Chapter 1: A Dark Angel of Innocence
by: Vivi's Girl
Silence.
All that could be heard was the calm sound of the waves washing up onto the shore of the small beach and then back to the ocean.
What happened...?
A small girl who was lying in the sand by the shore tryed to sit up...
Pain...all she felt was pain...down her back, across her shoulders and down her arms. She could hardly feel her legs and she had a splitting headache...
Again the question came to her-
What happened?
She tryed to stand up but only ended up on her knees again.
D-Did I wash up onto the shore from the sea?
Just then other questions came to her-
What's my name?
Do I have a name?
Where am I?
Where did I come from?
The girl couldn't remember anything, no matter how hard she tryed.
She stayed where she was for a while, looking out to the ocean in complete confusion. So many questions had gone through her mind...but no one was there to give her questions answers.
After a while, some of the pain went away and that gave her the ability to walk. She walked a lot...not knowing where she was or where she was going. And she didn't care. As long as she got somewhere. To find out answers...
She cryed out in joy when she found a city. She ran up to the gates that let her in. It was night and the sign at the enterance read "Dark City Treno". She figured it was always night there. But how could that be?
The little girl walked around the dark city in aw. It was beautiful. But what made her nervous was the strange stares she got from everyone.
Why are they looking at me like that?
She ignored the stares but couldn't help hearing what people were saying.
"Could it be? Is that..."
"...on't know..."
"..ack Ma.."
"Yes, a Black Mage..."
Black Mage? What is a Black Mage? Is that what I am?
She got tired of looking at the city and decided to ask people questions about where she might be and if there was more cities nearby. She saw a man by a ledge looking at the city below and so she went up to him.
"E-Excuse me, but can you..."
She was interupted by the man's scream.
"Y-Y-You're...a...a..."
He looked at her face...studying it. Then his eyes went to her back.
"My God! Y-You're a Black Waltz!"
Black...Waltz?
The man screamed again and went running in the opposite direction while yelling "Black Waltz! Black Waltz! There's a Black Waltz in our city!"
What is a Black Waltz?
The little girl walked around some more until she came to a small pond. She knelt by it and looked at her reflection. She gasped...she didn't look anything like the other people she had seen. Her face was jet black with glowing amber eyes. She was wearing a steepled hat and a strange red and black dress. But what stood out more than anything about her was what rested on her back...large magnificent wings with blue feathers...
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Vivi walked down the halls of Alexandria Castle to go wake up Zidane so that they could get ready to go to the card tournament in Treno. Dagger let her friends stay the night in the castle because it was impossible to get a room for the night in one of the hotels in town. When Vivi finally got to Zidane's room, he went inside and went over to Zidane's bed and tapped him on the shoulders. Zidane woke up with a start.
"What the...? Oh Vivi, it's you..."
"Is there something wrong Zidane? You don't look that well."
"I'm fine, Vivi."
"O-okay. Um, are you ready to go to Treno?"
"Treno?" Zidane seemed to be in another world. "Oh yeah, the card tournament."
"A-Are you sure you're okay?"
"I'm sure, let's go."
As they walked back to where their friends are waiting for them, Vivi stopped.
"Um...Zidane?"
"What's up Vivi?"
"...Aren't you gonna say good-bye to Dagger?"
"...I...I think it's best I don't...."
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For most of the trip to Treno, Zidane stayed quiet. Eiko didn't like this, she knew he missed Dagger, but he was hardly talking to her.
"Come on, Zidane!" Eiko started. "You just have to face the facts! Queen Brahne is dead and Dagger is the new queen of Alexandria!"
Of course Zidane knew this, but he didn't want to believe it.
When Zidane, Eiko, Vivi, Freya, and Amarant got to Treno and they went inside, they noticed a lot of people running around.
"I wonder why everyone is in a hurry" Freya spoke up.
"Maybe the card tournament is more important to these people then we thought?" Vivi suggested.
Amarant started to walk off.
"And where are you going?" Zidane asked, the most he had said all day.
"Hrmh...I don't have to stick with you all the time. I'm going." And with that, Amarant walked away farther into the city. A few seconds later, Freya followed him.
"I guess we should go see Dr. Tot" Eiko said.
Zidane shook his head. "Not just yet. I want to see why everyone is in a hurry. I'm not sure, but I have a funny feeling it has nothing to do with the card tourna--"
Zidane was cut off by a scream from a woman. "Ahh! There's another one!" She pointed at Vivi.
Vivi was confused by this. "W-What are you talking about? Are there other Black Mages here?"
The woman backed away. "N-no...please...just stay away..." The woman ran off.
"What was that about?" Eiko wondered.
Suddenly there was a loud explosion of fire that come from the other side of town that shot up into the sky and then quickly faded.
"What was that!?" Eiko screamed.
"I don't know! I think there might be Black Mage soldiers here!" Zidane ran to where the explosion was.
"Come on, Vivi!" Eiko followed Zidane.
Vivi stood there for a moment, not sure what was going on, but decided to follow Zidane and Eiko.
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The girl stood up and stopped looking at her reflection. She was even more confused then before, and she couldn't ask anyone questions because it seemed everyone was afraid of her.
But why?
"Hey! I found her!"
The girls thoughts were torn away from her as what looked like ten guards started to run towards her. They stopped only a few feet away from her...with weapons pointed.
"D-Don't try anything now..." One of the guards told her.
Try anything?"
"Yeah, and don't even try to get away, we've got you out-numbered!"
What do they think I'd do?
One of the guards started to talk to another. "We can't take a risk. We'll have to kill this one."
Kill....me?
Most of the guards agreed. But one spoke up. "But we can't just kill it that easily...we don't know how powerful it is. It is in fact a Black Wal--"
But one guard didn't listen. He lifted up his spear and charged. His spear hit the girl and went through her left shoulder. She cried out in pain and stumbled back, falling to the ground. The guard pulled his spear out of her which caused the girl to twitch, and he backed away. The girl covered her wound with her hands.
Why did he do that? What did I do to deserve that? I didn't do anything...
She pulled her hands away from her peirced body and looked at her hands.
What's this red...?
"Quick!" One of the guards yelled. "She's down! Now's our chance!"
The guards got ready to charge.
No...
The girl stood up, trying to ignore the pain. She knew she had to defend herself, but how? The guards charged at her...the girl dodged some attacks but one of the guards hit her in the head, causing her to fall to the ground.
Why...?
Tears fell down her dark face. But she could feel something surging through her.
"Again! Hit her again!" The guards went to attack her again, to finish her off.
I...I don't want to hurt anymore...
Then, right before another spear was about to hit her again, her eyes glowed brighter than usual and she lifted up her hands causing a giant flare of fire going in all directions.
Guards screamed and tryed to get away but they were to slow. The fire hit everything in it's path causing everything to melt or catch on fire. People screamed and moaned as they burned. The little girl looked around at what she had done. She stared at the pleading people calling for help and yelling out prayers while their skin burned and eventually peeled off...
What have I done? How...?
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"Hurry guys! Over here!" Zidane called after Eiko and Vivi.
Eiko and Vivi finally caught up with Zidane.
Zidane just stood there looking around. "What the *%@#??"
Both Eiko and Vivi gasped. All three stared at the whole scene -- Buildings, houses, and stores burning, people dying or already dead...and a young Black Mage girl in the middle of it, unharmed except for a wound on her left shoulder-showing that she must've been stabbed.
The three friends walked closer to her to get a better look. They all gasped this time as they noticed her wings...
"What?! Another Black Waltz?!" Zidane yelling in confusion and anger.
They ran up to her and got in a fighting position. The young female Black Waltz stood up, and looked at the three people staring at her.
"I-I d-didn't mean t-to...I'm not a bad person...."
She collasped on the ground and broke down in tears.
Zidane, Vivi, and Eiko looked at each other in disbelief...not knowing what to feel, but then knelt by the crying Black Waltz in sympathy...
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Well, there it is, the first Chapter in my little story. Tell me what you think! Please? Pweaaaaassee?? I'll give you dollar! Wait, no I won't...Well review anyway! And remember, I want flames, comments, suggestions, ideas...I want them ALL!!!! Anything at all, even BlahBlahBlah. Well, gotz to go! Bye! --Vivi's Girl