Unexpected Assault

A week passed.

Andrew lived like any other newborn: sleep, eat and shit. His days were carefree as he didn't even put the embarrassment normal adults would face when their diapers were changed. He was rather pragmatic as he first assessed the situation before making conclusions. 

At the beginning of second week of his seemingly new life, he gained the ability to see colors and could see the distance up to 20 centimeters. 

Naturally, he managed to see the face of the woman who took care of him. She had long blonde hair, sapphire eyes and plump crimson limps. She was a beauty that any man would desire. From what he saw so far, he estimated her height to be around 170 centimeters. 

She always put on a dazzling smile whenever she was near him, like a loving and caring mother. Moreover, she was rather surprised to see the baby cry so little. 

On one of the occasions when she fed him, she wondered how he would react to seeing his reflection. 

With an ever-present smile on her face, she lifted her hand and the air above it started to distort. The next moment, something that looked like an ice slate appeared above her hand. It was as big as an adult's head. Moreover, it had properties of a mirror so one could see one's reflection in it. 

All this time, Andrew watched attentively, wondering how this thing appeared, he didn't see her take out anything from anywhere. It is af this object materialized from thin air. There were no strings whatsoever attached to it that would indicate that it hung on the ceiling. 

With a push, the mirror flew towards him, Andrew instinctively tried to grab it but remembered that he was nothing more than a baby...

The ice piece stopped right in front of his face and stood slightly diagonal so the baby wouldn't have difficulties seeing his reflection.

Andrew saw his own reflection...

As one would expect, it was just a slightly chubby baby without any notable features. Yet, there was something that caught his attention...

He had snow-white hair! 

He had silver eyes! 

This combination greatly shocked him as he wondered whether he had any genetic anomalies in his body. He doubted that he would grow up to be a person with a healthy body. 

The woman instead was greatly pleased to see his eyes flicker as a sign of concentration in his eyes.

She couldn't be farther and closer to the truth at the same time.

Eventually, a week passed.

Nothing major happened.

His days were carefree as always: sleep, eat and shit.

With all the care and love this woman gave to him, he assumed her to be his new mother or just an extremely caring person. 

Lately though, he had been seeing her being slightly anxious even though her smile hadn't leave her face. He didn't know why she was so fidgety.

At the end of the third week. 

She barged in with a panicked expression on her face. She swiftly took him out of the crib and wrapped him in a small blanket. Then, a backpack appeared out of thin air as she carefully positioned Andrew inside it. A moment later a transparent bubble covered the backpack as she sprinted out of the room through the window. 

As they zoomed farther and farther from the wooden house in the middle of the forest, 3 figures clad in black robes appeared. Their features were indistinguishable. Yet, each of them possessed a dangerous vibe. They sprinted towards the running figure with inhuman speed as they chased after her.

Unfortunately, Andrew couldn't see the beautiful sight of the forest since the blanket was blocking his view. 

"This disgraceful bitch just keeps running away, we are ordered to capture her alive or dead. I would rather see her corpse than allow her to taint the image of the family anymore!" one of the cloaked figures said with an indistinguishable voice. 

"I agree, let's kill her" said another cloaked figure as they accelerated to mind-blowing speed!

Soon they caught up to her and as if announcing her death sentence, one of the cloaked figures said as his voice boomed for kilometers!

"Clara Westwood! By the decree of the family head, you will be killed or captured alive! The family head has shown great benevolence even though your actions are nothing but disgraceful! Decide! Live or die!"

The cloaked figures waited for her response, but suddenly...

Their senses caught an enormous amount of energy right beneath them. It was a trap!

BOOM!

A devilish smile bloomed on Clara's face as a radius of 500 meters from the epicenter of the explosion was decimated! 

There were no traces of those cloaked figures left as she sprinted south in hopes of escaping her family's clutches. 

After hours of ceaseless running, Clara stopped near a mountain range that separated Alwood Kingdom and Leisar Empire. 

She stopped to take rest and feed her baby. Clara carefully took Andrew out of the backpack as she saw his curious and attentive expression. By now, she understood that her child was extremely intelligent and mentally gifted. 

After feeding Andrew, she contemplated her next actions. Alwood Kingdom was at odds with Leisar Empire. The only reason they haven't been invaded was because of this mountain range. The mountain range was marked as one of the most dangerous Magical Beast Territories on Azraa Continent. 

Magical Beasts attained intelligence once they reach a specific realm of existence. The Magical Beast Territories were precisely ruled by those intelligent Magical Beasts. 

Although it was fairly easy to reason with them and keep amicable relations, they despised those uninvited people who dare to intrude into their territories. It was considered as a direct challenge to the rule of the ruling Magical Beast of that area.

But some smart Magical Beast rather exploited this and fined anyone who wanted to pass. 

Clara decided to use this to pass unnoticed into Leisar Empire!

She looked at Andrew with a complicated gaze.

Then, she put her hand on his head...

Suddenly! 

Andrew's hair and eye color changed into common black! 

Clara applied the same thing on herself as she decided to tone down her beauty by a few levels, even after that she looked fairly beautiful. Doubtful of the effectiveness, she decided to shapeshift into an old withered woman to not catch attention at all! 

Soon, she stood up and headed towards one of the hidden checkpoints where she could pass by the grace of greedy Magical Beasts.