A Shining Beacon
A warm light for all mankind to share. The very definition of a Shining Beacon… but that beacon can come in many forms. A tower that sits upon the edge of the world, a school, where young students go to become heroes. Sometimes, those beacons are a little smaller… but all together, they make a beacon that burns brighter than any other.
Yang
She was only twelve years old when it had happened, when she'd found that fairy tale. The tale of the 'Star-bound Magus'. A story of a young man who'd appeared one day, on the isle of Patch, and walked forward. Picking himself up, and walking towards the darkness, and yet turning the light that hid within, into his greatest power. The man who'd called for heroes from the stars. The warrior Faunus, the White Lancer, answered this man's call, and together they fought the darkness.
She was still reading the book when she'd found that, after the third chapter of the fairy tale, the rest of it was blanked out. She'd wanted to complain to her dad to find the rest of the story, so she could find out what had happened to the Star Bound and the White Lancer when they'd gone to confront the Wicked Witch. The chapter had ended with the Star Bound leaving behind four treasures, undescribed in the story. She wanted to find those treasures! Go on a great adventure herself! With Ruby even!
When she'd went to close the book, and go find her father, she'd heard the jostling. Opening the book once more, she flipped through its pages before finding one that held a painted picture, like many pages in the book… yet this one was more detailed. It was some sort of… shard? It looked kinda like a four pointed star. She shook the book again, hearding the jostling coming from inside… and then she'd closed the book and flipped it over, shaking it before opening it again.
Out fell the painted object, a wooden shard that fell to the ground, clattering as it passed from between the pages. Looking at the page it had fell from, the painted picture was gone… and then she closed the book and tossed it to the ground, grabbing for the shard as if it would vanish on her.
What she got, was a splinter as she grasped the broken piece of wood. Seething she pulled it out, before holding up the wooden shard… she looked at it with awe. Was this? How had it?
When her dad and Ruby had come to check on her after hearing the book hit the ground, she'd hidden the shard in her pocket. And when they'd left again, she'd pulled it back out, climbing onto her bed and holding it up, before looking outside at the falling sun. The Magus had called the White Lancer from the stars? Maybe she could… try?
When the house fell silent, and she knew both her dad and Ruby would be asleep… she'd slowly opened her window and climbed outside, running into the woods in nothing but her dress, a smile on her face as she clutched the shard between her hands. She just had to try it!
When the moon was high in the sky, and the stars above shined brightly above, she ran into a… relatively open spot, maybe two hundred feet from the house, and raised the shard skyward with one hand.
"Hero of the stars! I call upon you! Come forth and give me aid!" she recited, remembering the chant that the fairy tale had used… and for a good minute… nothing happened. She just stood there, holding up the shard… before slowly lowering it and looking at the wooden piece… Dammit… somehow she'd found a piece of wood that had fallen out of a book, and it wasn't some sort of magical object… boo!
She grunted, before chucking the shard into a tree. "Dammit! I wanted to have a hero to help me! I want too…" she wanted to do a lot of things actually. Become a great huntress, find her mother, maybe meet some cute boys. But the first two were far more important. Shoving her hands into her pockets she slumped as she started walking back towards the house, kicking a rock… before a light came from behind her. It wasn't bright, but it was noticeable enough.
Turning around, she gasped at the sight of the shard, laying on the ground, and glowing white. She watched, and started to walk closer… as a beam of light shot up from the shard, Yang gasping before falling to the ground, looking straight up as the beam shot into the sky… before vanishing… in the distance, a star twinkled, glowing brighter, but otherwise… nothing seemed to change.
"...Where's the hero?" Yang asked to no one, and nearly pouted again, the shard was still glowing, and as she pulled herself up… there was a crack of thunder, before.
Yang was blown back as a bolt of lightning dropped in from above, landing on the shard and shattering it into even more fragments as she landed in the dirt, grunting, before sitting back up and looking towards where the shard had been, and gasping.
"...Well this ain't what I expected, you my Master kid?" the armored figure standing before her said with a distorted voice. Their silver and red armor was very intimidating, even the spiked helmet. "Wait hold on," the figure tapped their helmet, the metal collapsing away cleanly to reveal… a green eyed girl with bright yellow hair, and a toothy grin. "There, now can ya answer?"
"Am I your master!? Are you a hero from the stars!?" Yang shout excitedly, standing up and just running up to the hero and just pointing up at her face.
"Huh, that's a new one. I guess I would be, yeah, if that's how Servants are summoned here? Uh… where is here?" the girl looked around as Yang smiled, putting her hands on her hips.
"You are on Patch, and you're my hero!" she cheered excitedly, jumping in a circle before looking towards the girl in confusion. "Who are you?"
The girl just held an armored hand to her chin, and gave Yang a toothy grin. "Well, I suppose if you don't know… I'm Mordred! The one and only son of King Arthur!" she boasted… and Yang just stared in… heavy confusion.
"The… son of who?" she asked, tilting her head… and almost comically 'Mordred' collapsed to the ground before pulling herself back up.
"What do you mean the son of who!? King Arthur, that's who!" she shouted, very loudly before looking up and… slowly lowering her arms, Yang followed her gaze, towards the moon.
"...Oh… that's… why, huh…" Mordred started, but chuckling a bit, still in that same… stunned position. "Guess you got your terminology wrong. I'm not a hero from the stars…" Mordred started, before raising one finger towards the sky, and just gave a massive grin. "I'm a hero from beyond them!"
"That's so cool!" Yang cheered, just absolutely giddy as Mordred laughed, and then Yang stopped. "But uh… why are you the 'Son'?"
Mordred seemed rather… offended at her question, but just sighed and rubbed the back of her head. "Look, it's… complicated. Just, go with me, will ya?" she asked, and Yang just nodded, before running around Mordred.
"Do you know the Star Bound Magus? Or the White Lancer?" she asked, just very curious as Mordred just gave her a stare, before looking up.
"What no names? Appearance at least?" she asked, and Yang just giggled.
"The White Lancer was a Faunus lady who wore all white, and had the white spear and white shield, and the Star Bound Magus was a blond guy who used the power of the stars to summon her!" Yang explained excitedly… and Mordred just stared… before slowly raising a hand.
"...Run that by me again… did you say lady in all white and… a magus who used the power of the stars?" she asked, and Yang just nodded, a bit confused as Mordred quickly snapped her helmet back on… and she didn't hear anything she said as she looked towards the sky, raised her fist… and just started shaking it before huffing… and then lowering the helmet again and staring at Yang.
"Right… sorry bout that kid. Eh… got a… history with those two, yeah… let's call it that," she complained before looking towards the house. "That yours?"
"Yeah, where me, daddy and Ruby live," Yang explained, and Mordred just walked over, and scooped Yang up with one arm, sighing and starting to walk.
"Listen kid, you and I are gonna have a very long talk after this… but let's just get you to bed and then we'll deal with this," Mordred muttered and Yang just clung to her arm in excitement.
That had been, quite literally, how her story began, the first pillar of the Shining Beacon.
AN: This was something that Maha Ziodyne suggested, or at least the first part of it. But like the War Without a Grail, don't expect chapters for this to come out very often until either Servants of Remnant or A Sun for the Schnee are complete. However, I do suggest some of you figure out just what some of this all means? Make your guesses, PM me your questions. I have lots in store. And the next upcoming Chapter is the start of Part 3. Hektor is back again everyone!