AN: Welcome to another chapter of the Dimensional Shift. I am terribly sorry, I have been really busy and because of that I have not managed to updated until now. I know I apologize every time but I am always sorry when I am very late for updates and this time takes the cake for lateness. The teachers this year show no mercy and give us work that can possibly kill if too much homework killed. The story is now going to T to M because of language, but you know if there are any rated R scenes I will definitely give a warning. Well enough with my ramblings let's get this show on the road. Oh and I revised this a bit...meant to write Kagutsuchi and wrote Naobi by accident in Saya's dream...hehehehe.

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Disclaimer: I do not own Blazblue cause If I did there would be an extra Ragna running around

Chapter 14: Relics Of The Past

"Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living." - Emily Bronte

How do you know that you've won a battle? That's a question which had been floating around for months now as the battle between those who could only be consider evil and those who could be considered heroes Ensued. Months had passed since war was declared by Kira, well nine months to be exact. Things were looking hopeless at first but the tides of battle began to change for in that short amount of time many began to learn that unity can bring back even a dying world and now here in a bloody battle field the fight to take back Kagutsuchi continued to rage on.

"Shit! Shit! Shit! This Is more fun than we expected it to be neh Terumi-kun?" the figure in the yellow like hood asked with a look that can only be described as that of a maniac.

"I always expected you to be a little bitch but I didn't think you'd be the bitch to someone who is planning to ruin your plans..." responded the bloody figure as he held his arm. Here was a scene that many never expected to see, Yuuki Terumi versus Hazama. Turned out that Yuuki Terumi got stuck within the body Known as Hazama while Hazama himself took over the body which was once known as Yuuki Terumi."Damn this little shit! I didn't think he would do this well In my original body. This is going to be harder than I thought..."

"Hoh? Is something the matter Terumi-kun? Don't tell me that hanging around those little shits turned you soft?" a laughter followed the many questions and Terumi just scowled at the man. He never once in his life thought himself to be so annoying and as he quoted from Ragna "A complete dick". Terumi took a deep breath and focused at his opponent. As of now he had lost a lot of blood and his vision was getting clouded. If he was not careful his next stop would be his grave. Hazama lunged at him and as Terumi expected he was too weak to dodge so he closed his eyes and waited for the blow to come. But it never did, Terumi slowly opened his eyes only to be met with cat ears and a pink hair.

"If I died and this is god playing a trick on me it isn't funny" Terumi said with a some-what-decent-smile.

"Be thankful I made it here in time asshole" Kokonoe retorted back. Kokonoe then pointed what looked like a giant wrench to the other green haired man who was now scowling at the scene which unfolded. "Now, now don't get so mad people change you know. Even your other psycho self" Kokonoe responded to his scowl.

"Hey for the record I am the real one" Terumi said as his usual smirk was back on his face. He then picked up the hat which was now on the floor and put it back on his head. "Let's take care of this bastard and get my body back on bitch" Terumi then walked along side Kokonoe while getting back to his fighting stance.

"Got it asswipe" with that the two charged at the man as their battle final battle began.

"Divine Retribution!" a person who looked like a white haired version Of Saya Screamed as a shower of blades descended down on Izanami, Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu.

"Holy Reflection!" as soon as the blade descended they were returned back to their owner once more who simply dodged them all with grace and style. Tsukuyomi then muttered the words which to everyone sounded like 'Show off'.

"I hate to admit, but she's really strong" Izanami stated between breaths. She was exhausted at this point and truth be told the other goddesses weren't doing better off either. This version Of Saya was perfect in every aspect. "I guess this is why she was perfect for Azure" Izanami closed her hands into a fist as she felt the feelings she always felt when she had to battle this Saya. This more 'perfect' Version of her. But she couldn't let the jealousy get to her, at this time Azure no longer belonged to her. He was theirs and theirs only. Each goddess took a breath and charged at their opponent. Their final battle had also begun. All around the city battle raged and people died both friends and foe, but in the middle of it all one man stood with a smile plastered on his face. Yes to this man this was nothing more than a game.

"Saya! Hey Saya wake up!" Ragna tried to call out to his sister who either looked like she was having a nightmare or fighting her worst nightmare. He had been at it for a while but his sister was yet to respond and as of now he was officially freaking out. He ran towards the other rooms only to return a bit later with Litchi and the others in tow.

"What exactly is going on?" Terumi asked as he yawned. I mean hell the dude barely slept and he was tired as hell considering the awesome day and by awesome he meant terrible day which he just had. He so did not want to deal with a goddess problem considering the fact that they were probably the reason why his life was a living hell for the past three days.

"I don't know. When I came to check on her she was like this and she won't wake up" Suddenly Saya's lips parted and she began to utter words which sent shock, worry and hurt through each person present but only managed to confuse Terumi and Relius (A/N: Guess why _).

"A-Azure please...don't do this. If you do, you will gain nothing but will lose everything" tears were now streaming down her face and the others could do nothing more but watch in awe. No knew what she was dreaming but if they could guess they would probably say she was dreaming of an ending one that would put an end to the events that now raged but cost the lives of many.

"Oh my..." Celica said in the brink of tears. This was heart wrenching to watch but what came next brought real worry. Tears started to fall from Saya's closed eyes and with that Ragna decided he had enough. He went next to Saya and gently began to shake her awake. The said girl suddenly sprang from her sleep yelling Azure's name. Her breathing was not steady and she seemed to be scared out of her mind.

"Saya look at me!" Ragna called to his sister. The terrified girl turned only to come face and face with her worried brother. The girl suddenly hugged her brother and began to cry in his chest. Everyone stood there dumbstruck and after the girl finally stopped crying they all nodded to one another. "Saya...I won't force you to tell me what you dreamed about but we really want to know what you saw...". Ragna was approaching this carefully and trying his best not to remind the girl of anything she didn't want to, but he knew that asking was enough to jog her memory and he was mentally kicking himself.

"It was a dream, a vivid and realistic one" the silence was finally broken down by Saya. "I can't explain it but...what I saw seemed real at least to me".

"Maybe it was not a dream" Tsukuyomi finally spoke. Everyone turned to face her and she let out a sigh when she saw Terumi's 'What the fuck you talking about?' face. "You see we goddesses are blessed at times with visions which warn us of the future to come. Maybe that was one of those dreams".

"If so we might need to know what you saw" Amaterasu said after letting a yawn escape her. Everyone turned their head to face Saya to see if she was willing to share. No one was willing to force her to talk, well maybe Kokonoe and Terumi but no one else.

"I can't...but maybe Izanami can". With that said her hair turned violet and Izanami shower herself to those who waited for answers. The goddess wiped the tears from her yes but everyone saw how she acted, she was hurt and she was afraid of something and they knew that the something was actually someone. The room remained silent for one what seemed like an eternity before Izanami spoke.

"The black Beast..." Izanami managed to utter. The others were confused and said monster wasn't heard from ever since yesterday. "I saw the Black Beast but it wasn't black it was pure white and on top the beast's head dawned in white Armor was Azure".

"Sounds more like a fairy Tale than a vision of the future" Terumi uttered in annoyance only to receive a glare from everyone in the room, Relius included. "What? Just saying". Ragna rolled his eyes and asked Saya to continue.

"He was fighting the Gigant: Takemikazuchi who had Kira on top of it's head...I can't remember what else I saw". She purposely hid the fact of what she saw Azure do and about the white haired girl who highly resembled her and Saya. The others took the hint and stopped asking questions.

"Hey by the way..." Lambda voice resounded throughout the ship. "Where are we going?" Everyone sweatdropped. After they all showed their will to fight the day before, they all headed straight to bed afterwards and left Lambda to control the ship's course.

"Lambda I'll send you some coordinates" with that said Kokonoe took out a phone like machine and punched in some numbers. Everyone else looked at her questionably but they all knew better than to pry into Kokonoe's business. She sighed, she was hoping one of them would ask but since none did she figured she might as well talk. "Were going to a place which was used as a base in North America".

"What for?" Shun asked.

"Just have to wait to find out" Kokonoe said while she yawned. "Go back to bed, considering how this ships is cruising we should get there by morning" Kokonoe slowly and drowsily walked away and the others followed suit leaving Ragna, Jin and Saya in the room.

"Are you going to be ok?" Jin asked with a look which looked worried but still had too much pride to let it show. Izanami slowly nodded and with that Jin and Ragna left side by side. Izanami returned to the bed and she laid down, but she was certain she was not going to sleep. After witnessing 'that' once she didn't think she wanted to again. She let out a deep sigh but after a few minutes she slowly returned to sleep, except this time No nightmares appeared.

Jin and Ragna walked in silence, neither looked at each other or talked to each other but as much as Ragna wanted to keep this silence some words needed to be said. "So what do you think that dream meant?" Ragna asked only to be answered by silence. "OI STOP IGNORING ME!" that was what Ragna wanted to yell at the moment, but like if on queue Jin spoke up.

"It's possible that what she saw was us taking the fight to Kira, but something seems odd about what she said" Jin then look really thinkative. "First off she said Azure was fighting Kira so that means this fight is not happening any day soon considering the fact that Azure is still under the influence of Kira's pet's spell. Another odd thing is that she seemed to be hiding more than one thing. I am going on a whim and take a guess that there is someone else who is going to come into the picture and she doesn't want to talk about it". With that Jin turned to look at his brother who seemed dead serious at the moment.

"You maybe right and because of that I am afraid that things might not go so well if we leave Azure under his control for too long."

"True...but brother do you really think that plan with came up with will work?" Ragna was really starting to think that Jin had some psychic powers since every question Ragna had answer to he either asked it first or answered it.

"Who knows. I mean we never had a plan in the past so why the hell start worrying about plans now of all times?" with that said a smile visited Jin's feature. Ragna was completely stunned, hell he thought he was freaking dreaming. JIn was smiling and not one of his crazy 'imma kill you brother' smiles, it was a true genuine smile one he hadn't seen in his little brother for what seemed like ages. "So you can actually make a face like that?" Ragna asked with an amused grin.

"Whatever do you speak of brother?" Jin asked with an equally challenging smirk. Ragna just shrugged and walked away. He waved his hand and said his goodnight and left his brother standing alone in the ship's corridor. Jin just sighed and turned away to walk in the opposite direction only to come face to face with Tsubaki.

"Jin-niisama..." Tsubaki said as she looked down at her feet. She couldn't believe that she let Makoto convince her to do this. Sure they all had forgiven each other and their horrible transgressions which occurred between them, but she felt like she was going to kill Makoto for making her do something like this.

"Tsubaki is everything ok?" Jin asked while he got closer to her. Although his face betrayed what he felt, at the moment he was actually happy to see her. Last he heard of her was from Hakumen who told him she was almost going blind from using the Izayoi.

"Jin...I...I" Right now Tsubaki wanted no needed a hole to crawl into. The situation was awkward as it was and she needed a way to get out of it without seeing like she was avoiding him. "I've been wondering how you have been since we last met each other", Jin arched his brow in a questionable manner since he didn't fully buy the fact that this was what she wanted to ask. He decided to play along with it nonetheless and acted like he fully believed it.

"I have been well, how about you?" responded Jin.

"I've also been well...but the events of lately have been quite chaotic and confusing."

"Yes, I agree with that to some degree" Jin signed. I mean c'mon it's not like it's everyday that you would meet sector seven's mad dog and watch him get beaten to a pulp by a so called parallel version of your brother. "So Tsubaki is your vision alright?"

"Oh you mean because of the effect of the Nox Nyctores Izayoi?" Jin simply nodded in response. "Yes it has gotten better. I do not understand what Azure did but the side effect is gone, but something does feel strange about the Izayoi".

"What do you mean?" Jin asked in slight worry. Nox Nyctores could be your best friend and at times your worse enemy. Jin learned that the hard way with the Yukianesa.

"It just feels as if something else was unsealed, but it doesn't seem to be doing any harm so it must not be anything really serious" Tsubaki then glanced at the digital clock in the corridor only to realize it said 2:00 Am. She gasped, it was late and she was keeping Jin who fought body and soul awake when he must've been really tired. "I'm so sorry Jin nii-sama!" she suddenly bowed and Jin was lost. He then turned his gaze to where she was looking previously only to come face to face with the clock. He lightly chuckled then turned his gaze back to her, "I guess this is goodnight then?" She hastily nodded and darted back the same way he came from leaving Jin with an awkward smile. He then plastered his stoic face back on and headed back to his room. But he had to admit, so far this seemed like a good day.

"Any fives?" Akashi asked with a smirk plastered on his face. Shun sighed and placed the said card down in defeat.

"Dick move bro" Shun asked as he fell on his back and looked towards the ceiling. He sighed and a small smile was present on his feature. "This yesterday was a day full of surprises" Shun said as he looked over to his sister's sleeping form. She was very attached to him even if she didn't love him as he loved her. She could never sleep in her dorm and would usually sneak out to her brother's dorm room. Guren was shocked the first time when he found the girl in their dorm room but he soon learned to live with it and to outright call it 'normal'.

"Yeah it was" Guren said as he joined them. "Your sister really showed what she was made of yesterday, and you yourself were not too bad" Guren said as he graced them with his almost impossible to see smile.

"We did our best and I am quite happy that we managed to evacuate most of the city before the final attack. Everyone was nearly eradicated" Akashi said and the others sweat dropped.

"You just had to make it depressing didn't you?" Shun asked as he let out a sigh and Akashi just shrugged.

"Shun, this is serious though" Akashi demeanor totally changed in last than five seconds. "Are you really sure you want to go along with this plan? I mean it has chances of success but it seems a bit suicidal does it not?"

"You have a point, but I need to do this. I am not quite certain I want my sister on this mission but this is something which must be done. We owe our lives to Azure, almost the whole city does and because of that I feel were indebted to him" Shun then smiled at his friends. "And anyways I bet if it was us in his situation I doubt that he would hesitate to save us". The others understood this. It might've just been for a day but they felt like knew Azure completely. The man to them had no personal goals, he seemed like he was putting a world he owned nothing to before his own life and that was something that could highly be respected.

"So no matter what you're not backing down?" Guren asked and received a nod as a response. "Then I wish you the best of luck and the protection of a knight's pride" Shun merely chuckled at his friend's words. His fighting style was something unbefitting of a night but it was the only way he knew how to fight and he was proud of it. "Let's head to bed, were all exhausted and we have a big day ahead of us. Can't wait to see what the beastkin has to show us" with that they each headed to their individuals bed.

Shun sighed, although he didn't seem as worried he was literally freaking out in his head. Well he certainly was strong but the power of the people that were on the enemy's side was ridiculous as hell. But as he stated before most of his worries was not for himself but rather for his sister. He gently lifted the cover and settled next to her. He planted a kiss on her forehead and drifted off to sleep, where he was blessed with great dreams.

Azure was lost, ok maybe lost wasn't the right words. He was confused as hell and yeah he was still lost .What was happening made no sense. He remembered going to his room as instructed and he also remembered slowly starting to fall asleep only to awake to a full moon and a hilltop. This was something he considered illogical unless it wasn't real but he already proved it was real when he smacked himself, boy did that hurt. He sighed and decided to take a look around, he was already lost so what difference did it make for him to get more lost? After a few minutes of looking around he was thoroughly disappointed. There seemed to be no one there, well at least that was what he thought.

"So you've returned again, but this time with less memory than our previous meeting..." a voice said from behind him. He turned only to be greeted by a white hair male wearing a Kimono and a sad smile. Azure was sure he lost some memory according to what Hikaru had told him but he wasn't that amnesiatic, he could swear that he had me the man before but question is where?

"In your mind of course" Azure was freaked. The man seemed to have read his thoughts perfectly, but when he reached for his weapon he realized it was not there and that in itself was an oddity. Even with amnesia as stated by Kira and the others the previous day he never remembered being away from his blade and even so he could easily summon it. But pulling something like that now seemed like a miracle in itself.

"What do you mean by 'in my mind'?" questioned Azure.

"This is merely your consciousness, surely you have not forgotten this landscape" but the man soon noticed that Azure had no reaction and a thinkative look clouded his face. "I see so you have".

"what do you want from me?" Azure was still ready to fight. Sword or not he was a fighter and one that was never beaten easily as far as he could remember(A/N: if you did not read previous chapter please do so you can understand while Azure is acting like this).

"I wanted to see what her technique did to you myself, and it seemed it totally swayed you to their side". Azure was not liking where this was heading and the feeling that he was missing something suddenly returned to him. If this man knew what this something was he needed to know. "I am sorry but I will not tell you what you have forgotten, but I will tell you this. Even if ones mind is swayed and bonds are forgotten, your heart will always remember." the man said as his smile returned. The scenery slowly began to fade to black and the man utter a few words and then disappeared.

Azure suddenly sprung up from his bed in cold sweat. He gently massaged his head as it throbbed and hurt at the same time. Now he was certain, something was missing and he had to find out what. His mind then turned to the words spoken by the man. "Past, present and future will soon present themselves in front of you and you have one question to answer. Are you the Azure?". What did such a thing mean? Well Azure had no Idea but he was sure as hell that it was giving him a hell of a headache. With that said Azure decided that maybe he just needed to cool off so he headed to his shower. There were many questions that needed to be answered.

January 4, 2200 A.D somewhere over the fallen continent of North-America...

"Why the hell are we over a desert?" asked Ragna as he looked out the window of the ship. There was nothing outside besides sand, sand and wait look MORE SAND! He was getting frustrated. They had been flying over this desert for five hours and he still didn't know what they were doing here. Kokonoe refused to tell them and he was getting tired of asking.

"Hey bitch what are we doing here?" Terumi asked only to get hit by a giant wrench and everyone thought one thing 'that has to hurt'.

"Were finally at the coordinates Kokonoe" Lambda's hologram said as it appeared near Kokonoe. Kokonoe then pulled out a remote from her pocket and pressed it. A large door which resembled a hangar door slowly began to open and the ship slowly descended down.

"W-what the hell is this place?!" Makoto asked in both shock and admiration. In big letters there were words some of them could not even comprehend. The only thing they could make out was the number 5 and 1

"Area-51...I can't believe you actually found this place Kokonoe" Jubei said as he let out a sigh. His daughter just basically discovered a gold mine of nukes and weapons and as it stood they all belonged to her at the moment.

"I think I see where you are going with this" Relius said with a small smirk. When the ship touched down everyone hurried outside to check out the place and their jaws nearly hit the ground after seeing what was outside. There were workers there and many soldiers who seemed to be training and yes lots and LOTS of weapons.

"Kokonoe...what is this?" Kagura asked. He had a pretty good idea but he just wanted to humor himself and everyone else.

"We discovered this place a few years back. Sector Seven saw this as an opportunity to arm ourselves and wait for the right time to strike down the NOL. But after hearing that parties within the NOL itself were planning a rebellion Sector Seven thought we would never get to use this but I guess that not using this fighting force is no longer possible". Everyone there agreed. Now it was all indeed possible to defeat Kira and his army they themselves needed a fighting force, one that either surpassed Kira's army in numbers or outgunned him.

"What are those?" Karin asked as she pointed towards a giant airplane.

"Oh my god! Oh my god! OH MY GOD!" Kirino said like a giddy schoolgirl. Everyone turned to her for she seemed more than eager to answer. "AC-180 type B. Made specifically for quick drops of supply and also for protecting ground troops. It's a revamped version of the AC-130 which existed during the 21st century. Considering the markings on it, it seemed to be Russian made and customized. What you all see in front of you is HISTORY IN THE MAKING!" Everyone was shocked, this girl knew something which existed years before they even were born even Kokonoe seemed stunned for a moment.

"This is the newest revamped version of the ship" Kokonoe said and she immediately caught the attention of Kirino. "The old weapons could not defeat the Black Beast because they didn't include Ars but these babies do. They are loaded with bullets that use Ars and if used against the black beast now it might even kill the bastard."

"Oh please, I bet I can still chew that thing like a chew toy" Everyone immediately turned to face Kanade who the voice was coming from.

"Oh you're awake" Kanade said in a cheerful voice.

"Yeah, seems being cut off from Azure is making me really weak" The beast said and then sighed. "But I must say this is an impressive collection of chew toys, when do I get to break them?" the black beast asked in an amused voice.

"I rather die than let you devour my hard work!" Kokonoe said as she angrily waved her fist.

"I'm joking, I'm joking" The beast said. "So what now? Surely you didn't bring us here just to show us these toys" the beast stated in a know it all tone, and he was right.

"I brought you here so we can prepare for operation Nightfall(Infiltration mission) and Operation BlackStorm(rescue Azure and storm Naobi Mission)." Kokonoe said.

"We seem more than ready for both those missions" Relius said as he looked around.

"I say we crush them now" Azrael stated.

"No you damn muscles for brains" Kirino said in an scolding tone. "Didn't you listen to what we planned yesterday.

"I stopped paying attention when you guys started going into details" everyone sweat dropped at Azrael antics and Kokonoe merely sighed.

"Operation Nightfall begins in a week and operation BlackStorm two months from now which means those in the infiltration mission will be spending two months fighting for the enemies" Kaidou said as he finished putting the final pieces of the missions in place.

"So what now?" asked Sayori.

"Now we train and arm ourselves" Jubei stated with a serious look. "War is upon us and we can't avoid it. Is either we fight and win or we die trying. Beyond this point there is no more turning back. If we were once enemies were now friends, if we were once friends we are family. There will be no differences between us. We have to stand united or we will fall. Now prepare for war or surrender and face your fate". He was right, and none of them were willing to step down and surrender to Kira and no matter what happened they sure as hell were not calling it quits. The board was now set and the pieces were now all aligned. All out war was inevitable and nothing could be done to avoid bloodshed. Although unbeknownst to them this war would go down in history as the first Dimensional War, now all that needed to be present was the story of what happened in the war and how it's story ended. The time for battle drew nearer and all were willing to lay down their lives for what they cared for.

AN: Phew that was a long chapter maybe not as long as the others but reasonably long. I hope you all enjoyed it and once again sorry for the very late update. When school starts or draws near I usually am really busy so I'm sorry if you guys had to wait. As I said before many times I really appreciate the support. I also left some hints of what might happen at the ending if you guys noticed. As said before in the beginning I'm just upping the rating to M because of swears. I don't think anything rated M will take place but hey better safe then sorry. Thanks for reading and see you guys next time :D!