Chapter 9: Within A Child's heart. The three deeds to rebirth!

"Small, you may call me, Jhoto." "I am a Master Healer." "In the legend, they say a girl shall come to this world, to capture the crystal's of the 107 Lunatia regions and save the land from the darkness, that is beginning to bring about death here." "I am a step to help you in the legend." "For when you helped my daughter out, I KNEW that you had been the one sent from Earth. For earth is only spoken by the spirits." "WAIT A DARN MINUTE!" Small Lady slammed, for he was saying something she knew was impossible. "What legend?" Comet's father held up a book of baby blue crystal covering, and white cleansed pages. "This is the legendary book the spirits gave me when I was told of my destiny." "I am to make you a member of Lunatia, give you this book of guidance and to make a you, become a woman.

Small Lady looked shocked at this man. She didn't believe in this at all. A WOMAN? A REAL LADY? It was everything she wanted, and her unreachable goal. Plus, she was amazed there were 107 REGIONS OF LUNATIA! That, was gonna make this ride longer. "Are you serious? That's impossible!" Small Lady seemed a bit more cold and serious remembering what happened with Wiseman.

But that was still so long ago. The healer spoke, "I am a wise healer, and there is a way. But, you will have to give up things of extreme fortune, to do what is needed of you. Once you decide, you CANNOT turn away." The Master was VERY serious. You could here it, anywhere.

Small Lady thought, "Earth is destroyed.Helios taken. Everything I loved and still do have been grabbed from my heart and stabbed away. Nothing, in the world could hurt me more." Small Lady then raised herself and spoke, " I accept!" Comet looked at Small. "WHY? How can she throw her life away?" She accidentally said aloud. Small Lady eyes looked with fearlessness toward Comet. "If every thing your heart had ever loved had been taken, and you were left with no person you loved left, what would you do?" "Start over? That would make things decently right. At least you had a chance to restart and make something out of yourself. There is no love left in your heart." Small Lady knew that had been a right answer.

Comet stepped forward. "There is always room for love. Remember that." She hugged Small Lady. Small Lady blushed, for that was the first hug she'd had since 6 months ago.

"Thanks!" Small Lady grinned, for she surly must always remember that. The master interrupted their short battle, "Well, then I'll shoot the Sign Beam at you, then I'll throw you into the Ocean Of Rebirth, and finally, throw you into the Forget Me Fire. Of course, that's only step one."

Small Lady cleared her throat. "Excuse me but, what are those three things I agreed to?" The Master had a short fading of his smile.

"The sign beam, erases your planetary promise, the crescent on your forehead, making you not belong to earth anymore. Then you go to the Forget Me Fire, where all of your memories of earth shall be erased. You may only remember one person of your will. Then you are thrown into the Ocean Of Rebirth, where you are reborn." THEN, you will become a lady. You will then be the age of 16."

Small Lady was shocked at these words. She could restart, but forget? She knew though, whom she must remember always. Helios. "Okay!" Small Lady was ready.

"Good." He brought a huge bazooka out that he could barely hold. He shot it right away. Small Lady froze watching the beam of darkness come straight for her. It hit the center of Small Lady's forehead right away. Immediately, a powerful pain shot through her body, leaving her screaming in pain.

She screeched so loud, the window's almost broke. Comet went away to get some earplugs. Small Lady felt as if the dark moon were taking all of her energy. She was yet, only helpless to the beam's force. Soon it almost seemed as if she got used to the dark energy, and she let it run through her. She didn't care about the damage right now.

Soon, Jhoto stopped the beam, and the crescent that was once on her forehead, was completely gone. Small Lady just stood for a few moments. Then she dropped to the ground in pain.

"Don't worry, you can take a 30 minute breather." Small Lady panted for 10 minutes on the ground, tried walking again for 10 minutes, and drank some water from inside the cave. Soon, after her panting, the minutes were up.

Small Lady stood forth once more. "Are you ready, for the Forget Me Fire?" The Master sternly stood.

"Don't do it!" Comet ran to Small Lady. "If you forget yourself, one memory will not help at ALL!" Comet scrunched herself in front of Small Lady. Small Lady stepped to the side simply and said, No."

"I have come way too far to stop." Small Lady stared into a gaze. Comet couldn't believe this. She would NEVER throw her life away. Why would Small Lady do as such? Sure, there are rough things but.

Comet's father interrupted her trace of thought. A huge fire was burning in the next room. Small Lady stood, and started walking with Jhoto closer to the flaming room. Comet just stared, at a wasted life. Small Lady.

"Go into the center of the flaming room. Repeat the words: forget, forget, shed my memories tis let. Forget my heart, pull memories apart, and keep my most treasured safe away. In my dearest mind to say." Jhoto glared at Small Lady.

"You must do this in 3 minutes exactly. If you screw up, you will die. You shall burst in to flames and become utter ashes."

Comet eyed those last words. If you screw up, you will die. You shall burst in to flames and become utter ashes." She said it to herself and aloud.

Here, a few steps away from her, was a girl who took attacks for her more then once, and could have died. Yet, she was ripping herself up at a chance she barley even had. "PLEASE DON'T!"

Comet tried to grasp Small Lady in her arms, but she was already going into the fire. The fire roared behind Small Lady making a wall of fire blocking the path inside. "Small you idiot!" Comet pounded her fist to the wall of fire. "Your life is greater then fire, and your killing your old self to do it!" Comet broke into tears.

Comet gave her father a nasty look. "You! You did this! WHY would you let her do this!??!?!?! Any person for pete's sake!?!?!?" Comet had gone from calm, to angry in one big jump.

"The girl made the decision herself. Now it is hers to take care of. You knew that from the beginning as I have known. We could have done little, right? Besides." Comet's father looked at Comet.

"You knew all along, didn't you?" He smiled at Comet. Comet stared at him blankly. "Yes, but.I NEVER thought the legend was true." Can she really? IS SHE really.the one to save this land?

All 107 regions of Lunatia? It seems a big task. Not easy, at all." Comet looked into the blazing fire. ".You know that no person here has ever survived that right?" Comet glanced over at her father.

"Yes, but perhaps she will." Her father grabbed Comet and said, "I want to tell you that.if I leave, do not morn. Your mother. You know, like before." Comet looked a little shocked.

"Are you leaving?" Comet asked quietly. "I'm not sure. It depends, depends on the legend. The legend with the soul inside the fire. They both looked into the fire, wondering if Small Lady would be ok.

Meanwhile.Inside the fire..

Small Lady stood at the dazing fire ahead. Fire, Fire. There was nowhere left to go. When she stepped, she stepped on fire. When she breathed, fire tried to enter her mouth.

"How am I supposed to get to the center of this?" Small Lady groaned, as huge flares erupted from the back and front of her. She stood forward, unafraid of the fire, and leapt into the fire. She tried brushing it off, but it stuck to her, and stung anything it touched.

"More fire hurdles. That's it! That's how to get out! I need to jump into the fire!" Small Lady jumped into the erupting fire, and got sting with more hatred the fire brought. A voice seemed to whisper, "You can't do it, the queen was always weak, and now its been passed to you. Your nothing, a worthless use of heart and energy!"

Small Lady tried to smack the voice and fire away, but it just seemed to get closer. Closer, and closer, it was hitting her from every direction. Small Lady was feeling faint, queasy, and dizzy. But then a new voice entered her mind, a sweet and soft one. "Become one with the fire. Absorb the energy, and drain energy. Find the center. Hurry."

Small Lady heard the voice, and almost as if a new person took over, she flamed through the fire, feeling the burning sting run through her. "Go flames, go. Try to destroy me, and I will just thus a stand in front. I have no time for your toying games.

The flames roared through her soul, almost as if a tornado surrounded her. With eyes of emotion, Small Lady saw the center before her. She ran to it, with 30 seconds left. Still the heat was getting stronger, more painful, and more burning as the seconds ran by.

"What.were those words again?" Small Lady, almost as if someone had whispered it to her, or took control of her mind, saw the past. FLASHBACK****** "Go into the center of the flaming room. Repeat the words: forget, forget, shed my memories tis let. Forget my heart, pull memories apart, and keep my most treasured safe away. In my dearest mind to say." END OF FLASHBACK********

"Alrighty then. forget, forget, shed my memories tis let. Forget my heart, pull memories apart, and keep my most treasured safe away. In my dearest mind to say." The flames for a minute, seemed to roar at top speed, and explosions seemed rummaging through her mind.

Almost as if negative energy was taking out her love, hate, and everything. But Small Lady gripped on. She gripped on to her most fond memory of the one she dearly desired. Helios. Her dearest memory. A tear went down her cheek and was dissolved by the fire. "Helios." But soon everything was a swirl, and she fell down, fainted on the firing floor.