Moondance

CH.1

NEW WORLD

The sky was ablaze. People of all races ran for their lives. Elves, halflings, ogers, humans, dwarves, everything imaginable. Their world was a cross between technology and magic, but more superstition than anything else was.

A young elven couple moved swiftly towards a large steel tower. In the females arms was a child of seven. The child was small for it's age, even for an elf. They quickly entered the building and rushed to the top floor.

There in the large lab the male elf began pushing buttons, turning knobs and dials, and punching in numbers as the she-elf held the child close to her.

" Zeran I can't send our only child out there into the unknown. Who will care for her?" Zeran turned to his wife.

" Zela we have no choice. Do you want Moondance to die with us or to live and carry on our lives?" Zela looked down at her child. She had hair that burned like the fires outside with a golden streak down the middle of her head. Her eyes were like emeralds and jade mixed. Moondance's skin was pale, especially for an eleven child, but Zela's mother was half-human so that explained the child's paleness. Her lips were like her father's, full and ready to argue anything.

" Zela place her in the ship. She has a gift that was forgotten ten generations ago. She must live. She was never meant for this world, you know that as well as I."

Zela sighed heavily then placed her child in the ship. Zela also placed an amulet shaped like a heart with a crescent moon engraved on it in the ship with her daughter. On the one side of her daughter she placed a finely handcrafted leather bag.

" This bag of holding has much in it and will hold more. Here is also a water skin of plenty. Once it is filled it will never run out. " Zeran came over and placed a black onyx and silver sheathed dagger next to his daughter.

" Its name is Blackmoon. It has served and protected my family for generations untold. He will do the same for you. Know this Moondance, you have a birth name. When you are older and have found your true mate, he will know this name, and speak it to you. Only your life mate will know this name. He, you, your mother and I are the only ones who will ever know it unless you tell a dear friend for when your children are born that is how you will bond completely. We love you Moondance!" With that Zeran closed the ship and sent it on its way.

As the ship sped away from Moondance's home world it exploded. Her small ship was thrown far, far off her father's set course. For ten years Moondance drifted through the timelessness of space before she came close enough to a planet to be caught by it's magnetic force. The small ship crashed in a lush forest area. Though space is virtually timeless changes do happen. When the lid of the ship opened a young elven woman of seventeen emerged. She was 4'2", her hair went to the back of her calves and her body had matured. Her breasts were full and ripe, and her curves curved perfectly. The large dress her mother had put her in fit well now.

Moondance looked around at her surrounding wondering if she was alone and where she was. She sighed heavily then gathered her things from the ship before she sent it into space to self-destruct.

After doing so she walked on for a while before she heard the sound of rushing water. Quickly she ran towards it. She came into an opening that made her hold her breath. Moondance had never seen such beauty before. There was a breathtakingly beautiful waterfall, a pond the waterfall fell into, flowers by the dozen, and berries. Oh Moondance was hungry.