2 Budding hate

"AHHH…'' being cut off in the middle of her sentence, little Mel was flying head first down the cliff, just to land on a fluffy cushion. Widening her eyes by this weird occurrence, Mel was completly baffled, just a second ago she was up there talking to An Rui, when she felt a yank from behind and after that waited a free fall down for her, just to lay now on a cuddly, fluffy cushion like thing. Still in a daze Mel looked up to see a dense cloak of fog cutting her sight up.

"Was that just now my imagination or…no that can't be true, she would never do something like that!''

'I have to get a grip of myself, this time nothing happend but next time I have to be more careful.'

"Ohh, right what is this fluffy thing under me?''

Slowly standing up Mel did not feel any kind of pain, so she new she was ok. Curious to now what she landed on, she started to look around, to see a field of black. Wherever she touched was of fluffy, black fur like consistence, giving of a stark contrast with the white fog, if not for the fog, Mel would probably not even now, that the colour that she stays on is black.

"Where the heck is this place? Grandfahter… I'm scared.''

Where in the time Mel was looking around and trying to fight the rising feeling of fear, wanting to go back to her safe harbor called grandfather. Up the cliff, the group of children greeted a white haired old man, that was walking unhurriedly in their direction.

"""Greetings, Villagehead."""

A skinny boy was trailing behind the Elder, with upright back, a long white beard and scharp aura, that gave everyone a revered feeling, it was the grandfather of Mel. His piercing, black stagnant eyes looked on to the border rock and his voice vibrated in the air saying one sentence, that wants to now every detail of the occurents, treating his words like gold, even for his granddaughter "What happend?''

Even thought he new from the skinny boy what occurred, he wished to hear it a second time from the children.

It were only two words, but all the chidren got shivers down their spine, looking down not daring to even breath out loud. An Rui really didn't now which god gave her such guts to do something so evil, when she even new that Mel had this iron gaurdian beside her. Now in this second she completly broke down and started crying for real and borrowed herself in Feng Zhous embrace, not able to say one word.

In the end Feng Zhou felt responsibile to everthing, so he stammered about what happend, until Villagehead came to the scene. Listening until the end, Villagehead noded once and gave one last look at An Rui, before saying to all of them, "Go Home.''

No one talked back to the Villagehead and scarpered away, An Rui even felt like she got amnesty by an emperor, that last glance by him was like stabing needle, how glad she felt to go home and the best of the day was she got rid of Mel, the girl that took off her glorious future or thats what she believes.

Before the now Villagehead Xue Ming An, became the Villagehead, the Villagehead was An Ruis father An Fei Shi, at that time An Rui was still 4 years old, she got everything that she took fancy off with no complaints, she was after all the pampered princess of the An household.

An Fei Shi had four healty sons, but only one precious daughter so he took especially care of her, but everything changed on a misfortunate day, when back then the village was attacked by a horde of wolfs, every household took a toll losing husband, brother, losing fahther and son at the most critical moment Xue Ming An came throught the village with a bamboo basket, seeing this bloody sceen with ripped limbs and wolfs cadaver, Xue Ming An could not ignore those people in need, so he put his bamboo basket in a safe place and unsheated his sword going straight in the horde of wolfs.

When the wolfs felt the danger it was all to late for them, they were butchered one by one starting by the leader of the wolf pack, since after the leader was taken care off, they were in a disarray and it was easier to kill them off.

After clearing the place, skining the wolfs fur and taking of the precious materials for the villagers to barter for their living, after all the loses they got from this attack, that would help them out a bit and burning the rest of the cadaver, he helped them bury all the lost family members. All this taking him and the still abel bodied villagers some hours.

Witnessing this scene all the surviving villagers where grateful for Xue Ming Ans kindness and asked him to stay in the village.

Truefully Xue Ming An didn't want to stay but thinking about his bamboo basket, he went to fetch it from his hiding place and accepted to stay with one condition, someone could provide his granddaughter who was sleeping in the bamboo basket the whole time, with milk.

Luckyly for him, five months ago the Feng family gave birth to a baby boy, who still needed milk to be fed.

So in the end Xue Ming An stayed in the village and helped them build up the village and made the living condition better then in their best years, he showed them how to preserve food for the winter, helped them build up a wooden fence around their village, tended to wounds with his nowledge of medizin, helped bartering with merchants if they were unreasonable.

All those wandering merchants even gave him the name of barter devil, it was not a laughing matter for them having him barter with, because the merchants can't even try to say one word before giving up, his aura was enough to make them shut up and trade fairly.

For outsiders it looked like two people staring at each other for a second, before the merchant giving him a fair price.

This went on for a year until then, An Fei Shis family declined, he lost two of his sons to the pack of wolfs and one was hurt grievously forever staying a cripple, only leaving his youngest son An Gui still fine.

Being hurt himself, An Fei Shi could not move well as previously and losing two sons loaded him strongly, so he stopped spoiling An Rui rotten, what was not to her liking, but she couldn't do anything against that, their finances took a sharp turn downstairs. Everything they did now was for An Gui, so that he could start a good family when he came of age.

An Fei Shis prestige faded and the village demanded a change of leaderchip, in the end An Fei Shi could not say anything and accepted the change, even he himself was for it, he is after all a reasonable man, so the Villagehead title changed head so fast, not even asking if Xue Ming An wanted it or not.

Feeling defeated by the act of the Village, Xue Ming An didn't say anything and just accepted how they named him.

The only one who seethed with hate in the end was An Rui, she got often berated by her father to stop acting so spoiled and help her mother with the household chores, what she never did or was always told to be good to Xue Ming Ans granddaughter Mel, taking care of her and doing whatever she wished to do, being nice and caring to her.

This was not at all to the liking of An Rui, she felt like everything that Mel gets should belong rightfully to her, to top it even up Mel was completly diffrent compared to them, with her blue eyes.

An Rui once heard, how one of the adults sayed that the Barbarians had blue eyes and diffrent hair colours then them, so it was said since only Mels eye colour was different, she is of mixed blood, but that was the only time An Rui heard the talk about Mels heritage from the adults, because they stamped this talk about Mel forbidden, she was the granddaughter of Xue Ming An, their benefactor everything else they didn't care for.

But An Ruis jealousy for Mel was just budding stronger then ever, after she heard the talk about Mel being a mixed blood.

An Rui was at that time still 5 and Mel was 2 such an ignorant age, but great for hate to grow.

(How can she get everything, that should belong to me and even having such beautiful eyes, unforgivable!!)