Untitled. Chapter One

Lightening illuminated the dark sky as the rain fell heavy upon his shoulders. Twin brothers glare into each others eyes as they gripped on to the hilt of their swords. Before them stood a woman in a scarlet Victorian dress, pleading to end the squabble between the two of them. Her words became meaningless as the sound of steel clashed before her eyes. "Roland! Xane! please stop this at once!" the woman attempted to end the vendetta with simple words, but as always the twins continued their brawl. Roland pulled away from the clash and studied his brother, waiting for his next attack. Xane didn't hesitate to strike at his brother, but always ended being in class between steel. "Xane, you can have the throne! I would rather live my life in happiness, but now you want to take away my happiness from me as well. Why!?" Roland questioned as he stared into his brothers dark eyes. He could see the corruption that power had provided him as he was seeking the throne, but couldn't understand how his corruption had to affect himself. Xane simply chuckled as he peered into his brother pale blue eyes and realized the difference between him and his brother. "Because I take things from the weak... and that is what you are my dear brother. You were always a selfless coward that always wanted to please others instead of yourself. So why do you deserve happiness?" Xane replied coldly causing Roland to gasp in shock as he then stared into the eyes of the husk of corruption that was his brother. Roland remembered when Xane protected him when they were pups in the eyes of their mother. The memory how they fought in wars together and battled as one. Xane quickly stepped back and lunged his saber forward and pierced through his brother's chest. The taste of cold steel presented on to his tongue. Out of pure instinct Roland held onto his brother's saber and returned the favour. "We're twins... an eye for an eye...." Roland spoke weakly as blood ran down from his lips and fell to his knees. Xane mirrored his brother and fell to the ground with Roland not so far behind. The woman rushed to Roland's side and held on to him as she cried. "Ara... I...I...love..." Roland began but fainted from the amount of pain and blood loss. Ara sobbed as she tried to stop any further blood loss with her hands, staining her pale skin with her lover's blood.

A year has passed, Dalmaria fell in to the hands of no one other than Xane. With malicious intent Xane was a puppet to a devious plan from a mysterious man in the shadows. Following the man's instruction Xane killed his father, the king, and seized the thrown, with no opposition. Roland disappeared and was last seen dead on the kingdom grounds, as his brother weaved a story on how Roland planned to take over the throne and run a tyrannical rule to take over the left of the country. Ara disappeared. Her whereabouts are unknown to anyone.