In the mountain where most of the trees are gone, the grasses are turning brown and water is nowhere to be found. The animals are starting to evacuate looking for a better place to survive. The mother tree called Sierra is losing its power to give the energy to protect all the living things on her mountain. Sierra is the oldest tree in the mountain called Mt. Slovestia which maintain the peacefulness of their realm. Before she dies she needs to find one who is capable to take place in her role but she can't find any. Sierra cried out loud - and this is gonna be her last moment. She made a curse that whoever the first one to touch and water her body, the power will be passed and will become the next guardian of the Mt. Slovestia.
Sierra's last cry is the reason why it's raining in the town where Zeya is living. It was a cold morning and the rain won't stop so she decided to go out to look for firewoods due to her mother is sick and she needs firewoods to make some porridge for her mom. Her mom warned her not to go outside in a view on a fact that it is too dangerous and might be the reason for her clumsiness but the willingness to alleviate the condition of her mom disregard its warning and continue her plan.
Mt. slovestia was too slippery, obviously, because of the rain and she can't assure holding at the trees because anytime it will fall over. Zeya already collects firewoods however, she needs to go back and reach the top of Mt. Slovestia for the herbal plant she is looking for, where Sierra - the Guardian of the mountain located.
She successfully reached the top and luckily, she brings water to save the thirst and lessen the exhausting hike but when she made another step, her foot bumped into a block of wood and accidentally splashed the water to Sierra and bumped her head (too clumsy as always). Zeya is still in shock when the tree started to light its heart and started to mumble anything about elements and Sierra elucidated a lot of things and after the luminous scenario, everything went black and all she can remember was in a blink of an eye, I mean in a single splash of water and her clumsiness made her officially the Guardian of the Mt.Slovestia.
Zeya woke up and sigh, "geez, I thought it was real" she murmured then she hurriedly goes back to her mom but unfortunately, when she goes back, her mom is having a hard time breathing. She looked for the herbal plant that came from the mountain only to remember that she didn't even have a chance to get one because of her being clumsy. Her mom called her "Hey, come here Zeya and let me spend my last minute with you" Zeya cried and the rain started pouring too like her mom bid goodbye to the world. She can't blame her mom, it's been a year that it was fighting for cancer and she already knows that anytime her mom will leave her but knowing that makes her chest in agony.
She was sleeping when Sierra showed in her dreams to say that she needs to save the mountain and to make it clear that she is now the Guardian of Mt. Slovestia, Zeya go back to the mountain and it was so unreal and magical when her feet step on the mountain, the grass becomes alive! She caresses the broken stem of the tree and she fixed it! The tree says "I've valued the help that you've given me, welcome to the Mt. Slovestia, our new Guardian" Zeya was amazed how the mountain turned into a Magnificent and wonderful again.
The peacefulness of the mountain came back, the trees become strong and tall, grasses in lively green and colorful flowers everywhere. Zeya didn't leave the mountain and took responsibility, she loves nature anyway. Animals go back to where they belong and farmers are so delighted because they can harvest a lot of fruits in the mountain of Slovestia. Zeya as the source of light, the mountain turns into an amazing one.
One night, Zeya is looking at the sky and saw a shooting star, she closed her eyes and wish, smiled beautifully and sleep under the moonlight.
There are millions of stars in your dreams. I look in my dream just like the stars above that are shining beautifully but so damn hard to reach. Like hey, I can see it but what should I do to reach it? Should I get my rocketship? there are so many things in my mind that popped up but the thing is I really don't know where to start.
The thing is, this little star is just a star. But the fact that you stopped to look at it and so many thoughts popped up in your head, contains a lot of precious messages.
One of my friends says that when you look and wish at the shooting star, it means that you’re not happy with where you are in your life now. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have wondered what to wish for.
But wishing a life that we never had by believing in this kind of supernatural and magical things are not that bad.
Isn't amazing having that kind of supernatural power where we can just heal the world instantly using our hand? If I really have one, I wanted to use my energy just to heal the wounded earth, putting it back to normal where everyone can enjoy life without being afraid of getting infected by the corona virus.
Author's Note:
July 06, 2021
Article #72
Hi! Thank you for reading and I really appreciate it a lot. moreover, allow me to share that this is my first time writing this kind of genre so obviously, some parts need to be polished more but I am afraid that I cannot make the story justifiable so I let everything in a simple phase. I apologize if I didn't make it to your expectations. The story was inspired by the Filipino folk tale "Ang Alamat ni Maria Makiling" and the Korean drama series "The tale of nine-tailed" and my guide was the prompt created by @Meitanteikudo.
You wake up one day with a supernatural power of your choosing. What power will that be? What would you do? Where would you go? How would you spend your first day with that power?
The title Mt. Slovestia was got by the idea of no other than @crimsonowlkk (thanks a lot) and to @kli4rd and @MyHero for answering my random question.
The story was somehow created for the reason that I wanted to show how I am so in love with nature and wishing that hopefully, one day, the corona virus will be gone.
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Ang galing po. Nagandahan din ako sa choice of words tsaka nagagawa talaga ng story mo na mag imagin yung readers. D ko napansin mga grammatical errors dahil sa ganda(based sa comment). Congrats po. Ang ganda para sa first timer sa gantong genre.