Nothing But Something

The sun sat high in the sky causing extreme heat felt by the towns people on their most important day of the year. Every bell in Townhall rang out, as they roamed the streets with anticipation. Neighbors from across town gathered to observe “The Legacy Hunt,” where the winning family would be awarded title of "Heir of Legacy". The title not only grants the winning family praise, adoration, and service of the people, but access, influence, and control over the town's resources as well. The most significant prize was an 20,000-dollar donation gathered from the towns people. Traditionally, all the towns' families compete in the hunt, however only two families in the entire history of the town have won the title and thus have reaped its benefits. The North family were the winners of the previous hunt taking the title away from the South family.

The social order of the town consists of only two classes: rulers and servants. Both classes remain scattered among the duties of the town for mutual progression. Living among the ruler class, the North family, was a young servant boy of distinct decent. His father, a mysterious man, was also a servant for the North family who worked extremely hard. Little information was known of the boy’s mother, and the only memory he had was an amulet she wore given to him by his father. The boy's father said to his son before his death "For the Amulet shall be a key, unlock & reveal our true destiny". On this scorching day, the boy was extremely exhausted having been serving the North family all day in preparation of the Legacy Hunt. He was especially worn down due to the teasing and harassment he received from the North’s family's youngest boy.

What kept him in good spirit was the myths of the little black book discussed at every Legacy Hunt. Being taboo, the little black book was always talked about in secrecy.

As a result, extreme stories and legends arouse surrounding the book's origin, function, and significance. Some towns people even claim that the little black book held the solutions to all illnesses that have plagued humanity. Even though the title "Heir of Legacy" was the core purpose of the hunt, the secrets found in the little black book was the true prize that the families longed to find. The servant boy remembered stories that his father used to tell him about the little black book. His father believed that the book was an heirloom of his family history which held details of the towns mysterious origins.

While the North family prepared for the soon approaching hunt, the servant boy carried on with his work. Not long after the North family completed preparations, the South family had breached their preparation space. Tension between the two families was felt by everyone in the town as they traded insults, striving to intimidate one another in hopes to derail each other from focus. The servant boy kept his head down until he heard a distinct voice among the South family's servants. Lifting his head slowly, he glanced and was mesmerized by a young servant girl wearing a key around her neck. "She must be a new servant" the boy thought to himself, as he put his focus back to his work. As the South family finally exited the area the boy lifted his head to get one more look at the young girl, only to find her starring at him. For the first time he experienced the sensation of being “filled with butterflies,” as he quickly looked away smiling from ear to ear.

The families positioned themselves for the hunt was on the verge of beginning.

The bell finally sounded, and the Legacy Hunt was under way. Everything proceeded normally as in past years. The town's people cheered as the two families rushed to find all the pieces in the hunt. The servant boy paid no attention to the festivities at hand, instead his eyes were glued to the servant girl. Smitten by her beauty and interested in her key necklace, the servant boy did everything he could to get the servant girls attention. When she finally acknowledged him, they both blushed and smiled while being filled with over whelming excitement. The more they starred at each other, wondrous things began to happen that never happened in the town before. The two young servants continued to hold their gaze, then suddenly a rumble shook the entire town.

More strange happenings followed the rumble. Fish rose out of the river and began to fly across the air. While all the towns' people began to scurry in a panic, the North and South families continued to hunt, because even though the Legacy Hunt can be rescheduled, the little black book was all they were genuinely concerned about. As this unexpected chaos persisted the servant girl and boy did not break their gaze for one second. Their connection formed a force feild around them both and they were completely unaffected by the unexpected happenings around them. With all the towns people distracted by fear, and the rulers of the North and South family distracted by their greed, the servant boy and girl began walking towards each other. The closer they got to each other the more cataclysms happened and the stronger their force feild became. Finally standing directly in front of each other, the servant boy asked the servant girl about her key. She said that the key belongs to her father who she never met or knew anything about, and that her deceased servant mother gave to her.

The servant girl said that her mother once told her that the key will unlock the truth of our destiny. He quickly reached in his pocket and grabbed his Amulet and told her how he got it.

Immediate after showing her the Amulet, the servant boy asked if he could see the girl's key.

She removed the key from her neck and hands it to the boy. He puts the perfect fitting key into the amulet, and it pops open quickly. A bright white light emits from the amulet going directly into the sky causing all the unexpected happing's to cease and the town peoples and hunting families to stop and stare. A few moments went by and the amulet began spinning very slowly but picking up speed. The servant girl told the servant boy to place it on the ground. Spinning out of control the amulet also began to increase in size. Afraid of another unfortunate happening, the towns people and competing families began to back away from the amulet. However, before they could get far, the Amulet exploded, and smoke saturated the air.

Once the smoke cleared away from the amulet, the servant boy and the servant girl looked down and were shocked by what they saw. In place of the unlocked amulet and key, was the little black book. All the towns' people gasped in confusion and excitement. The servant boy and girl picked the book up and held it simultaneously the book together, and they began to transform. The finest fabrics magically wrapped around their bodies; they were now covered with attire fit for royalty. Then, suddenly a big bag appeared in front of them filled with all the pieces needed to win the Legacy hunt. Since all the pieces were in front of the former servant boy and girl, they were righteously awarded the "Heirs of Legacy" title. This made the North and South families furious, and they claimed that the 20,000 dollars, title, benefits, and the little black book was rightfully theirs. A member of the North family tried to take the book out of the hands of their former servant boy. The little black booked turned into ashes and reappeared in the boy's hands again. The North and South family charged the former servant in full scale attack to take away what they just inherited. However, when the families were just 5 feet away the little black book opened, and white light beamed into the charging families making them vanish.

The now ruler boy opened the book to read if what his dad said about it was true. "To the descendants of the Town's Ancient Royal Family:" read the first page in the little black book. By surprise he saw the girl’s name, as well as his own. The rest of the pages were blank except the very last page. The last page read "tell your story, and the message shall be delivered". Well, here I am with my first entry into this magical little black book telling you all about how I went from a servant to someone else to the ruler of my own destiny. Now that my wife and I discovered the little black book, our family's legacy will never go unwritten.