the Truth of the mark

Back at the guild Darius and Sophia were both at the receptionist desk talking to a cat-woman. As I walked toward them I noticed that many of the Adventures were in their early twenties to their mid thirties and that there were few who were in their teens.

"Mason," Darius said as I stood next to him. "So did anything happen when you went out" he asked

"Well yeah but I got a question why do the Knights here fear the Airblace" I asked, but instead Darius answered the receptionist.

Darius and Sophia were trying to cut out the receptionist but failed to do so.

"Well the Airblace has, well how should I put this…They are like demons they put terror into their enemies and allies even their own townsman that they are forced to work hard. The only ones who are nice are the two daughters of the Airblace"

"Well Coley and Stephanie were always helping me out and other maids while Tyson was trying to cause troubles for them." I say

"Wait, you're a member of the Airblace family," the receptionist asked with a shaky voice.

"I used to be until they kicked me out, by the way, do you have a healer? I heated the family badge onto my chest but it seems to be healing up so I want it to heal up completely" I say looking at her still." Oh don't worry I really don't care about them, just my sisters but the rest I don't care about. They always locked me up within the castle grounds."

"Anyway where's the teacher or master you both talked about? I want to find out more about the Mark on my wrist" I say as I turn around to face Darius and Sophia.

"He's in the room over there" Sophia points to the room in the corner of the guild hall."Hold on I'll tell him he has a visitor" She and Darius walked over to the room and entered.

"About that healer," I asked.

"Oh right, Marcella" a girl about fifteen came over and looked at me. "Can you heal uhm.."

"Oh my name's Mason" I say,realizing I forgot to introduce myself earlier.

"Yes Marcella can you heal Mason"

" Yeah where do you need to be healed" She asked.

Feeling stupid I pointed at my chest.

"I can't heal broken hearts" she said as she looked at the receptionist.

"No not that it, it's on my chest so can you heal it"

"Sure let me see" she said looking back at me.

"Uhh… sorry but can you just put your hand in my shirt and heal it while not looking, I swear I'm not one of those dirty perverts or anything'' I say as I looked down to the floor.

"Fine let's do this" she sighs.

"Do what?" asked Darius as he came back with Sophia. "Wait you don't plan to do that in the day are you"

"What the heck is in your head we're talking about me healing the mark I burned into my chest" I say as I started to walk away before he began saying the rest of the things he was thing.

" Sorry how about you heal me some other time."

"Sure just don't bring him over" Marcella nodded over to Darius.

" I won't. Anyway, did you tell him. Can I go See him" I asked Sophia.

"Yes Follow me" She said as she led the way.

Inside the room there was a man in his thirties sitting down.

"You must be Mason, I heard so much of you" the man said as he pulled up a chair for me to sit down.

"Yes I came here to learn more about the mark on my wrist" I say as I show him The mark.

"It's been more than forty years since I saw this Mark," he says. When he saw me make a face he continued " I'm using an anti-ageing spell. So I really look like a sixty year old man"

"Ok that answers the question I didn't ask"I say as I look at the mark.

"Well as I said It's been many years since I saw that mark." He says " Let me tell you how I met those people. It started on a mission when I was twenty. It began when my senior told us that we needed to seek the ice queen of the elf tribe. We were traveling and through a blizzard that's where many of my comrades died and I would have died if they didn't show up. They were cloaked in red and black and they covered up their faces but you could tell they were from a very powerful family because only their wrists were showing to expose their marks." he said as he drank some tea.

They had the ability to use all the magical abilities. Anyway they led us to the Ice queen and left but before they left they left me a few books that I can't read nor understand any of the pictures, all they said was that they were being hunted down by the Airblace and the other four major kingdoms." he said.

"I don't think they ever showed their marks to those kingdoms; because they always came over when I was young and ignored me when I asked what this mark was" I say.

"That's right" Sophia spoke as she stood next to me " They never showed their marks to the kingdoms rather they were always guiding lost travelers. And they seemed to use different magical abilities in which the travelers would end up spreading the news, and eventually it started to get the attention of the nobles."

"That's right" both the old man and Darius say. "They never showed any of them their marks rather they always worn the same color of clothing that they were easy to spot"

Any way the Airblace was the most eager to seek them out that they sent forth an entire army to ss ranked soldiers to bring them over. They only captured one who had been pregnant and the queen threatened her to expose the hide out of the others or else she would kill her and her baby…"

"Ahhhhhh" I felt a sudden pain in my chest and my head as I fell to the ground. Still in deep pain my mind began to go blank as it went into somewhat of a vision. I saw the queen and a masked woman who was pregnant.

{ This is the story the old man was telling me about } I thought as I watched the scene go on as I squeezed my chest as the pain grew deeper.

"Tell me the location of your comrades or else I'll rip your unborn child and slaughter it and feed it to the dogs." threatened the queen as she grabbed a nearby sword.

"I can't tell you nor will I ever. My child will live. I have that magic skill that only my blood can do" she said.

"Fine if you want it that way then I'll gladly kill you" said the queen as she swung the sword, sending the lady's head into the air.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh" I screamed out.That moment hurt even more to the point that I thought I was going to die. As I looked back the woman's body was burning in black flames as I slightly saw a small and faint light exit from her body and enter into the queens.

~ Take care of yourself my child ~The voice of the woman echoed throughout the land.

That was when It went dark again.

"It's hard to see my daughter die but it most also hurt you to see your mother die" spoke a voice from within the darkness.

I turn around to see a man with demonic features yet looks like a normal human.

"Don't fear me, My name is Ether Nightmoon" he said as he walked closer.

"Ether you say what do you mean my mother" I asked as I walked backward slowly

"Does every word have to have a meaning?" Ether asked " it's exactly as I say your mother was the demon princess and the one who was killed. You felt the pain did you not" he asked as he stood still.

"She was my mother, but that makes no sense since I was born from the queen" I say as I tried to understand everything that was happening.

"Did you see that faint light? Your mother transferred your life force and put it inside the Queen's body so that she could raise you" Ether said with a disgusted face.

"If what you say is true then I'm your grandson and I'm part of the Demon Empire royal family." I asked as I looked at my wrist.

"Yes" he answered as he looked around " You need to go now your friends are trying to wake you up. If you ever need me for anything come to the demon Empire and show them your mark, the guards will let you and your comrade come into the kingdom. Until then farewell my grandson"