The Silver Millennium

The

-|- Silver Millennium -|-

Written By: Evalyn W. (A.K.A Evey)

-|- Prologue -|-

Deep through the trees, past the ancient burrows, and across a foul stench fen, lays a silver necklace. Its chain was rusty with mold growing through the rotting chain links and it was no longer astonishingly beautiful bright silver, but more a dying shade of silver. This necklace was abandoned.

Tossed across the rotting fen to rid the owner of the necklace from the immensely vast trauma possessing the necklace caused anyone as soon as it touched the skin of your neck. The necklace had been there for a few good years of the past, and had not yet even been discovered by a single living and breathing soul.

The toss-er of the once stunning and rather expensive piece of jewelry had never told any one person where exactly he had done away with the necklace. The toss-er felt it best to keep that bit of information to himself to leave dead dogs lie.

In all the years of the riddance of the necklace, it had been searched throughout the Silver Millennium Kingdom for, coming up as a dead-end result. No one appeared to be clever enough to figure that the Toss-er would divest the necklace off to a place that would be least favorable to visit by any normal soul. Of course, there were those few of brave selection that would have dared to cross the fen without the slightest of whimper, but bravery didn't bring brains; everyone brave wasn't bright, and everyone bright wasn't bright enough.

And so the necklace remained where it was, untouched, unfounded, and very not unsought for almost half a decade of time, until one cold December night. It was a night so cold that five layers of clothing would not do justice of warmth.

It was raining on and off, with grumbling from the thunder above in the sky. Gusts of wind were blowing anything on the land that was weak enough to stir at its mighty waft. The sounds of nature like the chirps of crickets and the sounds of any crunching grass could not be heard, for the wind was much too powerful this night.

Any one was stupid to dare leave their home on a night like this. But, of course, there were stupid enough people to actually venture out in such bad weather. Aden Devree and his skeptical wife, Kira Riley Devree decided that dangerous winds and harmful hail was the perfect weather to enter.

It wasn't really Kira's fault. Her idiot of a husband, Aden had begged, pleaded, and implored for her to come with him. He 'claimed' he had such a very special surprise for his loving wife. She tried her best to ignore his persuasiveness, but in the end she caved in when he looked at her with his puppy eyes. He knew she had a weakness for his puppy eyes, no matter what he was asking. So, poor Kira followed her husband by flying car to the surprise Aden had so grandly promised.

The journey was not a simple one. The wind seemed determined to blow their car into a tree, especially when they began flying over the Black Forest. If the wind was not dreadful enough, the hail crashing down on the car roof felt as if they were in the middle of a battlefield of some sort.

Nevertheless, after an hour and plus time of traveling, Aden landed the car as gently as he could, on a smooth patch of land. Kira was hesitant to get out of her car at first, wondering what they were doing there.

Everywhere around was total dark, making it past impossible to see anything, but what was within view of your lantern light. Aden did end up getting out the car first, and decided to walk around reassuringly over to his wife, and open the door for her. She could see a small smirk on his face, which was transformed into an eerie smile with the lantern light reflecting only half of his face, and leaving the rest in darkness.

She was about to ask where they were, when she felt him grab hold of her hand, locking his fingers between hers, and began walking toward darkness. She walked along, deciding she would give her husband a break for once, and not nag nor complain, though she was on the brink of doing so.

The walk seemed to take forever and ever. Several times it started raining and hailing, and then stopped, before it would start up all over again. Kira never let go of her husband's hand, she even rested her head on his shoulder every few minutes; she really wanted to be in bed sleeping than walking through darkness with him out in the middle of a storm.

After a forever later, Aden stopped. He let go of Kira's hand and held the lantern up higher. Kira followed where the lantern light was leading, and discovered what he was trying to show her. The sight that she met with her eyes wasn't a very nice-looking one.

There was a swamp standing right in front of them. Kira couldn't believe her husband had brought her all this way just to show her a swamp. She had a good reason to tell him off, until she realized what was across from the swamp. It was a cabin. Sure enough the cabin didn't look very inviting, but that probably was due to the fact that nothing did in this kind of storm and darkness.

Kira looked up at her husband, asking him a question without words. All he seemed to be able to do was grin nicely. When he realized his wife was not pleased at all, he stopped grinning at once. Kira didn't want to hurt his feelings, but she was feeling very angry and annoyed with him at the moment.

"Do you like it?" he asked patiently.

"Do I like it?" Kira repeated taking her time to drag out each word. She had her mouth open a bit and was gaping at him like she had never seen his face before. "Aden, is this what you wanted to show me?"

"No - I mean... yeah. I thought this was a nice surprise. It's a cabin..." he explained. He looked back up at the wooden cabin as if it were his first ever cabin to set eyes on. He had his free hand in his pocket now, while the other continued to hold up the lantern.

"I know it's a cabin," Kira said, "but why would you ever drag me out here just to show me a cabin? Aden, you know I need my sleep."

"Kira, I bought it. It's ours. I thought it was romantic...don't you think?" Aden asked excitedly, "the seller was some old man. He said he was dying and he needed to handle his business before his time ran out, or something like that. I don't really remember. All I know is, it's ours. Look, I have the keys."

"Aden, it's stormy out here. And - and why would you buy something near a swamp?" Kira questioned. She was feeling exhausted not just from fatigue but also from her husband's stupidity. She loved him to death, but he was the world's biggest imbecile sometimes.

"The man said the swamp turns into a small lake once the rage tempest ends," Aden said proudly with a nod, "it's a bargain. Wait until spring, everyone will be pounding on our door to buy this place. Watch."

"Swamps don't just turn into lakes, Aden. The man tricked you," Kira said testily, "I'm tired, and I'm sleepy. I don't care at the moment if this cabin is probably the biggest waste of money you've ever spent, I'm going inside to sleep." She started across the edge of the swamp without her husband.

He stood there and stared after her for a moment, before he followed. Kira headed straight for the cabin door, ignoring the gushing sound the stinky fen was making. Aden, however, seemed to be enjoying the atmosphere with his goofy grin.

He was walking around the dirt and mud with happiness in each step until he almost slipped on a hard object that was either not dirt or mud or a hard clump of it. Aden looked down into the muddy sand, to discover a shining silver necklace.

"Take a look at this, Kira! I've found a necklace. This place is just heaped with treasures," Aden exclaimed. He knelt down and picked up the necklace into his hands.

It was the first time the necklace had been picked up in over four years. When the silver met Aden's fingertips, he felt the mightiest gust of wind yet, blow through his sandy colored hair. He looked down at the necklace that had a jewel-encrusted hourglass as its pendant.

"Aden, put that back. It looks like a -" Kira began.

"No way. It's beautiful. Can you wear it Kira? It's like I bought you this necklace. It's on the property I bought. I wonder if the old man knew it was here," Aden said thoughtfully. He stood up again, not taking his eyes off the necklace.

Kira looked over her shoulder both ways as a clap of thunder sounded everywhere. She took a few steps closer away from the cabin door and towards her husband. "Aden, listen to me, please. Put that down. You do realize what that is," Kira whispered fearfully.

"Kira, what's wrong?" Aden asked with a snort of laughter.

"You really don't know what that is, do you? You idiot, this isn't any normal fen or cabin. This has to be a trap," Kira whispered, now shaking with absolute terror. "He's probably watching us right now. We have to get out of here."

"Whose watching us? Why? Are you crazy? I really do think you need some sleep," Aden said concernedly, "Come on, let's go inside the cabin." He grabbed her elbow and started toward the cabin.

"No! You're the crazy one! This is all a trap," Kira shouted, "He's watching us!"

"Who in the bloody hell are you talking about?"

"LORD VOLDEMORT!" Kira yelled impatiently at her husband, "LORD VOLDEMORT IS WATCHING US!" She pulled her elbow and every other piece of body part from his grasp and started toward the side edge of the swamp again.

"Kira,, listen to yourself. Why would He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named leave a necklace here for us to find? Why would he bother going through so much trouble?" Aden asked laughingly, "he's no where near here...he's in the Silver Millennium Kingdom in his high turret sitting on his mighty lil' throne. There's nothing to fret about."

"Your so stupid, Aden! I'm leaving, and if you don't want to come, well, I'll leave without you!" Kira screamed in a petrified tone. She turned around and started once more for the side edge of the swamp.

"Fine! Go on! Ruin the night that was supposed to be our romantic evening! You ruin everything with your insane theories and now you have the craziest idea that You-Know-Who is out to get us," Aden said angrily. He was no longer laughing or wearing his goofy smile.

"He is out to get us," Kira informed, "He's out to get all of us, Aden."

"Your over reacting...he doesn't bother us. All he does is stay in his castle on his throne with his Death Eaters all day. He doesn't bother us," Aden said, "your just looking for the stupidest excuse to ruin the evening. That's fine, I see how it is now."

"Your so naïve. What do you think the Third War is all about, Aden? It's about the Un-Imperial Army fighting against him for control over the Silver Millennium Kingdom...for control over the magical community again...for freedom. He's controlling us all, you don't see it? He's taken away everything...the spell advancement on our wands, the privilege of Apparition, everything. You don't think he's doing that to protect us. He's controlling us," Kira told him, "I can't believe I married such an idiot."

"IDIOT? I'm tired of being called an idiot by you!" Aden barked. He threw the silver necklace off somewhere into the muddy sand out of temper and kicked a nearby rock, trying to pretend as if it hadn't hurt his foot, afterwards. "It's over, Kira! We're through!" He took off somewhere into opposite direction of darkness than Kira, taking the lantern with him.

Kira growled like the thunder that had banged at the exact same moment. She looked over her shoulder at the pitch darkness, feeling complete fear. She was regretting arguing with Aden now. He may have been an idiot, but at least he protected her whenever there was harm. She was about to start back across the swamp when she heard a scream that stopped her in her footsteps.

It wasn't a male scream, so it wasn't Aden. It was a female's scream, and it sounded not too far off. Kira turned around listening with the best hearing ability she could muster. And that was when she noticed it. The necklace was gone. She knew this, because it was no longer glinting in the darkness. She started back through the shadowiness toward the place where she was sure she saw Aden throw the silver necklace. She reached the exact spot, she knew this because there was the rock Aden kicked, but yet the necklace was gone.

Panic spread through Kira. What in the hell is going on? She asked herself mentally. A strong breeze of wind almost knocked her sideways off her feet. She regained her foot placing and noticed she had begun to cry.

Yes, she realized this was so pathetic of her to start crying like this, but she couldn't help it. Here she was all alone in the pitch darkness near a swamp hearing the screams of a female should could not see while Aden roamed around aimlessly, but angrily.

The screamed sounded again. It was so high pitched. The next sound Kira heard was footsteps. Running footsteps. Kira began to panic like an ant does whenever to splash water onto it. She started running away from where the footsteps were coming.

She could still hear the footsteps as she ran, but if only her anxious panting would cease. That would have helped. But, it didn't. She had apparently run full circle, for she ran straight into the figure she was trying to escape. The person screamed. It was the woman. Both of them flew opposite direction into the mud, as the same silver necklace flew from the woman's grasp through the air and landed closer to Kira.

The woman was quick on her feet. Kira couldn't see her face, only her outline. The woman was heading toward her mumbling something and panicking. She seemed to be quite hysterical as if she had been put through hell in the past hour and was deciding to finally fight back. Kira backed away from the woman, not finding the strength to stand.

"STOP IT! DON'T COME ANY CLOSER! ADEN! ADEN, HELP!" Kira screamed frantically kicking her leg up into the air to push the woman away; it didn't work.

The woman continued toward her, screaming as if Kira was the one scaring her. Kira grabbed a handful of sand and tossed it at the spot she suspected to be the woman's face. Turned out she was right. The woman shrieked in pain a split moment later.

Kira tried to get up on her feet, but stumbled out of fright. "ADEN!" she screamed desperately. The woman was no longer shrieking from pain from the sand in her eyes, but heading back toward her again.

"NO! STAY AWAY, PLEASE!" Kira begged.

The woman was kneeling down halfway over her now. She was snatching for Kira's wrists. Kira kicked at the woman, but it didn't seem to hurt her. The woman seemed too determined to let a simple kick or jab in the ribs stop her from whatever the hell she was trying to accomplish.

Kira pulled her hand out of reach from the woman and did the only thing she could think of. She swung her fist at the woman's face. Her hand collided with the side of the woman's face, as hard as she could. The woman was thrown backward and shrieked again.

"Can you understand English? Do you hear me?" Kira asked trying to get the woman to understand. She was at last able to stand up again. "Is there any way I can help you? Do you understand me?"

The woman stood up and began yet another attempt to wrestle Kira to the floor. Kira and the woman wrangled for a few confusing moments, Kira pulling her head back all the while as the woman bent hers closer.

The woman seemed to be getting more aggressive as the fight went on. Kira was beginning to get weak. She couldn't hold off the woman for much longer, she knew that. Her best bet was to run as fast as she could away from the insane woman.

"ADEN!" she called, though hopelessly.

Maybe he's trying to pay me back by not coming to my rescue. Kira thought bitterly. Stupid prat...I'm going to die because of his silly vendetta.

The woman swung her leg out of surprise, and tripped Kira onto the muddy floor again. Kira reached for a handful of mud yet again, but instead retrieved the silver necklace by accident. The woman yelled something else in gibberish and dived down at Kira in another effort of doing her harm. Kira instinctively rolled out of the way of the woman, and started crawling as fast as she could away. Eventually, her crawls turned into a run when she stood up onto her feet again.

She didn't even know where she was running. She could have been running toward the swamp or toward the direction Aden had disappeared off to; she just hoped it would get her away from the woman.

As Kira ran the fastest she had ever run before, she noticed the necklace with the hourglass in her hand was glowing. She would have liked to ponder why it was glowing, but she knew the insane woman was still searching for her.

"What the hell," she said when she began to notice things were changing.

The surroundings were changing in fast motion. So fast a rainbow of different colors ultimately surrounded her. She could hear different sounds from different things and voices from different people that seemed random. The only thoughts that were running through her mind were where she was going.

The final sound that Kira Riley Devree heard was a loud and long gong of a clock pendulum and the tick-tock noise a clock makes. Kira did not know where she was after that. She did not know anything. And everything she thought she knew was about to be proven wrong.

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