Hello, this here is just something I've been wanting to write for a VERY long time. It's kind of a mix between "HighLander" and "Valkyria Chronicles". It takes place quite afew years after the 2nd Europan war. so it's Post-War Gallia, I got the idea from watching Highlander and one line Selvaria said in the video game "Another Scion to the Valkyrur...this world has no need for 2.", though fiction, it's just one fun idea I had to explain why there were so few Valkyrur left in Europa. Enjoy reading, and I hope you like it, review, comment just let me know what ya think. Like it?, don't like it??.
Chapter 1- An unwelcome guest
It was another beautiful day in Bruhl, and young 15 year old Isara Gunther, Daughter of Alicia and Welkin Gunther was returning home from school with 2 of her school friends tagging along on the walk home. The 3 girls were chatting happily, enjoying the now war free town of Bruhl. Soon they had arrived at Alicia's bakery, the family business. The 1st floor was the shop, and the 2nd floor was the home. Isara then said goodbye to her friends and headed for the front doors.
Isara then pushed her way through the front doors and spotted her mother, Alicia, restocking the bread shelves. "Hi, Mom!." said Isara, running up to Alicia and wrapping her arms around her in a hug.
"Welcome home Sweetie." said Alicia, returning the hug, "You ready for work??."
"Always mother, always." said Isara, putting on a white apron and her trademark red and white headscarf, identical to Alicia's.
"Ok, would you mind getting some more dough from the back and start kneading it for me?." asked Alicia.
Isara smiled, "Certainly mother." said Isara, heading to the back but stopping, "When's dad getting home??."
"Should be any minute now, I'll let you know when he arrives." said Alicia
"Thanks mom." said Isara, heading to the back rooms.
And Alicia went back to restocking the bread shelves, humming to herself. She then heard the front doors bell ring as a customer entered the store.
"I'll be right with you, just give me a minute." said Alicia, trying to get the last few loaves on the shelf.
She then felt a strange sensation course through her body, one that felt painful in her chest and stole all the breath from her body, and she dropped the last 2 loaves on the ground and clutched her chest.
"Alicia...Melchiott?." asked a female voice.
Alicia looked behind her and saw a woman dressed in a black partially unbuttoned cloak and hood standing just in front of the counter. Her face was concealed, but afew strands of long, silver colored hair stuck out from the sides of the hood.
Alicia then caught her breath, the pain in her chest disappearing. "Yes..." said Alicia, standing up, but remaining where she was.
"Good...I've been looking for you." said the female stranger, "Sister Valkyrur."
Alicia's eyes opened wide, "What did you say?!?." asked Alicia, shocked.
The stranger grabbed the sides of her black hood and pulled it back, revealing a head with long silver hair, and burning red eyes. Her appearance near identical to Selvaria Bles from the Second European war, except for an inch long scar running down her right eye and a 1 inch jagged scar on her left cheek.
"Who...are you??." asked Alicia.
The stranger smiled, "I am like you, a Valkyria." she said, she then reached into her cloak and pulled out a sword sheath, and wrapped her fingers around the hilt of the sword, and very slowly pulled the sword out of it's sheath, revealing a blue blade, made of ragnite crystals. The blue Valkyria flame then began to surround this girls body as she finally had the blade all the way out of it's sheath and held it up towards the ceiling.
Alicia began to back away, "What are you doing!!." asked Alicia, terrified. Alicia looked to her right and saw her Daughter, Isara through the window in the door, a scared expression on her face and waved her down, gesturing for her to stay hidden.
"Fight me!." said the Valkyria woman, "Fight me now, so I may claim your power for my own!!."
"No...I gave that life up when the war ended." said Alicia, "I'm no longer a Valkyria, but a mother and a wife."
Welkin the burst through the front door, "Alicia, is everything alright!!." Welkin asked, before seeing the other Valkyria woman standing infront of Alicia.
She then put on an evil smile, "If you will not fight, then I will make you!!." she said, before jumping in the air, spinning around and kicking Welkin directly in the chest, sending him flying backwards, crashing through the store front glass window and into the street.
"WELKIN!!" cried Alicia.
Outside Welkin was holding his chest in pain, coughing, trying to catch his breath. He looked up and saw the Valkyria woman coming towards him, her blue valkyria flame burning brightly, her eyes glowing bright red.
"Another Valkyria woman..." said Welkin, dragging himself along the ground, trying to get away from her.
But she caught up to him and looked down at him, and kicked him hard in the stomach, sending him flying afew feet back. And once she was over him again she began to kick him repeatedly, roughing him up. And once he was bloodied and beaten she moved in for the killing blow, standing over him, turning her sword upside down, pointing the blade down towards his chest.
She began raising her blue sword up, getting ready to bring it down on the defenseless Welkin. But just then the entire front section of Alicia's bakery exploded in a bright blue flash, followed by billowing smoke and fire. The Valkyria woman just casually looked over and standing there, lance and shield in hand was Alicia, her hair now the Valkyria white color, her eyes still brown as she glared at the woman hurting her husband.
"I swore never to use my Valkyria powers again, but you...you have forced my hand!!." said Alicia, glaring even more as her brown eye turned bright glowing red and the blue Valkyrian flame engulfed her body. She charged at the hostile Valkyrian woman and the intense fighting began.
Terrified citizens began to flee the area, screaming and crying as the two Valkyrian woman battled in the city streets. Striking their lance and sword together repeatedly, as they ducked, dodged and moved through the streets, fighting with everything they had.
Meanwhile, Isara Gunther, who had gotten out of the bakery safely before her mother destroyed it, was kneeling next to her father, Welkin. But he was badly wounded and she tried to drag him to safety.
Alicia brought her lance down on top of the other Valkyrias sword and then moved back, getting ready to charge her lance up for a beam shot. But stopped when she realized they were still inside the town, she couldn't possibly risk the lives of the town folk by using such powerful attacks within the town limits.
But her opponent felt no such regard for human lives as her blade began to glow, like Selvaria's lance did when it was charging up for a beam shot. But instead of shooting her beam shot forward, she swung her sword through the air and the blue beam came out in a wide crescent shape, flying towards Alicia. Alicia jumped incredibly high and did a slow front flip, dodging the shot, but midway through her flip she saw the beam do devastating damage to the homes and businesses behind her, blowing them up, sending fires that began spreading to surrounding buildings.
"No...Bruhl" thought Alicia as she landed on the ground and looked at the damage.
"HOW COULD YOU!!" screamed Alicia as she charged towards the Valkyria woman, slamming her lance down hard against the woman's crystal ragnite sword.
But she just smiled and shoved Alicia's lance away, sending Alicia flying back and rolling along the ground. And while Alicia was on the ground, the evil Valkyria woman happened to look over and notice Isara trying to drag Welkin, her father away.
"Opponents are always at their weakest when they're angry." she said, turning towards Isara and Welkin. And began charging up her sword for another powerful beam attack. Isara was frozen in place as she stared at the evil Valkyrian woman, grinning evilly at her as she drew her sword back and slashed her sword through the air towards Isara. And another wide, crescent shaped beam of light flew towards her, getting closer by the second, but Isara was petrified with fear, unable to move as the beam got closer.
But Welkin, mustered up what little strength he had left and grabbed Isara and shoved her out of the way, before getting hit by the beam himself. Sacrificing his life to save his daughters.
Isara who was laying face down on the ground, looked back, but her father had vanished, vaporized by the blast. The buildings behind where he was standing were destroyed as well. She tried to scream but nothing came out, all she could do was cry silent tears.
Alicia sat on the ground, staring at the spot where Welkin was last standing. In disbelief at the fact that her husband was now gone, vanished in less then 1 second. Alicia threw her head back and let out the longest, and loudest shriek imaginable, before charging at the Valkyira woman once again. But despite the powerful strikes she made with her lance against the woman's sword, she didn't seem to be having any trouble against Alicia, even now she still had an evil grin on her face as she blocked, parried and evaded Alicia's enraged lance swings.
Eventually, the Valkyrian woman managed to find an opening in Alicias enraged attacks and ducked under a wide swing, before stabbing her own blade through Alicia's chest, piercing her heart. And Alicia dropped her Lance and Shield as she stared straight ahead, the blue flame around her body dying down. Her hair still remained white, and her eyes Red.
Alicia slowly looked over and locked eyes with her daughter, Isara who was still on the ground, looking at her mother. And as Alicia's eyes began to close, she mouthed one last word.
"Isara...", her head then dropped forward as she passed away.
The Valkyria woman then pulled out her sword, blood still on the blade as Alicia's lifeless body fell to the ground. Next she stood over Alicia and held her sword with both hands, closing her eyes and looking towards the sky. And The blue flame over her body was burning even brighter now. And the weirdest thing happened next, Alicia's body was once again covered in the blue valkyria flame. But this time, the flame moved from Alicia's body and joined with the other Valkyria womans flame, causing it to burn even brighter then ever, blinding Isara as she had to close her eyes and look away.
Afew second later the flame around Alicia's lifeless body disappeared completely, her hair returning to it's original brown color. and the flaming blue Aura around the other valkyria womans body burned brighter, bigger and more intense as she had finished absorbing all of Alicia's blue valkyria flame. Adding Alicia's own strength and power she had when she was a Valkyria to her already enormous amount of power and strength.
The evil Valkyrian then opened her eyes before looking down at Alicia's dead body, "There can be only one." she said before putting her sword back into it's sheath and slowly walking away.
Isara's entire body was shaking, she had just lost her mother and father to this heartless valkyrian woman and could take no more. She got to her feet, grabbed a nearby two by four from one of the destroyed buildings and ran towards her parents murderer. But once she got near and took a swing at her, the woman turned around and broke the board in two with a back handed swing with her right arm and Isara fell to the ground.
"Go away, I have absolutely no interest in you." she said, before turning around and continuing on.
But Isara, still enraged crawled towards her and grabbed onto one of her legs and bit down as hard as she could. But the Valkyrian woman just sighed and kicked Isara away. The woman's blue Valkyrian flame returned as she walked towards Isara, glaring down at her with her burning red eyes before she grabbed Isara by the ankle.
"If you wanted to die so badly, all you had to do was ASK!!." she growled, and with 1 hand she swung Isara 180 degrees, and threw her upwards and Isara began to sail through the air, now above the rooftops of the nearby houses.
But suddenly she felt someone catch her in mid-air, someone had actually jumped high enough to be able to catch Isara at such a height. a very stong pair of arms then wrapped around her waist and before she knew it she was back on the ground again.
The biggest surprise yet was that whoever had caught her, was covered in the exact same blue, valkyrurs flame. Looking up Isara was staring up into a glowing pair of red eyes. It was yet another Valkyria woman, but her silver hair was tied up in a high ponytail.
"Are you alright child??." she asked, still craddling Isara in her arms. And all Isara could do was nod.
"Well well, Alexis, looks like your too late once again." said the evil valkyrian woman.
and Alexis looked around, "Once again Sabella, you have spilled the blood of a fellow valkyrian sister...and for what, more power??." said Alexis, shaking her head.
"I have more power now then you could ever possibly imagine." boasted Sabella, "Soon not even you or the few remaining other sisters will be able to stop me. This world needs only 1 Valkyrur and I will be it. There can be only 1!!.", drawing her sword once again.
But Alexis put 2 fingers in her mouth and let out an extremely loud whistle and 2 more Valkyrian women joined Alexis on her right and left side. One had a Valkyrur lance and shield, the other had a blue, trident and shield made of ragnite. Now all three women's bodies emitted the same blue valkyrian flame from their bodies, their eyes glowing bright red as well.
"Tsk...another time Alexis, another time." said Sabella, putting her sword back in it's sheath and taking off at great speed with the aid of her valkyrur powers.
The blue flames around the other Valkyrian womans bodies began to die down, their hair returning to it's natural silver color.
Alexis looked down at Isara, "I sense the power of the Valkyrur inside you...but it still asleep inside of you." she said, "Come with us, your Valkyrian sisters and will we teach you how to unlock the tremendous power that sleeps inside of you. And with it, you can avenge your mother and fathers deaths."
Isara thought about it, but having no place to go anymore she agreed. But before she went with them, she ran to her dead mother Alicia, took off her red and white headscarf, carefully folding it up and placing it inside her shirt, next to her heart.