Chapter 1: Beginings
The sun rises over the horizon. The light of blinding sun falls through a window into a magician's study. His name; Merlin, a young boy with a curious talent with supernatural power, he is gazing into a crystal ball. He sees a girl with red hair tied into two ball-shapes crying.
"N...Non...chan." She says. Merlin looks very concerned. He waves his hand over the crystal ball, and the crying girl fades into a mist. Suddenly, another boy runs in.
"Merlin? Is everything ready?" the boy asks, he blows some of his black hair out is face.
"Yes, Mordred. Soon the vessel will be ready... In about 2 hours it will be charged properly."
"Right... what about the girl?"
"She's dead..." Merlin responds, oddly, not so remorsefully.
"I'll get the Corvitae ready." Mordred replied.
"Make sure it cures properly, we don't want it at the wrong consistancy again."
"Right, I'll let you handel the ritual... make sure the vessel is warm when you take it out to the courtyard." Mordred said, and he ran from the room.
Later that night, Merlin left his study with a sword in his hands. He went out to a torch-lit courtyard with a small area at the center in the shape of a circle. The stones alligning the circle had runes on them, no two being the same. Merlin entered the circle, and traced a six-rayed (or, six-sided)star in the air. A hexagram glowed with blue, fiery light above him. He took a step forward, unalarmed by the star shape glowing above him. He smiled as a spectar of a young, hairless girl with a green cloth tied around her head, appears.
"Welcome back, Nozomi." Merlin said.
"Who are you?" Nozomi asked, somewhat timidly.
"My name is Merlin. I have been watching you for some time, Nozomi... I am here to help you."
"I'm... beyond help." Nozomi answered.
"I wonder about that." Merlin said, he waved his hand to his right, and a body floated in front of the two.
"Huh-? That looks just like-!" The girl said, somewhat surprised.
"I am part of a group of magical practitioneers- our main focus is bringing the dead back to the land of the living." Merlin explained, but the girl looked at him with a frown.
"That's not possible... you can't do that with magic."
"I wonder about that."
"Huh?" The girl looked very confused.
"This isn't actually your body. It is a magically-conjured-up replica." Merlin said. He took a violet-shaded wand out of his pocket.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going to give you another chance- at life. This Shell is made of a substance called corvitae- spirits like yourself, shape it naturally into a suitable body in which you shall live in." Merlin explained, but Nozomi looked even more confused.
"Close your eyes and open your mind." Nozomi obeyed, Merlin waved his wand at the spectar, and then waved it at the body, the two gravitated towards each other, as soon as they touched, a flash lit up the courtyard, and the light could be seen from miles away.
There, laying on the floor, was Nozomi, now bound to flesh yet again.
"Ashes to ashes... dust to dust... then back to life again." Merlin Chanted, and Nozomi rose up, somewhat startled. She looked down at her hands.
"I'm- I'm-"
"Alive? Yes... there is only one loophole in bringing someone from the void... and that is to make a new body for the spirit of the deceased." Merlin said. Nozomi stared at the boy standing across from her.
"Th...thank you..." She said, still amazed.
"Come, it will snow soon, we should get inside the castle." Merlin said, he helped Nozomi to her feet.