By The Way I Was Shaking
chapter 1
Normal POV
An early morning in Deltora. It was still spring, after all the evil was defeated, and the seven gems were recovered, it was King Lief's priority to clean the city of Del up immediately. Though it wouldn't happen straight away, Lief had other things to do first.
Lief's Journal/POV
It was a month after my father king Endon had passed away, I'll never forget that day, all the damn secrets, all the treachery, all the pain everyone felt that day. When my father told me I was the next king, I was furious inside, not that I didn't love my father, but just that he would hide that from his own son, and his right hand man Barda. If it's that deep of a secret, Barda and I would have kept it. (sighs) oh, well, forgive and forget. It is still hard to take that big of a secret at the last minute though."Okay what is going on!" I came rushing into the meeting room, the one part of the palace that was actually finished. "Lief, the shadow lord is back! That's what going on!" Jasmine responded in an urgent way,"how can you be so sure!" I yelled back. "I was outside two days ago and I saw a red sky, with pitch black clouds! And in the distance I thought I saw a dragon-bird shape in the sky as well, Ak-Babas are always signs of The Shadow Lord!" Jasmine explained everything I needed to hear. "so, what do we do!" Barda jumped in. "well we might be able to gather some information in the library, someone has to have written something on what else can defeat the Shadow Lord!" I stated. "good Idea!" Barda replied, and off we ran taking the shortest path as possible. Racing to our destination, almost tripping at every step, we were running so fast. Since Del palace was not finished and the library was not recovered, there was a temporary library tent, the tent was not a usual camping tent. Though you probably knew that, it's a building tent with many wooden structures to hold the wool cloth on top. When it rains we usually have thin steel plates on top, to run the rain down to side, and so that it wouldn't take the whole thing down in one loud CREEEEK! Followed with a loud CRASH! Yet followed with a loud THUNK! We still have ways to have shelter.
Normal POV
Finally Lief and the others reached their target and pushed open the thick flap, "oh, Lief! What a surprise!" They ran in to see Sharn staring at them, a large grin on her face, "why do you look so worried?" Sharn asked cautiously, Lief ran up to her, his hands on her shoulders in an instant. "The Shadow Lord is back! Prepare yourself mother! Go back to the forge!" Lief warned his mother quickly, and off Sharn ran quickly, shouting out to everyone that could possibly hear the big news, and as Sharn kept going she disappeared, like a ghost in the night, to Lief figure out his situation.