Everything in this world has a yin and a yang, a light and a darkness. It was told that at the beginning there were two brothers one gifted with the ability to change into a Phoenix to harness the power of the light, while the younger brother was gifted with the ability to change into a wolf and to harness the power of the darkness. Together they created balance for centuries, watching over the people of Tektula.
After so many centuries the younger brother had enough. He wanted to stop watching and instead become one with the people. The eldest brother didn't agree. He felt it was their duty and privilege to watch over the people. The eldest brother only saw greed and envy for the people in his younger brother, not the true curiosity and yearning to learn from the people the younger brother actually felt. The younger brother only saw his eldest brothers response as pride and greed, not the humility and love the eldest had towards protecting the people.
Though his eldest brother did not agree, contention began to grow between the two brothers. It was at this time that one night from watching the people the younger brother met a young woman. At first they became friends, any questions that the younger brother had, the woman willingly answered.
After many years the woman grew older and so did their feelings towards one another. The younger brother was ready to give up everything he had to be with her, when the eldest brother discovered the woman as well. His heart leapt from the sight of her. Soon after the eldest brother uncovered the younger brothers plan to leave his immortal life and become mortal for the woman. The eldest brother was enraged with jealousy and envy seeing the love the woman had for his younger brother and not him the eldest.
A fight broke out between the two brothers as the night fought with the day and the shadows with the light, for many years the battle wagged between the two brothers, every time the younger brother tried to leave to join his love, the eldest brother would interfere causing another battle to break out. Until at last the fighting ceased, but the consequences were great. The planet had taken such a hit that Tektula was split between the light and the darkness.
The younger brother, once he had the chance gave up his immortal life to join the woman he had fallen in love with to join her in a mortal life creating a family, being happy through the rest of his mortal life. At first all the eldest brother could do was watch. Watching his younger brothers happiness, until it was too much.
He changed from an immortal to a mortal as well forcing love on a woman he found to be beautiful and created a family of his own just to spite his younger brother.
After both brothers had passed on from this life, the immortal part of their souls took possession and sealed them as protectors forever watching over their people, watching the consequences for their actions. The younger brother became what we call now the Moon and the eldest brother became what we now call the Sun sharing his flames of light for all to see. For centuries the descendants continued the feud between the two now kingdoms. Until the King of the Kingdom of Ziv marched on the kingdom of Mahina, killing all who stood in his path including the entire royal family. The King of Ziv felt he had finally conquered what his ancestors could not, uniting the planet Tektula.
It is said though not all of the royal family died that fateful day, that the youngest daughter chosen even from the stars at birth that she would be the next queen, survived.
A child shot his hand into the air, as the teacher closed the book with a great deal of respect. "Yes, Tucu?" She asked.
"Mommy said that the baby died."
"Many believe that she did, others say that she was able to escape, but no one knows for sure. Some say that if she had in fact died that the Moon, who is said to be her ancestor remind you, would have wept and would have cradled her and make her one of the stars in the sky like her ancestors before her, but again no one knows for sure."
The teacher placed the book gently back on the shelf full of old worn books. Another child came up to her and lightly pulled on her pant leg.
"Tzili, is that why all the moon elves hide and the sun elves hurt us?" Sorrow filled the small child's eyes. So much so Tzili wished she could take it all away. As she looked around at all the children, they had all gone quiet waiting for what her answer might be. Tzili picked the child up into her arms and held him on her hip as she address all the children.
"There are no such things as moon elves only the sun elves. If they did ever exist they don't now. Make sure you don't say anything about them again, alright?" Tzili's voice was hushed but loud enough that each child could hear her and feel the importance of each word.
This was not a time where they all could laugh and play all day everyday. This was a time where even their little lives were on the line, should they say or do something the People of light disapproved of.
All at once Tzili and the children jumped as a whole, as a horn blared across the land. It signaled the sun having disappeared, and that the work day was coming to an end. She quickly looked to all the children seeing their terrified faces, and knowing they did not want to leave her protection.
"Go, go now. Lest the SEE's find you." She rushed the children out of the makeshift classroom, she had created over the years.
She waited a moment listening closely to see if she could hear the little pitter patter of the children's feet, then she expertly silently left the room and shut the door that blended into the walls concealing the hidden room.
She ran down the small hall and toward the growing crowds of people elves dwarfs alike all trying to get home before the time of the curfew. Each person was racing toward their own family or personal cells.
Tzili quickly and stealthily joined the growing racing crowd, after years of practice no one noticed that she came from no where, but then again, no one really cared. Tzili fell into the pace of the racing crowd navigating her way to her own home.
Tzili refused to call it a cell as all the others did, it was her home and she would never allow what the people of the kingdom of Ziv made the people think of as homes. She looked over the banister watching the several layers of people trying to hurry to their 'cells', Tzili remembered a time when people looked happy coming to and from work everyday. That time was not now, everyone seemed so depressed and tired, as if this world had run them ragged.
Tzili carried on though sneaking in and out of the crowd making sure that no one followed her, till she reached the hidden door. She quickly and quietly moved the door that blended into the metal walls, just enough so that she could slip through and moved it back into place. She took the steps up to the roof slower now that she was alone.
As she reached the roof top, she looked out at the city of metal, and wondered if things would every be alright, where children could laugh and play as easily as breathing again, or if their lives would always be like this. Wondering if today was going to be their last or if they would make it till tomorrow. Hoping that the rules/laws would be lessoned.
Tzili turned from the view toward a large metal container on one corner of the roof, and pulled a hidden lever. A machine began working as it pulled open one of the four walls, the blades of metal that had looked like one began to bend back as it revealed the living quarters inside.
A warm breeze blew through Tzili's long braided hair, blowing it over her shoulder. She looked out to where the breeze was going, and clutched the necklace she wore of a crescent moon with a crystal that dangled in the middle of it.
"I wonder how your life has turned out my dearest princess, or if you have fallen to join the rest of your beloved family. Where ever you are, I hope you are happy, and I hope you return soon to us."
