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Chapter 1 - The Great Titan War

The beginning is the stereotypical spot to start so I guess here we go. In the beginning there was nothing but light and dark. The power each held was infinite yet balanced. They were known as the gods. Or atleast light was known as so. Life and Death lived in an infinite abyss for millions of years. They were just orbs of color at first. Light being gold, white and silver and dark being black, red and grey. They eventually decided to create something in the abyss. They called it Perithia. They created millions if not billions of species. They gave them free will and souls of their own. Life and death decided to have a child one day. They named her Aurora for when she was born the sky lit up with thousands of colors creating a beautiful scene. They called their child a Titan. Their daughter grew up noble and strong. The daughter grew lonely as the decades went by and so she asked her father "Darkness" for brothers and sisters but he knew that creating beings like Aurora would ruin the balance of power, or at least his balance of power so he said "No, Aurora I'm sorry but I can't." She felt as if her father was being selfish so she went to her mother "Light" and asked her if she could make her siblings. And so Light did. Light created 6 siblings for Aurora 6 brothers and 6 sisters(year is 10 A.C.). Each slightly weaker than Aurora but each still tremendously powerful. darkness senses the presence of these new beings and is instantly infuriated. He flies to Life and throws down a bolt of dark lightning that corrupted the ground around it. He yells "You dare create these beings without consulting me?!?" And she replies "Our daughter does not deserve to live a life of loneliness, we always had each other, who does she have?" Death yelled "SHE HAS US!! WHO ELSE DOES SHE NEED?" Life yelled back "SHE NEEDS FRIENDS, LOVE, COMPASSION" Death replied "You have given her heartache, pain, distrust, agony and so much more. I will make sure you know this" Death flies away. Aurora begins constructing things with the titans. They began their lives on Perithia. The World of Titans. Aurora started out with making rules and giving each Titan a name. She named each after what she's seen about them so far. She named the strongest and bravest "Kyro" (male) he never stepped down from a challenge and always won. So he was named Kyro meaning the "Victorious one". They names the kindest and purest and most loving of them Kara (female), meaning love and pure. She named another one of them Sophia (female) meant wisdom who was always reading and studying. She was a calm and gentle titan, Zuri (male) meaning good and kind, he was always looking after and helping others, putting others before himself, Mina(female) meaning protector of man and she protected all those who needed it her doors were always open, Dylon (male) meaning loyal who is loyal to his brothers and sisters. Each was named rightfully and each had pride in their name. Overtime death planted ideas into a few of the titans minds that they wanted there to be more titans. This causes them to go to life and death and ask for more brethren and sisters. Life and death agreed and created millions of titans weaker than the first 7 who became known as the "Great Titans" Each great Titan claimed a part of Perithia and built their own villages, cities and kingdoms for their fellow titans. They created civilization. There were 4 kingdoms and many towns full of titans. As time went by death began to toy with the titans and use them like puppets. Since the beginning Death had been sowing doubt and hate into the titans and he began turning them into shades. As more Shades appeared, the more conflicts appeared within the kingdoms and towns. Shades were either evil titans made by Death or good titans transformed into evil beings by Death. Overtime Death began to create tens of thousands of shades at a time. Each time he would create a "Great Shade" who matched the power of a Great Titan. After a few decades the shade army had approximately 5,284,737 shades and 22 great shades(year 1635 A.C). The leader of this army was Theseus. He was cruel and calculating. After sometime the princes and princess of the kingdoms joined together and started to become best friends. Thea, Crius, Aethor, Crol and Eliza. Aethor and Crius would train with the sword every afternoon with Kyro who was the greatest warrior in the land. Eliza, Crol and Thea would learn magic from Aurora the greatest magician. Eliza showed amazing talent and could cast her spells after just a few tries. Thea has trouble with attack spells but excelled at healing and protection/enhancement spells. Crol had trouble casting his spells at first. He couldn't figure out how to cast them. Everyday after there training with Aurora, Eliza would help Crol practice and get better. Soon Crol was casting the spells after just a few tries, but he still had ways to go to catch up to Thea and Eliza. Crol was nervous at first and sad to be the only prince to not wield a sword and a wand instead. Crius and Aethor excelled in physical strength and could wield large swords with one hand where Crol had trouble picking up a small one with both hands. But Crol didn't let this get to him. After a few years of practice they all learned many things from there parents and teachers(year 1638 A.C). They had access to all the kingdoms libraries and tutors and used there time wisely training and learning as they would be kings and queens one day. In the past few years they became great friends. But in this time of there joy and happiness the kingdoms began to have small squirmishes throughout the land. Many people began demanding to see Crol the last Titan to be born. Crol was the youngest Titan in existence and always will be. People around the realm believed Crol to be a Messiah of sorts. They believed he could rise to a power as great as life and deaths. Aurora assured the people this wasn't the case but they claimed she took them as fools and wanted to use the boy for her own agenda. Revolts began to happen and corrupted titans showed up throughout the land causing many issues. They became known as shades. In the year 1639 A.C(after creation) the shades burned down towns neighboring the kingdom of Knowledge. The kings and queen Dylon and Sophia decided to call a council of the Kings and so the kings and queens met and discussed what to do about the present issue. They decided it would be best to increase the guards patrols through the lands and especially within the kingdoms walls. They prepared there militaries and started forging more weapons. They expected a war to start soon but never did they imagine one of this scale. Aethor was playing with Crol at the kingdom of knowledge when the attack happened. It happened fast, half a million soldiers surrounded the kingdom. Aethor grabbed Crols hand and went to look for Eliza. They found her and headed to the kings and queens throne room. There they found the king and queen with soldiers preparing for battle fully covered in chai mail and diamonds. Dylon wielded a mighty sword and Sophia held a beautiful staff with blinding jewels in it. Sophia walked over to Eliza the oldest of the 3 and told her to take Aethor and Crol to the neighboring kingdom the kingdom of protection and warn them of the shades attack and then head to the kingdom of light. Aliza began to have tears run down her face but she did not make a sound and she grabbed crols hand and pulled him out of the castle as he tried to go back to his mother. He yelled with his cracking voice but it was in vain. As the young titans ran out of the castle they saw flames abrupt from the first walls of the kingdom and heard shouting and clashing. They knew the war had began. The used air and gravity magic to fly to the kingdom of protection where The queen Mina awaits with the prince Crius. It takes them 4 days to fly there. Eliza had to carry Aethor cause he was not as good at magic as the other 2 halfway though the trip. When they finally reached the kingdom there too it had hundreds of thousands shades besieging it. They saw the flames form a distance. Aethor quickly jumped down from Eliza and used his air and gravity magic to run swiftly to the kingdom. There he went to the castle immediately looking for his friend Crius and the queen Mina. Never do they think Minas Protection spell would be broken through and the kingdom would be invaded. Aethor finally got to the castle and there he saw Crius kneeling next to his mother who was laying under a pillar of quartz that seemed to have fallen on her. There were 5 other men in the room he with a blackish purple stained skin. They were great shades. Aethor yelled to Crius but Crius was too focused on his mother. Mina yelled to Aethor to get Crius out of there as her royal guards held back the great shades. Aethor dragged Crius out of the city to Crol and Eliza who waited for him on the north wall. Crius cursed at Aethor and pinched him and other things. Crius tries to run back into the city but the 3 stop him and drag him to the kingdom of light. It was a 5 day trip and half way through Crius stopped fighting back and just looked depressed as he followed the others to the city of light. (The city of light has the largest military and largest population, a quarter of the population joins the military having the population being 5 million and the military being 1,250,000 strong)There they met with Kyro and Aurora. Immediately They sent out the mages and began setting up protection arrays around the whole city and had earth mages build a couple extra walls around the kingdom where they stationed soldiers around the walls and began recruiting more soldiers from the civilians. They sent soldiers to move the townspeople behind the wall and the people carried on with life but always ready for an invasion. Always on alert. 3 months go by and Finally something happens... Thea appears at the kingdoms gate with 300,000 soldiers along with her father and mother Zuri and Kara. They were welcomed into the kingdom along with 500,000 civilians. This was indeed not ideal. The people form theas kingdom the kingdom of love had houses made for them out of stone by the earth mages in the military. The people of love had to work in order for balance to maintain in the kingdom. Kara, zuri and Thea went to the castle to meet with Kyro and Aurora. There they discussed further plans. They found out the kingdom of compassion was attacked by the shade army but they forced them back but only after losing most of there kingdom and so they were forced to March there way here for they would not survive another attack. The year is 1671 A.C. It has been 6 months since the original attack on the kingdom of knowledge. In those time the princes and princesses trained hard. But in this time love also flourish. Aethor and Eliza confessed there love for each other and they became engaged. Meanwhile Crius was still trying to win the heart of Thea he was slowly nudging his way into her heart as she began to fall for him too. Then there was Crol.... he had his wand. As another 3 months pass the shade begin to close in with there remaining army of 4,000,000 shades and 15 great shades. Theseus and his army approaches from a distance. The bells ring within the kingdom walls and the soldiers prepare for battle. In the last 12 months 500,000 civilians joined the military hoping to help in the nearing war. The kingdom of light now had 2,050,000 soldiers and were ready for war. The light had 9 great titans but 5 were not even considered adults. Kyro, Aurora, Dyon and Sophia stood upon the wall of the kingdom. Kyro yelled "This is your one and only chance to retreat theseus" Theseus cackled and said "my army of 4 million versus yours of 1 million and a million civilians pretending to be soldiers poses no threat" and Kyro said "so be it" with that the Great titans cast an enhancing spell on their army and what would be known as the Darkest night began. Both sides fought for days on end without stop. Each side had many fatalities but in the final hours of the war it was just Kyro and Aurora against 100,000 shades and 12 Great shades. The kingdoms citizens had been slayn along with all the soldiers. It was only Kyro and Aurora left with the 5 princes/princesses on the run. Kyro and Aurora were slowly cornered into the castles throne room and took there last stand against the enemy. Kyro used an advanced reverse summoning magic to send Aurora deep in the mines under the castle where she would sleep for thousands of years. Kyro was alone against the enemy and fought from sunset to sunrise where Kyros took his last swing. At the end of the fight there were 65,000 shades and 6 great shades left the kingdom had officially fallen. The 5 children went to the mountains and there they stayed. Never did they think the kingdom of light would fall. Over the next 3 months they went in search for survivors of the 4 kingdoms and found few. The few they found were excellent warriors that managed to fight there way to the little freedom they found. They found 4 warriors who almost equaled that of a great titan. Ferrer an unmatched blacksmith and spear wielder. Alina a women who could tame and command any animal. Gilbert an amazing archer who could shoot an apple over 2000 yards away and Tyffany who was a master magician. These 4 with the 5 chosen princes/princesses would overthrow the army of 65,000 and 9 great shades in one night.

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