Warriors of Light

Danielle Canovi

Description

In this fantasy tale, four unlikely heroes must battle a malevolent creature determined to spread his darkness and take over their peaceful world.
A great darkness. An evil trying to snuff out the light and take over a precious realm. That evil is not going to stop. But there are those who can make it stop. Warriors of Light can and they most certainly will. The uniqueness of our heroes in this tale is not so much their strength and courage, even though they have those in abundance. Oddly enough, it is how many times they fail. It is not so much about how they don't give up, it's more about how they are directed to move on.

Sujets

• Christian
• Fiction
• Fantasy

Informations

• Publié par: LifeRich Publishing
• Date de parution: 17 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781489747730
• Langue: English

Extrait

WARRIORS of LIGHT
 
 
 
DANIELLE CANOVI
 
 
 
 

 
 
Copyright © 2023 Danielle Canovi.
 
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-4897-4749-5 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4897-4750-1 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-4897-4773-0 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023909120
 
 
 
LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 05/16/2023
CONTENTS
Chapter 1     No One Will Believe It
Chapter 2     Paradisia
Chapter 3     Legend of Spiritian and Hostium
Chapter 4     Into Paradisia We Go
Chapter 5     Edera Velenosion
Chapter 6     Egoista
Chapter 7     The Cage
Chapter 8     Two Strangers
Chapter 9     Ciotola Piantian
Chapter 10   Pit of Trappalion
Chapter 11   Ashalina’s Volcano
Chapter 12   Attivian
Chapter 13   Immorlian
Chapter 14   Semplician Vitia
Chapter 15   The Journey Back to Fratello
Chapter 16   Pianura and the Malattion Poisoning
Chapter 17   Salve for Pianura
Chapter 18   The Adventure Begins
Chapter 19   Something Wicked This Way Comes
Chapter 20   Legamian
Chapter 21   Pianura in Lottion
Chapter 22   Lasciando Andare
Chapter 23   Fratello and a Falcimente
Chapter 24   Labyrinth of Autismion
Chapter 25   Our Heroes Getting Lighted
Chapter 26   Precotterion’s Love
Chapter 27   The Final Battle

DEDICATION
First and foremost I dedicate this book to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for I would truly be nothing without His mercy and grace.
Secondly, I dedicate this book to my Uncle Matthew-
For having an influence on us much farther than just miles.
And finally I dedicate this book to my family-
Thank you for putting up with me and my nutness through the past 8 years it took us to get through writing this. I could not have done it without you guys, helping me when I got sick, getting me through those hard days when I felt I couldn’t do it anymore, and for just being the greatest family anyone could be blessed with. I am grateful everyday God gave me you guys.
And one more thing I wish to tell my family,
“But I did.”
I love you guys.
Danielle

PREFACE
I am writing these testimonies from a writer’s perspective. Here we go, the testimonies from my perspective.
While this tale is set in fantasy, everything that has been written really happened. Take away the backdrop of evil creatures, other realms, and magic and what you have are the real lives of my family.
I have been an avid reader ever since I was 9 years old. I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I was always with the written word, I was not however always with Christ. The same is with my brother and sisters. We grew up surrounded by him, but we didn’t take it as it was given, to our everlasting shame. Looking back on it now, the words I am writing are much more painful. But I am bound to tell you the truth and I shall do so to my utmost best. As you will discover, this is not a story just about pain, tis also a tale about redemption.
Danielle Canovi
 
 

ONE
NO ONE WILL BELIEVE IT
“D ad, no one is going to believe me!” I said as we both sat in our living room, he in our worn and frayed leather wingback chair with several patches around where the hands lay, and I on the well-used brown love seat in my spot on the right near the lamp in the corner. It was ten in the morning on a Saturday. The curtains, being open in the middle, let in just a little bit of the morning sunlight. This morning it cast a few streaks over my dad in the wingback, sitting right under the living room window.
Smiling, my dad shook his head and said, “Yeah, but you should still tell their stories.” Raising his John Wayne mug, he took a sip of his favorite Italian dark roast coffee.
“How though?” I inquired, leaning up and taking a sip from my own cup of hazelnut coffee.
Folding his hands together on his lap as he often did, rubbing his thumbs against each other, he answered, “Write a book about it.”
That thought struck me. I kind of liked the idea. With me being an avid lover of the written word, the idea of taking pen to paper, or finger to keyboard I should say, got me a wee bit excited.
“I do love to read books, Dad. But writing one … do you think I could?”
He smiled once more and gave me a knowing look. “You are the only one who could write this book.”
Well, I will go on to tell you, reader, who has picked up this book of the tales I have been privy to.

TWO
PARADISIA
P aradisia is the most enchanting world in all the realms. You will find that each corner of this world has every season that our realm experiences, reader. The west has spring with wildflowers bursting through brilliant shades of green grass soft enough to walk barefoot on. Streaks of sunlight stream straight through the trees as if the light were there just for you. The east experiences autumn, where there are trees stretching all the way to the skies with dazzling colors of yellow, orange, and red. The sun sets in such a way over those colorful trees to bring a warmth that encompasses you. The north holds winter. Not the bitter cold part of winter, mind you, but the special part that happens just after it snows a great deal with a fresh huge blanket of snow lying upon the ground. As you first step outside, all is silent and still. It is the sort of silence that brings a peace with it, as if everything is going to be all right. And then there is the south, which has summer spread throughout its lands. It resembles that one perfect day of summer we all had as children, the one we never wanted to end. It isn’t too hot; the wind is just right; and the water feels great when you jump in.
When I gratefully found my way into this world, I was met by the most wonderful creature I have ever heard or read about. He came in the form of a wise old owl, black with big patches of silvery gray all over. He looks at you with a solemn expression through brilliant hazel eyes with black pupils. This owl also has thick, crown-like eyebrows that jut out on each side right above his eyes. His true size is about eighty feet with a wingspan of one hundred feet. However, he often shrinks down to the size of one of the people of Paradisia. The name of this magical creature is Saggio. I would say that the first time I met him, I was awed by this majestic owl. It has now been some time since I have known him, and I am still in awe.
After spending a few days with Saggio, I asked him of the history of this realm. I am a lover of legends and of tales of old, so in a world like this one, I just couldn’t resist asking.
“Indeed, we do have quite a few legends,” Saggio answered. “I can start with the time when darkness crept into the far corner of our realm.”

THREE
LEGEND OF SPIRITIAN AND HOSTIUM
S piritian, creator of all realms, knew the darkness had come here and sensed it getting darker as it spread. In the blackness, there was a great lightless green slimy mass that took the form of a most malevolent creature called Hostium, the keeper of all that is dark and evil. Now, Hostium did not just sprout up out of nowhere; he was there with Spiritian in the beginning. Spiritian designed it that way. So, the people of Paradisa had a choice. And if there were only Spiritian, then there wouldn’t have been much of a choice, would there? It was a choice between Spiritian and Hostium, between light and darkness, between good and evil. All the people of Paradisia would come to a point in their lives where they would have to make this choice regarding whom they would follow and serve.
After many centuries of watching the people of this realm choose Spiritian instead of him, Hostium began boiling over with jealousy and anger. He loathed Spiritian, his light, and everything he stood for. So, with his conniving and evil mind, Hostium decided to do something about it. That was when he skulked his way into the far corner of Paradisia and set up his own domain, which came to be known as Infernion. He had two purposes when he first set his slimy foot onto this land, and those two purposes remained at the forefront of his mind. He wanted to travel to every realm dispersing his darkness and devouring all Warriors of Light.
Warriors of Light. Now there is a tale. Long ago, when Hostium stepped into Paradisia, he quickly set to work. He was not just working to spread his darkness; he was also creating monsters and creatures imbued with his evil magic. The more his darkness unfurl