Chapter 1

Dream.

I have no idea where I am right now. This feels like a far-off land, in a different dimension. I have had not had a dream like this since I was child. I guess it is back to the realm of fairy tales and make believe in my subconscious imagination. 

This feels different though, it still feels real yet, this is a completely different place. I walk around until I hear the sound of footsteps and voices of people coming. I hide behind a pilar, I have no idea of I would even be seen but it would be too awkward if I was caught. 

“Brother Zeus, may I have a moment” 

“Of course, brother, why have you come from the depths of darkness to see me?” 

“I had something alarming happen, I felt the grounds of Tartarus shaking, suddenly a secondary throne formed from the ashen rock in the wall, with the branding of my pitchfork” 

The man stopped talking so I peaked around to see the duo, and I was shocked. That man speaking was the same darkly dangerous man who was calling to me as a child. I dare not say a word, I understand this is all my mind imagination, just one fucked up dream like I am in a cheesy move yet, something is warning me to stay quiet. 

“I have not known what to tell you but, in the Kingdom of the “Pega’s” there is a child born, a child that bears your symbol”

The man stumbled back in shock “Could it be? Is the foretelling really has come true? After all these centuries, has my bride been born?” 

“It appears so my lord, congratulations. You have my blessing to claim your bride when the time is right” the two men shake hands in a firm embrace. 

I ease away from the wall and try to sneak away from the room, I do not notice the handsome devil smirk. I do my best to not make a sound suddenly I notice in the darkness I see eyes alight with blue flame. 

I duck through a door hoping to escape him. Suddenly I am in a completely different place. I am in the kingdom that I kept on dreaming about. I begin to walk through the majestic halls with gold trim and grand paintings until I hear voices coming from a room to the right of me. I look around making sure that no one is in the area. I peak inside, and I see a woman who looks a little like me pacing back and forth, she is standing in what looks like a nursery. She seems to be very impatient, and her posture is as if she is waiting for someone. 

A door opens and a young maiden enters the room

“My lady Aurelia, you called for me?”

“Yes, I have a grave request, as much as it pains me, I need to ask to take on a great mission” 

“What is it my lady?”

The woman picks up a child that starts to coo, and she holds the baby tight. Why do I feel like my heart is breaking? This is nothing but a fantasy dream. I may as well write this for a movie

“Take my child, she is my love, my heart, and soul, she needs to be hidden away”

“Why your majesty, I have heard the rumors but, surely they are wrong”

“I am afraid they are not, look at the symbol on her back, she was born to be his, I am not going to allow that to happen! She needs to be far away!” 

“My lady! I do not mean to speak out of turn but, if he comes and learns she has gone, it will bring his wrath down on us!

“Silence! I will not give my newborn child over to that monster! Do you task and be gone!” 

I watched the mother hug the child once more with tears in her eyes, she placed the child in lavishly adorned box, and the servant rushed out of the room bearing the child. The child’s cries were heard through the castle. I was about to sneak off when I heard a commotion from the room

“The beautiful lady threw the crib over and wept. I saw a man enter, he looked like a king, and he looked slightly similar to myself for some reason. 

“Woman, what have you done! Where is my child!” 

“Gone, safe, away from the prying hands of that beast” I saw him slap her

“What have you done! You have brought down damnation on us!”

“No, I saved our daughter, I am using my magic as we speak to send her someplace no one will find her”

“You foolish woman, you have called down the wrath of gods on us! Zeus granted his blessing over the manner, you know this, you have just not only defied his right to claim her when she is grown but, also you have defied the will of Zeus!” 

“I do not care, I want our daughter safe, and away from him.”

“What about the lives of everyone else, the lives of our other children, my son who is coming of age to ascend the throne! You have damned them all!”

“We do not challenge the gods, she was born to be his, she was born to rule with him!” The man shouted at her. The woman stood against him

“It is done, and I am not changing it” she said as she stormed away from the room.

Suddenly there was a commotion, outside the castle walls, I ran to find a window and saw that same alluring man. He was floating in the air, his eyes alight with fire and rage.

“Where is she!” he growled as the ground began to open up and people were falling into fire

“Where is who, my lord?”

“The child! I felt her presence leave me; I cannot sense her!” 

“My lord, a thousand pardons, we know not where she is, the queen sent a servant girl to steal her away to someplace far” 

The man's rage was all-consuming

“You will never have my daughter you snake!” 

“You dare challenge me! You and your species are a gift to the gods and mankind from Zeus, you dare defy us! You dare take her from me!” the man roared. 

At that moment, the ground lifted up, billows of fire and smoke started to stretch towards the sky, a great demonic creature stretches out its tentacles and starts assaulting people. Droves of people are being sucked in the fire, I see a little girl in a mini crown holding a teddy bear crying. I instinctually reach for her trying to somehow save her. I feel the floors around me start to shake, I scream, and suddenly the windows are burst open I see the devilish man look like he can see me, like he heard my scream. I crawl backward against the wall and suddenly I am opening my eyes. I am not in the place of nightmares; I am in my fifth avenue penthouse. I feel my heart beating rapidly. I push myself up from the bed. That was the first time I have had the nightmare so clear like that, feeling just as real as years ago. What the fuck was that? 

I slowly take deep calming breaths as I undress myself until I am nake, I walk into my ensuite bathroom, I let the warm water descend over my body. I clear my head reminding myself, It was just a dream Velaria, none of that shit exists. Yet, for some reason I cannot get his haunting eyes out of my mind.