Alice Naida's Story

Aarynn Fletcher took a long deep breath as he stopped walking and viewed the beautiful, summery vista of island city of Elysia. Behind the red haired bachelor stood a huge blue, white, and golden building--Valhalla Union University.

Today had been the last day of the second term and students were just beginning to step out of the their classrooms. At first, only one paper flew into the air. Then, another one followed. And another. And another. By the time the sixth paper was made airborne, they weren't single sheets anymore. Papers filled the air; chemistry equations, literature essays, neuroscience notes, all sorts of papers flew in all directions covering the ground with white--almost like Christmas.

Aarynn grinned. Freedom! School was finally out--one load of stress out of the way. The fellow decided to let out his joy. "Woooooohoooooooo!"

Someone clapped his back. "Two and a half months of Elysium, huh?" It was Jinkuro Hakame, one of Aarynn's college-buddies. His spiked back jet-black hair glistened in the summer daylight and, with Jinkuro being a good half-a-foot shorter than Aarynn, the glisten was nearly blinding.

"Yeah-ha!" Aarynn laughed as he pumped his fist through the air. "Elysium... And YggOn!" He smirked at his friend, "You going to be there?"

At this, Jinkuro laughed cheerily as well. "Totally!"

"Wonderful! I'll make sure the others are coming as well."

"Alright." The Asian bachelor shifted in another direction and raised his hand, waving. "I'll see you online, then!"

Aarynn nodded, smiling. Presently, he had made it to the farthest boundary of the school--the northern gate--and decided to make sure he had everything with him and take one last look at the University before stepping out for a good three months. Just as he turned to reach into his bag, he felt himself walk into something. Something warm. It was someone. Aarynn quickly looked up to apologize... and quickly found his voice very dry.

It was Alice, his childhood friend--a girl that he had tried to have a relationship with but failed a few months ago. Today, she was dressed fairly nicely in a soft, light colored yellow shirt and a pair of skinny jeans.

"Ooh. Hey Alice," he managed to say, albeit, a little weakly. Immediately, Aarynn felt like slapping himself--how did he always manage to say such lame things to girls? Especially to Alice.

The chocolate haired girl seemed to study him for a moment with her ocean blue eyes. Then, she said, "Hey," before stepping to the left to avoid the red-haired bachelor and passing by him.

"Alice."

The girl paused.

"I've already told you that I'm sorry. And I mean it!" Aarynn's voice seemed a little desperate. He added, wistfully, "Won't you forgive me?"

The girl took a breath and shifted. Then, she had a change in mind and walked off without a word.

Aarynn's heart dropped. He sighed. "Guess I'll see you around too..." Time to head back to the abode.

---

Alice Naida had quickly fled the scene. She felt really bad about it. She had wanted to talk to Aarynn; he had sounded so... so remorseful and he had apologized so many times now that he had to have meant it. But, this was for the best. Things didn't work out between them, it simply couldn't. Now, it was best to move on. But, a soft voice in the back of her head whispered, I don't want to move on. It was true. Despite every logical atom of her entity telling her that there was nothing for her with Aarynn, Alice couldn't help but want to be together with him. She still had feelings for him and didn't help that maybe, just maybe, he still had feelings for her too. That's why she had to rush off so quickly, too prevent her from doing something stupid.

In any case, she needed to get back to her Neuroscience class. Earlier today, she had left her purse in the room. Nothing extremely essential was in the bag, but her favorite bookmark was part of the contents--she didn't want to spend three months without that.

As the chocolate-haired girl bounced up the stairs leading to the science wing of the building, she thought about how she was going to spend the rest of the day. After getting home, Alice would probably take a short nap and, after that, she would probably plop herself on her couch and settle into a good novel. Then, YggOn sounded good. Yup. That would be the plan.

(Alright! People start posting!)

---

In the hall of the main guild building, where countless of guild members gathered and chatted. That once spacious room is now filled with the lines and rows of members in armors and cloths. The tables were all moved to the sides, stacked up to the roof. The windows on top shone back down on the room, and more specifically the leader on stage, Yastin Cason, in his battle suit. The noises that filled the room immediately crumbled as Yastin raised his hand, palm facing them. "So now we are about to go into the battle of Cranium and Tekyou, so right after this, I will have two of my most trustworthy soldiers to brief you on the objectives." He fixed his breath and inhaled a whole lot, before finally yelling, "Let's do this, soldiers!" The soldiers all cheered and two men started to separate the whole group into two. One at the front of the stage, one at the back. Soldiers from the entrance also started to pour in, seeing as they are the Bio Walls members that decided to join main attack force, and the ones at the back started marching they way out towards Norais.

---

---

In the biggest research lab at Norais, all the members gathered up in lines and sat in their chairs placed out for them. It was lined up by a long column of 8 and a row of more than 12. One by one, the members sat on every one of them, chatting with their friend members and couples or whatnot. Margaret came towards the stage first, and adjusted the microphone on it. Later, she took a step to the side, and behind, from the stairs, was Astru Rendos, in his seemingly battledsuit. The voices all stopped and looked at the commander in stage. He patted the microphone, as he saw more armored men coming in from the entrance. They all took the chairs themselves and all their focused eyes locked onto the commander. With the raise of his voice, the silence broke.

"So now, we gathered here for the briefing of the upcoming invasion from those magician bastards, and their target is Tekyou, the frontline base of our guild." As he yelled, a giant screen reflected onto the gigantic wall behind him. The points are all being pointed out as he announced. "This is the five points's location, and each of you members will spread out and guard each of of them." He announced, as five points, including the main one, appeared into these points. Two points were centered at a building that can be only entered from the third building from the top most left, one point was set in the intersection of the middle street, one point had itself stationed on the top most tower in the South, and the main command point, was somehow hidden from the screen, giving out an unknown name. "I will send Margaret to retrive the members involved in guarding the main point, so everyone can go on and separate yourself into the groups of defending the points. There is no need on briefing to the sub points." With that, Astru ended his speech and walked off.

---

Defending force

---

As Margaret gathers the few soldiers appointed to guard the main command point, some, or two, were familiar faces. "So, the leader chose Yui and Naida." She smirked and turned her gaze back towards the paper on her hand. She passed it to the other few, namely only Yui, Naida, Jason, Ken, Ren, Jin, Ho and Darren. They were the few top best in both Helios and Bios, and now they had chosen to defend Tekyou. The papers they received, was the perspective roles of each member. "I have laid out the roles for each of you. These are the ones that suit you the best in this defense mission, so please." She placed her hands on her head, her other free arm supporting it. "Don't get into fights and lose the main point." As she said that, Jason and Jin knocked their heads together, eyes signaling that they don't like each other. Ken and Ren followed, but they sat back at the chairs while staring at each other with disgusts. Ho and Darren are particularly the peacemaker of these two group. They are both good friends, and they hung out a lot together. "Please don't fight." Darren begged. "Yeah, please. Don't make this mission a fail." Ho tried to convince them. Yui and Naida both sat alone in their seats, eyes locking onto the sheet they held. "I'm the sniper, eh?" She mumbled under her breath. She turned to Naida, curious to see what she ended up in.

---

Attacking Force

---

Once the decided members lined up and the Bio Walls members following, the man in front clapped his hand. A floating screen appeared out of the device he pulled out from his pocket and placed it on the ground. There, a picture of a city surround by gigantic cannon-like objects. Those were the pulse cannons, lined up in a circular formation and surround the city. The picture was captured by a camera from above, disguised as birds. Cranium city was famous for their 360 pulse cannons, and the fact that it was once the city of Helios made them more agitated. "As you can see, they will be guarding this city, and in a 360 degree, the will spread in an organized form." He circled around the walls of the city. Suddenly, small red spots started appearing in a form that is very organized, as if planned by a very smart leader. It all stood both in front and inside of the city, and a particular circle stood in front of the many small red spots on the entrance. A pointer, with a name that was on top of the line, was shown. The name, 'Black Swordsman'. "As you can see, the Black Swordsman will be there, at the battlefield entrance." And as he announced that fact, the members started to hesitate. They were all talking about how they would go to the defense force but the man in front stopped them. "Wait." He changed the screen into a picture of an underground system.

It lined in a big entrance, with rocky textures and steel posts supporting the hole and a big blue device was edited into the middle end of it. This is the underground system of Cranium. It was known to have the biggest size compared to other underground systems, and it had only one gigantic entrance. "This is the underground path of Cranium. It was a picture we took back then when took over the city. Can't believe it was actually used for this purpose." He smirked, and shook his head. "Anyway, back to briefing." he said, as the picture returned back to the bird's eye view of the whole city. "The underground one is the main command point for the Cranium, as everyone knows. The five sub points are the North building, by the lab. The South building, the store near the entrance. The West building, at the fifth floor of the hotel. The East building, the public pool. The final one is at the top floor of this tower. The heart of the city, the bird's eye view and the building on top of the main command point." He pointed at the long tower overlooking the whole city. "This tower is the main command center, meaning most members will be here, so we'll have to concentrate part of our forces to here." He said, and then he closed the screen.

"Your job." He said seriously. "To conquer all these points with the logo data uploaded to your Visor drives. So just wirelessly connect the point with your Visor, and have it do the rest. That's it. Now, march onwards to victory, soldiers!" He added, as the members inside started to pour back outside and grabbed their weapons.

---

Timeskip to battle (Please do reply to the ones in the attacking force and defending force)

---

Right outside the city of Cranium, outposts and camps were built. Soldiers ran around, screaming orders and commanders giving out commands. There, Yastin stood alone in the middle of the camp. Soldiers all came to and ran from him, shooting questions at him and replying like machine guns, until a moment after, his two best friend, Rensus and Astron, came. They patted him on the shoulder and helped answering questions the soldiers asked. Moments after it stopped. Yastin led them both to his tent, and had them sat side by sides with him. "So, when are we gonna attack?" Rensus raised the first question. "Anytime now. After the preparation is done, we can start anytime, without an order." Astron replied, breaking off Yastin's wanting to reply. Yastin quickly strangled his neck and told him not to interrupt his answers. He stopped and stepped back into his chair. "That's basically it, Rensus. Now, you two are gonna charge into battle like idiots." Yastin quickly laughed at his joke, slamming his palms on the table beside. Rensus and Astron both looked at him sarcastically. While he was laughing, they plotted something and went back to normal. Suddenly, a soldier came rushing in. He saluted before stating his business. "Sir Yastin , sir Rensus and sir Astron! We have already finished the preparation, now we just need someone to start the battle." The trio nodded, and the soldier ran off outside, followed by the constant yelling of the captains. Yastin took the glove beside him and wore it, and Rensus pulled out his gigantic pulse machine gun. Astron was the first to step outside, and the soldier was all in rows and lines, already prepared for the upcoming battle. The trio step in front of the all, and with the yell of a single command, they all charged.

"Let's go!"

---

The thousands of soldiers all spread outside the city, and they surrounded it. They all stood in ordered lines and the commanders are still screaming to the top of their throats even at here. Typically, the ones guarding the main point were all already brief on their needs, and is now on their guarding point. Ken, Ren, Jason and Jin are still on their normal behaviors; fighting each other while still restricting themselves from destroying the building and Darren and Ho is still playing the peacemakers. Yui and Naida, on the other hand, stayed at their positions without giving a care to the fight. Yui took up her sniper and polished it with her cloth, and the same went for her other weapons. She mumbled something under her breath, before placing her sniper rifle to the window beside her. She toyed around with her sniper, trying to check whether it's functioning properly, and when she stopped and yelled something, the others all quickly went into battle stations. Darren picked up his pulse saber, Ho pulled out a pulse bow and arrow, Ken and Ren both held the same pulse launcher and Jason and Jin each took double pistols. Yui quickly clicked a button beside her sniper, and yells started. She told the others something that made them pulled they guards up;

"There they come."

---

---

The muscle-head leader of the guild, Lendon Alstairs, drank his beer as he waited for more and more members to pour into the big room. Fortunately, Galuna Inn had provided a room spacious enough to hold that many magicians in one city. But, the offside is, the room was darker, plus with all the people breathing the same air as each other, they might feel uncomfortable or even trapped. Luckily, ice magicians were here too 'cool' the place down. With a giant clap of the muscled leader, the noise that echo throughout the room immediately died, and all stares were switched to Lendon. He sat back down on the chair behind him, and his short speech started. "So, now we are here, to gather for the invasion of those dumb Scientific and get back our once rightful city, Tekyou Hanamon." He stood back up and grabbed a beer that someone brought him. "So now, let's fight back, and give them our best!" He thrust the beer towards them. "This is Wings of Vengeance, and they will learn not to mess with guild!" The magicians all cheered, and someone took over Lendon's speech, leaving Lendon no choice but to sit in one corner and continue drinking.

---

---

In that similar hall where the conference was held, hundreds of guild members gathered, and only few came in from the entrance. Fiona sat atop a table to make her feel higher, and when the last member to walk out the hall, she broke the silence in the air with her cute petite voice. "Hello, everyone. This is Fiona Lenon, your guild master of Dark Radiance, and a perspective light user." She said, but the silence only came flowing back into the hall. "Alright, so we'll be having a briefing on the defending of Cranium, and honestly, the Scientific assholes have no idea who they're up against with. This briefing was only created just so I can guide you to defend which point and where are them, but honestly, I don't care." Small laughter of the members filled the air, and Fiona continued. "You can all just separate yourselves and guard one point, not that I care, but Takuya over here, is gonna do the front lines." She pointed to the swordsman sleeping in his seat. "Don't bother waking him up. He's just too relaxed for the upcoming battle." She said, more laughter filled the air. "Okay, okay, let's stop it. Now, all I want you all to do, is to guard the places with your lives. I'm not gonna separate you into groups or whatnot, but the most important we need is teamwork!" She yelled, and the cheers of the magicians all followed, filling the room with screams and whistles. The members all started to march out the room and chatted all their way towards Cranium.

---

Attacking Force

---

The man stood above the stage, and blabbered out commands on the magicians. His speech was rather short, and it was boring as well. "Now, we're about to attack Teyou Hanamon, and we're not about to stop now." He said. Some of the magicians were already asleep, and some were on the verge of charging outside. But the resisted it. It was hard, but they resisted it, to respect the magician on the stage. "We're just gonna charge our way towards the city and we will show them no mercy!" That last part actually motivated the members, as they all cheered loudly. The marched their way outside, but a bang was heard when they did. The boring magician who made the speech just now was send flying to the wall by Lendon, accused for being boring, and the members all laughed, seeing that Lendon has a habit of doing that. He quickly rushed his way to the front of the marching magicians, and led his way towards Tekyou Hanamon.

---

Timeskip to battle (Please do reply to the ones in the attacking force and defending force)

---

The magicians all marched their ways towards their target city, and it wasn't long 'till they finally saw a tall tower in sight. They all chatted, making jokes, some with serious faces, some with worrying eyes, but nonetheless, the leader's bashful attitude had them all relaxed as his power is not something to underestimate, even to the ones at the Scientific side. The soldiers that stood in the walls all quickly noticed their presence and they all lifted their weapons up, pointing at the marching group. With the magic of the one caster, the battle was officially started, and it will quickly turn into a slaughter of these two sides and a huge blast of fireball was the trigger.

---

A lone black swordsman stood in front of the other magicians, all tailing behind him, as he took a yawn. He stretched his arms and and sat back down on the ground. He commanded for the magicians to relax, which they did not, and instead they walked a few steps further towards the battlefield. A man came and stood beside him, lending him a hand to stand up. Takuya accepted it, and brushed off the dirt on his pants. "So, you're really gonna lead the battle? I thought you don't care about these?" The man asked. His voice was not all that matured, but it was a 100% sure that it was someone the same age as Takuya. He was in a full body armor, with the helmet covering his face, a cape with his guild's logo on it, and a blade at his left waist. He pulled his helmet up, and to Takuya's surprise, it was Cason, his school friend who'd often walk him to school and back to home from school. Takuya quickly patted Cason's armored shoulder, and a 'clank' was heard. "Yo! You were here? I thought you had a family outing to Teison? Are you back?" He asked, a smile forming on his face. Cason replied with a nervous smile and pretended to scratch the back of his head. "Well, a lot happened, but I'm back! So now le-" His greeting was quickly interrupted, as the cheers from the opposing side was heard, and firstly, a pulse bullet was shot, commencing the battle. "No time to talk! Let's end this battle quickly and have lunch at McD!" Cason yelled, as he shoved Takuya first into battle. He staggered for a bit, but quickly gained his balance after. He pulled out his blade, and signaled for the battle to start; with a huge wave created from a slice created by his blade.

"Let's go, everyone!"