Lost Chance _ Lost Race

Revealed

As I kept growing, I kept living a lonely life, no friends.

I kept hunting and wrestling with animals, doing things that were fun for me.

During my growth phases, I noticed that strange marks kept appearing on my body, at first I was really freaked out about the whole thing but as it kept appearing, I got use to it.

At any stage of my life, a scar appears and at first, it looked like scars from a scratch then later they started looking like battle scars.

I wanted to tell my dad but at a second thought I didn't.

My dad never liked the fact I followed him to hunt all the time and most times he would ask me to stay back as hunting is not meant for a female Devan and that made me to start sneaking out of the cave to hunt all by myself in the thick forest. The excuses he kept giving me to stay back and stop hunting kept making me unhappy and even more eager to go.

The other day, I kicked my left foot on a small stone and that was the end of my hunting that day and I can still remember the time we went for hunting and I ended up wrestling with a bear, that very day, my dad scolded me greatly and almost starved me that day if not for my mom's intervention so if I should show him the scars on my body he might conclude that it's as a result of the hunting and the fact I keep wrestling with my prey so I kept the changes to myself I didn't even disclose it to my mother with the fear that she will inform my dad.

One of the growth phase of a Devan is that at the age of Fourteen a Devan must have mastered fire breathing but to the surprise of people I mastered mine at the age of six and by twelve I was already a full fire breathing Devan so I recounted the growth phases again and again but the appearance of scars is not involved and at that point I felt it was a message to me and maybe has something to do with the reason I was reincarnated.

As time flies, I lived a normal life but one thing I did wrong was that I spent my days worrying and thinking, I didn't even have enough time for myself and people. I was too desperate to remember the reason for my reincarnation.

I'm seventeen and still I couldn't remember the reason I was reincarnated and it really bothered me. I always have nightmares of being drowned to death and most times I wake up totally wet like it just rained on me. I couldn't give it a meaning and it really bothered me. The other time I had a nightmare of when I was whipped by someone I couldn't recognize, the whip was so severe that I had to scream myself to reality.

My scream attracted my parents, I was so scared to even talk to my parents that night, it was like I was feeling the pains from the whips, my body was not itself as I was greatly disturbed.

Just my nightmares made me even more worried and more retarded.

It's been three years now but I'm even more confused about my life than ever, at some point I decided to just live my life without worries but it was not easy for me as something kept bothering me.

It's the peace ceremony between the Devans and the Rygnores today, so I decided to clear my mind off some certain things by enjoying the day as much as I can. I even planned a show it was a small show where I showcased my fire breathing technique.

The Rygnores like us also live for a very long time so we were not so different after all.

They are this race of being with holes for an eye, three red lines drawn from their forehead to their jaw, long teeth and posses strange powers and abilities too but are aggressive in nature.

The unique thing about them is there ability to morph Into trees as a way of disguise.

I left for the ceremony as early as possible.

During the ceremony I performed my show in front of everyone and also we watch our rygnore friends showcase their wind breathing technique.

Before the time for the ceremony, I went to hunt with my Dad despite the fact that he tried his best for me not to come with him but I don't give up that easily till I get what I want. He kept telling me to stay back till he got tired of me and permitted me to join him on the account he do the hunting himself while I watch.

After we got back that day, we celebrated the ceremony with few of our Rygnore friends and family.

The celebration was done cave by cave, it was not a general something it was just a day we observed individually. Most Devans visited there Rygnore friends in there village but ours visited us and it was really a fun day for me, a day I didn't want to end.

The ceremony was finally over and the Rygnores travelled back to there village.

As soon as they left I helped my mom clean up the whole place till it was late at night then finally we were ready for the night's rest.

That very night, I had yet another nightmare. I saw myself captured by the Rygnores King mistreated and abused by the king. I was punished greatly, my eyes were plucked out and given to me to feed on, I was pierced in different places as they allowed my blood to gush out freely. I was left in the market naked having been wiped with a rope made of thorns and totally weak as a result of the lack of blood.

I woke up feeling pains all over my body and the scares on my body were more visible and looking fresh. I looked at myself

"These are not battle scares but rather it's the scare I got from the Rygnores King; I said to myself".

For the first time ever, my dream was very clear and straight forward.

After that nightmare, I remembered what I actually forgot.

My dream was exactly what happened to me in my past life.

The whole thing now have been revealed to me and we have just Six years to save ourselves else it will repeat itself again and this alone increased my worries and I became more afraid.

I used to be afraid of what I didn't know before but now it have been revealed, I'm afraid of what I know and had witnessed and it's really scarier.

The dream really sent cold shivers down my spine which is very dangerous for a Devan and made the hairs on my ears hardened, I felt my heart and the beat became very slow, normally the heart of a Devan is meant to beat so fast but the fear in me really slowed down my heart beat, making me weak and I thought I was going to freeze to death that night.

I really needed to do something to warm up myself and to keep myself at ease.