Frumefni

Terra's grand sin

Not that far away from Nebula, towards the north, resides Terra. The fourth of the four major kingdoms. Terra is oddly advanced, unlike the others. It is because of their technology that Nebula was built atop a tower that reaches the skies. Terra is within a desert and inside a large hole in the sand around it. However, above that kingdom are floating mountains. No one truly knows how they came about. Simply that they have been there since the start. Some call it the work of a previous elemental host; others call it a miracle of God. If he even exists, Through the desert, a camel dashes through, carrying a person draped in robes. They appear distressed and paranoid as they continuously look backward, almost expecting something or someone to be there. Suddenly, an arrow flies near them, landing on the ground. They grow fearful and kick at their camel for them to run. As they dash, they turn back once again, and another arrow flies by them, tearing off their hood to reveal them to be a woman with eyes that glow an odd brown. It's then, after the second arrow, that the woman sees a group of multiple masked archers on horseback come up over a hill. They fire out a hail of arrows as they see her. Most of the arrows barely miss her, but a few lightly cut her—almost intentionally, but she's too scared to think. The archers shout something incomprehensible to the girl. Not much later, she arrives at what seems to be her destination. She climbed off her camel and ran towards a giant, closed gate. An ethereal, almost otherworldly energy radiated from a statue at the top of it. She got to the gate and tried to open it. Slamming her hands into its stone wall. The gate didn't open, but she didn't stop trying to force it open. The group of archers from before quickly arrived at her. One climbs off his camel, perhaps the leader. He spoke an odd language, which she didn't understand. "I- I don't know what you're saying!" She shouted at the archers as she turned to them. She was met with cruel and cold gazes, as well as multiple arrows pointed at her eyes. The presumed leader once again spoke to her in an odd language. His voice betrayed a sense of amusement, which she picked up on. "Why!? I- I just wanted to bury them! Is that such a crime!?" She shrieked at the archers with tears pouring from her eyes. One of them, who is still atop their horse, answers her question. "It is. Especially for someone with his cursed blood flowing through their veins." His voice was cold and full of hatred as he spoke to her. "He deserved no burial. He deserves to be burned for his crimes, even in the afterlife. You will meet the same fate he did." The leader of them laughed as he said this, seemingly agreeing. The girl looked at the archers. All of them had intense hatred for her in their eyes. Her eyes began to glow, and the ground around them started to shake. The archers seem unsurprised by this, and instead, they look more pleased by it. The gate behind the woman began to slowly crack open. "Blame God for letting you be born." The leader says this to her before giving the signal to fire. The archers fired as they were commanded. Arrows pierced her entire body. As she fell down, the leader of the archers caught her by her hair. He saw life in her eyes, despite arrows piercing even her heart. He then threw her into the gate. As he threw her, she grabbed at his shirt. Her eyes begged him not to be thrown. He pulled down his mask, revealing a twisted smile to her but also a tattoo on his cheek of the cathedral symbol. He cut her fingers off with a dagger he pulled from his pocket and watched her fall into the gate. He then gave the signal to leave to his men and quickly left the area. No trace of them was left behind except her blood. Suddenly, with a large, inhuman shirek, a black tentacle shot from the gate.