AN: Hello people! This is the first chapter for my newest story, XV Hearts. I WARN ALL READERS NOW THAT MY FIRST CHAPTERS ARE GENERALLY QUITE SHORT. THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO CHAPTERS THAT FOLLOW! I'm really quite proud of this, and I really want to know what you guys think. So leave a review or shoot me a message. right let's get started.
Chapter 1
"Who are you," asked the boy as the tall figure stepped out of the darkness, face clad in the shadows of his hood, long coat fluttering with a sudden gust of wind.
"I am the shadow, a remnant of what was once great..." There was a short silence. "Or maybe I am all there ever was."
"And your name?" The boy spoke in a monotone voice, never for a second peering up from the ground beneath his feet, dull eyes examining the dirt, emotion void from his expression.
"Lost with what you and I lack." The figure stood at rest, his voice clear and firm. "What about you? Do you remember your name?"
"My name is..." His voice trailed off. It was stuck in his throat, though he screamed it in his mind.
"I offer you purpose. I offer you a name and a seat of power in your meaningless existence." He extended a hand in front of the boy, an X appearing in front of his face. "Do you accept?"
The man was answered by the nod of the boy's head, raising it to stare into the darkness of the other's hood.
The man smirked from beneath his hood.
The X began to swirl around the boy, other letters appearing, scrambling. They stopped in front of him and he read the word aloud. "Lexlan..."
"That is right," said the man, placing a hand on the boy's bonny shoulder. "The new you." He led the boy into the shadows, slowly disappearing in their smothering warmth.
Before vanishing in the veil of swirling darkness he took one more look at the light and its warmth. The way of the light had shunned him, so he would walk a path of darkness. Lexlan would begin his new life.
