Fire.. that was the only thing I could see around me. The whole world seemed to be on fire but weirdly enough that fire didn't burn me.
Then I heard it, I heard that painfully agonizing scream that tore through my mother's whole being as the fire ate at her skin while my father hugged her to himself clenching his jaw so tightly, I fear it might snap under the pressure.
My baby brother started crying as the fire nipped at his tender skin. Very quickly the scene changed and then I saw my brother, the only family I had left being slowly tortured to his death and with a jolt I awoke from my haunting past.
This nightmare has been haunting me ever since the day my brother left me...no scratch that, ever since these cruel animals killed him and yet they called me a monster, a beast, they called me wicked.
Confident as a cocky peacock, they feel they're the righteous ones for wanting to 'cleanse' the world of filth by killing my whole family for no reason whatsoever, just because it makes them feel powerful, because they feel like they can control the world if they did that, they feel like they're doing the world a favor by wiping my whole family out for fear of what they don't know.
Those monsters all deserve to be chained in a dark room with no window and doors and sh!t themselves to death and rot in hell for what they've done to me, for what they did to my family.
And the so called ever so 'kind and loving' king is no different from the rest of those bloody bastasrds. Why take me in if you can't even protect me? Why bother giving me hope just so you can trample on it and crush it to shatter into a million pieces? Why? To remind me that I'm beneath him? To remind me that only those with power in society can decide the fate of the weaker part of it? Disgusting!
I know for a fact that if he had given his order for them to leave us alone, to not bother us, to not hit us, to leave me in peace, they would've listened and respected his decision but the darn bastard never even batted an eye my way whenever they had hit and bullied me.
Even when those animals had killed my brother, he never spoke a word about it and acted as though he didn't want to involve himself with filth!
I hate all of them, soo much sometimes I just wished they'd all die by killing each other, but alas I can only hope, can only dream of their deaths.
Sighing softly I get up from my bed knowing fully well that sleep has eluded my being for the rest of the day, not like it'd be anymore peaceful than it already is anyway.
I head over to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the royal pigs and the nobles dogs.
Funny how they all call me a beast, a witch yet they keep eating from the same hands they had tried to cut off several times.
Avocado toast, a huge fruit bowl, waffles and pancakes and scrambled eggs is all I managed to make by the time those beasts usually wake their sorry bums up.
A huge serving of soufflés always takes more time to make but I don't have an option cause the princes aka little miss 'light of the kingdom' would only ever eat that for breakfast.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the princess even a single bit but I'm weary of her. She tried to befriend me plenty of times but I'd rather not make friends with a dogs daughter daughter.
I take a few waffles and fruits for myself and head over to my room, yeah, the bastard gave me a proper room fit for human living. Although small and cramped, it makes a good place for me to hide away.
After making sure I wouldn't bump into anyone on my way out, I head out to a part of the forest where I met someone who secretly trained and taught me since the day my brother died. Although, he's not from this damned kingdom, I would rather trust him than anyone from this hell.
He taught me a lot of things since the day he met me here. martial arts, sword skills, spear skills, saber skills, archery, and hunting. Wasn't an easy fit though. But we won't be practicing any of those today.
He had told me we would be practicing element control. Water, to be precise. At first I laughed so hard my stomach hurt but then I saw him control water from a small stream and I froze in awe at how flawlessly he was controlling it. From the water leaving the stream to weaving softly around my body and then going towards his own body without leaving a single drop on my clothes and freezing it in midair.
I was soo amazed and I anticipated learning to do that too but now that I have to do it my nerves are going haywire.
I wouldn't have believed I could do it if he hadn't shown me his weird birthmark he had too just like mine but his was different. It looked like a spear and a sword clashing on top of a battle shield. And he could also control the mark to move.
He taught me how to control mine also but I'm not as good as he is yet.
If punctuality was a person, it would definitely be him. Always the first one to get to our training spot in the forest, no matter how early I arrive, he was always there before me.
At a point I started believing he lived there but then I scratched that thought out of my mind. It wouldn't be possible for him to live there without any form of shelter.
Oddly enough, he wasn't there. 'Well, that's a first' I thought to myself. Why isn't he here yet?
Celebrating my mini victory at beating Sam today, I didn't notice the bastard snickering at me from atop a tree.
He landed effortlessly from the tree in front of me with that darned cheeky smile on his face.
"Good morning Sam, thought you beat me today, didn't you?"
He greeted me first while stretching his hand to pick a leaf out my hair.
"Cheeky idiot. Why can't you just be late, even for one single day?"
I replied him and swatted his hand away.
"Did you miss me? I know you did and don't try denying it"
He said with that annoying smirk on his face.
I just ignored him like I always do and swatted him on the back of his head.
"Enough chitchat, Sam. Now come on. How long do I have to wait for you to teach me to control water? I'm starting to think you're putting off."
I complained with a dirty glare at him.
"Fine, fine we'll be starting today. Now come with me."
And just like that Sam took me to a cave behind a small waterfall that connects to the stream he had controlled water from the other day.
Well, here goes nothing.