The Sword of Pure Light and the Dagger of Lost Souls

THE SWORD OF PURE LIGHT

AND THE

DAGGER OF LOST SOULS

Prologue

Is it happiness you're looking for? Then this world is not for you. The world was once happy and joyous, but that time was long ago, for now darkness ruled the sky and the hearts of the inhabitants. Everyone has a little bit of  evil in their soul, all it takes is a little edge and good no more. For this story is not all darkness and is a tale of how light will prevail. Our tale begins fifty years before today (1889), two kids of light orphaned because of humans, who fear what they do not understand. Magic is all too new to their eyes, they witnessed a quarrel that threatened their kin, naturally they struck and killed the two parents.  Light against Dark, a legendary quarrel, before there was no Light and Dark only magic and humans. A Philosopher found the humans to be quite dull, and not unique. He felt their existence was meaningless and took it to himself to destroy them, he couldn't throw away all the research though? No, he wouldn't, after they had been slaughtered he would examine their souls to see their significance. A being known as the Prophesier had taken note of his studies and once the quarrel he had predicted had begun, he would create a prophecy. Only rumors had been spread of this being, including one of him being only a large mouth. Which, in term created a new name for him, the Mouth. People weren't sure of what to think of him, there had been Prophesiers in the past and once they put a prophecy in play, it would become reality no matter if it took a hundred years. That's why people weren't so sure, no matter how terrible the prophecy was it would come true. The Philosopher’s studies didn't go unnoticed by everyone else, his cousin was disturbed by his studies. One day he walked in and saw him dissecting a human girl, he threw him against the wall, and the war had begun. The cousins split the people into those who want to protect the humans and those who want to kill them. The two kids their love destroyed, the boy betrayed the girl and joined the darkness. Battle after battle, destruction, and death. Sibling against sibling, the meaning of family, friendship, and love destroyed. On one fateful night came the beginning of a new era of the war, men and women on both sides clashing and many dead. The two siblings facing against each other and two leaders once cousins battling it out, spell, after spell, and then their swords moved in and impaled both of them. The once cousins had killed each other, and as everyone watched a huge flash appeared and their bodies gone and weapons too. A sword and a dagger fell from the sky and stabbed into two stones that rose from the ground. Among the battle there was not only Dark and Light but humans and Phoenix’s too, from that day forth the two legendary weapons the Sword of Pure Light and the Dagger of Lost Souls awaited to be held. The Sword of Pure Light could only be used by the one who had the most pure of souls, the Dagger of Lost Souls could be used by the one who had killed the most, someone entirely consumed by darkness and once both weapons were taken the Light and Dark had to either have the Phoenix’s on their side or the humans. The two siblings became the leaders and over ten years the boy became eligible for the Dagger of Lost Souls, but he wasn't able to wield it because there wasn't anyone eligible for the Sword of Pure Light, the girl couldn't because she sought to help her brother and was torn by that. This was the past though and our real story begins with a young man named Lux.

Chapter 1: The Girl

Lux, is his name. The boy, the grandson of the girl. After her brother left her for darkness, she had no one, no one to care for, nobody to love. For the next ten years she led a blue life, she was consumed by her depression. She didn't know what to do all she wanted was her brother, for her brother she knew deep down he would never return to the only piece of family he had left. He was consumed by the darkness and death surrounding him and on his twentieth birthday the Dagger of Lost Souls chose his soul, mind, and body to be in possession of death itself. She had become desperate she knew now she had to try everything to get him back, to bring him back to light. Everything had to be risked, even her life for she had made up her mind, it was doubtful he would come back and what would there be to live for after this. Nothing. Unfortunately, for her someone had begun to care for her, to love her. She too held feelings for him, but couldn't see them through the thick membrane of a thought of getting her brother back. That fateful night the night he stopped her from her suicide mission the membrane receded and she fell in love.