Mage and Suitors

Chapter 5

The next morning....

I grab a off the shoulder dress then put on a pair of comfy flats. I put my hair in twin tail low braids to give me a more sweet look to go with the dress. It was a flower print so I grab a small backpack from my never ending bag that was on the girly side. I put on some earring that dangle with small flowers on them. The I put on the matching pendent with lots of small flowers on it.

"Its cute, girly but it is still womanly at the same time." I said heading for the door.

I leave the house to have breakfast with everyone. I am humming a tune while heading towards the dinning hall. I run into Olin who seems surprised to see me up.

"Your awake early while also ready to tackle the day." Olin said with a smile.

"I am." I said with a smile.

Olin turns around to show me to the dinning hall. When we get there I am the first to arrive.

"Fudo is not done with breakfast yet. So would you like a certain type of tea while you wait?" Olin asked me with smile.

"I think a honey green tea sounds good this morning." I said with a smile.

"Right away." Olin heads towards the kitchen.

"Quick question can Fudo hear me?" I asked.

"I am sure he can may I ask why you wish to speak to him?" Olin asked me.

"I want say good morning to him plus see how he liked dinner last night." I said while looking towards the kitchen.

"I will let him know you say morning plus ask how dinner was. I know he was the one you were the most concerned about opinion wise." Olin said to me before heading into the kitchen.

It was about ten minutes later I see Fudo come out with the tea set.

"Morning Talissa." Fudo says putting down the tea set the pours two sups then places one in front of me while he sits down right next to me.

"Good morning Fudo and thank you for the tea." I said taking a sip of my tea. "The tea is really good." I said with a smile.

"I am glad your here this early in the morning I was hoping to talk to you." Fudo said while trying to look at his tea cup.

"I am glad I got up early." I said looking at him with a slight smile.

There was a few minutes of silence while we enjoy the first few cups of the tea before Olin came to get the tea pot to refill it up with more tea.

"I was surprised you wanted to make dinner last night." Fudo said breaking the silence between us.

"I was the best way I could think of to say sorry for worrying everyone." I responded with a bit of a pause. "Plus I was hoping it would show off some of my other skills as well." I said finishing my thought.

"Did you use magic to make the dinner?" He asked me.

"No... I have don't have enough control to keep my flame steady enough to cook with." I said looking down.

"I felt the feeling though your dish. It tasted wonderful thus lit a fire within my heart." Fudo said softly.

I looked at him with a blushed smile on my face.

"When ever you desire to cook just say so, I will welcome you in my kitchen with open arms." Fudo said with a bit of pink on his face.

"Thank you Fudo." I said lightly placing my hand on his arm.

That is when he finally looked me in the eyes. I could see the fire in his eyes which made me blush because I realized how handsome he was. A moment later he decided to put his hand on mine which made me feel flushed.

The next moment I hear a cough to see Achak to let us know of his presence.

"Oniichan, good morning." I said with a smile.

"Back to work." Fudo said while letting go of my hand then stood up.

"I hope you have a good day Fudo." I responded in a sweet voice.

I saw Fudo nod at my comment which made me return a smile to him.

"Good morning, Talissa." Achak sat down next to me.

Then his servant came out with his special brew tea. Olin came out with a fresh tea pot of my own.

"I think today breakfast is going to be amazing!" Achak said with a bright smile.

"Oniichan what makes you say that?" I said before taking a sip of my tea.

"Oh no reason." He said while stirring his tea before he took a drink.

In a matter of minutes I notice the others start coming in to find there seats for breakfast. I was excited to see what Fudo was going to cook up.

"So Talissa is there anything in general you wish to look at or possibly buy today?" Achak asked me.

"I would like to see as much as we can for I am not sure what they offer." I said unsure on what I wish to see.

I noticed more than a few eyes on me which is starting to not bother me as much. I am not use to dead silence in the room though that will take some time. After that thought runs through my head the servants come out bring plates of food. Olin gets to me first do to I am closest to the door they come out of. I also noticed my breakfast is different its pretty plus smells amazing. It looks like a berry fruit smoothie in a bowl with nut and dried fruit on top. It seems everyone one got like rolled egg omelets, rice balls and some type of soup.

"Olin, tell him thank you for me." I sent a smile with my reply.

I finished my smoothie breakfast bowl as the same time as Achak.

"Ready to go?" Achak asked me with a smile.

"I am." I paused for a moment. "I am sad I will be missing lunch. I love Fudo's cooking." I said as we walked out of the room.

For a moment or two I felt the stares go from me to the kitchen. We left the mansion out of the northern gate which is the main entrance. I was going to be a decent walk with was a good day for it. We pretty much walked in silence until I got a certain thought in my head.

"I am surprised your not married with a few kids Oniichan." I said breaking the silence but I was unsure if it was a good topic or not.

"I was wondering when you were going to ask that." Achak said to me with a surprised tone of voice. "To answer your question I simple married my work plus I found no women who would stay with a workaholic like my self so I stopped looking." He answered me with honesty.

"It seems you may have simple been in the wrong country. Most of the people I see in my country are workaholics. Even Mater Rain was always deep in his work but due to a freak accident he was unable to bear children any longer." I said responding to him. "You may never know when you will find your love. As long as you don't give up it will find you." I said to him in a smile.

"Sounds like your the romantic type."He giggled at me.

"That is true to who I am. For the most part it never helped me find love for I threw my self into work to prove my worth to the world." I looked straight ahead seeing the town come into view. "I learned from many practical jokes that they did not want me romantically. So unless they seek me out then I know they are at least interested in getting to know me." I said keeping a straight face.

We walked into town noticing it was super busy. It was noisy but there were so many different sounds. I did not dare stray to far away from Achak. We started looking at all the different stalls then going into some shops. Mostly it seemed Achak was picking up items he need for elixirs. Which became a learning experience for me. I was enjoying seeing how Achak interacts with people, which showed me he is a social person. I was having it was getting close to lunch time I wasn't overly hungry just mostly thirsty from all the walking. We head into a tiny tea shop where all of sudden I get grabbed from behind then blind folded. In the next few minutes it goes dark.

Some time later....

I came around being tied up stuck into a room full of other women. I am trying to loosen the grip on the ropes but they were tied to tight. I try using magic when it doesn't work the way I want it to. In my mind I knew something bad was going to happen if I saw the big man behind this. One by one the women were getting taken into another room where I heard screaming. I had to come up with a plan and fast because there was only four women ahead of me before it would be my turn. I start looking around for something to cut the ropes. At the corner of my eye I see Uadhah which makes me feel a little relaxed.

Uadhah sneaks over to me.

"You okay?" He asked in a hushed voice.

"Yes but we need to get out of here." I said in hush voiced.

Uadhah did not question that so he cut me lose then we worked on a way to sneak out.

"Uadhah give me your hand." I said to him holding out my hand.

He took my hand then I whispered a spell to cloak us in darkness. I kept a tight grip on his hand so we could sneak out the front door. We got past the front gate when we heard an alarm sound. I dare not look back.

"Uadhah do you trust me." I said holding out a summoning paper with a drawn circle on it.

"Yes." Was all he said.

"I summon the ride of the heaven with the speed the rivals lightening it self. I call fourth you my trusty stead." I said shouting with a flash of lighting my silver Pegasus showed up a few feet in front of us.

I hop on then hold on while pulling Uadhah with me.

"Sorry if I pulled on you to hard. But I suggest you wrap your arms around my waist then hold on tight." I said before whipping the rains.

Uadhah did not argue he just held on tight as I was flying it right above the clouds. I noticed most people don't look up towards the sky when clouds are moving in.

"Uadhah let me know if you spot the mansion or something to lead us in the right direction." I said looking around.

"I see Mitsu!" He points towards an opening.

"Alright lets head down." I said steering it down towards the clearing.

After a few minutes I see someone yelling out towards us. I also saw Zila, Eer and Kishi down in the clearing. Once we landed Uadhah quickly lets go then jumps off.

"It was a good thing Uadhah spotted Mitsu or I am not sure we would have gone in this way." I said finally hoping off my silver Pegasus then giving it a little pat on the neck.

"Talissa your okay!" Zila gave me a hug.

"Thanks to Uadhah we got out of there before anything could happen." I said placing my hand on one of his shoulders.

"Good to see your safe."Mitsu said with a straight face. "Do you have any idea what was going on in there?" He asked me with a serious look.

"I know that the rope had a spell on it to prevent the women from using your there element to escape. Then they were taken to another room where I heard nothing but screaming coming from the women. So I will let your mind put two and two together." I said to Mitsu.

"Its either rape, murder or both." Mitsu said with an angry look on his face.

"I am going to guess on the both part because I never saw the women leave back through the door." I spoke my thought.

"Zila and Kishi get on your horses and lead Talissa back home." Mitsu started barking orders. "Eer and Uadhah, I need you to help assist me in taking down who ever is doing this in the land of our Lord." Mitsu said gather his mean then heading out.

I hope back on my silver Pegasus then trotted the went air born. I kept Kishi and Zila in my view while we head back to the mansion.

Back at the mansion....

"My lord I am sure Mitsu has found her."Achak said with a hopeful smile. "I am sorry that I was unable to keep a better eye on her. Some brother I am." He said with a look of beating himself up.

"Don't blame your self. How would we were to know that she would become a target." Fudo said leaning against the wall.

Raiden came running in to the room where the retainers and Lord Borudo were trying to speak out what was going on.

"Kishi and Zila are on there way back." Raiden spoke with a worried tone. "I am going to meet them to see if they have news." He said before running towards the east gate.

"We better go to my lord." Fudo said also heading off that way.

The rest of the retainers were heading towards the eastern gate to see what was up. When they got right outside the door they saw both Kishi and Zila waving towards someone in the sky.

The next few moments later...

Everyone below me was in a state of aw while I was riding my silver Pegasus then getting it to land. Once I was safely landed on the ground I slowly got off the Pegasus then whispered a spell into its ear with a flash of light it was gone then the summoning paper had returned to me.

The next thing I know I am being held by Achak.

"Oniichan, I am okay." I said putting my hands on his arm.

"I should have done a better job of looking after you. I should have went in after you. Plus I should have known you vanished sooner." Achak said with tears rolling down his face.

"Oniichan, please don't cry. I am unharmed due to Uadhah. So please don't worry since Mitsu is taking care of the group who captured me. I am here that is all that should matter." I said turning to look at Achak the give him a hug.

I let go of Achak once he has calmed down then walked over to Lord Borudo. "I am sorry to cause this much trouble. I will be on my guard more when I leave the mansion." I said with me kneeling down with my head bowed down.

The next moment I felt a hand upon my head.

"Tell me everything you found out?" Lord Borudo said with a calm tone.

"I will tell you what I passed onto Mitsu." I said taking a shallow breath. "If it wasn't for Uadhah I wouldn't been able to escape unharmed due to a spell weaved upon the rope. I saw other women get lead into a room but I never saw them leave. All I heard were screams then after a while dead silence. Once Uadhah cut me free we got out of there with out looking around. Mostly because I did not want to see the other side of the door." I said still is the same position before he asked me to talk.

"Achak lead her to her house please. Kishi go find Olin then have him go to her. Fudo make her something to perk her up." Lord Borudo said giving his orders. Achak put his hand on my back that's when I slowly stood up then head towards my house. In a matter of minutes I am inside my house. I feel the situation finally feel real. I head to the bathroom where I locked the door where I take a shower. About twenty minutes later I hear a knock at the door.

"It Olin I have some comfy clothes for you. They are in a basket right beside the door." Olin said to me while I went from a shower to a bath. "Once your done I will brush your hair for you." Then I hear him walk away.

After a nice soak where I feel the stress melt away I finally get out of the bath then slowly open the door then grab the basket then quickly get dress. I come out dressed with my hair still wet I sit down in front of the living room table the start working on summoning circles. Then Olin walked over then started to dry then brush my hair while I worked on my summon circle.

Back at the mansion....

"My Lord, Mitsu has returned." Zila said coming to deliver the news.

"Have him come straight here to tell us what he found." Lord Borudo said sending Zila to deliver the message to Mitsu.

Everyone watched as Eer, Uadhah and Mitsu entered the room. The three men walked into the room with a horrified and disgusted look on there faces. Which change the feel of the whole feel of the room as it fell to silence.

"My Lord, I have returned from my mission." Mitsu said with his still face filled with horror.

"Please speak on what you found." Lord Borudo said with a serious tone of voice.

"Talissa is not in hearing rang is she?" Mitsu asked.

"No, the lord had her stay and rest in her house." Kishi spoke up to answer.

"That's a good." Uadhah said pleased by the information.

Every retainer in the room was look towards Mitsu, Eer and Uadhah with the details they were about to speak. From the information the three men gather about was happening was grim situation. Mitsu found the underground gang boss that he has been trying to find since he been getting reports of young women between the ages of sixteen to thirty getting kidnapped. Come to find out they were getting their spirits broken to become sex slaves. Since there were a few women fought back they were made examples of in front of the other women. "When they found out that Talissa was tied to you my lord they had illegal rope bound with a spell to prevent magic use." Mitsu paused for a moment.

"What were there plans for her!" Achak said in an upset tone.

"From what we got out of them before ending their meaningless lives. They were going to not only make sure every man there had a piece of her they were also going to ransom her then even if they got paid they were going kill her." Uadhah said with a pissed tone in his voice.

Everyone was surprised with Uadhah emotions since he rarely showed them due to his profession.

"One of the bosses second in command found out her value. So he was planning on stealing her from the boss then selling her on the black market sex trade." Eer said with an upset tone.

"So if it was not for Uadhah tailing her. She would not be home right now." Kishi said with a concern tone of voice.

"It was a good thing I asked you to follow her Uadhah. I am glad I trusted my gut feeling." Lord Borudo sat down then ran his finger through his hair while trying to think.

There was a pause in the room while waiting for the next person to speak up about this situation.

"My lord, I have a suggestion." Lord Borudo perked up while hearing Mamoru speak up. "I believe two or more should be with her at all times when she leaves the mansion. It will prevent any further situations like this to occur plus we get the bonus of getting closer to her." He said with a serious tone in his voice.

"I agree with Mamoru." Tsutomu said while raising his hand. "Unless someone has another option since we no longer can afford risk of harm or death towards her." he finished his thought.

"I think we should put towards a vote." Sui said towards Lord Borudo.

"All right." Lord Borudo stood up. "Those in favor of at least of two people with Talissa when she leaves the mansion raise your hand." He spoke with a stern tone of voice.

All eleven retainers raised their hands in agreement towards the rule. For it seemed at that very moment they all started to understand how they view her and for some of them could not afford to lose her.

At Talissa's house....

"Are you going to be okay while I tell Fudo you will be eating here tonight?" Olin asked before leaving the house.

"Yes I should be fine, I won't be going anywhere." I replied while working on talismans for this batch.

"Alright I will try to be back with your food as soon as possible." Olin said right before walking out the front door.

About a minute later I heard a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" I shouted towards the door since I knew it wasn't Olin already back.

" Uadhah!" he spoke just loud enough for me to hear him.

"Come on in the doors open." I shouted back not wanting to move.

Uadhah opened the door I looked over to see that he had a grim look on his face.

"I am glad to see you." Uadhah tried to smile but was unsure on what to do at this point.

"Don't be a stranger come over here and make your self comfortable." I said finishing up the talismans.

Uadhah came over the sat right next to me.

"What are you working on?" He asked confused on what I am doing.

"Well I just finished on a batch on talismans and earlier I finished a batch of summoning circles." I responded to his question while cleaning it up.

"You seem calm for what you went through are you alright." He said trying to comfort me or at least get me to open up.

I see Olin head off to the kitchen with Fudo in toe.

"I am bothered by it because I knew if you did come when you did it would have ended differently for me. I probably would came out of it seriously hurt." I paused for a moment. "I am truly grateful to you Uadhah. If there is a way to repay for saving me let me know." I finished looking into his eyes.

I noticed Fudo and Olin came out of the kitchen.

"I cleared the table off in front of me so you can place the food down in front of me." I said in a flat tone of voice.

Zila, Kishi, Sui, Raiden and Achak also came through the door each all hold a different type of sweet.

"All you come in I know you wanna check up on me so come on over." I said sending them all a wave to come over.

"Okay why you being so observant?" Zila asked me.

"Because usually when you take down one part of a branch the rest tend to come searching for you in the next twenty to forty-eight hours." I responded while taking a bit of food.

"Sounds like you have been through this before" Achak said while taking a seat behind me.

"Even if your an adoptive child to a Master Mage you become a target of a means to control." I said standing up walking over to my desk to pull out a type of non washable chalk by normal means.

"Wait what!?" Fudo said with surprised shocked voice.

"How many times have you been trough this?" Raiden asked with a shocked tone in his voice.

"At least fifty but this was the first time I couldn't escape on my own." I responded coming back to the table to write out a rune on a piece of paper.

"WHAT!" The whole group of men yelled which seemed to get someones attention.

The next moment Mitsu comes bursting through my door.

"What is going I heard yelling?" Mitsu was surprised to see me acting the way I was.

"Olin, she needs to tell everyone. Fudo, grab her food. Everyone lets go." Achak said with a serious voice. "Mitsu you are going to wanna listen to this as well." he said ushering me towards the mansion.

In the dinning hall....

Once everyone was seated with there food in front of them. I was a little confused on why Achak wanted me to tell the whole group about what I was talking about. Once I got comfortable I figured I should start speaking.

"Like I was telling those who were in my house this is not the first time this has happened to me. It is the first time were I could not escape on my own do a nullified spell on the rope I was tied up with. Thanks to Uadhah it didn't end as badly as it could have been." I said to everyone in the room.

"Why wasn't this you first time?" Eer asked me.

"Even if your an adopted child to a Master Mage you become a target of mean to control." I said clear as day with no hesitation.

"What!" Even those who heard this time still joined the group in shock.

"How many time has it been for you?" Lord Borudo asked me this time.

"At least fifty times but I believe there have been more so let me think about it for a minute." I said counting it out. "I been with Master Rain since I was eight years old and at least got kidnapped five times a year so. Its been around eighty-five times." I said writing it out in my hand. " Give or a take a few times." I finished speaking.

The whole room just dropped their cups all you hear is cups shattering on the floor.

"How badly were you hurt?" Kishi asked me in a state of shock.

"From near death from blood loss to a couple of scratches." I said with a straight face. "Plus I would end up with a broken bone from time to time." I said before taking a sip of tea.

"Did you always put up a fight?" Achak asked me.

"Yes I always fought back sometimes it took them up to seven days to bring me in then I would save my energy wait for the right moment then go from there. I always had to have some type of plan to live." I said putting down my cup. "That is why after each time it would happen I would train even harder so I would be able to put up a fight. I think I may never be able to let my guard down because they got me while I was relaxed and having a good time." I said eating some food. "From now on no matter where I am at I have to be alert. If I can spot them before they make their move I have a better chance of it not happening again." I said taking a bit while being alert.

That is when the whole room realized why I never had friends or anything beyond that. There faces went being shocked to complete sadness, even a few of them wanted to give me a hug but knew it wasn't the right time.

"Well dam no wonder you were excited to finally have some fun." Achak said to me.

"Yes but now I fear I may truly never get the chance to because I have become a target to twist Lord Borudo's arm into whatever that person may want." I responded with a sad look in my eyes.

It seemed a few of them got a fire lit under them or some type of emotion. "Thank you for the meal. Now if you will excuse me I have some spells to write into runes to combat nullification" I said towards everyone.

"What are you going to do with the rune once your done with it?" Tsutomu asked me.

"Either engrave in something I will never take off or engrave it on my skin like a tattoo." I said standing up.

"How many do you have as tattoos?" Kishi asked me.

"A lot but I have a constant glamour spell on due to this ring so you can not see the runes or my scares." I walked towards the door and stopped. "I believe you would all see me a bit different if I was not deem pretty in your eyes. For I was always told no man wants a women littered with battle scares." I walked out the room after that comment then headed towards my house for I was tired.

Once inside my house I headed for bed for tomorrow if I wish to put on another rune I would have take off thus be able to repair my glamour ring.

The following morning....

This morning I woke up to the sounds of men training close to the house. First thought it was Mitsu making his men run laps around the wall leading around the house. Today I felt tired I also saw a note from Olin. Which he told me to head over to the dinning room off from the kitchen for there will be a surprise waiting for me.

I got up then grabbed a pair of leather shorts and a leather corset to put over a shirt that had short sleeves and was off the shoulder at the same time. I brushed my hair only tied it up enough to keep it out of my eyes. My hair had a bit of a curl to it today but at least I looked nice at least in my mind.

I walked outside my house in a pair of thigh socks on while my leather boots only came to my knees. I heard whistles coming from the men training I didn't even bother to look there way just flicked my to get it off my shoulders. I was right outside the room where I need to be. I knocked first before entering.

"Come on in." I heard Fudo voice yell.

I walked in that is when I locked eyes with Fudo who seemed to have gotten a little red on the cheeks.

"You look amazing in leather." He said then realizing that was the wrong way to say it.

"Thanks it felt like a leather kind of day for me." I said sitting down. "So whats the surprise Olin said that was waiting here for me." I said looking at Fudo.

He jumped when I said that.

"Whatever you wish to eat since you missed both lunch and breakfast so far today." Fudo said with a smile.

"Something not to heavy but filling. I think a couple of rice balls will do." I said drinking some water.

"Coming right up." Fudo went into the kitchen to make the food.

About ten minutes later he comes out with three rice balls each a different flavor. One was plain, One had fish in it and One was filled with a sweet filling. I said my thanks then dug in. Fudo sat down right next to me then fixed my hair that was caught in my corset.

"Thank you for fixing my hair." I said in between bites.

"Your welcome." Fudo pause for a moment before finishing his thought. "Hows the food." He with a smile towards me.

I finished the second rice ball before speaking.

"Amazing. If I am not careful I will gain weight since your food so tasty." I said with a bright pleasant smile.

"I will try to make more healthy options for you if your worried about it." Fudo said with a bit of blush upon his cheeks.

I finished off my food.

"Don't change it just for me just means I need to work on how to balance it out." I said with a smile. "Thank you for the food." I said trying to get up.

That is when Fudo lightly held my arm then used the other to wipe rice off my face then we locked eyes. I slowly felt him moving in closer that is when I give him a light peck on the cheek.

"Thank you again." I saw he was frozen then I took that moment to get out of there.

I headed back to the house in order to start my research on which nullification spell works on nullifying nullification. God that felt like a mouth full now way I could have said that out loud with out messing up. On my way back to house I notice more of Mitsu men trying to stay around my house they will learn soon that its a bad idea. I notice off to the side house is the perfect place to practice magic.

I went inside to grab a note book full magic paper then a spell book plus a tome book the walked to side of the deck where I could test my spells to find the best one. All I know as soon as I started my nullification testing a few of the retainers were watching me very carefully. I really did not pay any mind to them for I need to get this done and pick the one that would work the best. I was going to be working on it until the sun went down.

Four days later.....

After the same process for the last four days of waking up the eating one meal then working on my testing I finally found one that works against almost all of nullification that get used in items. I also found its twin spell that works against nullification magic. So today was the day I would be repairing my glamour ring while adding two new runs bound with the spells I found. These would be getting placed on my neck. I went out to the living room to use the mirror that is out there to apply it which means while they being burned into my skin I will be unable to eat or drink anything until they are done. I draw out the runes on a magic paper then place it on my neck on the left side then I do the same with the other rune on the right side then I get ready to chant the words.

I take off the ring then place it on the kitchen table then go back t other mirror to make sure they are correct before being my chant.

"I hear by wish to engrave these runes on thy skin to forever have there blessed engraved upon my body and soul." I said in a calm tone thankfully the spell activated with a quick bright flash of light then I started to repair my ring.

Not realizing there is a knock at the door I keep my focus on the ring that is barely held together.

SNAP!

"DAM IT!" I yelled out.

"Everything okay?" A hesitating voice spoke towards me.

"Not really I have to go hunting for some metal..." I trialed off to see Achak just staring at me. "Hello Oniichan." I said kind of confused of why he is here.

"I was told to check up on you since we all saw a bright flash of light. And Fudo sent me to check up on since you haven't been eating much lately." He said with a confused tone while he kept staring at.

"I told you I would look like a completely different person. Give it about another ten to twenty minutes before the spell is done. The top layer is set now all that need to be done is the magic it self." I said standing up going to my desk looking for some metal. "Huh I though I would have made some but it looks like I am completely out." I stood there scratching my head. "Now what I am going to do?" I said slightly frazzled.

"Tsutomu is the master smith here maybe he has what your looking for?" He said trying to be helpful.

"Do you know where he is at currently?" I replied back.

"Everyone but my self is at the daily meeting in the great hall." He answered my honestly.

"Okay Oniichan lets head over there." I said tied my hair back into a ponytail before heading out the house.

Once we walked out of the house the stares and the gasping sounds of shock coming out of servants mouths was nothing new to me. With the ring off you see all the different runes running down my neck off my shoulders couple bands around my arms some you can see on my back. Plus all to wounds that turned into scares I have a bad one running from check down into my chest.

I didn't speak just follow Achak until we got into the main hall. There was word of a strange women covered in scares and runes heading towards the great hall. The other bad thing is with the ring off everyone could feel my aura emitting such power.

Once the doors open you could see all the retainers staring at me. Mitsu was the most interesting face since it was one of respect since he could fell my power the others looked unsure. Lord Borudo normally pleasant relaxed face was now stressed tensed and confused.

"Miss what brings you to my manor?" Lord Borudo spoke with the most serious tone I have ever heard from him.

I tried to contain my laughter but I could not hold it.

"Why do you laugh!"Mitsu was now pissed since I was laughing. "How dare you insult us with your laughter speak or die!" He yelled.

"Wow.... I knew you guys would not recognized me but dam." I said easing my laughter.

The whole room had an oh crap moment. Mitsu felt like putting his foot in his mouth.

"I am sorry it was just too funny that none of you realized it was me." I said finally finished laughing.

They all had the look of disbelief it was me.

"I truly did not mean to offend Lord Borudo or any of his retainers. I came looking for Tsutomu. For the simple fact I have a question for him." I said looking around the room.

"What is your question for me?" Tsutomu asked with a puzzled look.

"I was wondering if you had an ore that you haven't refined yet. I need some to make a new glamour ring since mine sort of turned into dust once I took it off." I asked him the question.

"Yes I do just got some more in yesterday." Tsutomu answered me. "I will show where my workshop is at once were done here." He finished saying.

"Okay I am going to be waiting the dinning room off from the kitchen." I said heading towards the door. "Sorry for pausing you meting." I walked out the door towards the kitchen where I ran into Olin on the way in.

"Talissa?" Olin said with a confused look on his face.

"Hi Olin." I said taking a seat.

He stared at me with disbelief like he was seeing something that he was not sure what to make of it.

"So that is what you look like with the glamour off." He slow sank down next to me. "I am sorry I did not recognize you." He said while slowly touching my face.

Next few seconds a small glint of light fizzled from my neck.

Looks like the new placed runes are done." I said with a smile.

"So the tattoos are runes?" Olin touched the ones on my neck.

"Yes they are each one is personally made by me. So if I truly want them gone I could remove them with magic which would take a long time." I said sitting completely still so he could get a better look at my face.

He found the scar that ran down the left side of cheek down to my chest. He slowly ran his finger across it.

"Why is this one so bad?" Olin asked me as the other servant realized who I was.

"Because it was from a time where they tried threatening my death in front of one of Elders because they want control over Master Rain. They had a blade to my cheek which they were already pressing hard enough for it to bleed. I used all my strength to break free in turn cutting my self very deep to the point I was minutes away from death. The elder saw the chance to take them down in one powerful spell then used a quick healing spell which closes the wound super fast but leaves a horrible scare in the process." I spoke soft towards him with the details.

All I know is Olin started crying into my shoulder I was rubbing his back. I was confused on why he was crying tears for what had happen.

"Was the elder who told you to wear the glamour ring." A voice came out from behind me to find out it was Fudo.

"Yes he was also the same one who told no man would a women covered in scares."I responded to him in a calm tone.

Fudo came sat down in front of me he too gently touched the scar on my face. When Fudo looked me in the eyes all I saw was a pained look.

"Please don't push your self. If you don't want to touch you don't have to, hell if you don't want to look at me you don't have to. Just don't force your self to be in my presences if its to painful for you." I said towards Fudo.

Fudo seemed shocked that I said that then I spotted Tsutomu who was standing in the door way waiting for me. I stood up while Fudo was confused then walked towards the doorway. Olin ended up following me for some reason which didn't bother me. About a fifteen minute walk we finally arrive at Tsutomu forge and workshop. Tsutomu showed where the ore was kept and I was mostly looking for ones with the highest magic content since it was something I could sense.

I spent an hour in this room going through all of the ore. To me it wasn't about the type of ore it was about how much magic was stored in it. I found about five chunks of ore that I needed.

"Thank you Tsutomu for letting me find what I needed." I said with a smile.

"Glad to be of service. Whats your next step in making your glamour ring?" Tsutomu asked me.

"Making it of course." I said heading out side to the open air where there was a pit that they sometime used to melt the ore.

"This I have to see." Tsutomu stood in the doorway leaning against it.

Olin was sitting on a bench outside watching me the whole time. The crowd of retainers and the lord as were watching me.

I placed the ore in the middle of the pit then stood on the outside put my hands up to start chanting my spells. They watched as fire started twisting from my palms gathering the ore melting into one blob of molten metal. They watched as I was compressing it into a single ring all the magic in the ore was now in the shape of a ring in a matter of minutes. I held out my right hand as the ring was slide upon hiding my scares and runes. Once I put my hand down the ring was fully cooled and my appearance was free from scares and runes.

"Now do you all realize it me now." I said with a smile.

The whole group blinked while trying to realize what happened. Olin was the first to speak.

"If you didn't have to scares or runes is this how you would look?" Olin asked me.

"Yes this is how I would look minus the scars and what not." I said honestly to him. "I have found a way to make my self look like this permanently but it would prevent me from using magic for about a month." I said to him.

"Why haven't you done it to make your self feel better about how you look?" Achak asked me.

"As of now I need the runes to help me complete my task. I have found a way to just heal up the scares but I cant never make enough purification water for it work I would need enough to fill a whole bathhouse in just one area." I replied back.

Sui looked like he got an idea then pulled Kishi to the side as they were walking off somewhere.

"I think you should keep the runes they make you special." Zila said with a bit of pink on his cheeks.

"Thanks Zila! That does mean a lot to me for you saying that." I spoke toward Zila with a smile on my face.

Some of the retainers were a little shocked on how bad the scares were. Most of them liked the runes it was the scar that was on my face they were having such trouble with. Which gave this strange feeling I am not sure any of them would be okay with how I look with out the glamour on. I walked back to my house to find Uadhah waiting for me.

"Hello Uadhah is there something I can help you with?" I asked him.

Uadhah just nodded then opened the door for me, which I went inside then he closed the door behind us. He had this flustered looked on his face like he wanted to tell me something important its just he was having trouble trying to spit it out. Once inside I go over to my small table in the living room to inspect how the ring is.

"I want to see you without the glamour on." Uadhah spoke with a softness to his voice.

"Okay.... I guess you came at the right time since I have to do a little more fine work to the ring." I said while sliding the ring off my finger.

Uadhah was not overly surprised on the amount of scares he was just looking at them with a sense of sadness.

"This one looks the most painful.... how long has it been since you have gotten this one?" As he light stroked my cheek.

"About four years... when it gets to overly hot or cold is when I feel it the most. Since it was healed by a rough quick healing spell that's why it looks like this." I answered with finely engraving the ring with runes.

"Who knows about it?" He spoke as if he was trying to take the pain away with him lightly stroking the area.

"Well you, everyone who resides in the mansion and Elder Urair." I responded quickly to him.

Uadhah just had this look in his eyes where he went from stroking my scared cheek to my hair. I felt him leaning in closer where I felt a soft sensation upon my scared cheek which made me stop what I was doing then turned to look at Uadhah. I felt confused on why he did that I just gave him the look of why. When he saw my face he drew himself closer to where we could feel each others breath.

My mind was going blank the moment I realized Uadhah was kissing me on lips. Then he went to my cheek again then back to my lips for a much deeper passionate kiss. I found my self holding the back of his neck as we were drawing each other closer then when I thought we were going to go further, we hear a sudden knock at the door.

"Who is it?" I yelled towards the door.

"Sui!" He responded.

"And Kishi, we have something we wish to do for you that could possibly boost your confidence." Kishi yelled to get me to open the door.

Uadhah goes and sit in a chair while I fix my self before I open the door.

"Come on in." I said holding the door open.

Sui and Kishi walk in to find I was alone with Uadhah which they shook there heads to escape the thought that was running through their mind. Then they look at me with a state of shock on there face.

"What happened to the runes there gone!" Kishi pint out to Sui.

"Right... of course you wouldn't know. The runes only show when they are in use or get activated because of the type of spell that is tide to it." I said closing the door behind them. "So what is this wonderful news that you had?" I said sitting next to Uadhah.

"We can get rid of the scars for you if that is what you truly want." Sui said with a smile.

"Yes I want them gone but how are you going to do that?" I asked the two of them.

"A purification healing ritual." Sui and Kishi said together.

"Okay what do I need to do to get this started?" I asked them while on the edge of my seat.

"During the next full moon we can perform the ritual." Sui said to with a smile "There is only one person to convince that you need to get it done?" He said to me.

"Who?" I asked.

"Uadhah." Kishi said with a straight face. "So we will leave you two alone to talk." He said will walking out with Kishi.

Uadhah looked at me with a sweet smile.

"Okay Uadhah what do I need to do to get you to do this for me." I asked in a low voice.

Uadhah leaned in to whisper in my ear his response.

"Be mine until the next full moon which is about a month away. I wish to see what it is like to be in a relationship plus understand the world through your eyes." Uadhah said with a sweet whisper in his voice.

"I accept your offer Uadhah." I responded by giving him a kiss on the cheek. Uadhah seemed surprised at my quick answer.

"Besides I too want to know whats it is like in a relationship." I whispered back in his ear.

Over the next month Uadhah and I went on dates we held hands. We did couple things. More than a few of the retainers were jealous which was new expression to see on their faces. I got to hear him laugh for the first time which was really sweet. I even cooked for him almost every night. We spent a lot of time together which made me happy. But for him there was a time limit on this happiness for after the ritual was over he wanted us to go back to how things were between us a lot of distance which I agreed to even though I really did not want to. I guess it is true about first loves they do not last for as long as you think they do.