When I Was the Sun

Dawn Within the New Era
The morning Nova woke up in her bed, her step family sleeping in the rooms surrounding her, and felt frazzled was the morning she rolled out of bed... directly onto the floor. Now this had happened many times, the warrior begrudgingly rising to face a day after long nights spent exhausting her body, but never before had she woken up feeling like she wasn't home. She tried shaking it off as she did a worked of stretching into her morning routine; an arm reaching over her shoulder to touch her shoulder blades while brushing her teeth, dropping into the splits and leaning to each side as well as forwards while combing through her extremely long, wild red hair, and switching to the pigeon position while she braided it over one shoulder. The uneasiness continued as she brushed her teeth, got changed, and headed for the guild like she did every morning before most of her family was stirring. She usually went to at least check new jobs before returning home for breakfast... but what was her home? Now that she thought about it, she had never really been to her hometown, had she?

So when Nova arrived at the Koma Inu guild building, she did not make a beeline for the job board, but instead rushed up the the library in hopes of finding her public records. She knew she wasn't too far from Onibus, having walked here at a young age to be taken in by Crowley. She also remembered learning her birth name had been Natasha, but decided to officially change it to Nova once she realized that the name was as unfamiliar to her as were the people who gave it to her. She did have a few unearthed memories and they were enough to know that she loved her family very much and that that love was reciprocated. She dug through a few files, finding as many towns within Fiore as she could just to be safe, and searched birth records of girls born over 25 years ago. It took hours and though many Natasha's showed up, only three fit the age category. Nova memorized the last names and instead went to a certain storage room deep within the guild that held something she always feared going through. Crowley's personal documentations and files were stored here, many of them coded and almost impossible to decipher for anyone who didn't know the method. Though a bit rusty, Nova could recall how to rearrange numbers, letters, and symbols to make sense of what she was looking at, her brain quickly converting back as if she had never left writing in Shateric. There was information on every person who had ever been in the guild, but it was all useless now. The information was outdated and most these people were dead or imprisoned, but there was one file that caught Nova's attention. Its label translated to 'Demon' and inside was information on a girl named Natasha Wells, six years old at the time with flaming red hair and dead grey eyes. Those bright silver eyes now hungrily devoured all the information available.

"Iceberg?" She asked herself. "Where in heaven's name is that?" It turned out that Iceberg did show up on the map, but she had never bothered to really look before. She went back to searching for her history, focusing on that town entirely and got not only names, but an address just a few miles outside the town. Making up her mind, Nova decided she wanted to know more, discover more, and see more of her past. She practically ran towards the front doors, mentally planning what to pack when she quite literally ran into Aiden. Grabbing onto his arms to stop herself from falling, she gazed up at him and had another idea. Nova blurted, "Do you want to go somewhere with me?"