Shadows of Tsuki: The Half-Elven Demon

Chapter 4: Rise of the Mage

The night is drawing near. The weather looked good now, a bright moon illuminating Hera's palace. A knight came out of the royal gate holding a torch and saw a girl stooping to a food stand to steal something like apples and grapes. He shouted to startle the girl. But the girl senses his arrival and starts to run, he is shocked and starts to chase the girl, but she goes so quickly, that he can't catch up.

   "Wait!" the knight said in a subdued voice to avoid a commotion in the middle of the night. The girl wearing a black traveling coat and a small bag on her back stopped and turned towards him. The girl dropped the veil that protected her head. Tsuki! She didn't say anything and quickly turned back, running away from the knight. He sighs only left the girl got away, he returns to the castle to report everything that happened to the king and the queen. He knew that the girl would come back to steal again.

   "Your majesty, I came across people who always steal at peasant's food outlets. It was a girl with a Black traveler's coat."

   "Did you capture her?"

   "No, I didn't. She runs so fast, and I can't catch up to her". The king sighed in frustration, and he rose to walk towards his knighthood, and he knelt.

   "Do me a favour, catch that girl or you will be headed in front of everyone. Now which one does you like?"

   "I will find that girl and bring her up to face you- Your Majesty!"

   "Good... now you may dismiss".

   The knight rose and left. The king that was talking rudely to the knight is King Archer, he is a most wise man. He became a king when he was 19 years old and found his wife at age 23. He creates rules that every different kind of breed cannot be together or have a child, secondly, he makes a slave's system to the poor people who cannot afford to have anything in their lives. He made sure that his government went smoothly but there was one race that disagreed with the rules.

   In the morning, the market has started to open, and many people will buy daily necessities in front of the palace. They heard the news that a new traveler from another mainland. They knew that the new traveler was a Mage, but little they didn't know is the Mage was not a mortal. He was Familiar like a human but not a human. Familiar is like a human but got mixed with one pure race called angle.

   Tsuki is in the middle of the field where many people are shopping to buy necessities. She wanted to steal more to give to the people who were in the Wisteria camp. Those guards be extra cautious this time to make sure no one will try to steal again.

There is a stall where the seller sells his farm fruits. Many people line up there to buy and Tsuki gets a chance to steal the money and a sack of apples. She slowly walked towards the booth and slowly reached for the bag having the gold pieces took a bunch of apples and walked slowly to leave. Without the seller realizing that his money and the sack of apples were missing, he at once looked around at the people to see if anybody carried a sack until he saw Tsuki carrying it.

   "Thief! Thief! There is a thief who has stolen my things!" The seller's shout made everyone there shocked.

   "Oh, shoot," Tsuki runs as fast as she can. The sack of apples that she carried was thrown out from her hand only a few apples she put inside her backpack, and she ran away.

   The guards noticed her and chased her down then there was a chase that made everyone go crazy. Tsuki bumped into people around her without apologizing and kept running until she finally bumped into someone. She fell to the ground; she looked up and saw a man that she just bumped into.

   "She's there! You're the one there, catch the thief! Don't let her get away!" shouted one of the palace guards.

   Before the man could act, Tsuki took out a vial holding a poison that could temporarily blind a person's eyes and she threw it on the ground causing the man to experience a temporary blinding effect. And she ran as fast as she could to escape. The man fell to the ground with his eyes blinded by the poison thrown by Tsuki. A group of palace guards came rushing towards the man and helped him.