The Stone

Fantasy Series 559

The Stone

When The Conjunction Of Spheres occured, the Stone was founded by a herbalist, Aluna. The stone give unreal aura yet filled with few bright color, Not knowing what the Stone can do, Aluna bring it home, hoping that she can sell the stone for few coins of gold, but only to find that the stone is powerful, so powerful that it can heal the wounded with ease, and erase the plague that has been haunting her villagers. She use the stone to only for good deed and become loved by her people for aid she provide, soft spoken, beautiful, and a healer by a single touch.
The happiness only last for a few weeks until the news spread through out neighbouring villages, and caused small war between few village in one night.. Some want the stone like Aluna, to help their people and some want the stone to feed their greed, but others curse Aluna for being witch. Terrified with ongoing war Aluna hide in her horse stead, her villagers tried to protect their beloved Aluna but the oppresion is too much for them, Aluna peek at the window only to witness death and decease trust towards humanity. Then she heard a group of people charging towards her house and manage to broke into her house. She was so scared to check her mother and sister but soon, she heard the scream of her mother being stabbed and her sister, pleaded for life while being strangled. While she gazed for so many death, she cries and whispering " I'm sorry.. I'm sorry..". Scared of what has become and believe that it was all her fault, she realised that this war caused by the stone that she brought home only to help and heal. Crying alone in her stead, suddenly all the sound of scream and burning stopped, dead silence. The Stone speaks hauntingly "we bring you power to heal and peace, yet you humans craved for blood!" and Aluna surprised that the stone is filled with mystic being, from sad to anger, believes that the stone is the reason for so many death She curses the stone "I curse you, you shall not bring peace but war!! you can revive but you cannot undeath!! you will be found only to lost again!! Others will cry as I did!! " laughing maniaclly.. The silence breaked, and all the sound she hates comes back. So did the sorrow and sadness, she took the stone and rush toward shore hoping that she can throw it away in the ocean and never be found again. Crying as she running but stopped by a man, she falls to the ground. Crying "get away from me! I can cripple you in a second" said by Aluna. The man speak no words. As she look up she saw his outfit, a soldier, with a dozen more behind the man. She apologized, the Soldier, a peacekeeper told her that he knews that the stone have caused this war, and nothing they can do about it as people will form a group of swimmer to find the stone if you throw it in the ocean, and gravekeeper will find it if you bury it in the ground. But instead it should be kept safe at the Castle with King Ardyn. Aluna ask raspily "what about the people?". The soldier answered whisperly, "let them kill each other so no one will find out about the stone". Aluna agrees, and ask for a favor, that she will follow the soldier to the castle, and that no one shall touch the stone again. And so the soldier brings Aluna to the castle secretly.

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