Chapter One (Introduction): Alinda, The Dark Enchantress
"Alinda! Alinda!" A woman about the age of nineteen cried out to another woman, who was sleeping lazily in her hammock. "Alinda, you lazy girl!" Alinda, the girl in the hammock bolted up and fell out of the hammock, face first to the hardwood floors of her home. "What is it, Shaya? I need my sleep..." Alinda drowsily questioned, almost drifting back to sleep. "Oh no you don't!" Shaya, the older woman, grabbed Alinda up and shook her while informing, "The village needs your power! Pirates are invading, bandits are pillaging, and the mayor is hiding under his bed like a coward!" Alinda then was out of the door, and on the road to the inner city. Shaya walked out of the home, and shook her head disapprovingly. "I wonder about that girl... lazy and powerful, never useless unless she's sleeping."Shaya was Alinda's sister, and being their parents' are always away, Shaya watches over her thirteen year old sister. Alinda's golden hair was flowing behind her, as her eyes of emerald green were looking to the gate of the inner city. 'The town is being raided again? We're usually not raided this many times a week... but I know one thing. If I don't get sleep soon, I'm going to fall over and quit this job.' The thoughts ran through Alinda's mind, as she wore a fiendish smirk. The skies were clouded and thunder was rolling, and droplets of rain were starting to fall.
Skidding to the entrance of the town, dust was flying in the air, as Alinda covering her mouth with the draping sleeve of her lavender shirt. As the dust started to disperse, the gates opened with creaking and squeaking noises. The edges of her black knee high skirt rippled in the passing winds. Skidding once more, it was Alinda's surprise to see there were no invaders within the city. No cries of needing help, nothing. No roofs on fire, no damage done. Had Shaya lied to her sister? No, Shaya wouldn't lie, she never lies to anyone. "What's going on?" Alinda questioned, allowing her hands to fall to her sides. "MiAl! Thank goodness you're here!" The mayor ran out of his house, greeting her. MiAl was her nickname from the village people, meaning, 'Miss Alinda'. "Mayor Luke, Shaya informed me of an attack, and I see no harm done. What is this trickery?" Alinda asked in bewilderment, as the mayor wore a smile, his chubby dimples showing. "MiAl, this is no basic attack. We don't even know what these things are. We were hoping you could take care of them with your magical powers. These things, they-they-they- they multiply within seconds, killing almost the entire Hoshigaman army, and all on the beach! Please, MiAl, please, could you take care of them?" Luke asked, as Alinda nodded in approval. "I'll try my best."
Just as Alinda was walking off into the midst of the jungle, Luke shouted out,"And MiAl!" Alinda turned back, as he continued, "Be careful!" Alinda saluted to him with a smile, as she turned to run through the thicket. 'They multiply in seconds? My first real challenge in two years since the real pirates invaded.'Birds of all kinds were fluttering out of the thicket, not just because Alinda was there. Deer and other animals were scattering to the other edges of the jungle, apparently running from something. As Alinda neared the docks and the beach, she saw something she would have never believed. Stopping silently in the jungle and hiding behind a tree, Alinda gazed upon these otherworldly beings. They were like shadows in a third dimensional form, with glowing yellow eyes. They also had-what looked like- antennas, they also moved weirdly as if they were drunken. There seemed as if there were twenty of them, standing in a circle. All of a sudden, a black light shot out of the center of the circle, causing winds around anything near them. Alinda was hanging onto the tree with her toes clenched, making sure her wooden sandals didn't fall off. The shadows began to slowly fade, as another greater shadow was made.
There was something wrong, Alinda thought. There was a hole shaped like a heart in the center of its' chest. With a sharp exhale, Alinda ran out from underneath the tree and gazed up on the monstrous beast. It looked down on her, and tilted his head in a manner as if something were wrong. Alinda jumped back, holding her wrists facing each other. "Make it worth it!" Alinda said, as a beam of light appeared, shooting up to the monster's face. It groaned, and fell backwards, and before it hit the ground, Alinda jumped up. It was paralyzed, all but its' head. "Not gone yet? Take this!" Fire grew in her hands brightly, as she threw punches and fireballs flew out and hit it. By the eight time, the paralyzation effect wore off, and it was back on its' feet. "Why won't you die!" Then, something else happened. The large shadow turned into black gritty dust, though, it formed a ball. Lightning was in it, and it began to grow. Larger and larger, until it began sucking things up. "What is this?" Alinda questioned, as if this were a dream and she would soon awaken to Shaya's snoring or the light from her window. "Enchantress..." It spoke in a feminine voice. "Come..." It muttered once more, as Alinda's left eye was twitching. "How does that THING know I'm a Dark Enchantress?" Alinda asked herself, tilting her head slightly.
A Dark Enchantress is what Alinda is, being that grants her the power she has. There aren't that many in this world of Hoshigama, they had almost died out at the last war. And the reason why Shaya isn't one, is because their mothers' are different. As the suction of the wind grew stronger, Alinda then noticed she was being pulled towards it, instead of away. "Oh no!" Alinda cried, as she turned and tried to run away. But the power was to strong for her to handle. As she began to be lifted up from the ground, she tried a telekinesis spell to hang to a tree. No success found in that, the tree was uprooted and taken into the ball as well. Coming closer and closer to it, she closed her eyes and gave up hope, readying herself to embrace it.