10: Darken, DarkHeart

Prologue: Oberon.

as i sat in my study, reading up on some of the books that my Light Fairy King counterpart, James had allowed me to read.

i had moved the entire Dark Fairy court to the palace in Drakaria after the Great Dragon destroyed our home. there were not even many of my fairies left after that siege. my wife, the queen of Drakaria would not be happy that i was spending my days reading, but she was away at the birth of her sister, Odessa's child.

i flipped through page after page, looking for anything on my sister, the original Light Fairy Queen, Celeste. her and i were the first fairies in existence, our mother created us from a large crow and a glass wing butterfly she had seen. Filling her womb with the powers of each creature.

she saw the beauty in those creatures and could not have a child of her own, so she poured her powers into us, creating two babies who grew into the fairies we were today.

we each had the ability to create new fairies, her being able to turn mortals and plants into fairies, and i turning birds and bugs.

but there was a war against the dragon kingdom, and she died, leaving her powers to the last mortal turned fairy that she had created, James Heartfire.

but why? we were supposed to be immortal beings, so how was she killed so easily?

originally i had wanted to kill James as my own form of revenge, but i had met his daughter, Astraea, unknown to me who she was, and had fallen in love with her. she convinced me to give up my revenge and James and i have become close friends since, ruling together.

but if there were a way to bring here back.... i would burn it all to the ground.