chapter 1

..."Run Gabriela run," Joanna shouts as they enter a house down to the basement....

..."Mommy please don't leave me...stay here with me." Gabriela sobs as she clenches to her mother's arm....

..."My dear. I want you to listen carefully, you have to stay here and wait for mommy to come back. Don't move away from this spot no matter what you hear okay?"...

..."Will you really come back mommy? I'm really scared." Gabriela said out between sobs....

..."Mommy promises, stop crying and stay quiet."...

..."Okay" Gabriela said releasing her mother's arm....

...My name is Gabriela, daughter of the witch clan named Joanna_my mother. I grew up in this little village named mill village. This place was known for witches and only our kind settled in this area....

... For the past few years we have been in battles with the neighboring lands accusing us for the bad disasters happening such as drought, sicknesses, diseases and many other things but we as a clan have struggled so hard to prove them wrong. Days go by and rumors of war upon our village start to flow in and this worries my mother but what worries her more is who exactly influences the lands to bad mouth us. Unluckily wars falls upon us unprepared even before my mother can get to find out who wants us wiped out....

...When I let go of my mother's arm, I didn't know it would be the last time I would feel her body. She goes up stairs as I watch and finally closes the basement door. I hear her footsteps until they fade away.i hid behind the huge boxes in the basement and held my mouth shut not to make a sound....

...light passes through a small whole next to where I was hiding. The whole was just big enough for my one eye to see through it. I looked out and sobbed terribly as I saw my people young and old being slaughtered. I couldn't believe what was happening which made me worry even more for my mother....

...As I'm still looking, the basement door opens. I look through the small gap between the boxes and a soldier walks in. He comes down the stairs and I move a bit in fear shaking the boxes making a sound that alerts him. He walks towards the boxes and I tremble in fear with every step he makes until another soldier walks in....

..."what are you doing here?" the soldier asks....

..." captain, I was just looking around to see if there is nothing left." replied the soldier....

..." Go on upstairs and finish up these wicked creatures. By dark, we should burn the houses down, so up you go and stop wasting time here."...

..."Yes captain." the soldier replied and up they both went....

...I released my breath after I heard the basement door close. I came out of the basement by dusk. some houses were already on fire and bodies were allover the ground and the air was filled with ash and smoke from the burnt houses. Soldiers where still moving around collecting bodies to be burnt. And as I stood there by the door, I saw elder Melca. That was his name. He was the eldest in the village and children loved him so much. All the stories I knew since childhood, I had learned from him. He was one of the favorite people I treasured in the village. I saw his body lying down there on the bloody cold ground, his body out of breath and no sign of life. He was dead.i sobbed as I ran....

...Soon It was dark, but I had not seen my mother. She had promised to come back, but she hadn't returned and this made me worry. I kept on thinking if she had also been killed just like the others but some part of me had hope to keep me looking for her. I moved carefully around the village looking for my mother until I heard laughter's of the soldiers who had gathered around a fire celebrating and making jokes....

My mother was tied in a cage of metal, so weak and fragile is how she looked. I felt the urge to go out and kill every bastard who had lay a hand on her, but I couldn't. My powers wouldn't support me to that extent. "What I'm I supposed to do?" is the question I kept on asking myself, but I had no answer to.

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