Chapter 7: His and Her Circumstances
Ops Booth, Haven
Foaly the centaur sat at his computer typing furiously on the keyboard. He had been there for 5 hours straight. Why you ask? Because Foaly had a thought, a big thought. In his hand had a copy of an old legend from the time of the king. The legend was not widely excepted by the fairy people, but it intrigued Foaly. He looked at his copy for the hundredth time.
The Legend
It is told that long ago, in a land forgotten, two people met and fell in love. One was half fairy, half elf; the other half vampire, half human. When the four races joined, equal in strength, they formed an artifact, forged by the magic of pure love.
The artifact was a necklace, in the shape of a heart with a key embedded in its core. The necklace simply read "He who holds the key can unlock my heart."
The two were so in love and the necklace so powerful that all races came to hate it. Over time, a group was formed to destroy the artifact, however they were not aware of the bond between the two people. The necklace destroyed them all, and mortally wounded the two lovers.
That same night, on the first midnight of the year, the lovers died in each others embrace. The key and heart were torn from each other and both were lost. The key above ground and the heart below among the fairy people.
The same hatred that destroyed the lovers will remain among the races until the key falls into the hands of a boy, half human, half vampire, and the heart to a girl, half elf, half fairy. The two souls must meet and fall in love, and the artifact must once again become one. The necklace must then be given to the new soul baring the four races.
Only then, once all has been restored, will harmony fall among the races once again.
Foaly sighed, everyone was convinced it was impossible, that it was nothing more than folklore passed generation to generation. But Foaly wasn't so easily convinced, he was pretty sure the legend was true, Foaly believed it was just a matter of time before the artifacts were reunited once more.
He knew where one of the artifacts was, and it was in the hands of a girl, half elf, half fairy, her name was Holly Short. Of course only 2 people knew who currently had the heart, Foaly and Holly who had promised to keep it a secret. But the puzzle was only half solved, because where was the key?
Foaly had searched a number of times for it but had gotten nowhere. Not only did the key not seem to exist, there was no sign of a half human, half vampire, not one. This wasn't hard to believe, vampires were almost extinct, and it was repulsive for any magical creature to mix blood with a human. Half breads were killed along with there human parent and the non-human parent was shunned from the magical world. So naturally any half breads were in hiding. Not to mention the fact that vampires were very dangerous creatures.
On every new moon vampires have to drink the blood of a virgin member of the opposite gender. So naturally it would be very rare to find a half human half vampire sense the human was always killed by the vampire.
But Foaly wasn't going to give up so easily, although he had been searching for 90 years already and had no luck.
He sipped his tea and got back to work, trying everything he could think of to thy to find the key.