Divine punishment

The chosen one

|| Hi ! This is my very first story, this chapter is quite short compared to the next ones but i really love this universe and these characters so i really hope y'all will appreciate it as much as me ! Now that it's said, enjoy ! ||

The silence was heavily weighing in the hall, the divine stare of a goddess was more then enough to steal anyone's will to speak. She stood on her throne, in the dazzling cathedral that was built centuries ago in her name, her gaze was studying every single one of her subjects that was kneeling, weak, completely exposed to her, it never felt quite right, every time Charly stood there,she could feel the fear taking ahold of her, she believed it was the same for everyone, however despite her young age, she knew no adults would ever answer her questions.

To be fair, she had tried before, but when asked "Why does everyone fear our goddess, isn't she supposed to protect us ?", every adults she knew would simply answer that she was too young too understand. Charly was right in front of the throne, her siblings at her side, head bowed down in utter respect, kneeling on the floor looking no different then pathetic bugs that could easily be squashed under Edrea's shoe. Suddenly, Charly realized there was a lot of thing she didn't understood about this world, and well, maybe it was because she was only ten, but she truly did wonder if anyone had a real idea of why they where kneeling here.

From what she had heard from adults, the goddess was looking for two children to train, two children who would fight by her side and swear to protect everyone ! It sounded cool, Eliza thought so too, but it wasn't a surprised, Eliza rarely disagreed with her, they where very similar ! But it wasn't just them, everyone viewed it as an honor ! It was actually the second time something like this happened, one month ago, a little boy from the opposite family to them was chosen. Because of course, the goddess would only chose someone from her most fateful believer, and here, apart for her own family, Charly knew only the Teleoz.

They where two family, and so, only 6 kids where left to chose from, there where two Teleoz girls left, they seemed to have trained hard for that day. Charly wasn't sure what kind of training it was, but maybe it was the reason why her dad kept forcing her to train instead of allowing her to play with Eliza, so maybe she was ready, regardless, her father seemed determined to "win". Edrea's cold and powerful voice cut off her thoughts

-Charlotte Vienzina, from this day foreword you shall train everyday by my orders, you shall devote yourself to me completely and accept every decision i made be it about you or the world, you shall swear to protect your people until the day you will leave this world, am i understood ?

Everyone understood that no part of this was a question and that Adrea would not accept "no" as an an answer but after all, why would anyone refuse ? In everyone's eyes, it was a chance, an opportunity to not miss, her parent's smile was huge, she was sure she had eve seen them so happy, and despite the other family's frustration, everyone looked at her with hopes, respect, expectations

-Yes your highness, i will honor you and your people to the best of my abilities !