Hey readers.

If you all were wondering what the absolute fuck I was doing besides updating, well…

I had to catch up a lot on my int. algebra course

I can only have internet at my library

And I was busy combing through Shinigami 16.

Back to the main point. I noticed that Blazblue hasn't been getting enough love in the fanfic department, so here's why this is happening.

So… do any of you remember Chronophantasma extend, and its abyss mode? Y'know the battle gauntlet that lets you buff up your character to high holy hell, while going down to an endless battle chain? And you get rewarded even if you lose?

Well… what if I told you that it was an actual thing? Interested? Good.

This is what happens when Ragna journeys deeper into the dark abyss, with his trusty new partner… Black beast…..

…..

So here's the story of the Black Beasts!

(I don't own Blazblue)

Ps. since i couldn't really find their actual ages, i decided to wing it.

Ragna: 22 years old (15 years in this chapter)

Jubei: 100+ years old

Black beast: 100+ years old

We start our story 7 years back to the past, before Ragna fell into the infinite time loop in calamity trigger. it was a full year after Jubei left him, his training now complete and having no need to stick around.

Deciding that he should put his curiosity to rest, Ragna ventures toward a closed off area he managed to find during his training.

You see, when he first found it, Jubei was... quite insistent on keeping him away from there. Silly cat. You should know by now how this works; keeping them away only makes them want it more.

When he asked the cat man why he should stay away, he was told that it housed loads of concentrated seither, and whoever goes in there couldn't handle that much seither at once.

After the brief lecture about seither, again, this discussion was dropped afterwards, but Ragna couldn't help but wonder about the forbidden area, his curiosity slowly devouring him whole as time went on.

Ignoring the various keep out signs, Ragna promptly placed one foot into the seither enriched area.

Then another...

Then four more steps...

By the time he stopped, he couldn't see the entrance anymore due to the weird fog everywhere. Before he could question this, he felt a twinge of pain from his right arm... which began to increase in pain.

"w-what the?!" he screamed in pain.

Suddenly images flooded him mind, most of them were random, but he could tell that some of them had him, his brother, this weird blond princess girl, and what looked like Saya in it.

The last thing he heard before blacking out was a deep feral chuckle, and the words...

"We have much to discuss about... Bloodedge."

Opening his eyes, Ragna could only see pitch black darkness. Feeling nothing underneath him, he sat up...

Or at least tried to.

Finding out that there was nothing for him to sit up on, he looked around and saw nothing. Just a pitch black void with the only inhabitants are him and that shadow over there...

Wait shadow?

Turning around, Ragna came face to face with a giant creature that was so black, he nearly mistook it as more of the dark realm of nothingness around him. The only thing he can make out from the figure was that it had several heads, looked draconic, and blood red veins lined up along the body, glowing the same glow as the vermillion eyes each head used to gaze at HIM...

"OH CRAP!" the boy screamed. Trying to look for an escape route, Ragna slowly backed away from the multi headed dragon creature.

Don't even bother looking for a way out; there are none. Eight separate voices, four male and four female, spoke in perfect sync.

Looking around, Ragna slowly looked towards the eight headed serpent.

"d-did you j-just t-talk!?" Ragna stuttered.

Yes. We have spoken young one. And as we've said, we have much to talk about.

"Who are you? What are you!? WHERE AM I!?"

Silence child, and we shall answer your question.

"..." Ragna stopped yelling and stared intently at the beast, weapon ready and cautiously gazing up at the eight pairs of eyes.

Now then... first, we go by many names... second, we believe the humans called us "Black Beast"... and third, we are in a special place that can be accessible through your mind.

"The Black Beast... you're the one who devastated the world right?"

Correct, it surprises us that you said that with curiosity, but that isn't why we are here...

"Then why are we here then?" Ragna snarled.

This might take a while to answer...

"Well I've got nothing else to do... i just finished learning from Jubei."

To put it simply; we are the same.

"Huh?" Ragna asked, surprised by the answer.

Your right arm... unlike our minions, are the literal remains of who we once were. You are us, and we are you.

"My... right arm?" glancing at his obsidian colored limb, he noticed that it started to glow a deep red aura.

Your goal was to get revenge on the one who made you suffer. Yuki Terumi to our knowledge... but you're too weak to face him in your state and learning pace... that is why we have a proposition for you.

"Who are you calling wea- wait... proposition?" Ragna half cried in rage, before catching onto the last part.

We can give you the power needed to beat Terumi, all we want in return is to be unleashed.

"And there it is!"

...what?"

If i release you of whatever, then wouldn't you go on a rampage again?" Ragna asked skeptically.

No. remember when we said we are you? That means literally as well. As long as you're in control, we're in control. Besides we can't really do any real damage thanks to the damned IDEA engine bound to us.

That's when Ragna finally noticed it, a faint glowing light that's centered at the very core of the eight headed serpent.

"... I'm listening..."

There are closed off areas filled to the brim with concentrated seither. With the right amount of control, seither, and a bit of memory, we can construct powerful training adversaries to fight you. Should you defeat them, you absorb them and the seither you absorb increases our power.

"Wait. Why make opponents if all we're doing is absorbing seither? Shouldn't I be dead by now from seither exposure?"

Do you really think that we, the Black Beast, can't handle the energy we generated? Besides, you need more actual battle experience don't you?

"Yeah."

Then that's your answer... now then, we will need some memories for this to work... who do you know that can fight?

"Hmmm..." Ragna tried to think of anyone who he remembers that can fight off the top of his head.

"Well, there's Jin, Jubei, this blonde princess i saw in a vision, she looks powerful... oh and i remember Jubei showing me a picture of him with a witch woman... i think that's it though..."

that's not a big roster, but we can work with this... we'll add our memories of powerful opponents as well... now then, it's time to train... and one more thing.

"What?"

Wake up.

Jolting up in a start, Ragna narrowly avoided being skewered by a blade made of ice. Looking up to the attacker, he couldn't help but falter when he saw that it was...

"What the hell!? Jin!?" Ragna shouted.

That is not your brother, Halfling. The familiar chorus of voices said.

"What the? Then who the hell is he? Where are you!? And who're you calling a Halfling"

We're communicating through your arm. You have vampire blood flowing through your veins, thus making you a Halfling. And take a closer look at the man.

Looking back at the 'Jin', Ragna found that while he looks a lot like his brother, his entire color scheme was completely different. Instead of the usual colors he saw him in, this 'jin' was mostly black and red, and the only other color was a whitish pale lavender mop of hair and red eyes.

"His entire color scheme is different? Is this one of your "powerful Adversaries" Black Beast?" Ragna questioned.

Yes it is, now then... shall we begin your training?

"...sure. Punching him in the face sound fucking therapeutic right now!" and with that, Ragna rushed towards his opponent, weapon drawn.

and that's a wrap.

sorry if this is going by a bit too fast. if you read any of my other fics, then you should know that i suck at world building despite my overloading imagination.

next chapter will be the present, and right when Calamity trigger starts, also, i'm adding a thing in this from central fiction as well; the concept of equipable Grimoires and skills.

TBC