The Tough One 1

Author Note: I KNOW, this is going to be super short chapter! BUT it's late and I am tired, so…yeah. The other chapters will be longer, but this is going to serve more as a intro!

Tears soaked up the young girl's face. She stared up at the Nilock above her, the tears streaming down with the pounding rain.

"How could you do this to me?" she wailed, "this is cruel!"

"It's what I do," Master Xandred laughed cruelly, "and you should not have tried to meddle in my affairs!"

"But…I'll never fit in," she sniffed, "they'll kill me."

"Who's says that would be a terrible loss?" the boss cackled, vanishing in a crack of painful lightening.

The young child stared at herself in a puddle. Her hair was so black, and her eyes were chocolate. She was a pretty spitting image of a seven year old little girl child. But this wasn't wo she was. Her elvish ears were gone, her eyes were smaller, her skin wasn't pale and she couldn't weld…

No. She could still control darkness.

This was cruel. She couldn't believe he had done this to her. This was a cruel fate. She let the Sanzu River fill a foot with her tears.

Nikki's eyes flew open. The dream wasn't a dream. It was reflect to her past. The teen looked at her friends, who were asleep beside her in their beds. She sighed shaily and traced the mark on her skin that was colder than the rest, hidden on her stomach. The mark the symboled what she was.

Starr thought of herself as a monster and Twilight thought of herself a curse. Well, Nikki was both.

The tough girl let the tears flow again.