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It was a white flag with three people who are believed to be the first three original warriors. One held a bow that was made from the tree of life, the other two each held a sword. One was on fire and was said to have been made in the heart of the planets core, the other made from the first fallen star. It was said that together, all three could restore the light and vanquish the great evil. We all looked at each other and laughed. ''Whoever came up with the legend is very creative.'' I said. ''Yeah I'll say.'' said Anna and Cara at the same time. ''Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna find my room and get ready for tonights opening festivities.'' I said. It was 7:30 pm when i saw Anna and Cara at the bonfire. I had just had dinner when a loud horn blew. It meant it was time for the event to officially begin. And with that I stood in the center of a circle, then another person came into the circle. We both drew our swords, and when we heard the the horn, we began to fight. As the duel began, the swords clashed and clanged the crowd cheered and yelled. After 7 minutes I got the kill hit and the crowd went wild. With that down, people dueled for the next three hours , and I drank and had fun. I went to bed around 11, and the next day I ate breakfast and went to the market. I saw clothes, weapons, jewellery and many other types of things. Later that day, around one pm, I heard the bell. That meant a clan had declared war on another clan. So I went to the war board and saw that the viking clan had declared war on my clan. I went to the camp to prepare for the war and there I saw Anna, ready with her bow and Cara, putting her sword back in it's hilt. With that, we all began walking to the field where the battle would take place. I wonderd where Jake was, as he was meant to be here, but I couldn't call him as there were no cellphones allowed. I went to Cara and said ''So, you ready to win?'' ''Hell yeah!'' she answered. After about a ten minute walk we got to the field. Ten minutes later a horn went off and we all charged towards the enemies and fought. Anna brought 30 arrows with her and only missed 7 out the 30 she fired. Me and Cara would attack the big guys together. I would hit them once, then we would yell ''switch'' and the other one would run and hit. After 3 long hours of fighting, the Viking Clan surrendered. Anna had to go back for more arrows from the supply tent a lot and in total she hit 70 people and missed 30. We went back to camp and celebrated. Later that night I found myself wondering what Alice and Aurora were up to. It was 5pm and Alice and Aurora were hanging out in the living room when the doorbell rang. Aurora and Alice were confused. They went downstairs to the door and Alice opened it and saw Jake standing there. ''Jake, what are you doing here? I thought you were at the larp event with Dylan?'' Alice asked. He didn't say anything. ''Jake?'' Alice said a bit nervous. Aurora looked at his eyes and saw they were dark red with what looked like black mist around them and she gasped. ''Alice, get back! That's not Jake!'' Aurora exclaimed. ''Then who is it?'' Alice asked, concerned. ''It's the Shadow King.'' Aurora said. He started to laugh and said in deep raspy voice ''Very good Aurora''. And with that, they tried to close the door, but he caught it. They both just stood there a moment, looking into each others eyes. Aurora yelled ''Run! Quick!'' . Up the stairs they both ran as fast as they could. When they got to the top of the stairs the shadow king was half way up. Aurora pushed Alice behind her and shot a beam of purple and black energy with black mist intertwhined. It hit him right dead center of his chest and he fell down the stairs. He took a moment to get up and then black mist began to build up underneath his feet and he shot up and landed behind Aurora and Alice. He grabbed Aurora and shot her with a beam of black and red mist intertwined with green lighting and she flew across the room and hit the wall. ''You have served your purpose my dear, I don't need you any more'' he said. He then went to Alice and grabbed her by the neck and she tried to get free of his grip but to no avail. He opened her mouth and then opened his mouth, and black mist shot out his mouth and began going into Alices mouth. He heald it for a whole minute and then he dropped her on to the floor. A bit of black mist came out of her mouth and she coughed as she got air back in her body. He then said ''You will be the most powerful Shadow Queen when you're done. Now look at me.'' She did, and her eyes flashed a shade of purple with black mist around them. ''And so it has began!'' he said. ''Enjoy your old life while you can, as soon, a new, better life shall begin for you.'' With that, her vision began to fade. As she fell to the floor with one last flutter, she saw him disappear, as mist went all around him and his voice echoed in her mind ''Sleep tight my new Queen''. After he had disappeared she had no more energy left in her and she passed out. When she woke up it was morning, and Aurora was standing over her. She had a worried look on her face. Alice began to sit up slowy and Aurora said ''Careful, when I came to, you were passed out and he was gone.'' ''So it wasn't a dream?'' Alice asked. ''I'm afraid not.'' Aurora responded. ''Do you remember what happened last night?'' Aurora asked Alice. ''Yeah, I think so. Jake is the shadow king....'' Aurora interrupted her and said ''Your friend jake is just a vessel. He can use him.'' "I know im gonna regret asking this, but how does he...'' ''He kills them.'' Aurora said without letting Alice finish her question. ''Now, what else do you remember?'' Aurora asked. ''Well, you shot him, and then he hit you back, and then he went to me. After that it's all a blank.'' ''Okay, I was hoping you would remember if he did anything to you.'' Aurora said. ''I'm sorry'' Alice said ''I can't.'' Then she thought for a moment and said ''Wait... if he came after us, do you think Dylan's in danger?'' '' I think he is in more danger than he knows, but there's nothing we can do but hope he will be okay.'' Aurora replied. Alice responded ''I can't reach him where he is as there is no phone signal there. '' '' Well then let's just hope whatever he's doing he's safe." Aurora responded. Meanwhile back at the L.A.R.P. event, Cara was shaking Dylan and saying ''Dylan, wake up''. "huh? " I said as I woke up. "Yeah, give me a second."I said. I was thinking in my head ''weird, was it a dream?'' I looked around a few minutes as I was in the shadow lands last night, and it always took time to adjust when I came back. ''It's about to be war time again.'' Anna said. ''We have been challenged to a war by the dragon clan.'' '' They worship dragons!'' Cara said jokingly. We went out to the field and the battle began. Meanwhile, I swear I could hear whispering. I looked over to my right and I saw what looked like a tear in the world. Like a tear between our dimension and the shadow lands. And then standing at the opening of that rift between dimensions I thought I saw a knight in black and silver armour, he had red glowing eyes with black mist and green lightning coming off the armour, and a silver sword with a gold handle. Then I noticed he had two black, small blades on each of the arm pieces. Then he walked away. I could see the shadow lands on the other side of it and I saw what looked like hardened air, but I heard a voice say ''Not air, it's ethereal energy.'' Around the tear there was a storm, with dark black clouds with green lightning mixed with it. The knight went thorugh it and he disappeared. I wondered where he went and if it had to do with the Shadow King. After ten minutes of walking, it stopped at a castle. It had huge black gates, with dark towers with cracks on them. The doors had a dragon on one side that was flying around with its mouth open, and on the other side two knights with a bunch of the shadow creatures behind them, and above that, a bunch of small black mist things with no legs and red eyes flying to the dragons mouth. The knight pushed the doors open, walked into the throne room, and went down on one knee and looked up to The Shadow King, and said ''My Lord, it is true, he can see us and the tears. He grows stronger everyday.'' ''And has he began to change yet?'' said a raspy voice that belonged to The Shadow King. ''No my Lord, not that I can tell.'' The knight responded. ''Thank you'' The Shadow King yelled as loud as he could, and it made the whole room shake. ''Elizabeth'' He yelled out. After about a minute, a girl in a dark, long, black lace dress, with black mist comeing off it, entered the room. ''Yes my Lord'' she said. ''You told me that you gave him a shadow kiss.'' The Shadow King said. ''I did your lord.'' Elizabeth replied. The Shadow King then yelled again and said ''Well he has chenged. Not one little bit .'' ''But how is that possible? He should have become a monster by now, and be ready to take.'' The Shadow king said back to her ''Well he isn't. So that is a big problem. So if we can't change him that way, then we will have to capture him and bring him here. Then me and my queen will turn him that way. So Elizabeth, go with the knight, and the rest of the army, and bring him here.'' ''And the others my Lord?'' Elizabeth asked. ''Kill them all. their souls will join the army of shadows. Now go.'' He said. ''Yes of course my Lord.'' Elizabeth said. The knight nodded, and they then left the castle. ''Don't kill him like the the last one you were sent to grab.'' The Knight said in a deep voice. ''Yeah yeah'' she said in a sing song voice. He grabbed her by the neck, ''I mean it!'' He said emphatically. ''Do you understand?'' She nodded, and he dropped her and said in a deep voice again ''Good. Now go.'' They marched to the tear rightaway. After about 10 minutes of marching, they saw the tear, and Dylan, and a bunch of other people. ''He has no clue what's coming. I wonder what's going through his mind?'' Elizabeth said. On the other side of the tear, Cara was shaking Dylan and saying his name ''Dylan! Dylan!'' ''Huh?'' Dylan said. ''Are you okay?'' Cara asked. ''I don't know Cara, I think we're about to have trouble.'' Dylan responded. Just as she was about to say something, a portal opened. Everyone stopped and stared at the portal. And then the knight came out first, then a girl with jet black long wavy hair, with long nails that looked like claws, with black nail polish. She had piercing green eyes and had on a gothic black corseted and a lace panel cross back dress that went down to her knees. Then the shadows came. People were scared. Then the Knight raised his sword, and green lightning came out of nowhere, and hit a bunch of the buildings and some tents, causing them to catch on fire. But the fire wasn't a normal colour, it was green. People began to scream and run, then the Knight raised his sword once more, and said in a deep voice ''Shadows attack!'' The Shadows looked exactly as I remembered, except I could feel an overwhelmingly amount of negative energy and they seemed more powerful. They let out an ear piercing screech and split up. I heard people screaming, as the shadows attacked the people, and were tearing buildings up, and just spreading destruction and death all over the place. As I looked around, smoke and ash filled the sky. Ash was starting to fall to the ground, and the Knight and the girl were both laughing at what was happening. I heard a girl scream as a shadow had scratched her and she started to bleed. I then looked at the Knight and the girl and said ''You think this is funny? All of this suffering?'' ''Yes, I do.'' he said in a deep voice, and then proceeded to say ''This is your world's fate, and there's nothing you can do about it. So yes, it is.'' said He then said '' Why don't you make this easier on everyone, and come with us? We have been ordered to capture you.'' ''Hmm let me think about that... yeah, I thought about it, and yeah, I'm gonna have put that under a no for me.'' I replied. ''Whhhyyy you arrogant human!!!'' The Knight roared in anger . Then said ''Elizabeth! Get him!'' ''With pleasure!'' she said. ''Don't kill him. The King wants him alive.'' the Knight said. ''What about the other two?'' Elizabeth asked. ''Kill them.'' The Knight responded. ''Oh goody!'' she said with a twinkle in her eyes. ''Thank you!''. And with that I had had enough, and I felt a wave of ethereal energy flow though me, into my weapon. I looked at Cara and Anna, and I could tell by the looks on there faces, they were feeling the same thing. With that, my sword began to turn black, and became heavy. The blade had became a shiny black stone, the handle had become metal. I looked at Cara, and her sword had become the same black shiny stone. My sword began to crack, a few pieces broke off and a raging fire took the whole sword over. But the fire stopped at the handle, and it didn't burn at all. Cara's, sword started to glow in a bright yellow light, and Anna's bow began to change too. The wood became a tree bark with some vines wraping around it, and her arrows became tree bark as well. The tips of the arrows became the same shiny black stone as Anna and I's swords. She too, could feel an ethereal energy flowing throgh the bow and the arrows. I raised my sword in the air and said ''Let's fight!''. Both Cara and Anna said ''Yeah, let's send them back to where they came from.'' Cara raised her sword, then Anna loaded her bow with an arrow. The Knight just stared at us. I was guessing that this had never happend before. After a moment he said ''Kill them all.'' I asked Anna ''Can you keep the shadows off us?'' '' Yeah sure.'' she said. ''Cara, you and me take Elizabeth.'' ''Just like the old days right?'' both Cara and Anna said at the same time. Then Cara said ''When this is all over you have some explaining to do.'' I know'' I said. With that, we ran at Elizabeth, and a shadow went to hit us, but it got hit right in the head by an arrow, and it screamed. Dark blood started erupting from its whole body, and it turned into a dark blood mist then it was gone. ''Not possible!'' yelled the Knight. I then rolled underneath Elizabeth's claws and got a deep cut on her. Then a dark blood started coming out of the cut, but I could feel an ethereal energy with it, like she wasn't all evil. Then the Knight came running to us, and he swung his sword. I blocked it and pushed back, and then hit his sword to the side. I jumped back and yelled ''switch!'' With that Cara stabbed him with her sword, then I swung my sword yelling ''Die you bastard!'' hitting the same place Cara did. With that we had made a huge gash in the center of his armour and a powerful negative energy as well as dark blood mist began pouring out of it. We then went to hit him again, when he shot a wave of dark mist out of his sword, and sent us flying back. With that, he said ''Retreat back to the shadow lands''. With that all the shadows that were left, went into the portal. The Knight grabbed Elizabeth and said ''This isn't over human. The war has just began, and we have already won.'' He and Elizabeth went back through the portal and it closed once they were on the other side,back in the shadow lands. After the portal was closed, we all 3 looked at our weapons, and as quickly as they had changed they had returned back to normal. We went back to the camp and were surprised.... it had been lucky as if the lightning and the shadows never hit it. We got our stuff, and then after ten minutes of helping people with helping the injured and using water buckets to treat and put the fire out, which had now lost its green colour, we could hear sirens coming and we knew it would be fine to leave. Once we got to the cars they both looked at me and said "okay talk". ''Follow me, and once we get to my place I'll tell you everything.'' I said. They both got in their cars and followed me to my place. After two hours, we got to my place. They looked and Anna said ''You live here?'' ''Yeah'' I said. Come on''. They followed me in and we went to the game room. I sat down in the computer chair, they sat down on the couch. Then I told them everything from start to where we were now. They understandably had a bunch of questions that I did my best to answer. After what was about 40 minutes, they were good with what I had told them. Cara then asked ''Where are we gonna stay? I mean, I think it's safe to say we're all targets now, and I dont think it's safe were I'm staying right now. ''Same'' Anna said. I told them they can stay with me as I have two extra guest rooms. ''I'm hungry.'' I stated. ''What about you guys?'' I asked. They both said yes. ''I'll order a pizza.'' I then showed them to the guest rooms, which were very nice. Both rooms had a natural colour wood bedroom set with a queen bed. Both rooms had a white bedding set, walk in closets and a full bathroom. ''I'm gonna get changed then order the pizza. You guys should do the same, as i dont think were gonna need are larp outfits for a bit.'' I went upstairs to my room, showered and got changed into a pair of blue shorts and a black t shirt that said ''Yoda man'' with a picture of Yoda on the front. I ordered a large cheese pizza and a 2 liter of Pepsi. I went to the game room and waited for the pizza and the girls. Cara was the first to come out she was in a white short dress with a blue tied sweater, then Anna came out in a yellow long sleeve wool shirt and a simple black skirt. Anna had her hair just flowing down her back. 10 minutes the pizza had come. We ate it and had some pop then Anna said ''I'm gonna go for a walk'' ''You sure thats a good idea?'' I asked. ''Yeah,I'll be fine.'' With that she left . It was getting really late, about 10:30 pm, when i got a text from Anna ''Gonna stay out longer, don't wait up.'' I said goodnight to Cara and went to bed, but I had a bad feeling. I was worried about Anna and I hoped she would be okay, and I wondered what she was thinking. As Anna walked she started talking to her herself outloud. ''I can't, I don't want to believe whats going on. What's happening to me?'' she said out loud. ''Great, just great Anna, your talking to your self now.'' Then suddenly a shadow creature came out of nowhere, then another and another, until there were 6 of them. Then a black mist portal opened, and a man with blood red eyes, and black fire with green electricity on his head and a black dragon crown on his head with the fire going all around it. He was tall, looked about 8 feet, and had black armour with what looked like shadow blood flowing though the armour. His hands had black mist coming from the top of them. The armour had a dragon made into it and the dragon looked like it was made of bones. His leg armour had green fire flowing though it and the leg design had two huge spikes at the knees and what looked like two girls on them. One was screaming, and had two pink glowing eyes, with long hair. The other one was crying, and had glowing eyes. Only this one's eyes were glowing purple, and the tears were glowing too, and long wavy hair. Both girls went down to his feet and looked to be fused into the armour. His fingers were sharp at the end and on his side, was a sword. The handle looked to be made from some kind of wood. It was black, and had blood flowing though it that stopped at the hilt of the sword. The hilt was made from bones, and the sword was made of a black steel and had black and red mist going though the center of it with a dragon design on one side of the sword. On the the other side was what looked to be souls, which were little ghosts with small points at the end. each one had different coloured glowing eyes. They were purple, violet, pink. blue, and green. When he opened his mouth, his teeth looked like fangs, and he looked like he had been burnt to nothing but bone and replaced by black burnt skin. '' Greetings dear, I'm the shadow king. You must be Anna. I wish to know more about you, so lets make this easier for both of us and come with me.'' The Shadow King said. ''Well, what do you say dear?'' He asked. ''Hmm... let me think about that. Yeah... I'm gonna have to say no to that.'' Anna responded. Suddenly, a white energy shot out of her hand and hit a shadow in the face. The shadow turned to mist and was gone. She then hit another one, and the same thing happend to it. As the last ones came out of the portal, she kept blasting them. Then a bow made of energy materialized right in front of her along with some arrows. She grabbed 3 arrows and shot them, hitting 3 shadows in the head, and shot two more at the shadow king. One hit his chest, and one hit him in the arm. The arrow that hit the cheast bounced off. The one that hit the arm went through the armour, and right through his arm. She began to run. ''That's it!'' he yelled. ''Im done playing with you.'' he said angrily. He pulled his sword out, and raised it. As he did, black mist shot out of the portal and chased after Anna. It wrapped around her leg, then her other leg, then her arms, and began pulling her towards the shadow king. As she was being dragged towards him he said ''Well my dear, once I'm through with you, no one will recognize you, and you will be another siren in my army.'' With that he said ''Shadows, lets go. We got what we came for.'' As she went though the portal, the white energy shot out of her and into the sky. Seeing this, The Shadow King said ''Oh well. I'll still enjoy turning you into another puppet.'' With that, the portal closed. The white energy hit the sky, and crackled as it opened its own portal, and white light filled the sky, and then shot down right outside my house. Me and cara ran outside and there was this girl standing there, and glowing in the enrgy. She had long white silky hair, with what I could feel as a white ora flowing down her hair. She had ocean blue eyes and her lips were candy red. Her dress was long and white, and was made of some kind of silk that had white energy flowing though the dress. The top half of the dress had a picture of an angel with its wings spread out like she was about to fly. The wings had a yellow energy flowing around them and a bunch of lace around it. The bottom half of the dress had a huge tree with 3 people right in front of it, and an angel behind them. Right at the edge of the tree, were a bunch of girls in white dresses, holding there hands out above there heads with an energy flowing from there hands and joining a flow of energy flowing around the tree and the 3 people in front of them. She had white flats that glowed in the white enregy. The light disappeared, and the girl smiled at us and said in a soft silky voice ''Hi, I'm Amelia and you must be Dylan. And that makes you Cara. I've been watching you guys with great interest and hope.'' ''What do you mean?'' I said. ''Oh, my bad.'' she said. ''It's been a very long time since I've talked to humans. Your friend Anna, has been captured by The Shadow King, and her power went back to the me, as no one was left to take it. I'm the first of the 3. I was part of the original 3. I'll tell you all when the other two come. Can you call them to come please?'' I just stayed silent for a moment, then I said ''Um... yeah, of course.'' I called Alice and said ''Can you and Aurora come over like right now?''' ''Um, right now doesnt work for me right now ok? We'll come over first thing tomorrow morning.'' She sounded scared and said ''I have to go, bye.'' and hung up on me. I told them what she said and Amelia said ''Okay, lets get rest.'' and she went in my house. I was worried about Alice, as she had never hung up on me, and I wondered what was going on with her. Alice grabbed her head and Aurora asked ''Are you okay Alice?'' ''Fine, just dont feel good. I'm just gonna..." Then she ran to the bathroom and locked the door. She looked in the mirror and saw that her hair had black streaks in it and her clothes had turned black and had black mist coming off of them. Her nails had grown to look like claws. Her eyes hurt, so she closed them, and when she opened them again, there was black mist behind them. Then, her head hurt as she had some dark thoughts enter her mind and she began to think about how she could turn Dylan, evil and get rid of Aurora. She grabbed her head and said ''What's wrong with me?'' So she turned the tap on and she splashed some water in her face and closed her eyes. When she opened them, they were back to normal. Same with her nails. Her head felt clearer, and the mist stopped coming off her clothes. But the pieces of her hair that had turned black and her clothes stayed black. So she cut off the black pieces of hair and opened the bathroom door slightly to make sure Aurora, wasnt near the door, and when she didn't see her, she ran to her room, locked her door, and put on a new t-shirt and some pants, and tossed the clothes she was wearing that had turned black in a bag, tied it up and hid it. She wondered what was happening, and was worried what the others would think and was afraid for Dylan and wonderd what he was thinking about right now. I went to my room, and just plugged in and just started listening to my music, as I knew there would be no way I could sleep with all that was happening. I was starting to get overwhelmed, as so much had happened in a two week period. Then Amelia, came in and she tapped me, so I took my headphones off. ''cant sleep?'' She asked. ''Yeah'' I said ''How did you know?'' ''I remember how I felt so long ago. If you want, I can help you.'' She said. I said sure so she told me to lie down. I did, then a mist came from her hands, it smelled sweet, and my eyes became very heavy. Next thing I know it was 10 am. I got up, and by the time I was fully awake and left my room to go to the liveing room to watch tv, both Alice and Aurora as well as the others were waiting. ''Sorry, I slept in.'' I said. ''It's fine'' Aurora said. ''Amelia was just geting us caught up.'' Then Alice asked ''Oh, and by the way, why did you never tell me about Cara?'' I didn't answer her, and instead said ''So now that we are all caught up...'' ''Actually, not yet Dylan.'' Aurora said. Then she told me what happened last night. Then Amelia told me that me and Cara are descendants from the first 3 warriors who were Gods, and that's why we had powers, and why we could see shadows, and why our weapons chnaged when the Shadows and The Knight came to fight us. Then she looked at me, and said I had been blessed with the gift of pure blood. She said it probably had something to do with my power being fire. It can sometimes burn away any blood that doesnt have magic in it and i could be the one too end this eternal war forever. I was the most powerful one to ever been born. Even more powerful then the first one. Which is why I am able to vist the shadow lands, and why Aurora was able to talk to me and why I could see her. She told me that I could kill the Shadow King which is why he wants me alive. If he can turn me to the darkside then his victory is all but guaranteed. And without me, not likely he will win, but all that won't matter cause when he comes and believe it he will come, he will have an army. So I will need an army. She said she can get some but that Alice and I must build it mostly by ourselves. She turned to Alice and said ''Alice, I'm sorry that you got dragged into this, but you must be careful, if he didn't begin the process with you yet, he will do it soon.'' ''What process?'' I asked. ''The process to turn her into his Shadow Queen.'' Amelia said. ''And once it's completed, she will only want to help him and she will be able to open a portal to the shadow lands, through which he will come with his whole army.''she finished. I looked at her for a minute, not knowing how to feel. It was alot to take in. Finally I said '' So, it's all come down to me then right?'' ''Yes, you will be the deciding fate.'' She said. ''I can't handle this right now.'' I said. With that I grabbed some earbuds and put my shoes on and left. I walked towards the woods where this all began. When I got there, there was a girl in a black cloak standing there. ''Great, here we go again.'' I thought to myself. I went towards her and she pulled her hood off. I recognized her instantly. It was Elizabeth. She looked scared, but there was no mist coming off her this time. ''Dylan'' she said with a slight panic in her voice as she came running to me and said ''He's coming''. ''Who is?'' I asked. ''Shadows and Shadow Knights, and The Shadow King as well as two Sirens. They're all coming for you, and to kill me as because of you, I broke free of his spell. "How did that happen?"I aksed her. Before she could answer me, suddenly six Shadows, two Knights, and two Sirens were in a circle, and then a bunch of mist began to spin and it went up six feet in the air. The mist then started to form a body and then suddenly the Shadow King was there. He looked down at me and said ''Hello Dylan, I don't think we have been properly introduced. I'm the.." "Yeah, yeah" I interupted him before he could finish and said "You're the Shadow King. I kind of figured with mist and the look." I said gesturing to his clothing if you could call it that. "I know why you're here, and let me save you the trouble, and say yeah I think it's time you go." He looked at me kinda surprised as he wasn't used to being talked to that way. "How rude of you" he said. "You need to learn some manners." Then he loooked at one of the Sirens and said "Do it." The Siren came right up to me and blew some weird black dust in my face. "Oh no!" Elizabeth said in a worried voice. "Oh Elizabeth..." the Shadow King said. "I will deal with you in a minute." He looked back at me and said "Now Dylan, you will join the darkness and you will help me win." he said. I could feel his presence in my mind, and I just couldn't let him win. With that thought in my head, suddenly fire came off my hands, it was a golden colour and I yelled "No! Now fuck off!" and with that I blasted all the Shadows and I killed both of his Knights and the Sirens. Then I made a sword out of pure fire. With my eyes glowing and with the sword of blue fire in my hands, I yelled "Go back to which you came from!" and I stabbed him right in the center of his armour and it went right though to the other side. As I pulled it out he spat out black blood and said angrily "You will pay for this!" and he disappeared. I looked over at Elizabeth and I said "Okay, I trust you now, as you could have killed me. let's go back to my place" Elizabeth looked relieved but also a little worried. "Wait"she said" before we do, I have to tell you something. He has already begun Alice's transformation, and she has already had some physical changes happen that she is not telling you. You can't trust her any more. She is already a puppet in his game." I didn't know what to think, sure it couldn't be true. "I don't believe you." I said. "She wouldn't do that. I'll ask her too, you'll see. After 40 minutes we got back to my place and I went straight to Alice and asked her "Is there something we whould know about?" She looked at me confused and said "No... why do you ask?" "No reason" I said. "Well I think we should maybe meet up later. Say around 6 pm?" We all agreed to it. Alice was first out and I said "Can you give us a minute Alice? I just have to talk to the others for a minute alone." "okay." she said. Once I heard the door close and made sure she wasn't there I told them what I had been told, and told Elizabeth to come out. Amelia looked a little distraught and said "I was afraid this would happen, but not this quick. That means we have less time than I thought." She looked at me and said "You must be ready, and you must find an army, and soon." Then she look at Aurora and said "Aurora keep an eye on her and don't let her know that we know. It could make things worse." "Okay" Aurora said. With that, they left and I thought about Anna and I wondered what was gonna happen to her once they were on the other side of the portal. As the portal opened, Anna looked and saw huge walls of mist that seemed endless. They were black with green lightning. A creature with what looked like leathery wings and long dirty claws appeared and said to her "welcome to The Shadow Land,now lets go" it's teeth were razor sharp, it's skin was pale and its eyes were black as tar. There were what looked like hundreds of these creatures. This one had a basket hooked on to it. The Shadow King then pushed Anna into the basket and got in it as well. He grabbed her and some of the white energy left her body and went into him. Then a black flash of light happend, blinding her. When it was done, the Shadow King was there right at the front of the basket but he looked different, he had human skin, short black hair, and his clothes had became a black jacket with some red on the collar, and underneath that, a black shirt with silver buckles all the way down. He had black pants with black shoes. His eyes were black and he had beard too. "See what even a little bit of your power can do?" he said. "Once I get all of the powers, I can be reborn into my human form. Then I will be the most powerful man in the world." Anna looked at him "Who are you really?" she said. "I was like you once, but I wanted to become a God. So I learned the forbidden magic and tried to take over the world and destroy the Gods. But they made the 3 as you would be called, and gave them each a special power. So I tried to create an army of my own, but when I read the spell out loud, I unleashed so much dark power, that It took over the whole city I was in and I had made all the people into the monsters you see here. But it left me very weak and the 3 used all their power at once and tried to kill me. I used all my power left, and blasted a huge wave of dark magic and it hit dead center of the city. When the five types of magic mixed they exploded, causing the whole city to be banished and accidentally created this whole alternate realm and left me near death. So I stole the soul of one the the original 3. Unfortunately their power left them before I could take the rest of it. But once I did the dark soul spell, binding her soul to me, I became this monster you saw, and it came with an equally bad consequence. I couldn't leave without a human girl that had the power of the dark as well. Hence the Shadow Queen but the God's created the veil, and made it lock me out of the other world. Over time it weekend and I'm able to try and escape every 50 years. But the God's then reawaken the 3 powers, and their line gets the power again to stop me. But...enough about me, let's get you to the Siren's Palace" Then he said to the creature "Take us to the Siren's Palace" And with that it took off and flew towards a huge palace in the distance. The Shadow King laughed and said "Time to begin your transformation and your new life" After about 30 minutes of flying a castle could be seen. It had purple mist coming off of it and It had four towers each of which looked over a hundred feet tall. Each had the same black pointy roofs. The castle walls looked fifty feet tall with a huge wooden gate at the entrance. All around the castle was some kind of water, it was black, and looked like it was a mix of tar with water. At the front of the castle, right by the gate, was a waterfall on each side of the gate. All around the castle there were huge pillars rising, easily standing a hundred and fifty feet tall each, with weird ancient symbols. There was a red glow coming from some of the symbols. On the side of the castle, was a huge platform made of some black stone and giant wooden posts which were bleeding. After another five minutes, we landed on the platform where a woman with long black hair, nails like claws. She had purple eyes and was in a long black lace dress. Standing beside her were four girls. One looked like she was 18, another looked 19, and then the other two looked to be about 16 and 17. They all had long hair, perfect skin and long nails. They were each wearing a pair of heels. The first girl was wearing black. The second girl wore red shoes. The third girl's shoe colour was purple and the final wore white. The youngest one had a blue dress on. It had a nice lace flower design on the dress. She had on a nice dark blue nail polish on her nails. On her lips she a had a nice light lip gloss. Her eyes were ocean blue colour. "Hello my Lord"said one of the girls. "You've brought us a new girl". Her voice was one of the most normal vocies I had heard since this all began. The shadow king said "Yes, and I want her turned fast. Then let me know when its done." She went to him and said "I will speed it up a bit, but I won't rush this. It must be the right way or it won't work. I will let you know when it's done." She turned to the other girls "Girls" she said, and they all stepped forward at the same time "Yes mistress?" they all said at the same time. "Take whats her name." "Anna" the The Shadow King interupted. "Yes,well, take Anna up to the tower. It's time for her to learn her place and role." "Follow us" the youngest said. She had a soft light voice. They went into the castle and the walls were nice light colours and lots of pictures on the walls. On one wall was a huge tapestry, which showed a huge battle in a city. There were buildings on fire, and a huge temple floating into the sky, and lots of people. "Keep moving" the oldest one said. She had a firm but soft voice. Then they went down a hallway which went on for 3 minutes and at the end was a single door, which looked like a normal castle door. They opened it up and we started walking up the long staircase. Then, after 5 minutes we got to a single floor, which had a metal door that had a lock like nothing I had ever seen. Then, one of them pulled a skeleton key out of their arm, unlocked the door and pushed it open. There was a nice queen bed with black curtains, a dark oak dresser, a bathroom, a book case full of differnt magic books and a black wood door which lead to a balcony. The youngest said "Not what you were expecting?" "No, its nicer." "Yeah" "Here" the other 3 said to the youngest girl and gave her the key. "Your in charge of the new girl. Time for you to move up." They told her. And with that, they floated up and went down the stairs. I turned to the girl and asked "What's your name?" "Hmmmm, let me think, its been a bit." After a minute she said "It's Lila". Now she closed the door and opened a door to a closet, which had a black dress with a lace applique at the very top and a simple shiny material for the rest of the top and had lace sleeves with the same pattern as the applique at the top, and a nice darker black belt at the waist. The bottom of the dress was the same shiny material as the top and had lace appliques at the bottom hem of the dress. Lila took it out and said "Put it on. That's what you will wear for today and the ceremony tomorrow. You can use the bathroom to get changed." "What's wrong with my clothes?" I asked her. They don't work for what you are now going to become. And the dress has a special magic to it to make your transition from human to siren less painful." "Fine" I said. After five minutes, Anna came out with the dress on. Then a vortex appeared in the center of the room, and Lila told Anna to throw her old clothes into the vortex. She did and they turnt to ash. "Now that you are properly dressed I will leave you be. You'll learn to like this place and call it home. The ceremony is tomorrow at noon, and when it's done we will have a huge party welcoming you to the family." With that Lila left and closed the door. Anna heard a lock turn and she knew she was gonna change no matter what she wanted. It took some time but after 2 hours of trying she finally got some sleep. Next thing she knew there was a knock on the door and Lila came in along with two other girls. Both were in dresses. One was in a short aqua chiffon dress with a belt at the waist. The top half of the dress was a cross over sweetheart neckline with illusion sparkly lace at the top with aqua flowers on it. She had purple eyes and long cherry red hair. The other had a aqua blue dress with a slightly full skirt that went to just above the knee. The skirt was tulle over a satiny material. The top had a light lace piece that had lots of bling that went from the top of the dress to the sholders. The bodice was a light satiny material. She had short brown hair with green eyes. Lila had a nice short light blue dress on. It had a chiffon skirt over a satiny fabric, and a beaded belt that went around the waist with a nice sivler flower pattern that went up from the waist all the way up to the top lace shoulder piece. Lila said "they're here to get you ready for the ceremony". With that they helped get the dress off and put the new one on. It was a short white dress , with black flower embroidery with leaves and some vine things that went from one half of the bottom of the dress to the top half with a shoulder strap. They put on a pair of low black heels and some white pearl earrings. The finishing touch was a rose gold flower necklace, with a rose gold chian with a bunch of tiny diamonds and a small rose gold flower with a diamond in the center of the flower. They then braided her hair. Now that she was ready, they left the room and began to walk down the stairs and a bunch of hallways and then they went through two giant dark oak doors where there was a big room, which had a huge pit in the middle of it with four mermaid face shaped holes. There were at least 50 girls, all of different ages. "Come in, welcome Anna, to the Grand Room" said a firm but soft voice. "Is she ready girls?" she asked the girls that were with me. "Yes mistress" they responded. "Good. Then hook her up and lets begin." the mistress said. With that Lila and the other two girls walked me to a platform and I was told to stand dead center on the platform. Then mist came from the platform and wrapped around her feet and she couldn't move no matter how hard she tried. The platform then began to float till it was above the center of the pit and then lowerd itself down till it was at the bottom of the pit. Then the Mistress woman said "Today we welcome a new sister to this family. Let's begin." With that, black tar began flowing out of the mermaids mouths, and after 3 minutes it was at her waist. She could feel it getting all the way through her skin into her blood, and her body. After another 5 minutes it was at the top of the pit. The goo bubbled as a purple black mist came off it. Then the platform began to come up. Once it was at the top, you could see the black tar was all over Anna. It then started glowing purple and slowly began to peel off her.

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It was a white flag with three people who are believed to be the first three original warriors. One held a bow that was made from the tree of life, the other two each held a sword. One was on fire and was said to have been made in the heart of the planets core, the other made from the first fallen star. It was said that together, all three could restore the light and vanquish the great evil. We all looked at each other and laughed. ''Whoever came up with the legend is very creative.'' I said. ''Yeah I'll say.'' said Anna and Cara at the same time. ''Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna find my room and get ready for tonights opening festivities.'' I said. It was 7:30 pm when i saw Anna and Cara at the bonfire. I had just had dinner when a loud horn blew. It meant it was time for the event to officially begin. And with that I stood in the center of a circle, then another person came into the circle. We both drew our swords, and when we heard the the horn, we began to fight. As the duel began, the swords clashed and clanged the crowd cheered and yelled. After 7 minutes I got the kill hit and the crowd went wild. With that down, people dueled for the next three hours , and I drank and had fun. I went to bed around 11, and the next day I ate breakfast and went to the market. I saw clothes, weapons, jewellery and many other types of things. Later that day, around one pm, I heard the bell. That meant a clan had declared war on another clan. So I went to the war board and saw that the viking clan had declared war on my clan. I went to the camp to prepare for the war and there I saw Anna, ready with her bow and Cara, putting her sword back in it's hilt. With that, we all began walking to the field where the battle would take place. I wonderd where Jake was, as he was meant to be here, but I couldn't call him as there were no cellphones allowed. I went to Cara and said ''So, you ready to win?'' ''Hell yeah!'' she answered. After about a ten minute walk we got to the field. Ten minutes later a horn went off and we all charged towards the enemies and fought. Anna brought 30 arrows with her and only missed 7 out the 30 she fired. Me and Cara would attack the big guys together. I would hit them once, then we would yell ''switch'' and the other one would run and hit. After 3 long hours of fighting, the Viking Clan surrendered. Anna had to go back for more arrows from the supply tent a lot and in total she hit 70 people and missed 30. We went back to camp and celebrated. Later that night I found myself wondering what Alice and Aurora were up to. It was 5pm and Alice and Aurora were hanging out in the living room when the doorbell rang. Aurora and Alice were confused. They went downstairs to the door and Alice opened it and saw Jake standing there. ''Jake, what are you doing here? I thought you were at the larp event with Dylan?'' Alice asked. He didn't say anything. ''Jake?'' Alice said a bit nervous. Aurora looked at his eyes and saw they were dark red with what looked like black mist around them and she gasped. ''Alice, get back! That's not Jake!'' Aurora exclaimed. ''Then who is it?'' Alice asked, concerned. ''It's the Shadow King.'' Aurora said. He started to laugh and said in deep raspy voice ''Very good Aurora''. And with that, they tried to close the door, but he caught it. They both just stood there a moment, looking into each others eyes. Aurora yelled ''Run! Quick!'' . Up the stairs they both ran as fast as they could. When they got to the top of the stairs the shadow king was half way up. Aurora pushed Alice behind her and shot a beam of purple and black energy with black mist intertwhined. It hit him right dead center of his chest and he fell down the stairs. He took a moment to get up and then black mist began to build up underneath his feet and he shot up and landed behind Aurora and Alice. He grabbed Aurora and shot her with a beam of black and red mist intertwined with green lighting and she flew across the room and hit the wall. ''You have served your purpose my dear, I don't need you any more'' he said. He then went to Alice and grabbed her by the neck and she tried to get free of his grip but to no avail. He opened her mouth and then opened his mouth, and black mist shot out his mouth and began going into Alices mouth. He heald it for a whole minute and then he dropped her on to the floor. A bit of black mist came out of her mouth and she coughed as she got air back in her body. He then said ''You will be the most powerful Shadow Queen when you're done. Now look at me.'' She did, and her eyes flashed a shade of purple with black mist around them. ''And so it has began!'' he said. ''Enjoy your old life while you can, as soon, a new, better life shall begin for you.'' With that, her vision began to fade. As she fell to the floor with one last flutter, she saw him disappear, as mist went all around him and his voice echoed in her mind ''Sleep tight my new Queen''. After he had disappeared she had no more energy left in her and she passed out. When she woke up it was morning, and Aurora was standing over her. She had a worried look on her face. Alice began to sit up slowy and Aurora said ''Careful, when I came to, you were passed out and he was gone.'' ''So it wasn't a dream?'' Alice asked. ''I'm afraid not.'' Aurora responded. ''Do you remember what happened last night?'' Aurora asked Alice. ''Yeah, I think so. Jake is the shadow king....'' Aurora interrupted her and said ''Your friend jake is just a vessel. He can use him.'' "I know im gonna regret asking this, but how does he...'' ''He kills them.'' Aurora said without letting Alice finish her question. ''Now, what else do you remember?'' Aurora asked. ''Well, you shot him, and then he hit you back, and then he went to me. After that it's all a blank.'' ''Okay, I was hoping you would remember if he did anything to you.'' Aurora said. ''I'm sorry'' Alice said ''I can't.'' Then she thought for a moment and said ''Wait... if he came after us, do you think Dylan's in danger?'' '' I think he is in more danger than he knows, but there's nothing we can do but hope he will be okay.'' Aurora replied. Alice responded ''I can't reach him where he is as there is no phone signal there. '' '' Well then let's just hope whatever he's doing he's safe." Aurora responded. Meanwhile back at the L.A.R.P. event, Cara was shaking Dylan and saying ''Dylan, wake up''. "huh? " I said as I woke up. "Yeah, give me a second."I said. I was thinking in my head ''weird, was it a dream?'' I looked around a few minutes as I was in the shadow lands last night, and it always took time to adjust when I came back. ''It's about to be war time again.'' Anna said. ''We have been challenged to a war by the dragon clan.'' '' They worship dragons!'' Cara said jokingly. We went out to the field and the battle began. Meanwhile, I swear I could hear whispering. I looked over to my right and I saw what looked like a tear in the world. Like a tear between our dimension and the shadow lands. And then standing at the opening of that rift between dimensions I thought I saw a knight in black and silver armour, he had red glowing eyes with black mist and green lightning coming off the armour, and a silver sword with a gold handle. Then I noticed he had two black, small blades on each of the arm pieces. Then he walked away. I could see the shadow lands on the other side of it and I saw what looked like hardened air, but I heard a voice say ''Not air, it's ethereal energy.'' Around the tear there was a storm, with dark black clouds with green lightning mixed with it. The knight went thorugh it and he disappeared. I wondered where he went and if it had to do with the Shadow King. After ten minutes of walking, it stopped at a castle. It had huge black gates, with dark towers with cracks on them. The doors had a dragon on one side that was flying around with its mouth open, and on the other side two knights with a bunch of the shadow creatures behind them, and above that, a bunch of small black mist things with no legs and red eyes flying to the dragons mouth. The knight pushed the doors open, walked into the throne room, and went down on one knee and looked up to The Shadow King, and said ''My Lord, it is true, he can see us and the tears. He grows stronger everyday.'' ''And has he began to change yet?'' said a raspy voice that belonged to The Shadow King. ''No my Lord, not that I can tell.'' The knight responded. ''Thank you'' The Shadow King yelled as loud as he could, and it made the whole room shake. ''Elizabeth'' He yelled out. After about a minute, a girl in a dark, long, black lace dress, with black mist comeing off it, entered the room. ''Yes my Lord'' she said. ''You told me that you gave him a shadow kiss.'' The Shadow King said. ''I did your lord.'' Elizabeth replied. The Shadow King then yelled again and said ''Well he has chenged. Not one little bit .'' ''But how is that possible? He should have become a monster by now, and be ready to take.'' The Shadow king said back to her ''Well he isn't. So that is a big problem. So if we can't change him that way, then we will have to capture him and bring him here. Then me and my queen will turn him that way. So Elizabeth, go with the knight, and the rest of the army, and bring him here.'' ''And the others my Lord?'' Elizabeth asked. ''Kill them all. their souls will join the army of shadows. Now go.'' He said. ''Yes of course my Lord.'' Elizabeth said. The knight nodded, and they then left the castle. ''Don't kill him like the the last one you were sent to grab.'' The Knight said in a deep voice. ''Yeah yeah'' she said in a sing song voice. He grabbed her by the neck, ''I mean it!'' He said emphatically. ''Do you understand?'' She nodded, and he dropped her and said in a deep voice again ''Good. Now go.'' They marched to the tear rightaway. After about 10 minutes of marching, they saw the tear, and Dylan, and a bunch of other people. ''He has no clue what's coming. I wonder what's going through his mind?'' Elizabeth said. On the other side of the tear, Cara was shaking Dylan and saying his name ''Dylan! Dylan!'' ''Huh?'' Dylan said. ''Are you okay?'' Cara asked. ''I don't know Cara, I think we're about to have trouble.'' Dylan responded. Just as she was about to say something, a portal opened. Everyone stopped and stared at the portal. And then the knight came out first, then a girl with jet black long wavy hair, with long nails that looked like claws, with black nail polish. She had piercing green eyes and had on a gothic black corseted and a lace panel cross back dress that went down to her knees. Then the shadows came. People were scared. Then the Knight raised his sword, and green lightning came out of nowhere, and hit a bunch of the buildings and some tents, causing them to catch on fire. But the fire wasn't a normal colour, it was green. People began to scream and run, then the Knight raised his sword once more, and said in a deep voice ''Shadows attack!'' The Shadows looked exactly as I remembered, except I could feel an overwhelmingly amount of negative energy and they seemed more powerful. They let out an ear piercing screech and split up. I heard people screaming, as the shadows attacked the people, and were tearing buildings up, and just spreading destruction and death all over the place. As I looked around, smoke and ash filled the sky. Ash was starting to fall to the ground, and the Knight and the girl were both laughing at what was happening. I heard a girl scream as a shadow had scratched her and she started to bleed. I then looked at the Knight and the girl and said ''You think this is funny? All of this suffering?'' ''Yes, I do.'' he said in a deep voice, and then proceeded to say ''This is your world's fate, and there's nothing you can do about it. So yes, it is.'' said He then said '' Why don't you make this easier on everyone, and come with us? We have been ordered to capture you.'' ''Hmm let me think about that... yeah, I thought about it, and yeah, I'm gonna have put that under a no for me.'' I replied. ''Whhhyyy you arrogant human!!!'' The Knight roared in anger . Then said ''Elizabeth! Get him!'' ''With pleasure!'' she said. ''Don't kill him. The King wants him alive.'' the Knight said. ''What about the other two?'' Elizabeth asked. ''Kill them.'' The Knight responded. ''Oh goody!'' she said with a twinkle in her eyes. ''Thank you!''. And with that I had had enough, and I felt a wave of ethereal energy flow though me, into my weapon. I looked at Cara and Anna, and I could tell by the looks on there faces, they were feeling the same thing. With that, my sword began to turn black, and became heavy. The blade had became a shiny black stone, the handle had become metal. I looked at Cara, and her sword had become the same black shiny stone. My sword began to crack, a few pieces broke off and a raging fire took the whole sword over. But the fire stopped at the handle, and it didn't burn at all. Cara's, sword started to glow in a bright yellow light, and Anna's bow began to change too. The wood became a tree bark with some vines wraping around it, and her arrows became tree bark as well. The tips of the arrows became the same shiny black stone as Anna and I's swords. She too, could feel an ethereal energy flowing throgh the bow and the arrows. I raised my sword in the air and said ''Let's fight!''. Both Cara and Anna said ''Yeah, let's send them back to where they came from.'' Cara raised her sword, then Anna loaded her bow with an arrow. The Knight just stared at us. I was guessing that this had never happend before. After a moment he said ''Kill them all.'' I asked Anna ''Can you keep the shadows off us?'' '' Yeah sure.'' she said. ''Cara, you and me take Elizabeth.'' ''Just like the old days right?'' both Cara and Anna said at the same time. Then Cara said ''When this is all over you have some explaining to do.'' I know'' I said. With that, we ran at Elizabeth, and a shadow went to hit us, but it got hit right in the head by an arrow, and it screamed. Dark blood started erupting from its whole body, and it turned into a dark blood mist then it was gone. ''Not possible!'' yelled the Knight. I then rolled underneath Elizabeth's claws and got a deep cut on her. Then a dark blood started coming out of the cut, but I could feel an ethereal energy with it, like she wasn't all evil. Then the Knight came running to us, and he swung his sword. I blocked it and pushed back, and then hit his sword to the side. I jumped back and yelled ''switch!'' With that Cara stabbed him with her sword, then I swung my sword yelling ''Die you bastard!'' hitting the same place Cara did. With that we had made a huge gash in the center of his armour and a powerful negative energy as well as dark blood mist began pouring out of it. We then went to hit him again, when he shot a wave of dark mist out of his sword, and sent us flying back. With that, he said ''Retreat back to the shadow lands''. With that all the shadows that were left, went into the portal. The Knight grabbed Elizabeth and said ''This isn't over human. The war has just began, and we have already won.'' He and Elizabeth went back through the portal and it closed once they were on the other side,back in the shadow lands. After the portal was closed, we all 3 looked at our weapons, and as quickly as they had changed they had returned back to normal. We went back to the camp and were surprised.... it had been lucky as if the lightning and the shadows never hit it. We got our stuff, and then after ten minutes of helping people with helping the injured and using water buckets to treat and put the fire out, which had now lost its green colour, we could hear sirens coming and we knew it would be fine to leave. Once we got to the cars they both looked at me and said "okay talk". ''Follow me, and once we get to my place I'll tell you everything.'' I said. They both got in their cars and followed me to my place. After two hours, we got to my place. They looked and Anna said ''You live here?'' ''Yeah'' I said. Come on''. They followed me in and we went to the game room. I sat down in the computer chair, they sat down on the couch. Then I told them everything from start to where we were now. They understandably had a bunch of questions that I did my best to answer. After what was about 40 minutes, they were good with what I had told them. Cara then asked ''Where are we gonna stay? I mean, I think it's safe to say we're all targets now, and I dont think it's safe were I'm staying right now. ''Same'' Anna said. I told them they can stay with me as I have two extra guest rooms. ''I'm hungry.'' I stated. ''What about you guys?'' I asked. They both said yes. ''I'll order a pizza.'' I then showed them to the guest rooms, which were very nice. Both rooms had a natural colour wood bedroom set with a queen bed. Both rooms had a white bedding set, walk in closets and a full bathroom. ''I'm gonna get changed then order the pizza. You guys should do the same, as i dont think were gonna need are larp outfits for a bit.'' I went upstairs to my room, showered and got changed into a pair of blue shorts and a black t shirt that said ''Yoda man'' with a picture of Yoda on the front. I ordered a large cheese pizza and a 2 liter of Pepsi. I went to the game room and waited for the pizza and the girls. Cara was the first to come out she was in a white short dress with a blue tied sweater, then Anna came out in a yellow long sleeve wool shirt and a simple black skirt. Anna had her hair just flowing down her back. 10 minutes the pizza had come. We ate it and had some pop then Anna said ''I'm gonna go for a walk'' ''You sure thats a good idea?'' I asked. ''Yeah,I'll be fine.'' With that she left . It was getting really late, about 10:30 pm, when i got a text from Anna ''Gonna stay out longer, don't wait up.'' I said goodnight to Cara and went to bed, but I had a bad feeling. I was worried about Anna and I hoped she would be okay, and I wondered what she was thinking. As Anna walked she started talking to her herself outloud. ''I can't, I don't want to believe whats going on. What's happening to me?'' she said out loud. ''Great, just great Anna, your talking to your self now.'' Then suddenly a shadow creature came out of nowhere, then another and another, until there were 6 of them. Then a black mist portal opened, and a man with blood red eyes, and black fire with green electricity on his head and a black dragon crown on his head with the fire going all around it. He was tall, looked about 8 feet, and had black armour with what looked like shadow blood flowing though the armour. His hands had black mist coming from the top of them. The armour had a dragon made into it and the dragon looked like it was made of bones. His leg armour had green fire flowing though it and the leg design had two huge spikes at the knees and what looked like two girls on them. One was screaming, and had two pink glowing eyes, with long hair. The other one was crying, and had glowing eyes. Only this one's eyes were glowing purple, and the tears were glowing too, and long wavy hair. Both girls went down to his feet and looked to be fused into the armour. His fingers were sharp at the end and on his side, was a sword. The handle looked to be made from some kind of wood. It was black, and had blood flowing though it that stopped at the hilt of the sword. The hilt was made from bones, and the sword was made of a black steel and had black and red mist going though the center of it with a dragon design on one side of the sword. On the the other side was what looked to be souls, which were little ghosts with small points at the end. each one had different coloured glowing eyes. They were purple, violet, pink. blue, and green. When he opened his mouth, his teeth looked like fangs, and he looked like he had been burnt to nothing but bone and replaced by black burnt skin. '' Greetings dear, I'm the shadow king. You must be Anna. I wish to know more about you, so lets make this easier for both of us and come with me.'' The Shadow King said. ''Well, what do you say dear?'' He asked. ''Hmm... let me think about that. Yeah... I'm gonna have to say no to that.'' Anna responded. Suddenly, a white energy shot out of her hand and hit a shadow in the face. The shadow turned to mist and was gone. She then hit another one, and the same thing happend to it. As the last ones came out of the portal, she kept blasting them. Then a bow made of energy materialized right in front of her along with some arrows. She grabbed 3 arrows and shot them, hitting 3 shadows in the head, and shot two more at the shadow king. One hit his chest, and one hit him in the arm. The arrow that hit the cheast bounced off. The one that hit the arm went through the armour, and right through his arm. She began to run. ''That's it!'' he yelled. ''Im done playing with you.'' he said angrily. He pulled his sword out, and raised it. As he did, black mist shot out of the portal and chased after Anna. It wrapped around her leg, then her other leg, then her arms, and began pulling her towards the shadow king. As she was being dragged towards him he said ''Well my dear, once I'm through with you, no one will recognize you, and you will be another siren in my army.'' With that he said ''Shadows, lets go. We got what we came for.'' As she went though the portal, the white energy shot out of her and into the sky. Seeing this, The Shadow King said ''Oh well. I'll still enjoy turning you into another puppet.'' With that, the portal closed. The white energy hit the sky, and crackled as it opened its own portal, and white light filled the sky, and then shot down right outside my house. Me and cara ran outside and there was this girl standing there, and glowing in the enrgy. She had long white silky hair, with what I could feel as a white ora flowing down her hair. She had ocean blue eyes and her lips were candy red. Her dress was long and white, and was made of some kind of silk that had white energy flowing though the dress. The top half of the dress had a picture of an angel with its wings spread out like she was about to fly. The wings had a yellow energy flowing around them and a bunch of lace around it. The bottom half of the dress had a huge tree with 3 people right in front of it, and an angel behind them. Right at the edge of the tree, were a bunch of girls in white dresses, holding there hands out above there heads with an energy flowing from there hands and joining a flow of energy flowing around the tree and the 3 people in front of them. She had white flats that glowed in the white enregy. The light disappeared, and the girl smiled at us and said in a soft silky voice ''Hi, I'm Amelia and you must be Dylan. And that makes you Cara. I've been watching you guys with great interest and hope.'' ''What do you mean?'' I said. ''Oh, my bad.'' she said. ''It's been a very long time since I've talked to humans. Your friend Anna, has been captured by The Shadow King, and her power went back to the me, as no one was left to take it. I'm the first of the 3. I was part of the original 3. I'll tell you all when the other two come. Can you call them to come please?'' I just stayed silent for a moment, then I said ''Um... yeah, of course.'' I called Alice and said ''Can you and Aurora come over like right now?''' ''Um, right now doesnt work for me right now ok? We'll come over first thing tomorrow morning.'' She sounded scared and said ''I have to go, bye.'' and hung up on me. I told them what she said and Amelia said ''Okay, lets get rest.'' and she went in my house. I was worried about Alice, as she had never hung up on me, and I wondered what was going on with her. Alice grabbed her head and Aurora asked ''Are you okay Alice?'' ''Fine, just dont feel good. I'm just gonna..." Then she ran to the bathroom and locked the door. She looked in the mirror and saw that her hair had black streaks in it and her clothes had turned black and had black mist coming off of them. Her nails had grown to look like claws. Her eyes hurt, so she closed them, and when she opened them again, there was black mist behind them. Then, her head hurt as she had some dark thoughts enter her mind and she began to think about how she could turn Dylan, evil and get rid of Aurora. She grabbed her head and said ''What's wrong with me?'' So she turned the tap on and she splashed some water in her face and closed her eyes. When she opened them, they were back to normal. Same with her nails. Her head felt clearer, and the mist stopped coming off her clothes. But the pieces of her hair that had turned black and her clothes stayed black. So she cut off the black pieces of hair and opened the bathroom door slightly to make sure Aurora, wasnt near the door, and when she didn't see her, she ran to her room, locked her door, and put on a new t-shirt and some pants, and tossed the clothes she was wearing that had turned black in a bag, tied it up and hid it. She wondered what was happening, and was worried what the others would think and was afraid for Dylan and wonderd what he was thinking about right now. I went to my room, and just plugged in and just started listening to my music, as I knew there would be no way I could sleep with all that was happening. I was starting to get overwhelmed, as so much had happened in a two week period. Then Amelia, came in and she tapped me, so I took my headphones off. ''cant sleep?'' She asked. ''Yeah'' I said ''How did you know?'' ''I remember how I felt so long ago. If you want, I can help you.'' She said. I said sure so she told me to lie down. I did, then a mist came from her hands, it smelled sweet, and my eyes became very heavy. Next thing I know it was 10 am. I got up, and by the time I was fully awake and left my room to go to the liveing room to watch tv, both Alice and Aurora as well as the others were waiting. ''Sorry, I slept in.'' I said. ''It's fine'' Aurora said. ''Amelia was just geting us caught up.'' Then Alice asked ''Oh, and by the way, why did you never tell me about Cara?'' I didn't answer her, and instead said ''So now that we are all caught up...'' ''Actually, not yet Dylan.'' Aurora said. Then she told me what happened last night. Then Amelia told me that me and Cara are descendants from the first 3 warriors who were Gods, and that's why we had powers, and why we could see shadows, and why our weapons chnaged when the Shadows and The Knight came to fight us. Then she looked at me, and said I had been blessed with the gift of pure blood. She said it probably had something to do with my power being fire. It can sometimes burn away any blood that doesnt have magic in it and i could be the one too end this eternal war forever. I was the most powerful one to ever been born. Even more powerful then the first one. Which is why I am able to vist the shadow lands, and why Aurora was able to talk to me and why I could see her. She told me that I could kill the Shadow King which is why he wants me alive. If he can turn me to the darkside then his victory is all but guaranteed. And without me, not likely he will win, but all that won't matter cause when he comes and believe it he will come, he will have an army. So I will need an army. She said she can get some but that Alice and I must build it mostly by ourselves. She turned to Alice and said ''Alice, I'm sorry that you got dragged into this, but you must be careful, if he didn't begin the process with you yet, he will do it soon.'' ''What process?'' I asked. ''The process to turn her into his Shadow Queen.'' Amelia said. ''And once it's completed, she will only want to help him and she will be able to open a portal to the shadow lands, through which he will come with his whole army.''she finished. I looked at her for a minute, not knowing how to feel. It was alot to take in. Finally I said '' So, it's all come down to me then right?'' ''Yes, you will be the deciding fate.'' She said. ''I can't handle this right now.'' I said. With that I grabbed some earbuds and put my shoes on and left. I walked towards the woods where this all began. When I got there, there was a girl in a black cloak standing there. ''Great, here we go again.'' I thought to myself. I went towards her and she pulled her hood off. I recognized her instantly. It was Elizabeth. She looked scared, but there was no mist coming off her this time. ''Dylan'' she said with a slight panic in her voice as she came running to me and said ''He's coming''. ''Who is?'' I asked. ''Shadows and Shadow Knights, and The Shadow King as well as two Sirens. They're all coming for you, and to kill me as because of you, I broke free of his spell. "How did that happen?"I aksed her. Before she could answer me, suddenly six Shadows, two Knights, and two Sirens were in a circle, and then a bunch of mist began to spin and it went up six feet in the air. The mist then started to form a body and then suddenly the Shadow King was there. He looked down at me and said ''Hello Dylan, I don't think we have been properly introduced. I'm the.." "Yeah, yeah" I interupted him before he could finish and said "You're the Shadow King. I kind of figured with mist and the look." I said gesturing to his clothing if you could call it that. "I know why you're here, and let me save you the trouble, and say yeah I think it's time you go." He looked at me kinda surprised as he wasn't used to being talked to that way. "How rude of you" he said. "You need to learn some manners." Then he loooked at one of the Sirens and said "Do it." The Siren came right up to me and blew some weird black dust in my face. "Oh no!" Elizabeth said in a worried voice. "Oh Elizabeth..." the Shadow King said. "I will deal with you in a minute." He looked back at me and said "Now Dylan, you will join the darkness and you will help me win." he said. I could feel his presence in my mind, and I just couldn't let him win. With that thought in my head, suddenly fire came off my hands, it was a golden colour and I yelled "No! Now fuck off!" and with that I blasted all the Shadows and I killed both of his Knights and the Sirens. Then I made a sword out of pure fire. With my eyes glowing and with the sword of blue fire in my hands, I yelled "Go back to which you came from!" and I stabbed him right in the center of his armour and it went right though to the other side. As I pulled it out he spat out black blood and said angrily "You will pay for this!" and he disappeared. I looked over at Elizabeth and I said "Okay, I trust you now, as you could have killed me. let's go back to my place" Elizabeth looked relieved but also a little worried. "Wait"she said" before we do, I have to tell you something. He has already begun Alice's transformation, and she has already had some physical changes happen that she is not telling you. You can't trust her any more. She is already a puppet in his game." I didn't know what to think, sure it couldn't be true. "I don't believe you." I said. "She wouldn't do that. I'll ask her too, you'll see. After 40 minutes we got back to my place and I went straight to Alice and asked her "Is there something we whould know about?" She looked at me confused and said "No... why do you ask?" "No reason" I said. "Well I think we should maybe meet up later. Say around 6 pm?" We all agreed to it. Alice was first out and I said "Can you give us a minute Alice? I just have to talk to the others for a minute alone." "okay." she said. Once I heard the door close and made sure she wasn't there I told them what I had been told, and told Elizabeth to come out. Amelia looked a little distraught and said "I was afraid this would happen, but not this quick. That means we have less time than I thought." She looked at me and said "You must be ready, and you must find an army, and soon." Then she look at Aurora and said "Aurora keep an eye on her and don't let her know that we know. It could make things worse." "Okay" Aurora said. With that, they left and I thought about Anna and I wondered what was gonna happen to her once they were on the other side of the portal. As the portal opened, Anna looked and saw huge walls of mist that seemed endless. They were black with green lightning. A creature with what looked like leathery wings and long dirty claws appeared and said to her "welcome to The Shadow Land,now lets go" it's teeth were razor sharp, it's skin was pale and its eyes were black as tar. There were what looked like hundreds of these creatures. This one had a basket hooked on to it. The Shadow King then pushed Anna into the basket and got in it as well. He grabbed her and some of the white energy left her body and went into him. Then a black flash of light happend, blinding her. When it was done, the Shadow King was there right at the front of the basket but he looked different, he had human skin, short black hair, and his clothes had became a black jacket with some red on the collar, and underneath that, a black shirt with silver buckles all the way down. He had black pants with black shoes. His eyes were black and he had beard too. "See what even a little bit of your power can do?" he said. "Once I get all of the powers, I can be reborn into my human form. Then I will be the most powerful man in the world." Anna looked at him "Who are you really?" she said. "I was like you once, but I wanted to become a God. So I learned the forbidden magic and tried to take over the world and destroy the Gods. But they made the 3 as you would be called, and gave them each a special power. So I tried to create an army of my own, but when I read the spell out loud, I unleashed so much dark power, that It took over the whole city I was in and I had made all the people into the monsters you see here. But it left me very weak and the 3 used all their power at once and tried to kill me. I used all my power left, and blasted a huge wave of dark magic and it hit dead center of the city. When the five types of magic mixed they exploded, causing the whole city to be banished and accidentally created this whole alternate realm and left me near death. So I stole the soul of one the the original 3. Unfortunately their power left them before I could take the rest of it. But once I did the dark soul spell, binding her soul to me, I became this monster you saw, and it came with an equally bad consequence. I couldn't leave without a human girl that had the power of the dark as well. Hence the Shadow Queen but the God's created the veil, and made it lock me out of the other world. Over time it weekend and I'm able to try and escape every 50 years. But the God's then reawaken the 3 powers, and their line gets the power again to stop me. But...enough about me, let's get you to the Siren's Palace" Then he said to the creature "Take us to the Siren's Palace" And with that it took off and flew towards a huge palace in the distance. The Shadow King laughed and said "Time to begin your transformation and your new life" After about 30 minutes of flying a castle could be seen. It had purple mist coming off of it and It had four towers each of which looked over a hundred feet tall. Each had the same black pointy roofs. The castle walls looked fifty feet tall with a huge wooden gate at the entrance. All around the castle was some kind of water, it was black, and looked like it was a mix of tar with water. At the front of the castle, right by the gate, was a waterfall on each side of the gate. All around the castle there were huge pillars rising, easily standing a hundred and fifty feet tall each, with weird ancient symbols. There was a red glow coming from some of the symbols. On the side of the castle, was a huge platform made of some black stone and giant wooden posts which were bleeding. After another five minutes, we landed on the platform where a woman with long black hair, nails like claws. She had purple eyes and was in a long black lace dress. Standing beside her were four girls. One looked like she was 18, another looked 19, and then the other two looked to be about 16 and 17. They all had long hair, perfect skin and long nails. They were each wearing a pair of heels. The first girl was wearing black. The second girl wore red shoes. The third girl's shoe colour was purple and the final wore white. The youngest one had a blue dress on. It had a nice lace flower design on the dress. She had on a nice dark blue nail polish on her nails. On her lips she a had a nice light lip gloss. Her eyes were ocean blue colour. "Hello my Lord"said one of the girls. "You've brought us a new girl". Her voice was one of the most normal vocies I had heard since this all began. The shadow king said "Yes, and I want her turned fast. Then let me know when its done." She went to him and said "I will speed it up a bit, but I won't rush this. It must be the right way or it won't work. I will let you know when it's done." She turned to the other girls "Girls" she said, and they all stepped forward at the same time "Yes mistress?" they all said at the same time. "Take whats her name." "Anna" the The Shadow King interupted. "Yes,well, take Anna up to the tower. It's time for her to learn her place and role." "Follow us" the youngest said. She had a soft light voice. They went into the castle and the walls were nice light colours and lots of pictures on the walls. On one wall was a huge tapestry, which showed a huge battle in a city. There were buildings on fire, and a huge temple floating into the sky, and lots of people. "Keep moving" the oldest one said. She had a firm but soft voice. Then they went down a hallway which went on for 3 minutes and at the end was a single door, which looked like a normal castle door. They opened it up and we started walking up the long staircase. Then, after 5 minutes we got to a single floor, which had a metal door that had a lock like nothing I had ever seen. Then, one of them pulled a skeleton key out of their arm, unlocked the door and pushed it open. There was a nice queen bed with black curtains, a dark oak dresser, a bathroom, a book case full of differnt magic books and a black wood door which lead to a balcony. The youngest said "Not what you were expecting?" "No, its nicer." "Yeah" "Here" the other 3 said to the youngest girl and gave her the key. "Your in charge of the new girl. Time for you to move up." They told her. And with that, they floated up and went down the stairs. I turned to the girl and asked "What's your name?" "Hmmmm, let me think, its been a bit." After a minute she said "It's Lila". Now she closed the door and opened a door to a closet, which had a black dress with a lace applique at the very top and a simple shiny material for the rest of the top and had lace sleeves with the same pattern as the applique at the top, and a nice darker black belt at the waist. The bottom of the dress was the same shiny material as the top and had lace appliques at the bottom hem of the dress. Lila took it out and said "Put it on. That's what you will wear for today and the ceremony tomorrow. You can use the bathroom to get changed." "What's wrong with my clothes?" I asked her. They don't work for what you are now going to become. And the dress has a special magic to it to make your transition from human to siren less painful." "Fine" I said. After five minutes, Anna came out with the dress on. Then a vortex appeared in the center of the room, and Lila told Anna to throw her old clothes into the vortex. She did and they turnt to ash. "Now that you are properly dressed I will leave you be. You'll learn to like this place and call it home. The ceremony is tomorrow at noon, and when it's done we will have a huge party welcoming you to the family." With that Lila left and closed the door. Anna heard a lock turn and she knew she was gonna change no matter what she wanted. It took some time but after 2 hours of trying she finally got some sleep. Next thing she knew there was a knock on the door and Lila came in along with two other girls. Both were in dresses. One was in a short aqua chiffon dress with a belt at the waist. The top half of the dress was a cross over sweetheart neckline with illusion sparkly lace at the top with aqua flowers on it. She had purple eyes and long cherry red hair. The other had a aqua blue dress with a slightly full skirt that went to just above the knee. The skirt was tulle over a satiny material. The top had a light lace piece that had lots of bling that went from the top of the dress to the sholders. The bodice was a light satiny material. She had short brown hair with green eyes. Lila had a nice short light blue dress on. It had a chiffon skirt over a satiny fabric, and a beaded belt that went around the waist with a nice sivler flower pattern that went up from the waist all the way up to the top lace shoulder piece. Lila said "they're here to get you ready for the ceremony". With that they helped get the dress off and put the new one on. It was a short white dress , with black flower embroidery with leaves and some vine things that went from one half of the bottom of the dress to the top half with a shoulder strap. They put on a pair of low black heels and some white pearl earrings. The finishing touch was a rose gold flower necklace, with a rose gold chian with a bunch of tiny diamonds and a small rose gold flower with a diamond in the center of the flower. They then braided her hair. Now that she was ready, they left the room and began to walk down the stairs and a bunch of hallways and then they went through two giant dark oak doors where there was a big room, which had a huge pit in the middle of it with four mermaid face shaped holes. There were at least 50 girls, all of different ages. "Come in, welcome Anna, to the Grand Room" said a firm but soft voice. "Is she ready girls?" she asked the girls that were with me. "Yes mistress" they responded. "Good. Then hook her up and lets begin." the mistress said. With that Lila and the other two girls walked me to a platform and I was told to stand dead center on the platform. Then mist came from the platform and wrapped around her feet and she couldn't move no matter how hard she tried. The platform then began to float till it was above the center of the pit and then lowerd itself down till it was at the bottom of the pit. Then the Mistress woman said "Today we welcome a new sister to this family. Let's begin." With that, black tar began flowing out of the mermaids mouths, and after 3 minutes it was at her waist. She could feel it getting all the way through her skin into her blood, and her body. After another 5 minutes it was at the top of the pit. The goo bubbled as a purple black mist came off it. Then the platform began to come up. Once it was at the top, you could see the black tar was all over Anna. It then started glowing purple and slowly began to peel off her.