It has been a few months seen Cecilia has been under the care of Doctor Polo and his two assistants. Through this, they decided that it was best that they taught her to be a medical assistant and she complied to it. The three of them explained to her the basics of the medical field and since that they are not traditional healers or mages, they made it clear that they buy supplies from magnolia town and that's to it. They even taught her how to fix up broken bones, dislocated limbs but anything beyond that, they had to either call for the doctors via communication lacrima to start on major surgeries or even call doctors from the hospitals in the larger towns.
Another thing that caught Cecilia's eyes were the how close the towns people were and the three friends said to her that the other clinics and townsfolk here are no mages but they survived by hard work and talent. This made the young Cecilia think about how this town even made it this long considering how much danger the town could be in if there were any magical attacks from dark guilds or even bandits and such and Doctor Polo answered it for her.
He said that there was an incident a few years back that several dark mages came to this town and tried to it take it over so that they could expand their guild grounds even further and to say the least; the town was not too pleased with the invasion of their land: so one day, they had a secret meeting and devised a plan to drive the dark mages away. It took them five days to relay the message to the whole town. The elderly, the children and mothers who were pregnant at that time had been advised to hide as the plan might not work but it actually did.
The plan was simple and all they had to do were to gather the Town's beauticians and had them cover the towns people in messy bloody makeup to give the effect of a zombie and from there, they struck at night where they know that the dark mages were patrolling at that time.
Everyone got into their position and they made the whole town in a mess with broken stands, lying debris and they even did as far to break their own property apart as they waited for said mages to arrive and once they did, that's where the party began. They started to groan and moan, limping from one place to another and pretended to smash walls and eat the survivors.
The dark mages started to shake like a twig trying to hold a stone and prepared to fire their spells at them and in order to prevent any casualties, Doctor Polo and some of his friends pretended to be survivors who urged the dark mages to leave and never come back again as the whole town is contaminated and firing spells at the lurkers would only agitate them.
Being at their current position, the dark mages made a run for it never wanting to get an infection from them and at that current time, Martha called for the military to aid them in capturing the dark mages and their guild to which they fulfilled.
A few days later, it is said in the news that the dark guild responsible for the alleged capture of Shepard town were arrested and sent to prison for their crimes and that was how they managed to outsmart their enemies.
That was why the ebony haired girl respected this town. They may not have magic or even the strength of numbers but they do have their brains and their trust towards each other and with these two qualities, they managed to evade from an invasion; so, the young girl decided why not she helped them by being the first mage of the town. She wants to give her assistance to this place since they welcomed her with open arms ever since she was introduced by Doctor Polo, Samantha and Martha. They got her to start afresh so why not help return the deed.
And so far, she is only one quarter into her training as a God slayer user. She has fused in her sound magic with the God slayer's skill as said by the book and unlike her old sound magic, her magic circle now has black outline and yellow base and since sound has no colour, her sound magic still remains the same whereas it was told by the book that most elemental god slayer magic will have a black and darker outline on their elements.
She just shrugged; as long as she can be powerful, it makes her feel just fine.
Cecilia also now has a violin that is blue in colour and it has a simple white coloured music note at the back of it. It was sleek and simple and she was taught to use it by Samantha and although Martha wanted to teach her how to use a guitar, the girl simply told the more feral-attitude twin that the guitar was cool but it would only make it heavy for her: but promised her that the violin would be blue in colour just like most of her dresses.
That made Martha smirk, the young girl has the likes and attitude of her twin while the same sense of colour and fashion as her.
/Magic/
The eight year old was currently in her room that was in Doctor Polo's house since she accepted that Polo would be her guardian and thus she has to stay with him. The doctor was currently out in his clinic with the usual company and this leaves Cecilia in her room bored.
Sighing, she got up from bed and grabbed the violin case and slung it on her back, she was currently wearing a simple white tank top with light blue cotton shorts that fits her thigh with floral patterns around it. Going down, she wore her black sneakers and grabbed her house keys, she unlocked the door and went out of the door and to the clinic's backyard for training.
Walking in the streets, she smiled and waved to the bystanders and shop owners as she continued walking. She walked over to a small stand and called out for the owner, "Hello Paula-san."
A middle aged woman came out from below the stand after checking her stocks, "Hello Cecilia-chan, what can I get for you today?"
"Nothing much Paula-san, I just want two sweet bread." She smiled warmly at the woman and the she gave a smile back and packed two breads for her customer before Cecilia gave her 200 jewels for the bread before waving her goodbye and off she went to the clinic.
Today she wanted to try and fused her God slayer magic with her violin, she read from books that there were mages who managed to do this by combining their abilities with music instruments and it can do wonders. It can make their enemies sleep if they play a slow melodic tune; giving them damage if they play a fast toned tune. Today, she's trying to give a shot at the slower tunes; she wants to try and start it simple.
When she reached near the clinic, she mentally giggled when she heard Doctor Polo screaming inside. It has become a natural occurrence for her. Whenever she comes, the doctor is always seen being a rag doll of Martha who's always trying out new wrestling moves on him. The girl just sighed and opened the door, waving a hand to the ever happy Samantha at the counter.
"Hello, Samantha, tell Father and Martha I'll be at the back as usual okay?" Cecilia told the woman who just nodded and walked to the back and opened up a large chest where she usually kept her extra clothes if she were to sweat too much and took out her book and walked casually towards the large opening near the forest where she usually test her magic.
The soft spoken girl walked all the way back and from there she took out her violin from the casing and placed under chin and the bow on it. Moving her right hand she started playing a soft tune, (Angel's call) and her eyes closed as she poured her magic into the bow to where the strings are and the animals around there suddenly stopped whatever they were doing.
Rabbits to birds to squirrels, you name it, they stopped and listened to whomever who was playing the violin.
Once the song ended, Cecilia opened her eyes and only to found the forest animals staring intently at her and she smiled warmly at them, "You like what I was playing? Want to hear more." The animals did not utter out anything except a nod and she gave a silent nod in return and closing her eyes once again, she played the same song.
'So, when I play this song, the animals seem to follow me. I have to keep note of this sheet.'
/Magic/
Cecilia just sighed tiredly against the tree as she stared at the clinic opposite of her. The girl just finished her training and she was exhausted; using up most of her magical core just for four pieces was so tiring plus she even trained for her offensive attacks such as her Sound God's Shrill. Like the dragon slayers who uses their roar, Cecilia's is basically the same except her body will grow bright yellow with black outlines surrounding her body and a loud shrill will erupt from her mouth and it is used to either disorient the enemy or as an offensive attack to blast them away.
She was from perfecting it but she at least made whole in a tree. Though, her aim was to blow the tree apart or at least a few trees. She just yawned, clearly tired but stood up and continue her stamina training by running a 2.4 kilometre run which the Doctor said it will be good for unless she overworks herself.
As she ran into the forest, the young Kirstein thought to herself, 'My aim is to at least get my God Slayer's Shrill complete by nine years old but with this results I'm just not sure.' She stopped at a spot and jogged on it, 'But my Violin Magic is doing well though.' She then turned and jogged back, making a beeline, 'So at least that's good right? To be able to play four pieces and unleash a small shrill at this age.'
Once she reached back to the clearing, she took her violin casing and strapped it to her back and made her way to the clinic where she wants to dry herself up before having going for lunch with her three guardians. The breads she brought were long gone, both eaten by her and the animals that she shared with. The dual coloured eye girl opened the back door where she met Doctor Polo locking the doctor's door with Samantha doing some last minute filing and Martha sweeping the floor.
"Are we going for lunch now?"
"Yes Cecilia, now get yourself washed first. Once you're done, we'll be waiting at the front door okay?" Doctor Polo told his charge before going to Samantha to help with the filing. Smiling quietly at the sight of her guardians cleaning the place together, she walked over to the crate and took out some dry clothes and a new pain of undies. She went into the back room where she strip of her clothing and dry herself up and wore over a new set of clothes that consist of simple grey shirt and a black shorts.
When done, Cecilia placed her clothes in a plastic bag and carrying it with her so that she could place it in the washers back at Doctor Polo's house; bringing the book along so that she could study more of the ancient magic.
Going out from the room, she walked opened the front and saw that three friends were already waiting for her. Cecilia blushed lightly and walked over to Doctor Polo, "S-Sorry for being late Father."
He just smirked and pushed his glasses higher, "It's okay Cecilia." He went over to the front door and locked it before going back to them, "So where are we going for lunch? I believe it's Cecilia's turn to choose."
Cecilia's head perked up at that, "Umm… I'm not too sure myself." She paused for a while; thinking which restaurant or café they should go to before she snapped her fingers, "The neko café!"
'Cute…' all three of them thought to themselves when they saw how their charge was acting.
"Alrighty then, what are we waiting for? To the neko café!" Samantha cheered on as she and Cecilia led towards the café leaving the two frenemies behind.
"You heard about it right?" Martha spoke softly so that only they were able to hear it.
Polo frowned, "Of all times, why now?"
"Just asking okay, plus we were busy at the clinic just now."
He sighed, "Okay okay. So what about it?"
"Turns out the guild that planned an invasion on us at that time wants revenge, it seems not all of them were captured."
"So when do you think they'll come back?"
"Rumours say their numbers are less than ten but with rumours, there'll be more rumours and this one scares me Polo. They plan to rebuild their guild and start a war against us." Martha's voice was wavering and her face showing signs of fear. Polo's eyes hardened at that, it's been a long time since he last saw Martha like that and it's affecting him too but he has to be strong.
For Martha, for Samantha and for Cecilia.
/Magic/
Cecilia rubbed the back of the cats that were surrounding her, she's ordered her food and now by passing the time, she's playing with the cute kittens. But her eyes glanced towards the adults who were seems in deep conversation. She 'hmm' cutely, trying to figure out what they were discussing about and she sat on the ground and discreetly moved near them; carrying a kitten along with her so that she could pretend that she was playing with the animal and not eavesdropping.
When she reached her desired spot, Cecilia listened as much as she can to the conversation.
"Are you they'll be coming?" Samantha whispered to her friends.
"I'm sure they are but not this year I hope, probably the new year." Polo answered calmly but his eyes showing no emotion. He was mad but he couldn't do it now, not in front of Cecilia.
"Damn, then we'd better call the military soon." Martha cursed as she took a sip of her drink.
"Let's hope they'll listen to us and if all else fails, we just fig –" Polo stopped halfway when he noticed how close Cecilia is to their conversation and put up a slicing motion to his neck, "And we'll just have to end the game like that and Pete might win it in the end." He lied in hopes of making her believe him that nothing was wrong.
Cecilia just frowned behind them and stood up from her spot to join them and she immediately noticed how they quickly they changed their conversation and she felt a little dejected but she believes that they have their reasons for not telling her and the Kirstein sat down and took her drink and drank from the straw. Waiting for the food to come, she suddenly realized that the adults were gazing down on her; feeling a little embarrassed she blushed and sunk deeper Into the chair as she held her cup and swinging her legs back and forth.
Suddenly the smell of fried omelette and rice got her attention and ignoring their staring, Cecilia started eating and eventually the other dishes came and they too joined her.
/Magic/
They praised the heavens for the food and walked out of the café. It was already two in the afternoon and her guardians have to go back for work, Cecilia told Polo that she'll be at home taking a nap and she told him to call her if he needs help at the clinic and he just replied with an 'okay' as per usual.
The girl gave a hug to Samantha and Martha before she part ways with them and gave Polo a kiss on the cheek as she went back home.
When they left, Cecilia frowned slightly. The Kirstein was currently thinking about what her guardians were talking about during their conversation. She had many thoughts running in her mind about that certain matter and she doesn't like it one bit; the eight year old tightened the hold of the handle of the plastic bag.
'I'm not really happy that they are keeping this from me.' She turned past a street, 'Maybe I should ask Father later tonight.'
Once she reached the front door, the girl unlocked it and disposes her current clothes, including the dirty ones into the washer. Walking to the bathroom on the first floor, she placed her violin by the door and went back in. Opening the shower door, she turned the switch and sat down on her a bathing stool before sighing in relief as she closed her eyes: the cool water against her back and throughout her whole body.
Getting a shampoo bottle, she squirted it on her palm and rubbed it all over her hair, going through the scalp to the long ends of her hair. Getting a shampoo, she did the same process and once done; the girl let it all get washed away by the water and when that is done, Cecilia turned the tap and got out of the showers and dried herself with the towel before wrapping the pink cloth around herself and took another and wrapped it around her hair.
Walking out from the door, she took her violin and went to her room. It wasn't anything grand or bright as Samantha's or as dark and gloomy as Martha's. It's more of it being in between. It's ceiling was black as the dark sky, the walls were a navy blue and decorated with floral and vine line patterns that were in brighter colours.
Cecilia placed her musical instrument on the stand and removed her towels and was once again stark naked. She walked over to the drawers and took out Martha's old shirt that was red in colour and had a skull at the front. Wearing a pair of Samantha's old panty, she then wore her yellow shorts. The girl yawned and jumped on her bed even though it was already still in the afternoon, she's still exhausted after the usual training and it was enough to make her want to have a sleep.
Closing her eyes, Cecilia gave a short prayer to the god that has been taking care of her and praised the lord that she has been blessed with wonderful people and prayed for the entity to give her regards to her mother, uncle and aunty.
"Good night mother." She yawned at the last word and with that done, she closed her eyes and fell into a deep slumber.
/Magic/
Cecilia stirred in her sleep, the sun is already is set and darkness overwhelms the whole room. She groaned to herself and the soft-spoken girl got up to her feet as the communications lacrima rung. 'It's been like this for a few minutes already … Where's Father?…' She yawned and stretched; she checked her alarm clock and her eyes narrowed slightly, 'Strange, Doctor Polo should be home by now.'
Her words were true. Ever since Doctor Polo adopted Cecilia Kirstein, he and his assistants made it themselves clear that the clinic should be closed by six in the evening. The girl gave herself one last stretch and walked to the first floor where the communication lacrima activated and she rubbed her eyes tiredly, "Hello, Doctor Po –"
She was cut off by Martha screaming in the lacrima, "Cecilia! Thank god you're here. Please listen to me, a small group of dark mages started trouble in the streets. I just want to know if you're safe! They're trying to give us a warning Cecilia; so please be care–"
An explosion from the clinic ended the transmission and Cecilia's eyes widened, she took a step back as her hands covered her mouth, 'N-No don't tell me!'
She ran to front door and hurriedly wore her sneakers and unlocked said door before taking off. Not bothering about locking it: at times like this, who would care about belongings. All that matters was family.
She ran in the streets and the faint screaming was getting louder and louder, several shops were already on fire as she saw the mages getting boned by the shop keepers and their brothers or residents. They didn't give a damn about their life right now since all that matters to them was their family.
Once Cecilia reached to the familiar building, she was shocked at what she saw. There was a large hole at the front of the clinic and Samantha is seen on the ground, either unconscious or worse dead being protected by both Doctor Polo and Martha. There were three mages there glaring down at them with smirks stitched on their faces as their hands were held directly at their direction.
Both Polo and Martha were hesitating or not whether they should move but if they do, they'll let their unconscious friend/sister die in the process but if they don't; they'll leave Cecilia alone by herself again.
Polo cursed aloud, "Damn it all!" He tackled the first mage and began to pound his fists on the man's skull at lightning speed. Adrenaline coursing throughout his veins as his fists was quickly covered by the mage's blood and the man was clearly knocked out but Polo didn't care. They messed with his friends, they messed with him. He glanced to his side and tried to jump on the other before a kick to the face got him skidding to the other side of the room.
He let out a painful gasps and the other two dark mages began giving him a handful of their fists and feet, torturing him instead of ending his life. They grinned to one another as the doctor was unable to get up at every attempt as he would only get stomped back to the ground.
A punch to one of the mages face got their attention as the mages stopped their fun with Polo and stared at the other occupant. They glanced to one another before grinning like madmen.
"Let's do her instead."
"You're right, she may provide more entertainment for us."
The agreed to one another as they stalk towards Martha who was in a simple fighting stance, her eyes were cold and demeaning, "Come and get me you little shits! You hurt Polo and Samantha you asses." She took a step back and pivot herself to prepare a round house kick to the bald one.
'Take this!'
Cecilia was hesitating whether or not should she intervene, her body was trembling. She wasn't ready for a fight like this. She's scared.
The girl closed her eyes, her mind conflicted before a scream broker her out of her thoughts as she started at Martha on the ground clutching her hand, her face all swollen just like Polo whose face was much worse. His spectacles broken and he was on the ground screaming at the dark mages to stop at whatever they were doing to Martha.
'Damn it!' The soft spoken Kirstein cursed to herself as she clenched her fists before sudden flashbacks of her aunty and uncle's demise replayed in her mind and before she knew it, she screamed in frustration, "Hey!"
The two men turned their heads away from the groaning Martha to only see a little girl calling out for them, "What do ya want kid! The big boys wanna have some fun so fuck off!"
They continued spitting out comments to Cecilia as both Polo and Martha eyes widened at their young charge's arrival with both having the same thoughts.
"Run Cecilia!" Martha screamed out for her only to be suckered to the ground by the balding one in the face as she fell unconscious.
"Shaddap bitch!"
Polo stared at his unconscious friend and rasped out to her, "Martha…"
"You're going to regret ever doing that." Cecilia said her voiced laced with a venomous tone, her nice girl exterior clearly gone. "You're going to regret it!" She send her magic to her legs as she blasted off to their direction whilst avoiding a jab as she get behind the two and used her sound magic to blast the two out of the clinic so that the small building won't be further damaged.
"Shit! She's a mage, I thought they said that there were no mages!"
"How am I supposed to know you idiot!"
They were cut off by a strong magical power coming from the girl; her body now enveloped in a yellow and black outline aura as she prepared her signature attack, digging her heels into the ground, she threw her head back and casted the spell.
"Sound. God's .Shrill!"
A giant blast of sound erupted from her windpipe and the two dark mages instantly got onto their knees while covering their ears at the intense shrill before getting blasted away: crashing into several shop houses.
The shrill died down slowly as Cecilia slumped to the ground, exhausted but not done yet as she felt more magical auras coming to her direction. Probably sensing hers, she shakily got to her feet with a look of determination.
"Cecilia… please go…"
Her eyes casted down to her adopted Father, "I'm sorry but… I have to this." With that, she pumped more of her magical energy and ran out only to face several more mages with their magic aimed at her.
'This is not what I expected.'
/Magic/
So that's it, I hope you liked it and don't worry, I'm not making her godlike, she knows her limitations and I'll probably make her on par with Cheryl/ Wendy.