Luminous stood up in the vast hallway, walking up to one of the tapestries. The first one was a picture of a short red-haired boy slaying a giant. He had a large broadsword with a dark blue hilt and bright orange glass blade. Luminous saw something written underneath the picture in the tapestry.

“Here is the tale of Tom the Tiny, out to search for something golden or shiny. In the mountain to treasure, he fled, packed up his bag, last time he made up his bed. The giants of the mountain didn't take kindly to the strangers from Kingdom Red, so Tom took the Dawn of Fate and cut off their heads.” Read Luminous. “I’ve never heard of these guys before.”

Curious Luminous glanced at the tapestry next to that one. This one had a picture of a muscular man with long white hair holding the orange sword that was in the last tapestry. He was standing on a hill with the sun rising above him, and vampires burning below. Luminous looked down at the caption.

“This is the story of Relic, the vampire slayer, with nothing to lose, he stormed the vampire layer. He killed all the creatures of the dark by ending eternal night, but bringing about the era of the sun ended his light.”

Curiouser, Luminous ran over to the next tapestry. This one was of another little boy holding a sword that was way too big for him, the glass vermillion blade pointed to the ground, he had long braided hair, that was black like Chasm, but unlike Chasm, he had big round apple red eyes instead of narrow blue ones. In the tapestry, he had a bunch of red strings wrapped around his snow-white body.

“The world rang out a tale of a gypsy boy from kingdom Black. He would go to new places and never look back. With the power of the sword and a given name, he can take back the free will people freely claim. The people who were caught by his power could not be swayed, for they must do what Simon says.”

Luminous now stood in front of one that had a tall, handsome man with wavy brown hair with that same sword in his hands as the others. He was pointing it at a huge dark crow that towered over him. A wizard with long purple hair that matched his purple robes held a silver staff in his hands with lightning shooting out of it at the crow.

“The Crow King reigns over the corrupt in people's hearts, his monsters his work of art. But all has changed with this welder's one mistake…”

“Don’t touch that!”

Luminous’ finger slid across the lettering as she jolted. She had utterly forgotten about Master mouse until she found him underneath another tapestry taping his foot on the tile ground.

“Ohh, umm…”

“You should know better than to touch one thousand-year-old tapestry without permission.” Scolded Master Mouse.

“I wasn't... touching anything...” Luminous glancing around the hallway.

“Never mind that,” Master mouse rolled his eyes. “Come along now. We have to keep moving.” He pulled back the tapestry with care, revealing a good-sized hole in the wall.

Luminous got on her hands and knees and began crawling. When she stood up again, she got a good look at the round room. The white moonlight shone through the hole in the roof of the circular room, shining on a huge vermilion glass sword sticking out of a stone.

“It’s that sword!” Luminous pointed at the sword.

“That sword?” Master Mouse quirked an eyebrow.

“Ya, it’s one of the swords in the tapestry it’s…”

But before Luminous could explain how she knew the sword, she spotted a group of mirrors behind it.

Instead of reflecting the room to her, they all had images of other places in them. One of them had a very recognizable white dresser room table, with a white cabinet and a big pink bedspread.

“The red prince's room?”

In another instant, Chasm ran into the room, his side was bleeding, but he held the red prince's hand in a tight grip, with a sword in the other. A dark wolf with red eyes busted through the door after them.

Chasm and the red prince hit a dead end when the wolf backed them up to the door of the closet. Two more shadowy wolves came into the room behind the lead one, growling. Chasm stood in front of the prince, his sword blocking the wolves from getting any closer.

“You can’t fend them off by yourself.” Said the prince. “Just let me help you.”

The red prince reached for the knife around Chasms belt. Chasm opened up the closet door pushing the red prince inside. Causing the red prince to fall onto a pile of clothes on the ground.

“Sorry, my prince.” Said Chasm looking back. “I can't just let you put yourself in danger. You’re the crown prince, the only bloodline we have to take the future crown.”

The wolves growled and snapped. The lead one jumped forward, his jaws opening wide. Chasm blocked the attack with his sword, the wolf bit the blade then immediately jumped back once he cut his mouth...

“But, you can’t continue like this for much longer! You’re already wounded!” Protested the prince.

“Ya, and how would you help?” The knight painted, holding his bleeding side. “You don’t even know how to wield a kitchen knife!”

The wolf to the left jumped at Chasm’s bleeding shoulder. He slashed the wolf across the face, the creature backed up.

Luminous continued to watch them through the mirror becoming fidgety. All three of the ink-black wolves continued to surround the knight.

Chasm held the sword steady, his narrow blue eyes darkened, daring them to come at him again. All three wolves growled taking the challenge. They all stepped forward. But Chasm stood his ground, blowing a strand of dark hair that fell out of his ponytail out of his eyes.

“Chasm!” Yelled the prince.

The knight looked back to see a man's hand reaching out of a portal, grabbing the prince's arm. The prince struggled to pull away from the mysterious portal man's grip.

Chasm dove for the prince's other hand. Gripping it, he tried to pull the prince back towards himself but the stranger was too strong. The wolves behind him growled, seeping into the closet. Chasm looked towards the wolves then back at the prince, frantic about what to do now. He could cut the man's hand off, but the blade didn't quite reach, if he leaned forward he risked losing the prince inside the portal.

“Chasm, just... let go.” Said the prince shaking his head.

“What?!”

“Go to kingdom Brown, tell them kingdom Red has been attacked and we may all be in danger. I’ll be fine, I can defend myself.”

“I’m not leaving.” Said Chasm sternly. “As I said, you can’t defend yourself, you can’t even weld a kitchen knife. You’ve had no prior training.”

The prince swallowed hard, he didn't like to play this card but he had to.

“Chasm! I, Arthur, crown prince of the Red kingdom, order you to let go of me and go to kingdom Brown!”

Chasm wiped his head around staring at him, the prince glared back with his chestnut eyes. He looked once again between the wolves and the stranger on the other side of the portal.

“I can’t believe I'm doing this,” sighed Chasm. “I’m disobeying orders.”

The red prince's eyes grew wide.

"Chasm, what are you planning to-?"

But before the prince can finish his sentence. Chasm hugged the red prince tight, before diving into the portal to whatever awaited them beyond.

Luminous was left staring at the mirror that showed the prince's room where the prince and Chasm were just kidnaped. No one was in the room now except for the shadowy wolves.

“Where did they go?” Luminous slowly began walking up to the mirror, her legs feeling like lead with each step. “I have to, I have to get in there!”

When she got up to the mirror she began pounding on it like her life depended on it.

“Luminous! Stop that this instant!” Yelled Maser Mouse. “That won’t do you any good! You’re only going to break that!”

“I have to get in there!” Luminous shouted, continuing to hit the glass with her fist.

“I said desist!” Yelled Master Mouse.

“I have to find them!” Yelled Luminous panicked, the glass creaking beneath her fist.

“I said abstain!”

“They can’t be gone forever! I have to save them!”

With one final blow, Luminous broke the glass mirror. It shattered away into tiny bits and pieces onto the gray sand below. But to Luminous dismay, there was no room behind the mirror, no way into the palace, no way back.

Tears began to run down Luminous’ cheeks, she dropped to the sandy ground below. She began to pick up the tiny pieces of glass into her tiny fair hands. She shifted through the peace trying to peer through the glass into the room she saw before, but couldn't see anything but the ebony glass.

“But I don’t understand.” Luminous sobbed. “Why couldn't I go through? Why couldn't I do anything to save them?”

Master Mouse picked up one of the many glass shards on the ground looking at it. Dismay stained his face, he waited a little too late, but somehow wished he could have waited longer.

“There is only one way to get out of here your freedom, it stakes. Take up the sword, but seal your fate.”