A Weapon Of Magical Destruction by Katie Salidas

Author:Katie Salidas [Salidas, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rising Sign Books
Published: 2018-06-04T18:30:00+00:00

TWENTY

The Mother’s Cure.

Blood joins all creations great and small. The forgotten gods, whose names cannot be uttered by human tongues, were known as the mother and father. They splashed their blood upon the earth, and life sprang forth. The air, the land, and the places the sun had not yet found defined the form each creation took.

The dawn of magic shaped the earth for all the creatures that followed. The forgotten gods smiled upon their children, giving them dominion. The father turned his eye toward the great beyond, but the mother kept a distant watch over her children.

Through their magic, the first lords of the earth shaped the world: fertile lands, crystal clear waters, shimmering rainbows that danced between clouds. Beauty was the gift of those of the Ethereal magic. All that they laid eyes on was to be made glorious to look upon. Not to be outshone by the creations of their brothers, Elemental magic shaped the land, raising mountains of fire and ice and infusing the ground with minerals that hardened into stones of beautiful color. Magic of the Shades turned the earth so that where there was light, darkness could exist, and revealed the twinkling starlit sky as the sun gave way to the moon.

Magic and blood created life, and so too did the first lords of the earth. Like the mother and father before, they shared that blood, passing down gifts to the next generation.

They filled the newly created lands, each claiming their right of dominion. Wars soon stretched across the earth. Waters that once ran clear turned murky and undrinkable, polluted by the dead. Magic shattered the land as battles raged on with no end in sight. All the beauty of creation turned to ruin. Blood and magic destroyed life just as easily as it had once created it.

The great mother could not stand idly and allow her children’s squabbling to ruin the world she had given them. From each branch of magic, she made a sacrifice, binding their blood to a lone fruit tree growing among the ruins of a recent battleground.

With her careful tending, the tree grew strong and tall. Drinking in the blood-drenched soil, its bark hardened to a deep crimson. Its deep green leaves turned brown, but fortified by the mother’s care, the tree bore fruit the likes of which had never been seen. Sweet nectar, clear as pure running water, plumped the pulpy fruit. Skin so pale yellow it almost looked translucent allowed a glimpse at the nourishment just below its tender flesh. The fruit tempted any who happened across the great tree.

Water washes the blood clean, and so too did a bite of the fruit.

Rendering powerless those who had eaten it, each hungry warrior was marked by the tree so the mother could see who had been changed.

Only once did the tree bear fruit, but from that single harvest, thousands of enemies were neutralized.

The mother plucked the last of the fruit from her great tree, saving it should she need its magic again.

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