Post by Amara<3 on Aug 5, 2014 14:36:04 GMT -4
Way back in who knows what year, Keera was a little girl at one time. She had a father, a mother, a sensei, and a whole kingdom that was very proud of her - despite the fact that she had zero demonic power... back then. Her mother, before having Kaori, was upset about this, of course. How could she, a demon, give birth to a "demon" that had absolutely no power? Not an inkling of demon inside her? It was unheard of, and many thought that there might be something wrong with her, for Keera to turn out like that. What wasn't known, was that Keera's power was simply dormant, waiting to be unlocked, unleashed at the most important moment of her life.
"Keera, darling, I think it is time to start training you in other forms of combat," Her father, Kymar, said quietly in her room one night. "We can't have a great leader that can't defend herself, now can we? We'll start in the morning. You get some rest."
"Father," Keera spoke quietly, stopping Kymar by the door. "Is there something wrong with me?"
He kept his back to her, reaching for the door and paused again. "No, my lovely princess. There is not a single thing wrong with you."
~~~~
A couple years passed, still no sign of any powers, and Keera's mother became pregnant with another child. Keera's swordsmanship was showing promise, and it didn't affect how she acted toward anyone else, she was still the fun, loving, thoughtful child that she was meant to be at that time. Once her mother had this child, Kaori, they knew instantly that this little girl had some sort of power, but there was something different about her that even the sensei couldn't figure out. She undoubtedly had water powers, but there was more to it than that. She brought joy to all who held her, brought love in to the hearts of the wicked who gazed upon her, and seemed to accelerate the healing process of minor abrasions of children and adults alike, from bruises and cuts to scrapes and sprained ankles.
Keera, with her childlike mind, put it so very simple: Kaori was pure, untouched by evil and pain, so she could heal pain.
Their mother, from that point on seemed to look at Kaori as the future queen of the kingdom - at least she had power, whereas Keera did not and could therefore not protect anyone if they were to be attacked. She never voiced this to Keera, but she knew by how Kaori was treated, and so her father paid as much attention, praise, and time with Keera as possible, to try and even out the issue. This meant more training, more battle tactics, less rest. Still she persevered through this motherly neglect, and kept her child side for a little longer.
As they grew together, Keera and Kaori turned out to be totally separate people. Kaori wanted to be with Keera all the time, but she was lousy with her power and even worse with a sword, so much time was spent simply watching Keera train, and wondering whether or not Keera was going to be a better fighter than sister. In truth, Kaori was a little jealous - she wanted her father's attention, and less of everyone else's. They all treated her so lovingly, they were so devoted to her every need, and when she saw Keera around them, they seemed to leave her alone, only responding to her when she spoke to them.
Soon however came the time that Kymar had dreaded, a fight, a battle soon to happen, and he wondered if Keera was ready. Upon hearing this news of war, Keera and Kaori's grandfather came to visit, and in doing so, found something terribly wrong with his family. He saw everything he expected to see in Keera, and nothing he had hoped for in Kaori. Not a trace of Kymar resided in Kaori, and Kymar was too caring to see this. He loved Kaori like his own, which he assumed she was, but taken aside by his father, he was heartbroken and outraged that she wasn't. He truly wanted to believe that he had been part of the creation of a pure and wonderful demoness. His father gave him good news as well - Keera was more than ready to fight with him, even at her young and tender age.
She was ready.
Before leaving to battle, Kymar confronted his wife, told her that he knew of her sinful act, and demanded to know who it was that she had committed it with. Upon being told it was with his advisor, he cast this man out of the kingdom - a binding act that made it impossible to return until permission was granted, if it ever was given again.
"Kaori is the rightful heir to the throne, Kymar, Keera has no power and no place here! Take her with you, so that when you both die, I can raise Kaori to be the finest queen this ocean has ever laid eyes on! Void of you and our ridiculous daughter that has no ability to lead this kingdom into any age!"
Then, Kymar took his wife's head.
Preparing for battle was easy, they were all assembled and leaving when Keera asked her sensei why her father had killed her mother. "I can't tell you that right now, unfortunately. I am truly sorry, my lady."
"I deserve to know. If neither of you come out of this war, and I do, I need to know what to tell the people that I am to lead."
"Keera, Kaori is your half sister. Your mother had an affair with my advisor, and wanted to take your birthright from you. You are the future queen, and no one can take that away from you. If I didn't make it through this war, then you mother would have simply cast you aside, and I couldn't bare to watch something like that from the other side. You've worked too hard and done too much for someone like her to strip you of your name."
Going to war was something Keera wasn't totally sure about, but she knew what she had to do in order to come out on the other side alive. Use what she learned and kill her enemies before they could return the favour. And that is exactly what she did.
Arriving in the mountains where they assumed they would meet the other army, battle took place in mere seconds. Her father was drawn away from her, many attacking her and her sensei because she was the fabled war child that was trained even better than most veteran soldiers. Truly, she was, and none could touch her. Swords smashed together, arrows were aimed at her. No one and nothing could touch her. Her sensei had her back, and she had his, which made it a lot easier on both of them. However, Keera was beginning to grow tired, and her sensei could tell. He was about to attempt an escape with her when the war cry of Kymar and the king of the south erupted. Everyone paused momentarily and watched as the two fought, but an enemy soldier compromised the fight, and Kymar was slain. For a second, Keera was shocked and everything stopped as she absorbed what just happened.
"Retreat! Get Keera out of here!" Was that her sensei?
Soldiers rushed them, pulling her sensei away from her, and they seemed to consume her. Light erupted from inside the group.
"FATHER!!!" Keera's voice boomed across the valley, power exploding from her core. Her eyes were lit up like blue electricity, and the ocean behind them seemed to be unsettled. The soldiers that had been around her were thrown away, and the ones that didn't hit the ground so hard we frozen solid... the unlucky rest shattered into tiny frozen fragments. Her gaze turned to the king of the south, and the soldiers that stood to protect him. "I will kill you," her voice rolled like thunder, like the waves crashing to the shore. It was a calm voice, but the power of it set everything in the valley to a winter-like state - all the living things in nature were frozen solid, the soldiers closest to her also felt the effects of this new found power.
A hand grabbed her, and her fit of true rage began. She screamed of death to the south and of the king, promised suffering and despair to his castle, and in one last attempt to kill her, the king sent the rest of his army after them. Keera and her sensei reached the shore before the soldiers would be close enough to get them, and Keera broke free of her sensei's grasp, and brought up the ocean behind them, sent it crashing over the enemy and the ones that weren't taken miles from the water's edge, she froze and then struck with lightning that came from the stirring black clouds above them. "I WILL KILL ALL OF YOU!!!" she screamed one last time before her sensei regained his grip and pulled her under.
((Skipping all the kingdom stuff just because it's not totally important right now))
Years later, long after the war and when Keera appeared to be about fifteen, she decided to come back to the land where the war had taken place. It had long since thawed out, and grew even more luscious than it had been even before the war. her frozen death had done a large deal more good than bad, in that sense. She was no longer a child, and didn't have a single thought like one any longer. She'd grown cold, had locked herself away from the world she knew and had even become sick due to the seclusion - no food, no social interaction, only reading and training, training and reading. However her health was mostly back, and she sat in the valley where her father died, indeed no one had come for his body, so either it had been burned with the rest of the soldiers or left to decay and become part of the earth right where she now stood. Vivid memories of his plagued her mind, and made her powers rise before she gained control of them and all but hid them again under a mask of weaker power.
She shed no tears, had never shed a single one, for her tears she knew would bring forth death one more time, and she was not quite ready to declare war right this moment. She was not yet at the southern border, this war had happened in the western land kingdom, an area it never should have taken place. Moving on toward the south in the direction that the enemy had come from, Keera sensed that there were demons at the border. She could start with them.
She tore through the defenses, and ripped apart the land and it's people on her way to the castle. After about a day of destruction, she still hadn't found the castle, but the king indeed came to her, along with his wife. Not to plead for their lives, mind you, but to stop her and destroy her before she could make it to the castle. However, their attempts were futile, she'd grown
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"Keera, darling, I think it is time to start training you in other forms of combat," Her father, Kymar, said quietly in her room one night. "We can't have a great leader that can't defend herself, now can we? We'll start in the morning. You get some rest."
"Father," Keera spoke quietly, stopping Kymar by the door. "Is there something wrong with me?"
He kept his back to her, reaching for the door and paused again. "No, my lovely princess. There is not a single thing wrong with you."
~~~~
A couple years passed, still no sign of any powers, and Keera's mother became pregnant with another child. Keera's swordsmanship was showing promise, and it didn't affect how she acted toward anyone else, she was still the fun, loving, thoughtful child that she was meant to be at that time. Once her mother had this child, Kaori, they knew instantly that this little girl had some sort of power, but there was something different about her that even the sensei couldn't figure out. She undoubtedly had water powers, but there was more to it than that. She brought joy to all who held her, brought love in to the hearts of the wicked who gazed upon her, and seemed to accelerate the healing process of minor abrasions of children and adults alike, from bruises and cuts to scrapes and sprained ankles.
Keera, with her childlike mind, put it so very simple: Kaori was pure, untouched by evil and pain, so she could heal pain.
Their mother, from that point on seemed to look at Kaori as the future queen of the kingdom - at least she had power, whereas Keera did not and could therefore not protect anyone if they were to be attacked. She never voiced this to Keera, but she knew by how Kaori was treated, and so her father paid as much attention, praise, and time with Keera as possible, to try and even out the issue. This meant more training, more battle tactics, less rest. Still she persevered through this motherly neglect, and kept her child side for a little longer.
As they grew together, Keera and Kaori turned out to be totally separate people. Kaori wanted to be with Keera all the time, but she was lousy with her power and even worse with a sword, so much time was spent simply watching Keera train, and wondering whether or not Keera was going to be a better fighter than sister. In truth, Kaori was a little jealous - she wanted her father's attention, and less of everyone else's. They all treated her so lovingly, they were so devoted to her every need, and when she saw Keera around them, they seemed to leave her alone, only responding to her when she spoke to them.
Soon however came the time that Kymar had dreaded, a fight, a battle soon to happen, and he wondered if Keera was ready. Upon hearing this news of war, Keera and Kaori's grandfather came to visit, and in doing so, found something terribly wrong with his family. He saw everything he expected to see in Keera, and nothing he had hoped for in Kaori. Not a trace of Kymar resided in Kaori, and Kymar was too caring to see this. He loved Kaori like his own, which he assumed she was, but taken aside by his father, he was heartbroken and outraged that she wasn't. He truly wanted to believe that he had been part of the creation of a pure and wonderful demoness. His father gave him good news as well - Keera was more than ready to fight with him, even at her young and tender age.
She was ready.
Before leaving to battle, Kymar confronted his wife, told her that he knew of her sinful act, and demanded to know who it was that she had committed it with. Upon being told it was with his advisor, he cast this man out of the kingdom - a binding act that made it impossible to return until permission was granted, if it ever was given again.
"Kaori is the rightful heir to the throne, Kymar, Keera has no power and no place here! Take her with you, so that when you both die, I can raise Kaori to be the finest queen this ocean has ever laid eyes on! Void of you and our ridiculous daughter that has no ability to lead this kingdom into any age!"
Then, Kymar took his wife's head.
Preparing for battle was easy, they were all assembled and leaving when Keera asked her sensei why her father had killed her mother. "I can't tell you that right now, unfortunately. I am truly sorry, my lady."
"I deserve to know. If neither of you come out of this war, and I do, I need to know what to tell the people that I am to lead."
"Keera, Kaori is your half sister. Your mother had an affair with my advisor, and wanted to take your birthright from you. You are the future queen, and no one can take that away from you. If I didn't make it through this war, then you mother would have simply cast you aside, and I couldn't bare to watch something like that from the other side. You've worked too hard and done too much for someone like her to strip you of your name."
Going to war was something Keera wasn't totally sure about, but she knew what she had to do in order to come out on the other side alive. Use what she learned and kill her enemies before they could return the favour. And that is exactly what she did.
Arriving in the mountains where they assumed they would meet the other army, battle took place in mere seconds. Her father was drawn away from her, many attacking her and her sensei because she was the fabled war child that was trained even better than most veteran soldiers. Truly, she was, and none could touch her. Swords smashed together, arrows were aimed at her. No one and nothing could touch her. Her sensei had her back, and she had his, which made it a lot easier on both of them. However, Keera was beginning to grow tired, and her sensei could tell. He was about to attempt an escape with her when the war cry of Kymar and the king of the south erupted. Everyone paused momentarily and watched as the two fought, but an enemy soldier compromised the fight, and Kymar was slain. For a second, Keera was shocked and everything stopped as she absorbed what just happened.
"Retreat! Get Keera out of here!" Was that her sensei?
Soldiers rushed them, pulling her sensei away from her, and they seemed to consume her. Light erupted from inside the group.
"FATHER!!!" Keera's voice boomed across the valley, power exploding from her core. Her eyes were lit up like blue electricity, and the ocean behind them seemed to be unsettled. The soldiers that had been around her were thrown away, and the ones that didn't hit the ground so hard we frozen solid... the unlucky rest shattered into tiny frozen fragments. Her gaze turned to the king of the south, and the soldiers that stood to protect him. "I will kill you," her voice rolled like thunder, like the waves crashing to the shore. It was a calm voice, but the power of it set everything in the valley to a winter-like state - all the living things in nature were frozen solid, the soldiers closest to her also felt the effects of this new found power.
A hand grabbed her, and her fit of true rage began. She screamed of death to the south and of the king, promised suffering and despair to his castle, and in one last attempt to kill her, the king sent the rest of his army after them. Keera and her sensei reached the shore before the soldiers would be close enough to get them, and Keera broke free of her sensei's grasp, and brought up the ocean behind them, sent it crashing over the enemy and the ones that weren't taken miles from the water's edge, she froze and then struck with lightning that came from the stirring black clouds above them. "I WILL KILL ALL OF YOU!!!" she screamed one last time before her sensei regained his grip and pulled her under.
((Skipping all the kingdom stuff just because it's not totally important right now))
Years later, long after the war and when Keera appeared to be about fifteen, she decided to come back to the land where the war had taken place. It had long since thawed out, and grew even more luscious than it had been even before the war. her frozen death had done a large deal more good than bad, in that sense. She was no longer a child, and didn't have a single thought like one any longer. She'd grown cold, had locked herself away from the world she knew and had even become sick due to the seclusion - no food, no social interaction, only reading and training, training and reading. However her health was mostly back, and she sat in the valley where her father died, indeed no one had come for his body, so either it had been burned with the rest of the soldiers or left to decay and become part of the earth right where she now stood. Vivid memories of his plagued her mind, and made her powers rise before she gained control of them and all but hid them again under a mask of weaker power.
She shed no tears, had never shed a single one, for her tears she knew would bring forth death one more time, and she was not quite ready to declare war right this moment. She was not yet at the southern border, this war had happened in the western land kingdom, an area it never should have taken place. Moving on toward the south in the direction that the enemy had come from, Keera sensed that there were demons at the border. She could start with them.
She tore through the defenses, and ripped apart the land and it's people on her way to the castle. After about a day of destruction, she still hadn't found the castle, but the king indeed came to her, along with his wife. Not to plead for their lives, mind you, but to stop her and destroy her before she could make it to the castle. However, their attempts were futile, she'd grown
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