Chapter 1: A land called Naga

Ok, this works just fine, i think. So introducing myself, I'm Noir776, normally referred as just Noir. For your information, i'm not a native speaker in english, so there may be expressions of mine which are hard to udnerstand, because I can't write. So I apologize for any issues concerning being able to read my story. Yeah that's it for my introduction and enjoy my first story

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Kana woke up in the midst of a place he didn't recognize. Just before he was with Shigure and now he is in a place different from Nohr. Kana, Prince Kana to be exact, wandered on the streets and remembered his past. The war between Hoshido and Nohr came to an end and his Father Xander rose to the throne after the downfall of King Garon. He experienced in just before his eyes as he was born in the Deep realms where time is flowing faster and so he was 5 Years younger than his mother or so.

Being able to transform into a dragon was a gift to him, as he was able to force his way through hopeless situation, but every gift comes with a price and the drawback was the insane amount of energy he needs to transform.

Making his combat abilities even more threatening, his Uncle Leo decided to teach Kana some magic. It went so far that even without a book Kana can cast magic, even though it's stronger to do it with a book, Kana prefers not to use one for the surprise.

Because he wasn't gifted enough he well wasnt the heir to the throne, but he was chosen to wield the Yato after his mother, which meant that he was entrusted with it and quickly became a commander in the nohrian army.

So what now. He is in a place he doesn't recognize and some guards are coming to him. "Who are you?"

"I'm kana from Nohr"

The guards seemed confused. They didn't know Nohr? They looked at kana and decided to first capture him, because Kana seemed suspicious.

They charged at Kana and he was kind of overwhelmed. If it was a battlefield there wouldn't be a problem but Kana realized that turning into a dragon wouldn"t be a good idea and Yato would just slice through their armor and potentially hurt them more than Kana would like to. How he regretted not learning to hit precisely with the sword. When his Father mentioned it Kana was skeptical about the use of it, but now it would have been helpful. Magic was the only solution now but the guards were in close range. So kana did what he wasn't doing that often... Running away. Kana was young and fast but the guards were fully grown men and in a few steps he was chased down. "great" it was in that moment that he see a girl or young woman who winked and tried to get his attention. Thinking about it how did he even miss her and how were the guards able to miss her?

Kana casted an Fimbulwinter and pushed the guards away and ran to where the girl directed him to.

At first Kana was rely grateful but that changed when they reached a dead end. Before Kama even responded with complains the woman opened a door which he didn't see and pulled him into the room. The guards seemed to be as blind as him and just went back after missing the door.

"thanks." kana smiled at the woman. She sighed an laughed. "Sit down" Kana wanted to do as he was told to but there wasn't a chair or any futniture. It was strange because it was kliterally an apartment. A small one but with a kitchen a living room, no bedroom but a toilet and a bathroom. Looking at the woman he was wondering how she even afforded it. She was wearing not clothes but cloth would be more appropriate to say. It looked like a cloak or so ripped in two halves. One made into a small skirt, the other half covering her upper body.

"Are you from this land?"

A simple no from kana answered the question.

"i think telling about this land and its kingdoms may be a good idea."

Kana nodded in agreement

"The land of Naga is splitt into four Kingdoms, Aqua Terra Ignis and Ventus. We are in Terra near the border to Aqua. The reason why you were chased, was because Terra is not on good terms with Aqua, considering that war could break out any moment that sentence may or may not be appropriate. Originally there was peace between all the kingdoms. They all had the same religion and there wasn't a reason to fight, until something happend. You remember our goddess? Yeah everyone worshipped Naga, but it all stopped when a scientist got his hands onto dragon blood. With it he somehow created a dragon, capable of destroying the entire planet and it would have, if Naga didn't step in and gave her power to the so called „First Exalt.", but even though his body was destroyed by the first Exalt his spirit continued to live. It broke into two halves, one which no resides in the new country the first Exalt founded and the other one is in our land.

Grimas Rampage destroyed large parts of all four kingdoms and a lot of money was invested just into rebuilding our nation. It was considered as a catastrophe, but some didn#t thought of it this way. Some believed Grima was giving judgement. Giving judgement onto the kings and their ruthless exploit of the citizens. Taxes were high and education was expensive. Not everyone was able to get a good job. During the time of rebuild it got even worse. Now through many changes of the law and reduces of the taxes, children can go to school without their parents having to worry about not being able to live.

However not everyone was statisfied. Their lives were better than before, but they still had no say in political descicions. This is the turning point of the believers of Grima, who called themselves Grimleal. They were growing faster than ever, because people who wanted to vote or tried to rebel against the monarchie joined the grimleal. Their plan was to revive grima using an appropriate vessel and showing the rulers what they want. There were some who didn'T actually wanted to revive the fell dragon, they only wanted more rights but, they joined nevertheless.

On a peaceful meeting between the four Kings of the four Kingdoms a few hundred grimleal decided to burn themself and the building down. They sacrificed their life in order to make sure, that the flame doesn't get erased. They burned to death along with 100.000 people who attended the meeting or watched from the sidelines or lived nearby.

Here is the problem. Instead of untiing and destroying the grimleal the kings started to blame the others for the incident.

Now that you know more about or land, there is probably a question that arose during my explanation."

Kana nodded again, saying „Who are you?"

Referencing her knowledge the woman starts to laugh. „Kana. I'm the former princess of this kingdom. Strange right? Why am I here? It is a long story. IT was all good until me sixteenth birthday, before that i was living a happy life as the rightful heir to the throne. My family had two children. My little sister and me. Shortly after the birth of my little sister doctors found out, that my mother isn't able to prduce anymore children, which is not good, because no boy was born yet and my father wouldn't betray his wife ever. They adopted a young boy who was one or two years younger than me. He was an emergency plan. If i were to be dead, there wouldn't be a succesor, because my little sister died at that fire i mentioned earlier.

So what caused me now being in the suburbs of my kingdom? It was during my sixteenth birthday when i went to the church with my family to pray. Praying for Nagas blessing. That day changed my life. Naga herself came down to us humans and approached me.

It's was like when you are praing to a god and he suddenly appears in fornt of you. It is mircale, basically. So i looked at my fathers face and the people around me. Some were jealous, the others were proud. They were all expecting Naga to give me her blessing and you could have guessed, she didn't. Instead she said two snetences only. I recall them even now, one year after they were said.

„From now on your name shall be GRIMA. Furthermore i will give you my protection, which will prevent anyobdy from killing you."

You know that fell dragons name was grima. Now everyone suspected me having an alliance with the grimleal. They tortured me and raped me more times than i can count. Day in day out i was whipped, had to endure the endless pain of being assaulted by people who you don't know. Sexually and physically. It was mentally breaking me apart. I wnated to die so often, but Naga prevented it. Come to think of it i never got pregnant. Even when my adopted brother took my virginity nothing really happend. Nothing developed inside of me. It didn't really make it better of course. Then after one long year they realized that there wasn't any information i could give them, because i never made an alliance with the grimleal at all. So they did the last thing what i would have expected from my father. He disowned me in public and made me go naked in fornt fo all the citizens. Additionally if someone wanted to „use" me, they were allwoed to. Three days i was there, not being able to escape. Lost my mind during daylight and nighttime. It was over, after three days i was absically free, but they were afraid the grimleal took me and revived grima, so they changed my face with an operation and set me into the suburbs of the kingdom, right here. They gave me a small appartment, but no money. The only thing they gave me was a cloak which i transformed into, well my clothing if you could call it like this."

Grima was crying, she laughed at her last sentence, but the tears were flowng as she told Kana about everything she had locke in her heart, for a year. She embraced Kana, crying for a few minutes after calming down and then she started simling again.

For Kana her story and her crying made kanas heart feel heavier than before. It was even worse, when he saw her smiling, thinking it is a miracle, that a girl like her is even able to smile. Kana looked at him, wearing his armor over his regular clothes. He doesn't know why he did that, but it became a habit. So he stood up, leaving Grima alone for a moment, then coming back with clothes and money in his hands, but his armor was missing. Kana in the end sold it, in order to gain money and to buy Grima something to wear.

„You know, talking to you as Grima isn't something i wanna do. It was the catalyst for a lot of things which lead to you situation now. So how should i call you?",

„I actually have no idea. Please name me.", she said, looking at Kana, interested in what name he would pick.

Kana looking at Grima, with her black hair, violet eyes and her face even with the operation she mentioned was still beautiful.

„How do you like Violet?" Kana asked, stuttering a little bit.

„It's great!" Violet now smiled , like a girl normally would and in this moment Kana realized that he can't leave that woman alone anymore. Not because he pities her, but because he had fallen in love with her.