1 January 2701
Another dream.
It's getting really annoying lately. Maybe because I haven't found him this century. I never tell anyone, but finding him can get increasingly annoying over the year, over the centuries.
I suddenly feel something burning within my chest and I clicked my tongue in annoyance. "Morning to you too, Hienrou." I sighed. Waking up on top of a tree isn't something that Hienrou liked. The very thought of him resting defenselessly atop of other element was offending, he said. What is he expecting me to do? Sleep in someone's fireplace?
I won't die even when I do that though. I can only die when I am killed by another god-class elementalist. And judging from the fact that I haven't found him yet... that is impossible.
I jumped down from the tree I spend the night on, bid it a thank you before burning it into the ground. It's the least I can do so they can't track me. My encounter with them last night under the fireworks of new year still leave me with lots of scars. I seethe angrily as Hienrou tried to burned all my scars into submission. He never think of the pain I go through whenever he accelerates my healing.
I'm not your friendly god like Raijinkou, he said.
Well, I guess I'm glad that he is stuck with a 'friendly god' and not this stuck-up son of a bitc- goddess. I miss him though. I wonder what he's doing right now...
Wait, I'm forgetting something. The fireworks last night... new years. That means today is January the 1st. Hah, my birthday! I manage to remember my birthday this century, this must be a fucking good year...
And a fucking good year for me means this is the year when he will actually remember me and not insult me and ask me to stay away from him.
With him, it's always hard to tell. There will be moments (like the one that happened 3 centuries ago) when he seems to remember me, tells me that he loves me, before he actually killed himself. And then I will be stuck alone again. Don't get me wrong. I love him, I really do. That's why I'm doing all that I can to find him and convince him that he isn't a normal human. That he's a god-class elementalist like me.
Like me.
Heh, that sounds silly. But it's a totally comforting word to me.
I take a deep breath and look out to the distance. Once I cross the forest, I'll arrive in Voltarraq, the capital of Earth Elementalists three hundred years ago and the place where I met the him of that century.
Now, it's just your average Noitral city. I need to keep hidden, although not more than usual because this city is under the divine protection of the Giglio Neros.
Deciding that I don't really want to walk a great distance today, I close my eyes and empty my mind.
Letting me take over, Child of Fire?
I'm not your fucking child. Just get us to Voltarraq, maybe he of this century would be there too.
Your long-standing feelings for the Child of Thunder is admirable. Too bad he never remembers you.
Yeah. Shut up.
And he shuts up. My entire body goes ablaze as he blasted off to the sky in the flashiest manner. I roll my eyes. And suddenly, we are at the entrance of the Voltarraq.
The place seems much livelier than the last time I come here. I don't know if that's a given or not though. Voltarraq used to be a small town under the big forest, now it's just your average big city. No trees to be sighted. Probably because there aren't any elementalist here.
I make my way to the Giglio Nero inn, the only place who won't give me to the nearest Noitral Fortress the moment they see me. It's been fifty years since the god-class bounty is placed upon me and him. A hundred thousand million euro for those who managed to bring us alive to the Noitral's custody.
They're stupid, though. To place a bounty on my head is one thing, but to place a bounty on him is just fucking ridiculous. Why? Because he will reincarnate every time I watch him die.
Tsuna (yes, that's the name of my increasingly annoying-to-find lover) is the only other god-class elementalist beside me. He hosts Raijinkou, the thunder god while I host Hienrou, the fire god. The last time I met him was on the year 2665, thirty six years five months and twenty days ago. His name was Rand and he was one of the casualties in the Vascovi Elementalist Purge, the day all the elementalist who refuses to be a part of Noitral was executed for treason.
But that's a story for another day.
When I enter the inn, a lady with enormous hat and a yellow flower tattoo immediately welcomes me. I smile to her as I remove my hood. "Long time no see, Luce." The lady nods. "Giotto! It's been a long time. Come and take a seat, what can I get you?"
"Martini would be fine." I smile pleasantly. "Aren't you a little too young to drink?" Luce giggled amiably. But I smirk. "Today is my four hundred and ninety seventh birthday, Luce." She laughed. "You're always so funny about it, Giotto! I'll get your Martini then~"
When she scurries along, I look around the busy inn. Nobody's there. Nobody elementalist. I always wonder what kind of life do they offer to make each and every remaining elementalist to join them. Although no matter how luxurious the life fucking Verde and fucking Mukuro offer, I'll never join them and their deranged assistants.
Not after what they did to us.
"Excuse me," suddenly, a man with suspicious hood sits next to me and places his order. I ignore him as I drink the Martini Luce gives to me. I always love going to Giglio Nero inn, their bar always have the good stuff.
"You're Giotto Vongola, aren't you?" I'm instantly alert. But I pretend to look as if nothing's wrong. "Yeah. Got any problem with that?" I ask nonchalantly. The hooded man chuckled. "I don't have any problem. In fact, I am glad that I find you. Our Lord told me to tell you-"
"I don't give a damn about what your Lord told you to tell me. I'm not going with them." I hiss out, already hiding away my left arm to summon my flames when things go wrong. "Lord Verde wishes you to join him again," the hooded man said, undeterred by my rudeness. I click my tongue. "I'll never join him. I haven't for the last 5 centuries, and certainly not now. What makes you think that you can change my mind?"
The hooded man keep silent. But then he takes his glass and the drinks it calmly. "Our Lord Verde says that he knows where Tsunayoshi Sawada is." I immediately tremble and grit my teeth, ready to go out of control. But the man leaves the inn soon after that.
I get up from my seat and chases him, but he is waiting for me in the suddenly-deserted streets of Voltarraq. "That's fucking impossible." I breathe out, low, steady, and dangerous. "Do you know why? Because I haven't found him yet. And if I haven't found him yet, that means nobody has found him."
Suddenly, the hooded man snaps his fingers and brings out flames. I laugh as he throws it at me. I throw it back to him, making his hood fall off. "Well, well, if it isn't Sir Gustavo Alecto." I say mockingly as his flaming red hair and the tattoo on his face is revealed. "You already know that no fire elementalist will be able to stand against me. Not even you, the strongest wizard-class of the Noitrals..."
Sir Gustavo smirks as he bows at me. "Lord Giotto Vongola, god-class fire elementalist..." I tremble. "I, a humble wizard-class, can't ever win against you. But... how about another god-class?"
"Ahahaha! Are you nuts? There aren't any god-class in your ranks! How can you ever dream of defeating me?!"
"Fire god, I summon thee! Dwell in my body to deliver blazing judgment here on earth!" My entire boy bursts into flames, but as I am getting ready to burn Sir Gustavo once and for all, a woman with long orange hair and casual clothing stands right in front of him.
"Water god, I summon thee! Dwell in my body to deliver a flooding judgment here on earth!"
A flood of water storms my body, but instead of turning into a hot steam like how it should have been when water elementalist tries to harm me, it pushes me backwards. That can only mean...!
"It is nice to meet you, Lord Giotto Vongola, the Child of Fire..." A dainty-sounding voice says as she bows to me. I stand up, thoroughly soaked. Although it was supposed to be impossible since I'm the host of fire god.
"I am Lady Kyoko Sasagawa, the Child of Water. I am here as the Noitral Organization's sage. My Lord Verde asks me to bring you to our side, and I shall bring you to him..."
This is bad, Giotto. I can hear anxiety in Hienrou's voice. I can't defeat Reiryuu. That's just the law. We have to get out of here.
I take a deep breath before trying to escape from this place. I try to be the flaming torch to fly away, but then a water dragon captures me and hold me in place.
"Oh no, we can't have you escape, can we? Reiryuu." Her water dragon binds me even more. I scream in pain. As the host of fire god, I'm not really great on water. I absolutely despise them.
"We will take you with us, My Lord Verde will be so pleased..."
"Not so fast... you fucking..."
But my flames dies anyway. Hienrou is defeated. After five hundred years of escaping the Noitrals... this is it for me...
But then I can hear a woman's voice, and judging from Kyoko's reaction, she must hear it too.
"Kai Jin!" Kai Jin. The highest and most-advanced form of spell a god-class elementalist can use. Who would have the power to...?
But then a thunder strikes the ground, leaving Kyoko unconscious and me free of Reiryuu's restraints. I immediately try to flee from the streets.
The war is starting, that's for sure. Because Raijinkou who has been hiding his power for the last half millennia, has finally found a host with the ability to cast a Kai Jin.
And five hundred kilometers away from Voltarraq, in Namivoru city, a single girl is standing on top of her roof, seemingly in a trance state.
The elementalists are divided into six classes: the god-class, the sage-class, the wizard-class, the scholar-class, the trick-class, and the low-class.
In Noitral:
Verde - sage-class thunder
Mukuro - sage-class ?
Nagi - wizard-class ?
Chrome - wizard-class ?
Gustavo (G) - wizard-class fire
Kyoko - god-class water
Haru - ? ?
Not Noitral:
Giotto - god-class fire
? - god-class thunder