Drakengard Anomaly: The Tale of an Angel and an Intoner

-Midgard, Cathedral City, Year 995-

Cathedral City was in chaos, a normal day for its inhabitants became a nightmare. Everything went as it should, the successful capture of the criminals known as Alan and Rose, the crushing of the revolt led by noble families, but the Institute of Magic suddenly entered a state of emergency.

One of his prisoners escaped along with two new magic specimens, seeing that the soldiers would not be able to contain the fugitives, the institute's head mage used weapon Number 16, but even then, it was not enough, the head mage died and Number 16 was destroyed.

The accounts of the few survivors of the disaster shone some light on the happening.

A being named "Angel" accompanied by two magical books came out of the ruins of the Institute and killed all the guards in his path. Amidst the heavy rain, the "Angel" approached the execution platform where the criminal known as Rose awaited her end.

From here, the reports become harder to believe, the "Angel" stopped in front of the criminal and raised his axe, probably to execute her, but a mysterious explosion stopped the angel at the last second.

The survivors reported that the cloud from the explosion formed the shape of a giant flower that pierced the heavens.

A huge crater formed in the place where the "Angel" and the criminal stood previously, the authorities of Cathedral City declared the death of the two due to the size of the explosion.

-XXXXXX-

What happened? Why everything is so dark? Moreover, why does my body hurt so much? What is that noise, rain? I need to get up! However, I could not; there was something heavy over my body.

I heard the sound of something moving, suddenly, I saw a light.

"Lord Alan..." A muffled voice spoke while the light shone brighter.

"Lord Alan..." The voice was familiar.

"Lord Alan..." I saw Noir and Rubrum floating above my face through my blurred vision while my ears rang incessantly.

"Noir, Rubrum, what happened?" I asked confused, struggling to my feet while the world spun around me, I leaned on the rocks beside me to avoid falling on the ground.

"Lord Alan! You shouldn't get up; you were at the epicenter of the explosion!" Noir said worriedly as Rubrum and he floated around me.

"What explosion?" I asked again while looking around, my vision slowly returning to normal.

We were inside the parking lot of a half-collapsed building and I saw an entrance hole in the shape of a body in a wall upon looking up. Did the explosion send me here?

I slowly climbed the pile of rubble that led to the hole, but I noticed something strange, I recognized the outline of my body, but it had wings for some reason. However, since when do I have wings?

Never mind! My head was killing me; I walked through the hole, left the parking lot, and felt something falling on my body. Looking up, I saw a sky covered with dark clouds without a single ray of sunlight pouring torrential rain on me.

Looking around I saw that I stood in a ruined city with crumbling buildings, destroyed ground, and a big crater in the center of all this destruction.

I passed a large piece of glass stuck to the floor as I walked, probably a piece of a window. My eyes widened with what I saw when I looked at myself in the glass, I could not help but scream.

"AAAHHH!" I fell to the ground and dragged myself backward, trying to get away from that thing.

"Lord Alan, what is happening?!?" Noir and Rubrum quickly floated towards me.

"What is that thing?!?" I yelled, pointing at the glass.

Noir and Rubrum went silent but I heard the black book take a deep breath.

"Lord Alan... That's you." Noir said hesitantly.

"Me?" I saw that the thing in the glass imitated my movements when I got up, it was my reflection and I was that thing.

What happened to me? I remember escaping my cell, finding Noir and Rubrum, and fighting the mage and Number 16 shortly after, Number 16 went out of control and tried to crush us.

Therefore, I ordered Noir to absorb the entire institute's magic, which he did. Then it became a blur, I remember fighting soldiers, a flower that gave me a weird feeling, and then... Rose... Rose? ROSE!

Where is she? That was a huge explosion! We survived it but Rose is completely human!

"Rose!" I screamed, running into the crater.

"Lord Alan, wait for us!" Noir yelled after me, but I did not stop.

"ROSE! ROSE!" I screamed as I ran through the rubble and ruins.

I searched for her until I saw a hand sticking out from under a pile of rubble.

"ROSE!" I screamed again, running towards the pile, dropping to my knees and removing the rocks.

"ROSE! HOLD ON!" I screamed, removing the rubble.

"Miss Rose, don't worry, we're here!" Noir yelled, stopping beside, creating two hands and removing the rubble too. Rubrum did the same, enveloping the stones with her magic and throwing them away.

Noir lifted a large rock that stood on top of Rose and I pulled her out, I laid Rose on the floor with my right hand keeping her upper torso raised.

I did not know what to do with the number of injuries on Rose's body, her legs were crushed, and I doubted she would be able to walk again; her left arm was crooked, probably broken in several parts.

Blood oozed out of her closed left eye, without speaking, of course, about the several cuts and wounds covering her body.

Suddenly, Rose opened her remaining eye with a gasp for air and looked around confused while trying to move, then she looked at her legs thanks to the lack of result. I immediately held her chin, making her look at me.

"Don't look! Look at me instead!"

Her eye widened in surprise as she struggled, trying to escape my arms. I must not be a pleasant sight.

"Rose, please stop!" I screamed, but she struggled even more.

"Miss Rose, please stay still, you are severely hurt!" Noir said, trying to calm Rose down while Rubrum tried to do the same.

Rose's remaining eye stared at Noir, then Rubrum, and finally me.

Rose closed her eye slightly, trying to focus her vision, and raised her other hand towards my face, touching my cheek. I placed my left hand over hers, trying to comfort her.

"A-alan?" Rose stuttered with a pained voice.

"Yes, it's me, Alan!" I said smiling at her.

Rose smiled weakly; suddenly she coughed up blood.

"COUGH! COUGH! COUGH!" Rose coughed and blood flew from her mouth with each cough.

"ROSE! ROSE!" I screamed in desperation but Rose kept coughing. I looked around, searching for something to help.

"ROSE! DON'T WORRY, EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE, STAY WITH ME!"

My pleas did not help, with one last smile, Rose's eye closed and her hand dropped to the side.

"ROSE!" I screamed, shaking her, but there was no answer, she was dead.

I saw something dripping on Rose's face, was it rain? No, I felt something running down my face. Was I crying? Yes, I was. I stayed there with Rose's body in my arms for a long time.

Noir went silent beside me while Rubrum cried.

"Lord Alan, we need to go." Noir said putting a hand on my shoulder.

I hate to admit it, but he is right, we escaped. Who knows how long until the guards, or worse, the Lords will take to get here?

"You're right, but first let's give Rose a proper burial." I said, slipping my left arm under Rose's legs and carrying her in my arms.

"I couldn't agree more, Lord Alan." Noir said sadly.

Rubrum floated in front of us as she watched Rose's body.

Then the four of us left Cathedral City together through the rain, and I could not stop crying on our way out.

Suddenly, I felt something grabbing my leg, looking down; I saw one of the Cathedral City guards.

"Help me." He said weakly.

"Don't worry, I'll help you." I answered emotionlessly.

I swung my leg, escaping his grip, and I lifted my foot, stomping his head right after, leaving a red pool of blood and flesh on the ground. Humph, as if any of you deserve any help!

Therefore, I walked away from Cathedral City.

-XXXXXX-

Where I am? Am I dead? Did the angel cut my head off? Alternatively, was it all a dream? I tried to open my eyes, but I could not, I tried to get up, but something heavy on top of my body stopped me.

I could not feel my legs; I could not feel one of my arms. Is the afterlife a void where you feel nothing and cannot move?

"ROSE..." A muffled voice spoke.

"ROSE..." Once again the voice called me, it sounded familiar.

"ROSE!"

I heard it this time, someone called my name. However, who owned that voice?

I felt the weight on my body gradually disappear and I saw a light. Moreover, what was that noise, rain?

The weight disappeared and I felt something pulling me forward, laying me on the floor and lifting my back.

Breathing deeply, the cold air made me shiver but I felt a little relieved when the air entered my lungs, I tried to open my eyes, but I could only open one, so looked around, analyzing my surroundings.

What the hell happened here? I stood amid rubble and ruins with torrential rain pouring down on me. Where did that flower go? It was so beautiful. No use worrying about it, I survived! It is better to escape this city before the guards arrive!

I tried to get up but I could not feel my legs, there was something wrong with them! Therefore, I slowly lowered my gaze towards them. Oh, that is why I cannot get up they are crushed! Oh, fuck, they are crushed!

I did not know what to do, I did not feel any pain, but the sight was not pretty. My breathing quickened as a panic attack formed in my mind.

I felt something grab my chin and change the direction I looked before I continued my line of thought.

My heart speeded up at what I saw. What was that thing? The thing said something, but I could not hear it, an incessant ringing in my ear muffed everything.

Fuck it! I need to get the hell out of here! I do not want to find out what this thing will do to me! I tried to escape the thing's grip, but it only held me tighter. Let me go! Stay away from me! I cannot die like this!

Suddenly, two familiar figures floated next to that thing, my vision alternated between the three, if those were Noir and Rubrum then that meant this thing holding me was...

Slowly and with a lot of effort, I raised my hand towards the thing's face. Its face looked familiar but I needed to make sure it was who I thought, I managed to put my hand on the thing's cheek and the thing put one of its hands over mine.

"A-alan?"

The thing smiled when I said that name, so I was right. I could not help but smile back. Who would have guessed? Were you an angel this whole time? Thinking about everything that happened so far, it kind of does not surprise me anymore.

You appeared out of nowhere wearing strange clothes, talking strangely, carrying two talking magic books, and being weirdly strong.

You showed up when I needed the most, you saved me and cared for me, and now you are here by my side in my last moments, you are truly a guardian angel, my guardian angel. Thank you for everything.

My vision dimmed and Alan said something but I could not hear it, I just smiled at him. Goodbye, I doubt that I will go to heaven but if by some miracle this happens, I hope to meet you again.

Soon everything went dark.

-XXXXXX-

"Well Rose, we're leaving now." I spoke to the grave in front of me.

We stood in a forest far from Cathedral City, where I buried Rose's body in a clearing in the middle of a flower field, Rose liked flowers. I put a makeshift cross just above the grave; I wish I had done something better.

"I talked to Noir and Rubrum; we concluded that we're going to stick with our original plan. We are going to the Land of Forests." There was no answer, just the sound of the wind blowing in my ears.

"The Land of Forests is where most of the non-human population lives, I think Noir, Rubrum, and I will be able to fit in there." I said, looking at my hands.

"There were so many things I wanted to show you, we could have seen the Coliseum in Rome, and then maybe we could have left Midgard and see the rest of the world, Egypt, Greece, China… But that's just a dream now." I took a deep breath as tears streamed down my face.

"I think that's it, goodbye Rose, and thanks for everything." I said before leaving.

"Goodbye, Miss Rose." Noir said bowing in front of the grave while Rubrum placed a flower on top of it using her magic, and then the three of us left the flower field.

I came across something that left me confused while walking among the trees. My backpack stood under a tree in front of me.

I outstretched my hand towards Noir and the book opened its pages, revealing the handle of a weapon, pulling the handle, I removed my ax from inside Noir. I approached my backpack with the ax in both hands, looking around for any sign of whoever had left my stuff there.

I kicked my backpack lightly, but nothing happened, so I crouched down and opened it.

In addition, to my surprise, I found the clothes I wore when I arrived in Midgard and some of my personal belongings, my boots, jeans, black shirt and gray coat, my cell phone, and my map of Midgard.

"Lord Alan, how did it get here?" Noir asked.

"I have no idea." I replied, picking up the clothes.

I walked behind a tree and put on the clothes, technically, I had been naked this whole time, but a kind of darkness covered my private parts, luckily, my "member" between my legs was still there, I checked it.

I hung my backpack on my shoulders and put my cell phone in my pocket when I finished changing, it brings back memories.

I felt something in my pocket when I stepped forward; it was a piece of paper. I unfolded it and saw that it was some kind of note.

"A gift from an observer, I thought you'd need it due to your condition, maybe we'll meet in the future."

Signed: Accord'

Observer, do I have a stalker now? Moreover, who the hell is Accord? I looked around for this person, but there was no one there, great!

"What was written in the note, Lord Alan?"

"Nothing Noir, let's go." I sighed, crumpling the paper and throwing it away.

Noir, Rubrum, and I walked through the forest until we reached a road, I felt my face and hands burn in the sunlight when I emerged from the shade of the trees.

"AAAHHH!" I screamed, jumping back in pain.

"Lord Alan, are you okay?" Noir asked worried while Rubrum floated around me, looking for wounds.

"Yes, I'm fine." I put my hand out of the shadows and smoke came out of it as it made contact with sunlight.

Great, does that mean I became some kind of vampire? I hope not, I do not want to turn into a bat and thirst for blood.

I put the hood over my head, my hands inside my pockets, and walked down the road with my head low with Noir and Rubrum by my side.

-Rose's Grave-

A long time ago, there was a girl, this girl never knew her father and was never loved by her mother, one day her mother sold her to a brothel, and from then on, this girl started to hate the world.

Why of all the people in the world, did she have to suffer? Why was the world so unfair? Why she could not have a normal life?

However, the girl made a friend amid this hell, a girl with indigo eyes. Therefore, the girl named her Indigo and Indigo named her new friend Rose because of her pink eyes.

One day Indigo and Rose decided to run away, they stole all the money from the brothel and fled through the streets. Unfortunately, Rose had her remaining faith in the world and its people destroyed upon reaching a bridge leading out of the city.

Indigo was not her friend, she just needed someone to help carry the gold, and now Indigo needed to get rid of the only witness to the crime. Rose's life would have ended that night, but fate had other plans.

A person, a total stranger, appeared out of nowhere as if by magic. He wore strange clothes, spoke strangely, and had no idea where he was, all he knew was that he needed to find a way back home.

This stranger helped Rose, scaring Indigo away and getting rid of the brothel bosses who chased them.

Together, the stranger and Rose left the city with the stolen money, and the stranger introduced himself as Alan, Rose did not trust him, after all the last person that she trusted tried to kill her.

A bond formed between the two as time passed. Alan and Rose lived a relatively normal life, unfortunately, this normality did not last forever as Rose's past came back to haunt her.

One night a group of men invaded their house, the brothel bosses hired them to kill Alan and take Rose and the money back.

Seeing no other option, Alan revealed his secret, the two magic books known as Noir, the ever-loyal black book, and Rubrum, the red book with the spirit of a child.

Together they killed every man except one who begged for his life, this piety would prove to be a mistake in the future. The man revealed to the Evil Lords who ruled Midgard Alan's secret, the magic books.

Alan and Rose fled their home, but eventually, the Lord's forces captured them and took them to Cathedral City where they tortured Rose for her crimes while Alan and his books became the target of experiments by the mages of the Institute of Magic.

Rose had accepted her fate while cursing the world she lived in, Alan, on the other hand, made a deal with a mysterious man named Bartas.

Alan escaped with his books, but they fought Number 16, a weapon created from Alan's blood, and the institute's head mage, upon arriving at the institute's doors.

To kill an uncontrolled Number 16, Alan ordered Noir to absorb all the magic of the institute, Alan lost his human form thanks to that but gained great power.

Free, Alan searched for Rose, finding her on an execution platform surrounded by petals and with a beautiful flower at her feet.

For Rose, that flower was the most beautiful thing she saw in her entire life, for Alan, that flower was the most disgusting thing he saw. With great fury in his being, Alan tried to destroy the flower but a huge explosion stopped him.

Due to his new form, Alan survived the explosion almost unharmed, but Rose had no such luck. With a dead Rose in his arms, Alan left Cathedral City and buried her in a field of flowers where Rose could finally have the peace that she wished.

At least that is what he thought, this cruel world was not over with Rose, and the flower had just begun its march toward the end of the world.

The earth in Rose's grave shook, and soon a small flower came out from inside it, the flower grew and grew until it was taller than a person was.

A noise came out of the flower.

"AAAHHH!"

This noise got louder as the flower grew.

"AAAHHH!"

Suddenly, a bloody arm came out of the flower.

"AAAHHH!"

Little by little, a body came out of the flower, the body of a naked girl covered in blood, with a flower in one of her eyes and screaming from the top of her lungs.

"AAAHHH!"

Soon the girl's body came out of the flower while the flower she just emerged from dissolved into black and red smoke.

The girl stepped forward with trembling legs, she looked frantically left and right without understanding what happened, after all, she had died a few minutes ago, and soon the girl passed out due to the shock.

Moreover, due to being unconscious, the girl did not notice the black mud coming out of the flower in her eye or the black mud taking the form of five little girls.

END OF CHAPTER