The sound of ink splashing on parchment rang through the deadly silent room as the newly formed kingdoms came together. They were all tired and dreary from the war raging outside the palace walls. The parchment in front of them read as a treaty and a declaration of freedom. The two humans dressed in chains and rags as the griffin king signed the bottom of the parchment and cleared his throat.
"After years of war and rebellion from the non-shifters now, called humans, the kingdoms of Xanadu declare the humans free from our leadership and free from this realm"
The two humans cheered at their newfound freedom, the chains around their wrists and ankles were unlocked and fell to the ground. The female and male ran to embrace each other happily. Tears ran down their dirt covered faces as they held each other tightly. They were each very skinny, their rag of clothes hung loosely from their frail frames. The female remembered months ago when all this started.
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"What do you mean there's a rebellion?" A young female asked quietly as she clicked on a lamp, pushing back the darkness of the wooden shed she was hidden in.
"The humans in the capital are rebelling. They refuse to be slaves anymore like you are, you're stuck under Mistress Ninon as much as everyone here, you can't be comfortable here, right?" The young man pleads, his eyes were black yet desperate as he tried to get the girl to agree that she wasn't happy here.
"Well, yes I'm not happy, no one is but it's our life, one of us steps out of line and we are all punished." She looked stressed as she took the man's now outstretched hand.
He shook her hand, binding her to the rebellion. Not telling her that thousands have died already under Ninon's army. But at least now the rebellion had a spy on the inside. The girl was frail but flexible, she was the mistress' handmaiden, fetching her every need.
Weeks passed and information was leaked thanks to the girl and now humans weren't the only ones fighting against the shifters in this rebellion. Many herbivore shifters had joined them in the fights giving the humans an advantage. Ninon had many people already exposing her for her twisted ways. This could only lead in one road.
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"Okay let's get this portal open Miss Ninon," The burly man with scraggly hair and long black beard turned to a lithe looking woman whose hands were chained in front of her. Her tail flicked widely behind her and her ears were pinned against her long black straight hair.
"I can't conjure the new realm if my hands are tied, Twitch" Ninon spat holding up her bound wrists, earning a laugh from everyone in the room. She scowled.
"We all know that's not true Nin, don't make me bring out the shock pole" Twitch warned pointing to the empty wall where the new realm would be formed.
Ninon sighed and held her arms towards the wall, a small white hole began to form, showing a world being created, rich in everything humans would need to start their new free lives. The small white hole formed into a large oval a purple ring around the outside.
The audience in the meeting room looked in awe at it and Ninon scoffed looking proud, soon portals opened all over the continent allowing the humans to walk into it, any shifters that would try to enter this purple ringed oval ended up getting shocked, cheers could be heard outside the palace walls as humans began to enter the portals.
The two humans in the room ran quickly into the portal before it closed and Ninon hit the wall sagging against it from the exertion of creating thousands of portals. Twitch nodded in satisfaction as the palace and world outside grew quiet.
"Add this to the history books in the school, let's make sure history doesn't repeat itself" Twitch ordered as all the witnesses in the room started their chatter and preparations of the new territories.