NIGHTMARE

At dawn, it was a cold night especially at this suspicious castle on the mountain overlooking the sea, you can hear the waves hitting the rocks at the mountain base, the cold wind was enough to send a strong man in his bed with a severe cold.

Although the weather wasn't good enough, there was a hooded man standing in a balcony watching the strong waves below him, wearing a long crimson cloak and holding a long grey metallic staff with a large black gem at the staff's top in his left hand, suddenly the sound of a crow echoed in the air which in turn caught the hooded man's attention and raised his head slowly looking left at the crow which spread its wings calmly landing on the staff, the man took off his hood slowly with his right hand revealing his intense features, bald head with a red wide strip-like mark along his head starting from his forehead and moving along his head till reaching the top of his neck, a serious cold black eyes that looked at the crow intensely before smiling with a wide grin "Time to free this tired soul, don't you think?" said the bald man before taking a deep breath then softly blowing fire on the crow which burned slowly on his hand without any fire damage done to the staff although the heat! the crow finally fall to the ground and in moments it turned into ashes that was carried away by the wind.

The bald man turned away and entered the castle leaving the balcony, moving along a big hall then descending stairs slowly before standing against a wooden door then knocking on it.

The door opened and a young man came out and instantly when he saw the bald man he kneeled before him "Lord Blamore, to what do I owe the pleasure of your gracious visit?" Said the young one.

"John, you're a Vidinian, right?" Said Blamore.

"Yes my lord." Said John.

"Then I think that your father knows a reliable assassin, doesn't he"

"Of course, just tell me the name of the one who dared to disturb you and he will be gone."

"No, no need for rush, this time, I don't want her dead, cause this one is why US the Cragmoore zealots was created long time ago, yes John, the key is finally found, she is out there waiting her destiny as a sacrifice for his great renaissance, it's time John, and we should be thankful that we are the ones having the pleasure to finally achieve our creed's great cause." Said Blamore.

John slowly raised his head looking at Blamore, his eyes widening gradually as he heard his master's words. Blamore waved his staff slowly then the black gem started glowing and in seconds he summoned another crow.

"The message is encoded in its mind, the grand priest saw the vision about three hours ago before our insider sent it directly, take it and show it to every important zealot in here then fly this little bird to your father as soon as possible, I want her alive whatever it takes, I don't care for anyone's life just bring her here before Walt's men reach her, understood?" Said blamore.

John nodded.

" Yes my lord."

"Then what are you waiting for? go wake all of them up, NOW." Said Blamore raising his voice.

John quickly stood up and ran across the corridor knocking all the doors with the crow flying above him" Wake up everyone the key has finally appeared!" John was shouting across the corridor while Blamore put his hood back and moved to the stairs again with a wide smile on his face.

In another far place, specifically in what looks like farmlands with hills surrounding it nearly from all the sides, the wind was cold and strong that it moved the trees and plants, the thunder sounds echoed, lightning appeared in the sky before it started raining, there was a redhead young girl wearing a white dress in the middle of the crops, water started soaking her and the rain started flooding the fields. Suddenly without any reasonable explanation fire started breaking out in the field despite of the rain!

The fire grew bigger and the girl was still there standing still looking at her feet like nothing is happening, the fire color started changing to black causing an intoxicating scent in the air, black fire started surrounding everything and the girl was still in the middle, there was no sign of the crops anymore as they were engulfed by these black flames in mere seconds!

Suddenly, red terrifying eyes started appearing in the fire from every direction, as they were eating the young girl with these hungry stares, strange vague horrifying sounds initiated from everywhere, the girl slowly started turning her head looking behind her.

" Help me.", She said with innocent looks on her face, tears in her blue eyes were begging for help, like she was paralyzed waiting for someone to rescue her, more eyes started appearing, the sounds grew louder.

"Please, do not abandon me like the others.", Her face started bleeding, her eyes started tearing blood instead of tears, a sudden terrifying roar shook all over the place before the girl's voice became loud and scary.

"You are leaving, right? I thought you were different from them."

The roar hit again the fire was high enough that there was just dark, the moon disappeared, the young girl's face was all coated with blood.

"HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.", She shouted angrily with a loud, terrifying voice!

A man woke up shouting, terrified by what he saw while breathing heavily, his red eyes opened wide as he cannot close them fearing to see her face again, he stroked his long silver hair backwards with both his hands, his body is sweating like he was in hell and his silver medium stubble beard was also dripping sweat.

He removed his blanket and moved his feet to the ground while still sitting on the bed thinking, what did he just see? Was that a nightmare? Yes for Jaxith it surely was and it wasn't the first one too, but was it really just a normal nightmare or something deeper? Maybe a message?

Jaxith sat there for a while until he calmed down before standing up revealing his well built body and toned muscles, 6.2 feet tall, white skinned, his calm features are somehow a little scary specially his red eyes which is fairly uncommon and finally his silver hair which reached the bottom of his neck, he took a shirt and wore it, stepped outside the room, but he still can't get the girl's words out of his mind.

He stood against his black sword for a moment then left it beside his dark blue coat and other equipment, he opened the wooden door of his house letting the sunlight hit his face, he closed his eyes for a couple of seconds before opening them again, dog barks mixed with roosters' crows filled the air outside the house, there was a little farm behind his house from which the animals noise came from.

Jaxith stood there for a couple of seconds, breathing fresh air while looking at the sky collecting his thoughts, "Help me." the words hit him again causing a hard headache and his ears started ringing before suddenly a call woke him up " Mr. Jaxith, are you ok?" said a young boy from the other side of the fence separating his house from the farm.

"Yes David, I'm fine, don't bother yourself." Said Jaxith calmly before moving closer to a bucket filled with water to wash his face.

"You sure? Are you ill? Dad knows a good doctor if you need.", Said David.

"No I'm sure don't worry kid.", Said Jaxith before someone called David from the barn behind him.

"Go on, your mother is calling, don't be rude and respond to her now.", Said Jaxith.

"Fine, coming mom.", Said David before running back, Jaxith watched him running with a little smile on his face.

In Vidin's throne room sat king Walt doing his daily routine from signing important papers for the nobles to hearing complaints from visiting citizens and suggesting solutions for them. While doing all of this the throne room door opened and a guard entered, walking the hall till reaching the king's throne then dropped to his knees.

"Your majesty, I hope that I haven't interrupted your work." Said the soldier.

"Not a problem Adam, stand up and tell me what is the matter."

"Thank you, Your highness, a messenger from Reldret's holy church arrived this morning through the teleporting circle, he says that he got a message from grand priest Zathar himself and no one except your majesty should read it.", Said Adam.

"Where is he?", Said Walt while asking himself what could be so important that Zathar doesn't want his messenger to leave his message to anyone.

"He is waiting outside, your highness."

"Let him in."

Adam, his left hand on his sheathed sword at his left, moved back through the hall, passed through the door and after a few seconds Adam emerged again and behind him was a man wearing Reldret's holy church blue robe, when both of them reached the throne the messenger kneeled down and Adam stood next to him.

"King Walt Haveron, ruler of Vidin, forgive my rudeness if I caused any trouble with my sudden visit." Said the messenger.

"Nothing to worry about messenger, so tell me what have you got?"

The messenger started fetching his bag before he got a scroll out of it.

"Your highness.", The messenger raised both his hands with the scroll in them while still kneeling and his eyes onto the ground. Walt nodded for Adam who in turn took the scroll from the messenger's hand before walking the stairs up to the throne giving the scroll to his king.

"Red wax? I assume that even you don't know what's in it?", Said Walt.

"No, your highness, master Zathar was extremely careful and secretive about this scroll, he told me that only your majesty should be the one reading it and to not leave it with anyone."

Walt opened the scroll and started reading it, his eyes narrowing before closing it and looking back at the messenger.

"Tell Zathar that I will see into this matter and respond to him shortly.", Said Walt while stroking his white beard, the old man didn't expect something serious as this, but he was experienced enough to hide his surprised expressions to avoid any unnecessary attention.

"Consider it done your highness.", Said the messenger.

"You are free to go, Adam escort him to the teleporting circle then return to me."

"Your majesty's commands shall be obeyed.", Said Adam while bowing before the messenger stood up and both of them turned away.

"A hybrid got the strongest bloodline, I've bad feelings about this.", Thought king Walt while watching Adam leaving with the messenger out of the throne room and the large wooden doors closing behind them.