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"Ok, class get your notes out. Today we are recounting the events of how and why the council of the elders was created," Miss Pact started her lesson.
'This is boring', Yasha thought as he rummaged through his bookbag for his notes. He placed them on his desk and turned it to a blank page. Why can't anything interesting happen for once? It always seems as if the same thing always happens every day. Never anything exciting or interesting. So much so, it seems to be the routine of Shelter.
Shelter is just a normal town with completely normal people, nothing really interesting about it.
The crime rates are low, despite this fact, it still manages keeps Yasha's older brother Rue working late. So he is almost never home and since Rue is Yasha's only family, which means Yasha is mostly alone. Today he is sixteen year old, so it's not like he actually needs someone to be there.
Besides, Rue, worked as one of Shelter's finest police officers. Actually, he is not only among the finest, but in truth manages Shelter's police force. So it only make sense that he would always be busy and can't come home.
The only thing that actually makes Shelter a little less boring is the Police Force, because of this small bit of information, Yasha, planned to follow in Rue's and his late father's footsteps and go to work at the Police Force once he was older.
Yasha sighed, brushing his black moonlight hair away from his brownish amber eyes as he grabbed his pencil ready to face the teacher. "Hundreds of years ago before our time," she began as Yasha zoned out.
Yasha already knew about the creation of the council of elders. Parents always tended to tell their kids the story at bedtime in Shelter. A long time ago there were five powerful warriors who protected the land. They each had special abilities that other people at the time could only hope to have. Their powers or sometimes called rare magic, were a gift bestowed upon them in order to fight back against a great evil that threatened the lands. The source of this evil corrupted the king that ruled over the people causing him to suddenly become a tyrant. Before they went up against the king the five warriors created Shelter for the people under their protection. The five warriors went up against the king in a long and tough battle. They defeated the king but at a price. The fifth warrior leading the team lost his life, sealing away the evil king. His magic was lost to history and the world forever. After the evil king was defeated the remaining warriors created a council to help reunite the people and bring peace back into the world, thus the council of elders. These warriors powers consisted of four different types of rare ancient magics: water, illusion, speed, and finally strength. Every generation after the original council members, the members were chosen by the previous council member, right before they died to take their place in a way that is not known to the public. This nickname given by the Elder's was a secret because no one besides the council members knew about it. In a way the Elder's secret, has become a tradition over time, like festivals and holidays.
As time went on, these rare abilities were lost forever. Only the history books, legends, and stories that went along with them were left as evidence of their existence. There are theories that all five warriors had other abilities as well, but were lost forever to time.
Yasha rolled his eyes, people still used the elder's secret, but it was rare that they actually believed in the tale behind it. Usually, the people just wrote it down as a myth, because there was no real evidence besides the stories, legends, or even real records of the warriors and who they were. So people just thought of it, only as a fun bedtime story for young children. These events were called the War of Unification, as the war between the evil king and the five warriors brought the people together into a new world.
"As time went on, a prophecy was created, that when the chosen ones were needed once again, they will return. Sadly, the rest of the prophecy has either withered or has yet been deciphered," Miss pact finished.
Yasha sighed, relieved as the teacher started assigning their homework. Finally he could get out of there and just go home to do his homework.
The bell rang, Yasha got up and walked towards the front door, suddenly without warning a girl with short raven hair ran right into him as he exited the classroom. It caused them both to drop their papers, "I'm sorry," said the timid girl as she bowed her head.
"It's fine. It isn't a big deal," Yasha replied with kindness. The girl looked up at the boy in surprise as she finished picking her stuff up. It was like she had never been shown kindness. Their eyes locked as blue met amber. They just stood there staring at each other breathless. Until the girl broke the silence in a nervous tone, "Your name is Yasha right? Isn't your brother the head of the police force?"
Yasha nodded confirming the girl's suspicion. Despite being a quiet student that didn't really stand out much, a lot of people knew his name because of Rue's job. It probably would have been a lot different four years ago. Four years ago, when Rue was just a regular police officer, he worked a lot with their father. Their father was the leader of the police force at the time an a year and a half later their father went missing after a special job. After months of waiting the two young boys were finally informed of their father's death. Yasha was only fourteen years old while Rue was twenty. It was hard for the both of them, Yasha started shutting himself out from the world and became the quiet boy he was today. The need for a police force leader and money for the two boys' survival didn't leave Rue that much time. He was selected as the next police force leader in their fathers place. Rue, unlike Yasha didn't show any grief at all. It looked like he was happy about their father's death. So Yasha would ignore any attempts Rue made to talk or communicate with him for months until he found out Rue was actually putting on a brave act for Yasha and the others that would worry for him. He told Yasha, that he missed their father deeply, however, their father wouldn't want them to act like that. Instead he would want them to live their lives and not waste them by grieving over him. Besides, they should live as much as they can, so they can tell him their wonderful and cheery stories once they got to see him again.
After that, Yasha's life went back to pleasant and normal. He searched for something exciting to do with his life.
After an awkward silence, the girl said, "my name is May. It was nice to meet you! I have to go now, bye!" May stumbled away from Yasha nervously as she made for the front door. That was weird, the boy shrugged it off and went to gather his stuff too. He got ready to leave.
A few minutes later, Yasha was already walking home with lazy steps.
Bump, Bump, his heart accelerated for a split second like a warning. He suddenly had a very bad feeling, like something tragic was about to happen. Why was he being so paranoid? It was probably nothing. After all, nothing tragic had happened in Shelter since before the council of elders and that was hundreds of years ago.
Also, why did this feel so similar? Yasha shook his head ignoring the problem, maybe he just stayed up for too long again?
With that in mind, he just focused on going home. It wasn't like something bad would happen there, right? He just shook his head out of such thoughts and started walking home again.
Not long after, Yasha arrived home. His house was pretty decent sized with two bedrooms and a bathroom on the second level, then a kitchen connected to a dining room with a living room on the first floor. The house also had a basement with a bathroom, but Yasha wasn't really allowed there, because it was Rue's workroom that he would use when he brought work home with him. Rue was dedicated to his job. He did that a lot during investigations.
Yasha sighed as he opened the front door, empty. No other living being in the house besides himself. Why was he surprised? That happened all the time! He guessed he'd just have to celebrate his birthday by himself once again. Since Rue started working, anything special like birthdays and holidays were seemingly always missed and skipped. Yasha remembered the better times, when Rue made sure to spend time with him on these days, even their dad made sure to come whenever he had a birthday.
Yasha felt like he was something that was yet to come, someone who didn't exist yet. He walked up to his room with heavy steps. His room was right across from Rue's and the bathroom was at the end of the hall next to the closet. He would say that he shared the bathroom with his older brother, but in truth Rue used the basement bathroom most of the time and even ended up sleeping in the basement instead of his actual room.
Yasha slammed his bedroom door open and dropped his book bag onto his blue covered bed as he went to go to sit at his school work desk. He opened up the laptop to start his report on the five warriors and the war. The assignment would take extra time since there was not much known about the war besides the council and the five warriors and that there was a major war between the five warriors and the king before the final battle.
But he supposed he had nothing better to do, it's not like he'd actually get to celebrate his birthday for once with his brother. With that thought, the boy got straight to work.
"So the time has already come, hasn't it?" A strange voice echoed with a dead calm from a distance. "Then let the chain of time dissipate, so that the new chosen ones may begin," the voice said with readiness. Suddenly a scene appeared. It was somewhere in a forest, there were ruins with a sword stabbed in the middle of the ruins chained down with strange symbols on the chain and all around the ruins. It had a dark aura surrounding it, suddenly without warning, the chains snapped and the darkness sealed there was freed.
Yasha gasped standing up suddenly. He felt something flow straight into him and hard. Yasha gasped for breath. He looked down at his hands trying to calm the strange sensation in his body.
'What was that!?' Yasha screamed in his head feeling as if those chains once were a part of him. His grabbed the front of his shirt harshly. He slowly calmed down. It felt as if his soul was partially incomplete trying to put itself back together again by nimbly shattering and rearranging itself, so that it was complete.
As soon as he calmed down, the front door to the house slammed open. Something was definitely not right!
Yasha could hear footsteps running in desperation until his door slammed open revealing Rue. His older brother's long black hair and clothes were a complete mess and his golden eyes seem to be dilated in panic.
Quickly, his older brother yanked him by the arm and tried to say something, however a loud roar echoed in their ears, Yasha couldn't hear his older brother.
Suddenly the owner of that roar crashed a giant scaly arm through the window. Yasha barely managed to dodge. His leg was cut deeply by the shards of glass and the sharp claws.
Before the boy could even react his brother picked him up in his arms and started heading out of the room.
Before they completely left the room Yasha got a good look of the thing that attacked him and others like the thing attacking and eating other people from either from their homes or from the street.
Yasha's eyes widened as he stared at the terrifying giant black reptile monster and it's slit eyes looking at him. He felt like the monster's sole purpose was to hunt him down and kill him to make sure some miracle didn't happen.
Rue ran to the basement in a flurry as crashing sounds and roaring was heard throughout the house. Rue slammed the door to the basement open, then shut it locking the door. The older man rushed carrying the young boy to a comfy looking sitting area with a mini kitchen. Rue went even deeper down into the basement until they came to a room with a heavy metal door and metal walls surrounding it.
Yasha whimpered painfully. His brother carefully set him down on a comfy bed saying as the boy began to slowly black out, "you're going to be alright, Yasha."
Before Yasha blacked out he felt Rue's healing magic slowly fixing what it could. Before Yasha fell prey to a deep black slumber he heard his brother say, "I'm going to go fight those things with the others, hopefully I'll be back. If not please take care of yourself and grow strong, Yasha, and goodbye."