The Odd Ball

Chapter 1: The Plan

Everyone has started to give up searching for the chosen one. For over a thousand years of hoping that something will change. Everyone is too depressed to change anything themselves. They call this, "The Great Depression". The Great Depression has been going on for as long as this village can remember. The only feeling everyone is born with is sadness. Sometimes they try to feel happiness and anger. They have heard stories of these feelings passed on from their ancestors. They wish they could experience them as well.

Until, one day.
Just like any other day. A few more children born in the small village making it slowly grow in population. But this day was different from the normal routine. Every baby is born with only one feeling, sadness. But this baby... didn't cry. The doctors assumed the newborn baby was in a state of shock. Trying to run multiple tests. One test made the baby... laugh. No one has ever heard laughter before so they thought the child was a demon. They threw the baby and mother in a dungeon. There they stayed for a few months. Until, the town's Mayor decided to take a look at the " odd" child. Inspecting every inch of her. They never seemed to find any disease or any "mark of the beast". So they released the mother and her child. Keeping a close eye on them both. The child grew up just fine. But very different from all the others. She had a smile. She had laughter. Everyday she would ask the neighborhood children to play with her but they always seemed to push her away. She still stayed herself. She never fell unto the depression of others. Everyone thought she was an alien. Child of Satan. Or a " mistake".

They've been searching for the chosen one but the truth is, they had no clue what they should have been looking for.

"Tabitha... Please, be like the others kids." Tabitha never knew why she was so different. But she loved being herself. She loved being unique. "But Mom... If I'm like everyone else life would be boring, life would be... meaningless..." Her mother puts a hand in her shoulder. "Exactly... There is no meaning to any of this... We will never be able to overcome this depression, so, just fit in..." She says she'll try to. Truth is, she is going to stay herself. Everyday she runs off into the woods into a secret hideout she found. No one knows about it but in her hideout she is trying to plan a way to help the village. She is now thirteen. Ever since she was released from the dungeon, when she was five, she has been planning this. She almost had a full proof plan to save the town. Just one more thing...