The Prophecy <An Aphmau Fanfic>

Strangers

(First off, Luna wouldn't be wearing what she's wearing in the picture. :3)

Luna's POV:

   The fireball flickers out of my hand and into the hole, bright orange and yellow flames burst from where I hit the ground. Akari shivers underneath her makeshift blanket and scoots closer to the fire, her teeth clattering together.

   I shift closer to her and intertwine our hands, hoping that some of my warmth will flood into her body. She immediately sighs in relief as heat fills her. I smile.

   "That's better, right?" I ask rhetorically. Akari nods her head in response, then stops and looks at me with a mocking expression.

   "Shouldn't I be the one calming you down?" She teases. Technically she should, soothing is her secondary power. Her first one is reading and manipulating minds and memories, which she could do right now, but she only does that to certain people. I know she does because she tells me.

   That's my secondary power, being able to detect truths and lies. We both have secondaries, but they're not like our first power, the real thing that counts as magic. They're not as powerful as my fire or her mind tricks.

   "True." I say, then knock back and let her hands loose. She instantly curls back into a ball and I break out in laughter.

   "W-What was that for?!" She stutters, which makes me laugh even more. She then looks at me with her sea blue eyes, suddenly focused and intense, and they suddenly glow as a tiny invader crawls into my mind and tells me to slap myself. I obey and a sharp sting circles from my cheek to my entire head, it's jerking back rocking my brain.

   Her eyes stop glowing. "Get your fiery butt over here or I'll do that again!" I feel a sharp prick from the back of my head, and I smirk.

   "You're lying." I tease, waving an accusing finger around at her.

   "Just come over here and warm me up!" She snarls. If I were anyone but her best friend, that would sound threatening, but I sense the tiny sliver humor in her tone and I can bet that she probably has a small smirk on her face right now.

   But I do as asked, or commanded, whichever one. We sit there for a while, our hands locked. When we were little girls and growing up in the same village, we would hold hands and spin around like idiots until we fell down, we usually did it over and over again until we got too dizzy that we couldn't stand back up.

   I miss our innocence. I miss our families. I miss the time when we could spend a night in a bed without having to pay money for it. I miss the security of knowing that several people were always on your side, looking out for us. And, most importantly, I miss the time where we didn't have to fear ourselves.

"I don't like the cold, or the night." Akari suddenly says, interrupting the sounds of the fire clicking and occasional bird chirps. "It's too frightening."

I look up at the sky and start counting the many stars, trying to make some sorts of figures with them. They flicker, like they acknowledge me looking at them, so I smile up at the bright lights. "I like it. It's peaceful, and it doesn't get me to overheat."

I overheat easily, since the blood running in my veins is filled with fire. Some people think that I'd like the sun, but it only hurts. Summers are nightmares, so I stick to cold climates and I like to travel at night. It's Spring right now, and still pretty cold with snow occasionally dropping down to greet me every once a week, so I travel at day for now. Winter is the best though, all of the snow really helps.

Akari rolls her eyes. "Of course you like them, it's not like you get cold anyway!" She says, "It's not like you're one of the actual fireballs!" I nod grimly in response, then bow my head down like I'm ashamed.

My mother and father used to get me out in the sun all day, burning me. They didn't understand me, and I doubt they still do. But it wasn't like a special and confusing gift was frightening, it just meant that we had more potential. Now it could mean life or death, since neither Akari or I have proper training with our abilities.

I look up at the sky again for clearance. Looking around, I see something in the corner of my eye. The moon, the one for which I was named. Ironically, though, the moon associates with water, my exact opposite.

I was named after the moon goddess Luna, though I could never worship her, because I was born on a lunar eclipse and my magical village thought that it was some sort of sign. That's why they arranged for me to marry the lord's son named Sol, born on a solar eclipse, to please the gods and goddesses.

"What would our families say about us now?" Akari asks out of nowhere. I shrug.

"I-I don't know." I respond. "And I don't ever want to find out." I shutter out of disgust. Akari chuckles underneath her breath.

"Yea," she says, "no offense to you, but I don't exactly want to be your sister-in-law!" I jerk my head around to meet her eyes and give her my most sincere look.

"Akari..." I whisper to her, my tone as soft as possible. "They wouldn't just marry me and your brother off, then make us live like it never happened. They would kill us, or try to anyways." Akari's eyes soften. "We disrespected their gods and goddesses, and you know exactly what that would mean for us."

"'To disrespect thine lords is to bring death upon thine self.'" Akari recites, remembering what the old tablet in our church said. "'And thou shalt have thine bloods spilt upon thine floor as a sacrifice.'" Her translations are a little bit rusty, but most of it is right.

Whenever one of us disrespected our lords in some way, we would be beheaded in the middle of town square and the blood would fall on a square of marble stone taken from the church. It would stain it, and then after three days the tile would be put back in the church from where it was taken. The head and body would be burned the night the tile is put back.

Most of the floor there is covered in blood splatters and spots from all different people who most likely didn't do anything wrong to deserve it.

I shake my head solemnly and look back up at the stars. "Sometimes I wonder if they're real and they're looking down at us right now in shame." I say, "But I sincerely doubt it. There's nothing up there that we really know of."

I see Akari open her mouth out of the corner of my eye to speak, but then the sound of a twig snapping from the trees behind us interrupts her. Akari and I stand up in unison and instantly grab our weapons from besides the burning fire I created.

I draw an arrow out of my leather sack on my back, which I keep on me at all times, and put the arrow in my father's old bow while Akari twiddles with her obsidian sword nervously. She doesn't kill things, like I do. I aim at the area where the noise came from.

Three figures emerge from behind there: one woman and two men dressed in iron armor. They don't look shocked or afraid, like most people do when they see us. They keep their cool like they've seen this all before.

"Well, well, well." The woman says, clicking her tongue. "What type of monstrosities do we have here?"

-Made by Rose
-Edited By Rose