A young man with short silver hair was accompanied by a woman with brown hair and white smooth skin in the black market of Gujarat. It was never much crowded in the first place but today something felt off about the atmosphere in the black market. It felt like at every step the man took; thousands of eyes were staring his way but he walked assuredly and looked at the greenish swirling tattoo on the back of his hand. This tattoo was the mark of the wind ability, the ability of the nightshade family which were one of the four prestigious families across the whole India.
He was none other than Ignatius Nightshade, the current incharj of the Nightshade family. The woman beside him was his wife, Christa. She belonged to the Wave-shields family another one of the four prestigious families. This family used the ability of water. It was heard that the current leader of the Wave-shields family has enough control over his ability that he could easily bring-up tsunami's out of nothing and submerge whole cities underwater with a single thought.
But Ignatius was also strong to the point that he could also summon large gales of wind and destroy entire cities without much effort from his part at all.
The third family in the four prestigious family was the Oswald family. This family and its members were feared by many because of their destructive ability to control lightning and call it from the Heavens to smite it's wielders foes into the oblivion.
The fourth and the laste family was the Sun shields family. This family was known to control and manipulate the ability of fire to some extent. This family was also proficient in weapon and armor crafting skill, earning them a steady income. Ignatius believed that every leader was just as strong as him but he wasn't sure because they have never fought because of the fear of destroying the city and causing destruction on their own lands; but the fact was that all of these forces were allied with each other and worked together, if only on surface, but no one actually harmed each other and only vulgarities were exchanged between them.
Thinking all these, Ignatius walked forward into the black market and browsed the rare wares placed at various stalls. Despite being an illegal market, black market was just like any market but only accessible to a few people. He did nothing even as a family leader to stop the black market because the black market and all of the four prestigious families were in a truce that no one will disturb other's work as long as there interests were not damaged. And all the leaders agreed with this truce because they were aloud to pick the best items for their families but a fierce competition was always between the leaders to see who will get the best out of the black market, earning the black market thousands of gold coins every month.
As Ignatius was browsing the wares and slaves, his eyes landed on the figure of a purteet small child wrapped in metal chains. Her eyes were emotionless, like the eyes of a person who has gone through much despite only being around five or six years-old. Ignatius could not help but wondered what this girl could have experienced to become like this at such an early age. Out of pity against the girl, Ignatius bought the girl from the slave trader and removed her chains; Christa did nothing to stop her husband because she was also feeling the same pity for the girl. After that Ignatius went home with the girl and Christa and after a month or two, when little teen had recovered and Ignatius thought that it is the right time, he declared teen to be his and Christa's secret daughter which they had hidden from the public due to some personal reasons.
Teen slowly but surely, recovered her sanity and slowly started smiling more often than before.
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"hey girl! What are you standing there for? Don't you want to check your talent, don't waste your time! You have wasted half-an-hour already!" someone shouted and the bewildered teen came out of her thoughts all of a sudden. Looking around her, she saw a crowd of around 10-people around her standing in a line and the same elder who took her test was standing there with another of the elders but before she could think further, she heard something and became attentive---" alright younglings; it's the time to check and awaken your new talents! Be prepared because some of you will shine and some of the unfortunate one's, will regret this day. But that is for later, and now we begin the talent awakening ritual!" the second elder shouted as a green glow surrounded his entire body.