Author's note : Last chapter people said it was short, well because I wanted to see how people react to this. Alright the results were great, people love this fic, so I decided to post some more. So here is chapter 2.

This story takes place a bit before the war between Albion and Halkeginia, and after the letter mission in canon.

-The forest of Halkeginia-

The forest was a quiet, rustic place, where nature was in her best harmony. Even to normal men, this place was like it was from paradise, and to the creatures of nature, this place was Eden. Elves were one of these creatures, and Tiffania was one of the elves that loved nature so much. To her the forest was her home, one of the very few places she felt really comfortable in. to the human, the elves were an odd sight, as well as her status as a half elf made her unaccepted by both sides.

Her father was the Archduke of Albion and her mother was the Princess of Halkeginian Elves. Their marriage was rejected by many people. Her mother died giving birth to her, and growing up in the castle with all the hate was too much for her. In a last desperate measure to let her daughter grow up in peace, the Archduke had made a pact with the old King of Halkeginia, and bought a piece of forest preserved only for his daughter.

And thus Tiffania had been living here ever since then. Today was like any other days, she was walking along the forest path, plucking mushrooms to make her daily meals. It was near midday when she had a basket full with mushrooms, and she was on her way back home. She suddenly stopped. She turned around. Something was wrong. In the corner of her eyes, a dark shadow moved through the woods. A simple rustling of the branches made the presence of the shadow clear to her.

She ran. And she kept running. The shadow kept moving through the trees, or by the sound of trees snapping, plumbing through it. Tiffania soon reach the side of the hill, with the only path walking upward. The forest guard resided there, perhaps he can help her. But before she could even reach the path, a large figure blocked her path.

Looking up, she saw the green hairy chest. Looking higher up, a large row of sharp protruding teeth jagging up the lower jaw was presented. The black hair was tied up in a ponytail, but it didn't make the orc any less intimidating. Slowly Tiffania took a step back. Two more orcs came out from the woods, both just as dangerous looking. Their saliva was dripping through their teeth, and they all had a crazed, hungry look in their eyes.

As they moved forward, Tiffania moved back, until her back hit the cold stone of the hill.

"What… what… do you want ?" She asked. No of them answered. They just kept moving toward her. She threw the basket toward one of them. It didn't help, she knew it, but she was desperate. Clenching the ring from her mother, she prayed. Prayed for whatever deity out here that can hear her. To anyone who could help her. Just anyone.

And as if the Founder had answered her prayer, a blinding white light flashed right in front of her, placing a protection between her and the orcs. Tiffania instinctively shielded her eyes with her hands, and the orcs did the same, staggering backward a bit. As the light died out, a black figure was to be seen. Lightning danced around him, scorching the grass the sparks hit the ground.

The figure turned out to be a human male, clad in black armor that fit his body perfectly, enticing his frame. A thin slick and refined sword was on his side, the blade was of the same color as his armor. His hair was blond, wavering freely as the wind danced above his head. The orcs, after recovering from their initial shock, was rather hesitant to move forward. But as soon as their instincts kicked in, they moved in to attack.

The man, however, wasn't fazed by their appearance and with a speed that could only be seen as a blur by human eyes, he turned around as sheathed his sword. The orcs seemed to be stopping in midair before their head hit the ground, and soon their lifeless bodies slumped to the earth. Slowly, the man approached her.

"Who… who are you ?" She was scared. This man, by no normal mean, was a simple human.

"My name is Raiden. I am Lightning. The Rain transformed." He replied.

As for his part, Raiden was just as surprised as the girl before him, though his face remained calm. This forest reminded him of Shadow Moses, only minus the snow and adds in the tropical weather. However, this left him with more questions. How was he able to move to this place ? The last thing he remembered was fighting some MGs back in Middle East. And then there were these green creatures. They were green and sort of like a beast. And finally this girl. She seemed like a normal girl, if it wasn't for her long pointy ears.

But Raiden wasn't here to judge. He too was discriminated by his look, so he knew how it felt. No, what he needed were answers, and the girl seemed to know something.

Tiffania looked at the man in front of her. His facial feature was to be counted as handsome, even in elves culture. His lower jaw was encased in some sort of metal guard, extending to his ears. His left eye was wrapped in a black bandana. But his most prominet feature was his right eye. It was red, as if it was made of the purest ruby of the world.

Raiden crouched down, and extended his hand to helped her up.

"Are you alright ?" He asked.

"Yes... um, thank you Lord Raiden."

"Lord ?" Raiden mused.

"You must be a lord. Only the noble of highest ranking should be able to control Lightning, as it is the highest form of Fire magic, wasn't it ?" Tiffania asked as she looked up.

"I have absolutely no idea what are you talking about, but from where I came from I am just a soldier, even though I am one of the best at what I do."

"But... but... Just a soldier ! How can that be that you could control Lightning ?"

"It's a long story, involving a past I do not wish to speak about." He sighed as he helped her up.

"If you wish so." Tiffania said as she stood up.

"What about you ? Who are you ? Where am I ? I have many questions, and I think you can help me answered them."

"Of course, where is my manners ?" Tiffania gave him a curt bow. "My name is Tiffania. People called me the Forest Fairy."

Raiden just nodded.

"As for the rest of the questions, would you mind if I ask that you accompany me back to my home ? I am not very comfortable around dead bodies."

"Of course." Raiden replied.

And with that, Tiffania quickly picked up her basket, and the mushrooms that weren't tainted by orc blood, while Raiden disposed the dead bodies to the woods, leaving only the blood trails behind.

Together they walked up the path on the side of the hill, and moved forward the darker side of the forest. On the whole way back, none of them had said anything, and while Tiffania kept looking around the darkest part of the forest and jumped at the slightest sound, Raiden had his left hand on the hilt of his katana, ready to fight whenever they were attacked.

Soon they reached a clearing in the middle of the forest. Looking up the sunlight, Raiden could feel his cells start to recharge, and he inhaled deeply. There were no sign of the slightest smell that could indicate any machination in the air, and when he tried to pick up any signal, all his CODEC could hear was static.

In the middle of the clearing there was a wooden cabin, surrounded by wooden fences. The front yard was covered with flowers, most of them unknown species to Raiden. On the side of the cabin was a small pond with clear water and a well. The cabin was not too small, and not too big. In simple word, just perfect. There were windows, but none of them covered in glassed. On the other side, there was another section apart, made out of stone, with a chiney on top, perhaps this was the kitchen.

Waving to Raiden, Tiffania smiled cheerily and motioned him to come in. Detecting no motions coming anywhere from the forest, Raidne entered the house.

It was cozy inside, with a stone fireplace, a simple wooden bed on the side near a window, with simple white blanket on top. On the other side, a wooden table and a few chairs, also made of wood, were presented, next to the path led to the kitchen.

"Please sit down." Tiffania motioned to a chair before entering the kitchen. A minute later she came back with a tray in her hand and two cups on it. She set the tray down and sat on a chair in front of him.

"I made some tea, hope you like it." She said with a sincere smile.

And while Raiden didn't need to eat nor drink, his system could digest consumed food just fine, as well as his taste impulse still worked, so Raiden decided to humor the girl in front of him. After all, she might hold the key to how he got here. Raiden picked up the cup and blew it a little before taking a sip. It tasted like green tea, though the color was bround instead of the normal yellow color.

"It tastes good." Raiden said after she kept staring at him with those puppy eyes as if she was expecting a compliment. Truth be told, re reminded him a bit of Sunny, whenever she made the eggs she would just bring it to him and looked at him the same way. Tiffania beamed at the compliment as a cheery smile was plastered on er face.

"So can you answer my questions now ?" He asked.

"Of course, just ask."

"So where am I ?"

"You are currently in the country of Halkeginia."

"Halkeginia ?" The last time he checked, there was no country named Halkeginia in his database. However, in his line of work, countries could be destroyed and a new ones reappeared in matter of days, so perhaps it wasn't very surprising.

"Yes. Halkeginia is the country that have the highest rate of mages education."

"Mages ?"

"Yes, as in human who can practice magic, just like you."

"You mean Cyborgs ?"

"No, not quite like you. They are human and use wands to channel their magic. We elves can do the same, though without wands, and our magics are linked with nature."

"Um, yeah would you excuse me for a moment ?" Raiden asked before he ran a double check on his system again. He was checking if his system was running any of those RPG stimulation that Hal by mistake had uploaded to his system, and if his systemw was malfunctioning and ran the program without his order. Everything turned out fine, so either it was his system, or he was dealing with a deranged, perhaps misformed, girl who thought she was an elf and lived in a magical world.

"Okay, I'm good." Raiden said. "So supposely I belive all that you said, do you have any proof ?"

Looking around, Tiffania noticed a dried flower in a corner. Picking it up she held it in front of him. Slowly, green light wrapped around the flower, and as if there was a movie running in rewind, the flower came back to life, turning it into a yellow alaindelon.

"There you go." Tiffania smiled as she handed him the flower. "I have regeneration magic, and I can heal every living thing. But I can't bring the dead back to life, that was against the law of nature."

"Okay." Raiden kept staring at the flower in his hand. This girl wasn't lying, his system couldn't detect anything. And then there wasn't a single nanyte in her body as well as in the flower, thus it wasn't artificial regeneration.

"So how did I get here ?" He asked.

"Well, eh, in a rush, I kind of wished for you to be here."

"Explain it in details."

"You already saw the orcs that you killed right ? I was being chased by them. I was cornered, and then all I could was prayed to Founder Brimir and mother Nature to help me. And that was when you came in. I have no idea how I did it, but you came to me was a blessing from the gods."

"So I assume you have no idea how you could send me back ?"

"No." Tiffania shook her head. "But why would you want to be back ?"

This question left Raidne pondering. Why would he go back ? He already left his family behind, all he was left back home was wars and bloodshed. And even if he wanted to, he couldn't. So all he could do was to stay here with this girl, at least until he found a way home.

"If you don't mind, you can stay here as lonf as you wish for." Tiffania said as if she could read his thought.

"You don't mind ?"

"Of course not. You saved my life, this is the least I could do to repay the debt."

"Well, if you don't mind."

"Just drink the tea, dinner will be served shortly." Tiffania smiled as she returned to the kitchen.

Raiden sat there and sipped his tea once in a while. The whole thing about country with magic didn't sound too bad for him. All the war and bloodshed started to tire him out, and honestly he would run rampant if he kept doing the same thing over and over again. This was perhaps a chance for him to experience somthing new, and to find a new purpose in life.

Snake once said "You have your youth, don't waste it." Perhaps he should use his life in something else than killing. Anyway, he would remain here, and only after he would learned anough about this place he would explored the rest of the country.

Raiden casted his future plans aside as Tiffania returned with a large pan of mushroom soup. He hurried to help her place it on the table and they both set up their dinner. The meal consisted of mushroom soup and herbs bread. Tiffania picked up a set of wooden bowls and spoons out and handed one of each to him.

After that they both started to eat. And while the taste was rather foreign to him, the soup and bread didný taste all that bad. In fact, it was a whole lot better than Sunny's cooking, but hell, even army MREs tasted better than her eggs.

After dinner, Raiden moved that restover to the kitchen while Tiffania washed the rest at the well. Soon it was evening, and both of them sat outside with a warm cup of tea. There were many stars shining in the sky, but none resembled any star chart he knew. But that wasn't what surprised him the most. It was the fact that there were two moons, both of them bigger tham any moons he had ever seen in the sky.

"Just where the hell am I ?" He sighed.

Later, while Tiffania had insisted that he took the bed, he would never do that. To make the matter worse, she suggested that they could sleep together. Raiden wouldn't know that id she was too naive and childish to know or not, but he would never do that. And thus, she slept on the bed while he sat on the ground, leaning against the bed and guard her until the next morning.

Author's note : So how about this people ? The chapter is longer now, and though there weren't much action yet, there will be after the first few chapters. For now I wanted to focus on the interaction, and perhaps developing romance between Raiden and Tiffania.

Yes people it's official RaidenxTiffania. Anyone who wanted a harem, review and tell me with who. However, no Louise or Tabitha, that's just plainly wrong. LouisexSaito is the other pairing here.

I heard it was canon that Tiffania is a Void mage as well, though I know that there were 4 mages of Void, each with a title, which one is Tiffania, can anyone tell me ?

Anyway, stau updated people.