After five years of training with
the palace guards perfecting every battle maneuver he was finally ready. Today would be the day he would finally
be inducted into the royal guard he would finally wear the uniform from his
dream so many years ago.
“Your majesty”
He bowed as the queen entered his
quarters.
“No need to be so formal” she
said smiling.
“We are old friends after all”
“Yes I know”
“I have come to congratulate
you. You have come a long way
since the day we met”
She giggled
“Yeah. To think back then I could barely hold a sword let alone
fight with one.”
“Yeah”
She smiled walking across the
room
“Is everything ok?”
With a serious look on her face
El-Aura turned to face him
“I wanted to ask you if have had
any more dreams like the one you told me about several years ago”
“No”
“So you still don’t know what we
were talking about?”
“No”
“Are you even sure this dream
will come to pass?” she asked
“Fairly certain. I have had other dreams that told of
future events and they have all come to fruition”
“I am concerned why would we be walking in the garden
together and why would I be crying?”
“I don’t know”
“Don’t do this.If you don’t become a royal
guard then the dream will never happen.
I am happy here being a wife and queen I don’t want it taken away”
“I have to”
He wrapped his good friend in a
hug
“It is our destiny”
He held her at arm’s length for a
moment before kissing her gently on the cheek. He then walked out of the room to join the other men for the
ceremony.
The rest of the men who were to
be knighted were already in the royal guard chambers when he arrived. Taking his place in line behind the
current captain they began to march out the door across the courtyard and to
the steps of the castle where King El-Kawn and Queen El-Aura awaited them. Raising his mighty sword the king said
a brief speech before lowering the tip of his sword gently onto the back of
each man. When King El-Kawn was
finished the current members of the Royal Guard gave the new members their
green and gold uniforms. Lying on
top of his uniform was a pair of white gloves. This was the exact outfit that he was wearing in his dream
five years ago. He was now closer
to his destiny; a destiny that would claim his life but save worlds.
