Ch.3 The end?

Astral woke up too the sound of crashing. He opened his eyes as a great heatwave blasted him through 2 sets of wooden walls, he fell just outside infront of his favourite Great Oak tree.

Astral was 5 years old now, and because of his special constitution he managed to barely survive this crash.

Immediately he searched for his parents, Astral wasn't a normal 5 year old. Too this day he had yet to cry for anything he was always observant, However he hadn't been put in a high pressure situation like this and didn't know what to do.

This was when he noticed it. An enormous beast was standing over him. Just meters away from him a tiger with horns and bat like wings glared at the boy. Blue flames hovered over the tigers horns which protruded outwards towards the boy.

The tiger like beast observed the boy and spoke,

"An Oni? In this mortal realm? Is this why I've been summoned?"

The beast had a powerful voice, it was the loudest sound Astral had heard up until now.

"This infant deems no threat too us you fool's I will not take his life."

The beast disappeared just as fast as it had appeared but the damage it had left was permanent. It took him awhile to snap out of the daze he was in. He immediately started calling out for his parents, but it was too no avail he had no strength to move. A shock wave of exhaustion engulfed him and he blacked out.

his last thoughts were,

"is this the end, before I even started?"

*Astral's POV*

I was woken up by an excruciating sting running across my back, I was once again met with some kind of beast, however it was nothing similar to the horrific beast I had seen before. It was a human, or so I thought, The person standing infront of me had 2 long horns just like the tiger, however it had the body of a human with forearms covered in golden scales and large wings covered in snow white feathers, almost at light as my own hair.

The humanoid was completely naked but looked neither male or female and it was kneeling above me washing my back with a pristine cloth, certainly suitable for even a king to wash with.

"where am I?" I quickly asked.

"you are in my realm, young one." a slightly angelic voice replied.

"what is a realm? why am I hear? where are my parents?"

The Creature looked down at me as if pitying me.

"Hello young one, My name is Artemis. The reason you are here is because you have knowhere else to be."

I looked back at Artemis with thousands of questions as she had gotten up from washing me and handed me a set a pure white and golden clothes.

"where are my old clothes, Miss?" I decided to take a gambled and assumed it was a woman.

"They have been purified by the Qiong Qi that visited your residence."

Each question I asked left me with more questions so I decided to stop asking anything that could confuse me more.

Artemis spoke "Young one, I have decided to give you my guidance in hope for your future. You have terrifying potential dormant within you."

Once again I was being told I had a terrifying power, As early as I can remember my parents would tell me I was a blessed child that could save the world however I had never understood why. I the freak of the village, I weirdo born with white hair and absolutely 0 aptitude for mana, I was the laughing stock of my town.