Prologue
Our story begins in a kingdom in a different dimension, but this isn't your typical story beginning. The kingdom is clouded with smoke as fires spread throughout the whole area. Screams of people can be heard all around, swords clashing with each other and explosions were happening all around the city.
Inside the castle, a black-haired man wearing black robes and a orange-chestnut haired woman wearing white robes were running side by side along with a 13-summers old boy.
"Quickly this way! We must get to the back exit right away!", says the man as he holds open a door to let the other two pass onto the next corridors.
"There they are! Stop them!". The trio looked back only to see a group of armed knights running towards their direction.
"Dammit, we don't have much time." The man said as he drew his own sword. "You two continue on without me. I'll hold them off."
"Then I shall fight too, we can defeat them all together." the woman protests but as soon as she holds her sword, her husband stops her.
"No. You must go now. Your safety is my priority, both of you." The man replies as he looks at his son.
"I understand, please follow us as soon as you are able" the woman then grabs her son's writs before running off. The boy could only look at his father, praying to the heavens that we would be okay.
As they exited the castle, they immediately went through the forest which was behind the castle. They were dodging tree roots from below and branches from above.
"Mother, will father be okay? He will follow us soon right?" the boy asks his mother.
"Of course he would dear, you have to believe in your father's words. We must hurry to the lake now, come on." The woman replies as she continues to run.
Soon enough there was an opening through the trees and beyond that was the lake of the water spirit, Mistia.
"Mother, what are we doing here? Why were we going here in the first place?" The boy looks at his mother in confusion.
"You will know in a few moments dear" she replies.
The woman then raises her arms before shouting out, "Here my plea oh great water spirit. Help me in my time of need as my ancestors has helped yours. I call upon you Mistia!"
The water in the center of the lake suddenly starts to bubble before it starts to rise up. The boy could only look in amazement for he only read these "spirits" in books in his room. He didn't expect that there were real, as well as the fact that his mother knows how to summon one. The water then starts to lower back down to the lake leaving a figure that was hidden in the waters. Her skin was pale blue in color and she wears a sky blue robe with aquamarine crystals on the bottom of the robe.
"I have heard your call summoner. How can I assist you?" the spirit asks.
The woman takes a deep breath then looks at her son with sadness. Her son looks back, confused with all that is happening and as why his mother is looking at him that way. The woman shifts her attention towards the water spirit.
"Water spirit Mystia, I only have one request for you. Take my child to another place, a place that is safer than this one. A world where he could grow into a good-hearted person." The woman said to the water spirit.
The boy looked at his mother shocked at her words with tears in his eyes. "B-b-but mother... why?"
The woman looks at her son as tears start to flow from her eyes as well. "I am very sorry my child, but this place is no longer safe for you. Since the beginning, it was you that your father and I were to protect. We could handle any battle together but you are still too young, which is why as much as it pains us to do this we have to."
The boy then runs to his mother and clings onto her tightly. "Please mother, please don't send me away. I want to stay here with you and father. I can help I promise just please don't send me away." He pleads.
The woman just hugs her son as tight and kisses the top of his head before nodding to the water spirit. "As you command summoner." The water spirit said.
Mistia then raises her arms mid ways, commanding the waters below her. The water then starts to envelop the boy starting from his feet. The boy notices this so he begins to struggle but fails miserably. He continues to plead his mother make the water spirit stop but his pleas fall onto deaf ears.
His mother then takes a step back looking into the boy's eyes. "My child, again I am sorry for doing but it has to be done for you own sake. I had asked Mistia to also remove all your memories of our world, so that you won't try to find a way to get back here. Back where danger is." she says. Hearing this, the boys struggles harder but the water has already enveloped till half of his torso. "Mother, please. I beg you..." He pleads one last time.
The woman then takes one last look at her son, "Child, there is only one thing that you shall not forget and that is the name that your father and I gave you. You shall always remember it for it is our only hope of ever meeting each other again."
The water then completely envelops the boy before it starts to shine brightly, then as the light dissipates, so as the boy and the water spirit.
The woman shifts her gaze towards the heavens praying that her son would be alright. She unsheathes her sword and starts run back to the castle with her son's name in her mind.
'Toshi'