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SIMPLY MAGIC- NO MORE, NO LESS
Chapter Four- Tragedies
By animematchmaker
SUMMARY-
"…I'm really scared…I don't want to have magic…" she muttered. Sunny smirked.
"Mana! Do you know how many people would die to weld magic in Ancient Egypt?"
Mana shook her head. "No but I bet you would."
"Duh! I love magic! You can blast anyone that comes in your way! Pow! Pow! Bang! Crash! EEEEERRRRRRRRRR!"
The small boy continually made childish sound effects, wishing that he also had magic. Suddenly, a piercing woman's scream filled the air, distressing the brother and sister.
"What was THAT?" cried Mana as she and Sunny followed the sound, which lead to a woman, pleading for her life at a man's feet…
WARNING
This chapter is really gruesome and sad!
"…Oh no!" gasped Mana as she and Sunny saw the afternoon scene unravelling before them.
"…Please sir! Let me go! I am a widow and do not have a lot! PLEASE!" the innocent woman begged, getting hold of the man's legs.
"GET OFF WOMAN! YOU ARE A MENACE TO SOCIETY!" the horrific man roared, kicking her and beating the poor woman upon her utmost death. Mana stared, her eyes not believing what they saw.
"No…no…it couldn't be…it just couldn't be…MMOOOTTTHHHHEEERRR!" she screamed, running to her with Sunny. The wicked man smirked sinisterly.
"So…this woman lied…again…she said she had no children…"
Mana frowned angrily and stood up, facing the man.
"HOW DARE YOU! HURTING INNOCENT PEOPLE!" she screeched at him.
"She lied to me and she lied to you…how sad…" said the man,
"Pathetic."
"I…I…did not lie…I did it to…to…protect them…from…you…" the mother stammered, coughing up a whole heap of blood. Mana faced the man again.
"Why? Why are you doing this to my mother, you cruel person!" she demanded. The man smirked again, shoving Mana out of the way and Sunny out of their mother's reach. He pointed at a strange rectangular prism which resembled-
"…MAN-EATER BUG! TAKE THIS PATHETIC WOMAN'S LIFE AWAY!" he chanted loudly as a spirit of a gruelling brown creature lurked out of the stone tablet. It slowly approached the bloody beaten woman, grinning evilly, its mouth dripping with saliva…
(A/N This part is really gruesome so if little children are reading this, please scroll down to …but unless you want to read…)
…It lunged forward, raising its sharp sickles. Mana and Sunny slowly rose up, their eyes burning to the scene that was shown before them, as they started embracing each other. The knife-like sickles sliced the dying, blood-drenched woman, cutting her into pieces…
And with that, it lashed out its saliva-drenched tongue, engulfing the lifeless human into its body. When it finished, blood was still flowing continually out of its mouth as it climbed back into its stone tablet which exploded into millions of pieces, bruising both Mana and Sunny.
The sinful man, who commanded the creature, stood with glee at his efforts to murder innocents. He slowly turned to the children.
"Now…which one will be next…you…Sunny? The youngest child of the preposterous liar…or you…Mana? The oldest…who possesses such useful magical powers…" he cackled evilly, licking his own vampire-like lips, approaching them.
"NO! I WON'T LET YOU HURT US!" Mana yelled suddenly, standing up and striding to him bravely. Her little brother, scared stiff, remained shivering on the ground.
"Mana! What are you doing! Are you crazy!" he hissed, although he made no effort in trying to stop her.
"I might be crazy but I can stop him! I WILL!" she exclaimed fearlessly. The murderous man stopped and sneered.
"You? A puny, useless little girl can stop me? You don't even have the strength!" he discouraged brutally. Mana agreed.
"That's right…I don't have the strength…BUT I HAVE THE WILL!" she screamed. Suddenly, she felt a surge of power deep within her soul.
A dark power.
A feeling that she had not witnessed physically before.
With a practically deafening cry, Mana concentrated and felt the darkness releasing. Before she knew it, she was spinning and her whole world had blackened…
"…Mana…Mana…wake…up…it's…me…"
Mana's eyelids slowly opened. Instead of childlike face of her brother complete with dark brown hair and emerald eyes, a handsome, broader and maturer face looked down at her. Around his neck was- the Millennium ring!
"It's YOU!" Mana cried happily, embracing the man. Her face was hotting up because she knew she was embracing a complete stranger!
She cheerfully let go and stood up.
"Um…where should I start! Um…I'm, uh, Mana!" she introduced herself, thinking she must have looked stupid.
Completely stupid.
The man stood up also, over towering the teenage Egyptian girl.
"I know…" he said. He picked up her tanned hands and turned them over so her pinkish palms were facing upwards. Mana was blushing again.
"I see you have just experienced your first attempt at dark magic…" said the man as he placed her hands down and straightened his light, beige-coloured robes.
"Do you remember anything?" he questioned Mana. Mana snapped out of her blushing daze and thought. All she could remember was her world blackening and then waking up next to this stranger.
"…Uh…no…not really…anyway, thanks for helping me, I'm gonna go back home now! I need to prepare dinner for mother and Sunny! Bye, uh, Mahaado!" said Mana, out of the blue, still blushing furiously.
Mahaado stared at the girl sympathetically.
"You cannot go back home, Mana…"
Mana turned around, an agitated smile on her face.
"And why is that, Mahaado?" she said taking small steps backwards.
"Because…your mother is gone…and so is your brother…" Mahaado replied. Mana laughed and waved her index finger.
"Be more optimistic Mahaado! You're just saying nonsense! You know, for a guy, you sure are serious!"
Mahaado scowled.
"I am NOT lying, Mana! Your mother was killed by…by…never mind! And your brother was killed along in the process! Do you understand? This is real! THIS IS NOT A DREAM!"
Mana stared, frightened at Mahaado and slowly shook her head. She started walking back faster.
"No…no…no…YOU'RE LYING, I KNOW YOU ARE! LIAR!" Mana shouted, running farther and farther away from Mahaado.
"Liar…liar…he's so stupid! So cruel! So mean! My family's not dead! No! No! NO! I shall not believe this nonsense!"
Mana reached her little terracotta home and breathed.
My family is not dead. They are not gone.
She entered.
But it was empty.
No mother sitting on a chair producing another straw basket.
No brother running around annoying anyone.
Mana still did not believe what she saw. She rushed into her room. Everything seemed normal. She ran into her brother's room. Nothing had changed.
Finally, she entered her mother's bedroom. Two figures were on the straw bed. Mana breathed a sigh of relief.
They ARE alive.
Mana hurried over to shake them awake.
"Wake up mom! Wake up! It's me! Mana! Your little girl! Ha ha!"
To her disbelief, the head of the figure of her mother fell and rolled on the floor and disappeared along with the rest of the body. Mana screamed and grabbed onto the body of her brother.
"Sunny! Sunny! It's your sis, Mana! Please wake up! PLEASE!"
The head of her brother's figure also fell off into Mana's arms. She bawled as the whole thing disappeared before her.
"NO! PLEASE TELL ME THIS ISN'T HELPING! NOOOOOOOO!"
Mana sobbed uncontrollably as she ran out of her home, coming face to face with the enemy that killed her loving family.
"YOU!" she screeched angrily, "I HATE YOU!"
As she speeded for the kill, the evil man cackled and turned back into Mahaado.
"No way…you killed my family…"
Ooh…scary…is Mahaado responsible for murdering Mana's family?
Find out next chapter!
You know the process, R+R!
Next chapter- A new life!