After the king announced for the ceremony to begin, he the gestured with his hand for the first child to come forward and try to lift the sacred treasure. The first child's name was Kalin Draken, first child of the King's second daughter. His mark was the ability to harden his body, harder than steel
He went infront of the pedestal and opened the box and everyone grew more and more anxious, asking themselves if today will be the day that someone could finally be worthy of lifting the sacred treasure and no longer stay in that box to gather dust, year after year.
Kalin then reached for the sacred treasure, two crimson red daggers with night black hilts. Each blade reaching a length of 30 cm. As Kalin was about to grab the hilts of the daggers a red aura oozed out the box like a fog in a swamp.
Kalin tightened his grip and tried to pull the daggers out , but to his and everyone's shock he could not pull them out. Try as he might, with all the strength he could muster up , he still couldn't lift them up. He then let go of them and walked away in disgrace.
The king lòoked disappointed as he gestured for the nest child to step forward. Child after child , all couldn't lift the daggers. And after each try everyone started flooding hope that anyone would be able to wield the glorious gift that the founder left them.
Six children remained. It was now the turn of the king's first daughter's son and heir to the throne, Xavier Draken who was marked with the ability called pyro boost . This allowed him to coat his body in flames , boosting his speed and attack potency.
Everyone started to gain hope that their future king would be the one to inherit the founder's will. But , just like the one's before him, he had also failed. Up next was the sister of Alex and the daughter of the king's youngest daughter, Elizabeth Draken.
She was the prettiest girl in the royal family and the attention she always got , made her boastful and forward, always seeking admiration and loyalty from all the boys in the kingdom and when anyone deprived her of that she would cry to the king and he would have them punished.
Her mark gave her the ability of Ice ruler. This allows her to create and manipulate ice in anyway she so desires . She then stepped forward and stood infront of the pedestal , everyone was cheering and rooting for her.
They all wished her goodluck ,But, like the many who came before her she was unable to lift the dagger. She used all her strength but still was unable to move them, even 1 millimetre away from their original position.
She then let go of the daggers and screamed out " What on…is this?" points towards the daggers and continues " How can they weigh as much as a fucken dragon?!" . The king replied " They don't, these daggers are made of Red(crimson) Zenium ore and weigh nothing"
Her face went pale and she walked away without saying a word , but deep down she was fuming. The other three children went, tried and failed . Now it was Alex's turn. The king called out to him "Alex , you are but all that remains "
He then looked around and saw that he was the only one that was left . He slowly made his way to the pedestal , turning his head around to see the disappointed faces of the town's people. In Alex's mind ' Why, Why, Why, Why me , Why did I have to be last.
Still thinking to himself ' Okay now that I'm here I'll just get this over with '. Alex Draken , first child of the king's youngest daughter. Marked with the ability Boost. This ability gifted him the power to boost all his physical aspects to a higher level.
He reached the pedestal and Stretched his hands out and grabbed the hilts of the daggers. He let out a long sigh, then strengthened his grip on the daggers. He pulled back and then suddenly, everything went pitched black.
He looked around and saw that he was floating in a an endless void of darkness. He checked his and saw that he had no clothing on. He thought aloud to himself " Where am I?" in a weak voice, " Is this the afterlife ?...It's so quiet and peaceful". He closed his eyes and passed out.
He floated there motionless for what felt like years. Until , he was awakened from his slumber by a low but deep growl. "What was that?" he thought aloud to himself, "Who's there?" but , no one answered, instead whatever was there continued growling.
He shouted at the top of his lungs " WHO EVER YOU ARE , SHOW YOURSELF!!!". He then thought to himself ' You know what,… that sounded better in my head'. His shouting was in vein as the growling grew louder and louder Until,…it went silent.
Alex then put up his guard, ready to fight anything that may come his way. He floated there, in mid air panicking, heart racing and pounding in the back of his head. He could smell the faint scent of blood.
This only made his fear grow more and more, the atmosphere growing colder by the second to the point that Alex could see his own breath. His skin grew colder and paler making more difficult for his lungs to supply his body with oxygen.
"So___this___is___what death f-f-f-feeelss l-l-like" he said in a shivering voice . He slowly started loosing conscious, but was able to hold from passing out , just for a while
More time passed and Alex finally drifted away and started to embrace death and the reality that this is where his story ends. Suddenly infront of him was a huge pair of dragonic eyes and 2 rows of jagged teeth.
The mysterious figure swallowed Alex whole. He suddenly opened his eyes and realized that he had returned home . He quickly looked at his hands and saw that he was holding the daggers in his hands.
He started to smile and before he could jump up and rejoice, he felt an evil aura coarse through his body. He felt that he was slowly losing control his body. The king saw this and raised his hand and pointed it towards Alex.
The royal guards all took out their swords and pointed their shields at Alex while surrounding him. The earth below then started to rumble and Alex lifted his head , red hot smoke steaming out of his body.
Everyone went pale from shock pain seeing that Alex's eyes had become blood red with black slited lizard like pupils. The guards started moving back in fear. Alex looked up and took a deep breath , puffing his chest to it's absolute limits.
He then released a blood curling roar , from the bottom of his lungs. Everyone was paralyzed with fear unable to move a muscle. The ground started to split up and buildings began to crumble and fall on people.
The king struggled to move because of the roar's effect , but was able to activate his mark of magic , Telekinesis, stopping all the falling rubble in mid air and stopping the ground from opening up and swelling the town's people.
In the distance, a cloaked figure saw this and a grin appeared on his face. "Oh my, oh my, what a beautiful occasion it is. Another wielder has been born. Well…that's my queue". He said as he disappears into a near by forest.
Back at the kingdom, Alex had collapsed on the ground and the king could finally move freely. The king's royal advisor reached his hand forward and grabbed onto a white clockhand, he spun it anti-clockwise añd everything reverted back to normal.
The king could finally let go and fell down. His royal guards picked him up and when the king looked at his royal, he saw him on one knee, spitting out blood. "Take Alex and my royal advisor to the physician , AT ONCE!!"
The royal guards then took Alex and the royal advisor to the kingdom's physician. "You may all return to your( pants loudly) daily tasks". The town's people began to leave and wished the king and his royal advisor a speedy recovery.
What no one didn't realize was that, in the middle of the chaos the king's youngest daughter, the mother of Alex and Elizabeth, had disappeared without a trace.