A/N: New story.. I really need to work on my old one.. I have a few chapters of this one but I'm not sure its any good... I'm just gonna leave the prologue up for a while and see how that goes...I you like it I'll start uploading chapters.
I also dont own anything...If did most everything would be yaoi smutt...
Bring me to life
Prologue
War raged across the land. The people were suffering and they had no one to defend them. Then she came and rallied the people. They loved her where their enemies feared her. She was loyal and true. She always told her troops that to succeed they had to have something to protect. If they didn't then they all would fail. What she wanted to protect the most was the man who saved her to begin with.
At first she was nothing. People shunned her for her silver hair and red eyes. They said she was a demon. The only people in the world who wanted her was her mother and father. One day while the girls mother and father were in town to buy supplies the townspeople came and tried to burn the girl's house down. At that time she was only a child. Luckily, a traveling warrior spotted the burning house and rushed forward to save the girl inside.
The warrior treated her wounds and waited with her for her parents return. Her mother was in tears when they returned and her father quiet. They found her setting with the warrior and rushed to her. The warrior refused to give the girl back to the parents who left her there knowing that the townspeople wanted to hurt her. Her mother pleaded and begged the warrior to give the girl back, that she was their only daughter. She dosen't look like you he told her. For all he knew they could have taken her from someone else. All the girl had told him was that the townspeople hated her. Her mother then admitted that the man whom she called father was not actually her father. They had gotten married because he loved her and it would look bad on the girls mother to be pregnant without a husband. The man loved the girl like his own, so they never told her the truth.
The girl was upset and told the warrior that she wanted to go with him. She wanted to be strong. Then they couldn't hurt her anymore. So the warrior took him with her and they left her family. He watched her grow and become more powerful. He'd never seen anyone as naturally skilled with a blade as she was. He'd also started to notice she was becoming a woman. What surprised him the most was her ability to use the arts. He watched her the first time it happened. They were sparring when her sword erupted into flames. He had never been so happy as to see another magic user. The it clicked in his mind. The only other magic user he knew of where the royal family. They also had the characteristic of red eyes and silver hair.
He tried to tell the girl and offered to take her to them but she refused. She said that they wouldn't want her. Even if she was one of them her mother was nothing to them. Her mother had been a maid in the palace and when she became with child they kicked her out. The warrior couldn't say anything he, himself had been kicked out of the palace by his own brother. He took her to the royal city anyways claiming they needed supplies.. In reality he was getting older and now he figured she could take care of herself. Plus he wanted her to meet another user. He believed her skills needed to be trained.
So the warrior sent the girl to her new teacher. The man was older than the warrior and he said she needed more discipline. So for another year she and the warrior learned magic until the their teacher said she was better than anyone in the palace and turned her away when she said she wanted to learn more. The man told her to go to the palace. That they needed a general for the upcoming war. That his demons had told him so. Soon a man would rise from the East and bring destruction to their home. He said she was the only one who defeat the monster that was coming.
That night the girl went to the warrior. She told him how she loved him and that she didn't anyone else. He took her to his bed and made her the woman that she needed to be before the war started. The next day he sent her to the palace alone. He told her it was her battle and she needed to be stronger now than every before.
So the girl went to the palace. There they scrutinized her. Told her that a woman even as gifted as she was could never run a army of men. That they would never listen to her. They knew of the war that was coming and a man much similar to her. He was tall with the same silver hair but green eyes. They told her if she wanted to fight against him they wouldn't stop her but they wouldn't give her power either. But the king noticed her features and as she was leaving he had one of his maid bring the girl to his room.
There he challenged her of her birth, saying that only the royal family had her features. The girl didn't want the King to know of her mother but it seemed he already knew. She told him she had not seen her mother since she was a child. How the townspeople where she used to like hated her for what she looked like and how they tried to kill her by burning down her home. The king was appalled that his people would do such a thing, but expected it. She also told him of her warrior and of her magic teacher and all the things she learned. This the king was proud to her. That something that came from him had so much power and never tried to gain power.
Upon hearing the girls story the king smiled. He couldn't bring her into his family but he could give her the army she asked for. He believed she could be the one to take down the army to the East. So the king gave her a royal pendant and told her to bring her warrior and teacher to the castle. He refused to see his new general live in the city where she was needed in the castle. Before she left the king asked her what her name was. She told him that her warrior had always called her Ruby. That her given name had been lost to the wind years ago.
So the girl brought her warrior but her teacher refused to go to the castle. He said they needed not his magics there, and that she knew everything that he could teach them. She was no better teacher than her was. From what he said at least.
For three years the girl trained her troops. She came to be well respected in all the corners of the world. They knew her as the Crimson general. At her right hand she kept her warrior. To her he was truly the only one she trusted completely. On her left she a man with childish features and spiked blond hair. The man had once saved her and proved to be skilled beyond any of her troops. He knew more about the enemy than anyone could have hoped for. He had fled his country. From the atrocities that the silver hared man had caused. He said the man rose and slaughtered the royal families of the eastern countries. The girl at first had refused to bring him into her fold saying he was a spy, until at one o their war meeting he had stopped the spy before he could get to her. Only then did she deem him worthy.
It seemed that in a blink of an eye that the eastern army had invaded the west. The girl fought hard and won many battles. She always told her troops to remember their families and those whom they saw worth protecting. That motivation she gave her troops was what kept them alive. Without it they would have failed.
After several months of bloodshed the silver haired man arrived at the royal palace. The girl was there to meet him head on. He taunted he saying she was lucky and talentless. The girl looked to her warrior and her blond haired friend. She knew what had to be done. She told them not to interfere, that she loved them both and that she could have been with them longer. Then she attacked.
The two fought for what seemed like hours. The girl was growing tired and it seemed like her opponent was not even winded, but she couldn't give up. She had people she wanted to protect. People that she didn't want to see die. Deciding that it was the only way to defeat him, she pulled all of her strength and magic into one attack. Her opponent seeing his readied his own.
In a flash of light the battle had ended. The man lay dead and the girl was victorious. The battle was over. They had won. Seeing this the girl smiled and fell to the ground. Her warrior and friend right beside her. She looked into the childish face of her friend and then to her warrior. We won she told them with a smile on her face. They were free of his wrath. The girl closed her eyes while her warrior pleaded with her to stay awake. In her last breath she told him she loved him and to live long. Then, for the girl everything went black. She was finally at peace. The darkness that was around her was calming and pleasant.
So the girl slept, unknowingly to the peace she had brought. The lives she had saved. The girl was remembered for a long time in books and in memory. Unknowing to her that one day she would be needed again.