Spiritual Blooming

Chapter 17: Elemental Kingdom

We journey afar to faraway lands to finding solutions, in

the nasty weather and beautiful ones.

"Apollonia, where are we headed?" I say, moving

closer to her while climbing a green grass meadow. She just keeps on

walking, not saying anything to me at all.

Soon we reach the top we climb for a while. I bump into her.

"What is it?" I look to where her eyes meet, and there stands a tall

castle about three stories high. It is the biggest I have ever seen, better

than Mom's.

"What is this place?" Vlalore has caught up with us. "Welcome

to the Elemental Kingdom, this is where we will help our first ruler,

who is also a close friend of ours."

Loud noises can be heard in the distance as we duck behind

bushes, making our way down. We see an army charging toward the

castle.

"Haven, Vlalore, see those people charging toward the castle?

That is no other than Queen Silva's men."

As we watch from afar, I get this weird feeling wanting to help

them. "You feel it, don't you, sis?"

I just nod my head and look back at the scene before me.

Next, the soldiers retreat behind the forest as we wait for all of

them to go back. We follow them back to their camp; as we enter,

everyone is looking at us. Apollonia leads us to the biggest tent, and

there in front stand two guards.

"What are you here for, peasant?"

They both block my sister's way as she stands up to them. Do

you know who I am? You should move."

They both came closer to her. "You need to go away, half breed."

Apollonia soon takes a punch, but the dark-haired guard stops

it and lifts Apollonia and throws her. Vlalore catches her in time.

It is my turn. "My sister said to move, big guy." They both start

to laugh. "This tiny girl thinks she can boss us around." The darkhaired

guy comes closer, bringing his fist down. I, of course, stop it

and look at them smiling while his face is in shock, trying to get out

of my grasp. I run up to the tree that is nearby holding on to his arm

and twisting it and using all my strength, pulling him up and over

me as I scream, "Aaaahhhhh!" He lands right in the dirt, unable to

move.

That's when a woman comes out of the tent and looks at us.

Her hair is brown, and her eyes are purple; she is wearing a war coat.

She is now walking toward us but stops when she sees Apollonia

and runs toward her. Everyone around us has stopped and looked at

them.

"Are you okay? Who did this to you?" She looks at me and then