The Lie by Hannah S. Chacko – Prologue
The following is the prologue and first chapter of Hannah S. Chacko’s The Lie.
It is a childrens’ fantasy book aimed at all readers over the age of nine, and is the first book in a trilogy of trilogies (nine books), The Elementalist Series. The series follows the story of four children (aged 14-16) who find out that they are part of a prophecy to save all of existence and stop a war that has raged for generations.
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The Lie: Prologue
Long before anyone can remember, every realm stood strong. Even the work of the Clorans was available for all. Among these realms was that of the Elementalists. No one ever called it by any name. It just was.
The Elementalists worked with the elements on their realm, shaping their world. There was no feat impossible with an elemental force behind them. In war, they would use the natural force of each element and enhance it. The blows occurring quickly and powerfully. Unceasingly. Yet despite this, the Clorans created for them the Zynorans, containing essences of each element, to protect the wearer and enhance his or her own abilities.
The Elementalists were proud people, and were governed by councillors, who were voted for by the people. But as the councillors grew in power, they began to neglect their duties. In order to keep the people under their control, they spun an incredible web of lies, starting small but building them up until they had complete control over the people’s thoughts as well as their actions. The rest of the Elementalists were unaware of these lies, putting all their trust into their leaders. This was how they survived for many centuries. Then one man grew in power, until he was strong enough to see through the lies and lose any control they had over him.
He could have aided the councillors and kept the peace of the realm, but he hated them for trapping the people within the net of lies and turned against them, preaching to the people. He quickly brought others around to his way of thinking and turned them against the councillors also. Thus began the first, and last, revolution among the Elementalists.
As he did so, Cloric, the land of the Clorans, fell due to the decline of people all of whom were dying as a result of a strange disease. He tried to help them, along with his group of followers, the Letrans, but was hindered by the group who became known as the Zyrons. This action by the Zyrons brought more to him, for the Clorans were important to all the Elementalists, yet the councillors had stopped any form of help and allowed the Clorans to die unaided. The fact the councillors had gone against the principles of the people made many see the truth. Despite this, many chose, or were forced, to remain with the Zyrons, while at the same time they tried to aid the Letrans.
The Zyrons, led by the high-councillors, tried to destroy the Letrans. However, as the divide was equal, they only succeeded in destroying their own realm. The walls were not meant to sustain such a schism. Bands of each side escaped and hid themselves amongst the other known and numbered realms. Some even found the unknown realms and managed to assimilate themselves into the local society.
As most people from the remaining realms presumed that they were destroyed with the realm, they remained hidden in this way to both the natives and each other, influencing the realms to their own liking. Especially manipulating weather patterns. They grew in their own power, but at the same time, their power was broken for they had lost the link to their home, their source of power.
They remained this way for many years, until an important prophecy came to light. The last of the Clorans, before he had died, foresaw four children, wielding their piece of a Zynoran, leading one side to victory while the other fell to ruin. The children were of a Zyron and Letran who were to meet on the battlefield.
The children, once born and identified, were switched with others, born on the same days, and raised in the normal society of Catré, also known to most as the sixth realm. They remained blissfully unaware of their own true history and slowly grew together as they aged.
One of the two boys died early in his life as the result of an assassination, the other disappearing from society and pronounced dead at a young age. But the girls remained, ever growing closer, becoming the best of friends. And they were always ignorant of their part in shaping the future of an entire race which was apparently extinct, and many other races besides.
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© 2009 Hannah S. Chacko
Posted: June 10th, 2009
Author: Lee
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I saw you write this. 
Very good missy, but I still want a copy. x
This looks cliche and awful.
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