The Moonlark Project

"They have some sort of project. My mom says it's a weapon."

Sophie's heart pounded as she turned to look at him, "a weapon?"

"The Moonlark Project," Keefe whispered angrily. "Whatever that thing is... whatever the Black Swan created... that's what they used on Alden. That's what's responsible for his broken mind. It's dangerous, and it hurt my dad. My best friend. Me. I'm going to find it. And I'm going to destroy it."

Sophie Foster wasn't taken to the Lost Cities when she was twelve. In this story, the Black Swan waited for their original plan. Sophie is only about to be seventeen and finds out the reason she can hear people's thoughts is that she's an elf. But for some reason, a mysterious group wants to kill her. And that's not all- Alden Vacker- someone who'd been looking for her's mind is broken. People aren't who they say they are. Strange occurrences seem to follow Sophie. And nothing is they way it would have been if she'd gotten there a few years earlier.

"So they lit the fires to flush you out, taunting us with our own symbol- and framing us in the process. That's when I sent the newspaper article to Alden- the one that led him to you so he could take you away. It was earlier than we'd planned..."
-Mr. Forkle, Everblaze, page 448

Everything is twisted- but Sophie, the Black Swan, Neverseen, the Lost Cities and her friends don't know that.

What did the Black Swan do?

This is fanfiction based on Shannon Messenger's Keeper of the Lost Cities
May contain Unlocked spoilers! ⚠️