The Rise Of Calamity

Before I would say anything else, I spoke a bit of gibberish while acting like I was creating hand signs instead of doing random gestures I remember from that anime called Loruto.

*ZING*

After a few moments of waiting, a white hue enveloped by a golden one shot towards Xela and went through her skin before directing itself towards all the broken parts of her as well as the injured parts, both exterior wounds, and interior ones.

"Alright," I stood up tall as if I was proud of myself for helping her while everyone still did not stop staring at me with stares that could have probably burned through the wood by now.

Clara on the other hand simply looked up at me as if I was some kind of god because she knew damn well that it did not take a few hand signs and chants to fix someone from the brink of breaking.

'Chantless incantation? For healing? Shouldn't that be impossible? Even her hand signs didn't make sense... what the fuck?'

"What do you have to say to yourself?" Throid crossed his arms while I simply looked at him with an aloof expression, unable to recognize what was happening until Hela finally replayed everything he said in my mind at 20x speed.

"Oh, that? I don't know what you want me to say. You mention responsibilities but I don't know how any of that relates to me. I am not even 9 years old yet, and yet you choose to put all this 'you are being irresponsible' crap on me for no reason? I don't understand what the fuck you want me to do? I am 9! I might be powerful and more intelligent than someone of my age, and yes, I might have also killed a few people-"

"A FEW PEOPLE!? YOU'VE KILLED THOUSANDS! YOU KILL DOZENS A DAY! YOU ARE ONE OF THE MOST WANTED PEOPLE IN THE  KINGDOM AS WELL AS ALL THE SURROUNDING KINGDOMS! EVERYONE IN THE EAST WANTS YOUR HEAD!" Clara shouted from the side while the others nodded.

Xela would have probably nodded, but since she blacked out after she finally felt safe, she couldn't.

"That is beside the point! I am 9! 9 goddamnit! All the responsibilities are supposed to be on the adults, not me! I am not the one who chose to fucking sell me off to another family for fucking clout! I am just here tryna do my shit. I am literally the top prodigy in the entire fucking empire and no one can do anything about it! Not mom, not this idiot-" I pointed towards Zarch "Or not any of you dipshits!"

"I am fucking done! Everyone from my family is the cause of my stress! I just wanted a normal fucking family! A family that would love me unconditionally because I am their fucking daughter. Every day I think about how I left my family behind, I think about how I won't be there when my sister grows up, I think about how much this must hurt my father and mother, and while I thought that getting stronger would help, you all proved me wrong! I can't do shit with you guys around!" I walked around the room while constantly ranting and ranting before moving on to degrade every single one of them.

I did not know what had come over me. I didn't know why I was ranting and why I was releasing all this pent-up frustration in a way I knew would be self-destructive. But for some reason, I did not care. I could only watch as the bond with my family grew thinner and thinner, the only thing holding it together being the fact that my grandmother was asleep.

After listening to my rant for over 10 minutes, I had finally gotten tired of speaking to them and had started heading towards the door just to halt and look towards it while someone began to walk through it. It was only then that I heard Throid's voice enter my ears.

"I understand all that, Pandora but-"

Before he could finish, a bucket hit the floor while a boy, no older than Zarch looked towards me.

Actually, he was identical to Zarch in almost every way other than their personalities, yet before I could push him to the side so I wouldn't have to listen to another lecture from someone almost a quarter of my age, he spoke out.

"Pandora?" He asked, tears welling up in his eyes, as he moved forwards and hugged me tightly as if he felt like the moment he let go of me, I would disappear once again without telling anyone.

"Pandora. You might be 9 but we all know that does not matter anymore when it comes to you. You no longer look like a 9-year-old and you never thought or sounded like one due to your eyes evolving your brain enough to think like a grown adult. Now after you have witnessed the world by yourself, you are not less of an adult than all of us here." He slowly walked towards me before continuing

"But even though I don't agree with what your mother had done, I still believe that you are no better than her in this situation."

Even though I had almost calmed and even started feeling a little guilty after feeling the warm and tight hug that Zack had wrapped around me, my anger began to boil again after hearing his words while Zarch's began to subside after hearing the last part of the sentence.

I still decided to keep calm and not say anything that would cause problems before beginning to stroke Zack's head and run my hands through his hair.

'Isn't this supposed to be the other way round? Wasn't Zarch supposed to be the good one?'

[Well, Zarch would be a lot easier to manipulate and I'm guessing that due to Zack's dismissive attitude, your mother couldn't say anything to them that would change his attitude towards you]

"First off, you left the forest while not telling anyone but Juilam, someone everyone for some reason feels extremely scared of, about where you were going. Secondly, you lied to everyone about your affinities, something I can clearly see through the fact that you just used light magic alongside the God energy that you used out there. You can't say that you are the victim while having continuously lied to us for your whole life!"