The Dark Meadows Dynasty

The Dark Meadows Dynasty

by Dakota Lisman

She opens her eyes and realizes she is stranded. May this unfamiliar land be home to unicorns and little elves? Or perhaps knights who’ve slain fire-breathing dragons? Be that as it may, the worst is yet to come. She stood up, perplexed on how she arrived. “Who am I?” she questioned.

Her name is Alexandria Evandore. An odd character. Her eyes, hazel brown. Her hair, a mix of chestnut and auburn. She’s an independent individual—too independent.

Now, as she sits there, lost and confused, her memory starts to return. “My name is Alexandria Evandore,” she recited to herself “I’m sixteen years old and I live in Wisconsin. But where am I now, and why am I here?” She decides to scan the area, hoping to find a familiar landmark of some sort. Though it was an open field, showered with lanterns enticing you to follow the path that they have paved. She scouts the area some more and notices a rather strange figure watching her from afar.

The stranger hadn’t realized they’d been noticed yet, as they were distracted by trying to figure out how an unfamiliar woman just wound up passed out in a field. It was only a matter of minutes until they realized; the person they were watching, was watching them as well.

They fled. Alexandria followed, hoping that eventually, she’d catch up to them. And in no time, she did.

“Who are you,” she asked. “And why were you watching me?”

The anger in her voice could not be ignored.

“Hi,” he stuttered. “I’m Kory, nice to meet you.”

He was a short fellow, an awkward one too. His skin was dark. He had snow-white hair and pretty gray eyes.

“I saw you passed out over there and I was too scared to go over and check on you,” he continued. “What’s your name?”

“Uhm, I’m Alexandria. Nice to meet you too.”

In a matter of minutes, they were acquainted.

“So, How’d you end up here?” Kory asked

“I don’t know,” she replied. “I just woke up here, I guess. Where

am I anyway?”

“You’re in the Dark Meadows.”

She was confused. She had never heard of a ‘Dark Meadows’ ever in her life.

“Where on Earth is that?”

“Earth? This isn’t earth. This is Doaria”

Alexandria paused. How did she end up on another planet? In another universe? There are so many questions that need to be answered, and she relied on Kory to answer those questions.

“I’m from Earth. I don’t remember how I got here or why I did. Help me remember, Kory.”

“Uh, okay,” Kory replied. “Was your memory erased or something?”

“I don’t know, but my mind feels fuzzy.”

Kory goes into his bag and pulls out a bright purple liquid.

“What is that?” Alexandria gasped.

“A memory potion, Drink it.”

The taste was strong; blueberries with a hint of lavender. Her head starts to spin. She starts to recollect her memories.

“I remember!” she shouts. “I’m looking for Romeo Dean III.”

“The Emperor?”

“Yes, He’s taken an heirloom from my family.

I’m here to take it back.”

“I can take you there! I know exactly where to go!”

And at that point, their adventure awaited.

UCHOPIA — THE DYING VALE

Alexandria and Kory’s adventure came to an abrupt pause. They hadn’t anticipated how far they were from the castle and needed a brief moment to take a break.

Uchopia was a wonderful place, not wonderful looking, yet wonderful nonetheless. Although the valley looked as perishing as can be, it was a very well-kept civilization. Everything was alive and well.

As Alexandria and Kory sit by a tree, they hear a strange noise coming from a shrub.

“What was that?” Kory whispered. It was a screeching sound, it hadn’t sounded like it could belong to an animal; or any life form of that matter.

“I’ll check,” muttered Alexandria.

She grabbed a nearby stick and crept up to the bush. She carefully poked at the shrub.

The mysterious creature was—

“A lizard?” they say in unison.

It was a Yellow-Dotted Crescent Lizard, one of the rarest life forms Uchopia has, for its “dying” habitat makes it almost inhabitable for its kind. Kory was amazed. He had never seen one up close. “We have to check it out!” Kory shouts.

He slowly reaches out to the vibrant colored reptile, but something odd happens.

The lizard starts twitching; more rapidly by the second. It begins to get bigger, and bigger until a full-grown dragon stands in its place.

Kory gasps. “The Lunar Alignment . . . ”

The Doarian Lunar Alignment happens every 30 years. It takes ordinary creatures and forms them into bigger—but not quite better—entities.

The dragon roars. It set fire to a couple of trees. The fire grew quickly.

“How do we fight a dragon!” Alexandria screams.

“I don’t know!”

Then it hit her.

“Its main defense is fire, so why don’t we use the opposite? Water,” she thought. She searches for a nearby hose, and fortunately, there was one. Alexandria turns it on and aims it at the dragon. It screeches, similar to the sound it made in the shrubs.

“That means it’s dying.”

It falls to the ground and shrivels up to a small lizard again. They fixed the lizard problem but did not have time to fix its damage.

And with that, Uchopia had come to an end.

UCHOPIA — THE DEAD VALE

“You think quickly, Alexandria,” Kory says. “You’re really smart.”

“I have to be smart,” she smiles, “Or my name isn’t Alexandria Evandore!”

Kory’s smile slowly faded.

“You’re an Evandore?” he said.

“Yes, I am..”

“I’m a Grantspire.”

Alexandria was confused, but then she remembered that a few

years back, her mother had explained that Tribe Evandore had been royalty hundreds of years ago, and had a feud with a nearby tribe, Tribe Grantspire.

It seems one side of the feud progressed, and the other still held a grudge.

“I can’t believe I ever helped an Evandore,” Kory mumbles. He reaches into his bag and pulls out a potion with its container shaped like a perfume bottle. It smelled like the memory potion, but off? The opposite. It was a reversal potion to the previous one. Before Alexandria could even speak, he spritzed her with the liquid. She falls to the ground and falls asleep.

They weren’t far from where they first met up, so Kory carried her back to the Dark Meadows, and went on his way.

She opens her eyes and realizes she is stranded. May this unfamiliar land be home to unicorns and little elves? Or perhaps knights who’ve slain fire-breathing dragons? Be that as it may, the worst is yet to come.