Elements

ELora and Moses

When we were born, our parents always told us to never go beyond the force field. The force field of our village. It was the only one in all of Vinalor that existed. Mother says that it's there to protect us. Father says it has been there for centuries but I don't believe that. I do believe it's for a different reason.

Others can go out of it to different villages and kingdoms, but Moses and I can't. Father also says if either one of us touched it, it will break down and they will find us. We weren't too young to understand this. But we were old enough to know what might happen.

But before it existed, some of them found out where we were and so they started to attack in search of Moses and I. We don't know for what or why, but our parents did everything to protect us.

Our parents hid us well on top of one of the oldest trees. Mother had given us a worried look.  She gave us a smile, a kiss upon our foreheads where our birthmarks were. She closes the door in front of us and seals it with a protection spell. We hear nothing but her footsteps running across the room back and forth.

Moments later, we  hear someone walk into the room. A couple of more steps pranced around the wooden floor. "They have to be in here!"

Moses covers my mouth as we hear some pass by us. "Any sign of them?!" "No sir!"

They soon leave and we begin to hear a women scream. "Show us were they are!" a mans voice demands. "I'd rather die!" I remember hearing mother's voice so stressed and desperate. "Take her away!"

I wake up and sit there shaken of the horrible moment she was taken away.

I look out my window from my bedroom that. It was open with branches of leaves and vines coming through little by little as I calmed down.

"You had that memory again didn't you." Moses comes up the stair with a chamomile tea. Which he knew was my favorite. "How many times do I have to tell you it's a dream." I take to the cup from his hands. "It's a memory." I sigh and get out of bed. "Say all you want Moses but I don't think that's what happened." He chuckles. "Then its a vision. Why have you've been getting these lately." I set the tea cup on my bedside table continuing to look at it. "Maybe it's the universe calling me to help them out." I joke pulling myself out of bed. Moses doesn't say anything. "Oh come on. I was only joking." Giving him a smirk I signal him to leave so I could get dress.

After I was done changing, I decided to head down to the waterfall where everyone mostly did laundry to gossip. There was a few women washing clothes. Taking a whole look around the area, I decided to sit on a flat surfaced rock away from them. Sitting there staring at the waterfall, made me think about the dream or vision as Moses says it.

"ELora!" someone shouts from the distance. I pierce my head up and realize that it was Clara, one of my best and close friends who I've known my entire life. In the village everyone knew each other. Clara and I met through our mother's who were both witches. But my mother was stronger and more powerful than hers. But she learned how to make medicine and use the herbs for treatments on other people.

"You never wash on your own!" I snickered . "Well, the old fart told me too today. She tells me I have to start taking my own responsibilities." She laughs and then takes notice on my behavior. "Hey, what's up with that long face of yours. I only see it when you..." her voice fades away. "You had that dream again didn't you?" I make a huge sigh and then look at her. "Vision. As Moses says it."

When I looked at Clara, I saw her as an older sister. Every time she would go beyond that force field I would ask her if she could bring me something from outside. Even if it was a stick or rock.

"Well maybe it means you have to go out there and find what's in that vision of yours." I look down at my palms they feel really wet from the rock we were sitting on. The group of women still chatter and laugh. I sigh once again. "I don't know Clara what if it means something. Something I don't know of. I mean this force field is huge enough for me to explore and climb the trees but, what really is out there that keeps making me see these things."

As I'm looking up at the waterfall I see a group of men from the village searching for something. I carefully stand up trying not to slip. "Is something the matter?!" I shout.

They finally stop their search. "Miss ELora! It's your father!" I stare at them suddenly feeling numb shivers going up and down my body. The only thing my brain was telling me was to move and run to him. So I do.

I get to my fathers room. He lived on top of the eldest tree of the village. I didn't have time to run up the stairs so I bring down a vine and magically make it take me up. I open the curtains in a rush already seeing Moses talking to him by his bedside and a bunch more people around him. Along the side I also see Sebastian, who was a good friend of my fathers.

Moses turns his head to see me. Father was on his deathbed.

"Father!" I begin to feel warm stingy tears run down my face. "ELora.." he smiles weakly at me. "Please don't force a smile." He doesn't listen as he grabs for my cheek. "ELora listen, I was speaking to your brother, about the protection of this village and you." Why was he speaking like this. I know I can heal him.

"No why are you talking like this? What happened to you?!" He clenched his hands with mine. "You still have many years to live! I can heal you. Mother has taught me—" he then lifts up my chin. "ELora. You'll be fine without me. You have your brother with you by your side." I turn to look at Moses. He was having his own moment too.

"But father what about the force field? What if it starts to fall apart? What if...they get in?" He smirks already looking like death. He already looked fed up with this conversation. "ELora listen as long as you and your brother don't go past the walls of the force field, you'll be fine." He coughs again. His cold hands touch my cheeks to wipe away the tears "I believe you two will be strong and powerful and be something in this world. There are so many things I wish I could of told you two." He smiles as the room filled with silence with just the three of us.

"I want to help you father." He forces a smile again, this time his tears falling down his cheek. "You...be strong. And don't let anyone tell you so." I cried even more. More than I needed to. I knew it was his time, but I didn't want to accept the fact that his time was to come so soon. His powers faded over time and he never told us why. He never explained anything to what happened to mother are why that force field was there.

I then kneel to the floor alongside with Moses as father closes his eyes until his last breathe.

Minutes later he was gone.

Rain began to pour down as I sat in my room crying and crying like a baby who wouldn't stop.

It was earlier before we had buried him down in the temple of our ancestors. Along with the other of our noble men of the village. The whole village stood one together outside of it. Our close ones saying sorry for our lost.

I looked at Moses seeing him with an expression of sadness. We only had each other. It was just the two of us.

People still couldn't believe what life we had or how young we had to go through all of that.

A couple weeks pasted by, and Moses became the villages new chief. He took over the tree from where father used to live. And now his part of the bedroom was all mine.

I hardly ever saw Moses and when I did, he would look more serious.

Over time I spent my hours alone studying the books mother left behind. I was now able to learn how to control my powers but ever now and then I would get visions. Just like Moses said.

But everyday it would be the same for the past years. Everything was calm, peaceful and quiet. Until the day I decided it was time for me to discover what was beyond that force field.