Chapter 2:
Trumpet Of Concord
Peace throughout the world? It would take a god to bring upon such miracles, but if a god existed, would lesser beings have manifested as angelic and demonic? There would be such a fine line between good; evil. Would there be an in-between? If a god brought upon peace, another would surly corrupt it, nothing stays good forever. Nor bad.
The forests stretched long past the villages and in the forests lies a danger that has repented any attempt at escape, the Grimm stalk the woods searching for any semblance of negativity, and when they inevitably find it within their lifetime, they hunt; they never stop hunting, for any root of negativity will lure them and so hope is brought to the people of Skoni, for if they choose to believe in hope, then maybe, just maybe their lives could flourish and grow into a thing of beauty, of course. That's what they think through their hope, they never even knew that their foundation of hope, is built upon lies.
A boy sat on a log surrounded by trees and the stench of death with no building or type of civilisation in sight. The boy wore a hood that covered his hair almost entirely although it allowed his small fringe of black hair to almost cover his right eye, his expressions were bland and his lips were dry, his vision was limited to only the ground as he just looked at it with a face of boredom however a gunshot ahead of him caught his attention as he looked up to check on it, before him stood a tall Beowolf it was almost as large as the trees but it lets out no sinister growls and also homed no life within its eyes, it's body was frozen, although not for long as the body came hurtling down to the dirt, upon its fall it revealed a girl standing behind it with a smirk on her face and an engraved silver revolver with several different colours on its chamber in her right hand elevated in the air complacently, as the Beowolf on the ground began to disintegrate, the girl walked around its vanishing corpse.
"found you! Although it didn't take long, you always come here" the girl said with a warming and gentle voice.
The girl sheathed her revolver into a small sheathe tucked away on her right leg, as the girl approached the boy he stood up to confront her with his fists clenched, he gave her an annoyed stare but soon released his fists and looked down at the ground; he fell a little short of the girls height, the girl had brunches which were incredibly long strands of snow white hair descending down to her calves and she also had dark sapphire eyes like the boy stood in front of her.
"Oura, if you're going to keep doing this..." the girl said addressing the boy and grabbing onto his left arm "at least bring me with you next time" she continued with a sweet and reassuring voice.
Oura looked back down at the ground and let out a small nod just before he walked out of the girls grasp and started walking into the trees surrounding them.
The girl ran up beside Oura and noticed a small scratch on his arm that was letting out a very minute amount of blood, she grabbed hold of his arm once again .
"seriously? Did you walk into a tree or something?" She asked with a hint of sarcasm but a whole lot of concern.
She crouched down onto one knee and placed her hand over the scratch and started humming a short melody that caused her hair to glow an angelic white, when her tune ended and she removed her hand from the scratch it was healed with only the ripped clothing left as a temporary scar, she then brought herself to her feet.
"Look, I know you don't speak much but, you're my brother and I need us to communicate well" she said voicing yet more concern.
Oura gave her a blank stare and then nodded in agreement, the girl closed her eyes in relief "thank you" she thanked. Oura then continued into the trees.
The forest surrounding Skoni never smelt of anything easy to describe, but if I had to put a word to it, I would say death. From the treetops the forest blankets the valley with utter beauty, it's almost as if the villages defile it with their man-made structures and disgusting habits, although I can see a very bright future for the villages that can mask them with the forest, but first they must take upon a red aura and become the forest.
Oura and the girl have taken it upon themselves to travel on a path that lead through the forest, and after a little more walking, small buildings could be seen in the distance between the trees as Oura and the girl approach the ending of the forest. As they exited the forest. The familiar sights and sounds of the village drifted towards them; the overpowering aroma of the fertiliser on the nearby fields that grew the villages' natural supply of fruits, vegetables and even provided some meat from time to time and it filled the villages' streets with a mist of a sometimes sickening smell; meat is a rare luxury as the livestock is limited because of the Grimm blockade. The pathway lead through a small wooden village with houses that were bundled up together to give the whole village the exterior appearance of a small but crooked circle, the path leading around the village was much like a snake, it coiled all around the village houses making the streets a maze to navigate. Although small, the many bends of the village can get you lost in an instant.
While the two still walked along the path silent as night they catch a glimpse of an energetic girl with short chestnut hair and a small ponytail waving over to them from a far off building that shares the same appearance as almost every other building surrounding it, the buildings are made from cheap looking dark oak wooden logs and look very tacky and poor, the only difference each house shared would be if it contained a porch or not, they are all extremely small and could only fit a family of four in them at the most this means that although the appearance of the village maybe be small itself, the population is far from it, however the streets are not riddled with other people, its almost seems deserted, with only a few odd people wondering the streets. The girl still waving began a small jog up to them making the two stop in their tracks to let her reach them although she was slow, she still managed to close the gap rather quickly. Once she finally reached the two she grabbed onto Ouras sister to keep her balance while trying to gain her breath back.
"what do you want?" She asked the barely breathing girl, after the girl regained her breath she confronted the other girl.
"Harmonia" The girl named Ouras sister "I have discovered my ability!" The girl cried out with joy and an unbreakable smile lighting up her whole face.
"Okay?" Harmonia said dragging out the word in confusion "what is it Silvia?" She asked with a weak tone making her sound nicer than reality.
"I can make people fall asleep with my mind!" Silvia joyfully claimed with a sparkle shining through her eyes.
"I don't believe you" Harmonia stated crossing her arms with denial.
Silvia noticed a man walking by the group at just the right time innocently and so she focused on him with her eyes with an amusingly serious face, after a good few seconds of constant staring and concentration the man toppled over onto the dirt asleep.
"Wow that's actually really cool and useful" Harmonia remarked surprised "so what's the side effect to it?" She asked turning to Silvia.
Harmonia's gaze was met with Silvia yawning and barely being able to keep her eyes open "well. Goodnight" Silvia said closing her eyes with a final yawn and falling into Harmonia's hands.
"Not so useful now" Harmonia said sarcastically through her struggle to hold up Silvia's body weight.
Oura kept the same expressionless and bored face throughout the whole ordeal, Harmonia's attempts at lifting her up into both of her hands were in vain as she didn't have the strength for such a task, and neither did Oura, she thought of asking Oura for help however came to the realisation that asking for him to hold Silvia's feet up to help her carry Silvia wasn't such a great idea.
Instead Harmonia grabbed Silvia by the legs and dragged her onto a nearby porch.
"How long do you think she'll be asleep?" Harmonia asked Oura taking a seat next to the snoring Silvia.
Oura of course gave her more silence as an answer, however he looked behind him at the man who Silvia had made snooze on the ground in the mud, but a small amount of people had crowded around him since then with a noticeable pair standing on the outskirts of the tiny crowd of around four people not including them, there was a pair of two girls with noticeable height differences and hair differences, one had pink hair that fell a small amount beyond her shoulders whilst the other had blonde hair scrunched up ontop of her head into a bun, the blonde girl was pointing and laughing at the man uncontrollably with one hand over her mouth attempting to muffle the laughs, while the pink haired girl stood looking over the man in confusion.
"He'll be fine" Harmonia declared with a quick shrug of her shoulders.
(Thank you for the feedback last chapter, I have to be honest here, this will start off slow however I already have my vision of how this will end and what fates await the characters; and villains.
I would also like to address my flaws in writing, if you're going to be reading my work then I can at least tell you my flaws so you know what to expect from me. I'll start off with appearance and description of said appearance, whether it's an object or human being, I just can't find the words to put there, my vocabulary is rather limited in that regard, i most definitely have an eye for appearance but not a hand for describing it. Next would be dialogue! I think I did what you asked correctly, I might be wrong but I actually kind of like breaking each section of dialogue into one separate paragraph. Now as for the actions within the dialogue, that would tag along with my first flaw I mentioned.
And my grammar! Oh come on, I think it's serviceable, ever taken a trip over to Wattpad? That of course was a joke... I'll definitely improve in my grammar over time. Much like I will build on all my flaws and make them strengths. Also I'll keep those 5 senses in mind.
Chapter 5 is when I consider the story to have fully begun, obviously I can't spoil anything. But when chapter 4 is out, there could be a noticeable break between 4 and 5 and future chapters beyond that.
And no, Oura is not an edgelord)