C.P. Bird - The Portaellen War Chronicles

Contents

Imprint 2 Imprint All rights of distribution, also through movies, radio and television, photomechanical reproduction, sound carrier, electronic medium and reprinting in excerpts are reserved. © 2021 novum publishing ISBN print edition: 978-3-99107-273-7 ISBN e-book: 978-3-99107-274-4 Editor: Hugo Chandler, BA Cover images: Robert Adrian Hillman | Dreamstime.com Cover design, layout & typesetting: novum publishing www.novum-publishing.co.uk

Dedication 3 Dedication For, my Helen Clare. Thank you, for your support, of my leap of faith.

Portaellen Portal Facts 5 Portaellen Portal Facts for Everyone 1 Only Dual Bloods’, with Portaellen ancestry, can pass through, a Portaellen portal. 2 A Portaellen portal, will only transport flesh, bone and body fluids. Everything that constitutes, a living form. 3 If, it is your first time, exiting a Portaellen portal, you will land in the other world naked. (See point two). 4 If, it is not your first exit, you will land, wearing the clothing and the items, that you had with you, upon entering. 5 You will not remember, your journey through the portal. 6 There is one reported portal, on Earth. Two in Portaellen, which are connected directly, to the one Earth portal. No internal link, between the two Portaellen portals, exists. 7 The distance between Earth and Portaellen, is incalculable. It cannot, be measured. If, you were to ask some Dual Bloods that very question, you would get a tongue in cheek response. ‘How far, is the distance between Earth and Portaellen, you ask?’ A momentary silence, would usually be followed by a smirk, or even sarcastic laughter, before an answer would finally be given. ‘About five hundred years!’ Some, of the above facts, are centuries old. Passed down, through the generations. Hopefully, they will help any Sole Bloods, who will never experience a Portaellen portal journey. Or other Dual Bloods, yet to have an experience. It will also save you from getting a sarcastic response, from a Dual Blood. It is important to remember, that today, over five million Portaellen Dual Bloods, live amongst us. Only a small percentage, know of their lineage. An even smaller percentage now travel between the two worlds. Are you one of them?

The Last Knight of Fantaellen 7 The Last Knight of Fantaellen An ode to a warrior An ordinary man He is an ordinary man, A father, a son, a brother, A man of this life, A man of the next life, He is of this world, and another, He is alive, he has died, He is yet to be born, He is all men, yet one man. On this day of his destiny, He stands alone. Around him, a battlefield, In his hand, his bloodied sword, having sent many, to their death, His armour, having defended against an enemy, so brutal, and great in numbers, And yet, he still stands alone. He is an ordinary man, A father, a son, a brother, A man of this life, A man of the next life, He is of this world, and another, He is alive, he has died, He is yet to be born, He is all men, yet one man. On this day of his destiny, He still stands alone. Around him, a battlefield, Seen or unseen, he knows the enemy surround him, Therefore, his defiance is roared long and loud, He now no longer, feels alone. This ordinary man is ready, This father, this son, this brother, The man of this life, The man of the next life, The man of this world and another, He is alive, not dead, He has been born, He is all men, yet one man. He is ready. And, into the storm he charged, with sword in hand, That one-man war, The last knight of Fantaellen.

Prologue 9

Part I The Coming Storm 12

Chapter One 13

Chapter Two 25

Chapter Three 32

Chapter Four 42

Chapter Five 56

Chapter Six 71

Chapter Seven 104

Chapter Eight 123

Chapter Nine 138

Chapter Ten 155

Chapter Eleven 167

Chapter Twelve 188

Part II The Dark Epoch 205

Chapter Thirteen 207

Chapter Fourteen 216

Chapter Fifteen 231

Chapter Sixteen 252

Author’s Notes 268

Imprint

All rights of distribution, also through movies, radio and television, photomechanical reproduction, sound carrier, electronic medium and reprinting in excerpts are reserved.

© 2021 novum publishing

ISBN print edition: 978-3-99107-273-7

ISBN e-book: 978-3-99107-274-4

Editor: Hugo Chandler, BA

Cover images: Robert Adrian Hillman | Dreamstime.com

Cover design, layout & typesetting: novum publishing

www.novum-publishing.co.uk

Dedication

For, my Helen Clare.

Thank you, for your support,

of my leap of faith.

Portaellen Portal Facts

for Everyone

1 Only Dual Bloods’, with Portaellen ancestry, can pass through, a Portaellen portal.

2 A Portaellen portal, will only transport flesh, bone and body fluids. Everything that constitutes, a living form.

3 If, it is your first time, exiting a Portaellen portal, you will land in the other world naked. (See point two).

4 If, it is not your first exit, you will land, wearing the clothing and the items, that you had with you, upon entering.

5 You will not remember, your journey through the portal.

6 There is one reported portal, on Earth. Two in Portaellen, which are connected directly, to the one Earth portal. No internal link, between the two Portaellen portals, exists.

7 The distance between Earth and Portaellen, is incalculable. It cannot, be measured. If, you were to ask some Dual Bloods that very question, you would get a tongue in cheek response.

‘How far, is the distance between Earth and Portaellen, you ask?’ A momentary silence, would usually be followed by a smirk, or even sarcastic laughter, before an answer would finally be given. ‘About five hundred years!’

Some, of the above facts, are centuries old. Passed down, through the generations. Hopefully, they will help any Sole Bloods, who will never experience a Portaellen portal journey. Or other Dual Bloods, yet to have an experience. It will also save you from getting a sarcastic response, from a Dual Blood.

It is important to remember, that today, over five million Portaellen Dual Bloods, live amongst us. Only a small percentage, know of their lineage. An even smaller percentage now travel between the two worlds.

Are you one of them?

The Last Knight of Fantaellen

An ode to a warrior

An ordinary man

He is an ordinary man,

A father, a son, a brother,

A man of this life,

A man of the next life,

He is of this world, and another,

He is alive, he has died,

He is yet to be born,

He is all men, yet one man.

On this day of his destiny,

He stands alone.

Around him, a battlefield,

In his hand, his bloodied sword,

having sent many, to their death,

His armour, having defended

against an enemy, so brutal,

and great in numbers,

And yet, he still stands alone.

He is an ordinary man,

A father, a son, a brother,

A man of this life,

A man of the next life,

He is of this world, and another,

He is alive, he has died,

He is yet to be born,

He is all men, yet one man.

On this day of his destiny,

He still stands alone.

Around him, a battlefield,

Seen or unseen, he knows

the enemy surround him,

Therefore, his defiance is roared

long and loud,

He now no longer, feels alone.

This ordinary man is ready,

This father, this son, this brother,

The man of this life,

The man of the next life,

The man of this world and another,

He is alive, not dead,

He has been born,

He is all men, yet one man.

He is ready.

And, into the storm he charged,

with sword in hand,

That one-man war,

The last knight of Fantaellen.