Hey Yo! NerdRyuu here for the 8th chapter of Udan's Legends! I've been writing in a little slower rate these days, but I am satisfied for now, and hey, I managed to post this month!

Let's check this month's questions!

Tornado man:In future chapters are we gonna see one of Lunas sisters gain feelings for Lincoln and will we see Lincoln get some new powers like ice powers or flying

For Luna's Sisters, I have no plans, and for Lincoln getting new powers of course yes, he's a wizard and will slowly get more spells and knowledge.

Without any further ado, let'sa go!

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own The Loud House

The barge sailed Sarphel lake with the party, now with a new partner on Luna, aboard. Luna was silent, looking the view of the lake.

She could stop feeling a little upset for not being able to play her ax on the travel, the sound of the barge cutting the water and the wind blowing was the perfect mood settler for a good music. But her debilitated arm wouldn't allow it. She looked at her sling. She wasn't able to move or even feel her right arm up to her shoulder.

She had in the back of her mind what Lincoln had said to her the night before. In the end she agreed with him. Cutting her arm was a bad way to see her predicament, it was a quick way to fix the issue in a short time, but on the long-term… she would be sacrificing a literal part of her.

Luna imagined the maybe she could re-learn how to play her with only one arm, no, she was sure she could, but felt happy the hopefully she wouldn't need to.

She observed Lincoln sitting in front of her, by the side of Lynn. The young mage was transfixed on his book, to the point that he barely blinked. Luna chuckled, trying to imagine what he was reading. The musician lowered her eyes again to her arm. Maybe he was trying to find out what she had, what was that stuff in her arm, and what he could do to help her.

He said he promised to find a way to cure her. Luna was curious to see if he would be able to find a cure before they reached to Arch-Mage. Luna chuckled. That boy was strange, but he wore in his clothes the symbol of Maja. In a way, it didn't surprised her how much gentle he was.

Alenia, the goddess she worshipped, is said to be very close of Maja, because of that, followers of both goddesses tended to like each other.

Well, it's what her father had said to her a while back.

Father… He was the polar opposite of her mother, while she was demanding and strict, always striving for perfection on all her daughters, he was calm and kind, the sole provider of parental affection in the Lunarossa household. And her mother didn't liked it. Luna wasn't even certain if her mother loved him. Well, she must love him, they had five kids after all.

Luna sighed. Probably mother had blamed him for her failure. He was her scapegoat for everything their daughters did wrong, after all, it couldn't be her mother's fault, she never failed, she never did nothing wrong.

Luna was worried about him. Now that Luna wasn't there and wouldn't come back nevermore, he was alone in that madhouse that Luna used to call home. All she could was pray to Alenia that Fran would try to keep an eye on him.

Framboise was Luna's second older sister, and although she wasn't as attached to their father as Luna, Fran cared about their family. Their image there is, as that the patriarch of the Lunarossa appear dead one day would put in risk their public reputation on the high society of Udan.

The truth was, to the public, they were a normal household of high class people that served their patron, the moon spirit Lunarossa. But what the public didn't knew was that the reputation the Lunarossa had created over three centuries was built with blood and fear, not respect.

The Lunarossa were famous in the underworld, a clan of perfect mercenaries that did whenever dark did you paid them. Assassination, burglary, sabotage, espionage, smuggling, blackmailing, loan sharking, intimidation, and any other thing one wouldn't like the authorities to know about.

And the authorities would never ever know anything, because the Lunarossa were all bred for perfection, trained since birth, indoctrinated to have the mission above anything, even your own life.

"Oh no!" Luna was pulled out her thoughts when she heard someone gasp those words. Luna looked back at the deck and saw a old dirty cloak approaching the trio.

Lynn held the handle of her sword tighter and Lincoln closed his book, putting it back at his satchel.

The person pulled the hood of the cloak back, revealing the face of a older girl. The trio that she should've been beautiful in the past, but her dirty, bruised and unkept face tarnished her good looks. Her hair was brown in a crude bun, her eye were wide and their irises were pitch black, her skin was very pale, what made the black veins on her face pop even more.

"Pour soul!" The girl spoke with a drag on her words, but sounding genuinely worried as she stared at Luna's arm, what made the musician uncomfortable.

"What do you want with us, creep?" Lynn questioned crudely. But the girl ignored it and approached even more of Luna's arm.

"You must be in so much suffering…" She said almost in the tone of a cry, dropping to her knees with a sudden thud to get even closer to the arm. Luna shifted herself slightly away from her. "Let me take your Sorrow!" She said with a tearful smile. And without any further warning she grasped Luna's arm, making the musician squeak in pain.

This was the last drop for Lynn, who stood up unsheathing her sword, but Lincoln, who also stood up, put his arm before Lynn.

The fingers of the girl seemed to merge with the black sickened skin of Luna's arm. The dark liquid seemed to start being drained from it, and in a exponential pace, the black patch of black skin was sucked out of Luna.

Finally, the girl released Luna's arm, leaving her hands black. The girl tumbled forward, looking exhausted, but Luna stopped her from falling further, amazed that her arm felt good as new. Lincoln also helped the girl sit by Luna's side.

"How did you do that!?" Lincoln questioned amazed, sitting by the side of the girl also. The girl made a tired laugh.

"I absorbed what inflicted you!" She spoke weakly to Luna. "The Sorrow that seeped onto your body from your heart, I took it from you." Luna gritted her teeth concerned. Lynn thinned her lips in equal concern.

Lincoln bit his lip, and took a second look at her. Although her skin didn't had the same black patches Luna had, her veins were black, Lincoln imagined that the girl in some way, also suffered the same Illness. He needed to know more. What kind of magic she had done to absorb Luna's decease? She sounded like she knew about it.

"What kind of suffering you mean?" The young wizard questioned.

"The dark feelings and thoughts you store with yourself, if it gets strong enough, it seeps out, inflicting not only the heart and mind, but also the body, it weakens you and may kill you…" She explained lowering her eyes. "I've seem entire villages suffering from Sorrow and… I couldn't let it happen! I've been traveling Udan helping the people suffering!" She then lifted her head up, she had tears streaming her cheeks and a melancholic smile.

"Doesn't this hurt you?" Lincoln asked. The girl just made a hurt grim.

"I don't care if it hurts me!" She said with a smile, revealing a big buck teeth similar to Lincoln's. "Just knowing that I'm making people happy makes the pain go away!" she still had tears on her face.

Lincoln couldn't stop but feel that those words were nothing but a excuse to herself.

"Now I'm going back to the village harbor of Attum, the place I started my journey, just at the other side of the lake, to see how the people I made happy are!" She said Excited.

"Isn't Attum that the harbor where we're going to dock? That divides Annecia's Coastline?" Lynn asked. Linc nodded. The small village of Attum was built between the narrow isthmus that divided Sarphel Lake and Annecia sea, forming sort of a crossroad of the two bodies of water, southwest the Sarphel Lake, Northeast the Annecia sea, and routes to Northwest that circled Sarphel and Southeast the route to Windholm, that was were the trio were going to take.

"Oh, so you're going to pass through Attum? That's wonderful, we can wait together!" The girl said with a uneasy smile. Lincoln pursed his lips and made quick looks at his companions.

"That would be great." He said finally. "My name Is Lincoln by the way, Lincoln Snowtop, these are Lynn Griffinheart and Luna." He introduced himself and the girls who made quick nods of acknowledgement.

"Oh!" The girl exclaimed, realizing she didn't introduced herself yet. "I am Luan."

After that, the trio traded some information of who they were to the weird girl, explaining who they were and we're they were going, and also did Luan, she said that she's been traveling from village to village, curing the inflicted by the Sorrow.

"Huh… Maybe this Sorrow decease you speak about is part of the weird phenomenon happening around Udan." Lynn suggested.

"Maybe." Lincoln said. Lynn had a good point, Luan said that the decease has been spreading all around Udan in the recent times, a supposed deadly decease that Lincoln and nobody had ever know about , appearing now that other phenomena started to happen. Lincoln noted that Luan still didn't got to Eriol or Yound and just made a brief passing through Sarphel. The places where the decease didn't reached.

"I can't wait to see the happy faces of the people of Attum!" Luan said. "They'll look at me and thank me with those happy smiles!"

Lincoln observed Luan. She for certain was sicken with the Sorrow, but he couldn't figure out how she wasn't weakened like Luna was. He looked at the musician, who couldn't be more content with the fact she had her arm back, she had her axe out and was strumming a low melody. Luna could have died if Sage Erika didn't jury rigged a temporary spell that stopped the deceased blood from spreading from her arm.

Yet, here was Luan, with possibly her entire body deceased and still up and awake. That was curious at best, suspicious at worst.

"Your clothes are funny." Luan said to the boy, making his train of thought stop and pay attention to her.

"What?"

"Are you a magician or something?" She asked. Lincoln nodded.

"I'm a junior wizard." He informed.

"Ooh! Do something magic!" She asked, clapping in excitement. Lincoln tilted his head surprised.

"um..." He flustered a little, Lynn and Luna also looked at him, Luna in particularly had a excited look, Lincoln remember that she still didn't saw him doing a big spell, aside from healing Lynn's ears. He scratched his cheek blushing a little.

"I… Er… Just read this… let see if I can do it…" He shifted away a little from Luan to make space, then, he clapped his hands together. He .made a deep breath and blown slowly. The girls got surprised as a cold wind exhaled from his lips into his hands.

The boy started to hub his hand together gently and slowly, they could see that inside of them, a small ball started to form, and as he rubbed the white ball with a faint glow, it started to get bigger and bigger until he stopped and showed them, a blue snow ball that emitted a faint blue light and around it, small white specks floated, like small snowflakes.

The girls were enchanted by the beautiful blue orb that it turned, it was cold just to see it, Luan pulled a finger to try to touch it.

"No, no." Lincoln said lowly moving away, taking care to not drop it. "It's very fragile and volatile, a wrong move and a icy explosion can happen."

"Icy?" Lynn repeated. Lincoln nodded gently rubbing the orb.

"This is a pure ice energy ball." He explained. "this is pure destruction magic." Lynn shifted her head, they awaited for him to continue. "The most pure form of one of the magic schools are also it's most raw. Not necessarily most basic or weak, but unshaped, unrefined, just the elemental energy. Like this ice ball. Adding other properties to the spell would aggregate in it's function, like floating, pursuing, or just shooting like a arrow, it needs other schools." He explained further.

"Oh, so is that why your fire balls were so weak compared to Sage Cass's spells?" Lynn questioned, and Lincoln nodded again, without taking his eyes of the orb.

"At this state, this ball would fly just as my throw allows it. I would need to also apply a expulsion spell so it can fly like a regular fireball." He said. Lynn laughed.

"Hey Stinkoln, throw it on the lake!" Lincoln finally looked at Lynn. "I want to see how good is your throwing hand!" Lincoln pursed his lips.

"This isn't a good idea Lynn, I'm not the best at throwing…"

"Come on! Let us see!" Lynn pleaded, Luna and Luan nodded also wanting to see. "It can't be that bad!" Lincoln sighed and stood up.

He threw the orb as far as he could.

The resulting explosion of icy air created a rather big block of ice that and the resulting wave made the barge tilt harshly to the right, the passengers of the deck screamed of surprise but luckily, no one fell out.

Lincoln shrunk back onto the seat, trying to ignore the scolding looks from the passengers around them.

Lynn snorted. "You need to work out that arm there Stinkoln!" She said playfully, laughing, Luna and Luan laughed along.

"But anyway, why were you studying ice magic?" Lynn asked. "Trying to make for your name? Snowtop?" She said ruffling his hair.

"No hehe… While I don't have much experience or knowledge, I want to focus on ice when in combat, it's by far the least dangerous element of destruction magic."

"We can see it." Luna deadpanned looking back at the block of ice still floating as the barge let it behind.

It was past afternoon when the barge reached the other side of the lake, docking at Attum harbor village. Luan stepped on the docks with a jump and a shout of joy.

Just for her expression contort into a incredulous one as she finally realized the condition of the docks.

The wooden planks were rotting covered in the most vile layer of moss, the shacks that immediately surrounded I weren't in better state either. If were not the barge she had just stood docked in it and the passengers starting to disembark, she could swear that the village was abandoned and left behind.

"…What…?" Luan couldn't understand what she was seeing. She made to the other side of the dock, seeing the nearly topping down houses that made the village. It wasn't as bad when she had left. She figured that by sucking all the sickness and sorrow from the villagers, they would be happy enough to renovate the village.

Weren't they? What happened? Weren't they happy?

Luna observed the creepy girl as the trio walked down the dock to resume their travel. "Shouldn't we be concerned?" She asked the other two nodding to Luan.

"Her destiny is here, now she is." Lynn said stopping and looking at Luan by the side of Luna. Lincoln stood in silence, looking the girl.

Luna looked lost, like she didn't knew what to do. Her eyes were round and her mouth stood hanging half open.

The silence allowed them hear some commotion coming from the other side of the harbor. Luan sprinted to that direction, making her cloak fly off and spin in the air.

Lincoln caught it as he calmly walked in the same direction, he just made a quick look back to Lynn and Luna. Lynn sighed, once again, they'll make a deviation from their journey weren't they?

Luna followed Lincoln, pulling Lynn to incite her to walk.

There was a large crowd at the main road of the village, said crowd was made of the poor citizens of the village, old fishermen, sailors, merchants, maidens, and even children. Luan was in distraught, she saw the black deceased patches in their skin, signaling of the decease she so belovingly took from them was back. The crowd was circling something that made them talk amongst themselves, the ones away from the center trying to peek a look at what they so excitingly awaited.

"W-what's going on?" Luan asked weakly as she approached the crowd "I need to see it!" She said trying to slink her way into the crowd, just to be shoved back by a particularly well built sailor that had the Sorrow covering half of his face.

"Hey, get away you stupid tramp! Wait like everyone else!" He rudely growled to her.

Luan, that had fallen to the ground, had tears forming from her eyes. They didn't remember her?

She then looked at the. crowd again and for some reason, she felt anger heating up her insides.

How they could have forgotten her? What was this crowd for that they would be so rude over it?

How dare they. Ingrates…

Luan stood back up and forcefully shoved the sailor aside, without any concern or effort, tossing the sailor to the ground like he had done to her, and so, she forced herself on to the crowd opening her way in.

Right behind her, Lincoln, Lynn and Luna followed her in a hurry, concerned at what Luan could do next.

Luan started to hear a gentle voice.

At the middle, the crowd circled two rotten wooden stools, sitting in one, a old woman with almost her entire upper side of her face covered in the Sorrow decease. She seemed to be blinded by it, and was hearing what the other person was saying.

"Then, Like, It's not like it's your fault that he left." The gentle person said. "He Loved you, I'm sure of it Miss Marrietta."

"But then why he left us?" the old woman, named Marrietta asked sounding like she had been crying.

"That's a answer that I can't give, I'm afraid. But, Harriet, that's been over 50 years, wasn't?" Marrietta nodded. The gentle person smiled. "In the end, he left you with a beautiful family. That grew and beared fruits. Your grandchildren, and great-grandchildren are here."

"You're right." Marrietta said with sigh and a smile. Slowly, as they talked, Luan saw the black decease slowly recede. "But my grandson is concerned that with the storm around Annecia island, he'll not be to sell his fishes at it's harbor!" The decease grew a little. "Without the money of the trading with Annecia Island, our village is dying."

Lincoln heard that and figured what was happening. He heard of a perpetual storm at Annecia sea, surrounding the island. Annecia was a big trading point for many of the regions of Udan, and even with foreign ships that come from far away lands for trading.

"Hum… You know Marrietta, it's funny that you're not the first person that is concerned with that…" The gentle person put it's delicate hands on her chin. "Almost everyone that came to me today had the same concern, among other things. I wonder why this coincidence." Marrietta and the crowd stood in silence for a solid minute before bursting out on laughter. The gentle person looked around the crowd at the same time confused and surprised at their reaction.

Luan just looked the crowd in disbelief.

What just happened?

"What did you did?" She asked stumbling her way closer to the gentle person, allowing Lincoln to finally have a good look at the person.

Said person was not really a human, but a female high elf. She was unbelievably beautiful light and delicate skin, pointy ears, long silky cream colored hair with her bangs tied back in a loose yet secure bun, letting the rest of her hair flow freely, and a gentle smile.

One would thinking that someone as beautiful would wear something as beautiful, but was the opposite really, she wore a humble teal sleeveless shirt that made her feminine curves appear, baggy pants colored dark blue with what seemed a heavy snow coat tied to her waist. She had however, beautiful teal earrings, pendants, handmade necklaces made by all sorts of stuff, like shells and beads, intricately detailed copper glasses with tinted glasses she wore I'm her forehead.

But what really stood out about the elf was her brass staff, at the upper end, a cylindrical ornament that had millimetric details carved on the bronze surface. It wasn't a weapon. It didn't looked like one, it looked more like the stick a shepherd would use to herd a flock of sheep. Well, it was the aura it had.

The elf turned to Luan with a smile, that quickly turned into a look of concern as she saw the condition the girl was.

"Oh my goodness! Are you, like alright?" the Elf asked concerned.

"What… are… you… doing?" Luan asked, dragging out every word. She looked around. Everyone in the crowd was looking at her with looks of disgust. "Why… How… I… I made all of you happy!" Luan dragged the first words, but burst a shout that made even the elf wince.

"Who are her again?" Luan heard someone ask.

"Didn't that creep cut the line?" Another one spoke.

"What is she talking about?" A woman questioned.

They didn't even remember who she was.

But Luan remembered them. She remembered coming to Attum and absorbing the decease of every single person there. The people on that same crowd.

How couldn't they remember?

Ingrates.

Tears started to form on Luan's face. She gave them happiness, but why weren't they happy?

Why that random elf was able them happy? She was just talking.

"How…?" Luan decided to just ignore the looks and focus on the elf in front of her. "How did you made them happy? How are you able to heal the black illness with such ease?"

The elf blinked, seeming confused. "I… am just listening to them." She said simply. "This Black thingy is something that comes from the heart, and if not treated right in the heart, it won't heal." She explained.

"But… but I took all their Sorrow! Look at me!" Luan showed her arms, the dark veins in them made the onlookers raise their browns, all of them were suffering from the same Illness, they could see any difference to hers. "I absorbed all of it! They shouldn't feel bad anymore!" Luan cried angrily. "I did all this for them! For you!" She shouted to the crowd.

Lincoln, Luna and Lynn were concerned. They didn't knew that girl much, and we're apprehensive, ready to, in any case that Luan snapped, they would be ready to protect these people.

The elf sighed and stood up, she was taller than Luan, taller than even Luna, that was the tallest of the trio. "I see what's happening." She spoke. "The thing is."

She raised her thumb to her own heart. "You don't appreciate something given to you as much as something you earned yourself."

Luan's heart dropped into a metaphorical abyss. At those words. And just worsened at the conclusion. "In other words, true happiness isn't given, is earned."

Luan bit the bottom of her lips, she contorted her cheeks in a almost diabolical frown and let her eyes furrow.

The amount of anger she felt couldn't be described.

Anger turned into hatred, hatred turned into disgust.

She didn't had anything in her mind anymore. Just that elf in front of her. She hated that elf so much. And she didn't even knew who she was.

Did she care? Maybe? Who was her to say such words to her? Who?

"Who are you?" She let these three words escape her teeth.

The elf made a confident smile, rested her staff over her shoulder with one hand and pointed to herself with her thumb with the other.

"I'm Leni Giddhaltama, The enlighten one."

As she said that, the sun that started to set down glowed just in the right angle, reflected by the water of the lake, making thee elf's hair to be illuminated with a near divine glow.

That sight made the trio open their mouth in awe as they never had seen such being before.

Looking at her, Lincoln felt like he was before one of the goddess.

Lincoln snapped back from his awe and watched carefully what Luan would do next.

Said girl just walked forward. Lincoln closed his hand, ready to stop Luan if she tried anything. He heard Lynn by his side grabbing the handle of her sword and Luna starting to reach for her axe.

Suddenly, the crowd gasped as Luan grasped Marrietta's upper face, making the old woman shout.

Lincoln and the girls sprinted in forward the girls having drawn their weapons. But they got blocked by the elf's staff, that had put herself in between they and Luan, Leni, however, didn't took her eyes of Luan.

The decease started to drain from Marrietta as Luan sucked it into herself like she had did to Luna earlier that day.

Luan then removed her hands from Marrietta, that had her face rid of the decease. The old woman blinked twice in shock. She was able to see again, but wasn't less scared by the dark figure it front of her.

Luan's veins became even more darker, and this time, small black patches finally started to form around her cheeks.

Luan turned to Leni with a cold look.

"You're not the only one that wants to make people happy." She spoke,, purposely bumping their shoulders as she walked past the elf. The crowd made space for her to cross, afraid to be even near that girl.

Leni and the trio observed Luan walk away, taking the exit from the village and disappear down the road.

N/A: And we meet not ONE, but TWO of the Loud sisters! if you know a little of my work, you already understood their concept. Leni and Luan were inspired by Buddha and Zerofuku from Record of Ragnarok, but don't worry, Leni is still our lovable airhead, and Luan... Well, she'll have her time to evolve.

Originally, Luan's role wasn't for Luan, but for one of Leni's friends, like Becky or Mandy but I decided to cut them and put Luan on this role because as I already said before, I fear writing these two characters, writing Leni's dumb moments are quite hard for me and Luan's puns? they'll be mostly absent from this version as I am very, very bad at coming up with puns for her. The original role I had for Luan was very boring and unimportant, just as a court jester with daddy issues.

Next chapter we'll sail along with Leni to Annecia and discover what, or who, is causing the perpetual storm around the island!

If you want to say something, wants to ask something or has any questions, feel free to comment!