12 Ghostly Thoughts

April Apparent: The Three Kings

Blurb:
There’s a tale of three kings.   
-tale of a young girl whose actually lost royalty. She's doesn't have a home and is just trying to survive. She tricks people and steals to keep herself alive. Sometimes she gets in trouble.
-in the beginning she's hiding from a group of people whom she stole something important a pendant that she plans on selling for some money.
- one of the people finds her and decides to help her escape. She trusts them and finds herself teleported far away near a village
- in the village she trades the pendant with a strange man who exchanges some wise words about her probably needing it one day.
- she just asks for money and gets some bread. She's sitting by a dirty corner and spots a beggar whose stick thin with their ribs showing.
- even though she's hungry and that's the only food she'll have for a while she shares it with the man who blesses her.
- eventually she runs into the group of people again who found out the other dude sold her out and they kill him in front of her. She cries as she tells the leader she already sold the pendant. The Leader curses and plans to kill her until the beggar, merchant, and some other dude appear out of nowhere.
- The beggar is dressed in light robes the pale color a blue morning(has golden hair and sky blue eyes, medium height, jokester). The merchant had a jester hat dressed in evening oranges and reds on their robe(dark skinned, ginger hair,, most rash, reckless) The last has robes of a night sky sprinkled with stardust(pale, black hair, silver eyes, quiet,speaks in riddles and metaphors)
-The three guys defeat the group of people and comes to the girl whose near the body of the guy who helped her. The merchant says that he's sorry and that the guy was already dead
- she cries and asks who are they and how they transformed. They introduce themselves. The beggar is Dawn, Deity of the Morning Sun. The merchant is Noctifer (Noc or Nox), Deity of Evening’s beauty. And the last guy is Nx (pronounced nyx), Deity of Night’s End.
- They explain how she is of royal Descent and supposed to change the world. She explains how she's a young girl and can't do all of what they ask. They say that they believe her. Noctifer hands the girl the pendant back, telling her how that pendant was given to her ancestor years ago by them.
- her ancestor had helped them during their fight with evil so they granted her ancestor and all their descendants the power to contact them whenever they needed help
- Dawn explains how a great evil is awakening and they need her help as there are some things only mortals can do. The girl expresses how she doesn't know who she is as she can't recall ever having a name. Nx offers the name Ursula.
-The three deities are actually the bad guys and are called the Three Vultures who are entities of Darkness who want to wake their Mother as they call her who is a deus of evil.
-the enemy that Ursula has been fighting is actually her sister who tells her the truth

So you're in charge of the night?
Yes
Why is the night so scary?
Let me answer that with another question. Why do you fear the night when monsters walk in the light?

“I don't want to kill you.” Ursula sobbed, her arms trembling with the sword in her hand. She hadn’t come this far just to kill her mentors. Her friends. Nx smiled wistfully, glancing to his siblings incapacitated on the ground.
“Not death. Think of it as sleep. Just as you feared the night I feared sleep but I am ready now.” Nx took a step forward, Ursula pulling the sword back but he grasped hold onto it pointing it towards his abdomen.  I have never slept because I have slept for centuries before.
I'm sorry.
Don't be. Goodbye my little Ursula.
Goodbye Nx.

Nx why don't you teach me how to fight like the other two?
Sharp the mind to accompany the sword.

THERE’s something about the unknown. Something that festers inside with an unquenchable raving to comprehend what no one truly understands. from an obsession to a craving where you can’t help but wonder what could it be or what it could mean.

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This story was inspired by a book one wattpad actually. The book is called  Beginnings of Graves and has 3 vultures. I found that really interesting and decides to use that concept of 3 vultures but instead they're deities.