Shattered Fire

Summary: This story is based in a world with two fighting spirits that have reached epic proportions, a true goddess with elemental guardian demi gods vs. a self-made goddess avatar of elemental. What happens when a guardian is smashed scattered fully destroyed. Or is it? The year calendar is the element cycle dark, light, fire, water, earth, air, life, death, mind, heart. Children are rumored to be blessed by the element they are born in.

Prologue The day the fire died.

The girl looked up at the stars watching them slowly fade into existence and smiles. Nighttime was always a favorite of hers the way the sun faded and the skies became a canvas of color a real rainbow more perfect then the rainbows that happened after rain because you could be outside to watch it. The white of the snow become alive with the colors as well welcoming of the spring that would bring in the New Year after this last day of death.

Her older brother sat next to her and looked up as well. "Ember did you wish upon the first star?" he asks looking down at his sister.

She flashed him a bright smile nodding and pointed up. "There that was the first star you should make your wish before the year of the Dark starts." The seven year old smiles, "You know what mama says Hubert."

Hubert nodded looking up and closing his eyes as was tradition his parents are extremely religious and very faithful to the jewel and the powers going so far as to name him and his sister after the year they were born. Hubert meaning son of the bright mind as his father was also mind born and sister ember the spark of fires life.

I wish my father would return from the war with Sola. He pleaded the wish opening his eyes. Refocusing on the star his sister had pointed out his eyes widening as the star seemed to flare and explode.

"By the Jewel what is happening?" he cursed standing. The sky seemed to fill with an entire pain as fire spread out in all and every color that fire can take before shattering and sending a wave of heat down onto the two siblings knocking Hubert over darkness sweeping into his mind and vision.

Unknowing of what had transpired Hubert opened his eyes and looked himself over. His skin was red and burned as if he had been out in the sun too long in summer and not outside in the soft snow that would be welcoming spring.

"Ember?" he called sitting up and looking to his right where she had been. His eyes scanned over the fresh grass that was there but no sister. "Ember?" he screamed getting to his feet and running for the house… perhaps she was at home she would not have been able to carry him and he had passed out.

"Mum has Ember come in here? We were just out star wishing for the new year and I can't find her now" he came into the room the elders would spend the New Year's night in saying farewell and welcome with rituals that were complicated and seemed very odd to him. In the room he slowed to a stop seeing the people were not chanting and speaking as on other years somewhere screaming and others were missing. His mother looked at him with tears in her eyes holding up what looked to him like scorched clothing… Embers clothing.

"No mama… how? How?" Hubert shutters wanting to back away wanting it to all be gone and away. He sat clinging to his legs and shaking uncontrollably.

The dawn of the Year of the Dark came with renewed confusion. All fire born had passed and no traditional fire could be lit. The world became dark only the sun gave light unless you were mage born and could create it. It truly was the Year of Dark.