Sorry It's been so long, I can't make excuses for the time, but I can blame Uni for it. I still haven't finished this story, but there will be more updates from now on.
I hope you enjoy this chapter and the continuation of the story.

R

Chapter 36

Agar stepped away from the wall, disappearing into the sudden darkness ahead of her.
She stopped, staring ahead "Agar? Where are you? You still there?"

There was no sound to answer her, not even an echo of her voice. She hesitantly stepped forward, not daring to follow the blind King.
'If he doesn't give some indication he's alive, I'm running in the other direction!' she told herself.

There wasn't a need to as light flooded in, blinding her for a few seconds.
When her eyes finally adjusted, she could see ahead of her a chamber, brilliantly lit with golden light. She stepped further in and stopped again.
At its centre was a small marble pedestal; situated on its flat surface was a book, probably the only thing down here that was thoroughly taken care of. Polished gold inlayed on smooth leather told her that.

The room itself was layered in gold, which accounted for the intense light that streamed through from an opening above the book and that reflected off a series of shaped mirrors at the base of the pedestal, like the petals of a flower.
On the other side of the pedestal, across from her stood a marble statue, that was remarkably to her liking. It stood tall; a shield at is feet by its side, a sword in the other crossed over its chest, its other hand was out to the side like it was presenting something.
Its look was similar to the one she used to intimidate the Cyclonian guards when she'd been on Cyclonia.

She turned back to the book, picking it up.
It was cool to the touch and heavy. On its front was a symbol; a horizontal wave line with a straight one underneath like and underline, underneath that there was a vertical wave line with a straight one next to it, a five point star took up the space left between the horizontal and vertical lines.

"Le Livre des Prophéties" Agar announced to her right making her jump. He wasn't too far away, almost against a wall. Behind him was a sword, like the one in marble, but made for easier use in human hands...in other words, not marble.

"That is what you hold in your hands" she wondered how the king knew that she was holding it, then figured her probably heard it somehow.

"If the Prophecy is correct, you are the only one who will be able to read it. In it, it has all the information you wish to know...all the information that Aerrow was trying to pull out of me last night"

"You mean, it'll tell me how to get home?" she asked

"Maybe" the old King replied "But that's only if you know how you got here in the first place"

She deadpanned "So, what will it tell me?"

"That, I do not know. I cannot read it"

'well, this wasn't the chat I had in mind'

"Can you read it?" he asked, wanting verification. She shook her head but opened the book to a random page.

"When the Princess of Destinies arrives, the land of Vapos will thrive and be reborn in Glory."

Just reading that line made her realise how much these people thought they needed her. It was then she realised that it was in English.

"Am I allowed to take this?" She asked the King.

He nodded "It belongs to the Princess of Destinies. Just as these tools belong to you" he gestured to the sword behind him and to something else against the opposite wall to him. She turned to her left and saw the Shield.

"You may take them as well if you so wish" he told her. "There is only one thing I should say. The crystal that powers the sword has been lost, but if you learn how to use your magic right, you may not need to use it"

Translated by Google Translate...so don't trust it...

Le Livre des Prophéties - The Book of Prophesies