User:Ingresviolin

That Which Moves the Stars

A Fable Fanfiction

''"Many sunsets ago I read, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." I may curse providence all I want my darling but, however tragic, I do remember this fate was chosen by me. And, if given the chance to repeat it for all of my strange eternity, I would not dare change a thing."''

It was the turn of the 19th century. For the first time in 500 years, the entirety of Albion is united under the rule of King Sparrow, Hero of Bowerstone. Under this newfound peace, Albion enters an industrial revolution that drastically changes the social and political trajectory of the country. Iris, Sparrow's wife and lifelong love, gives birth to their two children, Logan and Beatrice. In an attempt to keep them out of the public eye, Sparrow and Iris lead a private life for their children. Logan and Beatrice live out their lives in the castle, at a retreat cottage in their mother's favorite village Brightwall, or on diplomatic travels to foreign lands with their father. And despite their seven year difference, the siblings were inseparable from years of relying on only on each other for companionship.

One day, while a young Beatrice is tending to her mother's garden in Brightwall, Iris notices that her daughter is keeping her hands cupped together tightly. Iris asks Beatrice to open her hands, to which Beatrice reveals a tiny, bluish-purple flame. Immediately Sparrow is brought outside. Seeing the flame, he picks his daughter up and swings her around in joy. Taking her inside the cottage, he sits her upon the kitchen table and tells her to watch closely. Putting his hand out in front of him, Sparrow rotates his wrist until a stark red flame appears. Inheriting the bloodline from her father, Beatrice is a Hero. From that day on, it was a secret between the father and daughter. Sparrow happily trained his young daughter in weapon skills, strength, and use of will. But unknown to Sparrow, Beatrice possessed a power beyond his own. A power that she had to discover and harness on her own.

Albion continues to flourish for years, until the great King Sparrow fails to return home after an expedition. The country is soon thrust into a period of uncertainty as Sparrow's first son Logan, who is 19 at the time, becomes the next ruler after the death of his ill mother. Beatrice, who cared for their mother until her death, realizes she is truly alone. With her parents gone and her brother's ascension to the throne and subsequent departure to the southern country of Aurora, the fifteen-year-old princess spends her days between the castle and a library outside of the city, scouring her father's old journals in search of clues to his whereabouts.

Logan is an intelligent and practical ruler, and while his decisions are marred by a lack of experience, he is successful at continuing the rule of his father and supporting the growth of Albion. It is not until  Logan returns from a four year journey to the southern nation of Aurora that he begins a dark change. Controlling, temperamental, and cutthroat, a new Logan begins ruling the country he once loved with an iron fist. He cuts all social services, allows the amoral business magnet Reaver to control industry, creates a personal army aside from the Albion military, and begins jailing those who disagree with him. It is not long until the cry for a revolution can be heard.

A now eighteen-year-old Beatrice wakes up to find that her childhood friend and love, Elliot, is waiting for her in the castle gardens. He informs her that a group of citizens are coming to the castle to protest King Logan and his tyrannical rule. Elliot is afraid that Logan is going to hurt the protestors, and he and Princess Beatrice attempt to persuade him otherwise. Offended by his sister's lack of trust in his decisions, Logan decides to teach her a lesson that she will never forget.