The Winged One

Chapter 1: Bell

Roy down at the city of Odrean from the top of the knoll with Flade next to him, just as the sky was struck by noon, waiting for Flade to ride. He had only 5 days left… way too close for him. Roy was lucky to be alive. Flade kicked his horse and galloped down to hill and came to a halt at the front of the gate. He turned his horse to Roy and then took off to patrol around the city borders.

Roy came down a couple minutes later and dismounted his horse. He came to the gate and grabbed a hold of the brass knocker. He knocked exactly 40 times. There was an eerie sound from the other side of the gate, and it opened.

A gatekeeper came out and gave him a toothless grin, "T'enith be awaitin', youse be is l'te! Youse 'ucky teh beh stendin! Snyrithe be 'omin fors us! Benth no rep'y! Send youse missel to the t'tem. 'or thaths tis why youse comith, 'es?"

All Roy could do was nod. He entered the gate and pondered what would happen when he met up with Trenith of Odrean as Flade returned from his patrol.

"A lot of this city has changed for the past forty years, though anyone could have said that, let us stay until we are no longer needed and not a second longer. We should also see if the city of Bain could give s refugee after this war." Flade looked at the mighty golden bell mounted atop the gate. "Forty years…"

Roy turned to the castle and headed towards it. He noticed that many people came outside to stare at him, hope filled their eyes, what did they think of Roy? He had done nothing to help these people before, only the people before them when he built the town. That was over a century ago.

He came upon the grand castle, though he knew the king was not inside. He looked at Flade and Flade understood; turning to head to the nearest inn after gathering the horses they had dismounted. Roy turned to face the castle and went to go around it.

Roy came to a garden and ventured through it, there was a maze at the end of the garden, Roy could have easily went over it but went through it just the same. It was so big that if you didn't spend hours mapping it you could probably die of starvation the maze was so big. He finally came to a flight of stairs, though they were going almost 90 degrees up, he took off his jacket and his shirt and through them aside onto a bench before spreading his wings and taking flight.

He came to the top, which lead to the peak of the mountain surrounding Odrean where there was a lookout where you could see over the castle and over every bit of the city.

Looking through the lookout was none other than Trenith. He looked at Roy and gave him a sad frown as Roy entered in the lookout.

"I fear that bell is going to ring again, just like it did forty years ago… my life as a child…horrible." Roy sat down and listened, the king had obviously thought this through real hard. "You crafted that bell with your own two hands… before I was alive in royalty… I have many enemies that would go to anything to kill me, I feel like I'm always in danger, and now I will have to wage war with it in just five days." He walked to the end and looked down at the city. "So many enemies…"

Roy stood up and backed away as the king took out and notched two arrows and shot them with great power at Roy. The arrows were stopped short as Roy's hands quickly snatched both arrows from mid air.

"Thus you must prove who you are… Roy of the Winged People. If you are whom you mimic than we will start the Totem Ceremony."

(Questions to ask yourself for next chapter:

What happened 40 years ago?

Who are the Winged People?

What is Benth?

Who is this enemy?

What war will happen in 5 days?

Why is Roy being tested?

What is the totem ceremony?

I know you might not be interested in my story so far but hang in there! It gets so much better!)