The Plague started at the main land, at first an unknown disease and now something we know to well. I'd used to be quite living in The Marketplace but that stopped after the plague started to spread. My mom and dad were traders, so they encountered a lot of people. They where among the first to have symptoms. Dizziness, fever, blurry vision and memory loss.
Me and my sister, (who is a trained assassin) where left behind. My sister choose already a few years ago to be Luxon and was out a lot. Now she is at home with me and the Kaineng guards say we'll be evacuated soon.
It was dawn, my sister is standing in the kitchen. She woke up early just like she normally does now. "Finally awake now?' I rubbed my eyes and was walked half-sleepwalking half-normal to the kitchen while mumbling a g'morning. "I made your breakfast, bread and milk today" She helped me a lot because I was always so sleepy in the morning that I didn't do a thing for the first half hour. While eating I realised that I was still in my bed clothes and had to get dressed. I took some trousers and a shirt from my closet and put them on. "Do you think the farmers from Shing Jea Island arrive at 11 or at 12,Yusu?" I doubted so I replied: " I think they'll be here at eleven, just like they usually are." We both didn't talk for a while after that. It was so quit, I had to say something. So I asked my sister: "Glynn, do you think that if we stay as much as possible inside, that we'll be safe for the plague?" She didn't reply right away but after a while she said softly: "I don't know Yusu" Silence fell again, so I tried to make that small flame come again. I got some fire elementist powers, but I'm still weak. All I can do is sometimes summon a small flame and create a little fire ball so that I can read at night.
We heard someone walk outside and a moment later someone knocked on our door. "Glynn, Yusu!" My sister opened the door and saw our neighbour standing there. "I heard the farmers aren't coming today!" My sister asked why, and our neighbour replied: "the person who was supposed to drive the boat is sick and there is no one to replace him" I said "that's weird" as I was standing behind my sister in the door opening now. "Thank you for telling us, have a nice day" and after those words my sister closed the door. She sat down and I followed her example. We where quiet again because we both wanted to go to Kaineng Docks, only we don't have a reason to go now and its best to stay indoors. After a while, I stood up and I was just going to browse through some of my stuff. When you have nothing to do you just want to do anything that keeps you busy. I found some old toys, some books and just as I was looking under the pile of books that stray cat came in. The stray cat that me and my sis called Mr Softpaws, (we don't know if it's a he or a she, we never asked) he always comes around the same time, after we should have went to the docks and got our new supplies. But this time we couldn't give him a piece of meat, but only some dry bread and some milk. I poured some milk in a small bowl and put a small piece of bread on a plate. Mr Softpaws eat the bread and drunk the milk and then went to Glynn, to sit on her lap, purring.
I removed the bowl and the plate and brought them to the kitchen, I looked up and in the mirror I saw a girl with red hair and brown eyes. I need to brush my hair, but I used it for Mr Softpaws's hair. Tomorrow should be fine for that too. I sat down next to my sister again.
"Can you tell a story?"
"What do you want to hear?"
"I don't know."
"Do you want to hear about the sea and the forest before they where jade and stone?"
"I'd like that"
My sister began to tell:
"Before we knew Shiro the Stone Forest was a normal forest and the Jade Sea a normal sea. There where always fishermen at sea to fish and to enjoy the weather. In the forest people were always taking walks and where swimming in the rivers. Sitting in the warm grass or swimming in the sea was a common thing. Luxon and Kurzick lived separated, but didn't have that much trouble. But when Shiro was killed the Sea turned into jade and the forest into stone.
The end."
"Aww that's mean! Continue the story!"
My sister laughed and continued.
"Most plants couldn't grow anymore at the forest, and the animals that lived of those plants couldn't survive any longer. New plants came and with that new animals. The sea stopped as it was, with at some points very high waves. You can't get to some parts now, because it's impossible to climb over those waves. On the other hand, they are beautiful to watch, frozen in time. But also here new animals came, because most fish died and the animals that eat fish died and the animals that ate those died too. "
"Could the people still swim?"
"No, you can't swim in jade, can you Yusu?"
"No, than how about water to drink?"
"It still rained"
"Oh"
"Some people say it's impossible to change back what Shiro had begun with the Jade Sea and the Stone Forest, while others say it will return back to normal one day. "
"You are a Luxon, right?"
"Yes, but let me please continue my story"
The Shing Jea Island wasn't affected because it wasn't evolved in killing Shiro, both Luxon and Kurzick where. The Kurzick made giant buildings out of stone and….
We where quiet. We heard a group approaching, it was still distant but by the soft sound of the swords and armour we knew it where Kaining Guards. The evacuation guards where removing as much people as possible so the plague wouldn't spread that fast. Today we where going to be evacuated. I gave my sister my bracelet, it was red with flowers. She gave me her necklace, it had a piece of jade to it attached. Just to be sure. The sound stopped for a minute and then continued. It was very near now. I hold my sisters hand as the sound stopped very near to our house, I was scared. We heard a male voice:
"Kaineng evacuation team, open the door!"
My first chapter, I hope you liked it and give some comments :)
I try to upload a new chapter as soon as possible.