Hello everyone! In celebration for receiving over 4000 views to my 'Ranking Zero' story, I've decided to let everyone know that I am planning a sequel! (Yes, yes, you can begin your happy dance now…) However, I am waiting a bit to see how the manga plays out before I dive completely into it and I want to complete my 'Bow and the Blade' story before I go into another one.
Now as a sort of teaser to get you all hyped (more like annoyed at me after you read it), I present a small snippet of my sequel to Ranking Zero tentatively entitled 'Ranking Zero: Adri's Final Tale'.
A Claymore has always been feared as a witch, a harbinger of death, or a monster. However, the same could be said for humans as well. We of the Gale Clan understand this as soon as the trainees are introduced to their first battle. The sight of the blood, death, and destruction wrought by our own hands is enough to lose half of our number from our ranks as soon as we return to the Gale Clan village. For those that remain, we train seemingly unendingly to protect what we hold dear.
Our friends, family, and humanity.
Is our struggle not the same as that of the Claymores? They, the hybrid between yoma and human, are in a constant battle to maintain their humanity. They strive to protect the land from the monsters called Yoma and to prevent the tragedies they went through from ever occurring again. Is that not what we, the Gale Clan, also strive for?
Perhaps this is the reason the clan treats the Claymores differently than the rest of the populace. We are essentially comrades in arms, fighting to destroy the Yoma. Even one of our matriarchs, Adrianna Gale, was a Claymore and protected the clan for at least two generations. She even allowed five rescued Claymore trainees to join the ranks of the Gale Clan warriors on the condition that she oversee their training and the five trainees never intentionally put the Gale Clan in danger with their yoma powers.
Lady Adri, as everyone called her, was a patient, wise, and quite often mysterious warrior. No one fully knew the magnitude of the power she constantly held in check. Few are alive now who remembered her, Warrior Serah, and other trusted allies of those days destroying the army of Awaken Beings who dared to attack the Gale Clan village. Fewer remember the one Claymore warrior that Adri entrusted with her neckcloth returning to tell us that Serah had died and Adri was seriously injured. And only a select few knew what truly happened to Adri after her supposed 'death'.
I did not learn of what happened to Adri until the day before her true death.
I am the Gale Clan Claymore called Lenisha, leader of my fellow half-yoma warriors until my own death. Lady Adri entrusted me with her final tale during my days with her, and now I write it out, to preserve it so all of the Gale Clan might learn it.
If you wish to remember Lady Adri as a gentle and quiet leader of the clan, then do not read on. Lady Adri was forever a warrior at heart as so her tale is one of fighting and struggling to retain her humanity, even when she nearly lost everything.
So I, Lenisha, Adri's successor, begin her final tale.
And there you have it! Hope you enjoyed and are looking forward to my sequel! Until I actually write it though, give my other fanfictions a read and let me know what you think! It's always appreciated!
Until next time, faithful readers,
~Aurora Shadowglen~