63 years ago.
Day 3 of Cristata - Second month of the year, 6759 A.F.
East of Pindorama Continent, Republic of Ybira(Former), Countryside of Estopein State, Drumbea Town.
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Sunlight invades a room by the not well positioned curtains, a movement happens in a pile of sheets, seems that it don't likes light. It moves until light don't is a bother anymore, some seconds passes and a new problem arrives, sheets still conducting heat, it tries turn around but the new enemy can't be defeated for much time, after taking some moments for the lose be accepted and it finally rise reluctant.
From the pile of blanks emerges a girl, a human girl, she has a pout in her face and her black hair passes below the shoulder line it's messy, and don't has just it usual messiness but, has plus a disorder from a night of sleep. She glare at the window and her frown tighten up, she put one leg for outside the bed with great struggle, she act like she has five times her weight.
She stand up, while still half asleep, and go to the window, after two step she get her foot off the floor at the same time that a sound of broken plate fills the room.
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"Ouch! Gee!" she grumbles, "How left this dirty plate on my way!??". Looking around the room she found dirty clothes in the floor, chair, bed and even above wardrobe, empty glasses that should already be at the sink, layers and layers of dust that just aren't in her computer. Seeing just one bed she returns to reality, she said, "Ohh i am a only child... I'll clean it later".
After saying one of the phrases that left that room in it current situation and talking about a time that maybe will never come, she get back at her mission. Even the pain didn't take her out of her sleepy state, putting her weight on her right leg she comes near the window and close the curtain abruptly. With her enemy defeated she got back at her bed, of course, leaving the broken plate in the same place where she stepped on it.
Back at her cocoon built in blanks, she thought "Shit!, i need to enjoy my lasts times in bed, before the alarm rin...!". A music starts to came from her wrist, a rough voice talking about using explosive spells on the abyss, hearing it the girl put her hands on her head and shake it, but she can't run from the sound, she thought, "Time why did you hate me? please give me more three hours of sleep, is it to much?"
After trying to plead for reality change for her needs and as usual don't getting what she asked for, before the man singing in her wrist get to the part of the guitar solo, the girl use her right hand to turn off the alarm of her left arm bracelet. Now more awake that she would like, she starts her day.
"Maybe this is bad luck because i I got up with my left feet early? Nah, luck doesn't exist", she murmured.
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Some minutes after a music be heard in the first floor a door in open, a girl get out of it, she wear in white t-shirt with a symbol of a beast with four tusks in the right chest area, blue jeans and boots. In hurried steps she go down the stairs, from bellow she can hear someone sing a song, it is so out of tune that the girl know that this time isn't a record but a real person.
Arriving on the kitchen she founded the "singer" cooking, he is a male human with an average built, ash blond hair grizzled in some parts, besides his unshaven beard and clumsy clotting he has the aura of someone reliable. Noticing an intruder on his "stage" the man put a tea cup of coffee on the table, saying, "Good Morning lil crow! The coffee already has sugar".
Seeing him the girl thinked twice about don't eat breakfast, but the void in her belly convinced her on eating. Reluctant she sat down, taked a sip of the coffee and thought, "His liveness on mornings is disgusting, this should be a crime". Felling a gaze in her, she noted the "singer" in silence staring her with a frown, she ticked her tongue at this and said half-unwilling, "Good morning Louis".
As if he didn't hear her fault of goodwill, Louis grinned and returned to cocking saying , "Now with lil crow blessings my day already is good".Don't being bordered anymore, the grumpy girl begin o eat a salt bread with butter. Finishing her bread the girl looked at the man and asked, "Louis where is my mom?".
"She get early to work, today is the first testing day of one of her experiments at the lab", said Louis.
"Hm", said the girl while chewing.
Having already packed everything he need on his work bag, Louis said with a curious look, "Did you In Winter break got a driver's license?".
"Old man did age already is messing with your brain? I ain't sixteen yet.", said the girl.
"Weird", said Louis putting the bag on his back and walk away. Seeing he won't be saying more anything, the girl though, " I can use this senility of his to make mom break up with him".
Smelling a rat, she asked, "Hey Louis! Why did you said 'Weird'?". Opening the front door Louis looked back and said, " well, is weird for me tou eat this calm while is late to school".
"What!", the girl looked at her bracelet and saw "06:15", she squinted and found another texture on the screen, after rubbing it a new number is shown "06: 45". She shouted, "Shit!".
Quickly the girl stuffed the bread leftovers in her moth and run on the door directions. On the way she catches a bag that was hanger on the wall. Louis tacked a side-step for her have spaces to exit the house. Out of the house she took a bike that was leaning on the wall, put it on the street, mounted and pedaled hard while thinking,"This beginning of this school year happened yesterday, my biological clock hasn't yet got used to it".
Louis shouted, "Korva wish you a nice day!". The girl, Korvaurora, looked back and said, " I always have".
Drumbea where Korvaurora lived is a small interior town with sixty thousand inhabitants, it has five schools with college level. Behemoth State School where she study, Korvaurora didn't choose it by the good teaching or infrastructure,but because is only twenty minutes from her house. Korvaurora isn't athletic soo doing the usual path in ten minutes taken everything that she had.
Passing the school gates, because nearly all students use bicycles, she needed to fit her bike in one almost full bike rack and go in hurried steps to her class direction, after all running was no longer an option.In the way she saw many students from senior years, who the classes start a little later than those in her grade, she thought, "Those luck bastards, they can sleep five minutes longer than me".
Coming near her classroom Korvaurora became more relax, she slow down, clear the sweatin her forehead, try to control her breath rhythm. "I thought that i would arrive late, i still have three minutes. Bad luck my ass", she naive thoughted.
Touhh!
Something heavily falls from the stairs ten meters in front of Korvaurora. But she can't see what is because nearby students are gathering around it like flies around a carcass. Choosing to mind her own business, Korvaurora go around the crowd, thinking, "Things fall people, it is called gravity. Why the muss?". Yet fate or better saying, the plot won't allowed her do this.
A voice emerges drooping a cold water bucket in Korvaurora plans, "Hey Korva! Look at this dweeb!".
Hearing the familiar voice, she unwilling turn around and saw in the center of the crowd three rough-looking persons going down the stairs. One of them is a relatively big human tweenager, she recognized him as someone who studied with her last year. On the ground was a cat like Quilin probably he is the "thing" who had fallen.
Korvaurora grinned and friendly said, "Yoh Kevin! Nice to see you, i'm late soo by...". But in her mind what she was really saying, "You little shit! Why are you bothering me and calling me so friendly? We barely are acquaintance".
A menacing looking Armadillo like Quillin who Korvaurora knew as one of senior member of a gang said with a hoarse voice, "So Kevin she is the one who you was talking about". A vein appear in Korvaurora forehead. If Kevin had a tail probably would be swinging as he said pointing out the cat like Quillin, "Yup she is nuts, Korva show us that thing. Put the preyed in his place".
The Pride, is the gang that the trio is from, this group was formed last year and grow quickly because of it leader fighting capability, they act like the school has a food chain, fighting between them and those who come in they way.
"Kevin probably is a new member of The Pride trying to impress the others. These guys are too edgy if i could i never would speak with them, but now is too late. Theys didn't know what is shame? They leader drank rotten milk as a child to create this gang and group all this creeps like Kevin", thought Korvaurora.
Korvaurora walked on the cat like Quillin and said, "I would love do this". What Kevin probably want her to show is something that give Korvaurora a little bit of fame and had put her in similar situation before. She raised both hands and made some moviments on the air, a light blue magic circle appear in front of her hands, it begin to spin and slowly a blue sphere is formed, a spell was used.
Magic is commun and easy, just need concentration to manipulate mana and a candle can be lit. But if you want to do something bigger like break a wall, you need to use a magic circle to use more effectively mana, and this is called cast a spell. On their age spellcasting is rare because is needed study, time and concentration, what many think that could be put in a better use playing a game or in social media, so see someone with theirs age do a spell is like see a professional magic trick.
"Wow in just ten seconds a mana construct. Cool!" said the Armadillo, he may be thug looking for Korvaurora, but he still just a tweenager.
Korvaurora looked at the guy on the ground, he winked for her and said as trying the defend himself rising both arms shielding his body, "Please don't do it!".
"Sorry mate... Too late to regret weakling", the part Korvaurora said just for her and the cat like Quillin the first part and shout the mana ball in him. Before it hits a calm voice that would became recurrent in Korvaurora nightmares pops up behind her, "I can't let you do this".
Before she Korvaurora could turn around to see the voice owner, suddenly she felt a pain and her mind got blank.