Sunset's Hellish Adventure Ch. 13 Snippet

Been a while, eh? Believe me, everyday the next chapter of this story still isn't out pains me to no end.

It's still being worked on, slowly, but progress is progress. I'm just about past the halfway point and just from that I can already tell that it's gonna be the longest chapter to date. In fact, it's probably gonna stay the longest one for a very long time. With the future chapters I have planned, they probably won't be able to come near the length of this monster.

But anyway, because I've kept everything in the dark for so long, I wanted to share the opening of chapter 13, since 8 months of nothing is just terrible on my end. No chapter name for now, I'm saving that for the full release. For now though, enjoy:

There is a tale as old as time about a kingdom that has been long since forgotten. It is the tragic story of the rise and the fall of a terrible king, and the tearing apart of a destined family.

Long ago, there was only a vast green valley of land. Four colonies lived harmoniously, each residing in one corner of the great land. War existed not, and no clan was greater than the other. Peace had been long maintained in this small world, far off from any neighbouring lands.

However, this land would soon come to experience fear for the first time. One day, a fifth colony suddenly landed ashore the sands between sea and grass. A great number of ships carrying an even greater army. The people of this mysterious clan marched through the green, and whatever villages the knights would come to meet would be seized via bloodshed. A stampede of horse hooves marched forth towards the four colonies' kingdoms, each one prepared for a fight. But alas, the enemy would prove to be too much for even one of the colonies to handle. The land, the grass, the flowers that glistened in the sunlight were stained with dark crimson. Soon enough, the peaceful world was quickly overtaken by the fifth, marking a new age with a new rule. The leader marked their territory in the very heart of the land, and thus, it would be ruled for years by the dreaded family that striked fear into those who would ever hear the name. The Hendrickson clan.

For years to follow, the ruthless rulers of the Hendrickson family would continue to plague the valley with their poison, amounting to a loss of hope from the ones who came before. Their world was gone, and no one had the power to take it all back.

But the darkness was not destined to remain, for soon after the rulers' eventual fates dawned the crowning of the successor. They would look at the damage their family had caused to this hopeless land and decide that this was not the way. An issue for peace would be restored, returning their subjects to lives they could happily live and repairing the darkened and dead landscape to its former glory. The corners of the land would regain their rule once more, and eventually, the world would come back to its peaceful state, with the four colonies of each corner, and the Hendrickson kingdom laying in the centre of it all.

The past of the Hendrickson's arrival would soon be forgotten as the generations passed, with the new kings and queens maintaining the newborn legacy of their family. All wrongs were resolved. And it benefitted to form a perfect world.

However, no secret can be forgotten forever. Soon, a new darkness would dare arise from the ashes, and they would bring poison to the land once more. It was destiny...