“What happened here!?” Samuel stared at the ruins of Kikon in complete disbelief. What could be so powerful that it could wipe out an entire town?
“Rebecca lost her temper.”
They looked in the direction of the voice. A teenage girl with auburn hair and amber eyes wearing a white sleeveless dress and short boots was sitting in the middle of the ruins of what appeared to have been the town’s tavern, looking at them calmly.
“Hello, Danielle,” the girl said, smiling. “Nice to see you again.”
“Kiki?” Danielle asked. “What are you doing here? Where is Rebecca?”
Kiki shrugged. “She went on a guilt trip and vanished into thin air,” she said. “I have no idea where she is.” She looked at them, the smile vanishing and getting replaced by a thoughtful look. “We were attacked last night in this tavern, twice. The second time…Rebecca just lost her cool and loosed a huge shockwave of power and destroyed the town. I’m amazed that nobody was killed.”
Samuel shook his head. “Why? Why did she destroy an entire town?!”
“She didn’t mean to,” Kiki said, glaring at him. “She had no idea that she had so much power within her. Up until now she’s been able to control it, but last night she just lost that control, and…” she trailed off, shrugged, and swept a milky-white arm around them to indicate the destruction. She smiled suddenly and skipped – yes, skipped – up to them. “I’m coming with you!” she smiled. “And, no Danielle, I won’t listen to you.”
Danielle glared at her for a moment. “Fine,” she said. “Just don’t blow up any valleys this time!”
Mary and Samuel looked at Danielle and this Kiki girl. Finally, Mary asked the question that was on her and Samuel’s minds.
“You know her?”
Danielle looked at her and sighed. “She saved my life once,” she said. “Don’t be fooled by her appearance or mannerism! She’s more than she seems, although I have yet to determine just what she is myself.”
Kiki giggled. “I don’t think that you’ll figure out what I am,” she said, smiling again. With that, she started to walk away, a spring in her step. Mary and Samuel looked at each other and then looked at Danielle.
“What is with that girl?” Samuel asked. Danielle shrugged.
“She has been that way ever since I met her,” said the Shamaness. “She does not get depressed easily.”
“So I see,” Mary said. “Well, we might as well go…we don’t want Sunshine over there to get too far ahead of us.”
“Sunshine?” Samuel echoed, looking at his sister curiously. Mary grinned.
“What? Doesn’t she remind you of Sunshine? Bright, happy…”
“Oh, yeah.”
“Come on!” Kiki turned and looked at them, smiling as always. “We have to find Rebecca. She’ll get lonely!”
They looked at her, Rebecca, lonely? Something about that didn’t seem right. They looked at each other again before simply running after Kiki and keeping in step with her after they caught up with her.
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Rebecca sat on a rock, head in hands and tears in her eyes. She had just lost control of her powers. That had never happened to her before – then again, she had never gotten so angry before either. No, those men wanted to kill her, she had acted in self-defence.
Hadn’t she?
An entire town wiped out – by her powers! How many people had died? How many of her subjects died at the hands of their own queen? Sighing, Rebecca stood up and walked to the edge of the forest that she had landed in. She carried on walking, not knowing where she was going and not caring either.