She ran faster and faster with a baby tightly against her chest the ruby necklace gliding back and forth, the knights chasing her with swords and shields, screaming out “Give us the baby”. She hesitated a little bit but eventually kept on going. One of the knights threw a rock at her head trying to make her stop and as the rock impacted a wound upon her, the blood started to drip down her face onto her new born child. The mother ran faster and faster and suddenly lost the knights. She sat the baby aside trying to calm him down, whipping the blood away from his eyes. “My son the true air to Shamballa shall not die in a place like this.” She said with anger in her voice. She grabbed the ruby necklace and clenched it between her fingers, “Even if he is destined to destroy the whole entire world, I will…” she started to cough as she was to finish her sentence. The blood ran down her lips to her hand. She looked to her child with a kind of sadness and depression and said “I shall protect you with my life, because you my son are the prince of Shamballa, not to bring destruction to the world but to only bring happiness and joy to your people.”
She wrapped the blanket around him tightly, putting him to the ground. “And with this the restricted witch craft I shall bring you to a different era a place were you can do actually that and become what you are destined to become.” She used her blood to make a circle around him, with unusually symbols. “The great witch of the north commands you gods to open a gate to the next life and shall in return give you everything I have left to offer, on this I agree to the everlasting contract!” She said so loudly that even the gods could here her. The knights came closer and closer by the minute shouting “She’s over here!” There were flashes of lights all around the baby and suddenly a door appeared before them. Several arms came out of the door that grabbed the baby, eyes looking down at the mother, teeth that were grinding back and forth with anticipation, and with this she determined that this was god. The mother looked up and said, “And if thou doesn’t keep thy word, then May heaven hold me back from killing the gods themselves.” Laughter came threw the dark eerie door and as the door began to close. The mother said something so terrible that even dared said in the witches covenant would be killed instantly. She said the words that took the last of her breath,
“I Love You….”
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Marked Prince
Name: Maximum Jacobs
Birthday: October 31st
Age: 16
Likes: Hot coco with marshmallows and chocolate chip cookies
Hair color: Purple
Dislikes: school, Homework and waking up early
Eye color: reddish brownish
Chapter 1: The Confrontation
Dear Diary,
I had that dream again, the dream of the new born baby and his mother. It’s been happening ever since my 16th birthday. I have so many questions to ask them like, who they are, why am I dreaming about them, do they have anything to do with me? During the dream a door appears before them, and the woman calls it god, but I don’t promptly know how that’s possible because god is a loving human being who has a child named Jesus and that kind of religious stuff. My mother says “just don’t worry about it; dreams don’t have anything to deal with reality”. But I can’t help question her motive. A few years ago I found out I was adopted, so maybe it’s my real mother, but I doubt it. Talk to you later….
Sincere,
Maximum Jacobs
He closed his diary and took a few minutes to himself to organize his thoughts. [I’m an ordinary high school boy] he thought [nothing but an ordinary kid who just wants to get threw the day]. He took a deep breath got up and put his diary in the draw next to his bed. He took out a comb, walked next to the mirror and started to brush his hair. He put his comb down, lifted his hand up and briefly touches the mirror with his fingertips and said “Maybe there’s another me out there, that I don’t know about…” he barely smiled “Maybe this is his dream, his imaginary world..” he walked over grabbed his coat took a deep breath and with a big smile said “It’s time for school!”
As he was walking, somebody shouted “Maxi!!!” he turned around and noticed a girl with short blond hair and blue eyes running towards him. [Oh great Tune...] He thought as she stopped right in front of him. “So Maxi, going to school I see!” she said with a big grin. “Tune I wish you can stop calling me Maxi and start calling me by my real name Maximum” he said with a grunt. “Nope can’t do that!!! Ever since we were kids I’ve called you Maxi so I’m not about to ruin the tradition” she crossed her hands trying to show that she was serious. It was quiet for a moment until Maximum grunted and started to walk again with Tune fallowing him. It was still early in the morning most people just starting to wake up, the sun just rising. “So Maxi… I have something to tell you…” She said with hesitation, “yeah what is it?” Maximum said with annoyance. “Well... I’ve got a secret to tell you…” she looked at him with a soft smile as they stopped for the train to pass. “It’s a very special secret that I’ve kept hidden for so long...” her eyes glimmered “But I can’t tell you know … Someday I will but not now…” They started to walk again, a huge smile on Tune’s face. Maximum couldn’t help but wonder what the big secret was she had to tell him.
But soon after they arrived at school both of them exhausted from the walk. “Well I’ll see you later, Maxi” Tune said as they were about to go their separate ways. “Yeah see you later” Maximum said as he waved her goodbye. He grabbed his binder from his locker and walked on to his morning class. In school Maximum was not a popular kid neither a geek, but just a normal kid. Some kids do consider him weird because he keeps to himself a lot and doesn’t really take the time to talk to other people or make any other friends except Tune. The bell rang and as always was the first one to arrive. He looked out the window and noticed the clouds were starting to darken [Must be a storm coming] he thought. The class went on as usually Kids drawing on desk, throwing stuff at the nerds, and at other times the lesson would be so boring that some kids would go to sleep. Maximum looked outside the window and noticed the wind picking up and a few sprinkles of rain then and there. “I heard there was supposed to be a hurricane today.” A kid next to him said, “Yeah right, there wouldn’t be any school if there was” another kid replied.
Before the bell was about to ring an announcement from the P.A. came on “There will be an early dismissal today due to the server weather were having. So after 1st period please get your utensils and report to the buses.” Thunder crashed into one of the trees and broke a branch; rain pored down on the school. [Wow it’s getting very bad out there] Maximum said to himself. The bell rang and all of the kids ran down to there lockers and got there stuff. Maximum was about to leave but then noticed he left his binder in his desk. So he went back into the class room to get the binder. But suddenly a humongous explosion occurred, that knocked him to the ground. He picked himself up as quickly as possible and ran to see what has happened. As he was out the door his eyes widened when he seen the front end of a plane right in front of his face. [A plane crashed into the school] he thought and as he turned his head he’d seen that half of the school was gone leaving only the trace of blood and body parts crumble with concrete as evidence. [Tune!]He thought with a worried face, “Tune!!!” He screamed out as he started to run. He kept on running screaming out her name, and then he suddenly slipped in a pile of blood. His hands and cloths covered with the blood of many people that have been taken by this incident. Maximum looked at his hands, with fear in his eyes. “God please...please…” he said as he started to cry, he then heard a sound coming from his far right. He got up with blood dripping from his cloths. He walked for a bit and again he heard the noise.
“Ma...Xi...” a voice said so soft and calmly, “Over here…” He turned to his side to see Tune with blood soaked upon her. “MA...XI…I’m right here” she said with blood running down her back, he walked up next to her and bent down, tears running down his face. “Maxi I new you would come to find me...” she said as life was leaving her eyes. “Don’t worry Tune I’ll…” He stuttered, “I‘ll go get some help…” as he was about to get up, Tune lifted her hand slowly but softly, and touched his hand. “Maxi the… secret I wanted to tell you…” she lifted her face up just a little bit. “The secret I wanted to tell you about... for so long” gushes of blood started to drip from her face, the sharp piece of metal stuck to her back made it painful for her to move. “Don’t talk; save your strength…” tears stilled poured from his face. “She lifted her other hand, in order to touch his cheek, “The secret ...is...” Maximum eyes were in shock he couldn’t deal with the pain in his heart. He griped her hand tightly thinking that this was the only way to save her. Her eyes starting to close very slowly, “Tune….” Maximum said gripping her hands very tightly “Please don’t leave me” Before tunes eyes shut for good she said the words that took the last of her breath…
“I love you…Maximum”
Marked Prince
Melody’s Tune
Rain pored around them washing the blood away. Maximum not wanting to admit that his childhood had just died in his arms. “I have to do something I need to bring her back… Somehow...”
“And with this the restricted witch craft I shall bring you to a different era a place were you can do actually that and become what you are destined to become.”
“Wait the women from my dream she did something, a short of witchcraft” he said with a kind of depression. He laid Tune on the ground and drew a circle with her blood around the corpse. The same exact way the women in the dream did with her baby. He put his hands to the ground and said the enchantment….
“The great witch of the north commands you gods to open a gate to the next life and shall in return give you everything I have left to offer, on this I agree to the everlasting contract!”
He repeated the words, “The great witch of the north commands you gods to open a gate to the next life and shall in return give you everything I have left to offer, on this I agree to the everlasting contract!” Flashes of light went around both Tune and Maximum. Suddenly a door appeared before Maximum and the corpse. Several arms came out of the door, eyes looking down at maximum, teeth grinding back and forth.
“GOD”
“Your name is god isn’t it?” Maximum said with a short of misunderstanding. “If you shall save her life I shall give you mine in return.” Arms came forward, so close that the fingertips were touching Maximums mouth. They grabbed his body dragging him closer to the door; Tune’s eyes began to open, slowly but swiftly. Maximum then repeated the words the women in his dream said so proudly to the god’s themselves, “And if thou doesn’t keep thy word, then May heaven hold me back from killing the gods themselves.” His face was about to be developed in the darkness of the door. Tune was fully awakened, seemingly as if it was only a dream. She turned her head to see the door and the person she cared so much about to disappear. A tear drop ran down her face as she said his name so quietly “Maximum…” The doors of horrible evil known as god was about to close and the string that brought them together being ripped to pieces. Maximum said with the last remaining time he had left “Tune I love you to….” And then the door closed for good.
Maximum was fully developed in darkness, not a single light to be found, it was total silence. He was getting tired by the minute. [So this is how I’m going to die…hmmm...] he said to himself [well if it’s in place of the one I love then I have no regrets.] He smiled and as his eyes were about to shut, he heard somebody’s whisper. He tried to take a look but his eyes were getting heavier. But he did see something a person to be exact. It was a boy, he had short blonde hair and golden eyes. The young man was wearing a long blue coat with black undercoating. The boy was talking to this big monster, who seemed like it was having a good time. Maximum lifted his arm up trying to reach for this young man, as if trying to say help me. But as Maximums eyes were about to close the young man turned his head towards Maximum and said something that would change His and Maximums destiny, “My name is Luke.”
“Hey kid wake up...” a gentle voice said, “you really don’t want to sleep in a place like this...” Maximum opened his eyes to see an old man looking down at him. “Who... The hell are you?” Maximum said as he lifted his body from the ground. “Well that’s not a great way too greet people” the old man said smiling “to take that kind of tone with a person who just saved your life is kind of ungrateful.” Maximum was kind of upset with how he just said that, “now how the hell did you just save me?” he said with anger in his voice. “Are you death or something ... The prince is coming, if you’re in there way then the guards will kill you for sure.’ The old man walked away and said “If you want to live then you should move out o f the way.” Maximum couldn’t understand what was happening [prince? Wait wasn’t I just dead then how they hell am I…] he took a look around; he was in some kind of ruins of some short. The place looked deserted many of the buildings collapsed and allot of the status had mold growing on the side of them. Maximum heard drum bets and footsteps from behind him. “Young man I warn you to get out of the way..." the old man said from the side. [Well I better do what the old man says or else something else is going to happen] maximum walked to the side next to the old man. There was a tone of people walking past both maximum and the old man. Then out of the blue many people wearing long silk clothing and dresses that maximum hasn’t ever seen before walked by. Along them was a pack of knights crowded along a single person. [That must be the prince] Maximum thought to himself, “You there...” a soldier said. “Why is your clothing stained with blood?” everybody turned looking at maximum. [Oh no the blood from before the incident is still there] Maximum looked up to meet the eyes of the prince. He was wearing an army suit that looked like it was made for a general. He had short white hair with red eyes;“Well answer the question!!” the soldier said with arrogance, “or is your wish to die?” It was quiet for a moment but then Maximum lifted his arm and pointed toward the prince, and shouted “A prince more like a princess!!” Everybody went quiet, except Maximum who was laughing hysterically. “I hold thy tongue, if I was you boy...” the knight said as he lifted his sword towards Maximum’s check. “Oh come on what bad acting, I mean my mom can do better s**t then that…” as maximum said that he lifted his hand up and with the tip of his finger’s tried to move the sword away from his cheek. “I mean really this sword looks so fake…” he said with a big grin on his face. “What an arrogant basterd…” as the soldier said that, he used the tip of his sword to slice a part of Maximum’s finger of, “I can reassure you boy this is a real sword.” Maximum bent down and griped his hand as the blood was dripping from his palm. A few minutes passed but then a humongous laughter aroused from the silence “HA HA HA HA …” Maximum looked up and was surprised to see the prince to be laughing. “My liege, may I ask you what is wrong? As the soldier said that, his body shook in fear. The laughter kept on going and as the prince kept looking at Maximum, laughing. Maximum couldn’t help but feel insecure. [Don’t you dare...Don’t you dare… look down upon me...] Maximum’s fists were clenching which made the blood from his wound more badly. You can feel the intensity coming from the air, the anger that was coming from there body’s. They weren’t saying any words but yet shouting out the deadliest words of all….
"I want to kill you!"
Marked prince
Thy name is devil
A few minutes passed, the laughter died down over time. “So...” the prince said as he reclaimed his dignity, “shall we be going?” “But prince this young man he disrespected you...” the soldier said with unconfidence. “Ha… the only one who was disrespectful was you...” the prince said with a big grin on his face, “And you know what happens when you disrespect a member of the royal family….” The prince grabbed his sword from its sheath and jumped off his horse without a second glance. With one strike from the tip of his sword, he sliced the soldiers head off. The blood splattered everywhere, landing on the faces of maximum’s and the prince. Seemingly like they took a bath in blood, after that the body fell to the ground and the head of the soldiers in the arms of the prince. The prince lifted the head up to his mouth and whispered, “The price is death...” He threw the head to the ground and grabbed his sword. He looked up to meet the eyes of maximum, both of them covered in blood. “I am truly sorry for the inconvenience… I’m truly indebted to you for dealing with our government like this” the prince said smiling with blood dripping down his face. It took a minute for maximum to answer with the fact that somebody was just killed right in front of his eyes, “um yes thanks...I guess...” maximum said with pain in his eyes. The prince put his sword back in its sheath, and got up back on his horse, “you may call me Lucifer...” the prince said still smiling. “ Maximum... That’s my name…” the boy said with an uptight face. “It was nice to meet you maximum…” he clicked on his heel in order to move the horse, shouting out a command, “Onward march, to the kingdom of Shamballa!!!” the prince shouted with a very commanding voice. The people and the knights kept on moving not looking back at what there prince has just committed. “Well that’s what you get for disobeying one of the royal families” the old man said as he took a yawn and stretch. “Was that even a prince...?” Maximum shuddered, “no it couldn’t be... A prince is supposed to be nice calm cheerful person, a role model for his people…” he turned his head towards the old man, his eyes still in shock “ He truly cannot be a prince!!!” For the first time in his life, Maximum was totally against something so foolish, something so utterly ridiculous. For a moment the old man could understand what this young man was talking about, [if only…] he thought to himself. “Well young man we better get you cleaned up...” the old man said with a smirk, “well fallow me…” the old man turned his back and started to walk with maximum fallowing behind him in denial.
They walked for awhile, until they got to an old mansion. Maximum looked up and was astonished to the sight of a humongous building in a place so full of rumble. “Hey grandpa!!!” a little girl came running towards the old man. She has pink hair and brown eyes, her dress swinging back and forth as she was running towards the old man. “Well hello crystal…” the old man said with a gentle smile on his face. As the little girl was next to her grandfather, she turned her head towards maximum. Her eyes widened as the little girl seen the young man drenched in blood. She ran behind the old man, as if using him as a shield. She lifted her hand up and pointed her finger at maximum. “MONSTER!” was the only word that came out of the little girl’s mouth. The old man patted her head in reassurance, “now Crystal you shouldn’t go around and call other people monsters.” Crystal tugged on her grandfather’s shirt, “But grandpa, he’s covered in blood!! What else should I call him?” The grandfather looked at maximum with comforting eyes, “well may I ask what your name is, stranger?” Maximum shrugged and grunted, “Its Maximum Jacobs….Sir…” The grandfather looked down at crystal, “well crystal? What do we say?” Crystal leaving her grandfathers side ran up to Maximum. Gave him a weird look and shouted “I don’t say sorry to monsters!!!” Then quickly stuck her tongue at Maximum, and finally ran into the humongous building. The Grandfather grunted and looked down in disappointment, “well sorry about that…” he scratched his head, “Well let’s get you changed, shall we?” the old man said with a big depressing grin. Maximum didn’t really care about the whole awkward situation, he just wanted to get the stanched of blood of him. “Ok…”
They walked into the mansion, and to Maximum’s surprise were very modern looking. “The first door to your right as you head up the stairs is were the bathroom is, and once you’re done with bath just go into any room and help yourself to an extra change of cloths.” Is what the old man said as he left the room. Maximum just stood there for a moment [this place…. Were am I?]. He lifted his hand up over his head just shielding his eyes of the light from the lamp and casting the hands shadow over his face. “Luke… “He griped his hand into a fist, “WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?” he said in a ferocious voice. He released his grip and headed up the stairs.
Meanwhile the old man walked up to the chimney, and lit a fire. He grabbed a book from the bookshelf and sat on the couch. “Oh how long has it been? Since I last seen this?” the old man blew dust of the book, “to long I see.” He chuckled at supposedly funny joke and with the tip of his wrinkled fingers he touches the cover of the book so gently as if it would break at any moment. “Grandpa?” the old man turned his face to that of his granddaughters. “Oh Crystal?” he gave a small smile “Do you remember this book?” Crystal ran up to her grandfather, “Yeah Mommy used to read it to me every night!” She said with a smile on her face. The grandfather lifted Crystal onto his lap, “Do you remember what it’s about?” It took a few minutes until she could answer, “It’s about the knight who died protecting a flower?” She said with a huge grin on her face. “That’s right Crystal… But do you know why he died trying to protect this flower?” Crystal looked down onto the book, “um well?” She rubbed her head with her hand in confusion, “Because Crystal, Even if the world is surrounded with darkness their will always be something that lights up a path for humanity and in the knights case was that flower.” Crystal grabbed the book from her grandpa and started to look threw the pages. “A light within the darkness? Don’t make me laugh!” The grandfather and Crystal look over to see maximum smiling at that quote. Maximum’s hair was tidy the blood from earlier gone. He was wearing a Black T- shirt with a necklace in the shape of a wing dangling over that, his jeans with two belts crossing over each other.
To Be Continued..
