I'm an adult now, nineteen years old and my friends and I have rebuilt the chasers and now the majority of the population of the land of Valstar our new home has inhabitants and it's the new Kingdom of Forsaken.
I the leader of this Kingdom share power with Jax, Flake, and the new addition to the team Cedric the blue knight, Colue the gold knight, and Jack the leader of our chaser army. Together we all protect the upper northern lands from any invaders that pose a great threat of war. I am the head leader, Jax is the guard leader, Flake is the leader and protector of the outer lands, Cedric, and Cole lead the knight part of the army they might not possess the same power as us but their chasers who want the same thing so they became knights as well, and Jack is the leader that protects the back part of our city.
The citizens all came from many surrounding Kingdoms and decided to live here because they see it as a better life for them. And the citizens are armed with weapons that might eventually be humanity's social end guns some said back when that gun collector was so-called gun chasers but they weren't they were merely people who just collected many types of guns they had no special magic to them.
This kingdom has no throne, no crown but it has its leaders and I call it a kingdom but it's more like a city that behaves like one. I sitting in my room on my silk sheet bed thinking about the life that was given to me and how I had one of the unluckiest lives ever. Jax walks through the door and smiles at me as she moves towards me she then stands right in front of me and says.
"The bandits were caught they were trying to steal the goods from some travelers."
I say "That's the sixth attack this week why did they need the goods so bad ."
She replies "I don't have a clue but Jack is interrogating them as we speak."
I then say "I'll see to them myself tell Jack to squeeze as much as he can out OK?"
"Will do, and it's nice to see you today, bye," she said
"Same here, bye," I say and wave
She then leaves my room and I stand and walk over to my nightstand and grab the letter that sits on the corner of it and I still haven't opened it yet it brings back horrible memories the words on the front of the envelope say "From Manner." The first time I received this letter it put me in a worried state because this was the name of one of my parents. I then set it back in place and back away from the nightstand and walk out of the room and go downstairs in my living room is my new pet it has not hatched yet but it's a bird and it's of value because it's no ordinary bird its a phoenix and those are hard to come by.
After looking through my home I leave to go see the bandits. On my walk to the jail, many citizens wave and greet me I do the same keeping the same pace. When I get to the doors for the jail Jack informs me that they used to live in the Kingdom Of Mere and they started this life of banditry when the kingdom was destroyed. I begin to picture why they would be stealing the good coming here it would mainly be because of what happened a short few years ago. I thank him for informing me and tell him to remain at his post and then I walk in and there are quite a few people in here, there are people here for committing crimes against us and people who committed crimes against the land and the majority of them were caught by Flake since she protects the outer land. I walk to the guard that watches over the prisoners and I ask him.
"Where are the bandits at?"
He says "They are in the back cage on the right."
I walk to the back and the bandits were sitting there and I look surprised because there was a familiar face.
"Well isn't it the bandit bunch I didn't think that Flake could catch you, you guys are very sneaky?"
The leader Zamu says "I'm flattered you guys actually know of us."
I say "You guys are known for your streak of robberies how could I not, anyway why are you robbing our goods provider."
He looks at me and smirks then says "No reason in particular we just do what we do... rob."
Then he sits back in comfort and I tell him
"Well since you have no real reason as to why I guess you're guilty of robbery and assault, you'll be here for a long time."
I then walk out without my answers I needed and head out to find Flake to find out what they were going to steal. Exiting the gates the guards ask if I needed assistance and I deny the escort and remained solo. I got on a horse and rode around until I saw her, then out of nowhere people come flying in my direction and Flake is the cause she puts her sword away and she tells me.
"Hey found some more bandits these terrorized a nearby town," she says as the bandits cry in pain.
I say "Oh nice work uh do you know what the bandit bunch was trying to steal earlier?"
She says "Of course they attempted to steal some food I don't know why but the leader kept saying that they were innocent and I needed proof of it so I brought them here to Jack."
I say "Thank you Flake that will be all, oh and bring these to the jail too."
"OK see you later then." She says while gathering them up.
I get back on my horse and I enter the cities gates and ride straight home. When I arrive two more letters are on my doorstep and I immediately freeze and shakily grab them from the ground and the words on the front of the first one say "From Neuro." This gives me the chills because this is my Fathers name I switch papers and the second one says "From Tasarrow." This letter however was a relief from the other two so I open it and it reads.
"This message is to the Leaders of Forsaken, Our town was under attack by some southern invaders please to whoever receives this message help us we need you."
This message worried me so I rushed to Cedric and informed him of what has transpired and I gave him an order to lead some knights to the town of Tasarrow and defend it until the conflict is resolved. He immediately went to gather 12 knights and leave for Tasarrow and protect them from the invaders. I then inform the rest of the leaders so they know what might happen in the future, and that is war. I wanted to find out the meaning of this so I ask Cole if I can borrow some of his knights and he lets me. I tell the knights to wait at the front gate until I return, I go to Jax and borrow some guards.
"Hey, Jax can I borrow some warriors I'm going to the southern invader's territory and finding out answers?"
She says "Oh of course you can, and good luck Zero."
And I take the warriors to the front gate, then we all grab horses and ride to the southern territory's main kingdom the Kingdom Of Bane this is the second most powerful place in the land. The ride was not too bad there were some terrain complications but overall the venture was not that dangerous. On our arrival, the King of this Castle Had his army right behind him and he was on a horse in front of them.
I say threateningly "You will pay for invading our allies."
The leader says "You come here to threaten me, don't expect no fight well you're mistaken."
He raises his sword and aims it at us and we see his archers sit in position and they shoot arrows that are lit on fire I show no facial expression and I activate my Knight armor and cast a spell of shielding and when the arrows hit the shield it looked as if the arrows didn't hit us but they went into the shield and it was absorbed. The king of Bane's eyes burst wide open and he backs up a little and I say
"You will do well to listen, If you attack us or any of our allies again I will personally come to find you and kill you."
His face was red and his body motion was shaky, then I took my men and left the southern territory. By the time we had gotten back, it was nightfall and after getting there I went straight home. I immediately walked upstairs to my room and sat on my bed. Then I grab the letters and I opened the one on the corner of the nightstand and it reads
"Hello, this is Manner this message is to my son I want to Inform you that I am alive and the main message is that your home Land is no more it was attacked by two people a man and a woman they killed everyone who remained there bUt your father and I Made It out alive and we are comiNg To The city of Forsaken In two weeks see you soon son."
I was filled with energy but this energy was not the happy kind last time I saw them I was a kid and now I'm an adult and everywhere they were they caused danger this would have me up all night. The second letter was from my father and it reads.
"This is Neuro this message is for the leader of Forsaken my son. "What is wrong with you! Why did you run away you little brat you caused us so much trouble when we get there your going to get it and I mean it."
This message gave me, even more, chills out of both of my parents my father was the scariest of them both he used to be even colder than my mother was he beat me and used me for no reason at least he could have shown some emotion but it seemed he was just a drunk. After reading the letters I tried to get some sleep to process what is happening.
In the morning I got out of bed got dressed and walked downstairs and eat some three-day-old pig as I eat I think to myself.
"What am I going to do with them when they arrive."
I sit there with my hand on my head and my eyes closed. Jax walks in and says.
"Zero news."
I ask "What news."
She says "The southern territory has built a border to keep the north out so some of our good that comes from there will be cut for the time being."
"Ugh, that's going to be a pain now how are we going to fix that," I say
"What's the matter." She says
I look up at her and say "Well this isn't going to be easy to say and I don't know how they know where I am but, my parents are coming in two weeks."
Her eyes and mouth both open and she utters "WHAT how are they... Where were they.....Why are they."
I vocalize "Calm down it's a matter to deal with when the time comes on the other hand we have to find another supplier."
She calms herself and replies "Your right lets deal with the main task at hand."
I told her to gather the leaders and meet me in the conference hall that place is what kingdoms would call a throne room but our hall has a table and chairs with guards. We all gather there and I start us off with the main problem the good shortage.
" As some of you know the southern territory has built a border to cut us off from them, we need a new source of goods income does anyone have any ideas?"
Flake mentions "Well we could just ask around the north or west and maybe even the east and find another supplier there."
I say "Oh yes any other ideas?"
Cedric says "I know another kingdom nearby that has resources they can trade with us I found them on the way from Tasarrow."
"OK good any more?"
Cole adds "I have a friend by the name Claude he has his own service that hunts for resources if we pay him enough he can gather some of his workers and maybe work extra for more money."
I say ." Jack what about you?"
He says "I haven't left the kingdom recently so I don't know of anyone."
I finalize my direction and go with Cole's idea so I ordered him to find his friend and make a deal with him. We begin to leave the conference hall and Colue stops and speaks to me he tells me
"There was an attack on a distant town and it was attacked by a man and woman who was seen using magic you know what this means."
I reply "You think it's them?"
He then looks at me harder and says "Yes so I decided to go and see what happened and after scavenging for any clue one of my knights found this pyramid-looking artifact and it had eyes on all sides.
He pulls the pyramid out and I begin to study it had gold edges and the middle in between the edges were an obsidian color and the eyes were red. I grab it and Cole informs me that.
"So after the scavenge I asked some decipher man and he thinks it dates back before Mazza was alive and he said it belonged to a group of ancients called the Illuminati and that's all he knew.
I tell him to put it with the other found artifacts in our vault and the conversation ends. I left the conference hall and walked a level up to the Leaders chamber this place was designed to hold letters that neighboring places or people I recover the first letter my mother sent me and I looked at the weird capitalization in the letter and I wrote the words down and they were Inform, aLive, Land, But, Made, It, comiNg, towArds, To, The, cIty this kind of threw me off when reading it but I ignored it and kept reading. I then take all of the capital letters out and they read out ILLUMINATI I drop the paper and in realization, I remembered that's who my parents were trying to keep me from Jack walks in and he asks.
"What's wrong?"
I then say "Something bad is about to happen."
***End Of Chapter One***