Realm Breakers #2

The Adventure Begins (2)

“Aaron, AARON!!! Get over here, QUICKLY! “ screamed Zerynn, as she held her sword up to the awful man's throat. Aaron’s steps sounded behind Zerynn and she spoke, not daring to look away from the masked man, “This man is telling me that the pendant that he gave your Jakub can only be activated by Realm Breakers and ONLY…. Realm Breakers are immune to this pendant.” she said to Aaron, pausing as she spoke to swallow back tears.

“Not only that but you have to be a descendant of Shad the Destroyer to be a Realm Breaker.” said the man, his mask  rising suggesting that  a cruel smile must have formed underneath the mask.

“What's your name?” Zerynn asked the mysterious man that had a mask over half of his face.

“Not telling.  The only thing that I am telling YOU is why I did what I just did child,” said the man. Then he turned from Zerynn’s blade as if it wasn’t being held to his throat and walked off.

He walked in the direction of the Continental Capitol: O’krsis.

Zerynn growled and ran after the mysterious masked man as he walked away. Yet, before Zerynn could get too far Aaron stopped her by grabbing her wrist tightly. Preventing her from killing the man on the spot.

The man turned around and said, “Come at me with your sword again and  I will kill everyone in your family, or the rest at least” he laughed darkly.

Zerynn screamed at him, “ YOU ALREADY KILLED EVERYONE THAT I HAD LEFT!”  

“Your father still lives near here I will kill him if you're not careful,” the man said, pulling the syllables of care-ful in a sing-song teasing way.

“GO AHEAD YOU MONSTER! HE ABUSED ME, LILY AND MY MOTHER, SO GO AHEAD AND KILL HIM!” screamed Zerynn her words choked with emotion.

“Fine, then I will kill your baby brother instead,” the masked man threatened.

“What kind of sick person, would threaten a baby?” Aaron muttered darkly emphasizing the word sick like it was poison.

“The high priest of O'Krsis, that's who he is. I also know his name is Zayn.” said Aaron with a weak voice.

“You are right though, he is a sick person. All he wants is power,  He wants to know who all the Realm Breakers are and to take all their power.  That is the  power provided by a relic,” added Aaron.

They made a mistake by letting the man go. At that point when Aaron was watching Zayn leave, he had shed a tear. But Zerynn was shaken more by the whole scenario than Aaron.

I am a Realm Breaker? I mean I knew that I had powers but I didn’t know I was that special to have a power like this. The only person that could help me control my powers was Lily and she is gone. Why does my life have to be so terrible?T thought Zerynn to herself.

Aaron was asleep by that time and so was Conor. Zerynn usually stayed up late thinking to herself. It was dark and she felt overwhelmed with her thoughts, so she had to step outside. She put a hand in one of her pockets looking for a weapon, just in case Zayn came back. But all she found was a bandana with a note on it that said:

My dear sweet sister,

If you are reading this  it is because I told Aaron to put it in your coat pocket because I am dead. This was the bandana that you made for me when I moved out. Please remember to stay strong and learn not to be a hot head for me. People will get along with you better if you aren't. Anyway, please, for me, stay strong. If you need me, I will be in your heart, supporting your every move. Please use this as motivation to stay strong. If not for me, your family, whoever that may be.

If you are reading this, you are probably crying right now. Please remember crying isn’t for weak people, it's a sign of being strong for too long. I have known since you were very little what type of powers you have. I just want you to know you are a descendant of Shad the Destroyer and you are a Realm Breaker, which, can be a very scary thing, but it also can be a very great thing. Every time you caught me reading a book, I was doing research on your power and what it meant. Any way, I know you want to travel the world some day and I was going to say this in person. Just in case I haven’t said this yet, I wrote it in this note.

Go back to our old house. There is  a chest that is located under my old bed with all my research and some supplies for your upcoming adventures. Please take them all. If you don't I will be offended. It's very important to me that you take everything in that chest. It’s stuff I have collected that may be of use.  In my closet there is a black and red backpack with some clothes that might fit you, take that bag as well.   Everything in my room is yours now, so make certain to go through everything.  There is stuff in my room that may be of some value to you.

Stay strong, my little sister. I will always love you.

Love,

Lily.

As soon as she was done reading the note she wiped her tears and quietly snuck out of Aaron's house.  She left Conor sleeping on the couch as she left for  her old house.   

When she got to her old house she reached for the key in her pocket. When she grabbed the key, she unlocked the door and walked into her house. She went straight into Lily’s room and to the chest that was filled with Lily’s research notes and other stuff that could have a great importance to Zerynn. There were things like… Lily's old journal, a wedding ring, a magic staff, flint and steel, and some dried apples. She grabbed everything that was in the chest, and walked over to Lily’s closet where she grabbed the red and black backpack that her sister told her about.  She put everything in the bag and looked through the small, but cozy, room that her sister used to live in. She found some weapons in the bottom drawer of the desk. Now she had a dagger, a knife,  a sword and a diamond locket with a picture of Lily and her in it.  She put the locket on and put the weapons in the backpack. The sword she put on her belt.

Then Zerynn went to her room and found her sleeping bag and more bandanas. She grabbed the black , white and purple ones and put them in her backpack. She went to the chest that was under her bed and grabbed all of her iron, diamonds, and her money.  She would be able to use the money and diamonds.  She could use them for new weapons, if needed. She put them in a small bag that she had in her closet. She went to the shed in the backyard and grabbed a hatchet and a pick and put them on her belt.

After she was done getting all the supplies and stuff she needed, she headed back to Falcon-Claw. It was around one-o’clock at night when she reached Aaron's house. When she was inside she walked into the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror for about a minute before she grabbed the purple bandana out of her backpack and put it on to  cover her face. She wanted to hide her face from the tragedy that  happened and to hide her past. She didn’t want to be known as the one who was left alone or lost.

At first light Aaron was awake, by then, , Zerynn had finally fallen l asleep reading the book her sister wrote for her. Aaron ate breakfast while watching her sleep and noticed that she wore a bandana around her eyes as if she was trying to hide them. That is when Aaron had to wake her up so he could ask her why she was wearing the bandana.

“Man you sleep in late.” said Aaron.

“Sorry, Lily  left a note for me to go get the  stuff she left for me.  She left me this research notebook about Realm Breakers and magic stuff.  I knew Lily always had a fascination for magic and wanted to know more about it ,  but I really didn’t know I was the reason for all her research.” said Zerynn.

“So you were up all night getting the stuff from your old house that your sister left for you and studied it  all in one night didn’t you,” said Aaron.

“Y-yes I did. Do you have a problem with that?” asked Zerynn in a snarky voice.

Aaron started to tear up “N..no. I..I don't have a problem with that. Just that’s what your sister used to do when your mom used a communication amulet to tell her that someone in her family had a problem with their powers. I can only assume that it was you they were talking about.” Aaron said.

“Yes, that is probably true. Here, look at the journal that I kept.  It has maps of all the places in the world and villages that need improvement and more population. It has information about  each village and who would fit in there.” Zerynn informed.

“So you kept a journal about all the places in the world?” Aaron asked.  “So you’ve been to all these places?” Aaron added.

“No my step dad asked Lily and me what we were interested in when we were younger. I looked up to this man, so I told him I wanted to travel the world like he did. So he gave me all these photos of places he'd been.” Zerynn answered.

“Phoenix's Rise is the place we would fit in the most. It has the most magic users and there are scalars (do you mean scholars?) there that can help us with our powers.” she added.

“Fine. We will set out first thing tomorrow. Let me get some supplies that we might need for the baby. I will also get some money for us and some clothes and weapons,” said Aaron.  

“OK. I have money just in case we run out. It's not much, but it's something at least. I am going to go exploring the village to see if we could use some of the supplies the other villagers had.” said Zerynn.

“ O..okay, I guess,” Aaron said, but he looked really sad.

“Oh and why are you wearing the bandana?” asked Aaron, as Zerynn was leaving the house.

“I am wearing it because I like it and I want to wear it ” answered Zerynn.

She’s trying to hide something,” Aaron thought to himself.

Zerynn looked in the houses and found potions that could be of some use later. She also found more money and diamonds. In one of the houses she found a living baby. She could only tell that the baby was alive because it was crying. Zerynn quickly took off her bandana and hushed the baby. She found it food, fed it quickly and then found a small blanket to put around the cold crying baby. The baby girl had found anew mother.

When Zerynn was done exploring and taking supplies, she went back to the house where Aaron and Conor were. The baby had started to cry again and this time she needed to be changed. Zerynn changed her into a clean diaper that she found lying in the house where she found the baby. She was still trying to decide on a cute name for the baby when it hit her. She was going to name the baby Shelby. It was the cutest girl’s name she could think of other than Lillith, which would  make her cry if she named her that, because that would remind her of her sister Lily. She went to find Aaron to show him her discovery of the new baby. When she got upstairs she realized that all of the doors were closed. She went to the first door and knocked. After no response she opened it, but no one was there. On the next door, the same thing happened. It kept happening until, finally the last door she knocked on. She asked if she could come in and show him something that she found in one of the village houses.

“Aaron, I was in one of the villager’s old houses and I found this baby that was still alive.” Zerynn said.

“Why did you sound scared when you said that? “ Aaron said.

“Because I don't know you that well and I didn’t want her to be left behind.” said Zerynn.

“ I would never leave a baby alone and abandoned. What kind of sick person do you think I am?” asked Aaron.

“I..i’m sorry. I didn’t mean to offend you. I’m going to go to bed now.” said Zerynn awkwardly.

“Remember we are leaving at first light. See you tomorrow. Good night.” Aaron said.

Zerynn couldn’t sleep no matter how hard she tried. She tried everything; reading, writing, but she just couldn’t sleep. When Aaron woke up In the morning they ate a small breakfast. They grabbed some extra dried food and put it in the same bag as the dried apples from the night before. They looked at a map, grabbed the bags and some extra supplies, then headed out the door in the direction of Phoenix's Rise.

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.

twisted friendship

Twisted friendships

By kassie

It was the last day of school , the last day of homework and peskye teachers me and my friends screamed. We got the death glare from Mr. boblabob his cold blue eyes stared at all eight of us. But we didn’t care we just kept screaming, we were all to excited to have it be summer already. School gets out at 12:30pm and it was 12:29 so me and my friends were counting down the seconds till the bell. For what was only seconds felt like hours but finally the bell rang, right as the teacher was in the middle of the peptalk for highschool my friends and i shot out the door before the teacher said anything else, we ran out of the school door and we waited, we waited for our parents. While we waited i made sure i have evreyones number i also made sure that evreyone had my number.

Finally my mom picked me up.

“how was school today” she asked

“Good” I replied

“Thats good” she added

The rest of the caride it was just akwared silence the whole way home intell my phone buzzed. When i got home i did my chores and my homework. Well intell i realized that i didn’t have any then i threw my book to the ground and screamed YEAHHHHHHH!!!! Because i was free, free to do what ever i wanted. After dinner i was in need of a chat not with my parents not with my parents friends daugther by my friends. Evreyone was freaking out, they were stressesed about highschool and being seperated.

I texted all my friends saying “ come to landea elemeantry school park”.

We all met at the park and dissused our plans for the next year, even though  all my friends were going to the same high school and i was going to go to a diffrent one.

“I’m leaving all my friends” i thought to myself.

I woke up this moring and thought about every thing. I did fun stuff over the summer i went suffing and paddle boarding and caming and stuff but why did my summer feel so wasted. I felf mixed emotions they were, anger mad and saddness and most of all happyness and scared. I was scared because it was the first day of school and happy because i can make new friends. When i was in the  car  on the way to school i sent a big text.

This is what it said “ hey I hope you will enjoy your first day of high school and i hope you make new friends may we all have a fun year and make new friends may are year de filled with obstecals and test but most of all remeber to smile it really makes a diffrence. Good luck”.

Jake said “okay will do and you have a good year as well”.

Jade said “okay”

Julie said “have a nice day”

Meloinie said “ love you all i hope you all have a great year “

Drake said “ no thanks i reather have a bad year with no friends”

Jason said “ of corese you say that, you can have a bad year while the rest of us has a good year”

Zia said “ i got a stupid transfer to a stupid school called landea high its just like our stupid middle school and our stupid elementry for the ones that went to landea elemantry because i know all of us went  to landea middle school”

I replided to zia saying “ i go to that  school and i will see you in about 30 minutes”.

There was no replie i got scared, what might have happed to him did he get kidnapped or hit by a car, ehh he probley just fell back asleep knowing zia thats what happend.

When i got to school i went to were all the night graders where  the gyms there was hundreds of kids in there.  “How the heck am i supposed to find zia in this place”. I thought to myself .

I looked and looked and i finally found him he was talking to a group of boys. Went to go say hi but he walked off and was looking around. I just stood there for a minute, then a kid that was taller than me walked up to me and said  “hi my name is england whats your name”.

He was talking in a group, he was the talkest in the group he was nice.

“My name is kassy” I replied

At this point i had totally forgoten about Zia i was just glad some one was talking to me. In the front of the room they were calling out names to come get a packet that had our sceduale and the student hand guied with rubrics for each class. They called me and England and zia all at the same time.

We hurried up to get our packet and we looked at our secduales and i saw that we had five classes together at lest i had one friend trough out the day. When we got to the front of the room Zia was up there he saw me and looked exictied to see me.

He said “hi”

I replied “hello”

“Who’s this” he asked

Like a nice person england intorduced himself “hi my name is england whats yours”.  

The all of a sudden zia got really mad “ leave my friend alone i see you are bothering her leave her alone” *shuve* england was on the ground.

I pulled zia to the side and i said “ why can’t i make new friends but you can?”

Zia said “because you have all the friends that you need”.

“Well i have one less than i did a second ago” i added and then i walked off.

I went to go find england hes probley not going to be my friend anymore. I found him talking to his group of friends i walked up and said “ i’m sorry i didn’t mean for that to happen he’s never done that befor”  

“You didn’t do it so why are you appologising” he replied

“Because i feel bad for him pushing you” i added

“So do you want to be friends” i asked

“Yeah sure why not” he said.

After school ended i got englands phone number. When i got into the car i texted him saying “hay this is kassy”.

He ansered “ hey “

After that i went trough my test messages on my friends group chat. I realised there was no other text messages so i put one up saying “hey who was school”.

Everyone said “good”

Except for zia. He said “ i lost my best friend i hope one day she can forgive me and we can become friends again. I messed up”.

Evreyone but me asked “ what happend. Who was it details please”

Thats when i turned of notifications to that group chat i was done with zia i didn’t care what storey he was going to say i was done with evreyone.

After dinner i checked my phone to see what happend i mainly checked that group chat. I looked at the story that zia said and he was correct and he didn’t over egsatreated on anything he didn’t leave out a single detail.

Jade said “ well you deserve not t o be her friend, if she has all the friends she needs of corse she going to bump one”.

“ i agree with jade. I also would like to meet this new friend of hers” said jayden

“Me too he sounds cool” said jake added

“When i pushed him all i saw was fear i didn’t like it i don’t know what came over me” zia said.

Meloinie said “ if he feared zia he sounds like a wimp”

Drake added “ i would fear zia to if he pushed me as well”

Juile said “ he sounds like a nice person”

Jason said “ i wouldn’t fear zia even if he punched me so why in the heck would he fear him. Zia wouldn’r hert anyone even if his life depended on in”   

“So true” replied Meloinie.

So after getting evreyone opinion on what happend.

I asked england if he wanted to be in a group chat a group text with the friends that wanted to meet him.

He replied “sure why not I would love to meet them if they want to meet me.”

So I made my new group chat and i texted evreyone saying “hello”

England was the first to awnser back saying “hi”

I think my friends are so drama filled because they all said “ who is the number is it you boyfriend or was it the friend that you were talking about that got pushed by zia and if it is i feel so sorry for you zia has never done that i think he was scared”     

Then jade asked “who is this”

England replied saying “ I am england who is this”

Jade said “ my name is jade, its really nice to meet you”

Then drake said “ i am drake”

Jake said “ i am jake”

Jayden said “ its nice to meet you i am jayden i am sorry again that zia pushed you i think he was being a jerk”.

Then i asked england if he live anyware close to jason rige middle school,

He asked “yeah why”

I replied “you’ll see”

Then on our group text message i asked all my friends to meet at jason rige middle school park.

By the way it only has a park because it has a middle school and an elementry school in it so yeah.

Evrey one said “we will be there”

We all met at the park and we  just hung out out intell dark.

When it was time for lunch the next day i had my cold lunch and i was sitting alone. England and his friends kyle, Jc, Justin, Kasy, zane, conor, joesia, rider and lorrance.

He said “since i met your friends last night i think its time for you to meet my frineds”.

I was suppirised there were 3 girls Zane, Conor and Joesia.

“There alot like you” said england.

They are all sweet kind carrying mean and hyper well thats the only sides i see of they and you. If you are anything like me you are lazy to well only at home.

I didn’t say anything.

Because thats when zia walked over and asked if he could sit with us and everyone said yes except me and england we just stared at each other.

He said “kassie england i am sorry for what i did yesterday i was scared  i thought i was going to lose her and if i didn’t have pushed you yesterday i wouldn’t have, if i would have just have tried to be friends with you i could have tryied to be friends with you i wouldn’t be in this situation i am so, so…  s..orr..y” *a tear rolls down his face*

“England kassie can we be friends” he asked.

“If you say no i understand i was a jerk” he added.

At this point felt bad becuse he was crying and i had to be friends with him again to be completly honest i missed him i wanted him back as my friend. I gave him a hug and i said i will be your friend, i am sorry if i hurt you in any way”

After that we became friends.

After lunch I had math. With england, zia and zane. The teacher named Mrs. doug gave us time to work so me zane england and zia work together.  

I had the next peroide with zane and england and that was art. We were working in a project that has to do with spray paint and tape. But it was a group project and of corse me and zane were working on it together with england i was incarge of spray painting and zane was doing tape she was put the tape on the canvase and the england was takeing it off. We made the word friendship and did a little animation of us on it. We ended up getting the only A. in the class.

When that class was over school was over and me zane england a zia became bestist of friends together just the for of us and i we acoplished high school together.