Survive or Die

Prologue

Esyrn's Story/POV

5 years earlier...

It was a week before Avia's 12th birthday. I was 11 years old. Simple as that. She's older than me by a year. But hey, a year adds a lot more maturity.. and immaturity. But anyway, let's get to the story.

There was a knock at the door. Mother screamed at me to get it. I ran to the door and opened it. There standing before me was the ever-beautiful Tina.

"H-h-hi Tina!" I greeted.

"Hi Esyrn! Is your sister Avia here?" she asked.

"Y-Ye-" I about answered back before someone else answered for me. Again.

"Yea! But you ain't allowed to see her! She goin' someplace extra special today. Okay? So why don't you go and walk your skinny little ass of f my land!" Tina didn't even flinch.

"Ah, Becky-" Tina started.

"Ah-ah-ah! You ain't allowed to call me Becky! You are only and forever only allowed to call me by Mrs. Berkendolf! Or notin' at all!" she screeched at Tina.

"Mrs. Berkendolf, I only wanted a few words with your daughter is all. You know girl-to-girl talk." Tina replied calmly.

"No! She will have none if it! She is not worthy of it! She has been a very, very naughty little girl!" She screeched.

"Oh, well then may I have a few words with you Mrs. Berkendolf?" Tina asked. Mother was taken aback.

"Uh, well, I suppose. But you only get five minutes! Five minutes and you out!" Mother insisted. She nodded happily and walked inside. Mother walked into a small room which we had somehow called the "Living Room."

"Esyrn, I want you to go tell your sister Avia to prepare herself. Okay?" Tina asked me. I nodded hastily.

"Yes! Of course Tina!" Then I was off and up the stairs headed towards Avia's room. Too bad I never made it there.

Later On...

Instead I had heard some giggling-like that of a girl's. But you know guys, you've heard it before. Hehehehehehehehe! It can be very annoying. I looked out the window of a hallway and found two girls on the yard! I was going to tell them to shoo and go away until one girl talked to me.

"Hehehe! Esyrn! Come down! I want to show you something!" a girl with dirty blonde hair called up to me. The other girl had bright red hair. I ran down as quietly as I could down the stairs and out the door. Soon, I had caught up with the girls.

"Yes?" I answered. Up close, the girl with dirty blonde hair looked a bit.. shimmery. Like an illusion or image. Her skin seemed to glow. She had light blue eyes and had quite a few freckles on her face. Same as the girl with the bright red hair.

"We have a little gift for you. Look at this." The blonde haired girl handed me a small object. It had two small circles carved on both sides. A string was placed in the middle, between the two small circles.

"It's called a yo-yo. A small toy now. But later on, maybe you'll learn to master it," the red-haired girl answered.

"A yo-yo? How do you..?" I questioned, curious at how the toy worked.

"Like this. See? This hole tied in the string? Wrap it around your finger like this and force it out and pull it back in. See? Now you've got the hang of it!" She was right. Within a few minutes, I had already been doing a few tricks. Which also included hitting myself in the face a few times.

"Don't worry! You'll get the hang of it!" The red-haired girl said.

"Who are you?" I asked. Their eyes got wide as they glanced at each other for a sec then instantly became calm.

"We were..sent." The blonde haired girl smiled very.. cunning?

"Heaven-sent?" I joked. The blonde haired girl giggled.

"Haha, perhaps. But we also come with a message," the red-haired girl said.

"From who?" The girls looked at each other.

"Someone. You don't need to know. But you do need to know this," said the blonde haired girl. Then all of a sudden everything around us faded into a darkness and the young girls aged into 80-year-old ladies. Then they spoke. While they spoke, green smoke flowed out of their mouths and surrounded us. The voice was old and ancient.

"You will grow big and strong,

Hurry! My dear you must run along!

Through the years your heart will grow soft for love,

When you reach a point over admitting of.

You will be given an option,

To save and die or be a child of adoption." The two ladies faded into the blackness and I went cold and fell.

Later On..

I found myself on the ground. My head hurt. I waited until my vision cleared. It was sunset.. or sunrise? I don't even know how long I was out. I look at my hand and there is the yo-yo. I look at it. There's nothing really special about it. It's just wood and string waxed on it. I thought I saw something. I looked and really concentrated on the little mark. I gasped. If you really focused and read it through, it was the.. topic the girls were talking of.

"You will grow big and strong.." I didn't read the rest of it. Somehow I knew it by heart. It was burned into my brain. I went down to a little puddle and looked at myself in the reflection. My black hair wasn't too messed up, and my green eyes looked fine. Not bloodshot or anything.I took a deep breath and walked back to the house.

Later On...

"Esyrn!" I heard a female voice calling me. I looked up to see Avia running down the stairs smiling ear to ear. She ran over and hugged me really tight.

"Hi-Avia-" I managed to breathe out.

"Guess what! Guess!" Avia exclaimed as she let go and messed up my black hair. Man, I had never seen Avia this happy. This must really be huge.

"What?"

"I'm going to join the Soldiers of Kyon!" she exclaimed.

"The Soldiers of what?" I asked, at the time just brain-dead about what these people could do.

"Kyon! They're in Flarine. And I pulled a few strings.. and you're coming too!" she smiled very brightly. My eyes widened.

"Avia.. what do these soldiers exactly do?" I asked her.

"They go and fight in Flarine. You know like monsters and little tasks like that. Plus, we'll learn how to wield and fight with a weapon! We can become heroes!" Avia screamed like a happy seven-year-old girl.

"Uh, cool.." It was just a lot to take in. Really. In less than five minutes, you learn your sister and you are going to a different continent that we've never been to and learn from some stranger on how to fight monsters. Yeah, it's not really that simple. But I wasn't about to kill my sister's happy adrenaline rush.

"That's uh great Avia! So, um, when do we leave?" I asked.

"Tomorrow at dawn!" she exclaimed. Oh. Didn't see that coming. I'm not exactly a morning person. I sleep all day and.. sleep all night. Avia stays up late and wakes up early. I don't know how she does it.

"Oh, great."

"Don't worry Esyrn! Tina will fly us over there!" she explained. I breathed deep. Thank Bubbles we had an expert flying us over there!

"Thank Bubbles," I muttered.

"Huh? What did you say Esyrn?" Avia asked me.

"Nothing. So I guess I need to go and pack?"

"Yep! I'll help you!" Then she grabbed my wrist and dragged me up the wooden stairs. Geez, this was going to be a very long night.