Hi there! I'm a new writer and this is my very first story on FanFiction. English isn't my native language (I'm Dutch), but I'll do my best to avoid any grammar or vocabulary mistakes. However, if you see one that I didn't see, please let me know so I can change it. Much appreciated! I won't drag this on any longer, so thank you for clicking on this story and please enjoy!
Prologue: The two brothers
It was cold, like most evenings are in wintertime. However, on this particular night it seemed colder than usual, as if there was an extra chill hanging in the air, causing shivers to run down one's spine. The sky was filled with dark, ominous clouds that had not yet dropped their rain, but looked as though they could any minute now and the wind was howling.
It was at that evening that two new lives were brought to the world, their cries filling up the cold air. But that wasn't the only sound that echoed through the night; loud, hysterical laughter could be heard. The sound was coming from a tall, hooded man with tattoos under his eyes, who was standing it a large bedroom in front of the two freshly made parents. The husband stood protectively before his bedridden wife and newborns, raising his Magic Power to such an extreme extend that a red glow was emitting from his body and that the ground began to shake. Still, the hooded man didn't seem the least bit frightened by the display of power and merely began to laugh even louder. Suddenly the hooded figure stopped laughing, an evil smirk took it's place. He simply gestured with his hand and out of the blue, another figure emerged from the wall on the other side of the bed. The new figure grabbed a dagger from under his cloak and before the husband could react, he had pressed it against the wife's throat.
The tattooed man chuckled. "Well, well. It seems that the tables have turned, my friend. I wouldn't move if I were you, because that could turn out to be not so healthy for your wife, if you know what I mean…" He slit his index finger against his throat.
"You bastard!" The husband gritted his teeth, but understood that he had no other so he dropped his Magic Power and the ground stopped shaking.
"What do you want from me?"
"Want? Oh, nothing really, just a little revenge is all."
"Revenge? For what?"
"Oh you know, for destroying everything by disbanding my guild."
"Your guild… So that means you're…" He looked at the hooded man, surprised.
The man chuckled again. "You've realized it yet? Since you've destroyed everything I loved, I will repay the deed by destroying everything you love, beginning with your wife and sons."
He made another hand gesture to his accomplice, but the husband quickly shouted: "NO! You can have everything, everything else, but let them live!"
"I suppose I could just kill you and be done with it, but tell me, we're would be the fun in that?"
At that moment the man's accomplice prepared himself to stab the dagger into the woman, but before he could do so the husband had hurled himself in front of his wife, causing the dagger to sink into his back. With a pained expression on his face he looked at his wife, tears welling up in his eyes.
"My love, I'm sorry, but I don't think that I'll be able to help you raise our children, nor will I be able to see their first steps nor will I hear their first words, I'm sorry…"
There were tears in her eyes now too. "No, Grad! Don't talk like that! Of course you'll do all those things, we'll do them together!"
"Yeah, yeah," could be heard from the other side of the room. "Very touching and all, but I'm tired of this. Karacka, kill them already!"
The silver dagger was stabbed down once more, creating an even larger wound in the man's back. The man began chanting a spell as the dagger came down again, still shielding his wife and children with his body. The spell must have been some kind of barrier, because the next time the dagger was stabbed down, it stopped in midair, unable to go any further.
"Now, my love, look at me. The spell I've cast on you will protect you from any harm, but you must get away as soon as possible, because this barrier won't last forever since I have been weakened a lot, I think that dagger sucks away Magic Energy. Please, go to-"
"No, I won't leave you! Besides, right now I'm to weak from giving birth to travel."
"But what about our sons?"
"Can't you get them to safety?"
"I suppose I can since they are still very small, but that will cost me all of my remaining Magic Energy and the barrier will fall."
"I don't care, as long as we can save them."
"So be it, then." He started chanting another spell, since the transportation of living beings was complicated Magic. When he was done, a Magic Circle appeared and the twins lit up.
"We're sorry we can't be there when you grow up. We've only known you for a very short time, but we love you more than life itself, don't ever doubt that."
Both mother and father hugged their children tightly in a last, loving embrace. They wrapped a little blanket around each of them, their names embroidered on it. The little babies were fading now, almost disappearing to an unknown location. Their parents whispered their last words of goodbye to them, before they were gone.
"Farewell. Rhys and Zas Tyron, we love you…"
Somewhere dozens of kilometers away, a simple smith was taking his daily stroll along the borders of Sunflower Village. He shivered, for the evening was cold and unpleasant.
"I guess, I'll make this quick so I can head on home," he said to himself, while rubbing his hands together in a attempt to warm them. It was then that he heard a rather strange sound coming from the bushes left of him. Was it a baby crying? No, it couldn't be. Curious, he went to take a look.
"Well, would you look at that," he said at the site of the two baby twins lying side by side in the bushes.
So that was already the end of this chapter! I know that this one was a bit short, but that's because it's the prologue and I promise that the later ones will be longer. Please leave a review in which you let me know what you thought of this chapter. Thanks! Anyway, I hope you'll continue to read this story and I'll try to update soon.
~ t.s.w.w
