The kingdom of Etlatia was destroyed when Ioqine the leader of the rebels overthrow the monarchy and its army, they broadcasted how they tortured and toyed with the royal's bodies as if it was nothing. Their laughter echoed through the land. 

The whole kingdom trembled in fear, provoking chaos in cities that I've never thought of.

It was like an epidemic that corrupted the whole nation. 

The people in charge couldn't do anything against the rebels. 

Slowly the cities were ruled by five generals.

One of the five generals chose the northwest side of Etlatia, Kuvraz, where the most wealthy people live, full of extravagant things that commoners couldn't afford.

The 2nd and 3rd general chose the northeast side of the kingdom and one of the largest, Hraik, where the magic originated and holds the best sorcerers in the whole enchanted world.

The 4th general chose the sky which was then controlled by Ilia, the mother of all angels. Of course the 4th general will choose that part, it's full of the beautiful and gorgeous angel. There aren't any male angels that ever existed, never. Some people say angels were cursed, because of their sins before they've become angels.

And the last of the generals, Alem the strongest of them all. She took down the whole army of the monarch on her own. She must be really skilled since no such normal human could do such a thing. 

But was she really a human to begin with?

It was awesome but terrifying at the same time. She chose the part where most of the four generals avoided the most, Shoel, located on the south of the kingdom, the land of mixed-raced prisoners where they multiply their population every year.

The population of Shoel passed the limits and needed some of its people to be assassinated to regulate the birth and death rate. The result of that was, people rallied all over the streets but Alem ignored her people's cries so one person of the crowd decided to start a rebellion, Nereik Dezcheln.

The rebellion against the strongest general who took down the monarch was useless. The leader of the rebels was punished to death and his family was named to be taken as slaves for Alem.

"Dezcheln, I'll give you two options. Give your siblings as the sacrifice or yourself as Alem's slave. Pick" -ordered one of Alem's guard as he tapped his wristwatch telling me I don't have more time to think. I heaved a deep sigh as I thought about the consequences.

As the older daughter of the Dezcheln family, I was taught to think about other first before me.  

Life never gets better as I grow up, it only gets harder and harder to live it.

You can call me a pessimist anytime you want but it's just how hard it is, surrendering my life in exchange for my siblings was the only thing that could save our family from the misery my father started. I couldn't live the rest of my days knowing that I let my siblings got in danger when I could have done something to save their lives.

But when I look at father's life, all I could think about was what if my fate turned out like his, could my siblings live on without Alem going after them?

" If you can't decide then we can decapitate your head to speed up the process," -said the other guard to my left.

I immediately turned my gaze to the 2nd guard and met his sharp blue-green eyes full of mischief. I shook my head and lifted both of my hands in front of me, wrist to wrist indicating that I, Amaya will surrender myself to Alem in exchange for my siblings' freedom.

They put on the cuffs on my wrist and pushed me inside the big black van, I was about to ask the guards about something when I felt someone hit me on my back neck resulting in my vision to darken. 

Making my consciousness be swallowed into the abyss.

To be continued.