To whom this may concern,
I commend you for finding this letter. I left many twists and turns for you to find. No one was meant to find it except for one who is worthy.
Which I can say confidently that you are.
No matter, we have more pressing issues to attend to.
For those who do not know me, I am Gemma Night Taylor, more commonly known as Gemini Tay or Gem. My brother, fWhip of the Grimlands, is writing the second half of this story. It tells his perspective of what happened. But I digress.
This Is the story of how I came from my humble beginnings and advanced to become the greatest wizard of the Crystal Cliffs.
But this story doesn't begin in Crystal Cliffs.
Oh, no, no, no.
It begins in a place called Shimmer Valley.
A place that no longer exists.
----
Gem's POV
Gem spun around. "fWhip Ardere Taylor!!!! GET BACK HERE WITH MY CAT!!!!" She bolted after her twin brother.
"Try to catch me first!" Her brother called back teasingly, and Gem grabbed wildly for her gray kitten, Gandalf.
"Give him back!" Gem cried.
"Come on, Gemma." Gem tensed at her actual name.
"Give. Gandalf. Back." She said slowly and menacingly, advancing across the grassy hill towards her brother.
"Gem?" fWhip sounded scared, but Gem didn't hear that.
"GIVE HIM BACK FWHIP!!!!" She screamed. "HOW MANY TIMES HAS IT BEEN IN THE PAST HOUR??!!!! I'M TIRED OF YOU STEALING MY KITTEN!!" Her eyes began to glow a deep violet and her hair flew free of it's ponytail and whipped around her head. The sky shifted, darkening a bit around them. She stepped forward again.
The pair was frozen there for a few moments. Then fWhip began to shake, holding Gandalf out in front of him, his limbs outlined against the grass as he shook in fear.
The light in Gem's eyes died and the purple glow faded, leaving her green eyes glimmering in the sunshine. She fell to her knees, feeling tears well up in her eyes. "I'm so sorry." She whispered to her brother, feeling his arms around her shoulders. "I'm so sorry, fWhip. I-I don't know what happened." She felt mortified.
fWhip turned and called out to someone. "Yes mom! Yes, she's fine! She's just tired." He ran off to their parents.
Gem sat on the grass, feeling her hair as she redid her ponytail. She held her elastic in her teeth, listening to the breeze around her.
"What are you doing?" She jumped at the voice.
"Ranboo!" She hissed.
"What?" The half-white-half-black-haired boy asked, sitting down next to her.
"You scared me!" She exclaimed.
Ranboo blinked curiously, his heterochronic eyes, which were red and green(hence the nickname 'Christmas eyes') gleaming in the sun. "What do you mean?"
"I mean, you scared me!" Gem repeated.
Ranboo looked passive. "I'm sorry." He said. "I just came to check on you."
"Why?"
"Because you have magic, Gemma." He said.
Gem rolled her eyes. "Just because you and my cousin are dating doesn't give you the right to call me by my real name." She said.
YOU ARE READING
Empires SMP: Creation stories (Season 1)
AdventureThese are the tales that not many know of. These are the stories passed down by parent to child. These are the legends sent on through time. This is the beginning. The beginning of Empires.
