Dragon Age: Mages Wrath

Chapter 1

So I don't own Dragon Age though I wish I did cause Hawke and the hero would have already met.

This is my first Dragon Age story so sorry if the characters are a bit OC. Dragon Age 2 never happened just to clear that up. I have always wondered what would have happened if you would have been able to find Hawke and his/her family in Lothering, and if you would have been able to recruit them, so enter this story.

Carver will be in this story though not as much since I can't stand his character in Dragon Age 2. Hawke is a female mage who goes between direct, and humor. The story starts off in Lothering and goes pretty heavy AU from there, just an obvious warning.

She was Celeste Amell the mage, and a grey warden, though the last little bit was a might harder to swallow. She really had survived her joining when others had not, that would always be in the back of her mind. She couldn't dwell on the whole thing for too long though she had a job to do. She had to stop Ferelden from being swallowed up by a blight. She took the few steps off the main road so she could enter Lothering. Alister, Morrigan, and her dog were right on her heels as she walked past a few scared villages, and past the first Templar.

She was a mage first and a grey warden second, Templars would always be wary of her. They would always give her those looks of hatred. She wasn't going to turn into an abomination like Morrigan, who had threatened Alister with that before they left the wilds. She was hoping for a little more respect as a grey warden but it couldn't happen. How could someone important also be a taint on the very world itself. That's what foolishness the chantry believed so it had to be right. Yeah whatever. Magic was not a curse, and the world was about to find out what happened when you pissed off a mage. The wrath of a mage was terrible indeed.

Celeste suddenly stopped and looked around as if confused. "We can't help these people" she said even though it was more to herself than to her companions following her.

"Wait you can't be serious can you. You're not going to turn away from these innocent people while they get slaughtered by the approaching darkspawn horde" Alister said with a mix of frustration and surprise. "These people need our help surely you can see that."

"How exactly can we help Alister? What are two Grey Warden verse the approaching horde. The only way that we can help these poor people is to build and army to stop all this destruction, until than casualties are to be expected." Alister turned his body so he was in front and facing Celeste. If anybody else had done that she would have blasted them with a spell, but this was Alister.

"Casualties are to be expected will you listen to yourself…" Alister was about to say something but was cut off by a now infuriated Morrigan.

"Would tis so kill you to just be silent? Your voice tis most annoying to listen to. Twould it be so hard to see the bigger picture and listen to your pristinely gifted Grey Warden, who on all accounts tis smarter than you Alister" she said her eyes carrying a fury that burned through Alister head. Alister was about to respond and Celeste could see his comment coming so she merely stuck her hand out to silence him.

"If you two keep bickering like this, I might decide not to bring either of you along. Now let's go see what going on in the inn. Maybe we might actually be able to find out some decent information. We should at least learn if what the bandits said is true. If Loghain is starting to hunt us I would like to know now so we could prepare accordingly, though I'm not sure how you really prepare for something like that." When neither Morrigan nor Alister responded she decided that it was ok to keep moving and visit the inn. 'Dane's Refuge how fitting. Instead of preparing for what's coming these people are too frightened to do anything. Makes me feel more than justified in what I'm doing' Celeste thought to herself.

With a quick knock on the inn door she opened it up and took in the mess that was the inn. People were scattered all over the inn, covered every table and filled up 75% of the space in Dane's Refuge. Celeste's thoughts were interrupted when a large well-built man spoke loud enough for the whole inn to her. "Look what we have here men a Grey Warden. All it takes it a description and you can easily find the culprits that Loghain lies in front of you" the man spoke.

"Uh oh Loghain's men seems like the bandits were right" Alister said uncomfortably shifting in his splint mail armor. Slowly Celeste took the staff off his back and slammed the butt of it into the ground.

"All who follow Loghain will taste the vengeance of the Grey Wardens. So let me ask you do you really want to continue this action, knowing full well what we're capable of" Celeste asked her hand becoming tighter on her staff that was planted into the ground. Her long blonde hair stirred for a moment as she gave a little demonstration of the power that she was capable of. When one of Loghain's men put his hand to his sword, Celeste knew the answer to the question. "Fine. So be it."

Celeste quickly struck her hand out and magically pushed one of the men into the table nearest them. That was when Alister knew the battle was on. When one of the men went to stab Alister in the stomach he quickly side stepped the man and thrust his shield out connecting with the man's head. As the man stumbled back Alister used his momentum to slice through the man's own stomach instead.

Morrigan took a few steps back from the battle and started to charge one of her lightning spells up. With her chained lightning she would knock down all these fools at one once. "Tis your fault for battling us. Fools" Morrigan said as she unleashed the lightning spell that was now ready. Alister and Celeste barely had a second to move out of the way as the lightning struck the leader the hardest, and started to die down as the others fell to the ground.

"Ok, ok we surrender" the man leading this unit of men said. "Don't kill us." The man dropped his long two handed broadsword to the ground as Celeste and Alister boxed him in on his right and left, Morrigan and the mabari in the front making nowhere for the man to go.

"If I see you ever again I will kill you now get out" Celeste ordered her magic flaring again. The man quickly bowed his head and ran with his men out the door. Celeste slowly took the moment they had to look around and see the table that had been crushed in their wake of the fight; she could also see that some the refugees had moved back a ways from the fight, crowding areas even more.

As she got ready to turn around and walk out the door Celeste's eyes caught with a young man's who was sitting at one of the back tables. She noticed him start to move from the others that he was sitting with. "Great more bloody mages" the man mumbled as he walked past her and out the door.

"So it seems not everyone was impressed with display of magic" Alister said with sarcasm clearly in his voice. The man with black hair that had walked out the door was followed by three women who had been sitting at his table. One woman had gray hair, one had black hair, and one had brown hair.

"Sorry he's never liked having our whole family be mages" the older woman with gray hair said. The older woman stopped suddenly when her eyes drifted to the blonde haired mage in front of her. "It couldn't be, but you can't be" the older woman said her voice kind of quiet. "Your name wouldn't happen to be Amell would it."

"Mother" the brunette woman questioned. Who was the blonde haired mage to her mother, and why had she called her Amell.

"Your name is Celeste Amell right. You are one of my cousin Revka's children. You were at the circle if I remember correctly." Celeste nodded her head, and for a moment just thought about what she wanted to say.

"How do you kn…" Her question was interrupted when she felt the older woman's arms squeeze her in a tight hug.

"It is you I knew it. These men that were here they said you were a Grey Warden yes" the older woman asked. "I'm your aunt Leandra and this." She paused and pointed to the two younger mages beside her. "These are your cousins Alisa and Bethany."

"You have cousins" Alister suddenly questioned when Leandra pulled away from Celeste. Celeste shrugged her shoulders before she turned toward Alister who was standing on her left.

"It would appear I do have cousins. It's a shame that no one ever talked about my family at the circle. I have a million questions but I don't really even know where to begin. I have all of these questions just swirling through my head" Celeste said. Alisa Hawke, Leandra's oldest folded her arms across her chest and looked around the inn to see if anyone else was listening to their conversation. It seemed everyone else was busy doing their own things and wasn't even bothering with the group of mages that had suddenly gathered at the inn. Her cousin being a mage hadn't escaped her, as well as the younger woman clad in purple.

"Are you going to help us" Bethany asked when there was a sudden silence among the group. Celeste was silent for a moment as she scratched the back of her neck like it suddenly itched.

"It's not that simple cousin. Are army at Ostagar got wiped out by the darkspawn after Loghain abandoned the kings men to die. Right now the Grey Warden's meaning me and Alister don't have an army to take on what's coming. I want to help I really do but there isn't anything that I can do to help you." Celeste paused for a second and started to walk around the group as if she was contemplating something really important. "Duncan who was the head of the Grey Warden's before the events of Ostagar once told me that mages were pivotal in the fight against the darkspawn."

"You can't seriously be asking us to join you can you" Leandra asked more out of shock than actual concern. They hadn't planned on taking on the darkspawn horde when it arrived, but would joining this Grey Warden but so much better than that.

"If mages can really make that much of a difference than I would like to help take down the darkspawn" Bethany said as she looked from Leandra to her sister Alisa. She started to walk away to go find Carver but Celeste quickly called out her name to get her attention.

"Bethany fighting the darkspawn is not an easy task and neither is building a huge army. I'm sorry but unless my aunt consents to it, I can't jeopardize your safety" Celeste said like it was the most obvious answer. She was half expecting her cousin to lash out in anger at being told she couldn't help. It was dangerous enough that Alister and her were taking on the challenge alone, but if her cousin got her during the fight.

"My sister and I can fight, I want to help. If I can't help Lothering than we need to help with the bigger picture. The sooner these darkspawn are taken care of the less people will be hurt because of this."

"She does have a point" Alister said as he scratched his scalp. Of all the times for Alister to open his big mouth. Right now Celeste needed Alister to side with her not against her. Celeste looked to Leandra for guidance. She wasn't exactly sure what she was supposed to do. She could either turn away help when it was given or she could allow the mages collective to grow stronger and wipe out the darkspawn before they became a bigger problem.

"All of us are welcome to come along" Leandra asked Celeste who had folded her arms across her chest. Right now was decision making time and every decision was starting to way heavy on her, making her already gray hair grayer. "All right then Celeste Amell you got your help from the Hawke family. I can't say Carver will be completely pleased by what is transpiring but he's happy just to prove himself, and a darkspawn horde allows just that."

"Good then let us be on our way. We still have a few resources to pick up in this village, and then we need to get going. Just in case I don't say it later I'm very happy that we all had the chance to meet each other" Celeste said as she looked toward Leandra. Leandra only smiled as she pulled Celeste into another short hug.

Sorry if the grammar is off a little. This story is a little bit harder to write than my Naruto Kumo Nin. Please let me know how it was and if I should keep going. I'd love to hear what you all thought.