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Chapter Two: Childhood
Life with her adopted family was almost perfect, save for her lack of memories from before she was adopted and what happened when she was twelve and a half but that is a story for another time. Her new mother, Sakura Hoshiko, worked an important and high paying job for a corparate company. Her Father's name was Ken and he was an owner of a martial arts and swordsmanship dojo, as well as a master of those arts. They decided to have the name she wore on her necklace to be her first name and when they adopted her, gave her their last name. She hung out the most with her father the most because mother was the buisiest, though she still loved her mom. She also had an adoptive Grandmother who lived near Kuoh Academy.
At the age of four, she began learning martial arts and swordsmanship from her father and whom master he dragedher to see and thus she travelled around quite a bit. It was during these journeys, she met unusual exsistances like: Tiamut, Hotaru Kenja, Drake Valei and Arthur Pendragon.
She met Tiamut, a dragon who was a dragon disguising as a human who was vacationing Kyoto from her home. This was her and her father's first trip together to see a karate master for a month. She only practiced an hour before they let her so exploring with the karate master's daughter, whom was much older. They made a mutual agreement to ditch each other and lie about it to their fathers'. So when they ditched each other, Nicole headed to nearby bookstore and that was when she bumped into Tiamut the Chaos Dragon in her human form. They conected instantly, so everyday until the month was over they met up after practice. They were mutualy sad to see each other go. Tiamut gave her a bracelet and said that if Nicole needed her for anything was to contact her through the amulet on the bracelet. The bracelet and the necklace she had when she was found are the items she always wore no mater what.
She was six when her father, herself and suprisingly her mother, during a breif lull at work, went on a vacation to the country side for two weeks in the summer. That was where Nicole met Hotaru Kenja and saved the girl from drowning in the pool they were visiting. They got a long very well sharing each others dreams. Hotaru wanted to become a Ninja, but felt discouraged from all the teasing she recieved from her brothers, so Nicole encouraged her to chase her dream. She told Hotaru that her dream was to find out where she came from, who her old family was, and if they wanted her. For the rest of the vacation, She and Hotaru were glued to their hips. Surprisingly enough, their families got on well so they did not mind doing activites together for the vacation period. When Nicole and her family had to return, she and Hotaru exchanged addresses and became penpals.
One day, when Nicole was seven, she found a severly injured vampire in abandoned building. It was scary at first tending to the injured and weak vampire as he kept on threatening to drain her for first times she came to help him but she wormed her way into the small soft spot in his heart from all the care he recieved from her. Still, all the care she was giving him was producing little results until she convinced a family friend who was a med student to practice drawing blood from her. When he was done she snuck away with the blood and gave it to the vampire who recovered within hours after recieving her blood. He told Nicole that he owed her a life debt that must be paid and one day he will pay her back. He then told her that his name is Drake Valei of the Daywalker clan. He then left to rejoin his clan.
Nicole was a decent student when it came to the academics, she excelled in the martial arts and sword arts taught to her by her father. To her parents, she was their shinning star because they were so proud of her. She and Hotaru enjoyed exchanging letters. They talked about everythng. Well, almost everything, Nicole did not tell Hotaru about the vampire.
When she was nine years old, she and her family went abroad for a year in England. Her father was there to learn fencing from a master and her mother for buisness. England is where she met and became friends with Arthur Pendragon and his sister, Morigan Le Fay. They both went to the same school together, though Morigan was a little younger. They had slumber parties and hung out. One day, a week or so before Nicole would return to Japan, they were attacked by a Fallen Angel on their way home from a play date. That was when she first manifested her powers, a ball of destructive energy that vaporized the Fallen one as she was about to kill Arthur. She comforted her friends and they promised to stay friends and to never talk about the event with anyone who was not aquainted with the supernatural.
Nicole and the Pendragon siblings became penpals, in order to keep in contact with each other. She learned that the siblings took up either swordsmanship or magic in order to defend themselves so what happened that day with the Fallen one had no repeats. This inspired Nicole to train her own abilities and she started practicing her magic in the same place she took care of Drake Valei and by trial and error she figured out some of her powers out.
On her eleventh Birthday, she received an inheritance from her father. A red magical Sword, that had been in her family for many generations called the Red Legend. It was a Beautiful red long japanese sword. She was very happy to recieve this gift from her father because it ment he recognized her talents with a blade.
While visiting her Grandma alone when she was twelve, her parents were in a car accedent and did not make it. Nicole was devestated. After the funeral, she went to live with her grandmother and transfered to Kuoh Jr High. Unknowingly to Nicole this brought her closer to reuniting with her birth family.