Querencia World Book3: The Mystery of The Mermaid Fortress

A long time ago, humans, mythical creatures, dragons, and wizards lived in a harmonious World. The wizards are the most powerful mythical creatures. The wizards both have the power of the light and dark energies. The balance and co-existence of light and dark energies maintain by wizards. The dragons are the reliable allies of wizards. Each wizard paired with a dragon as their partner. In each war, they faced their battles together; the wizard as the offense and the dragon as the defense. The wizards and dragons have unspoken rules to look out for one and another. Until one day, the human World leader became greedy for power, fame, and money. He wanted to maintain his position as the President of Atracia City. He does not want to get wrinkled and grow old. The Human Leader noticed one thing about the mythical creatures, they never wrinkled, grow old, and they live long enough. The human wanted to bear those qualities. The Human Leader wanted to look young for-ever, never wrinkled, and to have a long life so he can overpower and rule for the longest time as the President of Atracia City. The Atracia City, where the Human Leader is the President. It is a land of fast growth and advanced technology that the mythical creatures admired. The Human Leader knows that, and for that, he created a plan. The President of Atracia City, whose name is Mr. Daemon Napeolisser; had a great ambition to be the most powerful ruler in the Human World. Mr. Daemon not only wanted to dominate the Atracia City but the whole Human World. It is far different in the land of mythical creatures ruled by Royalties; they are also humans, but their government is under a monarchy. They are Royal blood. Their lands are massive, like the Human World. It has five Kingdoms: Kingdom Querencia: the most powerful and wealthy Kingdom of all the Kingdoms, but it has a weakness for years of the throne, its descendants of Queens need their Princess to marry a Prince from another Kingdom and become their King. Kingdom Levvienier: the second richest and powerful Kingdom, and for that reason, the Royalties of Levvienier viewed themselves as co-equals of Querencia in terms of power and wealth, and never they wanted to acknowledge that they are only second in rank of Querencia. Kingdom Metanoia: the third in the line of the Kingdom’s power, and where mostly the Kings of Querencia came from; The Kingdom Querencia’s most trusted ally of all the Kingdoms. Kingdom Meraki: it is the farthest of all Kingdoms; you need to travel by sea to reach this Kingdom. The citizens are artistic, poetic, and value aesthetics. They are peace-loving. Kingdom Lacuna: the most populated and the poorest Kingdom among all Kingdoms; They need the support of the four Kingdoms to survive. The mythical Wold to where I belong, the Querencia, and the four other Kingdoms have two Forests: The Enchanted Forest and the Forbidden Forest. Each mythical creature from the Enchanted and Forbidden Forest are different from one another. The Enchanted creatures feed with light energies; creatures like wizards, fairies, dwarfs, trolls, dragons, and mythical animals like seven-horned deer, FLABY, and unicorns. The creatures from Forbidden Forest gathered strength from the dark energies: cuebin, ogres, dwarfs, vampires, wolves, elves, and witches. The Forbidden Forest consists of the mythical creatures not accepted in society, and citizens are scared of them. The wizards are superior among the mythical creatures and hold the highest power, but wizard Adeus' friendship and alliance to the President of Atracia brings trouble. Wizard Adeus may have natural greed that is fed by Mr. Daemon by suggesting such vicious ideas through their evil plans. The dark energy that is raging inside of Adeus has eaten his heart. All the things Adeus wanted are to fulfill his ambitions and desires, no matter what it takes. Wizard Adeus gathered a group of wizards, and he influenced them to become his allies. The group gathered in the Forbidden Forest to make their dark energies stronger and more dominant than their light energy. The black wizards absorbed dark energy from the mythical creatures of the Forbidden Forest that they captured. The mythical creatures are bid to the wealthiest men in the Human World; they become their exotic pets, their status symbol, and slaves. The creatures who fight for their lives get killed, their energy absorbs by the wizards. Those few numbers of wizards under the influence of Mr. Daemon, the idea to capture the mythical creatures to be sold to the richest man in the Human World in exchange for money, support of influence, power, and fame are coming from him. Those wizards started to have dark souls and become the black wizards. Slowly the good wizards start to notice the change of their energy. The good wizards investigated and learned they are doing illicit activities. The good wizards called them out, but instead of admitting their mistake and surrender themselves, they harbored bad feelings against their kind. The council of wizards is spare-headed by wizard Daphney and Arcane. They are the Leaders of the Wizards Council. They decided to have a secret panel of the jury to condemn them for their wrong-doings, and this matter should be handled by them in private meetings so as not to bother the Royals and citizens anymore. But before that day, those wizards planned an attack against the good wizards. Those wizards planted all the evidence against the good wizards. They made the Royals, mythical creatures, and citizens believed that good wizard is the ones doing illicit activities: illegal a*******n of mythical creatures and sold them to humans to become pets and slaves. The black wizards captured Mr. Daemon and gave them to the Royals. They sacrificed Mr. Daemon to make them believable in the eyes of the public. The Royals, citizens, and enchanted creatures are all grateful for Adeus, the Leader of the black wizards. Citizens of Querencia are all thankful for Adeus’ act, and for his so-called heroic deed for revealing the truth, even the one who is involved in a vicious act is their kind. They even captured the human villain Mr. Daemon.   Mr. Daemon seems like he is not himself; his eyes are blank. He freely admitted all his wrong acts. He pointed out to the Leader of the Wizard Council that Daphney and Arcane were his accomplices for doing illicit activities angered the Kings of the Five kingdoms.   In the time when Mr. Daemon is waiting for his date of persecution, Adeus used his powers and killed Mr. Daemon and reasoned out that he cannot control his anger for what the human had done to his kind and killed him out of wrath. The Palace Councils cannot do anything about it but deliver the dead body of Mr. Daemon to his family and read to them the sentence of his death.   Adeus has greater ambition, and he does not need a mere human to dictate him what to do. Adeus wanted to be the most powerful and the great of all creatures.   The black wizards influence the five Kings to declare war against their kind.   The black wizards poisoned the minds of the Royals, humans, and enchanted creatures. The dragons are one of them.   Dragons fought against each other; they must protect the wizards paired with them. The war lasted for days, and the number of dragons deflated. The dragons with heavy heart fought against each other.   Adeus and his wizard allies faced the dragons who left in the battle. The Royals, humans, mythical creatures are all grateful for the few numbered wizards that had left; they are the Black wizards. All good wizards were abolished and eliminated.   Adeus declared he is no longer proud to be known as a wizard; it made him feel disgusted and let them remember the painful moment of their life.   The dragons left from battle freed for it is their price for winning the war. But the wizards have one request, they wish for their dragons to turn them into human form.   The dragons remind them that turning the wizards to human form will contain their power and will take years to redeem it back. The wizards agreed, and then each of their dragons granted their wish to turn them into human form.   The wizards soon became known as Elders, the most respected of all creatures of five Kingdom. The Elders become part of the Palace Council for their words and proposition become the law. They are upright and ideal image. The citizens highly respected them, value their wisdom. They are secretly powerful.   The Elders coincidentally discovered the Cerulean flowers when the witches are studying the different plants and flowers for their potions.   The witches trusted the wizards and gave them the flowers: “Cerulean” for its effects are harmful to all creatures. The witches do not know that the Elders already experimented with the flower's effects; The wizard tries the Cerulean flowers to Mr. Daemon. It pleases the Elders that they can easily control Mr. Daemon and command him of what they want using the Cerulean Flowers.   The Cerulean Flower is a rare flower that is hard to grow in bountiful land and where light energy dominates, but the Elders managed to have a greenhouse of Cerulean Flowers.   The black wizards are fond of their newly found power and are obsessed with how they can control all creatures using the Cerulean Flowers.   The black wizards who are now the Elders cultivated the cerulean Flowers. They found out cerulean flowers grow and have more harmful effects when breeding in the place where dark energies reign. They spread the seeds of Cerulean flowers into the Forbidden Forest.   As the Cerulean Flowers grow in the Forbidden Forest, dark clouds are forming in the sky, and never the sky becomes clear again. Mist is everywhere, and literal darkness invades the forest. The Forbidden Forest becomes a scary place for the citizens of the Five Kingdoms.   The Human World is not accessible to enter, the mythical creatures and the Kingdom’s citizens cannot roam freely around the Human World anymore.   The Humans, after the death of Mr. Daemon, closed their minds and heart. They do not believe in mythical creatures anymore. The humans become busy with their daily lives and have their most interests in the fast-growing pace of technology.   One thing that startled the Royalties of the Five Kingdoms, the mythical creatures, and the Elders, when an unexpected circular wave appeared out of nowhere.   The Human World’s barrier is closed, and the only open Passage is in the Wondrous Dreamy Land, where the amusement park for kids is open for business. The kids’ innocent hearts make the Passage possible to remain open.   Master Xavion is the Guardian of the Passage; his ancestors risked their lives to make that Passage; his ancestors’ remaining energies are all circulating in that Passage. With that, he dedicated his life to Guard the Passage that it will not be endangered or destroyed. It is the last frontier of his ancestors’ treasures left in him.   Master Xavion is the last of his kind, the last remaining good wizard, the first Guardian of the Passage.   Master Xavion’s parents sacrifice their lives to protect their child; he is the only child of the Daphey and Arcane, the Leaders of the Wizards Council.   The last messages of Master Xavion’s mother on her last breath: “The black wizards thought they killed us all and eliminated all the good wizards. Xavion, save all the remaining dragons and bring them in a haven where they can live peacefully. Save the dragons and stay with them. Xavion, our energies will never be gone, the energy of the good wizards will come together to protect the five kingdoms, the Human World and the mythical creatures. At the right time, the collective energy of light will appear in circular motion connecting our worlds. When the time comes, reveal yourself and say you are the Guardian of the Passage, the that is responsible for finding the Gifted in the Other World, and train them. The Royals of the five Kingdoms will entrust you the Gifted, and you will train the Gifted in both Worlds. Xavion waits for the right time until the King of Forbidden Forest awakened. Then you can give justice to the death of your ancestors. Until then, my son; bear everything. Bear it all.” those last words of his mother instilled in his mind. He knew he is facing an extraordinary enemy.   Master Xavion knew very well the real face of the Elders, but his power is not enough. He knows he cannot just s***h their necks when he wanted too. He needs to wait for the right time, his parents told him.   The citizens were deceived and controlled by the Elders; the good wizard eliminated for that deceiving acts.   Master Xavion cannot risk repeating the same mistakes. He needs the Elders to feel at ease, made them believed he is on their side, not to doubt him, that he is not a threat. He had to play it well that even his ally do not trust him. For Master Xavion being unknown is the safest side.   Master Xavion found out that the first Gifted from the Human World crossed the Passage, but he did not meet the first gifted human since the vicious soldiers of the Elders abducted him. Adeus absorbed the first, Gifted human's energy until the human dies, and Adeus can have the ability to cross the Passage and has the attributes that only a human gifted possess.   Caesar the ghost, is a long time friend of Master Xavion, and his most trusted ally; he is his eyes and ears. He reports to Master Xavion the unfortunate event that happened to the first gifted human. With that, Master Xavion felt he failed to be a dependable Guardian of the Passage. Master Xavion gripped his sword, and he promised himself that he never let it happen again. He will find the next Gifted and protect them from the Elders’ ill intentions with all of his powers.   The Elders badly wanted to lock the Forbidden Forest and never want them to roam around the Kingdom; If the Forbidden creatures are trapped, the Elders have greater control over them. They can abduct the Enchanted creatures without the interference of the Forbidden creature.   The Elders have control of the King in the throne; they proposed to the reigning King of Querencia Kingdom a war against the other four Kingdoms, a raging war that dictates who is the powerful, Kingdom of all the Kingdoms.   The war stops in the times of Queen Aetheria’s regime, and she opened the fences in the Forbidden Forest that his father King build under the influence of the Elders. Queen Aetheria lets the creatures of the Forbidden Forest lurked within the Kingdom. The ogre even helped the Queen build her castle, but as Queen Aetheria’s early death, she left her young daughters Princess Leonor, and Princess Syrielle confused and lost.   The Elders once again succeeded in their bad intention to poison Queen Atheria and to isolate the creatures of Forbidden Forest.   The gifted from the Human World is born in the time of Princess Leonor’s regime. The gifted from the Human World are twins. The Elders poisoned Princess Leonor’s mind; the Elders created a prophecy that was believed by the citizens and the Royals. The Elders made Princess Leonor believed in the curse that was harbored by one of the gifted twins.   When Princess Leonor married the man she is not in love with, she knew by that time killed her own heart with the Elders’ influence. She married the Prince they chose for her. Queen Leonor created a barrier sacrificing her energy to completely locked the creatures inside the Forbidden Forest that includes the King of Forbidden Forest- Ruininki, one of the Gifted twins who harbored the dark energy; the Elders’ most feared enemy.     Some of the mythical creatures that are locked in the Forbidden Forest are the mermaids. Miara, the present Maiden of the Mermaid Fortress: those mermaids that live in the Forbidden Forest are under her leadership. The life journey and discovery of Maiden Miara and the history of her ancestors before her, secrets untold. A secret she needs to hide and protect.   Miara found out about the love and life of their great Maiden Rossille, the mother of the Maiden that ruled their Fortress. The Maiden sisters, the oldest Maiden Louveirielle--- Fortress ruler of Forbidden Forest, Maiden Lyriqa---- Fortress ruler of Enchanted Forest, Maiden Shikia---- Fortress ruler of the Human World.    Miara accidentally met the father of the Maiden ruler, and she bound a promise with the Maiden’s father that she will keep it a secret in exchange for the story about the past of the mermaids. Maiden Rossille’s husband is a serpent dragon caged and trapped in the cave of Forbidden Fortress of Maiden Louvierelle- his oldest daughter. The serpent dragon is hidden and kept as a secret to the present times, even from the mermaids.   Dragons for a long time are all hidden far from the eyes of the citizens; it is the consequences they have to suffer for the wrong acts they have done in the past.      Copyright: This story is solely my ideas and creative thinking. Please do not copy, use, distribute, or reproduce. © January Garneth.2020. The Mystery of the Mermaid Fortress.