Author's Note: Ok, this is my ninth fiction, a BlazBlue fic about Jin and Noel. Let read and review. Anyway, chapter 2 will be posted after I finish my other BlazBlue story named "The True Heart". Love all of you reader and reviewer!
Edition Note: Hi guys, it's me again. This is the 2nd edition of the 1st chapter of "Never See, Never Know". I just found lots of mistakes in my previous work and I have corrected many of them. I'm not sure if I have fixed all of them but I believe that this piece is much better as it is more logical and the grammar, vocab errors have been changed a lot.
Also, the song which I used in the first version was from Taylor Swift's song named"Cold As You". I just think that it's not appropriate to use someone's else song here and also I don't think the song really fits the mood so I just write down my own song here.
There maybe 3rd edition of this one and with even more improvements but I guess this one is good enough for the 2nd edition. Let me know how you think of it (just in case you can't review it twice, I think you can make the review in anonymous mode but to make it easier for me, you can put you name next to it so I can identify you.
Example:
"Cardlover95: blah blah blah... I need 3rd edition as I found few mistakes here such as ... Overall, I think it's better/worse than the 1st version. Blah blah..."
It's like that. Ok, ENJOY THE CHAPTER!
Never See, Never Know
Chapter 1: Back Again
The Imperator, Saya, walked steadily on the infinity-like spiral stair hanging midair on the white theme of the limitless white wall; to the room containing one of deepest secrets of this world's fate, the Takamagahara. She opened the door, revealed a very spacious, empty room. There was nothing but just three chairs with no one sitting there. On the ground, there cast three humanoid shades two of which seemed to be men and the other resembled a slender woman.
"Well well well, the Imperator is here. So, how may we aid you?" the first shade, named TA, said as the three turned their heads toward the most powerful entity that ruled the humankind.
"The world's order is coming to an important event which I want to alter it in other way. You three disappear for awhile until I finish my work." Saya said, the Observers looked at each other confusingly.
"The time arc can't be used for the meantime. It will be 2 more months until we can activate it again." The woman shade, TC, spoke.
"It's none of your concern. I know what to do."
"But why do you …" Suddenly they felt a dreadful sensation invaded their whole bodies. The calm expression remained on Saya's face yet the room was filled with tremendous tension that was strong enough to crush any unfortunate commoner nearby.
"Can I?" She asked again. The three silently nodded their head and faded away, leaving the small woman along in the place.
Saya sat down on one of the chair, stared blankly at the area in front of her and then, with a wipe, a huge table containing the mini version of the whole world appeared. She hovered above each of Hierarchical Cities and finally stopped at one of them, known as Kagutsuchi where most important events in the timeline occur. Saya wandered her eyes around the place to see everything before turning her attention to a very familiar face who was talking with his subordinate.
"You scum! You got such an easy task and yet you made it into a mess! You're just worthless dirt. GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" Jin Kisaragi, the coldhearted blond major, shouted at Noel who was stunned by the sudden outburst.
"But I…"
"NOW! OR I WILL KILL YOU. DON'T TEST ME TEMPER!" Those words hurt; she had always admired him for his courage and talents but for some reasons which she didn't know, he was always so detached with people. Speaking about cruel insulting, he, to her, was second to none. She tried her best to suppress the inner emotion in front of him lest he would affront even more. She left the office after giving him a quick saluting and broke down into a cry as soon as she got out of the room.
"Tch … that useless woman. Just why? She looked so much like her…" Jin whispered to himself.
That night, the blond lieutenant sat quietly on the grass field near her house. She usually got to this place whenever she felt sad. Nature gave people everything even the calmness that one could hardly find in daily life and Noel found her own comfort this way. She looked at the sky. The corners of her eyes were still wet with tears from the earlier incident. There were so many stars. She softly sang a song as she knew that it would help her forget the sorrow within.
"The night has come, the twinkle little star….
The silent wind whispers into our heart.
Bring along the rhythms of life.
Our heart beats join together…
Live our lives happily
Forget the sadness and head toward the future
I will protect you no matter what…
Even when I'm not with you
Believe that I'm watching over you…
Praying for your happiness."
That song reminded her of her mother's lullaby. "Mom, I'll try my best to regain our family's honor. Please protect me." Noel whispered.
Riiinngg…. The telephone rang loudly accompanied by the buzzing sounds inside her pocket. She picked it.
"Hey Noellie! Where are you? I'm so worried!" That was the familiar voice of Makoto, her beast-kin friends who possessed the brown ears and tail of the squirrel.
"Oh, Makoto. I'm still fine. I'm just sitting at the grass field." Noel replied.
"That field again? Something happened to you today?"
"It's nothing. I feel better now. I'll go home soon. You don't have to come here to take me."
"Okay, I see. I better see you in 5 minutes or else I'll have to drag you home with force, get it?"
Noel laughed at her friend's kindness. Makoto had always been so nice to her no matter how many troubles she might have brought to her before. They together overcame countless troubles and the squirreled girl was also the one to comfort her whenever she was insulted by Jin.
"Thanks Makoto. See you then." And they both hang up.
"I guess I should go now." Noel stood up, patted the dirt on her dress and let out a sigh.
Suddenly, a shooting star flied across the sky. It was so bright and beautiful. People always said that if they made a wish at time like this, it would come true. Looking at it, the blonde girl closed her eyes, whispering her wish.
"I wish Jin would be a kinder, more caring person." She didn't know that above her, Saya was observing everything. The Imperator smirked as she listened to the girl.
"This is interesting. Let's see how things will turn." The Imperator said and then cast a spell, a blue aura imbued her body and with a flash, the light reached every corner of the world. A weird feeling hovered above Noel's mind.
"Huh, what?" She felt somehow dizzy. Everything turned hazy to her and she body collapsed quickly on the ground. After that, everything turned black to her...
"Urgh, where am I?" The blonde girl woozily opened her eyes and saw a blurry figure standing next to her. He some resembled a certain someone.
"Major?" She muttered. As she got a better view, she saw a small but recognizable face, blond hair, emerald eyes. She cannot mistake that face with anyone else.
"Major Kisaragi!" She gasped, receiving a puzzled look from him.
"What are you talking about?" He said.
"What are you doing here?" she asked. Once again, the boy didn't understand her reactions.
"This is my house's abandoned stable. I found you unconscious in the nearby forest so I brought you here."
"Forest, I didn't recall going to any forest." Noel rubbed her head trying to regain any piece of memory. "I just made a wish and then I fainted. What's going on here?"
"Are you thinking something?" The boy said and waved his hand in front of her face.
"No, no, nothing. But who are you?"
""I'm Jin. I don't know my family name but everyone just call me by that name so … you know, just Jin is fine." He replied and gave Noel a big grin that almost freaked her as she had never seen him smiling before.
As Noel examined carefully, she noticed big differences here. He was much smaller than she thought and also his look wasn't the cold, lifeless gaze she used to receive.
"Am I having hallucination?" She thought
"Ragna! She is awake" The boy said out loud.
"Ragna?" She said
"Yes, he is my older brother." The boy called Ragna appeared. His face also familiar; just like the wanted man with the biggest bounty on his head, Ragna the Bloodedge. However, his hair, instead of white, it was blond just like Jin. He came inside with a small tray and a bowl of hot soup.
"Here, eat this, maybe you will feel better." The older boy said, smiling.
"Am I having a dream? Ragna is Jin's older brother? This is so incomprehensible." She shook her head violently.
"Are you okay?" Jin asked
"Oh, of course, but … can you introduce yourself again, I don't understand." The two boys looked at each other and shrugged.
"Ok, listen. I'm Ragna, and this is my brother, Jin. We also have a little sister, her name is Saya …" Noel's eyes widened. The three powerful people she knew were actually siblings. She couldn't believe that the Imperator could be their little sister.
"… of course she's not here now. We're living in the church with our caretaker. Don't worry, she's very nice." Noel was totally in awe. So this is the past, when they were still living together.
"What about you? You haven't introduced yourself to us." said Jin.
"Oh, I'm Noel Vermillion but just call me Noel… I don't know but I got lost and... I now have no idea where am I."
"Noel Vermillion? That's quite a cute name?" Jin said; Noel's cheek turned pink at the honest comment.
"Oh, where do you live? We can take you home."
"Actually… I have no home, I'm an orphan." She lied, not wanting to cause any other trouble.
"I remember there is one household of the Royalty bearing the same family name with you. Are you actually from there?" Ragna asked.
"Well, no. Maybe it's just by accident that the names are resembled." The girl answered.
"You can live with us in the church. It surely will be fun to have one more member in our family." Jin said excitingly which made Noel shivered a little but somehow she like this new experience; to see him so active.
"Wow, this is the first time I see him smiling. What a carefree, innocent smile!" She thought.
"But I'm afraid that we won't have enough food for her." Ragna added, folding his arms together with a pensive look on his face.
"Awww… but we can work together to get food, right?" Jin turned to the girl. She couldn't do anything but slightly nodded in agreement.
"I …." Ragna sweat dropped as he looked at his brother showing the please-please puppy eyes. Finally, he let out a sigh in defeat.
"Alright, but I think we'll have to ask auntie first."
"Yay!" Jin gave him a cheerful grin while Ragna hit himself at his own head and muttered something about "the problematic brother."
"Let's show her to auntie!" The younger boy said, dragging Noel along. They all left the stable.
"Oh, Noel" Jin said and turned to the girl.
"Huh?" She blushed at the way he said her first name; so warm and friendly. The older version of himself would rather cut his tongue than actually say it out loud.
"How old are you?" He asked
"I'm… I'm…" Noel didn't know how to give him an appropriate answer as she found herself smaller too. She was just slightly shorter than him. Perhaps her body was also affected by the time travelling incident. Jin raised his eyebrow, waiting for the answer.
"I'm ten year's old." She replied and was surprised as the boy quickly showed a delightful expression.
"Wow! We're closed. I'm eleven!" Noel looked at him with confusion in her eyes.
"What's so exciting about her age?" Ragna lightly knocked the back of his younger brother's head.
"Oh, it's nothing." He replied, tried to hide his slightly pink cheek.
A moment later…
"Who is she?" Their caretaker, a young woman, seemed to be in her 20 s, having brown hair tied into a ponytail and bright red eyes, said while looking at the strange girl going with her two boys.
"Oh, aunt Caelica, I found her in the forest. She is an orphan too. Please accept her into our family! Poor her." Miss Caelica walked toward Noel, examined her face for a while and eventually gave her a big hug.
"Welcome to our family. I hope you will soon enjoy the life here."
"Thank you very much." Noel smiled, it's been so long since she could feel the family's kindness like this; it was not as luxurious and with lots of people like the Vermillion but it was so natural with all the simplest happiness one could enjoy. They all laughed together warmly. And so Noel was fortunate to have found a place to live soon and the church was in joy to have one more girl joining.
"Now, where should be your room?" Miss Caelica put a finger on her cheek, looked thoughtful as she wandered her eyes all over the house.
"Oh oh, she can share the room with me. I still have some space after all." Jin said, which gave Caelica big creep in her mind.
"But she is a girl. Don't you find it uncomfortable?"
"It doesn't matter. We are family after all." Jin was all known in the family to be very stubborn. He would try his best to fight for his opinion which was a good characteristic but to everyone here, they knew it was just sheer trouble.
"No, no, no, no, I will find her a better room."
Noel looked at them, the lady and a boy arguing about her room.
"Ah, there's a room next to Jin's room. It's a bit small and is used to store some books but we can manage that." Miss Caelica said and pointed at the door upstairs whose door was a bit old and dusty.
"That room is too small. We can offer her something better." Jin kept shaking his head in disagreement.
"If you have anything good then I'm all ear here." The woman listened to him.
"I can stay in the smaller room and give my room to her."
Noel came to him and shook her head. "Thank you but I think that room is fine. We can just clean it."
"How can I let a newcomer be treated poorly? You just stay in my room and from now on, it shall be yours. The smaller room is fine by me." Jin declared so loudly and "manly".
"What a gentleman you are here but are you really willing to clean it. Because the last time I check it, the dust seemed to be few centimeters thick." Caelica said, wanting to see how he would reply.
"I don't mind. I'm the man after all!"
"Jin, but I…" Noel wanted to stop him from the weird idea.
"Well, Noel. I think you can accept his kind offer. Just as a small gift for your new arrival. You can still help him with cleaning. I will help too of course." Ragna said, reminding people of his presence.
"I … Jin, thank you very much. I will not forget your kindness." Noel bowed down. Jin scratched the back of his head, feeling delightful inside to be praised like a hero.
"It's nothing. Well, shall we start doing the work?"
"I think I will show her the town and buy her some clothes first. You two stay here and help tidying the room for her." Caelica said and prepared her cloak.
"Ok!" Jin replied.
"Make sure that everything is in its order. Don't mess up and don't break anything." The lady said.
"Don't mess up and don't break anything." The two boys mimicked her words in the you-told-us-thousand-times-before tone but they got a killing glare from the woman that completely shut them down.
"Noel, let's go then." The little girl nodded and followed her.
"See you, Noel." The boys waved their hands and grabbed the broom stick, readied to work.
A/N: Ok, End of chapter 1. Thanks for reading, please let me know your opinion. (Oh, one more thing, Noel when met the two brothers, she is in her younger form, which I think it better be the 10 year old girl form.)
Edition Note: Well... a bit longer than it predecessor and with lots of changes. If you want it to be a bit longer, tell me and my imaginative brain will work for that. Time to REVIEW! just a quick short comment is fine 'cos I want to know much it changes... THANKS!