Light Up The World!

"You guys okay?" said by a young boy with a green hair and has black eyes not older by more than 10 years of age. His body still has its baby fats if you look at his plump face.

After squatting for about an hour digging out something in the sand he already could feel his feet cramping. "I'm about to get tired due to this awful hot weather!" forcefully standin up and look at the two beside him while choosing a different area to search.

It is past the afternoon and the hot humid day prevents the child to be at peace although he keeps on digging with his shovel.

"You know that if we get caught we'll get our fair share of pain haven't you learned enough?! I don't want to be any part of this anymore let's go home!"replied by a girl wearing a fur leather made of desert wolf hide and a little mature if you look at her face full of seriousness while doing her job as a lookout and always on the alert.

You can see that she has a feminine aura even if she's angry while sweating profusely. She not does not have the elegance of a woman yet and is still going through puberty.

"Rosela it's fine we just got to do it like the last time and then we will not tell anyone of what has happened here today". Another voice heard from a young boy standing beside the girl with an innocent face looking a little sarcastic.

He is doing the same thing as the other young kid were doing, shoveling. However if you look into his brown little eyes you can see the determination to continue digging.

He was wearing the same set of hide worn by the little girl and is looking much younger than the two children beside him.

"I just can't trust your buddy Raphael! We have been looking for 3 hours already but we're not seeing anything yet. If the both you dig more we will be late for our evening's feast, Mikhael why do you always go around and play with this toad! Rosela lamented.

A gloomy figure beside Mikhael came and whispered "Buddy you really have fallen and bewitched by this witch! Why did you let her join? Our success rate will be lower than what we've originally planned!" Raphael said.

The last time they came here was a top secret only the two of them knew but the little lady got the wind of it and follow them.

Right after they returned with nothing and got caught by their village head, they have been subjected to stay on their houses until their families wrath had subsided.

Although the three of them were under a house arrest the eldest of them Raphael created a new plan to escape the village again.

Now after a month the three were free and tidying themselves up looking so pure and innocent in the face of their families.

The two boys decided not to tell the 'witch' Rosela about their next plan but Mikhael has been found out and blackmailed by the lady to let her join or their little plan will be known throughout their village.

The two boys felt threatened and decided to keep her and appease the anger by letting her join their team.

The young Mikhael kept his silence for a minute before he chuckled in control and started readying his little stick to detect special things.

His grandmom says that the stick came from an ancient tree called the 'World Tree'. It was passed down from one generation to another and handed it over the next successor. As Mikhael lifted the stick, he remember the time his grandmother gave it to him and form a chant he couldn't understand and it glowed in green while feeling the warmth given to his tiny hands.

After holding it for the first time it is as if he feels connected with the environment they are living in. He could sense a change from everything around him everytime he touch it.

He was told to guard and use it well. Once he grows up and finds a successor he can give to someone else as he deems fit. He doesn't know why but whenever he remember those moments when he looked at his grandmas sad eyes he felt a little heartache.

He just keep it to himself though and promised himself to treasure this thing if he could as possible.

After reminiscing for a while, Mikhael put on a serious look and gaze at the two children beside him and says "Grandma says our world is just a tiny speck of dust along with many other worlds where life is in constant struggle, nobody is safe and we need to choose a path for ourselves, either be strong enough to defy your fate or be like everyone else and submit to the cycle.

I don't really understand what she mean but i feel that i need to work for something to make her proud of. Let us finish this and be home early" the 7 year old boy confessed.

The three brats started walking scavenging for something on a vast plain of red sand that looks like a dried blood coming from countless people due to a great war.

It might have been a great catastrophe to those who participated in this pity struggle war of survival but a new lease of life to those who lived a life as a scavenger all throughout their lives.

After searching until dawn arrived, the kids started packing their baggage. Raphael burst out with a great laughter, "Haha what a great loot! We're rich! We can buy our favourite food and migrate to Bethelsda once we successfully trade this.! "

"Mikhael you should consider finding another girl aside from Rosela, she is not someone you can handle later on if she get what she wants from you. Haha. And you Rosela, you need to stop sticking closely to Mikhael. Ever since the moment i've known you two, I feel like i'm always walking with a chain between my feet. Both of you are dragging and lynching the life out of me!" After saying that, he lifted his bag and started running to the northeast.

"Get your ass back here!Ugly toad you will regret this!" Shouted by the fuming Rosela while her face burning a little red, she looked back to Mikhael "Let's depart and we can still make it to the feasts before we get caught."

After saying that she shyly pick up her own baggage and run as fast as possible to catch up with her mortal enemy bursting with immense anger while cursing halfway.

Mikhael looked at their fading backs while he put a smile on his face. He took his own bag of holding and look at the sky, at it he can see three majestic buildings like it stood there since the beginning of time protecting the land and showing endless graces upon it.

The 'Fortresses' as what the tribes called it had ruled this world for who knows how long. A yellow light like mantle that covers what the eye could see in the sky keeps anyone from escaping from inside nor invading from the outside.

However, focusing on it for sometime he saw something that day that he would never forget.

"Something's wrong!" his eyes constrict. He put his focus on the three grand buildings.

The majestic 'Fortresses' started to collapse little by little and the yellow light mantle started to become like a curtain ready to fall intending to fade at any moment.

**Crack**

The yellow barrier is showing signs of breaking.

*Thud**

Mikhael's face turned pale and released the bag he pick up like he doesn't have a strength to lift it anymore and started running wildly trying to catch up with his two friends.

**hup hup* hup*

"Rosela! Raphael!" He shouted with all his might while using all his strength to run and catch up hoping for something out of the corner of his mind that they will be safe. He could see the two shadows of his friends and upon seeing them at a far distance he started waving his left hand in an unusual way.

Looking at a distance between them Mikhael could see his two friends waving at him. He could hear the voice of Rosela and Raphaell echoing "Mikhael, faster!"

Before he even continue to muster his strength and pursue his friends.

A tear in the space appeared and soon countless of unknown being walked out and started their formation.

After that a bright light covers the sky. A voice that is filled with authority and loud noises of people standing,shouting and laughing in the sky was heard while the barrier is weakening.

And like a dome breaking the barrier collapse.

*BOOM!!*

After the barriers collapse the three 'Fortresses also crumbled'.

Everyone could see the destruction and falling debris coming from the sky down below.

"Wait for me!" while fear spread all over his body and is sucking his strength.

A debris that came from the sky started falling with unbelievable speed on the direction where his two friends were located.

"NO!!!" he exclaimed.

What Mikhael could do is to shout out to the top of his lungs while his eyes turned watery either because of the bright light that came from the debris or his friends looking at him with horror and fear in their eyes.

The time when he heard those words from that voice was when he feel he is as closer to death than living.

"LIGHT UP THE WORLD!" Is where everything had started.