The Edge of the End of the World: Part 1

These are the tales of a young girl named Eve

Whose many adventures you wouldn't believe

Filled up with frights that would horrify kings

Dark, deadly, dangerous terrible things

But first let me start where the story begins

Before I get foolish and tell you the end

But where to begin as I tell you this rhyme

Let me think, yes, of course, once upon a time

The world was once peaceful, but that came and went

It followed the paths laid by the hearts of men

For the deadliest plagues to the earth are the seeds

Of jealousy, anger, power, and greed

So millenia passed as men fought in their wars

And most times, they knew not what they were fighting for

'Til one day ten thousand men stood in a flood

A river of their fallen comrades own blood

They looked at themselves and then threw down their blades

And that day Harmonia came to be made

For one hundred years this kingdom lived in peace

But, of course, for some reason, all good things must cease

Legends told of a cave with a sleeping dragon

High in Harmonia's eastern mountains

A young knight named Simon, he led an attack

And he promised to bring the dragon's treasure back

His army marched two years to get to the place

Before they found themselves and the beast face to face

The dragon lay sleeping on top of its horde

Simon and his army all pulled out their swords

They began to charge it but as they approached

They made too much noise and the dragon awoke

The battle that followed took so many lives

Only Simon and two of his men would survive

The dragon laid dead on the floor of the cave

And Simon could have been considered so brave

But his head was filled with the wildest dreams

His actions were all really part of a scheme

Simon's father was a wandering bard

Who told many tales that he read in the stars

And Simon's favorite was the story that told

Of the treasure that dragons held worth more than gold

The legends said if you plant a dragon's teeth

An invincible army will grow from the seeds

Simon saw himself as Harmonia's king

His army would make him the lord of all things

So he killed the two men who had lived through the fight

To be all alone and bring his plans to light

He planted the teeth just like a field of corn

And with the teeth, he planted the dragon's horn

Simon sat back and he waited for rain

And he marvelled at the powers of his own brain

The clouds came and poured, the teeth began to grow

Simon went to harvest the army he'd sown

He'd planted all three hundred teeth of the beast

They grew into soldiers that were incomplete

Their bodies, they weren't fully covered with skin

They were half fully human and half skeleton

But for them Simon didn't shed any tears

He thought 'This will make them even more feared'

But even Simon felt some fear from the beast

That had grown from the horn of the dragon deceased

As Simon walked towards it, he stared up in awe

At the monster before him that stood eight feet tall

It towered above the rest of the soldiers

A monster so large, it seemed almost absurd

Simon approached pretending to be brave

He said "I'm your master and you are my slave."

The beast looked at Simon and began to laugh

It picked Simon up and folded him in half

Simon never had one small chance to react

Before he felt all the bones snap in his back

He didn't feel pain, though. He was too surprised.

He thought to himself 'What happened?' then he died

The creature threw the corpse aside in the mud

Then its first words were "I'm getting thirsty for blood.

Let all lands before us now bow at the feet

Of Xandor the Blade and his fierce Dragonteeth."

Xandor in Dragonspeak means the word king

He began preparing to cause suffering

The Blade and his soldiers went back to the cave

Where the dragon had kept all of its treasure saved

There were magical items and weapons galore

There was armor and jewelry and diamonds and more

The Dragonteeth put weapons into their hands

And then they proceeded to march on the land

No one could stop them as they moved along

The Blade and his Dragonteeth were far too strong

Harmonia's people were forced into graves

The ones that survived it became Xandor's slaves

With this fate, the people tried learning to cope

'Til one day something happened to give them hope

The Blade always kept a prophet at his side

To tell him the future before it arrived

Some slaves saw the oracle fall to her feet

She looked up at Xandor and told him to flee

She said "Your destruction is told in the sky.

Look up and see it with your own two eyes."

Xandor looked up and the omen was seen

He said "Tell me, oracle. What does it mean?"

She told him "The daughter of dawn has been born.

She's coming to rescue the weak and forlorned."

A wave of excitement ran through all the slaves

Who saw in the sky a bright star in the day

Like flames across the land, the prophecy spread

But the Blade only laughed all this off then he said

"You're joking! A baby is what I should fear?

Please tell me I shouldn't trust my own two ears

Oracle, you must be some kind of fool

What will happen? Will I die if touched by her drool?"

He gathered his soldiers and gave his orders

He said "Let us make a nice welcome for her.

This child should already say her goodbyes

I sentence all babies in this land to die

The Dragonteeth went on their murderous quest

They went all throughout the north, south, east and west

They carried their mission out, beaming with joy

They liked murdering the baby girls and boys

The viciousness of the Blade's army was clear

As they left Harmonia's parents in tears

And in this madness was the peasant girl Jess

Who had no idea she was part of this mess

There was no one to tell her that her baby girl

Was destined to someday save the whole world

She only knew that her new baby's life

Was about to be taken by a monster's knife

She fled through the woods as the Dragontooth chased

She knew any minute it would win this race

And just when she thought she could no longer go

She came out of the woods to where the river flowed

The creature that chased her wasn't far behind

She looked to the sky and she prayed for a sign

She burst into tears and she cried out her thanks

When she spotted a small boat on the riverbank

Jess put her daughter inside of the boat

After testing it, just to make sure it would float

Jess told her "I love you, my dear little miss.

Goodbye, Eve, my darling." and gave her a kiss

She let the boat glide with the current downstream

Then hoped that the beast behind her hadn't seen

To throw it off, she ran the opposite way

Praying her baby would turn out okay

Thankfully, the monster came after her

For a moment, she felt herself running faster

But it didn't take too long for her to get caught

But, of course, by then, to Jess, it mattered not

For the baby, the Dragontooth looked all around

But it couldn't find her so it just cut Jess down

He had no idea where the baby could go

But decided that the Blade didn't need to know

The Dragontooth never thought to wonder why

The day star still burned bright up in the sky

But Xandor the Blade only knew all too well

Of the story this shining star wanted to tell

He had no idea how his plan could have failed

While somewhere far away, a small baby sailed...