Burned | A Fairy Tale

A Boy

Shawn is letting me stay the night at his house. I do not wish to go back to my "father's" house. He laid out what looked like fur, but made out of a weird plant thing. Shawn handed me a sack filled with the same kind of plant, but I just let him use the object.

"I need not the bag, I have hands," I told to him. His sister laughed from the bed she was sleeping in. Shawn just looked at me with this weird, pitiful-like look in his eye. He then climbs onto his bed and turns off the captured fire on the tiny table to his left. 

In my dreams, I see nothing but the Hall. I am with all the others who have came before us. Everyone is having a great time, but there is only one problem. They have no eyes, and they won't stop looking at me. They just keep laughing and pointing. I am the runt, the bastard who has never had a father to choose them. It's not my fault. They wanted a perfect boy, but I can't give them that. I go down to my knees. I scream until my voices is ripped to shreds. They just keep going. 

I finally wake up to Shawn telling me to get up. I groggily sit up and groan. 

"What needs you?" I ask him. His sister is gone, and Shawn is standing there in his uniform. Shit. I jump to my feet.

"We have to get to school!" I say to Shawn. I run down through the main door with Shawn and onto the cobblestone outside. There is almost no one inside. A teacher comes over to us and says a few things to us.

"We are going on a field trip to the town square, we are going to watch a hanging," She says nonchalantly. "They are hanging a heathen today. This is going to be a good lesson to you all." It's great to see they are still barbarians. I have to stop this from happening. I have to use my shadows so they don't know it was me. I looked at Shawn, and he looked at me. I was surprised at how disgusted he acted about the hanging. I started walking towards the central square, filled with the heretics who killed my kind, now it is time for me to do the same to theirs. 

I pushed my way through the surging crowd, trying to get close. Waiting for my time to strike. The executioner came into view with the prisoner. He took off the hood. It is Asmund. My shadows just start spilling out, engulfing the stand and the onlookers. I hop onto the podium, summon my scythe, and cut off the executioner's head. I turn around to speak to the crowd.

"You destroyed our homeland, our religion, our customs," I started. "You burned our homes, you burned me!" I yelled as I took out the first line of onlookers, their blood staining the cobblestone street. "I am a valkyrie, I serve those above, and they have decreed you shall burn like we did!" I grabbed the nearest torch and enlarged it, engulfing the buildings and most people around us.

"Stop Val!" Asmund yelled towards me. He put a hand onto my shoulder, trying to calm me down. 

"You left me! What the hell have you been doing?!" I yelled. He slowly got up, holding his ribs.

"I settled down, had a family, I know you wouldn't accept it. You know that boy Shawn, he's mine." My shadows faltered for a second, but then they lashed out and grabbed Shawn and his sister who were frozen in fear.

"You had children!? Without me!? I am your actual fucking daughter, and you leave me for these heretics?!" I yell as I shake them. He looks down at the ground. 

"I'm sorry, just let them go, and we can go back," he pleads. I pause. I tighten my grip on my scythe. I lunge for him, but I can't follow through. The blade stops right before his neck. It disintegrates, along with the tentacles of shadows that are protruding from me. I start to cry. 

"You are just like the others, you chose other people before me," I start, "Why can no one just choose me for once!" I say as I slam the podium. They all bend down and hug me. 

"We are choosing you now, so come with us back to the Hall. We will all go," Asmund says. Shawn's mom nods, and even his sister smiles. I smile back. I  grow my wings out, and fly us up.

On the way up, my body starts to change. I have become what I was always meant to be. I am finally correct. I smile even more.