Einrich's Resolve (Heero)

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OC: For those of you who don't know...

FC For Einrich:

IC: A cloaked figure sat beside a lake with a fishing rod. This was rather unheard of for this person because he never made his presence known outside of the confines of his home. On his hand was the mark of a fox over the Eclipse Soul identifier. The figured cast he rod out across the lake. Bloop! It landed in the center of the lake sending out ripples across the water. "One ripple... all of the fish know where the food is... or... All of the bigger fish know where the trouble is." A voice sounded from the cloaked man. Gave a single heh for he knew that there was a bit of trouble on it's way. The man took a hand and then held up a corked bottle with a tiny luminescent butterfly. "I found you and pieced you together." The man said. He gave a warm grin towards the bottle. "Now you have to leave me again." The butterfly flew around the bottle as if to say some words of regret to the man. "Yes... I have seen it. With you.. You and Miss Reyold can prevent it." The butterfly fluttered again in reply. The figure looked at the water. "Yes... She will have to learn that on her own. That is not for ME to interrupt. As that is a part of the balance in life." The butterfly landed on the bottom of the bottle and began to flutter its wings back and forth slowly. "You shouldn't feel that way. It was your mistake... That just so happened to ruin the balance of our world and the Spiritual world. So mages like me have to find a way to restore that balance. Thus that is why you... are going to be part of it."

He tilted his head up and looked forward not even turning his head. The man with the golden eyes spoke, "You don't have to hide from me, Dragon Slayer." He knew that Heero had been sitting there listening in on his conversation with a butterfly.

The figure turned his head to the left and then looked up to feel the wind in the air. It felt like minutes flew by as he sat there staring off into space. He didn't answer Heero at first, but he could see the warm grin the man held in his eyes. Suddenly the butterfly in the bottle tinked around real fast. "Oh... I got a bite," he said. He turned slowly back towards the lake and pulled fiercely on the rod only to find out that he had hooked a boot. It hit him in the head and he didn't move. The butterfly tinked around in the bottle again. The figure looked down at the bottle and sighed. "You laugh now Mrs. Greaters, but YOU'RE the one in the bottle. Only reason you're in there is because you keep running off on me. If my close friend from Eclipse Soul finds out that you're back together, who knows what might happen, my dear." The man cast the fishing rod back out to the lake and pulled the hood back. "Phew... it is rather sunny out. Never understood why those who wear these things always keep the hood on."

Heero was in the presence of a powerful mage. Not on the same levels or Zeno, but very close. The man finally turned his face to the man who stood there. "You... Well.. You've grown, just like your sister." The man gave a mischievous smile and thinned his eyes. "You know with that hair and from behind, I could've mistaken you for a woman more so. I'm glad you came up to me so that I wouldn't have to go through the awkward moment where I offer you a flower." Einrich teased. "And your sister, boy she's grown too. If she was around when I was her age, I would've taken her away." The butterfly tinked in the bottle out of jealousy and Einrich laughed out loud. His mouth so wide in happiness and pleasure. "Oh you're so jealous aren't you." He looked up at Heero. "So would you mind reminding me of your name?"

"Einrich Flandre... Guild master of the Sprinting Fox. A guild where children would be told scary stories of just because many mages disappeared. Yet mages disappeared because the knew not of the fork in the road that laid before them. So I took them in," the figure said in a short sentence. "Then when they were done dealing with their issues the left out to serve the balance of The Universe." He tilted his head and put his tattooed hand on his cheek and leaned his head on it. He was entertained by Heero's reactions. "And 'that butterfly' is the soul essence that will save this world and banish the imps that promise riches." He giggled a little bit and blinked. He then looked at Heero. "Ever heard of a mage from Eclipse Soul named Kyll Vie? That's my student. Or perhaps you heard of the Wizard Saint, Zeno. We took down Shadow Savior together. Compared to you, your wizard saint title, Alye, and Zeno, I am a nothing now. I used to be one of the head lightsworn in the Rune Knights. I used to be a loyal and faithful servant to the Magic Council. I was supposed to be next in line for the Chair of Military Police. However to serve a greater purpose in guiding the world. I chose to become a watcher and a teacher to those who needed it. I do not protect anymore, but I do repair the scales."

The butterfly fluttered around the bottle again, furiously. Tink! Tink! Tink tink! Tink! "You know if you were at such a level of power to even FIGHT me. You would be able to hear Kalister's sweet and beautiful voice." He put his lips together and formed another mischievous smile. "Then again you would be hearing her demands for an apology. After all, she too was once a great healer." The butterfly fluttered back to the bottom of the bottle. "And you would also hear her asking you to help her out of the bottle so that she may go to her daughter once again. Which I do not recommend at all. You see, she's rather head strong and wants to do her part NOW."

"I bear no hatred towards you, lad," the voice of the butterfly finally sounded. Her voice was soft and sweet. "Einrich tends to be a lady's man as well... This pink haired fool doesn't know when to let go of the past and let me fulfill my duties as a mother. Instead, he wishes to hand me over to another Ice Mage."

Einrich laughed. "Ah yes... Kyll was one of my best students. A knock out in the looks and wife material area... She knew her duties well as a wife you see." Einrich smiled and then shook his head, "Not chimps... Imps.. Or rather wish faeries. Tricksters that promise grandeur, for the price of a soul." Einrich looked down at the butterfly and sighed. "Kalister was a victim to these creatures a while back. Had I dropped everything and whisked her away when I had the chance, I would. Instead, I broke her soul apart into many pieces and caused chaos upon Fiore. This last year... I have gone through and put the soul back together again, bit by bit." The exhaustion Enrich held in his eyes began to show as he spoke of Kalister. "Only to have to surrender her to a demon slayer.."

"It's not your fault Einrich," a sound came from the bottle. Her voice would whisp through Heero like the wind. "You don't have to keep blaming yourself for my choices." The butterfly fluttered around the bottle. "Now it's my time to help my daughter. I thank you for keeping me safe, but I need to go. She needs me."

Einrich put up a finger and shook his head. "You will leave when the time is right, my love. My visions tell me that NOW is not the right time. Alexander has to convince my student to bring the Queen out first. Then you will be released when the Queen is at her weakest moment. That's how it works my fair maiden," Einrich looked at Heero and then stood up. He stood a couple inches taller than the man. "You know," Einrich's eyes thinned, "getting an explanation of what's to come from me MAY not be the greatest idea. Would you rather I show you something?" Einrich smiled. "Something that caused a typhoon in the Phoenix Mountains."

Einrich was surprised that Heero didn't catch on that this news made his sister very emotional. "Well then..." Einrich put his guild marked hand on Heero's cheek. His golden eyes pierced through Heero's mind as Heero was sent flying through to an event. A prediction. There Heero seemed to be floating as if viewing from the clouds themselves. He saw his sister. Down on her knees slamming her fist to the ground screaming in an emotional pain. He saw Reiki hunched over holding his arm and blood was dripping down. He saw Zenshin holding Faust back. Faust held in his hand a blessed spear.

"It's okay..." A voice sounded. From the perspective of the ground, zooming up a column of binding ice. Heero saw the raven haired mage with skeletal wings. She was frozen from her feet to her neck only arms hung out. She kept a warm happy smile towards the group. "It's okay... I'm sorry Faust," she said to the mage. She closed her eyes. "I'm sorry I used you and I couldn't help you with your justice." She bowed her head and Zenshin couldn't hold the mage back any longer. Smaller skeletal wings fluttered around the room like a tornado only to completely dodge Faust altogether. They sounded like bats as they attacked and blinded the mages, but not Faust again. Faust ran up the column of ice only to jump up and impale the raven haired mage through the stomach. She mouthed her heart felt words to Faust. The smaller sets of skeletal wings fell to the ground and began to melt into the ground destroying all plant life around.

"No..." Alye whispered and looked up at the dead mage. She hugged herself and then bowed her head. "KYLL!!!!" Alye screamed and cried.

Heero was then zoomed from that vision back to Einrich. The golden eyed man looked at the lake. "That vision had me unconscious for a couple days. It hit so hard and it was so vivid." Einrich picked up the butterfly and looked at Heero. "Those... were imps, but legends and stories call them fae... Or faeries. They are the side to the fairy that is dark... a trickster.. and they work for demons."

"That monster you saw entrapped in ice. That was my daughter." The butterfly fluttered its wings back and forth. "Not only is her magic completely unstable, she is on the verge of becoming the next Queen of Wishes. A harlot's position for the demons. I want to stop her before that happens, but Einrich Head in the Clouds over here won't let me out."

Einrich sighed and looked at the bottle. "I told you that you were to team with Alye to make the storm of the century." Einrich put a hand on his face and then brushed his bangs aside. "So... Heero.. The man who's intelligence is backed by his titles." He said with a smirk. "I believe you may have a role to play in this as well... I mean you do wish to keep you beautiful and attractive younger sister from crying right?"

"Normal human mages cannot fight against these creatures, the butterfly spoke. "And those with Holy Butterfly Magic will only create more and more of the faeries. That mage you saw running towards my daughter was Alexander Faust. He has half of a demon soul due to his past. I met his demon... Loros. He knows of the creatures for they were used to feed demons the sweet treats of greed and avarice." The butterfly flapped hit's wings slowly. "You wanted to know why the vision had them standing around. My soul was dispersed into many pieces. Sending me across the spiritual plane. I did not 'exist' according to Einrich's vision."

"Do you think I wanted to believe my vision as well? I know for a fact that there is another way to fix this. Which was why I left to find Kalister." Einrich put a hand on the bottle and smiled warmly. "I believe you would enjoy your time with Heero my fair maiden." He picked the corked bottle up then placed it in Heero's hands. "When the time comes, give this to Alexander Faust. Sadly he is not well liked in your guild because he took out some of your mages in Era."

"I told you... I wanted to LEAVE." The butterfly tinked around the jar again in a rage.

Einrich giggled. "Kalister... You have to be patient. Motherhood is blinding you again. We don't want to repeat history because you were impatient." The butterfly went silent and calmed down. "As I have said. Hand this to the boy with half a human soul. Believe it or not... He will be the only one that can get through the Queen's barriers."

Einrich looked at Heero with a smile and held up his hand. "Young mage, I have already seen that Kalister and I will be reunited in time. She understands that fate and does not WISH to be human again. For our souls will be one once more, and we will have our happy ending." He smiled at the butterfly. "These faeries hate demons and those who have been in the Arcane Realm. They will not dare even to TOUCH these beings. Your young sister has already seen this vision as it had caused a huge anomaly in the weather patterns in the Phoenix Mountains the night I showed her..." He looked back at the lake and sighed as he saw the sun shine in the water. "Zeno and I separated because I was unsettled by what I had to do to Kalister which got her into this mess. I wanted to make a guild of my own. For those who are lost in their paths. For those who wanted to provide to the balance of the world. Kyll chose the path of light. While few of those who grew in my guild decided to provide to balance by choosing a more darker path. Their opinions may be different, but it all came down to one thing. How we can make a better world. Those who chose light wished for peace. Those who chose dark wished for a world in their own shape."

Einrich smiled and looked up. "You could say I provided to your fights against dark guilds, but I see it as busy work for you."