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The Knights Princess

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Chapter 1 - Chapter 1

Long ago, in the vast space of time and balance, life could not thrive in the endless darkness. As a result of Time and Balance, the first Goddess, Sahar Zahundai, was born. She oversaw everything, including creation, balance, love, life, and time. She created the first world of life, which included animals, people, plants, oceans, rivers, lakes, lands, and so on. Then, Sahar began to return to Earth to closely monitor her creations. To do so, she would assume her human form. However, while in human form, she absorbed their vulnerabilities and weaknesses. As a result, Sahar created the Pearl Stone Amulet. It possesses the power of balance, time, and life, among other things. It can also change colors depending on the wearer's mood. This has the potential to alter how the powers manifest in the vessel. She would travel all over the place, watching, healing, and protecting life itself until she met Hakim Medina, the first king of Demenia, one day. At first sight, the king Hakim and the goddess Sahar fell in love. They married and had their first child together, a baby girl named Namari Medina, who would become the first powerful female protector in the future. Sahar was overjoyed, but Time and Balance were not thrilled with the new path Sahar had chosen for herself.

To compel her to return to her rightful place, they created a new god, Mandla Zahundai, her brother. He was the deity of annihilation, devastation, deception, and even death to the point where the soul could not be reincarnated. Nevertheless, Time and Balance did not know it until it was too late for Mandla, who wanted to oversee everything and be the only god on the planet. He realized he could not remove time and balance without Sahar's help. He could not merely take her powers; she had to give them up willingly. Therefore, for him to cease control, he targets her weak spot, which is her daughter Namari. Mandla crept into the castle by assuming the body of a maid because he could not create a human form like his sister. Sahar could feel Mandla close by while he was making his moves, but she did not recognize his aura because they had never met, but her gut was telling her something was wrong.

She knew it was not a positive feeling she was getting from this strange presence. She got up to investigate where this sense of impending death was coming from and found it in a maid who was heading towards the baby's room. As she followed the maid, she noticed her putting the baby in a dark sphere. Sahar blasted the maid with a spear made of light energy before she could finish the chant to trap the baby, separating Mandla from the maid's soul.

"Who are you?" Sahar demanded.

"Well, I'm the darker version of you. I am how they say it in this world. Your brother Mandla Zahundai, God of destruction, carnage, manipulations, and even death." Sahar was in shock to find out that Time and Balance created another God, especially one of destruction of anything he touches.

"Time and Balance grew angry with you for choosing humans over your duties as a god. They sent me to bring you back, but those plans have changed."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, I'm not going to bring you back anywhere; I'm just going to destroy you and take your powers for myself, and then I'm going to destroy time, balance, and rule over everything. So, to make this as painless as possible, simply will your powers to me so that I can end you as soon as possible."

"Never." Then, she shot a fire-fused light blast at Mandla.

As the battle was happening, the king, Hakim, realized his queen was not in the bed with him, so he got up and went to go look for her. As he's walking around looking for his queen, he sees lights flashing coming from the baby's room and rushes over to see what it was about. To his dismay, he witnesses his wife battling an unknown being. Mandla grabs the baby, and before disappearing, he said: "If you want to see your daughter again, hand over your powers by midnight tomorrow. I'll be waiting at Skull Mountain, and I would hurry to make the decision because I don't know how long my patience will wait."

Hakim rushed to Sahar's side to make sure she was ok and to find out what was going on. "My love, what the heck did I just witness? What is going on? And where is Namari?"

Sahar got her husband to calm down and explained everything that just happened and who she really is. 

"Wait a minute, Sahar Zahundai is the Goddess of Creation, balance, love, life, and even time itself?"

"Yes, my love, that would be me."

"So, what does your brother have to do with you?"

"Time and Balance created him to bring me back to the world of the spatial plains, for they are against my choice to be with a human and have a child by one no less."

"Now, the next question is, how do we destroy him?"

That's the thing, you can't destroy a god, you can only trap their spirit, which includes stripping them of their powers. In order to do that, Sahar would have to trap him into her amulet, which will force his soul to wander on earth for eternity without being able to be reborn, but there's always a price to pay; that's the rule of balance. She loses her ability to become human and be a goddess forever. Gods can't live on earth with humans.

Meanwhile, at Skull Mountain, Mandla was getting the ritual circle ready when Namari was smiling and giggling. She was wanting Mandla to pick her up. However, he dismissed her and covered her back up in the dark sphere, which put her to sleep.

"Soon, your mother's powers will be mine."

Sahar and Hakim arrived at Skull Mountain. They stepped quietly into Mandla's domain, not knowing they stepped into a magical trap circle. In addition, the dark creatures came out of the shadows and attacked the king as instructed to distract him while Mandla goes for Sahar's powers. As Hakim is busy fighting the dark creatures to try and get to Sahar, Mandla appears from the shadows and sent Hakim flying into the dark sphere where Namari sleeps.

"Hello, sister, it's been so good to see you."

"I can't say the same about seeing you."

"Well, I couldn't care less about what you feel when you see me, I just want your power."

"Your rule will destroy the world." Trying to explain to Mandla that his power is not for a world of life, it's for a world of death.

"So, what, tomato, potato, but enough of that, give me your power now! Or it's bye-bye daughter and husband."

Sahar agreed to relinquish her powers to her brother. What Mandla doesn't know is that Sahar was the most powerful goddess ever created. No one can handle her pure energy of power. "Alright, repeat after me. "I state your name will my power to you."

"I, Sahar Zahundai, will my power to you."

The ritual circle flashed into a bright light. Her power beamed out like her soul was being sucked out and it transferred to Mandla. The thing that Mandla didn't realize was that Sahar's power is an endless supply of pure energy that was eating him from the inside out, making him explode. 

"NO! It's too much!"

Explodes into a shadowy soul-like spirit. The ritual circle disappeared, freeing Sahar. Powers returned to her, and her family was free from the dark sphere. Mandla appeared in his spirit form, for Sahar's powers made him too weak to take on his true form. Sahar summoned a barrier to trap Mandla while she summoned a banishing circle to send him to the void. 

As Sahar finishes the banishing spell, Mandla casts a curse, vowing to return and destroy the bloodline.

"I will return to the world of the living when the four planets that represent the four natures of chaos, earth, fire, wind, and water, eclipse with the sun of your resurrection. I will come for your bloodline and destroy them all."