Souls of light
Chapter 1: The girl with blue hair
In a farm house, a young boy of 17 years old wakes up, he washes his face and go to the dining room. He looks over the window and sees his uncle plowing the field, he waves his hand to him, he then eats his breakfast, change his clothes and grab a bow and some arrows to go hunting. Ha pass next to his uncle and stop for a conversation…
"So, Ankas, are you going to hunt again?"
"Yeah uncle, I'll be right back."
"Okay, just be careful all right?"
"Sure!"
After he said that, he turns to a path that leads to the forest near the village where he lives. He hears a stick breaking and immediately pulls an arrow and pulled his bow, in hopes that is something bigger than a rabbit. Some bushes ahead of him start to move, like something was trying to run away from him. Without hesitation, he goes after it, in vain though because after a while of running and running he lost tracks of it. When he was looking around, trying to find another prey, when he found a friend, collecting mushrooms in an old, fallen oak branch.
"Hey there Maxis! How are you doing?" Said Ankas.
"Wow! Ankas? Long time no see pal!" answered Maxis.
They sit down on the branch and started to chat. Chatting about the old times and small new adventures that they've lived so far, after all, it's not all the time that you can talk to a childhood friend that lives in a big city…
"So, what are you doing now?" Asked Ankas
'Well, I've got the chance I wanted, you're looking to the most new apprentice of the great wizard Gilldendart!" He answered while boasting himself.
"Well, that's great to hear! Was that why you were collecting mushrooms?"
"Yeah! For a new healing potion that i am learning, i must say, Gilldendart is a great wizard, he can be an ungraceful old man."
"Ha ha! Is that so?"
"Yeah… But, what about you Ankas? What are you doing now?" Asked Maxis.
"Well, nothing really I guess, since that day, I'm living with my uncle now and helping him out with the farm and everything, but sometimes, things are just too difficult."
"Ah, i see… He means that day…" Maxis thought to himself.
They were still talking while walking through the forest, when they came across an old temple. They entered inside, Maxis looked over the walls that looked like to be decorated by old paintings, punished by the time. Maxis stopped for a moment and looked into his bag…
"I know that I've seen this paintings somewhere…" Maxis said, while searching something inside his bag.
"What is it?" Ankas asked.
"Aha! Here we go. Now, now… Where was it?" Maxis said while he looked in some pages of an old book that he took of his bag.
"What are you looking for?" Ankas asked, really impatient.
"Here! This temple was created by the long lost civilizations that inhabited this lands, the Makairu! According to this, the temple was created to the 'souls of light'." Maxis said.
"What do you mean by 'souls of light'?" Ankas asked.
"The Makairu believed that for every single action on the land, most of them made by nature, was made by the action of spirits, put in this world to watch over humans and help, or depending on their actions, condemns them. It said that they used to live here in the land with the mortals in human form, but something terrible happened and they had to live us behind." Maxis said.
"Something… terrible?" Ankas said.
"Sorry, but I'm not really good with this ancient runes yet, I'm still learning them." Maxis said.
"Well, at least you already told what this temple is for, as expected from the greatest history maniac from all the land of Karhulman!" Ankas said while laughing.
After doing some research on the temple they come out and stare at the entrance of the old temple, plants grow from every crack on its walls, and it looked to be transformed into a natural life community, with lots of different birds making nests everywhere.
"You know, I was wondering…" Maxis said.
"What?" Ankas asked.
"Do you think that the world would be different if the souls of light would be here?" Maxis asked.
"Well, I don't know about that, but they could at least come back at this time right? I mean, the Empire are advancing more and more every single day, I wouldn't complain to have a little help." Ankas said.
"Yeah, that might be true…" Maxis said.
Ankas turns to the horizon and sees that the sun is coming down, and it's already getting really dark.
"Well, I guess that's it, it's a shame though, I couldn't hunt anything today…" Ankas said.
They both had shaken their hands and Maxis was going the way back to his city, he then turns around and say:
"Farewell Ankas! May we find our paths crossed again my friend!" Maxis said.
"What's with the way he is talking?" Ankas thought to himself while waving his hand to Maxis.
He then turned back to the direction of the temple entrance and stood there for a minute.
"Spirits of light hun…?" Ankas said to himself.
He turned to the way back to the village and started walking, but not too far from there he tripped over something and felt in an improvised wooden staircase.
"What the hell? What was that?" Ankas asked himself.
He walked back all the way up the improvised wooden staircase and found a girl with blue hair, with no cloths on and unconscious.
"W- what the- ?" Given the situation that Ankas found himself in he wasn't even able to talk correctly.
"Mhh…" The girl starts to moan, as she starts to wake up.
"Hey! Are you alright?" Ankas asked.
She than looks at him, it looks like she doesn't understands what he's saying. She touches her neck and after that she starts to look around, looks like that she lost something.
"Hey, what is it? Did you lost something?" Ankas asked.
She then grabs him by his collar and starts to say some words in an unknown language by him, It seemed as an old language.
"H- hold on! At least cover your body first!" Ankas said while lending her his cape to cover her, he turns his face as he becomes more and more red by the actual state of the girl.
The girl than just give up on searching for her lost object and wears the cape trying to hide her body, she still tries to understand why she have to cover her body parts.
"hmm…? What is that?" A shine object picked Ankas's attention, he grabs the object and pull It out of the bushes that was next to him. It was a necklace, it chains are made out of a unknown material, and there is a shine transparent orb that seems to have some kind of smoke inside.
The girl sees the necklace and starts to get restless.
"Is that what you were looking for? Here, take it." Ankas said while he gives her the necklace.
The girl wears on the necklace, now she seems calmer.
"Well, are you okay now?" Ankas asked.
"Yes! Thank you very much for finding this to me!" The girl said.
"WOW! Y- you understand what I'm saying?" Ankas asked her.
"Yes!" The girl answered.
"bu- but how did you…? Never mind, let's just get out of here before it is completely dark." Ankas said.
He pulled her by her hand and both of them started walking back to the village. In the way, the girl seemed amazed by all things around her, it seemed like she never saw these things before.
"Hey, if it's not a problem, could I ask you were you come from?" Ankas asked.
The girl seemed a little disturbed about the question.
"Sorry, I can't tell you…" She said.
"No problem, it's just that you don't seem to be from these parts of Amaludia." Ankas said.
"Could you please change the subject…" She asked, seemed a little troubled about her past.
"Okay then… What happened to your clothes?" Ankas asked.
"Clothes?" The girl said. She seemed troubled about this question.
"Yeah, I mean, you're not wearing anything to cover your body." Ankas said.
"My… body?" She said, while opening the cape that was around her body, showing everything.
"OI OI! COVER IT UP!" Ankas shouted, while covering his face with his hands, his face was really red.
"S- sorry…" She said while closing back the cape involving her body.
"Is it a problem if people don't use these… umm… clothes in this land?" She asked.
"Of course it is! What kind of place did you lived in?" Ankas said
She looked upset.
"Sorry, I forgot, nothing about your background…" Ankas said.
"Sorry. It's just that… I promised not to tell anyone…" She said.
"By the way, what's your name…? You do have a name, don't you?" Ankas asked.
"My name is Hatsune Miku!" She said.
"Miku? That's a strange name, especially around these lands. Well, at least I have a name, mine is Greenian Ankas, nice to meet you!" He said.
"Greenian… Ankas? I've never heard such a name before." Miku said.
"She's definitely from a foreign land…" Ankas thought to himself.
After a while, Ankas finally sees a path that leads them back to the village. They start to walk on the path back to his house and people around just kept looking at the mysterious girl that had blue hair, and why she was barefoot? And what's Ankas doing walking with such a strange girl? The people had no shame, they didn't even whispered, Ankas and Miku could hear them perfectly, but it was not like that Miku was feeling offended or anything, Ankas looked over her and she was just amazed again by all the different thing in the village, like the farm tools, the torches, the animals, the peoples clothes, and the list just goes on and on…
"Here we are!" Ankas said pointing to a farm house right ahead of them.
"Oh! So you live there? It looks really comfy!" Miku said.
That sounded really strange for Ankas, it was just a little farm house, but the way she looked, it seemed like a palace, but still, we're talking about a girl that was marveled by the birds and trees she looked around, she seemed like a real scatterbrain.
"Tadaima!" Ankas said, while opening the door.
"Okaeri!" His uncle answered.
His uncle then noticed the girl that was behind him, barefoot, covering her body with Ankas's cape.
"And who this might be?" His uncle asked.
"This girl, she said her name is Hatsune Miku, I found her near an old temple in the forest while I was hunting, she was wearing nothing, and the only thing she had was this necklace that she's wearing." Ankas said.
He looked at her, and again, she looked around the house, looking at the floor, the roof, and the walls, trying to understand how that house was build and what materials it was made of.
"Wait… did you said that she was wearing nothing? So… you mean that she is…"
"Without nothing under that cape." Ankas complete the sentence.
"Than wait a minute here…" His uncle said while he got to his room.
"Here you go!" Ankas's uncle came back holding an old dress.
"You may us this room over here." Ankas's uncle said while opening a door to a room.
After a while she came back wearing the dress, she looked really beautiful.
"Did I wear it right?" Miku asked.
"Yes! It's perfectly right!" Ankas's uncle said.
"Seems good…" Ankas said.
After a while, Ankas showed to Miku a room where she could sleep, or if she was hungry, she could at least wait until dinner was ready.
"Hungry? Dinner?" Miku asked, with a confused air in her mind.
"C'mon! You don't even know how it feels to be hungry?" Ankas said.
*RONC*
Right after what Ankas said her stomach started to rumble.
"There! This is how it feels to be hungry." Ankas said.
"I see!" Miku said while putting her hands against her stomach to make an examination.
"Seriously, where did this girl came from…?" Ankas thought to himself.
After that he came back to the kitchen, helping his uncle to prepare the dinner.
"So… What do you know about that girl?" Ankas's uncle asked.
"Not very much. The only thing that I know for sure is that she is not from these lands. I don't even know if she is human." Ankas said.
"What do you mean?"
"When we were in the forest, I asked her why she wasn't wearing any clothes and she asked me what clothes were. Besides, It's like that everything around here is a whole new word, like that she didn't know that any of this things existed. Also, when I asked where she came from, she said she couldn't tell. I asked her right now if she was hungry and she didn't know what hungry meant!"
"Well, this is getting kind of interesting, we'll concentrate on that tomorrow, now, make me a favor and start to clean those fishes."
Now they are all three of them together, sitting around the table and eating dinner. But Miku just kept staring at her plate, trying to understand what was that and what she was supposed to do with it.
"Aren't you going to eat?" Ankas asked.
"Eat?" Miku answered.
"Seriously? You don't even know how to eat?"
"Well…" Miku lowered her head a little, maybe she felt a little shamed.
"Well, first thing, grab the fork with your hand."
"Like this?"
"No, wait, like this" Ankas helped her to hold the fork in the right position,
"Now you use the fork to get some of the food on your plate to your mouth."
"Okay…" Miku got the food at her mouth.
"Now you just close your mouth and chew until it is in little pieces that you can swallow, and then, you swallow it! Couldn't be simpler!"
She then started chewing, and after she swallowed, she gives out a huge smile.
"Wow! It's delicious!"
"I'm glad you like it!" Ankas's uncles said.
"By the way, we weren't introduced yet, My name is Greenian Malthor. Nice to meet you!"
"I'm Hatsune Miku, nice to meet you too!" Miku lets out a big smile.
"Well… Miku isn't really a common name around these parts, isn't?" Malthor said.
"Could it be that you are from the north isles?"
"Well…" Miku just lowered her head down again, she really didn't wanted to answer. You could see on her face that she was hiding something.
"North isles? What is he talking about?" Ankas thought to himself.
"Well, but that is not really something that we should worry about, for now just make sure that you take care of yourself around here okay. And if you don't have anywhere to go, you'll be always welcome here, okay?" Malthor said with a smile on his face.
Miku stood there looking at him with a gleam in her eyes, she seemed really surprised that Malthor was being so kind to her.
"O- okay! Thank you!" Miku answered with a smile on her face.
"Just promise me something. Take care of that dress you are wearing okay? It was from my deceased wife, may she rest in peace." Malthor stayed quiet for some seconds.
"Your wife…? Okay, I'll promise!" Miku replied.
"Well, at least she knows what a wife is. But now that I think about it… it's kind of strange that she knows such thing and still don't knows the basic things she need to do to stay alive…" Ankas thought to himself.
They all finished dinner soon and everyone have gone to their bedrooms. Ankas closed the door, got his boots and shirt off and immediately jumped to his bad.
"Oh man… I'm exhausted!" Ankas said while pulling up his blanked that it was on his feet.
"But still… Who is this girl? And why it looks like that she's guarding so many secrets?"
After he thought that, another thought came to his mind, a part of the conversation he had with Maxis earlier.
"They said that they used to live here to protect, or, depending in the acts committed, punish the mortals…"
Ankas stared at the roof while he was thinking about the matter in question.
"Nah! That can't be possible, it was just some kind of fairy tale or something like that. Tomorrow I'll try to find some answers, tomorrow…" Ankas said before he finally got fall in sleep.