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At the city of Lioness, birds were chanting a melodious song to praise this beautiful city. It was always crowed of people of different ethics. Although each person had their own special traits, the one that stood out of them the most was a hooked person, unknown to be boy or girl. He or she walked in the middle without caring for the looks for others and turned in a dark alley on his or her right. Because a lot of usual people usually came to the city of Lioness, they quickly forgot about him or her.
That hooked person looked his or her surrounding and walked, through the alley, to the main street of the city. There, a big commotion started. Since the prince was going out of the castle, people were all there to greet him. The prince was probably the most recognizable person in Valkyrie, the country where he was the prince.
People bowed at his present. Some even kissed his hands. He showed no sign of pride or superiority and was very friendly even with the poor. Although he was only twelve years old, he was very handsome. With just one look with his oceanic eyes, the heart of the young girls would fall in love. His dark blue, that was near the color of black, hair was a little bit longer than the normal length for boys’ hair. It was covering a little bit his face. He brushed his stands on his face with his hand and went down from his horse. At his thigh, a long sword was there. As he went down, the float of his cape went along smoothly. No sign of aggression was shown.
The hooked individual stood there until the prince was forced to go with the partisans because they all wanted him to go visit them. Suddenly, a shorthaired girl cried out loud:
“MONSTER! HELP! MONSTER!!!”
Everybody started running away. The hooked person reacted to it and
murmured few words. Immediately, a bow and arrows appeared in her hands. Just
when she was about to attack, the prince reappeared out of the sky and slashed
the beast with his sword. His brilliancy got the attention of every person that
was near the center of action. The hooked one, seeing that he or she will be of
no use, made her bow and arrows disappear and decided to go away during this big
fuss. Things did not go as she planed. The prince, named Roy Al Zeltrac, called
him or her and held her by her shoulder.
“Wait! Don’t you know that it
is dangerous not to run away when a monster comes? What if you get hurt?”
That person whom the question was addressed to did not respond to it as
if he or she could not hear his words. He or she wanted to walk away from there,
but the others stopped his or her way.
“The prince is addressing to you.
It is an obligation to reply him.” A citizen shouted.
“Yeah! Respond! And show some respect!
Just because you are a girl and a foreigner, it does not mean that you can show
disrespect toward our prince!” Another one said.
“It is not necessary to talk to her in
this tone.” Roy said calmly. “It is my fault for being so impolite to want
to give you a lesson, please forgive me.”
He bowed to her. The girl did not have any reaction. She looked at him for few seconds and turned to go away. Then, a strong blow of wind blew at them. Without the time to hold on to her cape, her face was revealed. She had long and curly black hair. There were two stands of hair that she rolled it in white ribbon. Her purple eyes let a small leek of emotion of surprise but concealed it without delay. The aura that she had gave an impression of innocence. Her skin was very white, almost as pale pas snow, and soft. Her beauty amazed everyone, and, where she started to walk away, they all opened up a road for her. Without wasting another second, she walked out of the city.
This world was divided into three countries: Valkyrie, Walkure, and
Salkerye. They were separated according the natural resources. In Valkyrie, the
majority of the earth was of forest and agriculture. Walkure was well known for
the amount of water that it contained. As for Salkerye, it was at high altitude
which created a barrier between the other two country.
The castle of Valkyrie was named Lacertilian. Walkure’s one was
Wingasirum and Salkerye’s was Whistanium. There were a lot of cities and
villages in each of those countries. Despise their differences, there was one
thing in common between those three marvellous places; they all had temples all
over their land. The temples were to greet the all mighty God, Lenora Eldora. No
one in the land would denial the name of this powerful God. She was the hope and
light of all the people in the three countries.
At
the castle of Lacertilian, Roy Al Zeltrac was on his way to see the king. During
his walk to there, a girl jumped on him and circled his neck with her hands. Her
pink hair was in a big braid, and her blue eyes were showing joy and happiness.
She was wearing a Chinese style of sleeveless short red dress and a pink ribbon
that surrounded it.
“Roy!
You are back!” She said.
“Hey
Reithia. What’s up?”
“The
castle is boring…”
“Then
go to your lessons. I think that the dance teacher would be more than happy to
see your presence at the class.”
“I
don’t want to go…”
“You
will never learn to be a true princess if you stay like this, sister.”
“But
I don’t want to be a princess, brother~!”
“No
choice. This is life. But…”
“But
what?”
“I
think that your dance lesson teacher is somewhat happy not to have you in his
classes.”
“Why?”
“Because
your dancing will cause a lot of disasters to the class and to the
equipments!”
“ROY!”
Reithia started to hit Roy with punches, but he dodged them all. Then, he
took out a booklet whose front cover was writing: ‘Things that can make
Reithia mad!’. He inscribed something in it.
“Now, now.” He said.
“Wow! My booklet is filled with a lot of different ways to get my little
sister mad!”
“Stop writing in that stupid
booklet!”
“No way! I will publish that
sooner or later! I continue like this, I guess I can punish it in a month! Good
job for being the ‘main character’ of my book, Reithia.”
“ROY AL ZELTRAC!!!”
“One more page for ‘Things
that can make Reithia mad!’. You are such a nice person to become my
victim!”
“ARGGG!!!”
“Prince Roy, my greetings.
Princess Reithia, please watch your manner and behaviour toward your brother,
his highness.” An old woman said. “My Prince, the king wishes your immediate
attention. As for you, my Princess, please attend your dancing lesson.”
“But I don’t want to…
Can’t I ask for an exemption for dancing?”
“Of course you may.”
“For real?”
“Yes, since your manner is
unacceptable, I shall set a three-hour class for you today. Now, my Princess,
shall we go?”
“NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Save me brother!”
“Have fun!” Roy answered
her sarcastically.
“What kind of brother are
you! How dare you abandon your own flesh and blood?”
“For your first question, I
am the kind of brother that suits you best. As for your second one, I still have
my flesh on me, and my blood is still running in me. How can you say that I
abandon them?
S-i-s-t-e-r”
“Roy!”
“Guess this is another page
for my book! How can I ever thank you?”
“ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!”
At the throne room, Roy greeted his father the king. After the
disappearance of the servants, the king began to talk with him in an ordering
manner.
“Roy, tomorrow is the
preliminaries exam for the ones who wished to become a royal guard. Make sure
that there will no perturbations during the starting of the fights. Another
disturbance will result a punishment so horrible that even you cannot imagine it
horror. Is that understood?”
“Yes, father.”
“What did you just call
me?”
“Yes, my king.”
“That is better. Now, be
gone.”
“Yes, your highness.”
The stars of the night were disappearing and soon, the morning will be saluting us with pride. Although all the people were greeting peacefully the God of sleep, there was a pair of dark eyes that remained open. When the cloud passed the moon, its light showed the person’s face. It was a girl of eleven years old, the same girl that surprised Lioness’s citizens with her prettiness. Her dress, which was covered by a cloak early that day, was white. Her collar was of feathers, and so was her belt. She wore a pair of long gloves with black ribbon. Her socks, which reached till her knees, were like her gloves. She was wearing a short dress along with a black fabric, which was long until the floor. From her back, it looked like a dress. Her top was a high-colt type, which flipped till her chest, and her back’s clothe had drawing of a pair of wings. She worn a very special necklace. It was a light-aqua circled stone, accentuated by a darker aqua colored crescent. In the middle of the crescent, a small light blue crescent. the bottom of that necklace was like the point of an arrow. A pair of wings accompanied the larger crescent.
She gently swept away the dust on her clothing and put on a cloak
that covered her hair. She checked if her dress was already and turned a whole
turn. Then, she started to walk. From her back, she looked like a loner trying
to find a home. She advanced more and more until she went into a cave.
That cave had nothing in it. That girl went to the left
side of it, counted to the fifteen rocks from the entrance, and used some kind
of magic. After her movement, an orb appeared. She placed her hand there and
transported to elsewhere.
Roy wanted to go to the lake where he used to go after meeting with his
father. He first went to his room, then hit the wall next to his bed, and
finally used magic on the orb that appeared after his attack. Like the girl in
the cave, he disappeared.
Each country had specific transportation systems. The one that Valkyrie
used the most was the orb transportation. All buildings had at least one
entrance of this transportation. Of course, they are normally locked by powerful
magic. The one on the roads or in public service places were not closed. It
permitted most of the people to go to different places in a flash of time.
At the lake, Roy saw a small light providing from the direction of the
middle of the lake. He went there and saw a black haired girl dancing on the
surface of the water. The light of the moon reflected the water of her
surrounding. It seemed that she was on a stage. When she danced, the water went
out of the lake and created some kind of shining jewelleries. Her white and
black dress flowed along the water, and the ribbons attached to her hands moved
along the wind. She formed a so beautiful image that the boy did not dare to
dare to disturb her. When he looked at her, he noticed that she was the same
girl that he saw today in Lioness. He let out a small sound of surprise, and
that distracted the girl. SPLASH! She felt into the water. Without hesitating,
the boy jumped in the water to help her. He swam deep into water and searched
for her. At the moment he reached to her, he realized that her body was as cold
as ice. Her eyes were closed, and her breath was slim to none. He immediately
brought her back to the water’s surface.
When he went there, he noticed that numerous people surrounded him. They
all carried the scent of blood and held weapons.
“Give us that girl or
else.”
“What do I gain from it?”
“Your life.”
“My life is still here. Why
should I listen to you?”
“You will die NOW!”
“She woke up!” One of
the intruders said.
“We will still have to get
her! No matter what!”
“She will have no chance if
we all attack together.”
“Yeah! Let’s do this!”
They all charged to attack her. As if she did not see anything, she
remained there motionless. At the moment the attacks were about to hit her, a
wall of mud covered her surrounding and prevented the assaults from her. She
made an arc and arrows appeared and shot at her enemies. All he arrows hit her
adversaries, but she did not kill them. All the wounds were specifically hit at
a spot that will unable them to move and nothing more.
Suddenly,
a person appeared. He was a boy with long silver hair and dark purple eyes. The
bottom of his face was covered by a cloak. He clothing was nothing but black. On
the back of his clothes, it had the same symbol as that girl.
“It is a pleasure to
meet you again, my beautiful Elwynn.” He said. “
“…”
“Mine, mine, now you don’t
want to talk. Hum, shall I make you to talk?”
“…”
“Oh well, guess I can’t
expect much out of you because you never liked to talk. Am I right, Elwynn
Eleanor?”
“…”
“I see that you had not
killed my worthless servants. You should have because I will kill them anyways.
Useless people are not worth living. And you are worth living. This is why we
have gone so much trouble trying to find you. But… I did not expect to find
you so quickly. You are usually better than this. What is the reason of this?”
“…”
“If you don’t talk, I’ll
just force you to!”
At his words, fireballs attacked the girl. One by one they hit her.
Seeing that she’ll get seriously hurt, Roy instantly made a blade with water
and deflected the fireballs.
“Elwynn, I know that
you will not care for your own life, but, do you not care for the life of the
person who is protecting you? Come on, just say one word. One word is all it
takes for me to withdraw my troops.”
“…”
“Wait! Why are you forcing
her?”
“Step aside. This is between
her and me. You have no business in our family affair. One more word and I shall
kill you.”
He wanted to say something more, but the girl put her hand on his mouth
to shut him up. She advanced to that mysterious person and looked at him face to
face.
“Do you want to try to
defy me? You know that you will lose, so why bother trying? I promise you that
if you just say one word, I will let you go.”
“…”
“You will have better chance
to survive if it is the ‘others’ who come to you. With me, you have
absolutely no chance. So, are you saying it?”
Elwynn tried to speak, but, at the moment she tried to, blood went out of
her mouth. Roy wanted to go to her side to see if she was all right, but the
white haired one secretly put a sleeping spell on him. Afterward, he continued
to talk.
“You see. You are not
suited to go outside of ‘there’. Once you do, you know what consequence will
come to you. If you return to me, I will forget your escape and assure you your
safety. So, are you coming back with me?”
“Chris…Please…” Cough.
“Don’t…” Cough. “Kill…” Cough, cough, cough.
More blood came out of her. At the time she was about to faint, the boy
named Christopher caught her. He carefully put her into his arms, swept away the
blood on her face, and took out a dagger. He used it to slide his finger and
draw a spell on the ground. He gently placed her in the middle of the spell and
activated the spell.
“I would have never
expected you to talk this much… But if I don’t do this, the people of the
organisation will say that I went easy on you. You can’t go out of there
yet… You are still not strong enough… I am not too. I am still not strong
enough to protect you… One day, I will bring you out of there. But now, we
will have to go back…”
After his words, he took her with him and disappeared under the light of
full moon…
When Roy woke up, he realised that it was already the morning. He quickly
went back to the castle and changed his wet clothes. He went to the
preliminaries fight’s arena, greeted his father, and started the matches.
During the time of the fights, his concentration was elsewhere… He was still
shock of what happened yesterday. That girl, will she be all right? There were
no traces of her after what happened. He tried to focus more on the fights but
couldn’t. His mind was preoccupied by Elwynn’s presence.
He did not even notice the appearance of a not-invited person until she
appeared. She looked someone around twenty years old. Her short white hair, her
purple eyes, and her clothes remained him of the person who took Elwynn.
“What a disastrous match! You call this fighting? I call this playing,
no not even. This is child’s play.” That woman said.
“What is the meaning of this?” This king was furious. “Who are you,
and what are you doing here? I want an explanation NOW!”
“Man, what a noisy person.”
“State your name! It is an order!”
“No one is my boss. Oh well, there might be one. But you are not my
master, so I don’t have to listen to you.”
“How dare you speak in this manner with me?”
“Even my master doesn’t order me around like that. Now, now, now, what was I doing here? Oh yes!” She went to the young prince. “I was here because I have nothing else to do. And my instincts told me to go here. Hum… Here is where the matches for being a royal guard, right? This is so pathetic. Even my weakest apprentices can beat them with no problem. And I thought that there would be something to watch here… Oh well, guess that I can’t always true my instinct. This is no fun, I’m going.”
“Wait! Here isn’t a place where you can come and go anytime you want!
Guards! Arrest that person now!”
“And I thought that I am short tempered…”
She slipped her hand, and a strong current of wind blew everyone in her
path away. After that, no one dared to advance to her. Just as she was about to
go, the small prince stepped into her sight.
“Wait…”
“What do you want? A lesson on how I should respect the king of
Valkyrie? Spear me from the speech.”
“No… Actually, I was wondering if you know a girl named Elwynn…”
“Elwynn? Yeah, I know her.”
“Where is she right now? What is going to happen to her?”
“I don’t know. It is not in my rights to know about that. It is
usually Christopher who does that. Why do you ask about her?”
“I… hum…”
He looked at his
father’s furious eyes and shut up. That girl walked to him and touched his
front head. Suddenly, he felt like part of him flew out of him. She gave out a
smile.
“Roy,
I believe that that is your name?”