*NINE YEARS AGO
"I can't go please, let me go back" I cried
"No you can't go back it's not safe"
"But I have to, they're scared I can feel it" I said and cried more while struggling out of Everetts' hold.
"Aura you can't go back there, you have to ignore what you feel and come with me, you'll be more safe where I'm taking you" he said turning me to look at him and holding my arms.
"But my family's in danger I have to save them" I said and cried more.
"Your safety matters more to your family, they're alright okay"
"But they're scared"
"They are scared cause your still here, just come with me and they'll be safe"
"What about my sisters, I can't go without them"
"Your sisters are already safe please Aura just follow me"
"Alright"
He lifted me up on his back and ran...he had super speed and ran so fast that the cold air hit my face with force and at some point he stopped and brought me down from his back.
"Why are we here?" I asked.
"You'll see"
He blew at his index finger tip igniting a small fire above it, then raised his hand and dropped it immediately. He was opening a portal.
We walked through the portal and when I got to the other side I saw the most beautiful lake, the moon shone onto the lake making the still waters shimmer. Breeze blew my hair into my face and I removed it and turned to Everett.
"Where are my sisters?" I asked.
"They are safe, they are here somewhere"
"I should go looks for them?"
"No stay right here till I get back"
"Will you come back with my family?"
"Aura I will come back, if your family chooses to come with me they will, but just stay here" he said turned around and reopened the portal.
"Everett" I called.
"Yes" then I went up to him and hugged him and he hugged me back.
"Just stay right here for me, okay Kyen"
"Okay" I said and let him go, then he turned and went into the portal and left me standing under a weeping willow tree. I knew where this place was, my kind didn't live here, a different kind of creatures lived here. Humans. They were nothing like I was, I've been here a few times and the way they lived was nothing like the way my kind lived. It was completely different.
It had been so long and Everett hadn't returned, I kept thinking about my sisters. Where they really here too? I decided to walk around for a while, maybe I'd find them somehow. I walked and walked and walked but came across nobody then I started feeling an emotion a strange aura. It felt like sadness. I couldn't recognize who felt this emotion cause the person wasn't someone I knew. I followed the feeling to a doorstep, it felt stronger as I stood in front door and slowly the emotion changed to one of happiness. I was already tired at that time so I laid down on the ground and fell asleep.
I opened my eyes the next morning only to find out I was tucked in bed, a woman sat on a chair looking at me and when she saw my eyes open she smiled.
"Hi little one" the woman said leaning with her elbows on her knees. I could feel a sense of care coming from her.
"What's your name? Are you lost? Do you need help?" She asked but I still didn't say anything.
"Are you hungry? Do you want me to get you something to eat?" She continued.
"Sweetheart, let her be, she's just waking up" a man said. I looked up at him, he was leaning on the door frame with his hands crossed over his chest.
"She looks lost, what if her family's looking for her?" The woman said and then the man walked up to me and I jumped up.
"Stay calm, I'm not gonna hurt you, what's your name?" the man asked bending down in front of the bed. They didn't seem like bad people, they didn't seem like they would hurt me.
"M-m-my name is..." I didn't want to tell them my name I didn't have to either so I stood up quickly and ran out of the room. I couldn't find the exit so I continued running as they chased after me, I was having fun actually then I saw a door and quickly opened it. The exit. I ran out and they ran after me. Why were they chasing me? They don't even know me. I stopped when I saw a some big moving thing heading right towards me, I got so scared that I stopped and felt an arm pull me away and I fell back.
"Sweetie playing in the road is dangerous, you could get hit by a car just like that one so don't do that again" the woman scolded.
A car? Is that was that big moving thing was?
"I wanna go home" I whimpered.
"Do you remember where your home is?" Asked the woman.
I didn't remember where home was at all. Everett told me to stay right there where he left me but I didn't listen. He must be so worried. But I don't feel him anywhere, he must not be here.
The family took me back inside and when they left to get me something to eat. I came across a duvet folded on the floor when I looked at it I saw the most beautiful child ever. And she was sleeping so soundly. She had beautiful brown hair and when she slowly opened her eyes, mine met with an astonishing pair of russet brown eyes. She smiled when she saw me and stretched her hands out to me then slowly I leaned in and picked her up. She's a mortal child but I could feel something else from her. Something special. Something extra. Something like a gift. She giggled and it made me smile.
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"Mama no please I'll be good it's hurting me please" I cried.
"Aura my darling this is what's best for you, just stay still and let her do what she has to do" my mom said.
"But it's hurting me mama please, I'll be good just make it stop"
"It will stop hurting when she's done now stay, okay"
"Mama...please..he..lp...me" my world was turning black and I felt my body hit the floor.
I opened my eyes to see myself at home, tucked in bed my head hurting so I sat up and held my head. I felt empty. *