Turning a Curse into a Blessing

In the year 383 when the human civilization had just started discovering things and building their own empire, people started exhibiting questionable and strange abilities after the great colonial war had ended. Most of the people are still not aware of such a thing but due to the number of children showing abilities that any normal human don’t have, they grew wary and thought that they are cursed. Thinking that the children are spawns of the devil, they decided to do an inhumane act and that is to burn all the children that exhibit special abilities.

               The children are hunted down and burned at the center of the village, parent watch their children burn to death because of their fear towards them but there are also some parents that chose to hide that their children have special abilities and kept it from ever being know to strangers, even their friends.

               It all continued for almost two years. Hundreds, thousands of children died all over the world. While all the other kingdoms use different ways to kill the monsters that is a threat to their security, there is a kingdom that see those children as gifted ones and use that to their advantage. That kingdom did all the experiment that they can have which resulted to less death than the other empires have had in the past few years.

               They were able to understand how the special ability surface and that only children were able to manifest such abilities. Anyone at the age of 16 and below have chances of manifesting their abilities and that is what made that kingdom powerful. With that knowledge that all the other empires do not have, that certain kingdom sent people to gather all the persecuted and hiding gifted children back to their kingdom where they are treated with outmost care than that they received from their originated kingdoms.

               At first it was a bit difficult for their kingdom to start but as time goes by, the children were able to control their abilities properly. The king sees this and use it to his advantage over the other empires. He used the children as weapons tat easily dominates all the battles that they fought. They only spent a few hours to defeat an opposing kingdom’s army that should have taken a bit longer than how long it takes in the past..

               What makes the children eager to defeat the opposing armies is that the persecuted children shared their experience to the others who immediately sympathizes for them, making all the children show no mercy to the ones that harmed their fellow gifted. The other kingdoms sees how easily they are defeated by the monsters that they deemed evil. And so they decided to do the same thing but the people have already been planted with fear, it became a common practice for them to avoid getting caught by other people using their abilities.

               And most of the kingdoms ended with the same result. Almost no people had answered their call, even when they did all they can to apologize for their deeds but the guilt of killing their own children still haunts the parents. It went differently from what they expected.

               “Look at all those idiots trying to do the same thing that I did. Sadly for them its too late. You have already broken the rust of the citizens let alone make them bear the guilt of killing their own children. You trying to do the same thing that I had done only make you all look desperate. Who is laughing now? You all call me crazy and out of my mind but look at how it turned out to be? Now you are all kissing my ass trying to get some help from me? Are you all taking me as a joke? That is what you get for trying to get rid of changes before you even start to study it.” A man sitting on a throne muttered to himself while smiling.

“From this day forth, we should call them ‘Carriers’.” The king addressed his subjects as they cheer for him at a distance and adores his presence.