This is a Claymore and Freezing Crossover Fanfiction Only, other franchises will be included.
In this strange world, people wanted to defend themselves from what they thought were interdimensional invaders, the strange thing is that the invasions happen even more frequently when Kazuya's biological grandmother first met his grandfather, she was in a sense an absolute beauty, to Gengo Aoi she was the most beautiful lady in the entire world, she was beautiful, smart and kind, then again Kazuya would not say anything to contradict that if asked because at heart she was still his grandmother.
Gengo Aoi kept company with this strange beauty for what seemed to be years and these two even eventually hooked up with another woman, the three of them eventually got married and had quite a few daughters, but the thing is, something was making their daughters' bodies have complications, medical conditions that Gengo had never even seen or heard about before.
The ironic part was that by doing research to try and heal their daughters and by trying to either prevent or stop these medical problems, Gengo Aoi developed the very first research on what later became known as the sword and shield of humanity. The Pandoras and The Limiters. It was during the pregnancy that would give birth to their only son that his wives finally decided to tell him something they were too embarrassed to tell their husband, something that made them feel like an absolute fool, something truly embarrassing.
It turns out that they were princesses from another dimension, they were something akin to travelers, they went from another dimension to another trying to learn everything they could about the dimension they visited, and hoping that this would help end the problems and hardships their people have been suffering for thousands of years. their worlds were much like Earth except that somehow the planets got pushed out of its orbit when a nearby world just imploded, the planet being absence caused her planet to take a closer orbit to the world that had imploded, and the climate changes were catastrophic.
The entire planet's temperature drops so significantly that they have to deal with heavy blizzards this means that when on Earth is summer, in their own world at the exact same time they were dealing with massive snow storms that caused snowfall that was seven feet deep per hour. "So we came here to resolve that issue, but apparently our eldest sister was not too keen on the idea, since they wanted to eliminate us as a potential rival for the thrones, you know those two groups of strange guys in the armor, they were troops our sisters sent to kill us, and you without even bothering to doubt us defended us, that had to be the moment when we first fell in love with you."
Gengo asked if they could talk to their sister and stop this invasion that was causing the deaths of so many innocent people. they told Gengo that they would love to, but those in high positions within their kingdom's military consider them traitors and their sister just wants to remain as Queens of their world, so they do not have any intention of even thinking of even thinking about peace, more than likely they wants to eliminate all humans and take over the world, compared to the way their worlds is, the earth was close to his definition of Paradise.
As far as they were concerned they were Maria and Erika and they loved their husband and children very much, so they were not going to do something stupid and let anyone take them away from them, they began to explain even higher forms of science and deeper understanding of Nova and yokai science and researcher which lead to something Gengo had not even considered the pinnacle according to the world was the so-called Pandora Mode, but in reality back in first wife dimension what they called Pandora Mode was just the initial stage when an actual officer of their military fought, it was not the pinnacle but rather the mere beginning. Everything before that point was no better than the basic training any warrior had to receive.
So while still pregnant with their son Ryuuichi Aoi they decided to finally be able to put all their Nova and yo-kai Scientific knowledge and managed to do something that even Gengo found amazing, most of the Pandora strength in Pandora mode came from the very emotions the young woman felt at the time, the more volatile the emotions the more power the mode would produce but the more chances of corruption of the spirit to take place.
So using their now mastery of their husband's language and what he had achieved in his research, they managed to infuse into the stigmata the ability to also use mental, physical, and ethereal energy as their power source not just emotional energy, which led to something that they called being someone higher than a Pandora, Gengo called it being a Claymore for some strange reason the word just came out of his mouth when they finished their explanation.
This had the added benefit that Limiters who otherwise would be defenseless, thanks to their being able to understand and communicate their ideas better in the human language, managed to change the entirety of the Limiters' abilities, and from that moment on they would still be in a support role, however, they gained two things that they would have not gotten if his wives had not decided to be more active in his research, the ability to form arms and armor was no longer only something Pandora could do, but it could also be done by limiters, their weapons, however, were sadly going to always be a form of long-range firearm, Gengo joked that they were support they needed weapons that they could use to fight from a distance.
The day Kazuya was born was also the day that their home was attacked, and seeing that her parents were about to be killed, their eldest granddaughter did something that they had not expected. she had listened to their discussion on their research, but they never expected her to go into Claymore Mode, out of fright and sheer desperation, she defeated S-Rank Nova by herself, her mother was injured, and thanks to her biology being different from others humans, her recovery would take longer so a healing capsule was used to help promote natural regeneration.
While in the capsule the person was essentially asleep, completely unconscious and their body fully devoted to healing or overcoming an illness. Kazuya being quite the curious person and taking after his mother's wanderlust, began to travel to nearby communities and met different people, they had no clue who he was, to them he was just another neighborhood kid, he would leave after his parents were done buying groceries or even paying some bills or so the people in this communities and towns thought, thanks to doing this he began friends with a boy his age name Raki, he lived with his mother and older brother, the mother was not as trusting as others, but after some time her family welcomed Kazuya as a good friend.
As time went by Kazuya and his friend reached the age when they would have to attend West Genetics, to receive training to be soldiers who protect humanity against the constant onslaught of the Nova threat. The fact is that all throughout their childhoods both Kazuya and Raki had been showing a level of understanding and motivation that would have made most soldiers green with envy.
They both trained diligently and often sparred with Kazuha and her limiter, in fact, Kazuya took it upon himself not to actually not hold back when he sparred against his sister's limiter, which earned her limiter a couple of black eyes when he first sparred with Kazuya thinking how much could kid be to him. They both lived in close proximity to each other and they did all the standardized mandatory education in the same school, so it was not so surprising that they would also get to go to West Academy together.
For some reason, Kazuya took the macabre joy of fighting and beating up her sister's limiter, Raki it looked like the guy just wanted to help his pandora worry less by making sure her brother could defend himself but Kazuya took this less of a learning experience and more of a challenge, and the fact that this person was the one that was regularly kissing his sister, and had slept with her several times, the entire notion of him actually sparring with him was a disaster waiting to happen. It did not help matters when his sister told him that she had to go and deal with a Nova invasion and not to worry, but Kazuya had been having some dreams that showed him that she would not make it back alive, memories of seeing his sister die.
He immediately without thinking about it too much placed a freezing field on the entire ground floor of their home, her limiter was shocked to see the extent and power behind the freezing field Kazuya had set in place and this was without any stigmata from anyone, or even any limiter training. If someone asked him what did he think of what Kazuya did in his moment of panic due to the very notion of him potentially losing his sister, if he was honest he would have said he found it more than a little freaky.
"Kazuya believe me, as a Pandora even more so as a Claymore, I carry the hopes and dreams of so many people on my shoulders every day, I have to go, little brother, because they are depending on me to keep those people who are having a hard time in that battle alive, relax Kazu I promise that I will do my best to come back alive. I am not going to fight alone, and me and my limiter will work together so you and other kids like you can make it."
It turns out the impact of that one battle was significant, they completely and utterly screwed the pooch when scouting that invasion, the reports, and the information on the debriefing before they landed on the area where at most they would face standard Nova foot soldiers, and one A class Nova at most. Kazuya came to learn that this was a massive underestimation of the actual threat the Nova units on the field were, the foot soldiers were more akin to Class B Novas, and the leader of that particular invasion was an S Class Nova.
Even after reading the report on that invasion over and over again, it didn't make matters easier, the fact remains quite a few people lost their lives, Kazuha's Limiter, a guy whom Kazuya knew as David died, he essentially jumped to save Kazuha from a sneak attack by one of the S-Class Nova tendrils. He was cut to pieces and seeing her lover cut to pieces must have released so much anger and rage that without even trying she entered into the Claymore mode in such a fashion none of the surviving Pandora or their limiters could even try to mention exactly what they saw.
By the end of the battle one of the Claymores had lost a hand, and the Kazuha had exerted herself to such a degree that she was in a coma until they figured something the reason why she was in a common, her body went into overdrive, and produced a vast number of Stigmata in her body, her body was trying to prevent itself from becoming more and more Nova and less human, so they had only one alternative, to remove all the Stigmata that grew in her body during that Nova Invasion.
The process was long and painful but after five hours of constant surgery, they removed all the Stigmata that had grown inside her body, in the end, most doctors even Gengo and the two women that his children called their mothers were shocked to see the number of Stigmata that had been removed, and knew this was the right decision as Kazuha was still alive, asleep but for some reason her vitals were normal.
The reason why Kazuha was so debilitated by the removal was because they had to remove over a thousand stigmata from her body, the grand total by the end was one thousand six hundred of them. Considering that they all came from a person who took down an S Class Nova by herself, well these stigmata would be considered to be quite valuable to create even more Pandora that are as skilled or even better than Kazuha.
Even in the current world being threatened to such an extent some traditional practices still were alive and well, those being greed and corruption in high-ranking officials, what Kazuha would want to be used to save lives and create Pandora to be the defender of the human race, was essentially an auction where these stigmata which came from the body of the hero of the lastest Nova Clash would be sold to the highest bidder.
Kazuya often was seen sparing with Raki and Raki had to endure his friend's constant teasing about when will he ever get himself a girlfriend, to which Raki was quick to mention that Kazuya was not doing any better in that department. "Hey, that is not fair, I met so few girls in this town, how am I supposed to find a girl to be my girlfriend. You know I live like this because Dad's research and Grandpa's fame don't make it easy to introduce myself to anyone, they will always compare me to him."
Raki looked at him and began to shake his head, "Hey, my situation is no better, my brother practically scares away any girl that even comes near our home, I know he tries to project strength but in reality, he only frightens any girl that sees him. I sometimes think my poor brother will be single for his entire life. It would take someone extremely brave to even consider coming with me back home, so I can introduce her to mom, much less my brother."
Kazuya blocked a punch before he admitted that their situation was not as easy as most, Raki joked that Kazuya had a much easier time of getting a girl if he only mentioned that he was the prince of a vast empire. Kazuya punched him hard in the stomach telling Raki that he was practically admitting that he was a member of the royal family of the very people that were attacking their world. "You don't have to take it so hard, I mean for crying out loud, if girls knew that by getting married to you they could even become princesses, you would become quite popular."
Kazuya told his friend to stop making fun of him otherwise, he would also end up with a harem of beautiful lovely ladies, and then he would have no reason at all for all the things he said. Raki told him that, unlike his friend, he was a child raised along with his big brother by their mother, alone, financially the differences between him and Kazuya were so deep and wide that if it was on land it would be an abyss. "Pretty young women are attracted by very few things, financial security, otherwise known as a lot of money, attractiveness, which again, in other words, means the guy is hot and their babies would be just as attractive, and the last one is political power since this would either improve the young woman's ability to do things, by using that political power, get away with things again using the same political power, or use that power to make a failing business into actual success.
Raki looked at his friend, and flat out told him that he did not have any of those three things, so no, he did not expect to find a single beautiful young lady that would find him to be an attractive prospect for marriage, "If I go to where your sister is, in that medical capsule, and I told her I wanted to marry her, even in a coma she would be against it. So trust me Kazuya if being attractive to the opposite gender is a lottery you won it without even having to try. Your grandfather is known as the father of all Pandoras, your father is the researcher who saved thousands of lives, who is my father, even when I asked my mom she wouldn't tell me."
Karl hit a tree hard enough with his practice blade that he cut it clean in half and it fell on the ground, "So let's drop this subject shall we, cause in case you don't understand I am not teasing you or making fun of you, I was however expressing my very appropriate fear that I will die single and that you will have some of the worlds most beautiful women basically beg to be your wives, and I hate how this makes me feel."
When Kazuya saw the cut on the tree he realized that in reality Raki was holding back much power during their many sparring matches, and for some reason Raki was not even aware of his own abilities and talents, to cut down a tree with a practice weapon, which essentially has no edge at all, was amazing to him. "How in the world did you learn to do that?" Raki asked Kazuya what the hell is he asking about until he saw Kazuya point at the tree.
"Oh that, my big brother taught me how to use a sword while growing up, used it to clear our house yard for years, what I just cut down a tree, I do that a few hundred times." That is when Kazuya's mother came out and saw that the tree that she wanted to remove was already cut down, hugging Kazuya for taking care of something she would have otherwise asked Kazuha to do if she was not still healing in the capsule.
"Actually Mom Raki was the one that cut down that old dead tree." She was amazed at that and said that this worked better then, as she called for him and Kazuya to come closer, "I had to tell you, boys, something but this makes things easier, you boys have been enrolled in West Genetics to become Limiters, I know that this means that you would have to go to fight the Nova, I know you Kazuya are looking forward to it, still obsessed with getting revenge for what happened to Kazuha, but I am certain you and Raki will do great there, who knows you might actually find true love there. I sure did."
As Raki heard her say that it was impossible why would he be admitted to that place, his family has nothing to do with the war against the Nova, so why would West Genetics admit him to attend that school of all places, the very fact he was invited to attend that school, it would mean that one of the Pandora students could try to pick him up as a limiter using all sorts of underhanded tactics. Everything from favors to using their charm and physical attractiveness to charm a potential Limiter, but that Pandora has to be from the second year, any Pandora third year or older would already have a limiter, in some cases, several.
Something about this did not smell right, it felt like he was walking into a trap, and unfortunately, she did ask if he wanted to attend West Genetics, instead, she said quite plainly he was going to attend and so was Kazuya.
From that moment on Kazuya's family asked a person who had retired from the special forces to train him to fight and to actually survive in war. He taught him more about hand-to-hand, how to use and maintain guns, and everything he knew, Raki also took part in the training however to him it was how to become stronger, and faster, and waste less stamina by not doing unnecessary movements when he fought. He saw both Raki and Kazuya improve so much that even though he would never express it, Kazuya's parents and Raki's mother knew that the man was secretly proud of his students.
As far as Raki's home life, his mother worked at a local clinic helping the local doctor keep everyone in the clinic safe, fed, and clean, she was beginning to train to be a nurse when they moved to the town where Kazuya family lived, and she was still taking night lessons to one day finally be certified as a professional nurse, her eldest boy Zaki was focused to become a doctor, his dream was that one day he would be able to help and treat one hundred patients by himself per day. Basically, he joked and said that he would one day be able to save one hundred lives and he would not feel one bit guilty of basically taking away customers from the local funeral parlor and coffin maker.
Raki had only one possession that his father left to him, a rusty old sword, this thing looked like such a piece of junk that even when a burglar broke into their home, he looked at their appliances and that sword, and the crook left seven hundred dollars on the kitchen table with a note apologizing for bothering them. That is right the burglar saw how Raki and his family members were living and felt sorry for them.
The mother of both brothers was quite proud of her boys, even if while growing up they were both teased relentlessly by their classmates, the big brother was named Zaki and the kid brother was named Raki, they mocked them that their mother had clearly not spent a hell of a lot of time coming up with names for them. Raki asked them why did they had to mock their mother for picking an easy name to remember, going as far as to tell them that some of their names were names that even their mothers would have a hard time pronouncing.
Zaki on the other hand took a much more direct approach when they mocked him about the same thing, he simply walked over to the idiot who made fun of their loving and supportive mother, and with a cold glare simply asked if he wanted to simply switch to a liquid diet from that moment on of his life. Meaning, he said it quite clearly if anyone dared to mock his mother Zaki would beat them so bad they would never be able to eat solid food again. Not kill but have them eat a liquid diet for the rest of their lives.
Surprisingly enough Raki was the sibling that was the most sociable and diplomatic, he would attempt to reason to deal with a problem situation, Zaki however preferred to use his fists to solve problems. One girl in Raki's class used to say that Raki and Zaki were like day and night, one would talk and reason his way out of trouble, and the other would beat the source of the trouble into submission, and wanted to grow up to be a doctor.
As they trained and went through more and more lessons, given the fact that Kazuya's father had taken it upon himself to educate and tutor both Kazuya and Raki, Zaki was offered the chance to study with him, but he simply said that Raki is the one that needs the help more than he does, so Zaki decided to simply ask to have access to their personal library and study on his own.
At long last after a few years, they were both ready to go to West Genetics, their parents decided to go and see them off as they boarded the train that would take them to the city where the school was. All three of the parents had even figured a way to keep in touch with both of their sons, so they could call on them if Kazuya and Raki were in any trouble at all. They basically bought them each a cellphone which was linked to their mother's phone bill.
This means that both mothers could actually tell where their son was, at any time, by simply checking the location on a map on their phone, this made both mothers worry a lot less, and they were happy they would be able to talk with their sons at least once in a while.
