Cecilia
There are four kingdoms. My father rules one of them. We stand for water. I hate it. Every single part of it. My life is run by endless dinner parties, meetings with other nations, being told how to dress, not to lose my temper, sitting properly, eating properly, not being rude.
I'm turning seventeen in one week my father always said a daughter of his will get married at seventeen. My mother never agreed with that, but now shes dead. He killed her for teaching me how to bend. I'm running away, I can't let my life be run by my fathers rules. I can't. The night air is cool as I walk to the stables to get Tobias my horse.
Annabell it hurts to think I'm leaving my little sister behind. I'll miss my four other brothers to even though I would and never will atmitt it.I am the third eldest child Annabell is the youngest of us then its James and Charlie the twins and then me, the second oldest is Clyde and finally the oldest is Isaac.
"Miss Cecilia." Nods the guard as I walk by."Thomas." I nod back, I feel kind of sorry for him. He's probably going to get fired after I take my horse and not come back "Can you go fetch some water for Tobias please?" I ask him. He nods again and walks up the path I came from.
As soon as he goes around the corner I run to the third stable door on the left. Cecilia+Tobias is carved into the door. I push it open, "Toby," I whisper "were getting out of here."
I rub his black forehead for a second and then climb on to my horse, with my bag on my back. My foot gives his side a light kick and suddenly I'm riding of into the green woods.I love riding Toby, only Toby. I've had him since I could remember.
Where am I going to go? A place with water lots of it I think. Bending water is like breathing since the first time I did it I could not stop. I felt powerful and full of life, I've always done it in secret. Secrets is all my family knows.
Only royal blood has the ability to bend but women was banded from doing it a logn time ago because we aren't supposed to be powerfull. There are four elements;air,water,earth and fire.
Each nation has its own part of the land where there element is most...comfortable I guess. The castle is literally on the beach.
There are of course other supernatural creatures such as warlocks,whiches, faries, lycanthropys, night stalkers,mermaids, trols and blood hounds. God I hate blood hounds. My father has three of them in a cage.
He trained them to listen to his every word, so whenever somebody does something wrong he will put them into the cage with the hounds. They usually just kill unless there told not to. One of our maids broke a window in his chambers while she was cleaning.My father threw her in the cage with them and I never saw her again.
The four kings are violent, and honor power; that's why woman ar aloud to bend. Isaac is second in line for the throne but my mothers words rings in my ears "You're father wasn't always like this she used to say but once they get the taste of power they change. I fear for Isaac my daughter, you should too" I do fear for him.
I've been riding for more than two hours, I can feel Tobias getting tired so I decide to ride two more miles and find a source of water. We ride another mile but find nothing, finally after 3 miles I find a little pond with very green trees surrounding it.
I climb off of my black horse's back and patt him a few times, he makes a horse sound and then runs of to a better pach of grass. I grin and walk to the water. Even though its only been a couple of hours since I bended water it feels like its been days.
When my mother was discovered for bending water I didn't bend for weeks on end. And I missed it so much it hurt until I finally got over my fear of being discovered and started bending again. From that day I bent almost every day. I touch the top of the water and close my eyes.
"First step, close your eyes"my mother taught me, "Second, clear your mind and third, think of the water as being part of you". I lift my hand's from the water. I lift my hands and the pond follows. My hands move in all kinds of directions and so does the water.
Annabell would have loved to learn how to bend. But I decided not to teach her it could get us both killed. Suddenly I hear a a big furious bark blood hound. I whistle three times and Tobias is standing next to me. Its our queue. I drop the water and reach down to my knee high boots. My two daggers are still there.
I take them out and point them toward the bushes. One hound jumps out, he's huge 'I can take you, I think to myself. Suddenly six or seven of them jump out to. That's the thing about blood hounds they are smart at battle. "Run!" I scream at Tobias. He obeys, he'll come back after the fight, he always does.
One jumps with it's claws in front of the creature. My dagger diggs into the middle of it's blood red eyes and then it's chest. They just keep coming from seven it quickly into twenty...or more. I've killed about ten and im already exhausted, so far one of thems bit me int the arm and my left leg.
Finally I drop one knife and make a whip with some water. It doesn't help much, only slows them down. I hear Tobys perfect even gallop. When he reaches me he makes this weird sound and at that the blood hounds slow down and listen.
I start to kill them faster.My energie draining as I go. Finnaly only two left. One jumps on Tobias back and the other lunges for me. I hear Toby's horse-screams of pain. My dagger goes forward hitting the lunging hound's chest. The dog falls down howling in pain.
I run to Tobias and the blood hound on his back. I stick my dagger into his back, the hounds paw exstend and scratches my cheek. It hurts badly but I still manage to rip my dagger out and stick it higher into the hounds back. The dog goes limp, that's how I know I got his hart.
I fall to the grass my body feeling limp after the two bites I've sustained. "I'm screwed ," I think to myself. I almost laugh at my own joke but I feel to numb to even open my eyes. Toby is lying next to me, I know this because his ginormous head is on my stomach.
I finally drift of into sleep after trying unsuccessfully to heal the blood hound bites. My mother died before she could teach me how to heal. How I could have used it now.
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