The Lunar Trials

Chapter 1: The Dream

      All i saw was a nightmare,the most gruesome sight i've ever set my eyes upon.I stared down at my hands,covered in blood which is not mine.Its funny how i could tell the difference between my own blood and others blood.Could i have done all this?As much as i deny it but i was caught red-handed,smeared with blood to be precise.

      I look around the ruins of which was once a beautiful citadel and the place i once called home.What happened?This has got to be a dream of some kind,and if it is i want it to end right now.I dropped to my knees and clawed at my face,desperately trying to end the nightmare.
 
    There were corpse all around me,all of them dead i presume.Some have recieved bullets to the head,judging from the injury,some were missing some limbs from their body but they're were detached arms and legs everywhere,you couldnt tell which is whose.Most of the buildings had collapsed but some remain upright although badly damaged.
 
    A voice suddenly came from nowhere calling for me "Marie,Marie" just a faint sound and it seems to be guiding me towards the ruin of a familiar building,only found in the heart of Ventrice at the Royal City.The Centarium.This place couldnt be home.The Prenata Division was nowhere near The Royal City.A familiar rough voice said from behind me "Marie,look at what i've built.The legacy my father entrusted upon me is accomplished" i didnt turn,then he puts his hand on my shoulder and halfway from facing him my vision went black.
 
    I regain consciousness and found myself suspended in empty space,there was a tiny pulse of light.My hand reached out for it and i could feel my whole body hurtling towards the light.As it gets brighter,i put my hands up to cover my eyes from the blinding light.
 
    I landed with a thud on a cold surface,i try to stand up but the surface doesnt provide enough friction and my hands slid under me and i was slumped on the ground again.My cheeks touched the icy cold surface,my eyed went to what lays beneath the thin layer of ice and i saw what might be an image of me but if it wasnt for the green eyes,i would have not noticed who it is.

      I started panicking and pounded at the layer of ice,expecting it to break but it didnt even cracked.The woman behind the glass surface that seperated us was my mother.
 
    "Mum!!Mum!!" I cried out trying to wake her from her slumber.She dont even seem to be drowning. She looks peaceful in a scary sort of way and as i trembled i put my hands to cover my ears in an attempt of shielding my thoughts and keeping my mind from escaping my head.I screamed and screamed.

      I could feel arms wrapped around me,and someone said "wake up Marie,wake up"
Marie opened her eyes to find that she was in a dimly lit room,the door was opened and she heard a mild soft voice coming from her right side

      "It was just a bad dream,thats all its okay" Cecilia said,her younger sister.She sat on the side of the bed holding Marie like one of her teddy bears she had when she was nine.

      "I know Cess,its okay" Marie said to her sister in an apologetic voice.It seems that Cecilia had woken up to the sound of her screaming.
 
    "Well,someone okay doesnt scream in the middle of the night as if their life was in danger" Cecilia said as she lift herself of her bed.

      "And i thought someone has lost it and has gone mad as Ben" she said with a smile.
"We wouldnt want that,besides Ben was born mad" Marie said and her sister let out a little laugh
 
    "You should go back to sleep or else were both be light headed tomorow morning"Marie added
Cecilia nodded an approval and closed the door behind her as she left the room.
 
    Marie look at the alarm clock on her bedside table,2.31 a.m propped up on the screen and then she realized where was the usual lump on her legs whenever she slept.She looked franticly around her room and found him under her bed,her cat Aries which greeted her with a hiss.
"Oh shush you"Marie pulled him out from under the bed and place him on the usual spot on the bed.
 
    He's a british shorthair cat and was so little when she brough it back home.She found him waiting and following her after school one day and it even followed her around town when she ran errands for her mum.So Marie took it home and gave it a good scrub,which was astonishing as other feline would make a dash for it in sight of water,but he seems to enjoy the bath,so she named him Aries as he was not terrified of water.A peculiar name for a peculiar cat.
 
     When it was fed and cleaned up it jumped everywhere around the house till it drove mum crazy and she shouted "That bloody cat" as she chased him around the house when he opened up the spice cabinet and spilled everything inside,evryone couldnt help laughing at mum's attempt to catch him,even she joined in the laughter but she gave me an ultimatum,either the cat behave or it'll live on the streest again.Marie dont know if cats could understand human speech but this one did and he behaved a bit,or was it just cat's instinct to not let himself a prey to starvation on the streets.
 
    Before Marie went to place myself in bed,she looked out thr window to see the peacefulness of the Prenata Division at night.All the lights was closed except for the lights of the city's main building,which was always on and surrounded by guards.
 
    Displayed on the front of the building was Ventrice's Royal emblem,which had a crescent moon above a crown which had wings propping out of it.Beside it was the Mayer's house and infront of the building a stage was set up and facing it was a vast field of wide open ground where Marie and other sixteen year old face the unknown of the first trial of The Lunar Trials.

      It was time to determine wether there was a warrior in us or not,it was the day that some have dreadfully avoid for the casualties and risk of not coming back was high.She shuddered under the thoughts that last year's our division initiates,only half of them made it through the first trials.Marie pushed my worries aside and closed the curtains.

      She placed herself in bed and raised the covers up to her chest.The turned off the night lights"Goodnight Aries" and i tucked myself in bed,he meowed back a reply.I thought to myself,eventhough the peacefulness,but the tension is present in the Division wether anyone realized or not.Something was coming or it has been there waiting for someone to trigger it.
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