The Borealis Prophecy

Chapter Eighteen - Dethroned

"Wow," I softly said as we stood before a giant wall. It was one of the five Borealis walls. The warm orangey hue spilt throughout the sky as the small fiery yellow ball barely cracked over the horizon. We stood motionless and quiet, watching the falling sun through the clear Borealis wall as the dreamlike colours of indigo and violet settled in the skies.

Standing here watching the sunset through the Borealis Wall, helped me to assume what Queen Aerie brought me here to do. I rolled the crystal in my fingers as it began to glow fiercely. I moved closer to the edge of the Air&Wind Borough. I ran my finger over the clear glistening glass-like wall, searching for the gap in the wall, the small shard of Borealis stone that was missing. My fingers dipped into the groove of the missing piece of the wall. The sun finally set and the sky deepened to a shade of navy blue. I placed the broken piece, the stone that Queen Aerie gave to me, in the wall. The entire Borealis wall began to gleam like a thousand stars in the night sky. It was remarkable.

The wall came down, and absorbed itself within me. I felt my skin glowing as my eyes wiped of all color but the white sclera that remained. Red veins laced through my skin covering both of my cheeks and darkened my ivory skin to an irritated red. The light from the Borealis wall consumed within my body and I felt a strong jarring of my soul. I looked back at Queen Aerie who was in awe at the display she was seeing before us both. Before I knew it, I was flooded with brief knowledge of the world's beginning. When the elements were created within the Borealis light, and then I saw her... It was me, standing within a cascade of light like nothing ever imagined before. I was with four warriors, whom were worthy enough to carry the very first elements. I watched as my past self, reached within my chest eroding my present self's body in a severe pain. I opened my mouth to scream but nothing had come out.

My past self, removed a crystalized heart-shaped object from within her glowing enchanted light, where her heart lied and lightly tapped it in the middle of the heart. It shattered apart and I instantly recognized the pieces as the Borealis stones.

"I sacrifice my heart to you four to protect the Boroughs of your peoples. Carry my heart with you for always. It is yours as well as the powers they hold. Fire, wind, air and water. Do only good with them, for my heart is pure and will not be used for destruction. If used destructively, I will reclaim them as my own," I once proclaimed as I handed them out to each individual, three men and one woman. "Live in peace, harmony and secrecy or you will be hunted by those who want to destroy you. If you are found, I will appear and guide you out of destruction whether it's directed towards you or those of you who direct it at those who are mundane. You are of the Elemental race but you are still human at heart, never forget that. Your love for one another, your emotions and your feelings are what makes you human. Please never forget this, and never let the mundane tell you otherwise."

"You are free to move from Borough to Borough until the day I am reborn. Then the walls will be cascaded around your individual Boroughs and you will not be able to access them unless you travel by foot on earth," I explained.

They each nodded as they placed their Borealis stone within a pendant that would keep their stones safely with them.

"Protect them with your life, as they are the keys to a new beginning of a tragic ending," The Borealis girl spoke softly, "and remember as long as you keep the shards of my broken heart, with you I will remain."

The vision ended as my hands trembled and my stomach turned. Queen Aerie was screaming on the phone as she kneeled over me with her arm wrapped around my back. I was on my knees as my body absorbed the last bit of the wall that surrounded the kingdom. Now the kingdom floated within midair, with no wall surrounding the Borough. My hands were shaking as my fingers clasped the Borealis stone. I shivered as I looked down, there was no gleam only pitch blackness with clouds that hovered in and around where the wall once was.