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Disclaimers : I Do not bloody own Ragnarok Online. For god sakes.

Of Sinners and Redemptions

Chapter 10- The Infinum Gift.

A jolt sent through her spine caused Nova to awakened, her eyes widened briefly, adjusting to the dark surroundings around her of the unfamiliar room, panic seeped through her skin almost immidietly until she reminded herself slowly, but surely that she was no longer in her comfortable small bedroom in Prontera anymore. It amazed Nova how long it was taking her to allow herself to get use to her new surroundings of the walls beyond her. She knew that it had already been a week since she left her small house in Prontera for a secret academy deep in the Lighthazen region. She still did not know why had Gabriel's father brought her here, only that it was for her own protection. She still didn't know why she needed to be protected so badly. She hasnt seen much of the academy, only the dorm wing of her own section, nor did she have the spirite to walk around to familiaratize herself to her new surroundings. A small pang of hurt went through her cut, as sharp as a knife, a clean cut right through of the words Luke had said to her.

"At least ill have one less burden to worry about."

That had stung so deep, on how would her childhood friend say such a thing. Tears welded up once more in her eyes, god she was crying again. This would have been the 4th time she cried today. And the day hasnt even started yet. She didnt know how in the world was she suppose to pull herself out of the pit she had fallen into. But god she wanted to go home so badly. Yet Gabriel did not allow her. She knew it herself that it was for Luke and his own good she stayed here, where it was safe for her. Where Those people could not find her. That lady she had met in payon cave, the one that was suppose to kidnap her for god knows why, she had the most cruelest eyes ever, there was no pity, no remorse in those eyes, only hate and sorrow. How close she was to be caught by those people made Nova sick to her stomach.

And her own freedom costed another's life.

Her being there had cost 3 others to lose their lives.

Mira,Mika, and Cross. They were all innocent, yet that man took all of their lives away. Cross being the one who protected her till Luke, Gabriel and his father showed up. She coultnd do anything to even help her teacher, she was too afraid to move, too afraid to stand out. She was a coward. and because of that, Cross had lost his life protecting her, Mika and Mira, although mean, but still, as innocent as anyone would be.

Gone.

Because of her

All because of her.

Nova clutched her duvets tighter, biting down the sorrow that was so evident in the dark room, shutting her eyes tightly. How she hoped that she would just disappear, to fade from the world, to lessen the burdens of everyone else around her. How she wish she could just..disappear...

"BANG!"

Before Nova could continue in her downward spiral alone in the dark, the door that stood between her and the outer world gave way, Nova opened her eyes, droplets of tears crept down her cheeks as she saw a flash of silver in doorway, illuminated by the light that came from outside. She could not see the person's face in the dark, but she knew eveidently well enough that it was a girl. The sounds of her sandals clipped against the marble floor, as the figure approached her slowly. With a clap of a hand, the lights came on, showering the room in a dull silver glow.

She was the most beautiful girl Nova had ever laid eyes on.

Her hair was as pale as the moon itself, bright silver streaked with blue highlights framed her delicate heart shaped face, All scooped up into a long braid that seemed to end right above her waist. Bright golden eyes stared back at her green eyes, almost making them inferior. She could spot a blue cresaent shaped tattoo right under her right eye. The girl was not tall, nor was she short. With the help of her high platform sandals, she was around 5'7. What surprised Nova was the fact that she was almost as skinny as she was, she had a pair of particularly large breast. She was barely clothed, with a skimpy halter and a see through pants, and long robes that hung from her hips and arms. A gypsy was what Nova saw. Even the aura she emitted was so full of confident, the type of confidence that Nova would only hope to acheive. She didnt look old, in fact, she barely looked older then Nova herself. The small bells around her jingled slightly as she placed her arms on her hips, allowing a sigh to go though her tiny mouth. Oddly enough the gypsy was not tanned as those she would see everyday in Prontera dancing. She was downright fair, almost fairer then Nova herself. But being a beauty as herself she did not bother concealing the fact that she was different, yet basked into it and showed herself off to the world. Another fact that Nova hoped to acheive, a certain level of self loving.

"Look Nova, you cant stay in bed forever you know... there is a reason why you are here...and it isnt that your being punished."

She had a smooth voice, almost as smooth as her skin, yet there was a certain hidden characteristic in her voice she could not pin point. Yet, she knew exactly what to say, her voice so calming and smooth, certainly a worthy gypsy to be able to entrance Nova with just a single line. Somehow she felt better already.

"Th-th-then why am I here? Why did Gabriel bring me here? Why are those people after me? Why Why-Wh-"

"Shhh Nova, thats why your here for, for you to know why. For you to find out the reasons why you've been having dreams that always came true, why those people are after you, and more importantly, why its so important we keep you safe here, and if you keep yourself cooped in this room afraid, you will never understand. I know your afraid, and I understand you might be confused by alot of things, but trust me when I say, that you aren't the worst off in here, that they are plenty of people just like you, whose been through alot more then you have, but thats why their all here, to learn, to understand, and to protect themselves."

Nova silenced down, allowing the melodies voice to calm her senses, allowing herself to soak in the words and their meaning. The gypsy smiled, and stood up once more.

"We're gonna have a class starting in 30 minutes, get yourself ready and meet me in the 2nd door at the bottom floor, thats the class you need to be in"

Nova nodded her head, suddenly realising that she felt so much lighter, How strange it was while so many had tried to calm her nerves, the sudden appearance of the gypsy girl had made her feel more calm as she ever did before arriving here. Nova silently crepped out of bed and went for a shower. She didnt want to be late for her first class.

--

Nova pushed open the large wooden door, allowing herself into the large room that seemed to be used as a lecture hall, before her, were people of all colors and classes, from the youngest she could spot, maybe the age of 8-9 to the oldest that she could see, peoples in their late twenties and thrities, all diffrent, yet something so familiar with them all, something that draws all of these people into this one room. All in unity, all in harmony. Not a single ounce of chaos. Nova's eyes scanned around the seats, hoping to spot the familar silver haired gypsy, only in dismay she could not find her after searching the whole room. Nova quickly scurried to take a seat after another bang behind her was heard, the whole hall went into a pitch of silence as they all stared at the person who came behind her.

The gypsy arrived, scanning the whole room and smiling softly as her eyes spotted Nova. She walked down confidently, Nova edged away to make more room, hoping that the gypsy would sit beside her. To her disappointment she walked right past Nova, but her disappointment turned quickly into shock and awe. As the gypsy steped forward at the center of the room, engaging every single pair of eyes in the large hall. The hall was so quiet, Nova swear she could have heard a pin drop if she were to drop one on the floor right then and there. Another Bang echoed from the back of the hall, as everyone stared back once again, only to see a tall minstrel standing there, his messy brown hair covering an eye, a sheepish smile that spread across his face warmed everyone's heart as he stepped down to the center as well, promptly beside the silver haired gypsy. She opened her mouth to speak.

"As most of you people might know who I am, some of you might not, and I shall introduce myself once again as I always have, I am Anereas, one of the many teachers in this academy. I can see some confused stares, on how could a person like me? A young inexperienced girl, of 17 be a teacher, but most of you here would already know, that in this academy, age does not defy your power or experience. I am a gypsy, as you all can see, but I am also something more, just like each and everyone of you people here."

The room was buzzed with murmers, yet there were few who stayed quiet, as though use to the fact of hearing the same speech over and over again, she raised her hand, with almost an instant the class hushed down again. Nova could see why she could do so, there was something about her, a quiet aura of fury that she would not want to cross herself. Anereas continued when she was satisfied with the silence.

"Many of you here are confused, that I know, why have you been taken here by some people, loved ones or friends, and even maybe forcefully brought here against your will, but thus I say that this is important, that all of your presence here will help in the silent struggles in our kingdom, that is happening right here and now. Although i know that all of you people come from very different backgrounds and families, but let me ask of you people now, did you ever feel as though you were different? secluded from your life, that while you were living on, there was always something happening that you yourselves could never explain?"

More murmmers came across the room, some agreeing, yet some kept their silence.

"I will tell you the most common thing that might occur to people. Now, how many of you seem to be able to tell fortunes? That somehow guesses of other people's fate always came true? How you would always win a guessing game, perhaps a loterry or 2? Exelling in gambling and always having a keen sense of the people around you, how they felt, how they acted, and maybe in some rarer case, reading their thoughts."

Nova saw plenty of hands raised throughout the crowd. But a lone voice spoke out.

"Why do you claim such things? You forcefully removed me from my home and now you claim that some of us have super natural powers!? I for one had never experienced something like that ever before in my life! Science and rationality can explain these all!"

It was a male professor who spoke out, Nova could see all eyes turning to him, away from the gypsy. He was around her age as well, but with long green haired tied behind a low pony tail, purple eyes stared back from the glasses that he wore.

Anereas brieftly looked down at her sheet of paper, flipping through some notes, that so happened to be profiles of all the people in the room.

"Ahhh an interesting one out of the bunch, Dante, child prodgity of the holy shadow guild, it seems that you possess the power of foresight i believe?"

"Nonsense, I have never once looked into the future with the all seeing eye, god knows power like that is only for those who can handle it..."

"So your saying that you can't?"

Dante shrugged slightly, his shoulders slanting ever so, Nova could tell he didn't expect an answer like that. A smile curved onto the gypsy's face as she flipped through more of the documents idlly.

"Lets see... Dante, answer me this then, have you ever experienced black out sometimes? Dreaming of things that is somehow related to you, yet so far away? That sometimes you could feel as though something bad was going to happen? And when you do feel so, it always do? Do you sometimes feel as though you could see through a person's mask? Tell whether or not a person was lying? or hesitant on a certain behaviour? Being able to pick out emotions that most people cant?"

The green haired proffessor was silent, but eventualy nodded his head, allowing the gypsy to make her point.

"That, my friend, is another form of foresight, because off its limitless pyschic energy, forsight could come in any form, as for rarer cases like mine, the power to see the future, and in Dante's case, which is the more common one, to be able to sense hidden emotions and pick out people's thoughts."

The crowd in the room was tense, Nova guessed as much that the people would be more convinced now that she had already poited out so many points. But it was strange on how Aneares would know of her gifts, yet she had no clue on how hers work, if she had one that is...

Another hand was raised in the group, this time coming from a blonde in the crowd, Nova noticed that she too was an acolyte like herself.

"How do you know that your foresight is the one that would allow you too peer in the future?"

"Good question... Ehh... Reina, as you see, seeing the future doesnt nessaceray mean you can predict when you can see it or how long in the future you can see, in my case, I started having foresight even since I reached puberty, and for me, the farthest I can see in the future is only 5 minutes away from the present time. So in short to say, this gives me total advantage in combat situations, but not in predicting the far future, in cases the rarest form of foresight I have even seen was a wizard I knew not long ago, he could see a months time in the future, but then his power came in a huge price, and because of his own carelessness, he now lies 6 feet below us all. That is why controlling and keeping your powers a secret is so important, because believe me when I say... That they are people out there hunting you, and they are people out there experimenting on you, and they will find you, torture you, and kill you, if you were not to take the most caution."

A chill ran down Nova's spine when Aneares muttered those last words, apparently it had already begun to happen to her, that was why she was here in the first place... But what had she done to reveal herself to having power she didn't even know she possessed? The unknown power that sent her 5000 miles away from home, and from Luke, and Gabriel. 5000 miles from her parent's grave, and the more newly dugged, Cross's grave. Nova subconciously grabbed onto the butterfly purse in her pocket, the purse that Cross had bought for her, the purse he gave her before he was murdered in cold blood by that man. How she wish she could only remember his face.

She could not even remember the face of the man who killed her mentor and the 2 acolytes that were with her... Gabriel's father had told her it was because of the other lady with him that made her forget, or rather, push the memories of them to the back of her mind, another person who weilded power, and yet she did not hesitate to use them for evil, for her own personal gain, with no hesitation once so ever.

"Nova, Reina, Dante, I want the 3 of you to stay back, the rest of you can leave to your quarters or visit around the academy, lecturers are everywhere in case you need some help in councelling, and the class scedules will be out and posted at noon tomorrow at the main hall, till then you are free to do what you like, class dismissed."

--

"What do you mean I CANT SEE HER?"

Luke fummed as he paced through the narrow living room of his home in Prontera. Gabriel sighed once more, rubbing his temples with his fingers as he explained the situation to the assassin cross once more.

"Look, I'm not happy with the arrangement either Lucas, but its for her own good, she needs to be with people who can teach her and help her with her powers..''

"WHAT POWERS? why the hell arent I even informed with this kinda things for god bloody sake!? Shin and Aneares are there with her!! Why can't I-"

"Because you idiot, both of them are undercovered and assigned from the assassin guild themselves to keep Nova safe, and both of them are the best undercover assassin's the the whole guild..."

"Keep Nova safe from WHAT? or rather Whom!?"

"Look Lucas, I wish i could tell you more but..."

"Shut the Fuck up Gabriel, stop calling me Lucas, Its Luke, and why do you know so much about the assassin's guild all of the sudden? Or do you have something to hide as well?"

Gabriel grunted frustratingly and ran his fingers through his hair, brushing his blonde bangs aside, Luke was glaring daggers at his way, and whether or not, he was going to find out about Nova's condition sooner or later.

So let it be later then, he didn't want the immature self centered son of a bitch know too much too fast.

"Look Luke, I don't know all the details too Ok? But you just gotta trust my father on this, after all he saved your life too..."

"SHUT UP, No one saved my life that day, No one."

By the tone of Luke's voice, Gabriel knew that the conversation was over, true enough it was a low blow to bring out his painful past, but in doing so he opted Luke to be Luke to shut down his emotion system when spoken about the more painful memories. And if that was what it took to keep him silent for a bit more longer. A little white lie and a few manipulative words cant hurt THAT much. Besides, Luke would have to learn eventually to stop depending on the younger acolyte anyways.

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"Ok guys, there's a reason why I asked you 3 too stay behind, now don't freak or anything, but I'm doing this only because among this whole batch, only the 3 of you were brought here because you have already been discovered and attacked, along with attempts to be kidnapped." Aneares muttered, her voice getting lower as the 3 closed in on her.

"Who are these people? the ones who attacke- I mean, tried to kidnap us?" Dante piped, his eyes flashed with an emotion Nova couldnt pick out.

"Patience dante, all in time, you will find out, but right now, you 3 are assigned to me and Shin here to train and tutor your powers, because frankly, your powers are the closest thing to ours, and with our experience its best if we guide all 3 off you"

"Yea, that all well and all, but what powers do they have?" Dante muttered, pointing to both Nova and the blonde acolyte known as Reina.

This time it was the minstrel who answered.

"For Reina's case, her power is more similiar to mine, for my power, I see through a person's eyes. Meaning if I touched you, I could see what you see, and feel what you feel, but in the more advance stages, with a single touch, I could manipulate your emotions and even in rarer cases, your movements, so apparently my powers are most Synt with Aneares's because of her abilities to peer in the future for a short time, thus giving both us the the power of foresight as long as i remain in contact with her in anyway."

"And for Nova... she is gifted with Foresight, like I am, but in her case, hers is the most pure, and can be magnified to whenever she wants."

"You-you mea..n"

The gypsy nodded.

Nova's eyes widened.

"Yes, you have Infinate Foresight, you can peer into the future, as far as you can, or as recent as you can, you have the most powerful foresight power known to man kind, as for now."

--

Nova was in shock,

she, the more powerful foresight holder in the whole Rune Midgard? Proposterous! She couldnt even see anything before, much less now of all time, it wasn't as though she would want to see her own future... it was too scary, what if she saw something about herself she didn't want to see? Like herself dying, it could kill any person with a right mind to know the date of their death. That would only let them live in a votex of self pity, to know your own death time would be sentencing your soul to the grim reaper himself, Nova had once read a book of a man who saw his own death, and spent the rest of his life trying to avoid it, but because of his obsession, it had inavietly lead to his death, as predected. She would not want to end up like the man in the book. Wasting life away because of what he saw in the future.

Yet her gift bore so much power, as Aneares said.

"Don't you know why they're so many people with gifts like these, especially foresight are hunted?"

Nova shooked her head, as well as her new friend Reina. But Dante, who seemed more knowledgable answered.

"As the quotes say, those who have knowledge, have power. And to be able to see in the future is a never ending pool of knowledge. You can predict what will happen in the market, what will sell well, make investments, prevent monster attacks, find new treasure, and most inportantly, spy on the King of Rune Midgard himself. With the power you supposively have, you can see them all. Thus, making you the most knowledgable person in the world, and the most powerful... "

Dante looked away as he said those words, his hand covering half his face, as though he was mourning somehow.

"Power like this shoulndt even exist... it is too much for one person to have... power like this should only be held by god... how in the world did humanity start to mutate like this?" Reina muttered quietly.

"But I'm still not convinced that you can keep control on your foresight everytime, it has to take intense concentration..."

Aneares sighed, and stood up, facing the professor, as both Reina and Nova followed her movements, Shin rolled his eyes back and sighed.

"If you do not believe me then Dante, then shall we have a duel?"

Dante's devil ears perked up, as he glanced at the shorter gypsy, her face was dead serious. Nova would think so, it seemed that the girl was wiser beyond her age, and she indeed took the work she was doing now very seriously.

"Do not be afraid that you will hurt me, magically or psysically I am far more advance then your level."

That served to irritate the proffessor ever so slightly as he stood to his full height.

"Fine then, gypsy, we shall have a duel."

Nova had never seen a formal duel before, but it seemed as though it would have been intense, the way that Dante was looking at Aneares.

"On your mark Shin."

The minstrel nodded and raised his hand, while sending a small wink to both Reina and Nova, causing the two girls to blush beet read.

"The Duel will start as soon as my hat touch the floor."

Both duelist nodded as the tall minstrel removed his Beanie and threw it in the air.

It seemed as though time slowed down for Nova, like everything was moving in slow motion, Nova found herself suddenly spacing out, as though she was plummet into a tunnel of darkness, allowing her to see something in the distant, the end of the dark tunnel was a light, a moving picture, like a movie.

She saw Aneares removing her whip as soon as the beanie touched the ground and throwing it towards Dante, the hilt of the whip would had hit him hard on the stomach, causing him to loose concentration. He was suppose to be memorizing a spell, as well as prepare to launch a fire bolt. But were all cancelled as soon as her whip hilt knocked him flat on the stomach.

Just as quickly as the tunnel came, Nova was sucked back into reality, the tunnel quickly disappearing from sight. Nova blinked 3 times, as though she was suddenly shot out of a day dream.

She saw the beanie being tossed again. Odd, didnt it happen just now?

Her eyes widened as the scene replayed once more to her, as the beanie touched the floor, Aneares's hand was already on her whip hilt, and already tossing it towards Dante, who surely enough, took the hilt to the stomach, and cancelling his casting and memorization.

"I SAW IT! I SAW IT!!"

Nova couldnt help but to scream, Dante seemed shocked, as well as Reina, who jumped slightly when she yelled, but both Shin and Aneares simply smiled, as though they were expecting it.

"You mean you SAW me seeing into the future?" Nova asked while scratching her head, it all seemed too confusing to her.

"No silly, I saw you screaming 'I SAW IT I SAW IT' that was why i wasnt surprise." Aneares added, with a small smile.

"But if you knew it was going to happen, why didn't you tell me?"

"Because Nova, if I told you, then indirectly I would be changing the future, so a time paradox might happen, thats why part and partial of having the power of foresight is so dangerous, any small thing you do can change the future, if I had told Dante that I knew he was going to cast a fire spell first, he might change his mind and cast a cold spell, thus dispelling what I saw in the future earlier on, thus changing it, in my earlier vision, I did see Dante casting the fire spell, but instead of throwing my whip, I dodged it, but when I did, Dante would have casted a Frost Driver, thus freezing me into a ice berg, and ceasing our duel. So i changed the future to my victory instead of my defeat."

"I still dont understand."

"Dont worry, it takes time to understand everything really, it took Neanea here nearly 2 years to grasp the basic understandings of foresight, in turth, she had only just mastered her real powers around 6 months ago." shin added cheerfully. While Aneares shot him a dirty look.

"I'm a teacher here, as you are, we're equal in sense. Right now." She snorted

Nova glanced to both Dante and Reina whom both shrugged helplessly back.

Shin laughed a heartly one, allowing his hand to run through Aneares's hair, she didnt seem to mind, her focus had been altered to Reina's profile page.

"I was the one who brought her here to hone her powers, so in a sense, I was the one who saved her." he added, when she swatted his hand away, which only provoked the minstrel to laugh more.

"Reina, you've been here slightly longer then both Dante and Nova havent you? Why don't you show them around, I need to deal with some matters with Shin, you guys are free to go till tomorrow's class."

Nova wanted to ask her more questions, but she knew it had to wait till tomorrow, as Aneares already dismissed them with a brush of her hand.

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"I thought we were suppose to keep an eye on them?"

"Don't worry Shin, there's a reason why I stuck all three of them together..."

"Hmmm, may I see?"

Aneares looked up to his handsome features, allowing a small smile to creep on her lips.

"Sure, hold on my hand tight now..."

"Awww, you know I can see much better if our touches were more intimate..."

Aneares snorted as Shin laughed.

"You just want a free kiss dont you? Don't you have other girls to chase?"

"Well I do, but you still kiss better then they do."

"Hold on my hand, or you dont get to see no nothing, you only get those looks when we're on missions."

"Well Teqniqually, this IS a mission, undercover and all, but still, a mission..."

"Oh god, you are so Annoying, if your that Turned on, Go and wank yourself, i cant believe you saved my life."

"You know you love me."

"Just hold my hand and see the bloody vision or I will see Pain in your future."

"Ok, ok, your so shrill for a 17 year old."

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"I've never seen you in the church before, when did you become a full fledge acolyte?"

Reina gave Nova a sweet smile as she answered

"I graduated last year, I'm suppose to apply for my priestess change last month, but something happened...and I ended up here."

"Oh..." was all Nova could muster, remembering that what Aneares told them, that they were the only 3 that were discovered and attack, had Reina's or Dante's attack been as worse as hers were?

"Well, I was brought here last week, when my body and myself were ambushed when I was training in the Mjolnir mountains." Dante replied.

"But I've never used my powers before..."

"Its not about whether or not you use them, or rather how you hide them, when I came to this academy I could barely feel any sort of power from most of the people here, only Yours and Reina's were the most outstanding ones, even Aneares and Shin didn't emit as much power as both of you guys did, or in this case, maybe the 3 of us did."

"Do you think that Shin and Aneares could hide their powers?"

"I'm pretty clear on that, seeming that most of the teachers here don't emit much power." Dante replied.

It seemed amongst the 3, Dante was the more knowledgable one, Reina seemed as clueless as she was. But somehow, Nova felt so much safer being with people who she did not need to fear she would hurt, they were all like her.

It was like discovering a family all over again.

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EnD Of ChApTer

Authors Note : Hehe, Like the story so far? it think this would explain quite alot, but there are more twists to come! R & R ppl!! everytime you dont review, a cute bunny somewhere on earth dies a horrible death. O.O