Chapter 4: A new Life
Alright after the third got mostly positive it made me want to continue the fic, so this one is more character focus one with more mundain things, with a little surprise at the end, oh before I forget the new cover was done by DarkSammich's friend so shout out to him, hope you enjoy
After the fight with Elsa, Rom woke up, and asked Emilia where Felt is, and she explained that Reinhard took her away, Rom was a bit annoyed that he couldn't protect her, once he calmed down, he thanked her for healing him, but it was actually Birsingr, who cast a healing spell on him, so as Thanks Rom carried him to a carriage, where Emilia travels back to Roswaal's home.
Birsingr opens his eyes to see a celling he has never seen before, and he notices something soft and fluffy on his back, he gets up from his bed to see that his top half is not covered showing all the scars he had from his battles, but thankfully he is wearing pants.
He gets out of bed and leaves the room to search this new place, as he did he notices that the halls are very well kept, not a single speck of dust anywhere.
As he walks, he notices a portrait of a forest and a beautiful moon in the background.
He looks at it before walking away.
He walks for a bit longer until he notices that the hall is lopping, he notices it when the same painting repeated over and over again, he notices a few doors and decided to open it, unless there is a long and tedious route to get to the other side just to open it.
He chuckles for a second before opening the door to reveal a large library, with all sorts of books, and a little girl in a red dress, spiral blonde pony hair, blue eyes with a pink butterfly in the centre, and a little red hat on her head.
"My, aren't you rude one, I suppose" She points out.
"Forgive me, I was looking for a library, but it seems I found it, know if you excuse me I need to look for something" Birsingr walks forward not realising that he steps on a book, he takes his foot off, and picks up the now damage book "Oops my bad I'm sure it can easily be replaced.
"Grr, you really are an annoyance, you should leave before you cause any more damage, I suppose" the little girl gets up and walks to Birsingr.
She stops right in front of him and places her hand on his exposed stomach.
Before she could do anything Birsingr grabs her hand "You are a little young to try and make your move on me, so excuse me, I need to catch up on some history." Birsingr walks past her and further into the library.
The little girl clenches her teeth, never before has anyone, just walk past her, as if he owns the place, "You need to learn some manners!" She stretches her arm out, and flattens her palms.
Birsingr instantly stops, he couldn't move it felt like how the stray demon grabs him, he struggles but still no affect.
"Now, you should leave" Using her magic she flings Birsingr out the library, and out the window.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH" Birsingr, lands in the hedge head first in the ground, his upper body now covered in dirt and… Manure.
He pulls his head out and shakes it trying to remove the dirt "You little brat, when I get up there I'm going to make you regret doing that to me."
"Uh, Birsingr you alright?"
He turns to see Emilia not in her usual clothes but a simpler dress.
"Oh, Emilia, I was in a library when a little girl used her magic and flung me out the window, and into this hedge." He walks out his entire body covered in dirt, but his muscles are still very well defined.
Emilia blushes at how well fit he is, not a single ounce of fat, anywhere on his body, but what intrigued her are the scars that cover his entire body, from a slice across his chest to another that is across his stomach.
Birsingr looks at Emilia "Listen Emilia as much as I would like to stand out here, with you, where is my armour?"
"Ah yes, I asked Rem and Ram to clean it, it was covered in ash and blood." She explains
"Ah Birsingr, it is a pleasure see you again, I need to thank for keeping my daughter safe" Puck materialises on Emilia's shoulders.
"Your daughter?"
"Yup, Emilia is my daughter, who I'm very protective of"
"I do, have a question, what is a spirit, I have seen all sorts of creatures, but not one as unique as you?"
Puck floats in front Birsingr "I'm known as a spirit, a being made of pure mana"
"Hm, these creatures are certainly unique, in all my travels around Lothric, I have never heard of something like that" Birsingr thinks.
As puck remains close he sniffs Birsingr and when he did, he immediately clenches his nose.
"Blugh, you stink of both manure and ash, can't you even smell yourself"
Birsingt tries to but couldn't, guess being an Undead, you lose your senses like smell's and taste
"You need a bath" Puck cast a water spell, towards Birsingr in order to clean him.
Birsingr sees it and immediately dodges it, making the water hit a tree and a bush instead.
"Listen, if you want me to take a bath, then tell me where the bathroom is, instead of blasting me with a magic spell."
"don't be brash, hold still, it will only take a moment." Puck Fires another blast but Birsingr dodges it again.
Puck fires again, but Birsingr dodges.
It repeated for a few moments, before Emilia stops Puck, by grabbing him by the ear.
"Ow,ow,ow, what's that for" Puck begs
"Birsingr doesn't want to be, washed like that so you can stop it" she says sternly
Birsingr walks forwards with confidence "Ha, it would seem the gods are on my side, Ha ha ha ha"
Emilia than grabs his ear, and to be honest it somehow hurts like hell.
"And you need to have a bath, you stink horribly"
"Ow, ow, ow, ok I get it please let go of my ear"
Emilia lets go of both their ears, and leads Birsingr to the bath.
Inside the bath
Birsingr takes of his trousers and his undergarments leaving him completely, he enters the water, and could feel a nice warm feeling, all over his body.
He hears a knock, and then Emilia speaks "Take your time, and I'll ask Rem and Ram to bring your armour to your room"
"Thanks, I'll take my time, and enjoy it" He takes a deep breath, and closes his eyes reflecting on what happen when he touched felt.
"Hm, that was really a weird experience, who was that man with her, it looked like she was happy, perhaps more so then with me, it would seem that Felt has a fragment of her soul, which could only happen of one of two ways, either her soul went to a new body, or Felt inherent her soul as her decendent, whatever it maybe, I need to learn more about this age."
Birsingr opens his eyes and looks down on his left chest to see the Dark Sign, both hate and disgust filled his stomach, he blames everything on that mark, but he remembers that Emilia didn't ask about it, was it invisible to her or something, he looks on his right hand to see a new mark, one he hasn't seen before.
It looks like a black butterfly, with hands coiled around it, and he could feel a oniums aura coming from it.
Clenching his hand, he gets out of the tub, and raps a towel around his waist and leaves the bath.
When he enters the room, he sees two young girls.
Both girls are wearing a short maid outfit, one had pink short hair covering her right eye, while the other as blue short hair covering her left eye, both with flower shaped ribbon on opposite sides and both are wearing maid hairbands, and the colour of their eyes matched their hair colours.
"Who are you two?" Birsingr asks.
The girls than grab their hands and snuggles together.
"Rem, Rem, our guest has returned." the pink- hair one talks
"Sister, sister, he returns from his bath, very quickly."
"Ok, you two talk very weird." he walks to his bed, and sits
"Rem, Rem, he hasn't change yet he must be a pervert"
"Sister, sister, he must like being seen naked by girls"
Birsingr just ignores them and asks them something "Who are you, I know the girl with the blue hair name is Rem, but what is yours?"
The pink hair girl lets go and bows "I am Ram sir, and you already know Rem, and we welcome you, Mr Ash.
"Mr Ash?" Birsingr actually fond that a little amusing, but he is curious "Why are you calling me that"
Ram answers the question "You smell like wet ash and it stinks, sir"
"My, aren't you a blunt one"
"I would consider myself honest, sir"
"Yes sir, Ram is very honest."
"Well that's nice to know, considering that some of the people I knew where not as honest as you, which I like, so please be more honest"
"Sister, sister, he is a pervert who gets aroused when you talk down on him"
Rem, Rem, he gets turned on when you talk down on him"
"How cute you two are, well as much as I am enjoying this conversation, I would like to get back in my armour" he gets up and tries and find it.
"Mr Ash, if you are looking for your ugly armour it is right here" Ram tells Birsingr, pointing to the closet
"Yes Sir, so please let us help you with putting it on." Rem offers
Birsingr shakes his head "No need I can do it myself, so you may leave"
Sisters bow, and made their way out, but before Rem left, she eyes Birsingr for a second with a bit of suspicion, then she closes the door.
Birsingr makes his way to the closet to see his swords, and his armour all polished, he takes his stuff out, and starts changing back into his armour.
After ten minutes, he has his fallen knight gloves on, his trousers, and his armour on, he looks at himself in a mirror for a good while, and all he can see is a man who is in a time which is not his, he remembers the words that Prince Lothric spoke before he claimed his ashes "Mark my words, Ashen One… you remain among the accursed."
Birsingr clenches his fist, he was right, he has remained among the accursed, he can never truly now peace, did Lothric know about his fate, before he could continue thinking he hears a knock on the door "You can come in"
Emilia opens the door with a smile "I see Rem and Ram polished your armour, and it seems they left the cloak alone, like I asked"
Birsingr puts his helmet on and walks to Emilia.
"Yeah this is actually the cleanest the armour has ever been, thank you" he bows ingratitude.
Emilia shakes her hands "No, no it's the least I can do after you risked so much for me.
The two left the room, and decided to go for a walk.
The two decided to walk outside, and enjoy the quiet for a bit, enjoying the scenery.
They said nothing for quite a while until Emilia asks him a question.
"Birsingr, can I ask you something?"
"Hm, sure ask away Emilia" he says.
"When you were fighting Elsa, you summoned a giant Lightning Bolt, you mentioned that it is powered by the gods, so you pray for power?"
Birsingr didn't know what to say, he couldn't just say he was from an age long forgotten, from the mantels of history.
"Um, yes my magic is powered by faith, but how my magic work is a secret, unfortunately I am bound to oath, not to reveal it's secretes, so I'm sorry Emilia, I cannot explain my magic"
This however made Emilia more curious, so she will look into the library later and ask Beatrice, if Roswaal, has found any magic similar to Birsingr's.
"Anyway, I need to ask you something?" Birsingr asks with a serious tone.
Emilia looks at him, intercepting anything
"Remember when we were walking, and I asked you what you are, and you said you are half elf, I'm curious, why did Elsa call you half demon? when you are certainly no demon."
Emilia was at a loss of words, did he not know about the Witch of Envy Satella, just how far was his land.
"You have never heard of the Witch of Envy Satella?"
"No, I have never heard of that name before, in fact I have meet a witch and her name was Karla, in fact, I would consider her more mischievous than evil, she was an interesting woman," He says remembering the times she called him Fiendish, or fickle.
He misses what where the closest things he could call friends. He was hoping that they found piece in death, something he can never have.
He faintly smiles, but with his helmet on no one could see his face.
"So, she was not a bad person, then what did she do?"
Birsingr chuckles "She taught me a few pyromancy spells, that another friend of mine can't teach"
"Pyromancy?" she mumbles the odd word.
"Do you know anyone that cast fire magic?" Emilia nods "Then that would be pyromancy, just fire spells."
As the two are talking, Rem and Ram where eyeing him with suspicion through the window, they will need to keep a close eye on him, and eliminate him when he becomes a threat, but for the meantime he is Emilia's guest, and as maids they need to do their jobs.
Birsingr continues to stroll with Emilia, he then remembers something "Emilia when I was unconscious did you get your crest."
Emilia smiles and nods "Yes, in fact I have your ring," Emilia pulls out the covetous gold serpent ring and presents it to Birsingr
He looks down at the ring "You didn't give this to Felt?"
She shacks her head "No, I was about to, but Reinhard took her away before I had any opportunity"
Birsingr take the ring and looks at it before clenching his hand "Listen I need to give her this ring as promised, I do not like breaking promise's, so I need to make my way back to the capital."
Emilia is shocked "W-what, why you don't need to give it to her"
Birsingr looks at Emilia "I'm sorry Emilia, I need to keep my promise, also I need to check something, and see if I'm right." the last part he mumbles the last part to himself.
He looks at Emilia and sees a look of concern.
He sighs "Okay how about this, as soon as I conduct my business I'll come back"
Emilia hesitantly nods.
Birsingr Bows "Thank you Emilia" he turns around and makes preparations to leave.
Few Hours later
Birsingr is outside, he has his swords, and shield along with his talisman, and small sack of food with provided by Emilia, which he really doesn't need, but to keep less suspicion, he keeps it, and a map to help him with directions.
Emilia smiles "Please be safe Birsingr"
Birsingr nods "Of course, I'll keep my promise,"
He turns around with his cloak blowing in the wind, he raises his arm, and clenches his fist, giving her a quiet resolve.
As Birsingr walks with confidence, the sun is setting upon the old day, and anticipating a new day, as his old friend Siegward said to him, 'long may the sun shine.'
Later that evening
Birsingr is front of a bonfire, resting after a longs day travel, he always enjoyed the warmth of the bonfire, as it gave him some semblance of peace, he stares deeply into it hypnotised by the dancing fire.
He continues to stare at it when he hears a scream "AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Birsingr quickly gets up and draws his sword, and his shield ready for battle, he then hears it again, and decides to run, to the source.
The source
The cause of the scream is a boy with long silver hair a handsome face, with a serious expression with chocolate brown eyes, wearing a green shirt with black trousers, tall brown boots and a green cape, and he is currently being held up by some bandits at knife point.
Further behind him, is large dragon with brown scales, trapped in a net, with a few others holding the dragon down
The one who has a knife pointed at his neck is rough looking man, with spiky black hair, scars all over his face, wearing simple leather armour.
"Now we will take all your possessions, and kill you…" he is unable to finish as a blade pierce's his heart from his back, blood spurting from the hole,
He turns around to see a man in black armour, wearing a hood "What… the hell"
Birsingr puts his foot on the man's back and pushes the sword out of his back, the man lays on the ground dead, Birsingr then feels the soul of the bandit rush into him, a odd feeling that he could never describe.
The boy has a look of pure dread he did know if this man in black armour is going to kill him after brutally killing the bandit.
He looks at the young man for a second, after he focuses on the other bandits.
They all take out their swords or axes and prepared for a fight Birsingr, if one looks closely you can see their hands shake out of pure terror.
The bandits fidget for a moment, before the axe wielding one runs towards Birsingr, swinging his axe when he is close.
Birsingr parries it with his shield, leaving the bandit wide open, taking the opportunity, he stabs his sword into the man's chest.
The man coughs up blood, which gets on Birsingr's armour.
"What are you" the which are the man's final words, before Birsingr slams both the man and his sword into the ground, making even more blood spurt all over the place.
He pulls out the sword and a small puddle of blood, seeps out of the now dead bandit, the bandits soul going into Birsingr.
Birsingr looks at them, and takes very slow steps.
The bandits, take steps back, wanting to create as much distant from them and this monster.
Birsingr quickly rushes to the bandits and when he was close he uses all his strength to slice one of them clean in two his soul going to Birsingr.
That is the final straw for the bandits, as they turn and run like headless chickens.
Birsingr takes out his talisman, and puts away his sword and shield, and starts praying, then a spear made out of lightning forms it being as bright as the sun itself, pulling back his arms.
He aims and for the further one, time seemed to slow down as he throws the Sunlight Spear.
The bolt zooms past the back and middle group and impales one in the front, sparks flowing all over the man's body.
They stop to see a man impaled by what looks like a arrow made out of lightning.
Remembering that a black knight is coming to kill them they leave their comrade and leg it.
Birsingr thought of firing another one, but thought it would be a waist of focus point to kill them, and decided to enjoy the fear that they admitted.
Remembering of the boy that they attacked, he decided to see if he was alright.
He sees the boy, trying to remove a net over a large reptilian creature, so he decides to give him a hand.
He walks over to the boy "Need a hand?"
The boy jumps out of fear "ah, please don't kill me, I don't have much, please spare me."
Birsingr tries and calms down the situation "Calm down, I'm not here to kill, you I'm just asking if you need a hand"
The boy looks at the man, "It's my dragon, I need to get him out"
Birsingr looks at the creature "This is a dragon? In all my time traveling Lothric, I have not seen a dragon like this" he pulls out a knife which is on his person and starts cutting the rope.
After a few minutes of cutting the dragon was free.
The dragon shakes removing the pieces of its body.
Birsingr put the knife away, and decides to continue his journey.
"Hey wait" the boy shouts to Birsingr as he runs to catch up
Birsingr stops and looks back to see the boy, huffing out of breath.
Birsingr stares at the boy "What is it?"
"Listen… huff… I'm heading to the capital…huff… and if you are heading their…huff… I can give you a lift as thanks" he manages to get out a sentence.
Birsingr thinks about it for a second, and decided that will be faster than walking all the way over there.
Birsingr nods "I'll take up your offer, by the way, who are you?"
The boy smiles nervously "Oh, my name is Otto, Otto Suwen"
"Ah, pleasure to meet you, I am Birsingr Warrior of Sunlight"
"What an interesting title"
"Thank you"
After that little chat, Birsingr helps Otto clean up the mess that the bandits created, as soon the mess is clean up, they set off, with Birsingr riding in the back.
As they ride on the road Birsingr looks back, to see a green sea roll past him
"So, Mr Birsingr where are you from?" Otto asks deciding to know his saviour
Birsingr didn't answer immediately, he takes a few moments to come up with a story "My home land was destroyed long ago, I'm nothing but a man who is lost, with no place to call home."
Otto turns around and Birsingr can see some sadness in Otto's eye.
"Listen, I do not need your pity, my homeland was on the bridge of destruction, all because they were messing with the very flow of nature."
Birsingr didn't say anything else, all he did is look at the back of the carriage, and see the night sky, and decided to close his eyes for a little meditation.
Birsingr suddenly jolts forward, he manages to stop himself, and moves to the front of the carriage pokes his head out and looks to Otto "What in bloody Izalith happened! What was with the sudden stop?"
Otto looks at Birsingr with an apologetic look "Sorry, I was looking around, when I saw a huge cloud of smoke, I think there is bandit raid going on, we need to take the long way around."
Birsingr sighs, and makes his way to the back of the carriage and hops out, he then walks to the front "I'll take care of them, give me about 40 minutes, and I'll have the bandits running like a crystal lizard."
"Crystal Lizard?" Otto's mumbles the word of a strange named creature.
At the village
The Bandits killed a vast majority of the men, while the women and children, and some of the men, who didn't fight were rounded up in the town centre.
The number of bandits, was roughly 25, not too many but enough to take on a small village.
"Hey Boss what should we do?"
The boss is a large man 6 feet tall, short black hair, with some very well-built muscles, and a jaw shar enough to cut armour.
"Well, isn't it obvious, Kill the men and the children, and we can eat, drink and enjoy all the women we want tonight."
The mothers held their children even closer, out of fear, and concern of their children.
"Don't worry I promise you will enjoy the pleasure" he says as he licks his lips.
Just then he hears screaming, and sees a knight in black and gold armour cutting one of his men in half.
Birsingr under his helmet has a look of anger and disgust, as a warrior of sunlight, it is his sworn duty to help those in need.
He looks to the leader, who has a look of amusement on his face
"Find something funny you monster"
The chief smiles "Why yes it takes a lot of back bone to fight an entire group of bandits, one either has to be brave, or stupid"
Birsingr shrugs his shoulders "I have been through hell and back, so a bunch of 3rd rate fighters will be a walk in the park."
The bandits didn't take that insult very well, especially the leader "You have a lot of nerve to say we are third rate fighters" the leader raises his sword "Men show him some pain:"
The bandits let out a huge battle cry, and charge to Birsingr
Birsingr draws his blade in his right and his talisman in the left, he puts closes his eyes and starts to pray, the talisman starts to glow.
He opens to see the bandits close, he raises his arm to the sky and huge bolt of lightning his him but disbursed on the ground hitting at least 10 of the bandits.
They immediately stop, and the Leader assess the situation, here is a man that casted a unique spell that took a good chunk of his man.
Birsingr took the opportunity, and decided to use another of his magic, he puts the talisman away, and brings to life a small flame, his hand burns intensely, he smirks under his helmet, and plunges it into the ground.
All the bandits think that he is giving up, but little did they know a guizer of shock will blow them of their feet.
The ground underneath them shakes intensely, then what could be best described as a troop of mini volcanoes erupted getting rid of the remaining bandits, but also destroying a number of the houses, and creating huge amount of Ash
The villagers are bracing themselves praying that the fire doesn't hit them.
The eruption finally stops revelling that the Bandits have been turned to ash, and now only one standing, is the leader with pure fear on his face.
Birsingr slowly makes his way to the fallen leader, who tries to make a futile attempt to back away, as all he could see is a demon in the form of a human, in armour as black as the night sky.
"Please wait, I'm sorry for attack the village, I promise I won't do it again"
Birsingr did hear his pleas of mercy, but he could care less, he was pissed that he had to use all that Focus Points to deal with nothing but weaklings.
When Birsingr is on top of him, he reached down and grabs his neck, suddenly the leader could feel his whole body heated up.
"ugh, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The Leader screams before exploding, turning his body to statue of ash.
Birsingr than squeezes his hand destroying the statue, causing the ash to be blown away by the wind.
The villagers didn't know how to react to this knight, they thought he might be a kind person, but his magic was quite gruesome, as electrocuting people, burning people to ash, and slowly turn the bandit into cinder was quite cruel.
Birsingr could see the fear in their eyes, the look of mistrust, and fear that he is all to familiar with the looks of the villagers, he quickly leaves the partially burning village.
On a mountain far from the village a humanoid wolf was looking down on the battle, and seeing unique abilities on display never has he seen someone summon a bolt of lightning hit some and not be injured.
But what surprised him is the power he possesses is amazing, only a few fire mages have that sort of power.
He needs to report this to lady Anastasia, she might be interested in this person, as he might be of some value.
Back with Birsingr
Birsingr finally arrives, seeing Otto waiting like he asked him to.
"Otto lets go" Birsingr said bluntly, as he makes his way to the back.
The carriage starts moving again "So, did you save them."
Birsingr didn't answer.
"I saw a guizer of fire, and I thought it could be a powerful mage, but was it…"
Otto didn't finish as Birsingr interrupted "Just drive, I'm not in the mood."
Birsingr closed his eyes and returns to his meditation.
Back at the mansion
Emilia still is wondering what are miracles, yes Birsingr briefly explained what they are, but It still bothered her, she could vaguely remember reading an old story book when she was way younger, but, she can't remember what it is.
So, she decided to go to the library.
After checking the 50th door she finally finds it, she opens the door to see Beatrice siting on her reading a book.
Beatrice looks up and sees a Emilia "Oh, lady Emilia, what can I do for you, I suppose?"
"Beatrice, do you have anything on type of magic called miracles?"
Beatrice hums for a second, trying to remember if Roswaal, has a book on these miracles.
She gets up, and walks to one of the shelves, and starts looking, "Hmm, nope it seems that Roswaal doesn't have anything on that type of magic."
Emilia looks disappointed, she was hoping that Roswaal had something, she bows to Beatrice "Thank you, very much"
Emilia leaves the Library, but Beatrice, is now interested, a form of magic that is new could cause problems, she might need to tell Roswaal about a potentical threat.
Alright here is the end of the chapter hope u enjoy not much action and of course Birsingr mopped the floor with the bandits, be honest to violent for his character