The High King and Queen: formerly When I am King

by LaJiggles

A future fic about the children of the Pod Squad and how they handle the destinies that are laid upon their shoulders. *COMPLETED*

2. Prologue

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Prologue: The Beginning of a Great Tale

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Antar 2030

It was growing late and the young boy still would not settle himself. A bath would not soothe him and his eyes showed no signs of sleep. Frustrated, the father of the boy called the mother in.

"I can't get him to bed. He listens to you. Please?" she sighed but smiled.

"Very well." The man left the woman and the boy alone and she walked over to her young son, who was playing happily on the ground. She tilted his face up towards hers.

"Hello little one," she said. "Are you giving your father a hard time again?" The boy happily nodded.

"Daddy wants me to go to bed, but I don't want to," he replied, looking back at his toys and continuing his activity.

"Well, Daddy is right. It is time for bed. Past time, actually." She picked the squirming boy up and lay him in his bed, pulling the blankets snugly around him.

"But I'm not sleepy," he protested. She sat next to him on the bed and wrapped her arms around his small figure.

"How about I read you a story? Will that help you sleep?" He thought for a moment and then nodded.

"Read the High King story, Mommy," he begged, grabbing the well-worn book from the bedside table. The woman took the book and sighed.

"This one again?" she asked. He nodded. She opened the book and began, transporting the boy into a world of legend, where a magical couple would come to save the world. The story was a short one, and soon the woman had finished.

"And so the High King and Queen will come to rescue us from ourselves and, through their grace, knowledge, and power, we will be saved." The woman closed the book and set it on the bedside table. The boy looked up at her.

"Mommy, is that really the end of their story? Is that all?" She smiled at him.

"No," she said. "It is only the beginning. The beginning of a great tale." She closed her eyes and thought. Thought on the past, thought on the tale of the High King and his Queen, the couple that had saved the five worlds from themselves...