The Lost Valkyrie

By Katrina McCloud

In a world such as Synkrie that is filled with de­ception, betrayal, lust and ambition life can be hard for a teenage fairy. For Kimberly Lismbil life is impossible, Kimberly is a 106 year old teenage fairy that is soon to become a full-fledge member of Synkrie. Which includes inheriting her ancestral magic. Magic comes at a cost it can be good

• Language: English
• Publisher: Katrina A McCloud
• Release date: Oct 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781649901019

Katrina McCloud

I am a young Scottish American author that has a passion for fiction young adult novels. I started writing the Lost Valkyrie 4 years ago when I was first diagnosed with non- Hodgkins Lymphoma. This was my for escape. A place where I can travel to a far away universe filled with love, passion and coming to age.

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Chapter 1

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earching for the woman in his dreams was harder than Gabriel could have ever imagined. All he wanted was a strong, furious, beautiful woman to fill the void in his heart. Hair red as blood, lips pale as her skin, eyes green as the seas. She was the creature that haunted his dreams for many nights. Gabriel has been lost and alone for far too long. He spent his days with the angels and his nights dreaming of the beautiful redhead. How could a woman he had only seen a few times and never spoken to cause him so much pain? She was the woman he would always love till his last days.

Thinking back to when he first met her, he felt his pulse quicken. She held his heart with such conviction. It was the thought of her witty comments that made his pulse speed up. As he watched her now from the shadows of her apartment, Gabriel knew she was the one the Guardian sought and the one he couldn't have, no matter how strong his hunger. He had been given one task and he must not lose sight of it. He must find a young girl who had not taken her awakening and who came from a strong line of powerful fairies. It was not his place to question the Guardian's motive, no matter what he believed.

A noise startled Kimberly as she sat curled on the sofa watching TV.

Amber, is that you? she called into the darkness.

There was no reply, just complete silence. She got up to check to see if her sister Amber had returned. She should have returned by now if she had survived; it had been twelve days since her awakening. Where could she be?

Kimberly was a 106-year-old fairy, which was sixteen in human years. She lived in the universe called Synkrie with her older sister Amber. Since Amber's disappearance, Kimberly had spent her days at school and her nights in the library looking for clues that could lead her to Amber. No matter how small the clues might seem, Kimberly always searched for more. Some believed Amber was a castaway, a dreamcatcher, and that this was why she had not returned from her awakening. Being the headstrong fairy she was, Kimberly couldn't accept that answer. It made her push on and search further into the universe's secrets, even though she knew she should be preparing for her own awakening—only twenty-six days away—if she did not want to fail.

The awakening was a test that all teenage fairies must complete in order to become full-fledged adults in one of the five universes. It was like going through puberty. But unlike puberty, it was not a trial that all fairies passed. The ones who did not pass became dreamcatchers. During the awakening, each fairy was given a series of tests, and if they passed, not only were they given adulthood, they were given powers that would enrich the universe. In any universe, powers can be a great thing, but in Synkrie they could also be dangerous, and in the wrong hands, history could repeat itself. Which was why Gabriel was now hesitating to deliver Kimberly to the Guardian. He questioned whether the power she possessed was good or evil. Who was he to decide? He had only been asked to find the girl and to deliver her to the Guardian—not to judge or to fall in love.

The last thing Gabriel wanted to do was to repeat the darkest hours in the fairies' history, but who said Synkrie's destiny was aligned with Earth's?

It was during the Great Universe War six thousand years ago when the gods of Olympus waged war on Earth. Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon had been worshipped among the humans, but they betrayed their trust by declaring war against every species in the world. To the gods, humans were necessary, but they were inferior. If you asked Hades who had started the war, he would say Poseidon and Zeus, because he was betrayed by his family in the end. If you asked the elder brothers, they would say Hades started the war because he wanted to create a universe that only he could control. From the ashes of the Great Universe War was born Synkrie. In each war, many died. The souls that had showed loyalty and bravery, that fought side by side with the gods, were given an eternal resting place in the heavens, which was guarded by the Gatekeeper, the Archangel Gabriel. What the stories failed to mention was the darkness and the betrayal that took place during the war between the brothers and how each brother stood with his armies against the others. Hades had the respect of the Vikings; Poseidon had the man-eater sirens; and Zeus, the Ultimate Gods. If the war had gone as planned, Zeus and Poseidon would have combined forces against Hades and destroyed the Vikings. But Hades disappeared during the war with a human, a siren, and Viking Valkyries. For centuries the Vikings searched universe after universe for the Valkyries; Poseidon searched the seas and the gods searched for humans and other lost souls. As a last resort the remaining sides came together to banish the traitors who had stood with Hades. They created a prison called Themyses to house all lost souls and sealed it closed with the Lost Valkyrie Adrienne; for she was the only unaccounted-for Viking they knew of and cast out. No one knew how or why, but Adrienne's fate was unbearable, and she was lost to the world forever. Synkrie was the hidden universe with universes that housed thousands of species where time could freeze, speed, or just not exist.

As Kimberly relaxed deeper into the sofa, she felt a cool breeze on her neck. Turning around, she saw that the window in the dining room was open. Strange; the window hadn't been open that morning when she'd left for school. She went to the window to close it, but she thought she saw movement coming from the shadows of her apartment. She got a sense of déjà vu. She thought what a strange week it had been; she'd heard noises in the middle of the night and noticed windows staying open during all times of the day and shadows in her house. She could no longer tell if her nerves were on edge in anticipation of her upcoming awakening or if she was wishing Amber were home. Deciding to calm herself, she searched for her cat, Kaylee. Maybe it was Kaylee making the noises in her house all along. Looking under the couch, Kimberly saw a male figure in the corner of the room. This was not déjà vu. There was someone in her house. Not wanting to scare the intruder off, she grabbed the closest thing to her, which was a toaster. Great…that would do some damage.

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