Chapter 1 - Bleeding This Town.

It’s a very windy night. The tree’s branches are swinging and old leaves falling down to the grounds and staggered. Darkness has concealed the forest. There are four moons in the shape of a crescent noticeable on the black sky, each separated a few distance from one another and forming the structure of round. Its presence has generated a strong ray of light that helped highlighted a few part of the forest below that is mostly consumed by the creeping shadow. A traveler’s passage has the most visibility of all area, seeing that there are no trees in such section to block the moon’s light. Time cannot be determined precisely but it is assumable that it is quite late at night. Moving forward to a small clearing located somewhere in the seas of trees, a firewood is spotted, quite timid in fact is burning, resulting from the event that had happened once a few stick of wood is gathered at a single position and then, someone would light a match nor form a small fire in their palm and thus, set upon these set of stick an ignition, letting it burned. Quite far from the firewood, a figure is available. This entity is a girl, sporting a peculiar white hair, white eyelashes and maybe a white pair of eyes too. It shan’t be seen, since she is sleeping soundly. Despite not vividly easy for people to see, her apparel could be spotted. She is wearing a normal pair of black shirt and chocolate trouser, though it more likely to be an inside clothing rather than the main costume. Nearby, a faint light glimmered. White gauntlet and armor, alongside a sheathed sword and a skirt reinforced in a plate of thin armor colored white as well are arranged beside the aforementioned girl. The wind had calmed, and its cooling breeze sundered the girl in a deep slumber, until she evokes sleep talking.   

“Thought not for lesser tongue, naught learn of thy fate to come”.

Her soft, quite childish voice has embarked on the journey of discovery.

“Besieged by foul tempo and disturbances rated impossible, thou shan’t walk this world”.

She uttered these words oozing with weirdness, before stating another.

“And thy, cooked this potato soup for me… Hehehe”.

While she gave of a smug, her body rolled down the square shaped stones that she is sleeping upon that make a role as a mattress and subsequently, she has fallen.

Following the next morning, the sun has risen. Beautiful sound of nature is subjected for one’s hearing ears. Chirping birds, sound of streaming river, noisy crickets and all sort of variety belonging to the woods can be listened to. There’s even the sound of a rambling girl, as she walked through below the tall trees.

“I wonder why do I always kept moving around in my sleep. Next time, I would be sleeping on the ground”.

The daylight has enabled a full description for this anonymous entity. Has she put on the collection of armor that resembled a knight, with the sword that has a blue guard etched to the belt. She looked really beautiful, young and slender. However, her eyes aren’t pink but a blue. After passing through lot of trees, arrived thus herself in another clearing. Wearing of the expression of seriousness is quick to decay upon she has sight the origin of the sound of the flowing river.

“There’s a lot of river”, and so she speaks.

Route reaching downstream is attained from memorization. She make it there, and noticed a lot of fishes, either medium ranged to small are browsing through the crystal clear water. Some has hide once detected the girl’s approaching shadow as she get closer.

“They look very peaceful”, mentioned her with a calm look.

“It would make a good ingredient for breakfast! Ha!”, mentioned her with a combusted face worthy of being named as crazies.

Her right palm is pointed at the watery surface. Red orb began forming, getting bigger and bigger. Just as it reached the perfect size that really fit into the girl’s hand, it launched into the target. What occurred afterward is that, a lot of water started splurging into the air caused by the blast, and eventually it rained onto her, and fishes that can’t swim inland has scattered the river bank. Bigger and capable fishes easily made it back to the river immediately and swam away.

“Jeez, only a few are left. They sure knew how to run. But I can’t eat those any way”.

She make a lazy dead fish eyes, grabbing the nearest fish afterward. Only 3 mild sized one were taken away, whilst the others are thrown back to their home.

“Let’s see. These doesn’t have any magic coming out from them, so.”

Scales and inner part are removed by a small knife that she carried and hung at the belt. Captured item are burned using the previous red orb that illuminated an object with heat once it is near enough and that girl took part by part of the cooked material and eat it with her finger without hesitation. 20 minutes are approximately used. She hastily ventured into the forest once more right after starvation no longer posed a problem. Lingered this girl was seamlessly without purpose for two hour, sometimes taking rest by leaning against a tree. Encountered wild animals undoubtedly flee for its safety. Finally, the traveler’s road was seen again.

“There it is. I shouldn’t ever take a sleep too far away last night because I didn’t even know my way around”, exclaimed the girl, portraying the lack of knowledge concerning of the route she’s taking.

Her head stared right and there, a small village is spotted in a glimpse. A large carriage is also heading there, as it is ahead of her on the road. Casually, she took a step wanting to travel to that location. Strong wind hindered the heat away and grasses are swaying left to right. White horses are used to pull the carriage that moved considerably slow. One man is sitting on top a saddle and another two is accompanying the party by guarding each side of the transportation.

“I wonder what are they transporting”, whispered the girl whom isn’t too far behind.

As they make progress across the road, a faint tremor was felt below the girl’s feet and so, she stopped walking.

“Something is underground?”

Her advancement was halted, though it isn’t the same for the transportation in front. The thing doesn’t popped out and attack the girl but instead, it headed straight for the larger object in front and make an appearance in front of the horses. It is a huge and tall, red centipede.

“A creature?! ”, mentioned the men on the saddle.

The horses are spooked, rendering instability for the rider and so, he fell to the ground. Such towering atrocity inflicted extreme injury for the fallen man by hitting itself to the target. He splattered to pieces like a pancake, splashing blood all over the carriage and the horses that are terrified to ran off ahead and can’t turned around due to the load it is pulling. Other guardsmen are showered in sweat already and throw away the sword they are carrying and run off beside the girl, not noticing she was there due to panicking. The event occurred really fast and she also decided to keep up the pace. Her feet carried her closer to the objective and there, she permitted a high jump and landed on top of the transport’s roof. Henceforth, she displayed her right palm again and minor electrical energy heed in vision, growing bigger than her hand before she released it. It shoot off shaping an orb, and upon contact with its target, a wave of electricity shocked the entire structure and the centipede exploded into unrecognizable bit soon after. Her mouth spoke off a minor claim.

“The charging of that technique wasn’t as swift as how that creature could move, so why didn’t it quickly attack me? I wanted to test my durability but it hesitated”.

The fleeing men were no longer detectable once she looked behind. The horses has calmed down. Unexpectedly, a voice has resounded, coming from below.

“Hey!”

Mustered in maturity but still has youngish aura, the girl looked down and noticed a young man, probably being 19 years old. She jumped down and gazed upon this adolescent boy with the usual ordinary expression. He is fashioned with sharp nose, black cornea and hair, has strong muscular outline and is armed with nothing. Height from which he possessed is between 185cm while the girl was about 165cm. As an additional info, he wore a black trouser and draped in red cloaks that covered his body that is being put upon a black shirt.

“Weapon bearer, stand aside. I need to check what’s inside this vehicle”, asserted him inappropriately.

The girl doesn’t show any retaliation and instead, make it to the point.

“You are the one that summoned that creature to attacked this carriage, aren’t you?”, so she stated that with a common tone and look, while looking upward.

Overall, he tightened his lips, his eyes stared sharply and he was infuriated but it was only for a second before he stood toward making his own route.

“Stand aside!” retorted him, pushing his way through the girl’s left side.

She stayed in quiet monotone and watch the person opened the carriage’s door and inside, there was nothing else but large pile of bag. Her curiosity make her take a peek as the man used his right finger to conjured a magic skill that enabled a short piece of laser to display, and he tore a horizontal line in the bag and golden coin started to pour away. No more agitation and the feeling of furious was emitting from him anymore. No object was taken as he leave sideway, headed back to the direction from whence he came and that man ripened with anonymity take a jump and disappear in the seas of forest. Being left completely unanswered, the other didn’t take much interest with the bags of money and decided to open the leach that is holding the horses to the carriage. Released it is, and flee as fast as one eye could see. She doesn’t touch the carriage and went straight to the village. As soon as her own body was in a few distance away from the transport earlier, she could heard a sipping sound of a beam being fired. Without hesitation, she looked behind and as she does so, the carriage exploded. Strong gushing of wind from the blast embraced her look and she protected herself with her arm.

 The crushed object kept burning as it has scattered. Her pupil enlarged due to minor shock, yet she obtained calmness in a flinch.

“I.. don’t know what to say”, speculate her, after lowering her arm, kept a boring eye and moved to the destination. Reaching there at approximately 20 minutes, the landscape surrounding the village was beautiful. There’s a large, plain grass field on the left on the village. On the right, there is a vast expansive of rice field.

“Beautiful”, she commented on it, putting on a pleasant smile.

“But, I guess it would do more well to be decorated with bodies”, her smile turned to dark vicious glare. But then, she changed into being expressionless and speaks something to herself again.

“Just joking”, stated her.

Finished with glaring on the panorama, the girl took a step to the village. There isn’t many people around she said, and some are scared with her presence by seizing their curtain for a closing whenever they spotted her walking through the dirt street.

“I have no idea what to do next but I’d supposed, I should eat something again”, stated her to herself in heart.

As she walked through the empty path, her eyes set on the left and spotted a place to obtain a meal. With nothing left to think about, she just pandered into the unknown. There’s only a single table with 2 people there, and they are middle aged man that is busy playing chess and doesn’t give any attention to the wanderer. No warm welcome was given, though it isn’t like she was expecting any. A table was noticed and she grabbed a chair and sit casually. A waitress come by, a petite looking young girl dressed in a long white dress, sporting a straight black hair.  

“May I know what would you like to have, Miss?”, prompt the waitress, letting out a unsurprisingly soft voice. A smile wasn’t carved however and it was detected by the customer she is serving.
“Anything edible is fine. And, I am about as the same age as yours. You don’t need to address me formally”.

Afterward saying that, the waitress dropped off the small note she was carrying. An appalled look is shown. She is somewhat either too shocked or aghast by thrilling situation. Even though she is besieged by the weird moment, she decided to pick up the note and give it back to her.

“You’re dropped this”, mentioned her to the waitress that seemed to stuck in time, but only temporarily because she moved again once disturbed.

“Oh, sorry! I will, get you what you want!”.

Setting an embarrass look, she scurried away to the kitchen.  

“Weird girl”.

Wearing the same expression and with her sword hanged on her belt, the girl looked around the shop, didn’t noticed anything particular except for the aforementioned men. Environment was quiet, not until a loud exposure arrived.

“Damn, lose again!”

It was a loud scream from one of the middle aged men, declaring his defeat while covering his face with his palm.

“Okay! You going to keep that promise, right?! Buy me that stuff!”

The other men had said this. The opposite table took a closer look at these duo and noticed that they aren’t looking like an ordinary citizen, since each are dressed in expensive looking garment. One is wearing a black tuxedo with a tie and covered his shoulder with a long black coat. The man being defeated earlier wore a common shirt embedded with a flowery design and put on a green trouser, which nothing deserved to make a fuss off but his belt that coveted with golden lining shined prestigiously.

“Their clothing will attract attraction”, said so the gazing eye on the other table.

Black hair is dyed on the winning section, and red grew to be atop on the losing part.

“Ah, let’s go then! I can’t stay here any longer! This body is getting older by the second!”

The red haired man with a rough voice has a clean brazen face with no moustache, sideburn or a beard. He has a blue eye, large nose and an excellent shaped body while possessing a tall height. He quickly stand up, followed by his companion that put a lot of money on the table after reaching his pocket.

“Miss! The money is on top! No need for a change too!”

“Oh, okay! Thank you!”

The waiter responded so fast while she was busy in the kitchen. Also owning the equivalent of a rough voice with a louder speaker, his nose is small, eyes are in blue, psychical structure is impressive and his height is of the same length as the other one. Together, they both walk out to the front entrance and the loser is slapping his right shoulder to rid away the dust, looking very disturbed by the defeat and the people beside is smiling in arrogance. The girl just kept looking at them, though her head looked out to the window. Her eyes followed their movement. A few second later, the black haired men looked back at her with his right eye, much to bring a small air of suspense. Their existence has disappeared following their exiting.

Such short gaze didn’t manage to make the girl felt intimidated, and gave her a slight moment to comment.

“He must had spotted a fly that it is front of me here”, and so she said while waving her hand to make riddance of the pestering creature. Time has moved silently, and with that passing moment has generated an execution of event, such as the waitress has managed to delivered the item that was requested from the client and she frantically leave while looking at the floor all the time afterward completing the work that she must accomplished, much to make a curiosity of a certain someone to aroused.

“She is afraid of me. I think it would be for the best that I make a proper introduction after this. I do not want to leave a bad impression on the first place that I am visiting for this unrecognizable journey”.