The Lineage of Archrus, Daniel Allen [free e books to read online TXT] 📗

and stepped forward again. Three of the armor-clad warriors came through the opening in the rock onto the narrow ledge. The men and one woman cleared the middle to allow another warrior to step into view. It was evident that this warrior was their leader, with armor that glinted reflecting the torch light making him even more ominous. The grand warrior reached to his side and unsheathed his great sword embedded with amethyst bound my metal knots to the hilt. He raised the amethyst blade high preparing to strike when everything changed. There was a small explosion accompanied by a great blinding light. Colton felt the ground fall to pieces under his feet. Backward off the cliff he fell thinking is this how it was all to end……………





Colton jerked up with a start and a slight scream. He could hear the birds chirping outside his window. Colton looked around quickly trying to make sure he was safe. He blinked twice to adjust his eyes to the dim sunlight that half illuminated his bedroom, the other half was still held by the shadows of the night. It was just that dream again Colton thought to himself as wiped the sweat from his forehead. It was the same dream that had come to him repeatedly every since he could remember. Colton hated how it always was the exact same.
“Was it the dream again, Colton?” asked Dorian as he put a hand on Colton’s shoulder trying to comfort him.
“Yeah,” Colton said looking into the beautiful face half covered by messy blonde hair, “You’d think I could get a descent nights rest on my birthday at least.” He smiled and chuckled a little.
Dorian leaned over, kissed Colton, and said, “You know you should go to a therapist for those dream love. I’m sure that one of them could help you with it.” Then he smiled and pulled him into a hug.
Colton laughed lightly and said, “You’re probably right but you know how much I hate shrinks. Their useless; they sit, listen, and tell you things you already knew for a hundred dollars an hour, at least. I can the same thing here with you for free and get much better results.”
“True, I cannot argue with you there. Well more to the point of the day sir, happy birthday Colton.”
“Thank you, baby. I think I‘ll go ahead and get an early start on the day since I‘m already awake. There is no way I will be able to get back to sleep.”
“Okay, I’m getting breakfast ready for you. I was in the kitchen when I heard you scream. I hate to not sit and eat with you this morning, but I have to go drop some articles off at the office. I forgot to leave them last night before I left so I will not be gone long. And you sir still haven’t told me what you want to do today it is your twenty-seventh birthday and we must celebrate.”
“Yeah, yeah I know. I’ll think of something while you’re out,” Colton said rubbing his face.
Dorian pulled Colton‘s hands from his face and said, “Well get dressed while I make you a plate. I am heading out now so I won’t catch hell from Mr. Stark. You know how much of an ass he can be if anything is late. I love you.”
“I love you too be careful.”
Dorian got up and went back downstairs as Colton went into the bathroom. Colton looked hard at his reflection in the mirror. He splashed his face with the cool water, but the image in the mirror stayed the same as always. He still saw his short length brown hair, emerald green eyes and all the other features that were his own. Brushing his teeth, he thought how the features were familiar, but at the same time, they seemed so alien to him still. It was always like that when he looked at himself. Colton never knew where his features came from, what gestures or traits he inherited from his parents. Nevertheless, that is what happens when you grow up not knowing whom and where you came from. Colton stared at himself a moment longer. He pushed all those thoughts aside and headed to his closet. Colton grabbed his favorite jeans and put on a black shirt off the shelf at random. He was not concerned with his appearance today. Colton really just wanted to sleep the day away.
When Colton got in the kitchen, Dorian was fixing the plates. The smell was intoxicating. In addition, he was starving. Every time he dreamed that dream, he always woke up with the biggest appetite. It was just another one of his strange quirks.
“I’m about to leave baby, here is your breakfast. I have got to make it there in time, be back in an hour at the most.”
Dorian kissed Colton goodbye and handed him the plate. Then he left to go turn in his articles for The Jersey Journal. He had been working for them for about two years now, and they had both grown used to the fact that the paper was time consuming for him. Colton did not mind since he, himself, left for weeks, sometimes even months at a time to go on digs and expeditions. Their schedules were always in some type of weird conflict. Colton even turned one job down just to make sure he could be home for his birthday. He really did not like to celebrate his birthday but he was using it as an excuse to spend some time with Dorian.
As he sat at the table, eating breakfast, and reading the paper, his boyfriend had a hand in writing; Colton heard a knock at the door. When he got to the door, it was the last person that he expected to see. Standing in his doorway was Sister Nicole from the old orphanage. She was the one person that always looked after Colton and had been the closes thing to a mother he had ever known. Before him, she stood with her black and blonde hair pinned high on her head into a bun, clutching a large bag. Her sharp piercing eyes seemed softer in the early light.
“Sister Nicole it’s so great to see you. Honestly I had no idea that you would come all this way to see me on my birthday,” Colton managed to say in all his shock.
“Well, this year I knew that you needed more than just a phone call wishing you a happy birthday my child. May I come in I also have something that we need to discuss?” she said.
“Uh, yes of course come on in. I‘m sorry, how rude of me,” Colton stammered still in shock at her presence on the doorstep.
She came in and he took her straight into the kitchen. Colton offered her something to drink and eat. She refused and sat down at the breakfast table looking around the house. Colton was unsure about her presence and to be honest it more than shocked him.
“I’ve come for a very special reason Colton. It is your twenty-seventh birthday, a very special day in your life. I have held a secret that has kept you protected all your life now it is time for you to know the truth about your beginnings,” Sister Nicole said with a strange look on her face.
“My beginnings? Do you mean about my parents? I have always been told that I was left on the step of the church with nothing but a blanket and basket,” Colton said sitting down across from her.
“Yes, that is what I always told you and everyone else for that matter. Sadly, I must apologize. I have been lying to you and everyone else about that to protect you. I never even told the priests how you truly arrived. Your parents came to me late that stormy night and told me everything about whom they were and why I must protect you from harm.”
“So you mean that you knew my parents? That I could have met them all this time and you never told me? Wait, what do you mean by protecting me? Why have you never told me this before now?” Colton nearly shouted in anger.
“Please do not be angry with me. I must explain so much. You will understand everything once I am done. Your real name is Colton Archrus not Sang. We wanted you to know your first name nut not your last. I had to make it impossible for you to find your parents. Michael and Serena Archrus, your parents, came to me in the middle of the night and told me that they were in danger but most of all that your life was in jeopardy. You were there greatest concern. They wanted you to be able to live and have a life. Our families have always been allies since The Middle Ages though I had never met any of your family before that night. Your heritage like mine is a magickal one. I mean that literally Colton. Your father was from a lineage of magick that has protected the Earth from destruction many times over the ages. Though unfortunately your father did not get the training he needed, his skills never reached their peek his father died before passing on his knowledge. Because of this, he was unable to properly protect you and your mother when the hunt for you began. So he and your mother made the decision to call on a favor in their family name so that you might be spared and protected. That‘s when they came to the church.”
Colton sat silently as he thought about what Nicole had just told him. His parents were the main thing that he took from the explanation. More than anything Colton just wanted to meet them. It was killing him to have to hear this from Nicole instead of them. He was still skeptical of the rest of the nonsense.
“Wow. Who was it that was hunting them? This is very unbelievable Sister. It all makes so little sense to me. Wait what about the magick you said.”
She ignored his question but went on to say, “It’s the truth and I can prove it. I have something from your parents to give to you that will help you to believe,” she said as she reached into her bag and pulled out a package wrapped in brown packing paper bound by a silver string.
“What is in the box?” Colton asked trying to process.
“I’m not sure. I cannot open it, only you can. I was never told and I never asked. It made it easier to keep the secret and you safe. The only thing he told me was that you would need this one day. I was to protect it and you at all costs. Your father put a spell on the parcel to keep anyone but you from opening it. They gave me instructions to give it to you on your twenty-seventh birthday. They said that the contents would explain anything I could not. Go ahead and open it.”
Sister Nicole sat the parcel on the table in front of Colton and waited quietly. She did not want to pressure him. Colton looked at the parcel wondering what proof this little box could hold for him. Skepticism still filled his mind; none of this could be true he thought. The thought of knowing more about his family overwhelm the skepticism finally. He lifted up the parcel and it began to glow shrouded by silver light. Colton looked