Chapter One
<p data-p-id="33f774e51719a4a6f9f0836dc734c203"> The creature, with its intimidatingly powerful spell book, was ready to attack. After long hours, days, weeks, months, even, he found it. The shining Panopean castle stretched out, seemingly just for him. He immediately collapsed to his knees
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<p data-p-id="e158a7c7f2ceb214c0768e74ea8e0ca7"> It was too early to celebrate, as there was a bearded man, with long gray hair and a suit of armor, standing there at the massive castle doors. This man reminded him of his old self, confident and free. He limped over the man, still incredibly exhausted from his long journey.
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<p data-p-id="73a0ef26ddf65a3a646d358dd3ca89d0"> The man, out of impulse pulled out his sword as soon as he made eye contact. "What brings you here?" he said. The creature hesitated, but he pulled out his spellbook. Page 36 the creature told itself as he flipped through the pages. There it was. Teleportation spell. Being the overlord of the underworld, he knew how to do magic at will, and he disappeared in purple smoke right in front of the guard's eyes.
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<p data-p-id="5f3908457e8ac47951398776223e8cfa"> Meanwhile, the guard, Ellian, knew that this means no good. His mind told him to tell the king at once. He flung to doors open and sprinted into the castle. "Your highness!" he called out to the king, panting as he spoke. "Someones got their hands on the crystal." The king, outraged, jumped from his throne. "Ellian, it was your job to protect it!" he screamed
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<p data-p-id="f9ef6c7c37b860166e6f1b6aaaeb6c81"> He dropped to one knee. "I know," he whispered. "And I'm sorry" The king seemed furious. "Calm down, dear." said the queen. "I put a spell on the crystals for this reason." the king furrowed his brow. "Spell?" he asked. She nodded. "Yes, if anybody touches them, they get spread to random parts of Earth." His face changed from interested to furious, again. "How is that going to help, exactly?" he questioned. Somehow, she was used to the king getting angered over everything.
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<p data-p-id="6d8f0bf11fd21622c8a1b67dbb9a5d20"> "Each crystal possesses a power. Somebody somewhere might find it and be able to gain these powers. " the queen said. "We could use these people to fight against the individual who took them." She smiled gently. "It'll be ok" He calmed down a bit. "We better make sure to get rid of this person, we don't want this to happen again," he said. She nodded. "Ellian, can you please find Noni for me?" the queen asked. Ellian bowed down and dashed off to go find the queen's fairy.
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<p data-p-id="aba9b2ba1fedf2e3d475d9670a3b6c57"> He came back with a metal cage, and inside was a little fairy. Ellian reached in his pockets and opened the door. The fairy flew out of the cage at that exact moment and ran over to the queen. "Please greet the new warriors and lead them here once you have all five of them," she ordered. The pinky-sized fairy bowed. "esruoc fo," she said. Meaning "Of course" in Panopean, and flew off.
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<p data-p-id="7ef19a23fe953f20b9002fa932b0a4ab"> Ellian, still feeling guilty for letting a wild creature enter the castle, walked slowly out of the throne room. The fact he did something so despicable to the castle, that he was told to protect by the king and queen themselves, only for the queen to be the one who ultimately saved the crystals that were the only peacemakers throughout this whole world of Panopea. He knew that it was going to be in ruins soon, all because of his foolish actions. At this point, he wouldn't mind the king and queen execute him.
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<p data-p-id="caac41444c1790f51ae422070c0e9967"> On the bright side, he would be able to command a team of warriors to fight against this creature. He smiled at that thought. In the distance, he noticed Dani. "Hey!" Dani shouts from across the hall. He runs all the way across the hall to greet him, but he looks concerned. "Is everything ok?" he asks. "Yeah, it's fine," said Ellian. Out of nowhere, Dani burst out into laughter. "No you're not," Dani chuckles "I can read you like a book."
<p data-p-id="f9fffa5c33415e3f3ca10b09edfa1fe8"> "Don't worry about it" Ellian mumbled. "Well, suit yourself" Dani responded "But I'm here if you need me, okay baby?" He nodded. Dani ran off again. Ellian sighed and walked off. These next few years would be... interesting, to say the least.
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