The Gravewalker of Zero

by RemaGeek

When Louise was summoning a familiar, she expected to get a mystical beast. What she got instead was a boy around her age. This man went by many names: Gravewalker, Ranger, Shrak, but the name he prefers to go by is his own name. Not Talion, who died after serving Sauron for 40 years, but his reincarnation, who is known as Thorn.

4. Chapter 4-Derflinger

Chapter 4- Derflinger

-I don't own Shadow of Mordor or Familiar of Zero-

Louise was currently laying down on her bed, thinking. Yesterday Thorn fought Guiche, and he won after hypnotizing him by simply touching him, which, in Louise's opinion, was kind of terrifying. Then earlier today, he went over to Guiche and touched him once again, but instead of making Guiche's burn worse, the burn healed itself. Louise still remembers what Regal Thorn, which is what she is calling Thorn whenever he is using his strange powers, said to him.

"I HEREBY FREE YOU, BUT, IF YOU TRY TO DO ANY OF THIS AGAIN, I WILL PUNISH YOU!" The Regal Thorn said to Guiche. After he let go of Guiche, Guiche looked at him, then he felt his face. Guiche looked back at Thorn with confusion, "Why did you free me?" He asked Thorn, "Because I only enslave monsters." Thorn said simply before walking away.

Louise sighed, 'What are you Thorn?' Louise asked herself before looking at her new vase.

Thorn sighed, after he set Guiche free, he was stopped by the maid, whose name was Siesta. Siesta invited him to join the rest of the servants for a celebration, and when he got their, they all started calling him "The Bright One". When Thorn asked why they call him that, they basically said it was because of the fact that he could control anything by touching them, and when he had the Valkyries fight on his side, the servants saw how bright his eyes were.

'I can't believe we got another name to go by.' Thorn thought to the Wraith. Celebrimbor nodded as they walked, "The Bright One does sound like a good title, but I think we should stick to Gravewalker, Bright Master, or in your case, Thorn." Celebrimbor said as they stopped in front of Louise's room, 'She said we are going to town tomorrow, I wonder what we're going to do though?' Thorn wondered as the Wraith disappeared.

Louise heard knocking on her door, "Who is it?" Louise questioned. "It's me." Thorn said simply before walking in. Louise continued to look at the flower in her vase, the very same flower Thorn gave her yesterday. "I see that you like the flower." Thorn said as he laid his cloak on the haypile, getting ready to go to sleep. Louise than looked at Thorn, "Hey Thorn, what is that flower called?" Louise asked as she lazily pointed to the flower. Thorn looked at the flower, then he looked back at his hay pile, "That was my mom's favorite flower, it is known as Niphredil." Thorn said simply before taking out his sword and placing it in the corner. Louise looked at him, "What happened to your mother?" Louise asked out of curiosity. Thorn stopped what he was doing and stood there, "She… died." Thorn said sorely before he laid down on his hay pile. Louise was about to ask how, but Thorn was already fast asleep. Knowing that she won't get any answers, Louise decided to go to sleep too.

Mumbling, that was the first thing Louise heard when she woke up. Going by habit, Louise lazily looked out the window. Seeing that it was still dark, Louise tried to go back to sleep, until she heard someone speaking, "Mom, run, RUN!" The voice screamed. Louise, who was still in her bed, looked around her room to find whoever was screaming. She then heard someone sobbing. Louise followed her ears and found Thorn sobbing in his sleep. Louise wondered why he was sobbing. Until, "No, no, please don't kill my dad." Thorn said quietly. Louise was in shock when she realized he was having a nightmare about his parents, 'His parents were murdered, but who murdered them?' She wondered. Louise watched for a little bit longer before she decided she couldn't watch him suffer any longer. Louise reached out and grabbed Thorn's hand, with hopes that it would make Thorn calm down. Thorn stopped squirming, causing Louise to smile. Until, "Mom, is that you?" Thorn whispered in his sleep, causing Louise to start crying. Painfully, Louise nodded and answered him, "Yes, and I'm not going to leave you alone, no matter what happens. So, don't cry anymore okay? We will always be together, now and forever." and after that was said, Louise fell asleep, holding Thorn's hand.

Louise woke up and saw Thorn was putting on his cloak and equipping his sword. "Good morning." Thorn said with a straight face as he looked at his sword before sheathing it. Louise looked at him for a little bit, then she remembered what happened the night before, causing her face to heat up. Thorn went to the door, "I will be out training while you get ready." Thorn said simply before he went outside.

Louise quickly got dressed, with hopes that Thorn did not see her hold his hand when he woke up. After she dressed, Louise slapped her face a few times, obviously trying to rid of the blush on her face. Louise was then about to get out then she heard something, and it sounded like a hammer smacking against something, 'Is that a blacksmith hammer?' Louise asked herself. Louise followed her ears to the source of the noise and found that it was once again Thorn's chest. Louise then heard something that sounded like simering metal going into a vat of water. She then suddenly heard a crowd gasp, as the atmosphere sounded like it changed into a throne. A strange and unusual voice entered Louise's ears, "A gift for you, oh Elf Lord." The voice said. Louise heard nothing for a few seconds. Until, "It is so fine a gift." A voice that sounded like Regal Thorn said. Before Louise could hear anything else, there was a knock on the door, causing the chest to stop glowing. Someone spoke through the other side of the door, "Louise, are you almost ready?" Thorn asked through the door. Louise quickly put on her shoes, "Coming!" She yelled before running to the door.

Louise hid behind Thorn as they looked at a horse that went wild at the school grounds, "We'll take that one." Thorn said to the groom, who was ready to put the horse down. The groom looked at Thorn with a look of confusion, then shrugged, "I wish you luck then." The groom said sarcastically before walking away.

Thorn entered the paster with the wild horse, "Thorn, what are you doing, your gonna get yourself killed." Louise said as he stood in front of the horse. Thorn looked at the horse straight on, "I'm obviously going to do these guys a favor by killing it, but first, I'm going to tame it so that we can get to the city faster." Thorn said simply. Louise was about to object to his idea, but the horse already started running at him. Louise watched the horse as it neared Thorn. Louise looked at Thorn when the horse neared and saw that his eyes was glowing a bright blue and his teeth were gritted. The horse was almost to Thorn, with the want to trample him, but right when it was about to do that, Regal Thorn grabbed the horse by its neck and threw it away from him, Thorn ran to the horse and got on it's back right when it got back on its feet. The horse started jumping, trying to make Thorn fall off it's back. Thorn took his left hand back, and his eyes once again turned a bright blue, and instead of him gritting his teeth, Thorn was screaming. Regal Thorn shoved his left hand on the horses head, causing a burn in the shape of a hand to appear on its head.

Thorn rode the horse to Louise, who was in awe at Thorns display of power. Thorn looked at Louise, "Well, are you just going to stare, or are you going to get on?" Thorn questioned the shocked Louise. Louise slowly nodded her head as Thorn helped her on to the now tame horse. "Let's go." Thorn said simply.

When Thorn and Louise made it to town, Thorn impressed Louise even more when the horse walked to the stables without being ordered to do so, almost like Thorn and the horse are in sync. Thorn looked at Louise, "Where are we going precisely?" Thorn asked, getting Louise out of her stupor. Louise shook her head a few times before she looked at Thorn, "I figured that we should get you a new dagger, something that is not a broken sword." Louise answered him. Louise then started leading the way through town to the blacksmith.

"Ah, I believe I know the type of dagger you're talking about." The store owner, who was a short and stout man, said greedily, almost like he was going to swindle Louise. Thorn noticed and went next to Louise. The man came back to the counter, looking like he was struggling, and placed a golden dagger, "This is the best dagger we have, made from a master smith." The man said with a smirk. Before Louise could look at it, Thorn picked it up and looked at it. Louise was about to ask him if she can have a look, but then she saw that his eyes were blue, and he was gritting his teeth. Regal Thorn looked at the store owner, "IT MAY SEEM THAT YOU ARE INCORRECT, THIS IS NOT MADE BY A MASTER SMITH, AND I SHOULD KNOW, I DID UPGRADE THIS BLADE AFTER ALL." Regal Thorn said as he pointed to the sword on his back, causing Louise to look at the blade to see that it was indeed very sharp. "ALSO THIS IS MADE OF GOLD, WHICH MAY LOOK NICE BUT IS HEAVY, NOT TO MENTION SOFT." Regal Thorn said as he grabbed the blade with both hands and easily bended it. Regal Thorn then looked at him, "NEXT TIME YOU TRY TO SELL US A WEAPON, BE SURE TO TRY AND GIVE US A WEAPON WE CAN USE." Regal Thorn said as he dropped the bent dagger on the desk. A bunch of barrels started moving, then both Thorn and Louise heard laughter, "I knew you would get caught sooner or later, though I didn't expect it to be from a master smith." The voice said. Thorn walked over to the barrels and saw a hilt moving. Thorn grabbed the hilt and pulled out a dagger. The dagger then spoke, "Finally, someone pulled me out." Thorn looked at it, then he started gritting his teeth while his eyes turned a bright blue, "A FINELY CRAFTED BLADE." Regal Thorn said with awe. The dagger, somehow, turned red, "Oh stop, you're making me blush." The dagger spoke.

Louise was shocked, "Wait, is that a speaking dagger?" Louise questioned while trying to get out of her stupor. Thorn looked at her with a face that basically said, 'Isn't it obvious?'. Thorn then went back to looking at the dagger, "What is your name?" Thorn asked the blade. The blade instantly spoke, obviously excited that it was noticed, "I am known as Derflinger, but please, call me Derf." The blade said. Thorn then looked at the short and stout man, "We'll take this one." Thorn said. The man at the counter nodded excitedly, "Good, it's for free, just please get rid of that annoying thing. Oh, and if you get annoyed of that thing speaking, just sheath it." The man said. Thorn nodded before he looked at Derf, "Get ready to take a nap." Thorn said to the blade, "Alright." The blade said simply before it was sheathed. Thorn then looked at Louise, "Ready to go?" Thorn asked her. Louise nodded before she followed Thorn back to the city's stables.

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Author's note

Greetings, this is RemaGeek, the one responsible for the two stories that has reincarnations in it. Anyway, the reason why I am typing this is because for this specific chapter, I had some help from my good friend Dupi. If your curious about who he is, then read some of his stories on this site or Fictionpress. With that said, I hope you will all continue to read this FanFiction