3. The laws

It was around ten in the morning when Stella and Morgan finally woke up,they didn't have any recollection of how they had slept last night, the only thing that they could remember of was their grandmother's last words before everything had gone dark in their mind.

"Stella, I know both you and Morgan have a lot of questions to ask me, but unfortunately I don't have anymore time left to answer any of your questions, but I would leave you several books where you would get the answers from, as for now take care of yourselves, and remember you should always put on the pendant, never even for once should you ever remove it,no matter what!"

Thinking about it, they immediately swung into action in order to find their beloved grandmother so that she may explain to them what exactly had happened, and what she meant when she said those words, they hoped that whatever she meant when she said she didn't have any more time was not what they were thinking of.

It only shocked the two grandkids to find their grandma missing, her bed clearly shown that she hadn't slept on it last night.

Confusion and worry gripped their hearts as they searched every nook of their little house but there was no sign of their grandma. Instead, they discovered a weathered leather bag lying on the kitchen table.

Stella and Morgan had never seen the bag before,so they hurried to check it's content only to find weathered and worn book, cracked leather cover, adorned with faded symbols, within its yellowed, time-Its pages were filled with cryptic symbols and faded illustrations, and on the first page, written in elegant script, were the words:

"The Laws of the ancient times."

Beside the book their was a written note stuck on the table, written in their grandma's handwriting, "Stella, Morgan, am very sorry my kids that I can no longer take care of you guys, as you would be reading this note then I would no longer be in this world, am going back home, to where we all came from, I've left you several material that would enrich your knowledge on this things, goodbye my kids, I wish you well, and all the best.

If in any chance by good luck we meet again, I would love to be your grandmother once again.

Morgan, remember to take care of your sister, with time you will learn that you two are of different kinds, and you might be swayed to turn your back on her, and when such a time comes, always remember that she is your SISTER, and you have to protect her no matter what because she must fulfill the old prophecies, goodby my kids. "

Love, grandma.

The note read, and sure enough they didn't quite understand what it meant, more so when she said she would no longer be in this world, it just made them think whether there's another parallel world, they didn't quite believe in such tales, they have read and watched a lot about it.

Curiosity mingled with apprehension made Stella and Morgan to hurriedly start flipping through the ancient tome so that at least they may get to understand what all this was for,they hadn't understood a thing from the note.

The book was not written in any simple English as they had thought earlier on, it was written in the ancient language and lucky enough Stella had been taught by her uncle Xavier while Morgan had been taught by grandma Elizabeth. The book spoke of a long-forgotten prophecy, passed down through generations from a thousand years ago when it was written, after the death of the guardians of the dark world.

The first chapter spoke of dire consequences that would befell a witch who by any chance dare to interact with a devil in whichever situations, and if by any chance that were to happen then the witch had to be taken back to the dark world and be imprisoned in a dungeon full of poisonous insects as a punishment to prevent any interaction between the two kinds. The words seemed to leap off the page, filling the room with an eerie sense of foreboding.

Everything written on the book didn't quite make any sense to either Stella or Morgan, they found everything on the book quite absurd, the book spoke of the witches, dragons, angels, vampires and the devil. They didn't believe in such a things at all, weren't they just fantasy? They thought to themselves because if they really were to interpret it, it only meant that grandma Elizabeth is a witch while the stranger guy whom Stella had picked from the streets the previous night was the devil.

That was not true to them, their grandma was someone of the purest soul that they had ever met, and since witches were only associated to evils, just like the devil, it didn't make any sense to them at all to even think that way, so they dismissed it with a thought that maybe their grandma was just role playing, she had once disappeared for a week back then when they were still young, they thought that maybe she would be back again, just like before.

As they two delved deeper into the prophecy, they learned of the powerful bond between the witch and the devil, forged in the shadows of ancient forests. The devil, Lucifer himself had promised the queen witch untold riches and unimaginable power in exchange for her assistance in fulfilling his malevolent plans, which was against the laws set on the world by the gods. Together with the assistant of the aliens, they had planned to unleash chaos upon the world, plunging it into darkness and despair, a thousand years ago but they were stopped by the two guardians, one of whom was his own son, and as a result he had lost his own son in the process leading the plan being put off.

The battle had been scheduled to take place a thousand years later, after the rebirth of the two guardians, and only after Lucipher had claimed his son back.

But the prophecy also spoke of hope. It foretold of five brave souls comprising of an angel, a devil, a witch, a dragon and a vampire who would rise against the darkness, armed with courage and determination. These heroes would embark on a perilous quest to fulfill the prophecy, restoring balance to the world and saving the universe from alien attacks and from evil.

Written in bold there was one condition attached to it, by any chance there was supposed to be no any interaction or between any of the kinds, more so the devil and angel as they were totally two opposite kinds dire to which it would lead to the end of the world and perishing of the human world, consequently, the two kinds would lose their immortality and perish forever.