Book 1: The 3 Paths
There once was a land where butterflies would flutter, where birds would sing, where children laughed and played and where families would share great memories. This land was called Transcendale—the land of memories. Transcendale was a city that was gigantic! It had farms and crops, market places and laymen walking about inside of the fort walls exchanging trade and things of value. There was also a castle that the King, Queen, and all of their children resided in with their royal court. Everyone in the kingdom was merry and joyous.
In the courtyard just in the middle of the marketplace is a fountain with statues of heroes and great people alike surrounded by mystical beings where the water retreats back into the rather large, transparent pool of water. Here the children of the city play while their parents conduct business in the marketplace. One parent told their child, “Do not talk to strangers. We will return to you and take you back to the castle after we buy the finest silk. Stay here and play with the other children.” Another parent told their child, “Do not talk to strangers. We will return to you and will return back to the village after we buy seeds for the crops.” Both kids nodded and gave their mother and father a kiss farewell and proceeded to frolic in the courtyard with the other kids.
Time passed on and the children were still enjoying themselves with the fountain and were amazed by seeing many things from the travelers. They spotted griffins, miniature dragons, talking horses, dwarfs and elves, wizards and witches, lizardmen and beast warriors, lords and even odd masters from foreign lands. There was a terrible sight that the innocent children were ignorant of, slave merchants. There was a man without morals, with many riches, with a caravan of people in chains. The merchant stopped the caravan in front of the courtyard and cast a spell that made himself invisible. He spoke to the children while throwing glitter around the air proclaiming that he was the king of fairies. As innocent the mind of a child is, they believed him; however, they told him “We're not supposed to talk to strangers.” The man smirked and asked them where their parents where. They told the sly man the whereabouts of their parents. The man rubbed his chin and thought of a different idea. He asked the children if they wanted to see the land of rainbows and unicorns—the legendary land of Mysteria. The kids' eyes were filled with amazement and they asked the “fairy king” to escort them to Mysteria. Chuckling, the man told the kids to enter in the caravan. So they did without a thought. Then the kids where chained and beaten until they passed out. The man closed the caravan and swiftly made his way out of the beautiful kingdom.
Note: This is as much as I can do for now... lets call this chapter 1