Prequel: The History Teacher

This is a small short story, I wrote it a while back, I think I had a good story build up. It was made to tie in to another story.

The day began, the air was cool and crisp. The sun had just barely risen over the ocean. The morning dew was still on the trees and the green grass of the tiny village where a young woman lived. She was not like any in her village, she was human. The others where… elves, they looked the same with only a few miner differences, the elves had a thinner build and also had smooth angled facial features, bigger eyes, and long pointed ears that rose from the sides of their face like humans but stretched past the top of their head, curling slightly near the end.

The girl awake and walked over to a mirror, she fixed her hair (in to a pony tail) which was long and also is a crimson color, her eyes are different colors, one a deep-sea-blue, the other a forest-green, but her skin is pail, almost white. The room she is in is about 30 feet by 20 feet and oval shaped. A bed lies in the center of the room. The northern side has a window peering outside. She is at the moment on the opposite side of the room, where her cloths and other positions are. She picked out a dress mostly green but also had a dark red vest on it. The dress had mainly leafy and different trees designs flowing through out it. She looked out the window and noticed it was about late morning, in a panic she turned and grabbed an old book on her desk, and ran out of her room. Down a flight of stairs, went outside and rushed to the park there, a group of children are playing.

The children screamed “Ms. Riana*!” as she approached them all coolly.

She smiled and said “Hello children are you all ready to listen to some stories I brought, and also to learn about the days of old?” The young elves screamed with approval “Okay, I’ll start at the beginning.”

“A long time ago humans lived on a world much like ours- but, it was called Earth. Humans didn’t take care of their planet and so when it started to die by the corruption, the humans made a star-ship to leave their world and look for a place to start over. Their plan, they built 20 multi-generational star ships that had over-”

“MISS!” cried little Arana who was the youngest of the children. “What’s molta… moltee… the word you just said what does that mean?” She looked at her teacher with a honest questionable look.

“Multi-generational... It means able to last many families, one after the other.” The teacher told her student. “It was able to last one generation after another.” She then told the older children. “Any way… Star ships that had over 10,000 people on it and in groups of two, they went separate ways out in to space. At the same time, here on our planet, we had Roland the Green as our Prism Dragon.”

“Does anyone know what the Prism Dragon is?” Riana asked the children in front of her. Arana’s hand shot straight up “Yes?”

          “Mommy always told me that the Prism Dragon was the Guardian on our planet, he protects the life of our home, and keeps peace here.”

The teacher responded “That was very nicely put; I don’t know if I could have put it better.” A big smile stretched across the young’s elf’s face. “With Roland the Green watching over our planet it was filled with trees, fruits and forests all over, it was like a green paradise here. After 326 earth years, two star ships; The May Flower, and Apollo-”

“Miss!” shouted Arana* again, the older kids grumbled a bit. “How long is an earth year?”

“Hmm…” the teacher thought about it. “I don’t know for sure, the elders say that it was the length of five of our harvest seasons.” she answered the little girl but, she went on. “The May Flower crashed just north of us, the ship was destroyed but the humans made it out ok. Apollo orbits Selma* like a little star always following her across the night sky, thus marked the beginning of the human’s arrival. Then the humans met the different races of our planet; the Elves, Dwarfs, even the Giant people Goliaths. The races lived peacefully for about 240 years.”

“But, the technology humans brought with them rivaled magic this was going from bad to worse when Drajhvil* the Black became the Prism Dragon. That is also the time when our planet started to die; does anyone know why this is?” Many hands shot to air, Riana called on one of the older children “Yes, can you?”

“Well I read, and was told, that our planet is alive, and that she… feeds on souls of the departed experiencing all of the creature’s life; this permanently affects her Geah*.”

“Yes, very well done, that is exactly why. This marks the beginning of when our planet started to die.” She said to the children sitting up straight as she started to read from the book. “Drajhvil the Black, started fanning the embers of the races, in to a fire, making what is now known as the thousand year war. The purpose behind his actions was to start ‘purifying the planet, cleansed in Chaos to make a new world,’ or so he believed. But our planet does have the power to protect its self. This is the reason it chose Aravin* the White to battle Drajhvil the Black and free our planet from the pain of the pointless war.”

“After Aravin slayed Drajhvil, he focused on ending the war that threatened to destroy the new world. This was not an easy task because the war became about whether technology or magic was more powerful and also who should role who. Finely after 120 years, just 30 years ago, he succeeded in putting an end to the war but a large number of people lost their lives in this bloody war.”

“So to help fix the problems of the past, I am teaching you all about the war and the problems of the world, to help fix what we have destroyed. The gold age is still ahead of us. I know it. We just have to make it there.”

*Word/language/pronunciation

*Riana/Elven/R-hee-ana

*Arana/Elven/Are-ana

*Selma/Old Elven/Sail-m-uh

*Drajhvil/Dragon/Drag-uh-veil

*Aravin/Dragon/Air-a-v-in

*Geah/Old Elven/Gee-uh

*Gaia/Old Text/G-eye-a

Reviews

[MirageDreamer]

first this is a really good idea and well written, there are just a few things which you might want to change:
'The others where… elves' 'where'-> 'were'
'The girl awake and' 'awake' -> 'awoke'
'across the young’s elf’s' 'young's' -> 'young'
'who should role who' 'role' -> 'rule'
'Finely after 120 years, just' 'finely' -> 'finally
again i really like the idea, and would like to read the story which it ties into