Aurora: Born from Bloodshed

                                              Born from Bloodshed

(Take note that this story takes place in Aurora's past...through the POV of Thanh)

          I was sitting my shack in the hidden elvin village of Telethika writing in my note book about the recent creatures I have met in my travels…when some one knocked on the door…I placed my books away and went to see who it is…I was shocked to see the Elder of the village…
         “Elder!?!...uh…what brings you to my home!?!...” I asked and quickly bowed down…
         “I came to discus a very important matter with you…” he said back to me…”May I enter?” he added…
         “Su…sure…come in come in…” I said as I stood aside…he came in and I closed the door…
         “So…what do you wish to discus Elder?” I asked as I watched him slowly sit down…
         “You do know of our attempts to ally with the people of Negan City…right?” he said to me…
         “Yes I’m aware of this matter?...does this have to do with anything…” I said back…
         “Yes yes…the matter I came to speak to you with…well…the humans spotted a new group of Nagas near the Ascarlin mines about…a month ago…and counted to be  about…24 nagas…the humans fear that these new Nagas would pose a threat to them so they asked us to send in someone to help them fight the nagas off…” He explained…
         “So I’m guessing you are planning on sending me to help them…” I mumbled…he nodded and looked away…
         “You are the greatest fighter and mage in this village…surly only you alone is enough needed to get rid of these Nagas…you got to remember…you fought off those 5 Dridders that attacked our village…” He said back to me…I sighed and looked away…
         “How much is this going to pay?”  I mumbled…
         “500 Faldong gems…” he said back to me…I dropped my notebook hearing this pay…1000 human dollars is like…worth 700,000 meseta…That’s more than I make in a year…
         “I’ll take it…I just need details on this mission…” I said back…he nodded and started to explain to me about where and when I had to go and be…he said that the humans wanted all of them dead…I couldn’t help but smile…this is going to be a rather easy way for me to earn 1000 human dollars…I can take down a naga easily…
         “Be careful out there Thanh…we can’t afford to loose our most prized soldier…I turned and smiled at him…
        “You know me…this is going to be a synch…” I replied and headed out the door…

         I arrived at Negan city only to find out that the human military has already set out to get rid of the Nagas…hmpt…so much for waiting on their secret weapon…but what ever…it shouldn’t be too hard to find the humans along with these Nagas…I mean…it’s almost impossible to miss a battle…I took out my map of Felarya and looked for the location of the Ascarlin Mines…about…west from here…if I head out now…I may get there in the middle of the battle…I put my map away and headed out again…it was mid day now…it is a pretty long walk from Telethika to Nagan city…but it’s not that far from here to the Acarlin mountains…maybe like a hour walk…

         Took me longer than I expected…I ran into a bit of trouble along my way over here…a giant wolf like creature that us elves call…a Kensha Beast ambushed me…well…of course I killed it but it was a persistent little pup…well…big pup…it just kept on getting back up after I knock it down…I was willing to spare it but it just had to keep fighting me…hmpt…the ways some of these creatures act just makes me feel so smart…I finally arrived to the location of the nagas…only to see the reminisce of a epic battle…bodies of both humans and Nagas all over the area…the once green grass now stained with red with blood…what really got to me was…that…there seemed to be no survivors…from both sides...hundreds of human bodies rotting in the soil along with only 24 Nagas…I noticed how relatively small these nagas were…not as big as the others I seen in Felarya…for these size of Nagas…I’m surprised they killed this many humans before being killed off…I mean look at this…50 dead humans near only one body of a female naga…that must mean one of these Naga’s alone could take out an small army…ugh…I’m glad that I missed the battle…I continued to walk through the bloody field…seeing all the bodies just…laying there…hundreds of humans dead…Naga’s dead…both male and female…even children Nagas…this was a massacre of both sides…but this was only the beginning of what shocked me…near the end of the battle field…I found the body of a young naga…maybe the equivalent to a 12 year old human child…she was about half my height and looked as if she was shot over a hundred times…before she died…this girl’s arms were covered in blood…but…but not hers…around this girl was more than 100 dead humans…this young Naga killed all these people before dying herself…ugh…I cant even start to imagine all that must have happened here…this is just horrible…I turned away to go see if there is any survivors…even if it is a surviving naga…but as I began to walk away…I heard a strange sound from behind me…something I would least expect in the after mass of a great battle…a...a baby crying?...I turned around…trying to locate the sound…but the only thing I could see was the body of that young naga…the cries seem to be coming from her…I ran up to her and checked her pulse…but…she was dead…I…I must be hearing things…I turned again but I heard the same cries again…this time I was sure it was real…I looked back at the girl…she seemed to be covering something…I kneeled down to her and pushed her aside…what I found was shocking…a baby…this girl was holding a baby Naga…no more than a month old…this girl must have died trying to protect this baby naga…this naga wasn’t any bigger than a normal baby…only longer if you include its tail…she was covered in blood from this girl who tried to protect her…so much that it was even hard to see her through the bloody mess…I leaned down and picked her up…she was still crying...un aware of all the deaths that happened around her not too long ago…I wiped the blood from her face and body to get a good look at it…she was a girl naga with only few hairs on her head showing how young she is…and this being the last of her kind…I could do a brief study on this apparently new race of naga…I could tell this is a new breed…no other nagas I seen aren’t this small…also…there was these small…undeveloped scales on her arms…very different from other nagas…I wrote down these details in my notebook to document later…when I finished studying this little naga…I placed her on the floor as she continued to cry…
         “Well now little one…you being the last one here…and it being my mission to get rid of these nagas…it looks like I have no choice but to get rid of you too…” I told her…I pulled out my sword and pointed it at the baby’s neck…for some reason…the baby naga stopped crying…which was strange to me…she then looked up at me…I the realized this little baby…had beautiful eyes…one green…and the other purple…it suddenly became really difficult for me to hold the sword right…seeing the naga’s face made me hesitant…I have to stick with my mission…no nagas can be left alive…that is my orders…I looked away from the baby…still pointing my sword at it…I have to stick to my orders…I just have to…but in the corner of my eye…I saw the little naga…starring at me...as if I was her mother or something…she rose up her arms and made little sounds…like…she wanted me to pick her up again…I dropped my sword…I cant do this…this is merely a baby…I can kill such a innocent soul…it’s immoral…I reached down to her and lifted her up…she started giggling as I looked at her…
         “You’re lucky you have that cute little face of yours…or I would have cut you in two…” I said to her…she yawned and grabbed my shoulder with her small hand…she placed her head on my chest and fell asleep…
         “*sigh*…what am I going to do with you…you won’t be able to survive out here all by yourself…” I mumbled…I looked away to all of the bodies of once this little baby girl’s family…
         “What am I going to do with a baby naga…the humans would just kill her…and I bet the other elves would do so also…maybe I could ask another naga to take care of her…hmpt…yeah right…and get myself eaten…” I mumbled to myself…I placed my hand over her back and held her as if she was a little elf baby…
         “I never had children of my own…maybe I could…no…that wouldn’t work…how am I going to hide a naga from the other elves…” I mumbled as I rocked her back and forth…I looked back at the bodies and took a deep sigh…I guess I’ll just…keep her with me till I could figure what to do with her…