"Are we all ready?",asked Eva
"Yes!", everyone replied.
All of the ten children were standing infront of a table with a thin dirty stick on it.
Zane was not sure how that was going to work but they were all ordered to stand there and break that damned stick just with the power of their will. Meaning, they had to break the stick only and only with the help of staring at it and forcing it break with the sheer force of will, definitely without touching it.
"This is stupid",said Natalie suddenly from behind.
Everybody looked at her, surprised. Even Eva suddenly seemed interested in her.
"I am sorry Natalie, what did you say?",she asked
"I-I mean that this is stupid!",she inhaled sharply."NO ONE IS GOING TO HAVE SOME STUPID POWERS ABOUT BREAKING SOMETHING BY JUST LOOKING AT IT! AND WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?! WHY DO SUDDENLY SEEM SO INTERESTED IN ORPHANS?! S
"Let's go to the practice room now!",said Zane, getting up. "Or Miss Eva is going to burst with anger!"Natalie grinned and nodded and said,"Yeah, sure, let's go"The children were all still standing in front of their sticks and forcing it to break merely by the power of them looking at it and it looked like it was definitely not working.When Zane and Natalie entered the room, Eva looked at them sternly but did not say anything.Both of them went back in front of their tables and looked at that unfortunate piece of stick.Zane knew that it wasn't going to work for him so he wasn't particularly concentrating.Suddenly he heard a crack. A stick had broken for someone.Every head turned towards a girl standing with a broken stick in front of her."Miss Helen?",said Eva approaching the girl."You managed to break the stick"The gi
*2 months passed*Zane was sitting in the round table with the other nine children. It was his second month in the orphanageNatalie sat beside Zane and on his other side sat Bennett. Mick, Aidan and the other kids sat around the family like a big happy family. And Eva's voice came telling everyone to meet her at the practice room.All the children gathered in the room with Eva sitting in the front table."Okay children, I am calling out your names and as I do, please come forward and take a seat",said Eva, opening her diary. "Helen, status, a gerfin "Helen went forward and took a seat."Mick, status, a hender",Eva called out and Mick took a seat beside Helen."Bennett, status, a gwentus. Alice, status,a perfa. Derek, status, a zawen. Laurel, status, a qirpelt. Aidan, status, a cozentrer. Emily, status, an aviatell.",said Eva with a glint of pride in he
Scarlett Olivia was a normal girl with a normal life and it sucked. Her mother was dead and she lived with her father and her step-mother. Her step mother had three children, Arthur, Ruby and Mary. Arthur and Ruby were excruciatingly stupid and irritating . Mary was fine, she was understanding and everything that her siblings were not.The problem was that Scarlett was rich, like very very rich. Her father was a neurosurgeon and mostly stayed out of town. Everyone thought that Scarlett would be happy because she was so rich, but she was not. Her step-mother made her life living hell.Her father always told her to try and cope with her step-mother because she had too much in her mind too. But all she did was throw parties to her friends and neighbours and find any stupid way to waste money. Scarlett wished her mother was alive, because her mother was the only person apart from Sophia, her friend, who understood her.She studied in
Zane didn't like the girl named Scarlett. He was sitting and talking with Natalie when he saw the girl come in with Eva. She smelled so much sad, hurt, broken, nervous, scared and most of all, she smelled of lies.Zane almost got so confused by the overflow of all the smells of emotions that he had to stop smelling.Eva turned towards Scarlett and said,"If you don't mind then might I just have a word with my kids!"Scarlett nodded and said,"Sure! I will wait in the hallway"Saying this, Scarlett went outside the big room.Zane knew what Eva was going to tell them. She would tell them to control their powers and not reveal a thing about their identity to the girl and that is exactly what she said."Children, try to act normal, as normal as you can be, don't let her get suspicious. I couldn't ask her to not talk to you all because then it would have been even mor
"Are we seriously going to wear that?",asked Natalie"Yes, what's the problem with that?",asked Eva scowling"I mean they are pretty, but we are all wearing the same outfits?",asked Emily"Why Emily? Is that a problem?", asked Eva.Emily frowned and said,"Actually yes. All the girls are wearing pink dress and all the boys are wearing black shirts?! I mean won't we look like a band or something?""Yes Emily so what is the problem with that?",asked Eva."In case you haven't noticed we are not big on money right now....It would be great if you all tried to cope with it, this is what you all are wearing if you want to go to the party with Scarlett, or forget about it"Everyone was silent then Laurel said ,"Okay...we will wear those things, just let's get this over with, Scarlett is waiting outside"Everyone nodded and Eva handed them out
When the bus stopped, Zane thought it was one of those castles from his world.Scarlett's house was huge,it was really big and almost all the kids were staring at it from the window and gaping at it."Oh my God...Do you see that?!",Mick shouted Laurel.Laurel scrunched her nose and said,"Ofcourse I see it! I am not blind!"Laurel had been in a particularly bad mood since she had been made to wear the pink dress instead of the black dress she had been intending to wear.They saw Scarlett gesturing at them to follow her. As they were going to get out of the bus, Eva stopped them.Everyone looked at her and she said,"I won't be following you all inside but I assure I can see how you all are behaving. So all of you, behave yourselves and the only reason I brought you all here is because this is a part of the test. We will be monitoring your behaviour. So do your be
Ruby and Arthur stared at Zane incredulously."I know you from somewhere",said Arthur pulling up a pained expression"Woah....I don't know you from anywhere",said Zane in a convincing tone.Ruby gasped and said,"Arthur I saw this guy in my dreams! His name was something I don't remember..."Arthur shook his head vigorously and said,"I REMEMBER TOO! I SAW HIM IN MY DREAMS TOO!""Pardon?...You saw me in your dreams? Sounds a bit dramatic, don't you think?",said ZaneRuby smiled stupidly at Arthur and said,"Mary said we were mutual dreaming when we saw him in our dreams! Does it mean something?"Arthur shrugged like a big stupid baby boy and said,"I don't know but I think we should talk to him. We don't see a guy in our dreams everyday and see him in real life again!""Uh...I am standing right here",said Zane
All of them ran outside towards the garden"WE ARE SURROUNDED!", shouted Zane, amidst the confusion."Yeah we noticed",Aidan called back"What do we do?!",asked Laurel"I don't know",said Zane, panickingHe looked at Alice standing there and shouted,"Hey do you think you could summon a storm or a lightning or something?!""I can try",Alice saidAlthough she had never tried summoning a big storm in an alarming situation.Wind whistled in their ears although it did not seem to affect the ten of them because of some force-field Aidan had created to protect them. The storm did seem to be doing a lot of damage.Alice's eyes turned white and shone. She raised a hand and pointed at one of the scary-looking men's direction and impressively a lightning bolt hit the spot she pointed at. But unfortunately, the men jus
*1 month later*Zane, the king of Elysium, had a very lonely life. Yes, he was a king, but he had no queen. He had cleared out his feelings with Natalie and now there were no hard feelings between them. Natalie had understood that Zane didn't like her like that anymore. Laurel was too in love with her husband, Liam. "Miracles happen",Zane had said to himself when he heard about Laurel and Liam. Daisy was still under the effects of the Forgetting potion. Zane had not talked to her since he had last left Pamlivam, but now that all the kingdoms were merged together, Zane saw her almost everyday. She went on with her life and Zane thought it was for the better.But one day, he crossed paths with Daisy and she bowed her head and said,"My king" and then started to walk away.It was weird, but Zane pulled Daisy in for a hug.Daisy was scared, but she went on with it."Are you okay, my king?",she asked, concerned. "Please remember me",said Zane, unable to control himself anymore. "Please"
*Present day*When Zane walked out of the cave with the sword in his hand, he was a better man. He was radiating power, he was more confident, more powerful than ever before. Scarlett nodded at him when she saw him and said,"Hand over the sword Zane""The sword has chosen me",said Zane"It doesn't work like that",said Scarlett. "I've been working hard to find this sword. You do not get to steal my glory from me""You are not after glory, Scarlett",said Zane, wisely. "You want to bring back your dead mother....you can't do that"Scarlett's face paled. "I can and I will. Now hand over the sword.""Take it from me",he said.Scarlett did not hesitate. She toon out her own sword and said,"May the sword belong to whoever wins"At that very moment, the forest rumbled. The ground shook. The trees were disappearing. "Run", shouted Mick, leading them all out of the forest. Zane gripped the sword tightly and ran out. The trees were falling down. Soon, they were out of the forest. All the trees
*Present day*It was beautiful. Probably one of the most beautiful things Zane had ever seen, apart from Daisy. The sword of Bane stood there, embedded in stone. It radiated light. Pure light. Zane could feel its power in his veins. He felt like the sword was calling out to him. Zane had tears in his eyes, they were not there because Zane was emotional, but because the light was too powerful for Zane to be directly staring at it.It looked like a regular sword, with a blue stone embedded at the hilt of the sword. The blade was blackish and looked very sharp.Zane reached his hand out to hold the sword when he heard a sound behind him. Zane turned around to see his father standing there."Dad?",gasped Zane. "You've come such a long way Zane",beamed his father. He looked pale and grey. Another figure formed beside him, it was his mother. "How are you, my son?",asked his mother. "I- I'm good mom",said Zane, this time, with tears of sadness. "I miss you both"Another figure solidifie
*Present day*There was small cave and a bulky figure was standing at the entrance. It was Mick. His face lit up when he saw them. "Hey guys!",he said, smiling at them. There were several fresh cuts on his face, but he didn't seem to mind. He then looked at Zane and froze. "Zane! Oh my God!"He went over and hugged Zane and Zane hugged him back. "It's good to see you""You too",said Zane."I'm going to need to hear everything, Zane",said Mick, then turning around and looking at Scarlett and bowing down, he breathed out, "My queen""Is this the cave?",asked Scarlett"It is",said Mick. "Yang and I have been searching for this cave for two years, and we found it. The sword of Bane lies inside. But we can't enter""Why not?",asked Scarlett. "There is a protective layer of something invisible here",said Mick, touching the entrance of the cave, it looked as if there was nothing there, but Mick's hand and touched something hard in the air. "Have you found out how to get inside, yet?",aske
*Present Day*Zane was looking at the different kind of weapons in the armory. Laurel and Natalie were packing their bags. Scarlett's bag was already packed.They were planning on heading towards the forest of deception. Mick had sent a message explaining something weird going on in the forest that could probably lead to the sword of Bane. "How do we know where Mick is, exactly?",asked Zane"He sent out a signal from his scroll. We just need to follow the signal with ours",said Laurel, handing Zane a weird square device. That showed a red dot in the forest and Zane supposed that's where Mick was. Soon all of them were done packing their bags. Zane, Laurel, Natalie followed Scarlett out of the doors. No guards accompanied them. It was supposed to be a secret mission. Natalie kept glancing at Zane. But she couldn't muster the courage to talk to him. As soon as they were about to enter the forest, Natalie held Zane's hand and said,"I'm sorry Zane.....I don't remember killing your m
*Present day*It was a tempting offer. A very tempting offer. Could the sword really have that much power? Could it really bring back the dead? Could it bring back his people? Derek? Could he see him again? His mother. His father. He looked at Scarlett, she did not look like she was lying. He did not smell any lies. "If I tell her everything, what's the worse that could happen?",Zane thought to himself. He could not think of any reason bad enough to not take a chance. "Okay",said Zane finally."I will tell you everything that happened to me....but I need your word that you will help me find the sword""Yes, you have my word. But I will be the one bringing back the dead, because I will be wielding the sword once you will help me find the sword.""Deal",said Zane. He took a deep breath and started with his story. He really told her everything. His entire journey. He told her how he met Derek, how he ended up in Pamlivam, how Daisy found out he was a vampire and how everything from th
*Present day*When specks of light fell through Zane's window inside his little cell, he made out that it was morning and that he should probably wake up. He looked around and there was nothing other than a roughly made, very uncomfortable bed, and a bottle of water. He got up and gurgled with the warm water for a while and drank the rest. He found a nice corner and started doing warm-ups there and then did a whole lot of hard-core exercises. "That's so unlike you Zane",came a voice from the shadows.Zane was startled but he tried to hide it. "What are you doing here Scarlett?" "This is my kingdom. I can go anywhere I want to""You sure can. Why didn't you return to your family?",asked Zane curiously"This kingdom, this palace, it just felt like home""No, Scarlett this is not your home. These are not your people, your folks will think you died. And the only reason you stayed is because you got addicted to power. Accept it""Yes....power, it is a very interesting thing, very hard
*Present day*Zane climbed down the stairs, whistling and entered the throne room. "Hey Scarlett",said Zane, acknowledging Scarlett's presence in the room. Scarlett said nothing. She simply tilted her head and looked at Zane with more curiousity. Zane had to take a long look at Scarlett's face to comprehend that she was infact not sleeping, it was dark where she was sitting. The light wasn't reaching her face. The throne was placed in an elevated platform and there weren't any torches there. Scarlett stood up and walked a few steps and the light fell on her face. Zane stifled a gasp. Her face had scratches all over. And she had put red paint on both her cheeks with two fingers."Uh....cool make-up",said Zane, staring at Scarlett. "How've you been?""Why are you here Zane?",asked Scarlett, ignoring Zane's question. "I..... I've returned, my friend. What do you mean 'why are you here'? I-I came back!",said Zane"I am not your friend. Once you leave Helmfirth....there is no return",
*Present day*When Zane woke up, there was a loud knocking sound on his door."Wait a minute! I'm coming",shouted back ZaneHe opened the door to Natalie."Hey",said Natalie. "Why did you lock the door?""Ever heard of privacy?",asked Zane sarcastically"No, I mean yes, but you never lock your door during the daytime",said Natalie"Then I guess there are things about me that you don't know",said Zane"The queen has demanded to see you",said Natalie."Yes, and I would like to see Scarlett too. It's been a minute since we last had a chat. Just let me come down in ten minutes",said Zane"Ten minutes?!", repeated NatalieZane didn't reply, instead, he tried to close the door, which Natalie blocked with her hand."No wait!", replied Natalie. "What are you going to do in there for ten minutes?""It's none of your business Natasha", replied Zane"It's Natalie",she said fiercely. "Oh yeah?",mocked Zane. "Because Daisy told me otherwise""D-Daisy?",said Natalie, smiling. "You met her?""Yes",