Ello, and this is my first story in a long….time that is actually good to me at least. Hope you like it. May help if you have visual perspective of it. It is an adventurous tale so, I hope you like it.
Lynn
Destiny Intertwined
Prologue
In a land long ago the dragons and the magical creatures lived in harmony with the people of the earth. But then, a dark lord arose and took over the country killing most of the creatures but keeping some valuable pets for his own collection. Many have risen against him but none have been strong enough and ended up dead. The "King of Dread" is what he likes to be called has hung his enemy's armor, still with bloodstains in his parlor. But, now the magical creatures are gone, but for a few who lays in the hands of talented teenagers who come from all over the world of Perine. These heroes and heroines are to stand up not as individuals but as one to beat the King of Dread.
Chapter One: Jade
Jade, a healer in the Village of Derium (dare-e-um) was walking along a dirt path through the Mornog (more-knock) Forest. She let her jet black hair stream with the wind flowing forward in front of her face. She didn't mind. Her flannel shirt with her leather vest and her blue skirt had gotten soiled during the trip because of the morning rain. She carried a small basket of moka (mocha)berries toward her house. It would make the perfect ointment for snake poison with some confer (con-fear)serum. The huge looming trees were covered with a soft dew that made it magical. She smiled and looked up into the sky and saw branches crowding the view.
She was almost out of the small forest near her cottage when she heard the screech of the trumpet boom across the valleys. It wasn't just any old trumpet, it made a screeching terrifying scream of a crow. The crows flying wildly out of the trees cawing. She gasped and ran as quickly as she could toward her home. She broke loose from the forest she saw the villagers running in all directions. She picked up her skirts and sprinted as fast as she could. She lost some berries but, that didn't matter. Then she heard the gallops of the black knights. She ran down the small hill and almost into her door. She opened the birch wood bark door frustratingly and closed it behind her setting her berries on a small table. She let the curtains down in her windows just leaving enough space for her to glimpse. Her heart beat like a stampede.
The black knights' horses galloped and huffed and puffed and she heard the dark armor make the small tinkling noise as they marched through the village. One of the black knight started to yell at a peasant that was outdoors.
"You, who goes there! Why are you outside? These is the disgrace against King Gingor. (Jin-Gar) You are supposed to be inside with the rest of the peasants. You will pay a consequence. The Villagers of Derium! Come out of your quarters now! And see the one who disgraces your King!" He boomed across the village. Jade silently and shaking came out of her home made of grass root, logs and moss. She swallowed hard as she walked out into the sun. Many people in the village came to see what happened but, many stayed at a good distance.
You could not see the black knight's face because of his helmet but, he looked angry. He had grabbed a peasant by the collar of his shirt and lifted him of the ground. The peasant who's name is Fredrick had his legs dangling freely as he tried to free himself.
"Please black knight, I was only about to run into my home, as I heard the trumpet wail. I know that we have a daily inspection in the mornings! Please, forgive me black knight!" He trembled as he cried but, this knight showed no mercy and he tighten his black leather glove's grip of him. The metal spike on the glove's knuckles now pierced into Fredrick's pale white face. He screamed in horror. But then, dropped him.
"Now, if the Village of Derium has anyone out again during inspection they will die. And the whole entire village will suffer! I give you one more chance to get your act together, you better take that seriously! Now, get back to work!" He boomed through his helmet making it echo through out the small village. People in the Derium were not at all shocked because it was the King's commands and no one dared not to listen to the commands.
The last hero of the village was killed and slaughtered in front of the houses there is still blood on the cobblestone center where a small fountain lay but does not work. All the water dried up long ago.
The black knights on horseback galloped away in the distance. The people continued their daily life in Derium. Fredrick still holding his face where it bled approached her.
"My face burns in pain. He must have had poison on the spikes. May I have some ointment, Jade?" He said as his face drained of color and it turned ghostly white.
"Yes, yes." She hurried in her home. He followed slowly, as he entered her house his hand left his face as he stared at all the potions around the room. There was wooden bookshelves filled with all kinds of different colored and shaped bottles. Then, Jade coming up from behind him looked at the scar upon his face. It was a musty greenish black color and the blood had stopped. It must be rat poison. She maneuvered to her shelf of poisons and picked up a oval shaped bottle filled with sea green sparkling liquid. She popped the cork and dabbed it on a small sponge. Fredrick, was now sitting on a chair at her dining table. She pushed the sponge lightly on his face. He winced in pain and looked at her admiringly.
"Thank you for everything Jade. For all the cuts, poisons, and brutal beatings you have healed me from. Your pretty good healer for only being seventeen." He smiled.
"I'm a healer it is part of my job and age isn't everything.." She said as she poured some of the potion into a small vile and put a blue cork on it. "Here, put this on your cut tonight and tomorrow morning. It shall be healed by then." He took the vile.
"Bye, see you!" He said as he dashed off of the chair, out the door, and into the village. She rolled her eyes. Boys will be boys.
She put on her burgundy cloak and put the basket of mokaberries in a cabinet of all her supplies. She left to find some of Oolla water in the Mornog Forest. She left again along the same trail she had ran from. She looked throughout the forest for a small dark green running stream but, she didn't discover it at the edges of the Hoof bushes. Usually Oolla water would be there. So she went deeper into the Mornog Forest.
Then she discovered a stream. She gleefully took a vile out of her bag and filled it up. She took a cork and pushed it forcefully into the vile. She sat there for a moment looking at her prize but then something glimmered out of the edge of her eye.
She picked it up. It was a small strand of unicorn hair. It glittered in the small amount of sunshine that entered the forest. Her eyes widened at the thought of a unicorn. She thought the King had killed them off, but now why was their unicorn hair, if he had? She looked around her surroundings and saw that their were small hoof tracks, she gasped. She followed them in her cloak and went deeper into the forest.
She ducked under logs and jumped over small streams but, she kept following the small hoof tracks. Then the tracks just stopped and she gazed around in confusion. Then, she saw it. It was a small white unicorn laying under bushes and resting. She gapped in awe. Then, the baby unicorn opened it's eyes and neighed, it's eyes glistered in curiosity. It got up and shook the bush off from under it and walked towards her. Then, Jade noticed something odd.
The unicorn had small white wings. But no horn. It wasn't a unicorn but a winged horse! That was even a rarer discovery. The small colt was at her feet and she kneeled down low as the horse playfully licked her face. She let her hands brush it's small tiny mane. She looked at the colt thoughtfully and letting her hand go to her sides, it pushed her hands back and forth wanting it to pet her again and then it let a blue puff of smoke disperse from it's mouth on to her hand. It stung her hand and she took it away and looked at it. Her hand now had a burn that had swirled itself around the palm of her hand.
She held her hand as she said "I'll name you Swirls." She winced at the pain in her hand. But, it didn't matter. What mattered was hiding her discovery.