Creation began on 08-05-18
Creation ended on 08-05-18
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Grimoire of Evangelion: History and Bonds
A/N: House Ikari and House Silva aren't the only houses with a past.
House Ikari, even as it was comprised of only five members currently in the Clover Kingdom, still possessed two members from its ancient past that had a history with other houses that still lingered in the present. One of them being House Adlai, which left one of the nobles that inherited their wealth in the present worried that this matriarch, this Rika Ikari, would try to do something to get justice for the descendants of a family she was once best friends with that, according to an old rumor, was unable to help them when they were targeted for assassination over fifteen-hundred years ago.
House Ikari was said to be friends with House Adlai, House Vaude, House Legolant, former House Voltia, even commoner families like the Ideales or Swings, many of whom managed to survive over the centuries to the present, thought the man that had taken House Adlai's wealth from the two orphaned children after the murder of their parents. If this woman is indeed Rika Ikari, who knew the House Adlai of the past, she might develop an interest in seeing House Adlai restored to its place among the nobility out of the respect she had for them. She'll come after me…and everyone else that was involved with the parents' deaths. Worse is that many of these descendants are all affiliated with the Black Bulls, and when her family returned because of the prophecy, light shone brightest on their headquarters! They must have some connection to the family that transcends time and space!
He had reason to be fearful of Rika now, even if it was possible that she wouldn't come after him directly. One other rumor he had heard about the House of Ikari was how they took their relationships with other families, even just individual members of families, very personally. If you so much as did one thing to cause a friend pain or misfortune, you would be attacking them, as well.
She might come for me, he started stressing over the possibility that Rika would try to rectify what he had done to the Adlai family years ago. She might come for me because I stole everything from them, and then she'll take everything from me and give it to them…or other people that live with honesty.
"Do you know what I hate most about nobles that think they're so much better than other people?" He imagined the rejuvenated Rika saying to him and his friends and neighbors that helped him. "I hate nobles that think they're so much better that they have to make themselves better than other nobles out of jealousy or greed. You stole from a family I once knew. Even if I don't know this man and his baby sister, I still respect their family, and will make certain that they get back everything their parents ever had…and you're left with absolutely nothing."
And his worst fear, just to add how much he imagined the woman despising him for his role, was her taking the magic out of his grimoire and leaving it no different from a regular book.
"Give your friends this message," he then imagined her telling him. "I want them to know that anyone that wishes to flaunt their superiority over any other family, no matter who they are, no matter what their personalities are like if they don't compare to your own, it's going to end soon. Even the lowliest of commoners can surpass the status of a noble and become one of us in the future. I should know. Many of my best friends were commoners and they were all stronger than ten of the nobles I knew back in my childhood."
Even though it was just his imagination, he felt intimidated, and this was just her, a matriarch! If she was backed up by her only son, the new patriarch, they could spell disaster for many of the other nobles that did something like this every few decades.
They must never know, he thought, hoping that Rika and her son, Tenshi, would never try to do something as crazy as seeking out the descendants of their past relationships.
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"…What are you looking at, Mother?" Tenshi asked Rika as he found her sitting in the living room of their house, looking at an old book that had been salvaged from over fifteen-hundred years ago.
"Pictures of our friends and neighbors from before we had to go away," she answered, showing him a picture of some people that she hung out with when she was a teenager.
"Alexander Legolant?" He uttered, looking at the picture of his mother with a pale-skinned young man that seemed as thin as a twig, but full of life. "Eh-heh! I remember he got married and had three daughters when I was seventeen!"
"Sarah Adlai?"
Looking at a picture of a young woman with salt and pepper hair eyes that were like glass, Tenshi expressed, "The only witch we knew that could use Mirror Magic. She was going to be a well-known mage someday."
Rika turned the page in her book and looked at a picture of another young woman that displayed a lot of electrical energy in the shape of a glowing dress.
"Becca Voltia," she expressed, "the self-proclaimed Lightning Maiden. She and her twin brother, Samson, were skilled combatants and dancers, even though they were commoners."
Tenshi sighed as he sat on the left side of the sofa with Rika.
"Nobles and commoners we got along great with," he uttered. "I miss them."
"I miss them, too. Oh?" Rika went as she looked down at a picture that looked partially burnt on the edges. "Serena."
"What? Serena? You mean, Serena Silva, of House Silva?" Tenshi questioned as she picked up the photo, depicting a young girl with waist-length silver hair, dressed in a blue and purple dress. "I can't believe I had forgotten about her. Even when I saw the Silvas of today's generation…I wasn't thinking about her at all."
"With House Silva, it was impossible to think of them as anything but nobles that thought highly of themselves. But Serena was different due to her circumstances."
"Yeah, she had a difficult time mastering control over her magic. As disciplined mages, it was her family's responsibility to train her, but they cast her out instead. You approached her parents on their choice, right?"
"Yes, I did. Your father and I both did when we were dating. We wanted to know how they, being her parents, could just get rid of her like she didn't matter, and their excuse was that if she couldn't master control on her own, then Serena didn't deserve to be part of their house. My father was outraged by their decision to cast her out like that."
Tenshi turned to the next page and saw a picture of an older Serena wielding a sword made of silver and dressed in a plain, blue dress with a small shawl reaching barely past her elbows. The girl had a serene smile on her face as she stood beside a younger Rika Ikari and Becca Voltia.
"What happened to her back then?" He asked his mother.
"Our family took Serena in, offering to help her to control her magic. It took a little over a year, but she became a skilled witch, one of the best of her generation. And then her parents found out who helped her."
"Sounds like, judging from your tone, she was the only member of House Silva that our family would ever consider a friend."
"Unfortunately, Serena was the only Silva our family would come to see as more than a friend…and unfortunately, her parents viewing her as being pitied upon by our family left a rift so extreme between the two houses that bordered on spite on the part of House Silva."
"So, because our family back then chose to help one of theirs control their magic…the rest of them hated us for it? Whatever happened to Serena after that?"
"Out of spite…her mother disowned her for being taught by us," Rika revealed. "Seventeen years old…and kicked out of her own home."
"That's not fair. It was their fault for not teaching her."
Rika sighed and revealed, "While they cut her off, that just resulted in there being two separate houses under the Silva name. Eventually, when your elder sisters were five, Serena had settled down with a caring man she met in her early-twenties, and they established the second House of Silva. While this caused some confusion because nobody was sure whether it meant that one of the houses was good and the other bad, Serena wanted hers to stress how important it was for family and friends to look out for one another, to never turn your back, even if one thinks they're right to do so."
"Do you ever think her family survived the centuries we've been away?"
"I honestly don't know. As much as it would be nice to believe such, I worry that the Silvas we met are from the house that rejected Serena."
"Eventually, you'll want to try and reach out to these families that exist today. Even if it's only because of old bonds, you'd feel some peace to try and establish new bonds."
"Yeah," she agreed with her son, "eventually."
To be continued…
A/N: Ooh! Now that we gotten that cleared away, the path to the future can begin in the present. What does that mean for certain members of the Black Bulls?
