KING OF THE UNDERWORLD
EARTHBOUND SERIES
LUICEN & SCARLETT
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V L PETERS
Prologue 1
Time passed and as each year went by, they forgot they weren’t alone here on this planet. That once upon a time human weren’t the only ones who used to roam this world. That others called this home. The supernatural’s as they were once known became their fairy tales, the monsters in the darkness.
As the years turned into century’s society believed that we didn’t exist that we were part of the fiction they watched in the movies and in the books they read and we let them believe that until we realised it was no longer possible. Until it was decided by those who thought they knew best that once again we would come out of the darkness believing that we could roam the planet as the humans did and live together in harmony. It hadn’t worked before so why they thought it would this time around!
War begun, cities fell, humans and supernatural’s killed. Some supernatural’s went into hiding, they just disappeared never to be seen again, gone forever. Then a hundred years after the war started a group of humans and supernatural’s decided enough was enough, we had to learn to live together. A treaty was agreed upon, two councils were formed. Humans and supernatural’s, 24 in total. A mixture of supernatural’s and humans sat on these council’s seats. As time passed different threats came and went. Witches rose, evil with no emotions they wouldn’t think twice in gut
ting someone, it didn’t matter who or what you were. They were wiped out, or so it was believed. The other was the Troglodyte’s. They had been a totally different manifestation. Now times are changing again. Witches are about to reveal themselves. The supernatural’s that they thought extinct were going to come forth, Troglodytes were uniting with a new enemy one they hadn’t fought before. If they didn’t combine their forces would all be lost?
Prologue 2
The dreams had come again.
I’d had the same ones for so long it had become a routine. Some nights I only had one; others it was continuous. The Demon appeared tormenting me, and as the dream would unfold, the Demon turned into a man. He always looked the same way, a dark tailored suit, his features were sharp, hair jet black, and his eyes as black as the night sky. The outcome was always the same as the Demon and the Man claiming me as his own. His touch burning, setting my body aflame and until it turned into a ball of flames. I knew I was going to meet this Man this Demon. Only the fates would decide when and how we were going to meet, and they were fickle beings.
Last night it had started out as it usually would. Then the vision had developed into individual figures that I couldn’t make out. An ominous dark fog had emerged blending and combining the dreams until I couldn’t make out one from the other. Megan had appeared in front of me, a smile upon her face eyes lit up with laughter. An arm had appeared out of the fog. Its hand closing around her mouth, dragging her back into the darkness. I could still hear the manic laughter as I heard Megan’s muffled cries as she had held out her arms, her eyes open wide in terrified fear begging me to help her. The concern I had seen in her eyes had been real. I took it for what it was, a warning.
Megan was in danger, when it was going to happen, I couldn’t tell, the one thing I did know none of us would be able to stop what was going to happen. No matter how much any of us tried. Whoever was going to take her was powerful enough to have the capability to be able to do so.
I had no choice in what I had to do. I knew who the man was in my dreams, I had known for a long time. I just hadn’t ever told any of my family, and no matter how much they would protest, it had to be me to approach him when the time arose. It couldn’t be any of my other siblings. Mia or Abigail had to be out of the equation. No matter how powerful they were to become.
Is this what the fates had foreseen? Is this what we had been training for so long? Only time would tell.
The only thing I knew, it had to be me.
CHAPTER ONE
We all knew that this day was coming, it had been forecast many years ago. Every single one of us had been trained for this moment. Our parents had made sure we never forgot that this was in our destiny. We had all thought that we had a few more years before we had to step out into the open. We had been in hiding for so long that it was going to be hard to reveal ourselves.
We knew it was going to be dangerous. That it was initially possible we’d be hunted down and killed off one by one or even worse tortured beyond recognition. The thought of that was even worse than being killed, and with Megan disappearing it seemed that that the time was finally here. Our parents had been the backbone of our community and with them gone we needed to stick together and put the plan we had agreed on into action. We had to get on with finding Megan, getting her home safe and sound that had to be our priority. We had to stop this stupid bickering. It wasn’t helping the situation in any way; it wasn’t proactive, and we still hadn’t decided which one of us was going to go into the lion’s den.
I hated sitting here listening to them going on and on, time was just wasting. I had no choice and had known that before we had even sat down. It was going to be harder to convince them that I already knew what was meant to happen. I stood up and moved over to the fireplace watching and waiting for my opportunity, I couldn’t wait anymore; time was too precious.
‘I’ll do it. I’ll go’ I called out trying to rise above the noise surrounding me, it was a noise so deafening it was hurting my ears. It shocked me as I realised it was coming from my sisters.
It did not come as any great surprise that nobody took any notice…
Bloody hell, if they don’t stop this bickering, I’m going to pull my hair out. I stood there listening to my five sisters. As they tried to tell each other who was going to do what, what was needed and wasn’t. Did this include me? NO, being the youngest completely sucked on most days but at least they listened to me most of the time, one of which wasn’t now.
I carried on standing there wondering what the hell was happening, looking at each of their faces watching, waiting to see which one would get the reddest as their tempers come to boiling point. Someone was going to blast a gasket if they weren’t careful. I must admit I had never witnessed any of my sisters lose their cool this way. Oh they sometimes disagreed with each other over stupid things, but this had never happened before. You would think if it was going to be anyone to lose their rag it would be me what with my wild curly red hair.
Pamela was arguing with Ava, while Mia, Abigale along with Emma seemed to be yelling at each other at full volume. I just couldn’t listen to this crap any more it was complete nonsense
‘STOP’ I shouted out on a scream, my voice nearly becoming horse from the volume but getting the desired effect. They stopped speaking, turning their attention towards me. Eyes opened wide in shock; surprise written across their faces as if they just realised that I was in the room with them. It was like they had never heard me raise my voice before. ‘’I said I will go,’’ I repeated, they had to listen to what I had to say.