Project Stormest

Its sunny day, so bright! Haruto Wanabeta opens his eye.,Its too bright to even open his eyes fully,yet he tries to open them, he wants to see the sun. He remembers. Remembers the day he was sitting on a hospital bed, trying to see the sun. He remebers the moment, a weak,frail body, trying to stand up, just to see the sun, just to feel the sunshine He remembers the worthless struggle, the struggle to walk, though his body couldn't respond. He remembers the betryal the, the betrayal of his body, the body that didnt listen to his will. He remembers the sound, the sound of his falling on the hospital flour. He remembers the feeling, the feeling of death. He remebers the promise, the promise he made to himself during his dying moment. ... Yes, death. He died. Died in a hospital room while struggling to see the sun, to feel the sunshine. Never gone to school, always been lain on the hospital bed being sick, and reading books to know various things was the summary of his life. Just before his death, he made a promise. A promise to live fullest if he finds another chance, with a question in his head,'will I be given another chance?' Now he is laying on a green field full of grasses. The weather is shiny, the nostalgic feeling of sunshine that he wanted to feel even at the last moment of his life makes his heart lighter. Blue sky, shiny weather, white cloud with silver lining, gentle breeze, wide grassy green field,the wheat field thats been dancing gently because of the wind is making him sleepy. Its like he is in heaven. But its not heaven, its just a chance that he was given after his death. A chance to enjoy the life fullest. A chance to live in another world. He extends his small hands towards the sun, closes his open grasp like he is trying to grab the sun but the sun refuses, he prefers to shine in the sky rather then being grabbed in his grasp. He sees the symbol that he has been on his right arms back since his birth. The symbol is way too simple. Just a drawing of a standing lion in a circle. Yet it bears too much emotion. The Stormest symbol. Its the symbol of Stormest tribe. And every members of stormest tribe bears the proud symbol, as the proof of their membership. Bearing the symbol, Haruto is also a member of the Stormest tribe. Ruxian Stormest. Thats his name. And Haruto Watabane? It's just a name of a dead teen age boy, whose strong will to live a fullest life reached another world. Haruto reincarnated in this world, as a newborn baby. But he was abandoned by someone he don't know who was supposed to be his mother. 'Rux!' Ruxian listens a gentle, sweat yet energetic voice. Ruxian stops thinking about the past. He averts his green eyes to find the source of this loud sound. He needs a short time to find. Its Lilly, Lilly Stormest. A sweat girl with white skin. Her bown hair has reached her neck, her brown eyes are full of energy. She is 9 years old, same age as Ruxian. At this moment she is looking at Ruxian with a pouty face. Ruxian understands the situation. 'Yo Lilly, you are looking so cute today. The sky blue frock you are wearing really fits you. Haha,' says Ruxian while removing he dirts from his white shirt, deep blue pants and his silky silver colored hair. He looks clam, but actually he is finding a way to escape from her grasp. 'Stop flirting you moron, you won't escape this time. It's fruitless. You skipped todays lesson again, ' Lilly shouts even louder. Ruxian gets shrunked inside. Lilly is his childhood friend. They have been playing together since when they couldn't even talk. As they were neighbours, they have been known each other for several years. But nowadays she has become a bad news. They are both getting older day by day, and Ruxian has developed a carefree personality while Lilly developed caring personality with a very bad temper. Now Ruxian plays around to live his life fullest, while Lilly hates his carefree attitude and ends up lecturing him a lot. 'Umm...I..you know..i am relaxing, yeah, relaxing. Haha,' Ruxian tries to make a excuse. 'Relaxing my a*s, you moron. You need to relax 24 hours, huh?' shouts Lilly. Lilly grabbs Ruxians coller, takes him to the road beside the wheat field. Everyone in the road enjoying the scene. A girl pulling a boy holding his coller while the boy is struggling to set free, quite a nice scene indeed! Ruxian finally finds a chance. He finds a way to escape through the wheat field, though its a risky move. Lillys grasp becomes a bit loose. Ruxian take the chance. He rescues his coller from her grab and then tries to enter the wheat field. 'EXPLOSION!!' Lilly shouts while holding a wand. Suddenly a small explossion occurs under his feet. Ruxian jumps. The explosion was not big enough to blow him away, but it was loud enough to make his heart blow away! 'EEEEEEEE!!!!!' Ruxian screams,'LILLY!!! Why did you use magic in a place like this? Do you want to set fire on the wheat field?! 'What wheat field! I won't even hesitate to set fire on your a*s, Rux,' Lillys sweat voice is now ice cold, her brown eyes reminds him of his previous lifes nurse, who used to rebuke him whenever he wanted go outside. This is definitely a bad news. He didnt expected that Lilly will bring her wand as well. Lilly has great talent in magic. She has already learnt basic spells.Even if he run at full speed, Lilly can easily hunt him down from 50 metres away. All he can do is apologise and wait for his panishment. Suddenly they see that the wheat field is already on fire, and the owner of the field has already noticed it and coming towards them running at full speed. 'You brats....what have you done. You wait there, I will make you play for playing around with my wheta field.' They both start running. 'Instead of catching us, you should bring water to distinguish the fire, mister. Otherwise it will become too late. It's still possible to minimize your lose. You hear, mister?,' says Ruxian. Ruxians speech makes him comfused, instead of catching them, he runs away to bring water. They run quite a lot, and come near to a forest. 'It's your fault Lilly. Why did you magic close to the wheat field? And it's even fire spell? You i***t!' 'Huh! Now its my fault? Why did you try to run away, you moron!?' 'Urgh! Well I apologize for trying to run away.' 'Eh!' it was quite unexpected for her that Ruxian will apologize,'Uh, well, I can let the matter slide today. Be grateful, I will not tolerate next time, hmph!' 'Yes, mam' His plan worked more well than he expected. He starts grinning without even noticing himself, but it didn't ignored Lillys sight. 'Wait, are you really repented? Why are you grinning?' 'Huh! Oh, it's nothing, nothing. Really!' 'Really?!' Lilly seems slight confused, ' Yes mam, really!' 'Oh, okay then.' Lilly doesn't make it any longer. This has turned into a different situation now. 'Let's go home, Rux,' says Lilly. 'Uhh, oh, okay' Rux is quite confused. He can't understand whether the matter is closed or not. They are walking beside the edge of the forest. its quite lovely there, a lot of birds are singing. Except one place. It's a mine, mithril mine. Mithril is a metal which is tougher than iron but it's much lighter than it.Iron merges together with magic power and then born as mithril. Its quite beautiful, it has a bright grayish color. Weopons made by mithril is very famous. They are not only beautiful but also long lasting. 'It's the mithril mine, ' Lilly starts the coversation. 'It was,' Ruxian says.'It's now full of mosnters, a den of demon beasts.' 'Hmm,' Lilly feels down. It was a source of resource for their tribe. Now it's unusable, though it still has a lot of mithrils remain inside. 'We are close to the village,Lilly' They can see the entrance of the village, the village of Stormest tribe. The village is situated at the edge of the eastern forest of the Regtisno kingdom. The villages eastern side is protected by the forest, and the southern part is protected by the Felmon river. Its a big river that has directly connected their river with the capital. The river enters the kingdom through the eastern forest, makes its way to the capital and thus developed a wonderful tribe. The tribe was improved a lot thanks to the river and the forest. The tribe is the Stormest tribe. A proud and glorious tribe, that had a lot of contribution to the kingdom. The Regtisno kingdoms prosperous history is the proof of the Stormest tribes contribution. Being developed in both agriculture and industry, kingdoms development was greatly dependent on the tribe. The tribe was a great source of resources, and they had the perfect skilled blacksmiths to develop the methods to make mithril weopons as making weopon with mithril was quite difficult. Generation to generation, they had been providing the kingdom with mithril weopons, and thanks to that The Regtisno kingdom is feared to have the strongest military forces. The kingdom repayed their contribution with respect. They were permitted to have their own symbol, while only the kingdom can have one. The tribe was glorious, prosperous, prestigious and full with talents. But it's all past now. 'The village is nothing more than a normal village. The only exception is the symbol.' says Lilly. 'Its not a random symbol, Lilly. It still bears the tribes glory and pride.' 'Where is the glory and pride? All I can see is many abandoned house and some people fighting against poverty.' 'Glory and pride has nothing to do with someones appearance. It remains in peoples heart. They're earning their livilihood, that's their glory. They're doing jobs, that's their pride. Once you can feel it, you'll understand it, Lilly.' 'Wow, some unusual things are coming from you,' says Lilly. 'It's just my feelings.' Their big village is almost empty. Stormest tribes population has decreased greatly. Remaining members live close to each other, they choose to live near the river. So only the southern part of the village has inhabitants, other parts are empty. Its almost noon, the weather is hot more than usual. They are crossing the entrance gate. The villagers don't feel the need of gaurding the gate anymore. There are just empty houses, some houses are completely destroyed, some are broken, some are still intact. They are now just a part of history. A history of a lively village. Some weeds are born on the houses, they are the only source of life in this area, It looks like they are trying to say that they are here to replace the owner of those houses. Or perhaps they were the original owner, that was taken by the humans. Now they are here to get back what was taken from them. The village was made for at least tree thousand people but now it has only 200 inhabitants. 'The silence is unbearable, not a single soul is here. How empty the area can be!' Lillys voice sounds unusual in this silent atmosphere, it feels like its more usual, more fitting to be silent. As if the nature is telling them to be silent, it's time for mourning. Their footsteps become faster. They want to pass the area quickly, the silent is killing them. The road is made by soft soil, full of grass and weeds. Their steps aren't making noices. They keeps moving forward. Silent atmosphere, silent steps, totally an awkward situation. But the situation doesn't last long. They are about to reach their home. They feel relaxed. The road here is hard, comfortable, covered with small grass and clean. They can already see houses where people live. This is the area which is chosen by the 200 people of the village, the member of Stormest tribe. They reach their destination. The area is full of green, the size of most of the trees are medium. They are quite young tree. The most spectacular sight of the area is the gardens. Every household has their own garden in front of their house. There are flowers, vegetables. There are herbs,too. As their village is located on the bank of Felmon river, there are some rare herbs, Some family cultivates them. The weather here is much cooler thanks to the plants. Everyone here has a bright smile, enjoying the day while doing there jobs. Most of the men have gone to the field, the housewives are doing house chores, kids are playing in the garden,some men are doing hard labours. They are enjoying their own life. Quite a heart melting scene. They move forward. 'Hey, isnt it Rux and Lilly? ' 'How are you two?' 'Rux, did you skip your lesson today, too!' 'Big bro Rux, were you beaten up by big sis Lilly today too?! 'Lilly teach him a good lesson,haha' Everyone was busy with their own works just a few moments ago. But after seeing them, they started to greet them. Yes, they are the members of Stormest tribe, they take care of each other, share the same struggle, bear the same pride and glory. It's looks like they are a big family, Infact they are family, a large one. The Stormest family. Greeting back, they moves forward. It's about time for lunch. It takes less than five minutes to reach their houses. They are neighbours, as their houses are next to each other. Lilly opens the white gate to enter her house The gate and the fences are white. Her father painted them about six months ago. 'Rux, see you later. Bye!' says Lilly. 'Yeah, see you later. Bye!' saying that Ruxian moves forward to his house. His home, sweet home! The gate is not colored, he wanted to leave as it was. The fences are also not colored. they are brown, the original color of wood. He opens the gate. First, he sees the flower garden at the left side. The flowers aren't bloomed yet. At the right side, he made a garden of herbs. Between these two types of garden, there is a road that leads the way to the house. In front of the house, there is a small empty area. at the right corner, there is a oak tree. He starts running. His brownish white skin plays along with the sunshine, his silky soft silver hair plays along with the breezes and his deep, green eyes play along with the flow of time. He doesnt looks like a human child, it feels like he is part of the nature. Ruxians house is a two story building,made by wood. Its painted with dark brown color. He lives with his mother in this house. He opens the door and enters into the house. 'I'm back,' he shouts to let his mother know about his arrival. 'Welcome home,' he listens a gentle caring voice. It's his mothers voice His mother was at the kitchen. 'Oh great, I'm about to finish making snacks. Ms.Laura is here.You go chat with her.' says his mother. Ruxians inner mind is about to explode, but he acts natural. Ms.Laura is his teacher.And today he skiped her lesson. 'Why is my teacher here,mom!?' 'Oh, it's to discuss about some matter about the village.' 'Oh, I see. It's about the village.' His mother,Hesta Stormest, is one of the most knowledgeable person in this village. In her early days, she travelled for many years and gained experience. So people often come to her for suggestions. 'But why do you ask Rux?' says his mother. 'Oh it's nothing. Well, I should wash myself first, i will talk to her later.' 'Oh you're such a good boy today, usually I force yourself to wash yourself.' 'I'm not a kid anymore, are I?' he might say that, but thats not the reason. He will buy every minimum possible time to avoid his contact with Ms.Laura. If she didn't come, he would do the same thing as usual,directly go to his bedroom to relax until being forced to bath by his mother. What a great teacher she is! A student of hers has skipped her lesson and even after meeting the students mother, she clearly has forgotten about the matter.Truly she is worthy of being famous among her students. God bless her! He spents a lot of time in the washroom and ends up getting out from the washroom being bored. He was sure that Ms.Laura won't stay that long. His room is on the second floor .There's a little space between the kitchen and the washroom door. Then there's the stair. Usually it's only he and his mother in the house. So he only wears a towel to cover his lower half after taking a bath. So there's no exception today either, But, there is a small exception today that he doesnt know about it! Just whe he is about to use the stair, someone shouts, 'Ruxian! Wait!' The voice is Ms.Lauras,she hasn't left yet. She was talking with his mother in the kichen. And after seeing Ruxian, she remembers that Ruxian skipped her class today. Hearing her voice, Ruxian becomes greatly shocked. 'Mrs.Laura!' he screams and tries to turn around at the same time. He totally forgets that he has just left the washroom, so his foot is wet. As he tries to turn around, he falls. 'OUCH!' since his body is light, there's no loud sonud of falling. But he filled the gap by shouting loudly . Ms.Laura forgets about the matter of his skipping her lesson, she gets busy to help him standing up with his mother. 'Are you okay? Does it hurt anywhere?' says his mother. 'No,I'm fine, it doesn't hurt much,' says Ruxian. 'You should be more careful,' 'Yeah,' Suddenly he notices that Ms.Laura is trying her best to stop laughing, yet she can't hide her laugh. And his mother is doing the same!!! 'Is seeing someone falling too much funny?' Ruxian gets annoyed. But at the same time he feels that his lower half can sence cold gentle breeze . The feeling is strangely satisfying...! Wait!!! It's not time for enjoying the feeling! He then realizes a cruel fact! First he thought they're laughing because they saw him falling, but that's not the case. HIS LOWER HALF IS WIDE OPEN!!! And the towel he was wearing is still on the flour. It feels like even the towel is laughing at him!!! Ruxians turns red with embarrassment. 'Oh boy, you're still a child. Don't worry. It's okay!' says his mother. 'No, it's not okay. My Stormest pride won't allow this,' he runs away to the second floor forgetting about the towel. 'Oh my, what a shy child,' says his mother while holding the towel. 'Well Ms.Hesta. I will take my leave now,' saying that Ms. Laura leaves forgetting the matter of his skipping her lesson again. Well, this incident isn't fruitless. If his mother knows that he has skipped lesson again, there will be a storm in the house, He was able to avoid that storm. Though he ended up sacrificing his precious Stormest pride.