Galen - The Untold Tales of Frelanna Forest

Once upon a time, since the foundation of humanity, the goddess Galadriel had been the mightiest one and got respect from everyone. There wasn’t any document talking about since when she had appeared in this world. But there was a fact that humanity could recognize her existence in their entire daily life: When an individual wished for something, if their will is strong enough, their voice would be noticed by Galadriel and she would grant their wish. If we take a look at the map of the world. At the East there was Larub Continent, it had a shape of a huge land being covered by millions of small islands, that even a human could take their life to discover, looks like a sun if look from up above. In Tenica Continent at the West, where the goddess Galadriel ruled over, it had the shape of the crescent moon. At the center of that land, located The Sacred Ocean. At there, there was a small island alone among the blue color of the sea, but it was the shinest area of that land: Frelanna Forest - also the place where Galadriel chose to reside in this world as her home. Galadriel had been protecting this forest for thousands of years. Not only that, she extracted a part of her power to create three of her children and support her in forest management. They were called The Three Guardians of Frelanna Forest. The first one was Iresthea - Leader of the species. She ruled over the species in the forest and secure their safety. The second one was Cirion - Father of Faerin, a special magical and spiritual species who were born having flowers as their wings. Their mission is to take care of the trees of the forest. The last one also the youngest one was Sephylim - Princess of the Dragons. Among of three guardians, she was the strongest one. She and her creations - the dragons had the mission to protect Frelanna Forest untouchable from any harm to the outsiders. The Three Guardians had been serving under Galadriel and they kept not only Frelanna Forest, but also the entire Tenica Continent to become most peaceful and ideal for humanity to live. 500 years ago, there was a group of humans who discovered this island and would like to found a kingdom on this land. Despite receiving the objection from The Three Guardians, Galadriel was still kindheartedly welcomed them and invited them to coexist with Frelanna Forest. She also gifted this newly founded kingdom an honorable name - Frelanna Kingdom. However, 200 years ago, until the generation of King Laurence, the history book claimed that Sephylim suddenly betrayed the Frelanna Forest. Not only she destroyed the Frelanna Kingdom, but also killed her own mother Galadriel and her siblings Iresthea and Cirion.  She and her dragons didn't stop their rampage on The Sacred Ocean area, she expanded her conquest to the entire of Tenica Continent and vowed herself to eliminate humanity...  Humans didn’t care to answer the question of why Sephylim wanted to do that. They had to live in suffocation, in anger toward her who pushed humanity to live under the hunt of the dragons, who know... death would come to them anytime.  Meanwhile, at Frelanna Kingdom, people there were already corned after the attack of Sephylim. They also got hatred from other kingdoms, who claimed that they might do something to anger Sephylim. Eventually, in recent years, Frelanna Kingdom collapsed. Their civilisation and society had been removed from Tenica Contient's world map and any historical document... *** Without Galadriel, the time just passed by in the dark era of the Tenica Continent… At the North-West of the land, resided Tredia Kingdom, which was currently celebrating one of the biggest occasions of all time. The civilians were gathered to the capital’s central arena in order to witness the most intense and exciting yearly event they had ever seen: The Tredian Warrior Contest. The purpose of this contest was to choose the best warrior in order to join the royal knight or even take an important role in national defense for the kingdom. This is the honorable title and the dream of everyone so they were trying their best to win it. The crowd was shouting, applauding, encouraging the gentlemen who were wearing armor, yelling, clashing their weapons, and caused the explosive metal noise impacting each other… “Hah! Eat this!!!” BANG!! A very eventually sound echoed, pushed the crowd into silence as they saw a sword being thrown away to the edge of the arena. A young guy in shiny armor pointed his weapon by both his hands - a claymore toward the owner of that thrown sword with confidence. The result had been settled and he was the winner to decide who won the final round of the contest! Woooo!!! The crowd was cheering non-stop for that teenager for his victory to enter the final stage. He took his helmet out, revealed his short and stylist blond hair and shiny aquamarine eyes. His hand waved to the crowd with a prideful smile. Sometimes, he looked at the girls at the audience seat who cheered for him intensively. His name was Kris - unique son of Grand Duke Leerstrom and was famous was flawless, talented, handsome in Tredia Academy. That perfect boy had unexpectedly beaten all contestants while he was just 16 years old.   “Congratulation for the victory of Mr.Leerstrom!” The announcer shouted with his magic devise that amplify his voice, so everyone could hear what he said “And now for the final battle, we will witness the most intense battle we will never have a chance to see it ever again!!! Kris Mania Leerstrom, will have a duel against the Crown Prince of Tredia Kingdom as the ceremony to prove his strength in front of our Almighty Highness: Galen Lucianna Anderton!!” *** Meanwhile at the backstage, there was someone who was taking a peek from the curtain to the arena and looked at Kris… “Hah… Really I have to fight that monster? Why is there this such ceremony to trouble me like this...” Completely different than perfectionist Kris, Galen was just a normal-looking boy. Even though Galen was 15 years old, the age difference wasn’t much compared with Kris, but Kris was almost two times bigger than Galen. The more confident and mature Kris’s face is, the more timid and adorable Galen’s face is. Without the crown of the prince, some people might mistake him for a girl. Galen had long platinum hair with double curls at the front which touched on his shoulder, covered his red ears being shy when the crowd was expecting him to be a fabulous and cool prince, as the announcer kept exaggerating his image. Galen swallowed his saliva while being nervous. ‘I wonder if I can do it.’ Galen worried. Suddenly, someone popped up on his shoulder and said. “Hey Galen! Everything will be fine so just keep going and fight!” It was Frank - a little energetic creature looking like a tiny chubby cat with fairy wings. Galen couldn’t remember the first time he met Frank, but he had been the best friend of his throughout many years alone in the Palace. “Eh… wait, Frank!” Galen panicky replied “But I’m so bad at fighting!” “Rather than ashaming your King Father that you are too coward that running away from the duel right?” Frank continuously encouraging Galen “Come on! Believe in yourself and everything will eventually pass. Once the duel is done, let’s reward you a caramel pudding?” Hearing caramel pudding, Galen’s emerald eyes sparkled. “Really??!! Ok I’ll do it!!” “Haiz…” Frank shook his head when seeing Galen leaving him behind “This kid is so easy to lure.” Galen took a long breath, his eyes looked straight forward with the sword being hold in his hand eventually. He slowly stepped in the arena in the applause of the audience.  *** “This is my honor to have a chance dueling with the Almighty Highness.” Kris politely kneeled down in front of Galen “I wish we will have a meaningful battle so I can show you that I’ll be your best support in the future.” “If that, I hope you won’t disappoint me.” Saying that, but deep inside Galen was plenty of fear and nervousness “GALEN, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING? THAT GUY WILL DEFINITELY KILL YOU IF YOU SAY THAT!” “So the last battle, between the Champion of Tradien Warrior Contest and the High Prince of Tredia Kingdom… …begin!!!” As the sound of announcing horns echoed through the entire arena, the battle between Kris and Galen began. Without letting Galen have a chance to attack, Kris already charged forward and attacked first. Galen was surprised by his speed, he rose his sword to defend back and cast the magic spell ‘Defend Up!’… Bang! Their weapons impacted each other, blew the dust away from their area.  ‘He is so strong!’ Galen thought while being stunned by the overwhelming difference of power. Comparing with his current speed and power, Kris was already at another level! At this rate, Galen had no other choice than to defend himself, buying the time until Kris used all of his stamina. “Oh, as expected from you, Your Highness. I really cannot judge your ability just by your look.” Kris said in admiration “You can stop my claymore’s attack with just a sword only, so you rely on magic more than physical, I see.” “Thank you for your compliment.” Galen tried to hold his cold sweat and pretended to be cool in front of Kris, with the hope it could weaken his mentality. Actually, that counterattack earlier already consumed all Galen’s aura energy so he could no longer combat anymore! “Now you have witnessed my real potential, it’s not easy to win me. Will you continue to defeat me or not?” But deep inside Galen’s head, he thought: “But if he wants to continue?” “Then please show me what you have, Your Highness. This time I will be serious now.” “Ah… You have been screwed up, Galen…” Galen thought. Galen could feel the atmosphere around Kris was moving. With a cast of magic spell from Kris, a wave of fire had been summoned and surrounding his claymore. This powerful state of Kris currently dropped Galen’s mouth. This was his first time to see this such power exist in his life! “Gya!!!!” Kris ran forward, directed to Galen like a burning rocket and rose his claymore above. At this time, with his speed not enough to avoid the attack, Galen felt like he was seeing a powerful asteroid that was going to be launched, land a critical hit on him and going to finish his life already. Voom!! The entire arena was shaken by a crazy explosion that pushed the audience to step back for meters. Until the dust had been gone, they went ‘ohh’ when an unexpected thing happened in front of their eyes. Kris was still standing on the arena with his flame claymore, immobilized and distant from Galen’s face just a few centimeters. Galen at this time barely could do anything to counter back this attack. If Kris didn’t stop his critical hit, Galen could have already died. “Your Highness….?” Kris looked at Galen with doubtful eyes “Why didn’t you fight back? You are treating me? Or…” Galen stayed silent for few seconds. He dropped his sword on the ground and confirmed in public. “My apology for disappointing you, Kris Leerstrom.” Galen took an inhale and said “But actually, I’m not as strong as you think. As the crown prince, I still can barely fight…”  The crowd and Kris went silent after hearing this shocking news. Everyone expected the battle to be epic and legendary, but now it just revealed an ugly image that their crown prince, their future king was just a weak individual. How can this person become their leader to fight against the upcoming enemies…? How can they trust him to become the king…? The civilians began discussing while looking at Galen with despised eyes. Galen could feel it while being shamed in the public, their eyes looking at him were so scary and detesting that he felt like he was being cornered. Even Kris couldn’t believe himself after his expectation being crushed by Galen’s confession as well. Suddenly, from cheerful eyes, he looked at Galen with a disgusted face. “This is shameful for this kingdom like ours, to have a super weak prince like you.” He said, and threw Galen a glance “If I could, I would become the king already, instead of you!” The sea of people then agreed what Kris said while kept talking bad about Galen. Coudln’t handle it anymore, without thinking his image, Galen rushed himself out of the arena… ***   Frank tried to chase behind Galen – who was sitting beside a fontaine at the backyard garden of the Palace. Seeing him trying to hold his tears and sighing, Frank flew to Galen and sat on his shoulder.   “Hey Galen…” Frank began the conversation first “You already tried your best, just ignore what people think about you…” “Frank, do I worth to become the future king of Tredia? Now I really don’t know what to say to my father… for losing his image in front of public.” Galen asked “I was born with bad health condition, so I look so far smaller and weaker than Kris. A person like this will have a chance to lead the kingdom? Or even… what can I do to this world beside being an useless person.” “You are wrong, kid! Have you forgotten what you are strong at?”   Frank flew forward, pulled Galen’s hair curl to the decoration tree nearby.   “You see this tree’s branch got broken right?” Frank pointed his tiny finger to the half broken tree branch. “Yeah, but since when…” Galen was surprised when seeing the branch being half broken “Ah… you miserable being, let me help you.”   Galen gently held by both his hands and embraced that broken part of the tree branch. Miraculously, in a few seconds later, the tree branch had been healed to its original state, as if nothing happened.   “You see? You have this such amazing healing ability. But currently, you just cannot show it yet. Your situation right now can be described like this: You are a fish, but you are forced and taught to climb on the tree.” Frank said “Believe me, you are not useless. One day you can use this healing magic of yours and help everyone else!” “Haha… thank you for encouraging me, Frank.”   Suddenly, behind Galen, a servant came to him. “Your Highness, please come to the throne hall immediately… …The King is waiting for you.”