Legacy

The lost Empire

Chapter Seven

Legacy

Leonore awoke at last after a night fulled with dreams, and images that ran through his journey into the forest of Virtues. One thought that seem to come back more times then not was why was it he could read this ancient, and unknown language. Who was this Lord Mankota, and what does the engraving of the dragon have to do with this Lord Mankota? He was tired and wanted nothing more then to go back to sleep, and not dream or think about what he had learned. Leonore pushed himself to get up from his bed, washed himself and ate a few day old biscuits when he heard a knocking at his door. No one ever comes to see Leonore, not evan his parent, who could this be, Leonore thought to himself when a second knock made him realize he needed to answer the knock. As Leonore opened his door he recognized Burke Simons, but a second gentleman he did not recognize. What may I do for you two gentleman, Leonore ask? Hello Leonore, Burke says to him, you know who I am, and I would like to introduce my close friend Amos Stalker. Come in, come in, and make yourself at home. As they sit Amos notices the stone etching Leonore made of the temple from the forest of Virtues, and without saying a word. Amos picks the stone tablet up; where have you gotten this? Leonore turns to see what Amos was talking about, and to his surprise he see’s Amos standing there with the stone tablet. Unsure of weather he wants to tell them, Leonore stands there thinking when Amos asks, do you know what this is. Leonore finally decides to tell them, yes I know what it is, but how do you? Amos tells Leonore this stone has to hundreds if not thousands of years old, when Leonore interrupts him. Saying that may be, this stone being hundred of years old, of that I have no doubt. What is etched on this stone on the other hand is just days old. Where have you gotten this stone, Amos ask? I brought this back from the forest of Virtues less then two days ago, and the etching that the stones held I put there. I copied this from a Giant stone temple, or pyramid. What it says is, The one with the Dragon we await, and it says Lord Mankota and beneath that, there is this Huge Dragon. Amos stands silent for a long while before he ask how he knew this. Leonore tells him, I don’t know how or for what reason, and all I can tell you is that when I uncovered this temple this is what I found on one side, there is more. The night before I uncovered the temple I had this living dream, where I saw these people and their culture, and how they were destroyed by a powerful enemy. When I uncovered the temple, part of my dream was this temple, and what was written on it. Leonore, we need to sit down with you and discuss something, and I want to hear about your journey into the Forest of Virtues. I would prefer talking about this at my house, there I have something I need to show you, these things I have already discussed with Burke, and now I need to do the same with you. If what you have seem and told me are what they seem to be, you are on the verge of great change. We are approaching a time that has been prophesied at the end of the first age. For now, I will explain what it is that you have etched on this stone. The one with the dragon, this I will not explain here I will do that when we get to my home, but Lord Mankota, he is the dragon, the first dragon. He is the one the prophesied, the one with the dragon, which I never really understood until this moment. Burke turns and stairs at Amos with a look of enlightenment, and asks is this why you have been wanting to learn all you could about Leonore? Yes my friend, and what you are thinking is the same as I.