Hello Everybody!

(No one responds)

I said hello everybody!

(One person who accidentally navigated to this page):

How did I get here? I was just on the GtaTemp forums.

Well, that's good enough.

I am new to the strange, funny, extremely romantic, and sometimes horrifyingly weird(in a good way?) world of KOTLC fan fiction!

Like most people, I experienced the very common disorder of GKSMBC(Go Kill Shannon Messenger Because Cliffhangers) after finishing Legacy and finding out when the next book would come out.

No?

No one else?

Anyways, after giving up trying to find her home address, I went to go find some fan-fiction to live off of. But then I realized that there was something even more desperate and antisocial I could do: Become an author and write my own fan-fiction!

I am planning to write an entire actual KOTLC novel(and then take turns whacking people with it, because to quote Shannon Messenger, "Those things are heavy!") and do it in the style of the glorious yet evil Shannon Messenger(I do not own KOTLC). I am going to release the preface and first chapter to see if:

A. I should release it all at once or chapter by chapter(probably the latter)

B. I have any self-worth as a writer

PLEASE REVIEW so I know the answer to B.

Edit: I recently updated my profile page with a very exclusive and short (but not too short) sneak peek into the next chapter. Check it out.

One more thing I would like to say before we begin. I would like to thank; A very obsessed fangirl, GIRL AUTHORity, , and Ruby Silverstar for inspiring me to write this! Please check their stories out. Now, on with the story!

Preface

Sophie Foster was done.

Everything they had worked for was gone if the Neverseen succeeded.

She was done playing the defense.

Done being the one ten steps behind.

The Neverseen had secrets.

But so did the Black Swan.

And secrets can be powerful in the right hands.

This time, the secrecy was going to support her side.

And when the Black Swan went on the offensive?

The Neverseen wouldn't know what hit them.

So she had to hold out.

Keep the secret.

Or everything would fail.

And everyone she knew and loved would die.

Grady

Edaline

Alden

Della

Mr. Forkle

Dex

Biana

Keefe

Linh

Wylie

Fitz

Fitz

Oh God, Fitz.

If he got hurt because of her, she would never forgive herself.

So when the next strike came, she did what she did best.

Burrow down.

Barr her mind.

Be the moonlark.

And this moonlark fought back.

One

Splat!

"I really don't think this will help with anything, Sophie," Dex insisted for the umpteenth time.

Sophie braced herself as she telekinetically lobbed another ball at the dummy.

Splat!

"For the last time, Dex, I need to be prepared for anything, and I need to improve on this."

"Really? Last time I checked, you were the top of our class at Foxfire at this."

"Dex, I-''

"No, I get it. Everybody is dealing with Keefe's condition differently. Biana is focusing on making herself look prettier and prettier.

Fitz and Elwin have basically locked themselves away in researching his condition. Tam has literally removed all the shadowvapor in Keefe's body. Linh hasn't left Keefe's side. Ro seems to have some sort of plan that involves torture, and really bad smells, and even Mr. Forkle is trying to find what happened to him. I personally am trying to build a machine to wake him up."

"And I'm preparing for our next encounter with the Neverseen." Sophie agreed.

"Wait, hold up," Sophie realized, grinning at Dex. "You noticed that Biana got prettier?"

"What? Oh. Um..." Dex mumbled, his whole face blushing.

"Are you blushing?" Sophie giggled. She filed this away in the "Gossip about later" section of her mind.

All of a sudden, Wynn and Luna pounced on them.

"Arghhhh! You guys!" Sophie laughed as the baby alicorns covered them in sloppy kisses.

"Where are these guy's parents?" Dex moaned, although it didn't really look like he minded.

Sophie sent out a mental message to Silveny.

Get a rein on your kids!

Sophie! Friend! Baby! Dex! Coming!

Man, that alicorn was really hyperactive.

"Okay, let's get inside," Dex said, wiping some alicorn drool off his sleeve.

As they walked inside, Edaline greeted them.

"I made some fresh mallowmelt!"

Sophie and Dex raced inside.

"I can taste it already!" Sophie exclaimed eagerly, as they made their way to the kitchen, where they found a horrifying scene.

Lex, Bex, Rex, and Iggy were gorging themselves on the last of mallowmelt.

As Sophie and Dex watched, horrified, Lex noticed them and shouted throught the mallowmelt in her mouth.

"Hi Dex! Your ex-girlfriends imp lead us to this mallowmelt!"

They looked at Iggy, who shrugged and fist-bumped Lex.

"Wait, hold on. Did Iggy just- Oh never mind," Sophie said, rubbing her eyes.

While Dex yelled at the triplets, who gleefully ignored him and tried throwing Iggy at him, Sophie went upstairs to her room.

She flopped down on her bed, thinking about what Dex had said.

What had she done to deal with this situation? She was trying to train for the next Neverseen attack, but what was she doing to help Keefe?

Nothing

Nothing at all.

But what could she do to help Keefe?

Her mind kept flashing back to her many encounters with Lady Gisela. What mother would treat her son- no, her family like that. Ever since Keefe had gone into a coma, his father, Lord Cassius, had changed. He stayed by Keefe's side with Linh, retelling Keefe's favorite stories, and sharing his happiest times they spent together with him. For all his faults, he was genuinely trying to be a better father.

She reminded herself how lucky she was to have had not just one but two sets of loving parents.

Not like what she and She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named(taking some inspiration from Harry Potter) saw in the cache about Stellarlune would help.

While Stellarlune was important, and it was definitely powerful, it didn't involve strange rituals involving etherine and magsidian.

She and the Unnamed Person had set a meeting with Mr. Forkle the next day to tell him and the rest of the Black Swan about it.

She kept pondering until she heard a knock on the door, where a mallowmelt-coated Iggy bounded in followed by a weary Dex, who collapsed on the bed.

"The triplets gave you a hard time, didn't they?" Sophie guessed, looking at Dex's many bite marks, some human, some imp.

"Yeah, I swear, if we sicced them on the Neverseen, the war would be over in a week. What are you thinking about?"

"Just how to help Keefe."

They both stared at the ground, feeling guilty about not being able to help.

"Remember Dex, don't feel guilty about this. You saw what guilt-"

"Did to Alden, I know. But I just feel like there has to be some way we can help."

"Maybe we're just not qualified enough, I mean crazy undiscovered experiments and medicine on the elvin body isn't exactly our specialty.

"Well, then whose is it?"

Then it hit them.

"Livvy!"

Dex hailed Livvy on his imparter. After they explained everything to her, she agreed.

"I needed to check in with Elwin anyways, so I can kill two birds with one stone!"

Dex looked horrified.

"It's a human saying," Sophie and Livvy both quickly said at the same time.

"Wow, humans are really messed up."

Dex hung up the imparter and stood up.

"Well, I should be going," Dex sighed. "My mom wants me to check in with her every day."

Sophie wondered why, but then she realized that Dex was the son of a member of the Collective, the leaders of the Black Swan, making him a potential high-value target for the neverseen to use as ransom. She had never realized this before, and she didn't like the idea of her friend being so vulnerable.

A couple minutes after Dex left, Iggy started trying to get at something on her windowsill. She looked and saw an envelope. A teal colored envelope, with a golden ribbon.

Her heart skipped several beats as she took a closer look at it, and took it safely away from Iggy's grasping claws. As soon she opened it, she recognized the handwriting. She would know that smooth, crisp, proper, handwriting anywhere.

Dear Sophie,

Meet me at the Panakes Tree tomorrow morning.

Love,

Fitz

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