If needed, eliminate them and bring the El back, and you will need Ignia for that."—the general explained the mission objective. "But why do we need the priestess this time to take back the El? Last time you can take it without needing the priestess."—the priestess emotion suddenly turned to surprise after hearing the sentence, but she decided to talk about it later. "Because unlike the light El, light element is originally peaceful, fire element is a strong and somewhat unstable element, if you are not the one that is acknowledged by the 6 Masters that is the 6 priestess, you could get yourself hurt when touching the Els depend on their elements: fire will burn both your body and soul into ashes, water will freeze you for eternity and so on."—the priestess explained while still having her concern on the general.
"This time, coming with you on this mission will be the Vice Commander Raven not me, because that place is a volcano, I hate hot places and the ashes will make my clothes dirty."—said the general. Then the 3 and the Vice Commander begin to prepare for necessary supply. They all go to the lab to get the special mask because the area could be filling with poison gas. The Vice Commander took off his uniform and change to his battle gear. The team then get into their vehicles, the priestess is coming with Elesis. "Elsword, Rena and Elesis, this is Eve, do you read me? Good, this time you won't be using the traditional ambush style, but we will teleport you to the volcano to avoid the enemies from knowing that we will come. Please proceed to the portal, Aisha is waiting for you for the teleport." When they came, Aisha is already standing there, her staff floating in front of her while she mumble some spell, then the portal open. "Good luck on your mission guys!"—she said with a smile on her face.
After going through the portal, revealed before them is a scenery with grey color and red outline everywhere: the Burnt Forest. Death trees can be seen everywhere, covered with volcano ashes. The team activated the stealth mode then moving on to the volcano. When they reached the foot of the mountain, they get off their vehicles and climb up the mountain until they reached the entrance that was showed on the hologram. The team move inside with caution with their weapon ready for combat. The plain outside is one thing, but the inside looked like they had entered a whole different world: zigzagging paths, cross road made it look like a maze made the place become a giant maze.
"This is the defense system that was created since the El first reside here, to prevent the people curiosity and thieves~~"—the fire priestess explained still with her energetic tone. "So, guess we should start moving, lead the way Ignia."—the Vice Commander advised. "Yosh! Follow me folks! The fire priestess shall lead you to victory!"
-5 minutes later-
"This way!"
-30 minutes later-
"Turn left!"
-1 hour later-
"Forward!"
"How much further do we have to walk? We've been walking like forever!"—the redhead complained. "Ignia, you sure you know the way?"—the elf lady asked. "Of course I know! I'm the fire priestess, now keep moving, we are getting close~~!"—the priestess pouted.
-Another 1 hour later-
"Someone stop me now or I'm gonna murder this priestess."—the crimson hair said with red aura surrounding her. "Here we are! The entrance to the Temple of the fire El~~!"—finally, they had reached the destination, until a voice caught their intention. "Finally, we had reached the place, I swear I'm gonna blow up this whole place when we done getting the fire El—"
The 2 team made eyes contract, awkward silent fill the atmosphere, until Rena recognize their leader-Chloe. "So we meet again, elf lady. I see you still sticking with the pitiful human. Why not join me on the dark side? I'm sure we will have a lot of fun together."—Weird scene of Yuri start to flow into the redhead mind, until he was knock out of it by a dagger and a kick in the head. "NOT THAT KIND OF FUN."—the elf lady and the dark elf name Chloe said in union. The crow chuckled a bit, then readies his sword. "Elsword, Elesis, you 2 go on ahead with Ignia, we will deal with the thing here." The redhead and his sister along with the priestess run into the temple to find the fire El, but Chloe sent a troop of dark elves to go after them.
"Guess we will have to finish this fast and go after them."—the Vice Commander said with a frown on his face. Then 2 sides engage in battle.
"This place is a volcano, even though the place where we are standing is not very hot due to the El maintaining the balance. But the heat is still a bit too much. Guess I'll have to use my sword more than my arm."
"Giga Drive-Limiter! Finishing Slash!"
The crow takes on the dark elves troop while the elf is clashing their sword-dagger with each other.
"Furious Engage!"—the elf dash forward while unleashing multiple sword slash from her Erendil, but the dark elf still able to dodge all of them. "Look like you had managed to master the power of the Erendil, your skills have improved a lot too!"—the dark elf complied while dodging the incoming attack. "But you are still slow! Perhaps those 'things' have slowed you down…"—the elf hugged herself, trying to hide her 'things'. "Stop talking about it! It not my fault that they are this big!"—the entertaining emotion soon turned into an angry one on the dark elf face. "Stop saying about your 'things'! Are you mocking me because mine is small?" "You're the one who started this!"
The battle then turned into a discussion about the 'things'. The crow couldn't help himself but overheard the entire conversation. "Is your leader always like that?"—he asked while battling with the dark elves troop. "Sometime it even worse, so we are used to it."—a dark elf replied. "Argh! I have no time to play! I've to finish this fast to go and help Elesis!"—the elf though to herself, the she signal the Vice Commander.
"Vice Commander! Put on your mask and head to the temple entrance when I give the signal!"
"Trapping Arrow-Fungus!"—the elf shot an arrow toward the dark elves, the arrow leaves poisonous mist behind. But Chloe rushed through the mist of gas. "This little can never stop me elf lady!"—but on contrary, when she passed the mist, Rena is nowhere to be seen. "Where did she go?"—then she looked up and saw the elf is releasing a set of explosive twig toward her. "Gliding Strike!'—the explosions blow the dark elves away, then she head to the temple entrance with the crow. "Deadly Raid!"—the Vice Commander hit the entrance, causing boulders to fall down and block the path.
-Meanwhile, at Elsword team-
"GUAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"—a loud scream filled the temple altar, and it was Elesis scream.
-15 minutes earlier-
"Tch! These dark elves are just SOOOO annoying! They jump around like rabbits and spam arrows! "—the redhead yelled while trying to attack the dark elves but all he hit is air. The priestess was struggling while trying to fight back the elves and protect the fire El. Then one elf kicked her hand, making her drop the fire El. "Ahh! The El!" "I got it!"—the crimson hair rushed for the El while it bouncing toward the volcano crater. The elves is right on her track, but they got sucked into a maelstrom of sword.
"Maelstrom Rage! You are not getting from me that easy! "—the redhead just saved the day. The crimson hair manage to catch the fire El, it was a red stone that look like a crystallized burning flame. She touched the stone with caution while coating her palm with her fire to avoid from being burn. But the fire got wiped out, suddenly, she felt something running down her spine, her heart is beating faster, then her flame became uncontrollable.
-Back to the present-
"Sis! What's wrong?"—the redhead yelled while trying to enter the pillar of fire around his sister. ""She is being burned because she touched the El! I'll cast a fire proof spell, you have to knock her out of this before the flame burn her soul to ashes!"—the priestess then casted a rune spell on Elsword. Then he rushed to his sister, but got repelled. He tried again and again but always got repelled. "IT'S NOT WORKING!" "THE FIRE EL COMBINING WITH HER FIRE IS JUST TOO STRONG! MY SPELL CAN'T HOLD BACK AGAINST IT!"—suddenly, from inside the pillar of fire, Elesis who is still crouching and screaming a moment ago, stood up, still trying to stop her body from falling down again. Then she concentrate all the fire into her palm and release it at the dark elves. The fire blast the dark elves through the entrance. Then she collapsed into the ground again. "Sis!"—the redhead runs toward his sister calling out for her name.
-Meanwhile, Raven and Rena side-
"We are almost there!"—the Vice Commander said while they run through the tunnel. Then they saw something bright is coming like the sun is crashing into earth. Without hesitation, the crow hugged and covered the elf from the ball of fire. When the ball of fire passed the duo, the crow turned his head to see if it is safe yet. "What was that? Anyway, you okay Ren—"—red was everything on the elf's face, and steam can be seen coming out from the top of her head. The crow shakes her shoulders. "Oi Rena! Are you okay? Say something!"
"Abs…..abs…..my body is not ready for this much hot abs…."—she mumble the last part. "Abs?"—the crow is still confusing, until they heard the redhead voice at the end of the entrance. When they come, they see Elesis is laying on the ground, Elsword is trying to wake her up and the priestess is casting some kind of healing spell. "This is all I could do for now, at least it is enough to keep her life."—the priestess explained under her breathe. Then the volcano start to tremble, the fire El is no longer in it position, causing the balance to broken.
"We have to get out of here! This volcano can erupt any second now!"—the redhead carries his sister, then the team run outside of the volcano, back to where they left their vehicles. The ground is shaking awfully. When they reached the vehicles, the Vice Commander contact back to the mother ship
"This is Raven! Do you read me? The volcano here is about to erupt, please teleport us back to the mother ship!" "We heard you loud and clear Raven, prepare for teleport in 3…2…1…"—the 4 vehicles then disappeared, leaving the raging mother nature behind.
-At the medical room-
"Will she be ok?"—the redhead asked the doctor. "It a miracle that she manage to keep her life after touching the fire El. Don't worry, she will be fine, just let her rest, I'll let you know when she wake up."—the doctor, Helen said while taking some medicine for the unconscious girl. Elsword then walk outside of the medical room. There, Rena is standing nervously. "What did the doctor said? Will Elesis be okay?" "Don't worry! My sister is strong enough to kill a bear with 1 hit! Only this much could never kill her."—the redhead tried to ease the situation. Then they proceed to the commander deck to report the mission. They handled the fire El to the general. "How is Elesis?"—the general asked, with a slight worry in his voice. "She is fine now, Helen will inform us when she wake up." "Good, I'll send this back to the HQ for better protection."
"Please wait a moment."—all the eyes then concentrate on the priestess as her energetic voice got replaced by a serious one. "I have something to tell all of you. It is about the El, Elesis condition and the 6 Chosen Ones."