The prophetess held onto her long dress as she watched in worry over the kingdom. Her mind was focused on the treetops. She stilled as her mind remembered the words of the king's oracle.
"Quickly! We have to hide the king" Nox opened the door to the young king's room. The prophetess watched the young men as Nox rushed to young king Malthus.
"Your majesty, you must hide immediately. The armies have surrounded the forest to the palace, come. Minah," he huffed. The boys looked to her as she teared her eyes from the burning treetops. Her face paling in realization when she looked to Nox's young complexion and his curled blue hair mattered by sweat.
"Yes, please take him" she nodded. Log Malthus looked to her wordlessly. The boy had become quieter with every passing day.
"Come your majesty, we have to ensure your safety" Nox cooed respectively while holding the boy's back before running passing the stationed guards. They disappeared into the secrets of the catacombs under the palace, she sighed in relief. The oracle's prophecy had protected their king once more. With her hands folded in front of her, she felt her surroundings blur into the smoke from the burning evergreen trees.
Her vision observed the armies, the monsters lurking in the shadows. Their heads turned to her eyes and she grasped. Her chest panted as she leaned into the glass and stared to the battlefield again. The monsters were no illusions of magic, she concluded but was left as clueless as she was before. Her hands folded again as the smoke returned but when her eyes opened, the smoke poured from the bedside full of white robes and golden lace. She removed her shoes before quietly nearing her oracle.
Before she could open her mouth, his voice sung like honey from behind the silk curtain.
"Prophetess? Is this your aura?" His voice winced with worry. She nodded before realized he couldn't see her, she cleared her voice.
"Oracle, it is my love. I come in worry about your vision my lord," she whimpered. Her face looked to the floors.
"My visions? Is it fulfilling my dear?" The bed creaked under his weight. In a small moment, the oracle walked out of his meditation. In golden shimmers his long hair flow from his head, his pale skin hidden under his layers of silk robes.
"It is," she nodded her eyes about to water. He reached for her but his touch never graced her skin. The oracle's grace was reserved for the voice of the ancestors.  With his face under the veil, the oracle's eyes sparkled in worry.
"You must return my dear, you are my voice. We can trust in the promises of our ancestors and descendants, they know the path" he nodded. She was about to say a word of doubt, but the ancestors had already sent her back to the king's room. She was standing before the window again.
The door creaked when Nox positioned himself next to her. He looked to her expectantly. Unlike so many among their kind, he was one who believed the words of their oracle. She couldn't deprive him from the ancestors. They wanted to guide him to greater ends, one she knew and could only hope he could fulfill.

NOX
"And shouldn't  also be out there, Nox?" Her voice sang when her nimble feet crossed the room to me. I stood watching guard over her. She was the trusted guardian to the king. Our king depended on her as much as any child would. With her distant visions and wise age, she looked at me with the similar expression of impatience I'd grown accustomed to.
She waited for my response.

I stood at attention towards the door. She continued to watch and I realized there was no way I could escape her judgement.
"Does your vision call for me to be down there?" I asked genuinely. As our prophetess Minah, she continuously faced those who denied her gifts. She always looked down on those. Fortunately I always considered her prophecies, a future commander can only lead an army willing to fight if they knew they could win.
She held her hands in front of her dress. Caressing her hand with eyes like venom, "Yes. You ought to be put there with your father."
She nodded and avoided my eyes. I looked to her in confusion, but concluded she must have done it for a reason. 

I bowed, "I'll return at your side soon Minah." With a broad grin, I watched my body glow before bursting into thunder.  Gunshots scattered against the treeline when my feet patted the moist grasses.

"Take cover," one of the men shouted frantically. I breathed; I hadn't realized I was staring at the enemy's aura. 

"Nox!" my commander yelled as his body slammed mine away from the clearing. Rain of metal bullets slammed the ground I had been standing. My back ached as my commander glared down at me. My eyes still not believing the power of the deadly auras the shadows had.

"You must be at attention at all times, Nox. Why did you come here?" His voice roughly growling at me. Before I could explain Minah had asked me to be at his side, screams of fire and rumbles resonated behind us. Our eyes turning to the sounds.

"We must regroup," my commander grumbled in disappointment, "Contact our men, we're retreating."

Conflicting with my own emotions, I shook my head. My hands weaved a connection to our squad leader, our minds connecting as if we were in front of one another.
Ragata frowned; his glowing green eyes looked at me, "Nox? Why are you out here?"
His face contorted, he appeared to be in a struggle.

"It's not a good time right now," he grunted. The sound of piercing bullets shattering through the weak connection.

"Fall back, we're retreating." I hesitantly said . His eyes widened before he scream in frustration. A rumble of metal cracking as he looked more at ease. The cut on his cheek oozed some of his blue blood.

"Okay," he breathed in anger. I didn't replied anything after closing the connection, opening more to connect everyone else on the west side. My eyes blurring over as my aura focus energy to creating the threads through the realms; ignoring the explosions and dying trees.

"Nox!" the command growled next to me, "Move your sorry butt now!" a shove tossed me forward when my eyes saw movement in the vines.

"Father," I whispered. My hands immediately glowed with heat. Energy flowing to them as the shadows grew over us.

"They found us."

My commander froze momentarily. A large tree branch snapped and crashed over our head.

"Nox!" I heard before my air was knocked out if me, an arm curled at my stomach as I fell the other way. A heavy weight tossing me to the ground roughly. I coughed up before the same hand pulled me up. From the edges of my eyes, I saw a curling shadow before a figure stood there with an infamous grin.

"Commander of Ael, how are you?" his childish voice chuckled as he stepped closer toward us.

"Kairos." The commander release his grip on my uniform as I straightened up and was about to expand the enemy on my hands-a hand stopped me.

My eyes looked up before Commander Varius shook his head.

Not now, let's reason with them.

"I'm surprised you discovered who I am," he pushed back his black curled hair before peering over to me, "Not many live to know it." His calm silence announcing the army of his kind. His mouth covered by a strange cloth. Men hidden under the branches of tall standing trees. Dark smog flickering like glamour from behind me.

"Land of Ael is in need of a new leader," Kairos pronounced fondly under his mask. His eyes blacken around his sockets.

"Never," Varius growled.

"Sadly that's not up to you, is it?" Kairo replied with amused eyes. A darkness covering over the sky like a thick blanket. The commander tensed before sending his energy around the edges of his arms; a yellow glow illuminating like firebugs around himself.

"Kairos, the land of Ael will never accept you as their king," Varius snarled as the lights brighten in his anger. From behind, hands suddenly anchored our feet to the grass. Hands stretching out from our own shadows.
"All good has its shadows, Varius," Kairos said with his eyes on his nails. Grunting to break the holds on my feet, my bluish energy brightens before pulsing onto the hands. Energy oozing through the air.
"Nox, enough! They suck your energy, it's useless," he snapped at me before my eyes witness the strange darkness open a mouth and swallowed the light. Its eyes glowing blue before it smiled towards me. Slithering heavily towards our unmoving form, it approached with determination.

"It's almost melting my heart to see your care for your son, commander. Sadly, my purpose today is rid you of any ray of hope," Kairos' ghostly voice echoed through the dark.
"Nox!" my commander shouted. I wasn't aware of what really was going on before Kairos orange eyes faced me.
Energy heightened within me. My hairs lifting all the fire within my spirit; a shield surrounding me like walls before his hand formed an ax and struck the walls. Sparks igniting, my eyes looked for help. My eyes only finding the yellow firebugs exploding on the shadowed army surrounding my walls. Sweat rolled down my forehead as my breath heated up the small space I had as my arms held against the strong hits from each side.
I coughed shakingly. Soon other colors glowed around the trees, but by this time, the energy in me was fading.

Shattering at my next breath, my hand fell past the barrier, my body slipping. A burning weakness knocked out the air from my lungs.

"Nox! Watch out," I heard before a claw sliced my cheek.

I screamed in agony. My body collapsing forward into the wet grass. My arms caged into the ground as I was about to block against an enemy when a foot held my head to the floor.

The grass around me turned black and crumbled away into the wind. I groaned; struggling against when a chuckle made me freeze.

"My, of all the ways, I expected to kill you. I never thought of that way," he announced. My eyes glowed against the soot-like ground. I struggled.

"No!," I could hear in the distance as I see Ragata dashing past shadows. The wind began to lift up and I coughed.

"See you there in hell, Nox." I was about to flinch when everything around me exploded. It rips at my skin, shards of crystals pierced into me. I scream against my arm.

My eyes lose focus on my surroundings. A bright light enveloping everything before I couldn't see my own hands and soon I fell into darkness.

Second chappie~
I hope everyone wasn't too put off at my bad attempt of villain writing and action lol, please write suggestions and critique it is always welcomed! I hope you'll keep enjoying this new adventure