Shattered Destiny
A Chosen Story
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of Batman_Hater, the world and Centennial are specifically his creation; any resemblance between the characters and any real life person is completely coincidental. Please do not copy or distribute the story without the author's permission. This story takes place in the same timeline as The Chosen.
Chapter Two: Feathers
I wake up from a dreamless slumber, wait! I didn't have the strange dream about the black armored or white armored warriors. Thanks for that, but I still have school and as I am always waking up late. I look at the clock on the wall, it says 6:42am, and I guess I didn't even wake up late today. If I can just make it through the day without any visions, flashbacks, or whatever those were yesterday, I will be fine.
Starting the shower, I begin singing some song from the radio as the hot water runs through my hair, down my chest, and drips off me. I hear the faint sound of my cell phone sounding off an alarm, telling me that I had to get out of the shower and get ready for school. There was no way I was planning on power walking to the bus stop again and miss the huge breakfast mom would make.
"Jared's in the shower," I hear my little brother tell mom, they begin speaking a little quieter and I can't make out what those two were talking about. I notice it is only a couple days until my birthday and knowing my family there is bound to be some plans in the works, even though every year I get annoyed with them because they tend to take it too far. I can settle for a cake, they want to have a party... The money's cool though.
As I enter the kitchen I notice that my brother is already stuffing his face with mom's bacon omelets and hash browns, I sit at the table get three strips of bacon, two tablespoons of scrambled eggs, and a couple of slices of strawberry jam covered toast and begin digging in.
"Jared, you worried me yesterday, I thought you were sick, but I guess it was a 24 hour bug?!" Mom says to me as she looks at me strangely for just a couple of moments before taking a bite of her butter covered blueberry bagel.
"I'm fine mom, I just had a long day yesterday, school wasn't as uneventful as I wanted it to be," I reply between bites of toast and bacon. "I hope today will be uneventful, but..." I notice it's time for me to go to the bus, "I gotta go to the bus stop, love ya mom, later lil bro," I say as I get up from the table, plate already scraped clean, and head out the door.
"Don't forget today's Tuesday Jared!" My bro yells after me. I never forget that Tuesday is the day we go to the Pizza Inn after school because mom worked late. I don't respond, but I do make it to the bus stop on time and the bus is just turning the corner.
As the bus pulls up, I get on and take the seat in the fourth row on right side so I could look out the window. I notice as we ride there is no one on the left sided seat. I take out my Zune and begin scrolling through my playlist until I find the Anime Mastermix. Yeah I made it myself. And then... I see darkness coming at me from all sides.
A woman clad in white and gold appears in front of me, the light almost blinding as my eyes had already gotten used to the darkness. The woman seemed to have an outline of huge beautiful wings, but they were not of her, they were surrounding her, almost like a protective shell, or a rose about to bloom. She stared at me with her glowing eyes and smiled. She said nothing, just looked for a while and smiled again. She pointed to her left and I looked and was amazed.
To our left was the world, the Earth, spinning in space, as she pointed, we moved even closer to the land. A very interesting thing I noticed as we appeared closer to the ground, nothing was as it is now, there was no pollution, the land was covered in forests, deserts, and natural beauty, not the skyscrapers, dark clouds of pollution, and billions of people crowding the planet. It was amazing, as if I had been sent back to the past.
I look towards the glowing angelic presence and notice a look of sadness on her face as we speed away from the Earth again, towards the reddish planet which held an ancient looking colony upon it. Then a pair of eyes appears over the colony, and seconds later, nothing, but debris... The angelic presence pulls us closer to see one building remaining, and a small figure of someone or something standing holding a long staff pointed into the air. As we came closer I noticed it looked like me, a little older, but me. I look to the heavenly being in front of me, who smiles and vanishes pulling me back to the bus.
I gasp, and the people on the seat in front of me and behind me stop talking and look at me with surprise, then go back to their conversations. I look to the left and see Kevin and Chad sitting across from me. I glance in their direction and notice a crown on Chad's head, I glance back and it's gone. How strange?! Both of them are laughing and grinning the whole rest of the ride.
The bus stops at the school and we all get off, I go straight to my locker and begin getting my books for first period.
"Jared, you ready for the grueling practice coach has in store for us today?" Kevin says as he seemingly appears behind me.
"Na, I wasn't even thinking of practice yet, I'm still thinking about second period English," I reply to him as I finally get the last book I needed for class, "It was nice chattin but I don't wanna be late," I say as I begin walking towards my math class, which went by uneventful. Then it was on to Second Period English.
Once I get to class I notice that Chad's already there and as soon as Kevin enters he beelines it straight towards Chad. As he approaches Chad he looks at his watch and points showing Chad something, who looks wide eyed and laughs as the bell rung at that moment. Ms. Routh walked in at that precise moment and smiled to the class.
"Today class, we are going to read The Once and Future King. Does anyone know what the books about?"
One hand shoots straight in the air, "Yes?" Ms. Routh says as she sends the Chad a smile, "You know what the book's about, tell us?"
He looks like he's about to do something or make a smart remark, but Kevin pipes up, "Camelot and the legend of Merlin and King Arthur." Chad glares at him and starts writing something in his notebook.
"That's right!" Ms. Routh says a she begins her lecture and tells us to read the first 3 chapters for tomorrow's discussion.
But for some strange reason, things were not what they seemed, and this was only the beginning. I only realized this because I fell into a dream again, waking dreams... I could still see and hear Ms. Routh as she told us about Arthurian Legends. But what I was living was...
The Celestia Palace on the moon was very beautiful, there was a woman holding a royal scepter and a royal dress with the a diamond seal, her face shrouded in darkness but a very strange thing was happening above him, the surface was covered in a darkness which was unlike any other. Two eyes appeared above it and it seemed to blink and the palace began to quake and chunks of the beautiful crystalline metals began to break into pieces. The woman calmly lifts up her scepter and sends a blast of pure holy light between the two eyes which shuddered from the blast. An eye turns read and dark energy falls towards the woman who is hit and she fades into nothingness along with the palace on the moon...
A moment later I was somewhere else, I couldn't tell where I was except that there was a disc hovering above a volcano. A woman, who looked similar to the last, yet younger, was standing there, her clouded face looking towards the skies, yet again I see those two menacing eyes glaring down upon the disc. The woman had a red circlet in her hair and held a wand with a ruby on the tip; the bottom had a garnet on it. She was twirling it like a baton and flames were twirling towards the eyes. But just as I saw before, a dark wave slammed into this woman and she vanished, the disc and volcano shared her fate, along with everyone else on this world...
The heavenly being appeared before me and spoke for the first time, "You are to find these two women, who are important to the Chosen," she didn't explain who or what the Chosen were, but eight images appeared, four same guys, each guy in black armor and also in white armor. "To win the true battle, you must help them, never show yourself until the women are awakened though, it is important."
The being smiled at me and told me, "One who is always at odds, and one who was there for the beginning. This is how you will know the two women who must be awakened. There is someone contacting you, answer him, he will help you, but do not interfere with is duty. You will not truly awaken until the Chosen do... It is a safeguard, for only the Champion of Magic can counter your power..."
And that is when I worried, counter? Not augment? But the presence had already left me and I found myself in the hallway at my locker pulling out the next subject books I needed. The rest of the day passes by without any more visions, when I get out of soccer practice, I notice a feather attached to my backpack.
~Remember my words Jared~
JARED --
PLEASE REPLY
-- N. R.
This was the email I saw when I opened it. I send a reply and moments later, a man appears facing me from my body mirror on my wall. Shocked, I look at the mirror again and see my own reflection, then comes the knock on my window. I get off the bed and walk towards the window seeing an outline of a man, I pull back the curtains, lift the blinds, and open the window...