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Chapter 1

War. Pain. Suffering. Death. They are all the same to me. I have never known peace, I’m not sure I want to. I have grown up in a time of great war and suffering. This life has not been easy for anyone, not the Elves, Goblins nor the Dwarfs. The only people who haven’t been touched by the great devastation are the Fey. They have survived by hiding themselves in the great trees of the forest Lamerth. No other race could pull this off, for the Fey folk were born of those trees. They themselves command the trees to do whatever they desire. Whether they wish for the trees to block out simple sunlight, or for them to turn into creatures that could walk and destroy an entire army in one day. No one dares to bother them, for they are also a harmless race, unless you do not appreciate their mischief.

In High Realm there are four great kingdoms. Each kingdom is known for their trade oCancelr who rules them. The Elf kingdom is known for our archery and the four great elements. I am one of those elements, my name is Lúldes I control fire. I am the oldest out of my siblings, the next oldest is Amardir, he controls earth. Next comes Landir he controls air. The youngest out of all of us is Elwen, she controls water. When our parents, the king and queen of the Elfish people, die I will become the queen and whoever I mate with will be the king. Sadly I do not see myself having a mate.

The Goblin kingdom is known for hunting and their savagery in war, along with their king Sdegr. Sdegr is ruthless ruler, always demanding more from his people then they are capable of. He has the eyes and teeth of a wolf and his left hand has the claws of one. He’s the most human looking Goblin out of the whole race. His skin is closer to that of the earth as if he literally sprang from it, while the other Goblins have ugly greenish brownish skin that likes to cater to moles and hideous moss. They are not a well-liked race.

The Dwarf kingdom is known for their jewels and having the king that is the oldest person in all of High Realm. They have the least of numbers out of all of the kingdoms, but they make up for it with their mighty castles made out of the mountains themselves. No one has yet succeeded in getting inside one of the castles without the Dwarf people letting them in. My people have joined with the Dwarfs to defeat the Goblin race and the darkness that they bring with them. This battle has been going on for over 75 years. Our world has never seen a war this long. Neither has it known something this dark and treacherous in all of time. All kingdoms are growing tired and weary of losing all its children to a war that never seems to end. I am 27 years old; I have never seen a time when the world that I know has not been at war. My dying wish is that our world will finally know peace again.

In the Elfish kingdom to take our minds off of the ragging war outside we throw huge festivals, and parties to alleviate ourselves from the pressing nature of war. Our festivals are grand ones that the whole kingdom participates in. We have dancers, jugglers, animal tamers, even people who think they have mastered one of the elements. Everyone laughs and dances to the musicians, and actors that are acting out some of the most popular plays. I personally favor the ‘fire tamers’ who swallow fire to then belt it out in some form or another. Well they try too. The only creatures that can come close to being able to control the elements like me and my siblings would be the goblins. No one knows how they are able to come so close to manipulating any of the elements. No one even knows how they were created; they have always been in high realm for as long as the trees have been here.

No matter how hard we try to forget what’s going on outside, we can never truly purge the ugly thoughts of our people dying. The ugliest thought on my mind tonight though is that its nNemoena, the war holiday for the goblins. It’s their favorite holiday; they go on huge hunts to celebrate along with huge feasts that could feed two armies. They bring out their favorite war animal: the wolf, after their king Sdegr. During this holiday they bring out giant packs of wolves that are the size of carages. The wolves are so powerful that the goblin ridding it has to have thorough training with the wolf so they can develop a relationship with the animal so the wolf doesn’t kill its master. I can see Sdegr taking this holiday to the next level for them and attacking either the Elf kingdom or the Dwarf kingdom. My bet is us for the Goblin king has a deep hatred for my father for a reason unknown to me.

A couple minutes later I was correct. Sdegr attacked surrounding villages, and has already over taken three.

“Father you must return to your quarters!” I rushed over to him as fast as I could get around the people running as if the goblins were actually in the castle.

“Nay. Sdegr has crossed the line, making war on a day that is of merriness for both of our people.” I had to lean in to hear his malicious whisper. I knew I had to stop him no matter what. Or I would lose my father.

“If you have any love for your children, wife, and kingdom, you will allow our generals, who you trust, to take care of the intruders.” I had to bellow for my father to hear me now. The crowd had gotten so rambunctious, that the only thought they had in their heads is to save their families and themselves.

I could see the steal in my father’s eyes that he wanted to stay and defend what was his. I thought I wasn’t going to be able to convince him to leave his precious throne room for the safety of his chambers.

“You know she’s right father, we will defend our home.” Amardir comes out of the shadows to stand beside me while staring his cool jade eyes into fathers honey brown ones. Amardir is astonishingly tall at six foot seven; he stares down all of his opponents, whether they are good or evil. If you know Amardir personally you know that he would never harm someone or something else without being highly provoked. He loves the land and the people of it too much to ever do it too much harm.

Father could easily see that Amardir and I would not back down. Not for a pressing matter such as this. He looked me dead in the eye and I could see that he knew what I was about to do; and that he could not stop me. Understanding this he walked around the trashed floor and to his chambers.

“Lúldes we need to hurry to meet up with Landir and Elwen.” Amardir took my hand and goes to lead me away, but I snatched my hand back. Not being able to touch him knowing that he’s about to hate what I’m about to do.

“Amardir, we will not be fighting this one together. You must stay here with Landir and Elwen, to guard the castle along with mother and father. Now don’t look at me like that, I will fight Sdegr with our ground troops. You must have faith, for if we are all out on the battle field and we fall who else will be able to protect everyone we love. I know you see the logic in this brother, you must understand that we cannot let this kingdom fall.” I pleaded with my eyes that Amardir would understand me in this. He does.

“If you get wounded we will all come out to kill every goblin that has made its way in our kingdom.” He walks away.

I stare at his back as he walks away, and I know he was making a vow to me; to watch my back, and if I fall that I will be revenged. For I might be a prisoner or even worse by the time this harsh night has given away to sunlight. I speed through the halls as fast as I can to get down into the courtyard, and then to the gates of the castle so I can finally meet the foe that has tortured my people for far too long. The courtyard was in worse shape than the throne room of the castle. Tents, food, and bodies lay on the ground; unmoving, littering the earth with a sight that was far too sad for me to look upon. As I come to the gate I can see the fighting a few hundred yards out in front of me. I can see our soldier’s bodies on the ground with their limbs no longer attached. These are the fathers, brothers, and sons of my kingdom and I am done with having my people being tortured by a foe that is not worthy to even walk the same ground as these noble slain men. I will put an end this war right here on this ground. If that means to lay down my own life then that is what I will do so my people will finally be able to wake up and breathe the air of peace.

I have no other thoughts; I slam the gates open and rush to battle. Drawing my sword, along with my element I have no hesitation as I start to cut through my disgusting foe with my fiery weapon. The only sounds I hear are the ones of my comrades dying; this is my fuel to never stop and to keep fighting till I no longer hear those noises. I cut through goblin after goblin to what seems like to no avail; they seem to have an infinite number of soldiers they can call out of thin air. I look around me and see that our troops have gone under half of what we sent out. In that moment I realize that I have to fight this battle alone if I wish to save my soldiers’ lives. I start to call a retreat to my comrades; slowly they start to hear me and start to head towards the gate into the castle. I must wait till they are all inside till I unleash the fire that is desperately trying to claw its way out of me. Finally the soldiers go inside the gate; I can breathe easier knowing that no more of my soldiers’ lives will be lost on the battle field while I’m on it.

As I turn around an onslaught of goblin soldiers where rushing towards me. They clearly did not know who I was; for if they did they would have turn away in terror and rushed back to the underground Goblin kingdom. I called upon my element to come forth from me, to enter into the ground to travel to the enemy and to destroy the feet that they walked on. Slowly one by one goblin feet started to catch on fire, along with their pet wolf’s feet. When they couldn’t get the fire out it spread to their bodies and it ate away at them till they could no longer feel anything but the pressing heat. I began to hear their terrified screams along with searing wolf howls. They continued to grow in numbers as more of my fire began to reach more of their soldiers. My foe started to collapse to the ground not to long after my fire touched them. I could see that they no longer had the breathe of life in them; that I had killed them. This part of war, the killing has never been okay with me; I will never let the idea of killing other men settle in me in such a way that I will find it acceptable. In war you must never take your eyes off of the enemy, or allow your attention to wonder in fashion. That is the error I just made; with the split second that I wasted watched my fire devour the goblins, another storm of them approached me with such velocity it astounded me. I backed into a defense stance and readied my sword to take on the onslaught. More was in the storm than what I anticipated; none of the goblins held back. I can see the anger in their eyes that I had taken the lives of their brothers. So many have already been lost in these 75 long years that if I wish to truly have peace then I must put an end to the battles and if that means more killing then so be it.

With the force that the goblins attacked with I returned to them with double the magnitude. I refuse to give any ground, along with not letting any of them get near the gate to the castle. If one of them got past me and took a life of one of my friends I would never been able to forgive myself. I have to defeat this foe and quickly, before my brothers and sister decide to come join me on the battle field.

I quickly elongate my sword to form a double bladed sword to maximize my ability to wound and kill my enemy. They hesitate when they see my sword change but they swiftly overcome it with rage. I cut at their heads, throats, and abdomen to make the chance of them getting back up close to none. Soon I see more and more bodies pile up around me; when I cut down the last goblin I bow my head and send up a prayer for forgiveness for taking away more lives that shouldn’t have been ended, but they needed to be so our world can come closer to knowing peace. I start to hear the shouts of joy coming from within the castles walls and I’m reminded of whom all I did this for and how badly I want this retched war to end.

Walking back towards the gate I see a captain and order him to start the clean-up immediately as well as to pick up our fallen comrades so we may give them a proper, respectful burial. I can’t look back to what is now soiled ground, for I know that if I do tears will come to my eyes and I will not be able to stop them. I walk briskly to my chambers so no one will dare to disturb me while I am in my rooms. I pass drapes torn and hanging limply from the walls; while I also see families rejoice and hug each other to celebrate the battle ending tonight. I wish that I could go to my own family to join them in happiness of winning a battle, but I know I mustn’t. For if I wish to keep the reason why I’m so willing to fight by myself then I have to avoid any mention of the topic around my family; they will know if I’m lying as well. So I must be careful with how I act around them till my plan can get set in motion.

When I get to my chambers I immediately light up my great hearth. It’s a grand one that’s taller than me and the width of it is twice the size of my height. I light it with a flick of my wrist that sends a small ball of fire towards the hearth and makes it come alive with a whoosh. Feeling warmth of the fire helps calm me down and allows me to process what just happened. Along with the fact that I had been careless and didn’t even try to find out why the goblins had attacked us. They have never attacked this close to either of the kingdoms; they’ve always done the towns and farms farther away. They have to be getting serious about trying to finally end this war. Over the past months it seems that almost everything has been dying, the trees, plants, animals. Even more people have been dying over the past couple months due to ‘natural causes’. I’m not so sure they’re natural anymore. I don’t know why the goblins are doing this to our world but they will be stopped. No one has the right to play master of the universe. I also will find out why the goblins have been so hell bent on continuing this war for so long. To find out these answers I need to meet the goblin whose responsible for it; Sdegr. Some people tell me that I’m psychotic and that I’m ridiculous. Well if it can bring peace to our world then I will do whatever it takes; even if that means going up against a satanic man.

Now all I have to do is think of a logical plan to meet him. I’ve been counting on meeting him for 3 years now. Each year he has gotten more and more radical. I must stop him. My fist goes straight through the table. I look down and see my hand full of splinters with blood cascading down from my knuckles to my fingers. I hold my hand up and look at it as the scarlet river known as blood now flows to the floor. Anything with the color red has always fascinated me. I don’t know if it’s because flames are red or if it’s because it’s so compelling and transcending. Slowly the blood stops to flow as my blood clots and my wound heals. I smashed the table straight in half; in-between those two halves was a pile of my blood. The pile was quit large, letting me know that I lost a considerable amount of blood. I turned my focus to my hand and saw that it was covered in scratches and already forming bruises. With my luck I probably broke at least one of my knuckles. Sighing, I knew I needed to go see a medic so my blooded hand doesn’t get any worse.

I picked up my cloak that I had thrown over one of my many large chairs. Getting to the door I sensed someone else in the room with me. That said person was using magic to cloak his presence; I knew it couldn’t be any one of my siblings for they would have come out already and they wouldn’t have bothered to hide themselves. I also ruled out dwarfs for they never would have made up here, they also would never have done this. They are too proud of a race; they would have confronted me before I got in room. This all meant that it had to either be a fey or a goblin; a fey would never leave their precious forest unless it was a direct order from their queen and I highly doubt that the queen would waste her time telling one of her charges to sneak into my chambers.

The presence moved; it jumped from one corner of my room where my desk was to the side where my bed is. How it moved gave me no doubt in my mind that it was a goblin. Out of my pepherial vision I saw a very dark squat form move with the shadows on my wall. The shadow was not as smart as it thinks it is. I threw my cloak towards where the goblin was hiding against the wall my bed was on. Not even a split second after I tossed my cloak I was on top of the creature. I use my fire to burn his hands and wrists as he tries to throw me off of him. He’s more skilled than I think he is; he hooks his right leg behind my knee and takes it out while using his elbow to thrust up into my abdomen, causing me to release his wrists. To regain my balance I lean more of my body on top of his. He uses this to propel my backwards against the wall. Landing on the balls on my feet, I’m finally able to see my foe. He’s one of the taller goblins I’ve seen, standing at close to 5”4. His skin on the other hand had to be one of the worst one I’ve ever seen, it’s green with gray spots that are either moss or large moles. The eyes of the creature are hawk eyes; they share the same intelligent look in them. He’s looking me up and down; assessing me and looking to see if he has the correct element I’m guessing. The goblin straightens up and goes down to fix his trousers. I know am paying attention to what he’s wearing; which is no shirt but with dark brown trousers that almost looks like leather. He clears his throat with a disgusting gurgle causing me to give him my attention.

“You, I’m hoping is Lúldes, the element of fire.” Says he with a raspy voice hard on the ears.

I look him square in the eye and nod my head to acknowledge what he said. He waits a couple to seconds to see if I’m going to do anything else, or to respond using my voice. When he sees he’s not going to get that privilege he shifts as if awkward, like he doesn’t know what to say now. I don’t have patience to deal with this goblin. I stare at him dead in his hawk eyes to tell him to either say what he needs to say or else I shall slaughter him where he stands. With this he realizes he’s made a grave mistake and goes to try to cover it.

“Lady Lúldes, I have news from my master which I think will be of great news to you, if you allow me to speak it.” Hawk eyes try to look me in eye as he says this, and with great pain he sees he is not able to compete with my hardened stare.

“Who’s your master.” I startled him by speaking. He visible takes a step back at the power I have put in my voice.

“None other than the man you wish to see.” He fired back at me.

This creature cant possible mean Sdegr. He sees hes once again made a mistake while I walk straight up to him so we are so close that only a small child would have been able to fit inbetween us. I look deep into his eyes to let him know if he even trys to fool me I will slowly tortur him to where no one will ever again be able to tell he is a goblin.

“I advice you to use a name fool.” I growl right at his face. I can see he wants to back up so hes not as close to me but im not letting with my deadly stare. If this creature has any brains at all he will spill his guts to me this instense. I precede to tell him so to move this process along.

He takes a slight step back before beginning. “Sdegr ma’m. Sdegr sent me to retreave you.”

I am visible taken back by his statement. I thought it would be a message, not a summoning. Why would he wish to see me instead of my father or one of his advisors. This makes no sense at all; yes its my plan to meet Sdegr and to either talk him into stopping this war or killing him if that’s what it takes to stopping the war. The goblin sees hes caught be off guard and smiles a small smile of victory. I want to rip it off of his face; but I musnt if I wish to finally get to set my plan in motion. This could be a trap to get my father to stop sending troups or else I die. Or Sdegr could use me for something far worse; I wont be able to find out though if I don’t try to atleast find out why he wants me. I clinch my hands while thinking and I remember my right hand is injuried by me slamming it into my table. Which makes me wonder if the goblin saw that display. My eyes shoot up to his to see him staring at me with an even bigger smile on his repulsive face. Seeing that causeses me to snap.

“Why.” I marched over to him and got so close I could see all the different colors swirling in his eyes. I hear him gulp and see him open his mouth to utter some scared words.

“He wishes to speak to you about some certain matters.” He barely gets out; he also sees im not going to let up till I get everything I want to know from him out of him. “He thinks you too need to discuse some matters concerning both of the kingdoms.”

“Why doesn’t he come see me himself?” I hiss back at him.

“He has. Hes out by the gates Lady Lúldes.” No words have shocked me so much in my short life. I take in a deep breath and see that the Goblin King has come to speak to me; and it looks like he’s not going to leave till he gets what he wants. Which is to talk to me about our two kingdoms apparently.

“Very well, lets go see your master.” I turn my back on the goblin and start towards the door.

“My Lady, please if you would allow me.” He comes up beside me at the door and holds his hand out to me. I look down at his hand and back up to his face; doing this I realize he has the power of teleportation. So that is how he got into my room without detection from anyone in the castle. Looking into his eyes I see slight fear in them; good. I nod at him and take his hand so he can teleport us straight to Sdegr. He surprises me by pulling me into what seems like a hug till everything goes black. Not even a second later I feel grass beneath my feet and feel that the goblin has released his arms from around me and has also taken multiple steps away from me. I look at him and see that he has already started walking away from me; looking around real quickly before following him to see if anything was amiss, finding none I turned around and hurried up to follow the goblin.

Chapter 2

The goblin was right he teleported us a little ways out from the gate of the castle. We began to walk to where we were supposed to meet his master. He stopped a couple minutes later in one of the clearings about a mile and a half away from the gate. The breeze was chillier than it seemed like it was supposed to be, making me realize I forgot my cloak on the floor in my chamber. I looked towards the goblin and see that hes staring out towards to hills and mountains; his face is stoic leading me to the conclusion that this is the spot that I will meet his master Sdegr.

We stand in the same spot for more than three hours. At first I didn’t believe that this is where we are supposed to meet the Goblin king. I changed my mind when I started to slowly feel emense power coming towards us. It came slowly but the longer we stood their the more I felt; the power was so intense I was finding it hard to breathe. My anxiety was floored by the time I saw wolfs the size of carages coming towards us. Ive only seen these types of wolfs on the battle field; I had to remind myself I could not attack them if I wished to live.

When I’m finally able to see the riders and wolfs more closely I’m shocked beyond belief. The leader of the small army, which im guessing who is sdegr himself, is way more terrifyingly gruesome than I had ever imagined. The wolf he rides is so brillantly white I can’t look at anything else; till I look up and see the rider. Sdegr himself had to be the prettiest goblin I have ever seen; using that word loosly of course. His skin is the color of sand from the shores of Remula; his body is huge, even ridding a wolf I can see that he is well over six foot. The Goblin Kings eyes were the eyes of a hungry, hungry wolf anxiously awaiting its next meal. I had a feeling that I was going to be that next meal. The closer he got to me and his minion the more I felt this oppresing feeling, as if someone was taking a poker and putting it down my throat. It isnt neccesarily painful but its not comfortable either. I close my eyes to tell my body to relax; that if I wanted to all of the goblins could go up in flames. When I open my eyes Sdegr and his army are in front of me.

I steal myself so I don’t back away; I also force myself to look Sdegr in his wolf eyes. His eyes are the coldest I have ever seen; they’re so ice blue they’re almost white. His face is so rugged that I cant tell if hes handsome for not. He and his wolf are so close to me I can see the top of his chest through his white lenin shirt. I turn to pay more close attention to his wolf. The animals head is well above my own; looking the creature up and down I turn to look at its tail, I gasp when I see the bright red fur at the end of the tail. I hear the goblins snicker and laugh at my reaction to their king. Hearing it I steal myself even futher; I narrow my eyes to tiny slits, locking my jaw to keep myself from speaking first and I curl my lip to show my distaste of being called out of my room at such an hour.

Sdegr surprises me by jumping down from his creature and walking so close to me that I can smell the leather of his cloak. I look into his eyes to let him know im not scared of him and I never will be. We lock eyes for a second before his eyes travel down my body. He sees my blood red harem pants with matching top and my black as soot boots with red leather tie strings. When he looks back up to my eyes he smirks, a cold dead smirk. His mouth starts to do tiny movements as if hes about to open it and let words come out; I’m right.

“So what they say about the fire princess is true.” His voice was incredibly deep and raspy; he shook my body with it. I want, no need to open my mouth and say something; but my voice is no where. I take a deep breath to calm my self, so I don’t make a fool out of myself.

“And what is it that they say?” My voice sounded quiet, but strong. To back it up I looked so deep into the goblin kings eyes I swore that I was able to see the very essence of who he is. His smirk lessoned on the evil side and went up on the cockiness side.

Showing his racer sharp wolf teeth he says “You have the body of a child, but the power inside you surpasses the power of a king. Although it doesn’t surpass mine; it might only be able to make me sweat.” His eyes squinted down to tiny slits; I want to slit his throat for what he just said. Fire errupted inside me, trying to desperately escape my body and to show just how powerful my magic really is. His face contorts again into yet a different smirk; this one says hes knows exactly what hes done.I clinch my hands to try and control myself. My knuckles on my right hand scream in agony and Im afraid that I might reopen my cuts on my hand. I slowly loosen my grip, along with a deep deep breathe to regain control over myself before I say a comment I will surely regret later on. I really truly wish to say a smart comment to throw back in his face, but if I want to make it out of this alive then I have to atleast pretend politeness.

“You’re everything they say you are as well Sdegr, but I must ask why have you gone to such length to talk to me and not my father?” I knew I shouldn’t have said what I did about what people say about him; but I just couldn’t hold my tounge enough for a man who is more animal than anything else. His face muscles tighten, along with his shoulder muscles. What I said wasn’t the worst thing I could have said but it deffinitley wasn’t the best either.

“It seems your tounge is also fiery; and what is wrong with wanting to speak to a princess?” His lips curled back into what could only be called a crued smile; I can see almost every pointed tooth in his mouth.

“Lots of things are wrong; for one we are out in a field, not in a meeting room. If my father finds out about this you will truly have the full wrath of the Elvish kingdom.” I clip my sentences, allowing more of my anger to be shown.

He didn’t answer right away like I was expecting him too. I also didn’t expect him to look so calm and collected after my comment. He seems way to confident and cocky for being so close to an enemys kingdom. Its clear that he was prepared for a fight with all of the goblins he brought with him. If he wanted to fight then he would have just stormed the castle, but he did send troups earlier. He deffinetly has a plan in his head and im not sure its going to benefit me in anyway.

“Well you’re clearly not scared of me since you agreed to come with my messanger.” He stated.

“I didn’t think I had a choice.” He must be a fool if he thinks having someone sneaking into my chambers and fetching me is a choice.

“You always have a choice. Besides how else was I supposed to get an audience with you?” The only thing I hate more than this game he is playing with me is the war. He knew exactly what he was doing; the bad thing is that I don’t even have an inkling of an idea of what this game he is playing with me is about.

“No. I didn’t have a choice in the matter; your ‘messenger’ would have drugged me and brought me out agaisnt my will. Now the reasonable way to get an audience with someone is to ask them and to set up a time and place of which the meeting will take place. If I’m correct you did none of that with me.” The more I said the muscles all over his body started to tighten and clinch. I took a full step away from him to give both of us the space we clearly needed.

“If you’re done I would like to the point of why we are all here.” He grounded his teeth so hard I could here it.

I nod; I feel slightly bad that I went off as much as I did, but he should learn that I will not let anyone walk over me.

“Good. Now what is your opinion of the war?”

Those were not the words I was expecting to leave his mouth. How surprised I am starts to show when I don’t answer for a few minutes. I thought he would have wanted me to talk my father into quiting the war. Or for me to tell my father to quit the war or he would go all out on the elvish kingdom. Sdegr surprises me once again by clearing his throat, letting me know he was done waiting for me to get over my shock.

“Why does my opinion of the war matter to you?” I have so many questions shooting around in my head, that question was the first one that shot out of my mouth.

“Well, what my next question is depends on what your opinion on the war is.”

I look him square in the eye to see how serious he is. What I find is complete honesty; apparently the king is truly curious on what my opinion is. Well, since hes asked for it hes going to get.

“Do you really care to know my opinion?” He nods once to affirm my question. “My opinion on the war is that its absolutely pathetic. I can not see any point in it. Your father got some ridiculous notion in his head that the dwarfs and the elfs were your enemy, and that he needed to attack us. What is even worse is that when you came into power all you did was worsen the war. You caused even more innocent people to die. Now that, Sdegr is what my opinion on the war is.” I hold my chin a little higher to show my pride in my answer. What makes me drop is when Sdegr and all the goblins start to laugh. Not a slight laughter but a full on laugh that has some of them clinching their sides from laughing so hard. I take mulitple steps back to try and get away from them.

“Everyone is so ignorant of the bigger picture. Even you princess; you think you know everything there is to know about this war; well you’re wrong. Now here you are trying to back away from me; you also aren’t leaving till I say everything I need to say. Okay, now do you understand me?”

Now its my turn for my body to tense up from anger at what he said. I do not like to be threatened that I wont be able to leave when I wish. He sees I’m not about to let his comment go and he walks over to me. He gets so close to me we’re almost sharing the same breath of air.

“If you think you’re going to just walk away from here you’re more of a fool than I thought you were.” He whispers in my ear. I tense up when I feel his breath so close to me. He backs away a little bit to look at my face. I make myself look him dead in the eye; all hes trying to do is intimidate me. What he doesn’t know and what I don’t want to admit is that it’s working. I break the eye contact to look at all the goblins he brought with him. All of them were heavily muscled, along with huge swords and spears. Their amour was bronze and their chest plates as well as pieces for forearms and legs. They didn’t cover or hide much skin, but with the way that goblins fight they don’t need much protection.

“Now, are you going to let me speak?” He growls at me. I nod my head to show im listening.

“Good, so I decided that I needed to get to know the young beautiful fire princess. One of the things that made me want to meet you was the fact that you have killed more of my men then any other person alive or dead; that does not sit well with me or my men. Now you also have a very big influence on what military decisions your father makes; even more than his top general. So I have thought up a plan that benefits us all; do you wish to here it?” He asks with a smile that would even make a demon shrink away. I think carefully over what he said to see if he is playing any tricks; I can’t seem to find any. I find myself nodding my head to here of his ‘plan’ that will benefit us all.

“Its actually very simple, all you have to do is convince your father to stop sending in troops and to then go and convince Grentheon the Dwarf king to also stop sending in troops. So see its all very simple.” At first I stare at him letting the words sink in. Once they are done sinking in I realize how stupid and idiotic the goblin king really is. I let him know what I think of his ‘plan’ by laughing. Pretty soon I’m cluching my side because I got a stich there from laughing so hard. I happen to catch glimpses of his face, while im catching my breath, and I see that his face is one of murderous rage. I take a deep breath then I begin to explain my laughter.

“Do you honestly think I would do that? And for someone who has just meet me, and that somoeone who has also killed thousands upon thousands of my comrads.” I’m so serious with my question that I don’t even notice that im getting closer and closer to Sdegr. I realize it when he leans down to get in my face again.

“Why wouldn’t you do this? Aren’t you willing to do anything for peace?” His questions shocks me; I take a couple shallow breaths. How does he know about the vow that ive made. The only people that would possibly be able to guess at it would be my family.

“How do you know about my vow?” I whisper.

“I have my ways.”

I stay silent and look him in they eye; trying to see if hes serious or if hes just messing with my mind. The one thing I do know is that I have to find out why hes here; then try to get away so I can go back and tell my father.

“Why me?” I have to get as much information from him as possible.

“You’re the only one who wants peace just as much as I do.”

“If you want peace as much as I do then you would have stopped this war many years ago.” I hiss at him, while I lean in to where our noses are almost touching.

He straightens up away from me and walks a little ways away to pace infront of his wolf. I didn’t notice it but the his wolf has now laid down into a more comfortable possition. I look over at the horizon line and I see the sun starting to rise. It startles me, making me realize that I have been in this field nearly the whole night. He stops and turns to stare at me.

“Do you really think I have the power to stop this war?” his voice replied sullenly.

“Yes. You’re the only one who can truly stop this war.” No matter what he said it still doesn’t change the fact that his father started the war and he has continued it.

“I have a probosal for you.” He states . “If you come with me we could stop this war for once and all.” His stare was so intense and broading I had no cause to think that he was jesting with me. Sdegr honestly wants me to come with him to goblin country. I break away from his stare and look to all of the goblins he brought with him. Some looked me in eye, others had their eyes closed, some looked up to sky. Their bodies still in defense postitions if I decided to attack them.

I turn back to Sdegr, look him dead in eye,and see that I have no choice. Either I accept his invitation to go with him under my own free will or ill be taken. He thinks I only have two options but I realize I have two more options on top of his own that I can do. I can either fight and try to take out Sdegr; my chance of surviving is slim at best with this option. My other option is I can try and wait it out and hope that when my family discorvers that im missing in a couple hours that when they come looking for me that they find me in time.

“Why should I even go with you? You could kill me as soon as we would get in your territory.” I prepare my self if he commands the goblins to attack me.

He looks at me for some time before answering me.

“I would go with you if you offered me this chance.” My gasp of shock at his answer escapes me before I am able to stop myself from showing my complete and utter disbelief. My mind is completely blank; I have so many things running through my mind that I could say but yet at the same time I have none. I decide to just open my mouth and if anything comes out then great, if not, then I’ll look like a fool.

“We are not the same person. I would not continue a pointless war that my father started.”

“If you come with me I will show you why I have continued this war that you call ‘pointless’.” He presses closer to me; trying to force me with his presence to choose in his favor.

“You cannot guarantee my save return or even my life if I decide to go with you.” I press back.

“What if I could?”

“But you cannot, so why even bother making an empty promise, when I know it is an empty one.” If he thinks I’ll go with him on an empty promise he is sadly mistaken.

“What if I could though? Make sure you stayed alive while you are with me?” He gets so close to me that my nose comes up to his chest, with my nose so pressed up to him I realize what he smells like.

He smells of fire, soot, rain, the trees, the ground, and he smelled of power. I never knew power had a scent, but what I smell right now is nothing other than complete power. Not even my own father had this smell about him. It enrages me that everything about him exudes power; it makes me want to prove to him that he is a not god.

“I am not an idiot goblin. I know better than to trust my enemy. It would do you well to remember that we are enemies.” I take multiple steps back to clear my nostrils of him.

He steps towards me again. “It is not my fault that we are enemies, but we do not have to be. Being enemies with each other is doing neither of us any good right now, nor is it doing either of our kingdoms good.”

“If you want to make a treaty then you need to talk to my father.”

“Do you think I have not tried that? That my father has not tried it multiple times! It is your father who has turned us away again, and again.” He clinched his fists and raised his voice to such a high volume that it woke all the birds in the nearby trees. I refuse to be intimidated by him.

“My father has never mentioned any of these meetings before.” I whisper, it sounds weird in contrast of Sdegr’s loud voice.

“They happened before you were born. If you doubt me so much you can ask your father when you return from visiting my kingdom.” The second the word kingdom came out of his mouth all of the goblins stood attention with their weapons ready. I look up at the sky and see that dawn is just barely peaking over the horizon. I run through my options of what all I can do, and I began to see that it will be at least another four hours before my family awakens and another two more before they come looking for me. I also rule out attacking the ‘small’ army, because when my family finds my body they will declare full out war and so many more of my country men will die, and so many more families’ hearts will break.

It seems I have made my decision.

Chapter 3

My body aches so deeply I wonder if I will ever feel any differently. I am spread eagle across a wall with my hands, ankles, and neck chained to the wall. I try to open my eyes but it is just as dark as it is when my eyes are closed. The wall is roughly made with different sized stones, with some of those stones jutting deep into my back and legs. I try to wiggle around in my chains to see how much I can move, to find out that I cannot move at all. My chains are so securely fasted to the wall as well as to me that even the tiniest movement the chains cut deep into my wrist and ankles. The chains around my neck were tight enough to cause me extreme discomfort if I even so much as twitched my head. Stilling my body allows me to think to of how exactly I came to be in this situation.

***

It seems I have made my decision.

“You’re honestly not going to give me a choice in the matter are you.” I whisper. The only reason why he even able to hear me was from how close he is to me.

“What do you think?” His creature was now up and stalking towards us. He put his head under Sdegrs arm and started to bare its teeth and growling at me. It was the deepest most fearsome growl I have ever heard. Fear crept so fast into my body I’m truly paralyzed. The only thing I can do is stare into the wolfs blood red eyes. I rip my eyes away from the creatures to look back at Sdegr.

“My family will come after me.” My mind was still reeling from the fact that I’m about to go do my death, even if Sdegr said that he would keep me alive. I close my eyes to try and steady myself.

“I have no intention of allowing you to die while you are in my company. It would not benefit me at all.” His tone is pure ice.

“You can’t speak for everyone else in your kingdom.” I made my tone just as icy.

“No one would dare disobey me.” His eyes light up with pure death in them, a sure promise that I will be kept alive while I am with him, but no promise that I will be treated fairly.

I don’t answer him, I keep my body utterly still, not willing to show any emotion to my soon to be captures. I feel Sdegrs eyes on me, looking at my face my body. He turns his body to fully face me.

“Canar.” The one word slipped from his lips and his creature lunged toward me.

***

Remembering the attack made my hands clinch in frustration. My nails went deep into the cuts on my palms from the fight with Sdegrs ‘messenger’ I try to make myself relax. I wonder how much longer I can go without my cuts being infected since I haven’t even had the time to have them cleaned, and I doubt Sdegr or his men cleaned them for me. I wonder how long ive been down here; if its only been a couple hours, a day or multiple days. I am now confident that my family is now aware that I am not anywhere in the elf kingdom, and with the state with my room is in they will already have a clue as to what has happened to me. I have to remember to ask my father if Sdegr was really telling me the truth that he and his father went to mine to talk to him. If they really did go and speak to my father then why didn’t I know about it? Yes Sdegr said that it was before I was born but I still should have at least heard something about it. I also really want to find out why the goblins started the war in the first place. I’ve always been told they are just war and land hungry, but with how Sdegr is acting I’m not too sure that is correct anymore. I think back to how the goblins fight; they fight with utter strength and brutality, they hold absolutely nothing back. I think back to my first memory of seeing the goblins fight.

They fought with strategy and tact, making sure they lost as little men as possible, but maximizing the number of deaths on the other side. I understood warfare even when I was a babe; I would often sit in with my father’s war council, listening and learning so I could fight in the war and to help end it. The war is the reason why I was so adamant about my lessons on how to control the fire and how to harness it. Going to those meetings taught me that goblins are more animal than anything else but they are smarter and more cunning then we give them credit for, which means that they have a true and sound reason for starting this war. I was always told that they started the war for land; and it also seems that my people and the dwarfs don’t really care about knowing why the goblins have carried on the war for so long. What shocks me so much is that I just went along with their reasons, and that I did whatever my father told me to do with almost blind faith. I never once thought that the goblins could be fighting for a reason other than land.

I close my eyes to try to calm myself down from the blinding rage I feel towards myself. The fact that I acted like a mindless drone for my father and for my country sickens me to the point that I feel my stomach starting to clinch and heave. I start to cough rough wretched coughing that shake my whole entire body so hard the chains make a rattling sound so fearful I immediately stop coughing and I feel tears running down my checks. I clinch my hands into tight fists even through the pain of the cuts on my knuckles. I feel my stomach clinching itself even more and I know I would be vomiting on myself if I had any food in my stomach. Thinking of food reminds me that I haven’t even since yesterday morning; well I hope it was yesterday morning and that my sense of time hasn’t been warped by the blinding darkness in this dungeon. If I have been down her for more than a couple hours I pray my family has realized that I am no longer in the kingdom, and if it has been more than a couple hours then I am certain my family is looking for me and has hopefully found out that it is Sdegr who has taken me.

More coughs rack my body once again, and I have a feeling that if I’m down here for much longer then I will have my answer for what Sdegr is planning to do with me. I also have a feeling that I have been down in this dungeon for more than a couple of hours.

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