Stoneheart

Prologue

"Once upon a time or do you start a  true story in a fairytale manner,hm well I suppose it doesn't truly matter."the old man said.I stared at him with wide eyes waiting in suspense my younger brother sneezed I looked at him with annoyance and worry on my face we looked the same but we were completely different.He was sick all the time in fact i've never not seen his emerald green eyes glassy,his nose red,and his throat sore from coughing.I l know it's cruel of me to think but its kind of annoying he's always sick and never plays with me.I always practice swordplay,tactics,and archery on my own or with my older brothers Jared and Jayce.Don't tell Jayce but I like Jared better Jayce reads boring old books all the time all about as thick as the stone bricks used to make the castle wall. Jayce always tells us how much better he is usually with his nose in a book.Momma was chubby again when I had asked Papa why he just said "oh no reason really."but suddenly Jayce had said "it is obviously where babies come from duh." I don't understand what momma being chubby has to do with babies though.Jared and Jayce have blond hair and blue eyes and look exactly alike, like me and my brother Dairen except our hair is light brown and we have green eyes.“ahem,”the old man said.I looked up at him in annoyance I wanted to hear the forbidden tale but I was thinking about important things however I decided to practice ugh how do pronounce it again diplowmacee yes that's it diplomacy.“Go ahead please I apologise I was lost in thought.”I said biting back my rage and putting on a smile.“Right so as I was saying,”the old man said,“Not so long ago there was two countries who had been at war for as long as anyone could remember.The countries had two very different forms of government the fir- ”“What's a government.”Dairen interrupted.I glared at him annoyance in my eyes.Dairen noticed my look his ever glassy eyes widened and he gulped.“N-n-nevermind.”he whispered.I smiled with happiness I love the sickly sweet taste of power I always have and I hate when my power is underminded i am a prince and because of this I demand my right to power.“Yes well as I was saying.”the old man mumbled.“What's going on in here.” I heard a familiar voice say.I looked at who it was and it was my momma and papa my papa had been the one to speak my momma just stood the looking tired I gulped I knew if they found out what we had been doing they would be angry and punish us I was about to say something when Dairen had to go and open his mouth “We were just listening to a story momma.”he said momma's silver eyes widened she had the magic of light which meat she was a really good person.papa's eyes were blood red which meant he had blood magic which meant he could do things like make you dance or force all the blood in your body come out of your eyes I'd seen that one Jared had laughed and pointed that was when I was three which was two years ago Jayce only glanced up at the bloodcurdling screams then he went back to his book as though he couldn't care less Dairen threw up and was escorted to his room and I just stared wide eyed as I saw a grown man die before my very eyes and when he finally fell and the screaming stopped I smiled at his corpse.“Which story?”my Papa calmly asked.“The one you told us not to listen to...”Dairen mumbled.I stared wide eyed at my Papa “Go to your room,”he said looking at me and Dairen. "But what ab-" I began "NO BUTS GO NOW!"Papa yelled.I had never heard him yell at me before and I ran to my room.

               I never saw that old man again…

          No matter how many times or
who I asked everyone refused to tell me the
forbidden tale but I never gave up looking...

          I was five then…
                                         I watched Jared and Jayce  duel the next day and on that day I saw Jayce stab Jared in the heart he had been eight Jayce had expected him to block the blow but Jared hadn't moved…
                                                          and me and Dairen were not allowed to go to the funeral because it was outside the castle walls...
  

     After Jared's death Jayce hid even further in his books and became irritable when disturbed…
                      That was eight years ago…