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Kingdom of Bones

Thud!! A book fell to the floor. "My Lady ,what's that?" Elenor asked curiously. "It's just a book , no need to be alarmed." Hattie replied as she bent to pick up the book. It was a rather strange looking book which was bound in red leather. It has various drawings of bones running along it's spine and it's title "Necromancy and the dark arts" was written in front of it, in gold. Hattie gazed at the book excitedly." This is it!" she thought to herself." I can finally bring my brother back from the dead." ______________________________________________ "There she is, just like I told you!" yelled the butler as he led the people to his mistress. "George?! You would dare betray me" exclaimed Hattie in utter disbelief. "I'd never be loyal to a witch" he replied. "Seize her !!" commanded the cleric. "All I want is to bring my brother back from the dead , please don't do this" she pleaded. "Silence witch! " the cleric yelled. "what business does the living have with the dead? Only a witch practices necromancy, it's a sin against the Almighty"."Guards!!! Take her away before she dooms us all". "No! let me go! You can't do this"Hattie struggled as two hefty men dragged her out of her home . "KILL THE WITCH! " "KILL HER!!!" the crowd chanted, waving their torches and pitchforks. Hattie was dragged to the village square to be burnt at stake. She was chained to a wooden pole and no matter how much she struggled she couldn't break free. "Call forth the executioner!!" the cleric yelled and a man dressed in black from head to toe made his way to where Hattie was chained , holding a blazing torch. The crowd parted to let him walk through . He got onto the stage and prepared to set the log on fire. "STOP!!" a voice yelled." I'm the one who told you she's a witch, so I should be the one to set her ablaze". "Very well then, come forth" the cleric beckoned. The owner of the voice moved to the stage and it turned out to be ....... "Elenor ? It's can't be! " Hattie screamed in disbelief. "But why? Why would you do this to me after all we've been through?". Elenor ignored Hattie, grabbed the torch from the executioner and set her mistress on fire. The crowd cheered as Hattie was burnt alive. Her screams of agony was like music to their ears and they all dance and celebrated her gruesome death. ______________________________________________ 200 years later; Ivory port , a small steampunk city is visited by a rather peculiar royal envoy. The next day ,the city is taken over by an army of skeletons and undead creatures. Humans are captured and taken to the castle. After her sister was captured and taken away, Viola Wallace plans to rescue her sister along with her unusual group of friends. Will they succeed? What happens when they stumble upon a huge secret in the castle and now it's up to the to save their city? Who's the lady who keeps appearing in Viola's dreams ? How is she connected to the mystery at hand? Who's the mysterious stranger who saved Viola's life and how does he know so much about the skeletons? Find out in Kingdom of Bones!!!!!.

Rjsherlock_100 · Fantasie
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Chappie 26

Matthew pulled down the torch exactly as his father had instructed and the wall opened up. Matthew stepped out and he found himself outside the castle. The door began to slowly close which caused Matthew to panic and yell at Henry to hurry up.

"Come on Henry! "

"I can't...Matthew, I cant do it"

"The hell you can't! Come here now!"Matthew roared furiously at his brother.

Henry made his way to his brother on shaky legs. he tried not to look at any of the corpses lying on the floor but failed. His eye caught a maggot crawling out of a corpse's eyesocket and that compelled him to walk faster.

He finally made it to his brother before the wall closed up , trying not to retch again.

"That's good Henry, You did a great job. I'm so proud of you. "

The two princes made it out of the castle and walked to the stables. They took two horses from the stables and rode into the city.

When they got to the city, it was in a state of total chaos; Streets were deserted with no trace or sign of life anywhere.

"What happened here?"

VIOLA'S POV;

Viola slowly opened her eyes. Her head was pounding and her vision blurry. She touched it and her fingers were stained with a red sticky liquid. It was blood.

She looked around and discovered she was laying inside a market stall.

Viola remembered someone pushing her and then hitting her head. She must have passed out. Before she passed out, she recalled seeing a corpse walking towards her wanting to eat her but then, a figure wearing a dark blue hood came out of nowhere and killed it. Then, the world turned black.

"Oh! You're awake. " The stranger wearing the dark blue cloak said. He had a black mask which covered his face. Only his two different coloured eyes could be seen and they were emerald green and baby blue.

"How's your head?"

"Fine" Viola looked at the stranger warily. She wasn't really sure she could trust him. "Who are you? "