Hope

Does such flourish word rings a bell?

They say Hope comes last. After opening Pandora’s box, came out the seven sins of humanity.

Fear

Even before those sins, Fear had always been in people's hearts. It was always there, resonating the moment they were born. Upon trembling grasps of the first woman in Greek mythology's tempting case... all fearing, and unaware, shutting what they believed to be the eighth. But because of ignorance, shut close the light that guarded evil; Hope.

Hope comes last. Hope is the cure. Hope is the unforseen light. But the question remains.

What started all these?

The war that surged between two races? What trapped the latter down Underground?

War

War demonstrates great strength, great power, great… people. Yet confliction between any sides desired only one thing, and what is that you ask? What is it that they so badly craved no matter how drowning the bloodshed and never-ending chaos had caused? Why it’s Hope! The element we call as light that bring Peace? What great lie! What great deceit! I laugh insanely at this, such yielding irony.

Wasn’t the cause of all these, the factor that was supposed to be the one that brings the prize of every battle, Peace? Produced from the combination of Determination and Hope, Love generates Peace. These four traits hide evil within them if brought to the wrong hands—though the affirmed 'wrong hands' are details we cannot determine nor accept in the end. Didn’t they already make enough War, Fear, and Hate?

Thus discovered next strongest of traits. Hate comes after Determination’s crave for LOVE, contamination of the soul. But Determination fortified, strengthen with brighter energy, forms the eighth of the known soul traits of light, opened after seven souls, comes, HOPE. Yes, Determination made such an alluring innovation exist, all possible with the power of Love.

They made that possible.

Though peace was not brought between the land of the two kingdoms, the tension between them slowly decreased, thanks to the Love present between two souls; one as the brightest of light, and one as the darkest of shadows. This Love created the awaited Hope that excites the Determination of every monsterkind. (nO, hOpE wAs GiVeN tO tHeM bY FaTe, ThEy DaRe AsSuMe It WaS lOvE wItHoUt ThE lIgHt'S cOnSeNt—nO sUcH tHiNg ExIsTs! HoPe, A cUrSe GiVeN tO aLl Of YoU bY fAtE... i ShAlL eXtInGuIsH, i ShAlL rIp YoUr FaKe RoMaNcE tHaT bOrE tHiS hIdEoUs TrAiT, aNd I... wIlL... pReVaIl... :) ) Yet sadly, like many other stories out there, this Love ended harshly, for their happy ending did not last long.

Long was the grievance of the King of Lux, mourning for the believed death of his Queen and one-year-old daughter, resulting to the decrease of power throughout the Light Kingdom, causing its citizens to rebel against the lone King. And his solace itself was not helping, for they believe so that as a former citizen of the darkness, it is not fitting for him to rule the land.

And so to satisfy the wrath of the rebellion, hesitating and with a heavy heart, wedded the daughter of his old friend, a wealthy Luxian aristocrat, as his new Queen. As a result, while ‘peace’ was slowly restored through the side of light, the said ‘peace’ was not present in the heart of their sorrowful King, for his soul only longed for the souls of his lost love ones.

“my sunshine. where did you set?” he wept secludedly.

Far to the edge of the kingdom, however, act as compensation to Lux’ loss of their two beloved rulers, a child was found, whose soul was yet to bloom…