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(Melon)

AN: Before reading, I want to warn you guys to have knowledge of the Muv Luv Alternative universe to know its history.

(Melon)

Prologue 2: The forest from another world

Third person POV:

Theodore sat on the table while staring at his Sengoku driver and Melon lockseed. It has been five days since that fateful night; he felt a sense of normality after they reached the Berlin wall and smuggled themselves to West Germany. Thanks to his father's connection and statues, they were given asylum without question.

Everything has been provided for them. It was like they never left their home back in East Germany. In a way they were now living a peaceful life. Although when the military questioned them about their escape, they kept them in the dark about his powers. Even if they did tell, who would believe them? A stranger appeared who somehow froze time and gave Theodore a belt that could create a fruit themed super powered armor coming down from some strange portal. Even Theodore's parents would not believe him if they didn't see it for themselves. As for Lise, see saw her brother as some short of hero. Like the heroes from fairy tales she used to read.

Theodore smiled remembering his sister's smile and joyful expression. He wanted to protect her smile at all cost. He stopped his reminiscing and stood up and grabbed both the Sengoku driver and lockseed, placing both in his pocket. Leaving the room, he went down the stare and saw Lise near the front door, who was dressed rather warmly. "Are you going out Lise?"

Lise jerked a bit when she suddenly heard her brother's voice. "Ah onii-chan, you were awake?" she asked in a surprised tone. "Yah… I was just fiddling with the driver." He then looked over at the clock and saw two hours had passed since he woke up and studied the Sengoku driver. "I didn't realize two hours passed. Were you heading too?"

His sister smiled and showed him the bag she was holding. "I was about to buy ingredients for lunch and dinner. Since mom and dad won't be home for a few days. So we'll have to make dinner ourselves." Theodore did recall his dad mentioning they would be gone. He was too engrossed on the belt; that he didn't listen on what he said. "He did say something about that. But Lise, you should have told me you were going out. It's still too dangerous to go alone." Even if they made it out of East Germany, there still the possibility of Stasi spies here. Even when he scared the shit out of Heinze, there is still a chance the Stasi would target them, especially Theodore, with his new power and all.

Still Lise gave him a cheerful smile, showing him that she wasn't afraid. "I'm not scared onii-chan." Theodore raised a brow at her answer. "Because I know you'll protect me." That caused him to blush. Her belief in him made him feel strange. It wasn't a bad feeling, it felt nice to him. He looked at his side, avoiding his sister gaze while scratching his cheek. "I will… always."

The last part that Theodore said made Lise blush and caused her heart to pound a bit. She was now staring at the ground, trying to avoid looking at her brother. "Why is my heart… but his my brother!" she franticly thought.

Theodore then noticed her sister's strange action and grew worried. "Are you okay Lise?" Lise jerked up was brought out from her thoughts when she heard Theodor's voice. Her blush grew a few shads deeper and was a bit in a panic. "Ah, no it's nothing! We better get going Onii-chan." She said trying to steer the situation in to another subject.

Theodore looked at her oddly, but didn't pay it too much mind. He grabbed his coat from the rack and quickly put it on. He then opened the front door and saw the snow covered street. He stretches out his hand towards his sister. She started at for a second, but then grabs his hand and smiled at him.

Theodore then closed and locked the door and started to walk with his sister hand and hand to start their normal day. Yet unknown to them it was anything BUT normal.

(Melon)

Third Person POV:

Sagara was currently standing over on a cliff on Kashgar. He was staring at a large chiseled, rocky stricture that was clearly not naturally made. In fact this structure was the very first BETA hive that was constructed on earth, the Original Hive.

He was staring at it with an unreadable expression and he looked down on the base of the structure and saw thousands upon thousands of BETA that were either digging or maintaining the Hive itself.

The most common BETA in sight was large, red spider like in appearance. With human like arms, a large human mouth with its teeth clearly seen and a grotesque formed head with multiple mushroom shaped antennas. This particular kind of BETA the humans called TANK class.

The next kind of BETA was scorpion like. It had large green pinchers and stump like legs with a large human shaped head with teeth bared sprouted on its back. This particular strain is called the GRAPPLER class.

The next BETA was standing erect. Its leg supported a hump like body and large slug like eyes. This BETA strain is one of most feared by the humans, the LASER class.

The last of the visible BETA strain is by far the largest, it toward with pointed legs, an insect like body and ends with a human like head. This is the FORT class BETA.

Sagara looked at them in disgust, something very rare for the will of Helheim to do. He wanted nothing more but to open a large crack and send countless of Inves to slaughter these foul creatures, but he wouldn't. He hated to admit it; the BETA could help the people of this world to evolve further along with Helheim invasion. Even if it was only a small nudge. They were unimportant in the grander scale of things. After all, he already knew what the BETA were and WHO had made them.

His eyes then widened when he felt someone entered the forest. He smiled, thankful for something interesting happened today. "Well, took him long enough." He then summoned something on his hand. In a flash of rainbow light a lockseed appeared on his hand.

The Lockseed in his hand was unlike the ordinary lockseed. The entire lock was white in color, instead of the normal silver and the shaft was golden, contrast to the normal black. The major difference is that the image it bares was not a fruit or a nut. Instead it showed an image of some type of flower, a cherry blossom flower. "I'll give this too him when he has enough taste of the forest. I'll let him enjoy himself for now." he laughed with amusement, thinking what Theodore's reaction with his encounter with the forest.

(MELON)

Back with Theodore and Lise, the two were shopping at the local food mart. Lise was happily picking ingredients for the dish Eintopf, which is a traditional German dish basically consisting ofbroth, some vegetables, potatoes or pulses and then some meat (commonly pork, beef or chicken) or sometimes fish.

Theodore was content watching his sister, but kept a vigilant eye with his surroundings. He was still paranoid with the chance a Stasi spy would sneak in the Berlin wall and hunt them down. For that reason he was clutching the Sengoku driver in his pocket, ready to transform at any moment.

Lise noticed her brother's paranoid state. She puffed her cheeks in annoyance and did something to get his attention. "Ouch! Stop pinching me Lise!" Lise pinch Theodore's arm and had brought him out of his thoughts. She was still pouting when she berated him.

"Onii-chan, I said to stop with that habit of yours!" she said while Theodore rubbed the pinched spot. "Lise, I was just-." He was interrupted when Lise pointed her finger at him. "No! I don't want to hear it. I just want to spend a normal day with you onii-chan. We're rarely alone together so I want to make the most of it!"

Theodore sighed at her silly request yet smiled at it. "Okay, okay, I'll stop with my paranoia. I really spoil you too much." He said while smiling. His sister gave a triumphant smirk. "Right, now we better finish up shopping. It's almost lunch time and we still have to cook." She then went ahead. Theodore just shook his head and followed his sister and make sure she doesn't trip or bump in to someone by accident.

After they finished their shopping the two were now heading home. Theodore looked up in the sky and quietly looked at the falling snow. It was a calming and peaceful to see and made it look like the world was at peace and not in war with the BETA. It was strange to him. People at this very moment were dying a hopeless battle. "Even with this power, I have no idea what to do." He thought. Lise noticed the far off look he had and grew worried for him.

"Onii-chan what's the matter" Theodore looked at her and saw the worried looked she was giving him. He didn't want to make her worry, so he pushed back his thoughts and gave her a gentle smile. "It's nothing Lise. I was just thinking about some stuff." He said. "If you say so." His sister said back.

The two continued to walk in silence for a while until Theodore broke the silence. "So what exactly are you going to make?" he asked curiously. Her sister turned to him and smiled. "You're favorite, Eintopf!" At her answer, Theodore looked at the content in the basket, more specifically the pork. "But you hate pork." Theodore asked curiously on why his sister would by something she disliked. "But you love pork onii-chan!"

"I know, but still…" Lise turned her attention back on the street. Her smile didn't disappear. "I… just want to support you onii-chan, even if it's in a small way like this." All Theodore could do was to stare at her. Deep down he questioned if he had the will to fight. Back with the Stasi he admitted it was because of the heat of the moment that he could kill them mercilessly. But now, he could tell he was shaken on what he done. Yet her sister, who indirectly admitted she didn't have the means to fight, she still had the drive to help in some way. He admired that. This, in some way, helped him with his resolve.

"Thanks Lise. I really have the best imouto in the world." Lise eyes widened at the last part. I bright blush appeared and she was now fidgeting. Theodore laughed, enjoying her sister's flustered face.

Then something caught the attention of the two. On the ally they were about to pass, they saw something really out of place. What they saw was a large patch of grass with plant life they had never seen in their entire life. One of said plant life had the same appearance of candy canes, but more rigid. The other's had similarity with dandelions, but far larger than normal. But the thing that was the most unusual of them all was the large zipper crack floating on the ground.

"Onii-chan this looks like the same portal that appeared when you used your lockseed." Theodore nodded at his sister. True, it was the same kind of crack they saw when he summoned his melon arms. "It looks like it leads to some kind of forest."

Theodore started to walk towards the portal. Lise didn't ask, but followed her brother. Both entered the crack and both rendered speechless on the sight of the forest.

The two felt the forest was unnatural, like it was completely alien. The forest was dense with trees so large it raised as far as the eye could see. Each and every tree was being entangled by vines that had strange reddish, purple skinned fruit growing from them. Lastly the forest is engulfed by thick dense mist that made the two have difficulty in breathing, slightly.

"Onii-chan, what is this place?" Lise asked, but her brother remained silent, observing the Helheim forest. "This forest… I could tell this is where the Melon arms originated."

Lise then spotted the strange fruit and urges her brother to investigate it. "What kind of fruit is this?" Once again Theodore remained silent. He then picked two of the fruits and stared at it. Something was urging Theodore to it eat the fruit, but another was telling him to throw it away. Slowly the urge to eat the fruit was winning. He was about to eat the fruit, but stopped when he heard his sister quietly called for him. "Onii-chan, look over there."

He turned around and what he saw had robbed him of words. The creature appears to be humanoid. It skin was like a grey organic armored skin. It had a hunched back and its frontal body had exposed muscles being slightly covered with the grey organic armored skin. Its face was deformed and it's had eyeless holes that acted as its eyes and an insect like mouth. This creature is known as an Inves, the Elementary Inves.

"What the hell is that?" Theodore said in fear yet with curiosity in his tone while Lise clutched her brother's arm in fear. "Are those BETA's?" Theodore didn't know, but he was sure that they weren't. For one they weren't attacking them. They were more interested at the strange fruit. "I don't think so. If that thing was a BETA, it should be attacking us by now." He assured his sister. They continued to observe the Inves and saw it plucked one of the fruits from the vine.

The Inves devoured the fruit greedily, like it was the most exquisite thing in the world. Once done, it started to twitch and sprouted two pairs of fly like wings. Theodore and Lise gasp in shock on what they saw. The Inves had just gained the ability of flight when it devoured the fruit.

"What the hell are these fruits?" Theodore said while looking at the pair of fruits in his hands. Then out of the blue more of the Elementary Inves came to the winged Inves and started to eat the strange fruit. Some didn't gain wings for some reason.

'Onii-chan, more are coming." She said worriedly while clutching on his arm a bit tighter. "Yah we better head back to the portal. We have to move quietly Lise." She nodded at her brother's instruction. They slowly turned back at the direction of the portal but froze in place on the creature in front of them.

The creature was humanoid. Its skin, like the Elementary Inves was an organic armor. Its legs were grey like ash. Its upper body was green with strange marking all over it. His shoulder sported shoulder guards with the same markings adorning it. Its left hand was human like while its right was enlarge with sharp, sword like claws. Lastly its head was like that of a longed necked, demonic turtle with demonic red eyes. This particular Inves is called the Byakko Inves.

"Shit! Stay behind me Lise!" he ordered while shoving Lise behind him. He brought out his Sengoku driver and placed it in front of his waist, materializing the belt strap. Then he felt something happening with the two fruits he was holding.

The two fruits started to glow. Then with a splash of liquid light the two fruits became lockseeds. The first lockseed bared the image of a durian with LS-12 labeled on the center. This is the Durian Lockseed.

The second lockseed has the image of a mango and on its center was labeled LS-11. This is the Mango Lockeseed.

He stared in shock at the two lockseed while in thought. "These fruits are lockseeds!? How is it now they turned to lockseed and not earlier on!? Is it because of the driver!?" While h was in thought. The Byakko Inves charged towards the two. Sensing the danger Theodore turned to his sister and tackled her to the ground and avoided the charging Inves.

"Onii-chan!?" Lise said in embarrassment. Even in this dangerous situation, she couldn't help but be concuss about being in this position with her brother. Theodore didn't mind with Lise's embarrassed state. Right now he had to deal with the Inves.

He got up while helping her sister and said to her. "Lise get behind the trees. Don't come out until I say so." Lise nodded without questioning him. Once she was behind one of the nearby tree. Theodore held one of the new lockseed's he obtained, the Durian Lockseed.

"DURIAN!"

He activated the lockseed and he looked up were the portal should be, but instead he saw liquid energy coming from the surrounding trees and formed the durian arms. Theodore didn't mind about that small difference. He then placed the durian lockseed to the driver and locked the shaft.

"LOCK ON!"

He pushed the cutting blade and sliced the lockseed in half. Like with the Melon arms the part of the lockseed that remained attached on the driver had the image of a sliced durian, while the sliced half that was attached on the bottom had an image of a spiked broad sword.

"SOIYA! DURIAN ARMS! MISTER DANGEROUS! (Five count bell ring with cheering crowds)"

The spiky, metal durian fell on him. Once landed the arms disassembled itself, forming the chest plate and shoulder guard. His entire armor was now heavily spiked. Two larger spikes formed, one each on the shoulder guards and two more on each side of his helmet. On his hands was a pair of broadswords with serrated edges on the blades, as well as spikes on what would be the flat of the blades, with the tips of the blades near-shovel like in design, making them act like saws as well. These weapons are called the Duri Noko.

"Okay, first the Japanese themed armor and now, its Roman gladiators… pretty cool!"The Byakko Inves once again charged towards Zangetsu. He took battle stance and charged towards the Inves. Once near he slashed with one of the Duri Noko and assuming it would easily cut through the Inve's. But to his surprise, it did not cut through. Instead it just slashed along its hardened skin, creating smoke and sparks. The attack did not kill the Inves but was enough to make it stagger.

"What the hell is that thing made of!?" Now the Inves roared and like the beast it is, charged to Zangetsu with more zeal. Zangetsu gave it a crossed slash and kicked it back. Zangetsu didn't give the Inves a chance to retaliate. One of his broad sword glowed in a yellow hue and he threw it to the Inves. The sword span like a buzz saw and went it hit the Inves, caused an explosion and had caused the Inves to sprawl to the ground, twitching in pain while smoke emitted from its body.

Taking this chance, Zangetsu pulled the cutting blade twice, activating the driver's finisher. "Durian AU LAIT!" Then a large durian made of yellow energy formed over Zangetsu. He jumped and flipped kick the large durian towards the Inves like a soccer ball. The result was the complete obliteration of the Byakko Inves. Nothing was left except for a large creator, fire and smoke. Theodore sighed in relief after the death of the Inves. He was about to close the lockseed until he heard his sisters alarmed tone.

"Onii-chan the portal's closing!" Looking over to the crack he saw that the zipper of the crack was slowly closing, and then he heard the cries of the Elementry Inves heading their way. Zangetsu started to panic for not knowing what to do. In his mind two choices conflicted with each other. "Shit! If we try and run to the portal, the monsters will follow us to town!" He looked over his sister, who right now was just as scared as he was. He clenched his fist indicating he was making his final decision.

"Lise! Go to the portal now, before it completely close!" I said, while walking towards her. She looked at him with widened eyes, completely shocked on what he said. "Wha-what are you saying! I can't just leave you here!" she said in a desperate manner. "I'll be fine! Please, Lise go to the portal while I fend the monsters off!" Now Lise had her hands clutching Zangetu's armor in a desperate manner. "No, I can't leave you here! I won't! Pleas onii-chan, don't leave me!"

Lise was now crying, still clutching on her brother. Behind his helm, Zangetsu had a pained expression. He promised he would never refuse anything she would ask of him, but to protect her. This time, this one time, he must refuse her. "I'm sorry Lise…" Zangetsu the lifted her up and with his enhanced strength, he tossed her to the other side of the portal.

Lise made it out of the crack. She had landed on her back with a soft thud. But even with the pain she felt, she immediately got up and started to run back to Helheim. Yet it was for not, the crack's zipper hasten its close. By the time she was inches away from the crack; it was completely closed and disappeared. She froze in place. Her brain wastrying to comprehend what just happened. She then fell to her knees, never looking away from where the crack was. She had a devastated look, her hand was outstretched on were the crack was. Her hand was clenching and unclenching, like she was trying to grab something. "Onii-chan… where did you go…?"

(Melon)

Zangetsu kept on staring at were the crack was. The devastated look his sister had, pained him to no end. He clenched his fist and slowly turned to face the approaching horde of Elementary Inves. With a splash of yellow, liquid energy, a new pair of Duri Noko materialized on his hands. He took fighting stance and was about to charge, but stopped when he heard something that should not be here.

"Be warned."

It was a voice of a girl. It was melodic and hypnotic in tone, a voice that could heal any wounds if heard. But it also sounded sad. Zangetsu tried to find were the source of the voice is but found no one. "Where are you? Show yourself!"

"If you take this path, there will be no turning back."

Then in front of Zangetsu a girl appeared in a flash of light. The girl was in her teens. She had long reddish blond hair, tied with a large yellow bow and a long ahoge was present. Her eyes had different color in each side. One was red like blood while the other was ruby colored. Her dress was long, elegant that left her shoulders bared and had reached up to her feet and covering them. Zangetsu could only stare at her in amazement. Her beauty was of mortal reach, but something in her that made Zangetsu think of her divine in nature.

"The road you will take will be bloody. You will know suffering, lost, hate and despair. You will fight battle until the bitter end, until this very world will be dyed in to your image."

Zangetsu didn't say a word; his head was facing the ground, like he was in deep thought. His shoulders started to shake and he gave out a soft chuckle. He then faced the unknown woman. "From the very first moment strapped on the driver, I knew the path I would take. I never hesitated knowing that it could same my family. Even if I could not save everyone, at the least I could protect the few. I don't care about fate or what plane it has. But if fate will stand in my way… then I'll just destroy it! I will shatter it with these hands, I will prevail!"

With his final declaration, the woman gave Zangetsu a sad smile before disappearing. He once again took fighting stance and charged at the approaching Inves.

When he reached the first of the Inves in front of the group, Zangetsu thrust both Duri Noko to the Inves. The Inves fell to the ground with sparks from Zangestu's attack. The next two Inves tried to flank him from both his sides, but Zangetsu saw it coming and slashed the Inves on his right, while kicking the on his left.

One of the flying Inves was able to land a hit on Zangetsu. From above, the Inves dropped next to Zangetsu and landed rapid hits on him. The force of the attacks didn't damage him, but was enough to force Zangetsu to stagger back. The Inves swarm took advantage at Zangestu's current state and started to gather on him, overwhelming him with their numbers. "Don't fuck with me!" he yelled and pushed the cutting blade of the sengoku driver once.

"SOIYA! DURIAN SQUASH!"

Zangetsu's right foot started to glow. A huge amount of force started to gather on both his legs. He then jumped high up to the air. The Inves's that piled up on him were blown away, scattering in a crud circle. He outstretched his right foot, aiming at the Inves. He then started to drop towards them while the glowing energy on his foot started to glow brighter and larger each second he approaches the Inves.

He landed and a large explosion was made. The Inves were no match for the power it unleashed and were all reduced to ash. Small patches of fire were scattered around, but they slowly dispersed. Zangetsu sighed in relief, relaxing after defeating the group of Inves. He closed the lockseed and reverted back to normal. He looked around his surrounding, unsure on what to do. He then saw a large, rather flat boulder and proceeded to sit on it. "Now that the danger had pass, how the hell I'm I getting out of here."He looked for any sign for a crack, but only saw the perpetual forest. He looked down in disappointment. "Where's Sagara when you need him." Yet his wish was about to be granted.

"You called?" Theodore spans to the direction of the voice and saw the man in question. When Theodore looked at him, he saw Sagara wasn't wearing the strange clothing he wore when they first met. This time he was wearing Middle Eastern clothing with snake like design. "Sagara… how are… ah forget it. I kind of expected you would show up." He said with an exasperated tone. For some strange reason Theodore knew Sagara was somewhere near. "So Theodore, how do you find the Helheim forest?" Sagara asked, but Theodore didn't answer him. He instead asked Sagara a question. "This forest is called Helheim?" Sagara in response outstretched both his arms like he was about to speak a grand declaration.

"Yes, the forest known as Helheim, a forest from another world that is infested by the beasts you fought, the Inves!" Theodore processed the information he received from Sagara. Now he was really curious on whom Sagara is. "Here catch!" breaking his train of thought, Theodore caught whatever Sagara threw.

The object in Theodore's hand was the Sakura Hurricane lock vehicle. He looked at the lockseed in wonder and was confused why the lockseed was different from the rest. "This is called a lock vehicle and is entirely different from the other lockseed." Theodore was half listening on Sagaras explanation. He was still observing the Sakura lock. "Unlike with the normal lockseeds, this can't change to any arms, but it changes to something else. Try it!"

He did so and the lock vehicle started to levitate. The lock grew larger and larger and formed into a motor bike with its entire frame was based on the Sakura flower. "Wow, now this is something you don't see every day." Theodore examined the Sakura hurricane in amazement while in his mind he wondered why it was based on a flower.

"This vehicle is called the Sakura hurricane. With this you can freely come and go to the Helheim forest." Theodore's eyes shot up when he heard what Sagara said. This further fueled his curiosity. Why is Sagara going in great length to help him? "Sagara, why are helping me so much. What do you have planed form me." Sagara stared at him for a while and made Theodore uncomfortable. He sighed before answering.

"Usually I'm just an observer and don't interfere this much. But, since this is a abnormal circumstance, I'm 'bending' the rules a bit." Theodore stared with narrowed eyes on what Sagara had said. "So in hind sight, this is all a game to you!" he shouted in rage. His anger fueled when Sagara discreetly describe all of this was a game. Sagara kept his smile, unfazed at Theodore's outrage. "Well you can look at it that way. In the end, does it really matter?" Theodore didn't say anything. All he could do was look at the ground in silent rage. Internally admitting that what Sagara said was true. "Fine… at least answer some of my question."

Theodore said while Sagara raised a hand, stopping him from saying anything further. "Now if I tell you anything more about the forest and its origins that would give you too much advantage. You have to find out for yourself. Learn, experiment. You have to do that on your own Theodore." Theodore didn't say anything. He only sighed in defeat, but asked one question and hopefully Sagara would answer. "At least answer this Sagara…" He didn't respond. Sagara only waited for him to speak. "If this is a 'game', will there be others like me?"

He waited for an answer. Every second fear builds up inside of him. It ended when Sagara started to laugh. "Of course there will be others! There won't be any challenge if you were the only one!" Theodore only closed his eyes, slowly accepting this revelation. "Farewell Theodore. I hope next we meet, you would have matured more." With nothing else to say Sagara dissolved in to molten, blue lights and disappeared. Theodore stood in silence. Only hearing the far cry of the Inves and running streams.

He sighed and went to the bike and went on it. He grabbed the helmet that materialized along with the Sakura hurricane, but paused when he realized something. "I don't know how to drive this…" he sat still for a while, but just decided to go with it. "How hard can it be?" When Theodore started and the bike came to life, once it did, the bike flipped forward and sent him to the ground, landing on his back. Theodore groaned in pain and only layed there, letting the pain pass. "This will take a while."

Chapter End

(Melon)

AN: Hey guys this berserkerzero7 bringing another chapter of Zangetsu's Chronicles. Not much to say about this chapter. It's just cover's Lise and Theodore's interaction and discovery of Helheim. But still I hope you enjoyed it.

So I want inform that I'll take a break from writing. A week or so and will get started on my other fics. That's all This is berserkerzero7 signing off.

Edit: Here I fixed it. I have no idea how the last parts became a wall of text. So I apologize for that.