The Cloud Couple

Part #1 — Present: June 1, 2021 — Somewhere in the moonlit skies outside LA

Likely hundreds of cycles ago, the Great Kingdom was born. Cycles ago, my great-grandmother began ruling. She was 13. (That's how we work here.) Anyways, a fellowship of Elves fancied our kingdom. We merely told them no, so they did something Elves tend to do and declared war upon our people. The fighting persisted until my mother was 13 and able to rule. At that point, enough was enough, and so my mother set out to conclude the war. After completing some searching, my mother came across The Lord of the Skies. She'd heard about his tremendous legacies, and so she urged him to follow and conclude the war. He accepted but at a price. As the Lord wasn't exactly evil, he would only aid those who meant well, but he was also quite crooked and so was the price that he demanded. The Lord wanted my mother's first child if God wanted her to bear one. He wanted the child so that he could use his eyes, as he had none. My mother tearfully accepted, for the comfort of her Kingdom was more important than the happiness of herself. So, The Lord of the Skies progressed to conclude the war and cast out the disastrous Elves.

Thirteen years ago, I was born. As I am my mother's first child, I to this date, count myself fortunate.

As my aunt doesn't dwell within the kingdom, my mother gave me to her to stay shielded from the Lord. For approximately a year and a half, all was well, and my mother believed the Lord didn't know about my permanence.

One day as my mother was leaving to come to visit me, the Lord took notice and stealthily followed. To make it appear as though he unintentionally fell upon the dwelling of my aunt, he waited a while, then shifted his appearance into an elderly beggar. After he had exercised all essential precautions to withhold his identity, he rapped on the door. It was my aunt who answered the door. The beggar asked if he'd be admitted shelter for the night, and out of compassion and pity, my aunt agreed.

Once in the house, my mother appeared, offering the beggar a seat and a drink. He cheerfully accepted. When my mother was in the kitchen with my aunt, I a one, and a half year old, took attention to the beggar. I climbed on the couch and proceeded to sit on him. For about two minutes, all was good, but then me, having had a large breakfast, spit-up ALL over him. Let me indeed say he let out the most piercing yell ever.

When my mother came into the room, she said the sentence that would change so much forever.

"Sorry about my baby, she doesn't know better."

From the Diary of Nat Smith — June 1, 2021

Part #2 — Past: January 30, 2021, — LA

It is the year 2021. I live in Los Angeles California. A moon and a half ago, my father was assassinated. Some may say he deserved it, but I don't agree. My father was an exceptional man. He might have made some inadequate choices, but they happened for the better. You see, there's a kingdom in the sky outside LA. My father' role was to help in the struggle of the Kingdoms leader, a girl named Nat to return the Great Kingdom to the ground. To achieve that, we must find five enchanted artifacts that are dispersed over the countryside. My father made it his occupation for the previous cycle to find them all. Let's indeed say he was almost triumphant for he had found three of them. We HAD three until my father made an error while trying to collect the fourth. The fourth artifact was located in a mysterious crypt under a bank vault. This pit was moreover like a hidden shaft built by my grandfather to shield the artifact from its creator The Lord of the Skies, and also from my grandmother, who earned a significant status in the police world. The shaft was a mystery also to my father until about half a cycle ago when my father discovered a black Journal that had belonged to my grandfather. After flipping through half of the book, my father discovered a section talking about developing the shaft. After some examination of my own in the journal, I discovered it captivating that there's a counterpart journal that had belonged to Queen Nat's mother. I also found it amusing my grandfather had made one for Queen Nat herself. Two moons ago, my father had gone to study the shaft and saw the tunnel had been discovered by the bank and blocked off for use as an extra vault.

Because of this obstacle, my father either had to give up and go home, or take a gamble for the better by creeping into the bank and reaching the crypt from inside. My father chose the second possibility, and part of me preferred he didn't.

On the night of December, the 1st, my father snook into the bank. It All went splendidly until my father approached the vault. ONE of the vaults. Father didn't do much research, so he concluded that the bank had one particular vault and that the right one was this one.

My father proceeded to take out his equipment and unlocked the safe. Inside wasn't the artifact, but millions of dollars instead. Two details stand out here. #1 is that the wealth was already bound and ready to go in two duffel bags, and #2, there was my grandfather' black journal on top of one of the duffel bags. My father, being intrusive, retrieved the journal and opened it to the last used page. On that page it read;

"Collect the money and suffer."

My father stuffed the journal in his pouch and laughed it off. After that, my father picked up the money and turned towards the door. But standing in the doorway was a black-cloaked man. Without uncertainty, the mystery man shot my father.

From the Journal of Abrax Abadi — January 30, 2021

Part #3 — Present: June 2, 2021, — Sky Kingdom

"Sorry about my baby, she doesn't know better."

That was the last thing my mother got to say. At that moment all of the Lord's suspicions were confirmed, and he got really angry.

Let's just say that he turned himself back into his real form and killed both my mother and my aunt, and then tried to kill me.

My family isn't magic, but as my mother feared for my life, she sought out one of my aunts friends who was good at enchanting things, and got her to put an anti-harm spell on me, so that for the first thirteen years of my life, I'd be protected from the Lord. That means when he tried to kill me, all his powers shot from him and into me, creating an explosion that utterly destroyed the house.

Dear Diary, I cannot write anymore today, this topic is making me upset. Talk tomorrow.

From the Diary of Nat Smith — June 2, 2021

Part #3 Revisit — Present: June 2, 2021 — Sky Kingdom

Dear Diary, it's still June 2. I thought that I'd take the liberty of coming back today to finish telling the story. Let's start where we were.

After The Lord of the Skies tried to kill me, but instead gave me most of his powers and destroyed the house, he got even more mad than he already was, he used the last of his powers to lift the kingdom into the sky by enchanting five artifacts. As the Lord wasn't stupid, he scattered the artifacts all over the country, and the only way to find them is black enchanted notebooks.

As I have magic abilities, I may create a diary that enables me to collect artifacts.

From the Diary of Nat smith — June 2, 2021

Part #4 — Present: June 3, 2021, — LA

Nat — At the present moment, I am leaving the kingdom. Today I realized my companion who was killed had a son named Abrax. Coincidently, but also sadly, Abrax is my age and he has no parents. So anyway, today I'm going to go meet him and ask him to come to support me in the kingdom.

Okay, I am in the big city, and it's bigger than I remember. I also should have taken a map with me, because now I'm lost.

It took a while, but I found him. He dodged the authorities taking him after his father had died, and now is living with a friend. When I knocked on the door, it was Abrax that came to the door.

Five minutes later, we were all sitting in Abrax's room, comfy, and with a drink. As our kingdom isn't known to the ordinary person, Abrax's friend was very confused. Long story short, it took about half an hour to explain everything to his friend.

Later that day, Abrax agreed to come live at the kingdom, and so I helped him pack up his few things, sayed by to his friend, and left back home.

Abrax — After the death of my father, I came to live with my friend Daniel, and all was going normal, (, and boring) until earlier today, when Queen Nat herself came knocking on the door.

Around five minutes later, we were all sitting in the room that Dan's mother provided for me.

After we tried really hard to explain to Dan what and where the sky kingdom was, Not offered me a home and a job. Much to Dan's mother's dismay, I agreed and we left that same day.

Nat — Much to the dislike of Abrax's friend Daniel's mother, Abrax was more than happy to go. Not because he didn't like them, or because it was boring there, but because he had only read about the beauty of our kingdom, and he couldn't wait to see it. Okay, when I said that it wasn't boring, I lied because as we were getting him ready to go, he started telling me that he liked Dan's mother and all, but she could be really over protective, so not letting him have the freedoms his father gave.

From the Journal and Diary of Nat Smith and Abrax Abadi — June 3, 2021