War Of Hearts

Chapter One~ Our Lineage

"I feel like I'm a broken soul trying
trying to disguise myself as
whole."

Listen to the song Game of Survival by Ruelle
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I sit there, resting my chin on my hand, just staring but not seeing anything at all. That's how my life pretty much always was now, looking but not seeing anything

It wasn't always this way, I used to be happy. I was full of life, feisty, thirsty to experience life. Until there was no life to experience, it had been taken from me. Don't think I'm weak either I fought, I fought for my life. I fought for days, weeks, months. Until there was no more fight, the fight had been beaten from my bones, threatened out of my head, and shattered out of my heart.

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"La'ree! La'ree, honey please wake up we have to go! La'ree dammit! We have to leave now!"

That is what I'm woken up to from my parents trying to get me to move, I had always been a deep sleeper, but it had never been a problem until that night. It had actually always been a blessing in my household. I had three older brothers and they had no idea what an inside voice was. But that night I wish I would have woken up to the first warning.

The first warning was a siren, but it went to deaf ears. The second was fire, fire everywhere burning everything. Burning the forest surrounding my small town, the trees I had come so accustomed too. That wasn't all though it was burning houses and shops the red and orange flames licked up everything, having no mercy, leaving no survivors. Then the third, the wolves. Thousands approaching, killing everything in sight, killing elderly, children, lovers, everything they could dig their claws into.

I had finally woken to the second, fire. Because it had reached my room and separated me from my screaming parents trying to rescue their one and only daughter from dying. That's when I woke confused and terrified.

"Mom! Dad! What's happening? Help me!" I scream so loud my throat turned raw. I see my dad ready to leap through the fire when he is stopped by the crashing of my front window. Glass flings every direction; I bring my arms around my body trying to protect myself but a shard of glass the size of my index finger imbeds itself into my thigh. I scream in pain momentarily distracted from the window by my blood gushing wound, until I hear a massive roar. Three.

I was taken that night; I didn't understand why I was taken until three days later. Until then I sat in a dark dank room unable to see anything. I could only hear, and how I wished I couldn't hear. There was screams of heartbreak and fear, the smell of fear and desperation. The scariest part was I didn't hear or smell one male, they were all female. That scared me the most that caused me to cry, they had something planned and it couldn't be anything good.

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Growing up my mother would tell me the tale of our lineage every night before bed, it was my favorite story. She would tell me how the kingdom wasn't always divided we had a loving Queen Luna and a brave King Alpha. They ruled the kingdom fairly everyone together, it was a loving kingdom no one lived in fear. One day the Luna had Twin sons Maddox and Rowan. They grew up side by side the best of friends, they had the most intense of trainings because one of them was to be the future King Alpha. I would always try to imagine what our world would have been like if one or the other had taken over, but that didn't happen.

The boys once they started to become older started to have a deep hatred for each other knowing only one of them would become King. Everything became a competition between them who was the strongest, the tallest, the smartest, who ran the fastest. It was starting to cause a divide in the family so the King Ares called on a prophet to end the struggle and determine who would be Alpha King now to save his kingdom from destruction.

The prophet brought news the King later wished he could have kept buried, he said there would be a girl who decided who the rightful king would be. This girl would be both their mates, but she would only truly love one of them and that one would be the ruler, the other mateless and kingless. That day instead of bringing the kingdom back together destroyed it.

That is what I live in now over a hundred years later, the kingdom is split in two one brother to one side and one brother to the other. Over the years each kingdom gained its reputation, there was the kingdom of love ruled by King Rowan and there was the kingdom of evil ruled by King Maddox. I grew up as an inbetweener I lived in neither of the kingdoms hiding from them both in our own tribe dreading the day that we would be discovered by them. Once I became older the story lost its appeal it no longer sounded like a fairy tale it was the nightmare of my life.

The girl in the story still hasn't been found, that's why we live in hiding. Most families once they have a girl child move to the village where I live to keep their child safe from the Kings. See they didn't just separate they both still want to be the one and only king and the only way to do that is to find their female mate. Some families would offer up their daughters to the kings hoping she would be the one so they could collect riches and fame. But in the end, they all sent their daughters to be slaughtered.

I had been saved from that grateful of my parents that they uprooted their lives in the kingdoms to save mine. They never would tell me about the days when they lived there neither would my brothers, I think they were trying to protect me from the horrors of it all. Until today; I believe I have been collected for one of the kings, which one I didn't know. But what I was positive about was that I wasn't going to make it out of here alive.