Always and Forever

Chapter Three: The Imbalance of Nature

The Greek mythology believes a person was once born with four legs, four hands, two faces, and two hearts. But over the years the body parted into two and so did the soul. And since then the soul searches for its missing part. And when they meet, however, the person whose parted soul is in just realized that the other person standing in front of him is his missing soul and that is what we call soulmates.

The same could be referenced to Dawson Henrichson and Francesca Akilson. Ever since they were born in 900 A.D., they both felt something incomplete. Something missing. They had everything in life, loving parents and siblings, strength, intelligence, profound looks, wealth, etc. but their hearts longed for something else. Someone else. And so when they were 18 years old, they crossed paths in the forest in the morning and had a glance at each other. A feeling of comfort arose between the two of them when they saw each other. The burning sensation of talking to each other grew heavier and more uncontrollable. To hear each other's voice, they both walked towards each other and stopped when they thought they were close enough.
"Good Morning miss, heading somewhere?" Dawson asked in his manly voice.

"Good morning to you too fine man. And no, I am not heading anywhere. Just roaming here and there." Francesca replied in a sweet voice. "Are you heading somewhere?"

"No, though I think I reached a destination," Dawson replied looking at Francesca; smiling.
Francesca giggled at this and so they started walking. They talked about their interests, disinterests, what they adore, what they hate, life, flowers, about them, and how they always felt lonely. But since the moment they saw each other, they never felt more whole.

Preparations were made and gifts were being exchanged. The alone child, Francesca of Akilson and Mayala was getting married. A fortune was about to be spent at their wedding by both Dawson and Francesca's parents. After all, Dawson, a single child of Damanay and Marla Henrichson was getting married too. Rituals were performed and they were married.

Having everything, both Dawson and Francesca were unable to do one thing. They couldn't bear a child. They tried for years doing different rituals but were unable to. Ten years of marriage with no child made Dawson and Francesca restless and their marriage spoiled. They forgot their love for each other and slowly became unbearable to each other.

One day, Francesca sought the help of a witch Klaylia. She said only one thing could be the solution now for them. Magic possessed in the white oak tree. It is their only chance. Klaylia drew a circle of black salt and placed a huge part of white oak at the center. She slit both; Dawson and Francesca's palms and dropped few drops of their blood on the White Oak. She chanted a spell; channeling the powers of ancestral witches and the drops of blood came together joining to make one drop of blood. Klaylia made Francesca drink that drop of blood and within nine months, Francesca gave birth to two baby boys. One named Ulrich Dawson and the other Mikael Dawson.

The twins were raised with absolute love and care. No harm would come for them. Ulrich being the elder one by an hour, would claim his power over Mikael while Mikael would simply go along the circle of life. Both Dawson and Francesca prepared rich food and bought magnificent clothes for their sons. In short, both Ulrich and Mikael were living like kings.

However, when Klaylia mentioned her white oak ritual to her husband Hujen, he being a part of The Equilibrium, was conflicted because his wife had used the world's most powerful creation to undo God's will by vanishing the deficiencies in Dawson and Francesca by gifting them with twins; hence disturbing the equilibrium. And so to maintain the equilibrium, Hujen set out to kill Ulrich and Mikael.

Ulrich and Mikael had a habit of watching the shining stars at dawn; standing in the middle of forests. Even though their parents advised not to yet on a night at dawn, Ulrich and Mikael left their home to roam around. Suddenly Hujen; wearing a mask and covering his entire body came and knifed them both until they bled. Once Hujen noticed they were stiff, he left them to die.
But when Hujen was stabbing them, they screamed their parents' names. And within a minute after 's Hujen departure, both Dawson and Francesca came to see their sons lying there in blood. They cried a lot, shouted and screamed but not too much for Dawson got an idea.
"Can Klaylia fix this?"