Cursed Children.

The First Village

                                                                                            ~Aerith~

 My name is Aerith. I was a normal girl with a normal life but that all changed. I was a small fun child growing up. I had close friends that would stay with me till I get old. Their names were Nala and Selena. Then there was my caretaker, Liza.They are my family in a village of 22. That is correct 22. Most people know each other and we all consider to be family. Until one day our big family split up. It was the day of my 8th birthday. 

The entire village was celebrating singing songs and dancing. I had just opened the present my supposed dead brother had gotten me when I was young. It was beautiful half of it gold half of it silver. It has a symbol of a what looked like a gust of wind, it came with a note. The note read~Aerith I hope you get this gift. It may look like just a swirl  to you but it's much more. I have one just like that, except that it is not of a wind but of a wolf. After all the wolves are my spirit animal.- With love Calem~. The day was perfect, nothing could go wrong, up until the part where the soldiers came. 

They were dressed in all black with strangely shaped helmets. They  threatened us that if we didn't leave now then we would all die. None of us wanted to die so we start filing out of the village most crying but when we got to the gates they stopped us and told us to split up. This was it. . I thought no one could or would split my family  up. But they did, they took all the children under the age of 10 and lined them up, everyone between the age of 10-20 was next, then the rest. They sent the oldest group off. Then the armored men took the next group to the East gate and sent them off. Last was us, the kids, there were 5 of us and we were all terrified. There was Nala, Selena, Michael, Jackson, and I. We were all around the same age, Michael and Selena were the oldest. They were both 9 years old. Jackson is a month older than me, and Nala is a year younger than me which makes her 6.5 ish. All five of us were being forced to leave through the West gate. The West gate leads straight into a forest. We started filing out of the village.

 That is when we heard a noise coming from back inside the village.

One of the adults had come back to save us, the children. It was Liza, she was the one who took care of me since I have no parents. But she wasn't enough. They took Liza and started beating her. I cried for them to stop but they wouldn't. I bursted into tears. We watched in horror until it was too late. Liza was beaten to death. The guards were coming towards us now. They looked threatening. Selena grabbed Nala and took her through the gate. Michael was right on their tail. I was sitting there crying, there was nothing else I could do. Liza died and I just sat there doing nothing but watching.. That's when Jackson grabbed my hand and pulled me out the West gate. Everyone but myself looked back to see the gate close behind us. That was that we were now exiled from ever going to our village again. It just wasn't safe anymore. I was still crying. I still had the image of Liza being beaten to death, blood running down her head, hands, legs. The crumpled look of her body, and the expression she wore,

One of true terror.

"Well, now what?" Selena asks the rest of us. I let out a low whimper. No one hears me though. I was still crying, I couldn't stop. The others were talking about a plan of action and what we should do now. I had sat down. I couldn't move anymore. I fell and curled into a ball and cried. I don't think I ever cried harder. The others still hadn't realized what had happened to me. Then I feel a hand on my shoulder. I didn't move but I started listening.

"Guy's," it was Jackson " I don't think Aerith is ok, she's been crying ever since that women died."

" Of course she will," Selena started, "that woman was Liza, Liza was Aerith's caretaker. Liza was the only family Aerith had left, and she died, right there, in front of......." I let out a slow whimper again to tell her to stop.

"That is enough!," I shout " she died, right there yes, I know, our home was taken away and the only person who took care of me died, I don't know how to think I can only cry. I can't do anything else. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD IT IS MY BIRTHDAY!!," I can't take it anymore. I get up to wipe my eyes turn to the further part of the woods and start running. My friends may not know but I've been here before. I know my way. Liza had taken me here. She wanted me to know my way in case I get lost. So I know the familiar markings of the trees, and I also know that there is a waterfall just past the winding tree. I bust pass it and trot to a stop right before the water. I don't sit down. After all, I wasn't done moving yet. I hear my friends come up behind me. I don't even turn around I just walk into the water and swim behind the waterfall. I come to some rocks going up so I climbed. I get to the top and sit down.

I glance below me and see Jackson, Nala, Selena, and Michael. They look around and start shouting my name. Nala is a little confused and says "Why don't we climb?," I get out of sight before Nala goes on, "Wouldn't it make sense for Aerith to climb up there, it's unexpected, you would have to swim to get to the climbing point and its high altitude so the wind would be quicker and faster moving, wouldn't that be her main priority?,"

"Main priority?," Jackson was new to us so he didn't understand that part, Michael didn't talk much but I could tell he would have asked the same question. Nala explains that I like to feel the wind and that calms me down. The sooner I feel it the better I'll feel. She also explains that the same thing happens when it rains. I always feel it in the air and just sit in the rain.Don't ask me why it is the just soothing to me. "Well ok then considering that...," He jumps into the water and doesn't surface again until he's under the waterfall. I can see him clear as day. The others were back on land and told him that if he found me to shout for them. He happily agreed and started climbing. I wasn't calmed down yet, but I couldn't do anything. If he saw me like this I would fall apart so, I ran. But I was too late, thinking about what would happen made me blind that Jackson had climbed to the top already. I don't know how he did that quicker than I could but he was up. I moved around really quiet but he still spotted me. He ran the opposite way that I was so I kept moving. The wind isn't here yet so I'm still not calm. I give up on wind and am about to descend when I feel someone grab my shoulders. I'm off the ground and have nowhere left to go. Arms were wrapped around me holding me off the ground. I broke, tears started running down my eyes. I couldn't stop myself. The wind picked up and I immediately stopped crying, but the person who held me didn't let go.

"Get off of me," I say calmly, the wind was still alive and was picking up speed. The person puts me on the ground  and I turn around to see Jackson. He stared at me and I stared at him. The wind starts dying down and Jackson grabs my hand.

"It's going to be ok I promise, I won't let anything harm you and I will always stand by your side." He took me to the middle of the clearing, away from the waterfall. " I want to show you something," He stated. I nod my head trusting him more and more. He drops my hand which I'm happy and not happy about. Then he stretches both hands out and the ground around us starts moving. It stretches up and around us we were both surrounded by Earth now and I didn't like it one bit so I made a joke to hide my fear.

"So have you always been hiding this?," I say with a tone so sarcastic that the moon could have rolled it eyes.

"Haha," His laugh was like honey.

Then there was darkness I couldn't hear anything couldn't see anything. I feel   something touching my hair, it wasn't a hand. I stay perfectly still but it didn't leave. It starts crawling on my face. It was at my hair and starts moving it. Hair was now out of my face. I don't know if it was cut off or it just disappeared. Then the thing touching me disappeared. There still wasn't light so I said, "Jackson?, please tell me your still here," I said with as much excitement as I could.

"Yea I'm right here, are you scared of the dark, I can destroy the wall if you want,"I somehow find his hand and calm down then I say, "Something was touching me," I was scared out of my mind. He breaks the wall and I see light again. He touches my hair with the hand that held mine. My hair wasn't gone it was braided and there were flowers along them.

"I like it, nature did a good job on your hair," I was speechless. It was him the entire time.

"Thank you so much I love it but don't do it without me knowing because that was umm well..... really scary"

"Haha, of course, Aerith," he takes my hand and we climb down, find the others, and make camp.