Love & Greed

Prologue

Today was the day I was captured. Well, allowed myself to be captured.

For a few years now, a single nation as dominated over the rest of the lands. My village was the farthest and rather smallest of population but it had one of the richest farming resources, making us a target, not until h of one, due to size but a target nonetheless. Being the farthest away the capital gave us quite an advantage but at best it allowed us to disguise ourselves and make a run for it. Because what is the richest land without the one person that makes it rich.

Unfortunately, that person is me.

I was born into a little nobody family in a village so small that it shouldn't even been included on the map, yet because of me it has been allowed to grow and prosper. I was born with special abilities that none of my other family possessed, I could control the growth of the Earth and all that was planted in it's dirt. In other words, I was their priced possession. Heaven forbid, something happened to me, like get sick or anything, like die, they wouldn't even make it through winter.

My "gift" was blessed unto me by the Earth's goddess, for every one hundred years the chosen female is tasked with the lands growth and prosperity. If something were to happen to the chosen female, such as myself, there would not be another to take my place until that hundred year mark. In other words, waste would lay upon the lands for the remainder of the time. For a child, an infant, that is such a heavy burden to take on.

Everyone got a real example of what good my power can do when I was born, trees, grass, crops blossomed vividly across the Earth, everything was so lively and bright, it was a joyous day for everyone. Yet, I grew up bullied for it, and it was the only thing I would be known for. I had no other purpose in life. Depressing. I just wanted to be me. Watching the other kids, growing up finding their own way, it was hard to be happy just being a puppet rather than a person, but I learned to live with it.

Once, when I was five, one horrific day, one that will haunt me and my village forever. I begged my parents to allow me to play at the lake with the other kids, and regrettably agreed after awhile.

The other kids had invited me just to see my powers up close but when I refused them, they got angry and shoved me into the lake. Of course, I couldn't swim and I became panicked, my rising emotions caused the earth to shake and the currents to become stronger. Making it harder the surface of the water. The longer I struggled, the strong my emotions became. I had created an earthquake. I was told that everything began to die around me, the ground, trees and the crops. Finally, my parents found and saved me, but my mental state suffered tremendously.

My parents tried to hide it by telling me they had moved out of town, but i over heard them saying they were the only causalities. None of the other kids suffered any consequences cause I was too scared they would try something again. I became depressed for a couple of years and our lands suffered for it, crops were harder to grow, I was named the "cursed child" I was never really trusted fully again after that. Imwas constantly watched. I learned to mask my emotions and to just get the job done, wake-up, eat, grow, eat again, bathe, sleep, and repeat. Nothing ever changed.

Until that fateful day, my village was invaded.