In the World Of Gayuma, magic is the top priority of every living being. Magic is viewed as the power of the gods, the neccesaty of humans. With this being the case, people born with innate talent for magic are often showered with luxury, loyalty, fame and women or men. While, the people born without magic in general are considered trash, nobody's or even non-human by talented magicians.
Now, we take a look at the Village of Parola in night as we see our Mc.
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"Tch, you useless child! Get out of the house!" A woman yelled as she kicks a child out of her house who seemed to be around 10 year's old.
"Don't ever come back here! You magicless trash!" She yelled at the child before she slams the door shut.
The child, who had spiky black hair. He was currently wearing a white t-shirt, blue pants and slipper. He's body was also filled with mant bruises and scars, visibly abused. The child stood up from where he was thrown out as he stood there for a while thinking about what just happend in silence.
*Silence*
*Silence*
"....Why? Why does everything hate me?" He asked himself as he looks towards a dog.
The dog was barking at him like he was an enemy of his. Seeing this, the boy started walking over to it, only for the dog to stop barking and shake in fear and then finally running away from the boy like it was some sort of monster.
"Is there something wrong with me?" He asked himself again as he looks down with rain started pouring down.
Seeing this, the boy immediately went over to any nearby shade and then after a while, he managed to find a nearby tree that had large enough leaves to cover him in the rain.
'What should I do now?' He asked in his head as he sat down on the ground.
'My mom kicked me out because I lack magical talent. If my own mother doesn't want me, what should I expect from other people?' He asked himself in his thoughts as he started crying.
That night, he curled up into a ball as the sound of rain echoed through the night as he's eyes slowly started to fall and eventually he drifted himself to sleep while crying.
[The Next Morning]
It was morning, the rain had stopped as the sun shines through the day and hitting the boys eyes, making him open them and rub them before stretching and yawning.
"Huh? where am- Oh yeah." He said to himself as he remembers what transpired last night.
He then decided to stand up and went over to where his house was he was still worried for he's mother and especially he's little sister.
After a while, he arrives back to he's house as he was about to knock, but stopped himself as he hears talking inside. He then quickly went over to the window and tried to look inside and thankfully he was just about tall enough to see what's inside.
Inside, he saw he's mother and he's sister who was a 2 years younger than him as they were talking on the table. He remembers that he's sister, unlike him, was born with a rather large innate talent for magic, which gave her more treatment than him.
"Sweetie, I have something to tell you." The mom said as she had tears in her eyes.
"Mama, what's wrong? Did something happen to big brother?" She asked her as she was concerned for both her mother and brother.
"Sweetie, your brother, Bell. Has left the family." She lied to the little girl as the girl went wide eyes and revealing the little boy's name to be Bell.
"Yo-your'e lying right? Bi-big brother wouldn't leave me, right?" She deperately asked for a answer.
"I'm...sorry, sweetie. But it's true. Look at this." She said as she rolls up her right sleeve.
It then reveals to be a large cut on her right arm, although not deep to expose any bones and/or inside flesh, the cut was still noticable as the little girl stared shocked.
"Yo-your brother ata-attacked me, becasue I-I tri-tried to stop him from leaving." She said as she shed's fake tears with the little girl shocked beyond belief.
Seeing this and hearing this, Bell was about to dash to the door, kick it open and tell he's little sister the truth, but he stopped himself as he hears what he's little sister's response was.
"...Where did he go?" She asked the mom with an angry expression.
"H-he went over to the forest just west of the village. He said he's going over to Zauber City." She lied as the little girl stood up from where she sat.
"Whe-where are you going, Lala?" She asked the little girl to be named, Lala.
"I'm chasing big brother and make him pay for hurting you." She answered which shocked Bell.
The mother pleaded Lala to not go as the woods are filled with dangerous creatures like Astralwolve, Solarbears and many more. But these pleas fall on deaf ears as Lala exits the house, but not before Bell can hide behind a wall see he's little sister walk towards the said forest.
'Oh no! I've gotta do something about this!' He yelled in his head as he waits for he's sister to get away fair distance before he starts following her unnoticed.
And so, Bell started following Lala all the way into the woods.
[Inside The Forever Woods]
"Fireball!" She chanted a spell name as a ball of fire was fired, destroying any plants that got on her way.
Children born with Innate Magical talent, are often trained at a young age by their parents to be prepared for anything that require their magic prowess or atleast, that's what they were told. Seeing this, Bell deducted that Lala's magic are leaning on the fire side, seeing as she used fire spells when she was training with their mother.
And so, Bell continued to follow he's sister by jumping tree to tree, just like how their father, who was a hunter, taught him just incase he was lost in any kind of forest.
After a while of following, Lala stops in the middle of woods as she breathes in and take a huge amount of Oxygen in her lungs.
"I know your there! Come out traitor!" She yelled in the forest urging Bell to come out.
Hearing this, Bell was hurt on what he's little sister was calling, but he can't come out, knowing full well that Lala will severely hurt him for supposedly assaulting their mother.
"Come out, Bell! Explain why you left and attacked mom!" She yelled again with Bell not moving from his hiding spot.
After a few yelles from Lala, she gave up and was about to turn around and go back to the village, but was stopped by a bush russtling as she looks towards it.
"Is that you, Bell?" She asked but no one answeres, not even Bell.
She then got closer to the bush as she slowly gets more scared as she inches closer and then after a while, she suddenly was jumped by a Astralwolf jumps on her and knocks her back to a tree which she hit her head on and was knocked out instantly thanks to her still young body structure.
"Lala!" Bell yelled as she jumps between her and the Astralwolf.
The Astralwolf instantly saw Bell arrive as he suddenly get's more aggitated and angry from mearly seeing Bell, which caught Bell's attention.
'Even beast's like you react like that!?' Bell asked in his head as he stood their in fear.
The reason Astralwolves are feared are becasue they are made out of pure magical lightning that was a result of a unknown event, as they suddenly just appeared along with Solarbears and many more and they were known for following their prey no matter where they go until they die or they killed them.
Bell was now shaking in fear, but he still stood between Lala and the wolf as he can't let Lala die. And then all of a sudden, the wolf pounces towards Bell as Bell reacted by quickly picking up Lala bridal style and dodging out of the Wolf's direction.
Bell has now recognised the position he's in. He can't return back to the Village because of two things. One was that their mother most likely already told her lie to the whole village and second, because this Astralwolf will only follow him back to the village and kill all the residents inside the village.
And so, Bell picked up a pebble and threw it towards the Astralwolf's eye, it misses but it was enough for Bell to distract the wolf enough for a quick retreat, but he knows it'll sniff him out. So, as soon as he arrived at the edge of the forest, he dropped off Lala and went back inside the forest to atleast lure it off to wildlife animal to change it's target.
So, Bell started jumping from tree to tree as the Atralwolf following him, Bell was lucky that even without magic, he was blessed with physical prowess unlike the other kids in the village.
'That's right, follow me.' He said in his head as he jumps from tree to tree on search of an animal.
After a while of searching, Bell suddenly see's a traveler in the wood's seemingly collecting some mushrooms. Seeing this, Bell tries to go towards the other direction of the traveler, but he was too late as the Atralwolf saw the traveler and has now marked them as they're new prey.
'Oh no!' Bell yelled in his head as he started dashing over to the person.
"Oh! this should be enough mushrooms for my porrige." The traveler said in a feminine voice.
"Watch out!" Bell warned the traveler.
But before the traveler could react, the Astralwolf was now on the air towards the traveler and so, left with no choice, Bell pushes the traveler out of the wolf's way making him the new prey.
He then looks back at the wolf who was now falling towards him, ready to thorw a slash with it's sharp claws. Seeing no other way out, Bell tries closes his eyes, looks away and tries to block the claw slash with his hand by forming a X to block it.
But as soon as the Wolf came in contact with his right hand, the wolf's body instantly shattered as the traveler looked at the scenario with shock. Bell, who was expecting a slash, which never came, opened his eyes and looked back to see the wolf is now gone.
Bell was now confused as he looks around and saw the traveler who was also shocked.
"He-" He cutt himself off as he's body suddenly felt weak as he falls to the ground.
"He-hey! Don't pa-" Bell couldn't hear the last part as he closes he's eyes in a sudden exhaustion.
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TO BE CONTINUED!