A man, around the age of 20 to 25 entered the dark gloomy looking cave. He dropped the backpack he was holding as he saw the glowing lake. Across it, a dreamcatcher hung from the ceiling of the cave.
He swam across the lake, and tried to grab the dreamcatcher. The tip of his finger nearly touched it. Suddenly, he yelled in pain.
Behind him, stood a hybrid holding a dagger, pierced into the man's heart.
The hybrid could pass as a human if it wasn't for his siren ears and his dragon tail. The hybrid pulled out the dagger and the man fell onto the floor. The last thing the man heard before dying was the words: "The Dreamcatcher Curse shall pass on". With that, the man drew his last breath and the world before his eyes faded into darkness.
Present Time
"Stupid, annoying tablet, just work for me!! I just need to finish drawing the last panel for my comic!!", a woman yelled.
She stood up, dropped her tablet on her bed and stormed out the door into her backyard. She laid down on the ground and stared at the sky.
Well, I suppose I should introduce myself. Yes, that woman is me. My name is Nemes Mestic Lisoff. I know I have a weird name, but who cares. I'm bigender and society do treat me like trash from time to time. To be honest, I don't really care about my gender, but I prefer being called using male terms (Sir, him, himself, his etc). My hair is short and straight, but a little bit messy. It's dyed blue, because why not. Today, I am a female.
Anyways, my birth certificate says my gender is female even though I'm transgender. My parents are aware that I am transgender, but they expect me to act like a girl. Wear dresses, put on make-up, wear girly shoes and so on. When I was a kid, I would comply and do whatever the hell they want. But as I grew older, I just didn't like being force to do what I don't enjoy. I wanted to be free and wear whatever I want, be whoever I want to be, do anything that I love. So, I moved out, and into this small not-bad looking house. Don't get me wrong, I love my parents dearly, I just didn't feel free.
Mm..., right. I'm also cursed. I am sure you all know the Dreamcatcher Curse or commonly known as the Hydrein Curse, right? Well, if you don't, lemme explain.
The Hydrein Curse isn't passed on in a family, it's random. If you are born with the Hydrein Curse, well, CONGRATULATIONS! You shall be dogged by misfortune and bad luck for the rest of your life.
The curse also makes you a hybrid. At some point, usually around 8 years old, you might be sprouting horns or a tail, your ears might even become siren ears (If you are a siren hybrid. You can only make sure once you get the body part or parts of what hybrid you are getting). This is how you know you have the Hydrein Curse, unless you figure out your powers before becoming a hybrid. I, for one, am a demon hybrid, so I have black sharp pointy horns on my head.
This curse also give you powers...that will kill you once you use it or kill you really slowly, whether you use it or not. If you get the one that kills you really slow, and I mean REALLY SLOW, then lucky you, it takes about 1,000,000 (1 million) years. Siren hybrids are immortal, so this does not apply to them. Least to say, other hybrids are immortal for 1,000,000 years only. No more, no less.
Ahah, I got my powers when I was 9. I can summon anything I want, except for ghosts or gods/godesses. Trust me, I tried. To summon something, I must know what the location of the thing is. For living beings, I must know what they look like. And for humans and talking animals (just assuming), that person or animal must respond to a name at least 3 times.
When I say it out loud, it's goes something like this (I'm just gonna use some random object): boba tea, matcha flavour, location fridge, summon. When you write it down, its like a code: bobatea_matchaflavour/location:fridge/summon/.
So, to sum it up, this curse is mostly bad, majority of the society (hoomans, I am talking about hoomans. Humans)will look down on you and you will be pained for the rest of your life until you die.
Now, I hope you understand the shit that I just said. End of explanation.
I felt a tiny drop of water fall into my mouth. Great, it's raining. I groaned, stood up and dragged my butt back into my house. Sitting in the living room, was my best friend, Eliai Aria Kashaw.
Her pale pink hair cascading down one side of her shoulder, dark purple eyes staring at her phone (Probably looking for pizza). At the sides of her head, held a pair of huge wing-like, blue, glistening ears. Yep, my best friend is a siren hybrid and a fellow cursed person. And that explains how I know so much about them. She has a poisonous touch, thats her power. She can will it to turn off whenever she wants. Besides, she's immortal.
She was wearing a see-through crop top (her garments underneath), short jeans, and leather boots. Her legs plopped on my coffee table, crossed.
"Get your feet off my table and put on some actual clothes will you?", I said while walking into the kitchen to prepare some drinks.
She placed her feet back on the floor and waved me off.
"No time for changing clothes, Nems. I found something that could cure our stinking curse.", she grinned at me.
I walk out of the kitchen and passed a cup of coffee to Eliai while I sipped on my. I nodded my head in response.
"Ya see...While I was cleaning my room, I found a book under my bed. It says something about a dreamcatcher in a cave, start of a curse, blah, blah, blah, able to cure our curse, talking about hybrids and the end.", Eliai finished.
I thought for awhile while Eliai was flipping through the contents of the book she was talking about.
"Eli, we should definitely go. I'm getting bored doing the same thing everyday and I want to get rid of this stupid curse. Where should we go though?", I asked.
She thumbed through the pages and stopped at one of them. She smirked and tapped on a word on the book.
"I suppose we are taking a long trip to the Atlantic Sea.", Eli said.
"Oh, well. At least, I know how to swim.", I muttered.
Eheh...Hello! Um... This is my first story. I hope you all like the first chapter!