Shifting Fates
Hey guys, It's me. I'm not really new. I just started a new account since I can't for the life of me remember my old one and I haven't been on is ages. This is my second story, but I won't tell you my first since it SUCKED and I didn't finish it. I'm going to try to finish this, but I don't know how long this might take. Hope you'll stick with me through it all. And now… here's the first chapter(or actually the prologue) to "Shifting Fates".
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Diary Entry Date – 9/16
Do you ever feel like you've been running for too long and you have no idea when the end is coming? Like you've been falling through darkness for years and there is still no "light at the end of the tunnel"? Don't get me wrong, I love the dark, and the dark things that follow in its wake, but I've been there too long. I've lost the path I used to tread, way back now, almost 4 years ago.
I can't make this all about me though. It's not as if I've been walking alone these past few years. Nyght has been here with me, as he has most of my life, except for when I ran so far and so fast that I outpaced even his dark wings. Those are times both precious and terrible. But now I've gone and confused the story on the first page. Let me try again. It is a good story and should be told in the correct order. I shall start at the very beginning, long before either Nyght or I was born, for that is where our story truly begins.
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Humans and demons inhabited the earth together for millennia untold, sharing the land and treating each other with tolerance if not kindness. When the first wars began, it was said to have started from one dispute or another between the two races and spread rapidly from there. What the stories do not tell is what dispute it actually was.
A mortal girl had fallen for a demon prince and he for her. In secret they shared their love, and no one knew but they. The problems started on the subject of marriage. The prince's tribe, father, as well as the ways of his ancestors, demanded that he kill the girl, but the prince spoke to his father of marrying the human girl. His father forbade the marriage as the prince had feared, yet the prince asked the girl to be his bride.
Two years later, they lived in secret on the very edge of the demon lands, so close to humans that neither feared discovery. They conceived a baby, a small boy neither demon nor human, but something all together different. Unfortunately, their hiding place was discovered and a band of humans killed the prince. With the discovery, the human girl fled away across the very earth, seeking shelter. The prince's father, lord of a great tribe, sought to kill her and so she sheltered her baby with mountain tribes and fled once more. Her death inevitable, she called up powers the prince had taught her out of demon lore and twined her self into the earth and twined the spirit of her demon mate into the sky.
Her babe grew up all unknowing as the two races, demons and humans, tore each other apart. The demons finally retreated into a world they had made, a dimension they called the Makai. The prince's son grew and mated, creating more of his race. And so the first Shifters were born or Mother Earth and Father Sky. Or so the legend goes…
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Diary Entry Date – 9/16 (cont)
Thus was our race, the Shifters, created in secret. We hid our existence in the mountains until the humans finally accepted us. But just as this is not solely my story, neither is it the story of the shifter race. This is the story of two shifters, my twin and I, and of our own clash with destiny. No more shall you hear me talk of myself. From now on, I shall tell this story as if I were one of you, though I am neither human nor demon. And now Nyght is standing over me, ready for another night of hunting. I must go.
Raynpaw
Known as Rayn
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Okay so there it is in all its non-glory. Hope you liked it folks. It's not all going to be diary entries BTW. I had a friend ask me that and I just wanted to clarify. I am open to ideas since I don't know exactly where this is going to go, so put ideas in your reviews if you have any. Flames are also welcome since I don't know what I'm doing wrong without criticism. Other that that… REVIEW PLEASE!