Chapter 1:
Prin Archi
Ignited by a spark, ashes fall from their fire as if each piece of ash was guided by a hope that they would one day reach the ground and return to their blaze of oblivion, but no matter how this procedure is carried out, it will not be an Infinite cycle as for all things, they must come to an end; every flame is extinguished.
From the shadow a figure jumps onto the tiles of a village roof, wearing a cloak in the darkness of a barely moonlit night, their whole body is covered except their face where their features are fully visible, their cheek bones are set high, their face is slim and petite, as they run across the rooftops an ember calmly floats by the cheek of the figure, the bright ember sparked a flash in their mind as they closed their light green eyes.
A pair of green eyes awaken to a voice emanating from the left of them "BOOM! Fire was everywhere, it was awesome, I never really realised that hunting was that much fun" the voice trailed off as the eyes focused on the world around them.
Two girls walked along a dirt road shoulder to shoulder, the girl who walked on the left possessed noticeable long pink hair that barely reaches beyond her shoulder blades and a fringe that straightens along her eyebrows, her face seems to be spacing out and oblivious to the shorter girl chattering nonsense beside her.
The shorter girl shouted "Cele!?" Waking Celestine from her day dream.
"Yes?" Celestine asked looking down onto the shorter girl.
"Want to race?" The girl proposed with a smug expression on her face.
"N-" before Celestine could respond, the girl had taken off kicking dirt up in the air as she ran. Celestine had no choice but to run after her and catch up.
The two girls combated for first place with Celestine easily catching up to the other girls short legs "Ele! Stop!" Celestine shouted out to the girl through deep breaths, she laughed off the words and continued running. Soon, small wooden houses could be seen in the distance.
"Almost there, you may want to speed up if you want to cat-" the girl was interrupted by Celestine sprinting past, Celestine even let out a sly smirk as she passed, but the girl just laughed again and reached into her pocket, she pulled out a small rock and giggled, Celestine's eyes glowed pink as her expression turned serious. The girl threw the stone laughing while she did it, but Celestine easily dodged it and caught it in her hand just as it passed her chest. Instead of returning the stone to its sender she dropped it on the ground and focused on the houses, now practically in front of her. Once the girls reached the houses, their race came to an end with Celestine as the victor.
"That was dirty Elenora" Celestine said exhausted and gasping for breath.
"It would be boring without a twist" the girl replied trying to catch her breath at the same pace as Celestine.
"Have you slowed down Ele?" Cele asked the girl almost sarcastically.
"Yeah well maybe if your power wasn't so unfair, I might have had a chance" Elenora retorted bringing her breath to a standstill.
"Well what about yours?" Celestine asked with a curious tone.
"You know I don't have one yet" Elenora replied waiving her arms aimlessly.
"what about your aura?" Celestine asked.
"none of that stuff; I don't practice it really, if I unlocked my power or aura then I feel as if I would change as a person, and I just want to stay as me, not change into someone or something else" Elenoras reply put a smile onto Celestines face.
"I'm still the same person" she said with reassuring words.
Elenora slightly smiled "yeah, one of a few"
Celestine walker over to Elenora and placed a hand on her shoulder, Elenora looks up into Celestine's eyes.
"Ready to make your weapon?" She said through a subtle sigh.
Elenora met Celestine with a smile "of course" Celestine released her clutch on Elenora's shoulder.
"have you thought about what you're going to build?" Celestine asked. Elenora replied with a nod of her head.
The two girls made their way into the town centre of the villages of Skoni which homes themselves and hundreds of other people, the villages are rather cut off from the outside world much like its inhabitants, this however does not gain them immunity from the soulless creatures of darkness that surround them everyday, creatures that the villagers have named Lyko, although known to the rest of Remnant as Grimm, Skoni does not share the luxury of communication, nobody knows of their existence much like they know of nobody else's.
The four villages of Skoni houses a centre town which is rather small and cosy with a town square full of friendly merchants that sell wares from their local travels, the buildings surrounding the square are quite small with some of them reaching as high as two stories, however the town centre is where the rich swarm while the poor are tossed aside into three smaller villages that surround the town centre, all are rural and the ground between them covers across one hundred miles the forest and mountains surrounding the villages and cloaking them from the outside world are also housed to multiple hunters that provide food and other types of material for the villages, however past all of the trees and hunters lies an impenetrable wall of Grimm that if attempted to be cleared would lead to the demise of the villages and valley they lie within, to combat this dark fate, a line of defence was organised in the villages, although it is a local service, if a Grimm wonders to close; kill it. Never do the humans pick the fight. The protectors are named Nyk and they are known as hero's to the rich and poor alike, their morals are always to protect never attack; unless necessary.
Elenora stood at shoulders length with Celestine however with her blonde hair scrunched up on top of her head, she would stand Eyes length at most, Elenora and Celestine share similar facial traits, almost looking identical to one another with the difference being in eye colour and height, Eleanor's Eyes flowed a sea blue whilst Celestine's blended with the grass as a calm viridian.
Both Elenora and Celestine were in the village square alongside a crowd of other people, the merchants that are usually set up in their place are not present and instead there was a small wooden stage built up from a few large tables stacked on top of each-other, it was rather stable regardless of its tacky and unreliable looking nature, behind the stage was a tall cloth covered object that almost reached the hight of the tallest buildings in the village, on the stage was a man wearing a grin and a bowl hat covering his hair, he had thick sideburns which merged into a combed black beard that almost covered his whole face, on his torso he wore a small silver badge with a sigil of two axes crossed over a shield, the badge he wore symbolised him as the mayor and lead protector of the village.
The view was very limited where Elenora and Celestine stood but the stage could vaguely be seen through the crowd. To the right side of Elenora was a small boy jumping up and down trying to catch a glance, Elenora noticed his frantic jumping and crouched down to talk to him.
"Do you want any help seeing?" She asked in a gentle voice, she caught the attention of the boy as he turned to her in surprise
"No I'm good, thanks" the boy replied shaking his palms in front of her and leaning as far backwards as he could.
"Shut up!" He then said to himself looking as if he was trying to look at himself.
Elenora struck him a confused glance and stood back up leaving the boy with an "Okay"
Celestine faced over to Elenora "Did that kid just tell you to 'shut up?'" She asked forcefully closing in on her personal space.
"No, I think he was telling himself" she said with a small giggle, Celestine snickered and left Eleanora's space, resuming to staring ahead at the stage. Elenora looked back over at the boy and saw that he was gone, she quickly glanced around searching for him but he was nowhere to be seen. But she just smiled and joined Celestine.
"It is a pleasure to announce the project that I have been working on for a while now, some of you might have seen the construction of this wonderful stat... um thing, well. Some of you actually did, please no more complaints about its nose, anyway without further delay..." the Mayor standing on stage announced, relocating slightly to the left of the stage as the cover came falling from the object to reveal a smooth white statue, it couldn't be seen very well from Elenora and Celestines position even though the statue towered high.
"We can see the stage but not the actual statue, that's annoying" Elenora expressed trying to peek over other peoples shoulders
"It's nothing to brag about anyway" Celestine said standing back a little "let's go Ele" she ordered with her hand gesturing for her to follow.
As they left the square, Elenora caught a glimpse of the boy from earlier in the crowd, he now stood right at the back of the crowd with both of his hands behind his back and a formal smile on his face, she also managed to get a small look at the statue which left another big smile over her face.
(This is my first ever fanfiction, forgive me if I make any mistake in the characters or writing if you notice any mistake no matter how minute please inform me and I will do everything I can to rectify it, another thing to note is that these chapters will not be common with most of them being 1-3 months apart from eachother 'quality over quantity' after all, additionally they will be rather short in comparison 1500 words is my average)