The Noblesse of First high Prologue 4

The Noblesse

(Mahouka Koukou No Rettousei/Noblesse fanfic xover)

Prologue 4

Back with Melaina…
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Infirmary

BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

My eyes fluttered open. And I became instantly alert. The ceiling was white and the room was well lit.  I felt pain in my right arm and I looked at it; and frowned. Who the fuck hooked me to an IV? There's going to be blood! I wish to be out of here already, I felt the Home calling out to me but the blood portal didn't form. "What the fuck?"

I suddenly heard a female voice. "We will need to do something about her potty mouth, dear."

Followed by a familiar smooth male voice. "Sure, Maya-chan."

The voice came from behind the door, my senses were still as sharp as before. I called out, "Daddy?"

The door opened and Cadis Etrama Di Raizel entered. "I am here, treasure."

My heart filled with warmth and I relaxed; I hadn't noticed how tense I had become. I was in a hospital room of some sort, there was a potted plant in each corner of the room, and the wallpaper showed Sakura trees. Behind my father, I heard light footsteps and smelled a floral scent, it was obviously a woman. She was simply beautiful and in my strike zone and she crossed her arm with my father’s as she said, "What about mommy? Please call me that…"

I glared at her immediately, that was my spot. My tone of voice was completely frosted over. "Who are you?"

"My name is Yotsuba Maya, your step-mother."

Maya is a woman full of feminine charms and enchanting mature beauty. Under her right eye there is a sexy black mole. She wasn't that tall, at least 165 cm; her long black hair gained a purple sheen under the light, her skin looked smooth and pale like porcelain. Her appearance gives off the impression that she's in her 20's. On her neck was a birthmark in the form of a sun, a sure sign that she had a blood contract with my father, so she had returned to her youth and would be there as long as Rai lived. She rocked the wine red formal one piece dress that she currently wore.

Fuck, she’s Asian and hot, she should be illegal! But more importantly… "You're the hussy who got her claws in him!!"

Maya sighed, then her head swiveled to my father who cringed at her tone of voice. "Oh Rai, I thought you'd spoken to her about us?"

He stumbled back, and chuckled nervously, "I may have forgotten."

The almighty Noblesse was afraid of a short woman like Maya? Where is my awesome and fearless dad?!

Maya nodded, smiled and sentenced him with a neutral tone of voice. "You're sleeping on the couch tonight, Rai."

My father put a hand on his chest, looking desolate, eyes glistening with moisture and his lower lips trembling. "Please… Maya-chan, no."

Wow the pussy must be really good for him to react like that. *Poor dad, he is digging his own grave by insisting.*

"No, and no Ramen for a week." Maya added to his punishment.

He fell to his knees in a orz position and said, "You cruel woman!"

"Oh, oh, oh~" Maya used the legendary ojousama laugh. I thought that I would never see it in real life! Damn, I can't hate her, why?!

I slammed my hand into the guardrail of my hospital bed, denting it. "Stop flirting! I want an explanation!"

Maya looked at the place I damaged, then looked into my eyes. She started to say in a soothing voice. "Your father married me to protect you. I offer your family protection and resources, but it’s not just a marriage on paper."

Daddy came behind her and hugged her from behind, she tilted her head on the left and he kissed her neck where the birthmark in the form of his sigil marked her as his. "I am his wife in mind and body as well. It has been so since he saved me in Taipei. I have fallen in love with him since I was a young girl."

This sounds like a fucking Korean soap opera. It took two years for him to replace mom, but I wasn't about to try to kill the woman, I know for certain that she's strong by her own right, and dad would just order me to sleep again with his mind powers.

I knew he was fucking Maya before, it was obvious when she started to appear in the picture he sent me in his emails. But they married and I wasn't told? Was daddy so afraid of my reaction; he averted his eyes from my gaze, yes he was ashamed but not enough to not let go of Maya. I glared at him. "I don't know what to think, it makes a certain sense that he would remarry, I mean did you see that face? I am surprised that he wasn't cheating on my mom and having kids in all the ports of calls… women have always thrown themselves at him since I knew him."

It was crazy sometimes, my mom had to literally beat them with magic for them to give up. Maya sighed and said, "I totally understand, don't worry he isn't known to stray. I would kill the hussies who try. Lately, I had to fire four maids who tried to drug him with an aphrodisiac and gangrape him."

The hentai world defense essence is running in the background, so porn plots and all kinds of schemes don't work on my family. This was basically hentai plot armor, I myself avoided being dozed off with drugs and raped multiple times. That's why I never went to parties or left my dorm room in the last two years.

In the UK, everyone around me was related to the people who annihilated my clan and murdered my mom, so… yeah I killed them all too.

Anyway, those girls who tried to rape dad… "Ah, what are their names?"

Maya smiled at me, interested in something she saw on my face, dad was still avoiding looking at me. "I already organized an… accident for them."

I smiled back at her. "Efficient, I like your style."

Then she finally said, "Not going to kill me then?"

I stared at her and breathed in, taking a decision. "I don't attack my family. And right now whether I want it or not, you're family. You're on probation though, if you do anything I don't like you're back on the kill list." I promised.

Maya's smile split her face and I felt pride coming from her emotions. She was proud of having taken a good decision and… having accepted me. She turned to my dad and said with excitement, "Did you see that Rai? She's going to fit in the family so well! I love her already."

----- ○ -----

30 minutes later…

I just learned something important about Maya… She wasn't an ice cold bitch like I expected her to be, no she has a good sense of humor and a willingness to join in on a good joke. And she's scary smart, I mean she has to be, she is a researcher and the Yotsuba's family head.

It was difficult to not like her, she reminded me of mom, but more serious and terrifying. She looked at her wristwatch and said tiredly, "Time to go back to work."

She waved at me. "Bye bye, see you later, Mel-chan." She turned to Rai and frowned a bit. "Don't be too hard on her, dear."

Father didn't say anything and his gaze chilled me. I wanted her to stay, but she shook her head and left and closed the door. "Bye."

Clack. When the door closed, my father began to speak. "Melaina."

"Father." I said neutrally, readying myself for anything.

"We need to talk." He didn't get angry and started the tongue lashing I expected from him. He took one of the foldable chairs laying against the wall and came to sit at my side.

He took my hand in his and looked at me worried, he wasn't angry at me, he was anxious about telling me some really bad news. "Oh."

"This isn't going to be a pleasant discussion." He caressed my hand, making me shiver.

My hand tightened on his left one. "Hit me with it, Daddy."

"Very well… Melaina. People with our kind of powers must always be in control, my daughter. Just like me, you are a Noblesse. This title is given to the strongest member of the Noble race, it is equivalent in standing to the Lord. While the Lord symbolizes authority, the Noblesse symbolizes power. The Lord leads and rules over the race publicly, but the Noblesse is the Noble's hidden protector, judge, and executioner.

If any Noble threatens to upset the balance of the world in any way, such as using their power to harm humans, it is the Noblesse's duty to destroy them. The Noblesse is therefore empowered to act as judge and executioner of any Noble at any time that he deems fit. Due to the Noblesse's tremendous power and the wide-ranging nature of this authority bestowed to him, he is a being that is both revered and feared amongst the Nobles."

I frowned at him, my mind going fast, analyzing his speech patterns and the message he tried to convey… "You're warning me."

My father made his pretty boy smile, he ruined me for any other men, my standard in men was that they should be as handsome and sexy as my dad and… that's impossible. "As sharp as ever, Melaina."

Fortunately, I am bisexual and like girls too; and I was in my girl phase. I had some girls in mind which could tickle my fancy. I wanted someone cute and funny. But will I live long enough to be able to love and be loved the same way dad had been with mom?

"So what… you're going to kill me?" My voice cracked a bit when I said that.

Father stood up and suddenly I was engulfed in a warm hug. "No… I would never do that. You're my heart, I would rebel if they gave me that order, no… we would leave."

"You can bring Maya too…" I whispered in his ear.

He chuckled. "How considerate of you."

I hugged him as well. "She reminds me of mom."

"I feel the same. But she has her own attractive points. Maya isn't a replacement for your mother, she insinuated herself into my heart and destroyed the cold walls encasing my heart since Aoife died. I love her."

"I see why, I can't hate her somehow…" I understood father, Maya helped him get out of depression.

Raizel smirked at me. I let go of him and slapped his forearm. "Don't tell her that or else!"

He just continued to smirk and then he kissed my cheek. I blushed, damn it, I'm not a daddy's girl! To change the subject I asked, "What are you going to do then if you won't kill me?"

Father clicked his tongue, he really didn't want to tell me. But he had no choice, he was reluctant in doing whatever he was ordered to do. "I have to seal part of your power by making you swear a blood contract with me."

I reeled back from him, hitting the back of my bed. "What?!"

Father raised his hands in placation. "It's the only alternative which will allow you to roam free in the world. You don't want to be stuck in Lukedonia do you?"

I shook my head, I already went there, it was so silent and boring and everyone was super nosey. "Yeah no, it's so boring there… so static." Then I realized something, daddy would never think of sealing me. "Hmm… This doesn't feel like your decision, whose is it?"

This was the point when Father clammed up and made shifty eyes. He kept his silence and I glared at him, this meant that the one who suggested this was, "It's aunty Raskreia, isn't it?"

He took on a surprised expression, then Father nodded. Raskreia must have told him to not tell me, because she wants to still be in my good books. She's sly like that, she doesn't like not being liked. I stared at him, sighed and asked, "Are you going to lock me out from most of my power?"

Raizel shook his head and made a so-so gesture. "At least to Seira's level, and you'll have access to your soul weapon."

I tilted my head. "Seira… isn't weak."

She's the second strongest female Noble in Lukedonia after the Lord! Rai smiled at my words. The man was so cunning! I can still wipe out most magicians, humans and Noble with that much power. My eyes started to mist, and I felt myself crying. "You're still looking out for me…"

He walked up to me and put his hand on my head. "You're my flesh and blood, Melaina. Do you trust me?"

"More than anyone."

Father took off his cross-shaped earring and handed it to me. I accepted the gift with reverence and having anticipated this before, I pierced my ears and placed the accessories on my left lobe. I sliced my finger with one of my nail, a drop of my blood pooled from my index and it fell, only to be caught and flying toward him, then he swallowed the droplet and said solemnly, "Melaina Clare O’Donnell-Di Raizel, you and I are now joined by blood. Do you agree to this exchange between our souls?" The room was engulfed in golden light, there was only Daddy and I.

I bowed my head. "Yes… Master."

The light flashed and disappeared, we were back in the hospital room. Daddy looked at me and kissed my forehead. "With this… we will stay together forever."

----- ○ -----

(Shiba Tatsuya)

February 23rd, 2095
Yamanashi Prefecture
The Yotsuba village
Yotsuba compound
Dojo

When Tatsuya entered the foyer, in contrast to the Eastern style of architecture for the exterior of the house, the big reception room was done in the Western style. There are even paintings of landscapes adorning the brightly hued walls, not reproductions either; but rather, these were original oil paintings.

He took off his shoes and put on slippers to walk on the tatami flooring inside the estate. He passed some of the maids and butlers who stopped walking and bowed to him and greeted them as well. Tatsuya was anxious to meet Melaina Clare O’Donnell-Di Raizel, the Blood Witch of Britain.

She had everyone spooked at the intelligence arm of the JSDF Headquarters, here was a female Magician who took on an entire country and won. To say that some of the numbered families were nervous was a misnomer. Some advocated to get rid of her, others to wait and see and some were neutral toward her.

As for Tatsuya, he understood why she did what she did. The young woman was captured and used as a hostage, but somehow succeeded in freeing herself from her house arrest and disappeared after planning the downfall of all her enemies. By this point she started a campaign to deny her foes their assets and personnel. Assassination, poisoning, delayed magic sequences which cause vehicular accidents, muggings by controlling the mind of the thugs, husbands killing their wives and leaving bereaved children.

The United Kingdom was also experiencing the biggest recession since World War III and it had begun affecting Europe in its entirety as the economies were intertwined. Russia was already making plans to invade and annex all those countries as they were seriously weakened.

Those actions had scared the USNA and all the big powers and showed them how fragile they were. They had no idea who the Blood Witch was, her files and abilities were all expunged from the UK Magician’s registry, she'd memory wiped everyone who had ever known her as if she wanted to give herself a clean slate to start somewhere else. The only thing people knew about her was that she was Irish and a woman.

She was a ghost, leaving only a trail of blood behind her while wielding unknown dark magic; ergo the nickname: The Blood Witch. *The person who coined that was sure to get killed.*

Tatsuya would have called her the Shadow Witch though, it's related to her first name which means shadow. She was elusive, cunning and powerful. But people like her didn’t stay inactive for long, sooner rather than later she will be forced into the light. That’s what Tatsuya had thought, and days later after her introduction on the international scene, he was going to meet her.

Maya was waiting for him in the audience chamber, at her arm there was the man called Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, the strongest Magician on Earth. The audience chamber was spacious and beautiful; the stately natural wood table in the middle of the room could easily seat over ten people.

Tatsyua immediately went on a knee and said, “Good Morning, my Lord. Aunt Maya.”

Maya growled and helped Tatsuya up. “Tatsuya… what did I tell you before? No formality when it’s just family.”

“Right. Sorry, force of habit, Aunt Maya.” The boy blushed.

“So… follow us, we need your sharp mind.” Lord Raizel said as he patted Tatsuya’s shoulder.

He followed them in the observation lounge with a view of the dojo’s room. There were at least fifty men in dougi standing before a short statured and perfectly shaped woman.“Why are we here?”

It was Lord Raizel who answered, “Melaina is going to fight against every elite guard of the Yotsuba.”

“Why?” Tatsuya frowned.

Maya continued to inform him, knowing that her husband has nothing more to say. “She wants to become a guard for Miyuki.”

Tatsuya glowered at Maya, then at the girl who thought she could assist him or replace him. “I’m enough for her.”

Maya hit him in the back of his head and chastised, “Don’t dismiss her yet…”

Tatsuya scratched his head, still glaring at his aunt. The girl took out her black coat and let it pool at her feet; and Tatsuya whistled. “Um, what is she wearing? That’s obscene.”

Rai didn’t share his opinion. “No, it’s alright, she wears a skorts and tights.”

Mashida Shinsuke came forward and held onto his black belt as he looked at the girl who smiled at him. “Presumptuous girl, you think you have a chance with all of us gathered?”

“We won’t know until we start, old man.” Melaina taunted.

A woman, Ouzaki Chiho, sneered at Melaina. “We will show her the truth of this world. The strong rule the weak, and no little girl can stand against the might of the Yotsuba.”

Melaina saluted them with a martial bow. “Then I will show you my own truth, the truth lying underneath the peeled skin of the world.”

She held her hand before her, and in a crimson light a large and deadly spear appeared.

Lord Raizel smiled. “Gae Bolg, it’s been a while.”

The spear twirled in the girl’s hand and she thrust it blunt butt first toward Chiho. “Silken Moon Touch.”

She literally blew away everyone with a single touch of her spear with one of the guards, and what’s stranger is that it caused a temporary after-effect of turning day into night in the dojo.

Tatsuya didn’t know what to think, with just a gesture she cleared the room. Was this an ancient magic? It reminded him of the legendary Kung Fu move that his teacher had spoken to him about.

One of the downed men stood up, his legs trembling like jelly. “Ah, Mashiba Shinsuke-san, you’re still standing, good.”

“Bakudō #61. Rikujōkōrō. Carriage of thunder, bridge of a spinning wheel. With light, divide this into six!” Pointing her index finger at the target, Melaina generates a spark of yellow energy, which summons six thin, wide beams of light that slam into Mashiba's midsection and hold him in place. He was unable to move any part of his body, including the parts which were not struck by the beams.

“I shall finish you off with a Di-Raizel special technique.” The girl announced.

“Scatter. Senbonzakura Kageoshi.”

She turned her spear blade down and it slowly entered the ground. Tatsuya remembered seeing something similar on the internet in an anime. Thousands of large blades scatter into a countless number of smaller blades that resemble cherry blossom petals. But to Tatsuya’s elemental sight, this looked more like a cloud of blades.

The cloud of blades slowly moved toward Mashida and covered him up. Death by a thousand cuts. The man fell on the ground, dead and in large bleeding chunks on the ground. The girl recalled the cloud of blade which turned back into that crimson spear. And held it into her hand and leaned against it.

Sigh. “You wasted my time.”

Melaina turned her head toward the observation lounge and bowed while Maya and Lord Raizel clapped in satisfaction.

----- ○ -----

“She’s… rather skilled.” And dangerous and too sexy.

Raizel struck the back of Tatsuya’s head. “Melaina isn’t on the dating market, understood?”

He must not forget that he is engaged with Fujibayashi Kyouko who he works with. And then there was Miyuki who needed to stop from slipping into his bed and attempt to sleep in his bed with him. How did she unlock his door anyway? He kept changing the damned lock. Fortunately, reinforcing the door to be immovable had done the trick. But he knew Miyuki would find a way to break his door again.

Since he saved her after being shot with his power and destroyed that Chinese fleet in Okinawa, his little sister has made it clear that he was the only man for her and that she would marry him. Why were the Yotsuba women so prone to becoming so obsessed? Maybe it's a curse or side effect from their innate mental magic?

Tatsuya bowed his head. “Sorry, my Lord. It won’t happen again.”

“It better not.” Lord Raizel added coldly.

*Protective dad.* Tatsuya rolled his eyes internally.

His aunt Maya laughed at the two men; then she changed the subject and said with wonder, “Melaina treated them like toddlers. She was in complete control the entire fight. I really want to make her my own guardian… but, Miyuki needs her more than me.”

Melaina walked in the middle of the room, a pink activation sequence spread around her arm as she changed, “Wide area Heal.”

Green Light exploded around the girl and at the same time it spread over the wounded, unconscious and dead people.

“That’s my girl.” Lord Raizel said proudly.

Tatsuya’s eyes widened, it was eerily similar from his own Regrowth power; regrowth is one of Tatsuya's two innate active magic abilities along with Decomposition, relying on his innate talent to directly interfere with structural information. Unlike regular Healing Magic which needs to be repeatedly reapplied during its effective period, Regrowth's effect is perpetual and applying it to a wounded person will make it as if no injury had ever occurred.

“Shit, she can heal too?” It was strange to witness a power similar to his, Melaina was like an inverted mirror of himself. She is a strategic Rank Magician, a Noble, a woman and her focus was on technology rather than magic itself.

“Language Tatsuya!” Maya slapped behind his head once more.

“Sorry, Aunt Maya. But you can’t fault me for swearing! She’s-She’s like me!” Here was someone who would surely understand him.

Melaina started checking everyone, their chests started to rise and fall, they were all alive. “Mashiba is alive, just unconscious.”

"Good." Raizel nodded and the three of them called out to Melaina.

The girl perked up and like a missile hugged Maya and Lord Raizel. "Dad, Maya, did you like the show?"

"It was stupendous, my daughter." Rai patted her back, Maya simply giggled.

Then his aunt stepped back from the stylish girl and pointed a hand at Tatsuya. "Mel-chan, this is Shiba Tatsuya-san, your cousin by marriage."

With grace and poise, Melaina turned from an exuberant girl to an high-class clan heiress as she bowed Yamato Nadeshiko style. "Nice to meet you, Shiba-san."

Tatsuya bowed in turn. "The pleasure is all mine."

Maya had a sly expression on her face as she said, "I am happy that you two seem to get along, because you two will be living together from now on."

"What?!" Tatsuya and Melaina exclaimed in sync.