The Dawn of the Saviors Arc

Life 01: Reborn

Lleu's POV

...I saw a two dreams. A dream where I was encouraging a young blonde swordsman who was fighting against six arm swordsman. He seemed like he was in trouble so I think I lent him a sword in possession. There were girls behind the blonde swordsman also didn't look happy so I encouraged them as well.

I didn't know why I encouraged people that I didn't recognized, but I did it because it felt right. The second dream I had many children were crying. When I asked them why, they told me they were crying because they were scared of the big monsters. That's why I told the children. That I would appear when they draw a circle and press the middle by saying [Zoom Zoom Iyaaan]

Just like the first time, I didn't know I aided those children, but I felt like it was right.

I'm now in the darkness again. The same darkness I encountered the ghost princess, the disappointed blonde man who I referred as my grandfather, and... him.

"Thank you." He's here again. The mysterious brown hair man appeared from behind. I turned around and saw him smiling at me sincerely. "You were able to help my love ones and brought hope to those children."

Love ones? You mean the blonde hair swordsman and those girls?

"You'll make a great successor to the Boosted Gear," The mysterious brown hair man turned around, heading towards the darkness. "Let's meet again in the future."

"Wait a minute!" I shouted as he faded away into the darkness. "Please I need answers! Who are you!? Where am I? What do you meant by successor? What are you giving me?"

"You'll know when the time comes..." the mysterious man said before fading into the dark.

Ise's POV

*Beep.. Beep... Beep... Beep...*

"Ha... ha... ha..."

Huh...? I hearing the sound of a cardiac monitor and the loud sound of my own breathing.

I slowly opened my eyes to see a blurry white image. My vision soon cleared up to see a white ceiling. I slowly move my head to the side to see the cardiac monitor and a IV drop that was right next to the bed I was lying IV drop was connected to my right arm. I noticed that I was wearing a green hospital gown rather than the my school clothes I wore for my mid-class promotion exam.

Wait if there is a cardiac monitor and IV drop near to the bed I'm resting on and I'm wearing a hospital gown, does it mean I'm in a hospital? No, that can't be right. I died from Samael's curse during my fight against Shalba in the fake dimension and got resurrected by this mysterious man called Solomon.

So how did I end up in the hospital then? I don't have any major injuries on my body, though I'm greatly exhausted. It must be from Samael's curse. My body must've been fighting against Samael's curse till I got medical aid. It must've been the reason why I need have to take the IV drop and being in a hospital.

There was the sound of footsteps approaching the room. I turned my head to see who exactly was coming inside the hospital room. When the visitor walked into the room, she became very shocked. I'm also very shocked to see the visitor myself. The visitor is none other than... Rias. She dropped vase filled of flowers the moment our eyes make contacts.

"Ise..."

"Rias..."

Rias sprinted and hop on top of my bed.

"Ouf...!" I exhaled some air as Rias landed on top of me.

"Oh Ise! Oh Ise! I'm so glad that you finally woke up!" Rias placed her head on my chest and her arms wrapped around my body.

"Woke... up...?" I asked, feeling a bit puzzled and light headed. I must be still exhausted. "I... finally woke up? Wait, so I didn't get resurrected then?"

Rias lifted her head and looked at me worriedly. "Ise, what are you talking about?"

"N-Nothing..." I lied, unsure if I want to talk to Rias about Lleu right now. Rias got off from me and I lifted my back up from the bed and removed the gas mask on my face. "S-So where... everyone else? Why am I in the hospital? Am I sick again?"

"Ise, don't you remember?" Rias asked, who was sitting next to me on the bed.

"Remember what?" I asked back.

"Don't you remember what happened after you left the fake dimension? You were injected with Samael's curse when you came back through the fake dimension with Ophis. We immediately took you to a hospital to get you treated."

-!? I didn't die from Samael's curse then? So this whole time I was dreaming? I never got resurrected by this Solomon fellow? I didn't die from Samael's curse and lost Ddraig and the Boosted Gear.

"...It was all a dream? Just a dream?" My eyes were getting watery as my body started to tremble. I'm starting to feel the relief out.

"Ise?" Rias called my name softly.

"Oh Rias!" I shoved my face into Rias's breast and wrapped my arms around her. "I'm so glad to be here in the hospital with you."

"Ara?" Rias expressed a bewildered demeanour due to my odd behaviour. "What's wrong Ise? Why are you crying?"

"I-I... I had a nightmare. A very terrible nightmare that you wouldn't believe." I told her in a husky voice, pulling my face away from Rias's chest and wiping the tears from my eyes. "I'm just glad it's all over."

"... Are you sure about it?"

I spotted sobbing after I head unfamiliar voice coming from Rias's mouth. I pulled my head back in shock. I cringed when I realized that the person in front of me was no longer Rias.

No... it was a young man. He had long, messy white hair with pale skin, that's more whiter than his hair. He looked at me straight in the eye with that his pupils were colored crimson red and his sclera were black. He was dressed in black suit. He looked completely lifeless like if he was some sort of corpse. It was like I'm looking straight at some ghost.

"Are you sure about that?" He repeated, leaving me confused. "Are you sure this nightmare is over?"

I wasn't sure how to respond to that. There a billion questions coming to my head, but only one came out of my mouth: "Who are you?"

"Haven't you figured it out yet?" he asked, letting out a suspicious wide grin on his face. "I'm none other than... you!"

Lleu's POV

"Hey! He's awaking up!"

"Wait? He wasn't dead?"

"No, he's still alive! Go get the pact leader!"

"On it!"

I slowly opened my eyes as I heard unfamiliar voices. Both my vision and hearing is still hazy. I felt my head was aching and body greatly fatigued. I couldn't tell what's happening, but when my vision finally got stabilized, the first thing I saw was white thick mist.

"Mist...?" I asked confusedly, unsure whether or not I'm not half awake or just delusional. I tried to get back up, but I felt great aching pain from behind as I lifted my back off the ground.

"Whoa, hey now." A young man approached me. He quickly put his hands on the shoulder, gently putting me back down on the ground. "You need to lay down now. You shouldn't be pushing yourself now."

I was able to see a good look at him within the mist. He looked around his early twenties with short red hair with a red headband around his forehead. His facial features include a thin chin strip, thin eyebrows, a sharp nose, and a pair of gentle eyes. He was dressed red robes and black armor, resembling just like a samurai. He even had a katana wrapped around his waste.

"Drink this." The redhead samurai put his hand into his robe and grabbed out a flask out. He removed the top and put a hand under my neck to carefully lift my head. He slowly put the tip of the flask into my mouth, slowly pouring whatever liquid the flask contained into my mouth.

I wasn't sure what exactly I was drinking, but it tasted very sweet and warm. It was like I was drinking a warm cup of the most sweetest cup of honey.

Before I realize it, I felt something odd happened to my body as the samurai stopped during the liquid into my mouth. I no longer felt the pain or fatigue within my body. Soon enough I regain strength to able to move again.

"So how do you feel?" The samurai asked after I was able to stand on my two feet.

"I'm alright." I felt a bit wobbly as I stood. I felt that I was going to collapsed or something for second there till I was able to recompose myself. I looked at the redhead samurai with a smile. "I got to thank you for giving whatever was in that drink."

"Oh? You mean this elixir?" The samurai shook the flask in his hands. I was able to hear some of the remaining elixir in the bag. "Yeah this stuff is pretty great. It was made by our greatest mage over there."

The samurai pointed his finger directed towards a huge herd of young people within our age group. They were all wearing cloaks covering their bodies. The one who the samurai pointed to was a girl. The reason why I knew that was because I can see the lovely shaped breast underneath her cloak.

"Oy! Where are you staring at?" The samurai quickly whacked me from the back of my head after noticing that I've been staring that the mage's breast longer than I supposed.

"Ah sorry," I apologized, unaware that I was staring at her chest. I don't know why, but I have a odd feeling that want to see those lovely breast to be exposed or something like that. Odd, I know have any memories of my past self, but I'm sure that I don't have a breast fetish. Do I?

"Hey I know this may seem odd to ask, but do per chance have any memories of yourself?" The samurai brought up all of the all sudden, causing to raise a brow in curiosity. "Like you still have memories of your childhood? Or remember anything that happened yesterday? or anything?"

"To be honest..." I thought back to things I could remember about myself. The only things I could remember were the dreams I recently just have, the ghost princess, the young blonde man who I referred as my grandfather, and... that mysterious young man. Before I can say anything, I, no, everyone sensed something disturbing within the mist as the atmosphere became dense and menacing.

"What was that?" I quickly asked.

One of the cloak people approached me with great haste. He took off his hood, revealing his face. He had the face of a young, handsome Chinese man. He had long black hair which parts of his bangs covered his right eye.

"Greetings," he said, giving me a small bow. "My name is Sousou, the pack leader of the this guild."

Ise's POV

"Bah... Bah..."

I heard the sweat sounds like some sort of lamb.

"Bah... Bah..."

The lamb's voice is getting louder. It started to hurt my ears.

"Bah... Bah..."

Oh god! It's so loud! It's like the lamb is right next to me.

"Eh?" I opened my eyes to the sight of stalactite in my sight. After seeing them, the first thing that came in my mind was wondering did I end up in some sort of cave?

"Bah!" I turned my head to see a real white lamb staring down at me. "Bah!" It soon turned around and run off towards the other direction, directly straight towards a dark path.

I slowly rose up from the ground. My body was wobbly as I stood, like it was the very first time I stand on my own two feet. I felt like I was going to lose my balance I walked, but soon regain my composure. I'm still greatly fatigued, but at least I'm able to walk steadily.

"Now then... Where did that lamb go?" I began walking towards the dark corridor where the lamb walking into, hoping to see it would lead me somewhere to find answers. I end up using the wall of the cave as support to continue to walk forward.

"Ha... ha..." I began to pant heavily. I was walking down the same tunnel like trail where the lamb, but after walking a mile, my began to give. I must still be injured from experiencing Samael's curse.

Wait a minute! That's right. I began walking aimlessly to find answers, unaware that I just poisoned by Samael's curse. I silently cursed to myself as I leaned back to the to the side of the cave's wall.

"Come forth... Boosted Gear!" I tried summoning out my Boosted Gear, but it was a no go. The Boosted Gear didn't show up at all.

"It's pointless." I turned my head in the direction of the elderly voice was coming from. "All the powers you once possessed in the past are gone." The voice sounded very familiar to me, like I heard it somewhere before. "It's shocking isn't it? But yet your don't appear as shock as you supposed to be." The voice got louder as I heard foot steps coming my way. Soon I saw a silhouette of a man heading my way.

"Why should I?" I asked, sounding like I already knew the answer along. "I died from Samael's curse, right? A weakling like myself couldn't survive it on my own. Since I'm technically dead, Ddraig should gone to his next host right? But something is completely off. I somehow alive right? And you have something to do with it, right?"

"Correct," said the man shaped silhouette, slowly walking out from the darkness where I can get a good look at him. Who appeared from the darkness was an old man who is extremely worn and emaciated, all dressed in a fancy purple outfit with fancy golden designs. "Greetings again Issei Hyoudou. You may have forgotten my name, so allow me to introduce myself. My name is Solomon, a king who's name is recorded in the bible."

Lleu's POV

I quickly joined the guild the moment after everyone felt that unearthly presence. The guild leader, Sousou, gave me a matching cloak that everybody was wearing before the guild continued to walk forward in the maze known as the labyrinth. After soon the guild departed, no one spoke a single word to another. It was probably to prevent whatever is out there to hear us from where we were standing. But I found it useless since it could probably hear the sound of footsteps from a far away distance.

As I was in deep thought of why silence everyone is in, I accidentally bump into the back of someone else.

"Hey. watch it." The person in front of me, who was an inhumanly large young man with a large upper body and fat in his lower body, whispered with a venomous tone. The person in front of me didn't turn around, but he was emitting a threatening aura that caused me to tremble.

"S-Sorry," I stuttered with my hands up to my face.

"Silent, both of you." Sousou, who's leading the guide up in the front, silenced the two of us. Dang, Sousou has great ears to hear the two of us from all the way from the back.

I stood at the tips of my toe to see over the crowd to look what exactly is Sousou doing, but I couldn't see anything at all due to the fog getting in the way. The samurai from before approached when saw me trying to over everyone's shoulder.

"You're curious of what our leader is doing right?" He whispered into my ear. I responded back with a nod. The samurai grabbed my arm and took me up to the front of the crowd. I looked at him, who slowly moved his lips without saying anything. He was trying to say "Look" while pointing straight his finger straight where Sousou was at.

I turned my eyes in the direction where the samurai pointed his finger and gasped in shock. I covered my mouth, trying my best to prevent myself from vomiting. As I hold whatever food I left inside my stomach, I looked back at the scene that my eyes are witnessing.

What my eyes were seeing was homicide incident that happened at a dead end of the maze. There a multiple bloody corpse in the path in front of us, where most of them were amputated and disembowel. Suosou and few of the cloak member appeared to be investigating the scene. Souosou turned his head and saw me. When he saw me, he gestured his hand to make me come closer. I decided to obliged his command and go to him.

"You're curious, right?" He asked, looking back at the rotting corpses. "Curious of who were those people and how did they got killed. And probably wonder how they got in this labyrinth in the first place. Trust me, everyone wants to know that answer too. They want to know who they themselves are before coming here, and I know that everyone is here anxious to get out of here."

Suosou took a quick pause before he continued to speak.

"But why don't they? Why can't they escape? What do you think the purpose why no one can leave this wrenched place?" I shrugged and Sousou continued. "It's because they can't over come it. They can't over come the obstacles that were present in front of them."

"Was it the presence that we felt earlier?" I asked.

"Afraid so," Sousou said with a force smile. "These poor souls met their demise to the wicked creature that realms this place. It appeared that they tried to flee from this creature, but ran at a dead end."

"Do you think they could've escape if they didn't encounter it?" I asked.

Sousou shook his head to the side. "They couldn't. Even if they were able to avoid the beast, they couldn't escape this wrenched hellhole by foot."

"Why not?" I asked. "Why couldn't they escape?"

"It's because there isn't an exit to this maze." Sousou widen his grin, causing it to look a bit villainous as the atmosphere around us become more dense. "But that doesn't mean that is a way out of here. Tell me Lleu, do you want to know how all of us can get out of here?"

Every muscle in my body became tense as Sousou said my name. I felt like I couldn't breath at all when Sousou called out my name. How does he know my name? I didn't say it to no one the moment I woke up here.

Though I'm freak out that this man knows my name, I decided to answer back with a small nod. "O-Of course. I still want to know how we can get everyone here out of his maze."

"Well the answer is simple," Sousou as his smile turned back to normal, which still more freaky than his villainous smile. "In order for us to escape, we need to kill the beast that reside this maze."

Character's description:

Lleu-Wave from Akame ga Kiru

Ghost Princess- Princess Charolette Hazelink from Princess Lover

Young man who appeared to LLeu's apparent grandfather- Char Anzable (The Char's Counter Attack Appearance)

Samurai-Klein from Sword Art Online

Old Solomon- Old aged Madara from Naruto.

I originally was going to show the character descriptions in the first chapter, but I forgot to. Sorry about that :P.

Well sorry it took so long to update this. I first got writers block, then I had community college to worried about, then work. Plus I've been playing to many games on my 3DS, so I've been very busy. Plus I was seeing a bunch of anime and manga like any good Otaku would do, so forgive me.

I'll try to update this story a lot faster than I can as one of my New Year's resolution. Also I'm looking for a new Beta (I think my old one forgot about me, hehe...) since I didn't prove read this, so if anyone interested, just PM me. Now to the next chapter preview:

Lleu and Suosou's guild must kill the beast that reside within the maze in order to escape. But that's easier said than done when no one in the guide have actually fighting experience in the first place. While at the same time, Issei will get answers from Solomon about his sudden resurrection and learns a shocking truth why he is resurrected in the first place.

New time in Awakening of the Red Saviors: Life 02: Matter of the Fact

Lleu: If none of us take action now, then how the hell are going to get out of here!?