Not a Fairy Tale.
Once upon a time there was a boy… Wait, this isn't a fairy tale. Its nothing like that. If anything, it's a tale of angst, anger, and depression. Its my life until present time. Keep in mind that my kinds existence was kept secret until my life's turning point.
The day I meet him. The day my home was taken forcibly from me and my friends and family were ripped away.
My name is Sora Hikaru and I am an Elemental.
I live on an island with nothing but Elementals. What are Elementals you might be wondering? We look and act just like humans. We are humans, with some… minor differences. But we can control Elements. Our island is prosperous because of this. Everyone grows food, we trade items for what we need, and so on and so forth. Everything is peaceful and we get along.
I live with my father Squall and my brother Vanitas. Squall can control fire, while Vanitas uses air like myself. Vanitas and I mostly use our elements for fun, seeing as how we have yet to figure out what to do with it. Air Elementals aren't very common here.
Today Vanitas and I were having a race where the earth elementals were working on our crops. Vanitas was falling behind me since I was lighter and smaller than him. Some of the earth elementals got mad at me and quickly sprung up a tree in front of us. I laughed it off and focused my strength on my legs. I sprang into the air and easily flipped over the tree that was in my way seconds ago. When I dropped down I went right back to running. Vanitas hasn't learned to flip yet, and he's the older one so he should have, and decided to do a handspring over it.
Did I mention that air Elementals are extremely light weight and acrobatic? Now you know.
Right ahead of me was our checkpoint: the end of the farmland and where are orchard grew. The orchard was our checkpoint. I had this race in the bag. As usual.
Just as I'm about to race towards the trees a whole waterfall plows into me from the side. Soaking me from head to toe and tossing me away from the checkpoint.. Vanitas laughs maniacally as he races past me and does a quick cartwheel to our checkpoint.
"Haha!" Vanitas cackled, standing there trying to catch his breath. Of course, he isn't soaked. "Your all wet! Hah! And I won!"
I know who did this to me. I turn to where the water came from. Standing there giggling is a blonde girl in a white sundress. "Namineee!" I groaned and stood up. Dirt clung to my skin thanks to droplets of water. "What was that for?"
"I'm sorry, Sora!" She giggled and shook her head. "I couldn't resist. Too good of a chance."
"Well thanks. You cost me the race! I want a rematch!" I growled. I paused a moment, then said with a sigh. "Can you dry me off…?"
Namine smiled and nodded. She lifted one hand up and delicately moved her fingers in a quick little pattern. While she was doing that, the water had slowly started to lift up and off my skin and it flew back over to her. Namine then pushed her hand back down and the water fell. "Better now?"
As I flicked the dirt off me, I smiled and nodded. "Yep."
Vanitas walked over and tugged on one of my brown spikes. "No more races today, we're starting to piss people off."
"That's the fun part!" I laughed and pushed his hand away. "Other than the random tree, no one really minds."
Carefree. That's how we spent our days. Among all this nobody had noticed a big black omen was sailing right for us. Namine had, but all she could do was point in a stunned silence. Vanitas and I stopped laughing long enough to see what was wrong. The look of horror on Namine's face… I won't forget it. We both turned to see what she was looking at. A dark ship was headed for us. It blocked out the sun and cast a large shadow over our land. Slowly everyone stopped their work or play and went to go see the big ship. We had boats, but none of us had ever seen ships as huge as these.
The giant ship docked at our beach. By then everyone including ourselves had made a semi circle around the beach. Slowly these different people came down from the boat. Many of them too. One of them stepped forward, a tall man, and looked at all of us.
"… Ahem," he cleared his throat before speaking. "Where is the one you call Leader?"
Nobody made any moves. We didn't really have anyone in charge. If everything was balanced, why should there be something to tell us what to do? We just had some sort of.. Unwritten Code. We knew what to do and nobody disobeyed it. Its been like that since before I was born.
But then Squall stepped forward. "We don't have anyone in charge. Get off our island," he stated simply but with quiet anger in his voice.
The man didn't move back. "We're sorry to intrude but we had to make a quick stop. You see-"
Squall didn't have much patience, and this man was clearly getting on his nerves. He thrust his hand out in front of the man as a flame engulfed it. "I said get off our island."
The man took a few steps back, as more of the people behind him came in to get a better look. "How are you doing that? Your going to burn your hand off!"
"No, I won't. Get off before I burn that stupid look on your face off!"
I didn't know this man, and neither did Squall. The man looked smart, and if he could read a person he should know to take Dad's advice and leave. But nope, didn't happen. The man knit his brow together and stared questioningly at the flame. "…We come in peace. If you let us stay for a few hours and talk for a little bit, we might be able to reach a compromise we both can benefit from."
Squall raised an eyebrow and drew his hand back. The fire quickly extinguished. "Talk? So you've come here in hopes of taking our home away. None of are going to let that happen. You can just board you big boat and leave us all alone."
"If you just listen-"
"You listen," Squall fixed a glare onto the man. "We are your worst nightmare. We are something you haven't seen before. Take our home away and that nightmare will come true."
The man almost stiffened up at this, but he held his posture. "You leave me no choice." He turned to the people behind him. "Take everything."
Once he uttered those few words, all hell broke loose.
Squall lost it and shot the largest fire I've ever seen at the boat, even a few of the people. Water Elementals used their power to try and tip the boat over. Earth Elementals raised chunks of earth and hurled it at our enemies. But they just kept fighting back. Nothing brought them down. Flames caught onto our precious trees. Our lakes and rivers were dabbed with crimson. The sky darkened over our home as if to say we had lost.
I stuck by Vanitas the whole time and tried to my fight my way to some kind of safety. Namine had been sticking close by to us, seeing as how he was a frail and delicate girl, but one of our enemies had gotten behind her and pinned her arms to her back. These metal cuffs were attached to her wrists. She couldn't move her arms- she couldn't use her element. So our enemy has figured that out by now.
"Sora!" She screamed as she was getting hauled away. So were more of our people.
"No! Namine!" I snarled and summoned up a large gust of wind, managing to knock her captor off his feet. Before I could run up to her rescue he got back up on his feet and literally dragged her away by her hair. Running after her toward the boat didn't help much.
I heard Vanitas cry out behind me and he too was cuffed. It took more people to bring him down. Vanitas was a loose cannon, ready to go whenever when he pleased. Probably five of our enemies had to restrain him.
It was all around me. Half of our people were being taken away and onto the ship, while others sat huddled and being watched by an enemy.
There was nothing left in me. People surrounded me and cuffed me quickly, like they thought I was going to fight back. After what they did to my home I felt utterly empty inside. Just hollow.
Cuffs were placed around my feet as well. My movement was restricted but I was being dragged most of the trip to the ship anyway.
We were all placed onto a bottom part of the ship. It was hot and sweaty but of all it was filled with the sound of cries. I found Vanitas and Namine easily. Vanitas had been knocked out and was dumped onto the ground. Namine found him and crawled over. I had to crawl around myself, seeing as how I couldn't walk that well. Namine and I huddled around Vanitas and clung to each other.
"What's going on, Sora…?" She whimpered. Her white dress had ugly stains on it from being dragged around. Tears trickled down her cheeks and her eyes were all wet. Another thing about being a water Elemental. Tears are heavier.
I tried to answer as best as I could. What was going on, and where were we going? Are we safe? Whats going to happen to us?
"… I don't know, Namine. I just don't know…"
Eventually I woke up and to find most of us Elementals standing around. I blinked a few times and asked the nearest person, "What's going on?"
They turned to me with a hollow face and replied, "We're being auctioned off. Better hope you and your brother stay together." He turned back to try and get a glimpse at the outside.
Sunlight was streaming in from the top of this floor. I shakily stood up and nudged Namine and Vanitas awake. I told them what was going on and that we should all try to stay together. Namine nodded quietly and stood up. She was staring at her hands. I noticed that her fingers were tied together. Enemies must have figured out she could control water with her fingers mainly.
Vanitas took my hand and Namine's. As it came to our turn I was forced to go first. The bright sunlight made me grimace from the contrast of a dark crowded room to bright salty air.
We were at a dock. And a rather crowed one. I could see some of my people being walked away with people I've never seen before.
We were… being sold?
I almost started to struggled but then some man started yelling loudly. "Here have a small young man! Uses air power and can fly through the air as well. Starting at one hundred, any takers?"
Fly? I can't fly. What is this guy saying? Different people down below me started shouting out random numbers. The man who was shouting the loudest was repeating those numbers.
"Five hundred! Going once, going twice-"
"One thousand."
The crowd hushed and turned to look at who said that. There was a tall silver haired young man. Maybe my age, if anything a bit older. I could see his piercing green eyes from here.
"One thousand! Going once, going twice…!" When no one spoke up he clapped his hands. "One thousand for…! …What's your name kid?"
I said nothing. Just kept staring at the person who just bought me. Little did I know we would soon have unbreakable ties. In both sadness and happiness.
A/N: We're studying Africa. And we keep talking about slaves. This popped into my head and I had to write it out. Whoops, new story.
Well, one, I can't update any other story. Why? Because I don't have four hundred flipping dollars to repair a dent. Fuck you, staples. You suck.
So I'm stuck on this laptop. Blagh. Might continue this, probably will, I'm bored.
