“Do you understand the meaning of sacrifice and being worthy?” Stella asked.
“Yeah...Sure!” I answered with a sarcastic tone.
Stella picked up a stick, approached me, drew a circle, and made some strange figures or signs in the circle. She said nothing, turned around, walked away, and drew a circle a few meters from me.
“Go down on your knees and put your hands in the circle.”
Okay! It's not a situation a normal human being would appreciate being in, but me here at all isn't normal either, so I just agreed and went down. She went down, put her hands on the other circle, and started to speak jibberish:
“Ruthanic eblyaiot tu fam qi nomed kah tu ra”
The big fire around us turned black, and I could hear Mejni screaming after me; he must have been outside the fire, worried about why there was a big black fire on the grass. My hands disappeared into the grass, and it turned black, which made me nervous as I tried pulling out my hands, but it was like I was stuck. Suddenly, something pulled me towards the ring, and my whole arm was now in the circle. I was screaming in the air, trying to push myself up again, but it was hopeless. When I looked up at Stella, she had tears in her eyes and uttered the words:
“Save the little girl!”
My whole body got pulled into the circle, and I quickly noticed I was on the grass with both my hands stretched out, surrounded by trees. It wasn't nighttime anymore, and it looked like I was somewhere in the woods. I quickly got up from the ground, trying to figure out where I was, when it came sound from the bush. Something white popped up; it looked like Stella's headband. Instead of a woman's body coming out from the bush, it was a young child looking like Stella. She looked like four or five, maybe six years old. Where the fuck am I?
“Elloh!”She said.
“Eh...Hi! What is your name?” I asked the child.
“Me, me, Stella!” She answered and smiled, which was weird because I knew Stella didn’t look like she could smile, like never.
What an awkward situation because she is dead and living in my body, so why am I here?
“Oh, Okay! I am...I am...I am...I am!” I tried to say my name, but I couldn’t.
Why can't I say my name?
“Elloh Iam!” She said.
“Cam met mameh papeh!” She said.
Wait a minute. Was this the childhood? Is that why I can't say my name? She has never met me. She grabbed my hand and started to pull me while walking through the woods, and we ended up in something that looked like a small village with a couple of cabins made of clay. I went with her into one of the cabins, where a woman was preparing wooden plates with some vegetables for the table.
“Oh! Who is this? Did you bring a friend, Stella?” The woman asked before noticing my clothes, and it seemed like she looked surprised.
“mameh! Fend!”
“Oh! You brought a friend here?” The mother answered, and I was in awe of how everything looked around there.
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“Eh...Hi! I am,” I said.
“Your name is I am?” She asked.
I just nodded because I felt a little bit retarded that I couldn't properly introduce myself. Stella sat by the table, grabbed an apple, and started munching on it. I still tried to figure out what to say to the mother, who looked human. She was also hot-looking, still like she was younger than me. She smiled and said:
“Do not worry. You are not the first stowaway she has brought back to our humble home. I am surprised that she found a human being in the forest. Usually, you are all dressed in green but seem to have different clothes.”
I smiled at her when something approached me from behind, breathing down on my neck. I slowly turned around and saw a man with a red-colored right arm and eyes and a thick beard, and he was freaking tall.
“Hi, Honey! Welcome home!” The mother uttered.
The man walked past me and sat at the table, engaging with Stella.
“Will you join us to eat?” She asked.
I just nodded and sat at the table with the red-eyed dadbod staring at me.
I looked around at the family while they were enjoying their vegetarian meal. I slowly ate a tomato, in awe of what I was seeing.
“I am; you were fortunate Stella did not kill you in the woods. It is the first time she has seen a human being since the war. The green men used some weapons in the air that killed her aunt, but she seems to have no hostile intentions towards you.”
What the hell is she talking about? What can a five-year-old child do against a full-ground male? Talk about hallucinations.
“She is just a child; I suppose that would never happen,” I answered.
The mother laughed at my comment, and the dad was smiling for himself.
“Stella is half demon and half witch; she is powerful but too young to join the war. We have decided that she will join when she grows a little bit. “
“There is a war going on?” I asked her.
“Oh yes! We have a small village here that we built and do farming, but we walked far away to get away from the war so she could have a chance to grow up. Her big brother joined the war but is not far from the village. He fights with demons against the angels and humans to ensure we are safe here in this area from harm.” She explained, and I noticed that maybe it was time to leave because this doesn’t look like a safe environment; witches can be powerful to face.
The table started to shake suddenly, and it felt like the whole cabin would fall apart. Then, a big roar in the air made all of us freeze for a second. That did not sound good at all, and all of us hurried out of the cabin. I couldn’t believe my eyes what I was looking at. A gigantic black-eyed human-looking thing with black wings stomped through the trees like it was nothing. The mother lifted Stella and gave her to me while Stella cried into my shoulder. She must be terrified. Her parents rushed towards the giant, making me wonder how they would stop something that big; it would crush them easily with one foot. I watched them run towards it, trying to protect the village. The other people here ran in the direction I came from earlier. The giant lifted its foot, and I screamed at Stella's parents:
“GET OUT OF THE WAY!”
Exactly when the giant was going to stomp on them, a black and blue light shone above them as they hindered the giant from stomping on them. The mother was struggling, it seemed, and I put down Stella as both my hands were gushing black fire. When I took two steps forward, prepared to run to them, the mother shook her head, and I stopped.
“Take my daughter to her brother!” she said with a loving look at her daughter.
I knew what she meant by this; the mother knew it was a losing battle, and she must have moved towards the giant to get the other villagers time to get away. I quickly grabbed Stella and started to run into the woods. Stella was screaming after her mother, and I turned around, seeing the foot stamping down and crushing both her parents with blood splatter going in all directions. I grabbed Stella's head and kept running in the woods when suddenly everything turned black. Stella disappeared from my hands, and I suddenly stood straight with one blink, looking towards a big cabin.
“HEYRAH!, YOUR WEAKLINGS. WELCOME TO THE TRAINING CAMP FOR THE DEMON ARMY. WE WILL TRAIN YOU TO GO OUT IN THE WAR, AND MANY OF YOU WILL DIE AT THE HANDS OF THE FILTHY ANGELS AND HUMANS, BUT FEEL THAT YOU HAVE SERVED THE LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD TO GET FREEDOM AND ENJOY A LIFE OF KILLING AND MURDERING THE DISGUSTING CITIZENS OF THE VALIANT KINGDOM.” Someone screamed out in the air.
When I turned to the right, I noticed Stella smirking after the voice that screamed a second ago, and she turned to me with a smiling face, saying:
“Did you not hear the Demon General? We are going out into war to die.”