DOWNFALL OF THE SILVER MILLENEUM

Chapter 1: A Tragic Beginning

This story starts seven months before the birth of Princess Serena. As we all know, a planet was destroyed, and is now an asteroid belt; that planet is where this story starts. Tritus: Location, 2 light years away from Pluto. It has its own sun and moon, and ruled by King Llander and Queen Robin. The heir to the throne is their year old son, Koaru. That is all the info you get, now read the story.

"Aw, it is great to be home." King Llander sighed as he walked into the throne room. "Well, Queen Serenity is finally with child." his wife, Queen Robin, said as she entered behind him. As they sat down, a maid walked toward the Queen. "My Lady," she said, "the Prince is sleeping like an angel." Robin sighed, "Good. Please keep an eye on him, will you?" The maid bowed and left. Llander laughed, "Robin, you worry about that son of ours way too much." Robin shrugged, "He's only 13 months old, I can't help it."

Outside of the castle a man approached the front gate. A soldier approached the man, spear leveled. "Please state your name and business." The man reached into his cloak. "My business," he said, "is revenge." The man whipped his hand out of his cloak, and the soldier was sliced in half. A soldier on top of the wall gasped as he watched his comrade fall to the ground, then the rest of him hit the ground. He turned toward the soldiers resting inside the first wall. "We're under attack! Get your asses in gear!" No sooner had he given the order when the entire wall section he was standing on glowed white, then exploded like a giant cherry bomb. As the soldiers ran and tried to organize themselves, the man walked through the hole in the wall. "Yomas, ATTACK!" a large group of demons rushed into the confused battalion and ripped them to pieces. The man then continued through towards the palace.

"What the hell is going on out there!" Llander roared as the sound of an explosion echoed through the walls. A general rushed into the throne room. "We're being attacked!" Llander drew his sword. "Get the army assembled, and prepare to strike back!" Robin stood and picked up her spear. "God, whoever that is, they picked a bad day." she said, drawing energy into the spearhead, causing it to glow a light blue. The general rushed out of the room, only to fly back in as a burnt and mangled corpse.

"Did I come at a bad time?" asked the man wearing the cloak as he stepped into the throne room. Llander stepped forward. "Who are you, and tell us what you want." The man in the cloak started to laugh, an evil, blood-curdling laugh that caused Llander, Robin and their Royal Guards to shiver. "How could you forget me," the man said, pulling back his hood, "after all, you were the last to see me...brother."

Llander's heart skipped a beat. "You! How?" The man approached, and Robin turned and saw the maid in the doorway. "My lady, what is happening?" Robin knew what to do instantly. "Leah! Get Koaru and get away from here, NOW!" The maid hesitated for a moment, then ran back out. The man smiled, "So, you two did have a kid, eh? Guess I'll have to kill him too." Llander had had enough. "You will not touch my son!" he shouted as he charged, sword trailing behind him. The man drew his own sword, a black blade with a red handle. As their blades clashed, Yomas swarmed into the room, tons of them. The Queen leveled her spear, then spun it, arcing it over head, point first. She then hurled it, shouting, "Tritus Celestial Impact!" The spot where the spear hit suddenly became a wall of blood and guts. But more demons charged forward, and the Queen drew her short swords and charged to greet them.

"Quickly now, quickly." The maid Leah was hurriedly wrapping the infant Prince in his blanket and grabbing her own little dagger that was given to her by the Queen. She had just finished when two Yoma demons stepped into the nursery. Leah shifted Koaru into her left arm and held the dagger in her right, standing with the baby further from the two. The first leapt at her, and she ducked, thrust, and plunged the blade into the demons neck. It clawed at her for a moment, then collapsed beside her. She turned as the second demon lunged at her. She pulled the dagger from the others throat, but lost her balance as she turned and fell to her knees. The demon was six feet from her when it collapsed, its back full of arrows. She looked past its body, and saw that there were eight, no, ten soldiers standing in the hall. Two of them rushed in and helped her to her feet. "We've been ordered to get you and the Prince to the Moon." the one told

her as they rushed her towards the door. "Alright," Leah responded, " but the child is my responsibility." The soldier nodded, and the guards formed a circle around her as they ran to the portal.

"Black Quake Strike!" the man plunged his sword into the floor, and the ground beneath Llander exploded. Llander landed roughly, and was slow getting back to his feet. That was his downfall. As he stood, the man rushed forward and thrust his sword into Llander's chest. He let out a sharp exhale, then a cry of pain. His sword dropped, and with a loud clang, struck the ground. Robin turned, and saw the man withdraw his sword from her husbands chest. "Llander, No!" she cried as she rushed forward, grabbing her spear as she passed it. She threw it straight at the man, who caught it and tossed it aside. She then leveled her blades and continued her attack. The remainder of the Royal Guard finished the Yoma and rushed to her aid.

Llander struggled to keep his eyes open, but the harder he tried, the harder it was. He could make out the faint outlines of soldiers, his brother, and..."Robin..." he whispered and, with great effort, pushed himself up and raised his sword.

Robin slashed wildly, overcome with rage, and oblivious to the others around her. Suddenly, she tripped over the body of a fallen soldier, and landed face down at the man's feet. She heard a grunt, and heard the swish of his sword drawing close to her, but it never hit. She looked up ad saw that Llander had tackled the man and they were having a close range struggle over the man's sword. Robin pulled her skirt up, and drew from a pouch attached to her upper leg, six long needles. "Llander, move!" she yelled as she threw the needles at their assailant. She then heard a crash behind her, turned, and saw Leah and the guards she had ordered to protect her.

Leah's heart stopped at the of the throne room. "Leah!" the Queen yelled, "get Koaru away from here, NOW!" Leah paused, then made up her mind. She turned to seven of the soldiers, "You all help the King and Queen," she turned to the last three. "You all come with me." The guards nodded, then rushed into the battle.

Robin looked at Leah with a feeling of security, knowing that she would protect her child. Then she felt the pain, the feeling of cold steel striking her in the back. She turned and saw that the man had stopped her needles, and thrown them back at her. His eyes glowed red, then the needles in her back exploded. She fell to the ground, blood gushing from her back, dripping from her mouth, and she saw Leah turn and look at her. She heard her scream, and the blanket she carried unwrapped, and she saw her little boy, squirming in discomfort, then open his beautiful, sparkly brown eyes. "Koaru..." she whispered as her life left the world.

"NNOOOOOOO!" Leah screamed as she watched the Queen die, helpless, unable to do a thing. Then she heard Koaru start to cry. She looked down at the baby, reaching for his mother, tears flowing down his little face. One of the guards grabbed her arm. "We need to go, now!" he yelled, pulling her away from the throne room. Leah shook her head, got a hold of herself, and started to run towards the portal chamber, her guards a few paces behind her.

The man looked around the throne room, took in all the destruction he had caused, then started to laugh. "You see," he said holding Llander by the throat beside him, "I told I would kill you for imprisoning me." He then threw his brother down beside his wife's body. "I'll grant you the right to say goodbye." Llander crawled over her and, with great effort, turned her over, looking into her once life-filled eyes, now dark and empty. "That's enough." the man said, and Llander felt cold steel, then joined his wife on the next plain of existence.

Outside of the portal chamber, Leah saw that the Yoma had expected that they would attempt to escape, because there were a good dozen of the little bastards guarding the entrance when they arrived. Now there were only two, and she was all alone, her guards slain trying to open a path for her. Suddenly she felt the air behind her grow hot, and she ran towards the demons, then around the corner, just a stream of fire shot through the hall she had just been in. The fire struck the demons and blasted a new hole where the door used to be. Leah ran into the chamber, cried "The Moon" to the destination locator, and ran to the portal as it started to glow a watery blue. She watched as out of the blue, an image of the Moon appeared. She started to walk into the portal when a blade struck through her lower torso. She gasped, stumbled, and pushed the baby through the portal. The man grabbed her by the hair, withdrew his blade, and looked directly at her. "You witch." he growled, starring into her eyes, watching the life leave them. "They...will ge-g-get you...now...you...bastard." Leah stuttered as the last of her time ran out, and her spirit departed to the Higher Plain.

The man dropped the maid's body, staring at the image of the Moon on the surface on the portal. He then smiled to himself. "Well, he gets, older, he'll get stronger. Maybe I can use him someday...at least he will make things fun for now." He then left the chamber, and addressed the remainder of his army. "I leave for this planets moon, you all are to destroy this planet after i move the castle." The demons looked at him strangely. "It's a good castle, and the armory is still intact." With these words, he and castle vanished, then the destruction of Tritus began.

On the moon of Tritus, the man looked at the small sun that had kept the planet alive. He then raised his hands and, using all of his power, crushed the sun into a pile of dust. "I don't need a sun to live," he said, now starring at the sun that kept all of the Inner Planets alive. "Soon," he said, "soon I will have my revenge."