Sacred lullaby

Chapter 1

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When you live in the most dangerous place in the world you gotta know how to fight.

I was thought how to break a neck when I was 12 by my dad. People gossip and rumor about him being the cruelest and fiercest man to ever walk on Eura.

I'm one of those people by the way.

A little background info. Eura is the planet I live on. It is shaped like a rectangle with round edges because there are two sides. The fire side, which we know nothing about, and the water side, which I live on.

There's a barrier which was created by a deather over 1 000 000 years ago. Anyone who tries to cross it shall experience a slow and painful death.

That's why we have no track of anything that happens on the fire side. There could literally be no humans living there and we wouldn't know.

We're kind of worried about that because there's a prophecy that says that one day two chosen teens from both sides are gonna save the world after they turn 17.

There's an ancient elevator that they have to find for them to communicate and find a way to break the barrier.

There's also a gigantic asteroid that's gonna hit Eura and the hatuks, the chosen ones, will have to perform a ritual to move the planet to another galaxy.

Of course they can't figure it all out by themselves. They need a bit of guidance and that's why their tribe's God/Goddess will help them throughout their journey.

The selection happens this way: the ones that turn 17 on the date that the selection happens will all experience a dream with a different quest for every which one of them. The first two from the water side and the first two from the fire side who finish it first will get the title of hatuks (etymology~hatuk=special, armenian).

There are 11 tribes: Air, Fire, Water, Music, Death, Life, Warrior, Light, Ground, Time, Wisdom.

Everyone has its tribe's element power:
-Air tribe can control the air, suffocate people, move things with air and fly,
-Fire tribe can control the fire and the heat,
-Water tribe can control the water and freeze it,
-Music tribe can control what people hear and deaf them for a short period of time (it depends on how powerful the person is) and they also sing like angels
-Death tribe can predict when and how a person dies and can kill people with a flick of a hand, but it always comes with a price for them to pay,
-Life tribe can bring beings back to life also with a price for them to pay,
-Warrior tribe people have each one specific fight skill that they were born with but the legends say that there still are warriors that have all the fight abillities.
-Light tribe controls light and they can blind people for a short period of time (it depends on the person) and they can control what people see
-Ground tribe can control the soil but the most powerful ones can control other materials like metal ,
-Time tribe can time travel, speed the process of an action, but the ammound of time they speed, slow or travel depends on how powerful they are (it depends on the genes they have)
-Wisdom tribe can see the future and they are also learning faster then the people in other tribes.

Every tribe has a lower category named 'regulars' who don't have any powers. Of course there is the high category 'the nobels' and the 'royal' category (the 'beyond' one). Now there is only one tribe who has the royal category which is water tribe but back in ancient times every tribe had a royal category. There can be just one royal family per tribe.

No matter what category you belong to when you're born a song plays revealing your name. We call it sacred lullaby.

Now that you know my world let me tell you my story.

My dad is the most cruel, mean and feared person on the planet well... at least on the water side. We are deathers so we kill people, but I have announced that I will not kill people when I was 5. Dad didn't approve that but had to get used to it. My mom on the other hand was very supportive and excepted it.

She was a regular so it was self explanatory that she wouldn't argue about that kind of stuff.
Although I said I wasn't going to kill anyone ever, my dad thought me how to defend myself from a very young age. He said that many people will try and fail to kidnap me for his money or social power.

My mom passed away when I was 11 and she left with all the love and affection in my life. You may wonder 'why didn't my father just make a lifer bring her back' well if a day after the death of a person passes that person cannot be brought back.

Dad is very strict and serious all the time so I grew up pretty heartless. Every time dad would catch me cry he would make me hang by a wire tied to my wrists a whole night so it would cut my wrists by the morning. Then he would make a lifer bring me back to life if necessary. He is the cruelest man I've ever met. And trust me there are some pretty awful people in the death tribe.

I am turning 17 next week and my mom left me a gift to open a week before my 17th birthday. It is a letter. Dad was gonna throw it away but I snapped it from the trash can and kept it until now. The day that I open the letter has come but why can't I do it. I guess I'm not ready to feel the pain again, to mourn her death again.