Elementalist: Time Controllers 4 Ch. 4 'Bandit's Attack'

Until one day she was forced to marry someone she did not know by her parents. Scarlet had tried to reject this arranged marriage, but her parents would not listen.

At the end, she decided to run away from home unnoticed. She waited till night come to sneak out successfully. She continue to walk and walk until she arrived in a remote village.

Her stomach began to grumble as she hasn't eaten since morning. She felt very tired and her feet went limp. Fortunately there was a kind-hearted old lady who offered her shelter and food.

Scarlet did not feel suspicious at all and immediately accepted the good offer. Luckily, the residents there also accepted her happily. They did not ask about her origin or were suspicious of her. Scarlet felt comfortable living there.

Unknown to her she would face danger soon which change her life.

In the middle of the night when she was fast asleep, someone held her. That very someone covered her mouth with a cloth and tied her body with a rope. Of course Scarlet struggled and she used her elemental power to fight that person.

Scarlet began to hear someone warned others by saying that she was an elementalist. In an instant Scarlet who was able to move freely saw that she was surrounded by a big bulky man.

"Who are you? What do you want?"

They did not answer only smiles which, according to her, those smiles were very frightening.

A few seconds later, she faintly heard screams from outside.

"Bandits! Hurry and run! Argh!"

"Bandits?" Scarlet asked confused. Now she realized, this village was attacked by bandits.

At that moment Scarlet felt scared and suddenly she could not bring out the fire she wanted.

The fire that was released was only a small fireball and disappeared into the air, making the bandits laugh viciously.

"Looks like this elementalist is very weak. Right, how could a girl be an elementalist? Hahahaha."

"No... Don't ..." sobbed Scarlet, whose fear began to be hidden no longer.

"Argh!" one of the bandits exclaimed.

Scarlet was very surprised when she saw the kind old lady who helped her had thrown a pan at the bandits.

"Let the girl go! She is not a resident of this village!" the old lady snapped.

But the bandit laughed and hit the grandmother so hard she pa.s.sed out.

"Old lady!" exclaimed she.

Eventually the fear she felt earlier disappeared somewhere and replaced by new feelings. Her anger was overwhelming and she wanted to kick the bandits from this village. She wanted to protect this village especially the old lady who was very kind to her.

She really hoped that she could become stronger. Strong enough to beat all of these bandits. She groaned frustrated as she almost held captive.

Why did she so weak? Why did she have to be born as a girl? What can she do to defend this village?

In the last moment when one of the bandits held both of her wrists, a bright red glow appeared just in front of her all of sudden.

This glow turned into an arc covered with blazing red fire. For a moment she felt confused, why did an arc appear before her but no arrows to be seen?