I grew to love my new family, they treated me as if I was one of there own, although I noticed many differences in myself. For one Father Tyre and brother Diandre had a dazzlingly blue gem on there foreheads, I liked to touch it, Father always laughed but Diandre didn't like me touching him at all. In fact I think Diandre was the only one that didn't consider me a part of the family, anytime he came home from his school he would ignore me, and if I got in his way he would yell at me. It took me a few months to learn the language but with the help from the part of my mind that wasn't a child it was easy. It took a little longer to learn how to speak. The family was pretty shocked that I was talking and walking at 6 months, or what they thought was 6 months, we have no idea when I was born. Mother, Abi and Cynthia had beautiful deep blue eyes and hair as green as the grass in the spring. Not to mention their ears were long and pointed, my other mind called them elves. They also were great at using Nature aspect, and could make things grow right in front of my eyes. My other mind didn't think this was that amazing at all, but for all intents and purposes it looked pretty amazing to me.
Diandre and Father didn't have the nature aspect, Diandre awoke to lightning, while father had fire, and they used it with their cultivation of Heavens energy. My other mind was deeply curious about cultivation, but father only practiced when Diandre was home and Diandre was getting more and more cruel to me as the years went by, so I tried to keep my distance. I asked father to teach me but he said it was to dangerous so I stopped asking after he got exasperated and yelled at me. My other mind then took over and I began to spy on Diandre while staying hidden, for some reason I was great at stealth especially when I listen to my other mind.
Today Diandre was using duel sabers and practicing forms, while incorporating a lightning cultivation technique, I was deeply impressed, my other mind was not. It told me that I was much better swordsman than him, but I didn't see how that was possible. Of course it then told me to just pick up the swords and see, while I hated arguing with myself I really wanted to hold them as well but knew that Diandre would beat me again if I touch his belongings. Last time he even used lightning as he hit me and it infuriated mother. Diandre didn't care though, I don't think he likes mother or elf sisters. I wonder what they are teaching him at that school, he has gotten meaner and meaner over the years for some reason.
Father then walked out to the practice yard with two bows and quivers, I suppose they are going hunting I thought to myself, Diandre then put the blades on the practice rack and left to the stables with father.
Almost as if I couldn't stop myself I began to walk to the practice yard. I was almost in a trance at this point, a feeling that told me my other mind was influencing me. I grabbed the hilt of one of the sabers my four year old body was hardly able to even lift it. Then as if lightning hit me, I suddenly knew things that I felt like I should just know. While the saber was to heavy to do anything my mind was telling me, I looked around and saw a wooden practice sword, it was had a short wooden blade that Ari used when she tried to learn the forms, she gave up after Diandre hurt her while sparring, it made my other mind furious when it saw the bruises and tears running down her face, I was two at the time so I didn't understand.
In a trancelike motion I began the forms that came to my mind, I was moving like a martial artist with years of muscle memory. I don't know how long I was there but by time my small body ran out of endurance the sun had went down and the entire family was staring at me in wonder, except for Diandre, his eyes were cold and a scowl was on his face.
Father then broke the silence and declared it was time for dinner and the family began to head to the house to wash up, except for Diandre who waited for me, once everyone was out of sight he grabbed me by my throat and picked me up so I was eye level with him.
"You disgust me human, how dare you steal from me, spying on my forms, I should just kill you now, no one here can stop me, I surpassed fathers power last year. They will realize that I did them a favor in time" At that time blue bolts of lightning began to travel down his arm into my body, the pain was unbearable, not only was he trying to kill me, but he was doing it slowly, and enjoying it. A huge smile plastered on his face as I tried to scream but my throat locked along with my other muscles in my body. My other mind was trying to talk to me beating against the barrier that separated it from me, but I couldn't hear, at this point all I could feel was my body burning from the inside out.
Suddenly the barrier in my mind cracked and with that new knowledge began to form in my mind, I suddenly held a deeper understanding of the Aspects and what they were. They are inside of me or always have been and I called upon the closest one, the burns began to heal at a astonishing rate, but it wasn't enough, I didn't have enough energy to keep healing, I needed to fight back, I called on another aspect, it didn't want to answer my call, but my other mind gave it a demand that reverberated throughout my body. My entire body was covered in black fire. Diandre immediately let go of my neck in fear, his hand was badly burned. I was finally able to scream before I blacked out.
I awoke the next day, my body was still in a lot of pain and I was covered in bandages, mother was sleeping next to me. I could see that she had been crying, the tears left small stains running down her beautiful face. I didn't know what felt worse the burning pain in my body or the pain from causing my mother to cry. Deep inside I knew it was my fault for picking up the saber. Diandre saw me as a threat once he saw my skill, I mean who wouldn't? A four year old child shouldn't be able to do what I did. I knew at this point that I couldn't stay here, while I wasn't quite strong enough to leave yet I knew I would have to leave my home soon. I called upon the first Apsect that I didn't need my other mind to use and tried to heal myself again. It answered my call like a old friend, and felt warm as it's energy traveled into my body. I felt the wounds healing and I tried to leave the bed without waking mother. Of course that was impossible, she was a mother and her sneak detecting skills far outclassed the abilities of my 4 year old body.
"Jerrick? You shouldn't be out of bed your wounds will reopen, and we don't even know how bad the internal injuries are"
Mother I'm fine, I can fix myself now I said with a smile hoping she would be happy and that look of deep sadness would leave her face.
Then mother began to take off the bandages and to her astonishment nothing remained except for scars that resembled thin lightning bolts going from my neck to wrists. She looked at the scars on my young body and frowned, although she was a simple herb farmer, she had seen plenty of violence in her life, she was also powerful nature aspect mage herself. She was familiar in the aspects especially the ones her children were blessed with.
"Jerrick this is important please tell me what happened…"
I was slightly shocked by this question because I thought it would be obvious, but for her sake I began to explain what happened, as I told my side of events her face went from sad to looking slightly sick, Maria knew her son had changed a year after he starting going to the empire for school. She knew he disliked Jerrick and would often tell them they should send him away, she also knew he wasn't kind to his sisters anymore either, and hardly even spoke to her anymore. She just couldn't believe he would try to murder a child. Diandre had claimed it was self defense after Jerrick suddenly used a black flame to burn his hand. The burn was so bad that his father had to portal to the empire to get healing or he would lose it. Tyre believed his son without any doubts and demanded that Jerrick be sent to the kingdoms orphanage by time he gets back. She however wasn't blinded by her sons success at cultivation however and once she examined the wounds on Jerrick it was obvious what happened. She doubted Jerrick would be alive if he didn't manage to gain control over his life aspect, the black flame also concerned her, black fire aspect wasn't something a small boy should be able to use.
Although she wanted to stand up to her husband and reason with him, and keep the young human she had adopted and considered her child in the back of her mind she knew that she couldn't keep him safe. Her son Diandre's mind had been warped into thinking he is superior to not only Jerrick but even his sisters. She didn't know what he learned in the empire, but whoever had warped her sons perception on other races had done a good enough job that he looked down on even his own family. There was no way she would be able to keep him safe, if Diandre wanted him dead then eventually he would make another attempt and what worried her even more was the strange powers Jerrick possessed, and if he accidentally killed Diandre defending himself it would tear her family apart. She kissed the young sleeping boys head and cast a nature aspect spell that caused spores to appear in the air around Jerrick, they slowly entered the boys body through his heavy rhythmic breathing, and put him in a even deeper sleep.