A Boundless Shadow

The Wings of Solace

~~~~Edward's POV~~~~

While the others were watching Valkyrie and Azzy leave, I noticed feathers gliding around me. I attempted to locate the origin of where the feather was and I could see a beautiful bird with a shade of yellow like the sun and orange that burns as bright as fire; with the bird I saw, another one appeared except it was female due to the nose. They gave off a look to me as though they wanted to follow me, so I did to wonder what would happen once I followed them, with this, they led to a remote location in the woods situated behind the school. There was a layout of rock formations looking like some sort of ritual in the middle of the forest, the two birds that I followed suddenly disappeared and were no where to be seen. A few seconds later, something started to glow in the middle of the formation and started to open, an automatic hatch opened and led to a stairway to down below.

I wanted to leave and forget I never saw this but it was as if someone...or something was guiding me to walk down the steps; every step I took down below felt like gravity getting more heavier. I kept pushing through just so I see through this till the bitter end. After what felt like hundreds of tonnes being placed on me, I managed to get off the last step and what felt like a breathe of absolute fresh air; the weight on me was lifted like it was never placed on me in the first place. Lights then started flashing up once I got my breathe back leading me down a hallway to a double door at the other end, I slowly crept towards the doors while looking around if anything in particular seems to be out of the ordinary. Granted, this entire moment in my life is very extraordinary for me but anyway. Now being face to face with the door, it had markings as though it describes the lost language and markings that the fallen empire once used to engrave on their monuments.

I opened the door and saw 4 statues surrounding an altar, the altar has the two birds that I followed. There was no chirping from the birds other than watching me, with each step I so casually took; the eyes of each statue glow. What seems to be the most surprising thing is that, each statue is almost identical to the main 4 heroes back in the great war; only difference is that they are degraded and almost on the verge of shattering. Once at the altar, all eyes have glowed and the floor started to glow, but each dot is lit as though it was a countdown. Did I also mention that the doors were sealed behind me?

I took this as my fate and closed my eyes as I hear the ignitions of each light glow. After a while, the noise stopped and each statue activated an array around me that manipulates the head. My head feels like it's been ripped from the inside out due to thousands of memories being thrown at me in seconds, though it stopped and showed the backstory of one of the Titans: Taranis Eternal.

It was said in stories that Taranis was the third eldest sibling of the royal family then, The Eternius Family; they were kind and treated their subjects with respect. Though Taranis was quite kind, he was hesitant a lot and didn't make a lot of friends; it never did stop him from going out and see his subjects live out their lives. Everything was peaceful and so full of life, he enjoyed every second of it.

That is until the war began, countries being engulfed in flame and misery; Taranis couldn't do anything but either watch or read the horrors of what is happening to his subjects. Month after month, Apokalypta slowly took over land by either dominating or annihilating every country and its ruler to their knees. The last kingdom, the close family friend of the Eternius Family, The Azenian Family sent one last message that shocked each and every last one of Zydon's people.

"This is The Azenian Family, Apokalypta have broken through, we couldn't hold them back. If you are reading this my friend, I'm sorry that I couldn't do much but please...Never lose hope, you will be the spark that will ignite the hearts of everyone to defeat this tyranny. Never fight with ra---"

Transmission end

That was all that was shown after, the subjects watched in terror or sadness as our closest kingdom has been declared; fallen. He looked back at his family as he watched them in tears as they knew exactly what happened next but the Patriarch said,