Louise de la Vallière realized that when she returned home, she would have to explain where she had been for almost half a year. She even had a perfect lie to tell her family. She just did not think she would have to tell it so early.

"As I told you, I was fed up with not being able to use magic correctly. So, I left to train in the wilds!" Louise said in her best young sister voice.

She stared at her mother and father as they stood before her at the bottom of their mansions grand staircase in the foyer. Her sister's Eleonore and Cattleya stood on either side of her parents, showing off a grand picture of the Vallière families skilled mages. It now sickened her that mages stood so far above other people. She had to grin and bear it for now though if she was to make her family believe her.

Her father glared at her with a stoic unimpressed look, before crossing his arms. "You expect me to believe that you learned magic in the wilds? Just what do you take me for?! Where in brimir's name did you even go?"

Louise swore to herself, it was going to be more difficult than she first planned to deceive her father, luckily she had practice. "I travelled with merchant caravans and made my way to the wilds. past even the elven lands"

Her family gasped in shock at this, just as planned. Her father dropped his arms and began yelling. "Do you realize what you've done; you could have gotten captured and used for ransom by those barbaric elves! Do you realise what that would have done to our family name and honour!"

Figures he would be more worried about the families name than my wellbeing. "I didn't think about that, but nothing happened and I did learn magic finally!" Louise replied in a forced happy sad tone.

Her family instantly went silent as soon as she said this. She could easily guess what was going to happen next.

"Prove it" her mother said stoically.

Bingo, they want proof. Louise took out her wand and concentrated for a few moments. She did not even use or need the wand now, but if she did not use it there would be even more questions. In a quick motion she pointed her wand to the side and released a small jet of fire. It flew across the room into a nearby wall, singing the wallpaper and causing a small smolder on the wall. Before her parents could say anything, she then sent out a jet of water to the same point; extinguishing the smoldering spot upon the wall.

Her family looked at this and gleamed with happiness. Their little useless Louise had just cast both fire and water magic consecutively.

"Well. I see that it is indeed true. I will overlook you disappearing for six months. On the understanding that you tell us what happened in detail at a later time. Also you must be willing to go back to the magic academy to continue your studies as a noble mage of the Vallière family." Her father said arrogantly.

You old bastard I don't need your permission, I've lived through so much it would make your eyes fall out you sickening old fool! "Very well father that was my intention"

Her father smiled "Good. Ill pull some strings and get you back into the academy, where you should be. You will have to catch up however, as the second year starts in only two days"

Perfect! "Very well father"

"Well, now that that is settled, why we don't all turn in. you look absolutely exhausted Louise" her mother then interjected.

"Very well, I will see you in the morning" Louise said as she quickly walked around her family and straight to where her room was located. She did not wish to give her sisters a chance to talk to her in private.

Upon entering her old room she quickly closed and locked the door before looking around what was one her room. It had been left exactly as she had left it. Her bed, dresser and table were exactly where they were when she attempted to kill herself, by throwing herself out her window six months prior. Her family hadn't even thought that she had tried committing suicide. It just showed exactly how little they paid attention to her hell of a personal life. The walls were a light pink color and dust seemed to cling to all of the furniture in the room. Why the hell did she have it painted pink in the first place? Did she like the color or something, or want to be reminded of her odd hair color maybe? Now all it did was sicken her. After dusting the bed off and managing to remember where her pajamas where located, she changed and sat on the bed in complete darkness and took out a small black case. Anyone who looked at it would think it some kind of artefact from way it shone in the dark. Luckily no one would be able to open it but her because of the otherworldly lock built into it. She quickly bit her thumb and dripped a small drop of her now red and dark green highlighted blood onto the case.

Click

She heard the latch open up and opened the lid taking out the medallion inside. Both the chain and the entire medallion were a deep black with the medallion itself being a simple hexagon. On the front it had a simple beveled symbol of a scorpion's tail in deep red and upon the back it said only three simple words in deep red ink. She said them to herself in a hard and powerful tone before putting the medallion on and going to sleep in her now unfamiliar bed

"Peace through Power"

authors notes:

this idea kinda just came to me but its so good i cannot help but write it. also note my knowledge og command and conquer currently goes to the end of kanes wrath so that is where it will be timeline wise.

special thanks to nanashi wanderer for beta reading my stuff like he almost always does and a special thanks to ariados26 for allowing me to borrow a concept from his zero no fic so that i could get my own to work.