Endless darkness, warmth, confusion.
‘who am I? where am I?’
Light. A fuzzy fog encompasses my world and cold. Why is it so cold?
“awwhaa awwhaa”
What in the world was that? was that me?
“awwhaa awwhaa”
Yep definitely me, everything is still so fuzzy, there seems to be people around me I guess and they're much bigger than I am. They’re passing me around and all I can make out is the vague fuzzy shadow of their shape and some strange sound they seem to be making. This is boring I'm going to sleep.
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The world is still fuzzy but I can make out colors now, there’s white, pink, and red beyond that I can tell I’m in some sort of cage the rest is to fuzzy. Hmm I’m hungry.
“awwhaa awwhaa awwhaa” this is awesome just have to cry a bit and food is delivered.
“Momma is here Valara shh now”
mmm satisfaction. I think my name might be Valara, sounds weird but it’s the only word that comes up over and over when the one with the pretty voice interacts with me. Gotta learn this language.
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I can see! I can crawl!
“ha ha ha ha” I try laughing and it comes out as some sort of giggle or squeal it's annoying but I can't help it.
“Aww my baby girl is crawling! she’s so happy”
I’m guessing that’s my mother gushing over me still can’t really understand more than my name and ‘hungry’ but the rest is just gibberish so far.
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FUCK! I’m a girl! why does that seem so wrong. I don’t understand!
I just started figuring out how to walk and understanding the language when my mother says something to me and it clicks.
“ That’s my girl! Six months old and already starting to walk on her own!”
“FUCK!”
“Valara did your father teach you that word?! Oh gods your first word and it’s a curse this is a bad omen.”
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Finally I understand them, they can understand me too. Sort of, I’ve got a handle on saying a few things but it’s hard to form the words if only I could use telepathy. Why do I even know what that is.
Whatever I’m starting to figure out how to read too, I thought mother would be the one to read these books to me but father seems to really enjoy it. Usually he’s so grumpy looking but when he’s reading to me and a funny part comes up and I laugh he smiles and his eyes sparkle and I just laugh harder I can see that he doesn't smile often enough.
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My Second birthday, there's other little kids everywhere and I’m stuck with them. This sucks. The first one was the same but I got out of it easy, just went into a corner and slept all day. The whole last year was mostly like that except today that is, now I get to meet my cousins and my parents friends children, oh yay.
“aww the birthday girl looks like she’s gonna cry, I guess she doesn’t need her new toy then”
My cousin Sherna she’s already six and a total bully so she tries to take away my new stuffed animal, it’s a little dragon. Already it’s my favorite toy, I don’t even like toys but something about this one…
“Back off bitch”
It’s harsh but they have to know who's boss around here.
“heh. Did Valara just curse at me”
Sherna looks shocked as she asks her twin sister Ahna who’s a lot nicer just easy to push around.
“nmnm”
Ahna mumbles
“That’s mine now you little twerp”
Sherna grabs the plush dragon faster than I can react
“haha little baby gonna cry”
Something strange seems to happen as I get angry, a pressure inside my body builds up and I suddenly know what it is. Mana, the fuel for magic. The little dragon toy jerks out of Shernas’ grasp and floats over to me, then just because I still need to assert who’s boss around here I hit here with a small force spell.
“ahhhh”
Sherna flies into the wall with a solid thud, the plaster even dents a bit. Nice. Then she starts screaming like crazy holding her arm, which isn't supposed to face that direction. Oops. That's what happens when you mess with the boss bitch.
Adults come streaming in somehow starting with Shrnas’ father my uncle Gendren my father's little brother and his wife who’s name escapes me.
“Sherna sweetheart what happened!”
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all the adults crown around her trying to calm her down, my mother casts a healing spell to alleviate the pain so she stops crying. Finally.
“I-I-I was j-just trying to p-play with Valara and then she used magic to throw me into the wall after she called me a bad word”
Huh, though it was in her mind playing and mine bullying that is technically what happened oh well the truth sets you free right.
“Valara is this true?” My father kneels down to get as close to eye level with me as he can and I’ve never heard him use that tone with me before, if I actually felt guilty about this at all I might have just wet myself with fear.
“No father, not completely. Sherna was being quite rude trying to take away my new toy and after repeated attempts in being polite I did in fact call her a ‘bitch’ telling her to back off. After she with her brutish strength being four years older than me and all grabbed my toy from me by force I lost my temper and resorted to my own use of force. As my body is yet to be developed enough to resort to physical means and I saw no reason to involve adults in a petty childish dispute, I returned my dragon to my possesion and used a simple force spell to move Sherna further from my person when she attempted to reengage with violence. I overestimated the ati-magic enchantment on her necklace and it shattered instantly and she received roughly 65% of the full force of my spell. I am sorry father I will be more careful in the future.”
I politely bow to my father then walk up to my cousin, the slack jawed adults nearly stumble over themselves to get out of the way
“I am sorry Sherna, I did not mean to hurt you so badly”
Again I politely bow, but look into Sherna's eyes and will the message to get across
‘Do not ever take my stuff, do not ever try to touch me, do not ever again bully your own sister’
Her eyes go wide and she nods her head while starting to cry profusely again. I turn around to find all the adults staring at me still.
“What?”
I ask with childlike innocence. I think I must have overdone it. All the adults except for my parents all gathered their own offspring and leave without a word. I must have done something really bad. Oops.
“Whats wrong? did I do something bad?”
I’m truly confused now, I’ve never seen my parents look like that. Confusion, or is that fear, I’m worried now.
“Valara how long have you been able to use magic?” My father sternly questions me.
“Umm just now” My parents share a look.
“Honey do you know how dangerous that was you could have killed your cousin.”
My mother admonishes me.
“Well yes the spell I used was able to put five pounds of force per square inch so I spread it across her torso to lessen it down to one yet the necklace she was wearing was enchanted on poor metals and instead of negating a large amount of the force, absorbed it and caused a small feedback loop increasing the effects of the spell by about 15% thus launching her into the wall.”
That was a bit of a lie I suppose, I knew it was going to backfire once I looked at it. How in the world do I know this stuff? This could be a bad sign. My parents share another look and my mother picks me up.
“Where are we going?”I question after we leave the house and head for down the street.
“You’ll see when we get there” my father replies.
Not to long after leaving the house we come to a massive stone castle like building. The guards all salute to my father and mother and we go right on through the big entrance doors that open for us seemingly of their own accord. We continue on through a long hall decorated with very expensive looking paintings and statues. Finally we enter another set of doors that open themselves, and into what looks like a throne room like in the books my father had read me.
We come to a stop at a large green ball that looks like it's made of glass sitting atop a pedestal positioned between two thrones one larger than the other.
My father turns to me and my mother.
“Valara place your hand on this please”
I do as he asked still a bit shocked by the situation, I mean really this looks like a place for royalty and my parents just waltz right in no introductions or anything…
words start to flash across the surface of the ball and on the wall behind the thrones they start to come up.
Name: Valara Zixrua
Age: 2
Titles: Princess of Eldloss Kingdom
Physical Rank: Infantile
Mental Rank: Immortal
Spiritual Rank: Immortal
Magical Rank: Goddess
“Holy shit we’re royalty? and what's this about ranks?” I look to my parents and they’re just staring at the projection on the wall obviously shocked, hey I just found out I’m a damn princess shouldn't I be the slack jawed fool right now?
“I-I’ve never seen ranks like this what the hell could this mean is the Gods sphere not working right?”
My father stammers. Then he moves my hand off the glass ball and places his own hand there, and the light show starts again.
Name: Valdus Zixrua
Age: 89
Titles: King of Eldloss Kingdom, Unrelenting Shield, Slayer of the Mountain Horde. Father of the Goddess Valara
Physical Rank: Grandmaster
Mental Rank: King
Spiritual Rank: Master
Magical Rank: Arch Mage
“Normal except for...” He gestures for my mother to do the same after he removes his hand.
Name: Mirila Zixrua (Emzira)
Age: 78
Titles: Queen of Eldloss Kingdom, Fury of Eldloss, Immolator of The Mad One. Mother of the Goddess Valara
Physical Rank: Master
Mental Rank: Queen
Spiritual Rank: Arch Priestess
Magical Rank: Arch Mage
“We’re the parents of the first god to have ever been born with their power…….”
Holy shit I’m not just a princess I’m a god? what the hell are they looking like that for this is awesome!
“Awesome so I’m a princess and a Goddess! I wonder what I’m the goddess of? Fire! no that's too simple, Water, no no earth meh not air either, hmmm.”
I’d thrown out each of the elements as I was imagining what it would be like to be a god, now the floors all dirty. Oops. My parents are still in some sort of shock I guess, they still haven't yelled at me for it, so I just make a small sub-dimensional pocket and scoot all the mess into it and clean the floor with some water before throwing that in aswell then I close it up and turn to my parents looking as innocent as possible.
They’re still just staring at me it’s making me feel weird.
“Are you okay? Mom? Dad?”
They just nod and my mother picks me up and hugs me and we head home again.
I don’t ask anymore questions, it feels like there's more to all this but I think I can wait until tomorrow to get some answers. So since the whole day is gone my parents put me to bed.
“Good Night Valara, We love you very much okay.”
“Okay, I love you too”
Why does Mother look so sad? and Father looks, normal, well angry I guess but he seems almost sad to, what the hell is going on?
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I just barely fell asleep when I’m woken up by a hand on my head, there’s loud sounds coming from outside too, what the fuck?.
“Valara, Valara wake up honey you need to go with my friend here okay? Bad things are happening and your father and I need to stay to protect everyone. Please always remember your father and I love you more than anything in the world.”
It’s my mother, and she’s not making any sense, I’m about to protest and say I can help when my sight goes dark and I’m right back to sleep.