"Don't do this father! Sister isn't cursed. The gods are the ones that are cursed. They're the ones that demands something from us." (Yuki)
"Stupid child do you not see. She's the one making you oppose us. That thing's a plague to us. After her birth our crops have stopped growing. Your mother died giving birth to that accursed thing. There's been no snow. We're in a drought." (Gen)
"Little sister isn't cursed. Mother told me to protect her. Even if you don't care about her, I won't allow you or anyone else to beat her." (Yuki)
Little 10 year old Yuki blocked her father's path. She was standing before Aki blocking her father from beating her sister anymore. Gen grabbed Yuki by the hand and Aki cried.
"Please stop father." (Aki)
Yuki woke up with a startled and breathing hard as she just woke from that nightmare. She was sharing a room with Selena and Fiona.
"Are you okay." (Selena)
"Just a nightmare." (Yuki)
"Out of us your crimes seemed less harsh. Helen's was destroying a continent. Isabella was stealing a sacred treasure. Mine was let's just say I killed a lot of gods until I was caught." (Selena)
"No, my memories of my childhood is fragmented. I can't even remember much of the times I enjoyed with Aki now. What I do remember is father and our clan calling her cursed. She's the only thing I have left from my mother. Now I can't even remember how our kind mother looks like. This job as a guard to the gates is a curse or a gift. I'd say a curse, it makes you forget those things important to you after the centuries goes by. It's also a gift to some of us since it prolongs our life." (Yuki)
(she's wearing her mask again to avoid suspicions from Selena. She's thinking of telling Selena just before they enter the school.)
"Hm, I guess but I can't believe that Fiona can sleep through your screaming." (Selena)
"That's what differentiates us all. I'm a snow demon. My clan and family had serviced the gods for generations. But that ends at me." (Yuki)
"Why is that." (Selena)
"Because I massacred my clan as a self defense for my own little sister. They kept trying to kill her. So I couldn't take the pressure anymore one day I just broke." (Yuki)
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Aki stared at the forest before her, a sigh escaped her. She avoided praying to the gods, they took the thing most precious to her. Her older sister who defended her until her 25th birthday. Then her sister who was 30 couldn't take it anymore.
When her clan tried to burn her alive in her house, Yuki her sister snapped. She used the very skills in weapons that she was taught by the clans against them. At the end of the massacre Aki came out of her hiding place to see the gods take her sister away. It's now been 900 years, searching for her sister had become her goal. She knew somewhere in her heart her sister was alive.
Finding her sister had been her sole reason to live. Her sister taught her many things growing up. Swords, spears, lances, axe, halberd, bastard sword, the bow and arrow, staffs, and hunting. How to survive in the nature in case her own family got rid of her for protecting Aki.
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"Sister it's my turn to protect you." (Aki)
Her hand went to the necklace on her neck as she remembered her conversation that they had when she was younger. Aki's light blue hair was blowing in the wind.
"Hey sister what's mother like." (Aki)
"Kind, she's the head of the family. Father married into the family, he like has no say in things. Guess you could say that he follows the rules on point and mother is unorthodox and she'd do anything for us."
"Not the clan." (Aki)
"Nope, if she were here she'd probably take her anger out on them. Or moved with us away from here. She's what kept the family whole." (Yuki)
"What do you think of mother." (Aki)
"I want to be like her and live freely without being tied down. Mother said that she traveled a lot when she was younger. She didn't serve those stupid gods. Mother is right though there is more dangerous beings than the gods. They just don't abuse their powers." (Yuki)
"How do you know that sister." (Aki)
"Because I found mother's diary. I'll gift it to you. Along with this other half of the necklace she gave me. It's something I wanted to give you on your 15th birthday but was busy making sure stupid father wouldn't find you." (Yuki)
She held tightly to the necklace and the diary. Her mother had wrote of her journey and her experience. One thing inside the journal caught her eyes when the wind blew.
"Gate keepers, condemned criminals by the gods. Their roles are to guard forbidden worlds inside the gates. These gates are always floating in the air and appear at random. I met a girl from one of the gates once. She had asked me if I would see the gates themselves because the rumor to start anew with a life without memories. I just shook my head. I told her I wanted to listen to her story. She called me strange. But was I the strange one, I mean she wore a mask so no one would recognize her identity. Her name was Reah, her crime was destroying the angels during a war the gods caused and destroying the dragon's race to almost extinction. What got me worried was that she said guarding the gates is making her lose her memories of her past due to guarding the gate for so long. I hope she's freed soon gods are very easily angered and once they do something they tend to make it last. This is just my honest opinion but gate keepers are pitiful they can't live for themselves cause these so called gods. Yet they're forced to live, a chained life without a will of their own to be free. I wish for a day when these gate keepers are freed. ~ Evaline." (Aki)
"Mother... is this a way to guide me after your gone. Are you telling me to search for sister this way." (Aki)
She flipped the page to a piece of the diary she hasn't read.
"Phoenixes have a photographic memory but only royals have a perfect memory of their past life and carry their powers of each incarnations they lived as well as the memories of all their lives. These powers are carried over all their lifetimes. That's such a cheat mother. But why is the rest ripped off of the diary." (Aki)
'Guess I still have a lot to learn from this diary." (Aki)
Aki pulled the blanket over her as she went to sleep.
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The gods
"This is wrong! We lost contact with gate 1300 and gate 569. Damn we better hope those two don't come into contact with each other." (god of light Rex)
"What the fuck were you idiots thinking. Gate 569 is that stupid girl's mother Evaline. She's a former royal Phoenix soul. Her memories are all intact. Her crimes were a missing continent or two. " (goddess of wisdom Rain)
"That's like 50 people at that gate gone. But that stupid Evaline girl freaking had the guts to diss us gods. What the fuck does she mean the creators won't stand for our abuse of powers we're the highest authority aren't we." (Goddess of life and death Gem)
"No I sensed she was telling us the truth. Meaning there are beings more powerful than us. Gate 569 has 50 people we assigned to it. That gate is also the most dangerous since that world is full of infinite possibilities." (God of sky Hax)
"Damn her and her perfect memories." (Rex)
"Can't do much about it now. We got 60 criminals missing." (Rain)
(Yep by their standards of criminals on how they judge them. Do know that they're biased for those under their religions also.)
"How are we supposed to explain that some of those people were considered dead." (Gem)
They all looked at the goddess of life and death, she was right those missing 50 were considered dead to the world. But they haven't a faintest idea where these people disappeared to.
"Just say their souls got erased." (Hax)
"That's lazy work." (Rex)