Prologue
Prologue
38 years ago…
Charlie sat at the trunk of a tree, flipping through his paper assignment, sent home from school. He sighed, tossing his brown hair. He heard the footsteps of somebody, slowly and heavily. He looked up, “Hey, Jackie…” He muttered, writing down the answer to the 1st question.
“It is I Ja-Your fairy Godmother!” Charlie smiled, and the two boys started to laugh. Rolling in the grass, their eyes met. They stopped laughing and sighed, sitting up.
“Want to come with me to the Dragon fights?” Jackie asked, staring at Charlie’s shaking hands, holding his homework.
“Not today, I have work, and you do as well…unless you finished it, which I doubt,” Charlie said, glaring at Jackie’s calm and controlled face. It was always like that, he was never worried.
“Yeah but, it doesn’t even matter! It’s just like 10% of our grade, come with me!” Jackie exclaimed, obviously not spotting the glare. Charlie continued to shake his head, wrapping his head around the stupidity of his friend’s words. “No, Jackie, I can’t go!” Charlie said, looking away from the boy. Jackie huffed, his black messy hair shined in the morning light,
“Fine! Be like that,” He spat, running down the hill, Charlie rolled his eyes. He'll get over it. Charlie scribbled on the answer to the 3rd question. He slipped his hand onto the grassy patch of the hill. Staring at the volcano that was far ahead, the rest of the land was barren. There was so much land at the disposal for the Volcanic elves. Yet, they didn’t take it, they didn’t move their villages and markets there! He never understood, Volcanic elves were the strongest of the elves, they could do anything! Charlie looked down at his paper.
Name the 5 types of elves:__________
Charlie easily answered, writing down the types. Volcanic, Vermit, Ground, Swift, and Lotus. He paused, the air had gone cold. The sky began to be filled with dark gray clouds… Not clouds, smoke! Charlie jumped up from the ground and looked behind him, seeing his village blazing! Fire flickered through the city, and Charlie’s eyes widened. He dropped his paper and raced towards the village. “Jackie!” He shouted, tears streaming down his eyes. He looked up, hearing a vicious roar. Huge dragons scattered the smokey sky, Charlie ran down the street, calling his friend. He fell to the ground, overwhelmed by the fiery scene. Charlie felt a hand grab his shoulder, he looked up to find his sister by his side. She helped him up, “L-Lilac I can’t find Jackie!” He sobbed, Lilac frowned and started to drag him out of the village.
“He’s probably already ran away or something!” Lilac hollered at her crying brother, He hung his head low. His body reeked with the smell of smoke.
“Y-your right…”
They continued to walk through the woods that was nestled just outside of the burning forest, the meet-up for if there was ever a disaster. Jackie will be there…He repeated to himself in his head, He watched as fireflies started to flicker around him, and he found a large group of Volcanic elves huddling in the woods. He couldn’t seem to spot Jackie.
The group stares at Lilac and Charlie as they wandered forward, Charlie smiles, spotting Jackie’s mother. He runs toward her, a look of grief upon her face.
“Where’s Jackie?” He asked the woman, who sobbed even louder at his question and his smile turned to a frown. “Dear child, your friend, he’s dead. I saw him fall to the ground by the arena!” She let out a cry of pain, mourning the loss of her son. Charlie stepped back, “H-he can’t be!”
“I’m afraid he’s dead! Don’t bury yourself in grief…” He heard his sister call from behind, she rubbed his back. He pushed her away, staring up at the smokey sky. Jackie was gone…His life was pointless…He couldn’t just let this die down, he had to make everyone feel like this. Bring Volcanic elves up, none of the elves had bothered to come yet, Lotus was just a mile away. An easy 5-minute run! I will lead Volcanic elves to war and bring this land to its knees as the new leader, I will be known from across the land as Charcoal. Charlie snapped forward blasting fire at a tree, it melted down to the forest flood.
“There is a new rein in Land of Domencici!”
