Chapter 2 The Tales we Dread

"Many many years ago supernatural creatures said to have descended from heaven themselves landed in this world, the four supernatural creatures were a demon king, a supreme dragon, a shadow ruler of the night and darkness and lastly a human warrior mage who had possessed strong magic called myrridan these four creatures divided the lands into four and made each their empire ,the unenlightened people who once inhabited the land were now given mystical powers and identities in accordance to the empire they found themselves in.

the dragon shared his blood with his people and made the dragonian empire who were the descendants of the dragon, the demon shared their essence with its people and sub divided their clans according to the various powers given leaving only the royal family with the right to have all three,the shadow empire shared their core to their people and quickly adapted to this new change due to the flexible nature of the shadow powers, while the human mage spread his magic around his people and his empire trived. The human later became greedy wanting more land and power and decided to attack the still developing demon empire as they were the most unstable due to the long duration of their power assimilation which made them weak and incomplete, the humans put on a fierce battle almost wiping out the newly growing demon empire, throughout this the dragonian empire chose to stay silent but the shadow empire unable to tolerate the absurdity of the war decided to step in and quickly turned the tides of the war and saving the demon empire after that the human empire became a realm under the rule of the shadows and after much deliberation they jointly sealed up the blood inheritance of myrridan in human but knowing they will always be exceptions, they made a universal decree that will span for ages that all humans born of myrridan are either to be killed at birth or forever serve the shadow dynasty as a way to make sure there is no more rebellions and to keep tabs on all possible threats to the fragile peace we hold on to" wow no matter how many times i hear this story i'm still amazed maybe it's just that my dad is good at telling stories or the sheer foolishness of the mage warrior to throw away his dynasty and heritage for a mere possibility of obtaining more land that I find truly amazing like did he think no one would help or did he think that in the possibility all other three empires joined forces he could win?, I sigh to myself no need to delve into the thoughts of the dead. I am pulled out of my thoughts by my dad's voice" now for my second story this is majored around the shadow empire and how it affected the human realm, for centuries it is believed and proven that female royal shadows are more powerful than male but female royal are only born once in every several centuries and they have only been 10 recorded female births with the current lost princess being the tenth, the queen of the shadow empire had just delivered the princess safely when she was taking away by a maiden nurse and stolen by masked men just outside, by the time they had noticed something was amiss they pursued the men and the princess but where unable to capture them, only one of the culprit was found and he had revealed to be a dragonian citizen the shadow empire was furious and led a siege on the dragonian empire in order to find the princess threatening to kill and wipe out the royal family, the current king of the dragonians swore to have nothing to do with this and the princess wasn't found, using the essence elixir which is a artifact that can detect any non shadow who had entered their empire recently they found the two other assiliant who later confessed to had done it out of personal grudge and said it was too risky so they threw the princess on the outpost border of the human realm, after this revelation the security became tighter, the tests to show who possessed myrridan became more advanced as the princess would present as a child with myrridan and then the law was passed that all families were to record their child and every abandoned orphans were to be taken and tested, the princess must be found at all cost, and as a way to make amends the prince of the dragonian empire is being held in the shadow empire never allowed to return until the princess is found , it has been 14 years and the unrest of not finding the princess has made the once lenient and accommodating shadow empire become oppressive and negligent so everyone is patiently praying for the princess to be found" I have no particular feelings for this story but I honestly wonder if those dragonian knew this would be the result would they still take the princess? Once again I am pulled out of my thoughts by my fathers voice "this two story I have just told are ones you are familiar with but the last one I will tell is not one you have heard before but me and your mom believe you should know" I feel a bit shaken by their serious tones but I obey my dad's previous instruction and say absolutely nothing just nod slightly."well this happened 14 years ago your mother had just given birth to the most beautiful baby girl with shiny brown hair and the most entrancing eyes, we fell in love with her the moment we set our eyes on her" i was a bit confused i had silver hair not brown is this story going to be about some sort of freak accident that happened to me when i was born? I was so confused but just continued to listen"she was born weak and frail which made me and your mom worry a bit, but in accordance to the law on the second day after her birth we took her for the testing,it showed that she had no myrridan we watched as he entered it Miri morvain cleared and released a breath we never knew we were holding, but such a test was tasking on our miri's poor health and she couldn't handle and breathed her last, as according to law we were to report it but we were overcome with grief and did no such thing, we took our babies lifeless body to just outside the outpost border refusing to bury her on human realm soil, after we buried our child with our own hands we turned to leave but we heard the cries of a baby instantly we followed the cries of the child and saw the most beautiful baby girl with a good patch of silver on her head and her eyes sparkling black with faint red streaks in them, we don't know why but we took her, we gave her our babies name and told no one about it, and then later we discover you had myrridan but we fell in love with you at first sight and couldn't bear to loose you that's when we started planning, building the secret room, learning how to control and use myrridan from forbidden books and when you were five started training you both in physical strength and on how to control your magical strength as well, that's why we made you always act weak and forbade you from telling anyone you were different we used the identity of our dead girl to keep you safe from any other inspection just so you could live a normal life and why you must always wear a brown contact lens when you go out i was dumbfounded not uttering a single word and then my mom continued trying to fight back tears "we didn't mean to lie to you honey, we didn't know how to tell you, but we all love you, we love you so much baby please don't ever doubt that our love for you was not genuine"she loudly declared while still holding back tears. I look over to torven trying to gauge his reaction, to see if he was aware of this too but he only lowers his head that was all the confirmation i needed, i sighed as i looked at the people i have called my family all my life as they wait for me to speak with their heads down,watching as they slightly tremble, i am still in shock but i know they love me and i love them without them i would not even be alive so i take a deep breath and make my voice sound as playful as ever for this " wait!!" everyone's eyes instantly look up at me and with a giggle i say" so you like quite literally took me from bushes" there was a pause with everyone exchanging looks at one another, torven was the first to break it with a loud laugh and then mom and dad and then I joined in with them, we laughed so hard we were clutching our stomachs and then torven reached out first and hugged me tightly and then mom and dad as i silently whispered "i love you guys so much never doubt that"as we snuggled tighter, and then suddenly the scene morphs before my very eyes i look at my hands that once held my family now covered in blood, i look around frantically before i spot my parents bloodied body on the cold hard pavement i rush over shaking them screaming their names, begging them to open their eyes just one more time and then i hear another gut wrenching scream i look up to see torven bloodied but alive being carried away by hooded and masked figures, I run after them screaming torven's name as i try to grab his outstretched arm and with only a little more distance to go i see the hooded figures head turn 180 to me as he still run forwards he taunts "you can't do anything, can't save anyone" i scream "STOP!!!" but his words continue to echo in my mind " weak, pathetic,useless"and with one last feral scream everything goes black.