The First Echo

I was awakened by a blinding flash of light on my balcony. As I was awoken, my heart almost jumped out of my chest. I went to the balcony to see what was had happened, i had assumed it was a parade for the full moon. Many of my school-mates had organized a festival across from the majesty's castle, or my dwelling. I walked over to my balcony ready to yell at who ever had decided to throw a firecracker at my balcony, but when i opened the balcony doors, i saw that the Festival was across the river. I looked down at the brick street, to see nothing but the guards, slouched on the castle walls. I felt bad that, they weren't able to go to the festival. I knew my parents, the wouldn't be back at the castle for days, they were to stay at my Aunts Cassie's dwelling in the town of Arielle, for a full moon and moon fall.

"Mangione!" I yelled out to one of the guards, but they continued peacefully in there slumber.

"Mangione, Sebastian!!" i yelled out again and they suddenly tried to straighten there posture.

Mangione, straightened his helmet and looked up at me, "ejem… Yes, Master!"

"Don't address me as Master, thats much to formal, you can go home now if you like!" I shouted down to him.

"Are you certain, your father said to stay for the night, we must protect you till dawn!" He shouted back, he seemed very confused.

"You need to sleep, or go to the festival, I don't need to be protected, the festival is much to far!"

Magione's eyes lit up and thanked me endlessly.

"You are truly kind, Master, thank you!" I smiled down at him and then headed to bed, when suddenly I noticed a letter and green cloak on the ground.

' A letter'

Elysium,

This name has plagued my mind like human to the Sanan. I come from beyond the cosmos, a galaxy of golden dust, bearing the knowledge of every inch of the cosmos except that of the Sanatonas, I have heard mystical legends regarding the Artemis. Our people emerged from the Artemis, they granted us with the unlimited knowledge of the cosmos. The knowledge regarding the war between Athenan and Artemis has been banished from the minds of my people. Strangely I have seen echos of the Sanan in my dreams, Echos of Elysium. I have seen your swarthy, radiant skin in my dreams, I have seen the glow that lies within your heart. A glow of Athena. A thirst for the knowledge of the Cosmos, a whisper of my people. From this whisper, you emerge. It is rooted within the deepest layer of your heart. Even from eons away I could feel your presence. The presence you, Elysium allows the stars to align, and for that, I have reason to believe that our hearts are one in the same. I can feel a dual heartbeat, replicating that of my own. I have studied this mystery for years. I decided to leave the galaxy to find the Sanan, many of my Athenan counterparts found themselves in similar circumstances and for this reason we have created against my people as well as your own. This is a rebellion against the war, a rebellion to re-create the peace that all our people that came from this Artemis once had. My Athenan have disguised ourselves as Sanan of flight, able to shift into the form of night owls. We take human forms of silver, white, and golden Sanan. We bear wings like those of eagles and hawks. Some of my people bear claws and eyes for hunting, we wear cloaks of satin phthalo- green. This is a sign of our rebellion. I know Elysium, that in secrecy, you live in the markets of the night. I have watched you read books of the rebellion and the forbidden history of the Artemis. I know your crave the cosmos. I have memorized every inch of your radiant skin, I have felt the glow of Athena. If you can feel the beat of a dual heart, meet the rebels in shawls at the bottom of the Atlan mountains. They will take you to me. Please wear the cloak that lies underneath my letter. Allow me to teach you the secrets of the cosmos, allow me to initiate you into the rebellion and you will learn the most profound secrets of the cosmos.

Hear my Echo, Elysium, and your heart will echo back,

Your Echo

'end of letter'

There's no way this was real, i'm probably dreaming. It's odd though, I think I have seen this winged Sanan before. I remember when I had run to the market of moonshine, and yes, technically, as royalty I might not exactly be welcome into the market of the moonshine. You see, my parents are descendants of the Artemis, they enforce the rule of banning the story of what was once Sanatos. Anyway, I had learned from a friend Ansima, a Sanan of precision, flexibility and skill, how to run across the roofs as silent as a mouse. It almost feels like flying, and when I jumped from roof to roof I felt like I could feel the clouds, as if I was a bird. In the midst of a jump, it felt as if time had slowed and my eyes met with a what looked like a hawks eyes, but instead of feeling a predatory fear, I felt golden. It was as if my heart beat slowed to the pace of the clouds in the sky. Just for a moment my heart beat was a still and I felt the glow of a thousand lives, I felt the knowledge of a million galaxy's and solar systems and life was peace. It was like an Echo. I was one with the light of the moon and it was beautiful, i hadn't been able to understand what that moment was or who it was but i knew that i had to find it. I had to find Echo. I felt my heart glow with the ecstasy that was the rebellion. There was not a bone in my body that hadn't been waiting for this moment since my birth. I was ready, the only thing I had to do now is wait for the next crescent moon and find a way to escape the castle.

I longed for the rebellions I would soon be initiated.

I spent that night laying in my bed, and though I was filled with curiosity, after considering the letter, the discussion of the Athenan, I felt slightly afraid. This was not just an adventure outside the castle walls to the moonshine market, this was the rebellion. The rebellion that destroyed the land of Sanatonas in the first place. I had been taught since I was young, that the Athena were evil creatures, who bore the fruit of knowledge and used it to overpower the weak and mortal. I had been taught about how they ripped the flesh of there prey by luring them in with a promise of happiness and then they would strike. I began to realize that this could be a trap, still there was something within me that longed to know what this rebellion was, what were these secrets of the cosmos. The words of Echo floated in my head and they whispered sweet nothings to me. They made me want to melt completely into the echo. My skin felt a warm glow and I felt a deep echo in the core of my heart. I felt the glow and with that my body was put to a deep contemplative rest. I would decide tomorrow underneath the light of the sun.

The echo continues to whisper into heart in the darkness of the night, deep in my subconscious. My heart had already decided.