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A Forgotten Tale

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Chapter 1 - Prologue: Will You Open Your Eyes ?

You groggily lift your heavy eyelids. It feels as if something is missing. The ice cold mist creeps up your spine and you feel oddly lethargic. Coming to your senses, you glance at your surroundings. It seemed as if it were something familiar. Your head throbs, a sharp sting emerging as you unconsciously tried to recall something. You pull yourself together, slowly getting up, ignoring the countless aches pulsating through your body. The glaciated floor below you fractures slightly. A soft blue glow emanates from the mirroring cracks. The subtle glimmer grows as you are strangely mesmerized by the frost-imbued halation.

You begin to feel somnolent, the strength in your sore legs starting to fade. The sapphire radiance drifts onto your hand, seemingly fading into it as an azure sigil materialized with a fuzzy burn. A beautiful drop of water amidst the torrential waves of blue.

As the effervescent luster settles down, your legs start to regain energy. You get up once again and catch a metallic glint at the corner of your eye. You turn your head towards it. A knife. The knife was delicately adorned with a variety of verdant jewels, each one radiating a unique radiance. You feel a peculiar attraction to the worn knife and pick it up unconsciously. As you grip it within your palms, foreign memories flicker before your eyes. You have never experienced these moments yet you feel like they were yours. The memories stopped flowing as you blinked, disappearing from your mind as suddenly as it came.

Regaining your composure, you glance at your surroundings, seeing nothing but verglas glazed icicles. You decide to scout the area while taking a short stroll along the wintry pathway. The unwelcoming chills numbing your limbs as you tread along the ice.

At long last, you see hope, a small light at the end of the road. You ignore your pains and rush towards your final destination with great longing.

After an exhausting sprint, you arrive at the blinding entrance of the cave, gasping for air as you desperately grab on to the opening.

The cool wind passes by, your silky white hair flutters as you stare at the boundless viridescent meadows, full of colourful wild flowers. You feel like you've regained something you lost as your jet-black eyes sparkle brilliantly like a black diamond. The refreshing wind continues to glide through the golden skies.

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The sun-kissed heavens glittered as the fiery orb descended into the horizon. You wander around the aureate field aimlessly, helplessly bewitched by the irresistible scenery as the sun fell, replaced by the resplendent crescent, the burning glow shifting into a tranquil grey.

As the golden hour passed, you return to reality, finding yourself in a foreboding forest, the silvery moon overlooking the boundless evergreen surrounding you. You roam through the dim woods, the plethora of trees looming above you, allowing for only the smallest rays of moonlight to ebb through.

The greenwood path in front of you is pitch black, but you could only head forward, never turning back. You trudge along the leaf covered grounds, facing the tenebrous darkness engulfing the shaded forest. The umbral surroundings writhed around as if it were alive, waiting for a moment to grasp onto you, dragging you into a neverending phantasmagoria of the abyss.

As you carefully drag your feet across the shadowed dirt path, your surroundings flared up in a glaring outburst of prismatic light, rippling around like a field of radiant fireflies, bell-like chimes melodically serenading around you.

You grip tightly onto your dagger, anxiety urging you to stay alert. The glimmering starlike photons dancing around you, a soft white line trailing behind each sparkle.

Soon enough, the nebula of lustrous orbs converges to create a hollow sphere, hovering in the air, seemingly suspended. It circles around you and zips further into the forest, as if nudging you to follow it.

You quickly trail behind it as it leads you deeper into the dark oblivion. The shuddering stillness makes you wary, the ball of light starting to fade. Soon, you reach an area shrouded in foliage. You gently brush away the leafy branches in front of you, revealing the breathtaking view of a glittering cerulean lake.

As you are captivated by the stunning blue waters of the lake, the guiding light dips into the water and the lake erupts into a burning aurora, wavy fragments of light coalescing in fragmented units like the twinkling of stars in the night sky.

The water gushes out from the surface of the lake, collecting into a mass that forms into the shape of a humanoid. The figure becomes more defined as a woman with a cascading crown on her head. Without a word, she comes to you and grasps your face with her cold, aqueous hands, daintily kissing you on the forehead. You feel yourself being enveloped in a soothing blue glow, the azure aura smoothly wafting off your skin akin to the waves of the sea, a blessing of the purest water.