Okay this is the fifth part of my fantasy fic. In case you
didn't read the other short, barely existent parts of my fanfic, it picks up
where Noin was having her bad dreams. I'm providing a little history about Noin
in this part.....I think you guys will like it. Enjoy!
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Noin
had barely gotten any sleep last night. She walked out on her balcony and
savored the cool breeze of the early morning. The dream had left her exhausted
and confused.
"What did it mean?" she murmured to herself.
When
she had woken up, her memory could only salvage pieces of her nightmare.
However, she could very well recall the horrid fear of that terrible
blackness.
Even more so the image of Une...........worried her more than
anything. If her dream was true then Fire Cove was gone.. Une was almost as
powerful as herself. It was Une's shields that made her such a force to reckoned
with. How could anything endanger Une?!
Damn it Lu....don't concentrate
on that, she scolded herself. What would Lorn do if he was here? He'd tell her
that the answer to all complications was thought and meditation. He'd keep her
safe, just as he had done for mostly all of her young life.
Of all the
mages in the world Noin was one of the most powerful. First, because she was
trained by Lorn himself, second because she was born a mage. She didn't need to
rely on powers of others or ancient relics to give her strength. Her energy came
from inside and from her element, water. Because water was everywhere in the
world her power was extremely potent. Lorn had taught her to control that and
for his guidance, she was grateful to him.
She never knew her
parents. But, living as an orphan only increased her wisdom. She learned of her
gift at an early age. It was what helped her survive. Those years had been some
of the scariest times of her life When she was twelve, Lorn found her a victim
of rape. . She hadn't known what had been happened to her at that young age.
Experience was a merciless and cruel teacher. The pain of her virginity being
ripped apart taught her the greater evils of man. However, something else
happened. At that moment of painful shock, her deeper powers lashed out and
killed her bastard rapist. She had no regrets about killing the man. However,
the village had a different opinion. They imprisoned her. At the tender age of
twelve, her teacher, Experience, taught her a lesson that she would learn long
past her youth. Life had no pity or justice for women. Noin had been locked up
and knocked unconscious. However, her powers were beginning to grow from the
painful shock to her being. When Lorn passed through the town on his way to his
university, he could almost touch her inner power. It was so great that it was
almost tangible. A immense blue energy, that could be soft and as soothing as a
tranquil lake, yet what mere mortal would ever be able to withstand the tide of
her fury if ever tried. Only twice had he come across power such as that. The
first time, it had been his own. The second time had been the power of a rare
platinum haired little boy. The young man's kingdom had been destroyed and the
shock of the death of his family pushed his power to a point that noone had
reached since the times of old. What amazing fruits the trees of adversity
bears.
Lorn took her as his ward and enrolled her into the Victoria Mage
academy. He knew she needed to learn as much as possible about her power.
She was the only female to ever have graced the hall of the Archmage's
of Lorn's school, and that caused her nothing but trouble.
Trouble
because as she grew into her teenage years, the senior mages believed she would
cause...............trouble, because she was rivaled only by three of the older
mages........trouble, because her body did nothing to hide her feminine traits
and trouble because she refused to be submissive.
However, the worst
occurrence was when that stupid bastard Alex tried to dishonor her. Alex had
used a sleeping spell on Noin. His intent was to take her in her sleep. If Zechs
had not shown up in time, she would have been raped once again. Alex was a
senior mage and he was one of the schools most adept. The very much biased
Archmages of Lorn never even questioned his actions. She challenged Alex that
very afternoon. The archmages would have refused, Zechs insisted. He had the
respect of some of the older more powerful mages. Already, she was indebted to
Zechs. He had saved her honor once, and now he was doing so again.
That
fateful day, Alex refused to believe that a mere female could ever rival
him.
"Come, come Noin, you would have loved it," he said. However, he
spoke to her mind.
"We've all heard about your little street urchin
days....slut."
All the while Noin's emotions went straight to the pit of
her stomach. Her anger at the unfairness of the archmages, her anger at having
to prove herself to them, her anger at her own helplessness to stop the man in
her past from raping her. Noin never even noticed the faint blue light that
started to cover her. She looked to the peaceful stream as her guide. But her
vision changed to that of a stormy sea. Thrashing, and angry, and insatiable,
she never noticed the ends of her glossy black hair beginning to rise. Her body
was acting without her command. Her arms rose to the sky. No one noticed the
blue light intensify. No one except Zechs. He saw it and could feel the coming
of an almost terrible, yet exhilarating power starting to shape. It frightened
him, yet he relished the thought of finally having someone worthy of being his
rival. Her attack was too fast for mortal eyes. Alex didn't notice until the
midnight blue ball of flaming fire flew towards his chest. He didn't have time
to put up any shields and no one watching could have stopped it. He never had a
chance.
Noin had released the fatal energy before she knew it. It was
like some new found power that she knew lived deep down inside her. She stood
surreal to the world, and then she collapsed from exhaustion. She fell to her
knees in a damned weakness.
" She must be eliminated. She has no control
over her powers. It was a mistake to allow a woman to cultivate the powers that
only a man could control. Women aren't used to this...it is too much!" Corinth
immediately barked to the other Archmages. From mage to mage, each face held
coldness, bitterness and an utter lack of mercy.
" Kick me out like you
did Treize! Lorn will not allow this!" she yelled, tears streaming down her
face. The voice of the head archmage boomed. "LORN IS NOT HERE!" The Archmage
Corinth struck her with a mage chain. She could feel her powers draining. This
was what a mage chain did. It drained a mage of their innate ability. Because
Noin was born with her powers, the process was torturing painful
She was
still on her knees. She didn't understand this. She had defended herself, with
her own powers. He had threatened her.......she had almost been raped again and
now she was to die for defending herself! Wrong! Being stripped of her powers
was a fate worse than death.
She sobbed into her knees. Finally the pain
of her purging was too much, merciful darkness captured her.
Zechs
stepped to her unconscious figure...
"I challenge her," he said. It was
amazing the way his level and even voice could be heard in every ear. "If I win,
then she is mine, but if she beats me, then she can go free."
"Marquise,
what is the meaning of this?! We have decided and it has been written!" The
older Archmage, Corinth was red with anger.
"SILENCE!! Release her at
once!!" Zechs yelled.
Corinth furiously nodded his head and the black
mage chain disappeared.
Noin slowly and painfully came to consciousness,
but moving was a feat which pain successfully kept her from
achieving.
"Who here would dare risk the wrath of Lorn for a mere girl?!
What she has done was nothing. Alex allowed his cockiness to get the better of
him and that is all. The only power she truly had in this battle was her
uncontrolled anger. All mages even the youngest novice can use anger to enhance
even the slightest of ability. Are the great Archmages of Lorn a bunch of
cowards, afraid to allow one female with a tiny amount of the gift a chance to
live?! I will beat her and she will be mine. From then on I will control her. Is
it agreed?"
"Agreed," Tor's voice boomed
" Get her to the
infirmary chambers!" Zechs barked his orders and a young group of mages scurried
to do so.
"She is very much Lorn's ward. He created this school and we
know very well that he has the power to destroy it. But know this Marquise, if
you win the battle Zechs, she will be your full responsibility. If by some luck
she does win, she will be purged. Lorn has been gone for years and only his
presence will be enough to stop our will."
Zechs eyes studied the board
of mages coldly, " She will not win.....Let that be written."
With that
he turned and left. Not a word was said and the only other movement made was
Corinth's fist furiously hitting the table.
Finally, it took me
about two good hours to write this part. God Damn it! Anyway, how'd you like it?
Hope you did. I loved writing this part, although my hentai demon is not happy.
I knocked him off my shoulder and kept writing. I said to myself, I'm not going
to rush the plot, so I `m just going to take my time. It's going to get really
good in the next part.
Why are Zechs and Noin enemies? What is going to
happen?
The answers to these questions and more......as soon as my lazy
ass writes the next part okay!
Once again, for the quazillionth time
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