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Chapter 01 - The False True Prince

Chapter 01 - The False True Prince

Author's Spot: Hey there! Have you thought I will not write this one?

YAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm writing this one slowly and the ideas just continue to pop when I try to write it! But what can I say... nothing I write is planned because once I do it it get so strange that I feel like it wasn't me who wrote or that the story is wrong, so I normally leave "my brain write while I read it". :)

Have a good mad reading!

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Anselm PoV

I use the Dyanos to lift me, they are under my feet forming a triangle. I had yet to find a way to escape this prison… How much time had already passed since I entered this place? I think it has been 5 years that I was here seeking for knowledge… and now that I had already gathered everything I needed here… to where I should go after leaving this place?

‘Why not try to seek knowledge to try to create rifts on the space-time continuum and travel between them gathering more and more knowledge? Or I can probably go back in time and try to help my past self...?” I was thinking when I found where I could leave. It was a door that I have never seen before and on the other side was a black alley.

“Finally! I finally found a way to get out of here!” Before walking out I looked everywhere. It was night and the mana in the air was rich, I could feel it fill my body! Three moons were floating in the sky red, blue and purple were it’s color. I had thought I would never see them again. This is really my world. But… where am I? The time I was leaving on this factory I just find out that this place was nowhere but could travel to any place. But staying here would not help me achieve my goals.

Using my flying drones I go out without touching the ground. I could use them like that so I wouldn’t get tired easily. I float just a few centimeters of the ground, I don’t want to someone seeing me flying high in the air. I look back and I see that I walked through a wall. The door of the factory had already closed and now a stone wall was in its place.

I touch the place and it is solid. My hand can’t pass through it. ‘Now I will never find it again. Good, now that I am free again… What should I do?’ I think while using the Dyanos to fly through the alley. It is a little dark, but with the moons shining in the sky I can see perfectly.

Flying for a few minutes I find the main road. It had some lights and I stop flying. I need to walk so that no one would find it so strange. The six Dyanos were floating beside me while I walked in the street. I could see some guards looking at me with a strange gaze but I shrug my shoulders and continue walking seeing what this city had.

Nothing that catching I could say… The main street had some shops but at this time they were already closed and the three moons in the sky wouldn’t fade for a while. I choose to do a thing that everyone normal would do. I walk in an alley and when I find a good spot I use my Dyanos I go up in the air. Soaring to the top of a nearby house. I look down and a few soldiers appears on the alley I was. ‘They want to capture me? They will need to try harder. Let’s play hide and seek. I’ll hide you seek.’ A laugh escapes my lips and they all started looking from where it was coming. I thought they wouldn’t see me, but one of them looked up and he pointed his arm to my position. I ran away jumping from roof to roof. It was funny to see the guards running in all directions trying to grab me when I did a “big” jump. I was just joking with them anyway. I was using the Dyanos since the first jump.

‘Well I got bored already. Let’s stop this play.’ I had played with them for a few minutes and they couldn’t catch me in the air. So I had gone down and was floating near the ground to make it funnier and to run away when they got close enough to touch me. I could hear them shouting something, and as I had thought, this really is the same world I lived. They were trying to catch me for some reason and I would not let them catch me easily. But, why would I not play with them?

“*Pant* Finally found you.*Pant*” They have made a circle around me I just look at them with new awe on my eyes. “*Pant*Why are you running like that?*Pant* And what are *Pant* those strange things? We just-” He lifted his eyes and looked at my own eyes. He had a shocked look in his face. ‘What is so different that he stopped moving?’ I wanted to say, but he kneeled with tears in his eyes before I could ask anything. “Your Highness, It’s good to see that you’re alive. It has been 10 years already, we all thought you were dead!”

‘They think I am a prince or something like that? But I wasn’t one like that! My family had power, but we weren’t so powerful that anyone would knees before us.’ I had a puzzled face. ‘What should I do now… this is a timeline that my family is the king and I am the prince that has ran away or got kidnaped? Or will I use it to try gain more knowledge?’ I was trying to solve the problem that have appeared. The soldier that had talked before wiped his tears and looked to me.

“Your Highness may not remember but 10 years ago, when you were a five year old kid, someone entered the palace and kidnap you. Everyone had fallen asleep and no one saw who entered, we think it was a magician of some kingdom. But we never got anything that showed that you were alive.” It looks like I am royalty here… let’s go with it. I will probably be able to get to know what to do or who this prince is.

“I don’t know what are you talking about. The strange things you are seeing are my drones and I think you got the wrong person.” I had sat on my Diones. Why should I stay standing? I want to gather some knowledge. If I said I was the prince they would get suspicious so I needed to say I wasn’t.

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“No, you ARE the prince! No one ever have seen the combination of hair and eyes the prince had.” Oh! So my white hair and purple eyes are special at this timeline too. “We just wanted to get some questions done, but now I think we should guide you to the castle… but it’s so late and if we wake the king now…” He started to mumble while all the others guards protected the area around us… I could fly, so they wouldn’t be able to catch me even if they want.

He got up and bowing to me he walks to talk to one of the guards and after finishing the guard run away going to the city center. It is there the castle was. I had seen it from afar when I jumped on the roofs.

“I apologize for my rude behavior from before, Prince. My name is Mark Ironclov.” He bows now showing respect. I was already bored because of this. I wanted to gather some new knowledge.

“Guide me to a library. I need to gather information.” I say to him while my legs are crossed and I am floating before him. He looked troubled, he was scratching his head and was dispersing the soldiers to continue their patrol around the city.

“I can’t let you go to a library in the city, what we’re going to do if something happens there?” Mark ask to me.

“Well… if something happens there I will blow everyone. I can do that without destroying the library, too much.” I start to fly in a low speed to a place where I had seen a library when I was running away. The guard quickly reached me and accompanied me until the door and said he would stay there protecting it from anyone suspicious.

‘This is tiring… I want to blow his head…’ I was already bored but thankfully now I have some books about magic I had gathered. Some were easy and I had already read them, other were a little more difficult, but I could understand them too and if I had to say this would be the lasts this place would have and I couldn’t find anything about machines, time travel or something like that. The space travel was a simple type of magic, but if I wanted to use the space and time magic I would need a more complete one.

I stretch myself and I get to see the sky. It was already morning I wasn’t tired and now it would be possible to see my said father. I would need to probably act as his son… or someone that he think is his son… but with the few bits of info I got they wouldn’t know how the kid would look like now and how he would behavior.

I was thinking about it when Mark appeared near me. He had a tired look in his face. I chuckled seeing the black things under his eyes.

“We got to talk with the king a few hours ago but you wasn’t paying attention to me at all.” Oh it was so long that I had human company that I just didn’t remembered how to act near them. I shrug and ask him to guide the way. I could fly to there… but carry this guy would be annoying and he would probably be too heavy to lift without the use of magic. So he walk and I move on my Dyanos.

Mark was explaining some things to me while we walked to the palace. It took us 20 minutes to come here… it would really be better to fly here.

Reaching the gate some knights look to me and make a salute. I nod my head to them, I thought it would be okay to do it. I was guided to the entrance and from there a maid took the lead to guide me to the throne room. While we walked I looked to the wall. Tons of paintings were showing some people with purple eyes or with white hair. They were probably the previous king and none of them had the two together, except the last guy. He was probably the first king and he had both. I was amused of how powerful the combo looked on someone else.

“*Whistle* So that is how we appear to be… to others…” I say looking at the guy. I send a wave of mana to the picture because I had a strange feeling about it, and I was correct. There is something strange with it, a point on it had a mana feeling… It was when we got before a door. It was big and it had some gems. But it isn’t important, the gems are nothing if you can’t use them to gather mana. It was when the maid knocked the door.

“*Knock* *Knock*Your Highness, the second Prince(?) Livius Aquamarine Glaerd The Fourth is here.” Oh! That’s a good name the prince had. I enter the room and my Dyanos were flying on my back and before me was an man and a woman. They had nearly 40 years old and the king eyes were purple, he was wearing a blue robe with three golden dragons circling his body to stop before his shoulders and neck. On his head a gold crown with a big ruby in the center with some small jewels. The woman was wearing a white dress with small red roses marking it. Her crown was smaller but had more delicacy. They were a beautiful pair, but what I was seeing was they looking at me while I walked to them.

I stop three meters before them and knee down waiting to see what will happen. I was feeling their eyes on me and they haven’t said a word until now and I wouldn’t neither.

“Do you remember me?” The king ask me. I lift my head to look at his eyes.

“Sorry, but I don’t remember you, King.” I say the truth. His eyes were locked at my owns. He was staring inside them like that he could see my soul. But he cracked a smile.

“This is good! My son had finally come back!” The king said lifting his body from the chair and the queen had a gentle smile. She hadn't moved yet, but I could see small drops of water forming in her eyes.

I can say one thing, I am not the true prince and I wasn't him. The truth is that all kids will have the same parents and the same names in all timelines and dimension. And it was decided that I would become the second prince on that day.