Crystals From Within: The Beginning

Chapter 1: Musilica

"Do you feel that?" I ask my cousin, Kizana.

"Feel what?" my other cousin Lily tilts her head towards me. I start to answer, but not before Kizana interrupts.

"The monsters. No attacks for, what, a month now? Isn't that kind of strange?" she suggested.

"Now that you mention it..." Lily said, looking around. My cousins and I are the protectors of village. Usually monsters or demon spirits attack the little village every week or so, and we fend them off. The silence from them was eerie. For some strange reason, the three of us couldn't remember anything, our names, ages, even our pasts. The village, not our birth village, found us and gave us new names, which were Kizana, Lily, and mine, Musilica. Fourteen years old each. Appearances were unknown until we looked into a mirror.

I had waist-length long dark blue hair that I always kept in a high ponytail, pale blue eyes and a petit frame.

Lily had shoulder-length black hair with cerulean highlights that match her darker cerulean eyes, which were framed by long eyelashes.

Kizana had beautiful flaming red hair that barely touched her shoulders, except a long side-bang that covered half of her left eye. Chestnut-brown eyes. A tomboy.

'How do we fight monsters?' you might ask. The answer is simple. We have powers. Lily could mold things out of clay and amazingly, they come alive. She had great art skills, and she's the one who designed our home. She has an art tool-belt complete with chisels, paintbrushes, and pencils. She also has a crossbow.

Although she has an excellent aim, daggers and shurikens, Kizana was more of a plant-type. She had a way with magical medicinal plants and poisonous herbs. She could also communicate with animals.

I have (this may sound stupid) a magic flute that causes a slight hypnosis to the demons. That's right, a flute. It can calm humans with low notes and animals with high notes. Whacking monsters over the head with my flute is surprisingly effective, too. It can turn into different instruments. I'm claustrophobic, though, which is why our house is on a hill.

"Do you think that all the monsters are all planning one big monster assault on the village?" Kizana suggests, though slightly dubious.

"Impossible", Lily snaps briskly. "The monsters will tear each other to pieces before they'll rip us apart." She had a point. Monsters don't get along. AT ALL. On sight, they'll go full rampage mode on each other, even if humans are standing right there.

"Maybe," I said slowly. "We should-"

"Check the forest." Kizana finishes, somewhat hesitant. Lily shuddered.

"I don't like that place." She cast a nervous glance towards the forest.

"Neither do I," Kizana says. We all don't like the forest. That's where the villagers found us lying there, unconscious. What could have been so horrible in the dangerous depths that made us lose our memories completely? We tend to avoid the forest, but now...

"We have to go," Lily states quietly. "For the sake of the village."

"All right," Kizana says reluctantly."But we have to make sure we're packed."

So we stock up on weapons and supplies, and we, very nervously, enter the darkness.

*

For the first couple of minutes, we trudged on in silence. We just kept walking, and soon we couldn't see a foot in front of us. We stopped.

"Great. Just wonderful," Kizana muttered. "There are probably hundreds of...of who knows what around here, and I can't see my own hand."

Suddenly, as if on cue, a dim light sprouted from behind us. Lily let out a strangled gasp. I turned around and gave a muffled yell, too.

A monster. The first one in a month. Just great.