dark clouds gathered over head as Belle ran full speed through the unrealistically perfect plains before her. the air was still and cold but the grass still swayed ever so lightly side to side and her long purple hair trailed behind her freely. she didn't exactly now why she running full speed across this vast plain or where she even was but she continued nonetheless.
Belle continue to run until out in the distance she could make out the figure of another person wearing all black. she speed up feeling as if that person was what she had ben running to all this time. the closer she got the more certain she felt that this person was the reason she was running until she finally reached close enough to talk to the person.
"hello." she said between breaths as she slowed down. the person who was wearing a hood and facing away from Belle remained silent even as Belle approached them. "hey you ok." Belle asked as she reached out a hand to tap the persons shoulder, but the moment her hand made contact the scenery around her warped and changed leaving her standing at the edge of a cliff over looking an infinite void of darkness.
Belle panicked and fell back in shock as the ledge crumbled away into the darkness below. "what the hell is this." Belle screamed as she crawled away backwards. before she could even fully understand what just happened the scenery changed again this time putting her back on her feet in an completely pith black room with noting in sight.
"hello." Belle said in a low scared voice as she walked onward through the darkness so thick is felt like wadding through water. waling through the darkness Belle lost all concept of time until she finally saw faint light off in the distance.
thinking she could finally leave the eternally suffocating darkness Belle ran full speed towards the light, but what she ran to was not an exit but instead a little completely white boy sitting talking to himself. "hello." she said again this time receiving a reaction.
"what are you doing here," the boy said in a tone that Belle did not expect from a boy his size. "why do you keep coming back. he answered before Belle could answer his first question.
"sorry I don't know how I got here." Belle said while waling closer to the boy before the boy shouted for her to stop moving. Instantly Belles entire body froze and she couldn't move or talk. the boy stood up and walked up to Belle 's face. "stop coming here. please." he said in a sad almost depressed tone before turning around again.
"wake up." the words barely left the boys mouth when bell jolted awake in her bed. she looked around still confused and not fully awake yet. the old dresser by her bed, the window that was cracked open to let in fresh air and the desk right next to it with a few shitty drawings. "yea this is my room." she said as she got out of Bed to get dressed before fully opening the rooms window and taking a look outside.
Greysha the peaceful country in the southern part of the continent Arthis and the country that made her life hell. Greysha was one of seven country's in Arthis lucern, nact, shraila, Lous, Paldea and sol.
As the strongest country in Arthis Greysha was naturally also the most elitist, making the lives of those they deemed useless unbearable. Belle was one of those useless people as she was born without a mana attribute which left her without magic the worst kind of useless there was
A nock on Belle's bedroom door snapped her back to reality. "hey belle are you up yet." a deep voice asked from the other side of the door. "your moms made breakfast."
"yeah ill be there in a bit." she said as she ran down the stairs from her room and joined her family as they ate a simple breakfast of toast and some scrambled eggs.
Elise, belle's mom served her a plate before kissing her on the forehead and leaving for work her long red hair tied in a ponytail.
"hurry up or you'll be late." Lloyd said to her as he finished up his breakfast and stood up from the table. before he left he turned back to Belle. "I have some stuff to do out of town so I cant walk you to school today but you'll be fine right." he said while trying his best and falling to hide the worried expression on his face.
Before she could answer though another voice spoke up from the stairwell. "Am free today so I can take her." Belle's brother Luke said as he stepped down for breakfast, his short black hair that faded into a cream white still wet from his bath.
he sat down an quickly started eating his food. "that's fine right." he asked Belle between hurried bites of toast.
"yeah its fine." she answered before standing up herself and heading for the door. the walk to school was mostly spent with Luke talking and Belle giving half baked answers as she mentally prepared herself for another day at her horrible school.
Avril academy the third most prestigious school in Greysha. the large boarding campus was the center piece the city with its large bell tower visible for miles. The only reason Belle was allowed to attend such a good school was because her father Lloyd had pulled some strings for her, and even then because of how useless she was she wasn't allowed to stay in the school dorms.
Lucas waved her off as she walked past the school gates and into her class. her classmates barely noticed her entering and continued on with whatever they were doing, except for a group that snickered and laughed at her.
Between the magical theory lessons where her classmates had fun shooting fireballs or whatever magical element they had at test dummies, or history were everybody dozed off, not a single person talked to Belle but she had long gotten used to it.
soon the day ended and belle prepared to leave when a hand tapped her shoulder. it was a Lisa, a girl who like Belle didn't really talk much but was on friendly terms with the class. unlike most in her class Lisa didn't make fun or bully Belle so talking to her enjoyable.
"do you need something." belle asked her while she finished packing up her things. "my brother will be here in a bit to pick me up but i can still help you."
"that's great. I need some help moving the training dummies out of the field for the night, do you think you can help me."
"sure." belle said as the two left for the field but when they got there there was only one dummy in the middle of the field and a few of her classmates.
she immediately knew what this was and turned to run, but her legs sunk into the ground like it was quicksand, effectively restricting any movement or thought of escape.
the people she found standing next to dummy then dragged her kicking and screaming back to center of the training field, where they pushed her up against the dummy.
"watch carefully." one of the boys said as he particles of mana left his palm and solidified into chains. "easy right." he continued to say tauntingly as he chained belle.
They continued to laugh as they all took turns burning or splashing her with water using their magic. After getting their fill of bullying Belle they left her, wet and bruised lying pathetically in the middle of the field.
she remained lying there until her brother found her and took her home. All through out the night her family tried to get Belle to tell them who it was that was bullying her, but she wouldn't budge. there was no point as no matter how much her family complained to the school the bullying would persist.
knowing that Belle wouldn't talk to them, Estell and Lloyd decided to head straight to her school leaving Belle and Lucas alone for the night.
"so who was it this time." Lucas asked after his parents had left. unlike his parents Lucas's gaze was cold and vengeful. despite his slim body Lucas was an A class mage, one of only 5 in vares.
belle didn't answer his question and instead asked her own. "and if you know what then, you beat them up and for a week at most they leave me alone."
they stared at each other for a bit before Lucas stormed out o the house.
in her room Belle sat at her table drawing until she fell asleep. when she opened her eyes again she was back at the lush green scenery from before.
she walked for a bit and once again found the person on black. this time when she touched them they disappeared again but left behind some white gloves. curious Belle bent down to pick up the gloves and immediately something sent her flying to the side.
she landed a few meters away dazed and confused. her right arm was torn up and spewing blood from four slashes that ran across it. she looed up at what had hit her and in between the gloves and her a huge silver and black bear with razor sharp claws standing in its hund legs, looking down at her without moving.
its claws dripped with Belle's blood as it slowly started walking towards her, its eyes locked on.