Chapter 1 A Hero's Awakening
It was in the afternoon, and the classroom was silent as the a teacher was writing on the chalkboard a problem for the class to solve. She turned around as her silver hair blew briefly as a window was cracked and the summer breeze began blow.
"Ms. Rossweisse from one side of the class to another and looked at one boy that staring deeply into the book trying to understand the material. She felt some sort of confidence in the boy and smiled before calling his name.
"Link, can you solve this problem?" She asked. The boy responded and looked up at the board, he looked at the book one more time before facing Rossweisse and nodding in silence. He stood up and walked to the board and began to write on the board.
After a few moments he set the chalk down and turned to Rossweisse to see her reaction. She read over what he wrote and smiled with a nod.
"Good job Link, you got it right." She said with a grin. Link smiled before heading back to his desk. Everyone took Link's answer and wrote it into there notes thanking him for his help in silence.
Link was normally like that, he was a boy that kept to himself in silence, but his actions are what made everyone admire him. In his case, his actions spoke as much as a million words. If someone had a problem he would be there to help in any way he could. With nothing to do at home, he would enjoy many activities, from Kendo, to just reading in the library, he was always looking for something use his time for.
His fellow students admired his like a big brother, all the girls gawked at him while some guys were jealous, but they all knew how good of a guy Link was, even if he wasn't as open to conversation.
Link only saw everyone as his fellow classmates, he wasn't good at making enemies, but even though they all admired him, he didn't really have close friends that he spends time with, well, he had one.
It was the end of the day and Rossweisse reminded everyone that finals were in two days, and after those two days is the beginning to summer vacation. He packed his backpack and ran for the main entrance. He stopped to a blue haired girl with a green highlight in the front. She noticed Link and smiled before grabbing his hand.
"Link, were gonna be late, finals are coming, but that doesn't mean we can skip out on practice." The girl said before grabbing his hand and dragging him ,with a struggling look, to the dojo.
The girl's name was Xenovia, she is somewhat energetic when it came to her passion in kendo, and she would drag Link into her activities every chance she had, even if he had more important matters to attend to. She wasn't always like that though. When she first arrived from a different country, she was socially awkward and shy, and when she made an effort to make friends it made the other students feel uncomfortable from her awkwardness, but that all changed when she met Link. The only place that filled her with confidence was the dojo where she could practice her swordsmanship, and that's where she met him.
One day Xenovia laid eyes on Link at he was working up a sweat with a bamboo sword. She was impressed with his skill and challenged him to a match. As their practice swords clashed, they felt each others determination to be the victor and their motivations that kept them on their feet. They felt the passion in each strike before Link was knocked down to the ground with his sword across the room from him. Xenovia held out her hand and smiled with joy for the first time since she arrived here.
The two kept at it every day until they started to actually hang out. Xenovia didn't mind the boy's silence but was curious to what purpose or reason Link had to keep him to himself to everyone.
Like the beginning, the two dueled once again in the dojo, ever since Link lost the first time he's been training under Xenovia until he can defeat her. Today was different than the others, Xenovia slashed down her sword down but Link hopped to the left and jumped before swinging his sword down onto Xenovia's head. She quickly blocked it though and pushed Link back knocking him on the ground. He picked himself up and planted himself before charging towards Xenovia and slashed towards her multiple times before thrusting his sword forward, catching her off guard. Link started his slashing combo again, but this time he planted a blow knocking Xenovia on the ground.
"Wow, Link, you actually beaten me this time." Xenovia said. Link held out his hand before she grabbed it and was lifted off of the ground. Link smiled showing that he felt accomplished from his victory. Xenovia looked out of the window and saw that the sky was becoming a red color as the sun was moving over the ridge before disappearing.
The two were outside looking at the sky watching the beautiful sunset.
"You know Link, back at home people would tell stories about a different world, a place between the light and darkness. A place where both the living and the dead that are stuck in limbo, if I remember correctly, it's called The Twilight Realm." Xenovia explained. Link didn't really know what Xenovia was really talking about, but he listened as they stared up at the sky until it turned dark and the stars began to shine.
'It's getting late, we should head home." Xenovia said. Link nodded in agreement before the two parted ways.
Link was walking down the street on his way home until he heard what sounded like footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw that nothing was there. He was confused at first but continued to walk before he heard the same sound behind him. He turned around again to catch a girl taking a step forward but then tripped as she tried to hide from sight again. Link turned around again and was shocked to see a woman stepping and falling towards the ground. The woman sniffed as if she was trying to hold back a cry of pain. Link reacted and immediately kneeled down to try to help the poor woman up.
"Thank you so much for the meal, your sacrifice will not be forgotten." her whimpering voice turned into a dark and evil voice before growing into a giant mutated monster. Link looked up in shock as the monster looked over Link. The monster lifted its giant mutated hand and grabbed Link before throwing him across the street knocking the breath out of his lungs. He slowly picked himself up still not believing what was happening, he never expected a creature like this to be this far from the forest. Link got up and turned to run away as he had nothing to defend himself with.
Link ran until there was a dead end but realized that he was trapped as the deformed monster slowly walked towards him. He closed his eyes as he didn't see a way out of here until he heard Xenovia call out his name.
"Link, hold on!" Xenovia said before stabbing the monster in the back, causing it to wail in pain. It shook Xenovia off, knocking her into the wall. Link was shocked to see Xenovia knocked out. The monster turned and was going to pick her up to eat her. Link was terrified, scared that his friend was going to be eaten by a huge and ugly monster. He noticed the sword that was sticking out of its back before clenched his teeth and running up to the monsters back to jump on top of it to and grab sword before pulling it out. The monster dropped Xenovia and turned to see Link in a stance and ready to take on the creature. The monster swiped across the ground trying to grab Link, he jumped over its arm and slashed its arm off. It roared before biting trying to bite down. Link rolled passed the creature and ran out of the alleyway and drew the monster out to get more breathing room. The monster ran after Link and caught Link right before he made it to the end of the alley. Link struggled to get his arm loose but it was no use as it had a tight grip on him. The monster slowly opened its mouth wide, ready to swallow Link whole before a shock of lightning exploded into its face causing it to let go of Link.
He fell on his back before getting up to see what looked students with uniforms from his school standing in a formation to exterminate the beast. A girl with red hair known to the school as Rias Gremory, she was someone that Link was familiar with, making him shocked to see her. He also recognized a few others that was also from his school. Rias turned her attention to the monster before beginning to chant.
"Vile beast, you who has betrayed it's master to fulfill your terrible desires, you deserve to die a thousand times and in the name of The House of Gremory it is time for you to perish!" She said before a flash of red light exploded towards the monster causing it to disappear. She then turned her attention to Link who was still shocked at the turn of events. He looked at Rias Gremory who also didn't expect to run into Link as she also was aware that he was in the same school as the rest of her team. Link didn't know what was happening but was sent back to dropped the sword before running back into the alley to check on Xenovia.
"Wait Link!" Rias called out but was ignored as Link was more worried about his friend.
He ran until he saw Xenovia trying to get up from the ground but was struggling due to a massive headache. Link picked her up bridal style and ran back out to see if he could get her to a hospital. He was stopped by Rias and her team that Link recognized as Akeno, Kiba, Koneko, and Asia. He was confused as he was stopped by Rias holding her hand. Rias walked towards him slowly before he gave a defensive look towards her, after the light show he saw, he didn't know whether to trust her or not.
"I'm sorry for putting you into this, I promise we will hela her, and everything will go back to normal, I promise." Rias said. Link was conflicted but it looked like he didn't have a choice. The girl that he knows as Koneko took Xenovia from Link's hands and took her away from him. Link reached out as he was obviously worried for her. Rias placed her hand on Link's forehead.
All that happened tonight was a fun afternoon with Xenovia before going to bed." Rias said before Link shocked with something before falling to the ground asleep.
"We thought this one was going this one was going to be trouble." Akeno said with a smile.
"I know but…" Rias stopped as she stared at Link asleep.
"But what Rias?" Asia asked.
"It's nothing, let's just take Link home so we can help Xenovia." Rias said. Everyone agreed as they took Link home.
'Xenovia never lets her guard down, what changed?' Rias asked herself. As Kiba was carrying Link over his shoulder, a triangle began to glow in his left hand before fading away in an instant.
It was mourning and Link sat up in an instant breathing heavy like he just went through the most traumatic experience of his life. As Rias's spell obviously didn't work on Link, the images of what happened last night soared through his mind. Without anytime to lose, he got ready for the day and ran out of his house as fast as he could and towards the school, hoping to see Xenovia there and safe as Rias promised.
He was standing at the front gate hoping for the best until he heard Xenovia's voice which took him away from his thoughts. His eyes went wide as he was swept with relief to see her smiling. Link ran up to her and hugged her which surprised her. Her cheeks started to turn red before she began to realize the situation. She gently pushed Link off of her and spoke.
"Link, did you remember everything that happened last night?" Xenovia asked. Link gave a nod which left Xenovia shocked as she was told that Rias made him forget. She didn't know what to do in this situation, so she did the only thing she can think of doing.
"Could you come to the old school building? It's in the woods behind the school, I'm sure you have questions." She said. Link nodded as he did seek answers about what happened last night. Xenovia smiled and held Link's hand.
"I really am sorry that you got mixed up in that situation, maybe later I can make it up to you." Xenovia said asking Link if they could hang out later if things weren't awkward. Link nodded nodded again before the two began to walk to the school building.
They were stopped however as they felt the ground beginning to shake. Link and Xenovia turned around to see orcs riding warthogs charging right towards them as others came from behind them and began to charge the school. One of the orcs began to charge at Xenovia with intent to do her harm. Link noticed and summoned his courage and pushed Xenovia out of the way. Xenovia and Link began to run into the forest near the old school building.
The two ran ran through the forest trying to make there way towards the old school building. Link looked behind him behind him and saw that a leader was shooting arrows in their direction. The two saw the building and ran as fast as they could towards the entrance. They were only a few seconds away from the door when an arrow hit Xenovia in the back sending her to the ground. Link halted and saw Xenovia on the ground.
"Link, go!" Xenovia yelled, but Link didn't do what he was told and picked Xenovia up. He didn't have time to run into the door as the orc was right behind him, inches from its blunt weapon. Link threw Xenovia into the door before jumping to the side as the orcs blunt weapon went through the wall that was next to the door that Link dodged at the last second. He slowly backed up from the orc as it lifted it took its weapon out of the damaged structure. It turned towards Link and grumbled as he turned towards the nervous boy. Link took the chance and turned around and ran deeper into the woods. The leader only turned around and went back towards the school to help his underlings raid the campus.
Link didn't know that the orc stopped following him, he kept running as fast as he could hoping that he would lose his so called pursue. He stopped however as he saw a large black wall with an evil looking design giving off an unsettling vibe. Link slowly backed away from the barricade before a massive hand grabbed him and dragged him through the wall.
Link opened his eyes and found himself struggling in a grip of a dark creature that with an unusual mask covering its face. As Link struggled the triangle on his left hand began to glow like it did when Rias tried to cast a spell on him. The triangle glowed and sent a shockwave of light causing the monster to drop him and disappear. Link dropped to the ground, breathing heavy he struggled to stand as a strange pain began to move throughout his body. His breath became short as he felt himself beginning to change. He looked at his left hand noticed the the triangle for the first time, only to see his hand turn into a canine's paw. His eyes went wide as he saw himself beginning to change. He clenched his eyes as the pain began to grow. He looked up to the sky and saw its abnormal color before yelling in pain before it turned into a owl before he was covered in hair and grew a snout that was lined with razor sharp teeth.
Link passed out after he was finished transforming into a wolf. The triangle's glow died as he fell unconscious.
After Link passed, more of the dark creatures showed themselves before picking the wolf up and disappearing from the corrupted world.
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