Chapter 1: Chapter 1: A New Life But A Hard One
I woke up to a woman crying... She's crying along with the many children beside her. Everyone was screaming for help.
She, my mother, was crying.
"My Child! He's alive! Someone help! He's alive! Please...ask for a doctor!"
"Waahhhh." There was a child that was just crying.
"My brother is alive! Help Him!" There was a child that was begging.
"I'll kill you! I'll kill you all!" A child who was angry and kept shouting.
"Please! the doctor! Tell him to come!" A child who was asking for a doctor.
"HELP US GODDAMN IT!...help us" A child that was feeling rage and helplessness.
Some children was also desperately clinging to the metal bars, crying... asking for help but they clearly aren't old enough to say it properly.
"Pweass, seyb protar" (Please, save brother.)
"Sob... sob"
"..." There was also a child not old enough to understand what's happening.
All of their feelings, why can I feel them?
I don't remember my name or the people I knew back on Earth after being reincarnated into this world...but I'm sure I died in my past life. I felt it. I died in a hospital bed.
I was infected by a virus that spread in our country and I was one of the people who were unlucky enough to get the virus just after the Cure was barely complete. The Cure didn't make it to our hometown though so I died. It was that simple, nothing more, nothing less.
I was just one of the unfortunate lives who was affected by this virus.
Maybe I'm so calm because I already prepared myself while I was still alive in that hospital.
"At least let me reincarnate with an ability to survive."
At that time, it was only wishful thinking. When I could no longer feel my limbs and when I kept on sleeping more rather than being awake. I knew I didn't had enough time. It was only wishful thinking yet... it came true.
I can still hear some children crying for help.
To what seemed like the oldest child there was aged 3 or 4 years old. I wonder why they're crying.
There was blood on the hay that covered the floor. Is this a barn? No... a prison? It's more like a cage. A metal cage. We were inside a metal cage.
and the woman who gave birthed to me was screaming for help but the people that seemed to be guards outside weren't listening. How unfortunate am I If I woke up in
a situation like this but still if this is my new family, then I'm also lucky to be loved like this. This is a tight family.
I wonder if I'll be alright. I feel weak. I should sleep more. In this warm and tight embrace of this crying woman who birthed me.
...
When I woke up again, the first thing I saw wasn't my mother but a child was carrying me. He had pointy ears.. no... human ears? it kept changing back and forth.
"Brother, you're... ears."
"What?...No...N-no."
"It's mother right. She's suffering again. Her power is waning."
"Quickly, cover them, just like what momma taught us."
Everyone was quick to act. Some who were showing fangs, covered their mouths and after a pink glow, they were gone again. Some covered their pointy ears with their hands and the same pink glow happened. Some whose black feathered wings were showing used the hay to cover it up. He was one of the young one's who couldn't use that power, at least not yet since almost all of them can use the power except for the younger ones so maybe it's just because they were too young. I was surprised to see a child that had horns and wings but after the wings and horns was visible, he concentrated and they were gone again.
'Magic?! It seems some of them can hide their true forms but some are just too young to do it. It seems everyone's hiding something. They're not humans at all.'
It looks like keeping that disguise up needs intense focus since all of them stayed quiet and closed their eyes.
I wonder how much focused Mother needed to keep that up all the time.
I looked at the one of them who was using powers closely and was surprised when a screen popped out. It wasn't like those modern technological screen you see in mangas that have some system... No... its more like in an old paper format.
(Name: Alice
Age: 15
Affinity: Poison, Chaos Fire, Illusion
Species: Chaos Dragon/Fairy
Job: Slave
Title: Child of Chaos
Status: Weak, Hungry.)
'This is convenient, I suppose. A dragon and a fairy huh...but more importantly...a slave? Is everyone a slave here? Let's check all of them.'
(Name: Alby
Age: 14
Affinity: Wind, Water, Illusion
Species: High Elf/Fairy
Job: Slave
Title: Royal Elf
Status: Weak, Hungry)
(Name: Luca
Age: 14
Affinity: Fire, Blood Poison, Illusion
Species: True Vampire/Fairy
Job: Slave
Title: Direct Descendant
Status: Weak, Hungry)
(Name: Ram
Age: 11
Affinity: Metal, Shadow, Illusion
Species: Shadow Elf/Fairy
Job: Slave
Title: Loved by the Shadows
Status: Weak, Hungry)
(Name: Eph
Age: 9
Affinity: Earth, Lava, Illusion
Species: Lava Giant/Fairy
Job: Slave
Title: The Last Lava Giant
Status: Weak, Hungry)
(Name: Levy
Age: 8
Affinity: Water, Eternal Ice, Illusion
Species: Royal Siren/Fairy
Job: Slave
Title: Eternal Ice Wielder
Status: Weak, Hungry)
(Name: Nyx
Age: 6
Affinity: Darkness, Time, Illusion
Species: ArchDemon/Fairy
Job: Slave
Title: The Dark One
Status: Weak, Hungry)
(Name: Ao
Age: 6
Affinity: Light, Lighting, Illusion
Species: Flugel/Fairy
Job: Slave
Title: Embraced by the Light
Status: Weak, Hungry)
(Name: Rai
Age: 4
Affinity: Lightning, Wind, Illusion
Species: Mystic Wolf/Fairy
Job: Slave
Title: Fenrir's Descendant
Status: Weak, Hungry)
'Wait! Forget about being slaves! What's with those species and titles! Even I, an otherworlder normie who watched anime too in the my past life knows this aren't normal species! not to mention those titles!'
'I thought it was just the first one... but...but...everyone of them has the potential to become overpowered demon lords!'
'Well at least I know they're siblings. It's kinda obvious when they're all half fairies. Fairy huh... Is mother a fairy? She doesn't look like one, maybe she's hiding it? ..and there's so many different species, maybe this is normal? ...hmmm...no way... She must be a sex slave. How about my status?'
Let's focus on me. Me. .Me...Self...
(Name: Denver
Age: 0
Affinity: Plant, Space, Illusion
Species: Human/Fairy
Job: Slave
Title: Loved by the Spirits
Status: Weak, Hungry)
'Oh! It worked!... My name is Denver? ...So I'm also a mistake huh. I don't care about this slave crap. I'm alive and have siblings... This would be difficult but not impossible. It's not impossible to escape!
Still, can I even use my power at this age? I wanna practice! Hmmm... but..there's no plants here... so how?
Argghh, this is useless! No plants here so how can I even do this???!!!
There's only hay and metal bars here.
... ... ... wait... Hay? ...Isnt that technically a plant?... Well, a dead plant but... it's still a plant after all? Can I...Stop thinking, nothing will be done if I don't even try.
First step, close my eyes.
Focus...Focus... 1 minute
Focus... 3 minutes
Focus 5 minutes...
Oh... I feel something...Let's continue.
Focus... 10 minutes..
Hmmm... Am I an idiot...How do I know if there's an effect if I close my eyes all thee time. Let me take a peek. Please let something happen, Please let something happen.
Denver opened his eyes and what he saw was...
'Beautiful.'
Green lights was floating all around him but it seemed he's the only one who could see them. One by one, the green lights was entering the hay all around the floor. They were slow. I mean, REALLY SLOW.
'I... IT'S BEAUTIFUL BUT IT'S SLOWER THAN A SNAIL! I'll spend the rest of my life in this cage if this is the speed. Can I make it faster?'
Think about accelerating it. Be faster, become faster. Do faster. Faster. Float over the hay faster! Faster! Faster...
Faster... (It's Working!)
Faster...
Faster....
Arghhh.. Although I made them faster, the effects are not showing at all.
How about.. focusing on only one strand of Hay, first?
'Okay, Green Lights, Please go ther-'
...
*Yawn* 'What just happened? Mother is here? Did I just fell asleep? Too weak! Being a human baby is too weak!'
"You're awake. That's good. Denver. First, let Mom feed you."
'Mom...'
Denver was being breastfeed. Am I imagining it or does mother's milk taste like honey? Is this what it means to be a fairy or is my taste buds just doesn't have any experience tricking my mind that this is sweet? This is tasty though so I won't complain anymore.
Mother has such a beautiful face. Her smile is so warm but her eyes although looking at me with warmness, her eyes seems sad. I haven't check out yet her status. This is a great chance to do so.
(Name: Amelia
Age: 999
Affinity: Illusion (Poison, Wind, Fire, Metal, Earth, Water, Darkness, Light, Lighting, Space: SEALED)
Species: Elemental Fairy
Job: Slave (Elemental Fairy Queen: SEALED)
Title: Loving Mother (Preferred by All, Betrayed Queen, Exiled Fairy, Sleeping Beauty, Weeping Maiden, Sheltered Goddess, Acknowledged by the Spirits, Royal Fairy Princess, Ancestor's Favorite, Rainbow Guardian, Fairy Genius, Chosen One)
Status: Weakened, Dying (1 Year left), Sealed, Cursed, Poisoned, Drugged.)
*Gulp* ...That's...That's a really high profile. I mean... really high profile. I knew it. She was a fairy in human disguise and she's also the one disguising my siblings. No wonder my siblings had affinities to some of her elements. I wonder why though, she doesn't have any plans affinity but I have one. I suppose the lie she doesn't have came from their fathers. The male pigs (fathers of my siblings) looks like they're high profile too. I mean if they weren't, then what's with those titles that my siblings possess. No ordinary client would have that.
I guess... she had a hard life huh. Just from her titles and status, I could probably make a story all about her past.
She was the princess of the fairy race. A genius that only appears rarely. Loved by most and yet envied at the same time. A perfect maiden that everybody wants. A kind and powerful woman. An heir to the throne of the fairy kingdom. Became the Queen but was betrayed and made sure that her powers could never be used again. What a tragedy.
Now though, she's just a loving mother. Although if she still has her illusion powers, why don't she use it to escape?
Denver raised his hand and tried to manipulate the green lights into the hay.
Amelia who were feeding her baby, felt something but couldn't pinpoint what.
"Something's wrong..."
My mother stopped feeding me and turned around to look at my siblings.
"Children."
"Mom."
"Mother."
Momma"
"Yes, Mother"
"Does it hurt again, mom?"
...
"I'm fine it's just... did anyone of you used your powers? Isn't it our rule to hide them and never used them because why? Alice dear, why don't you remind us why?"
"Because they have people who can detect, All elements of magic including the two rarest type, time magic and space magic...oh... but they can't detect illusion magic. Only *whisper* fairies themselves can detect illusion magic and they isolate themselves from the outside world so it's impossible that the humans slavetraders will have one ...but illusion magic won't get us far so we can't escape even if we use it. Be smart and survive first." Alice said calmly like it was rehearsed.
"That's right, my children. I already tried it. No matter how powerful illusion magic is, it's no use here but it's still useful for hiding your true forms. That's why I ask you to practice it always. Once they find out you're not humans, they will take you away here. Don't use your powers because other elements will just get detected. They think you are all human children but you're not. You're each my precious children."
"Mom, how about him... Why doesn't he look different from the humans?" Alby asked.
"He's half human, Alby but he's also half-fairy like all of you and I'm very happy that you all have interited my talent in illusion magic. It makes me so proud of all of you. He's your brother too so like always, let's take care of each other including your new baby brother. As always. If only we could get out of here... " Amelia remembered her past again and how she got here and spend her years here. She wanted to cry, she needed to cry but snapped back to normal. She needed to be strong for her children. Their the only reasons why she kept on living and using her powers even sacrificing her lifespan just to hide their true forms a little bit longer. She hopes that they could hide them as children until they were old enough to try and escape here. She know it was possible since her children has extraordinary potential for using the elements but they couldn't practice it because she forbid them, so they won't get detected and be taken away from her.
Even if using her lifespan to hide her children will mean she would die, that's okay for her. She only needed to wait for them to grow up. The only fear she has that her time might end up sooner than she thought.
Amelia looked at the newborn baby and hardened her will again. She at least must let them learn how to use illusion magic efficiently. It's her duty as both a mother and a fairy to her children.
"Now, gather up. Our lessons will start again. Luca, put Nyx and Ao in the front so they can hear me much better."
Luca followed what her mother said and brought his 8th and 9th brother to the front.
"Let's talk about this world again. Alice, Alby, Luca and Ram. You're free to not listen and practice your illusion magic. You've already heard this lesson more than enough."
"Thank you Mom."
"Yes, Mother."
"I'll listen. I'm tired of practicing" said Ram.
Amelia looked at her son, Ram and stared at him.
"Haha.. just kidding mother. I'll go and practice." Ram and went into another part of the cage and practiced his illusion magic.
'It's good that the room where the cage was located, was always empty most of the time and guards was outside the door of the room. Mom must be a high ranking slave here.' Denver thought to himself.
"That's my boy haha. Remember, only practice illusion magic when I'm here. Now, where were we? ...Yes, this world is called Teemnel."
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