A little girl sits in the farthest reaches of her backyard, hiding from her father who was angry with her for not studying hard enough. Tears trickle past her rosy cheeks as she tries her best to keep from making to much noise. Afraid that her father will beat her for showing a sign of weakness.
New neighbors had just moved in next door to the little girls house. A little boy with black hair and gray eyes goes outside to explore his new backyard. He notices the little girl hiding in her own backyard hovering in the corner nearest his yard, he makes his way over to the little girl. she notices him very quickly wiping her tears away and trying to put on a smile to her face. She introduces herself...
"Hello I'm Samaree" she smiles weakly.
"My name is Leo Lawiet." the boy said indifferently
The little boy's parents call to him to come inside before dark, which was quickly approaching. Samaree watches the boy leave into his house. She glanced at her own sighing softly, she does not enter her own house even after night has overtaken the neighborhood. She stays in the tall grass to keep herself warm for the night. In fact Samaree spends the whole night outside. Lawiet sees this through his bedroom window, he watched her for a few hours before going to sleep himself. He was very curious about the girl next door and what her story was to why she was sleeping outside of the house.
Samaree was going over the errors she had from her last test to prepare herself for the test tomorrow. It may seem strange to see a five year old being treated like she was for simply failing a simple test. But her family are very different than almost all the families in this neighborhood. Her family though human come from a different realm and time period. They all welded special powers in the Mania law of physics. Which Mania is the natural flow of the earths energy. The reason this is the fact she is being tested much harder than everyone else her age of her people. Is the fact she could be the next queen to her people. Which is why her parents drill everything into her as they were, if not she would not be strong enough in their eyes to rule the lands if she were to.
Her culture had been in peace thanks to the previous queen who had fought the hordes of demonic demon animals. Purified them into normal animals again, and unified all the races of species together. Just to name a few from the list; dragons, elves, dwarfs, humans, flying horses, vampires, and werewolf's. The current queen whom still was ruling until, the chosen one for her memories appeared to take over for her. The current queen had her eyes set on Samaree, not to the parents or teachers knowledge at all she kept it a secret. She saw all the great promise that could be in this little girl. Her trials were just beginning she would be come stronger than even her possibly.
Morning came peeking threw the clouds with vibrant hues of red and gold. Samaree watched the rise of the sun with great dread of the day before her. She would have to retake the test before. Mustering all her strength in order for it. It so happened to be a swordsmanship and the basic safety skills needed to block basic attacks.
Samaree stood up stretching her body preparing herself for the task that will be at hand. The Swordsmanship teacher would be here an hour before noon. She turns to look at her house as her stomach started to growl loudly from going to sleep hungry. She slowly creeps up to her older brothers bedroom window and rasps her fist gently on the glass. Then stepping back checking all the other windows for lights to be on to signal if her parents had awoken to her gentle knock. Nothing stirred other than her older brother who slowly opened the window to ask her what was up.
"I'm hungry can you fetch me some bread and water?" I asked in a whisper
"Sure, good luck on your test today Sam." He said equally as softly with a twinkle in his eyes.
She smiled up at her big brother thanking him as he handed her the water and bread. She quickly ate the three slices of bread and the cup of water before her parents started to stir awake for the day. She quietly handed the glass back to her older brother before the back door opened. She darted away from the house to her represented place in the yard. She stood still as a soldier waiting for her father to talk to her. Her father sent a chilling glare at her.
"You better not disappoint me again in front of the lead elder" He snarled
"I promise I have learned from my mistakes." I say quickly
SMACK, a hand hit her face and she stumbled but regained her posture. A red welt began to form on her left cheek where her father had slapped her.
"Did I say you could speak?" He narrowed his eyes
She shook her head no, and remained quiet he ordered her to stay in that exact spot until the instructor arrived. Her eyes would occasionally drift over to her neighbors house where she had met the little boy named Lawiet. She wondered if he came from her culture or if he was from this realms culture. She concluded since he did not look like he was from her culture that he wasn't from her realm. So he was an ordinary person unlike her who had many things in line for her in a way. She turned her head back to the back door of her house where her father came again this time with one of the lead elders. She bows politely in front of the elder when she stands back up he tosses her a wooden sword.
She held the sword in her hands and visions that did not quiet belong to her flew through her vision. Knowledge of the art of swords fills her being. She wondered who granted her this knowledge looking into herself she could not find the answer. Her body quickly went into the proper stance that she had struggled times before in doing. Slightly surprising the elder but he held back a smile.
The elder her make the first move, She lowered herself into a crouched position and lunged forward holding the wooden katana at the height of her waist. She went to hit the elders side with the blade but he managed to block the hit her body had to catch up to the sudden shock of speed change. She somehow miraculously kept going and dodged all of his basic attacks and some of the medium coarse attacks. She was able to land some of her own attacks as well impressing her father greatly. Her body quickly became weak though her small body couldn't keep up pace she was setting. The elder ended the session before she would have hurt herself quiet badly.
Falling onto her back end she breathed heavily her stomach growled greedily for food and water. Sweat dripped of her body from her face, arms, and legs. A smile spread across her lips as the elder had told her she had passed the test as well as the next part of the swordsmanship test. She would just have to build up her stamina and muscle mass as she grew older. As the elder left he patted her back as a reward to her good job. When the elder had left the house Father made the order for her to stand up. She responded to get up on wobbly legs and hold herself up in a soldiers stance once again. Her body fatigued with lack of food and water her vision was starting to have spots that grew and shrank. She refused to fall down in front of her father,
"Great Job Samaree, You can come eat supper with us to night and if you want you can sleep inside the house. But I'm sure that you are too used to sleeping outside." He smiled
"Thank you sir," she bowed very quickly
"Here's some water you look like you need it." Father said proudly
"Thank you sir." She repeated
She took the bottle of water and then returned to the corner of the yard she thought of as her's. She drank the water slowly cooling off slowly. She was very proud of her accomplishment, that was the first time she had past a test since they had started when she had turned five.
"Samaree, what as that you were doing earlier?" Lawiet asked gently
she choked on the water shocked he had managed to sneak up on her with out her noticing. She didn't take into account that her body was suffering from hunger as well, and that could also affect ones reception of time and surroundings.
"I was taking a important test for my home schooling." She answered shocked
"What would swords be important to a kindergarten student." he asked baffled
"Well, my parent teach me in different ways, I have a different future than most children." She said with a delicate frown.
~Time skip~
The two become inseparable friends Samaree and Lawiet, they were still very young though. Lawiet's parents really liked Samaree she was very respectful to the adults and to those around her. Lawiet's mother would fix them sweets some afternoons while Samaree was learning text of her culture. But to them it looked like fairy tails, to most people it would look like fairy tails if you involved dragons and other mythical creatures. But to Samaree it was history... history that was important to her very future. Lawiet's mother also didn't agree with how Samaree's parents treated her when she failed a test. She would call child services and Samaree's parents would deny the claims made against them.
Then one day her very life was shattered, she had went over to Lawiet's place after passing her latest test which was aurora tracking. He was missing so was his parents their was caution tape on the front door shadows floated around the room around her terrifying her. She screamed his name frantically searching every room in the house. His aurora was faint and old maybe a day old or so. They ended at the road meaning he got into a car and left. She waited for days for his return but as the days passed she grew older and less hopeful of his return. She made a promise to herself that when she did find him she would protect him with her life. Make all the sweets he could ever want to eat.
Her father was greatly disappointed her when she took up baking versus her final stage of training. Her father was so angry with her he banished her from the house completely and from the family. Her older brother Tunic came with her as they both became part time bounty hunters and she became a full fledged baker who was one of the top ten best sweets maker in her realm but did not get the recognition she should due to her fathers influence with the people.
She returns to her childhood realm hoping to find the little boy. He would have to be around 28 years old. She in his realm was 28 as well but in her own realm which is the one her body ages according to she was 19. She was the best aurora tracker in both realms nobody could escape her ability to find people from just that ability alone. Not only that but she had become much stronger than that in her youth. She goes to Japan in hopes of finding the boy possibly, she holds one of the few pictures of them together from their youth, to her heart with a golden locket her brother Tunic got her.
