APH Fic Not Just A Guard chapter 2
Title: Not Just A Guard
Author/Artist: Me!
Character(s) or Pairing(s): FemGermany, N. Italy, Lithuania, Prussia, Rome
Rating: T for now.
Warnings: None I believe.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summary: Louise was content to be the personal guard for the prince and heir Feliciano Vargas for the rest of her life. However one night when her prince was attacked and she used her own body to take the wounds meant for him, when she is taken to the Healer everyone finds out that she has a deeper destiny than they thought and nothing will be the same for the kingdom.
The next day when Feliciano woke up he immediately threw back the curtains and jumped out of bed. The two guards that had been standing at the foot of his bed immediately turned and kneeled in front of him.
"Is everything alright, your highness?" the guard on the left asked.
"There are no lessons for you today my liege." the guard on the right added. "The entire castle is sealing off any stray exits and looking for any ways that the assassins from last night had entered."
Feliciano was breathing heavily as he looked from one guard to the other.
"Where is Louise?" he asked. "How badly is she hurt?"
The guards paused for a moment before the one on the left answered, however his voice was hesitant as he said "She was immediately taken to the Healer last night after we had notified the Healer herself. We have not yet received word of her wellbeing."
"Well then get it!" Feliciano exclaimed throwing his hands into the air. "Didn't you know that was the first thing I would ask? Did you know that I would want to know just my personal guard is after she was wounded?"
The guards bowed their heads lower.
"Forgive us." the one on the right said. "We…did not know of how deep your relationship with her went."
"Now go and find out." Feliciano ordered.
The guard on the right knocked his right fist against his chest plate where his heart was before he stood and left the room.
"Shall I tell the servants to bring your morning meal here or do you wish to make the trip to the dining room?" the remaining guard asked.
"I'll go down in a few minutes." Feliciano said wearily as he sat back down onto his bed. "Call for a servant to prepare my clothes and wash."
The guard nodded and performed the same gesture of hitting his chest plate over his heart before he walked out into the hallway.
Feliciano sighed and laid back onto his bed as he closed his eyes. He gave another sigh and curled up into a ball on his side.
His thoughts went to Louise. Her name triggered the memory of last night and the attack on his life. It wasn't the first attack on his life nor was it the first one where Louise had to defend him to the point of placing her own body to take the wounds for him.
But it was the first time she was wounded doing so.
His kingdom, future kingdom as he was yet to be the ruler, was great in many things. One of the greatest was their magical abilities for war. This included the armor that each warrior wore.
Each piece of armor was enchanted so that it couldn't be penetrated. Normal swords, knives, and even magical attacks would have no effect on the armor and it would protect the wearer. They had managed to strengthen it to the point where nothing could penetrate the steel.
But the arrows that were thrown at him, and when Louise had placed her arm in their path, had gone through her armor. He had seen her pain, her blood, and even her surprise that it had gone through.
She had never given a single hint to the pain however. Although he had no experience in that field he knew that an arrow wound in itself was painful enough let alone two.
Let alone two arrows that were heavily enchanted with magic.
And then when she had let her guard down in order to tend to him that had given one of the men, whom they thought they had contained completely, enough time for them to take their club and hit Louise on the head with it.
And then there was that light. Two lights actually. The first one had been from Louise herself. Her back had been glowing as she protected him. She had protected him numerous times and that was the only time her back had glowed.
And then the other light. When the assassin had hit her on the head with the club a white light had engulfed the room.
White light was a good spell. White light was one for healing and release.
But why would assassins use white magic on the guard to a prince?
His thoughts were interrupted as the servants entered the room to help him prepare for the day.
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"Your father, the king, has told me that regardless of the tutors being cancelled for the day you are to review your notes." the guard that had remained told him. A different servant came with Feliciano's notes in hand.
Feliciano nodded boredly as he stirred the food in his bowel. He glanced at the notebooks before he pushed them towards the guard.
"I don't like reading." he said. "Read them aloud to me."
The guard obediently picked up one of the books and opened them. Feliciano ate a small bite of his food as he waited.
"'The great kingdom, which contained all the land of the earth, were connected and ruled over by six phoenixes.'" the guard recited. ""Fire, earth, water, air, light, and dark. Together the six phoenixes ruled and the land prospered and the people were happy.""
"However soon mistrust and different ideals and beliefs drove the six phoenixes apart from one another." Feliciano interrupted looking annoyed. He glanced upwards where the crest of his future kingdom was. On every symbol of the kingdom, on armor and goods was the light phoenix. "I know all of this."
"If you know everything on the history then tell me what happened next." a new voice asked Feliciano. Both Feliciano and the guard turned towards the voice.
The king, and Feliciano's father, Romulus Vargas walked towards them trailed by his personal guards and servants.
Feliciano's guard immediately fell to his knees and bowed low to the king. Romulus ignored the guard as he focused on his son. "Well?"
Feliciano sighed. "The six phoenixes had a meeting and in the end it was decided that the entire kingdoms were to be separated into six parts. One for each phoenix to rule over."
Romulus nodded. "And then?" he asked as he sat next to Feliciano. Immediately the kitchen servants placed his morning meal in front of the king.
"However the five phoenixes; fire, water, earth, air, and light, had always been wary of the dark phoenix. Dark phoenix gave dark magic after all. They feared him and his people. So they bound him to the humans and the earth."
Romulus was smiling. "And what did that mean?"
"It meant that the dark phoenix no longer had an immortal or free body. It was only a mere soul and would need a human host to share the body with. It was vulnerable and weak."
"And what are the people of the dark phoenix?" Romulus prompted.
"Evil and dark to the core." Feliciano said immediately. "As evil as their original ruler phoenix was. The first human host that had been for the dark phoenix died and the people and land decayed without the dark phoenix's magic to power the land."
"Why is that?" Romulus asked as he settled back into his chair and started eating his meal.
Feliciano glanced above them once more to where the symbol of the light phoenix was. "Because the phoenix gives life to the land it rules over and health and power to the people. Without the phoenixes power the land would rot, the people would decay, and we would be doomed."
Romulus nodded in approval. "Very good."
"Father?" Feliciano asked still staring at the emblem. "Why is it that we don't see the phoenixes anymore?"
"They are still here, no need to worry." Romulus said smoothly. "We would have perished a long time ago if they were no longer here. However in their rooms of rest they are still able to give us their power. They only come out to the people at times of Great War. When you become king you will go before the light phoenix herself."
Feliciano started. "I…will?"
Romulus nodded. "Of course you will. As I did and my father before me and his father before him. However," he chuckled. "That will not be for quite some time, there is no need to worry."
Feliciano nodded as well as he stared at his still almost full plate, his hunger gone completely.
The second guard from the morning entered the dining room and kneeled.
"Well?" Feliciano demanded. "How is Louise?"
When the guard hesitated Feliciano felt his heart plummet.
"The Healer is not sure." the guard finally said. "She has tried all that she can however…Guard Louise has not awoken. They are taking her into the purifying chamber in an attempt to cleanse her body of any impurities that it might hold from the attacks magic."
"I'm going to her." Feliciano said as he stood. The guard on his side immediately walked beside him.
"I think I'll come with you, I need to go that direction any way." Romulus said as he walked beside his son.
"You care an awful lot about this one guard Feliciano." Romulus said.
"She is not just my guard, she is also my friend." Feliciano said.
Romulus nodded as he thought to himself. "I was always wondering since the time you started your second growth towards manhood." he said. "How is she? With your physical urgings?"
Feliciano paused in his brisk walk to look up at his father. "What?"
"How is she in pleasing your sexual urges?" Romulus asked again. "She always seemed so cold and calculating that I wouldn't think she would be that good in bed. But then again people can be different behind closed doors."
Feliciano felt his face redden. "I…we…I don't do that…with her."
Romulus blinked in surprise. "You don't? Why ever not?"
"Because…I…don't want to do…that…with Louise." Feliciano managed to mumble out.
Romulus tilted his head to the side. "Louise is a pretty girl but I guess I understand. Too stern." he said. "Then the female servants that bathe you? Are they to your liking?"
Feliciano averted his gaze as they continued to walk. "I haven't that…anything with any girl."
Romulus was silent for a moment. "Male servants?"
"Father!" Feliciano exclaimed.
Romulus held his hands up. "I'm just saying it's perfectly normal!" he said. "I did with the male and female servants. You haven't with any of the servants? Or anyone?"
Feliciano nodded as he kept his eyes forward.
"Well that just won't do." Romulus said. "I'm going to get you a proper girl. A nice virgin one. She'll help you."
"Father, I don't want to." Feliciano said.
Romulus waved away Feliciano's words. "Nonsense! Of course you want to. You don't have to worry son, I'll take care of everything. I have to go now though. Pleasant day."
Feliciano waited until his father was gone before he turned to the guard at his side.
"Did that just happen?" Feliciano asked.
"Yes." the guard said.
Feliciano bit back a sigh. If Louise had been there she would have been fighting a smile and said "Obviously it did."
"Come on." he said. "I want to see her."
He walked quicker to the Healing Ward of the castle and entered the room. His eyes immediately found Louise on one of the beds, asleep and pale. Her lips were parted as she took air in.
Toris, one of the other guards Feliciano was familiar with, jumped to his feet when he saw Feliciano and kneeled.
The man sitting on the side of Louise's bed, who was staring at her intently, did not.
"Gilbert." Toris hissed when he noticed his companion hadn't moved. "Gilbert."
Gilbert didn't pay any attention to Toris as he continued to watch Louise. His hand moved to brush his fingers through her hair as he closed his eyes in sorrow.
"Gilbert." Toris hissed louder.
Now Gilbert looked up almost confused. When he saw Feliciano he was late to jump to his feet and kneel as well.
"Forgive me." Gilbert said hoarsely. "My attention was solely on Louise that I noticed nothing else."
Feliciano nodded. "It's alright."
Immediately Gilbert stood once more and took his place on the side of Louise's bed once more. His hand took hers.
"I know that you are worried about her." Toris said as he also stood and sat in the chair next to Louise's bed. "But there is nothing to worry about."
"She is everything to me." Gilbert said. "She is one of the very few people I care about."
Rage and jealousy tore through Feliciano at that moment. Who was this man that he spoke about Louise in such a way? Her place was by his side, no one else's! She was his!
"And who are you that you talk so about my guard?" Feliciano demanded.
Gilbert didn't even look up at him as he brushed some hairs that had fallen onto Louise's face. "I am her elder brother my prince. Although I have a number of siblings she is the only one that I truly care about the most."
Immediately all the hatred and jealousy left his body. A brother. That was good. That was very good. No competition.
She was his after all.
The Healer walked in at that moment surrounded by her pupils and apprentices, she bowed her head towards him before making her way to Louise.
"We're going to take her into the purifying chamber now." she said in her kind voice. "Will you carry her?"
Gilbert nodded and stood. His hands came under the sheets that Louise laid on and picked her up with sheets covering her from the top and the bottom. Feliciano noted that she was not wearing a stich of clothing.
If she had been awake Louise would have been horrified that she wasn't wearing any clothes and would have immediately taken any cloth on hand to cover herself while her face would redden and she would start to stammer.
Louise didn't stir once when Gilbert picked her up and started to carry her.
"Do you wish to come with us, your highness?" the Healer asked. Feliciano nodded his eyes still on Louise.
"What are you going to do?" Feliciano asked as they walked to the purification chamber.
"We are placing her in the pure water." The Healer said. "As you know the pure water is water from the Light Phoenix herself. Purest of them all and capable of healing the unhealable and to drawing any dark magic from anyone and anything. The dark magic will be taken out and into the air where it no longer can harm."
"And she will wake up?"
"Perhaps, or she needs to sleep more." the Healer said. "However all her injuries will be healed and she will be good as new."
"I have a question." the Healer called to Gilbert. He moved his head backwards to show she has his attention. "Those runes that are on her back, I have never seen the kind before. Do you know what they are?"
Gilbert seemed to hesitated for a moment before he quickly said "Family runes. Can't tell you what they are."
The Healer nodded. "I understand. Family secrets and all."
They entered the purification chambers. The air was crisp, clear, and cool. Feliciano immediately felt a sense of peace and pureness through him.
The Healer nodded towards the pool filled with water.
"Give her to my apprentices." she said. Gilbert hesitated for one moment before he gently transferred Louise into the apprentice's arms.
"You know what to do." the Healer said.
The three apprentices nodded as they gently took the sheets covering Louise off and started into the pool of water. They carefully placed Louise on the water on her back and took two steps back before they bowed their heads and began chanting.
"And now we draw out any impurities and heal any wounds that ail her." the Healer said.
One of the apprentices screamed at that moment however grabbing their attention to Louise. The water surrounded, and quickly spreading, Louise was turning black.
The Healer paled. "That…that is impurity. It is tainting the pure water. Get out of there!" she screamed.
One of the apprentices grabbed at Louise to take her out. She screamed as well and immediately withdrew her hands. Burns covered her hands.
Slowly the entire pool of water was black and dark. Suddenly Louise let out a scream and her eyes snapped open. Her back arched as a beam of dark light exploded from her body towards the roof, fifty meters up. The light broke through the roof and took a form in the sky however the remainder of the roof blocked what the form was. It hanged there for moments before it returned downwards and back into Louise. The black water receded towards her. Her body reabsorbing the tainted waters until the water was pure once more and she collapsed into the water.
One of the other apprentices, the one with burns on her hands was whimpering and clutching them in the water to heal them, went to Louise and hesitantly at first then more urgently drew her out of the water.
There was a moment of silence as everyone took in the still unconscious Louise whom Gilbert had snatched back into his arms the moment she was out of the pool.
"What in the world just happened?" Feliciano demanded from the Healer.
The Healer was only able to look on at horror at Louise whom Gilbert had covered with the sheets that lay on the ground once more and was rocking her back and forth.
Author/Artist: Me!
Character(s) or Pairing(s): FemGermany, N. Italy, Lithuania, Prussia, Rome
Rating: T for now.
Warnings: None I believe.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summary: Louise was content to be the personal guard for the prince and heir Feliciano Vargas for the rest of her life. However one night when her prince was attacked and she used her own body to take the wounds meant for him, when she is taken to the Healer everyone finds out that she has a deeper destiny than they thought and nothing will be the same for the kingdom.
The next day when Feliciano woke up he immediately threw back the curtains and jumped out of bed. The two guards that had been standing at the foot of his bed immediately turned and kneeled in front of him.
"Is everything alright, your highness?" the guard on the left asked.
"There are no lessons for you today my liege." the guard on the right added. "The entire castle is sealing off any stray exits and looking for any ways that the assassins from last night had entered."
Feliciano was breathing heavily as he looked from one guard to the other.
"Where is Louise?" he asked. "How badly is she hurt?"
The guards paused for a moment before the one on the left answered, however his voice was hesitant as he said "She was immediately taken to the Healer last night after we had notified the Healer herself. We have not yet received word of her wellbeing."
"Well then get it!" Feliciano exclaimed throwing his hands into the air. "Didn't you know that was the first thing I would ask? Did you know that I would want to know just my personal guard is after she was wounded?"
The guards bowed their heads lower.
"Forgive us." the one on the right said. "We…did not know of how deep your relationship with her went."
"Now go and find out." Feliciano ordered.
The guard on the right knocked his right fist against his chest plate where his heart was before he stood and left the room.
"Shall I tell the servants to bring your morning meal here or do you wish to make the trip to the dining room?" the remaining guard asked.
"I'll go down in a few minutes." Feliciano said wearily as he sat back down onto his bed. "Call for a servant to prepare my clothes and wash."
The guard nodded and performed the same gesture of hitting his chest plate over his heart before he walked out into the hallway.
Feliciano sighed and laid back onto his bed as he closed his eyes. He gave another sigh and curled up into a ball on his side.
His thoughts went to Louise. Her name triggered the memory of last night and the attack on his life. It wasn't the first attack on his life nor was it the first one where Louise had to defend him to the point of placing her own body to take the wounds for him.
But it was the first time she was wounded doing so.
His kingdom, future kingdom as he was yet to be the ruler, was great in many things. One of the greatest was their magical abilities for war. This included the armor that each warrior wore.
Each piece of armor was enchanted so that it couldn't be penetrated. Normal swords, knives, and even magical attacks would have no effect on the armor and it would protect the wearer. They had managed to strengthen it to the point where nothing could penetrate the steel.
But the arrows that were thrown at him, and when Louise had placed her arm in their path, had gone through her armor. He had seen her pain, her blood, and even her surprise that it had gone through.
She had never given a single hint to the pain however. Although he had no experience in that field he knew that an arrow wound in itself was painful enough let alone two.
Let alone two arrows that were heavily enchanted with magic.
And then when she had let her guard down in order to tend to him that had given one of the men, whom they thought they had contained completely, enough time for them to take their club and hit Louise on the head with it.
And then there was that light. Two lights actually. The first one had been from Louise herself. Her back had been glowing as she protected him. She had protected him numerous times and that was the only time her back had glowed.
And then the other light. When the assassin had hit her on the head with the club a white light had engulfed the room.
White light was a good spell. White light was one for healing and release.
But why would assassins use white magic on the guard to a prince?
His thoughts were interrupted as the servants entered the room to help him prepare for the day.
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"Your father, the king, has told me that regardless of the tutors being cancelled for the day you are to review your notes." the guard that had remained told him. A different servant came with Feliciano's notes in hand.
Feliciano nodded boredly as he stirred the food in his bowel. He glanced at the notebooks before he pushed them towards the guard.
"I don't like reading." he said. "Read them aloud to me."
The guard obediently picked up one of the books and opened them. Feliciano ate a small bite of his food as he waited.
"'The great kingdom, which contained all the land of the earth, were connected and ruled over by six phoenixes.'" the guard recited. ""Fire, earth, water, air, light, and dark. Together the six phoenixes ruled and the land prospered and the people were happy.""
"However soon mistrust and different ideals and beliefs drove the six phoenixes apart from one another." Feliciano interrupted looking annoyed. He glanced upwards where the crest of his future kingdom was. On every symbol of the kingdom, on armor and goods was the light phoenix. "I know all of this."
"If you know everything on the history then tell me what happened next." a new voice asked Feliciano. Both Feliciano and the guard turned towards the voice.
The king, and Feliciano's father, Romulus Vargas walked towards them trailed by his personal guards and servants.
Feliciano's guard immediately fell to his knees and bowed low to the king. Romulus ignored the guard as he focused on his son. "Well?"
Feliciano sighed. "The six phoenixes had a meeting and in the end it was decided that the entire kingdoms were to be separated into six parts. One for each phoenix to rule over."
Romulus nodded. "And then?" he asked as he sat next to Feliciano. Immediately the kitchen servants placed his morning meal in front of the king.
"However the five phoenixes; fire, water, earth, air, and light, had always been wary of the dark phoenix. Dark phoenix gave dark magic after all. They feared him and his people. So they bound him to the humans and the earth."
Romulus was smiling. "And what did that mean?"
"It meant that the dark phoenix no longer had an immortal or free body. It was only a mere soul and would need a human host to share the body with. It was vulnerable and weak."
"And what are the people of the dark phoenix?" Romulus prompted.
"Evil and dark to the core." Feliciano said immediately. "As evil as their original ruler phoenix was. The first human host that had been for the dark phoenix died and the people and land decayed without the dark phoenix's magic to power the land."
"Why is that?" Romulus asked as he settled back into his chair and started eating his meal.
Feliciano glanced above them once more to where the symbol of the light phoenix was. "Because the phoenix gives life to the land it rules over and health and power to the people. Without the phoenixes power the land would rot, the people would decay, and we would be doomed."
Romulus nodded in approval. "Very good."
"Father?" Feliciano asked still staring at the emblem. "Why is it that we don't see the phoenixes anymore?"
"They are still here, no need to worry." Romulus said smoothly. "We would have perished a long time ago if they were no longer here. However in their rooms of rest they are still able to give us their power. They only come out to the people at times of Great War. When you become king you will go before the light phoenix herself."
Feliciano started. "I…will?"
Romulus nodded. "Of course you will. As I did and my father before me and his father before him. However," he chuckled. "That will not be for quite some time, there is no need to worry."
Feliciano nodded as well as he stared at his still almost full plate, his hunger gone completely.
The second guard from the morning entered the dining room and kneeled.
"Well?" Feliciano demanded. "How is Louise?"
When the guard hesitated Feliciano felt his heart plummet.
"The Healer is not sure." the guard finally said. "She has tried all that she can however…Guard Louise has not awoken. They are taking her into the purifying chamber in an attempt to cleanse her body of any impurities that it might hold from the attacks magic."
"I'm going to her." Feliciano said as he stood. The guard on his side immediately walked beside him.
"I think I'll come with you, I need to go that direction any way." Romulus said as he walked beside his son.
"You care an awful lot about this one guard Feliciano." Romulus said.
"She is not just my guard, she is also my friend." Feliciano said.
Romulus nodded as he thought to himself. "I was always wondering since the time you started your second growth towards manhood." he said. "How is she? With your physical urgings?"
Feliciano paused in his brisk walk to look up at his father. "What?"
"How is she in pleasing your sexual urges?" Romulus asked again. "She always seemed so cold and calculating that I wouldn't think she would be that good in bed. But then again people can be different behind closed doors."
Feliciano felt his face redden. "I…we…I don't do that…with her."
Romulus blinked in surprise. "You don't? Why ever not?"
"Because…I…don't want to do…that…with Louise." Feliciano managed to mumble out.
Romulus tilted his head to the side. "Louise is a pretty girl but I guess I understand. Too stern." he said. "Then the female servants that bathe you? Are they to your liking?"
Feliciano averted his gaze as they continued to walk. "I haven't that…anything with any girl."
Romulus was silent for a moment. "Male servants?"
"Father!" Feliciano exclaimed.
Romulus held his hands up. "I'm just saying it's perfectly normal!" he said. "I did with the male and female servants. You haven't with any of the servants? Or anyone?"
Feliciano nodded as he kept his eyes forward.
"Well that just won't do." Romulus said. "I'm going to get you a proper girl. A nice virgin one. She'll help you."
"Father, I don't want to." Feliciano said.
Romulus waved away Feliciano's words. "Nonsense! Of course you want to. You don't have to worry son, I'll take care of everything. I have to go now though. Pleasant day."
Feliciano waited until his father was gone before he turned to the guard at his side.
"Did that just happen?" Feliciano asked.
"Yes." the guard said.
Feliciano bit back a sigh. If Louise had been there she would have been fighting a smile and said "Obviously it did."
"Come on." he said. "I want to see her."
He walked quicker to the Healing Ward of the castle and entered the room. His eyes immediately found Louise on one of the beds, asleep and pale. Her lips were parted as she took air in.
Toris, one of the other guards Feliciano was familiar with, jumped to his feet when he saw Feliciano and kneeled.
The man sitting on the side of Louise's bed, who was staring at her intently, did not.
"Gilbert." Toris hissed when he noticed his companion hadn't moved. "Gilbert."
Gilbert didn't pay any attention to Toris as he continued to watch Louise. His hand moved to brush his fingers through her hair as he closed his eyes in sorrow.
"Gilbert." Toris hissed louder.
Now Gilbert looked up almost confused. When he saw Feliciano he was late to jump to his feet and kneel as well.
"Forgive me." Gilbert said hoarsely. "My attention was solely on Louise that I noticed nothing else."
Feliciano nodded. "It's alright."
Immediately Gilbert stood once more and took his place on the side of Louise's bed once more. His hand took hers.
"I know that you are worried about her." Toris said as he also stood and sat in the chair next to Louise's bed. "But there is nothing to worry about."
"She is everything to me." Gilbert said. "She is one of the very few people I care about."
Rage and jealousy tore through Feliciano at that moment. Who was this man that he spoke about Louise in such a way? Her place was by his side, no one else's! She was his!
"And who are you that you talk so about my guard?" Feliciano demanded.
Gilbert didn't even look up at him as he brushed some hairs that had fallen onto Louise's face. "I am her elder brother my prince. Although I have a number of siblings she is the only one that I truly care about the most."
Immediately all the hatred and jealousy left his body. A brother. That was good. That was very good. No competition.
She was his after all.
The Healer walked in at that moment surrounded by her pupils and apprentices, she bowed her head towards him before making her way to Louise.
"We're going to take her into the purifying chamber now." she said in her kind voice. "Will you carry her?"
Gilbert nodded and stood. His hands came under the sheets that Louise laid on and picked her up with sheets covering her from the top and the bottom. Feliciano noted that she was not wearing a stich of clothing.
If she had been awake Louise would have been horrified that she wasn't wearing any clothes and would have immediately taken any cloth on hand to cover herself while her face would redden and she would start to stammer.
Louise didn't stir once when Gilbert picked her up and started to carry her.
"Do you wish to come with us, your highness?" the Healer asked. Feliciano nodded his eyes still on Louise.
"What are you going to do?" Feliciano asked as they walked to the purification chamber.
"We are placing her in the pure water." The Healer said. "As you know the pure water is water from the Light Phoenix herself. Purest of them all and capable of healing the unhealable and to drawing any dark magic from anyone and anything. The dark magic will be taken out and into the air where it no longer can harm."
"And she will wake up?"
"Perhaps, or she needs to sleep more." the Healer said. "However all her injuries will be healed and she will be good as new."
"I have a question." the Healer called to Gilbert. He moved his head backwards to show she has his attention. "Those runes that are on her back, I have never seen the kind before. Do you know what they are?"
Gilbert seemed to hesitated for a moment before he quickly said "Family runes. Can't tell you what they are."
The Healer nodded. "I understand. Family secrets and all."
They entered the purification chambers. The air was crisp, clear, and cool. Feliciano immediately felt a sense of peace and pureness through him.
The Healer nodded towards the pool filled with water.
"Give her to my apprentices." she said. Gilbert hesitated for one moment before he gently transferred Louise into the apprentice's arms.
"You know what to do." the Healer said.
The three apprentices nodded as they gently took the sheets covering Louise off and started into the pool of water. They carefully placed Louise on the water on her back and took two steps back before they bowed their heads and began chanting.
"And now we draw out any impurities and heal any wounds that ail her." the Healer said.
One of the apprentices screamed at that moment however grabbing their attention to Louise. The water surrounded, and quickly spreading, Louise was turning black.
The Healer paled. "That…that is impurity. It is tainting the pure water. Get out of there!" she screamed.
One of the apprentices grabbed at Louise to take her out. She screamed as well and immediately withdrew her hands. Burns covered her hands.
Slowly the entire pool of water was black and dark. Suddenly Louise let out a scream and her eyes snapped open. Her back arched as a beam of dark light exploded from her body towards the roof, fifty meters up. The light broke through the roof and took a form in the sky however the remainder of the roof blocked what the form was. It hanged there for moments before it returned downwards and back into Louise. The black water receded towards her. Her body reabsorbing the tainted waters until the water was pure once more and she collapsed into the water.
One of the other apprentices, the one with burns on her hands was whimpering and clutching them in the water to heal them, went to Louise and hesitantly at first then more urgently drew her out of the water.
There was a moment of silence as everyone took in the still unconscious Louise whom Gilbert had snatched back into his arms the moment she was out of the pool.
"What in the world just happened?" Feliciano demanded from the Healer.
The Healer was only able to look on at horror at Louise whom Gilbert had covered with the sheets that lay on the ground once more and was rocking her back and forth.