Aria Stood on her balcony gazing out at the distance sea with a longing that made her heart ache. She wished for so long to be able to see the world outside her kingdom, but she had a duty to protect her subjects from the terrors that dwelled just outside the barrier islands surrounding her beautiful home. Creatures that gave her people nightmares and made them lock themselves away in their homes. It was up to her and her younger sister to keep the danger at bay and see to it that their people thrived. A sudden darkness had her looking up at the sky as it swallowed the land. The afternoon sun was casted into a darkness that made a foreboding feel settle within her chest. Shadows came to life as screams echoed from every direction. Aria quickly made her way to the throne room where she was sure the cause of all this would be, grabbing her sun staff on the way. With each step she took, getting closer to her destination, shadows tried to grab at her. She frowned, casting a barrier of light around her body. The shadows hissed and backed away in pain.
"Artemis what have you done?" Aria questioned, throwing open the doors to the throne room. Where there were normally two thrones only one remained. Her sister sat in a black throne that seemed to be made of shadows surrounded by creatures of darkness that she no doubt summoned to aid her.
"Ah, my dear elder sister. So glad you could grace us with your presence to witness the rise of my kingdom of darkness." Artemis smiled darkly at her as Aria stopped at the bottom step. Her face paled in horror at her sister's words.
"Artemis, you must stop this. Call back your shadows at once or you'll throw the entire kingdom into chaos." Aria tired to reason with her, but instead got thrown into one of the marble walls by one of the creatures. She let out a groaned, slowly lifting her head to meet her sister's angered gaze. Her amber eyes were now a deep ruby color.
"You know nothing!" Artemis growled, slamming the butt of her staff against the floor. "For too long I have stood in your shadow, watching while our people love you and shun me and my beautiful powers. It is time they all see just how powerful I can be."
"I cannot allow you to cast our kingdom in to forever darkness." Aria slowly stood using the wall to brace herself. A determined look appeared on her face as she met her sister's hateful gaze. Her sister laughed deciding to ignore her and looked out the window to see how her work has progressed. Taking a deep breath, she mustered up all of her strength to seal her sister away before any damage could truly be done. The room was filled with a blinding white light making Artemis spin around with wide eyes.
"Forgive me, sister." Aria muttered, unleashed the light upon her sister. Artemis let out a howl of anger before she suddenly disappeared. In her place was a moon shaped necklace. Aria panted, sweat slowing falling down her cheek. She used her staff to help her walk to the window, energy nearly gone from having to do what she just did. Since they had discovered their abilities she had hoped she would never have had to use that spell.
"I should have enough strength to get my people far from here and erase their memories of the kingdom. It's the only way to protect them until the day comes where they will be able to return and the balance is restored." Aria said as another light appeared at the top of her sun staff. Once more she surrounded herself in a white light, but this time pushed it out to the rest of the kingdom. The world around her began to blur and she hoped she was able to save her people one last time.
Sinbad shot up with a gasp, body drenched in a cold sweat. His bedding pooled around his waist leaving his bare chest out for the cold early morning air to kiss. He ran a hand through his messy purple locks with a tired yawn. This dream was causing him lose a lot of sleep. Each night it was the same thing and has been reoccurring since he arrived back to the palace from visiting Heliohapt. Since the dreams started he's been trying to figure out why he was having them and what they meant. However, the answer always eluded him. Light from the sun rise brightened up his room drawing his attention to the window. Sinbad let out a sigh and stood from his bed, tossing the bedding aside. There was so much work that needed to be done and he wasn't sure he had enough energy to get it all done today. He just hoped that work would be able to take his mind of his strange dreams. It would give him time to figure out the meaning behind them that much he knew for certain.