Becoming Kelly

The Isle of Vita

I Began to settle into my bed. My mind was buzzing with memories of my old life in the Isle of Vita. I miss the tall oak tree in front of my house with the swing attached. I miss my older sisters Era and Naida. They aren't an Original like me but they both have affinities. Era; the oldest can control air and Naida; the second born can control water.

I was blessed with the four affinities; which is only something a few High Advocates can do and a very few Special Faeries can do when they go through centuries and centuries of training. So not only can I control the affinities but I am the first in approximately 20,000 human years to be connected to the essence Cycle of Life on the Isle of Vita. Hence my name. Which is why I'm suppose to be part of the High Advocates 150 years from now. Which is an easy wait since I was born 700 years ago. What's another century to me? Nothing. Because Originals live forever.

The High Advocates are a counsel with some Originals and Cycles in it. So if Vita wants to change something then the counsel has to agree. They all have to agree for a law or something of the caliber to change. All Faeries are allowed to submit ideas if they feel that something must change. I have been in that room most of my life. Ever since I was told that I was next in line to be an Advocate I couldn't stay away. When I sit there I can't help my eyes from wandering to my mother's chair. They still haven't removed my mom's chair in hopes that she will return and feel that it would be disrespectful to remove her position.

The High Advocates decision room looks like the hall of the house of representives. But the Advocates sit in a semi circle facing Vita and there are rows after rows surrounding the semi circle for all the Faeries to come in and watch the decisions be made.

Life on Isle has come a long way. We have organized ourselves to become the self-efficient place we are today. On the Isle you are only equal to the Faeries in your rank. For instance, Savoir is a Cycle. So he and I are equals. Cupid is an Original since she is the only Faerie that can control love. Cupid's mom is the Cycle of love and passion. She understands it and she is it. Just like Savoir and I. Cycle of love is in the same rank as me. There are many Cycles and everyone refers us as Cycle. Cycles don't have names on the Isle like other Faeries do.

The highest rank is Vita. She is the first Faerie ever recorded in Isle history to have affinities at all. The Faeries worshipped her and named the Isle after her. Many centuries after she began to rule she gave birth to twin Originals. The special relationship between her children changed the course of history and ranks soon separated us. Her son Luciano is the Original moon and her daughter Nyx is the Original sun.

When the twins neared their second birthday the sky was in chaos. When the twins were up together the sky was lit up with the sun and the moon would be visible. At night, the sky was lonesome with no moon in sight. Vita pondered this situation for a few months. Many Faeries began to spread rumors and believed that the Isle was cursed. When one night, Vita climbed to the top of her home and stared up at the sky. She thought she was imagining things but the moon was visible again!

Her face lit up with joy until she heard the cry of her son. He was calling for her in the dark. When Vita tended to her child she brought him up to the roof so that he can see the moon. While her son was awake the moon was in the sky. But as her toddler nodded to sleep the moon began to disappear. As she picked him up to take him to bed he rose and looked around his surroundings and the moon was visible again.

At that moment, Vita realized the worse. It was not the Isle that was cursed. No, It was much worse! Her children were cursed. Her children will carry the burden for the rest of their lives. Her daughter Nyx would be awake during the day and her son Luciano at night. They will not grow up together. They will be strangers to one another. Vita cried and fell into depression for weeks for the terrible fate her children had. They craved the attention of their other half but their other half would be asleep when they needed the other. But Vita's heart broke for her son. Mainly because when he would be awake, the Isle will be silent and asleep.

But Luciano didn't see it that way. He didn't see why he had to be asleep during the day. So he rebelled. He rose when everyone else did. During the day the sun and the moon would be in the sky and the sky was barely lit up by stars at night until Luciano began to mature.

His friends would party at night and his sister could not join in since if she was up during the night then it wouldn't really be night. Luciano finally began to appreciate his essence and switched his sleep cycle even if it meant not being as close to his twin. To this day Luciano stays up all night and sleeps during the day. He has opened plenty of establishments that run only after hours to keep himself occupied. Luciano and Nyx are to this day are High Advocates. Along with other Originals.

Next in rank are the Cycles and the Originals. Vita at one time believed that Cycles were superior to the Originals because her lover was an Original and she didn't want him to have power after the mess he made when he went after my mother. She believed that the childish way he behaved probably ran in all the Originals and she didn't want someone like that under her rank.

Amerie; the Original supernatural Faerie began to seduce my mom after he ended things so abruptly with Vita. Vita hated the turn of events and went as far as wanting to banish my mom. But what Vita didn't understand was that my mom was pure and she didn't want the attention Amerie showered her with. My mom found Amerie to be a bozo and arrogant.

So When my mom tired of the way Vita began to treat her, My mom went on a storm rage, all the elements clashed and their were fires everywhere and tornadoes recked havoc while water poured heavily and nature attacked the Faeries. Vita and my mom confronted one another and Vita realized how jealousy for a man she did not love had crowded her judgement. But my mom didn't want to hear it. My mom had left the High Advocates and Vita's opinion no longer mattered to my mom. That is why Vita can't interfere with my mother's banishment's nor her way of life.

So since then Vita placed Originals and Cycles in the same rank. We are just different sections since we do different things but at the end of the day we Cycles and Originals are equal.

Next in rank are those who simply have affinities. We call them Special Faeries. They are not Originals but they are born with an affinity toward a certain element. My sisters are Special Faeries. Some Special Faeries are born to normal Faeries too. Which is why every Faerie must go through the psychological test at 10 years old to see if they have any affinities. Some children come right out with their affinities and some are shy. Special Faeries go to school with normal Faeries; only difference is during gym or an elective the Special Faeries are being taught how to use their gift.

The last rank is the normal faeries. Which is pretty much the majority on the Isle. They don't resent us or anything but normal Faeries don't live as long. Two hundred years is the longest a normal Faerie has lived.

Sometimes I believe they have it pretty good. Not a care in the Isle. Just living their lives. While I have immortality. Its a blessing as it is a curse. I live to see my life's work progress into something while a normal Faerie will never get to see the glory for it. But I never get to rest in peace. While a normal Faerie's soul does.

My Father had been a normal Faerie which is why I don't mention him at all. If my mother had asked the counsel to let my father become an immortal they probably would of done it. But my mom wanted nothing to do with the counsel and not only did she lose her love to medical problems but Era, Naida and I lost a parent. My mom told me that when she had first met him he was just a student at one of her lectures at the local Isle university.

My dad was afraid to ask out my mom since he was aware of her old status as Advocate and Advocates are very respected. But what he didn't know was my mom had liked him as much as he liked her. So when my dad had asked her out for the first time he stammered through the whole question. But my mom found him charming and sweet either way. When my mom found out that cupid had another Original for her instead and that my dad wasn't the man for her, my mom told cupid just where she can stuff that Original.

My mom hasn't been with another Faerie since. She says that she's a one Faerie kind of girl. But I know she secretly wishes that my dad would be reborn soon since some normal Faerie spirits are known for being reborn. It may take from a few years to millenniums though. I'm sure my mom would wait through a million millenniums for her only true love.