Disclaimer: Trinity Blood is owned by Sunao Yoshida. I fell in love with the story.

Note to readers: Well, I'm rewriting Wizard's Treachery. I was going back through the original and realized it was very choppy and jumped around with ideas too much. I didn't like some of what I was doing and thus the original is being stopped like with the original Final Hour (my dragon age book) and is being rehashed in a new version.

This story is focusing on events leading up to the launch of the Red Mars Project and will even go into what was happen on Earth during the first part of Book 1: Divergent Path. The two main characters of the book are Isaak/ Isaac Butler and Thomas Hall (an OC). Abel and his family will make an appearance in Parts 2 and 3 of the book. And they are a main focus even if they don't appear at all in part 1.

I did some web researching going into this story. This time around, I would like to try holding truer to the character of Isaak Yoshida made. It is going to be a lot more difficult, considering Isaak has a lot of quotes he gives out, but I would like to try!

Final note here guys, if you haven't read Divergent Path, at least up to the end of the first part, please go back and read it. This book ties into Divergent Path as it is the prequel.

Thank you,

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IMPORTANT: It's not well known, but was confirmed as of chapter 57 of the manga that one of Isaak's many names was Xu Fu. This historical figure was born in 255 BC and served as a court sorcerer in the Qin Dynasty to first emperor of China (this is fact not Trinity Blood lore). He was sent on two expeditions to the eastern seas by Qin Shi Huang in search of the elixir of life. Those expeditions took place between 219 and 210 BC with the second one resulting in Xu Fu vanishing. There are some records which say he might have turned up on the shores of Japan, but it is all very, very vague.

This is why the prologue is being told by Xu Fu instead of Isaak.


Darkness pressed down on the world. Rain stung exposed skin. Water lashed the sides of ship. Cold spray surged around Xu Fu's feet. He clung to a rope as the ship surged to one side by a massive wave. Water crashed down on the deck.

Light lanced through sky. The ship was turned white from blinding flash. Xu Fu narrowed his eyes. The light lit the deck and he used it to leap to the next hand hole. The ship shook with the sheer force of the thunder. Xu Fu gripped to the hull all the tighter. He staggered up the steps.

Rain lashed harder the higher he climbed until his skin stung with the raw pain from the drops. Light illuminated the expeditionary fleet. The ships were drowned in the waves. Wood splintered and churned as the high winds and powerful waves ripped at the crown jewels of Qin Dynasty.

"We need to turn back. The storm's destroying the fleet!" a voice shout over the wind and thunder.

"Turn back?" Xu Fu muttered the question under his breath and scowled. His hair clung to his face from the sheets of rain. There was no turning back. Not without the elixir. Not this time. To turn back was just certain of death as it was to ride into the storm. There was to be no failure this time.

Wood splintered under Xu Fu. He staggered, holding to a rope until his fingers grew numb. The ship wouldn't hold together through the storm. Water streamed down Xu Fu's face as he looked towards the dark, angry sky.

He leapt to one side. Wood flung into the air. The splinters ripped through his robes. Screams were drowned in the rage of the storm, splintering of wood. The ground deck caved under Xu Fu.

Cold water rushed around him. Salt burned his eyes, pouring into this throat. Darkness wrapped around him as the storm thrust him deeper into the dark abyss of the ocean.

Not like this!

His hands clawed the water, feet lashing out. Air erupted around him. A wave threw him below. He rushed back to the surface. His freezing hands, slammed against the water. Raw weight of his robes dragged at him. Each thrust of an arm sent pain lancing through his body. His lungs struggled for air. Salt water seared his throat and struck his lungs with each breath he fought for.

A massive wave tossed him aside as if he was made of air. Water exploded around him once more. He breathed it in before he managed to surface choking on the water.

Wood. His hands made contact with a piece of wreckage. Fear clawed at his heart as he took hold of the wood. He dragged himself on to it. Splinters bit deep into his hands. The only warmth came from stinging pain and the liquid which oozed from it.

Death was all around Xu Fu. The sea would clam him as it had his crew.

A wave tossed his life raft. It took every last shred of strength to cling to the wood. Sea water felt as fire to his nose and mouth. His eyes stung with the force of the storm. Xu Fu could feel his grip weakening on the wood he clung to.

No!

His fingers dug into the hard wood.

He would not die here! Not like this. Not for something that didn't exist.

A wall of water moved towards him. The surge pulled at his body as it ebbed back and grew. Xu Fu stared at the massive, growing wave. This was it. Was it? It was his end.

Water exploded from the wave and rushed over him. Not the massive force, but smaller amounts. Light blinded the storm filled night. A nose akin to the buzzing of swarms of bugs filled the air as it rushed around him. First one way then lashed another.

The light. It dazzled Xu Fu. Unnatural in its sheer beauty. The light, was life itself. He wanted to touch it. Feel the warmth of the light at his fingertips. He reached for it, stretching out a bloodied hand.

Was this – could it be the true source of the elixir of life? Penglai Mountain? That it wasn't a mountain as legends told, rather this beautiful light.

Xu Fu felt his hand slip from the wood. Water churned around him. He kept reaching for the light even as it drifted into darkness.

The darkness gave away to the moments before leaving. The features of his emperor enraged when Xu Fu couldn't tell him how long his life would be extended. How he had to scamper for excuses when he had returned the first time empty handed. He was drowning in the rage of his ruler. Fleeing for it in the hopes to find if such an elixir even existed.

"You seek immortality," the voice sounded through the waves of darkness and flashes of images from the past. "There is away, but such gifts come at the price of service, human."

Xu Fu couldn't see. The images had collapsed in on themselves into a space of utter darkness. A darkness so intense not even a moonless night could compare. Fear clutched his heart in an icy hold. Talons made from the coldest ice tore into his being, freezing him from his very core.

Who was speaking? Was he dying here in this utter blackness?

The cold eased back. Air slammed into Xu Fu's lungs. He gasped and drew in long ragged breaths. His entire body felt as if it were crusted in thick layers of dried sea salt. A weight seemed to press down on his eyelids, making them heavy. He creaked open his eyes. Fire felt as if he surged through him at the movement.

Light. Where was the that magnificent light? A softer light rimmed his vision, distorted by his crusted eyelashes. Xu Fu closed his eyes. He took in a deep lung full of air. There was no scent of the sea to it.

The soft light filtered around him, leaving much of the space hidden within shadows. It was brighter than candle light, stranger than the fires which had lit his home. It was softer, yes, but still the unnatural beauty he had witnessed before. The light of a holy being. His hand ached. He forced his arm off the hard surface. His fingers stretched towards the light. Scabs cracked from the movement. Was it warm like fire? What made the light? He wanted to know.

Blood oozed from where the scabs cracked. The warm pain of the wounds, was lost on Xu Fu.

Another light was coming from straight ahead. It held a bluish tint to it.

With all his strength, Xu Fu lifted himself up. His eyes widened. What little breath he had fled his lips. Darkness, surrounding a beauty the likes of which not even the greatest alchemists could have imagined. A massive blue sphere hung as if suspended by magic within the center of the darkness.

Xu Fu's arms shook with effort. He forced himself to fully sit up. His eyes locked on the beauty far beyond reach. His hand moved. The sphere had to be a source of power, right? Perhaps the elixir he had sought for?

Pain lanced through his stiff body as he stood. His legs gave out and he clung to the cold, hard surface he had lain upon. He forced himself to stand straight, his eyes still locked on the beauty suspended within the blackness.

"What magic is this?" he breathed.

"Do you accept, human?" the voice pressed. It rang through the space, filled with a power Xu Fu had never even dreamed of hearing before. If he had feared the emperor's voice, it was nothing compared to the chill which raced through him now. "We can grant you immortality, gifts beyond your small mind's comprehension. In exchange, you must pave the way for our arrival on Earth."

Xu Fu turned. Only the soft light met his gaze. He couldn't see the room he was in or anything beyond the lights and the sphere suspended with the darkness.

"Who are you? What are you?" he asked, his voice scared him with how steady he was in the questions. He had trembled with fear before his emperor, only to now be so calm when faced with a power far greater than Qin Shi Huang.

"The future."

Light erupted out from a point just behind Xu Fu. He whipped around. Fear rushed through him. His eyes widened. This was. It was a holy being. Something beyond all powers any mortal man could ever even dream to achieve.

The hard ground bit into Xu Fu's knees, guarded only by the tattered remains of his robes. His eyes locked on the light. Sheer, overwhelming awe swept through him and mixed with his fear.

His hands trembled. He clasped them and bowed low the being before him.

It was a god.


(Author's Note: So in manga chapter 57, Isaak mentions to Vanessa all the names he's gone by over the past… forty centuries (wow okay Isaak you are old). Anyway, the oldest of the names is Xu Fu, so, I am assuming he was born Xu Fu

I cannot tell you guys how weird it was to try and write this chapter. I had to keep the page on Xu Fu on the wiki open for it. I rewatched a documentary on the First Emperor of China as well. There is so little about Xu Fu. Even then I don't know if I got this stuff right. There is so little information to go from. Oh well.

Hey, by this Isaak was around during the Roman Empire. Given the fact Xu Fu was born in 255BC, the time the events of RoM (Reborn on Mars) series takes place in the TB universe, Isaak is three thousand three hundred and seventeen years old (roughly).

Update: Hey, so there is updates to this. I am changing it around to be more like the main series. This book is also going to be broken up from three part book to two or more books.)