Part I: Return to the Battlefield
February 3rd, 2011
Day: 001 as the enemy
I stared out the huge window in my room at the sunrise that dyed the sky a fiery orange. The door behind me creaked open and I turned to see who had entered. "What do you want Road?" I asked the short girl with black hair.
"I expected more of a, good morning Road. How are you doing this fine morning?" She sighed.
"In your dreams," I scoffed.
"You know Solara you've gotten real boring," Road crossed her arms, "all you do is look out the window all day long."
"Well the Duke doesn't let me outside, so you can hardly blame me," I said in a monotone.
"He's scared you'll run," she replied seriously.
I laughed at her words. The Duke definitely still didn't trust me much. It'd almost been a month since I'd left the Black Order to join up with the Noah Clan. "I won't run."
"Don't worry. You know I trust you right?"
"More or less?"
She didn't reply.
"Oh and Road. Stop calling me Solara. It's Sephiria alright?"
When Road left my room Lux quickly fluttered out from under my bed sheets. She landed on my shoulder and curled up. "Lux, you don't need to be scared of them," I said tickling my tiny round golem. A small chirping noise came from her mouth. I shut my eyes and felt my heart break. Lux reminded me too much of the Order. I scooped her off my shoulder and back on to my bed, then left the room.
"Good morning Sephiria," Tyki Mikk greeted me. "Up so early?"
"Everyone is," was my blunt reply.
Tyki had long wavy jet black hair pulled in to a ponytail behind him. All the girls though he was good looking, but I thought otherwise. He had a heart of stone. "Sephiria, we're going to a tea party held my the houses of the Dukes in a couple of days," he told me."
"What of it?" My arms crossed over me chest.
"You will be attending with us," he continued.
"And if I don't want to?"
"You have no choice. As the adopted daughter of my brother, Prime Minister Kamelot you must attend the tea party."
I shot him a deadly glare. "Sheryll is not my father and I'm not a Kamelot. My name is either Liang or Lightsworth."
"But Lightsworth isn't even your real last name. your mother got remarried after your real father died."
"Then let's stay with the name from this life, Liang shall we?"
Sheryll didn't even truly adopt me, but the other dukes and the rest of Europe didn't know that. Tyki headed down the hallway. I but down on my lower lip. It took all that I had to refrain from running down the hallway and cutting Tyki down. I hated his guts. Then I remembered something he Earl had once told me. Ally ourselves with royalty and we would never be suspected of anything. Now we were a part of the Great Dukes, Orcelit, Kamelot, Razier, and Liecherie. The only good thing about a tea party with the dukes would be that I would be allowed out of the mansion to the outside world. Outside to where exorcists could be wandering. I would have to watch out. None of them knew that I was alive. All, but one.
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I looked in the hallway to make sure no one was there, then went back in to my room. Locked my door shut off the lights, and even though it was only noon closed the drapes. When I finished Lux spat out a projection of Lavi. "Hey," I smiled. He gave me a soft smile back.
"How are you?"
I shrugged. "Okay I guess. I still can't go outside yet though."
Lavi laughed at me and I felt a rise of irritation.
"Hey! Trust takes time to earn!" I yelled back quietly in response.
"You're cute Sephiria," Lavi said.
My eyes wandered to my feet.
"I really miss you Sephiria," was what came next and I was left with nothing to say.
"So how are things at the Order!" I said trying to change the subject quickly.
"Krorykins is awake," he grinned.
"You mean Alystar?" I asked.
Lavi nodded, "I wish you could meet him."
"I will someday, it just probably won't be the meeting you expected." I told him.
"You're going to show the Order that you're not dead?"
"Well of course. I have to fight don't I? We're not exactly on the same side now."
"Do you want to know how Allen's doing?" Once the name Allen slipped from his mouth I felt a sharp pain in my chest. I shook my head, no. when I thought of Allen all I could see was blood from his arm dripping on to my face as he tried to stop me from falling off the cliff. His pained expression as he watched me fall to the earth was forever burned in to my brain.
"Hey Solara! Millennie is looking for you!" I heard Road say in a sing song voice.
"Is that Road?" Lavi asked.
"Yeah, I got to go," I began to reach for Lux to shut her off.
"Hey Sephiria," Lavi stopped me and I turned to face him.
"What is it?"
"I love you," he smiled. A ripple of guilt went through me.
"Bye." I said, then shut her off.
Lavi always told me that before our conversations ended, and it always made me feel guilty, because even though he was the one that was always there for me I didn't love him back the way he loved me. In stead I loved Allen who was one of his closest friends. I loved him but he didn't even know that I was still alive.
A clicking noise sounded from my door, then in popped Road. "H-how!" I stammered.
She grinned at me, "picking locks is easy."
I sighed. It was the same for Solara too. Road always clung to her, and although Road seemed like a harmless, childish, 11 year old girl, but really she was the one most everyone was afraid of. Each Noah have their own special ability. Road was the Noah of dreams and she could torture the person in their own dreams, and using their memories, even an imaginary world. Either way it was a terrible way to die. To have your heart crushed or brain shattered. First you'd go mentally insane, and if someone else didn't kill you first you'd eventually die yourself. I remembered hearing about the fifth general, General Yeegar. Hearing the way he died it was obviously the work of Road. Lavi on other hand, who was also once trapped in Road's alternate dimension had only survived because he stabbed himself through the heart in her world and tried to burn himself to death in the real world. Allen had saved his life that day.
Road hugged my arm and tried to pull me out the door. "C'mon, Millennie is looking for you. It's time to eat."
I nodded and told her to let go of me, then we headed down to the dining hall. Eating together with all the Noah was a new custom to me, because in Solara's memories the Clan never ate together unless an urgent meeting was called. Instead, Solara would always eat with Aaron. Solara and Aaron rarely even stayed at the mansion.
I took my seat next to my so called adoptive father Sheryll and Road at the Long dining table. Demons in human form served us food. We each had our own waiter/waitress and when mine came over I politely took my plate of food from her. A smile curled up on my lips and my hand pierced through her chest. "Thank you very much." I smiled, then in a flash of light she became smoke and ash. I reached for an unused handkerchief on the table and innovated my innocence arm. Then I cleaned some ash off of my hand.
"Sephiria, you should refrain from killing so many of my demons. If you don't I might just run out." The Duke let out a sigh.
"That won't happen, plus I was just expressing my gratitude." I took a bite of my food and looked at him innocently.
"Your gratitude is effecting my negatively," the Duke muttered. He was always so blank and expressionless.
"Well if I don kill something my skills will get rusty, and you don't want that do you?"
An inhuman grin spread across the Earl's face, "maybe it's about time for you to go out and face the world again huh?"
When dinner ended I headed straight back up to my room. I though of the Duke's words. Did he mean I would get to go out and face the exorcists soon? Did he trust me now? I gave it a little thought but that also meant I'd have to fight the exorcists. Could I really fight and kill my old friends? Yes, I could do anything. Would do anything to get what I wanted. After that nobody would have to worry about this war anymore. I could almost see the faces of the exorcists when they would see me alive and well. I could almost see Allen's face with an expression of horror and betrayal when he would figure out I was a Noah, and I could almost feel my heart fall to the ground and shatter like a thin sheet of ice when it would all happen.
"You can still go back," a voice in my head told me. Her voice was like the chiming of bells.
You can still go back to the Order right now. Solara said. I almost laughed out loud at the thought.
"No, I can't. I have to finish what I started. It isn't even a choice anymore Solara."
I guess, she replied.
My hand reached to my neck to grab the locket my parents face me, but instead I grabbed air. My mind had to be constantly reminded that I didn't have the locket anymore. It might've been cremated with my innocence made replica of myself. A sigh left my mouth and I fell on to my bed. Then I shut my eyes.
"I can't stop now."
Sephiria's back! Did you miss her?
