( Perspective story submission ) "The king of Avan"

50 years ago in the Kingdom of Avan.


its the middle of the night as i walked in the large corridors of the castle. its very quiet tonight, it had never been this quiet before. at this time King Tharasis would sleeping on well his very large room, but not tonight i guess.

as i continued to walk i notice someone standing on the balcony. as i got closer i hid in one of the sides and i peeked out to see whoever was there, and i saw Tharasis. he was irritated from what i could hear.

Argh!, why wont this work!

he then did a gesture with his hand as if he were trying to cast something.

FFFWWIMP! a sound i heard as a ball of...well something appeared from Tharasis's hands.

YES! he yelled.

BOOM! as the ball of power from his hands exploded and caused him to loose balance and stumble onto the cold floor.

THUMP! i heard as Tharasis was knocked down to the ground from his own spell.

ARGH!.......Oh my...this..this is a lot harder then what i had expected.

he said as he got up

Oh well....Im just..going to sit here i guess. and take a breather.

I had not expected Tharasis to be able to use such magic, let alone have enough free time to train. He was always busy during these months. I was handpicked to be Tharasis's advisor as there was no one else to fill in the position.

These past months since Tharasis became king, was what he did not expect. The resources from our Large Island was begining  to run dry the once rich ore mines were now beggining to run out. the Crime rate went at an all time high. and the local population were beggining to start riots from the citys.

The royal court members had fled when the Revolution had started and they took with them many coins and gold from the Royal treasury, This left us with little funds to fix the damages that were caused as a result from the Riots.

After the Revolt was delt with. Tharasis was left with only a handfull of members some of whom were his generals to keep the already battered and beaten Government alive. So he never really had much free time to himself.

much of Tharasis's time was spent flying across the nation to address and keep up with the local governors in his nation. after he'd finish this he would come back to very very large stack of request, reports, and so on and so forth.

I and Tharasis would spend the afternoon till night just reading and taking care of letters. Tharasis was about 45 ft tall so he had a hard time reading all the letters that was sent to him. so i read all the letters to him, he trusted me to tell him what the letters said.

When i asked him how he's thoughts were about this whole situation he would just respond with " I have seen worse " i guess i would probably get that answer, coming from a dragon who had lived for a long time. But i did not go ferther with my question. and continued with my duties.

if Tharasis was lucky he would have a small amount of time in his very tight scedule to do what he likes. he would mostly use his free time to read books from the Castles Library.

but as time went on thing slowly got better, The government was now fully staffed. the new mines was supplying a steady amount of ore, and the crime rate was going down fast all seemed fine now.

i walked out to the balcony and as i approched Tharasis who was sitting.

" My lord? " i said as i walked toward Tharasis.

he turned to face toward me.

" yes? " he asked me.

" what are you doing so late at this night, shouldent you be sleeping by now " i asked in a concerned tone to my voice.

" I would ask the same to you. " he said back

" well. i just cant get any sleep tonight. I just never got this much time to do anything. "

" well my Lord, everything is now perfect thanks to you. " i said

" well looking back, to what we have accomplished. its hard to find words to describe my happines. " He said as he gazed onto the full moon at the night sky.

" what will be your next plan my lord? " i asked him

" well..we'll see what will come in the future " he said.

Enjoyment/Fun: 20
Quality: 10
Originality: 30

subtotal 60
contest award 300
final total 360 awarded to Tharasis

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