The World of the Glass Banshee
(A/N: Okay so I was inspired by Draconichero's "Fairy Without Wings" to do this story. It has honestly been a while since I wrote anything on this site (I've been kind of uninspired due to a lot of factors) and I hope to go far with this story. As for how F.T cannon this is gonna get, I will say kind of close to cannon, I dunno. But regardless I hope you all enjoy this story.)
It was nighttime in the royal city and capital of Fiore known as Crocus which was where most people were in their beds leaving the night to two types of people; Criminal's hoping to make it big and the guards patrolling the streets for the royal family.
Nunnally Vi Britannia was neither of those types of people, yet here she was moving about in a wheelchair, with a pale pink blouse with a long pink skirt on, holding a piece of paper in her hand.
'I hope I find anyone who knows where he is.' thought Nunnally to herself as she wheeled her way towards the dark streets while thinking of the attack 3 years ago that not only reduced her to helplessness , but also caused her brother to disappear without a trace. The only way she knew he was alive was that he not only had paid for two things; her hospitality recovering from the attack and for a dragon lacrima implant that granted her sound dragon slayer magic, but also gave her enough to live in a nice place for a while until the landlord revealed his true colors and got arrested by the council for it, which caused her to use the money to find Lelouch and stay in various places. To keep the money flow up, she had to work as a freelancer mage which didn't make her much but it did get her paid.
Her thoughts were interrupted, when she heard a torn, stark white female humanoid life-sized doll crawl with a mushroom shaped head crawl towards the girl.
"Please….help….me!" begged the mannequin, as she crawled towards Nunnally, who wheeled towards the sound of the dolls voice desperate to help her, not caring who or what she was. Then Nunnally offered her hand towards the doll who took it, which suddenly caused the two to glow a very bright navy light before the doll went limp, falling onto the ground.
"Hey are you okay?!" Nunnally shouted, before grasping the doll towards her and shaking it back and forth, repeatedly in a frantic manner.
"I'm fine, you can stop shaking my former body now." a female voice in her head replied, caused Nunally to drop the doll before being confused for a while before the voice in her head added, "I was the former tenant in my body and simply put my Soul into your body while you held onto me, I really hope you don't mind."
Nunnally just stood in silence trying to think of someway of replying without getting stared at but then suddenly the voice in head replied;
"Hold on a minute." The Voice in her head said, "This might sting."
Nunnally suddenly felt her head was being stabbed by a thousand swords all at once, and wanted to grasp it but her body felt numb so she tried to scream but couldn't due to her throat feeling as if acid had completely drowned her throat.
"Sorry I should be almost done, can you try to bear with it a little while." The voice in her head replied, as Nunally's pain increased in intensity every second before it suddenly stopped completely.
"There we go, the mental connection has been set up now we can communicate back and forth in our minds. Try to think of something."
"Um Okay."
"Okay there we go, you're safe from being thrown into the cuckoo's nest, allow me to introduce myself, I'm Nemo the demon you just saved big time. Thank you for that by the way."
"Um…thank you?"
"Yeah, a lot to take in also you're now going to be a member of Irregular Witchcraft."
Before Nunnally had a chance to reply, a man dressed in all black arrived from out of nowhere with the only thing to alert Nunnally to his precense was a cold tap on her shoulder.
"Excuse me miss, but I'm looking for a little girl who happens to be my daughter." the man said, "Goes by the name of Alice, she is quite a runaway that one."
"I'll help you look for her." Nunnally explained, under the circumstance of getting this man away from him as soon as possible.
"Thank you." The man dressed in black replied, "Just find her and I'll find you." He then walked away.
"Be careful around that man, he isn't who he says he is."
"How do you know?"
"That man was the one who attacked Myself and my guild mate Alice using his Shadow Magic. His name is Lufrieg, ex-member of the infamous Mammon Soul, he has quite the bounty on his head."
"How much?"
"Around Twenty five hundred."
Nunally was disappointed in the amount, it would mean less money for her to survive off of and even less resources to look for Lelouch.
"I'm very sure we at Irregular Witchcraft can help find this Brother of yours." Nemo replied, "So focus on living well okay?"
"Okay."
"First let me borrow you."
"What? Why?"
"Well Alice needs to know my current situation."
"Can't I tell her myself?"
Nemo sighed before saying;
"You can try but it won't go as well I'm afraid."
"Any Idea where I might find her?"
"There is a dive bar two blocks east from here, maybe she might be there nursing her wounds. I'll give you directions."
With Determination Nunnally then wheeled her way to the east side of Crocus making her way past various closed stores, alleyways that did not have anyone to hurt Nunnally much to her relief, dumpsters which Nunnally could hear the sounds of rats scourging around for leftovers which unnerved her but not enough to scare her off and the various sleazy inns where half naked people who were mostly women were exiting screaming various new words Nunnally had never learned before, at windows. Then she then stopped upon smelling a very strong amount of alcohol emitting from a large wooden building painted bright orange with big yellow words on top of the building that read 'Death's Daughter'. It took a while for Nunnally to find the door, but eventually she found it, opened it and entered the bar which was simply nearly empty except for the bartenders wandering about the empty place and a lone red eyed 15 year old girl with long strawberry blonde hair tied into pigtails wearing a dark red shirt with claw marks on them with a torn black cape over it which matched the pants she was wearing and brown boots who was sitting at a table nearby the back door with an empty mug of beer and a compact communications lacrima on the table.
"I smell one patron that does not smell like a worker."
"Is it Alice?"
"I dunno."
"Only one way to find out."
Nunnally took a deep breath and wheeled her way over towards the girl who simply stared at Nunally, as she came closer to her until she reached the table.
"Are you looking for your parents? If so, I'm sorry to say but you caught me at a bad time." the girl replied.
"Are you Alice?" Nunnally asked.
"Yes." the Girl replied.
"I'm Nunnally, Nemo wanted me to find you." Nunnally explained.
"Is she alright?" Alice said.
"How do I put this-" Nunnally started to say before Alice said;
"Her Soul is in your body?" Alice asked, "I've been down that route myself, until I joined Irregular witchcraft and Master Sanica made her a new one which I presumed was damaged."
"Yes." Nunnally replied.
"Anyway did you see-" Alice started to ask before Nunnally stated;
"I'm blind."
"Sorry." Alice said before rephrasing; "Did Lufrieg make contact with you?"
"Yes he claimed that you were his daughter." Nunnally said, which caused Alice to chuckle for a bit before explaining;
"Quite funny he made such a claim. Because the reason he got kicked out of the guild is doing what Bora did to land himself in jail two weeks ago, only Mammon Soul to not only excommunicate the bastard but to reward anyone who can capture him and turn him into them, their life savings as well."
"I don't see how the two relate." Nunnally said.
"This is where it makes sense, after they raided his mansion to find him, Mammon's Soul found out that he had not only imprisoned and raped the youngest daughters of cousins of the magic council but also sold their organs to the highest bidder." Alice added, which suddenly caused Nunally cheeks to swell up and face suddenly turning a sickly pale green .
"Want me to wheel you to the bathroom?" Alice asked, which Nunnally replied with a quick nod while holding a fist to her face. Alice then suddenly seemingly teleported behind Nunnally.
"I hope you have a really strong gut, Nunnally." Nemo said, before Alice gripped both handles of the wheelchair, and at the speed of light, dashed right into the bathroom and opened the toilet before Nunally had time to process the information.
"Go ahead." Alice said, before Nunnally then got down on her knees from the wheelchair, crawled her way towards the toilet and began to let her reaction to that man's crimes violently manifest itself in the toilet.
"I hope I never cross paths with-" Nunnally started to say, before more she threw up some more.
"Me neither." Alice said.
"Same here." Nemo agreed.
Then after she was done they opened the door only to find Lufrieg sitting in the table nearest to them.
"Fuck." Alice muttered under her breath, Nunnally was about to ask what was going on before she picked up the scent. Then the two girls went back into the bathroom.
"Not to worry, I contacted Zuharah earlier, she should be here to even the odds." Alice said.
"How long will she take to get here?" Nunnally asked.
"Five minutes, give or take." Alice responded.
"What do we do about him until then?" Nunnally asked. Alice was about to answer when a knock was heard on the door.
"uhhh….uhhhh….." Alice panicked before Nunnally crawled towards the door and said;
"Sir, my friend is about to give birth, we are very sorry."
"Really Nunally….really?"
"I panicked what else was I supposed to say?!."
Nemo was about to reply when Lufrieg's voice said;
"Nice Try I know you two are in there and judging from the panicked tone of your voice, the idiotic lie and the sound of you throwing up, I assume Alice informed you of my actions she and her demon friend were attacked by yours truly. Oh by the way if you two do not exit this room, a staff member will die by my Shadow Magic."
With a defeated look Alice then helped Nunnally to her wheelchair and opened the door to find Lufreig sitting at the table with the entire staff trapped in a cage made of shadows.
"You know you should've known better than to go up against an S-rank as skilled as myself." Lufrieg said, before twirling his handlebar mustache.
"Mammon Soul always makes its members go through an S-rank trial, everyone knows that." Alice said that, "It's like one out of two things they are known for other than their high paying jobs only policy."
"Like the fact that Irregular Witchcraft has only 8 members, including it's leader?" Lufrieg replied, before Alice began to emit a black aura with an expressionless look on her face yet her eyes burned with anger as they locked onto Lufrieg.
"Human Bullet!" Alice shouted before she launched herself at Lufrieg with enough speed.
"Tsk, Tsk, Tsk." Lufrieg taunted before suddenly Shadows rose up and trapped Alice, "Your Gravity magic is skilled, but you honestly think you could pull the same trick twice on me?"
Alice Struggled to get herself free, as Lufrieg walked over to her, his boots making a clacking sound as he walked toward the girl with a murderous look in his eye, when suddenly Nunnally unleashed a high pitched echo which caused Lufrieg to collapse onto the floor with both his hands covering his ears, which caused not only Alice but also the wait staff he had held prisoner to be free.
"Go, Go!" Alice instructed to the staff, who decided now would be a good time to escape.
"Next time warn me when you unleash your Sound Dragon's roar, okay! You nearly made me throw up in your mind!" Nemo shouted, before Lufrieg managed to get himself up, although he seemed to be shaken.
"You Little-" Lufrieg growled before he morphed his fingers into small blades of shadows and charged at her. Suddenly he was yanked back by a thin female doll with a hauntingly glasgow smile with a chain coming out of its stomach.
"Go on finish that sentence." said a voice belonging to a woman with long blonde hair and tan skin who was wearing a silk black hood decorated with small rubies which exposed her matching colored bra along with a orange octopus tentacle wrapped rising on her right breast from in between her breasts, a silver corset, a necklace with several fangs, cream colored stockings, a black skirt and a pair of knee-high red boots.
"You-you-you c-c-c-came." Lufrieg stuttered out.
"Yes, I came." The woman said, "Did you expect me to abandon my guild you son of a bitch?"
"Uhhhhh….yes." Lufrieg said, with a goofy smile hidden underneath his handlebar mustache, The woman was unamused before she snapped her fingers causing the doll to to toss him in the air before the woman made a gun gesture with her fingers and pretended to fire a gun at him which caused the doll to raise it's arm.
"I think jail's the better option for him." Nemo said, before the doll fired three dark energy shaped bullets at Lufrieg before he hit the ground. The Woman then dug her nails into the skin of her right arm to recall the doll in a pillar of darkness.
"Now this won't hurt a bit." The woman said before a arm made of dark energy appeared appeared from her back and dug into Lufrieg's chest, pulling out a beating heart made of the same energy as the arm.
"What are you gonna-?!" Lufrieg demanded but then the arm on her back gripped the heart more tightly, causing him an unbearable five seconds of chest pain which The Woman looked at nonchalantly, before she said;
"You hurt the members of my guild, what do you think is gonna happen?!"
Lufrieg gulped, before the third arm then gripped the heart even more tightly, which caused Lufrieg to make his chest feel like knives were stabbing him repeatedly. Then without any hesitation the arm then crushed the heart causing Lufrieg to pass out in fear.
"Thanks Zuharah." Alice said, "Though the theatrics wasn't necessary."
"Theatrics?" Nunnally asked, which caused Zuharah to turn her head.
"Well you see I didn't actually pull out his heart, but I created a voodoo doll of it the moment the arm touched his heart." Zuharah explained.
"He has one?" Nunnally jokingly asked which caused Zuharah to slap the back of her head.
"What was that-" Nunnally demanded before Nemo explained;
"Zuharah does not like jokes."
"Never mind, Nemo just told me." Nunnally said.
"Wait Nemo's here?" Zuharah said.
"She evacuated her damaged body and placed it in Nunnally's body." Alice explained.
"I see, I'd better tell Master Sancia about this." Zurarah said.
"What are we gonna do about Lufrieg?" Alice asked.
"I called the council before I arrived." Zurarah said, "And he should be knocked out long enough for him to be put in a jail cell."
"Good." Alice said, "Now our newest-"
Before she could finish that sentence Nunnally stated;
"I don't think I will be joining your guild."
"Why?" Alice said.
"I have to find my brother, his name is Lelouch Vi Britannia." Nunnally said, "He's the only family I got."
"Well Nunnally, we can help find your brother." Zurarah said, "And be your family, just give us a chance."
Nunnally paused, reflecting upon the decision that laid before her. If she joined this guild she would be granted a place to sleep plus a meal ticket in addition for a chance to look for her brother on the other hand the pay for the jobs was most likely low if what Lufrieg said about them was true and the weight to that promise Zurarah made to her would probably for naught plus how could she trust a guild after what happened with…that guild.
"Kid, you can't be alone. I'm seeing what you went through, and it is not what your brother would've wanted to find him. You cannot make yourself suffer while searching for something, because in the end you will destroy yourself and find nothing. I've been there."
Nunnally then took Nemo's words into consideration and then turned to Zurarah announcing;
"I will join your guild."
"Your Uncle told you that the Runner knows the way, or will remember the way, but first the Runner must find the map. Then, and only then, can the search begin. The last Runner to locate Tanis had been young, but strong. He was also trained by your uncle, who had been trained by his father before him, and so it has been and so it shall be. Now it's your turn. You're the Runner." -"Where is Tanis?", Tanis Podcast