Chapter 1; The arrival.
+++++Feagris, The Kingdom of flames. * 5 years ago. Winter * ++++++++
On the the eastern mountains the kingdom of Feagris is built, kingdom consecrated to the deity of fire. Built on the plateau of the highest mountain of the east. The plateau, being as high as the position of the clouds, is surrounded by them resembling a sea around the castle.
Rei, the 12 year old princess and heiress to the crown of Feagris, plays in the courtyard farthest from the castle. Dressed in a beautiful red gown with her hair loose,She's riding her white horse accompanied by his personal escort; Häggen, her personal escort.
A clumsy 12 year old knight apprentice, blonde and blue eyed with long hair reaching his waist. (A/N: Since I don't feel like describing him just imagine he is Gourri from slayers. ^_^)
Häggen is riding a chestnut colored horse and is wearing the uniform that the soldiers of the kingdom wear: A red tunic , black trousers and mid-shin lenght leather boots.
The fact that he had to follow Rei like a shadow annoyed her. "Hey Häggen, why are you always tagging along with me? I want to be alone!"
Rei slowed down and said those words with exasperation to the blonde boy riding next to her. ""I-I'm sorry your majesty, but orders are orders. If I disobey I'll be punished." ""Coward!" Rei retorted coldly and rode faster ,by now she was riding into the kingdom's hunting grounds at great speed.
Before he could react she was out of sight.. After 10 interminable second Häggen reacted "NOO, not again!! If the commander finds about this I wot get any meals for another 3 days!" Saying that and fearing for his stomach he quickly went in search of the snotty princess..... Before long Rei found herself alone at hunting grounds, a thick and lush forest full of animals that regularly were served in the table of the castle. Sometimes the farmers managed to get past the gaurds to hunt in that land to be able to feed their families. The king was very permisive with his subordinates but this was one of the few things prohibited to them, but in winter the food is scarce and one doesnt care about rules and stuff when their families are starving....
A nearby bush's leaves moved, this made Rei feel nervous. "I-idiot It's just the wind ... yeah, that must be it." But Rei realized she was wrong when 3 adult men and a child came out from them. Rei looked at them with fear, she had never seen people with that appearance. The four were dressed with animal furs , all of their clothes were made of this coarse material.
The men were bearded and long hair tied up with a leather lace so that the it didn't hinder their sight. They all had weapons with them, Even the child had a broad sword tied on the back with a leather belt. Rei didn't know where those people came from. She observed the child carefully. The child seems yo have the same age as her... The child was a girl, Rei knew it because of the pretty face she had. Small nose and full lips, it was without doubt a girl's face.
Eventhough mud stained she still looked pretty. She had dark shoulder lenght brown hair and two long tufts of hair fell to the sides of her face as if they were framing it. Her skin was as white as the snow scattered all around the place.
And there was something in her that made Rei feel strange, that something were the eyes of that little savage... They were cold and peircing as steel lances but at the same time deep as a sea, The color was strangest thing... They were pale green, almost yellow.
Rei noticed that the same eye characteristics were present in the other three men, being the color their only variant between them.
(Their eyes... I feel as if I were looking directly at a dragon's eyes...) Rei thought with fear.
Rei now examined other three men, all were big, strong, bearded and long haired. All were dressed in tanned animal skins coarsely confectioned in coats, trousers and boots were basically what all of them wore.
The three men shared meaningful looks while staring at Rei, the oldest seemed to be the leader. He was grey-haired and carried a war axe. The second one was a brown haired middle aged man, his hair color was almost the same as the little girl's and the last one was a redhead with braided hair. All of them had scars, on the face and a other visible in the noncovered parts of the body like arms and neck.
"Ermmm, hello? " Rei said timidly just to see what happened but the conversation didn't last long since the four Barbarians watched themselves in a confused manner.
A deep growl reached their ears. By the duration and loudness one could tell that it was made by a big animal.
Rei's luck couldn't get worse, first there were strange people inside the castle grounds and now the growl an aproaching beast. It couldn't be worse... could it? The growling approached more and more. Rei swalloed hard when she saw how the savages readied their weapons and turned around in several directions listening the sound of the animal while trying to catch a glimpse of it.
She thoughts of fleeing, but she couldn't move a muscle before a humungous bear standing on his legs appeared behind her. "AHHHHH!!!" Rei yelled loudly , that annoyed the bear even more causing it to roar fiercely.
The white horse that was being mounted by Rei whinnied and fled from the place . Rei fell from the scared horse and landed on the snow.
The 3 men using their axes and swords cornered the bear against an enormous tree with wide trunk so that the bear could not escape, meanwhile the girl, with her sword tied to her back, Agily climbed the trunk until being about two meters above the ground, she stood on a branch, grasped her sword with the balde aimed at the neck of the bear.
The girl,jumped with the sword ready to strike. While she fell she let out a war cry that made the bear turn around upwards. The girl landed on the bear's shoulders while her sword pierced the bear's neck completely.
The sword had cut the arteries going to the head and the blood of the animal spatted and stained the girl and the nearby snow.
The girl far from being shocked by what she had done to the bear pulled her sword out and slashed the head of the bear again. This time the slash caused the head of the bear fall to and roll on the ground staining the white snow with blood. After this cut the girl jumped away from the headless body of the bear that at any time would fall to the ground.
Rei was in shock , she had never seen a dead animal before and less being beheaded in front of her by a girl her age age.
Later Rei saw something that confused her , it seemed that the barbarians were smiling at her. Perhaps they had killed that bear to protect her... but she could not be sure.
In any case her surprise didn't last long since a cavalry legion had arrived with Häggen among them. They had heard the shout of their princess and came as fast as they could.
The commander of the legion saw first the bloodstains onthe snow, next the bear, the princess sitting on the ground, and lastly the blood stained girl and her companions.
"Peasants hunting in the hunting grounds of the King ...You know the law ... Take the princess away from here. She's not to see the execution!" The commander yelled his ordes to his men.
The girl approached Rei, she offered her hand to her, Rei took it and the girl lifted her from the ground. She didn't have difficulty in doing it, if she could handle a sword at that age she had sufficient strength to help a slim girl like Rei get to her feet. She couldn't be just a normal peasant, none of the four.
"Don't touch the princess you filth!"
Häggen said as he pulled his sword out of it's scabbard and ran to attack the girl whom blocked the attack. They remained staring at each other's the eyes, standing in the same place trying to push one another with their swords until the girl smiled mockingly at him while glaring coldly.
Häggen did not know what was going on until he felt a kick on the shin that made him trip and fall on his back on the snow. When he raised his glance he saw that it had been the girl who kicked him on the feet and made him fall of to the ground since she still had her leg raised. She lowered her leg and it pointed her sword against Häggen's throat. The mocking expression on her face was replaced by a cold and unexpreassive one.
After this the other soldiers quickly surrounded the barbarians aiming at their throats with swords and lances. Rei quickly ran and stood between the soldiers and the Barbarians.
" P-Princess?!" The commander said, he couldn't do anything with the princess between both groups. Häggen rose and ran next to Rei between the two groups.
"Princess, please get away from them! They're dangerous",
" No, they're not! They saved me from that bear. They're not bad!" Rei innocently said while he pointing in direction of the beheaded.
"Even so, they are within the castle gorunds." The commander said while he approached his group of soldiers but stopped dead on his tracks when he saw the eyes of the savages.
" .... T-those... those eyes..." Rei saw how the commander, a tall and strong soldier got pale and trembly before those people. ".... T-they are... They are warriors of the clan of Fahdiel!"The commander said this loud enough to be heard by all of his soldiers. The four Barbarians stared coldly at the commander without saying anything nor feeling intimidated by all the lances and swords pointing at their throats.
Rei and Häggen did not know why the commander made such a fuss about those people being from the clan of Fa-whatever but they guessed it should be something serious since all of the soldiers' eyes were filled with fear as they stopped threatening them with their weapons and backed away.
"TAKE PRINCESS AND HÄGGEN!!! RUN!!! RETREAT!!!" All began to flee, the commander took Rei and Häggen ,got them on his horse and prepared to flee but It did not make much difference, nobody went very far.
The brown haired man walked some steps forward and began the invocation of a fire spell. "Feh!... Idiots." The oldest man whispered while he saw the man of brown hair finish the invocation and strike the ground with his fist.
"Wall of flames..." He said calmly at the same time as his fist landed on the snow. Right away a circular fire wall appeared before the fleeing soldiers cutting the all the escape routes , leaving them trapped inside with the four people of Fahdiel.
"Well done Reskaresu. Now they will listen to what we've got to say." The red haired man said to the brown hairred one. The old man took the hand of the small girl and walked towards the commander. Rei and Häggen observed how girl tied her sword to her back with her belt so that it didn't get in the way.
This girl had something that made Rei feel interested in her.... "Listen carefully since I will only say this once, We must speak with your King. We need to discuss an important matter with him.
The commander, with his voice faltering by fear answered to the old one " T-the king would never give an audience to people ... like you." The commander said with fear eventhough he tried to sound angry.
"Do you think that we would make treaties with your kind if it werenit for something really important?! This matter that we must discuss with the King is so important that on it depends the lives of your people and ours!! Do you think we careto your king we will kill and your soldiers and we will get to the king by our own means anyway, don't be stupid and take us, we are not interested in taking your lives but we will not risk the life of our people because of in imbecil like you!"
The old one said in an authoritarian and challenging tone while he reached for his sword. Rei and häggen still didn't understood what was going on but while Häggen tried to figure it out Rei stared blankly at the girl who was smiling mockingly at the commender.
The commander had no choice, if he refused he and his legion would be wiped out by those 3 adult warriors. A small group of 10 soldiers could be easily wiped out by a single warrior of the Fadhiel clan... Such was the strength of these warriors consecrated to Fahdiel, the goddess of War. His group was hardly of 15 men so this meant he was numbered.
" How do we know that after you've been take to the king you won't slay us all?" " We give you our word" Said the brown haired guy. "How do we know that your word is actually worth something?" The old man frowned at the arrogant commander. " What do you think we are?! Humans?!" Said the red head angrily.
" I've already told you that we're not interested in taking your lives, we just need to talk to your king ...about something very important." Said the old man as he placed his hand on the girl's shoulder......
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A/N: Just in case you're wondering... NO, THIS IS NOT LOLICON. :p
Sorry if the prologue was kind of out of place and confusing but I put it there on purpose ^_^ I promise you'll understand what was going on there soon. Please review.
+++++Feagris, The Kingdom of flames. * 5 years ago. Winter * ++++++++
On the the eastern mountains the kingdom of Feagris is built, kingdom consecrated to the deity of fire. Built on the plateau of the highest mountain of the east. The plateau, being as high as the position of the clouds, is surrounded by them resembling a sea around the castle.
Rei, the 12 year old princess and heiress to the crown of Feagris, plays in the courtyard farthest from the castle. Dressed in a beautiful red gown with her hair loose,She's riding her white horse accompanied by his personal escort; Häggen, her personal escort.
A clumsy 12 year old knight apprentice, blonde and blue eyed with long hair reaching his waist. (A/N: Since I don't feel like describing him just imagine he is Gourri from slayers. ^_^)
Häggen is riding a chestnut colored horse and is wearing the uniform that the soldiers of the kingdom wear: A red tunic , black trousers and mid-shin lenght leather boots.
The fact that he had to follow Rei like a shadow annoyed her. "Hey Häggen, why are you always tagging along with me? I want to be alone!"
Rei slowed down and said those words with exasperation to the blonde boy riding next to her. ""I-I'm sorry your majesty, but orders are orders. If I disobey I'll be punished." ""Coward!" Rei retorted coldly and rode faster ,by now she was riding into the kingdom's hunting grounds at great speed.
Before he could react she was out of sight.. After 10 interminable second Häggen reacted "NOO, not again!! If the commander finds about this I wot get any meals for another 3 days!" Saying that and fearing for his stomach he quickly went in search of the snotty princess..... Before long Rei found herself alone at hunting grounds, a thick and lush forest full of animals that regularly were served in the table of the castle. Sometimes the farmers managed to get past the gaurds to hunt in that land to be able to feed their families. The king was very permisive with his subordinates but this was one of the few things prohibited to them, but in winter the food is scarce and one doesnt care about rules and stuff when their families are starving....
A nearby bush's leaves moved, this made Rei feel nervous. "I-idiot It's just the wind ... yeah, that must be it." But Rei realized she was wrong when 3 adult men and a child came out from them. Rei looked at them with fear, she had never seen people with that appearance. The four were dressed with animal furs , all of their clothes were made of this coarse material.
The men were bearded and long hair tied up with a leather lace so that the it didn't hinder their sight. They all had weapons with them, Even the child had a broad sword tied on the back with a leather belt. Rei didn't know where those people came from. She observed the child carefully. The child seems yo have the same age as her... The child was a girl, Rei knew it because of the pretty face she had. Small nose and full lips, it was without doubt a girl's face.
Eventhough mud stained she still looked pretty. She had dark shoulder lenght brown hair and two long tufts of hair fell to the sides of her face as if they were framing it. Her skin was as white as the snow scattered all around the place.
And there was something in her that made Rei feel strange, that something were the eyes of that little savage... They were cold and peircing as steel lances but at the same time deep as a sea, The color was strangest thing... They were pale green, almost yellow.
Rei noticed that the same eye characteristics were present in the other three men, being the color their only variant between them.
(Their eyes... I feel as if I were looking directly at a dragon's eyes...) Rei thought with fear.
Rei now examined other three men, all were big, strong, bearded and long haired. All were dressed in tanned animal skins coarsely confectioned in coats, trousers and boots were basically what all of them wore.
The three men shared meaningful looks while staring at Rei, the oldest seemed to be the leader. He was grey-haired and carried a war axe. The second one was a brown haired middle aged man, his hair color was almost the same as the little girl's and the last one was a redhead with braided hair. All of them had scars, on the face and a other visible in the noncovered parts of the body like arms and neck.
"Ermmm, hello? " Rei said timidly just to see what happened but the conversation didn't last long since the four Barbarians watched themselves in a confused manner.
A deep growl reached their ears. By the duration and loudness one could tell that it was made by a big animal.
Rei's luck couldn't get worse, first there were strange people inside the castle grounds and now the growl an aproaching beast. It couldn't be worse... could it? The growling approached more and more. Rei swalloed hard when she saw how the savages readied their weapons and turned around in several directions listening the sound of the animal while trying to catch a glimpse of it.
She thoughts of fleeing, but she couldn't move a muscle before a humungous bear standing on his legs appeared behind her. "AHHHHH!!!" Rei yelled loudly , that annoyed the bear even more causing it to roar fiercely.
The white horse that was being mounted by Rei whinnied and fled from the place . Rei fell from the scared horse and landed on the snow.
The 3 men using their axes and swords cornered the bear against an enormous tree with wide trunk so that the bear could not escape, meanwhile the girl, with her sword tied to her back, Agily climbed the trunk until being about two meters above the ground, she stood on a branch, grasped her sword with the balde aimed at the neck of the bear.
The girl,jumped with the sword ready to strike. While she fell she let out a war cry that made the bear turn around upwards. The girl landed on the bear's shoulders while her sword pierced the bear's neck completely.
The sword had cut the arteries going to the head and the blood of the animal spatted and stained the girl and the nearby snow.
The girl far from being shocked by what she had done to the bear pulled her sword out and slashed the head of the bear again. This time the slash caused the head of the bear fall to and roll on the ground staining the white snow with blood. After this cut the girl jumped away from the headless body of the bear that at any time would fall to the ground.
Rei was in shock , she had never seen a dead animal before and less being beheaded in front of her by a girl her age age.
Later Rei saw something that confused her , it seemed that the barbarians were smiling at her. Perhaps they had killed that bear to protect her... but she could not be sure.
In any case her surprise didn't last long since a cavalry legion had arrived with Häggen among them. They had heard the shout of their princess and came as fast as they could.
The commander of the legion saw first the bloodstains onthe snow, next the bear, the princess sitting on the ground, and lastly the blood stained girl and her companions.
"Peasants hunting in the hunting grounds of the King ...You know the law ... Take the princess away from here. She's not to see the execution!" The commander yelled his ordes to his men.
The girl approached Rei, she offered her hand to her, Rei took it and the girl lifted her from the ground. She didn't have difficulty in doing it, if she could handle a sword at that age she had sufficient strength to help a slim girl like Rei get to her feet. She couldn't be just a normal peasant, none of the four.
"Don't touch the princess you filth!"
Häggen said as he pulled his sword out of it's scabbard and ran to attack the girl whom blocked the attack. They remained staring at each other's the eyes, standing in the same place trying to push one another with their swords until the girl smiled mockingly at him while glaring coldly.
Häggen did not know what was going on until he felt a kick on the shin that made him trip and fall on his back on the snow. When he raised his glance he saw that it had been the girl who kicked him on the feet and made him fall of to the ground since she still had her leg raised. She lowered her leg and it pointed her sword against Häggen's throat. The mocking expression on her face was replaced by a cold and unexpreassive one.
After this the other soldiers quickly surrounded the barbarians aiming at their throats with swords and lances. Rei quickly ran and stood between the soldiers and the Barbarians.
" P-Princess?!" The commander said, he couldn't do anything with the princess between both groups. Häggen rose and ran next to Rei between the two groups.
"Princess, please get away from them! They're dangerous",
" No, they're not! They saved me from that bear. They're not bad!" Rei innocently said while he pointing in direction of the beheaded.
"Even so, they are within the castle gorunds." The commander said while he approached his group of soldiers but stopped dead on his tracks when he saw the eyes of the savages.
" .... T-those... those eyes..." Rei saw how the commander, a tall and strong soldier got pale and trembly before those people. ".... T-they are... They are warriors of the clan of Fahdiel!"The commander said this loud enough to be heard by all of his soldiers. The four Barbarians stared coldly at the commander without saying anything nor feeling intimidated by all the lances and swords pointing at their throats.
Rei and Häggen did not know why the commander made such a fuss about those people being from the clan of Fa-whatever but they guessed it should be something serious since all of the soldiers' eyes were filled with fear as they stopped threatening them with their weapons and backed away.
"TAKE PRINCESS AND HÄGGEN!!! RUN!!! RETREAT!!!" All began to flee, the commander took Rei and Häggen ,got them on his horse and prepared to flee but It did not make much difference, nobody went very far.
The brown haired man walked some steps forward and began the invocation of a fire spell. "Feh!... Idiots." The oldest man whispered while he saw the man of brown hair finish the invocation and strike the ground with his fist.
"Wall of flames..." He said calmly at the same time as his fist landed on the snow. Right away a circular fire wall appeared before the fleeing soldiers cutting the all the escape routes , leaving them trapped inside with the four people of Fahdiel.
"Well done Reskaresu. Now they will listen to what we've got to say." The red haired man said to the brown hairred one. The old man took the hand of the small girl and walked towards the commander. Rei and Häggen observed how girl tied her sword to her back with her belt so that it didn't get in the way.
This girl had something that made Rei feel interested in her.... "Listen carefully since I will only say this once, We must speak with your King. We need to discuss an important matter with him.
The commander, with his voice faltering by fear answered to the old one " T-the king would never give an audience to people ... like you." The commander said with fear eventhough he tried to sound angry.
"Do you think that we would make treaties with your kind if it werenit for something really important?! This matter that we must discuss with the King is so important that on it depends the lives of your people and ours!! Do you think we careto your king we will kill and your soldiers and we will get to the king by our own means anyway, don't be stupid and take us, we are not interested in taking your lives but we will not risk the life of our people because of in imbecil like you!"
The old one said in an authoritarian and challenging tone while he reached for his sword. Rei and häggen still didn't understood what was going on but while Häggen tried to figure it out Rei stared blankly at the girl who was smiling mockingly at the commender.
The commander had no choice, if he refused he and his legion would be wiped out by those 3 adult warriors. A small group of 10 soldiers could be easily wiped out by a single warrior of the Fadhiel clan... Such was the strength of these warriors consecrated to Fahdiel, the goddess of War. His group was hardly of 15 men so this meant he was numbered.
" How do we know that after you've been take to the king you won't slay us all?" " We give you our word" Said the brown haired guy. "How do we know that your word is actually worth something?" The old man frowned at the arrogant commander. " What do you think we are?! Humans?!" Said the red head angrily.
" I've already told you that we're not interested in taking your lives, we just need to talk to your king ...about something very important." Said the old man as he placed his hand on the girl's shoulder......
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A/N: Just in case you're wondering... NO, THIS IS NOT LOLICON. :p
Sorry if the prologue was kind of out of place and confusing but I put it there on purpose ^_^ I promise you'll understand what was going on there soon. Please review.