Prologue

The Bizidelians burst out of no where, raiding their attack on Ieasuring. They came on dragons and phoenixes and fiery red pegasi. Arrows flying through the air, swords slashing and swinging, slicing through the gathering crowd of Puian knights in their shaking armor, terrified.

The king, in his study, is surrounded by his knights, being protected. Right before the fighting broke out, he had awoken from a dream. No, a sign, a prophecy. He saw three horses, a black stallion, a white mare and a brown mare riding up to the castle in the light of the sunset. Riding the stallion was a man, having the looks of a king, brave and determined, yet unsure. Atop the white mare, a fare maiden, looking like a queen, nervous and scared, but sure of what she was about to do and atop the brown mare, a man, looking like the maiden's brother.

He then saw the man from the stallion on a gryphon and the maiden on a snow white pegasus with black wings. They were in a battle. The maiden shot an arrow at a man in red armor atop a small hill in the middle of the battle grounds. He staggered backwards, but still remained upright. The gryphon put the man on the hill. The man swung his sword and sliced the man in red armor's sword arm. He fell to the ground and the man pierced his sword though his heart. He cried out the most horrific, piercing sound you could imagine and there was a sudden look of agony on his face, then, nothing. All the people stopped fighting when they heard the gut-wrenching shriek come from the man as he plunged his sword down into the chest of his enemy. The scene faded into blackness and the king awoke from his dream.

The King of Pu wrote down this prophecy and hid it in a secret compartment in the stone wall. The Bizidelians poured in from the windows and doors. They killed all the knights around the king and put him to his knees. A particular man stood in the doorway.

"Nicholas. I'm not surprised." said the Puian king.

The Bizidelian king laughed at the other for his fright. "Why so frightened?" He said the word frightened with pure satisfaction at seeing his fellow king so close to death.

"What makes you say that I'm frightened?" A flash of realization sparked in his mind as the agony-stricken face of the man on the hill formed to the face of the man standing in front of him. They look so much alike but they can't be the same person. The man in the dream must be a descendent.

He didn't have time to think much about it, for Nicholas gave the order and a knife was sunk into the flesh on the back of his neck.

"Now look at who the most powerful king is in the land." Nicholas said gloatingly to the bleeding corpse lying on the floor.

30 years later…

A young boy and girl skip up the dirt lane to the old, destroyed castle. They climb over the rubble and skeletons of the unfortunate souls that were lost that dreadful night.

"Ewww, this is gross. Why did you make me come here, Rodney?" asked the girl after she tripped on a rotten corpse.

"Because, Elizabeth, you never know what you can find here," Rodney told her.

"Yeah, I do. A skinned knee and a sore bottom if my parents find out we were here," Elizabeth snapped.

"Your point?" asked Rodney.

"My point is that I'm going to get into a lot of trouble. Being with you always gets me in trouble, Rodney. You should know this by now."

"Yes, I should, but I never learn," he says as he picks his way carefully up the crumbling stairway.

"Be careful. I don't want you to fall," said Elizabeth, voice full of worry.

"Aww. You're worried about me," Rodney mocked.

"I am not," she said as she followed Rodney up the hazardous stairs. They walked into a room with many bodies lying on the floor.

"Eww. It smells in here," Elizabeth said, wrinkling her nose in disgust.

"Really? I haven't noticed," Rodney said with sarcasm. The wooden floor was rotting in some places near the walls and windows. Elizabeth walked over to a fallen stone on the floor. There was a cut out opening in the back. A piece of folded paper lie inside the stone. She opened it up and read it. She saw that it was singed by King Richard, the king of Pu thirty years ago.

"Rodney?"

"What is it, Elizabeth?"

"That's just it. I don't know."

"Let me see." She handed the paper to Rodney.

"I think it's a prophecy," he said in awe.

They have found the lost prophecy!

Chapter One

70 more years later…

Ever since I could remember, I have loved to sing and dance. When I learned to walk, I learned to dance. Same with talking and singing. When I was old enough, I learned to play every instrument. Piano, lute, flute, you name it. My mother is a seamstress and my father is a horse groom. They both work at Ontio Castle the capital of Ayortha, which means my siblings and I lived at the castle, too. My oldest sibling's name is Enebie and my only brother. He loves to fence and is the prince's best friend. My older sister is Ophio and the scholar in the household. I have always been jealous of her smarts. My younger sister is Ifoli and the one that loves animals. And I am Anya, and, obviously, the musical one.

Everyone in Ayortha are singers, though, but I have the most unusual voice in the castle and in Ontio. Mother says that I have the most wonderful and beautiful voice in Ayortha and that I have a gift for music. She says that it's because my most famous ancestress is Queen Aza. If you have ever heard the story of Queen Aza and King Ijori, then you know that Queen Aza is part gnome. That means I am, too. I just inherited their ability to illuse and their shortness, sadly.

When I was five years old, I had to go to school. There I met Elodie and we became the best of friends. We have best friends for three years, now. We got in the worst of troubles together.

When we were in first grade, I liked this boy in our school that was two years older than us. He always charmed every girl he came across. I fell the hardest for him because I was the only girl that he liked. His name was Oroto and he lived in the castle, like me. Just like her clever ways, Elodie told him that I liked him. I said I hated her, but I really didn't. I tried to hide that I liked him whenever he talked to me, but it didn't work. My whole face always turned scarlet and I felt like I was on fire.

Then one day, I saw him talking to another girl, Ikei, and I saw her kiss his cheek. My heart was broke in two. Oh, that horrible minx! How could she kiss him! Elodie helped me through that horrible time. My best friend helped me.

That was the first mistake of my life, being best friends with her. I was five, and I didn't know any better. She was a bad influence and she would make do things I didn't want to do. I'm not a gnome, I can't see into the future. But Puians can deliver messages to you, but always life threatening and having to deal with Pu and Pu alone. That is a one in a million chance that would happen to me, but it did, which would happen later.

Three years later, Elodie's father was taken to the war to fight with Pu in the war against Bizidel. She didn't want him to go and I didn't, either. He was like a second father to me. Her mother didn't care that he left. She was just a gold digger and he had money.

When we were thirteen years old, she and her mother got a letter from the war. Her father had been captured and tortured and finally put out of his misery by the ruthless tyrant Shiro and his sister, Shira. His last words were "my wonderful, beautiful daughter." She was heart broken and I was heart broken, too. A few days later, the queen died while giving birth to a daughter! We have a new princess, but it was tragic.