Two's Legacy

Chapter One

I'm running through the fields of green, sweet smelling grass in my dream. It's light and carefree, the most pleasant dream in months. I'm chasing a rabbit, keeping pace with the small animal as I laugh into the wind. I'm about to catch the creature when the ground opens beneath me, swallowing me whole. I fall through the darkness. My arms flail desperately to grab on to something - anything - that will stop my plummit. I spin head over heels growing increasingly dizzy, and just as I begin to feel like I may throw up, it stops.

I am standing beside a small river in a forest somewhere. There's a hut to my right, but other than that there are no signs of civilization, no signs of people. I look around me, and my eyes catch a movement in the trees. Mog. It can't see me, and neither can the others I've begun to notice. Suddenly the shack explodes, the ground trembling beneath my feet. Screaming comes from the destroyed building. It is both of fear and greif. A girl a few years older than me dashes out,midsection.tremors come from the ground.

She must be doing it, I realize. She must be Garde.

The Mogs race out of the bushes to try and capture the older girl, but she puts up a hell of a fight. When one of the Mogadorians gets a punch in, they all look shocked. They must know about the charm. This is Number One. A Mog behind One unsheathes his sword, driving the blade through her midsection. My ankle explodes into pain as One dies.