The NOW Future King

Prologue

This is a story idea that I came up with a while ago.  I have been sitting on it and developing the ideas and characters to hopefully create a story that you, as the reader, will hopefully enjoy.

I would appreciate all of your thoughts on the beginning.  I know it is very short but I want to see what you as the reader think and whether you would be willing to read further.  I will be uploading a couple of chapters up in the future to get the story moving.

So if you can help me out by commenting or voting it would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers SMW

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“Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam, rexque futurus” – Here lies Arthur, King once, King to be.

Everything changed the day I turned twenty-four.  There was no warning; there was nothing nice about it.

I lived a normal childhood with my family, with my mum and dad and three siblings.  There was nothing special about my family.  My mum and dad both worked to keep a roof over our heads.  My siblings and me squabbled and fought, turning both parents’ hair prematurely grey but that’s the job of children.  I am the youngest of the entire family, cousins included.

I made my way through primary school and high school with my friends with no major issues.  Though I will admit me and my friends got up to quite a lot of mischief, which earned us all a reputation around the town.  It was all fun and games until I got to university.

At that point in my life all I wanted to do was party until dawn and visit any clubs that I could get into.  What helped was the fact that my mum was constantly checking up on me, seeing how my studies were going.  In hindsight I am thankful but at that point in my life, all I wanted was to live a carefree life.  I ended up graduating with a decent grade and with reasonable job prospects.

I was employed by a relatively large company to work in their marketing department.  In that time I managed to even have relationship with a lovely woman who I had quite literally stumbled into while on my way to work one day.

Then on my twenty-fourth birthday everything changed.  A catastrophic explosion happened in the city in which I was living in at the time.  Over half of the population was killed instantly while many others died soon after.

I was somehow lucky to survive, but in the process I was forcibly conscripted into a war that I knew nothing about and would rather have not known about let alone becoming involved.

That was the day I met Arthur and Merlin and my entire life, body, mind, and soul were forever and irrevocably altered to align to a new destiny.