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My tummy, it hurts and can hear it growling out of control, it has been a while almost a week since the fast started, I miss the burning flavor of meat and ice fruits, the fluffy mashed potatoes, and the sugary cookies my mom baked at least once a week, I just miss eating but soon enough it will end, what day even is today? This wait is driving me crazy, it should be…wait, its Friday! It is today, the fast ends today, just have to do the stupid event and I can finally go on with the rest of my life.
Walking honestly hurts, I can feel my empty stomach making me go crazy, well I guess I will just grab some water from the deposit and wait for the time. But man, it finally has come, the big day is here, my adult life starts here.
“Hey, darling!” Yells mom from the kitchen, I am able to muster a “Hey, mom” but you can barely hear it over the growls of my belly, it really wants some food, I do not think I have ever missed food this much before “Karin, come say hi properly to your mother, if you are going to be an adult I am hoping that you greet me like a mature dragon” said mom in a very stern voice “All right, all right. Sorry about my lack of energy, having such an empty stomach should make me faster I guess” I laugh while looking at the floor. Well, I am glad she is happy though I am not so certain about this event myself, not really feeling there are any answers for me out there.
After greeting mom to her standards, I walked downstairs to the deposit, it is as dark and murky as always, I am still not certain why mom bought this old house since there were newer and cheaper ones in the market, guess it has a certain style that it is not replicated in our modern era. Now, where is the water, let me see, canned food, ping pong table, sword, a dead rat, wait a minute…we had a ping pong table? Anyways where is the water, walking honestly feels weird, my steps feel lighter and heavier at the same time, my wings can barely spread out, by Daerk, why this whole experience have to be so miserable.
Ok, here it is, I was able to hold tree logs with ease and I can barely raise this jug, but being weak brings you closer to the Beginning and the Beginning has what I need to know, what is that? I hope he can answer that question first at least.
“Karin, can you come up here? You got a visit” yelled mom again from upstairs “Yes mom, I will be there as fast as possible” ok I gotta just fill my guys with water and I am good to go, just chug it like there is a tomorrow without water and you do not care anymore.
Ok quick update, chugging 10 liters of water in 10 seconds is a good way to end up with nausea and a bloated belly, but doing my best I walk upstairs and greet the visitor, who turned out to be Nakto, my neighbor, we have been friends for a few years now and he just finished his fasting yesterday, as always he comes here to taunt my suffering.
“Hey short wings, how is the fast going?” he says to me while eating some fire fruit my mom cut for him, my innards rumble and I drool a bit but luckily he didn’t notice, “well I am full of water and empty of energy, I could be worse, I could be small like you” I know he hates being mocked so I am just going to go for the quick one-two punch “so let me guess, the Beginning showed you are a guy because your buttface was not fit for a maiden?” I can see his face, he is trying his best to not pick a fight in my kitchen, he may be weak to taunts but he would not attack a weakened enemy.
“Yes, I am a guy now, in the Beginning I saw what I needed, the future needs me as a warrior and I was shown the fights I would be involved in and how I would raise the flag of my land above the tallest mountains” he sounds proud, I cannot let him have that “I heard the Beginning can make mistakes, maybe you end up as a clerk in a market and hand wash your underwear”, I am happy he is happy, but I have to keep his head as small as possible, otherwise he would never be able to fly again, the poor soul.
“I would say something but I know you are at the end of your rope, just here hoping that whatever the visions tell you, it makes you happy, I know I am” he sits beside me, looking at me with a trusting smile “Are you ready?”
I was not.
I cannot say I have not thought about having my destiny cryptically appearing in front of me, but to say I was ready for whatever was going to happen would be a big fat lie from me. Since it was announced the beginning of my fast the only emotion I have felt is uncertainness, I feel very comfortable being me, never thought I would choose something different, did not really give much thought, will I abandon my log work? Will I abandon my grace flying classes? No, that would be absurd but still, those thoughts rumble in my mind.
Trying to keep myself conscious through the constant growls of my stomach made the day fly by and suddenly it was evening, mom, Nakto and I walked to the designated temple for such matters, it is as old and ugly as I remembered it, but it honestly soothes my soul a bit.
The moment we walked inside the smell of incense immediately clogged my nose, when I was a kid I used to walk by the temple while going to school; the smell never changed after all this time, so it just feels like the place has been waiting for me, with the same perfume it used during our first meeting.
I walked into our designated room for the small ceremony, I was given some comfortable white robes that help with sleeping and the aromatic incense was making me drowsy, I feel uneasy but the time had come. Mom and Nakto were giving me some encouragement words before the time comes by “Mom, shouldn’t we wait for Dad? He should be here soon” he was very excited about seeing the whole thing “Don’t worry, the most important part is the answers you get, so go to sleep, the clock marks its time” and so I did, I closed my eyes and hoped for the best.
The voices of the two people in my room were starting to muffle and I could feel my consciousness slipping away, but it did not feel like I was starting to dream, it felt like I was slowly drowning in freezing water and no matter how much I tried to swim, the water just took over my body, it hurts, I want out, please stop.
And suddenly there was nothing else.
Silence.
I can hear again, just a slow rhythmic sound, it’s my heartbeat, at least I am not dead yet.
I know my body is completely asleep but even then I can feel getting up from the floor and walking around an empty room, there is nothing there, gravity seems to work but there is no distinction between up and down, it just exists, now…what do I do?
My heartbeat is getting louder and louder, it is almost unbearable, it feels like it is coming from everywhere at the same time, the space around me is starting to shake like glass panels even though there is nothing there, it is not stopping.
Then the box of nothingness around me cracked.
It started slowly, with the hard thumps of my heart making the walls reverberate and caving in, I could see small lines in the borders of whatever was around me, but that is the most mysterious part, the edges of wherever I was seemed so close to me, like three steps away but the moment I inched towards it, it felt like they never came closer, it was never actually next to me, my eyes just feel they are, hallucinations are cool.
Then the small cracks grew fast and I was suddenly surrounded by then and then the nothingness broke off, the chunks of glass fell from the walls and turned into raindrops, it didn’t make a huge crashing noise but instead, it just dripped to the floor.
Wait, where am I know? Are these stars? Am I in space!? No, that cannot be right but at the same time I cannot feel I am dreaming anymore, so this is the Beginning, where it all started and where it will all return to, it feels very peaceful to be honest, to understand that it all makes sense, I can feel like I am melting.
Wait, no I am actually melting, colorful droplets drip from my body and fuse with the freezing glass water from a moment ago, they seem to seek each other out and the puddles they create appear mirrors, mirrors into past and future, I see them, those before me and what I assume are those after me, they smile at me and it feels reassuring, the puddles multiply in size and the nothingness is flooding again, I start drowning but I do not fear, the water is now warm and with it I dissolve.
Nothing again, quiet, I can feel my body once again and my stomach is rumbling, I open my eyes and see everyone around me.
There it is my father, mother, and Nakto. Dad brought a fresh fruit arrangement; they look at me closely as I look at them, and it is mom the one who asked: “So…how did it go?”
“Well…”
[To be continued]
Well...I finally did it, my first let me call it "tale", for a while I wanted to branch out and attempt to create stories with illustrations so it can be a nice combination of text and art, and this is my first serious attempt, so what do you guys think? If this takes off I will keep creating them and continue branching out, I got plenty of ideas to share and stories to tell.
If I made mistakes with anything...well I will try to pay attention in the future!
So first step, completed! ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ !
Walking honestly hurts, I can feel my empty stomach making me go crazy, well I guess I will just grab some water from the deposit and wait for the time. But man, it finally has come, the big day is here, my adult life starts here.
“Hey, darling!” Yells mom from the kitchen, I am able to muster a “Hey, mom” but you can barely hear it over the growls of my belly, it really wants some food, I do not think I have ever missed food this much before “Karin, come say hi properly to your mother, if you are going to be an adult I am hoping that you greet me like a mature dragon” said mom in a very stern voice “All right, all right. Sorry about my lack of energy, having such an empty stomach should make me faster I guess” I laugh while looking at the floor. Well, I am glad she is happy though I am not so certain about this event myself, not really feeling there are any answers for me out there.
After greeting mom to her standards, I walked downstairs to the deposit, it is as dark and murky as always, I am still not certain why mom bought this old house since there were newer and cheaper ones in the market, guess it has a certain style that it is not replicated in our modern era. Now, where is the water, let me see, canned food, ping pong table, sword, a dead rat, wait a minute…we had a ping pong table? Anyways where is the water, walking honestly feels weird, my steps feel lighter and heavier at the same time, my wings can barely spread out, by Daerk, why this whole experience have to be so miserable.
Ok, here it is, I was able to hold tree logs with ease and I can barely raise this jug, but being weak brings you closer to the Beginning and the Beginning has what I need to know, what is that? I hope he can answer that question first at least.
“Karin, can you come up here? You got a visit” yelled mom again from upstairs “Yes mom, I will be there as fast as possible” ok I gotta just fill my guys with water and I am good to go, just chug it like there is a tomorrow without water and you do not care anymore.
Ok quick update, chugging 10 liters of water in 10 seconds is a good way to end up with nausea and a bloated belly, but doing my best I walk upstairs and greet the visitor, who turned out to be Nakto, my neighbor, we have been friends for a few years now and he just finished his fasting yesterday, as always he comes here to taunt my suffering.
“Hey short wings, how is the fast going?” he says to me while eating some fire fruit my mom cut for him, my innards rumble and I drool a bit but luckily he didn’t notice, “well I am full of water and empty of energy, I could be worse, I could be small like you” I know he hates being mocked so I am just going to go for the quick one-two punch “so let me guess, the Beginning showed you are a guy because your buttface was not fit for a maiden?” I can see his face, he is trying his best to not pick a fight in my kitchen, he may be weak to taunts but he would not attack a weakened enemy.
“Yes, I am a guy now, in the Beginning I saw what I needed, the future needs me as a warrior and I was shown the fights I would be involved in and how I would raise the flag of my land above the tallest mountains” he sounds proud, I cannot let him have that “I heard the Beginning can make mistakes, maybe you end up as a clerk in a market and hand wash your underwear”, I am happy he is happy, but I have to keep his head as small as possible, otherwise he would never be able to fly again, the poor soul.
“I would say something but I know you are at the end of your rope, just here hoping that whatever the visions tell you, it makes you happy, I know I am” he sits beside me, looking at me with a trusting smile “Are you ready?”
I was not.
I cannot say I have not thought about having my destiny cryptically appearing in front of me, but to say I was ready for whatever was going to happen would be a big fat lie from me. Since it was announced the beginning of my fast the only emotion I have felt is uncertainness, I feel very comfortable being me, never thought I would choose something different, did not really give much thought, will I abandon my log work? Will I abandon my grace flying classes? No, that would be absurd but still, those thoughts rumble in my mind.
Trying to keep myself conscious through the constant growls of my stomach made the day fly by and suddenly it was evening, mom, Nakto and I walked to the designated temple for such matters, it is as old and ugly as I remembered it, but it honestly soothes my soul a bit.
The moment we walked inside the smell of incense immediately clogged my nose, when I was a kid I used to walk by the temple while going to school; the smell never changed after all this time, so it just feels like the place has been waiting for me, with the same perfume it used during our first meeting.
I walked into our designated room for the small ceremony, I was given some comfortable white robes that help with sleeping and the aromatic incense was making me drowsy, I feel uneasy but the time had come. Mom and Nakto were giving me some encouragement words before the time comes by “Mom, shouldn’t we wait for Dad? He should be here soon” he was very excited about seeing the whole thing “Don’t worry, the most important part is the answers you get, so go to sleep, the clock marks its time” and so I did, I closed my eyes and hoped for the best.
The voices of the two people in my room were starting to muffle and I could feel my consciousness slipping away, but it did not feel like I was starting to dream, it felt like I was slowly drowning in freezing water and no matter how much I tried to swim, the water just took over my body, it hurts, I want out, please stop.
And suddenly there was nothing else.
Silence.
I can hear again, just a slow rhythmic sound, it’s my heartbeat, at least I am not dead yet.
I know my body is completely asleep but even then I can feel getting up from the floor and walking around an empty room, there is nothing there, gravity seems to work but there is no distinction between up and down, it just exists, now…what do I do?
My heartbeat is getting louder and louder, it is almost unbearable, it feels like it is coming from everywhere at the same time, the space around me is starting to shake like glass panels even though there is nothing there, it is not stopping.
Then the box of nothingness around me cracked.
It started slowly, with the hard thumps of my heart making the walls reverberate and caving in, I could see small lines in the borders of whatever was around me, but that is the most mysterious part, the edges of wherever I was seemed so close to me, like three steps away but the moment I inched towards it, it felt like they never came closer, it was never actually next to me, my eyes just feel they are, hallucinations are cool.
Then the small cracks grew fast and I was suddenly surrounded by then and then the nothingness broke off, the chunks of glass fell from the walls and turned into raindrops, it didn’t make a huge crashing noise but instead, it just dripped to the floor.
Wait, where am I know? Are these stars? Am I in space!? No, that cannot be right but at the same time I cannot feel I am dreaming anymore, so this is the Beginning, where it all started and where it will all return to, it feels very peaceful to be honest, to understand that it all makes sense, I can feel like I am melting.
Wait, no I am actually melting, colorful droplets drip from my body and fuse with the freezing glass water from a moment ago, they seem to seek each other out and the puddles they create appear mirrors, mirrors into past and future, I see them, those before me and what I assume are those after me, they smile at me and it feels reassuring, the puddles multiply in size and the nothingness is flooding again, I start drowning but I do not fear, the water is now warm and with it I dissolve.
Nothing again, quiet, I can feel my body once again and my stomach is rumbling, I open my eyes and see everyone around me.
There it is my father, mother, and Nakto. Dad brought a fresh fruit arrangement; they look at me closely as I look at them, and it is mom the one who asked: “So…how did it go?”
“Well…”
[To be continued]
Well...I finally did it, my first let me call it "tale", for a while I wanted to branch out and attempt to create stories with illustrations so it can be a nice combination of text and art, and this is my first serious attempt, so what do you guys think? If this takes off I will keep creating them and continue branching out, I got plenty of ideas to share and stories to tell.
If I made mistakes with anything...well I will try to pay attention in the future!
So first step, completed! ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ !
Category Story / All
Species Western Dragon
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