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The common days had passed, even many. The ever-flowing music of life, sometimes to wonder, is this day enough? The question, what purpose to continue? When a life goes on for hundreds and hundreds of years, maturing into thousands, when does the day begin to dull? When does the music fall on deaf ears? As these thoughts painted my soul, a fleeting shadow of future moments touched my mind. Like a voice, grinding through silence, tore back the curtain of indifference. Something was coming. I could feel it pulsing just beyond my senses. A destiny called to me. I knew in that moment that a voice from the future was whispering my name. It beckoned to me from the shadows, as if my thoughts were erasing it from history. A tear pushed forth to reveal my weakness. I pulled myself from the depths of antiquity. I cleared my throat, coughing the dust of despair that had sought to choke me pulling me into its temptations. His voice drew me from the abyss of eternity that haunted my existence.
“HOSNAH, YOU KNOW THE END OF THE CYCLE IS UPON US. WHOM HAVE YOU CHOSEN TO TAKE THE HONOR?”
Hosnah had been in deep thought all day, refusing to interact with her family or friends, let alone those of her court. She had requested a reprieve from her normal duties, closing the doors to court from the public. Only the reagents were present, patiently waiting for her to announce her decision. After the morning, then early afternoon had passed, they began to become impatient with her. As the queen of her people, with no mate, it fell to her to oversee all the normal duties a king would handle. Every issue of her people that was brought to the court, she must hear and make the correct judgements to their proper conclusion. The thousand year cycle was ending. Today was the day of decision to name the parent of the future Millennial Hero. She had never failed her people and was known for her wisdom and profound understanding of all her subjects. It didn’t matter what role they played in the kingdom’s social structure or their chosen form of interaction in their position of contribution.
Many centuries in the past, there was discontent with our system, which was similar to Earth’s where it is still in full force. A type of exchange system which was highly unbalanced in which only a few seemed to benefit while the rest labored in obscurity and problematic issues of lacking. When the old king Jander had taken Hosnah as his new bride over six hundred years ago, she impressed him to the highest degree with her intelligence. King Jander actually considered Hosnah to be a genius on the highest order with intuitive insight beyond the ability of magic to provide.
Hosnah had declared the need to change the system of their kingdom. King Jander listened intently as she provided insightful and detailed plans to transform it. He was so intrigued with her words that he could not resist her plan. All his advisors foretold doom. An open rebellion spread across the lands as his advisors instigated whole cities to turn against the king. In the King’s wisdom he did not even prosecute them in his courts as the rebellion ended abruptly. The outer cities noticed happiness of the people which brought a sudden end to the conflicts. King Jander fired his advisors, preferring Hannah's advice and cunning strategies. Soon their whole kingdom was prospering beyond their wildest imagination as there was abundance in all things and more. It was amazing how this type of system brought about such happiness for all.
Hosnah’s happiness did not prosper. King Jander, during one of his monthly tours of the outer cities, was struck down by a dragon sized cat. Tallin Benders were one of the only wild beasts in the kingdom whose claws could penetrate the magical talisman that King Jander wore for protection. That was more than four hundred years ago. Still Hosnah had not taken another mate, grieving her loss to this day.
Queen Hosnah knew Earth would be lost to the Darbless. She was confronted by the court reagents to present her choice. It was hopeless though. She knew that only her secret might turn the tables. How to keep the secret and save Earth at the same time? Sitting on her throne, watching specks of dust flitter thru bright patches of sunlight that littered the room, she ignored them still. The most difficult decision of her entire life was shredding her hopes. You see, many thousands of years ago, there was a great war over Earth and its inhabitants. The Darbless and Hosnah’s people, the Valyric, clashed over Earth, both vying for control of the wondrous planet. The Valyric recognized the potential of good in humans, along with the wonderfully diverse animals on the planet.
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Yet even a greater treasure, gems and crystals, used to amplify magic, became the focus of desire. The Valyric were willing to share Earth, but the Darbless were unbending, showing their selfish ruthless and callous natures. Turning on the Valyric, the Darbless unleashed blatant and bloody devastation on all present on Earth in hopes of driving the Valyric away. They stood on the behalf of humans, many Valyric and Darbless perished in a very short time as powerful forces were unleashed.
Our leaders recognized the need to end the war, even with its short life. So an agreement was arranged and both good and evil withdrew back to Perishia, to prepare. We agreed upon a simple method of determining which of our kind would have free reign of Earth for a thousand year cycle. To make it fair in every way, a woman from each of our races would take a human mate and bear a human child. Upon the first year of age the child would be delivered to a human family to be raised on Earth. On the twenty-first birthday of each one, their full powers would be triggered by the arrival of the first full moon. Then the battle between them would ensue with the victor deciding the rulers of Earth for the next millennium. The treaty with the Darbless demanded that the Valyric produce a Millennial Hero to represent their case on Earth else forfeiture would be the outcome, just handing Earth to the Darbless.
This was the hardest issue she had ever dealt with. If she chose wrong, humans on Earth would become extinct. She knew the ways of the Darbless, horrid and evil beyond imagination. There would be no mercy for humans. She was sure that Earth would be destroyed this time. Every single human would be slaughtered. The only way any on Earth had survived the past was by hiding underground to insure their survival against the Darbless. There were hidden cults of misguided humans who worshiped the Darbless, supporting their victory and rule of Earth. These ruthless, murdering groups have hidden among the populace on Earth, fooled into believing they can co-exist and rule with the Darbless. Not only will the next Millennial Hero have to deal with the Darbless warrior but this troublesome cult also. It appeared to be hopeless.
The only other option was war with the Darbless but that was not an option. Even with Valyric superior magic, the Darbless had their protections and their black arts. War was out of the question. She had tried to prepare the humans for this time, foreseeing a bad outcome to this cycle. The leaders of Earth refused to hear her words as they only sought means to their own wars and profits. Negotiating with their leaders, offering assistance, they refused to listen. She knew that in the human DNA were hidden locks that would trigger if they would only turn towards altruism. She could plainly see that once triggered the potential of humans would provide them protection from the Darbless.
Humans were unique in this way. Special formulas in their genetic structures connected them through dimensional paths to near infinite power and potential. Yet with their self-destructive methods on their planet, they blocked their own steps of advancing evolutionary progress that would trigger those hidden locks.
Hosnah had spent the last hundred years secretly studying the formulas of human DNA. She had taken this knowledge, experimenting with her very own DNA. The changes in her own powers were beyond her people’s normal capacities to such extremes that it brought fear to her mind. What she found from this, she had kept hidden, even from her most trusted family. Her unique experiences from it were just too powerful. She did not want the Darbless to ever become privy to this knowledge. It would not end well for her people or Earth.
If the Darbless ever learned of this knowledge, they would forego the treaty of peace to outright take Earth. There was no doubt. Humans on Earth needed more time to evolve as her people had. This would trigger their DNA and evolve them. But humans had not made it to that point yet, almost, but not quite. She knew that some of her people still had dealings with the Darbless privately, leaving her with no choice but to hide this knowledge. As she struggled with these issues an idea came to her.
She sat up, smiled, turned to the court reagents and proclaimed, “I will be the honored one.”
You could hear the wind move. The blank stares that looked back made her smile spread even wider. Their looks of surprise made her laugh out loud. She watched as several mouths suddenly clamped shut that had just so recently been hanging so low. Knowing this decision was fully hers to make, she turned suddenly, making her way out the door behind her. Reaching back to brush her hand across the air giving the instructions, “Make the announcement, my decision is final.”
Her whole kingdom was abuzz. Every form of communication was alive with fire as the voices raced to be the first to speak of it. Never in all the history of the cycles had a royal been chosen to parent the Millennial Hero, never.
Hosnah knew that the only chance Earth had of surviving, was her secret. Her child would be the Millennial Hero. Her secret would save Earth. No one could suspect. She must be very careful in her choice of a mate. This would be very critical to her child’s abilities. There was no room for mistakes. She would have to spend the next few months exploring Earth for her child’s father. She would have many long days and nights evaluating humans just to find the one. There had to be at least one human male that had advanced enough to have triggered the first layer of DNA locks that would allow her child to seal their destiny to unlock the power needed. There had to be...every human on Earth was depending on her to survive. She must succeed.
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