A/N: Names will be changed. Len will become Noel and Rin will become Rena. At least it's not that far from their original names, right?
PARADISE OF LIGHT AND SHADOW
Prologue:
A Mother's Lullaby
"I pray to protect
For the world that is brimming with smiles
"I fight to break
You were crying all alone"
"A song of hope that binds today and tomorrow
I give my life and my voice
I send it on the wind until I die"
"A song of despair that throws my past away
A voice that declares the end
I will drain it in the endless rain until I die"
This was once the lullaby their parents sung to them. Their mother's sweet high voice, and their father's mildly low voice. Their voices were in perfect harmony.
But the father had left after two weeks ever since the mother gave birth to two children.
"I pray to protect
For the world that is brimming with smiles
A song of hope that binds today and tomorrow
I give my life and my voice
I send it on the wind until I die"
That was what was left in the lullaby that was sung to the two. But their mother's voice was enough to soothe the babies' crying. The mother had already missed her husband. Was he doing alright in the empire?
A thunderous knock disturbed the silence of the night. The mother quickly carried her two children in her arms in great care. The door was knocked down in a matter of seconds, and knights in jet black armor quickly searched for the woman and her children. The leader of the squad found her first and took the female child away.
But, what was more painful than that was…
It was the father who took them away. The mother shed tears and pleaded for the husband to return their child to her. But the father rejected. He didn't want to disobey orders.
He left with Rena, and what was left was Noel.
Rena was taken to the dragon.
She was the next diva.