The Keeper of the End

I.

"How was your day so far Samara?"

I snorted as I roll my eyes to my mother. Is she damn serious? This is the best day of my fucking life. Ever.

Note the sarcasm.

"Mother. Do you want me to answer that honestly?"

She sighed and I suddenly felt her sadness. This is our scenario every damn year. She will feel sad about me being born. Well, I am sad that I was born.

"It's fine mother. Kaleb took me out this morning to the plaza for a little walk and he treated me cake."

She smiled a little as she climbed the stairs up to my father's room.

"Good to know."

When she's out of my sight, l let out a long sigh. My birthday fucking sucks. In all possible ways one can imagine.

I started heading to the door when it suddenly burst open. Hitting my damn nose in the process.

"SAMARA?! LET'S HEA- oh."

I glared at Kaleb. He's being a royal pain in the ass, specially today.

"What do you want asshat?" I growled. I'm fucking tired because of our walk this morning and I can't deal with any of his bullshit right now.

"Let's go to the town proper. They finished putting up the decorations for the birthday celebration."

I almost threw him to the pits of hell. I swear to god. This fucking insensitive idiot.

"Yeah, that's great. As if I will enjoy seeing that."

Rolling my eyes, I still head out towards him. This idiot will not give me my damn peace if I don't go.

Nope. It isn't my birthday party celebration. That would be the last thing the people of Omelas will do.

The party is for the princess of the northern wind tribe. Gemini.

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Whispers erupted as we walk our way to the central town. You see, me and Kaleb is pretty famous. Specially me, I mean, who wouldn't know me? I'm pretty fucking awesome.

'Why is she here?'

'Isn't it dangerous for us that she's here?'

'I'll report it to the royal guards real quick.'

See? They're all scared of me. Fucking pussies.

"See there my pretty little munchkin. Everybody's talking about you again." Kaleb beamed proudly to me. This dumbo.

"Kaleb, they're fucking stabbing me in the back. You shouldn't be that happy." I retorted.

The idiot just shrugged his shoulders as if it was nothing. He then proceed to wrap his arms around my shoulders.

I stiffened.

"You aren't afraid to be cursed by me?" I sighed. He just smiled softly to me as if I didn't asked the most important thing in the world.

"Well, when we're like 5 you promised to me that if you ever cursed me, you will marry me, so yeah. Don't really care Samara."

He explained and I have to control my anger  or else we will be marrying each other sooner.

"Yeah, that would be tragic." I rolled my eyes.

"And I honestly don't think you're cursed." he whispered in my ear as if it was the biggest secret of the whole damn world.

You see, this case about me being cursed started when I was born. 

Well yeah obviously.

Here in Omelas, every child is usually born in different days. No child can have the same birth date in the same year.

It was a different case for twins as they are practically one person, so they are well accepted, worshipped even.

As for me...

Well, I don't have a fucking twin. The world would probably end having two Samara in the same lifetime. Although the sound of people worshipping me sounds fucking awesome, it won't happen.

I was born the same day the princess of the northern wind tribe. Which, actually caused an uproar.

It was in the middle of a storm. Various tornado were sighted. Even thunderstorm was observed. The vast ocean near our lands were even crashing so hard to the sea wall that the kingdom of western water tribe has to put up patrol guards to secure the lands in case the sea will try to eat everyting.

Everybody was actually seeing this as a great sign for the labor of the queen. Natural phenomenon were usually entangled to great people in Omelas.

Like the birth of the king of eastern fire kingdom actually took place in the Mount Tibkana, which later on erupted, revealing itself as an volcano.

Now the problem is that mother, wasn't supposed to give birth to me yet. I wasn't due that day. It's just that mother met an accident, which led to her bleeding.

She was given a choice, to actually give birth to me even if it's against the gods, or let me die.

Our birth dates wasn't supposed to be the same. I wasn't supposed to be alive.

Maybe that's why i'm cursed.

The moment I was born, mother told me that the ground started shaking, unexpectedly, the wind started calming down but three of the underground volcanoes have erupted.

We angered the gods, they concluded.

Mother carried me quickly to the near sea shore, as if to beg a bargain with the gods. Then the moment she put me down to the water, as if reacting, the ocean water avoided me.

As if saying that 'we refuse to acknowledge the child'.

Sounds like a fucking mythical legend, ain't it? Told you, i'm fucking awesome. It's just that, nobody knows this story apart from my family, Kaleb, and the woman who helped my mother in giving birth, which goes by the name of Eleonoe.

And that, people, is the exact reason why everybody is cautious about me.

After all, i'm the most mundane out of all the people of Omelas.

Everybody has their ability, the four noble elements; water, fire, air and earth. And me? I am...me.

The moment we arrived at the town proper, royal guards were blocking our way.

"Ow come on Sebbie. Lemme through, I swear to the fucking gods I won't make trouble." I pleaded sarcastically. There's no way in hell they're letting me through so why not have some fun?

"Samara." was his only response. I snorted.

Boring. Sebastian, is one of the many guards who I familiarized myself with. There are fucking tons of them. Some fun to poke around with, some boring.

Just like this one.

You see? I'm pretty famous. Every goddamn people on Omelas knows me. Hmm I wonder if the royalties knows me.