Chapter 15 – The Moon

Third Person's POV ( 4yr.s and 4 months old)

Is this.... a prophet’s voice? Ken’s mental will shakes, his mind transporting to a series of scenes, flashbacks to be precise and find himself inside a room.

The room unraveled before his eyes and judging from an elevated ground where two majestic chairs are placed, it’s a throne room, but to whom is this? And it's deserted.

*blag!* inside walks the King and his trusted Advisor, and stops at the foot where the stairs start.

"Prophet, I am honored that you have come to visit my kingdom, though pardon me for asking, what made you come over here in such short notice?" The King bowed but Ken doesn’t see anyone except that person from the back, whom is bowing as well.

*Shine!!!* Bright light appeared near the seats, and out a being clothed in all white and has a hood covering its face but leaves its mouth visible.

"I have come to deliver a message regarding the appearance of the object we see at the sky at night, I was told that it was called moon, and that so called moon spoke about a prophecy, that if a newborn child shines in the moon's light, it will bring with it 'twilight', or change, or war, or something good or bad will befall upon the kingdom." The Prophet said.

*GASP*

"You mean that, this could bring the end of this kingdom?" The King asks. Whom could they be talking about? Ken thought, his ethereal form floating from one place to the other.

"Yes, but the moon also spoke of a way to prevent such calamity." The prophet said.

"Then what is it?" The King asked with a terrified voice almost as if pleading to know the answer.

"Spread this news to the people of this Kingdom, and tell them, that whomever bears the child graced by the blessing of the Moon, must care for it, nurture it, and love it with all their heart, and just to be sure that no harm shall come to the child, I advise you to put up a hefty amount that will be paid to whomever may bring the child to the King,

and to make things a little more difficult, the child must be of adult age, the age of 18 and up shall be the basis of the qualification of the child, but if some other symptoms appear of the child's appearance and have been proven by the witness, then it can be accepted, but will undergo process first." The prophet stated.

"Okay, I'll be sure to remember these words of advice you have given me Prophet." The King bowed his head and replied.

"However my King, a disaster will fall upon our Kingdom today." The King's attention reverted back unto the Prophet from what he said.

"What do you-“

*BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!*

Lights coming from the sky shined around the Kingdom, brutal winds flew almost everywhere, affecting even the King, his trusted advisor, and the prophet.

"What's happening?!" the Advisor asked hysterically.

The people inside their homes rushed outside to know what's going on, only to see that the object that had appeared 3 days ago in the night, had covered the only source of light they had in the day.

The light coming from each side of the object seemed to be piercing the kingdom with it's hot rays, only these lights did not have the color yellow, they were the color of white, silver even.

Looking out from the castle Ken could see the lights going from one place to another, leaving with it lines of white, the people ran to every other direction the light wouldn't pass through, some returned back to their homes, probably to find someplace to hide.

At a flash of light, Ken looked to his right, finding the lights condensing on one another, another explosion ensued sending a wave of energy around the condensed lights, forming spheres of light.

Ken closed his eyes from a burst of light that caught him off guard.

'UWAAAAHHHH!! Why me tooo?????' he thought to himself.

Once the burst of light diminished, everyone slowly dropped their arms to their sides and looked in awe at what they saw.

The Object floated in mid air while the light from earlier shined upon it, having a glow of it’s own.

‘Is that?... A scythe? Wait to be frank, I think that's the scythe I held when I was at the blacksmith store, indeed it is!’ staring wide eyed at the object revealing it’s outline inside the spheres of light.

‘So this means if I connect this to the voice I heard once I had touched the scythe I was so intrigued about, this must be the time when it was created, but the voice/prophecy said I had to collect more of-’

Just as the phenomenon was done, another burst of light occurred at the castle's east side near the walls of the kingdom, and then another at its north, and another at its south, creating various items along with it.

The second object after the scythe, is a necklace, the other is a bracelet, and the last is a ring, all objects having high quality grade material made of it, obviously the people don't know about this material after later notice-

'Well there goes my question, so..... wait, what are those things doing?' he narrowed his eyes at the objects.

The objects created by the light from the Solar Eclipse began to exude more lights unto its form making it white in color due to the intense light it was exuding, it began to form a circle of white around it, it rushed hurriedly towards the castle.

*GASP*.

Everyone gasped at the sight before them, thinking that the objects would destroy the said structure but was relieved for a moment as it stopped just outside of the buildings proximity, it began forming white lines connecting one another, and although as fate would have it, slowly began circling around the castle.

'WOAAAAHHHHH!!! What's going on?! It's so cool!!!!!' even with all the chaos and unrest happening, this was what he was thinking?

Some kind of essence began gathering at the top of the tallest tower of the castle, they look like shining dust forming waves of the sea while circling one another, the four objects rotating around the castle, began to increase its speed looking like a ring of white light had formed atop the castle.

Situated at the center is the object with shining white dusts are swirling started to generate light as if they are being reflected at the surface of the ocean. 'Looks like they are forming dark clouds, and are gathering at the top of the castle, right where that thing is forming'

Essence of white and black from all over the place, from the mountains, from the rivers, forests, and even of distant lands, the East where the Desert Kingdom is situated, the North where frozen mountains and villages living under the cold,

The West where the vast ocean is located, and the South were most of the amazon forest is located on this continent, began to go to the location of the swirling energy atop the castle.

'Wow! Pretty! I'd like to hold it *grunt* Ehh? My hand just passed through.' examining his all the while the process of gathering essences was happening before him.

The essences far and wide entered the swirling energy as it, slowly rose in size, it slowly beckoned upwards and motioned all the essence to rush directly, until it formed a bigger orb of swirling energy almost as wide as the castle,

Which in itself expanded the same as 50 houses closes to each other and a height of over 10 regular houses. Strong winds blew and howled due to the intense pressure it produced along with the rotating objects around it,

Once all the essence from the continent finally entered the mass of swirling orb, the four objects stopped rotating and stilled for a moment, everyone noticed a flash of a small light coming from their peripheral vision,

and in an instant a ring of light entered the said orb, and its mass size popped into tiny white and black orbs, and faded out, what's left of its existence is a rock the size of a palm, having holes looking like craters, and had a soft silvery glow.

The four other objects that are currently shrouded in light also had undergone the same process, it's white light surrounding the object popped one by one, creating small orbs of light and dark that faded out, the objects began to disappear out of existence, until it was out of sight.

The rock at the top of the castle, exuded white light surrounding it, turned towards the castle, circled one time around before going to the sky of dark clouds and flashing a last light before dissipating the clouds and clearing the skies, the Moon covering the Sun had passed over, revealing back the sun in all its glory.

"This, the creation of the moon's objects, or as the prophecy called it, the 'weaponry' to be used by the child blessed by the Moon my King." Ken blinked his eyes and he was back at the room where the prophet and the King was at whom had a dumbfounded look on his face along with his most trusted advisor.

Ken chuckled at the faces of these important people, he can’t help it, when their expressions looked so genuine.

‘Well I certainly learned something, and that I am the child blessed by the moon, I wonder why that is though. WELP!’ he thought to himself.

His vision started blurring out, and with one more blink the scenery before him changed to that of rushing lights upwards. He glanced below him and a bright light enveloped his eyes and then his form before disappearing.

*blink blink*

‘*GASP!* I'm back! *Enhale, Exhale* *GASP!* Need air! (Deep breath, then exhales) *sigh* phewww, that was some intense memory lane, I'm sweating too.’ He thought, looking around, still holding the scythe with ragged breath.

"KEN! Are you okay?" Immediately Celine was by his side.

"Yeah, yeah I'm okay Celine." He replied.

"We were worried when a bright light suddenly shined from what you were holding and when we rushed to your side your eyes where blank for a moment, and then now you're back." said Wilbert.

"ehhh?...." Ken stared at his friend still taking deep breaths.

"Are you really okay son?" asked his father.

"Waaahhhhh, you don't have to shake me papa." complained Ken.

"Oops ,hehe sorry son, I was just very worried for you." Alfred flushed his son’s face to his chest in a tight hug.

"It's okay papa." Ken smiled sweetly at his father after the hug to reassure him that everything is okay, he knows how his father can become paranoid when worried, but he loves him.

"Okay, but just in case you feel anything don’t hesitate to call me okay?” Ken nodded. “Now that that is settled, can we purchase these weapons you like?" Alfred added.

"Yes please! *looks at one another then giggles*" The three said in unison.

"Alright, Brock, how much do these weapons cost?"

"They are about 5 gold in total, though I'm really curious as to why the scythe flashed that light earlier, must be made from a very unique material, but that's okay since you are my friend, I won't give any other charges for the sudden change the scythe did." explained Brock.

Alfred gave the money as his friend beckoned the children to take hold of the weapons of their choice. A child owning weapons, ironic. But it was almost like Ken wasn’t gone for a long time with the interaction happening before him.

He doesn’t mind.

"Thanks Brock, we will be going now." Alfred patted his friends’ shoulder.

"Thank you! Do come again!" Brock waved the group goodbye.

Well that was quicker than what he expected, Ken thought they would make a fuss over him, guess not, but maybe they will in the future if he tells them what he had discovered, because as he was falling down memory lane and back here at the present,

He was given the notification window, that he succeeded in acquiring the hidden Mission on this life he had acquired, and the mission is entitled "The Moon", pretty vague, but it gave him information as there was a next button flashing under it,

He pressed the button and unto the next page of the notification window, it’s says this information: [The Moon is a new entity of this world, since it was not created by the magic inhabiting this world, and was only formed due to the conflict of light and darkness,

the remains of that powerful force merged together and formed the said object in the sky, and knowing that it is purposeless, it began to wander what would it be like to use its power, and found out that it can use both light, and darkness respectively without any drawbacks or backfire,

it's knowledge of these things are even unknown to itself, so the Moon decided to pick an avatar to inhabit it's power and use it to convey the power of the moon, and to grant it, the cycle of life and death,

for it was stuck in the same spot in space, and wanted to explore more out in the open space, and thus the child blessed by the Moon can utilize both light and dark powers and magic without drawbacks or any abilities one have backfire against' you,

and lastly, one is able to take up two forms of the moon, the Life Moon and the Death Moon, as for the in between, one has to figure it out by themselves.] Another 'Next' window was blinking at the bottom so he willed it to go next. And this is what greeted him.

[You are now able to open the window to the mission gallery, and are able to keep tabs on its progress, you are also able to take up quest given by anyone, and certain consequences or rewards will be given once the quest is finished or not.]

‘Yeah, I did thought where I could find the Mission window on my windows panel, but now I do, okay that's pretty obvious, but why am I talking about it? Meh......

Time to go back to test out this new power.’ He thought to himself

[Notifications: You have learned

*Life Moon Form

*Death Moon Form

*Light and Dark Magic Spells of the moon, Combinations, and Conversion from one to another.]

He closed the windows as the group walked back to Ken’s house, the rest not noticing that he was absentminded for a moment.

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