"Family Means No One's Left Behind"~ A Greenflame and Children Story

Chapter One: Different

Narration~
A couple of years after the chimaera incident, Kai had fallen in love with a woman named Skylor and had two special people in his life. Kai was married to both Lloyd and Skylor and the three of them raised 5 wonderful children. Sker, as the oldest and Lari, the youngest. May, Kabaz, and Lari were all siblings and Akidah and Sker were their half-siblings. All of the children had inherited their powers from either Kai, Lloyd, or Skylor, except for Lari. He had unique powers. Lari was the new master of wind because before he was born, Morro had taken possession of Lloyd and the transformation of powers had instead of green energy like Lloyd, it had transferred to the wind. And of course, it had made training quite difficult over the years, but soon, Lari had gotten the hang of having and controlling his wind powers. But now, something else had come up, bullying. At school, he would get taunted for being different from the rest of the class and they mocked him for not having the same powers as his siblings. Kids would say that he didn't belong anywhere else but The Cursed Realm, the same place that Morro was banished to. But Lari didn't tell anyone about what was going on, not even his family. He kept everything bottled up inside, and the more he did it, the teasing continued.

Lari's Point of View~
I'm not like the rest of my brothers and sisters, I don't have the same powers as they do. I know I'm different, it's just sometimes hard to accept it. Ever since I can remember, I wanted to be more like the rest of my family. But it seems like all I do is cause nothing but trouble. I guess being like them or normal kids like the ones at school isn't good enough for me. I wish I knew what I have to do to at least make them see that it's who I am and that's just it. And now, the pressure that I have been putting on myself had increased by a pretty big chance because now that Akidah had unlocked her true potential and discovered her elemental dragon, I was officially the last one in this family who'd be last to do that. I kept pushing myself to try and find those things inside me. My dads say that I have to first truly accept who I am. Then the path to fully succeed is to follow to where my heart leads me. At least that's what Lloyd said. But I've convinced myself that I just have to keep training. I knew what I was doing wasn't the right answer, but I didn't know what else to do. I thought that if I told my dads or siblings of what was going on, they would be disappointed in me. I thought they would think I wasn't cut out for being their son. Those thoughts scared me the most, the thought of being rejected by the ones I love. There's a lot of stress being put on my shoulders and most of it comes from myself and sometimes it's hard to focus when I'm training. It's also been hard to get some sleep. I decided that I would go out and take a walk to try and calm down before another stress attack hit. I walked down the hall, past my sisters' room and the living room. "You going out again?" Asked Lloyd. "Yeah, I just wanted to get some fresh air, dad," I responded. "Okay, come back before dark and be careful out there. And don't wander out too far away from home. Okay, Lari?" He said. "Okay, dad, I will," I said before putting on a jacket and shoes, then walked out of the house. The autumn air was fresh and cool. The breeze felt nice upon my face. I walked over to the entrance of the woods that was nearby home and looked into it. I was hesitant for a moment before taking a few steps into the woods. The further I went in, the more relaxed I felt. Then suddenly, I heard footsteps. I stopped dead in my tracks and moved my head in different directions to see if anyone or anything was there. I heard more footsteps around me and I began to panic. Then, I heard rustling in the bushes. I was too scared that I couldn't move or scream. Slowly, a figure began to creep out from the bushes. And that figure was a big grey wolf with blue eyes.