Falling Into The Stars

Chapter One

What does a child really think about? Do they clearly remeber their childhood, and when do they stop being children?

I found out the hard way when I was only 96 moon cycles old. Our beloved planet of Kad'os went under a drastic change. A war had broken out due to a rebellion, a rebel group by the name of Talos.

Talos was on the war path to over throw the ruling monarchy, to free us from a tyrant king and classification rank.

It was a dark day in Kardonian society, it's a day I remember clearly.

My home was no longer safe. Fires rose from the cities, ash fell like twisted snow, the sky was chocked up with black smoke and the stench of death Hung heavy in the air.

In the small settlement that I called home on the outskirts of the imperial Ranks,in a town I can no longer remember the name, was one of the first places to be raided for supply to aid the rebellion.

I can still hear the high wails of children who's parents we're slain before them, the sickening crunch of bones being broken for resisting the mercenaries and the shallow breathing of the unlucky Daich soldier who was beaten to make a point.

It was such a dark time and I remember it clearly as glass.

It wasn't until I was forced bellow the stairs to hide with my older brother, and had to watch my uncle be brutally murdered before me, and watch as the thick blue blood pool underneath the door I hid behind. Holding my brothers mouth with my hand to keep his cries of outrage silent.

It was then I knew, I knew I couldn't live on a planet like this any more.

On a night when all three moons we're high in the sky, I was roused from my terror infused sleep by my frantic brother, we we're going to leave Kad'os. Every one solemnly collected things they couldn't bare to part with, photos, toys, pets, and Kardonian artifacts that would be given to my brother and I when we came of age.

As we collected my aunt and her three young children my brother had asked her why our aunt couldn't stop crying, mother said she was sad. But I thought she was angry and sick of all of the senseless violence on Kad'os.

It wasn't until I was boarding our ship that I was hit with a horrible realization.......... I couldn't be a kid anymore. I had to grow up quick and strong to protect my new home..... where ever it may be.