Age of Heroes

THE LADY OF THE LAKE

In the lake the Lady smile and the water from the lake overflow from the lake banks and creeps to the lady feet, like teasing the lady as the Lady return to her domain under the lake, a palace built with magical enchantment that no one could ever find her place unless she is willing to be found. 

She returns to her throne and sit down in this empty thrones and castle of hers. She has learned from past mistake. 

The Lady of the Lake still remembers. 

She still remembers when she first decided to help the first Blood of Light or should he say the reason why that lineage becomes the Lineage of the Chosen Ones. 

Not Levitia. But that human called Aero. A great Warrior King of the First Generation. He was human but he dares tricking her and even defeated her in a game of wits.

It was absurd but the Lady of the Lake fell in love and not only that, but to fall in love with a human, one emotions that most other Gods would never understand. 

It took the Lady a long time to accept and understand the feeling in which she felt towards the human but it was too late when she realizes it.

When she heard that the human king has died, she grieved horribly. As a tribute to love, she even protects Aero lineage. 

One day, a very long time ago, one of Aero descendant faces a poison of the most terrifying kind, one that robs the mind and giving excruciating pain.

And so, the Lady wanted to help so she revealed herself to the Emperor of the Enochian Empire and give the Emperor her blood.

It gave Aero descendant a peculiar trait that is different from everyone setting a Prophecy long written before even she woke into consciousness.

The trait is the piercing blue eyes and the snow white hair.

Since that day, Emperor of the Enochian Empire who has been blessed by her blood, their lineage has always produced an offspring that has this trait and the strongest of them inherit the best trait that the Lady has. 

Bravery. Loyalty. Strength. Compassion. 

And love. This is marked by the pure white snow hair and the sky blue eyes.

It was at time truly the Prophecy began, beginning with the descend of the race and a war started between Gods and humans until finally the Battle of the Gods happen and each God choose their champion.

At that time, the Blood of Light does not yet come to play. And for Ages they fought until humans are weakened and the Enochian Empire is drowned to the Sea with the power of many Gods. 

And the Ages did not change. So the Gods believe the prophecy is averted.

And the Morning Star rises. While the Gods recuperate in their temples and realms, humans once again suffer without the power of the Sky people.

And then finally, the Prophecy is triggered without the knowledge of the Gods as Levitia triggered the Ages dawning and Gods and goddesses died under his sword. 

The Seven Stars portent to His birth.

Some Gods believe it to be their reckoning for destroying the Enochian Empire in such a way.

Levitia himself is one of the bloodline of Aero, protected by divine ordinance.

When she decided to give Levitia, Lightbreaker, she did not know she was fulfilling a great prophecy of the Ages Prophecy ending the Age of Gods, truly this time, and ushering the new era of the Age of Man but when she decided to help Arial she already knew that the coward little boy, that the dispirit and disillusioned boy, she knew when she help him she will fulfill the Prophecy of Age of Heroes. 

She who have outlast everyone, the Sun Emperor, the Maiden, The Dawn father and the Night Mother, she who is the last of an Ancient past, like Gaveror, like Grinadine.

When the boy sends letter to outside sending ravens asking for news it was the lady that sent her reply. 

Even the fortunate timing of the book falling from the table in the private library is her doing. 

When she sees the fate of humanity in her eyes, she moves with great haste to secure the safety of Aero lineage. 

She knows the boy called Arial will suffer, his heart will be broken, his humanity tested, but...this is the life of people who are burdened with great destiny. 

Life in some twisted way is fair.

They are given strength, given power but all of it is for their fated fate. 

But Lady of the Lake knows…. she believes, and she have faith…. that Arial would endure, that no matter how dark and evil the world seems to be…. that the boy would never lost hope. 

It is this…. this one trait that separates great men from ordinary people. They have hope. A burning hope that things could get better…. that every ending is just a beginning. 

Hope that carried around for generations, their will transmitted to whoever has the will to carry the torch.

But it is not only because of a lost love that such a Goddess like Lady of the Lake would expend this much effort on her part. 

It is because the lineage is her lifeline. Gods do not die. This is the truth. They fade. 

They fade when no one ever believes in them anymore and some die only under certain circumstances like the Battle of the Gods which the Lady participated, Levitia as her champion. 

However, the story of how it started began a long time ago. So, the Lady made a deal with the Enochian Emperor when she gave them her blood. 

The moment her blood enters the Emperor bloodstream; Aero lineage was bonded forever to the Lady of the Lake. 

They all fade but she did not. Why? 

Because as long the lineage exists...as long as the blood of Aero lives, her blood, a part of herself, an essence of self-existence…. she could never fade...she is tethered to the mortal plane and will not return to the Sea of All Things.

It was by this reason she is so eager to protect the lineage of Aero, of Levitia. How was she supposed to know that the blood of Light is achieved by her act? 

It was millennium ago and now she knows why it was the Vermont's, Carlingian in the past become the chosen bloodline. 

The blood of Light is just another name for a blood of a god. Then can anyone become the man in the prophecy of the Ages? Of course not. 

To acquire the Blood of Light is the hardest thing to do. You can't acquire it by attacking or even taking the blood forcefully or even cheating from it. 

You can't attack a god and drink his blood. 

That is not how it works. As the Book of Light has spoken that there is one act of love that trumps all the others and that is a noble sacrifice. 

The blood must be given willingly and with no malice but with a loving heart. And she fit the prophecy as she gives her blood to the first son of the First Generation King, thus setting in stone the prophecy.

Love. 

Love is the answer. And she is the only one that fits the requirement. How could those vicious Gods and vengeful Goddesses understand love as she has understood it? 

The undying loyalty, the fidelity, the madness, the euphoria of such divine feeling surpassing everything.

Love has always been the answer. It was obvious. It was staring the Gods in the face but they could not see it.

Thinking of this and Gaveror request she closed her eyes. Tomorrow she will tell Gaveror what it means.

But today, like always her clear blue eyes peer to the distance as once again, her eyes set her watchful gaze onto the man who will become The Chosen Blood of Light.

And like a girl in love, she smiles a contented smile.

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