ZEPHYRS
OTHERWORLDS
It was the same morning as any other summer. The sky was always bright with clouds occasionally filling it, leaving a shady shadow underneath. Kotaro was still as usual, sitting under an apple tree on a hill near the village square, waiting for his friends. They used to gather there to talk about their dreams. What they want to happen in the future.
“Hey how if one day we together go out of the village to adventure’’, said Kotaro.
“Wah that good idea, we can find new things’’, reply Julianz
“But what's not at risk of traveling without an adult?” Ask Delila
“Ah you are a cowardly sih” said Einz from a distance with his sister who just came to where they gathered.
Welcomed laughter by all because the two of them always fight with each other. They have been friends since childhood, among the eight children there are brothers Einz and Ainz, Einz always keep this little sister from any danger. They always gather every week in the morning to occasionally meet greetings and laugh regardless of each person's personal problems.
On this morning, Kotaro was in trouble and was intending to tell her the problem, but after everything gathered, the mood changed, Kotaro's heart which was initially struck by sadness slowly disappeared due to laughter, the jokes and stories they used to do that, as if removing the sadness that was there. But in the end, none of his seven best friends knew what happened to Kotaro. At one point, Kotaro was driven out by his own biological parents from home,
“Exit you from this house, mother never taught you to contradict the words of parents” said her mother in an angry tone.
“Mother, calm yourself first, do not get carried away with emotions” replied his father who wanted to calm the atmosphere.
“What? You want to let our son experience the same thing as you?” His mother asked his father.
Kotaro's father fell silent and could not stand in the way of what his wife had done to his son and Kotaro darted away from his house. The seven friends who knew it were shocked and furious at Kotaro for not telling about the problems he faced so that his friends felt annoyed at themselves because they could let this happen to his best friend by oneself. Kotaro who did not want his friends like that then went far from the village.
“I've disappointed mom, I can't burden my best friend again with this” Kotaro said as he ran out of the village.
The confused Kotaro did not know where to go in the middle of the road was shocked by a strange little creature like a walking crystal,
“Huh? What is that thing?” while asking himself to wonder.
Kotaro who was curious continued to follow him and eventually both of them also led to a forbidden place, the Forest of Illusion. The forest is forbidden for villagers to enter because of the many bandits who roam and at the same time become a nest of notorious bandits.
In addition, there are often mysterious events that are beyond common sense in the forest, when entering just once into the forest, will not be able to return because the surrounding forest in every corner looks the same, he said, therefore, the chief of the Brahm village tribe forbade entry into the forest.
A resident saw Kotaro who wanted to go deeper into the forest and shouted
"Hey Kotaro, where are you going? that place is not to be entered"
"Please don't bother me first" he replied, shouting
The man immediately ran to report the matter to the village chief, who was immediately accompanied by some villagers to prevent Kotaro. The news was heard to the ears of Kotaro's parents. At once they both rushed to the scene.
"Young man, stop your steps, that place you can't go" said the chief
But not influenced by Kotaro, because he focused on finding the mysterious creature. But his steps immediately came to a halt when he heard a screaming voice from his father telling him to stop. Once stopped for a moment, he continued the journey that from the beginning had made him curious.
"Dad? Why didn't you stop him?" ask his mother
"He's the son of you two??" greet the tribe chief
His father who was silent because he was shocked to see a glimpse of the mysterious creature Kotaro chased was like a figure that was not foreign to him.
"Why are you silent, you know what the consequences are for breaking the king's orders??"
"I hope there's an explanation for this" he said furiously as he turned inside the village
Meanwhile Kotaro who had entered too deep only realized his stupid actions.
“Hah hah hah, this is where?”
Trying to run in all directions hoping to find a way out but to no avail. Holding under a tree while hugging his knees, his entire body could not help but feel fear, fear of death, loss of family, friends he left out there.
“There is no way out, everything looks the same, am I going to be stuck here forever?” kotaro said with
“This is silent, no one else, am I going to die here? Nooo...”.
“Dad, mom, friends, help me.” While shedding tears.
After hours of just contemplating his mistake in the forest. Kotaro is finally determined to
get out of the forest for his friends who are waiting out there. On the way he again saw the little creature he was chasing, annoyed by the creature, chasing and intend to catch it.
But luck does not side with Kotaro, when he almost managed to catch the strange creature, he met a group of bandits in the middle of the road that rumors are very cruel. This situation was getting more difficult and made him lose his life spirit for the umpteenth time. Filled with despair, while
running from the pursuit of the bandits who wanted to kill him. Kotaro who can only run without knowing the direction even came to a dead end covered by a very high cliff.
“Bos, finally we get new prey after a long time eating food that is not clear” said one of the bandits.
“Yes, this guy looks quite delicious even though the meat is not enough” replied the bandit boss.
Feeling cornered, Kotaro takes a very risky action against the bandits, but all means have been used to defend himself from throwing stones, hitting with
the tree trunk is there. Kotaro eventually resigned beaten and persecuted by the bandits, with full of injuries all over the body of his prey, the bandit wanted to kill Kotaro.
When the swords that became the weapons of the bandits were smashed into Kotaro's chest, suddenly the surrounding air became cold and the bandits in an instant turned to ice. Kotaro who was surprised by this was confused by what happened, after looking around him. Then he was startled again with a mysterious voice calling out his name, so Kotaro stood up and looked left and right but he found none, as if the forest was calling him.
“Kotaroo..” mysterious voice that envelops his ears
“Kotaroo..” that voice is increasingly clearly heard in his ears.
“Kotaroo..” as if that voice would prey on him.
A little while later, a strange, crystal-shaped creature appeared that he was chasing right in front of him. The creature also introduced himself and told him that it was he who had helped defeat the bandits.
“My name is Aoyanagi, I am Zephyr who was stranded in your village hundreds of years ago, when Zinc Stone hit this region” said the little blue creature.
“Zinc Stone?” Ask Kotaro
“Iya, the stone of my origin was born” he replied
Kotaro was silent for a moment, while looking at the bandits who had frozen and lifeless.
“I'm the one who helped you beat them all, that's part of the style I have” greeted Aoyanagi who saw Kotaro was surprised by the incident.
Despite hearing Aoyanagi's explanation, he still did not understand the incident just now. Aoyanagi also offers Kotaro to join his world. Kotaro refused because he wanted to go home soon to meet his family and friends.
"Don't you want more power?"
"You mean I can do that?"
"Of course, if you touch what's behind my hat"
A bright light emanated shortly after Kotaro touched the passage mentioned by Aoyanagi. The one where Aoyanagi transferred her powers to Kotaro.
"Hey I can take out ice like you"
"I told you not, but you still need a long practice to master it"
"If something like this is small, look at it"
Kotaro who pointed his finger to a stone to be crushed also missed and became Aoyanagi's laughing stock.
"I told you, it's not easy, come with me to practice the power"
Kotaro finally agreed and Aoyanagi took him to a deeper place in the forest and arrived in a forest but the forest side looks different from the forest where he is, Lilian Forest. On the side of the forest is a door called the Gate of Sirians, which connects the real world with another world called Otherworld. When they entered the door, Kotaro arrived in a city called the Town of Beginning.
Kotaro's father from a distance smiled as he looked at the enormous light coming from the forest that Kotaro entered.