Today was Tia's sixth birthday. She was so happy. Her mommy told her to go play with the other kids while she would bake a cake for her. A cake!!! It was now evening and she was on her way back home. Tia had asked her daddy for a pet lizard as her birthday present maybe she would get one. Then she heard a sweet humming tone from behind her and when she looked back she saw a smiling female human, that waved her hand to greet Tia. Tia waved back. It was the first time in her life that she saw a human. The skin of the female human was white not black, with a green and a blue eye and white hair. And no horns!!! All demons had horns, of different colour, but humans had no horns at all!!! Tia's horns were blue and she was named after the demon word for blue 'altianeth'. Tia's mommy had told her that humans were like animals that looked similar to demons but without intellect. But the human, which looked like a soldier with her sword and armour, looked really nice. Tia decided to greet her. She stopped a few steps away from the human.
Suddenly the smile of the human changed. It became ferocious. Tia screamed but it was too late. The human took her sword a cut Tia down in two parts while giggling.
"One."
A demon villager which was nearby heard the scream of the little girl and ran in the direction of Tia's body. The human female warrior appeared almost immediately behind the villager and beheaded him.
"Two."
The peaceful demon village had become a war zone. Some demons tried to fight. Some tried to hide and some tried to flee. But in the end it was all the same.
"Forty-one. Forty-two. Forty-three."
The girl would sometimes throw a fireball at the roof of a house and cut down all demons that tried to escape from the burning building.
"Hundred twenty-five. Hundred twenty-six..."
When the last villager was cut down - "Two hundred sixty." - the girl stopped and listened to the deathly hush which sized the whole village, only interrupted by the sound of burning houses. A few minutes later twenty knights on horses entered the village and rode to the girl.
"General Rubra! What are you doing here. You suddenly disappeared from the camp and then we saw smoke fuming from this village."
"Just a little workout. You know I was really bored."
"But general! If any demon survived then they might tell the enemy that we are already in their territory."
"Mmh ... you are right Max. You go and find survivors while I go back to my tent. Oh ... and why do you call me general Rubra and not Luna like always?"
"*sign* because sometimes you need to be reminded that you are a general and not some lonely warrior."
"All the same. My job is to kill as many demons as possible."
Luna smiled happily at Max.
"Yeah, whatever. Soldiers we need to hunt demons! Lets go!"
And they rode away. Luna looked up in the sky but the moon hasn't risen jet. She ran back to the human army camp. She was faster then the wind. But something like this was only natural for the human hero.
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Luna went in her tent, threw her cloak in a corner and sat down in front of a folding table - this was a military camp after all. Her desk was a mess. Papers were piling left and right, most with illegible text which was often slovenly crossed out. She took one of the sheets and began to read in a low voice.
"Chapter 1. The world of Kalar is divided in to two continents, Namar or more commonly known as 'Human continent' and Arkar or 'Demon Continent'. Demons and humans have always been in war with each other. Demons are vile creatures that do not deserve to live. For them we humans are nothing more than food. It is the holy duty ... no. This sounds more like a history or geography book and not like an autobiography. What did Carla said again when I told her I would write an autobiography for the big library in Alinor ... 'a book about yourself has to transmit your feelings and personality. It isn't about facts' yea ... sure."
She threw the page away in the bin next to her desk, picked up a quill from her inkpot and a blank sheet, and began to write.
[The life of Luna Rubra - An Autobiografy
Chapte 1]
"Mmh, what would be a good first sentence ... maybe ..."
[I do not know why or how, but I remember my past life. I always have. And I remember my death. It was not anything special, just a terminal illness and then darkness. But this book is not about my previous life and death but about what happened afterwards. My whole body was arching and without knowing why I began to scream. I opened my eyes but it was too bright for me to keep them open for a long time. Suddenly giant hands enclosed me and carried me to a giant breast and instinctively I began to suck while my mouth was filled with sweet milk. I was reborn with my memories intact.]
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'I won't write down that I was a man in my past life. It would be embarrassing and I don't know how people would look at me if they knew. I have never told anyone so there is no need to do so now. Being a girl wasn't my main problem back then anyway.'
Luna had never told anyone anything about her past life except for the fact that she died from an illness. It was actually cancer but nobody knew this word in this world so she just used the term `illness´.
[It took me several days to grasp the situation. Apparently I was born in a barn. Everywhere around me were naked women some of them with a baby and some pregnant. But there were no children. Just adult women and babies. All adults had two things in common: A collar around their neck and lifeless eyes. Something was terrible wrong with this situation. A few day later I finally understood what. A men with dark red skin, two black horns and black hair, dressed like a farmer or a peasant with a big bucket in his hands, entered the barn threw blackish green vegetables in a big through in the corner and left. All women, even my mother, immediately left their children and ran to the through as if they were animals. No they were animals. Farm animals to be more precisely. At this moment I finally understood. I was reborn at one of the human farms on the demon continent Arkar. This revelation immediately struck indescribable fear in my heart. How could something like this be true. What evil god has reincarnated me in this hell. I never got an answer to this question.]
Luna lay down the quill and looked with cold eyes at the magical lamp which was attached to the beam holding the tent-roof. Her lips formed a joyless smile. A self-mocking smile. How could she be still so sensible about her past. She wasn't really sensible. In fact Luna only felt a lingering pain inside her chest. But this was already unacceptable for her, because such feeling were weakness and weakness mustn't be tolerated. She wasn't weak. Those cattle humans were weak. Her new mother was weak. Her mother ... she took the quill, dipped it in the inkpot and continued.
[Nobody noticed my panic attack which was not really surprising since they were occupied with guzzling their food. My apathetic mother would not have noticed anything anyway. My mother was a beautiful woman with white hair, blue eyes and an almost perfect body. I still remember that my baby instincts told me to love her and that I am safe with her while my intellect understood my hopeless situation and that I can only rely on myself.]
"*sigh* I wasn't born to be author ..."
"True. I can't think of anyone less suitable to write a book."
Luna turned her head lazily to the entry of the tent and saw a handsome tall men, with black hair and green eyes, in a suit of armour.
"Fuck you, Max. Who asked for your opinion. You know that the king asked me to write this."
"Yeah, yeah. To silence the peace faction who think we can talk to those monsters."
"Exactly."
"But I still don't understand how a book in a dusty library can change public opinion. Can't you just tell them in a speech or something."
"The demons will annihilate you if I leave you for one day and ..."
"drama queen(mumble)"
"What was that!"
"Nothing. I was just thankful that you are our general. So what was the other reason?"
"Another impudence and your fatigue duty will be to clean the latrines."
"Oh come on. That was just a joke under friends."
"I am still your superior ... *sign* anyways. Apparently they will copy my book hundreds of times so that every library in Namar will have at least one copy."
"And you think people will read this?"
"Don't know. I am a hero to most people in Namar since I stopped the demon invasion two years ago."
"You mean your army stopped the demon invasion."
"This makes no difference for an average person. So why are you in my tent? Did you just visit me to mock my writing abilities?"
"Ah, no. We caught some women and children from the demon village in the forest nearby. I thought you might be interested."
Luna jumped up from her chair with ferocious smile.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier! Nothing in the world is as sweet as the screams of demons. Hahaha."
Luna's mad laughter send cold shivers up and down Max's spine. And he wasn't the only one. All the soldiers felt the same. They should be used to it but in reality they weren't.