Rebirth of Chaos ( Grand Chase ) Fanfiction

Vanquisher's Return

Chapter 3 : Vanquisher's Return

Rivera groaned in irk, letting a huge yawn escape his lips. He had gone through what could be the worst two hours of his life. The orange haired had just been battling the need to sleep so he could at least listen to his lecturer speak. At the same time, he had tried to ensure that not one soul had noticed it.

He failed the latter of course, when he felt a pat on his back and a concerned groan. Whenever this happened, he knew that the blond classmate of his had spotted his struggles. Frankly, he appreciates this. But on the other hand…

"Yo, Rivera. Are you that sleepy cause you spent the whole night up with that girl?"

"Shut the hell up." A usual jab to his stomach was a common greeting that Rivera had done. But who was he to blame when the Riku had said such a thing? Leaving the blond to recover on the spot, he whipped out his phone.

'Woah. 16 missed calls. And all of them are from Elaine. Must be something important…' The man groaned weakly the moment he saw only 2 text message had come from the high school girl.

[Aerknard Sieghart. Black hair, gray eyes. Arrogant bastard. Immortal. Look out for him because he got clues.]

'What the hell? An arrogant bastard? How am I supposed to find someone like that? And immortal? Does that even exist?!' Rivera scrolled down to the next message.

[Believe it or I'll murder both you and that nature freak elf inside of you; Elesis' exact words.]

A shiver had run down his spine to those bolded words. Firstly, how the hell did that girl manage to send him a message with bolded words? Rivera sighed. He must be getting left behind by today's generation, or Elaine just has her ways. Either way, he wasn't really comfortable with technology in the first place. He told himself with all honestly, he rather be trapped in a forest than the tech savvy city as he was rather fond of wildlife.

The second thing that freaked him out was that those were Elesis' exact words. An ancient spirit with who knows what kind of powers she possessed, and already threatened to kill him if he didn't believe this. Well, he has always been a believer when it matters. 'I mean… I still pray to one of the Gods that watch over us.'

Rivera hadn't known the exact time, but he knew that somewhere along the timeline of Aernas, the power of the gods was gradually forgotten and replaced with human technology and innovation. Faith was losing to the logical reasoning of science. He was part of the handful of people who still practiced religion. And part of a smaller group of those who worshipped the same goddess as he does. Gaia.

Speaking of the goddess, she was the guardian of life. Quiet closely associated with nature. It was the first reason he had to start becoming a believer of the priestess. Nature had become something he enjoyed being in peace with. It had become his only place to retreat to when the world isolated him, when the world looked at him differently because he was different.

'Now that I think about it… If I hadn't had these ears, I wouldn't be the nature geek I am today… I would've been influenced by the kids back then to be something like a footballer or something…' He shivered in disgust to the thought of becoming a sport orientated. They do nothing much but to maintain their bodies to top condition train hard and compete battle after battle. It was a life that, even if he would never understand, he would never give in to.

In any case, he still found it all strange. How can an ancient warrior spirit influence how he looks like? Of course he could understand the ability to transform; who wouldn't believe that you got supernatural powers from a soul who was the so called Vanquisher? It was the fact that it can also give him an elven appearance that worried him. No one in his whole family looked the least elven. Then again, he didn't really know how an elf really looks like.