Hidden Magic

A Woeful Life

~Told from the POV of your 5 year old self~

It was sunny and warm. Sunny and warm, sunny and warm. I ran through the tall grass with my bestest friend in the entire world, Anna.

Anna looked like me, she had pink eyes and pink hair too.

My was knotted though, always up in a little yellow bow. Hers was short and always in two piggy tails.

We stomped our feet, making large holes where we stomped. Laughing out loud we fell to the ground and gazed up at the blue sky.

Endless and pure.

I looked over at Anna, still panting from running so far.

"Anna you make the days brighter and my heart happy. Promise we'll be friends forever?" I asked. She smiled big.

"Yes, I'd like that very much. Promise me we'll make it to the outside world and go on many adventures!" She exclaimed excitedly.

I nodded my head vigorously.

"You can use your angel voice to earn us some money to become rich! But if that doesn't work we can always capture one of those dungeons our papas are always talking about! We can get stronger each day and soon we'll be strong enough to beat one of those rotten old dungeons!" Anna said with a proud smile.

I smiled as well.

"Together we are unstoppable! Pinky promise we will make that stuff happen?" I asked as I held out my pinky.

Anna gladly hooked her pinky up with mine.

"Promise!" She smiled.

I got up off the ground and spun around with my arms out.

"We can explore the whole world!" I said coming to a stop. "And we'll do it side by side!" I smiled, but it quickly faded when I heard screaming and shouting. I looked towards my village and saw a huge puff of coal black smoke rising up into the sky.

"What's that?" Anna asked nervously.

"I don't know... But it's nothing we can't handle!" I said, mustering up a smile.

I took Anna's hand and together we ran towards the village. Strange men with barbaric auras were running wild, slashing people with swords and even throwing some in cage-like caravans.

My eyes went wide in horror as I felt my stomach drop.

The smell of blood and smoke filled the air. I clasped my hand to my nose as Anna and I ran into the center of our village.

"Mama! Papa!" I called, but got no clear response, just screams of agony and sadness.

I started to cry, and Anna did too.

"Hey boss look at these two! How much you think they'll go for?" I heard a scary voice behind me.

I turned around and pushed Anna behind me protectively.

"Go away from here!" I screamed as tears continued to blur my vision.

The group of men chuckled.

"Feisty, they prove to be hard workers. Send them to my caravan, I know someone who'll have special use for these two." A tall man with radiant blue eyes and extravagant clothing on, with a noble sounding voice instructed the two men next to him.

I gritted my teeth in pure rage as the men came closer.

"DON'T TOUCH MY FAMILY OR FRIENDS! YOU HEAR?!" I screamed as I leapt forward and side kicked one guy in the face, and even though I was a tiny Fanalis, I wasn't weak.