Disclaimer: I do not own anyone or thing which exists within Kaze no Stigma or the legend of the legendary heroes.

Author Note: Well, I have officially lost the will to continue my first story for the moment. To be honest I was half asleep when I wrote it and I didn't think things through properly before I posted it. I don't intend to make the same mistake twice.

This little piece of fiction will basically be me throwing an OC from the legend of the legendary heroes based on the main character Reiner Lute into the world of Kaze no Stigma. The character I am adding is kinda like the spiritual predecessor of Reiner with more or less the same abilities but a different personality, and comes from about a hundred years before the start of the anime. I'll say it right now, I do not have a great grasp of either universe. I know the basics from watching the anime and reading some chapters of the translated mangas so I'll do my best to throw these worlds together.

"Speech"

"Incantations/spells"

"Thoughts"

Prologue Start: Improbable events

Lionel - Point of view

Honestly, this was not how I pictured my day. Sure I could have predicted being hunted by the Taboo Breaker Pursuit Squads, that's kinda what I get for learning Rolands' magic then running away. Which in my defence was entirely justified considering my treatment. But I wasn't expecting to run into Nelphas version of the pursuit squad, whatever they decided to call it. I really should have though, they didn't take too kindly to me copying their magic last time I ran into them.

Of course it doesn't really matter who was after me, I more or less pictured getting caught up in a battle today. What I didn't expect was for the pursuit squads to work together and lure me into a trap using the perfect bait. A hero relic. Well, that's what I thought it was at first. They'd been spreading rumours all over the country that there was a dangerous ruin said to protect an amazing treasure of unthinkable power. Of course if it was a hero relic that would be pretty close to the truth. Unfortunately, after wading through a sea of magic traps and pitfalls, I found it. And it wasn't a hero relic. Sure, to anyone else looking it might look like one. A sword made of gems would make a pretty cool looking relic. But to my eyes, it was anything but. You see my eyes are a little special, I can analyse virtually anything I see be it physical or magical, and in the case of magic I can then reproduce it. But an exception to this is anything related to hero relics.

So how do I know this isn't a hero relic? Simple. I can tell everything about it. I could tell you the exact quantities of the different types of gem in the sword. I could tell you the exact weight of the sword without touching it. And I can even tell you what would happen if you were to channel magic into the blade activating the latent properties it has... Okay that last one was a lie. Sure I know what it's supposed to do but it would be impossible for me to describe it. Hell it's giving me a headache just thinking about it. It's like looking at an optical illusion where down becomes up and left becomes right and there's a thousand different things going on at once that boggle the mind. I don't even know what half the terms filling my head at the moment mean. Unfortunately I didn't have any more time to ponder the mysterious blade, because from the sounds of footsteps the pursuit squads had decided to come after me in person and not rely on the traps any longer.

Grabbing the blade from the stone altar that it rests upon I took a final glance upon the inscription and raised an eyebrow

"If found please return to Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg"

Why the hell would that be there?

Unfortunately that momentary distraction almost cost me as a voice rang out through the large chamber, "spirit of flame, lend us thy power! Flare Burst!" On instinct I hit the ground as the soldiers incantation was finished, and felt a wave of heat pass over me before an explosion tore through the opposite wall. "mysteries later, fighting now" I reminded myself, leaping to my feet before beginning my own incantation. "I offer up this contract, to bear the wicked spirit beast of light that dwells within the atmosphere!" As i chant the incantation a ribbon of red glyphs circled around me, dancing to the floor, before my lower body lit up. It was time to make a hasty retreat. Using the enhanced speed from my spell I took of down the only exit other than the one the Nelpha soldier had used. It was obviously a trap, but there was probably no clean exit anyway.

Surprisingly I met no resistance as I sped through the twisting stone corridors, "guess that means the trap is at the exit". Sure enough, when I caught my first glimpses of sunlight, I also caught sight of a small army. There was no warning, just a chorus of incantations.

"What I seek is thunder, Izuchi!"

"Spirit of flame, lend us thy power! Flare Burst!"

And my entire vision was swallowed up by thunder and fire. Honestly, there was no way I was getting through that unscathed. I could at least avoid the worst of it. I began my incantation, forming a shield of magic before me in the form of a shining blue glyph covered in complex symbols. " What I seek is invasion, Shira!". And as the wall of light collided, it was for a moment stopped. Of course given the sheer number of opponents it was inevitable that the shield would disappear and at least some of the attack would make it through. By the end of it, My clothes were looking more than a little charred, I had some minor burns and I was pretty exhausted. I wouldn't be blocking the next attack, and my shield had nullified my enhancement spell so I couldn't dodge. "Is this really it for me, heh. I suppose there are worse ways to go." Standing shakily I notice something tucked into my belt. I smiled slightly and mumbled to myself "Ah of course, that fake relic. I blame you for this." I looked up to see what looked like an officer of Roland walking slightly in front of the two dozen or so troops of Roland and Nelpha. He opened his mouth to speak, but I really wasn't interested. Heard one pompous nobles monologue, heard them all. Instead, I decided to see exactly what that fake relic could do. Drawing it from in my belt with a single fluid movement I channelled what magic I had left into the blade and sliced. Hoping for some kind of ranged attack, or at the very least and interesting light show. I got the second one. because right where I had slashed there was now what could only be described as a 'tear' in space. Looking through there was a momentary flash of a thousand different colours before the light faded and I saw a strange place. A place with massive buildings and what appeared to be horseless carriages. Making a split second decision I decided to do what I always do. Wing it.

And so I jumped straight in. Unfortunately I didn't really think that through, because the moment after my feet left the ground I realised that the portal or whatever it was had appeared a good few hundred feet off the ground. That, coupled with the cry of "Kurenai" and the resulting fireball almost impacting my right hand caused me to drop the strange sword as I leapt towards the portal. Then I was falling.

Ayano - Point of view

The temperature around Ayano was rapidly increasing. Most people would blame it on the sun, people aware of the 'special' abilities of the Kanagi family would realise she was seriously upset. The cause of course was her stoic cousin. "Damn it! That Kazuma's the worst!Going after Misao and that other woman, what was her name, Kirita? Kirika? Grrr it doesn't matter he's still the worst... Why the hell is this bothering me so much anyway?" While lost in her own thoughts she was unknowingly leading her two friends down an empty street, of course said friends were currently trying to get her attention.

Failing verbal attempts at communication Yukari grabbed her hand stopping her and asking "where are you going? The shops we like aren't there." This seemed to do the trick as Ayano took a look around realising she didn't know where they had ended up, "Ah, where is this?" rather than receiving an answer from either of her friends another voice called out in a rather cheerful, somewhat aloof and undoubtedly masculine voice, "funny, I was about to asking you that." Whirling around the three friends found themselves facing a young man, no older than twenty, wearing what may have once been rather noble clothes with... pieces of armour over them? In any case the state of his clothing suggested he had run straight through a burning building then gone back in just for laughs. The top layer of clothing was charred and blackened, it's previous colours unrecognisable. While the under shirt looked to be covered in the burnt remains of the other clothes. Funnily enough his white trousers looked relatively unscathed, a few burns around the top but other than that nothing. Almost as if whatever had caused the burns to his clothes had been focused on his torso. His hair however was a different story, whether it was naturally black as night or if it was ash none of the girls could tell. But what they did know was that it looked ridiculous. The mans' fairly short hair was stuck up in every direction, making his head look like some kind of oversized porcupine.

Nanase was the first of the three girls to find her voice after a moment of silence, "wow, looks like you were wrestling with a burning log. You alright?" At this point the man looked down at his clothes before returning his gaze to the girls, "sure, everything is perfectly alright, save for my pride" pausing for a moment he raised his right hand in a wave while introducing himself. "Far as I know my name's Lionel Lute. How should I address you lovely ladies?" As soon as he had finished, and before the entire sentence had time to sink in, Ayano had already let loose a right kick aiming for the mans jaw. With a shout that was more of a growl Ayano said "Back off buddy". To the surprise of the three girls the man simply bent slightly backwards, allowing the kick to pass straight by his head. "Well I'm sorry if I offended you, it was meant to be a compliment." Before Ayano had a chance to release her pent up frustration on the unfortunate passerby Yukari intervened by restraining her friend, "sorry about Ayano, she's having a bit of guy trouble" at this point she continued despite Ayanos' protests "and we've been harassed on the way here so she's a little bit on the cranky side. If you don't mind me asking, what happened to you?"

Lionel - Point of view

Well, that was a question with a long answer. After jumping through that portal I managed to use my magic to slow my fall so I landed on a building. A one hundred floor building. Which I then had to walk all the way down, only to find out they have some kind of metal box called an elevator which could have taken me down without any effort at all. Then I almost got hit by one of those metal carriages called cars trying to cross the road. And that's not counting the wall of fire and lightning I was almost annihilated by before entering the portal. Thank god I looked like a foreigner in this country, at least it had been easy to convince people my of knowledge was a language barrier. Though to be fair by using my eyes I could analyse the physical structure of the machines I came across so it really was just a lack of technical terms and names which made me stand out in a conversation. Oh and there was that first hour of awe where practically everything was an entirely new experience. I must've looked like a gaping idiot during that. And let's not forget the local law enforcement. They were a pain to avoid. I really don't want to get picked up by them before figuring out where I am and what I'm going to do now.

"What was I thinking about again? Oh right, how to answer that question and not give too much away." "What happened to me? Well I'm not entirely sure, I had a disagreement with a bunch of old acquaintances and then before I knew what was really going on I was on top of a building about ten blocks down the road. So an answer for an answer, where exactly are we?" Technically I wasn't lying. I had a disagreement with a bunch of old acquaintances that wanted to kill me then I used a weird sword thing that opened up a strange portal that came out on top of a building. But I'd rather keep all that stuff about magic out of the picture till I know how it's regarded in this country. If it's the same as Roland I may end up getting locked up and tortured until I reveal how all the magic I know works. That would not be good.

As I was thinking that the girl with the shortest hair spoke up, "well the main road is a block or two down that way." I wasn't paying attention to the direction she pointed because something caught my eye, "and since you've given your name I suppose we should give ours. My name is Nanase Kudo, the blonde girl is Yukari Shinomiya and the violent one is Ayano Kannagi. Hey are you listening?" at that last point I shifted my attention back to the now named Nanase, "sorry I was a little distracted, I caught your names though. Would you mind telling me what that is over there?" The three girls turned to follow my pointed finger, which ended up drawing their attention to a strange blob like creature which had just caught a man within its grasp. As they watched in horror the man was entirely dissolved within the creature. Fortunately for me while the girls were distracted I was able to use my eyes to properly examine the creature. As the blue pentagram glyphs appeared on my eyes I saw formulas, equations, the structure of the creature and more. In an instant I had all the information needed to know what the creature was capable of. Because this was a being made of magic. But not the kind of magic I was familiar with. Honestly, I feel sorry for the poor man that had died, but seeing this creature was exactly what I needed to in some part understand the magic of this place. Hopefully I would get a better example though because there was no way in hell I could use the knowledge I had just gained for anything other than destroying that creature or creating a similar one. The latter of which I would never do of my own free will.

What happened next was little more than a blur, but thanks to my Alpha Stigma I was able to see it all. I saw Yukari and Nanase panic in front of the creature, completely oblivious as to what it was. Which probably meant that such things thankfully were uncommon. I then saw Ayano step in to help them as I retreated to get a better view of what will hopefully be a display of this places magic. If none of the girls could fight I would step in. Fortunately Ayano proved her worth by incinerating the blob with little effort after calling forth some sort of sword. I was a little disappointed that the sword was summoned as opposed to being created, that meant that I wouldn't be able to use it. In addition Ayano seemed to have an innate resistance to the effects of fire, which I sadly lacked so although I had seen exactly how to create fire using their magic and despite having the ability to do so I would never be able to use it in battle since the flames would burn me as badly as the enemy. It was actually rather scary how easily she was able to control magic. There were no glyphs, no chanting, from what I gathered she just controlled the spirits of fire with her own will. Another unfortunate result of this was a simple realisation. There was no way that this was the same world that I come from. The spirits simply aren't numerous enough or strong enough to be used in such a way, magic circles, glyphs and incantations are required to focus and amplify the strength of the spirits so they can be used to create magic. But this place, it was practically swimming in them. Well it's not like I liked my old home much anyways.

While I was stuck contemplating what all of that meant I idly noted the reaction of Yukari and Nanase to Ayanos use of magic. It wasn't very positive. It was like the reactions back home when people discovered I was a bearer of the Alpha Stigma. Does that mean magic in general is treated the same as the Alpha Stigma here?

I almost missed the mass gathering behind Ayano, but noticing it probably spurred it on to act quicker as it attempted to attack Ayano from behind. Before her friends warnings had left their lips I was already in action with both hands drawing glyphys in the air.

"What I seek is the water cloud, Mizui!"

"What I seek is the burning field, Kurenai!"

Before both spells had even been cast I realised how foolish I had been, the water spell was meant to protect ayano from the flames. But I'd already discovered she was immune to normal flames. I sighed heavily as I watched the stream of water knock ayano off of her feet and over the blob even as the ball of fire that was Kurenai hovered momentarily in the air spraying smaller fireballs over the blob. However there was an unexpected effect from that combination. despite the fact that ayano was propelled a fair distance away, the majority of the water was in the path of the flames of Kurenai. The effect was an instant cloud of red hot vapour, while not exactly effective against the creature it did give me another idea.

"What I seek is thunder, Izuchi!"

As the overcharged bolt of lightning entered the small cloud of mist it dispersed. After all, water conducts electricity better than air, so water vapour would make a much better conductor. That was the theory at least, in practice it made quite a nice little localised thunderstorm surrounding the creature, and due to the distance Ayano was propelled she was relatively unscathed. A few small shocks but nothing major. Unfortunately the miniature lightning storm quickly calmed down without the creature emerging. After waiting a moment I decided to blow away the cloud to assess the situation.

"Breath of wind, lend us thy power!"

A drastically different style of glyph appeared signify a spell from another country as a small wind blew, carrying the mist away to reveal what remained of the creature. That is to say a small puddle of goo on the floor. Completely inert.

It was at this point that I returned my attention to the two people who had no magic whatsoever. "You two okay?" I got a couple of hesitant nods in return before turning to Ayano. "And you?" The response I received from her was quite different. And not exactly polite. "What the hell was that!? I've never seen anyone use magic like that before by someone not possessed by a yoma. Just who the hell are you?" It appears as though her distress at her friends reactions has momentarily been sidelined by the need to interrogate me "*sigh* I need a nap." "I already told you, my name is Lionel Lute. Please try to pay attention." She bristled at my comment before looking towards her friends and suddenly looking downcast. Guess the distress is back, convenient for me, I'll just slip away while... "hey" crap. I turned to see a guy wearing a black jacket just touching down on the ground a few feet away. And inwardly cheered. Despite the fact that I really wanted to sneak away, this guy's magic I can use. And oh boy, if that levitation trick is the best thing he shows me I'll be satisfied. Of course I'll probably never use it on myself, I hate heights, but it has to be useful for something. But from the look on his face he's expecting some form of acknowledgement, so I put on my best smile, turned off the Alpha Stigma and replied "hey there, need me for something?" He just gave a noncommittal shrug before stating "not really, just wanted to say thanks for doing my job." I sent a friendly nod in his direction before hastily leaving.

Time to find the one source of information which has never failed me. The library!

End Prologue

Author note: Well that's the start, please review if you can so I can find out your thoughts and feelings on how I'm doing. I'll be running a poll at some point seeing whether or not you want other characters from the legend of the legendary heroes to show up. They won't be the actual characters from the anime or manga because they don't exist yet. But there's no reason why I can't tack in a clone with a different name if you want. I'm not entirely sure where this story is going anyway. The only event that I have somewhat planned out is the anime episode with I think it wasw Ayumi or something. The clone girl, I'll rewatch the epsiode later to refresh my memories but that episode in my fanfiction will not turn out good. But then it didn't turn out very good in the anime. Also Kazuma won't be having his match with Catherine and I may mess with the timetable a bit. Otherwise I'm gonna try to keep to the anime and manga as much as possible. Unless you don't want me to, I could probably come up with an original story if I had to.