Chapter 3: 16
"Oh, and make sure you come home before it's nightfall!" Sparklez reminded Holly as she got her purse. It had been sixteen years since Holly was living with Sparklez. She had grown into an adventurous tomboy with messily braided orange hair, sun tanned skin, and bright blue eyes. She wore emerald green sun dresses and sneakers almost all the time and was always outside.
"Calm down dad, I'll only be gone a few hours." Holly told her father.
"I know..." Sparklez said nervously. "Where are you going again?"
"Just out on a walk. I won't be long. You don't need to be clingy." Holly told her dad.
"I know..." said Sparklez, giving Holly a quick hug. "Be safe. Remember to bring the sword."
"I remembered." Holly said, tapping the sword tucked in her belt.
She left the house and walked towards the woods. Being an Ianite, she knew that she could walk safely in both sides of the world. She was friends with both Tom and Sonja, which where her adopted father's friends. Holly had been told all her life she was found in a basket by the river, the same river that brought her father to the world.
Holly stepped down into the stream to get to the other side of the woods. That was when it happened:
The water separated, leaving the area Holly stepped in completely dry.
Holly drew her foot back, and the water closed up the area.
Holly looked down in shock. She had always wondered about why things would happen to her like that: she would run in a field and flowers would bloom where she stepped. She could never get hurt by fire. Her father always joked she was "the new goddess", but Holly never knew why or how.
Holly ran back to her father's house. Meanwhile, Tucker looked on the scene from behind a tree. He smiled wickedly, then hurried away to tell Dianite.
Holly told her dad the whole story when she got to his house.
"And that's what happened! I don't know why it happened or what's going on... am I a witch or something? Dad what's going on?" she asked him.
"It's okay Holly. Calm down. Ianitia told me this would happen when you reached a certain age." Sparklez told her.
"Tell me what?" asked Holly.
Sparklez hesitated.
"Your father was a Dianite spy. He was spying on the Mianite side and tell the evil god Dianite what was going on. There he met your mother... a Mianite woman. He fell in love with her and they got married. She moved to Dianite." Sparklez explained. "She still prayed to the god Mianite. When you where born, you had the half - god qualities of your father. They where powerful, but they where locked away. Only your parents knew. When Dianite found out, he killed your father and later your mother. Your mother sent you to the Ianite side of the country where you would be safe... Ianites where a neutral tribe who only fought when attacked. That's where I found you."
"I've had these powers all my life and never knew?" Holly asked.
"You where too little to understand." Sparklez told her. "Ianitia only told me a few days before she died...Holly, you need to leave."
"What? Why?" asked Holly.
"Go get Sonja. It's not safe for you here." Sparklez told her.
"What do you mean?" asked Holly.
"If I know Tucker... he's going to come and find you... please, run. Don't look back. Go to Tom or Sonja's. You'll be safe there. I promise, I'll come back for you." Sparklez told her. He took off his coat and gave it to her. "Go out the window. They won't know you left."
Holly nodded as Sparklez broke two glass blocks. Holly give one last look to her father as she slid out the window and ran to the woods.
Holly ran to Sonja's house and banged on the door. Sonja opened it. As soon as Holly told her the story, Sonja was running to Sparklez's house.
Holly waited at Sonja's house for what seemed like ages. She wished she'd spent more time with her father. That she at least told him she loved him or gave him a hug before she left the house.
Another hour later, Sonja came running back.
"Sonja!" exclaimed Holly. "Where's-"
"Holly, you need to come with me right now." Sonja told her.
Holly nodded and followed Sonja through the woods.
Tucker was watching from behind a tree as Holly passed. Holly pushed off from the tree as he ran by, unknowingly touching Tucker 's hand.
For a split second, Tucker didn't know what happened, but... for a second, it felt like he was good again.
Holly followed Sonja to the Mianite camp.
"Sonja... what happened...is my dad okay?" Holly asked her.
"No... no Holly, he isn't." Sonja told her. "He's dying."
Sorry for the surprise hiatus! I'm back now!
This is Summer saying Sayanora!
