Realm breakers #1

Realm Breaker’s

By: Kassie Peterson

Dedicated to fantasy lovers

Shout out to Aphmau fans this was based on some of her characters

Prologue (1)

Some time ago, maybe about six years now, there was a village in need of help. But most importantly there was child in need of help. This child’s name was  Zerynn. Zerynn was a special child as she was a descendant of Shad the Destroyer.

Zerynn’s mother was so in love with her baby girl that she thought that she would never bring any harm to others around. This was mostly because of Zerynn’s older sister, Lily, who was a big help in the process of helping Zerynn control her growing powers. As Lily reached the age of maturity, she got married to the Lord of Falcon-Claw and had a kid. Zerynn’s mom had yet another child, Zerynn’s first and only brother. But, shortly after giving birth, around a year or so after the little baby boy had arrived to the face of the earth, Zerynn’s mother passed away after fighting a sickness. This left young Zerynn with the responsibility of taking care of the toddler with an empty and broken soul.  

She finally had enough with the empty and sad life she was living and left to go live with her sister in Falcon-Claw, which wasn’t far from where she lived. She locked up her house, took her key so when she traveled she had a safe house, and set off on a journey to Falcon-Claw with food and her younger brother Conor in tow.

On her adventure she encountered many valleys that winter still clung to, making it difficult to find fresh food and the fact that she had her baby brother with her slowed her down. But eventually, in three days time, Zerynn reached the sprawling village of Falcon-Claw. She went and found the Lord's house and knocked on the door. A man with short black hair who looked to be  in his mid-twenties  answered and asked, “May I help you miss?”

Zerynn answered quietly, swinging her reddish-black hair in front of her face, “Yes. Is Lily here?”

“Yes she is, let me get her for you.” The man replied before spinning around and shouting into his house “LILY THERE IS SOMEONE AT THE DOOR FOR YOU!”

Then, from upstairs, a woman entered the room. It was Lily.

“Zerynn…,” Lily whispered, as if it was almost to impossible to believe.

“Lily! Please, I need a place to stay and there is nowhere, no one, I can go to,” Zerynn said. A single tear quickly shooting down her cheek.

“Zerynn,” Lily said, voice tinged with worry.

“Yes?” Zerynn cautiously asked.

“I-is mom okay?” Lily stuttered, realizing the answer before it was spoken.

“Mom passed away almost a year ago, Lily. T-this is our baby brother, Conor,” Zerynn blubbed as her voice grew thick and tears started swelling up. She was going to cry,

Lily rushed over and hugged her younger sister tightly whispering over and over again that things would be alright and that they would find something for Zerynn’s living conditions. That night, the man who had answered the door helped Lily serve dinner and told Zerynn that she could stay, at least for one night, until they found a better solution.

. . .

When Zerynn woke up to the light of the steadily rising sun she found a small child at her bedside. She might not have realized the boy was in the room if he hadn’t said in a small squeaky, very fast, voice, “Hello! My name is Jakub I  am the son of the Lord of Falcon-Claw and his wife. Why are you wearing similar clothes to my dad? He never puts a shirt on, has holes in his pants and always wears that stupid black hoodie... And who's the baby over there!? Is he yours? How do you know my mother? Can we trust you? Why does your name sound like my dad’s? ”

Zerynn shushed the child, right before she got lost in the sea of his questions, and replied, ”Hello Jakub. To answer your questions:   I like this style of clothing, the baby over there is my, and your mother's brother. I  am your mother's sister and, yes, you can trust me. I don't know your father's name yet but, if it sounds like mine his name must be Aaron.”

As soon as she said that the father gave her a strange look. The look of questioning like: how in the heck did you guess my name. Then he said, quietly with a tone dripping with surprise, “That is correct my name is indeed Aaron. How did you get that so fast without me introducing myself to you properly?”

Zerynn shrugged slightly and said simply, “Skills…and a couple of hints.”

“Jakub, please go outside and play with your friends,” Aaron said sweetly to his son.

“Okay papa!” Jakub quickly exclaimed, clearly thrilled to be able to leave the huge townhouse.

As Jakub finally left the house to go find his friends, Zerynn and Aaron talked to each other and got to know one another a bit more. When Jakub returned from the outdoors he was holding a pendant. Zerynn peeked outside and saw a man. The man was fairly unnerving with hair black as onyx and covering his right eye, the left a pale ice blue, and all but his left eye covered in a mask. What she saw of this man made him look to be in his early twenties, about twenty-one or so. Zerynn ran to get her sister, but by the time she got up the steep stairs the little boy had already given his father the pendant. Everyone in the village was dead where they had been standing.   In shock, she just stood there in confusion over what had just happened.  When she realized the event that had occurred, Zerynn’s legs gave out and she just collapsed to the ground and cried. Zerynn, Conor and Aaron had survived but Lily and Jakub had not, they were laying on the floor and still looked almost life like, yet their pale gray eyes said otherwise. Their pale gray eyes had no life or light left in them. Zerynn grabbed her sword from where it was  leaning against  the couch. Realizing what had occurred, she shoved Conor into Aaron’s arms and ran outside to find the suspicious man. When Zerynn got to the man she demanded he tell her what he had done. Looking for anything to get Lily and  Jakub back. He told her, with dark laughter lacing his words, that the pendant could  only to be activated by a Realm Breaker and that it would kill all who lived in a village except other Realm Breakers.  Then he laughed as he continued and told her that the only reason she remained was because of her powers as a Realm Breaker. That meant there were three. Zerynn, Aaron, and the little brother who had barely gotten to live before so much death surrounded him. Zerynn’s now only sibling, Conor.