The Legend of Maydeen: Daughter of Nature

A look into the past Kan-ton and Maydeen, the secret behind Friendship.

What is that thing, what is this feeling. I am so scared I don't know what to do! A child's shaken whimper cries during a storm of Nature's power.

No it can't be, is that the half-blood? His thoughts were raging with fear as he stared at the girl. With flowers in her human hair, and fire at her fingertips.

"An Elemental?" The young Elementalist whispered, he was just loud enough for the half breed to hear. She turned, her eyes blazing with, fear.

"Why are you staring at me?" She asked, her voice was deep and nearly an inhuman growl.

The young Elementalist stared, Is she talking to me?

"Am I that ugly?" Her eyes looked up to the darkened skies as thunder roared and lightning flashed once more, the shadows deepened.

"N...no, you're scaring me." His voice was too quiet against the racing wind and angry trees, but she heard, her head lowered to gaze at her shaking hands.

"Scared, you're scared of me?" She whimpered, it was then that the hidden boy noticed the girl was hovering. "They killed them, my mother, my father." She slowly lowered until her bare feet touched the ground gently. "They're gone now."

"And you killed the villagers." He replied quietly, and the wind stopped. The sky brightened and the trees calmed.

"All of them?" She looked around the houses that once stood proudly were now flattened and there were mounds of dirt and plants covering the bodies of her neighbors. "Oh no." She panicked and then the rain came as though the sky itself were weeping. The girl fell onto her knees and held her face.

The boy didn't feel the rain, it was falling around him, but not on him. "You need to go, those men will be back." He moved away from the trees he was hiding behind.

"Let them come, I don't need to live anymore." She mumbled through her hands.

"Y...yes you do, you need to live so you can pay for what you did here." He whispered walking towards her slowly.

"I have nowhere to go."

"I do come with me." He held out his hand to her.

"I will probably just kill you like I did the others." She said darkly lowering her hands.

"Not if you don't use that Elemental magic." He said kindly. "Now come on."

The girl took his hand and he pulled her into the forest's protection. "Why are you doing this?" She asked as the noises from the approaching footsteps grew louder.

"Because you need to promise that when they come for you, you will let them take you."

"Why would I do that?"

"Because you have destroyed this town, you need to pay for that don't ya?" He was fast and his treelike hand was rough as he yanked her behind him, in Elemental years he wasn't that old, but he was smarter than any human the young half-breed knew.

"Okay."

"You have to promise Half-blood." He snapped glancing back at her.

"Alright I promise I will pay for this," She cried. "But I my name isn't Half-blood. It's Maydeen Norel."

The boy nodded "My name's Kantoe." He yelled as he jumped over a rock.

"Kan-ton?" May asked obviously she misheard, but he didn't correct her.