[Legend of Sun Knight] fic: Grace - Chapter 3: Gradual
Title: Grace - Chapter 3: Gradual
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,303
Summary: When asked what he would sacrifice his life for, Grisia's answer has always been his brothers, the Twelve Holy Knights, and his answer has never changed. Even if he's thrust into the future, into a world where the Twelve Holy Knights no longer exist, his answer won't change. It doesn't matter that his brothers don't remember. Or that some of them aren't even... "brothers" anymore. After all, Grisia would do the same for his sisters too! Time travel / reincarnation / genderbender / harem
Notes: Taking a short break from my Parallels assignment. (Deadline is Aug 1!!) For some reason, I have three different reincarnation fic ideas chasing each other around in my mind... So let me get cracking on the first one. :'D That way, maybe I can write the other two someday... haha... This one is more a timetraveling fic than a reincarnation one, so...
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Chapter 3: Gradual
Blue ribbon in my mouth, I combed my hair, pulling it up into a ponytail. After tying my hair, I fixed my vest and black bow tie in place. I looked at myself in the mirror, turning left and right.
Not bad.
This Grace person really did look 99% like me. In other words, very handsome and dazzling! I'd never worn black all that much, but I guess now I knew what I'd look like if I did. Strawberry called what I currently wore a dress shirt, dress pants, and a vest. Only the dress shirt was white while the rest was black. My current attire wasn't fancy at all, but supposedly, this was what I always wore to work.
I looked out the window at the setting sun. It was just about time for me to head to work. I hurried out without looking at the walls of my current home.
Edaline met me outside of my "apartment" to walk me to work. When I saw her, I gave her a bright smile. We fell into step, walking in companionable silence.
As we walked, I surveyed my surroundings. The buildings were very tall and boxy, while the streets were so smooth that a tomato might roll from one street to the next without stopping if someone were to drop one. Not a single horse was to be seen. Instead, metal contraptions rolled on wheels. When I first saw them the other day, my heart nearly jumped out of my rib cage.
Enchanted puppets?
Enchanted puppets were creatures of metal created by alchemists. Normally, I wouldn't be too worried about them, as I wasn't one of the Twelve Holy Knights for nothing, but the sheer number of enchanted puppets was mind boggling!
On top of that, enchanted puppets thrived on magic as their power source. I'd only be giving them a charge if I attacked with magic! No way did I want to reenact what had happened in the Valley of Trizer! At the time, I had Ice's help, but while Edaline here looked just like Ice, I doubted she had the strength of a Twelve Holy Knight.
I immediately started devising a way for all of the enchanted puppets to collide against each other and burst into flames, Chains of Darkness might work in tripping them, but as I was devising my plan, Edaline continued walking without the least bit of fear.
"Edaline!" I shouted out in alarm. She stepped right up to one of the enchanted puppets and... pried it open. Then, she turned, waiting for me to catch up.
"..." I could only stare wordlessly.
Alright, seems like I'm being too cautious.
If people wanted to pry open enchanted puppets to ride in their stomachs, who was I to stop them?
"Grace," Edaline suddenly said, bringing me back to the present. She glanced up at me. "Have you remembered anything?"
Shaking my head, I apologized. "No, not yet."
That's right. That night at Edaline's home, I lied to both girls, telling them that I had amnesia. It was either that, or telling them that their comrade was now being possessed by the 38th generation Sun Knight. If they didn't think me crazy upon hearing that, then I'd wonder if they were the crazy ones!
Sun, haven't you become more open with us? Don't revert back to the time when you never tell us anything!
My conscience sounded suspiciously like an accusatory Leaf. It was probably because Strawberry kept gazing at me with a worried expression. But what choice did I have? I knew nothing about this world! If I didn't garner the help of these people who cared so much about Grace, I'd have a difficult time even exiting Edaline's home! I didn't even know how her door worked!
And while they looked a lot like my brothers, my first priority was still returning to my world, to my holy knights.
Unfortunately, my "confession" landed me in what the girls called a "hospital." I'd really underestimated them. To think that they would bring me to an expert to test whether or not I was lying!
But I wasn't the Sun Knight for nothing! It's not that I'm boasting, but my acting skills are top notch. Even though the "doctor" claimed there was nothing physically wrong with me, he believed wholeheartedly that I didn't remember a thing. In the end, he recited a bunch of stuff about my symptoms and whatnot while Edaline and Strawberry hung onto his every word. I was nearly a hundred percent sure that he was just making everything up about my nonexistent amnesia and how I could have come by it because he ended his spiel by saying, "Don't worry! His memories will come back! It'll just take time!"
Duh! Anyone could have said that! They could have come to that conclusion themselves!
With the doctor's recommendation, Strawberry and Edaline took me home and filled me in on as much as they could about my life. Grace's life, that was. Grace's age was younger than mine. He was twenty-four, the same age as I had been when the demon king incident had broken out. In school, he studied acting... theater, whatever it was called, while he currently worked as a bartender. Perhaps this Grace person was actually my reincarnation. If I hadn't been the Sun Knight, I would have made a fine actor and an even better winemaker!
I walked around his apartment, trying to familiarize myself with what was to be my home for the time being. I had to learn all I could about this world, gradual progress it may be, in the belief that I would one day be able to find a way home. The apartment was, as expected, completely unfamiliar. On top of that...
Why in the world does Grace have all these paintings of golden-haired, blue-eyed guys on the wall?!
I'd stared in disbelief at the walls. Even I wasn't this narcissistic!
Since I was currently this Grace person, I had to go about his daily life, which was why I was dutifully heading to work. I was thankful to get out of that apartment filled with paintings of golden-haired men. Just thinking about it made me want to shiver!
Once we reached my workplace, a tavern -- no, a bar, Edaline had called it a bar -- Edaline pulled on my hand. Inside my heart, I was a bit at a loss.
Don't tell me this is where I'm supposed to kiss her goodbye?
While Edaline was very cute, especially when she blushed, kissing her would totally feel like kissing Ice, and besides, I wasn't her actual boyfriend!
Just as I was panicking about what to do (A cutie comes up to you and you don't even dare kiss her? Are you a man or not, Grisia?!) Edaline tugged on my hand. She had a conflicted look on her face.
Why are you the one looking conflicted?
I leaned closer, unsure of the expression on her face, but Edaline hastily dropped my hand and stepped backward, which was both relieving and a bit...disappointing. It also made me realize that we hadn't held hands throughout the entire walk, not until we stopped. Wouldn't normal couples hold hands?
"You really don't remember," she said, eyes flicking up to study me through her long eyelashes.
Haven't we already established that?
"I..." she started to say.
But before she could finish, the door to the taver-bar swung open with a bang, and a redhead stomped out. Even though I only caught a glimpse of him, there was no mistaking him for anyone else, and I was once again revising my opinion of just what the heck was going on.
A man who looked like the spitting image of Chikus Blaze... shoved me away from Edaline.
"Grace!" He growled. "I've already warned you not to get close to Edaline!"
Don't tell me that this Blaze look alike is in love with Ice? And is fighting with Grace over her?
I wanted to sob.
Leave me out of it!
to be continued
Bonus pic from Kiyutsuna! :D
Bartender Grisia~~~ (Or well, "Grace" What a cutie~~~)
Next chapter
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,303
Summary: When asked what he would sacrifice his life for, Grisia's answer has always been his brothers, the Twelve Holy Knights, and his answer has never changed. Even if he's thrust into the future, into a world where the Twelve Holy Knights no longer exist, his answer won't change. It doesn't matter that his brothers don't remember. Or that some of them aren't even... "brothers" anymore. After all, Grisia would do the same for his sisters too! Time travel / reincarnation / genderbender / harem
Notes: Taking a short break from my Parallels assignment. (Deadline is Aug 1!!) For some reason, I have three different reincarnation fic ideas chasing each other around in my mind... So let me get cracking on the first one. :'D That way, maybe I can write the other two someday... haha... This one is more a timetraveling fic than a reincarnation one, so...
Previous chapter
Chapter 3: Gradual
Blue ribbon in my mouth, I combed my hair, pulling it up into a ponytail. After tying my hair, I fixed my vest and black bow tie in place. I looked at myself in the mirror, turning left and right.
Not bad.
This Grace person really did look 99% like me. In other words, very handsome and dazzling! I'd never worn black all that much, but I guess now I knew what I'd look like if I did. Strawberry called what I currently wore a dress shirt, dress pants, and a vest. Only the dress shirt was white while the rest was black. My current attire wasn't fancy at all, but supposedly, this was what I always wore to work.
I looked out the window at the setting sun. It was just about time for me to head to work. I hurried out without looking at the walls of my current home.
Edaline met me outside of my "apartment" to walk me to work. When I saw her, I gave her a bright smile. We fell into step, walking in companionable silence.
As we walked, I surveyed my surroundings. The buildings were very tall and boxy, while the streets were so smooth that a tomato might roll from one street to the next without stopping if someone were to drop one. Not a single horse was to be seen. Instead, metal contraptions rolled on wheels. When I first saw them the other day, my heart nearly jumped out of my rib cage.
Enchanted puppets?
Enchanted puppets were creatures of metal created by alchemists. Normally, I wouldn't be too worried about them, as I wasn't one of the Twelve Holy Knights for nothing, but the sheer number of enchanted puppets was mind boggling!
On top of that, enchanted puppets thrived on magic as their power source. I'd only be giving them a charge if I attacked with magic! No way did I want to reenact what had happened in the Valley of Trizer! At the time, I had Ice's help, but while Edaline here looked just like Ice, I doubted she had the strength of a Twelve Holy Knight.
I immediately started devising a way for all of the enchanted puppets to collide against each other and burst into flames, Chains of Darkness might work in tripping them, but as I was devising my plan, Edaline continued walking without the least bit of fear.
"Edaline!" I shouted out in alarm. She stepped right up to one of the enchanted puppets and... pried it open. Then, she turned, waiting for me to catch up.
"..." I could only stare wordlessly.
Alright, seems like I'm being too cautious.
If people wanted to pry open enchanted puppets to ride in their stomachs, who was I to stop them?
"Grace," Edaline suddenly said, bringing me back to the present. She glanced up at me. "Have you remembered anything?"
Shaking my head, I apologized. "No, not yet."
That's right. That night at Edaline's home, I lied to both girls, telling them that I had amnesia. It was either that, or telling them that their comrade was now being possessed by the 38th generation Sun Knight. If they didn't think me crazy upon hearing that, then I'd wonder if they were the crazy ones!
Sun, haven't you become more open with us? Don't revert back to the time when you never tell us anything!
My conscience sounded suspiciously like an accusatory Leaf. It was probably because Strawberry kept gazing at me with a worried expression. But what choice did I have? I knew nothing about this world! If I didn't garner the help of these people who cared so much about Grace, I'd have a difficult time even exiting Edaline's home! I didn't even know how her door worked!
And while they looked a lot like my brothers, my first priority was still returning to my world, to my holy knights.
Unfortunately, my "confession" landed me in what the girls called a "hospital." I'd really underestimated them. To think that they would bring me to an expert to test whether or not I was lying!
But I wasn't the Sun Knight for nothing! It's not that I'm boasting, but my acting skills are top notch. Even though the "doctor" claimed there was nothing physically wrong with me, he believed wholeheartedly that I didn't remember a thing. In the end, he recited a bunch of stuff about my symptoms and whatnot while Edaline and Strawberry hung onto his every word. I was nearly a hundred percent sure that he was just making everything up about my nonexistent amnesia and how I could have come by it because he ended his spiel by saying, "Don't worry! His memories will come back! It'll just take time!"
Duh! Anyone could have said that! They could have come to that conclusion themselves!
With the doctor's recommendation, Strawberry and Edaline took me home and filled me in on as much as they could about my life. Grace's life, that was. Grace's age was younger than mine. He was twenty-four, the same age as I had been when the demon king incident had broken out. In school, he studied acting... theater, whatever it was called, while he currently worked as a bartender. Perhaps this Grace person was actually my reincarnation. If I hadn't been the Sun Knight, I would have made a fine actor and an even better winemaker!
I walked around his apartment, trying to familiarize myself with what was to be my home for the time being. I had to learn all I could about this world, gradual progress it may be, in the belief that I would one day be able to find a way home. The apartment was, as expected, completely unfamiliar. On top of that...
Why in the world does Grace have all these paintings of golden-haired, blue-eyed guys on the wall?!
I'd stared in disbelief at the walls. Even I wasn't this narcissistic!
Since I was currently this Grace person, I had to go about his daily life, which was why I was dutifully heading to work. I was thankful to get out of that apartment filled with paintings of golden-haired men. Just thinking about it made me want to shiver!
Once we reached my workplace, a tavern -- no, a bar, Edaline had called it a bar -- Edaline pulled on my hand. Inside my heart, I was a bit at a loss.
Don't tell me this is where I'm supposed to kiss her goodbye?
While Edaline was very cute, especially when she blushed, kissing her would totally feel like kissing Ice, and besides, I wasn't her actual boyfriend!
Just as I was panicking about what to do (A cutie comes up to you and you don't even dare kiss her? Are you a man or not, Grisia?!) Edaline tugged on my hand. She had a conflicted look on her face.
Why are you the one looking conflicted?
I leaned closer, unsure of the expression on her face, but Edaline hastily dropped my hand and stepped backward, which was both relieving and a bit...disappointing. It also made me realize that we hadn't held hands throughout the entire walk, not until we stopped. Wouldn't normal couples hold hands?
"You really don't remember," she said, eyes flicking up to study me through her long eyelashes.
Haven't we already established that?
"I..." she started to say.
But before she could finish, the door to the taver-bar swung open with a bang, and a redhead stomped out. Even though I only caught a glimpse of him, there was no mistaking him for anyone else, and I was once again revising my opinion of just what the heck was going on.
A man who looked like the spitting image of Chikus Blaze... shoved me away from Edaline.
"Grace!" He growled. "I've already warned you not to get close to Edaline!"
Don't tell me that this Blaze look alike is in love with Ice? And is fighting with Grace over her?
I wanted to sob.
Leave me out of it!
to be continued
Bonus pic from Kiyutsuna! :D
Bartender Grisia~~~ (Or well, "Grace" What a cutie~~~)
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