#Fario Vaneer

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Day 16: Just One More

Fario felt his muscles screaming in protest as he slammed his fist into a being made of pure light. As his fist made contact it shattered apart into tiny small shards of glass. As they hit the ground and Fario they fragmented further, before fading fully from sight. Fario panted as he started to feel his lungs burn.

A voice started to silently speak to him as he stood back up. Two illusions still standing. “Isn’t that enough..?” Melanco said, concern filling Fario’s mind for a moment. “You’re winded.. You seem like you’re about to drop..” 

“I’m fine, Melanco.” Fario wheezed, and ducked underneath the light clone. The spear in it’s hand flying overhead, and Fario slammed his fist into it’s stomach. Quickly he grabbed onto the spear, and pulled the weapon out of their hands.. Then with a quick motion spun in the ground and stabbed it through their chest.

As it disappeared into nothing, another voice rang out. “She’s right you know. You should really take a break. Sit down maybe? Anything.” Seren’s voice was soft, but also a bit demanding. Fario’s brow furrowed at the tone.

“I’m fine, brother…” Fario raised his arm, and clashed with the light construct. His arm feeling a slight string at the shield. As the knight raised it’s sword to gut Fario, Fario quickly moved to the side causing the knight to lose it’s footing. Quickly Fario lifted his leg and swung up at the back of it’s head. 

A small train of flames followed his foot as he kicked the knight, shattering it like one would with glass. Fario’s leg suddenly gave out as it hit the ground, and he let out a yelp in surprise as he fell onto his shoulder.

Seren let out a small sigh, and Melanco muttered something quietly. “I’m fine you two! I promise!” Fario said, trying to stand.. But it’s clear his knee wasn’t going to allow it. He groaned and just moved to sit down on the ground. “..Okay maybe I overdid it a little..”

“You’ve been at this for hours.. Just relax for a few minutes okay..?” Melanco sighed, one of Fario’s eyes turning a brilliant icey blue.

“Alright alright.. You don’t have to force me..!” He pleaded, leaning back to stare up at the treetops.. Bits and pieces of sunlight shining down through the leaves. “Just.. Wanted to train is all..”

Fario heard a soft sigh, and Seren started to speak.. Though he now sounded concerned “You have been nothing but training for hours on end for the past few months Fario.. You’re worrying us.”  That took Fario off guard.. Usually Seren kept his thoughts to himself so not to intrude on others.

“..Sorry..” Fario muttered and covered his eyes as the sun started to shine directly into them. “Just.. I feel.. Useless compared to you two.. You both can use magic! Meanwhile I.. can just.. Hit things.” Fario grunts, and just starts to cover his entire face. “IT sounds stupid… But I can’t cast magic without hurting myself…”

“...” Melanco and Seren both fell quiet, not exactly sure how to respond.

“Like..! Melanco you can use your magic to wield ice weapons, or trap people in water..! And Seren can do such amazing things with his light illusions, and manifestations..! I got fire, sure.. But.. The most I've ever been able to do is.. Put my fists on fire..” Fario raised his free arm into the air. A burst of flames wrapping around his entire arm. “Just.. feels underwhelming..”

The siblings sat there in silence for a moment. Taking in the scenery as time slowly passed.. Eventually Seren sighing and speaking up. “Fari, you’re fine the way you are.. I understand you want to use magic, but what you do is fine.” Seren began, and shushed Fario by continuing. “You can’t use magic, sure.. But you fight so much better than me and Melanco. I don’t even know how to throw a punch.. I use swords, but you can use those and fight unarmed.”

“And I can’t.. Even fight without my magic..” Melanco added on.

“..Right..” Fario grunted as he tried to push away his feelings of inadequacy. “Just.. Sometimes I worry you two look down on me..”

“No! Never!” Melanco shouted, catching both brothers off guard. Melanco paused, caught off guard herself. “I just.. I don’t think of you like that.. I think.. I think you’re amazing the way you are.. Just.. Give yourself some credit Fari..”

“..Sorry Mel.. I just want to be like you two.. I.. Know in my heart yo utwo aren’t like that..! But I can tell people.. Were scared for me, or pitied me.. I know father did, even if it was subconsciously..” Fario sat upright.. Seren having fallen silent at the mention of their father.

“..Come on.. Let me just have one more go at it.. Then we’ll make camp.” Fario said, slowly standing up. Seren sighed as their eye turned a brilliant amethyst purple.

“Very well… But only one more.” There was a slight teasing, and that was the Seren Fario knew. With a smile, the oldest sibling conjured forth a knight.. This one riding atop a horse. Fario taking full control, and preparing to combat the opponent… The smile staying as it charged towards him.

#Fario Vaneer #Seren Vaneer #melanco vaneer #Harledion #OC #Writing Prompt #Writing 2022

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Day 10: Clad in Royal Violet

CW: Blood, Abuse, Attempted Murder, Hallucinations.

The day was starting to calm down. It was the birthday of a set of siblings. A party thrown by their friends and family to celebrate their eighteenth birthday. Though they were touched, they had to step away. One of them was feeling overwhelmed, so they departed into their mother’s garden. 

The one controlling at the moment gently placed a hand on the roses, changing them to a deep purple. They smiled, and continued to do so for the rest on this particular hedge. Each step they took as well the rocks making the pathway glowed, and vines of pure light following his feet. 

He decided to check in for a brief moment.. Closing his eyes to see his siblings with his mind's eye. Melanco was asleep, Fario was nodding off.. But Malavi was still wide awake. Yet she was staying eerily silent. Seren opened his eyes.. That was normally how she was when he decided to take control. 

“What do you want, Malavi?” Seren quietly asked, stopping on the spot. One of their eyes flashed, changing to a deep shade of green. Seren groaned, only able to see through the one eye..

“Why did you leave? Everyone planned that for us!” Malavi said, using a harsher tone then Seren would have liked.

“Melanco was feeling overwhelmed, so I decided to leave.. We’ll rejoin now that she’s asleep, calm down..” Seren said, forcing Malavi out. His eyes blinked, changing both back to the normal purple. He could still hear Malavi grumbling.. “You know I hate it when you force yourself in control..”

“Maybe if you LET me in control…” Malavi hissed out. Seren began to speak again to argue, but stopped as the sound of feet was heard.

He turned around, and saw two individuals. A woman with fiery red hair, and similarly blazing eyes. She was taller than the man next to her, who was shorter than her by a good few feet. His eyes were a deep blue, and his raven black hair flowed ridiculously long.

Seren stared at the two of them, his mother and father. “Oh- Sorry for leaving early.. Melanco was just feeling overwhelmed by everything.”

The woman stepped forward, holding a small box. “OH then we won’t keep you.. We just didn’t want you wander off yet, we have yet to give you your gifts!” Nexus said, and handed the box to them.

“We’d like you to see them before you go to bed, or wander off.” Tpia said, a smile spreading across his face. “We put them together ourselves.” 

As Seren knelt down to the ground with the box, they slowly undid the wrapping and ribbons. A grey wrapping, with multi-colored bows. As he opened up the box, he saw four items.. Each with a name underneath. A blue pendant with a sapphire jewel placed inside of it. The sapphire having water trapped within it. A golden clothespin with a fiery red ruby tucked away in it’s center. 

Then there was a journal, ancient looking.. Tattered, worn, but still kept in a good condition despite it’s age. A family heirloom..

Then there was a scarf. A lovely violet dyed scarf with hints of light magic sprinkled on it. Seren gingerly picked it up.. And with every movement made with it, a trail of glowing lights followed it. Seren quickly wrapped it around their neck, an uncontrollable smile spreading across their face. They giggled and twirled, the scarf leaving a small trail. 

Nexus and Tpia both smiled to see their child so happy. It was a beautiful day.. Slowly drifting into night.

If only that same night could be the same one months later.

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In that same garden, Seren was training his magic. Using his arms and fingers to guide along a vine of pure light. He spread out his fingers, and smiled as flowers began to bloom out of the vine. Yet they faded as his concentration was interrupted once again by his left eye turning into a jade green.

“Malavi-!” Seren choked out, but was suddenly stopped as half of the remaining eye also turned green. 

“Oh, be quiet! You’ve been forcing yourself to be in control for the past few days!” Malavi said, but Seren pushed back. Their eyes swapping from green and purple at a rapid rate.

“I was just trying to practice, you can ASK!” Seren hissed, but yelped as Malavi moved their leg out from under them. The sudden shock of hitting the ground causing Seren to lose focus.

Malavi forced them to stand up, and she grumbled. “Why would I ask when you get everything you want..?” Malavi spoke softly, and twirled her wrist. Fingers outstretched.. The shadows around them flowing to her whim. “You don’t even have to ask and you’ll get it..”

Seren hissed, now not even trying to take back control. She could still hear him even if she wasn’t. “What are you talking about?! What has gotten into you lately!?” Seren shouted, waking both Melanco and Fario. Both still confused and dazed. “You’ve been acting cruel lately! What the hells is your problem!?”

“My problem?” Malavi sneered, “Is that you are given everything, Seren. Because you’re seen as the best of us. You are the little royal harledion in violet.” She growled and fixed up her clothes.. Stopping when her hands hit the scarf wrapped around her neck. “You are given everything… By everyone. Even our family.”

“That’s absurd! I still treat you, Melanco, and Fario wit the same respect! I don’t give a damn what others-”

“AND THAT’S THE PROBLEM!” Malavi shouted, grabbing the scarf and ripping it off. “You DON’T care! You don’t care that they praise you, and only you! How much recognition do we get?! None!” The shadows around Malavi started to twist and turn. Becoming jagged, and even rising up out of the ground.

“Malavi, please! Why are you acting like this, I’ve never-” Seren tried to plead, but it was clear Malavi wasn’t listening. She swinged her arm, and the now physical shadows struck one of the rose bushes, cleaving it in two. “MALAVI!”

“QUIET!” Malavi screamed, and grabbed at her head. “Do you know what our parents gave me!? A JOURNAL! A journal that falls apart whenever I so much as TOUCH it! So what the HELL am I supposed to think!? You, Melanco, and Faro ALL got handmade gifts! I got given a dusty old relic! Of a time no one REMEMBERS!” 

Malavi glared at the scarf in her hand, and hissed. Seren suddenly felt an overwhelming despair rise up in his heart. “No.. No! DON’T! I love that thing, Malavi please!” 

“You don’t deserve this… You take all the glory, so I’ll take this from you, you ungrateful brat!” Malvi released the scarf, and Seren could only watch as one of the eyes turned purple… As spears made of shadows shot up from the ground, and shredded the gift his mother and father made for him. 

..It was in that moment, Seren felt something snap. This wasn’t the first time. Malavi destroying something he cherished because of her own problems. Seren let out a roar, and Malavi felt herself grabbed.. Not physically, but her soul.

“What are you doing-?!” MAlavi gasped, but Seren took full control. Screaming and squirming on the spot. Falling to his knees he slammed his head on the rocky pavement, grey blood splattering across the ground.

“GET OUT! GET OUT GET GET OUT!” Seren screamed, and looked into the sky… The four siblings feeling themselves being torn apart… Yet it was Malavi’s soul that broke. Seren let out a gasp.. As a jade-colored soul shot out of his body, and into the ground. Seren twitched, and fell to the ground.. Curling up on the spot as the soul started to desperately form itself a body. The plants withering away as their life energy was used to construct it a body..

Seren whimpered, tears streaming down his face… Muttering incoherently as his left eye flashed.. Changing from a deep purple to a golden yellow. Within he also felt the same happening to Melanco. Her sobs becoming choked, and a freezing cold overtaking their body for a moment. 

Seren started to rise, covering their ruined eye. As they looked over to where they tossed Malavi.. They gasped. For a fraction they saw their sister. The same raven black hair, with green eyes.. Next he saw a creature. A tall, pitch-black void like creature. It’s body rising high into the sky as it stood up.

“What did you… do…?” Malavi asked, but started to back away.. Seeing Seren holding a small knife made of pure light. “Seren…?” She stepped closer, not realizing the danger.

“Get away!” Seren shouted, pointing the knife forward. Malavi paused, and stared confused… But to Seren, the beast kneeled forward, a wicked smile forming on it’s face. Malavi moved her hand to her brother.. But to Seren the creature shot it’s arm forward to his head.

…It was in that moment Malavi realized what had happened, seeing the yellow eye. Yet she only saw it once Seren leaped towards her, screaming in fear… And a knife sinking into her shoulder.

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Nexus and Tpia had run outside, and both suddenly stopped. Tpia covering his mouth as Nexus’s eyes went pale, and just stared. There was Seren, weeping curled up into a ball.. Covered in a rich jade blood. Next to him.. Malavi.. Her body nearly unrecognizable. Near death… Barely breathing. Cuts and stab wounds covering her entire body..

As they ran towards their children, Tpia picked up Seren.. But he only repeatedly said one thing: “Get away… get away…. Please…”

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Years had passed.. Nexus and Tpia mourning. Malavi had disappeared just a few weeks later, despite her injured.. Harledions were hardy, but her injuries were slow to heal.

Seren.. However had stayed home. But for a good five years they stayed within their room. Only leaving when Melanco or Fario were in control. But Fario had gone mute.. Melanco had tried to stay social, but slowly built a wall around her. 

Melanco had loved to help their mother with her garden.. Using her magic to water the flowers, and keep them alive. Yet now.. Any water she touched froze. Any plant she dared to touch died. Melanco entered a deep melancholic state.. Fario catatonic with unending rage for Malavi. 

Seren… however seemed joyful. It didn’t seem forced.. He still remained in his room, but he always seemed.. Ecstatic to have guests. Especially Nexus and Tpia. 

Yet one day, as Nexus entered the room of her children.. She found it empty. The window open.. And a majority of their clothes and belongings missing. She nearly fell to the ground, staring at the empty room in fear.

Yet, she saw a note placed on the bed.. She shakily stepped towards it, and unfolded the letter. Staring at it’s contents..

“Mother, father. I am broken. So are Fario and Melanco.. So we’ve decided to try and find a way to fix ourselves. We know nothing can fix our magic.. Me and Melanco understand that. Yet we want to move past this trauma.. So we’ve decided to seek out a way to do it. 

I don’t. Fully remember what happened that day. I don’t know what made me the way I am now. Yet I want to be happy, and joyful.. Like you two remember me as. Yet if I just stayed at home I don’t think I could do that. So I’ve gone out.. I’m not sure where. I think we’ll figure that out as we go? 

I’m hoping we’ll see you again before long. I just want.. To go on a journey. Melanco and Fario agree.. They want to see the world too. We don’t want to be slaves to our emotions. We want to be better.. And fix everything. I hope you can understand.. And I’m sorry if I’ve broken your heart.”

~ Serendipity Vaneer, Melancholy Vaneer, Farious Vaneer,

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Seren stopped on the hilltop.. Looking back over at the small town he called home for over twenty-three years. The garden of his mother still clearly visible from this distance.. She and Melanco had loved and cherished it for so long.

“...You two sure about this? I could split myself and-” Seren started, but his eyes shifted.. Freely allowing the two to see. Their right eye a mixture of red, cyan, and purple.

“I’m sure Seren.. We want.. To go with you..!” Melanco responded.

“Mhm.. We want to make sure you’re safe. Okay?” Fario continued.

“...Thank you both…” Seren said.. Smiling as he started down the hill. Fixing the pendant around his neck, the water inside of it sliding around.. And pendant on his chest looking as if it was lit aflame.

And the beautiful rich violet purple scarf made by Melanco and Fario glimmering as he walked.

#Harledions #Seren Vaneer #Fario Vaneer #Melanco Vaneer #Nexus #Tpia Vaneer #Writing 2022 #Writing Prompt #Original Characters #Original Race