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I sat on the green grass, humming softly. When suddenly I heard the sound of someone sighing behind me. I turned around to see who was there. I saw a tall pale boy with long blue hair that looked like fire that was in a low ponytail with some black ribbon holding his hair in place, he had pretty yellow eyes the color of lemons or the sun on a summers day. He wore simple black pants, and a cream button up shirt, with black shoes. “Oh! I-I’m so sorry! It was so creepy of me to just be standing here watching you!” The boy in front of me apologized.
“It’s ok!” I reassured the boy “if you say so..” the boy said as he looks away from me. I stand up running a hand through my short silvery looking hair. “So, what’s your name?” I ask trying to make conversation. “Oh-er Idia. Idia shroud.” The boy said looking back at me, blushing slightly, I noticed the tips of his hair is a pink color. “I’m Silver. It’s nice to met you Idia.” I smile.
“I need to go, it was a pleasure to met you Silver.” Idia mumbled before turning around and leaving, he seemed desperate to leave making me wonder if I said or did something to make him want to leave. I sigh, looking up at the sky seeing that it’s getting dark out “I should get going, before father starts worrying.” I say as I start walking in the direction the cottage is. It was a short walk before the cottage was in view, as I reach the front door I mentally prepare for my father’s awful cooking. I open the front door ”I’m home!” I call out as I enter the house taking my boots off.
“Oh I was just starting to get worried!” A deep voice said. I walked into the kitchen where my father was cooking something. he turned around and I was met with my father’s face. he looked much younger than he is. I make eye contact his magenta eyes looked into my purple ones.
“I’m making some fish I caught the other day for dinner.” My father said proudly. Some time after we finished eating my father looked up at me “so what did you do today my son?” He asked “pretty much the same as always, walked around the forest and hung out with the animals. Oh but I met someone today! His name was Idia shroud.” I said reminiscing at my short conversation with Idia earlier. My father looked slightly concerned, “what would a son of the shroud family be doing out here..?” My father asked. “What do you mean.?” I didn’t understand what he had asked as the last name shroud didn’t sound familiar. “Oh you didn’t know? The shroud’s are a royal family, they rule the underworld,” my father said.
“Oh. Interesting.” After a few minutes my father stood up from his seat “well I’m off to bed don’t stay up too late.” My father said turning around, I looked at his shoulder length black hair as he walked away. Once he was gone I got up and went to my room to get changed into some pajamas, I put on a soft white nightgown. I curl up in bed under my blanket, before falling asleep.
I wake up slowly to this sound that almost sounded like someone calling my name. I get up out of bed slowly looking out the window it’s still dark out I should just ignore the sound..yet it I find myself walking to go see what that noise is. I don’t even stop to get changed or put my boots on, it’s like there’s something controlling my body to move to go in the direction of the sound. As I get closer to the sound it gets louder, until I find myself at a small crumbed tower with a spindle in the middle of the room. I walk up to the spindle and lift my hand up against my control and press the tip of my index finger to the sharp pice of the spindle. Just as my fingers gets poked my body just shuts down and I collapse to the ground, my vision swimming, the last thing I see is a tall figure in black robes before passing out.
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I sat in the courtyard with Ortho, “so let me get this straight. You meet someone who you thought was cute and you wanted to talk to more instead of asking to meet there again some other time you just left!?” Ortho looked annoyed “I got nervous!” I defend myself. Ortho signed, shaking his head disappointingly, “I’m gonna go see ya later Ortho!” I get up and leave before ortho can ask where I’m going and can protest me leaving him here. I don’t really know where I plan to go but I want to not be in the underworld anymore so I go to the stables where the horses are. I go over to the black horse with a saddle already on, I grab a sword and make sure I have it securely at my hip in case I get in danger, and mount the horse. After what feels like an eternity me and the horse make it to the overworld, I wince slightly from how bright it is out here. Not sure where to go I choose to go explore that forest I found yesterday some more, once I reach the forest I hear a deep voice somewhere in the distance calling for someone named silver..wait I met someone named silver yesterday is it possibly the same person that voice is calling for?
I head in the direction of that voice, as it gets closer and closer I see a short boy with shoulder length hair black hair with magenta strands in there hair, I get the horse to stop near the boy. “Hey are you looking for someone? I heard you calling for someone.” The boy looked up at me shocked before his face went neutral. “Yes..I’m looking for my son silver, I woke up this morning to the front door wide open and silver nowhere to be found yet his boots were still by the door.” The person said “I’ll find your son and bring him back.” I said bluntly.
“Thank you so much.” The man said as I get the horse moving again. After 40 minutes of exploring I find a crumbled tower with a spindle in the middle, I can feel the magic radiating off of the spindle, I get off of the horse and slowly approach the spindle, when I get close enough I can see a bit of red on the sharp tip as if someone had pricked there finger on it. I think I know what happened but now I just need to find out who did it and where they took silver. Looking around the spindle I find a small dragon scale, it’s black. “King malleus.” I whisper, I don’t know why he would have done this to silver what could that boy have possibly done to be targeted by king malleus.
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After hours of traveling I finally find king malleus’s castle, it was big and dark, blended in slightly with the dark sky. I get off my horse. Grabbing the handle of my sword as I approach the castle gates quietly as possible slipping in as I approach the stair case I can hear malleus talking “at last. I’ve found the prince! The hair to the throne shall no longer be a threat to me!” That was followed by laughter, I slowly creep up the stairs. Once I reached the top I saw king malleus standing there looking down at something I can’t see but i know what it is. “silver” I mumble, that did not go unnoticed as malleus looks over at me his green eyes pierced into my soul. I swallow hard “oh does the prince of the underworld think he can save his damsel in distress?~” his tone was mocking. “Yes. In fact.” I hold my sword up and swing it but malleus moved out of the way in time and grabbed a sword himself, we spend the next several minutes dueling the sound of metal swords hitting each other fills the room when suddenly my sword hits flesh piercing into malleus’s side. He hisses in pain as I pull my sword out of his side.
With malleus distracted by pain I stab him again this time in the chest. After I pulled my sword out, I watch as malleus falls to the ground bleeding out to death, I waited a few minutes until malleus was dead before dropping my sword and going to silver.
He laid there on a cold stone table looking thing. Silver was small in a white nightgown that had ruffles, his short light silver hair looks gorgeous, he looks at peace sleeping there a little bit of drool dripping from his mouth. I gently cupped his cheek, he was cold to the touch. I let go of his face taking my coat off, it was blue with some gold detailing, and I put it around silvers shoulders, suddenly I noticed I can’t feel him breathing and I start panicking, laying silver down on his back and start doing mouth to mouth resuscitation because that’s what you do in this situation right?
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I awoke to the feeling of someone’s lips on my face and a heavy coat around my shoulders. I open my eyes slowly to see wisps of blue flames and the ceiling of some dark room, it took a minute before I realized what’s happening and I try to sit up and push Idia off of me. He seemed to realize I’m not dead and moved. “Oh you’re ok!” Idia seemed relieved “what happened..? How did I get here?” I ask “to make a long story short you somehow found an old crumbled tower that had a cursed spindle fell under its curse, king malleus kidnapped you, I found your father looking for you went looking found the spindle, found out who kidnapped you and came here, killed malleus and that pretty much everything.” Idia said. “Oh that’s a lot..” I mumble “well let’s get you home.” Idia said and suddenly picked me up bridal style, I make a surprised sound as Idia carries me out of the castle, we make it to this black horse and Idia sits me down on it before getting on himself.
After a few hours we make it back to the forest, once we finally reach the cottage the sun had just barely started to rise Idia helped me off the horse and walked me to the front door knocking on it, a few minutes later my father opened the door. “Oh silver! You’re alright!” My father sounded so glad to see me “thank you thank you so much for finding my son!” My father said to Idia. “No problem at all sir.”
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I stood infront of Idia shroud, it has been 4 years since that faithful day since I met him and now I stood there with him marrying him I was hardly paying attention to what was being saying. “And silver vanrouge do you take Idia shroud as your husband?”
“Yes. Yes I do.”
THE END!!!!