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The Ancient Story

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A story of hundreds and thousands years of endless war. Vowed to remain continue until the world itself doomed. Takaya Takahashi, the grandson of the world most feared man— a young, calm, handsome, loving and cheerful turning into cold, calculated, and strong after his parents passed away. Isolating himself alongside his younger sister, leaving his older sister under his grandfather's care. Until he founds out that he possess one of the power of The Ancient Warrior, The Light. Turning his life into a new journey where he use the power to protect and restores balance in his life. Though everything seems working, the past never goes away. By having that power making him "Wanted" by other people who exploits the powers of ancient warrior for their own benefits. He comes back to his older sister and working together since. Uncovers many hidden truth of their life that have been manipulated, Will he finally found peace?
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Chapter 1 - Long Time Ago

"An omnivore are a destroyer that often destroys its kind for surviving"

Hundreds and millions year ago humans existence nearly vanish from this world. Hunted by a hideous being known as Chaosits. It brutally kill humans to survive and also for— fun. But the 11 Warriors never give up... They are special. Born with a mystical power beyond normal humans can think.

Their powers helps the survival of the human-beings. Successfully bringing the world peace. They're considered as a gods though they're also a mere mortals. Resulting a conception of kingdom where the strongest rules the rest of the civilization with love. 

What will go wrong?

As a human, they also fall in love. The king, The Light. The Strongest amongst all falls to the One wields The Darkness. Amazed with her beauty hidden beneath the darkness that she carries, fiercest warrior amongst other. She answers the king with the same. 

But simple pleasures' they shared opens a new window of war. Where both reside for living in peace, other don't. Idleness makes several warriors rebelled by knowing their rulers settlement. Cracked their bonds by their evilly action and starts the war between warriors followed by their worshippers.

The king acknowledges the situation though tangled in between thoughts to prevent the outcome, war is inevitable. Vowed 'till the world itself destroyed their war continues, reincarnated for thousands of years with unchanged solution. While the heat between good and evil is aroused to the limit, the king failed to settle... They fight not only to defend or survive... But to kill each other for vengeance.

Until 40.000 years after the last reincarnations of the 11 warriors instigate the sickness of fighting. She, the queen— The Wielder of Darkness, the one who can see the past understood the whys and wherefores of the war, also proposed the peace solution comes ill-fated... She committed ultimate sacrifice by sealing the soul of the warriors... Wiped their existence away from all human-beings memories, in other word— pushing the reset button for the entire world.

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15.000 years after in the year of 1958 lived a young boy roams the world driven with extreme curiosity. Orphenus, he steps on the unknown land searching for the answer of life before the existence. Meet several people with same interest as they walked the earth together. Until they found an unfamiliar object written with unfamiliar language. Fathomed by the discovery they made the land for themselves and call it, Hiltonia.

Several years later thanks to Orphenus's genius mind, Hiltonia became the world's first nation ever with an advanced technology and military defense using the ancient civilization findings to develop a new power source and several things including a weapon technologies.

He founded X.A.G,eXtended Action Guardian... A military organization created as a peace keeper for the world by joining forces and funds in order to explore and create more technology of defense from the unknown. For 25 years X.A.G found more evidence of the ancient civilization that explain that the worlds hold a bigger secret than they know at the time— The City of Ruins  discovered.

But as a human he is getting older and older where he no longer can go by himself as his friends died one by one due to their age, health condition or accidents. Leaving only him and a woman named Jean. At the age of 35 he married with the woman and had a twin daughters, Erisa and Bella. Raised both of them in love and spice their curiosity upon his research by taking them to the ruins, though his journal and teaches the ancient languages in hopes someday both of his children will discover more than he was able to.

Erisa and Bella grow amazingly fast. Both also share a same physical strength equally. However both have a differ on the passion where Bella the youngest did not seem interested with her parent's achievements. Choosing the military where she has spent her life learning. While Erisa the oldest are burden by the fact that she was the first born of the nation's founder, obliging to carry on her parents' idealism. She shows excellent results, her intuition and knowledge drive her to the point where hinted a possibility of the ancient civilization are scattered on around the world and proposing the discovery had to be far as possible.

Knowing their daughters' interests, Orphenus become conscious to his own age where he cannot do anything as he used before. He brings together his daughters, passing the military leadership to Erisa. While Bella had given the secondary leadership on the military. He entrusted all his lives' work on Erisa and hoped she will eventually reveal the ancient civilization and its secrets for the living.

Why?

Despite the bitterness Bella experienced to accept the fact that she did not choose as the leader, as a daughter she only has agree to take the responsibility. On the contrary, Erisa accepted, but she lost her smile after. Even it catches Bella's eyes witnessing her sister's unusual display. Of all people who knows Erisa is a cheerful, goofy young girl. Though both of them had working together in various expedition on around the world for several years. Erisa's transformation also affected the others and sparked ambiguous way of think that "She might never be the same as her father."

***

South pole –1998.

"Gosh... Finally we have fire." She muttered.

Trapped in the middle of nowhere inside a small tend. Sound of the wind touches the fabrics loudly enters their ears. Two 19 years old girls sitting close to the fire, warms themselves. As the brown short-haired girl open the cap of candy looking to the other girl busy with her writings on a small book, so focused.

But the other girls eyes catches her attention, 

"Stop looking at me, Bella... I'm not in the mood for staring contest..."

"Are you nuts? I was wondering what are you doing, Erisa."

The brown long-haired girl closed her book, looking directly at the can,

"Ah! That is your favorite, isn't it?!" She rushed toward her little sister and pulls the can of candy that she holds, "Can I have one? It's been forever I haven't eaten one of these..."

Sudden excitement erupts from Erisa. 

"S-sure..." Bella hands over the candy to her sister.

She picked one candy shaped dinosaur, it reaches her mouth, sweet, sour and chewy sensation filled her mouth.

"Mmmmm!!! So sweet!"

Erisa's joyful shouted. Her face makes Bella relaxed that her sister is not completely insane as she thought be, but soon the question about her well-being resurfaces Bella's mind.

"Give me a break... Why are you looking at me like that??"

Looked away, "Erisa, you know… I haven't seen you smile like that in a while, are you okay? Are you troubled by father's decision?" 

"Oh sister…" Erisa sighed deeply as she changes her expression so suddenly "You know me so well…

"You've never wish to fail him." down faced Bella said.

Erisa reached Bella's hand and held them, "Hey… Don't make your face like that…"

"…E-risa?"

"I know what you feel because of that decision, To be honest I prefer you to be the leader instead of me…"

Bella chuckled, "Haha! I guess you never change at all huh, why do I even think that."

'W-wait, Are you actually..."

Bella bowed her head down, "I Thought you troubled by fathers one sided desicion, but seeing you like this... Why would I care about it..." She cooed then comes the smile for her sister,

"You are the most sensitive one in our family..."

"Huh?"

Their eyes meet each other,

"Bella... Father has his reason to choose me over you... But I gladly accept it... Though I also have a reason why..." 

Her soft tone touches Bella,

"What is you reason to accept his decision?"

"Because I can't afford to loose you-" Erisa suddenly stops in the middle of the sentence. Her eyes become wider as she feels someone getting near their camp. "Who's there?!" Erisa hollered.

"Ah it's me, Lady Erisa. Takuma." A man's voice answered her from outside.

"Ahh! Takuma! Get in!" Erisa's humble answer and change of expressions suddenly makes Bella confused.

Takuma enters the camp "If you excuse me." Putting his jacket on the hanger, "Good evening, ladies… Am I interrupting?"

"Takuma, what are you doing here?" Bella questions Takuma.

"Ah about that…" Erisa immediate answer her but stop and look at Takuma

"Actually, I'm here to inform Lady Erisa about the preparation." Takuma said,

Erisa's face changes drastically after, "So, it's time…" -She stood up and looked at her sister- "Bella, get your suit and gear up."

"What preparation? Where are we going now?" Bella stands up picking her suits and weapons,

"Just come and you see." Erisa rashly said.

Takuma is Erisa and Bella childhood friend, since their living together and had the same rank as Erisa before she got promoted. He is given a special position by Erisa as her assistant though his loyalty to Erisa is deepest among others, making him the only person that Erisa trusts besides her sister meanwhile many of the military personnel did not acknowledge Erisa as a leader.

He concealed his status due to protecting his reputation in the military and often acted silently if Erisa asked to do something outside her other personnel. After finished their preparation they three moves toward the ice mountain nearby without any one of their teams.

"We should head 20 km north from here." Takuma pointing to the destination,

Erisa looked at where Takuma pointing at in the middle of light snow pouring, "Have you seen anything?" she said,

"I see a strange entrance inside a mountain. There are no water or people in this area that should make that such a big hole. I'm sure this is the last place we needed to discover." Takuma said,

As Erisa and Takuma discussing their suspicion, 20KM is not like that far for them. Bella who keeps listen in her silence since the beginning finally thinks something off about the expedition,

"Say sister, why are we going to the ruins without anyone else with us?" Bella asks.

Erisa flashes her eyes at her, "From the 11 ancient warriors that father discovered, only 2 of them remain in this world that he is unable to discover. This might be one of them."

"Why we're the only one who goes there?"

"I'm not sure about you, but I fear father actually planning something..." She whispered

"What-"

"We don't know about what he might have planned... What scheme he done all this time… Beside of that I also want to know the meaning of all of this." She said,

"Father always said this all for the living-"

"What part of living when you keep digging back to the past that you didn't even want to understand?"

Bella is stupefied by Erisa's view. She finds it makes sense why her sister thinks this way. All they know is just keep continue their fathers' work while missing out the real intention. The literal question remains unanswered which she gave up her father's hope from the start.

"There is the entrance."

"You are right… But, Takuma…" terrified by the shining orange light emits from inside, "Did you start a fire inside?"

He stays silent…

"Alright. Bella and I will go inside. Takuma, whatever happens you do not tell everyone about it until I say it by myself." Erisa said while grabbing Bella's hand,

Takuma nods and waits outside the cave while both siblings go inside. The breezes weaken the deeper they go. They cautiously observe the cave even its a normal cave for half away they walk in, after reaching the light source the walls are full with 11 statues facing each other each side.

"Erisa! That…"

"It is a statue of the 11 ancient warriors…" astonished by the view of the majestic statue she runs closely, "…Amazing, each of them looks like a normal human, why they laid up and get stabbed at the end?" 

Bella frightened to saw the statue in horrific pose. She keeps looking through the statue more, "Something written on the sword…" Bella said,

"You are right Bella!" Erisa goes near the sword, "I think I can read it…"

"What it says?" Bella said,

"Under the darkness, violet blooms upon their eyes who dare to defy rules of power will never achieve peace. With this power, I am the darkness..." -Erisa stops while her hair turns yellow and her eyes glows red.

"Erisa-" Bella rushed to pull her from touching the sword,

"My fellow warriors. Hear my voice..." The sword begins to emit a light, she put her right hand to the handle of the sword and pulls it out-

"…Under my forsaken name… Rise!"

Abruptly strong current of wind blows Bella off far away from her place, trying to holding on a rock while every part of the cave begins to disintegrates- She looked at Erisa from a far only to see her sister casually walk within the chaos with her glowing red eyes,

"…Erisa…" Bella starts to shiver from cold caused by the wind, making her gradually loses he conscious.

After that… everything is changed…

"Bella… We will never let father have this!" Erisa said before Bella finally falls to slumber.

The souls of the damned warrior flee around Erisa and unconscious Bella. Erisa astounded by the beauty of the souls that soon scattered. Erisa walks out of the cave with a different look that shocked Takuma,

"Erisa… What happened?!" -Takuma hollered and runs towards her- "That sword… Your hair… What have you done?!"

"A new era has just begun Takuma…" Erisa absorbed the sword to her body shocking Takuma even more, "Hear me Takuma… We're going to change our mission priority."

Takuma looked at Erisa with freighted eyes "W-what is the mission?"

Erisa flash her smile at Takuma, "Bring together the 10 reincarnated Ancient Warrior!