Our version of Bill's backstory
Chapter 1
"Bill! Come on! Let's go adventuring!" A young blond girl called with a smile. "Okay!" her younger companion called back eagerly, getting up from the grass to follow her. The girl, Sapphire, grinned wider and headed off towards the forest. "Be back before supper, you two!" A woman called after them. "We will!" The two tumbled around among the trees for a long time until they came upon a large tree, with something that barely counted as a treehouse stuck in the high branches. Sapphire looked up at it. "Come on. Let's go check it out." Bill nodded, grinning widely. Sapphire climbed up the tree. Bill tried to climb after her, but fell several times. "I'm okay!" he called up.
She snickered. "Hurry up!" he stuck his tongue out at her, but giggled as well. "I'm trying!" She threw an old ladder down the tree. He quickly jumped/fell down and climbed up the ladder instead. She smiled at him and looked around. Bill looked around as well, as if they were in a magic castle, instead of a crappy shack in a tree. He picked up a stack of old papers and blew them off. He then proceeded to have a sneezing fit. Sapphire was laughing and picked up a book that caught her eye. "What's that?" Bill asked after he stopped sneezing all over everything. "It looks really pretty!" "It think it's a spell book. An old one from the looks of it." his eyes widened in excitement. "Whoa..." he hurried over to look at it. "Real magic?"
She nodded. "Ancient magic too." His smile widened. "What kinda spells? Can it make things blow up? Can you teleport? Can you turn invisible?" he questioned her, bursting with curiosity. "Yes, probably, and most likely." She replied with a grin. "Are you gonna try it out?" he asked. "Sure." She replied, opening the book. She dusted it off gently and looked through the spells and found one. She chanted it and her eyes changed from golden brown to crimson for a spilt second before changing back. "Huh. I don't think it worked. Maybe I did it wrong. Oh well." his face looked downcast for a second. "Aww..." at that moment they heard their mother calling them back for dinner. "We should try again later!" he said as he ran to the ladder. Sapphire nodded and put it in her bag and followed him home.
A week later Sapphire was having mood swings, sudden bursts of anger, and stayed mostly in her room. Bill was sad most of the time, and very bored, as he usually spends all his time with her. He thought she was upset about the spell book. Sapphire kept messing with the book.
A few weeks later their parents were in a terrible car crash and both parents died. Bill was only eight and Sapphire was thirteen. They were being watched by one of their neighbors until the police found them an orphanage. Sapphire stayed in her room for several days. Bill bawled his eyes out for days. Sapphire read the book and practiced her magic. Bill cried. A lot. It took them a few days, but the police had finally found an orphanage that would take the two, and were coming to pick them both up. By the time they got there, Sapphire had already packed both of them up and took Bill and ran away with him. "S- Sapphire, where are we going?" Bill asked as she half dragged him away from their parents' old friend's house. "Away from here before they take us away." she replied.
Bill chocked down a sob. "b- but who's gonna take care of us?" "I will." she replied, still going. Bill just cried some more. Sapphire stepped up onto their front porch and opened the door. For the millionth time, Bill begged her to take them back. "We are not going back!" she yelled, turning to him and glaring, her eyes crimson red. She gripped his wrist tighter and pulled him inside. He cried out in pain. "Sapphire! You're hurting me!" he tried to pull his hand out of her grip. "S- Sapphire!" She glared at him and gripped tighter and threw him to the ground. "I'm. Not. Sapphire. You are to never call me that again. Call me Sophie." He sat there on the ground, as if unable to comprehend what just happened. She quickly shut the door and used a spell to lock it and all the windows. "It's late. Go to bed." she slightly hissed at him and left the room. He slowly got up, his legs shaking, and walked to his room. Sap-Sophie walked to her room and went to bed. Bill cried himself to sleep. Sophie slept.
Bill woke up the next day to absolute silence. He quickly got out of bed and walked to the front door on shaky legs. Sophie appeared behind him. "What are you doing?" Bill shrieked. "n- Nothing!" he turned so his back was to the front door. She glared and grabbed him and threw him across the room. "Don't lie to me!" "Why are you acting like this!" he cried, eyes brimming with tears. Next thing he knew his cheek hurt. "Don't question me." Tears streamed down his face. "What happened to you?" he whispered under his breath so she couldn't hear. She glared at him before leaving the room. Bill sat on the ground and sobbed. A few days later she had started to test more spells.
Weeks pass, then months, and Sap- S-Sophie tested new spells and started hunting down new spell books, growing more and more powerful. She started being more abusive and violent towards Bill, and started using him as a test subject for spells and experiments.
(What do you guys think?)
