"It is said that once every millennium, a child of a particular lineage is born and given a god-like power and the memories of his ancestors, and when this child appears, it's told that a great catastrophe will befall the world. But this has been passed off as mere skepticism from the skeptics of the Wizard King who protects the people, and so the Horn of Salvation is spoken of as a joke, a mere bedtime story to scare children, but this is far from the truth.
...
An untold amount of time in the past.
Two figures stand across from each other, their appearances marred in black soot.
"your arrows won't reach me, boy." The Niger of the two said side stepping a blue beam of light that disappeared from existence after passing the man.
"I know that already, but your magic can't touch me either." the boy answers, a bow and arrow of pure energy fully drawn
"Tch, you Quincies never learn because of that fraudulent god you all hang onto so dearly to, so then tell me, where is this Horn of Salvation now?" this was posed as a question but was pure mockery.
"Don't speak that title, and your mouth is not worthy of uttering it!" The Quincy shouted, letting off another arrow; it to missed hurtling past and turning a hill to dust in seconds.
"You don't seem to understand the situation you and your wife are in; my orders are to wipe out the Quincy bloodline for good. No one will help you either; no other Quincy nor that Quincy falsely you dreamed up to comfort you in your final days." the man said, opening a book; then black flames shot forth and engulfed the Quincy. "Now it's time to find the woman and that orange-haired girl," he said, stepping over the man's ashes. "When will you, Quincy, learn that your god died long ago."
Outside the capital.
Ichigo landed just outside the city, brimming with renewed confidence.
"Hey, Ichigo, wait up!" The voice of Asta's voice sounded behind him. "Let's all enter together!" he said again, and for a moment, as the two his brothers drew close, an image of the young forms of them overlapped their pictures and a fourth child, a young girl whose face was shadowed out.
"Yeah, let's go," he said, shaking his head to refocus himself—the three would-be magic Knights.
Somewhere in the Clover kingdom.
As the two moved down the road dragging four unconscious figures behind them. The man had broken his broom during the fight, and neither of them had spatial magic. He had a way of moving quickly, but it would leave Julia in the dust, and doing so would have the whole squad at his throat, so their pace was slow, but he didn't really care.
"Hey, Cifer, did you know it's almost time for the Magic Knight Whatchamacallit? It's going to start soon, right?" she said, swaying her legs back and forth.
"The Magic Knight exam?" Cifer said, raising an eyebrow.
Magic Knight exams.
The big man's hand clamped down on Asta's head; a massive force surrounding him asserted his strength over the teen. "You're just asking for an early death, aren't you?" the man said, squeezing tighter.
"Aw, please stop!" Asta shouted in pain before another hand clamped down on the big man's wrist.
"Yeah, we get it; you're a big tough man picking on someone smaller than you." Ichigo's voice sounded, and the total weight of Ichigo's magic fell on them as he forcibly separated Asta from the man's hand.
...
Ichigo's eyebrow twitched as he watched the captains; as they sat down, and among them was big man from before, smirking as he popped and cigarette in his mouth.
"Great, I may have pissed off a captain," Ichigo said, putting a hand to his face in exasperation.
(yeah, and with the amount of power you can use at this point, you'll be screwed if you were to fight him.) white chimed in a mocking tone, which was something he'd miss not having to deal with.
"Ok, how powerful do you think they are?" Ichigo asked, a tick mark appearing on his forehead. "And why didn't you think to tell me I couldn't use my full power?" he continued.
(we'll We thought you knew since our Twin blades didn't materialize, and with the amount of power leaking from them, I'd have to say about on par with captains Dearing Aizen's attack on karakura town, but it could be higher their suppressing their power) Ichigo's inner Quincy said.
"That powerful, damn," Ichigo said, scratching his cheek in thought
...
The eight captains looked on with surprise as one of the participants, an orange-haired boy chucked the broom across the stadium and raised himself into the air by somehow condensing his magic under his feet; he then failed the test to transform a stone into a statue.
"That orange-haired kid seems only to be good with combat magic, but almost anything else he sucks at, captain." One of the men standing behind the captain said, leaning towards his captain.
"Yeah, I get that." the dark-haired man said with a cigarette in his mouth, staring at the hand-shaped bruise on his wrist. (what the hell was that strength?) he thought to himself, flexing his hand
...
Ichigo had noticed it. The massive surge of negative energy that suddenly surrounded Asta as he smashed through the barrier of that rich kid's barrier with the enormous blade summoned from his grimoire, and he felt his magic resonate with it somehow, his magic pulsating with power;
"Does he have something equivalent to a hollow?" he asked, looking inwardly at the Embodyment of his power; he felt a white shrug before speaking.
"hell if I know, but it's not human magic, that's for sure." white said with a slight grin in his voice; Ichigo was so focused on his conversation with White that when Yuno's launched a tornado at his opponent, it almost picked Ichigo up off his feet as it slammed the pompous noble on to the ground.
"Ahhm, next battle!" the announcer said, prompting Ichigo to step forward along with a young man with short black hair.
"Oh, my name is Odellian; thanks for being my opponent!" the boy shifted on his feet uncomfortably as he said this.
"Ichigo, No problem," Ichigo said, raising his hand and his grimoire opening.
"Start." the Captain with the mask said, swinging his hand down the action signaling the fight to start.
...
In a blur of motion, the kid called Ichigo had dodged past the ice sickle that the other boy threw at him, blue markings running up his legs and then more appearing on his fist as it made connected with the boy's face sending him spiraling backward and knocking him out cold, the captains looked on with amazement but also skeptical looks.
"Captain, Was that?" the man behind Captain Vengeance asked in confusion.
"Yes, I believe it was. The Quincy technique blut-vain it's been a while since I've seen one in action, and that grimoire." Vangeance said before signaling for the next Contestant to step forward.
...
It was Yuno's turn to be selected, and to the surprise of everyone except for Ichigo and Asta, every captain raised their hands, and only a few seconds before, Yuno had chosen
"It would be an honor for me to join the Golden Dawn," he said before returning. Ichigo was up next, and two hands raised, the captain of the black bulls and the captain of the green mantises; it was little of a question of who Ichigo would pick, however.
"I'll gladly pick the black bulls a small smile as he stepped back and gave a nod to Asta.
"You got this," he said, raising a thumb.
Somewhere in the Clover kingdom.
Cifer suddenly felt a foreboding sensation roll over him like his skin started crawling.
"What's wrong, Cifer? You look uncharacteristically annoyed about something?" she asked, yawning, her hand rubbing one of her eyes as she locked her gaze on her battle partner.
"It's nothing, just got a terrible feeling." the man said, raising a hand to the side of his head. "Like my life just got a whole lot more difficult."
"Is that so
Magic Knight exams.
"Hay Ichigo, we're in the same squad, so cool, high five!" Asta shouted, raising a hand high in the air.
"Looks like it." High-fiving Asta and watched as their new captain and his subordinates made their way to the two teens.
"Boy, that was Quincy magic, wasn't it?" the rough voice of the black bull's captain sounded as he stepped in front of Ichigo.
"Yeah, it's the most I can do at the moment, though," Ichigo said, rubbing the back of his head.
"And that inhuman strength of yours?" the big man continued.
"I reinforced my arm with the same spell to give me a boost," Ichigo answered. Standing on guard for an admonishment from them man for hurting a superior, but none came.
"Anyway, Finral open a portal back home since the blond can't use a broom," he said, looking at a brown-haired man with green highlights.
Black Bull's hideout.
The tension that filled the air as Cifer's gaze landed on the two newbies, especially the orange-haired boy, and made even Julia wince at the amount of magic he was exerting; she had never known him to show much emotion, so when she saw her friend visibly frown; she asked him.
"What's wrong, Cifer? Are those two people; people you know?" but he didn't heed her question as he spoke to himself.
"Ichigo."
A/N
Well, this took way too long to get out; just been going through a lot, did however manage to upload my little side project until I could get my two main stories back on track; anyway, this one might be a little rough around the edges, but I do hope you all enjoy it. And I hope all of you figured out who Cifer is; it is in the name, after all :)