Chương 1: Prologue
Trigger Warning!!! Mentions of suicide, and abuse. Along with depressing thoughts.
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When I was young, around 4 years old, I always asked what it was like when I was born. Everybody had the same answer, and gave me this… look, as if they were staring off into space.
"Powerful," is all they say. Fuck, even big sis and big bro say that, and they're some of the strongest people I know.
I've asked my mother and father what was it like, and my father was hesitant and afraid, but I could tell that the fear in him, wasn't from fear of himself. It was fear for me.
I've been different from everyone from day one. My mana and magic are different from others, and it wasn't a new kind of element or whatever. It was fundamentally different, down to the very core of it. It also helps to know that my magic has been ingrained in me, without a grimoire, since birth. Hell, everything about the magic I use is different. When I was four, I had so much control that I can grab stuff with my flames without destroying what I was holding.
So when my mother told me that as soon as I came out of the womb, I caught on fire with these magnificent and powerful black, inner white flames. She told me that, anyone who tried to touch me, didn't get burned per se, but did get injured. Everyone except my family, as if I knew who they were.
She also said that through the flames, everyone could see a glorious smile on my face as I looked at their faces.
I love my siblings, the feisty and rebellious Mereoleona, and the calm and collected Fuegoleon. They are the best siblings to ever have, and it became even greater when Leopold was born. Out of the four of us, my magic made me superior to them, and yet I never felt that way. I and my older siblings would even play as a band, mostly cause I would ask when they weren't busy or were supposed to be taking breaks from training. We called ourselves GDL or God Dragon and Lion. I'm the god part, my sister is the lion, and my brother is the dragon. I was the one who created our band name. Sis was drums, bro was guitar after me, I was the lead singer and guitar.
Though, when Mere-nee and Fue-nii had that huge fight the day before sis got her grimoire, I did kind of stop the both of them. I didn't like how they were fighting each other like that, and my body just moved. I just used my magic and stop both of them. I used the black flames to hold the two down, while I was screaming in my mind, not to hurt them. One downside I didn't know at the time, was that my body, despite having had the power for about three years, was that my body was way too young to be able to use the power to the extent of control I had, and the amount of power I was using. At the time, it felt like a thousand halberds were bombarding me from all sides, and it hurt like, ironically, hell. I don't know what happened myself because I passed out, but everybody else says that I screamed so loudly that the entire kingdom could've heard it, and then I passed out and the flames disappeared.
After that, and a few hours later, I decided to train my body and magic to master both. My family tried to stop me, except big sis though she was very concerned about me. I would always ask her to train me because she was the closest to what my magic should be like at the time. Though Sister Theresa had trained me as well, I mostly based my moves on what I saw from them and used it to my advantage.
… I've always thought that I was possibly a bastard child, no matter how nice my family is. Despite all the love and support, I gained from them, I couldn't help but think if I was some kind of mistake. I could tell that everyone had a, most likely precise, guess of what I felt. I didn't try to hide it. How could I, because every time I look in a mirror, I see spiky, blonde hair with a single orange streak going through it.
Well, I've felt that way, until I met my sister's master, Acier Silva. She was, amazing. That is all I could say really. She was kind and strong, she could beat big sis easily, and could beat me with some difficulty. My magic made me tougher to beat than big sis, despite my very young age, so I was delighted to know someone could defeat me so easily. It was like having another mother, as another sister.
I loved hanging out with her. Whenever she was over, I would try to be with her as much as possible. Everyone found it amusing and would tease me about it, except for Acier. It was like she saw me as one of her own. She would even sing me a song whenever she was around long enough for me to go to sleep.
She had these three kids with her: Solid, Nozel, and Nebra. Out of the three of them, it was Nozel I enjoyed hanging out with the most. He was like another big brother to me.
I think my big sis had a crush on her, I don't blame her, as she was a very beautiful woman. There was something about her that I could trust, and yet it felt as those there was still something missing as if knowing her will get me to fill this void in my soul that I'd never known I had until I'd met her.
I didn't know what it was, until the day she gave birth to her fourth child. I was there that day with my big sis because it was such a momentous occasion. Also, I just felt that the void in my soul could be filled if I was there that day. I had no idea how right, and wrong I was at the moment, until later.
But, when Noelle, Acier's fourth child, was born, it was like everything suddenly became brighter, I couldn't see her birth, but I could feel it. I had no idea why though, until recently, though I will come back to that later. I could hear her screaming her tiny lungs away, and hearing it made me want to cry for her. I didn't know why, but I felt like it. It was going on like that for a while, while everyone else was cooing at the baby. After a while, I couldn't take it anymore, and I wanted to see the baby, so I could help it. When I finally got to her, the screaming and crying stopped and she looked at me, and I just looked right back. It didn't last long, because not even a second later she started smiling and laughing, and I couldn't help but do the same.
It was the very first time I felt like I was in heaven, and it was brought to me by a newborn, who grew up into the girl I love. Even if others say that we don't belong together, or say it's wrong, I love her to the bottom of my soul.
Although, it pains me to know that I wasn't around to help out Acier when she needed the most help. I and Mere-nee were halfway home when it all happened, and we had no idea, until the next day. It was also the day we stopped our little band, because of how we felt at the time.
The year after that, Acier died. I was there with her that day. I held her hand as she died, though I did get very upset as I felt my magic surge all around me. That day, I felt different, though I couldn't put my finger on it, even now.
The Silva family seemed less like a family after that. Mere-nee was wracked with too much guilt and decided to live in the wilderness to train. The Silva family decided to, well Nozel didn't have a choice, to treat Noelle as the cause of her death.
I was the one that, practically, had to raise her, which includes having to teach her stuff and helping her with her magic, whenever I could. Sure, my family would help and treat her as if she was a part of the family, but I honestly didn't feel right whenever Fue-nii, Mom, and Dad tried to help. Also might be because I was very possessive of her at the time because of my young age, but I grew out of it. They can be… flamboyant at times, in their own ways. My cousins on my mother's side are great for Noelle to be around though, especially little Mimosa. Although Mimosa doesn't really have a filter and comes off as rude…
Raising her led to big drawbacks because she's been… thinking of suicide at least once a week. I tried to help, but I could only delay it, because of the abuse she goes through. I try as much as I can to stop them, but I can only do so much. Those would usually involve me hitting the three siblings whenever I'm over, with only big bro being the one to stop me. I'm honestly so proud of how strong she is, for being able to move forward, despite the abuse.
Every time Noelle came to me or told me how she felt about it, I would put a scar on my body so that I could remember all that she had to endure. I gave her a necklace of her mother singing a nursery rhyme to me that I got for my birthday. Though I gave it to Noelle for one of her birthdays, to help her out, and so she knows her mother's voice. I don't think she knows who the voice belongs to though, since I didn't tell her.
I could only visit her so many times, though I also pestered Nozel about what was happening and why he was doing this. He didn't say much at the time, but after so many tries, and the hints I got from him. I narrowed it down to that Acier died by a curse, the kind of curse you will die also die from if you tell anyone about it.
After I found that little tidbit out I punched him in the gut, hard. A few years later, I've come to regret it and apologized to him about it. Well, it only came after I tried the very same curse that Acier died to on myself.
It was one of the worst ideas in existence and I should've died…
But I didn't, and I found out that my magic, which I trained along with my body over the years, made me immune to the curses of devils. I can still die by devil magic or devil-enhanced magic, but not curses.
That was a year before the Grimoire Acceptance Ceremony, where I did get a four-leaf grimoire. The cover was almost entirely black though it had white along with certain areas of the cover. The clover had a black outline with a white inside. The first three pages of the grimoire were talking about how to use regular fire magic, and I mean the most basic of fire magic, like how to create, manipulate, give shape, and other ways to use fire. Though after that, it was blank for about a fourth of the book, until I reached my unusual flames.
It was called Fire/Flame God Slayer Magic, which with no context sounds really bad. Though all that was spoken about the magic was just its name and passive abilities which I already know. I was able to unlock new spells by creating them myself, and that is how I spent the last six months or so until the Magic Knight Entrance Exam. I was creating new Flame God spells, and as I was going along, most of the spells from the regular fire magic, started blending more and more with my Fire/Flame God Slayer Magic, until the two were basically the same while also filling up the grimoire to the point to where that gap between the two magics was filled, the rest are still blank.
At the Magic Knight Entrance Exam, I met a lot of interesting people while we were there. I met future magic knights; Magna Swing, Luck Voltia, Sol Marron, Rill Boismortier, and Klaus Lunettes, though I didn't know it at the time. Oh yeah, Solid was there too, though I don't really pay attention to any other member of the Silva family except Noelle and Nozel. Still, the latter is on a very thin line.
We had to fly these magic broomsticks, I don't understand why I would need it when I can just use my magic to fly. We then had to do these little tasks like blast magic at a wall, shoot magic at moving targets, create something with magic, and pour magic into a seed to let it grow. For the first thing, my magic nearly destroyed the wall. Second thing, very easy for me to do. Third thing, I created a scythe that was very sharp and destructive. The last thing was the oddest, it made some kind of holy blazing tree or something. I could hear Noelle, Mimosa, and Leopold cheering for me during all this, and it was so cute. I also loved how cute Noelle was dressed that day, with her hair in little braids.
Then, I fought Luck Voltia when we had to have our fights. He was fast and strong, so I had fun fighting him. But what was so interesting was his magic, which was insanely similar to mine, but with lightning though the lightning was pink. His magic was called Lightning/Thunder Devil Slayer Magic, from what his grimoire said. Also, he uses regular lightning magic, which his grimoire focuses on more, to help his Devil Slayer Magic take shape, while mine is a fusion of both. We had so much fun fighting that we almost destroyed the entire place. We had so much fun, that we both decided to be friends with each other. It was also where I announced the name of my magic as Fire God Slayer Magic.
I then let the grading happen, and saw Fue-nii, and the other captains raise their hands. I could hear the chatter of the other examinees, surprised by how it all happened. I was conflicted because I didn't want to upset my brother or Nozel, but then I looked towards the Green Mantis squad, and I couldn't help but want to join in. Though it might be slightly influenced because of how powerful their captains seem to be.
After I chose, it was Luck and Magna Swing, who I briefly talked to before and after my fight with Luck, and they chose the Black Bulls, well more like were chosen by the captain of the Black Bulls, Yami Sukehiro. I was so happy for them that I couldn't help but hug the two, though I could tell Magna was uncomfortable with the hug. While Luck was just giddy about the hug.
Noelle was so jealous that day, that she refused to talk to me for a few hours. I tried multiple ways to make her happy, but it was hard. Sometimes it's hard dealing with little ones you care for.
Oh yeah, I'm 15 years old at this point and Noelle should be about 11 at this point. Unfortunately, I won't be able to visit her as I work with the Green Mantis. Hopefully, I can trust my captain enough.
Fuck, I just realized I spent around 11 years training and raising Noelle. Noelle's birthday is on November 15th, while my birthday is on February 1st.
… I regret nothing. Especially since I have a nice body. I'm at least a c cup size, with a slim waist and hips and buttocks. Like a swimmer, I have a slender but powerful body. My hair is still spiky and blonde with a single orange streak, but it has grown longer and now reaches the small of my back. Unlike my family, I don't have the red markings, though my eyes are red, people usually look at me as if I'm insane, which I'm pretty sure I'm not. My teeth are all sharp, like a shark, but they aren't really noticeable, they are only really noticeable when I start smiling.
Ah, right. My name is Leone Vermillion, caretaker of Noelle Silva, Magic Knight of the Green Mantis, wielder of Fire God Slayer Magic, and the recently proclaimed Flame Goddess.
And I'm telling you all this, while on my way to my squad headquarters, with my Captain, who looks like he wants to cut me up. And all I could say is…
"Bring it on!!!"
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