The Red Wings Of Fate
A/N: This is a rewrite of my story If I Die Young. Now to be honest about halfway through my newest chapter of that story I just couldn't continue with it. The writing was not flowing nor was even half my ideas possible due to the new books that had came out. So I just had to scrap it. My writing style was a bit of a disappointment to me too. This story should be better written and not be so errr… out of character for the most part on the side of the male characters. I hope you like it.
Influence of Souls -
Dinarzad was a bit of an odd child to many. With her plum colored hair and large suspiciously knowing gold eyes she would have stood out in a crowd anyway, but it was her intelligence that truly scared people. For a girl child of only five she was both to smart and to forgiving in her manner, always walking around with a small content smile on her cherubic face. Her mother though loving was a bit to absent minded to actually pay any kind of mind that her child was way too smart for her age. The pretty though dimwitted woman truly loved her only child so perhaps that was somewhat of an consolation.
No one truly knew that it was an influence of her rather odd soul that made the girl act as she was.
Dinarzad knew, she remembered a life once lived as a young woman who chose her baby over herself. Only she remembered the young woman once known as Ashlynn Marr who had died with a smile on her face as she held her newborn son. Ashlynn Marr who was a tiny sickly little woman who should not have had children in the first place but had valued her son's life over her continued one. And so Dinarzad smiled and forgave those children who thought of her as 'freaky' and just shook her head at the parents who looked at her oddly.
A Life Once Lived -
When Ashlynn had awoke fully in the body of a two year old she had not really known what to think. The last thing she remembered was holding her darling son Leo for the first and last time and then, well nothing until she slowly came to in an entirely new body. A completely healthy body. She had nearly cried over that. As long as she could remember Ashlynn had always had a body that was constantly fighting itself and making her sick. Her immune system was never strong enough and her tiny body could never heal quite right. At a young twenty two she had known that she would be lucky to reach fifty, when she had found out that she was pregnant. Her husband ( and Best Friend ) had been ecstatic but deeply worried as he had known that her body might not handle it well. He had been right, her doctor had advised her to abort the baby as she would most likely not live to see the baby born but she had been stubborn and in the end had went through with it.
By the end of the whole thing she had been bedridden and on the edge of death. Giving birth had been the final nail in her coffin. In the end she had died of blood loss but she had hung on long enough to hold her dear son and name him before she slipped away. Then she woke up in this tiny body.
Dinarzad, as she was now called had made her bones with being reincarnated and threw herself into her new life with a smile on her face and a thousand questions burning in her mind. Being buddhist in her last life probably helped on that front however.
A New Life -
Dinarzad loved her mother dearly but the woman was a bit of a ditz. The always smiling Umeko had come from a minor noble family and so was a bit sheltered to just what real life was so Dinarzad tried her hardest to make sure that the woman was taken care of. Umeko's family had well, not really disowned her but had set her aside of the main line when she had fallen pregnant out of wedlock. Mostly because Umeko refused to ever tell who her father had been, which Dinarzad would later find out had probably saved her life. Umeko was beautiful with her noble heritage however and that made things a bit hard. With her long emerald green hair and bright aqua eyes she was exhotic looking and unforchanately a chatch for slave traders. As she was only loosely affiliated with her family now Umeko did not have the protection of a noble name to fall back on in case of a kidnapping and Dinarzad knew that. So the young girl kept a close eye on the air headed young woman and made sure that she was aware of her surroundings enough that capture was hard or almost impossible.
She would find however that almost impossible was not the same as truly impossible. At the age of seven Dinarzad became an orphan, or as close to one could be when they never knew there father and there mother was taken. Her dear mother Umeko had went out to get some fish for dinner and had never came back. After several hours of her mother being gone the young girl left her small stone house and had walked to the nearest market only to find out that some slave traders had came through earlier that day. Dinarzad felt her blood run cold as she heard that they had taken almost thirty young women that had been in the market at the time. The girl had then run up to one of the venders and asked if her mother had been there when they had come through.
She found out that yes her mother had been there and that she had been one of the first taken. Dinarzad for the first time in her new life had sobbed, truly sobbed. She had turned and walked numbly back to her small house and sat on her tiny little bed and sobbed her heart out. Her loving mother was gone, the only mother that she had ever truly known was gone. As Ashlynn she had been raised by a distant mother who had never truly been able to connect to her sickly child so Umeko had been the first true mother that she had. As she cried and wailed she felt her life refocus. It was like she came out of a dream and was finally seeing just what life here in this world was truly like. It was nasty and mean, with slavery and wars still ongoing. She gasped and fell onto her side clutching desperately at her chest as her heart constricted. Just what kind of world did she come to be reborn into?!
"- It's ok, cry, scream, rage, it's normal. Let it all out and then stand back up. This is not your end. If you hate it so much, change it! This is why you're here. Stand up! Use this as motivation to meet your fate!"
Dinarzad's eyes widened as she heard a distinctly male voice call to her. It was soft yet so compassionate and strong. She inhaled sharply and looked around the empty room wildy, plum hair whipping around her. There was no one there. The girl blinked and wondered if she was finally going insane. She opened her mouth to speak, to ask just what they, whoever they where, was talking about when a small luminescent bird flew in front of her face and landed on her nose. Its wings beat at the air for a moment before they folded closed. Dinarzad inhaled in shock as the voice came again, this time she could pinpoint it. It came from the glowing white bird.
"For you little aftershock, you are the only one who can change it."
Earthquakes And Aftershocks-
Dinarzad blinked and snuffled slightly to stem the flow of tears and mucus. She had never seen any bird that glowed like this one before but something about it rang an alarm bell deep within her mind. Blinking tears away from her watery gold eyes she narrowed them and glared at the bird though it looked more like a pout on her young face.
"And just who are you, actualy better yet just what are you?" The young girl asked with some amount of venom in her tone. Hey, she had just lost the only person that actually cared about her in this world she was allowed to be angry.
"Be calm small one, I meant no disrespect." The glowing bird fluttered its wings softly, brushing the tips of them along her cheekbones. "I am, Well I suppose you could call me an observer of the world. I was once a man but I no longer have a body. Maybe one day I will tell you my name but, not today." Dinarzad looked quizzically at the bird processing what it(/he?) said.
"What do you mean by Aftershock? Isn't that what comes after an earthquake. Why call me that?" The young girl asked knowing that to an observer that she would look insane talking to a bird of all things…. Unless they could hear him to….
"Yes, an Aftershock is what comes after an Earthquake. And you my dear are what came after a very special Earthquake, an Earthquake that was supposed to change the world but… well, unforeseen circumstances happened and he became something that was not really expected. You are what came after it was decided that we must try something to counteract this. The world is dying, we needed something to create change and so you were born. You whose soul is filled with unconditional love and the strength to stand up to the biggest of obstacles." The bird tilted its head and she got the feeling that it was looking at her very soul. "You who has lived before."
Dinarzad felt her lungs freeze and her heart stop for a moment. He was the one who dragged her hear?! Did he know she would lose her mother?! So many questions filled her head but only one came out.
"Did you know?" She asked softly closing her eyes and holding back the rage that wanted to surge through her. That wanted her to curse his existence and scream at the injustice of it all. But… she was one little girl in a world filled with sad stories and unhappy endings, who was she to complain when some little girls were thrown away at birth or even drowned?
"No, We can not see you for you are not of this world. You are an anomaly made to fight against other anomalies." He finally answered in an apologetic tone that made something in her loosen. She could breathe again and though her mother was never going to come back something felt lighter. Dinarzad let out a soft sigh and opened unwavering gold eyes. A desire to do something anything to help stop all the atrocities burned in shining gold depths.
"What do I do?" She asked.
And so another would shake the world to its core. For she was a legend in the making guided by the red string of fate tied to such a small bird's wings. But even the smallest of wings could make the biggest of hurricanes.
A/N: Phew, that was hard to get out. I actually had to stop writing at one point because I was getting nowhere and it frustrated me something horrible. I was nearly in tears at one point because I had no idea on how to continue any of my stories. Luckily because I took a long needed break I'm back and I have some new ideas. I am working on this first then I'll get to my other stories. I also have written a Nurarihyon no mago story so if you like that anime or manga please check it out. Oh, and I have half of a two shot up. It's a Magi one too! Its called The Mummy: A Magi Inspired Edition. Please check that one out too! Anywho, I hope you liked this chapter and please favorite and review!
PS: I am looking for someone to bounce some ideas off of so if anyone is interested please PM me. It helps keep the muses happy. ^^