Disclaimer: I own the 4-soul gift, but the Subtle Knife, Golden Compass, Amber Spyglass, and the daemon bit all belongs to Philip Pullman. But the rest is mine.

Formerly known as Friends to Lovers

4- Soul

Prologue

A rumor, a legend, a myth.

Long ago, when the Worlds were beginning to take shape and life was just beginning, the ultimate Rulers of the Worlds made a decision.

They knew that the peace that their worlds started at would not last, so with great care they created the 'Mirror of Worlds'

The 'Mirror of Worlds' was just a simple bowl with spring water, which let you look into any Worlds Past, Present of Future.

Once the Rulers saw the fate of their Worlds, the destruction, and the chaos, they set off to give worthy beings, during the time of tragedy, a gift.

Or...maybe even to some a curse.

Each Ruler did the best they could, giving the beings power over Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Ice, Thunder, sometimes-even powers over thread, and the power to tell if people were lying.

But...one Ruler went beyond those powers.

He knew that powers alone could never conquer evil, though he hated to admit it, and spent endless hours thinking up the greatest gift he could give them.

After a while he had completed distributing the powers to everyone.

He had given out reincarnations, friends to help in the time of need, purity, innocence, fates, and now he had one left.

This being would be born during the greatest war of his land, and he needed something powerful to help.

His wife was the one who gave him the idea, with all her talk of souls.

She had been telling a story to the children and daemons that had already come to be, about how inside each and everyone was a soul, and how their Daemon also had a soul. Telling them that instead of 1 they had 2 souls, as Daemons and beings were connected through mind and soul.

He know had the perfect idea.

The 4-soul.

He had already picked a being worthy enough for this task and know just needed to give him a gift.

He gave him, I guess what you would call, 2 incarnations.

One was a Dragon, the best from the War of Demons and Dragons.

One was a Jaganshi, a wielder of the 3rd eye, the strongest Jaganshi from his time.

He gave the boy's incarnation souls, combining 3 souls into 1 body. The boy's, the Dragon's, and the Jaganshi's.

Then as every being has, he gave him a powerful Daemon, another soul that was connected.

With these 3 the boy would be the greatest being in his World but...

This is just a story, a tale.

Something to tell kids to get them asleep at night.

But now...the gift has become known, in the body of one who...doesn't even know its power.

Now this tale will tell of his adventures with his 4-Soul gift or, as he calls it, a curse, and how he'll have to save all the Worlds or let them fall to ruin.

To be continued

Revised: Oct. 2, 2004

I hope you guys, and girls like this prologue better then the last one. I have to admit this one does seem better, well anyway, who cares.