The Dewdrop Kingdom

Eleven

"So, you heard the gist of the origin story surrounding the place we went through to get here. This place has a far bigger meaning." Drew began, not bothering to move from his position. His hands now under his head, legs crossed.

Getting comfortable myself, I glanced over to Kiree to see she had sat up being in her own world, knowing anyway that none of these stories was anything new to her. She'd probably heard them a million times by now.

"This place from as far back as each legend and myth being told through the years; is some sort of anomaly in our world. ." Kiree began, shocked my eyes slid over to her. She smiled back and I knew it would be her telling me the myth.

"One legend puts it as the first meeting place in between two lands, to solve a war, others say it was the first place the first king was born. Whatever the reason being, over time it became the place to rally the king's people. During that time, each time it was used the ground soaked up any energy it could. All the time blood-shed happened here; it would use the life essence of people to make itself more powerful. Letting it syphon a sort of magic in the air. It affects each creature differently. I will tell you some of what happened, not all as it would be way too long, many things happened in this place. The one most important one, where the first king was born. To start, this land even before all the bloodshed over who was to have the land, and a meeting place. Before the ground began soaking up any energy it could, still had its own energies and powers, although lay dormant to certain extent; A horde of goblins and hybrids lived here, the first ones to; the water having mystical healing powers for simple things such as tiredness, sore bones, wounds that weren't too deep etc. They stayed as peaceful as they could for centuries, only taking from the lad what they needed giving back where they could, as a reward this bit of la treated them with the same respect. The land came to love them, learning the way of peace. Until one fateful day an ogre came along. Seeking to make them worship him as their king. Demanding that they shared the properties of the place with him too. Although others outside the made village had heard the tales of the village, it was a kept secret that it wouldn't just work for anyone. The king didn't want peace across the lands, only war that he could rule over. The people didn't take kindly to the ogre's orders. Choosing to ignore him and his warnings over what he would do if they didn't participate in making him their king. Feeling disrespected he made a plan, at nightfall he would slaughter them one by one, but first, giving them the choice to join him and show him how the power worked, when they refused, that's when he would slit their throats before moving onto the next person. Only it didn't get that far, this magical place knew of what it was he was planning, it had grown to love its inhabitants more than anything. Using the bones of the long disceased animals that lived there, with the magic it held, the land resurrected them, the first ones to have graced this world to protect it and its people from the ogre and anyone else he may have summoned to wish harm. The ogre was ripped apart, but them being animals, didn't know the difference between them and the ogre posing a threat. They killed every single one apart from one hybrid that managed to escape. The arch back then didn't used to be an arch, but a small cave. The land wept for the fallen, creating the waterfall. The animals were banished to the land just beyond that tree, it was set as the only tree to ever grow there. Incapable of being destroyed as a barrier. The hybrid that managed to survive, the land took pity on; the arch formed that day as the first king was born, the land enthralling him with power never seen before. Entrusting him with the secrets of the land to pass down his line of descendants and them alone for times of trouble. They would be able to come here to unlock the lands magic/power for help. After that, the land began affecting everyone differently, instead of it affecting them based on what creature they were, it started also doing in on personality. The persons strongest trait is what would be reflected in the aura of the place it was being used with. Affecting everyone else that stepped in while they were there."