Queen of daylight

Chapter one.

"For bloody starters I'm not buying that dam beasts head" the salesman gives me a foul look "I only ask for five schillings" I point at the massive head that could last a family for weeks. I've been trying to sell the snake head to this salesman for ages but he won't take it, either from who I am or from what I dragged in. "I am not buying your godsdammed corrupted creature, now leave my store before I make you" he grows standing up from his seat towering over me as if trying to scare me. I tilt my head the action being familiar to me and stare at him using all my self control not to punch him "oh really?" A sly smirk spreads across my face looking up at him a long bushy beard, dirty face and long hair would do the usual job on making anyone scared but being used to the scary face and threatening sentences it takes a bit more to scare a girl who's delt worse. "Get the hell out of my store. Corrupt" he scoffs at me blowing hot air out his nose. Smirk leaving my face at the nickname grown too familiar with me it seems like I won't be selling this head but eating it for dinner. "Exysta mulaxo" (fucking fatass) I spit leaving the store with the head.

Fae used an ancient langue called dalaritan was the common tounge until humans came to be and the language is now only used by fae who are naturally born knowing it, being half fae or 'corrupt' as the villages call me I was born with a few parts fae a few human. There were six kids born during the overtaking which was the war between fae and humans, no one knows why we were born with powers when all of our parents were humans but we were the only children in all of Aspiria to be a mix, each one of us possessing a unique power, except me.

I the only one born with no powers but also the only one with the knowledge of understanding and speaking Dalaritan which makes the language utterly useless to me unless I were speaking to fae which don't even come a fifty foot radius to the kingdom and our part of the forest, so I only speak it if I want to insult someone finding it funny they can't understand. I have tried to teach the other it but for some reason they get confused even when I'm just telling them about numbers so I given up, I've known this language since birth, English feels like a foreign language to me since my mother tongue is Dalaritan.

Since being the mix in the whole land everyone thought of us as a curse giving the nickname 'corrupt' every part of me seems human but the fact I speak ancient languages no one understands. So I don't get why I'm considered corrupt since I'm no threat to anyone, I've just learnt to find my strength in other things like hand on hand combat and hunting as much as I love my group they all just hide behind there powers barley knowing anything about wielding a sword but knowing how to heal a fatal wound by one or set a whole house on fire with a wave of a hand.

I leave the small shop and eventually reach home dumping dinner on the cobblestone floor outside. The place I call home is relatively small but just big enough to house four people it's quite small to my group of six living inside but massive to a single family. I found the group when I was fourteen after escaping the royal guards slaughtering my family, we eventually found this house unoccupied and Davion took quick work of it threatening anyone who dare try kick us out with his fire abilities imperials got shit scared of the kingdom being burnt down of his explosive anger they finally left us alone after three years and ever since then braelyn, serenity, rune, davion, and Kaiser been a family. There used to be a seventh her name was Emy she died as a baby as soon as they found out a bunch of mixes have been born we pay respects to her every year on the day of the overtaking, we never knew her but we all mourn her.

I set up a small fire right outside the house on the small porch of stone, all that sits is a small fireplace and a few deck chairs in horrific conditions.

"Look what the cat dragged back" Rune walks out the door, sandy hair all messed up and dirty white shirt unbuttoned as if he just woke up, he see me trying to take apart the serpent with my father's dagger. I smile at him, Rune is like the funny older brother I never had even though he's the same age as me. "Looks like we're not going hungry" i sigh, having all the meat is good so we won't go hungry but it can be bad if we don't eat it quick enough it can start to mold. "What's the chef cooking this time?" He looks at the head with raised eyebrows "I don't even want to ask how you manage to get that" he mumbles under his breath "I'm not cooking I cooked last time" i look at him "and your definitely not cooking you burnt it last time" in response he rolls his eyes "yeah, yeah" he sits down by the fire as the sky grows dark, nighttime following. Runes power is strength giving him ten more tones strength than usual people have.

Braelyn and serenity walk out with a smile on their face, I'm the closest to braelyn out of everyone here, she lost her parents the same day I did, imperials murdering them for harbouring us. Her power is illusions, she can make anyone see anything even to the point where they fight like real physical beings it helps a lot when your out numbered or if you want to make a quick get away. She has dark brown curly hair, beautiful dark skin and hazel eyes that glow in the sunlight. Serenity is the most quite out of all of us, her parents are still alive but chose not to talk to her more ignoring her existence and her power is healing, if any of use come home being wounded she can bring us back to restored health, she's not really into fighting's more staying on the sidelines for help. She wears a brown corset with a matching ankle length skirt making her blonde hair and blue eyes lighter than usual.

Only davion and Kaiser are not here, probably off stealing some stuff to piss of imperials Davison power is fire as I said before and Kaiser is telekinesis, the most powerful one here controlling anything and everything with his mind, he hasn't really explored the extent of his powers yet so we don't know how much he can control, the most he's ever moved is a five imperials when they tried to stop us from going into main hall to see a hanging, they thought we were going to intervene which is exactly what we did, that didn't end up going well to say the least.

"I'll cook" Brae offers with a shrug she walks over to the mountain of torn apart flesh. "What exactly is that supposed to be" she puts in her usual judgmental face stabbing at the thing with her finger "a snake, serpent mutation thing" I shrug, I don't really know what it is but it's a snake of some sort to say the least. She sighs "better get to cooking then" she starts picking at the thing finding a chunk of meat to cook.

I could barely hear serenity's voice over braelyn gagging of the sight. "your bleeding" I look down at my calf to see a huge bite mark where the serpent had dragged me underwater, the bleeding had stopped now but it still hurts like hell I didn't even notice the pain until she mentioned it. Serenity walks closer, close enough to put her hand on my wound earning a hiss from me. She lets out a low breath, a tingling sensation runs up my leg soon soothing my aching calf. When she pulls her hand away there's no sign of a bite there I smile up at her. "Thanks ser" she smiles back to me.

"AHH" I look over to see braelyn scaring the shit out of Rune. "Quit it brae" she laughs with a knife in hand and the serpents eye on it. "Couldn't you sanitise that dam thing first Adelin" he backs away from the eye being waved at his face "oh yeah? And how am I supposed to do that" another laugh escapes brae. "Exysta syxalol jumylx" (fucking dumb idiots" I sit back down in my chair as Rune screams like a little girl. "Are you scared of an eye ru ru?" Brae raises an eyebrow slowly getting closer "what do you think" he backs away. Brae is about to throw the eye at him, as it's flying mid air it stops suddenly as if time has stopped.

"Stop playing with food" davion and Kaiser walks up. Kaiser hand is in the air towards the eye, using his ability to throw it back at braelyn earring a scream from her at it hits her chest. Rune laughs out loud and Kaiser smiles walking to the door. A few specks of blood colour his shirt while his light brown hair is everywhere like he has just been fighting "What you'd get this time?" I ask turning to Davion who looks even worse than Kai. "Just ten schillings and a few pissed off imperials" he shrugs "can't you steal shit without getting imperials attention" I roll my eyes he plants his hand on my shoulder I huff at the sudden weight planted "oh dear addy, where's the fun in that" I shrug his hand off my shoulder "Runes stupidity is rubbing off on you"

"that's for damn sure" Brae mumbles glaring at Runes sly smirk. She flips a rather large chunk of meat onto the pole above the fire, she turns it getting it evenly cooked on all sides before serving it to us on dishes.

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