Lost Artifacts

Chapter 1: Guardian Angel

A girl is frantically running through the woods; there is a walkingplant chasing her. She trips and falls then puts up her arm to guard herself, and the plant whips her with its vines, causing her to scream in pain. The plant comes at her again, but she quickly scrambles out of the way, crying. The girl is up and stumbling again, she crashes through a bush and falls to the ground, stunned she remains laying there. Forced to stay still, she listens for the walkingplant. She hears it crash past her.

As the crashing gets more distant, she sighs in relief; attempting to stand up she tries propping herself up with both arms but her left buckles and she cries out in pain. She had forgotten the gouges in her arm and is now left with her face in the dirt, sobbing. After a few moments she hears the sound of crashing again and quickly jerks her face to the side, eyes wide. Fighting through the pain she rolls over and uses her good arm to help herself stand. As she's standing she is also scrambling away from the noises of the plant. Stumbling past some trees, she happens upon a broken down house at the edge of the forest near a town. Immediately she makes her way toward the entrance filled with relief at what could possibly be safety.

Someone's arms then wrap around her abdomen, helping support her. She tenses up as she is set down on a surface, the world around her is blurry. A voice can be heard but she can't tell what it's saying. Suddenly it becomes clear.

"Can you hear me? My name is Vivian. Are you alright?" without waiting for a response it continues, "What happened to you?"

"I was being chased by a walkingplant! It scratched me, it's still out there please help!" Her face is scrunched up and she is crying again.

"Of course! Just one moment." Vivian leaves, and the girl reaches out for her. But just like that, Vivian is back and there is a cold sensation on her arm. This causes her to shout in pain.

Her arm is shown, a salve is on it, there are four long gouges on her arm, all four are extremely swollen and poison can be seen spreading along her arm. Her arm begins to glow green where the salve is, and it rapidly spreads throughout her whole body. She begins floating, and is now completely glowing green, her eyes flash white and then she floats back down and is out cold.

Vivian begins walking around cleaning up stuff, this reveals a cauldron in the middle of the room and all of the potions around the area. After she is done she sits back down at the girl's side.

Flashback

Vivian is in a clouded area talking to a person in the Celestial Library. She is standing next to a large bookshelf, taking out random books and reading them. There is a book for every living being.

"Didn't think I would see you back here for a long time." says Ottoline.

Vivian sighs and turns around to see Ottoline standing there smiling at her. She runs toward Ottoline and hugs her.

Ottoline then asks "What brings you back? Missed me that much?"

Vivian laughs. "No. Well, yeah I missed you, but I-"

"Have decided it's time to move on." Ottoline interrupts.

"Yeah..." Vivian sighs again. They stand in silence for a moment. "I think I may have found the one." Vivian says showing the book to Ottoline.

Ottoline looks at her. "Not a child?" they ask.

"No. I feel as though I can really help her and I don't think it will hurt me as much if I start helping her at an older age." says Vivian.

"It's always going to hurt." Ottoline replies. At this moment Ottoline wraps her hands around Vivian's free hand and the book is in Vivian's other hand.