Heartless

Chapter 1

Fantasia. It means imagination. I was given my name because of my power. Illusion. In simple terms, I blur the lines of fantasy and reality.

It was hard. Or at least from what I can recall. I don't remember much from my first season on earth but that is understandable since I was just a baby. It was the year 2601 when we arrived on earth. I know that she was shunned when she first arrived on earth. No one wanted anything to do with a teen mother.

I often asked her if she came to earth alone. She told me that she didn't. She said that while we lived in the Easton Empire, they lived north-east of us in a place called the Divine Colonies. I had asked why we never went to visit them and why we had to live secluded from her friends. She answered me by telling me that I was special. She didn't tell me that we were on the run and that I was being kept separate for my own protection. I still don't know who I'm hiding from and what makes me so special.

When I was three, my mother met a man from the Divine Colonies. She said that they staggered the arrival of her friends to Earth and that we were some of the last to arrive. When I was four, she married him. His name was Percival Sparks. My mother's name was Brienna but I miss her having the last name of Eclipse.

Not long after they were married, Brienna fell pregnant. Less than a year after marriage, she gave birth to twins named Azure and Amber. I gained a little brother and sister and to my surprise, she had another daughter named Jade two years later.

I remember Brienna pulling me aside one night when I was seven, right after Jade was born. I told her that I was happy about having siblings even if we have a different father. She had pulled me aside to warn me against calling them my half-siblings and asking about my father. She told me that for my own protection, whatever my relationship to them, I should call them my siblings and Percival my father.

We moved around every two years until now. I don't know what has changed but it has been almost three years since we last moved and I'm happy. I don't care if it is selfish, I have been moved around my whole life and I have never been able to have friends for long and now I can.

The Eaton Empire was created on an old mountain range so the cities and streets are lined with high walls that separate the different levels that surround the high peaks. Heading up the mountain leads to the dense towns and only the nobility can afford the estates at the top. Down the mountain leads to the marketplace.

Then there are the plains. The palace is placed in the middle of the planes. It may seem odd at first but when you consider the underground labs and technology that the empire possesses, it makes sense. That being said, the common people don't possess the technology, nor do we even know anything about it. The nobles don't even possess it. They restrict the technology to the palace, laboratories and their army. They regularly roam the streets with guns filled with odd substances.

The only technology in the towns are used for surveillance. They say that it is for our protection but it only feels like we are being spied on, still I can only assume that the Easton Empire is safer than the home I was born in. Although, I don't know much about where I was born because it is one of the many things that Brienna won't talk about.

When I was twelve, I would sneak out late at night and climb onto the northern wall of our level, right beside the ramp to the lower level. I wanted nothing more than to run down it, through the market, and far beyond.

I've spent many nights sitting atop that very wall imagining my father and our old home. I would always get frustrated when my mind hit a wall and my fantasies ended. And I do mean "ended". I have always had the ability of illusion.

My mother always yells at me for using it so I have to do it where it won't be seen. I know the middle of the town on a tall wall doesn't seem like an ideal place but it is actually the perfect place. I can control who can see my illusions. The only reason that my mother knows that my ability is activated is because my eyes sparkle like stardust and that is easily hidden under the cover of the stars.