Chapter I

11 years later:

-Argh!

Simon falls on the ground, a bit stunned by the wooden sword of his father.

-Step up! You have to be at least prepared for your entry to Signal Academy. Your mother and I are so proud of you. You have an incredible learning ability; use it to strike me down! , provoked Siegmayer.

And Simon actually did strike him down, but not with his sword. A flying symbol looking like a glyph appeared in front of him and a strong wind blew off Sieg on the ground. Even though it is a strong spell indeed, it is one of the weakest spell created with Dust material, but it is enough to easily control and stun an enemy. Sieg was surprised by this attack and was truly beaten. But, he was happy to see how his child masteries ranged attacks quickly and rose up with a proud smile on his face.

-Ha! Someone actually beat me after so much time! Son, you are truly a master in spells, but your melee attacks lack power, speed and aggression! Let's practice again till the sun sleeps and I will give you a gift. , said Siegmayer, proud of his child.

Now, you are surely questioning yourself how Simon learned this spell? Well, Violet gave her child a spell book where he could almost learn all the spells used by the Huntsman and Huntresses. Almost, because there are some spells only permitted by high-ranking Huntsman and Huntresses because of their incredibly dangerous powers. Only the most brave and strongest students of Beacon Academy can learn these spells from their teachers since no one wants them in bad hands. Although, some of these spells can be learned from their family…

After practicing with his father till sun's dawn, Simon became much stronger with a sword than before. He can parry easily and his strikes are stronger, faster and sharper. After this difficult, but good practice, Sapphire activates the Shield Barrier spell to protect themselves from the Dark monsters at night and go visit her mother's grave. The grave is decorated with white flowers and some roses and on the grave is marked ''R.I.P Violet Primrose Died with honor on the battlefield''.

She unfortunately did not die with honor as the tombstone says. While she was getting herbs and plants for dinner, Grim monsters began to appear alongside her because the moon was high. She killed as much as she could with her spells, but they were simply too many. One of the monsters attacked her in the back, push her on the ground and a scream was heard in the night. Siegmayer was too late when he arrived at the grotesque scene. He burst in rage and killed all the Grim monsters that were coming to him until sunset. Finally, when the monsters were gone, he brings her body to their house, put it in a hole and replenished it with dirt. After doing this, he cried for at least an hour long and mourns her death for 2 months. Since it was 9 years ago, Sapphire was less affected by this lost. But, since then, he has sworn to become a Hunter to avenge her mother's death on the Grim monsters and their followers.

Siegmayer began to train him at 7 years old with wooden sword duels and, two years later, he gave Violet's spell book to him. Since then, Siegmayer send his inscription list to Signal and they accepted it.

After this sad moment, Sieg and Sapphire got back to their house to eat dinner. Simon, then, asks something unusual:

-What will happen once I am in Signal?

-Well, said Siegmayer, you will begin classes and you will meet some people. After, at least, a year, you will have to forge your own weapons. Teachers teaches how to fight in classes which are little arenas to learn all kinds of fighting styles that you can chose by yourself. And 4 years later you will have to go to Beacon Academy which is where you will become a real Hunter in terms of combat and you will have to team up with 3 other students for the entire career at Beacon. You'll see, it is not that difficult as you think.

Siegmayer stood up.

-Come with me. I want to show you something. , said Siegmayer.

-What? , replied Simon.

-You'll see. , said Siegmayer.

Simon followed him until they arrived in the ancient room of her mother; on the ground was lying a chest. Siegmayer took a key that was in his pocket and inserted it in the seal of the chest. The chest opened and inside was a lot of books and papers containing the certification of inscription to Signal AND Beacon Academy. In these papers, Sapphire realised that there was an awful lot of weapons schematics.

-These are the weapons that your mother had imagined for her when she was still a student at Signal. As you can see, she had a lot of imagination for a young girl. Also, there are her diaries on her progression and her certifications of Huntress. I offer you these words for you to study. Pay attention though, don't think of it as study, but as reading. Good night, son.

Simon was surprised by the attitude of his father, normally so calm, but now sad and depressed. He realised that he was affected by the loss of his mother too. Tomorrow was the big day though, the day he will begin his study at Signal.

Simon decides then to read the books that were actually mostly spell books and comments of high-ranked Dust users, but he found something interesting while reading Violet's diary. Something that was clearly not usual: ''I can't believe what I just did, while I was fighting with one of my teammates for a combat exam, I lost my chakrams and just before the blade of Maria's sword hit me, some sort of force field was pulsing form my hands! All of the students were just standing at me; surprised. Even Maria got back in shock and dropped her sword! The teacher noted it, gave me an A and wanted to see me after class…'' The rest is not written and Violet clearly skipped this paragraph to continue on her progress after this event.

Simon, at this moment, began to search in the spell books to see if it was some sort of Dust spell that can only be used when in ultimate danger, but no sign of this sort of spell was written in the books. But he did found something, a passage in one of the least interesting books he read. The thing is that it was not a spell book, but a book on a special energy that only humans possess called Aura. With this aura, humans can defend themselves in case of situations where they can die easily with Aura Shields/Barriers or some sort of berserk mode when all of the Aura energy is unleashed, making the person almost invincible but also making him/her losing some of his/her mind in exchange of power, meaning that the person can harm allies while in this state.

Surely, this type of energy can't be ignored. But then, why didn't he know about this? Did his parents hide this power to him?

-I am just making ideas now, I need some sleep. , said Simon, before going to sleep after this discovery.

By the time, someone was scouting the perimeter with goggles.

-Torchwick, I think I found someone very interesting for you to meet!