Chapter One

A thousand years have passed and everybody had forgotten about the Black Castle of Kayor.

2008, UK. As the schoolbell rings, the kids run out screaming, and the very last person to get out is Brian McClain. As he slowly walks towards his house on Royal Street, even though the other kids are screaming about the last day of school, Brian does not feel their enthusiasm. Brian does not like the last day of school, because for every summer vacation, his father takes them someplace he does not like. When he walks into his house, he walks by his sister, Christine, on the phone talking to "who cares." Then he slowly walks up to his room, which is designed with castles and swords (he likes the middle ages.) He falls to his bed, "I wish school would never end."
Then downstairs, he hears the door shut. "Brian, get down here! Help me with the groceries, Christine get off the phone." Brian now knows that his mom is home, and is not looking forward to his dad coming. When he goes downstairs, he hears Hunter, the dog, barking at the door. "Brian, let Hunter in," demands Christine. When he opens the door, Hunter shoots in like a rocket-propelled bullet. Then Brian hears the garage door opening. He just knows it's his dad. "Why couldn't it be another two hours or so," Brian moans. When he hears the garage door starting to shut, Brian bolts up to his room, gets his ipod and turns it to full volume so he doesn't hear his dad say anything.
Then when his bedroom door opens, his mom tells him to come downstairs. Brian thinks, "Please make this vacation more fun than the last one." More fun than staying in a one-star hotel in Germany, or better than flying to Disneyworld in a rundown airplane. Hopefully its not another cruise trip with people who speak different languages and not even 1% of English.
While everyone is sitting in the family room, Brian quietly joins them. Then his father begins to talk. "Everybody, guess where we're going." Christine says, "The airway to boredome?" "No," remarks his father, "we're going to a castle for summer vacation." "What!?," exclaims everybody. "Yep, we're all going to a castle and their is no charge. No one else is going to be there except us, the sky and the water. So start packing, we're leaving in two days."