The Emerald Fire (Part 1) by Drake Ma (whitelam books TXT) 📕

"Bill will still kill ill Jill in a mill that's on a hill with a chill pill with quill on fish gill" is a phrase everyone in my town would use when they are looking forward to get revenge on their cruel parents that have treat them very badly during their childhoods. Though I still don't get it; why would they call themselves "Bill" instead of their actual name? And I know nobody have the name "Jill" in my town either. Also who would kill someone with a chill pill with quill on fish gill? The phrase don't makes any sense, but the fact it don't make sense made me feel the phrase more creepy. Maybe that's why they it the "Revenge Phrase" which I called it the "Rap Phrase" because it made me feel better when I think of it as a rap song.

My family record is pretty messed up, too. My dad went missing 3 years ago, my mom committed suicide just because of that 2 years ago, my older brother got murdered last year, and my younger brother was kidnapped by a bunch of bandits yesterday.

Living in this damned world is harder than I might have thought when I am without any help.

Our country is separated into different clans, which is fighting each other non-stop,and never requested peace, or anytime soon, that's for sure. Before those clans are formed, there are two kind of groups. One of those two groups demanded power and glory are called "Hungry Wolf Knights". And the group that demanded trust and equal are called "Peace Makers".

Eventually the populations grew out of control, so the groups separated into more detailed parts called "Guilds". Each groups have 2 guilds that stands for their qualities. The "PowerPunchers" and "GloryGetters" Guilds belongs to the "Hungry Wolf Knights" group. The "TrulyTrusters" and "EqualEkard" Guilds belongs to the "Peace Makers" groups. Ekard is a very kind person, he is literally a legendary character until few years ago the officials found his dead body on the ground. There is to be said that his back have a unnatural black circle mark after he died that he wasn't supposed to have before he died. Nobody ever know who killed him.

And of course, a Guild also includes 6 clans. But I will save that for later, since there are 24 of them in total, I promise I will tell you the names of the clans later but I guess I will have to save the sweetest information at last, but definitely not at the end of my adventure.

 It's finally the last day of school! Next year I will be in 7th grade, which we can decide which Group we belongs to! "I am so excited for next year!" Charlie exclaimed. "Ashley, which Group are you gonna join?" Willow asks. My class is filled with chatter and excitement, except for me. I am a loner and I am without a need to laugh with those folks with no experience to have no family.

"Quiet down class, this ain't no next year yet, now we are learning with 6 hours 46 minutes and 23 seconds left. We gonna hurry to learn, not to get all pumped up about something few months away." Mr. Skido sounds irritated. "0 loves 0 family" Nicholas once joked to me. Nicholas is the only friend I have, and I am the only one who can get his jokes.

When it's my birthday few months back, Nicholas yelled "Happ Birthday!" to me, everyone rampaged to my table when they heard that. "It's your birthday?" Chase yelled, " How come we didn't  know?" Skyler asked with disbelief. I suddenly felt extremely depressed with them asking those pointless questions to me like that, I'm also uncomfortable with those attention on me. So I "Death Stared" at everyone around me, including Nicholas, he's the one caused this anyways. Somehow everyone returned to their seats, including Nicholas also.

You might have noticed something really weird, and you're correct! I don't have a name! That means you can't use a first or last name to call me! Do you want to know why I don't have a name? It's because I lost 49.674195382% of my memory! I don't know who erased my past memory, but when I tried to remember who I was, there will be as if a chain made of fire squeezing my heart, literally!

Today Nicholas is sitting with me at my lunch-table, start saying jokes to me as usual. But I didn't laugh like always today, the only thing I ever said to Nicholas today at lunch was:"Born on Monday, raised on Tuesday, married on Wednesday, got sick on Thursday, gets worst on Friday, dies on Saturday, buried on Sunday." "What?" Nicholas basically yelled. Wait, I didn't say that! Something, or someone forced my mouth to say that! "Sorry." I quickly apologized to Nicholas.

I suddenly remembered that my younger brother is kidnapped yesterday. So here is what happened, me and my brother was just finding some food in the mountains. But suddenly a bunch of bandits previously belonged to the "Killer Kroc Klan" cornered us for all of our coins. We didn't have any coins so we are forced to let them take one of us, which was my brother. From that day on everyone in my town heard the news and started to call me a "Cursed Boy". 

I once heard that my father belongs to a clan called "Fatally Flamethrowers". But I can't go in there since there is a sign saying "members only" on the door. "B-ding, b-ding, b-ding, b-ding, pow!" "Can you at least turn down your volume down when you are playing Flappy Bird?" I said to Nicholas. "Oh, sorry." Nick apologized, tucking away his phone.

"Hey, you're my friend, right?" I said to Nicholas, "Yeah, why?" Nick responded. "And friends is supposed to help each other out, right?" I said, "Yeah, they do." Nick said with questions in his face. "So you're willing to help me out on my rescue mission to get my little brother back, right?" I asked, but probably a bit too sudden, because Nicholas dropped his jaws down to the lunch table. At first Nick don't understand, then he asks:"What was going on?" So I explained to him what just happened yesterday.

"This is insane! From chance to succeed this rescue mission 1 to 10, I vote 0! I'm ou..." "But you're the only one who can help me out of this nightmare!" Cutting off Nick's sentence. Nicholas paused for a while to think about it, then he said the last word I heard him say for rest of the lunch period:"Fine." "Thanks! Meet me at the School Playground tomorrow!" I said.

"See you tomorrow!" Nicholas yells to me as the school day ends and summer vacation begun. But this ain't no summer vacation for me, nuh uh, no way. I still needs to find my younger brother tomorrow and it's going to be a long day. When I got back to my tree house, I gathered everything I needed for the trip; a map of the mountains that I found outside my treehouse few days ago, some food, and perhaps a rusted kitchen knife, in case of emergencies.

It's so unusually freaking dark outside, I just can't seems to sleep like I usually do. I never have this much discomfort, not to mention that I am sleeping in a pile of leaves right now. It's basically at midnight, when I start to hear some kind of voice calling a name, the name just sounds so familiar, like I heard it before but I just can't seems to remember the name. I suddenly felt as if a fire chain squeezing my heart, it burns and hurts at the same time. It hurts so much that I instantly forgot about the name.

The squeezing stopped, because the voice stopped saying the name, instead the voice started laughing. Then this came out of my mouth again:"Born on Monday, raised on Tues..." I managed to cover my mouth, but the sentence continues inside my mind louder than ever;"...day, married on Wednesday, got sick on Thursday, gets worst on Friday, died on Saturday, buried on Sunday." I fainted after that.

I somehow managed to get full energy when I woke up the next morning. That's when I realized that half of my tree house is destroyed. "Well, I guess I will have to upgrade my wood wall to stone so it will be safer for me to live in, seems like I still have a few hours until my meeting with Nick." I said to myself, still having no idea who destroyed my home. But first I will have to get my materials; stone. I knew there is an abandoned stone quarry just about a mile away, so I packed my food and left for the trip.

After about 10 minutes I saw the stone quarry, I started to find some stone that can be built into a sturdy wall. I suddenly saw something sparkling, and shiny. It's a few yards away from the quarry into the woods so I have to get closer to get a better look, as I get closer, its appearance become more detailed; green, shaped like a crystal, and it seems to burn like a flame. I've seen fire that's red, orange, yellow, or even blue rarely. But never green flame I've ever seen. It's also in a crystal-like form, I've never seen anything like this.

I know it's still a burning flame, so I would use some wood to pick it up from the stump it's burning on. When I used the stick, it turned to ash when it barely touched the flame, so I will need to find a few thicker ones to see if that works. So I find a few branches without the sticks spreading on it, but it won't last long either, the tiny flame gobbled up the branch in just a few seconds, then the flame landed on the stump again. Sticks don't work, branches worked, but not good enough.

When I am about to give up, that's when I have a brilliant idea. I need to cut down a skinny tree, it can last way longer than a regular branch, it can also be light enough for me to carry. I