A Witches Beginnings

Episode One: A Witches Beginnings

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It had just been another typical day at school for me. I spent the class period drawing in my notebook. Suddenly I felt a jolt go through my body and I started seeing strange yellow spots all over the room.

"What in the world is happening to me," I thought.

Suddenly students all over the room began staring at me and the girl sitting next to me pointed.

"Teacher! Fana just grew a horn!"

My blood went cold, and I froze in place.

"Yeah, she did!"

"She must be a Witch!"

"No, I can't be." I thought my eyes watering up. Suddenly I felt something clasp around my neck.

"She has the Witches collar!"

I heard girls who I had once considered friends start to jeer at me and chant,

"Fana's a Witch!"

"Students. Quiet down. Fana, come with me to the nurses' office"

Her smirk terrified me, it was as if this amused her.

"Teache... I'm not a Witch-" I started as my voice started trailing off into tears

"Fana, get over here. That's an order"

I felt a shock ripple through my body and the burning sensation left me in more pain than I had ever experienced before.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

No scream could help me comprehend the amount of pain I was feeling.

None of the students looked at me with any sympathy, it was as if I was nothing but an object.

Once I arrived at the nurses' office I was greeted by a tall blonde-haired Man wearing Golden covered armor. He is what is called a Holy Knight.

"Hello, Fana the Witch" He spat in my face

"I'm not a Witch sir!" I shouted.

"How laughable. You have a Witch's mark after all"

Suddenly he grabbed my head or what I thought was my head, but it was a horn that had grown right in the center of my forehead. He faced me against a mirror on the wall.

"This is what you look like, Witch."

Looking at the mirror I looked at the expression of a Blonde-haired girl with golden-colored eyes. Her pale white skin made her look almost dead, and she had now grown a long white horn that glowed with the same golden color as her eyes.

"There's no way that's me!"

"Fana..." I heard a voice call my name from the office entrance and it was my mother. She had come along with my dad. Her face was scrunched up in disgust and she looked away. The Holy Knight finally let go of me and I started to walk over to her.

"Mom..." I reached out to her, but my dad smacked my hand away.

"Get away from us, Witch!"

"Dad-"

"You are not my child."

"Why. Why is this happening to me?" I stood in shock as the Holy Knight dragged me back to him.

The Holy knight walked toward me and grabbed both my arms and wrapped a silver metal bracelet on both of them.

After snapping his fingers the bracelets magnetized to each other like handcuffs.

"These are magic sealing handcuffs, to make sure that she doesn't escape," He said laughing.

"Let's get moving, Fana"

I no longer had any more tears to cry as I followed him.

As I walked out of the office I looked back at my parents and teacher who did not even look at me. Their faces were full of horror and disgust.

When we made it outside I was told to step into the car a woman was sitting in the passenger seat and a man sitting in the driver seat.

"We will take it from here, Sir" The woman smiled

"Tch!"

He would then shove me into the car and close the door.

"Alright let's go"

The man started the car and the woman turned around and I was able to see her face clearly for the first time. Her long white hair covered in ribbons made her look like a princess out of a movie. She bore a long black scar on her porcelain-like cheek and her eyes blue as the sea.

"Hello, Fana my name is Nina." She attempted to greet me, but I did not respond and ignored her.

"Fana, We are not going to hurt you and you won't be executed. You're going to be going to school again in a different environment is all" She attempted to console me, but I did not reply nor did I answer her.

She smiled and turned back around and they continued to drive me to who knows where.

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"We've arrived Fana," Nina announced as we arrived at an open field.

"Are they going to kill me here? I could try to fight back, but there is zero chance I could escape. Even If I did I would be tracked and hunted by Holy Knights." I thought to myself.

Suddenly Nina's bracelet started to glow and I realized she had the same one as me. She finally opened her mouth to shout.

"Enter Estaine!"

Suddenly the once-empty field appeared as a gated area that was an entrance into a city. The city was was something I would see in a fairy tale. There were tall buildings and girls flying around.

"Take my hand, Fana"

As I did Nina and I started float. I thought I was just seeing things until I was 50 feet into the air and I could see the entirety of the city. While it wasn't insanely large It was beautiful in its own right.

"This is my lifelong Work Fana. Estaine."

"What is this place?"

"A city in which us WItches have a place to belong. I need you to work hard to protect it."

"Take a look over there."

Nina then pointed to what looked to be the center of the city.

There was a sign on the gate that said "Estaine".

"What is that?"

"The grand Academy of Estaine." She said with a smile.

"What is that?"

"This is the Academy in which you will be studying Ethera"

"I already studied it as a child, but I didn't have a good affinity with it"

"What you studied in class was a natural phenomenon."

"What does that even mean?"

"The magic that professional mages use is very impressive, but we Witches surpass the mages in using Ethera to create a supernatural phenomenon. So in terms of magical capacity, you already surpass every mage in the entire Kingdom."

"I don't want to be a witch..."

"The Ethera chooses who she chooses and you were chosen. I can't protect you if you don't listen to me Fana, so, please fight for your Kingdom"

"Fight for them? Fight for the people who just made my life a living Hell?" My mind wandered to events of this morning and I found myself balling my fists

"Why! They laughed at me! Made fun of me! I don't want to fight for terrible people like that!"

My shout startled Nina and while she was taken back and embraced me in a hug and I felt tears start to fall down my cheeks.

"Yup it's terrible, isn't it? I despise the fate that falls on us Witches. We won't live to pass the age of 22, we're scorned by the nation as cursed beings even though we are the ones that fight the most for this nation, and lastly, we don't get to choose our fate."

"Then why!"

"This is our life Fana. The best we can do is end the war against the Aloa and stop the government from creating Witches."

"I know you probably think that you hate humanity, but at Estaine you are perfectly safe." She let go of me and looked down into my eyes.

"Fana, you are special. Your body produces the most Ethera that I have ever seen. You also are the only Witch with a horn as a mark."

"Is that really special..."

"Yes. Most Witch marks are usually just a facial blemish, but you are different."

"What is a Witch mark?"

"When someone awakens as a Witch the Ethera will mark them. Mine is this slash mark on my cheek that everyone mistakes as a scar."

"It's not a scar?"

"See told you."

"Anyways I will be your new family so please give me a chance, Ok" She finished speaking and embraced me.

I did not want to accept her words as reality, but I had no choice. If I didn't comply they would just use the collar to make me comply. It feels like witches are treated as the tools of Ars that they can use whenever they want for whatever they need.

"Ok"

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There was once a Nation that became so powerful that it threatened the balance of the world order. It swallowed up every nation in its path with revolutionary technology and inhumane practices. This Nation was come to be known as the Kingdom of Ars.

As a child, I was told about the dangers of witches and how girls born with Ethera that runs through their bodies are terrifying creatures that could not be allowed to survive in this world. That was all a lie though, the Witches do almost all the fighting in the war and the Mages and Holy Knights are given the credit.

100 years ago, there began a time on this planet known as the "Great Waring Era". During this period, The great Kingdom of "Ars" waged war over all countries on its continent. It became a terrible Tyrant to the entire world and multiple countries banded together to take it down.

The Kingdom of "Ars" was so formidable because of how advanced its technology had progressed. They invented armor that could not be broken by typical measures and created Vehicles of transportation that had never been seen before. They truly surpassed the rest of the world in technological development, but the most revolutionary thing they created was Witches.

Witches were girls that reacted to a certain magical compound called Ethera. 1 in 1,000 girls will react to the compound and awaken as a Witch. At age 3 every child in Ars has a chip placed into their neck. For girls, the chip will slowly eject Ethera into them until the age of 10 years.

We the Witches' have no say in this matter. Once you awaken the chip will transform into a collar and you will be forced to obey the orders of all Holy Knights. This is the fate of all of the girls that awaken as Witches.

This is their story and the beginning of the end of the age of Witches.