Notes

Prologue


"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!"

"WELL WHAT'D YOU EXPECT? YOU NEVER CARE ABOUT ME, YOU SPEND YOUR WHOLE LIFE WORKING TOWARDS BEING A HERO, YOU LEAVE BEHIND YOUR FAMILY! YOU KNOW WHAT I CAN'T BELIEVE? It took you... five whole years... to find out that he's not even your son... DO YOU EVEN PAY ATTENTION TO HIM?!"

"Of course I do! But I'm a hero! What did you expect?!"

"I guess I just expected to have a husband who cares about his family..." my mother's voice trailed off as she started sobbing again, she and my father started fighting in the middle of dinner, I was too young to know why.

Right now we were hiding out in the living room as they continued fighting in the kitchen.

My twin brother Ash sat next to me, and my younger sister Ava was crying because of all the screaming, "W-what.... what do you think, it is? That's they're fighting about I mean..."

"I don't know, I just want it to stop..." Ava continued to cry as the screaming got louder and louder, "Hey... Bloom?"

"Yeah?"

"Promise me... that we wont end up like them..." I smiled at him, "Of course we wont, none of us, not you, not Ava, and not me... I promise you that..."

The screaming got louder and I ignored I heard my father yell at her, "FINE THEN! IF I DON'T CARE ABOUT MY FAMILY I SHOULDN'T BE HERE AT ALL!"

Sobbing could be heard through the door "Wait- honey- please don't..."

"LET GO OFF OF ME!" I heard a loud thud, I got up, but a hand blocked my path, "Stay here, take care of Ava, I'm gonna go see what happened,"

I nodded as I heard the door open and then close again, the yelling stopped for a moment.

"FUCK ALL OF YOU!" I saw the door open and dad ran past me and Ava not sparing us a glance, he ran out the front door, and I saw mom crying on the floor as Ash tried to comfort her.

That day we fell apart.

Dad came back with divorce papers and all, of course we went to court and everything, but I was too young to even remember much, they made us choose who to stay with, we all chose mom, we would still visit dad on weekends, but after a while we stopped visiting him, and he didn't care.

About 2 weeks after the divorce Ash went missing, Ava was too young to even know what happened to him, she had been only 3 years old at the time, but I was old enough to remember everything.

I waited outside of school for mom to come pick me up, she took a little while but not too long, when she came here she asked where Ash was, I told her I didn't know.

She asked many teachers who even asked students, but nobody had seen him since lunch, she even went to police with it, after about 2 days they still couldn't find him, I had no idea what happened, Ava kept asking about him, but left it alone after getting the same answer each time, "Ash is with dad"

She was too young to even remember, so she doesn't even know who Ash is now, mom cried for days, but I tried not to, Ava was young and didn't know the truth, and mom was breaking apart, though I was the most hurt out of them.

Ava remained oblivious, and sure mom's husband just left and now her child is missing, but I was only five when I last saw my dad and my twin brother, since then I blamed myself, saying that whoever took him should've taken me instead.

What I didn't know was that Ash was alive, even so, now I'm 17, Blossom Willows is my name, and I have a pretty rare ability, I posses not one, but two elements, both Air, which I think should've been called 'Wind' instead, and Nature, which is just plants and animals.

Mom told me that Ash also possessed two kinds of elemental magic, Ava though only possessed one, it was dad's elemental magic, Air, but that's besides the point, right now, I am going to the Hero Training Academy.

Wait- no- scratch that, I am trying to get into the academy, it's a top secret training ground where people go to train, and then, we become heroes, my mother tried saying it was too dangerous, but I kept trying and finally she gave up and supported me on it.

Ava also wanted to be a hero, so did Ash, I heard my great-grandfather and my grandfather were both heroes, and so was my great-great-grandmother, also dad, I guess it runs in the family, though the main reason dad left was due to being a hero.

But I didn't care, the past was the past now, I just have to focus on training to be the best hero I can be, and I know that I'll do it, and after I do, maybe I'll cross paths with Ash again if he's still alive, maybe when I do, he'll already be a hero... or so much more than that...