STORY #
Title: Anya
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
1-Sentence Summary:
A young maiden discovers the
mysterious world of spirits and decides to help their realm from chaos.
Synopsis:
Anya, a young teenage maiden, who
lives in Syracuse, wants to venture out of her confined world that her parents
have forbidden her. She has tried several times to run, but always ends up
being caught. One day, however, while she was picking up berries in the woods,
she bumps into an injured woman, who has horns and ears of a ram. Anya soon
realizes that the woman is one of the zodiac signs, Aries. Aries then tells her
about her situation that an evil goddess, Eris, who has caused discord to the
spiritual realm. Determined, Anya decides to help out even if she is just a
mortal human. She meets the rest of the zodiac signs and she tries her best to
receive acceptance from them. They venture out and struggle through
tribulations that Eris puts to slow them down from fulfilling her desire.
Finally after many obstacles, Anya and the zodiac signs were able to defeat
Eris when Anya suddenly receives power from the higher gods. She then is
appointed to become the guardian of 13th zodiac sign, Ophiuchus.
Storyline:
This story takes place in Syracuse, Greek period. An era
when people feared and worshiped their great gods. Few of which is the zodiac
signs, as known as the horoscope that we know of today. However, the mortal
people did not adore all gods. In the deep sky of constellations, lives the
goddess of discord and chaos, Eris. Upset about the fact that the people
despair her, she plans to pull discord to appease her grudge. But that is just
the beginning of the story.
A young maiden runs for her life and heads to the dense
forest to hide. She squeezes herself into a tiny spot and covers herself with
shrubs and leaves, she pants for air and her heart pounds harder every breath she
takes. Then suddenly, she felt a strong hand wrap around her waist area and
carried her on his shoulder. She tried to escape from his grasp but was unable
to do so. Not for long, she arrives to the village.
“Anya! This is the umpteen times you have tried to run away
from home!”
“But Mother,”
“No buts! Now go back home and finish up your chores!”
Anya. A rebellious young maiden living in a quiet village.
Always wanting to get out of her comfort zone. But growing up in a traditional
culture, she is not allowed to do so. Anya hated her routine and mundane life.
But all this is going to change.
Days after her attempted escape, Anya goes out into the
woods to collect berries for her parents. She hated doing all this chores as it
is against her personality. As she walked deeper into the woods, she heard
rustling noises from the bushes. Out of curiosity, she followed and
investigates. Not before long, she sees a silhouette of a woman staggering
towards her. Instead of being scared, Anya walks towards the silhouette and
finds out that the woman is badly injured. The woman collapses and reveals her
bizarre feature. She has horns and ears of ram! Anya soon realizes that this woman
is one of the twelve zodiac signs, Aries. She carried the injured Aries and
tends to her wound in an abandoned hut. Aries wakes up Anya by her side,
bandaging her wounds.
“Where am I? Who are you?” Aries whispered
“ I found you injured when I was collecting berries in the
woods”
Both started to converse and soon Anya discovers that the
goddess Eris is about to pull discord to the human race and the zodiacs have
been defending every wave of attacks that Eris ordered. However, Aries was
unexpectedly got struck down with a huge blow and falls down to Earth to seek
sanctuary.
“I have to go back. The others need me!”
“ Take me with you! Maybe I can help.”
“But, you’re just a mortal human. The immortal world is no
match for you”
“ I don’t care, I can’t just do nothing after knowing what
is happening. Please, let me follow you.”
After much discussion, Aries agrees with Anya and brings her
to the spiritual world.
Both arrived the spiritual world to meet up the rest of the
zodiac. However, Anya’s presence was not pleasing to the zodiac gods. But with
a not giving up spirit, she tries to get acceptance from the gods by tending to
their wounds from the after battle. On the other side, Eris finds out that the
zodiac signs have a human in the midst of their presence and kidnaps Anya as
hostage to slow down the zodiacs from fulfilling her desire. However, Anya did
not give up and tries everyway of making Eris stop her plan.
The zodiac tries to rescue Anya at the final battle. Without
any hesitation, Anya attempts to distract Eris that almost caused her to lose
her life. However, the higher gods protected her and bestowed her with power
and managed to defeat Eris. Soon after the battle, Anya is summoned to meet the
higher gods and is appointed with a position as the Guardian of Ophiucus, for
her possess the characteristics of the zodiac and has proved to the gods of her
worth.