A Cold Heart
"Attack now, while it's weak!" A blue haired girl yelled. This blue haired girl's name is Signas. She has a red band going through her spiky blue hair, and she has purple eyes that are not meant to be taken lightly. Signas wears fur-like armor mixed with metal armor in certain areas. She's average weight but strong as they come.
Signas had a peaceful childhood, with both her loving parents at her side every step of the way. That was until she was fourteen years old. Her parents both lost their jobs. They were desperately looking for new jobs around their town, but they always got turned down. They got evicted of their house cruelly, with guards dragging them and their stuff out of the house. Her dad got into a fist fight with one of the guards when they laid their hands on Signas' mother. A guard picked up her mother from the back and had a perverted smile on his face while making eye contact to another guard. Signas' dad saw this and immediately struck the man. The other three guards quickly jumped in and grounded him. He was on the floor being kicked on and beaten mercilessly, while his wife was screaming and Signas watched wide-eyed in shock. Once they started to leave and her dad was struggling to get up, Signas broke one of the glass portraits of herself laying on the floor with the rest of their valuables. "Signas don't go breaking stuff out of anger please-" her dad groaned. But once he really looked, Signas took a huge glass shard and went charging at the group of guards. "Signas no!" She caught up to the four guards in a matter of seconds. She quickly went from one to the other, stabbing them in the leg. Before she could blink they were on the ground, cringing and holding their legs as blood leaked out rapidly. Signas found the one who tried picking up her mother from the back and got on top of him, holding the shard back staring into his eyes. She glared down on him in aggressive hatred, and saw the fear in his eyes. She stabbed his left shoulder and dug deep, bringing out the shard only to watch him suffer and cry out in pain. She was going to go for a second attack when her mom finally came out of her state of shock and carried her off the man. "Signas what the hell have you done?!"
"What do you mean?! Mom don't you see what he was implying to his buddy!" Signas snapped while throwing the shard at the other guard but missed. "How could we let them treat us like that, what kind of guards do that?" The next day Signas and her parents, along with the guards, were brought to the higher authorities. The guards weren't found guilty of anything and Signas was sent to a detention center for two years. In there she learned how to fight, with challengers approaching every week. However, there were no victors except her. Using her new skills, Signas joined the army for the water types of Grand Gaia. She did this mainly for the money, as her parents were barely making a living when she came out. She learned not to trust anyone in those two years, only her family when she got out. When she gets sent on missions she prefers going alone because she doesn't want any scumbag guards, like the ones she ran into during the eviction, annoying her or slowing her down. Things didn't go as planned, and instead she got into a group with three other men: Zephu, Sergio, and Arius. Zephu was a short guy with blue eyes, and a lot of blue steel armor. He wielded a blue spear very well, making him a formidable opponent despite his size. Sergio was an average height person with blue eyes, wearing a black shirt and a blue jacket over it. He wore black pants and black and blue shoes. He used an ice sword in combat, and quickly jumped through ranks, making him very well respected. Arius has blue eyes and brown hair. He wears all blue royal armor because he came from a very wealthy family. He was put into this squad not because of that, but because of how fast he completed his training and several missions. These were the only three people Signas was okay with, but she called leader at the very beginning so they knew that gender doesn't justify strength. Ever since then they've never failed a mission.
Signas is yelling at her teammates to take down a water creature they found, classified as a Leviathan. It's a water dragon that's intelligent and deadly. It was fast too, and raced around the ice cave they were in with amazing speed! It was trying to confuse them but they kept their heads straight. After observing, Signas jumped up high and attacked the creature right in the face, timing its patterns exactly and catching it for a split second. "Here's our last chance strike now!" They all nodded and charged at different parts of the monster. Within five seconds Leviathan was down and out permanently. "Not bad, but" Signas paused, looking at her team "we could've finished this faster. Zephu you need to work on your speed, Arius you had some sloppy swings in there, and Sergio work on your defense. That one hit it got against you in the beginning could've been deflected and you wouldn't have to repair your armor when we get back." Zephu, Arius, and Sergio agreed and followed Signas out of the ice cave. They took their time walking back to their headquarters.
Their general was a blue haired tough man named Karl. He has been fighting for Grand Gaia for years and years. Once they got back he congratulated them on their success. Signas told him how there were minor flaws but the mission wasn't a struggle. Afterwards he gave them a new mission without much detail, Signas kept thinking about it on the way there. "This town right here needs to be obliterated. More importantly this castle, attack it first with full force and look for this item". Signas couldn't recognize the item, but it was none of her business. Whatever helps her family right? Her and her team made it to the opening of the town, it was underground and they jumped down. The castle was right near the opening so it helped start off the operation. "Zephu come with me on this side, Arius and Sergio go explore the other half of the castle." While they ran off, Signas looked through some windows into a hall way. She saw someone dashing through the halls. "Zephu now!" Zephu stabbed the glass window, while Signas heavily brought her sword down, knocking the runner against the wall. Signas walked up to him and grabbed him by his neck, lifting him up to her face "Listen, you're going to help me find what I'm looking for or you're in for a world of pain". The man smirked.
A/N: For clarification, Signas is in her 4-star form, Sergio is in his 3-star form, Zephu is in his 3-star form, and Arius is in his 4-star form. This is the first four chapters, didn't give too much away, I just wanted to provide some background on the characters and set them up. I'll be including more dialogue and action in upcoming chapters, just think of this as a 4-part intro lol. Any advice is appreciated!