The Brink of Giving Up || A KotLC Fanfiction

Chapter One; Memories

I sat down on my huge, dark blue bed and cried, memories flooding back again. Sadly, this had become a normal event after... after what had happened.

Elwin, the Foxfire physician had told me I needed to be strong, I needed to fight through the tears and distract myself when these episodes happened. Otherwise I'd risk having my mind broken. At the time, when he'd told me that, it had scared me enough that I told myself I'd never think about what happened before.

But other times, like times like these, I didn't even care. I just collapsed onto my bed, shaking with sobs and let myself fall back into the memories.

Me, my sister, my dad, and my mom. Sitting on a blanket, having a picnic for my mom's birthday outside of Hazelbrook, our forest-like home.

Everything was safe. Everything was okay.

Then there was a huge gust of wind. It circled us, rapidly increasing speed until all the food, blankets, and even our capes had blown away, into this huge cyclone of wind.

There was screaming. Screams telling me to stop. Telling me to control my ability. Telling me to calm down.

But it wasn't me.

I didn't create this. Sure, my ability could get out of control sometimes... but I knew when I was doing it. I wasn't doing this...

More shrieking and yelling.

My heart raced, and I started to doubt myself. Who else could it be other than me? I was the only Guster in my family...

My hair whipped my face, and my breaths started getting shakier and shallower as I fought to stay grounded.

There was a huge oak tree near us, so I stumbled over to it and climbed it, hoping I'd get out of reach of the winds, but it didn't help.

I held on to the branches for dear life.

As I was caught a flash of two cloaked figures run away, one dragging another figure who was fighting against them, but this one wasn't cloaked...

Later I realized that was my father.

And then, just as if it had never happened, it stopped. Everything was silent, but my mind was racing. What had just happened?!

I slowly climbed down the oak tree, wobbling on the ground.

Just as I started to look around, my breath caught as I saw my sister, unconscious on the ground, and my parents nowhere to be seen.

I screamed, shaking my sister, begging her to wake up. Tears were streaming down my face. Then I looked closer and I saw she was lying in a pool of blood.

The rest of it was a blur. I slightly remember hailing Elwin over to Hazelbrook until I slowly blacked out.

I woke up shortly after to devastating news. My sister had passed away due to blood loss, and no elixir could save her.

A few hours later, they found my mother, left in the woods, hanging onto life. Elwin worked as hard as he could, but he didn't know if she would make it.

She passed away the next morning.

My dad was still missing, and they never found him.

Words couldn't explain my sadness. My heart felt like it broke into a million pieces and they'd never be sewn back together. Nothing could ever be okay again.

Then my mother and sister's planting... I didn't want to think about it. I could feel my mind struggling, and I knew thinking about all this wasn't helping it. I... couldn't have a broken mind. It wouldn't be fair to my other family members.