The Green General and the Golden Guard

One || Through the Years

I was only a baby when it happened, so the memories are pretty vague. I remember a loud noise, like a door falling, then another door creaking open quickly. A woman picked me up, then hid me under a bed. "I'll be back, Panemorfi, just don't cry." she assured me, even though I couldn't understand, then I heard her's and a man's voice say something to each other. They ran out of the room, that's when I heard the man scream in agony. "Agapi!" the woman cried out. Before she could do anything else she let out the same pain filled scream as her seemingly husband. The next thing I remember is another woman picking me up from under the bed. She had leaves for hair and dark green lips, her eyes were lavender with a tint of pink. After she picked me up a man with shoulder length gray-blonde hair walked up and handed her a box of baby bottles from a drawer. That's where the memory ends.

At the age of six me and Hunter, my best friend, were playing outside of the castle near the Night Market. We were running from Kikimora who was trying to tag us, but she lost us in the woods. Hunter accidently bumped into a demon hunter who was famous for his cruelty and bad temper. I tried to apologize but Hunter tried to talk back when the man threatened us. Hunter didn't think he'd actually do anything so he wasn't afraid of not having magic yet. He started to strangle him and didn't feel anything when Hunter kicked his chest nor when he bit him. 

I tried to apologize but he wouldn't listen. I got angry, and scared, and felt like he was hurting something of mine for some reason, then plants started growing around me. I used them to strangle the man just until he let go of Hunter. He hid behind me as I used the plants to drag the man away. Once he was about ten yards away my mom, Terra Snapdragon, ran up to me and Hunter. When we got back to our home she had me tell her everything, and Hunter ended up getting grounded.

It was my twelfth birthday and me and Hunter were in my room playing truth or dare. He asked me if I had been out the castle since that one visit to the night market and I said no, so he promised we'd go out that night. When we got to Bonesborough we saw a tall woman in a red dress selling random human junk. We didn't really know anything about humans so we decided to check out her stand. When we were going into the woods to go back home I saw a random green bird fly towards me. 

It had a red beak and a black circle around it's neck coming from the bottom of the beak. It landed on my arm and it was then that I realized it's left wing was bleeding. "Uh- Hunter.." I went to ask what to do but the words wouldn't come out. It started flying to my other arm which allowed me to see a strange pattern in it's right foot. "A palisman? Holy shit." we were both shocked and confused. Why did it look afraid as it flew towards me and why was it bleeding? A man started running towards us with an angry look on his face. "Look kid, give me the bird and nothing bad will happen." he put his hands out as if to take it from mine but the bird hid in my green hood. 

The man snarled and went to snatch it but I grew vines out of the ground and had them grab his leg making him trip. He ended up faceplanting and broke his nose. It was crooked, red, sore, and bleeding a lot. We ran back to the castle with him whining about his nose to random people in Bonesborough. When we got back I took care of the bird's wing and hid her in my hood whenever I went out. She liked me a lot and was always at least within two feet of me. I couldn't understand her so I just called her Grigora. She was mine and Hunter's secret, but, for whatever reason, he hated her. One look at her and he got mad. I couldn't even talk about her anymore, but I was okay with it.

Three years later, a bit after I turned fifteen, he got his own palisman. He was so excited and would always try to tell me about him. He and Grigora even played together, but I grew jealous. I don't know why, but I did. Maybe it was because he was all Hunter could talk about, or maybe it was that Hunter spent every second with him, I don't know.

Since my mother is the head of the Plant Coven I've been a prodigy in plant magic. All over my room there are live plants growing. It makes me sad that people can't appreciate them like me, but it's always been like that, so I've mainly gotten used to it. Both Terra and Emperor Belos rescued and raised me, so I'm in the Emperor's Coven. I've even excelled to be the 'Green General' while Hunter has become the 'Golden Guard'. Since we were kids we've trained and trained, and now he's sixteen and I'm fifteen, and we finally got what we wanted all this time. Though, I do question, is this what I really want?