I do not own Riviera nor any of the characters shown here (except Cecilia and her diviner, and the new enemy introduced here).
--Cecilia--
It was a normal morning in Elendia when Cecilia awoke, last night after fighting demons she had collapsed from exhaustion and passed out in the forest and was taken in by a group of people who hunted demons like her.
Fia came down the stairs and began making breakfast, Cecilia started to get up to help but Fia stopped her.
"Get some rest Cecilia" Fia said in a concerned tone.
"Please let me help you for helping me yesterday"
"No you need rest you still look feverish, besides tommorow we're going to Nelde Ruins to get herbs and fight off the demons there" Fia replied.
Demon hunting. Finally something in which Cecilia could help, allthough she had offered to help Fia she didn't know much about cooking. Cecilia lay back down on the couch.
"What's for breakfast" Cecilia asked.
"Fresh Mango and Banango salad" Fia replied.
Cecilia let out a relieved sigh. "Good you may not believe it but i'm a vegetarian actually so i was hoping the menu would be something like that" Cecilia said.
Fia looked over at her.
"Don't worry i'm a vegetarian as well" Fia replied blushing. "And if you want... i could show you around Elendia" she continued.
"Sounds great" Cecilia replied cheerfully, truth was she didn't want to not be familiar with the surrounding area in case more demons followed her here, that and for some reason she wanted to spend more time with Fia alone despite the fact that the thought made her heart start to pound.
"Morning guys" Ein came down with a girl Cecilia hadn't seen before and the rest of the company followed behind him.
Cecilia put her strange thoughts and feelings for Fia in the back of her mind, she had never felt anything like this before and didn't know what these feelings were so she promised herself she would examine them later.
"So this is the new girl huh" the girl who walked in with Ein said with a smile, "It'll be easier to fight demons with another Grim Angel on our side"
Fia nodded then noticed Cecilia's expression of confusion.
"Oh right you two haven't been introduced yet, Cecilia this is Ein's familiar and girlfriend Rose" Fia said pointing to the new arrival.
"Pleased to meet you" Cecilia said shaking Rose's hand. Rose had emerald green eyes and a playful looking face, her hair was black and short with four strands (two in front two in back) tied with with equally green hair pins, she also wore a black dress with a green corset on her stomach, she also had cat ears and a tail which Cecilia realized were real!
"Anyway lets eat" Lina shouted.
"Yeah grub time" Serene expressed.
"You two not so loud it's to early" Cierra continued.
The group all ate breakfast and went out to do various things while Fia left with Cecilia the two blushing all the way.
The two first stopped at the Pixia residence where Molan, her brother Gill, and her parents Kyle and Melene thanked Cecilia grately for vanquishing the demons. Afterwards the went to Chappi's place where he also thanked her for her work. Afterwards they went to the crystal Caverns and Magic Guild thanked her. Between all the praise she was getting Cecilia also had time to talk with Fia learning more about her.
"My specialty is healing magic" Fia said.
"Cool it suits you" Cecilia replied. "So how long you been living here"
"All my life, i met the others only a couple months ago but me and Lina have always been friends" Fia continued.
Suddenly images began playing back in Cecilia's mind, two little girls were running through trees, one was attacked by something, the other ran to get help, and another ran at the enemy...
Cecilia snapped out of it but was still shocked, that couldn't have happened it was like a...
"Memory." spoke a voice in her head
"Something you can't have" it spoke again.
"Um" Cecilia carefully phrased the next question. "Do you have like a... siginificant other" Cecilia asked nervously.
Fia blushed a lot, "um no n-n-not yet anyway"
Finally they arrived at the Grove of Repose whereupon everyone in the Grove came to thank Cecilia for her endeavors. Finally after a while of talk and relaxation Fia told Cecilia she had to go to the Elder's house to tell him of her, but realizing she forgot to take her Undine Springs she gave directions to it and ran to meet the Elder.
After a while she arrived at Undine Springs and saw Ein talking to the faeries who were little seven inch tall girls with four little tiny wings keeping them afloat.
"Ein can i talk to you" Cecilia asked.
When they saw her the faeries flew over nervously.
"Thanks for saving the town" they said before flying away.
"What's on your mind" Ein asked.
So many questions flew through her mind like, "what did you give up to become a Grim Angel", or "what's you're diviner's name", or "who do you think Fia likes", she tried to shake the last one from her head but couldn't so she decided to ask about it, in a slightly more roundabout way.
"Ein what is it called when whenever you see a person your heart starts to beat at impossible speeds and your breatheing slows and all you can think about is them" Cecilia asked nervously.
"Well it sounds like love actually" Ein replied.
"Love" Cecilia thought about it for awhile, all she ever knew was combat she had never fallen for someone before but she realized that this was a good thing, now that she knew what these feelings were now she could deal with them accordingly, she decided that at the right time she would tell Fia of her feelings, but not now since they were going on a mission soon and the less things distracting them the better.
"Thanks Ein" Cecilia said as she walked off with Ein to the Elder's Place.
Love, now all that was left was to find a way to tell Fia, but for now she would concentrate on the mission at hand, she put herself in battle-focused mindset as she stood in front of the Elder's house her diviner Mnemosyne in hand she walked inside.
--Fia--
After introducing Cecilia to the Elder the group headed for Nelde Ruins to hunt down the demons sighted their. Upon arriving at Nelde they found the corpses of two angels at the entrance, Cecilia stood there unfazed for a few moments but then she grabbed her head and started groaning in pain.
"What's wrong" Fia asked.
Then Fia noticed that a bunch of feathers from her wings were on the ground but thought nothing of it.
"It's nothing" Cecilia anaswered.
The group walked on through Nelde until they reached a small camp at a large tree where they had fought Lindwurm months ago on their quest to defeat demons. There was a large demon encampment there filled with swordsman, magicians, vampires, and dragons and the group seemed to be looking for something.
"Wow there's a lot of them" Lina remarked.
Everyone drew their weapons and began the assault, first Lina shot at the demons from a distance with her bow taking out several demons, Cierra continued the attack with fire from her staff taking out more demons while Serene attacked them with her scythe, Fia attacked with her rapier occasionally stopping to heal wounded members, Ein and Cecilia truly wrapped up the fight Ein wielding his diviner Einherjar and Cecilia with Mnemosyne. Ein was the first Grim Angel into the fight.
"Disaresta" Ein yelled.
A green light enveloped his sword cutting through the demons with ease and finally he shot the green light into the ground and it erupted out underneath a group of demons destroying them.
"I'll take the rest of them" Cecilia shouted.
"Joyful Memories" Cecilia yelled.
Fia watched as a white light enveloped Cecilia's diviner and it extended the blade and hilt twice their normal length, Cecilia twirled the scythe around her cutting the demons, when the blade stopped twirling a white pentagram symbol had been cut into the ground, Cecilia thrust Mnemosyne's hilt into the ground and the white dissolved into it and burst out again within the confines of the pentagram killing the rest of the demons.
"That was amazing" Lina shouted.
"You're really good" Serene commented.
Fia walked over to her "You're better at this than we are" she said
Cecilia blushed "Not really couldn't of done it without you guys".
Then they heard a sound coming from the trees and a couple of demons fell out dead. Out stepped a girl carrying a long sword that was white on the left side and black on the right split down the middle. She also wore a dress colored the same way, her left eye was white and the right one was black, her wings followed the same color pattern, however her hair was completly jet black.
"Hello Cecilia" the girl remarked.
"You know her Cecilia" Fia asked.
Cecilia looked at the new arrival angriely. "Katrina" she muttered.
"Nice to know you remember me" Katrina said smiling.
Cecilia jumped at her brandishing Mnemosyne, Katrina just smiled and blocked the attack with her sword and jumped and flew in the air and Cecilia, Fia watched with dread as she could do nothing to help her, she only watch. Katrina and Cecilia exchanged blow after blow in the air. Then Katrina sighed.
"This is getting boring so excuse me if i end this" she looked to her sword "Let finish this Monochrome" she looked to Cecilia "Sorrowful Darkness" as she spoke dark tentacles flew from the sword surrounding Cecilia they then sprouted spikes going inward hitting Cecilia.
"Cecilia!!" Fia screamed.
Cecilia flew up into view again apparently having dodged the attack flew behind Katrina.
"Joyful Memories" Cecilia yelled.
Katrina dodged the attck flying behind Cecilia and landing a blow with sword.
"Ugh" Cecilia uttered.
Katrina sighed again.
"This quite boring but i'll be back someday to finish this sister" Katrina said.
Katrina flew away leaving everyone perplexed. Fia spoke up first.
"Dear sister?".
To be continued in chapter 3.