The legend of Aurora

Chapter 1: REUNION Part 2

Outside it started to rain harder. It was a great storm. Everyone had came together to celebrate the day that Stella healed the world, Reborning Day, and this year it was special, it was the seventh year since the original Reborning Day. Everyone was there, gathered. The kings of Ite, Kishu, Korekuta, Majutsu-shi, Haribuddo, Doragon and Sen'in. And everyone who knew Stella. Entire villages had been saved because of her sacrifice, and if the Majutsu-shi temple had been like any other temple, half the people that had attended wouldn't had been able to fit, but as the Majutsu-shi temple had been applied a spell of extension, everyone could be inside without getting wet.

Everyone gathered around the ''Portal''. The queen of the Majutsu-shi stood up, and said:

– We are gathered today in honour of Majutsu-shi Stella, and we are going to celebrate the day she restored our world. It has been many Moons since this happened, but on the eighty-seventh Moon, seven years after this, we celebrate Reborning Day. Who will go first?

– I will – A little girl, about a decade old, spoke. She had two ponytails that gathered up all her hair, except for her unruly fringe, which reached her eyes. The ponytails were tied back with two rubber bands, with two identical blue feathers and hundreds of little rainbow coloured beads. She was a redhead, except for the tips of her hair, which were white. She wore a black T-shirt that was as long as a dress, that reached to her news. She didn't wear any shoes. She had a pink backpack. Her eyes were white as if they were blind, but the little girl could see. Her eyes shone with sadness.

– What is your name, little girl? – Asked the queen.

– My name is Dalia, and I have known Stella since longer than any of you – She answered

– Nonsense, I'm sure that her friend know her for much longer than you. Which village are you from? I'm sure we can work out when exactly Stella saved It. – The queen asked.

– Stella didn't save my village. And I'm from no village. – She said – I live alone in the Portal Forest.

« I was only three years old when she found me. I was in the market of the Undonoa village, in the Kishu kingdom. I never knew my parents. I was all alone. I lived in the street. That day, I saw a minstrel, the most famous of the lands. The Juglaress. She told stories of old, legends almost forgotten.I tried to steal her money. But she looked at me. And she said I should go with her. She used to say I was special. She took me to her house in the forest, which is now the Portal Forest. She gave me food, and water. She cared about me.

« One day, she had to leave. But not to carry information to other places, or to sing songs and tell stories to the nearby villages. She had to leave somewhere to meet some people she said would defeat the Shurekku. She was very powerful. She was, in one way, the guardian of the forest. She would spend hours in the biggest tree in the forest, near a fountain, carving things. The day she left in search of the Slayers of Shurekku, she gave me some things. She gave me a flute, and said that if I ever needed her, I just had to play her favourite song. She gave me an amulet, and said it would protect me from every danger. And lastly she gave me a book, and said it told the story of the world. Then she left, and had adventures, saved villages, but she always wrote a letter back to me. But then she... she's...– The eyes of Dalia were filled with tears – She promised me we would make my staff, my Majutsu-shi staff, when she came back. She never did. And all I wanted to say was that she was old, and she possessed infinite intelligence, but also that a promise is a promise, and that she needs to come back, and make my staff. – She sat down again. No one knew that. They all mumbled around.

– I'm also here to read out loud her testament. – Dalia added suddenly, and stood up.

– She wrote a testament!? – Exclaimed Callie – What proves that she's the one who wrote it, and not you?

– I would never leave you a heritage of any kind to you losers, but it appears that Stella did care about you, so she left you something – Replied Dalia.

– She has a point – Said Ayla.

– Read the testament, Dalia, please – Asked Howl

– Let's see... – Dalia took a scroll from her pink backpack – Ah, here it is... To Callie I bequeath this nail file, so that she can have her claws always sharp. To Ayla I give these gloves, so that she can shoot better with her bow. To Howl I give this bracelet, so that he can find everything that he is looking for. To Will I bequeath this horse chair, so he can ride his horse as fast as the wind.

Mmm...Good things? Aw, who am I kidding, what is this? – Dalia mumbled

– Can you prove that this is all not a fake? – Released Will suddenly, impulsive as usual. He didn't like knowing that he wasn't Stella's true friend. Neither did the rest of her friends. They didn't know that Stella had the power to bring back to life a dead world, and now this.

– Yes – Dalia said simply. She moved her hand to the pink backpack and took it off. Then, she opened it and looked for something. After some seconds, she found what she was looking for, and took it out. It was a flute, decorated with two identical glowing blue feathers, like the ones on Dalia's ponytail rubber bands. Then, she carefully brought the flute to her lips, and started blowing inside. Her hands moved expertly over the holes creating a beautiful melody. Everyone kept silent. The flute started glowing blue, like Stella's unique magic, and then Dalia, and the healing circle, also known as the ''Portal'', started growing again after years of inactivity. But it didn't end there. Roots, glowing golden roots. They extended everywhere, uniting magic. Everyone started glowing in different colours, connected to the primordial and elemental magic around them.

–What is happening? – Exclaimed Howl.

– What was always meant to, and what has been forgotten for centuries – Answered a dark cranky voice that came from the door of the temple.

The door of the temple opened slowly. At that exact moment, a lightning struck, and showed a hooded figure dressed in black. It had two Silver Sickles in each hand, probably extracted from a broken stick, or staff. In the handles made out of black wood were aquamarine runic inscriptions. The edges of the sickles were made out of two silver snakes intertwined. The stranger wore a black cape, and under, a really dark blue unitard. Under the hood of the cape, you could see a single white hair.

The royal guards asked the stranger:

– Who are you? Show yourself! – No one could see under the stranger's hood, but everyone could feel that he was smiling. He pulled the edges of the sickles inside the wooden handle, which was actually hollow, and then left the handles behind him floating, somehow. Then he slowly lifted his hands slowly to the hood of the cape. Then, he slowly lowered the hood down, which left uncovered a long, loose, white like snow, hair, and two pointy ears. Although her face was covered in scars, and her blind-like eyes showed coldness, everyone recognized her.

– I'm back – Said Majutsu-shi Stella.