Hello once again, this is the official first chapter of the story. I have pretty much wrote the whole storyline before so now just have to put it down into the pages. I hope they somewhat interested you. Ah~ but saying this as the first chapter would be kinda exaggerating, this is pretty much like the tutorial sequence where you see how the characters are before they begin their journey or something like that. This is mostly to introduce the characters that will have the influences on the main storyline after this more or less.
Prologue: The Awakening
"It is once again that time
The time when the world turns
What is left behind by the fallen
It will be the key to everything"
Ealonna, Lost Ruins.
"...Hey guys! I found something over here!" a young man shouts.
The place is narrow and dark, there are only light coming from a few flashlights around the place. The voice echoes throughout the whole place and attracts those who are around.
"What did you find?" a seemingly older man walks up and asks him. "Look! It is a door with the same pattern that we saw from the ancient books! It must be those!" The young man keep shouting with the utmost excitement. He points toward a large door, with a strange insignia on the central and strange light are emitting out of it, though was very blurry.
"Hm..." the other man walks over the door and start to examine it, he seems to be absorbed into this discovery but soon turn back and tell the other. "This door is locked tight... and it is indeed sealed with the power of El. Everyone! Bring out our tools! It's time to put our researches into action".
He said just like any leader would, the man must be the head of this explorers. Other heard his command and starting to bring out machinery from their large backpacks and connect them to various positions of the door. They carefully look through every information that comes out of the machine "If we put the El Extractor on that lowest connector, we might be able to disrupt the El energy flow." a woman said. The head understood and take out his machine, seemingly the El Extractor and put it on top of the lowest cable that is connected to the strange door.
He flips a switch and then the machine emits a flash, light of many colors begin to flow into the Extractor . The work of the machine seems to have shut the security of the door down, the light that was flowing into the insignia flickered out and the door shake lightly. All of the explorers yell out for their success, the leader give a light smirk on his face "Alright! It paid off! Now let's get in there and see what is inside!" he said "Alright!" all of them respond with excitement.
They try to open the door, which was quite heavy and dusty, for awhile and after that a whole different scene comes into their eyes. A different dimension from where they were standing. No longer a ruins that was covered by debris and moss, it is a dimly lit room with many machinery that they have never seen before. They slowly walk in and look around the whole place, the room must have once been a research laboratory. "What's with these computer!? I have never seen such model before even in the books!" the man who is standing next to the leader, pretty much the same age as him looks up, amazed. The other have already start to examine the other machine and don't seem like they can be interrupted.
"Haha... This is just like a lifetime dream for us scientists...and it has finally come true" The head scientist says while walking around in amazement. After looking around, he stumbles onto something interesting "Hm? What is this?" he asks looking at a tightly shut capsule "Is this a container for some sort of newly produced technology at that time?" He keeps asking nobody, but have started to work on a way to open it. He manages to get access through the securities codes which most seems to have shut down long ago. He easily got the the cover door of the capsule to open, right when the confirm sound it up and the door starting to open, he quickly runs over. The sound seems to have hit the other scientists too so some of them have gathered around to see what is going.
But after that, what appeared before them isn't some sort of secret technology or a shutdown robot "What...the..." The head scientist says in shock, the other seems to be in the same condition. After awhile, the man next to him manages to speak up "Isn't that... a human? To be more precise... it is a girl." Everyone can't believe that there would be a human being preserved inside a capsule in a ruins that who know have existed for how long "But... why is a human girl here? In this Nasod ruins? And isn't her appearances odd?" another scientist asked seemingly doubted the figure within the capsule.
When everyone still have question marks popping all around there head, another voice suddenly break the atmosphere "Wow! Hey I found yet another interesting thing here!" the young energetic scientist who found the door leading to this place is shouting again "Tch. Can't you lower your voice at all, Iblanc?" the man standing over the head scientist place replies, annoyed. "C'mon, Kervul! It isn't an everyday stuffs that you find something this amazing!? Hey Saeth, come over here and look!" he retorts the man words and waves his hand toward his chief scientist. "Alright alright...I will come over there" Saeth answers and started to walk over to Iblanc "Don't be too strict. He is still just a kid" he gently pats Kervul shoulder, leaving him with a not very satisfied expression.
"So what do we have here?" Saeth asks while walking over the monitor that Iblanc have been working on. "This computer seems to have a lot of record files left, but I don't think I can match them up quite right... Can you do something about it?" Iblanc says with a troubled face. Saeth smiles and starts to browse through the computer folders "I'll see to it" He said. After awhile, he put up the few remaining leftover data that seems to be mostly corrupted through time "This place seems to be used as a weapon research facility..." He says while putting his hand on his lip, thinking about it. Iblanc is wandering around and clicking aimlessly at the other computer out of boredom "Huhhhh, is that so? Then what was those guys researching about?" he asks.
Saeth looks up at the monitor, quite not grasps very well the concept of what is left there "It seems they are trying put up some last resolves but didn't finish it in time... What is this word? "...tima...Ex...nans? The world isn't very clear, the data is too heavily damaged" he lets out a sigh. The information that Saeth gave didn't help out at all, Iblanc still poking at the other machine randomly "Ahhhh? Geez and I was hoping it was something interesting~. Can't you try and guess it?". Kervul, seems to be greatly annoyed by Iblanc, start to scold him "Stop being selfish! We are trying our best here! And stop toying with those! Who know what is waiting for us if you keep messing those up!?". Saeth tries to stop the two before this develops into something more severe "Calm down you two! I will try to work things out so no more arguments, OK?" He said while putting his hands out to stop their eyes from shooting bullets at each other. "Heh! You're just a worrywart Kervul! How can these stuffs be of any danger? They're mostly dead and we cut off most of their security, I doubt there would be any security bots around. If there are, they would be just be covered in moss and hardly move!" Iblanc says while keep clicking wildly at the other computers.
"Why you bra-" just before Kervul blew his pulse, an alarm sound went off "WARNING! WARNING! EMERGENCY SIGNAL WAS SENT! RELEASING THE PROTOTYPE IMMEDIATELY!". The warning keeps repeating itself, totally throws all the scientists into panic. "Wow! What the heck!?" Iblanc jumps back, startled. "You idiot! Look at what you have done!" Kervul yells at him "Everyone don't panic! Find somewhere safe and hi-" just as Saeth tries to help the other calm down, he notices smoke are coming out of the capsule containing the strange figure. Just a moment later, the capsule blasted open, releasing white mist covering the whole room. Everyone in the room start to cough due to the sudden release of the mist piercing into their noses, Saeth who is the closest to the capsule was knocked into the ground. He tries to stand up while still keeping his eyes on the capsule, where now there is a shadow slowly raises from within.
Saeth stands up and slowly approaches the figure, just like there is some kind of allure, he is drawn toward it without any fear. "Saeth! Wait! You don't know if it is dangerous or not!?" Kervul shouts from the other corner of the room, where everyone seems to be taking shelter at the moment. Despite his warning, Saeth still approaches the figure but with a little more caution. The mist slowly diminishes, revealing the true appearances of the figure who was lying within the capsule whom is now holding onto the capsule to sit up.
It looks like a small girl, wearing strange and dark clothing. Its silver white hair shines within the dim room and its eyes slowly oriented toward Saeth. Meeting eyes to eyes, Saeth somehow feels a little chill run across his back. He doesn't know what this little one hold, so he really don't know how to react and even weirder he can see her eyes are emerging some kind of strange texture within it. He assumed the small figure is female and raise his voice slowly "Um... Can you hear me? You... girl over there?" he asks, but the small girl doesn't seem to hear it and still looking around, to her body, to the messy room around her, with a totally blank face. Saeth tries to raise his voice once more "Um... Hello! Can you hear me over there!?" and this time, seems to have noticed the voice coming from Saeth, the girl slowly turns around "..." but that blank expression hadn't changed at all. The whole room is covered in silence.
Communication is the first thing to do, Saeth assumes, trying to calm himself "Uh...so... My name is Saeth... who might you b-" not letting him finished his sentences a voice cut in "...Human..." which surprise not only Saeth but every other scientists "You are... human..." the girl speak in a small tone, but still has something that like it can pierce right through the mind, unable to comprehend the situation, Saeth answers "Ah! Yes yes! I am a human! The name is Saeth! What about yours? What is your name?". "...Name...?" she respond, emotionless "That's right. It is...uh... something people tends to use it to address you!" Saeth trying his best to keep it on topic so nothing weird would happen. The girl remains in silence a bit, then slowly turns away and raises her free hand up, looking at it for moment then slowly replies "...Nasod..." she answers "...Nasod... Unit VH-00...".
An answers that render every single soul within that room speechless, only Saeth manages to utter up a few words "You are... a Nasod?". The "Nasod girl" slowly turn her head back to face Saeth and said the last thing about herself.
"...Code's name installed...is Erille..."
And that is done. The main character has come in and it is the end of the prologue. I am sorry if this is taking too long to actually goes into the main story because I was doing it like World - Tutorial - Story. Please bear with me and I promise the next update will be the start of the main story. I hope you will share your thoughts so I can improve my writing.