Fear

Chapter 1 - The End Before The Beginning

   A lot of things happened for Damion in the span of 24 hours. Well, technically it all started 3 years ago from today but same thing. He has revealed who he truly is, put hundreds of people in danger, put himself in danger, reunited with his family, and gave his room mates the shock of a lifetime. But that is getting ahead of this story. Damion's world truly started 3 years ago in a kingdom. 

  Damion lived in a loved and prosperous kingdom called the Kingdom of Bira. It was known as the kingdom of the fearless for the fact that everyone living in it was truly fearless and would never become insane. Any one outside of the kingdom was oblivious to the reason for this but the reason was Damion. He was born with a gift, although now he likes to call it a curse. 

  20 years ago Damion's father, King Bira, fell in love with a beautiful witch and spent months sneaking off to see her. Witches were not loved in this world and went into hiding once a law passed stating that they should be burned. After many months of their love, she became pregnant. Scared of what the then King would do, they ran off and hid. 9 months later, two sons were ready to be born. With the energy that the pregnancy was taking, the witch fell sick. They both knew that hiding in a forest wasn't a way to raise children and agreed to take them to the palace, the kingdom the boy left many months ago. He waited with his love until she passed peacefully and surrounded by her family. Now, it was time to return home. Crying, he placed one last kiss on the mother of his children and the owner of his heart and then vanished from his home. He took his two magical children with marks like lightning bolts, one boy purple and one white running down their bodies, back to his kingdom. He gave his father a story of how he was taken by a horrible witch and forced to have children with her or to be killed. He explained that he could not risk leaving his kingdom without an heir to the throne and did whatever she asked. Now he was back, begging to be allowed home with his boys even if sons of a witch. The kingdom held a meeting and decided that both would be allowed with the promise that no one ever knew the truth about the children outside of Bira. 

  Growing up, Damion and his brother, Dorian, learned about their birth, their magic, their kingdom, the promise, and how to handle it all. They learned the limits to their power and how to hide it. They even learned how to cover up the marks on their arms. Damion was given the gift of fear while his brother got insanity. This meant that Damion could create worlds inside peoples' heads that allowed them to experience their worst fear. The limit of his power was that he could make people die from fear or kill themselves because of the environment in their minds however he decided to not use that part. Instead he created little, less severe, environments to help people overcome their fear. Everyone in the Kingdom of Bira had done this and became completely fearless. Dorian on the other hand, could create manipulating and insanity inducing environments. He could cause anyone to go absolutely insane but instead also helped people with his magic and made it so the citizens would always keep their sanity no matter the environment. 

  No one outside of the kingdom knew about any of the magic going on, the only thing they knew was that Bira was the Kingdom of the fearless. No one knew anything until 3 years ago. 

  3 years ago, the jealous Kingdom of Tekar wanted to know the secrets to all of this. A new king had just taken over the throne and decided that peace between all of the kingdoms was no longer acceptable. To prove that he was better, he went after the most loved and feared kingdom, the Kingdom of Bira. He sent someone to Bira as a spy to learn their secrets. After a month of being there, he came back to the Kingdom of Tekar and spilled everything. He told the king about the princes who used magic to cure people of fear and insanity. The king hated the fact that magic was allowed there even though witches were outlawed 20 years ago. He decided he was going to make this right.

  The main 5 kingdoms had a tradition of having a banquet once every year to keep the peace. Well, the next banquet arrived and King Tekar walked up to Prince Dorian, shoving a knife against his throat on the main stage for everyone to see. Immediately everyone and everything stopped. Having the stage, he spoke loud and proud.

 "Right here, we have the son of a witch. Right here is a magic user."

 He showed everyone the prince and kept the knife pressed tight, drawing a drop of blood from the side of his neck. The bright red staining the white color of Dorian's cape. 

 "20 years ago, witches and magic was banned and every witch was given death as a punishment. What makes him different? What makes his brother, another forbidden child, different? Why should this Kingdom be allowed to have something we cannot? I won't stand for this. Justice, law, must be made right."

 King Bira stepped forth with Damion right next to him. Trying to keep his calm he spoke directly to his bleeding son.

"Please stay still my boy, I don't want you to be hurt more." 

 Turning to face the king, he continued. 

 "May we talk this out? These boys did nothing wrong and have never used an ounce of magic to harm anyone. They are good sons, good princes, and do not deserve to die over something they had no control in. I am begging you," He got down on his knees, bowing his head, "I will do anything to keep my boys alive. Anything but death to them, even if you must kill me instead."

 The other kingdoms and citizens just stood in place, not believing what they were seeing. King Tekar looked down on the other king and watched cautiously as the other prince, Damion, moved down onto his knees as well. He felt pride swell in his chest seeing the powerful kingdom's royalty bowing down to him. He smiled pleased with himself and turned out to the crowd. He was shocked to see all of the Bira citizens bowing on their knees as well. 

 "Fine," He started, "We can make a deal. I want their magic stored away within themselves. They should not be allowed it."

 King Bira lifted his head, still on his knees, and listened to the terms necessary to keep his boys alive. KingTekar pressed the knife closer to the prince who just stood there in silence the entire time.

 "I want this one to come with me as a prisoner. He will be treated with the bare minimum. Not hurt, but not cared for either. And finally, I want the other one to disappear. I want him far away in no kingdom and to never return to any royalty or royal place. He can go live among the unprotected citizens away from the kingdoms, in the common world. These terms will either be met or the princes will be killed along with a war on your people."

 The King finished, smiling sweetly and threateningly at the end. 

 King Bira did not brake eye contact and muttered one simple word, "Deal."

 The banquet ended after that and things moved very quickly. Damion's neck was bandaged up and the two princes made a speech saying farewell to their people. The two kings agreed that no one was to ever speak of the princes again and they were to be forgotten in history. Two necklaces, one with a quartz crescent moon shaped stone for Dorian and an obsidian crescent moon shaped stone for Damion, were forged to hold their magic and they both placed most of it in there. They could not get rid of all of it and held onto just enough to where their new limit was making small environments in the palm of their hand. Since this held no danger,King Tekar allowed it. They hugged each other and their father goodbye and Dorian was taken away by the Tekar Kingdom and Damion was shipped off to the common world, a place were people lived with no idea of the kingdoms just a river away from them.

  3 years later, today, Dorian stays in his cell under the Tekar Kingdom with his last words spoken almost 2 years ago before he refused to talk ever again and Damion is living the best he can in an apartment with a few room mates.

 3 years ago, their life ended for them and a new one began. 

 Today, another life is about to form. 

 This is the story of what happened in 24 hours to two princes whose lives ended 3 years ago.