Day and Night

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Adrian

I live in a world of magic, a world of shadows. There are rules here, like don't step into the earth realm without permission or don't disrespect the queen or king or prince, and I've broken every. Single. One. Well except for the rule not to touch, talk, or even look at someone from the light realm, and only because I've never had the chance to. Until now. People say when day meets night everything will be golden, but them meeting won't make things shine, it's what they accomplish that will paint the sky gold, in the shadows, in the light, and in between.

It was a Friday I think when my heart was thumping out of my chest and I was being called to go anywhere but here, anywhere but this stupid castle. I sat on my bed in my massive room, the one I only got for being Prince. It wasn't that I hated being a prince, I just really really really wish I wasn't.

I pushed myself off my bed with a grey and black duvet and onto my dark grey flooring with black furniture covering it. Among the furniture was a black bookshelf covered in boring books with gray spines. They were all history books, but I had never read anything else, so my thoughts were that no story could be more interesting, therefore I loved to read. I walked towards the dusty shelf but I stopped halfway and spun around towards my door. I'm 17, I have less than one year left till I'm king, till all my freedom is removed, being replaced by the responsibility of preventing a endless war with the light, and I wasn't going to sit and read till then.

Instead I found myself running through the dark courtyard, searching for any gardless area where I could open a portal to earth with my magic. The magic my parents regret teaching me, the magic I use only to break rules. I ducked behind a small bush, before focusing on the area before me. I took a deep breath before a small black flame erupted from the palm of my hand. I shot it into the cement before me and a small purple portal appeared, just large enough for me to fit my tall lanky body through.

I stepped through the portal and onto a random street on earth, an almost completely banned realm. I scanned the dark, empty street before me and started down the desolate pavement, void of life and color. It made since, it was nearing one am here on earth, a time when most adults and children are deep in slumber and lost in a dream world they can only hope never ends before they are returned to reality, to live there lives, to go to school and work, to survive another endless day, boring as always.

My feet led me to unknown areas as they did every time I am here. I turned yet another unknown corner, but this time I was met with unmistakable sound of tears, of someone crying. I listen for a second longer before leading my way to a small alley, to be met with a strange boy probably around my age or a bit older.

One might say he looked normal, but if u got close enough you could tell he was different. His skin glowed with a soft light giving off warmth similar to how my entire body was wrapped in a shadow and was always freezing. His head was buried in his lap, blonde hair standing still. I stood there staring at him before it hit me, He was a light. Well there's another rule broken.

"Um." I said,"Are you ok?", And another rule down the drain. He looked up from his lap, tears streaming down His face, but as soon as he laid one eye on me he froze, tears disappearing. "Who,no what are you?" he asked, blonde hair falling is his face for a split second before he pushed it back on his head. "A person?" I said unsure of what he expected my answer to be. He pushed himself off the ground only to stumble back and almost hit a wall, luckily I grab him just in time. The feeling of our skin touching burned, a shock of pain hit my arm as I grabbed him. I almost let go, but just as I loosened my grip a strong warmth rushed over me. I had never felt real warmth before. The shadows were so cold, so cold they burned sometimes but I had gotten used to it , but this warmth it was worth the pain. And I broke the last rule just like that.

"Oww!" we both hissed as the warmth left being replaced by a stinging pain once more. I dropped his hand and clutched my arm to my chest. "Your shadow." he said clutching his arm to his chest as well. "I have a name, but if ya wanna call me 'shadow' go ahead." I removed my hand from my chest to exam it, and a soon as I saw it my face drained of color, I felt sick and dizzy, because instead of my palm being burnt like I expected there was a small sun burning a bright red from pain. "L-light." I said, still in pain,"What just happened?" the blonde boy looked up at me tears threatening to fall," There's a crescent moon in my hand, that's new."there was a moment of silence before he spoke again,"Day and dark meet at last, the ones who stopped the war too fast, will meet with the moon and Sun locked to them, making them fight as one." He shook his head in disbelief, taking a step towards the small knapsack on the ground and sweeping it up. "So, " he said "what brought you to earth?"

We talked for a while about earth, not us, just earth. We talked about its moon and stars and it's food and it's people. And after a while I became tired and stood up preparing to go. "Wait!" light said jumping to his feet "Shadow wherever you're going can I join you?" he asked a pleading look in his eyes. His bright blue eyes. "Li."I said, giving him a nickname,"I,m going home, i'm a prince, my mom would gut you and me within seconds, i'm sorry you can't." I felt bad, I didn't know why, I only meet him an hour ago. He frowned "I knew it" he said, "I'm a prince too, b-but." he didn't finish his sentence before breaking into tears. I reached out to reassuringly grab his shoulder but then I remembered the pain and I snapped my arm back to my side. Li looked up, blonde hair falling in his tear covered face. "You can come li." I said too fast, definitely not thinking first. His head shot up and for the first time he smiled, a true genuine smile.

And so I lit my hand with the small black flame and reopened the portal stepping through, And this time not alone.

And here is my very first story on wattpad. This probably will get like 1 read