Fire

Claire's guardian after entering the village put Claire down and held her

Claire ran out of the tent only to see a large ram charging up houses and destroying the houses. It was so massive, probably twice as big as the fortuneteller's tent. The ram had curved blades sticking out of it's back with it's whole body covered in flames. The screams of the villagers got louder as many rushed outside of the village. Claire looked back in the tent, only to see her guardian struggle to stand up. "There's a large monster covered with fire and it's destroying the village."

"What does she, the creator of magic want…?" he muttered to himself. He then looked up to Claire and reached out for her shoulders. "Claire… That amulet… The one that the fortune-teller gave you, you need to use that to defeat the monster. The amulet has the power of the user's desires. If your desire is strong, it's capable to destroy Aries, the fiery ram. Leave me here and save the village, I'll be alright."

Claire's eyes started to water, her body shivering and her voice quavering in fear. "I'm scared"

Her guardian closed his eyes and gave a small smile. "It's okay Claire, you'll be alright. I'm your guardian after all. I wont let anything bad happen to you. Besides, you always wanted magic, don't you realize it's right there in the palm of your hand?"

"But… I don't even know how to use it? What am I supposed to do?" His smile wore away and his face giving a more serious atmosphere around the tent. "It will come to you, don't worry."

Claire then ran out of the tent and towards the village, where the fiery ram Aries was, roaming around with his flames, perishing all the buildings and the landscape of the village around it. "Stop… you monster…" Claire was in fear much more, standing small compared to the monster. "Don't you dar--"

"What do you think you're doing? Are you crazy?" a young girl said, who jumped down one of the few buildings that remained. She was armed with luminous gloves that had spikes over the areas of the knuckles. "Come to see my powerful knuckles in action?"

A young boy with a mysterious demeanour then approached Claire" So you're here to fight Aries? But you aren't even armed with any fighting equipment, you're just asking to be killed so get out of the way--" He then saw the object that Claire was holding in her hand "So you're the Astral one. Well I hope you tough enough to do your share."

"Astral one…?" Claire thought to herself. "Here it comes." The young girl says. "I hope you aren't one of those novice fighters, knuckle-girl."

"Don't condescend me sword boy. You don't even know what I'm capable of."

The two ran towards the beast, which was facing towards their direction. The woman though developing feathery wings on her back flew up in the sky. Claire could see a bow and a bundle of arrows appearing in her hand. The boy however approached the fiery beast trying to pierce it with his sword.

Aries, groaned with pain twisting round and round in hope for the pain to stop. The young boy then fell from the beast and hit hard on the dirt floors. The ram then looked and the boy with a glare, fire enveloping inside its mouth.

"Oh damn, I knew he was just some stupid little boy." The young woman yelled out. "It has flames all over its body, it doesn't take a genius to realize a long distance approach is more effective." The bundle of arrows then turned a pale blue, resembling ice. The girl grabbed a few arrows and started shooting them towards the ram. "How do you like that?" With the ram distracted, Claire ran towards the boy, who was mildly injured from the fall. "Are you okay?" she said. She was terrified that all this was true. A giant ram with flames scorching on it's back? How on Earth did this happen? "I'm fine. You're supposed to be the one to take this thing down; you're the chosen one. What are you doing just standing there? Do something, or someone is going to be killed."

"Everything happened by accident. It was too fast…"
"That's what I thought, someone unworthy taking up the Amulet… " He scoffed with anger. "We have to take that thing down with or without you. And judging by you're lack of initiative and standing there like a statue, I suppose we don't need your help." The boy then ran at a far distance, a large bag with sharp ice particles appeared… He then jumped up in an enormous length from the ground and started throwing them towards the beast. Already distracted from the girl, the ram still stunned in pain breathed out fire and aimed for her. She quickly dodged the flames, only to have one wing burned. She screamed in pain and fell to the ground. "Should have watched out for that," the boy said with delight. "Suppose you are just a novice."

Claire then ran towards the angel-winged girl. "Oh no… Everything's my fault I'm so sorry. I'm sorry that an angel got hurt."

"An angel? I'm not an angel! But everyone is going to be one unless you take that thing down. You have to do something, or everyone's going to get hurt."

"But… I don't know what to do." Claire said, looking down upon herself. "Maybe he's right, maybe I am just a disappointment. I haven't done anything. I made everything worse." Her amulet then shined and in Claire's hand grew a long stick that had a moon and a star stuck together on the top made of gold. The light beamed all over the village and there stood Claire, the chosen one of the stars stood with the Astral Wand.

"You've done it. You've activated the amulet. The chosen one…"

Claire then felt a surge of pride inside her and ran towards the monster in hope of defeating it with her newfound magical powers.

The monster already wounding the boy then stared towards Claire. "Wait… I don't even know how to use it…" Claire said in embarrassment.

"What! Then why the heck did you run for it? Now it's got you in it's sights and Aries is notorious for his aggression!"

"Oh no… I'm done for"

"Not yet…" the girl with the angel wings said. "Not if I can help it. Stun Arrow!" she yelled out. A large arrow then shot out at the ram, paralysing it with electric waves. "Go ahead, now cast a water based spell on it."

Claire thought to herself. "He told me that whatever I desired using this wand was going to happen… However, how strong my desire is determines its power."

"Okay." Claire announced, "I command you to build a water wall to defeat the monster."
A few drops of water fell from the wand.

"What? What is that going to do?"

"Are you taking this seriously, come on and defeat it you idiot!" the boy angrily yelled.

The electric waves started to wear off, "My arrow's effect is losing it's power, you have to do something!"

In an instant, the wall of water struck Aries and continually stunned the beast. The water wall was enormous, covering a quarter of the beast's body in water. "That water wall isn't enough, it has to wear out the flames!" the girl said.

Claire nodded her head and started chanting. "With the power of water, bind this beast inside a sphere of rushing water. With the power of the Astral Wand, I command you!"

A sphere of water then appeared, encompassing the ram in waves that were created inside. The sphere was then levitated off the ground, where Aries was yelling in misery and then eventually drowned.

The angel girl ran towards Claire and jumped in joy. "You did it, you really did it! You defeated the ram." The boy on the other hand walked towards Claire. "What a fluke!"

Claire didn't know what to feel at that moment. Was she that powerful to strike down a ram that almost destroyed a village? She felt a little guilty, but then she grew a little prouder ignoring the boy's comments.

The ram though then rose and unexpectedly breathed fire towards the three. Claire panicked until a blue hemisphere of light nullified the flames.

Claire looked behind her only to see her guardian leaning upon a woman with a white coat and thick spectacles. Claire rushed towards her guardian and gave him a hug. "I knew you'd be here for me…" She smiled and hugged him tighter. "I did it. I really did it.