Dreamweaver; Successor Of The Nightmare King

Episode 1: Tome Of The Thirteen Rules

EPISODE 1: TOME OF THETHIRTEEN RULES

This story begins thirteen years after Zanfar's defeat and eight years after my Dad and Mom's marriage. By the way, my name is Sanziri Nightbane, the first son of the Dreamweaver, Just Zan Nightbane and the Flame Knight and Demi-Dreamweaver, also current Princess Of Dreams, Ayumi Kirisawa.

It began one night, when I was eight years old, Keiran, the second born was seven, Saito, the third born was six and Ariel, the last born was five. That night, we heard the entire story behind how my Dad and Mom met each other. Back then, we were merely kids so we thought of the story we had heard that night as merely another fairy tale.

That was until Ryuuji, Saito and Ariel began to manifest strange abilities. Then our parents got us settled down. Five years had passed since and I was now thirteen years old. You can guess how old my siblings were then right? Anyway, concerning my siblings' abilities, Ariel had begun to manifest a strong golden flame. My mother explained that this flame was a manifestation of fire called 'Blaze'. A flame with the ability to burn away evil regardless of how strong or terrifying the evil was. Saito on the other hand manifested the ability to use a strong blue flame. This, my mother explained was a form of fire called 'Flame'. A power characteristic of those strong enough to stand up for those who couldn't defend themselves. Yet, my mother also explained that this 'Flame' was a double edged sword which also hurts the one who inherits it. We were all concerned for Saito, however, she appeared undaunted. For the third born, Saito had always had the maturity of a first born and she was so perceptive, the rest of us had come to rely on her even without noticing it. Ariel was considered the kindest amongst us four. Our parents often said, her kindness rivalled that of our grandmother, the current Queen Of Nightmares.

Concerning our grandparents, one would expect them to be old but nope, they pretty much looked the same as they did when Zanfar was defeated. I'm told people from the World Of Dreams stopped aging once they reached maturity. My gramps, the Nightmare King...well though he was part human...it's kinda hard to guess his age since his face is always masked by a mysterious shadow.

Kieran first manifested the ability to utilise Light, as well as a strange glowing sword, which my parents called the 'Nightbane'. As time passed, he began to manifest the ability to utilise other elements as well. From that moment, my parents received a summons from the Dream King and Kieran left with them often to visit the Dream King.

I hadn't manifested any abilities since but after seeing everything my siblings and parents could do, I began to realise that the fairy tales my parents often told us were most likely not fairy tales at all. My siblings might have thought I was depressed with my lack of ability so they did everything they could to cheer me up even going so far as to perform shows with their various abilities. I was happy to see how much they tried to cheer me up but contrary to what they might have been thinking, I was not depressed.

Thanks to many of my Aunt Ai's animes which were hits back in 2011, I had slowly began to realise a strange truth that had been forgotten these past nineteen years. That truth was that the true value of an object lies in its invisible qualities simply put there's more to it than meets the eye as Optimus Prime so finely put it. But at the same time I came to two other conclusions. Conclusion two was, my family was somehow cursed to befall a series of tragedies from the moment they fell in love, however somehow they overcame that but me was determined to avoid that path at all costs so I repeatedly asked my parents to repeat the story. They seemed happy because they seemed to think I loved hearing family history and I did enjoy hearing family history for one and only one reason...to avoid the path that would lead me to the series of tragedies I had heard about.

Me was young and pretty naive then. What I had failed to realise was that the shortest cut to a fate you want to avoid is the path that seems to avoid it almost completely. And the third conclusion was...well...you'll hear it later but for now all you need to know is that from the moment my siblings manifested their abilities, they began to undergo tutorship under the strongest Dream Knights. Part of the reason for this was because my parents wanted them to be strong enough to protect themselves. The second reason was because our Dreamweaver heritage made us homing beacons for antagonistic forces.