Chapter 2- The Prophecy
"My liege!" my most trusted advisor ran towards me, it was my only real friend in this world, Dragona.
She dashed across the great marble hallway to my office, The King's Office holding a purple ball, a memory sphere. She was dressed in a matter-of-fact manner with a neat dark blue military suit embrossed with the many medals she had achieved in a war, which was before my birth. She was my mother's handmaiden and my caretaker and now my advisor.
She passed the memory sphere to me. "Your highness, this was found in the the late King's Elliose lair. The Elliose Layer was a secret layer filled with tons of security that no one knew about until my father's death. It was impossible to open with virtually no idea at all about the passwords and validations but it seemed like they managed to open it. "The whole lair was filled with memory spheres and your toys when you were a kid." She chuckled, "The late King left this specifically on a chest labelled 'To Alex.'" She took out a paper and passed it to me.
It wrote...
Alex. I know you're looking at this after my death but this layer all contains quintessential information regarding your past and the Kingdom's past that is all required for your service as the King. Before that I leave you the most important gift of all, a memory that will take you back to your past, a memory that no one knows, but only us.
~Your father.
PS: The opening phrase is my last words to you.
I took the memory sphere and dictated, "With all must ash bring back for we are all dust."
PING! The memory orb opened and filled me with a memory...
~~~
21 years ago; when I was born...I lay on a royal crib made with ivory, that has been passed down to hold the next king of the country.
Behind the little tiny baby version of me sleeping were two figures. It was my dad and... The Astromagician.
The Astromagician spoke;
"With faint dew drops
and faint pears
does the little highness
do his prayers.
In the day
when the sun shall rise
to the top of the moon
and above the skies.
He will be the king of time
and rule the world's prose and mine.
In the past he shall find
the truth begotten but all denied.
He shall have nothing
but shall get everything.
He shall suffer
but also prosper.
In the eyes of the forgotten
He shall bind the loss
of the truth and the vial
of life that might alter the truth.
Little Prince, don't defy
rather hold on to the pain
one must drive,
as everything comes with time,
connect the past and bring back time. "
~~~
PING!
I was brought back into reality when the memory orb disappeared. What was this? What really was bringing back time?
I knew that the future awaited me and that I had to now learn of the past, each orb by the next as the silence of the past shall now be heard, undenied by my life.