Nimble Wish

Prologue

Just a regular day.

Or so thought the farmers of the Batu Village as they pleasantly harvest their crop.

"Mama! Look what I found!!" cried a little girl as she ran through the lettuce fields, small, plump hands in a fist covering something. Adults watched in amusement as they moved aside for the excited child as she race to her mother. "Look! It's a catta-thingie!"

Her mother smiled gently at the girl, setting the basket of vegetables down in favor of picking the child up. "It's a caterpillar, Mira. Let me see."

"Mama lookie!!" The little girl cried again, voice full of childish awe, now pointing toward the darkening sky.

The woman looked up to where her daughter was pointing. Bewilderment and fear struck her as she slowly eased the confused child down. The other villagers around her stopped whatever they're doing as well to stare up at sky in equal bewilderment.

All look towards the Matsu Mountains.

***

From the tallest peak of the Matsu Mountains, an abnormal bright orb of blue-white light shone, deeply contrasting with the darken sky. The orb blazed brighter, growing larger, and almost blanketing the Matsu Mountains completely in bright white light.

All humans and even animals alike within a hundred mile radius of the Matsu Mountains that could see and hear instinctively cringed-if not plunged to the floor-in fear at the glass-shattering explosion of the bright orb. The ground shook in response of the explosion and a white light flashed through the sky, blinding whoever looked up at the moment.

A hunter in the woods just a few miles from the Batu Village looked up through the dense branches of tree to see thousands of small bright streams of light flew past overhead, showering like meteors. One particular torrent crashed down an inch from his feet. He hesitantly picked the small glowing object off the ground. The small broken glass piece shone brightly for a moment then faded into a simple..

"A Jewel Shard?"

**several centuries later**

A bright light.

Such a pretty white light.

Drawing her to it.

Tempting her with its gentle glow..

The warmth.

The feeling.

Calling to her...

All she could touch is a barrier.

Small hands reached through the barrier in search for it. When she finally reached it, strong hands tore her away but not before she managed to get it out of its barrier, dropping it haphazardly onto the floor, the many pieces scattered.

She could hear everyone around gasping in surprise; her mother scolding gently. She ignored them all, not really seeing them but hearing them as distant voices. Her sole attention lay in the basking warm of her pretty light.

It still glowed, even as it is, in its many pieces, it still glowed.

Even after so many centuries later, it still glowed..

No problem. She'll just reach for it again. It'll be within her grasp once more, even if it's not completely whole.

Strong but gentle hands pull her small frame back.so she struggled, trying her hardest to reach a piece of her shining light. Once free and more determine to get what she wanted, she immediately reach for the nearest piece. Her small hands close around the shiny object and immediately the same pretty white light grew brighter, engulfing everyone and everything.

Images of a long forgotten scene past through her tender mind before disappearing only to be replace by the pure young curiosity that were there.

The piece still glowed brightly in her grasp.

She was only half complete.

Then, as fast as it appeared, the light disappeared leaving her with an immense feeling of sadness and betrayal in which she had no idea of how to handle or how was she even to come up with that conclusion in her young mind. Like any small child not understanding the situation, she cried, the object slip drop carelessly onto the floor in favor of being cradle by her father.

Never anything like this ever happens. The mother of the child picked up the only remaining piece from the floor, looked at in awe for a while before carefully tucking it away.

In time, the legend would reveal itself to her and she would be whole once more.