Chapter 17：The Prophecy (1/2)

Days went by with nothing new, or special happening. I would go to my usual spot training for the upcoming knight recruitment. While my mother and father would continue to be called out on quests.

My father was currently on a quest that was taking him longer than usual, a whole month had passed by. I was expecting him to come back any day now, so I could test the effect of the crystal I had absorbed.

I went home after my training on top of the hill. When I arrived home I opened the door and could hear my mother crying. I rushed to the kitchen were her voice was coming from.

My mother had her head down leaning on the table.

”Mother, what's wrong?” I asked.

She lifted her head from the table and couldn't stop the tears running down her face. ”It's your father, he's not well”

She came over and knelt to my eye level trying to hold back her tears.

”Let's see him together I'm sure it will make him happy”

She grabbed my hand and started leading me to their bedroom. As we got closer to the room her grip got tighter around my little hand. We stopped just outside the bedroom door.

”Before we go in, I need you to be strong Ray,”

I nodded in response.

”Your father is sick Ray, don't listen to what he says but we need to be there for him” She began to open the door slowly.

My father was lying on down on the bed. When we entered the room he didn't even acknowledge we were there. His skin was pale and dried up as if he hadn't eaten for days, his hair had started to fall out and his eyes were sunken in. This was not the strong man I once knew.

As we walked over towards my father's body I could hear a few words coming out from him.

”The shadow.... it will kill us all... we...will all die...the shadow..the shadow” My father whispered to himself.

I quickly activated my dragon eyes skill, his body had changed aura from yellow strong gold to a dark sinister purple colour. I had never seen this colour before. What had happened to him?

I looked towards my mother who was staring at my father.

”What happened to him?”

”let's go talk outside”

As we were leaving the room my dad kept repeating the same words over and over.

We were sat down by the table as my mother had explained to me what had happened to father. My father had been infected by something called the shadow plague. A disease widespread through the continent with no known cure.