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(Kara POV)
My name is Kara Moor, I am a member of the order and I am also the youngest person ever to join the council at the age of 21. I am also a member of an almost extinct race, unfortunately I don't know the name of this race but we mainly look like humans, the main difference being our slightly pointed ears and strong connection to the force.
I am just finishing my first official meeting with the council, when I suddenly sense something falling towards the centre of the room.
'Splat'
Animal dung falls in the centre of the table splashing everywhere.
'Hahaha' I suddenly hear someone laughing but they are already gone before I can get at them.
"What was that!!" I demand to the council!
"'Sigh' that was our resident problem child Ullr. He is a genius at using the force and in LightSword techniques but he is always causing problems" (council member 1)
"This is quite mild for him though. One time he got hold of sleeping gas from some troopers that stopped off here, he then proceeded to put everyone to sleep. He then drew on everyone's faces, and then all the masters had there cloths stolen including their spare ones." (Council member 2)
"Why don't you punish him??"
"We have but, he either doesn't show up, or completes his punishment exceptionally quickly and then targets the person who punished him for his next prank." (Council member 1)
"Why don't you just kick him out of the Order then?"
"We can't!! He is exceptionally strong in the force, if our enemy's got hold of him, he could be a huge threat!" (CM 2) (Authors note: CM stands for council member!)
This brat sounds like he needs a beating! I definitely want to meet in him!! Haha
"What will his punishment be for this then?" I point to the extremely smelling dung on the table.
"He won't be unless you want to punish him?" (CM 3)
"Ok I will punish him!! He will regret what he did today!"
"That is fine with us but I would watch yourself he has an uncanny ability to sneak up on people and disappear extremely quickly!" (CM 1)
After that I leave the council room and head to my office. Along the way I get several people to bring Ullr to my office. I have a bit of paperwork to do so I start it while I wait.
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It has now been four hours since I asked Ullr to be brought to my office. I have hear multiple announcements over the holo channels but still nothing.
"Bloody brat" I get up and decide to join the hunt!
When I leave my office I see one of the people I asked to look for him jogging towards me, he is soaking wet and looks like he has been through hell and back.
"Master Kara, I am sorry but he is proving difficult to catch, we have got the entire security staff trying to catch him, but most are in a similar if not worse state than me!" He looks down ashamed. I realise that his cloths are covered in rips and he smells a bit like dung.
"Where is he now?"
"Erm he was last seen heading into the forest, last time he entered he wasn't seen for 3 weeks."
'Sight' "Ok I will help look for him, but I want you to prepare a room that can't be escaped from, so we can put him in there when we catch him!"
"Yes!"
I am now heading out into the forest, I expand my senses as far as I can. There is nothing really dangerous in the forest but is is very large.
After an hour of searching I finally find him. He is by a stream and appears to be fishing! But he is over 20 miles away from the temple. And looks to have been there for a long time.
It takes me 30 mins to get within half a mile of him. And then I approach as stealthy as I can. I need to catch him and punish him!
I am now in a position where I can see his back. He is sting on a rock wearing the typical apprentice robes, he has quite long messy dirty blond hair. He looks to be about 11 but I can see he has got a muscle under the robe despite his age.
I get ready to jump on him and pin him down and stage him back to be punished!
"I am not going to run, please just come out slowly and quietly so you don't scare the fish away!" I am shocked that he managed to sense me, even some of the council can't sense me when I suppress my aura. I don't answer and just stare at him! He then turns and looks at me. As he turns his hair falls slightly revealing his slightly pointed ears. He is the same as me! I look at the boy, he is already handsome, with a strong jaw line and perfect white teeth. His eyes are both mesmerising, one is blue and the other is emerald.
"I mean you with the pink hair, come out I won't run just let me catch this fish." He turns back and concentrates on his fishing.
My mind is in a mess at the moment, I have just met another member of my almost extinct species, and a man no less! He may be 10 years younger than me but from what my parents told me we are a very long lived race so 10 years doesn't matter. His attitude needs adjusting but I can sort that out.
I am already planning how to mold him into the perfect man! Although relationships are banned in the order, they do allow it under special circumstances.
While I am lost in my own world, Ullr catches the fish, then kills it and guts it and now is making a fire and started cooking it. I am
Only dragged back to reality when he nudges me offering half of the fish.
I suddenly remember that I am looking for him so he can be punished for his stunt earlier with the council members.
"Ullr!! When we get back you will be confined to your room for the next week as punishment for your stunt with the council today! Also from now on I am your master and you are my apprentice."
At this he stops eating for a second and looks at me raising an eyebrow. He then without saying a word finishes his half of the fish, stamps out the fire, and heads off to the temple.
"Aren't you going to say something, apologise, or even say 'thank you Master Kara for taking me as an apprentice'?" I say this rather angrily at him. He stops walking away and let looks at me.
"No" I am shocked, he has no respect and doesn't care about anything. Before I say anything he walks away.
The journey back to the temple I lectured him all the way there but he did not listen at all. Only walked quicker to get away from me!
When we get back to the temple I get him to move all his stuff into the secured room the security have prepared for him and then I place one of them on his door instructing him that he is not to leave unless I say so and his meals are to be brought to his room.
After that I head out to speak to Master Kalikef about him! I find her in the library as usual and approach her.
"Ahh Kara, youngest member of the council! How are you dear? What can this old lady do for you?"
"Hello, I am ok just a bit tired. I am hoping you could tell me about my new apprentice, Ullr." At this her eyes widen, and a look of shock spreads across her face.
"You are taking Ullr Acron as an apprentice!? Are you sure you can handle him! He has a lot of issues."
"Yes he is a bit of a trouble maker, but I believe I can guide him back into the right path!"
"No dear, you don't know of his parents do you?" I give her a confused look.
"Both his parents were rouges who were being hunted for a very long time, but 9 years ago they finally were found, they ended up being killed but it took 4 members and their apprentices to kill them. Anyway afterwards he was found on their ship, he panics when he sees one of the apprentices with his parents weapons. He then took the boy by surprise and subdued him and retrieved his parents weapons. The boys master managed to convince him to come with him. He was allowed to keep his parents weapons but was forbidden from using them. Many believe he was too young to remember his parents and what happened to them, but I have watched him grow up for these last nine years and I can see it in his eyes that he knows exactly what happened that night."
I am shocked by this information I am been given, at least I now know why he is a bit of a problem child.
"Thank you for telling me about him!"
"Anytime dear, let me know how you get on!"
After that I leave and head to his room to talk to him. As I arrive at his room I see that the guard is gone. I quickly run up to the door and open it. Inside I see the guard tied up and gaged.
"Damn it" I untie the guard and start the search again!
It took me 3 months before Ullr gave up trying to get rid of me. He very nearly did when he shaved all my hair off, I still have know idea how he managed it without me noticing!
Just like that five years passed, Ullr has grown into a handsome young boy, and I still can't help but hug him every now and then. The only thing that annoys me about him is that he refuses to call me master.
No matter what I do he will not call me master. It does upset me a bit but today is an exciting day. We were given a mission to capture a bounty hunter that has killed a member of the order. It is his first official mission and we are lying in wait for the target to turn up.
I explain to him to let me do most of the fighting as he is not experienced against blasters. He annoys me slightly by not calling me master again, I make a cute face at him but I'd does not work!
Just then the target and three others appear, I give the signal to attack and jump in killing one of them instantly, I then defend against heavy blaster fire from the bounty hunter and the others, but then I notice that Ullr's presence has completely disappeared. I shout for him but he does not answer, I can't find him anywhere.
It takes me 30 minutes to subdue the bounty hunter. Once he is secure I start to leave but I find Ullr's LightSword by the door, clearly stood up, placed there.
"He left me! Why? W-why!" I start to tear up and before I know it I am crying. Did he not like me? Was I that bad? No no it clay be, but why did you run away?
After the mission I had to report to the council that Ullr had disappeared, it took all my convincing to get them to let me look for him and bring him back. It took a while but eventually they agreed and I left and stared my search.
It took me 3 and a half years before I had a solid lead, and then a year of stalking a bounty hunter called 'The Hunter' before I was almost certain it was him.
As I followed him I realised that he only took the bounties of the worst of the worst, and most of the time brought them in alive.
I have followed him a a planet that is a pirate base, I watch him as he takes out the entire crew. I can see him use moves that I taught him. And I can feel a familiar aura coming from him.
I watch him from the shadows as he finishes the last of them off. Then before I can react he points his weapon at my location.
"Come out" his voice even though the helmet I recognise it! But is sounds so grown up now!
I talk to him a bit and he realises that I know it is him. As he takes his helmet of I see his face for the first time in 4 and a half years. He is very handsome, he has cut his hair short now but it is still the dirty blonde hair I remember, his eyes are sharp but still beautiful. He now has a slight beard neatly kept and very short. It makes him look older, not my taste but I can get him to shave.
"'Gasp' oh my, Ullr you have become handsome! But please stop scowling and can you stop waving that gun in my face!!" He is waving a gun in my face and it is annoying me!
"No" ha he is just as stubborn as he always was.
I tell him to stop mucking about and that it is time to leave. He starts to talk about how the Order killed his parents. 'So he does remember.
I explain how they were criminals and that they resisted. At this he sighs and starts to remove his armour. I can't help but get a little flushed when he is standing there with just his boots and trousers on. I can see his well defined abs as well as a scar or two on his body, but that just makes him more attractive in my eyes!!
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'It looks like he is going to literally leave this life behind him' I think smiling to myself. As he puts a shirt on I turn away telling him to follow me to my ship but then.
'Buzz'
'Buzz'
I look back to see him wielding two yellow LightSwords.
"Ullr what are you doing? No put those away before you hurt yourself, you have not used them in years."
Why has he drawn them, he must be scared that he is going to be punished for running away! But before I could speak again he said it.
"My name is Ullr Acrogn, I am a Rouge, and I will not come with you to my death!" No. Why why did he say that. I can feel tears forming in my eyes! Does he really hate me that much?
He then releases his aura, and it is massive and hugely strong, stronger than mine.
I try to stop him, I don't want to fight him but he attacks me. I manage to block him and by this time I am crying!
"WHAT DID I EVER DO TO FOR YOU TO HATE ME THIS MUCH?" Why does he hate me, I never meant for it to end up like this, we were meant to be happy and the Lin fall in love! Why why. But it was his next sentence that gave me hope!
"I NEVER HATED YOU! YOU WERE ONE OF THE ONLY PEOPLE I FOUND OK!! IT IS THE ORDER I HATE FOR KILLING MY PARENTS FOR NOT FOLLOWING THEIR BELIEFS!!" At this I dropped my guard, what he said made me so happy! We have a chance. He then force pushed me away. I wiped away the tears in my eyes. I will beat him and then bring him back. But I will listen and help him get over this hardship!
We then battle for the next seventeen hours. I can't believe that we are evenly matched, it scares me at his progress but I must win!
I then see an opening and stab him in his stomach, not a fatal blow but it will stop him from fighting.
"You have lost Ullr" I say this in a whisper but he hears it! It pains me to see him like this but I will help him!
"I only lost because the disturbance below us distracted me." What is he talking about.
"Ullr I......" Before I could finish speaking a bright light flashed, I cover my eyes and then look at Ullr, he is in a strange glowing circle, I can now sense it, but I can see Ullr starting to collapse, I run to him.
"ULLR. NOOOO" before I could reach him there is a bright flash and suddenly I am in a place and all round me is white, as I look around I see 3 other people, one girl who looks to be in tears and two guys but no Ullr.
"Ullr where are you?" Tears start to for in my eyes again!
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(Jess POV)
My name is Jessica Samson, I am currently 19 years old, I am between jobs at the moment even though I don't need to work.
Two years ago, I was kidnapped while on holiday, there was 5 others that were also taken. 4 boys and another girl, I only learnt the girls name while I was there, it was Harriet.
I was so scared during those months I was held, but there was one thing that kept me going. One of the boys, the oldest I think protected us, he took their beating, and always stood in front of us whenever they entered our prison.
He was a very normal looking guy, with brown hair dark brown eyes and a slightly podgy frame, but he became slender after a few months as he would share his food with all of us if we looked hungry, jokingly saying that he didn't need it.
He always had a smile on his face, that smile I still remember to this day. Even during his countless beatings he always smiled at us, but once I saw his face when looking at our captives, defiance that was what was in his eyes. I have never met someone so strong.
After I don't know how many months, they came and put bags over our heads. The put us in a truck and drove. We drove for hours and then stopped, our bags were taken from our heads.
"Embassy. Go!" One of the men in a thick accent said this and pointed. At the end of the street we saw soldiers, and the American and British embassy's.
We got out and all ran towards them, to safety. We were taken into the embassy and then we were safe. As we are taken inside I realised. 'Where is he?'
A day later we are flown home and welcomed back, I keep asking where is the other boy but I was told there was only 3 boys.
When we landed we were taken to a hospital for check ups and rehab. It was then when some people from the government came to see me and told me about the other boy. Marcus Moon.
They told me that 4 hours after we had arrived back at the embassy Marcus was tortured and then executed in one of our captives propaganda videos. At this news I broke down in tears. He protected us all the time we were there, and then he sacrificed himself for our freedom.
They told me that he had no family and how he was a true hero. They also said that during his torture he barely cried out and was always smiling.
I couldn't believe that someone like him existed, he lead us through the dark only to fall and be left behind.
We all spent the next month in hospital, as we were all malnourished, I spent most of my time silent not talking to anyone. I kept reading about how he was a true hero in the papers.
When I left I was approached by some people asking for my account of it so they could make a tribute movie for him. I agreed as I thought it is at least what he deserved. It look them a year to make such I thought was very quick but it was very good. It was called 'Hero's Spirit'. They did jazz it up a bit but it was more or less accurate, I received a large sum of money from the producers and was there for the red carpet showing.
Throughout the whole movie I was crying, and all I could remember was him, by the end of it I came to a realisation that he was my true hero and I was in love with him.
I am now standing at the memorial statue live I do every Sunday talking to him, telling him about my day and how I keep getting approached by guys and that he needs to come and get rid of them for me!
"Hello Marcus, it is nice to see you" I lay the flowers I have with me at the base of the statue and look up at him. The way they portrayed him, he is standing with his arms out stretched with a defiant look on his face.
"I got another request to come on a chat show to talk about you again, but I said I don't think I can take crying on national TV again." I can feel tears forming in my eyes again.
"I am sorry that every time I come here I start crying, it is just. I wish I could have one chance to see you again, even if it is just to say thank you." I start to cry with tears streaming down my face.
All the people around me give me a quick look and then carry on, most of the people round here now know I was one of the people he rescued and leave me to it.
"I am so sorry, I just really want to see you one last time!" I kneel down crying to myself.
It is then I am suddenly surrounded by light, I look around confused.
"W-what?" I try to run away but I can't move my legs it is like they are glued to the pavement. It is then a circle forms. A few seconds later a flash of light and I am standing in a white room.
I look around and see 3 other people, two guys who I have never seen before, they look to be in their late teens, and a strangely dressed very beautiful girl with pink hair. Before I can say anything there is another flash and the most beautiful woman I have ever seen appears, she has white hair, a perfect figure but her eyes are the only strange thing about her, the are pure white. She is wearing a white very simple dress that stops at the knee, and no shoes.
"Greetings. My name is Claira Goddess of Light. Just incase some of you don't know my followers are summoning a Hero and their companions, that is you." She looks around for a few seconds and then looks confused.
"W-where is he? Excuse me just a second I will be back in a flash." There is another flash and she is gone. Then before anyone can even speak she is back again.
"Sorry but it turns out the one who is the Hero is already regarded as a hero on your world so the God of true Hero's will bless him, plus he is a special case anyway. Anyway I am going to give you each my blessing, part of my blessing is that you can learn thing much quicker than normal people in the world I am sending you too, a large mana pool and your natural regeneration is going to be increase. Now each of you come forward and receive your class from me."
I don't know what to think, me a cry baby nobody who is in love with a dead man, is being summoned as a Hero's companion! I suddenly remember when Marcus protected me and Harriet from being raped by our captors. 'If I can't see you ever again at least I can do is lead by your example and protect the helpless.'
"I will do as you ask to the best of my abilities." The blonde boy steps forward, he is not the most handsome guy in the world but at least the determination on his face shows his heart is in the right place. The Goddess walks up to him and kisses his forehead.
"Your class is Paladin of Light. It is your duty to be immovable shield that protects your companions."
He smiles and then steps back. Then the other guy walks forward. He is very slim and looks rather timid.
"Erm, I don't know why you chose me, I am a coward and I can't fight."
"Do not worry child, you are braver than you think." She then kisses him on his head.
"Your class is Healer of Light. It is your task to look after your friends, and keep them alive."
"Thank y-you." He whispers that and then steps back.
The Goddess then looks at the other girl and me.
"Before I give you your classes can both of you come over hear, I need to tell you something."
I start to walk over to the Goddess who summoned three chairs and sat down. The other girl hesitates and then comes over and sits next to me. Before the Goddess could speak the other girl does.
"Where is Ullr!"
"Do not worry, he is the Hero that is being summoned, he is currently with the God of True heroes. You will see him when you arrive in my world." The girl nods and then remains quiet!
"Now there is something you both need to know about Ullr, firstly he is a reincarnated person, who has kept all his memories of his previous life."
"Well that explains a lot." The other girl says while leaning forward looking more interested. The then turns to me.
"The second thing is, in his previous life he was called Marcus Mood, the universe he reincarnated into has a faster flow of time, so for you it has only been two and a bit years since he died, in the other universe has been a little over 20 years."
Tears star to fall down my face, my prayers have been answered I am so happy and I just can't stop crying.
"What is the matter with her?"
"In his previous life as Marcus Moon, he sacrificed his life for hers."
"Oh"
It takes me a good few minutes to calm down all the while I am thanking the goddess non stop.
"Ok now to receive your classes." She kisses me on the head.
"Your class is Arch Mage of Light, it is your task to rain down hell of those who threaten your companions."
She then looks at the other girl.
"Even though you being here is an accident, one more companion won't hurt. Your Class is Master Swordswoman of light. With your skill you dance through the battle field, with none your equal."
"Right I can't keep you here any longer, make me proud." There is another flash of light and now we are standing in a magnificent throne room, we are surrounded by people dressed in white and gold robes. It is then a gentle female voice speaks.
"Welcome Hero and her companions!"
"Her????"
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