8: Tris

It seemed like hours before the Goddess had finished explaining what happened when after she turned 24, and how the world broke out into an all out war. I was amazed when she told us about what really happened. She went into detail of how the government slowly tried to make it so everyone could be controlled to having an army of special people that are better than what the government currently had access to. It seemed like a myth in some ways, but being alive after death is pretty special in of itself.

"Alright, that is what happened in the world, but that still doesn't explain what the trigger event was," said Uriah, who had finally started to talk after a few hours of explanation happened.

She laid down and stared up, "Well… That is kind of the interesting part of my life." She giggled a bit, "I was the trigger."

I stared at her.

"Well, when you are in the middle of the Courtroom, and you get to hear the news that your beloved is going to die because they broke a few common laws, you flip out," she smiled at me. "I still don't understand why they chose that punishment for a simple problem. When hearing it, I lost it. I could not stand the thought of losing him, it would be like losing my heart for life."

I took a deep breath at her words. My mind raced back to Tobias and how it hurt just to see him cry about me being gone. I hate being away from him, and hate it more that I have caused him pain. I felt a tears swell up. I took a steady breath and let the tear fall, letting my feelings of despair go with them. I looked at Uriah, who took a steady breath, "What did you do?"

"There are times when you lose who you are. I have lost it before, but not like this. Times before when I have lost touch with reality, I have been able to find my way back, even when I split my soul into thirds and I lost myself to the abyss," she smiled like it was sad but something wonderful came out of it. "There, standing in that Courtroom, it was like a blind rage took over, then extended past me. I let go of everything, letting the darkness expand within me. With that much raw power, I forever ripped the Veil around me on Earth."

"Most times there are tears in the Veil that can heal up and make it seem like nothing special ever happened. There are times when the Veil can be pressed against like a cloth. I don't believe the Veil has been manipulated in the way I did," she shook her head like she was trying to remove a feeling or a sour taste. "What I did was make a bubble around myself that made it so the Veil could not stop my power or hinder me in any way. After having the Veil changed around me, I drew more attention from other creatures as well as the Government." Her laugh that escaped at the mention of creatures and the Government seemed unreal. "The Government found out real fast that they couldn't control me by normal methods. At first, I was willing to work with them on helping to make the world better, but when they wanted to use my genetics to help the human race which I knew was a lie."

"I have to admit, this is confusing," I said without thinking.

"It is, I really don't know how to simplify it," the Goddess looked at me and shrugged.

Uriah's face changed as he had a thought, "So you are 'human' like we are?"

"Yes, when I was born on Earth, but not any more."

"Then how are you not 'human'?" I asked.

"After changing how the Veil worked around me, slowly my powers awoke, and changed me into my 'natural form', which is far from what a human is."

Uriah seemed to be linking something together in his mind, "If you were born 'human', how are you not 'human'?"

"Because I was conceived from my parents that are not human. For me, I have two sets of Parents, my parents that conceived me, and my human parts that I grew up knowing who where human."

"So, two parents... How is it possible to be conceived not human and be born human?" I was lost on how it was possible to be human and not human still.

"My mother is an Elf and my father is a Dragon of the Yang Clan. When my parents conceived me, I gained both of their traits equally. I am Elf and Dragon, coexisting opposite elements at the same time. When a Elf and Dragon normally mate, there are three options of what happens with their offspring, they are Elf, Dragon or neither and become creatures that are pretty much human. Humans are the off breads of not special Elves and Dragons. With time and changing, humans evolved into their own race, but are still very similar to where they originally were."

"So humans are not special Elves or Dragons?" Uriah looked bewildered.

"Yeah, in it's simplest terms. Humans where the discarded children of Elves and Dragons."

"That is… Unreal… Why would they not want to keep their young?"

She bit her lip, "Why should they? In ancient times, humans would leave deformed children in the wood to die. If a human could not keep up with the group till they where old, they died. How is any different?"

I looked at her. It was also a Dauntless trait, leave the weak and helpless, have the strongest to protect the rest of the Factions. "Uriah, what did the Dauntless do with the ones who couldn't keep up or survive on their own?"

He looked back at me and swallowed hard. He nodded his head, he now understood why any creature do that to their own. "So, humans are divergent from Elves and Dragons."

She smiled a bit and nodded. "With me being beyond special in my own right, I had to be kept secret and hidden in time. I needed time to grow and learn my powers to keep myself safe."

She seemed to get lost in her out thoughts, "Though, it wasn't so safe for me, because I was more of a danger to myself than anyone else without help to guide me to understand what I was."

"I was placed in the care of my human parents, who never knew what I was. I grew faster than other children and understood complex information easier, but I had a drawback of not understanding English very well. As any human was concerned, I was human." She seemed like she had more to add but didn't know the words to put with what she was thinking. "Before I was given up, my parents sealed my powers with their love and need for me to be protected, that is how I was able to grow and seem human. Without access to powers, I was just another ungifted half bread."

I stood and started to walk around the room, needing to move, wanting to do more than listen to what happened in time. "So, what do we need to learn first?" I'm ready to do something I can master. Uriah seemed to come back alive at the sound of my voice.

"What hasn't Dauntless taught us already?" he asked with a smirk on this face.

The Dauntless, the war, the humans that said they were helping us, we learned fast and died quicker. I felt like I should have more I could have done then learn and move past that life. I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and grasped in the air, like I was grabbing my anger out of the air. My hand grasped the hilt of a knife. My eyes opened to my hand holding a throwing knife that I hadn't seen since Dauntless training.

The Goddess looked at me with eyes that showed she was highly please. I gave a bit of a smile, but I felt that this what she meant to train us in, True Magic.

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