After Sofia and Kiara left her brother's room Sofia had this nagging feeling in her heart that something is horribly wrong.
Even though they were walking through the long corridors of the castle, Sofia couldn't help being curious why she had to leave the sleepover.
"So umm Kiara, where are we exactly going?"
"You'll see your highness, the king said its top secret so I'm not allowed to talk about this topic" Kiara replied in a strong confidential tone.
"Ohh okay."
So they kept quiet for what felt like an eternity until they reached a large oak door with magnificent carvings. Kiara slowly opened the door and ushered for Sofia to go in.
King Aureone was pacing the room with his hands behind his back. He noticed Sofia's presence immediately and greeted her with a grateful smile.
"So glad you join us my dear but I'm afraid this happiness won't last for long..."said the king gravely.
She was damn right, something definitely wasn't right...
"Why, what's the matter, dad? Is everything okay, are you ill?" Sofia was definitely starting to get worried.
"Why of course not dear, but there's another thing you need to be aware of as a princess of Sylvias."
Wow, that definitely felt weird, being called as a princess of Sylvias.
"What is it, dad?"
" You see my dear, Arecnia is in grave danger, for thousands of years the tree of balance has been protecting us. It maintains the balance between the dark world and this planet. Without it, we are doomed. Because of the tree of balance, demons and shadow's men hadn't been able to attack us. But now that the tree of balance has been weakened by Vultan, only the prophesied one can now save it... "
"Umm okay, that's a LOT to take in for one night, but what's it got to do with me?"
"You don't understand my dear, the tree of balance has never been weakened before you were born, it suddenly weakened after you were born, but then you put back Vultan where he belongs and after that the tree of balance hasn't recovered fully but still managed to protect us for these sixteen years; and the most scariest of all, the more the tree of balance start's decaying the stronger Vultan gets by each step." He took a shaking breath after that but continued anyway, "and now my men have reported to me that the tree is losing its leaves and that is a sign that Vultan has escaped from the dark world and we don't know where he is."
"You mean that ruthless monster escaped, oh dear god, that's bad, Bad, BAD!"
"I'm afraid so my dear, and now the prophesied one is our only hope!"
"Well, I know that but what's this prophecy you keep talking about?"
"Ohhh I totally forgot, I should've shown you this earlier, silly me"
The King handed her an old scroll, its texture representing its age.
"It was written thousands of years ago, this image foresaw by a wise wizard."
Sofia carefully opened it, scared that she might destroy it...
It said ...................
"The fated one
Open your eyes
But
Remember this
YOU ARE READING
The Prophecy - (The Chronicles of Arecnia - Book 1 )
FantasíaAll her life Sofia has been living a lie. Her adoptive parents didn't tell her the truth when she asked them where she was from. But all that changes on that fateful day - the day of her sixteenth birday. Sofia is whisked away into something much mo...
