Hey guy's it's DualStarduster here and my random little corner of the chapter I hide in from all the tears in this chapter, today the guys are going through their girlfriends nightmare pasts.

Anyways when you see the (~) symbol, play this song on youtube... unless you don't want to cry a river... or lake... or a new ocean.

Type in "Tsubasa Chronicles - Hear Our Prayer" without quotes of course.

When you see this symbol (-_-") it means I'm annoyed at you, no just kidding I love you guys! Here's the real symbol (+) Play this song Type in "Tsubasa Chronicles - Break the Sword of Justice" also without quotes.

And lastly this symbol (_) means to play the song "Tsubasa Chronicles- I talk to the Rain"

Rena's is the highlight in this chapter. Eve has some good points, but not a lot of information. Aisha... Okay I'm gonna be honest... I don't have an Aisha, all I know is she lost her magic by putting on a ring.

Any responses? No none? I thought I had lot's of people that liked my story for anon reviews (;n;)

Nightmare Rising...

El's POV

"Yeah! I'm gonna be the greatest magician Elrios has ever seen? Ne Elder?" A bubbly purple headed girl said cheerfully after casting a levitating spell on herself. "I can float now!"

"Yes that is a nice thing indeed our little Aisha." EH!? This cute happy-go-lucky girl is the irritatingly adorable girl I know and love?! "You've proved yourself worthy of a new staff, and amazing you've already gained several skills at age 6! Aisha darling your a wonder to our magical homeland on Elrios."

She gave a sweet little nod, so, this is the 'Elemental Master' at age 6 is it?

The elder walked up to her and put his hands on her shoulders, "You'll make an excellent Void Princess in time."

V-Void what!? A Void Princess is the second advancement of Dark Magician! She's a high magician! H-hold on this is a dream, this can't be real, I'm hallucinating. Yeah hallucinating, Aisha always told me that she'd ne,ver, be... that path... hold on is she... afraid?

"Y-yes elder... I do have a request though. Do you think... I can... beat the test?"

"There is no doubt in my mind you can overcome the challenge after all how difficult can it be to defeat one of us especially of your choice."

She flustered a bit but nodded. "Thank you elder." She left the gracious garden of Elrios's magician circle as it is known to many people where Mana can be even further advanced into a rare form of it nobody has ever seen in 100,000 long years. Some doubt it exists, Aisha does and I trust her.

Just then I felt as if years had gone by, there stood a more... so to say teenage rebellious type of girl.

"Time to see what a real Dark Magician can do." She coxed the people in her little training group, unlike the one I'm used to. She twirled several times a scowl on her face as a Phoru ran up to her, "Tch." she clicked her tongue and aimed a bat at the poor inexperienced mouse creature. It fell instantly. Can this cold-hearted girl really be Aisha?

"Next!?" She commanded as a frightened wolf came up. "Oh this is pathetically easy!" She launched another bat but this time the one that caged them.

"CREEEEEEEEE!" The weak wolf screamed before falling.

"Anything you have worth my time?" She said rather unamused. "I'm 10 years old and this is work for toddlers!"

She flicked her staff around a little scaring the fellow regiment she paired with. "Anyone want to challenge the Great Aisha!" Arrogant... that's me, not her. She's loving and caring, yes slightly annoying but I love her because of it.

"Aisha!" The elder scolded. "That is quite enough, you have defeated todays portion for you, tomorrow you may retry."

"Yeah yeah whatever Elder." she waved off. "This is nothing."

A question flicked into my mind, why... why are you like this? Almost the moment I finish the answer zoomed into my mind.

(~) (Those that don't know, you regret skipping my authors note, don't read until music starts, if it ends replay it until there are no more italics)

"DAD!" a voice cried. The girl fell onto her knees. "M-mom..." She sat there for hours.

'Gone... for good...' she thought to herself. Nothing left for Aisha, she entered her house. "Why?" Tears fell down her cheek, "Why?" her voice choked at the tears. "Alone... I'm alone..." She searched the charred house and her room that had no structure for walls. Her room scared her the most. The once purple bed laid ripped, torn, and broken. Next to it, her drawer all pulled out and smashed. What remained on top of the burned drawer was a photo.

"Mom... Dad..." She teared smudging the picture. The picture in the center had a jumping girl holding a staff in her left hand and a a purple stuffed bear. To the girl's left a man three times her height, but the face is missing, the paper had been burned but not gone. To the girl's right a woman or one to assume as the face is missing, torn off but not scorched.

She walked outside and collapsed from the sudden change, returning from her training, it's nothing she chose to experience, like Fate itself chose her Destiny for pain. Nothing is more painful than this. You can burn, freeze, get shot at, fall 1000 feet, held at gun point, a sword aimed at your neck, but that's nothing to experience the loss of everything.

A fellow mage, who happened to be her best friend, walked by and dropped her staff. A loud cling resonated through the forest. "Aisha!? Oh no! I gotta get you to the Elders!" Aisha couldn't hear her best friend.

In her world she had everything, popularity, strength, brains, charm, a family, a home, food on the table. But in the matter of an instant everything was lost, she didn't have a thing to go on, her clothes, the only she has is what she is wearing, family? Gone, dead, nowhere... Home doesn't exist, food didn't matter to her. Aisha felt the world on her shoulders.

Three years had gone by in the blink of an eye...

Years flashed, I broke down if I knew my hand against my chest, I'd scream but nothing could come out, I felt her pain. I understood, but, it's sad... it's sad, it hurts... it hurts...

"Aisha!" Her best friend yelled at her.

"Go away Clair,(Made up)" Even though the time had gone by I knew everything she felt. She denied eating, she denied to rest, she denied the necessities of life.

"I'm going to drag you out of our room then!" She had been living with Clair for the three years.

Aisha laid on the bed, black as the heart she had. Everyday she grew distant from everyone. Clair hardly recognizes her, though she hadn't changed physically, her emotions conveyed this is not Aisha, not her best happy-go-lucky best friend that enjoyed losing and winning. This is the New Aisha that grew a heart of steel that became too disconsolate for anyone to heal.

That is, until one day, she got up. Went up and ran, ran to her home. Nobody rebuilt it, nobody condemned it, nobody took a second glance under Aisha's request nobody made renovation, took anything, moved anything, she only allowed herself. Everyone loved her, but she didn't care everything didn't matter. She's hit the rock bottom.

On her way a man came by and stopped her, he tried to strike a deal. "Oi little girl are you okay?"

"I'm fine let me go." She snapped.

"I'm terribly sorry, here take this ring as my condolences." smirking as she slipped it on.

"AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!" Aisha cried collapsing for the first time in years.

The man smirked and took the very ring and slipped it on, "That ring has stolen your magic, and now it's mine." He left her.

The next day she woke up and tried her magic to summon a bat to help her up, nothing came out. "Eh?" She tried again. nothing, she did the most basic spell. A spell that enabled her to look at her level for no mana. "No..." She cried.

She's hit the very bottom of the world, nothing can go wrong anymore, she has nothing. "Level one, no skills, no family, no home... nothing." She cried gripping the grass. "I'm no Void Princess, I don't deserve to fight up front... I'll start over, and forget everything, no matter what, I'll forget mom and dad, the home I had, the friends, everything."

And later in the next year... she meet me...

Raven's POV

This is true pain... this is the purest form of sadness... this can not be compared to anyone's sadness. Oh Eve, you were so lonely...

You've lived a happy life, until the war... You lied to me, you had a happy life before. How is death of friends, I don't care that you didn't have emotions, you lost people and you can't bring them back. A life, even digital, cannot be regained. I learned that already.

Years, years, years they've passed your frozen life for what would, what could have been an eternity, but fate had a role for you to play didn't it. It refused to have you rest. A fragment landed in your pod and fused with you, that 'charm' on your head, your clothes, that's not it. It's the only thing that gave you life again, the only thing, that keeps you connected to the world, to your frozen friends.

(_) (Same as last time just replay till it ends.)

Your pod opened up the day it landed. Nothing held you back. You walked endlessly in a jungle of wires, of friends, of machines the world considered dead...

Numbers flashed before my eyes, a series of 1 and 0's. As if a code for something, a hidden message. And then, it happened. The digits wavered and fled. The color of gray, hopelessness as if the world of Elrios had purposely sealed your fate of doom. No pain existed for you. If you we're to die nothing would change for others. No tears, no screams of victory or sadness, the world would continue if you didn't exist, you, were nothing. Not even the Queen of Nasods, Eve meant anything, their just gonna make a better version if you die...

Roaming, Eve that's what you did roam. "Arial? Are you there?" Eve asked. She walked to the nearby one, "Cynthia? Cynthia are you activated?" No reply from either nasods.

The ruins of the rampaged jungle of wires from the ceiling and ground as if the forgotten world became an electronic jungle.

She walked around, emotionless as if nothing felt different. In her eyes they had no reaction, nothing mattered to her. Yet she continued to move, I heard her first words, just like when we met. "Open Database, register, Modern Time." The day popped up, I was shocked, hundreds of years before we meet? Just how long had she been alone?

But despite being alone, despite the time, her outdated wear. She continued forward. Even without emotion she's alone and she knows it. Then her next words, something that shocked me, "Another Code, Awaken Moby, Remy." In the dark the bright yellow eyes were easy to spot as it shined and floated to her. One of white armor and one of black.

Not a smile from her loneliness, she then began a diary as I peered over it.

"Another Code, day one from reactivation. I journeyed alone for hours on end, the word a human could use, loneliness. But I do not feel lonely, I am not even human therefor emotions of loneliness are only words to nasods. I can experience things humans can not and have no affect. Love, pain, bored, words. Nothing more than it. I've reached Moby and Remy, my androids. Day, end."

After that she left the area and began to search. Days passed journals filled, her energy, though held stable, slowly drained. She looked around days on ends. The latest journal she had ever written.

"Another Code, day 4, I'm alive and well but although it had been little over 96 hours, I am at risk of emotions. I feel, alone. None of my friends are around if I could call them that, my memory is slipping me, an impossible result. Could it be, that I am developing HUMAN emotions? Day, end."

Walking around she noticed something strange, things moved but deactivated. Her imagination? Or not?

Soon her journey began to be an endless loop. Nothing changed, nothing happened, but she knew there has been a possibility, one she wish didn't have to be. One, that ended the journey, that ended the pain, the loneliness, forever.

Her memory is beyond even my own. I can get shot, killed, and die. I've seen death first hand and been betrayed. But this, mine can't match years of loneliness, a century of living and feeling less like yourself each day, but she did.

Days turned months, months turned years... nothing could be worse then being unable to die, but exist having these emotions, the feeling of loneliness can tear away the soul of anything, living or not, everything has a soul.

"Another Code, day 730 from reactivation. This world is nothing but badlands as I am out of place here. Nobody but I has been reactivated. I've made a discovery, that lonely is possible, I'm starting to gain emotions. Taboo for nasods as they clutter us. If emotions become too strenuous for us. It may lead to my malfunction and destruction. Also, I have decided, to make a sacrifice. There is an energy cell near my original pod. If I am to hook it up, I may use the energy I have regained for everyone else. This maybe the final day. Day, end..."

She sat on her white android friend having the reversed create the path needed. Neither minded they we're committed to obey after all. Eve took a glance at her surroundings, nothing moved, occasionally you could her the pipes blow the ancient air it's held as the pressure grew from small openings.

Finally her destination was reached, she opened her database and the trio got to work. "Moby, Remy." She said in a monotone. "I'm going to be deactivated," They nodded. "Very well." As they continued they didn't know how her reactivation was the only one where she lived.

On another floating island called Altera, the king had risen and he had no recollection of Eve or anything but one thing, war between nasods and humans...

Eve stepped into her chamber.
"Another Code, day 34 add on, Goodbye, if my code is ever found, refrain from reactivation until all my allies have been returned. Add on, end."

The lid closed and glowed green. The world around her turned black against the faint green light.

Little did she know, her efforts did go in vain...

Another century had gone by before...

She got up, "Moby, Remy?" Hearing their names four yellow eyes glowed and flew to it's master. "Reactivation? Does that mean..." Eve took a look around.

Everything looked the same, she heard voices outside the layer of soil.

"Oh Raven there you are! Come on Els and Aisha are waiting." A voice gently called.

A faintly audible sigh, "Yeah, okay Rena... I was just thinking, I don't like being here, it reminds me too much of Seris." A masculine voice returned.

The dirt gaveway from a yell. "RAVEN RENA GET BACK HERE! AISHA IS GONNA KILL ME!"

"I'LL TEACH YOU FOR CALLING ME A TOMBOY!" A feminine yet threatening noise shrieked.

Eve,whom just had a second reactivation, moved the series of white roots therefor letting a feeling void from her system out. Warmth. Then a red headed boy stopped infront of her..."

I gasped slightly, this is how she felt? Afraid, alone, nothing... And she kept it to herself... but why? Why did she hold her pain in her frail body? It may be wires and circuits but everything can learn to feel...

Chung's POV

Rena... My eyes dilated you can be any age, you still look and act 13. But this? This is what you had to go through, just so you could be the best?

Pain, change, fear, and loneliness. Yet your heart took it all in and welcomed it returning with a smile, not a smirk. Your holding it in. Nobody can hold in pain, I've learned it the hardest way.

You may not have parents like I did, but you had people who looked after you and trained by yourself at every chance...

Battle after countless battle you've reached the breaking point. You took something on that you couldn't at the time. So you did the only thing logical to you, attack back and hold your ground... You remembered how you trained.

Pain...

Run, your instincts run, your allies shot behind you hoping they didn't hit you as you charged forward for combat training in midst of arrows. You smiled a happy one knowing everything would turn out okay, you reapeted to yourself, "Watashi wa daijōbudarou"("I'll be alright") and dodged based on instinct.

However your rivals, they planned this out, they didn't want you to win did they, but your rivals, weren't the ones after you. They we're your best friends back home. They thought if you got ahead, one day, you'd be too advanced to stay with them. So, they instead of firing straight, they aimed at trees.

The arrows ricochet off the trees, one lucky shot right at the knee, although the arrows had a soft end that was made of mud and grime. It hurt, when it hits your knee your unable to move, you want to die. Her arrow didn't pierce the skin but the force broke it.

They didn't know what to do and ran up to you. You sat there crying, the teacher called it off and ran up to Rena. "Are you okay?!" She cried in worry of her top student.

"I, I'll be okay. I, just need to rest." She tried getting up, but fell again twisting your ankle. Rena, you cried in pain. But after the pain left you smiled. "I'm fine."

The girl who shot the arrow, Brittany felt really bad, "Rena I'm sooo sorry! The arrow slipped and and..." She cried.

Rena didn't want to make a fight, "It's okay Brits," She nodded.

The teacher helped her up, "we'll get you to the infirmary okay? No training for you until it's healed." She nodded. "If I see you train, I'll have to force you to sit out. None of your friends can help you, a broken bone can't be healed by friends but the strength of your bonds. If you and your friends are close you'll be back, but if you keep using it then you don't care for them."

Change...

Day by day your 'friends' visited.

"Hey Rena." A girl with blue eyes and hair visited (If they have a RED eyed Els with natural PURE RED hair, I can add a temporary blue eyed and haired girl ne?) "I'm sorry about your knee. Especially since you love doing all the flips and stuff."

You waved her off too. "It's okay Cyena. It's not like I'm dead or anything." A smile stretched across your face. "I missed you ya' know." Cyena smiled.

"How come you don't visit more often when your knee worked."

The smile went reverse and turned to a frown. "I like being up close, sure I need a second just in case so arrows are nice. But I have to train to be IN the fight not backed up... but, I don't think I'm ready for either."

Cyena looked at Rena curiously. "Rena, you have to either fight close or stay back. We archers are hunters. We are either seeing it or waiting for it."

Then Rena snapped her fingers. "Thanks, but can you tell everyone to leave me alone? I know the teacher told me to rest, and I will I'd never do anything to hurt my bonds to my friends, but I don't think the constant visits are good for me to rest exactly."

Cyena pestered her a little,"Fine, but I'm still gonna visit you occasionally." Rena nodded. "Okay, bye."

Quickly Rena grabbed the nearby bow. You looked at it like something felt off. "I can either be up close, or stay back." The bow didn't seem right for you. It wasn't made for you actually. "This fits the personality, of someone I'm not. I can't fight up close expecting to not get hurt, but I can't exactly stay back. I need something in the middle. A bow that can fight close or far back... Something that won't put me in pain, but will give excitement. I need, to be original."

Just outside the infirmary tent was a silver glint. She got on her crutches and checked it out. It was a flat piece of metal. "Perfect, I think, I found my way."

Fear...

A month passed, although not fully healed, you were allowed to move freely from place to place in a wheel chair. Cyena was chosen to push you around. "Thanks Cyena, I'm almost ready to actually walk! Wouldn't that be nice! Then we can go again."

"Yeah..." Cyena replied. "I actually liked having to push you around though. Not like that but you know, we didn't really get to talk a lot."

"Oh, yeah... Hey Cyena, I don't think, I'm ready to be a Combat Ranger."

Cyena's eyes sparkled. "You mean your gonna be a Shooting Ranger like me!"

"Um, not exactly but yeah for now. Until I'm ready to decide for certain, I've trained as a Combat Ranger for so long, I don't know how to actually... shoot an arrow. I'm better on my feet."

Cyena smiled. "Rena please please please let me be your personal teacher!"

"Fine Cyena, I need some aiming practice too, think you can set some targets up? I brought my bow and my magic arrow fused with ElEnergy to let me you know fire forever."

"WHAT!? Lucky! I only got this training arrow pouch, I need to find the arrows again, after I shoot them." Cyena laughed. "Do you want to go to the teacher to tell her you want her to teach you Shooting Ranger stuff too?"

"Yeah," They went to the teacher east quadrant of their home.

The east is for training, the south for rest and infirmary where Rena had to rest at, the west is the entrance to the home of the elves and it's place for many bow makers due to the increase in tree growth from the Tree of Els. Lastly the north held dining and farming.

The teacher saw the pale Rena from being out of sunlight for so long and her classical green and white dress. "Good morning Rena, Cyena what are you doing? Is your knee healed yet?"

"Not yet Teacher, but I have a question, can you, teach me to be a Shooting Ranger? I don't think I can take this again." She motioned to her injured knee wrapped in leaves. "It's for one dangerous to get shot at again, it may be injured but in a real fight, I may never walk again."

The teacher, feeling sympathy being injured once similarly to the arm, now unable to actually hold up a bow properly nodded. "Okay, I can't exactly hold one up but I still remember how to hold one and fire an arrow. Cyena can teach you more."

"YAY!" Cyena cheered. She stopped helping and looked at Rena dead in the eye, "You'll be the second best Shooting Ranger!"

"Second? Who's first you?" Cyena laughed.

"Of course I am not silly, I'm not even close to Robin Hood." Rena gave a glare having Cyena raise her hands laughing along with the teacher, "I'm kidding! I know you'll be the best."

"Thanks, mind dropping me off at the infirmary again? I'm gonna talk to them about when I can actually walk now." Cyena gladly nodded in approval, "thanks Cyens'."

Deep inside I knew this wasn't a lie, but it can't be true. Rena, this isn't her, no this can't be her. Or is it, deep down is she, afraid of facing her friend? Is that why she couldn't tell it to her straight. Because Cyena has been her best friend, yet she's about to change for better or worse. This path you walk down, isn't it, scary?

Loneliness...

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Alas the final chapter of my Rena's past. How disdainful it has been. How unlike Rena. But I have to accept this, this is Rena in the full.

The next day, you pulled out that silver metal you've found. You grabbed your bow and moved the metal next to the wall and played target practice. Slowly her efforts broke the metal as it bent into a blade.

A tear slipped past her eye. "If I have to walk this path alone, I'll go for it. I am unlike all other rangers. I can't be too caught up in the front line, or I'll get hurt by my friends, but if I stay to far back, with the lack of experience I can't hit the side of a barn. I need, to trap them. I'll be the first Trapping Ranger."

Just then she heard the sound of a wooden board drop. "Rena?" It was Cyena her pupils dilating immensely.

"C-Cyena!?" Rena yelled from her wheel chair. "It's not what it looks like, let me explain!" She cried out wheeling closer to her friend hand out stretched.

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH ME!" Cyena yelled full of hurt. "I thought you were my friend! I didn't think you'd actually use me!"

Rena looked down, "Your right, I shouldn't have said that, I don't deserve to be part of any Ranger Group, Cyena. I can't take it, I can't take being shot and missing, my arrows can't hit farther than a meter! That's why I have to change." Rena looked away.

Cyena didn't know how to feel her eyes showed confliction, fighting back the tears, anger boiling over, sympathy. In the end she ran, crying.

"I didn't, mean for you to be hurt." Rena cried sadly to herself. Desperate to find her friend she went outside the city, in the wheel chair. Everyone backed away, nobody had ever dared against the two paths before.

She felt hopeless, alone, uncared. Rena didn't mind it.

Then, the beast fell through the sky, Bertha. Injured herself the behemoth took advantage and swung a claw, she jumped and backflipped out of the way twisting her ankle in the process. "I'm hurt, but it doesn't matter." her vision blurred from tears of pain.

"This battle, I'll show a change can be good." Rena grabbed some twigs and compacted mud adding little Elpower from her arrows. She pulled the string, the claw closed in, her glare tightened and released the twig explosive. Fire, fire, fire, all she could do was delay it. Then, it went off and the giant reptile-lizard-thing flew away, once more injured.

Rena collapsed from everything that had happened in mere moments.

Hey guys! Thanks for reading, I told a couple of you I'd put it up a couple weeks ago, well... I finished it! So the hold up? I published at midnight, and I thought that Rena's last part didn't have enough... emotion. I'm bad at fight scenes, that's why I'm using this more romance based.

Another reason is Eve didn't have much to work with, yeah I can go day by day by freaking day. But you'd hear the same thing so it's more like a progress report rather than a daily upkeep it's Eve's human-like characteristics being created over time, but she refuses and ignores it. A lot of help that put her in now.

Anyway first, after clearing that up, I'm actually making a HAPPY BEGINNING (no not only the beginning for those crazy people taking things literal, it starts at the beginning.) up to the end! (There you go.) It'll be about them getting up to-

UBER-CLASSIFIED THAT I USED EVERYTHING IN THE EDIT WORDS OPTIONS!

Finished: 4/23/13

I'll put this ^ and a started one next time at the top and bottom to tell you how processing goes. And this \/ at the bottom

Published: 5/2/13

to tell things apart.

I complete things first and edit later. Gomen, (sorry) if it's not sad or up to the expectations you expected from the last chapter.

Reminder: Next chapter 100% happy... maybe, you know I love my tension snapping.