Episode 2

Ten years later,,,

"Aquila! We need to move now! They're here! Get over here!" Aquila did as told, he walked towards his father. When Aquila was in arms reach, his father grabbed him and shoved him in the open floor board. "Are you okay?" Aquila shook his head "yes" and his father continued. All the light Aquila could see was covered by the floor board, and the carpet on top of it.

Just in time, a loud and commanding knock resounded the room. Aquila could sense his fathers fear, but he couldn't do anything but wait for them to leave. But unlike the other times, this time was different. "I'm coming!" His fathers footsteps went farther away from Aquila's ears. He heard distant talking, but wasn't able to understand what they were saying.

Aquila heard yelling, it sounded like his father, he heard a heavy pair of footsteps, and a sudden bang had Aquila startled. Aquila waited, but heard nothing. Not a single peep. But he knew he couldn't go out until his father opened the floor board for him. So he waited, and waited. But no signs of his father coming to get him. Until he felt something wet hit his left check. And again, but on his lip this time. A metal tasting substance met his taste buds.

Aquila then realized what happened. Silent tears streamed down his face like a constant river. But he didn't dare to make a peep. He didn't know if the bad guys were still there. So he quietly made his was into a narrow tunnel his father built in case of an emergency where he needed Aquila to escape far from the farm.

At the end of the tunnel, a bag his father prepared for him was well hidden under a rock.His father showed him this place once two years ago when the war between The Nature and Fire Kingdom started. Aquila's father is, no was, a nature controller along with his mother. The Nature Militia would ransack the common folks homes and take their food or anything that was valuable. Children were included in what the soldiers would take. Two things would happen to the children. One, they'd have their roots tested, if they were decent, then they'd be sent to the front lines without proper training. And two, if their root was not useful to them, the children would be sent to factories or sold on the black market. Roots are what type of Nature group they control. Like the dirt, or plants. The Nature Kingdom is losing the war, they are destroying it for the Fire Kingdom.

Aquila was born with limited knowledge, he would continue to remember things as he grows, but right now, he only knows how to survive, and what his root is. Aquila had a very rare root, he had a duel root. Meaning he controlled two elements. One was metals, and the other was electricity.

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