"Long ago within an ordinary kingdom in the Silvania era, A selfish and arrogant king who has pride and power unlike any the human race has ever seen who goes by the name Malivan Gwydion . Then suddenly like any other day the sky suddenly went dark with a dark crystal suddenly flying in from the dark skies and landing in front of Malivan and his noble guards. The moment it landed he instinctively reached out for the crystal and ignored any concerns or shouts as the moment he had touched such a thing was the moment the world we knew had changed. Since that day centuries went by with that very continent being nearly uninhabitable to all creatures, With the current generation now moving farther away and finding new combatants to fight against Malivan Gwydion to prevent him from taking over the world with his dark magic that corrupts all life with a mere touch, To combat his magic all living creatures over time had trained into specific magical elements to have a chance against him however as time goes on fewer and fewer combatants have now even bothered to even head to his territory due to many reasons but luckily within this generation a man with a few others has sent on a adventure to finally put Malivan Gwydion down and restore life from his grasp as the story begins.."
A Ship sails to the offshore base called Kujira to try and liberate the Country of Rivania That has been corrupted by Malivan Gwydion the King of Rivania. A young man stands on the Ship as they arrive on Kujira "You might want to hurry kid, Orientation is about to start." an old scruffy man says to me. "Ill be fine old man, i wouldn't worry if i was you." I say while we dock. A Woman appears from the docks wearing a black with a Sword on her hip.
"It's about time you showed up, Karolus, we've been waiting for you." She says. "Come, follow me." She walks to the main building with a determined look on her face. As I follow her I look around the Kujira and I see other Soulweavers talking amongst themselves. As we enter the Main building she leads me into a room with other Soulweavers.
"Take a seat Karolus so we can begin." Once I take a seat she begins to speak.
"My name is Stellaria BlackRose. Welcome aboard The Kujira, the reason why you're all here is to assist in the fight against Malivan Gwydion the corrupted king of Rivania. About 2 centuries ago Malivan corrupted the Country of Rivania and sent the country into chaos, if you weren't a Soulweaver you were either killed by Soul Spawn or you get Corrupted by the Dark magic in the Country." As she says this several others walk onto the stage. "These people are seasoned Adventurers and Soulweavers who will be helping to Liberate Rivania." I glance at the Soulweavers with an intense and curious gaze "hm.. They look powerful…" I say to myself. One of the Soulweavers takes a glance at me, his glasses shine in the rooms light as he say
"My name is Junko Renno, I specialize in Fire Majik. I'm the leader of the Astral Company and were here to see how strong you Soulweavers really are." he says approaching me with a cold look in his eyes "you…" He looked me up and down for a moment. "We will hold an exhibition match to see who will take the lead in the next Expedition into Ravania." He then walks back towards the stage with the other Soulweavers then Regina starts to speak again.
"We have your matches predetermined by your skill. The first match is…" Regina looks at the paper and calls two names and the competitors stand up walking towards the arena with confidence. I take the time to mingle with other participants. I walk around the waiting room looking for any potential threats in the matches to come. I see a rough looking man with a mask with one hole for one eye, he had one arm missing with foreign looking clothes.
I eye him for a bit then i continue to look around the waiting room "He looks tough.." i say to myself before continuing. I hear a crash coming from the Arena before one of the contestants from before walks out with cuts and bruise and also a smirk on his face. Regina follows behind him with her list. "Contestint Haisuinojin and Kijin you may enter the arena" a massive man with muscles approach's with a dog. His opponent a Soulweaver with what looks like Ice and water Majick. "Mm… this seems a bit of a mismatch..'' i say to myself. "I agree." a Female voice says behind me "Maybe we should watch the match?" she say walking towards the arena. I follow her the arena stands.
I watch as the match begins, the tall man towers over the Soulweaver. As the match begins the Towering man named Haisuinojin approaches slowly "do you really think you have a chanse at beating me?" "You never know Haisuinojin.. I might just be the one to defeat you." Kijin says preparing a water spell. Haisuinojin eyes widen then makes a shield with the earth but the shield turns to mud with the spells powerful attack power. "Water huh.. One of my only weaknesses…"
Kijin smirks "One of your only weaknesses huh?" he lets out a small chuckle."I find that hard to believe Haisuinojin. No one has only one weakness." Kijin prepares for another attack, ice and water combine into one sphere above his head "I am of Noble blood my dear Haisuinojin i knew i would defeat you. How could i Kijin of house Sato lose to a nobody like-" Haisuinojin suddenly appears in front of Kijin, his fist loaded back about to punch. "Do you know what your problem is Kijin?" Kijin opened his eyes, his smirk turned into a look of surprise.. Fear. "How did-" Haisuinojin
Punches Kijin in the face sending him flying across the arena hitting a wall.
"You talk to Damn much." Kijin falls to the ground unconscious, I look at Haisuinojin wondering how I was going to defeat him if I ever fought him. "That was quite the show wasn't it." I looked to see if the mysterious woman was gone. "Who was that?" I say to myself.
I go back to the Waiting room and take a seat but as i do that foreign looking man Exits a room called arena two. "I didn't know they had Two Arena, big buy." the foreign looking man looks away with his only eye from me not bothering saying a word underneath his mask. He looked a bit disappointed and distant but I could tell he had something good for me. "Karolus RavenClaw and Tomoyuki report to Arena One, i say again report to Arena One." I let out a sigh and stood up. "It's time to put on a show.." I say with a sinister smile on my face but then I remember I needed to stay reserved for the fight. I cover my face with my hands trying to hide my smile. I enter the arena with composure and elegance. I stand in front of my opponent. She had a sword, A Swordsman, but she also had a Bow on her back, a Ranger perhaps but either way she must be deadly with both "A sword and a bow.. I don't really see that combination often Tomoyuki."
"I don't see your weapon Mr RavenClaw.."
I chuckle to myself reaching behind my back pulling out a dagger. "This is all I need to win, you don't have what it takes to win against me." I stand still waiting for her move. She unsheaths her sword pointing it at me then she gets into a stance. "Are you going to stand there or are you going to come at me?" I smirk a bit then I approach her. I stop a few feet in front of her. "What are you waiting for, aren't you going to.." I lunge at her catching her off guard, she tries to swing but her sword goes through me. An illusion fades, she was swinging at thin air
"What the.." She looks around stunned. "An illusion Damnit!" Another illusion appears behind her: Tomoyuki warriors instincts triggers, she Swings again but hits nothing. "Are you going to fight me like a man or are you just going to keep casting your illusion coward!" She yells out into the seemingly empty Arena. "Coward you say? I am no coward." I cut her legs from behind making her fall to her knees with a pained grunt. "You son of a.." I appear behind her with my blade to her neck
Then Stellaria calls the match. "Stop!" She raises her hand "The Winner is Karolus RavenClaw."
I sheath my blade then I start to walk off. "Wait!" Tomoyuki yells. "I demand a rematch! You cheated! I couldn't even see you in our match!" Tomoyuki tries to stand using her sword as support. "I know, we should fight death this time." she says. I feel the smile creeping onto my face again but this time i dont hide it "A fight to the death? I'll gladly fight you just know I won't be holding back." I turn and face her, slowly walking to her but Stellaria tries to stop me.
"Karolus if you continue you will forfeit your placement in the Exhibition matches." She puts her hand on my shoulder. "What would your family think of you?" I swat her hand away from me taking a step back "You know I hate my so-called Family Stellaria. I couldn't care less what they think about me, and you of all people should know why." I glanced at Tomoyuki "your lucky Stellaria saved you or I would have killed you." I walk away back to the Waiting room once I enter the other SoulWeavers start whispering "RavenClaw isn't that a noble house in Impirium City Capital?"
"Is it just me or does it sound like he has a personal relationship with Ms Stellaria?"
I pay no mind to the whispers as I take a seat and they call for the next participants to enter the arena. I see Tomoyuki limp out of the infirmary, she looks at me with anger and disgust muttering something under her breath before limping away.
After a while my name was called again for my last match. "The next match is between Karolus RavenClaw and Zero Yamato." I glance at the man with foreign clothes. His appearance is odd, a white worn out mask to cover his face that only had one hole for his only eye, foreign clothes that were oversized that helped hide most of his body and missing an arm but I could tell he was a seasoned warrior with all the scars on his body, deep cuts of all sizes." I look at him with curiosity before standing up.
"So big guy think you can take me on?" Zero doesn't respond right away as he stares down Karolus without a hint of fear nor emotion before slowly turning away from Karolus without saying a word. Zero glanced over in the distance with his lone eye. "..." I can't help but smile at him as he walks away before standing up by himself following him to the arena. Once we entered the arena he stood a few feet away waiting for the match to begin as it seemed he was already eager to end the battle quickly.
I ready my dagger. "So Zero, are you ready? I for one am very excited." Zero doesn't say a word and immediately prepares his fighting stance by widening his legs and lifting his Sword over his head. His only arm has a bit of flames sparking off of him which caused his eye to widen ever so slightly as if he was concerned about something. "What's wrong, big guy, worried about something?" I say slowly walking towards him. Zero suddenly charges in and swings his Sword fazing through Karolus. "I have to say you are quite strong, Zero." Several illusions of me surround Zero "Which one is the real Zero, Make your choice!" Without much hesitation Zero swings his sword around him to slash all of Karolus's illusions before he slowly opens his hand out. Zero speaks underneath his mask while unleashing ice magik that sends ice shards in front of him. "It doesn't matter to me how many you's you can make. I'll find you eventually." Laughter fills the air as I speak "You almost hit me there.. But no matter what you do you have no chance of winning against me!" My laughter echoes throughout the arena. "Now let's see what you're truly afraid of!"
A face appears in front of Zero His Father.
As he appears Zero drops his sword and clenches his arm before punching Karolus in the face sending him flying across the arena. The illusion had only shattered just for a moment, Zero scanned the area now realizing what Karolus' skill was. Zero picks up his weapon enraged by the illusion he saw. Karolus struggled to get up "you… you Bastard!" Karolus says. "You broke through my Illusion.. You hit me…" A sinister Smile creeps onto his face and laughs even more. "Finally a real opponent." He says with joy. "I think it's time for me to go all out!" In a blink of an eye we were face to face with each other. Blows landing with each other but neither relent.
As we clash, others watch from the stands in awe, Stellaria looking a bit nervous at the fight while Haisuinojin cracks his neck "I love a good fight.." as he prepares to jump into the ring Stellaria tries to stop him but he pays her no mind. As the battle rages on with Zero being able to use his instincts and body to charge head on to Karolus's attacks and dodging most of his attacks. Although despite being under Karolus illusions Zero was slowly breaking his demeanor as the battle switched from a sparring match to an all out battle. Zero forces himself to use other sorts of majik, which fails as the battle continues. Zero's Sun magik slowly begins to manifest itself throughout his body and attacks as it was being influenced by Karolus magik. It enraged Zero more and more and he wanted to end the battle as quickly as possible.
"I think we should end this now.." Karolus say with a bit of malice in my voice as Zero loads his arm back while roaring out preparing to end the battle with a final blow, but as before either of them landed a strike Hasisuinojin stepped in and created a rock wall that immediately caused both of them to fall back from the collision. Zero immediately rose up with flames sparking off of his body. His mask broken revealing the left side of his face while he spoke out aggressively "Damn you bastards..I WILL.." as everyone within the arena gaze upon his scarred face that looked inhumane, after a moment of realization Zero would slowly calm down and hide his face with his arm and immediately leave before anyone else could comment on his appearance.
Meanwhile outside of the arena Zero would find himself desperately trying to cover his broken mask with various different types of cloth as he spoke to himself seemingly blaming the idea of things getting out of hand "No..It'll be okay..I'm okay..I'm nothing like him.." After a moment he collected himself before sighing as he wrapped a simple worn out cloth over the side of his mask and walked back to the arena as if nothing had happened. Hasisuinojin was standing next to Karolus while Stellaria was yelling at them "Are you out of your mind Karolus! Do you know the amount of damage you've done to the arena look around you." The Arena was destroyed, the walls were busted, small craters in the ground and blood everywhere as Zero had returned after her scolding Karolus. As Zero spoke out from underneath his broken mask before suddenly bowing to her in a strict and obedient manner. "I apologize for the mess I may have caused, I will make sure such a thing will never happen again. I will work on the repairs."
Stellaria lets out a sigh before running her hand through her hair. "What am I going to do with you three.." Karolus sighs as well before walking off. "Where do you think you're going Karolus get back here!" Stellaria follows him, leaving Hasisuinojin and Zero standing there with each other "Your strong Hasisuinojin thank you for stepping in, if that battle keeped on I dont think…" Hasisuinojin holds his hand up stopping Zero from speaking "Hold it now Zero i only stepped in because i love to fight and your battle looked intense and I wanted to join."
Hasisuinojin turns around to leave but stops. "You won't last long if you hold back like you did today Zero, If you do you'll perish on the battlefield." With that, Hasisuinojin leaves Zero alone. "..." Zero stands there looking down at the ground looking at his rough and rugged arm thinking to himself despite the stoic demeanor there seemed something greatly troubling him, muttering something to himself before walking towards the waiting room.
After a while Stellaria enters the room with all the participants waiting for the results of the Orientation test, taking the center stage "You all fought valiantly, we applaud your efforts."
Stellaria Pause before continuing. "We analyzed your performances and put you in groups to better increase your survival chances out in the field." Stellaria lists off names but leaves out Karolus, Hasisuinojin, and Zero. Once Stellaria finishes Stellaria she approaches them.
"You three, follow me" The three followed her into her office. "I'm sure you're wondering why I didn't call your names just now, but I assure you that you're not in any sort of trouble." Stellaria clears her throat before speaking "I have selected you three to be in a special Squadron made up of only you three. The usual squad is made up of Five members but you three have proven that you're stronger than the average Soulweaver so we don't think you need a full Team but…"
Karolus cuts her off "I'm not being teamed up with These People I'd rather go at it alone then with these Degenerates." Zero heard his comment had slowly looked away. His body faced away from the group as he seemed rather uncomfortable and uneasy around Karolus. Hasisuinojin scoffs and turns away "I don't want to be teamed up with weaklings like you." he retorts. Stellaria sighs "Stop it all three of you, you have to work together or you'll all die out there." We stand in silence for a second before she speaks again. "Your Squadron name will be Lycoris you'll be given more freedom then the others squads but you carry out the most dangerous missions." "Great.. So you're sending us on a mission that would most likely kill us right, Stellaria?" She looks down, her red eyes show a hint of guilt or regret. "I should tell you Squadrons like yours don't really last long on the Mainland."
"And why's that Stellaria? Tell me" Karolus steps closer to her "Why so quiet Stellaria, nervous?"
Zero steps in, extends his arm out in between the two as he speaks out from underneath his mask while shooting Karolus a glare, from his lone eye still enraged. "Knock it off, She's just doing her job." Karolus grits his teeth "This is between me and her, why don't you go off somewhere Freak." Zero reaches for his katana but Stellaria stops him.
"It's ok.. I deserve that." Zero tries to speak but she stops him "Never mind.." Karolus says slamming the door behind him. "Karolus.." She says quietly, "I'm sorry."