1500's
Everything was normal in the small village of an unnamed island. It was peaceful, and fun. Kids running fathers working hard to look for food. While Perla and her husband, Kati was at the reef fishing for their dinner. Their children, Del, Martial and Pipp were playing together.
“Kuya Martial, anong ginagawa mo diyan? ”
Martial jumped a bit, feeling surprised with Pipp's voice. He just laughed it off and patted his little sister's head.
“I'm making something for Kuya Del, me and you.” the older answered.
“hA—” Del suddenly butted in the conversation. Martial mjust looked at his kuya and continued making bracelets as a token of their unending siblings love. Del and Pipp watched him in confusion. They didn't think that someone with Martial's personality would do something like that.
But suddenly a beautiful soft voice was heared behind them.
“Mga anak ko~” the soft voice said making the three children
turn around with a huge smile painted on their faces.
“INA!” All of them exclaimed while running into their mother's arms. Perla laughed seeing how much her children love her. She embrace them all at once and kissed their foreheads one by one.
“What did you kids do while me and your dad were gone?” Perla smiled.
“I watched over Martial and Pipp and I also took this sampaguita for you ina~” Del proudly told his mom and placed a beautiful white flower on his mom's head.
“Thank you sweetie~ How about you, my Martial?”.
“I-I made a sibling gift for Kuya Del and Pipp...” Martial took three anting antings from his pocket and gave one each for his siblings and left one for him.
“Those looks really cool, Martial. now how about our bunso?” Perla turned her head to her only daughter Pipp.
“I-I just slept beside kuya Martial while he was making these anting antings.” Perla chuckled after hearing what Pipp said.
“Of course you did. Let's go home now shall we? Your ama roasted a chicken and some fishes for you.” The children's eyes shined and they started to race to their house.
“LAST ONE TO GET TO THE HOUSE IS A ROTTEN EGG!” Del shouted enough for Martial and Pipp to hear.
“HEY THAT'S NOT FAIR! YOU'RE BOTH BOYS AND I'M JUST A GIRL!” Pipp screamed but started to run faster than Martial and Del.
—————–The next day—————––
“pERLA, KATI GUMISING KAYO! MAY MGA DAYO!” Carlo, a resident in their neighborhood knocked in the family's home. The couple quickly stood up and went outside. They saw everybody huddled together by the sea. They both ran fast and was given way to the so called dayo. A tall, light coloured skin man with green eyes is who'm they was able to meet along with his son.
“who are you? why did you come here? And how did you find us?” Perla said holding her arnis infront of the unknown man. The tall man just chuckled.
“I just want friendship with you.” The man answered but Kati knew that he wasn't someone to trust. He wasn't someone to befriend.
“what if we don't want to be friends with you?” Kati said firmly.
“then suit yourself.” the man held his gun and pointed it at Perla.
“I an the Spanish Empire. And I don't care if you don't like me. You are all under my control and you can't do anything about that.” The people including Del, Martial and Pipp watched in horror as the foreign man shooted their mother's head. Perla began to bleed the children ran to their mother while crying. Kati was shocked and went to fight for revenge. He started to punch and kick the man but was stopped by the other people.
“Kati— you'll die if you keep this up, please stop.” one of them whispered in Kati's ears.
“i dON'T CARE! HE KILLED MY WIFE! HE KILLED THE ONE I LOVE THE MOST! THE MOTHER OF MY CHILDREN!” Kati cried out while struggling out of the people's arms.
“If you die, who would take care of your children you dummy!” Perla's voice echoed into Kati's ears. He looked at where it came from and saw Perla, standing beside her crying children and her dead body while crying.
“I might have died. But I'll always be here, beside you. Kati, mahal ko take care of our children for me. Protect them. Fight for them. Okay?” Kati left the people's arms and came to Perla.
“N-no! We'll care for them together. We'll protect them. We'll fight for them. We'll be together here for them. You'll survive Perla! I know you will!” tears fell and fell from Kati's eyes. Everyone was heartbroken seeing this.
“Kati, I'm already dead.” Perla's soul hugged the man of her forever while crying.
“n-no....”
“ina? iNA GUMISING KA! INA THIS ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE!” Pipp yelled and hugged her mother tightly. Del and Martial was outraged.
“You are all mine now. Mine.” Spanish empire said. His son Spain, looked at the crying Pipp and felt sorry. Pipp glared at him and martial and del clenched their fist and screamed
“putangina niyo!”
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Translations
•Kuya = big brother
•anong ginagawa mo diyan? = What are you doing there?
•mga anak = my children/ our children
•sampaguita = Philippines' national flower
•ina = mother
•bunso = youngest
•dayo = foreigner
•arnis = a traditional Filipino weapon.
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